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CLASS III 



HIDEBOUND, SURFEIT, MANGE, 

 AND FARCY. 



HIDEBOUND 



IS a fubjed that has hitherto been very little 

 treated of, and by no means at all fatisfac- 

 torily. It has been attributed to many caufes ; 

 but from every obfervation I have been able 

 to make, I muft confine it to few. The figns 

 are, a w^ant of flexibility in the jfkin, which 

 is pervaded by a general ftiffnefs that feems 

 to form an entire adhefion to the fleili, with- 

 out the leaft partial feparation or diftincftion. 

 There is a kind of dufty fcurf, plainly per- 

 ceived underneath the hair, that raifes it up 

 in different parts; and, giving it another hue, 

 the coat in many places forms an appearance 

 of two or three colours 3 conveying, even in 



this 



