EXERCISE. 231 



As I have before observed, oiie grand error 

 has formerly arisen, and is still continued by 

 ^11 the advocates for, and invincible followers 

 oi Ancient Farriery, to treat '' the humours 

 that have fallen into the eyes" (making use 

 of their own language) exactly in the same 

 way, whether they proceed from any of the 

 causes just recited, or the long list of possi- 

 bilities that might be added tQ the catalogue. 

 It is really in reflection a dreadful considera- 

 tion, that experience enables me to. proclaim 

 so serious a fact, and with variety of proofs 

 to establish the certainty, that more horses 

 are deprived of their eyes and rendered to- 

 "^tally blind, by the unbounded ignoraaice, 

 quackery, and self-sufficiency of. some, with 

 the confidence and affected medical know- 

 ledge of others, than any bodily disease or 

 local defect to which the frame is subject in 

 the course of nature. 



It is a matter of no small concern to thos^ 

 who wish to see a rapid improvement in the 

 medical management of this useful animal, 

 to find in cases of consequence, upon every in- 

 quiry to discover the cause and what methods 



