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CLASS VIIL 



THE STRANGLES, GLANDERS, 

 STAGGERS, and CONVULSIONS. 



STRANGLES. 



Not one feafible reafon has ever been ad- 

 duced why this difeafe is fo general that any 

 horle is hardly ever known to efcape^ they arc 

 even fubjedt to it at all times of life; but the 

 periods of attack are moftly when riiing thrce^ 

 four y or Jive yt'^rsdlA. Soleysell and Gibson 

 vainly conceived they threw great light upon 

 the fubjedt, by comparing it to the fmall-poXj 

 '* becaufe," fay they, *' young horfes are gene- 

 *< rally its fubjedts.'* ** For, fays Gibson, 

 ^* the blood of young horfes may reafonably 

 " enough be fuppofed unequally fluid, having 



'i •* no; 



