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this trifling circumftance, 2. very forcible idea 

 of POVERTY \x\ho\}i\ food 2Xidi raiuient. The 

 horfe is generally languid, dull, heavy, and 

 vv^eak; his excrement is dark, foul, and offen- 

 {\vz ; he fweats much upon very moderate 

 exertions j then his coat ftares, the hair turns 

 different ways, (which in its effluvia is difagree- 

 able,) and affords evident proof of weaknefs 

 and debilitation. Thecaufe requires very little 

 animadverfion, and it bears the face of poverty 

 (in food and attention) upon every trait of its 

 countenance. 



Bad food and want oi Jlahk care are, in 

 general, the only probable reafons that can be 

 affigned for this complaint, or defedl. Long 

 lank grafs in low fwampy land in autumn, 

 and mufty hay or bad oats at any feafon, may 

 in fome degree allay the hunger, but not gra- 

 tify the appetite ; for, being in itfelf deftitute 

 of the effedt and quality of fuperior food, no 

 nutritive contribution can be conveyed for the 

 generation of blood or formation of flefh. 

 The fources for the fupply of chyle being thus 

 obftruded, the lymphatics are deprived of 

 their due proportion of nutrivite fluid that 

 ihould pafs through thefe fmaller veffels, and 



I 2 they 



