3i8 STAGGERS, &;c. 



the blood beyond the limits prefcribed by 

 Nature, I prefent to the reader's imagination 

 that infinity of moft beautifal horfes that upon 

 every principal road in England condantly fail 

 viaims to the rapidity of MAIL COACHES, 

 FLYING MACHINES, DILLIES, and 

 POST TRAVELLERS^ more particularly 

 in the extreme heat of fummer, when they 

 are feen daily dying martyrs to the eagernefs 

 of impatient travellers, or the innate cruelty of 

 inhuman drivers. To thefe fome (but a very 

 few) of private property may be added, hard 

 drove upon long and fpcedy journies, and 

 others imprudently rode, and improperly 

 managed, during chafes of great length, in 

 itrong deep countries, with fleet hounds. 



Others become the fubjedls of thcfe dif- 

 crders from great irritation (with fevere and 

 excruciating pains) in the ilomach and bowels; 

 th« powerful effeds of worms or bots in the 

 inteftinal canal; fliarp acrid medicines; a re- 

 pulfion of any moibid matter from thefurface, 

 without its being carried off by proper evacu- 

 ations; or wounds, diflocations, &c. They arc 

 frequently known to attack very fuddenly, and 

 terminate in death very fpeedily; at others the 



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