3i8 STAGGERS, &d. 



the blood beyond the Hmits prefcribed by 

 Nature, I prefent to the reader's imagination 

 that infinity of moil beautiful horfes that upon 

 every principal road in England conftantly fall 

 viftims to the rapidity of MAIL COACHES, 

 FLYING MACHINES, BILLIES, and 

 POST TRAVELLERS; more particularly 

 in the extreme heat of fummer, when they 

 are feen daily dying martyrs to the eagernefs 

 of impatient travellers, or the innate cruelty of 

 inhuman drivers. To thefe fome (but a very 

 few) of private property may be added, hard 

 drove upon long and fpeedy journies, and 

 others imprudently rode, and improperly 

 managed, during chafes -of great length, in 

 ftrong deep countries, with fleet hounds. 



Others become the fubjeds of thefe dif- 

 orders from great irritation (with fevere and 

 excruciating pains) in the ftomach and bowels; 

 the powerful effecfls of worms or bots in the 

 inteftinal canal; iliarp acrid medicines; a re- 

 pulfion of any morbid matter from the furface, 

 without its being carried off by proper evacu- 

 ations; or wounds, diflocations, &c. They are 

 frequently known to attack very fuddenly, and 

 terminate in death x;^;j fpeedily; at others the 



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