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how they could ever have entered the brain of 

 reasonable and thinking men : but before 

 going into a detail, I will introduce a few 

 remarks on endemic diseases, for the purpose 

 of more clearly establishing the point, ' that 

 certain situations produce the complaint, and 

 will for ever be the cause of its continuance so 

 long as those situations are preserved ' ; and 

 also that certain modes of treatment are the 

 causes of its prevailing in some instances 

 with a greater degree of inveteracy. Indeed 

 I have no hesitation in declaring, that bad 

 management will, even on healthy sites, 

 produce a modified degree of rheumatism, 

 which assumes the name of kennel lameness. 



" There are certain diseases which afflict 

 the human body, and which are found to rage 

 in particular localities, termed endemic. 

 They are attributable to some pecularities of 

 the soil, the air, the food, and in some 

 instances of the habits of the inhabitants. 

 Poverty, want of cleanliness, and, the con- 

 sequence of poverty, bad and insufficient food 

 and raiment, may be enumerated among the 

 most conspicuous causes. A removal of them 

 will naturally be followed by the disappear- 

 ance of the endemic. So with hounds : if a 



