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of humanity had in vain endeavoured to obfaia. 

 This I consider one embellishment of tlie Far- 

 rier's abstruse abridi>;ment ; to which I 

 shall add one additional definition of this 

 disease, that has for ages occasioned infinite 

 looks of surprizey and exertions of wisdo??i, when 

 invoking the interposition of Minerva or 

 Somnus, to elucidate a matter that even their 

 IMMACULATE Bartlet did not condescend 

 to explain. And as his great predecessor 

 (who he has most incessantly and implicitly 

 copied), after ringing the changes upon 

 ^hnost EVERY disease, fixed his opinion of 

 the cause upon ** immoderate feeding;'* I 

 shall avail myself of the privilege afforded 

 me in the ancient adage of '' Doctors differ,'* 

 and declare I attribute the cause to hard 

 DRINKING. And althou_,h he declined sav- 

 ing much in favour of his opinion, I shall 

 not omit to advance a tliesis in confirmatioa 



ofMIJSE. 



The kind of surfeit differing from tiie former 

 in cause, but very little in efcct, is that kind 

 where, from ignorance, intoxication, or inat- 

 tention, a horse is suffered to drink immodc^ 

 rately of cold water, when in a violent perspi^ 



