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408 ON STAGGERS. 



farrier, to receive, I fuppofe, a cordial drink, 

 by way of preparing him for another fit, I 

 could not help malicioufly afking my old an- 

 tagonift, the tail man with the whip, whether 

 all horfes died of the mad-daggers ? " Well, 

 " Mr. Wife-acre," replied this acute fophifter 

 of the liable, " dont you fee the horfe had not 



the mad-ftaggers, or he would not have got 



over it." What a public lofs, that fuch a 

 genius had not been bred a lawyer or a po- 

 litician ! The horfe appeared to be high-fed and 

 full. of blood, and had been ftrained hard in 

 drawing a heavy load, in all probability, imme- 

 diately upon a full feed. 



This, like the colic, is plainly the difeafe of 

 neglefted evacuations ; and an immenfe load of 

 faeces or dung retained in the intellines, is gene- 

 rally one of the mofl powerful caufes.' Cart- 

 horfes particularly, will always be fubje6l to 

 fuch maladies, unlefs they are occafionally 

 purged ; but ve7iienti occurrite niorbo has been 

 echoed by every writer hnce Hippocrates, to no 

 manner of purpofe. 



I am fuppofing a cafe of fimple apoplexy 

 from plethora, and the fubjeft ftrong, and full 

 of humours. To grooms and farriers, fhould 

 any fuch honour me with a perufal, I muft note 

 here, that I do not mean corrupt or tainted 

 humours, but merely a fuperabundance of the 

 animal juices, in their natural ftate. Attend 



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