ii8 SURFEIT. 



feeding well between the dofes, or a regular 

 adminiilratiou of diuretics, as defcribed in the 

 lall clafs. 



SURFEIT. 



This word has been theconftant friend and 

 frequent refource of all country farriers, and 

 may, with great truth, be termed " The 

 " Farrier's Vade Meciiniy' abridged to a word 

 of two fyllables, for the convenience of tech- 

 nical explanation and vulgar comprehenfion. 

 For certainly fo foon as a cutaneous eruption 

 appears, indicating an acrimonious ftate of the 

 blood, or a degeneracy of habit, it is (with a 

 wonderful degree of fagacity, and almofi: in- 

 credible penetration,) confidently pronounced 

 ** A SURFEIT;" but what a furfeit is, un- 

 lefs, as Captain le Brupy in the Regifter Office^ 

 defines chaoi to be ''a fort of — , a kind of 

 i< a — chaos-,'" they filently acknowledge they 

 cannot tell. And what makes it the more un- 

 fortunate for them is, that Bartlet, the 

 great '' god of their idolatry," to whom they 

 look for every information, omitted to give 

 them the leaft clue by which they might glofs 



their 



