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re6ily as to its fymptoms, and its origin by the 

 old veterinary writers, both ItaUan, French, and 

 Endifh. Blundevil, and after him Markham, 

 give the following (liort defcription of its rife, 

 progrefs, and completion: " Of cold, firft 

 *•' Cometh the pofe (that is (loppage in the head) 

 " and the cough; then the glanders, and lafl of 

 ^' all, the m.ourning of the chine." Of the na- 

 ture of the difeafe, they had yet very confufed 

 and erroneous notions ; of courfe their attempts 

 at cure were irrational, and little to the pur* 

 pofe. But they by no means deferve the ridi- 

 cule which has been caft upon them, for the term 

 mort-de-chine, or as Blundevil Engliflied it, 

 mourning of the chine ; fmce they did but what 

 is very common with our modern farriers, de- 

 nominate a difeafe from one of its prominent 

 fymptoms. That the wafting of the chine is 

 an almoft invariable fymptom of chronic gland- 

 ers, I have had frequent occafion to obferve ; 

 and in the laft of two attempts to cure the dif- 

 eafe, my patient, a fix year old mare, had a real 

 tabes dorfalis, as far as that term is fuppofed to 

 intend a confumption, and weaknefs of the 

 loins. 



Snape was the firft of the old veterinary 

 writers who really underftood this difeafe, and 

 probably it will not be too much to aflert, that 

 he has given as juft and philofophic, although 

 concife, an account of it, as the mofl celebrated 



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