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CLASS VIII. 



THE STRANGLES, GLANDERS, 

 STAGGERS, and CONVULSIONS. 



STRANGLES. 



Not one feafible reafon has ever been ad- 

 duced why this difeafe is fo general that anyhorfe 

 is hardly ever known to efcape -, they are even 

 fubjecfl to it at all times of life 5 but the periods 

 of attack are moflly when rifing three^four, or 

 Jive years old. Soleysell and Gibson vainly 

 conceived they threw great light upon the 

 fubjecft, by comparing it to the fmall-pox, 

 " becaufe/' fay they, '' young horfes are gene- 

 *^' rally its fubjeds/' *' For, fays Gibson, 

 ** the blood of young horfes may reafonably 

 ** enough be fuppofed ui>eq,ually fluid, having 



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