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a disorder which is called the Bastard Strangles, which 

 appears sometimes like, and sometimes different from the 

 true strangles. » The bastard strangles are what proves 

 the horse has not thrown off his true strangles, but that 

 some foul humours are still left behind ; this disorder 

 may come at four, five, six, or even seven years of age. 

 A continual languor at work, and seemingly perpetually 

 weary, without any visible aihnent, is a certain sign that 

 he is not clear of this disorder, which sometimes will 

 affect the foot, the leg, the ham, the haunch, the shoulder, 

 the breast, or the eye, and without care in this latter 

 case, may corrupt the pupil of the eye, as the small-poy 

 does in men. 



MORE FOUNDERING. 



There is also another disorder, much like the strangles* 

 which is called Morefoundering, (the word is of French 

 origin) and is used by farriers to distinguish those colds 

 which a horse takes by being suffered to cool too sud- 

 denly after violent exercise — and may be known by a 

 running at the nose. 



GLANDERS. 



A distemper in horses which too generally proves 

 fatal, notwithstanding the many boasted remedies that 

 are prescribed for its cure. In fact all horses that are 

 said to die of the glanders, are victims to a pulmonary 

 consumption, the lungs of all such being found diseased 

 or destroyed. 



This disease is known by a flux or running of corrupt 

 matter from the nostrils, which is of different colours, 



