ON STAG-EVIL, AND LOCKED JAW. 417 



There can be no doubt that hoiies are fre- 

 quently troubled with the Asthma noctur- 

 NUM, Incubus, or Nightmare, the fymp- 

 toms of which arc thofe profufe fweats, and 

 tv/iflingand diflievelling of the mane, difcover- 

 ed at their uprifing in the morning, which the 

 country fellows of old attributed to the jockey- 

 fhip and hard poft-\Nork of Oberon and his 

 queen. The caufe, a denfe and fizy blood, 

 and inteftinal accumulation. It is one of the 

 falutary warnings of beneficent nature, which 

 is not always neglefted with impunity. Vene- 

 fedion. Purgatives. Exercifc. Grafs. 



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