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But whoever is at all acquainted with practi- 

 cal furgery, weli knows that without the afiift- 

 ance of internals, efpecially in glandular difor- 

 ders, the cure is not fo eafily effected, nor ren- 

 dered complete and lading -, I therefore advife a 

 ftrong decoction of guaiacum chips to be given 

 every day to a quart or three pints throughout 

 the cure, and when the matter leffens, to purge 

 at proper intervals and put a rowel into the 

 horle's cheft in order to divert the fluids from 

 their old channel. 



If thefe fhould not fucceed, mercurials may 

 be given with the phyfic-, and the alterative 

 powders with lime-water may be taken for a 

 time, if the horfe is worth the expence. Vide 

 chap, on alteratives. 



My treatife upon the glanders has been tranf- 

 lated into Englifh by Dr. Bracken, author him- 

 felf of feveral treatifes upon the difeafes of 

 horfes, and was alfo approved of by Mr. Bart- 

 let an Englifh furgeon. My difcovery made 

 upon this difeafe and my method of cure have 

 been approved of in England. But 1 ought to 

 declare that I have lead Mr. Bourgelat, author 

 of a book entitled Element d'Hyppiatrique into 

 an error, where I fpeak of the fublingual 

 glands, upon which he has expatiated with a 

 credulity that does me honour, for which he 

 has my thanks -, but unhappily it was a mif- 

 rake in me, for I acknowledged it fince, and re- 

 tracted 



