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mination of the blood when cdLD ; and this 

 upon the bajfis of my former opinion again 

 repeated, that fhoiild the crajfamentum (or 

 coagulum) be proportionally greater in quan- 

 tity to the ferum (or watery part) than the 

 Jerum to the coagulum^ I ihould not hefitatc 

 a moment to pronounce fuch horfe to be 

 dbovc, himfelf in condition, more particularly 

 if the blood has acquired a vifcld tenacity^ 

 perceptible upon its furfacc. 



When I fay above himfelf in condition, I 

 wifh to be underftood, he is in the very 

 ilate we have already defcribed, viz, the whole 

 frame is overloaded by a fuper-abundance 

 of nutriment, not carried off by exercife; and 

 the impurities thus collcdcd, to have no re- 

 ference to latent difeafe, but merely the effed: 

 of fuch fuperflux fufpended in the conflitu- 

 tion, producing a temporary ftagnation of 

 what I have already defined humours X.o be, 

 for want of gradual motion and confcquent 

 evacuations. This being the exadt ftate of 

 a horfe labouring under plethora and its con- 

 comitants from fulnefs only, I Ihould imme- 

 diately adopt the ufe of a mafh each night, 

 compofed of malt and bran^ equal parts, 



merely 



