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rous a pofitiGn, and acknowledge, as no one 

 found reafon has ever been given for the caufe 

 in queftion, I {hall not prefame to introduce 

 any thing didtatorially decifiveupon the fubjedl, 

 but fubmit to the confideration of others, what 

 appears to me to contain every 7?//? reafon that 

 can be affigned for the appearance of a diftem- 

 per attacking each fubjedl to a certainty, at 

 different periods, without contagion, or any 

 caufe hitherto eflabliihed, but that it is fo. For 

 my own part, after affording it every degree of 

 confideration, there is abfolutely but one 

 rational caufe to be offered why horfes, at the 

 periods before mentioned, become then fubjed 

 to this diftemper, in a greater or lefs degree, 

 according to circumflances i as for inffance, 



Thofe horfes (or colts) that have been con- 

 ftantly well fed without reftraint for three, four, 

 or five years, muft, with their food, have im- 

 bibed an accumulation of impurities; thefc 

 having never been once agitated by evacuations, 

 excited by art, or perfpiration promoted by 

 exercife, muft confequently remain ftagnant in 

 the blood, till the horfe being brought into 

 ufe for the purpofe he is intended, when the 

 groffnefs and vifcidity that has fo long lain dor- 

 mant 



