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progrefs of this difeafe than any we have yet 

 leen offered to public confideration. 



That " a partial flagnatioh of the blood and 

 ** juices in the finer vefiels, where the circula- 

 '' tion is moft languid/' may and does happen, 

 I readily admit, but by no means fo often as 

 to conftitute the difeafe we now treat of; if fo^ 

 (the extremities in mod horfes being the fame, 

 as well as the circumference or capacity of the 

 veifels and force of circulation), there can be 

 no doubt but nineteen cut of every twenty 

 would be afflidled with this malady, from an 

 ^' ERROR in NATURE," that no human fore- 

 fight can prevent or judgment remove. 



Bartlet (who Is the author before alluded 

 to), fays, in the paiTage there quoted, '' the 

 *' horfes moft fubjecft to it are thofe where 

 *^ there is a due want of exercife," In compli- 

 ment to an author of merit and repute^ we 

 will admit this for a moment, but, the better 

 to eftablifh my own point, I (hall claim the 

 privilege of making one obfer^-cation in diredl op- 

 pofition to an aiTertion that has acquired fome 

 authority by remaining fo long uncontradidted. 

 And as I, from the firft moment of my em- 

 H 2 barkation 



