lU FARCY. 



of the three preceding distempers this is 

 allied ; or wliether it bears the least simi- 

 litude to the severity of the whole. It would 

 be a very indifferent compliment to the pa- 

 tience of the enlightened reader to repeat the 

 technical jargon that was unavoidably ne- 

 cessary to explain the original causes of 

 grease, hidebound^ surfeit^ or mange. An hy- 

 pothetical explanation of the nature and 

 origin of this complaint would be to go over 

 the same ground, introducing the same law 

 of nature in the system of circulation ; the 

 conveyance of chyle by the lymphatics or 

 small vessels for the generation of blood, the 

 partial coagulation of the crassamentum, and 

 its consequent effects ; as obstruction, pu- 

 trefaction, and the appearances that follow 

 upon different parts of the body, or in gene- 

 ral over the whole. That this disease has 

 its different stages or degrees of mahgnity, 

 according to the ^tate^ habit, bloody age, keep, 

 and condition of the horse, is certain ; but ge- 

 nerally that circumstance is misunderstood, 

 and the different degrees of the distemper 

 are supposed to constitute distinct kinds of 

 the same disease. 



That the distemper originates in an inflam- 



