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(excepting they drop down suddenly in a 

 fit) without having this satisfaction and 

 consolation left to their friends, that they 

 died, or were killed, secundum ariem. 



Now I will frankly ask any physician, ^p^Jf^'g^Jg^^ 

 whether he has not many advantages when veter^arV^'*" 



, , . . I'll • Surgeon can- 



he attends his patient, which the veterinary not have. 

 surgeon cannot have ? When I send for a 

 veterinary surgeon to attend my horse, he 

 goes into the stable ;— he certainly can feel 

 the horse's pulse; so can the physician, fee! 

 his patient's pulse ; but the physician has a 

 hundred advantages to make himself 

 acquainted with his patient's disorder, 

 which the veterinary surgeon cannot have; 

 for the veterinary surgeon's patient cannot 

 speak, and tell him where the complaint 

 lies, or in what part of his body he feels 

 pain, or whether he be cold, hot, or thirsty, . 

 or in great pain in any particular part of 

 his body or limbs. This the veterinary 

 surgeon has to find out. — Now I will state 

 the following to the candid reader. Were 

 I extremely ill indeed, and were to send 

 for a physician,-— when he is attending me, 

 he first asks me how I feel, where the pain 



