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progrefs of this difeafe, than any we have yet 

 feen offered to pubhc confideration. 



That *' a partial ftagnation of the blood and 

 ** juices in the finer vellels, where the circula- 

 **tionis moft languid," may and does happen, 

 I readily admit, but by no means fo often as 

 to conflitute the difeafe we now treat of; if fo 

 (the extremities in moft horfes being the fame, 

 as well as the circumference or capacity of the 

 vefTels and force of circulation), there can be 

 no doubt but nineteen out of every twenty 

 would be afflidled with this malady, from an 

 " ERROR in NATURE,'* that no human fore-= 

 fight can prevent, or judgment remove. 



Bartlet (who is the author before alluded 

 to) fays, in the paflage there quoted, " the 

 *' horfes moft fubjedl to it are thofe where 

 *' there is a due wantof exercife." In com.pli- 

 ment to an author of merit and repute, we 

 will admit this for a moment ; but, the better 

 to eftablifh my own point, I ihall claim the 

 privilege of making one oif/ervation, in direct 

 oppofition to an aiTertion that has required fome 

 authority by remaining fo long uncontradidled. 

 And as I, from the firft moment of my 



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