GLANDERS. 2S9 



" tion filling up in twenty-fix days, the 

 *' horfes fiafFering 7io tnconve?2ience fi-om\the 

 *' operation, though after this experiment 

 ^^they were PUT TO DEATH."' Many 

 quotations might be introduced upon v/hjtch I 

 could much enlarge, hut, in fo doing, fiicli 

 obfervations would unavoidably extend to too 

 great a length; and, as fome jufi: fatire upon 

 fuch unaccountable abfiirdities muft appear/ 

 I ihall endeavour to render it perfedlly appli- 

 cable to the fiibjed before us. 



In the firfl: inftance, it may not be amafs to 

 make proper acknowledgments to the French 

 king's farrier, and his trumpeter, Mr. B ar tle t, 

 for dividing and fubdividing 072e mto /even 

 dillind: (or imaginary) difeafes : in ihort, 

 upon accurate inveftigation, we find the fertile 

 M. La Fosse (and his echo) have defined fix 

 difl^erent difcharges from the nofiirils to confti- 

 tute fo many [jtomiital) glanders, and then de- 

 fcribe a feventh, and tell us that is the '' real 

 '' glanders." It is impoflible to pafs over the 

 ff2efe of the Frenchman, or the kindnefs and 

 credulity of his copifi:, v/ithout faying fome^ 

 thing in animadverfion upon this attempt to 

 impofe upon the world in general, without 

 U eveu 



