EXERCISE. S3X 



As I have before obferved, one grand error 

 has formerly arifen, and is ftill continued by 

 all the advocates for, and invincible followers 

 oi jincient Farriery, to treat '* the humours 

 that have fallen into the eyes'' (making ufe 

 of their own language) exaftly in the famQ 

 way ; whether they proceed from any of the 

 caufcs juft recited, or the long hi}: of poffi- 

 bilities that might be added to the catalogue. 

 It is really in reflexion a dreadful conlldera- 

 tion, that experience enables me to proclaim 

 fo ferious a fad:, and with variety of proofs 

 to eftablifh the certainty, that more horfes 

 are deprived of their eyes and rendered to- 

 tally blind, by the unbounded ignorance, 

 quackery, and felf-fufficiency oi fome^ w^ith 

 the confidence and afFeded medical knowledge 

 of others, than any bodily difeafe or local 

 defed: to which the frame is fubjed in the 

 ^ourfe of nature. 



It is a matter of no fmall concern to thofe 

 who wifh to fee a rapid improvement in the 

 medical management of this ufeful animal, 

 to find in cafes of conf^que?ice^ upon every in- 

 quiry to difccvcr the caufe and what methods 

 0^4 have 



