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phyfic is dangerous, becaufe what was miftaken 

 for fat is only the eff'eft of inflammation." — . 

 Vol. 11. p. 535. *' This difeafe, the grasfonda 

 of the French, is in itfelfone of the ftrongeft 

 proofs of the pitiable flate in which veterinary 

 medicine has been plunged till this period. 

 Bartlet, who was educated a furgeon, and (liould 

 have known better, fays, by molten-greafe is 

 meant a fat or oilv difcharge with the dung, and 

 arifes from a colliquation or melting down of 

 the fat of a horfe's body by violent exercife in 

 very hot weather. Bracken and Gibfon had 

 held the fame opinion before him, and later 

 writers on this fubjeft have copied their errors." 

 . — Thus far Mr. Blaine, but unfortunately for 

 him, William Ofmer, of the old fchool, and 

 one of thofe writers, whom I have, with juftice 

 I truft, intituled our Veterinary Claffics, has 



chanced to anticipate this new difcovery 



•• Now this melting the greafe is nothing more 

 or Icfs than the ferous particles of the blood ex- 



travafated by too much heat and labour." 



Ofmer, p. 128. 



Of the above opinion of Ofmer, I was well 

 aware, when treating on this difeafe, and alfo of 

 fome general objeclions from both Gibfon and 

 Bracken ; but I adhered, as a matter of choice, 

 to the evidence of my own fenfes, in preference 

 to any authority, in the firft inllance ; and in 

 the ultimate, to the eftablilhed veterinary cuf- 



torn 



