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CLxiSS III. 



HIDEBOUND, SURFEIT, MANGE, 

 AND FARCY. 



HIDEBOUND, 



Is a subject that has hitherto been very 

 little treated of, and by no means at all sa- 

 tisfactorily. It has been attributed to many 

 causes ; but from every observation I have 

 been able to inake, I must confine it to few. 

 The signs are, a want of flexibility in the 

 skin, which is pervaded by a general stiffness 

 that seems to form an entire adhesion to the 

 flesh, without the least partial separation or 

 distinction. There is a kind of dusky scurf, 

 plainly perceived underneath the hair, that 

 raises it up in different parts ; and, giving it;, 

 another hue, the coat in many places forms 

 an appearance of two or three colours ; con- 

 veying, even in this trifling circumstance, a 



