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as to be returned. On the third day the horse wassound; but 
.stead of the party meeting as agreed, the gentleman sent 
jttomey to demand the purchase-money. , r th e 
Although I was perfectly satisfied as to the soundness 
orse, yet, to make assurance doubly sure, 1 . mine d 
ike the horse to Mr. Field for his opinion. Mr. Field — 
im with the greatest minuteness, and gave a written c 
hat he was sound. The dealer then resisted the payment a 
n action at law was the consequence. The horse lema 
ny Abo a S e 'six weeks after this, Mr. Sewell accompanied by the 
Lurchaser, called to see the horse, when, a ter having exa « 
Lnd ridden him, Mr. Sewell gave it as his decided opinio ,tl ^ 
.1 though the horse was not lame, he was unsou , 
,iad splents; which splents were precisely the same as nodes 
he human subject. . f 
ON THE SIMPLIFICATION OF MEDICINES. 
THE present practice of simplifying to so great a degree the 
exhibition of remedial means, is a retrograde movement in the 
progress of curative medicine. We deprive ourselves of many 
valuable auxiliaries resorted to by our predecessors mid what s 
worse, divert ourselves from that track of research which mi a li* 
.kill so generally awarded to 
medical men advanced in life, appears to be due to them, mot so 
much because they are better acquainted with the piariciples o 
medical science, or greater proficients in anatomy 
and pathology,-for here many young men, fresh from the 
studies, are, probablv, their superiors,— but on account of the 
more extensive knowledge in the selection and combination of 
remedial means, acquired by long personal experience, 
peated trials of various methods of cure. Many exce ent i em 
dies are not applicable on any admitted principlesiof science and 
doubt not that many practitioners are averse to communicate 
valuable prescriptions, because they are not strictly recon 
to scientific principles. Dr Shearman. 
