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heels, grease, asthmatic cough, fret, stran- 

 gury, farcy, fever, convulsions, or in fact 

 any of the numerous diseases to wliich horses 

 are so constantly liable. 



These causes of the various diseases, so 

 perfectly clear, not only to every scientific 

 investigator but every rational observer, are 

 what have, from time immemorial, in the sta- 

 bularian dialect, passed under the undefined 

 denomination of humours, with the. nu- 

 merous tribe of equestrian dependents, from 

 the first stud-groom of the first sporting no- 

 bleman, to the most illiterate stable-boy in 

 the kingdom ; without a single professional 

 exertion of respectability, to wipe away the 

 abstruse, ignorant subterfuge, of attributing 

 the generality of disorders to the effect of 

 humours^ without any perspicuous attempt to 

 explain, in their different publications, what 

 they have universally taken the liberty to 

 condemn. 



I am exceedingly sorry to say (and say it 

 I do, not from any intentional opposition or 

 disrespect to the writers) that the more I 

 compare former literary opinions with ex- 



