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temper well known to be attended with the 

 inconveniences of difficulty, certain expense, 

 and inevitable danger ; and where the cir- 

 cumstance does really occur, from the above 

 cause, if the sufferings of the animal were 

 not involved in the event, the loss of the 

 horse would be a very applicable punish* 

 MENT to the inhumanity of the master. 



GLANDERS. 



This disease has ever been to the frater- 

 nity oiTavners what the gout^ stone, and co/z- 

 sumption, have proved to the faculty, a 

 never-failing source for constant attendance, 

 long bills, and large sums total. And though, 

 like all other distempers, considered incur- 

 able, ** too serious to make a joke of,'' I 

 must be indulged in the effusions of fancy 

 naturally arising from a very minute inves- 

 tigation of the cause and its consequences. 

 We are told by those who have preceded us, 

 thkt *^ the cause and seat of the glanders 

 '^ have been till lately so imperfectly handled, 

 *^ and so little understood by Vy riters of this 

 *^ distemper, that it is no wonder it should 

 *' be ranked amono' the incurables : but a nez^ 

 *^ light having beeu throvrn upon the whole 



