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to bear it, take away a moderate portion of 

 blood, and give him afterwards two very mild 

 dof^s of phyfiC^ feleded from the prefcriptiom 

 under the article of purgingy and this will be 

 the more neceflaryj for reafons that cannot 

 require the leaft explanation • 



FARCY. 



I MUST confefs I have heard> feen, and 

 read, lefs to prove fatisfactory upon this dif- 

 temper than any other to which the horfe Is 

 fubjedl. Every writer has defcribed the fymp- 

 toms, but no author, farrier, or groom, has 

 afcertained the caufe. Their opinions upon 

 the fubjedt forming a very great fimilitude to 

 Scrub's allufion in the comedy, where he 

 f-ys '' Some fay one thing, and fome fay 

 " another j but, for my part, I believe he's 

 " a Jefuit." This is ftridly the ftate of the 

 cafe with the farcy; fome attribute it to 

 one caufe, fome to another ^ moft declare it a 

 bad caufe, and all acknowledge the "fault" 

 (as ufual) to be in the bloed. 



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