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domefticated widi man, hadi become, unfortu- 

 nately, liable to nearly the whole of that black 

 catalogue of difeafes, whether of the " ftriftum 

 " or the laxum," of the folids or the humours, 

 which torment and abridge the days of his ty- 

 rant. Apoplexy, confumption, jaundice, ca- 

 tarrh, rheumatifm, (lone, fchirrous and cance- 

 rous affeftions, are common to both fpecies, 

 befides feveral difeafes which are peculiar to 

 the horfe ; the chief of thefe lafl are the greafe 

 and glanders, but not the farcy, as has been 

 fuppofed ; for I have feen a real farcy, or a 

 fucceffion of buds or phlegmons, running along 

 the corded veins, from under the left breaft to 

 the abdomen, and around to the loins, upon a 

 human fubjeft ; which I cured, but not under 

 the fpace of ten weeks (the patient being of a 

 weak cacheftic habitj with the external appli- 

 cation of a camphorated ointment, and the in- 

 ternal ufe of fulphur and cremor tartar. There 

 are peculiarities in the ftrufture and organiza- 

 tion of the body of the horfe ; thus it is gene- 

 rally held at prefent, that he is incapable of vo- 

 miting from the oblique infertion of the ccfopha- 

 gus, the fphinfter which comprefles it, and the 

 duplicature around the cardia ; although, for- 

 merly, it was aflerted by farriers, and writers of 

 that {lamp, that both polypody of the oak, and 

 human ordure, would occafion a horfe to vo- 

 mie ; which laft. Bracken juIUy obferves, is a 



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