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is to remove, or carefully wash, eveiy thing 

 on which the horse may have deposited any 

 matter, and afterward to co^er every part 

 of the stable with a thick coat of lime and size. 

 Thongli all the experiments hitherto made, 

 i': order to discover a remedy for this destruc- 

 tive malady, seem to have pi'oved fruitless, I 

 can by no means ao ree with those who think 

 that the subject is exhausted, and that any 

 further attempts vvouid be snpertiuous: such 

 sentiments may indeed be pardonable in those 

 practitioners of the art who know nothing of 

 the anatomy and physiology of the horse, or 

 the properties of medicine, and consequently 

 can have no principles to conduct them in 

 their experiments; but liince the art has been 

 pliiced on a more respectable footing, and the 

 practice so much improved by the attention 

 luid abilities of the present professor, we mav 

 f^xpect tiiat some further and more successful 

 -experiment will be made; cuui that ultimately 

 we may see this truly useful animal rescued 

 from a disease so eminently destructive. 



It is pretty well known, that when the ve- 

 nereal disease first made its appearance in Eu- 

 rope, its ravages were severely felt, and thou- 

 sands fell victims to it; almost every medicine 



