120 SURFEIT. 



horse constantly supplied with food, even to 

 satiety, must be fat (at least in tolerable 

 condition), whereas, on the contrary, it is 

 universally seen, that horses labouring un- 

 der tlie disease known by the appellation of 

 SURFEIT, are generally jpoor. 



There is no rational unprejudiced man 

 living who will not most cheerfully subscribe 

 his opinion to a fair investi^atiau and de- 

 monstration of TRUTH, rather than every /a/- 

 lacious conjecture that may be forcibly seized 

 upon by a PObT-HASTE author, impatient to 

 arriv^e at the goal of his undertaking 



Of SURFEITS then there are two kinds, 

 orififinating from different causes, one bein^ 

 no more than a very advanced stage of the 

 case last described *. which being long ne^ 

 glected, continues to increase, with all its 

 symptoms before mentioned, till the entire 

 mass of blood being at last affected, displays 

 itself upon the surface of the body with a 

 degree of virulence that forcibly appeals to 

 the sensations of the owner ; and necessity^ by 

 the plea of self-interest, prompts him to 

 yield, in his own defence, what the dictates 



