EXERCISE. 333 



However, to avoid farther digreffion in the 

 prefent inftance, and come to a palpable de- 

 monftration of an aflertion juft made ; I fliajl 

 very concifely introduce from the multiplicity 

 that have occurred, two recent cafes only, as 

 dired:Iy applicable to our prefent purpofe of 

 corrqboration ; and it is rather remarkable 

 they fliould both happen on the fame day, 

 and within a vejy fhort timxC of this repre- 

 fentation going to prefs, the horfes being the 

 property of perfons of the firft fafhion, and 

 each of them fent upwards of twenty miles 

 for my opinion. 



The firft was a hunter of high qualifi- 

 cations and confiderable eftimation ; upon ac- 

 curate examination I found him in the exa(5t 

 ftate I have defcribed when labouring under a 

 defluxion of the eyes, (arifing from a difeafed 

 and acrimonious ftate of the blood) the dif- 

 charge from which, in its long continuance 

 and feverity, had ** fretted channels in his 

 cheeks ;" the eyes were fo very much periihed 

 that they were abfolutely contradted in their 

 orbs, the frame weak and emaciated, difplay- 

 ing a fpeftacle with very flender and difcou- 

 raging hopes of redlification. 



Anxious 



