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GLANDERS. 



This difeafe has ever been to the fraternity 

 of Farriers what the gout, JlonCy and confiunp- 

 tion^ have proved X.o the faculty, a never- 

 failing fource for conflant attendance, long 

 bills, and large fums total. And though, like 

 all other diftempers, confidered incurable, 

 ** tooferlous to make a joke of,*' I muft be in- 

 dulged iii the effufions of fancy naturally 

 arifingfrom a very minute inveftigation of the 

 caiife aad its confequences. We are told bv 

 thofe who have preceded us, that " the caufe 

 *' and feat of the glanders have been till lately 

 *' fo imperfedlly handkdy and io little under- 

 '^^ flood by the writers of this diftemper, that 

 *' it is no wonder it fhould be ranked among 

 *^ the incurables: b^it a new light having been 

 *' thrown upon the whole aitair by the ftudv of 

 ** M. La Fosse, the King of France's farrier, 

 " who has been at the pains to trace out and 

 *' difcover, by dissections, the fource and 

 *' caufe of this diforder, vre hope the method 

 '" he has propofed, with fome farther experi- 

 5 ^ ^' ments 



