23o STRANGLES, 



this IS not the true caufe, why does it not ap- 

 pear before they come within the tree of the 

 faddle, or the trammels of harnefs? for, ex- 

 perience demonftrates the truth of this obfer- 

 vation, that twenty horfes for either faddle or 

 cart have this diftemper after being taken into 

 work, to every cne attacked with it previous to 

 their being broke and brought into ufe. 



Having introduced thus much to gratify the 

 expedation of every reader anxious for the 

 elucidation of the caufe, it becomes necelTary 

 to advert to the difeafe itfelf j the firft attack 

 of which is perceived in a dull fluggiih hea- 

 vinefs and inactivity; the horfe becomes dif- 

 pirited, lofes his appetite, is feized v;ith a 

 hollow huf]<:y cough, occafioned by the irrita- 

 bility of the inflamed glandular parts in the 

 throat and about the root of the tongue 3 to 

 excite a deforce of moifture in the mouth that 

 may allay this difagrceable fenfuion he is 

 often picking his hay, but eats little or none ^ 

 a degree of fyinptomatic heat comes on, and a 

 confcquent clamtninefs and thirft is percepti- 

 ble. As the diftemper advances he becomes 

 proportionally languid and inattentive; afvvell- 

 ing (fometimes tw^o or three fmaller furround- 



ing) 

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