,li^ EXERCISE. 



heelSj greafe, afthmatic cough, fret, fl:rangiir}% 

 farcy, fever, convulfions, or in fad: any of 

 the numerous difeafes to which horfes arc 

 fo conftantly liable. 



Thefe caufes of the various difeafes, (o 

 perfedly clear not only to every fcientific 

 inveftigator but every rational obferver, are 

 what are for time immemorial, in the fta- 

 bularian dialed:, palTed under the undtjined 

 denomination of humours with the nu- 

 merous tribe of cqueftrian dependents, from 

 the firft ftud groom of the firft fporting 

 nobleman, to the rnofc illiterate ftable boy 

 in the kingdom ; Avitbout a lingle profef- 

 fional exertion of refpedability, to wipe 

 away the abftrufe and ignorant fubterfuge 

 of attributing the generality of diforders 

 X.O the efFed of humours, without any per- 

 fpicuous attempt to explain in their dif- 

 ferent publications, what they have univer- 

 lldjy taken the hberty to condemn. 



I am exceedingly forry to fay (and fay it 1 

 do, not from any intentional oppofition or 

 difrefped to the writers) that the more I 

 Compare former literary opinions with ex- 

 perimental 



