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expofed to the wet and cold, particularly the 

 night air, in a hard job of fcavenger's work, 

 was feized very faddenly with illnefs, on being 

 taken out of the (hafts. His jaw became fixed, 

 his tail fet out, and his hinder legs extended 

 very wide. He had a univerfal rigour and 

 fhivering ; with a confiderable motion in his 

 flanks. It foon appeared that the cramp or 

 contraftion extended from his jaws, along the 

 vertebrae of the neck and back, and alfo along 

 the mufcles of the belly on each fide from his 

 elbow to his fheath, v/hich w^ere confiderably 

 enlarged. He recovered the ufe of his jaws, I 

 believe, the next day, probably from the mere 

 warmth of the liable. The eighth day all the 

 remaining fymptoms continued, with frequent 

 attempts to ftale, the urine coming in drops, 

 with much pain, the kidneys and bladder 

 having been primarily afPefted, or fince by 

 tranflation. An intermittent pulfe, never high. 

 Much flaver from the jaws,- the pafTages of the 

 head being intirely obfi:ru6led. Staring coat, 

 tolerable appetite, neither cofliive nor other- 

 wife. The horfe was fit to go to work again, 

 in about eight weeks ; he was under the care 

 of a farrier, and the bill, I w^as informed, 

 amounted to about fifty fiiillings. I converfed 

 much with the doclor, but his difcourfe was fo 

 wild, that I could not pollibly difcover from it 

 any certain rule of judging or prefcribing in 



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