232 FEVERS. 



** A Treatife on the Difeafes and Lamenefs of 

 ** Horfes/' though an attentive infpedion and 

 perufal, proves it decidedly a treatife upon the 

 feet and ilioeing ; nothing being introduced 

 either full or explanatory upon the origin or 

 czire of SLuy difeafe to which the horfe is fub- 

 j^&y or any precife or regular method of treat- 

 ment pointed out) the very few remedies {light- 

 ly recommended, being left (in refpedt to quan- 

 tity and proportion) entirely at the difcretion of 

 the reader; 



In refpe6l to fevers he includes all under 

 the denomination of a dijlemper^ and then gives 

 you a defcription of what he calls '^ five dif- 

 *' ferent clalTes or degrees of this difeafe /* 

 but, after minutely inveftigating his explana- 

 tions, I muft confefs them fo replete with 

 fuppofitious alternatives, and theoretical uncer- 

 tainties, that they feem much more evi- 

 dently calculated to perplex than enlighten a 

 fubjea, that has hitherto been too much ob- 

 fcured by the illiteracy of fome, and the af- 

 fedted or political abfirufity of others. In 

 fadl the purport of the inq liry is fo entirely 

 loft in a variety of inapplicable digreffioqs 

 and incoherent ftories, that not a fingle clue 



