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have yet seen oiiered to public eonsid^* 



ration. 



That a '' partial stagnation of the blood 

 and ''juices in the finer vessels, where the 

 *' circulation is most languid/' may and 

 does happen, I readily admit, but by no 

 means so often as to constitute the disease 

 we now treat of; if so, (the extremities ia 

 most horses being the same as well as the 

 circumference or capacity of the vessels and 

 force of circulation), there can be no doubt 

 bat nineteen out of every twenty would be 

 afflicted with this malady, from an '' error 

 IN NATURE," that no human foresight caa 

 prevent, or judgment remove. 



Bartlet (who is the author before al- 

 luded to) says, in the passage there quoted, 

 *' the horses most subject to it are those 

 ''where there is a due want of exercise/' 

 In compliment to an author of merit and re**' 

 pute, we will admit this for a moment ; but^ 

 the better to estabUsh my own point, I shall 

 claim the privilege of making one observation, 

 in direct opposition to an assertion that has 

 required some authority by remaining sf 



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