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134 FARCY. 



reader to repeat the technical jargon that was 

 unavoidably neceffary to explain the original 

 caufes of gr cafe, hide bound y furfeit^ or mange. 

 An hypothetical explanation of the nature and 

 origin of tliis complaint would be to go over 

 the fame ground, introducing the fame law of 

 nature in the fyflem of circulation : the con- 

 veyance of chyle by the lymphatics or fmall 

 veffeis, for the generating of blood, the par- 

 tial coagulation of the craflamentum, and its 

 confequent efftds ; as obflradtion, putrefac- 

 tion, and the appearances that follow upon 

 different parts of the body, or in general over 

 the whole. That this disease has its dif- 

 ferent ftages or degrees of malignity accord-? 

 ing to iht flatey habit ^ bloody age, keep^ and con^ 

 dttion of the hcrfe^ is certain; but generally 

 that circumftance is mifunderflood, and the 

 different degrees of the diftemper are fup- 

 pofed to conftitute diftindt kinds of the fam§ 

 difeafe. 



That the diftemper originates m an inflam- 

 matory ftate of blood in the firft inftance, gra- 

 dually increafing to the greatefl: pitch of acri- 

 mony, and affeding thefyftem by degrees, till 

 |he whole mafs is corrupted^ is tpo evidently 



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