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blood, and give him afterwards two very mild 

 dofes of phyfic, feleded from the prefcriptions 

 under the article of purging, and this will be 

 the more neceffary, for reafons that cannot 

 require the leaf!; explanation. 



FARCY. 



I MUST confefs I have heard, feen, and 

 read lefs, to prove fatisfad;ory, upon this dif- 

 temper than any other to which the horfe is 

 fubjedt. Every writer has defcribed the fymp- 

 toms, but no author, farrier, or groom, has 

 afcertained the caufe. Their opinions upon 

 the fubjecft forming a very great fimilitude to 

 Scrub's alluiion in the comedy, where he 

 fays ** Some fay one thing, and fome fay 

 " another -, but, for my part, I believe he's 

 *' a Jefuit." This is ftridly the ftate of the 

 cafe with the farcy ; fome attribute it to 

 one caufe, fome to another ; moft declare it a 

 bad caufe, and all acknowledge the *^ fault," 

 (as I'fual) to be in the blood. 



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