GLANDERS. 2S9 



*^ t!on filling up in twenty-fix days, the 

 '* horfes fuffering no inconvenience from the 

 *' operation, though after this experiment 

 " they were PUT TO DEATH." Many 

 quotations might be introduced upon which I 

 could much enlarge, but, in fo doing, fuch 

 obfervations would unavoidably extend to too 

 great a length; and, as fome juft fatire upon 

 fuch unaccountable abfurdities muft appear, 

 I (hall endeavour to render it perfectly appli- 

 cable to the fubjedt before us. 



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In the firft inftance, it may not be amifs to 

 make proper acknowledgments to the French 

 king's farrier, and \\\^ trumpeter^ Mr. Bartlet, 

 for dividing and fubdividing c?2e into [even 

 diftind (or imaginary) difeafes; in fhort, 

 upon accurate inveftigation, we find the fertile 

 M. La Fosse (and his echo) have defined fix 

 different difcharges from the noftrils to confti- 

 tute fo many (nominal) glanders, and then de- 

 fcribe a feventh, and tell us that is the ^* real 

 *' glanders." It is impoffible to pafs over the 

 finejfe of the Frenchman, or the kindnefs and 

 credulity of his copieft, without faying fome- 

 thing in animadverfion upon this attempt to 

 impofe upon the world in general, without 



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