120 SURFEIT. 



contrary it is univerfally feen, that horfes la*, 

 bouring under the difeafe known by the ap- 

 pellation of SURFEIT, are generally foor. 



There is no rational unprejudiced man living 

 who will not moft cheerfully fubfcribe his 

 opinion to a fair inveftigatiun and demonftra-* 

 tion of TRUTH, rather than every fallacious 

 conjeBure that may be forcibly feized on by a 

 POST HASTE author^ impatient to arrive at the 

 goal of his undertaking. 



Of SURFEITS then there are two kinds, 

 originating from different caufes, one being 

 no more than a very advanced ftage of the cafe 

 laft defcribedi which being long negleded, 

 continues to increafe, with all its Jymptoms 

 before-mentioned, till the entire mafs of blood 

 being at laft affcBed^ difplays itfelf upon the 

 furfacc of the body with a degree of virulence 

 that forcibly appeals to the fenfations of the 

 owner 'y and neceffityy by the plea of self-in- 

 terest, prompts him to yield, in his own 

 defence, what the didlates of hmnanity had in 

 vain endeavoured to obtain^ This I confider 

 one embellifJment to the Farrier's abftrufe 

 a,bridgment ; to which I fliall add an additional 



definition 



