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upon the difeafes of horfes, he was pleafed to 

 fay, ' he could difcover no fatisfadory inveftU 

 ' gation or explanation of the origin, no fyfte- 



* matic mode of treatment, or probability of 



* cure, but in the Stable Directory -, which had 



* given him fo perfecfl a reprefentation of f aR- 



* RiERs' pr^(5Lice in general, that he was deter- 



* mined to entruft no cafe of cpnfequence to 



* their m^anagement, and enjoined me to un- 



* dertake the fuperintendance.' I found, upon 

 inquiry, the mare had been bled in an early 

 ftage of the appearance -, but, the owner being 

 a long lime abfent from home, the mare had 

 been continued at full feed, and no medicinal 

 ftep taken to reftrain or counteraft the progrefs 

 of difeafe. 



That I rnight the better afcertain the prefent; 

 flate of the blood, I ordered three pints to be 

 taken away, which, almoft immediately after 

 its extravafation, ' formed a rigid coagulum, 

 producing upon the furfage a coat of lize more 

 than two inches thick, io very vij'ctd that a 

 pen-knife, exceedingly iharp, barely eifedted 

 its feparation, the craiFamentum uncommonly 

 livid and adhefive, denoting a great degree of 

 inflamm.ation. 



This 



