loo Th8 Farrier'^ AVl:; Guide. Ch. XXVIIf. 



ders ; wherein he obferves, that the Matter which iflueth 

 ib plentifully out of the Nofes of Horfes that have got 

 great Colds, or are glandered, falls not, as he himfelf had 

 fome time believed, from the Brain, but that it was fepa- 

 rated from the arterial Blood by the Glands or Kernels of 

 the upper Part of the Iniide of the Nofe, which, he fays, is 

 the more readily to be believed, becauie the other Glands 

 are fwell'd at the fame time, and particularly thofe under the 

 Horfe's Jav^^s, that being one of the moft certain Signs of a 

 Horfe's inclining to the Glanders. But he goes on in the 

 following Words : " And this may ferve to convid of Error 

 *' all our ancient Authors, who did hold (and our Pradli- 

 " tioners, who at this Day do hold) that the Glanders 

 *' proceed from a Defedt and Wafteing in the Brain ; and 

 ** that all that fnotty Matter comes from thence, which 

 *•' ilTues out of the Nofe ; which, were it fo, all the Brain 

 *' in the Horfe's Head would not be fufficient to fupply it 

 *' with Matter for three Days, according to the Quantity I 

 *' have feen come from one in that Time. It is therefore a 

 *' very falfe Opinion^ taken up meerly upon guefs, with- 

 *' out infpeding into the Parts, that our Praditioners do 

 *' commonly entaintain concerning this Difeafe. 



" Neither is there fuch a Difeafe as the Mourning oj 

 *' the Chine^ as they do to this Day hold ; for it is impof- 

 *' fible any Creature fhould continue fo long alive, as till 

 *' all his Brain be fo far wafted by this I)ifeafe, that it 

 *' comes to reach the Spinal Marrow v/ithout the Skull, 

 '' which is that, I fuppofe, they call the Chine. 



" But this Difeafe, by them called the Mourning cj 

 ** the Chine, is diftinguifh'd into a different Difeafe from 

 '' the foiimer, from the Matter's altering its Colour ; for it 

 *' is generally obferv'd, that after a Horfe hath had this 

 •' Difeafe running on him for fome time, the corrupt Mat- 

 '' ter or Snot, changes by degrees from an indifferent white 

 *' to a more dull Colour, inclining at firft to a little red- 

 *' difh, but after a longer Time, efpecially when a Horfe 

 " begins to grow towards his End, it will be very black, 

 *' and very naufeous both to fee and fmell. 



*' From this alteration of the Colour, as I have faid, T 

 ** do believe they give the Difeafe this proper and diflin- 

 *' guifhing Name of Mourning of the Chine ; whereas if 

 *^' is only a greater degree of one and the fame Difeafe, in 

 ^' which the Chine is no: at all affected, at leaft no more 

 '' than any other Part of the Body, all of which languifhes 



*' away; 



