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immemorial, agreed in considering the Bot, »ot merely inimical to thts 

 -animal, but, as laying the foundation of many incurable and fatal 

 diseases. 



;,.So that it has heretofore been the fashion to suppose Bots to be 

 the cause of half the intractable complaints to which Horses are 

 liable. 



Hence, Chronic Cougli, Hidebound, Loss of Appetite, Emacia- 

 >tion. Gripes, Pits of Kicking against the Stall, Vertigo or Me- 

 grim, and an endless variety of Disorders, have for ages been. attri- 

 buted to the presence of Bots in the Stomach. 



Nay more, ,for until the Publication of Mr. Clarke's accurate and 

 jsatisfactory Investigation, of the Natural Historic of the Bot, this 

 subject remained involved, not .only in fancifulness and ambiguity, 

 but in mystery and absurdity ; inxonsequence of one writer handing 

 down, the erroneous and superstitious notions of another. If there- 

 fore, considering how much we. owe to Mr. Clarke, I should appear 

 to have used too great freedom, in discussing the speculative opinions 

 of this ingenious Yeterinarian, I trust I shall be acquitted of having 

 done so, upon any illiberal principle, or from any amiyorthy motive. 

 For to this Gentleman's industrious research, solely, is it owing, 

 that I have been enabled to lay before my Readers, any thing that may 

 appear to have either interest or importance attached to it, in the 

 course of , my discussion, of this very curious sulyect 



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