140 On the Yellow JVater of Horses. 



By permission, and at the request of the Philadelphia 

 Society^ I send to you a copy, to be inserted in their 

 memoirs. Herhs^ and feeble remedies, have been in 

 vain administered. Some bold, and well directed 

 course, must be taken with a malady uncommonly and 

 rapidly dangerous, and generally faUd. My observa- 

 tion and even slender and unfortunate acquaintance with 

 the disease, may furnish some useful hints to those, who 

 will add to them bcientific and medical skill. 



I risk all observations on a subject, on which it will 

 be perceived, I am not scientifically informed; that I 

 may break the \\'ay, and invite those, who have it in their 

 power to benefit and instruct agriculturists, in a branch 

 of knowledge intirely neglected.* 



Richard Peters. 



Dr. James Mease, 



Secretary Agric. Soc. Philad. 



* Those who are zealous in any important subject, cannot 

 always avoid committing themselves, on points they deem 

 useful. If injustice is done to me, by the supposition, that 

 any personal motive actuates me, to treat on topics I do not 

 profess to know extensively, it is a tax, which all who have 

 similar propensities to do service to others more than to them- 

 selves, must, with me, agree to pay. For a great portion of 

 my life, I have occasionally endeavoured to prevail on profes- 

 sional men, to assist the business of agriculture, by devoting 

 some part of their time and talents to veterinary subjects. 

 But until Dr. Rush^ veiy lately, laid 7ne under personal obli- 

 gations, and my brother farmers generally, by introducing 

 these subjects in an handsome manner, to the notice of his pu- 

 pils, I have never succeeded. This entitles him to my most 



