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this trifling circumftance, a very forcible idea 

 of POVERTY in both food and raiment. The 

 horfe is generally languid, dull, heavy, and 

 weak; his excrement is dark, foul, and ofFen- 

 five ; he fweats much upon very moderate 

 exertions ,; then his coat flares, the hair turns 

 different ways, (which in its effluvia is difagree- 

 abic,) and affords evident proof of weaknefs 

 and debilitation. The caufe requires very little 

 animadverfion, as it bears the face of poverty 

 (in food and attention) upon ev^ery trait of its 

 countenance. 



Bad food and want oi Jlahle care are, in 

 general, the only probable reafons that can be 

 affigned for this complaint, or defed. Long 

 lank grafs in low fwampy land in autumn, 

 and mufty hay or bad oats at any feafon, may 

 in fome degree allay the hunger, but not gra- 

 tify the appetite ; ior^ being in itfelfdeftitute 

 of the effe6l and quality of fuperior food^ no 

 nutritive contribution can be conveyed for the 

 generating of blood or formation of flefh. 

 The fources for the fupply of chyle being thus 

 obftruded, the lymphatics are deprived of 

 their due proportion of nutritive fluid that 

 Ihould pafs through thefe fmaller veflTels, and 



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