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reader to repeat the techical jargon that was 

 unavoidably neceffary to explain the original 

 caufes oi greafe, hidebound^ Jurfeit^ or mange. 

 An hypothetical explanation of the nature and 

 origin of this complaint would be to go over 

 the fame ground, introducing the fame law of 

 nature in the fyftem of circulation : the con- 

 veyance of chyle by the lymphatics or fmall 

 veffels, for the generating of blood, the par- 

 tial coagulation of the craffamentum, and its 

 confequent effects \ as obftru(flion, putrefac- 

 tion, and the appearances that follow upon 

 different parts of the body, or in general over 

 the whole. That this disease has its dif- 

 ferent ftages or degrees of malignity, accord- 

 ing to thtjiate, habit, blood, age, keep, and con- 

 dition of the horfe, is certain ; but generally 

 that circumftance is mifunderftood, and the 

 different degrees of the diftemper are fup- 

 pofed to conftitute diftindl kinds of the fame 

 difeafe. 



That the diflemper originates In an inflam- 

 matory flate of blood in the firft inflance, gra- 

 dually increafing to the greatefl pitch of acri- 

 mony, and affecfting the fyflem by degrees, till 

 the whole mafs is corrupted;, is too evidently 



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