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GLANDERS. 



This difeafe has ever been to the fraternity 

 of Farriers what the gout, Jloney and confump-^ 

 tion^ have proved to the faculty, a never- 

 failing fource for conftant attendance, long 

 bills, and large fums total. And though, like 

 all other diftempers, confidered incurable, "too 

 " ferious to make a joke of," I muft be in- 

 dulged in the efFufions of fancy naturally 

 arifing from a very minute inveftigation of the 

 cafe and its confequences. We are told by 

 thofe who have preceded us that '^ the caufe 

 *' and feat of the glanders have been till lately 

 " fo imperfectly handled^ and fo little under- 

 " flood by the writers of this diftemper, that 

 ** it is no wonder it ihould be ranked among 

 " the incurables: but a new light having been 

 " thrown upon the whole affair by the ftudy of 

 " M. La Fosse, the King of France's farrier, 

 *^ who has been at the pains to trace out and 

 *^ difcover, by dissections, the fource and 

 *' caufe of this diforder, we hope the method 

 *' he has propofed, with fome farther experi- 

 ** ments and improvements, will foon bring to 



i\ a certainty 



