232 FEVERS. 



** A Treatlfe on the Difeafes and Lamenels of 

 " Holies/' though an attentive infpedion and 

 perufal, prove it decidedly a treatife upon the 

 feet and {hoeing; nothing being introduced 

 either full or explanatory upon the origin or 

 cure of any difeafe to which the horfe is fub- 

 jed, or any precife or regular method of treat- 

 ment pointed out, the very few remedies llight- 

 ly recommended, being left (in refpedt to 

 quantity and proportion) entirely at the dif- 

 cretion of the reader. 



In refpedl to fevers, he includes all under 

 the denomination of a dijlemper^ and then gives 

 you a defcription of what he calls *' five 

 ** different claifes or degrees of this difeafe/' 

 but, after minutely inveftigating his explana- 

 tions, I muft confefs them fo replete with 

 fuppoiititious alternatives, and theoretical un- 

 certainties, that they feem much more evi- 

 dently calculated to perplex than enlighten a 

 fubjed:, that has hitherto been too much ob- 

 fcured by the illiteracy of fome, and the af- 

 feded or political abflrufity of others. In 

 fad, the purport of the inquiry is fo entirely 

 lofl in a variety of inapplicable digreffions 

 and incoherent ilories, that not a fnigle clue 



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