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of quotation in its exercife. In Locked Jaw, 

 (Vol II. p. 548,) with a premature exultation, 

 he fays, " the older writers on farriery did not 

 underftand this difeafe at all." Yet it is eafy to 

 fee, how much he is obliged to Gibfon on all 

 hands, but mod particularly for that medicine 

 which is his flieet-anchor in the cure. He has 

 alfo adopted my idea, that (lag-evil in horfes, 

 is fometimes an original difeafe. Bardet, he 

 pretends, prefcribed medicines to be given whilH 

 the mouth of the horfe was (liut, but by a little 

 farther and neceflary attention, he might have 

 read, that Bartlet had himfelf made the excep- 

 tion, and advifed glyfters. In Strangles, (p. 635) 

 with the ufual flourifhes, Mr. Blaine aflbres us, 

 that " Gibfon fuppofed it refembled fmali-pox." 

 Had Mr. Blaine been old enough, he might 

 polhbly have heard fuch an opinion from the 

 man himfelf, but Gibfon's writings fay no fuch 

 thing : he merely obferves, that fuch is the opi- 

 nion of French and other foreign writers. Dif- 

 fatisfied, as well as Bracken, with the analogies 

 imagined by foreign writers, and contenting 

 himfelf with noticing fuch opinions, the circum- 

 fpecl Gibfon acknowledges that all he knows as 

 certain, is, that the difeafe is " a critical fwell- 

 incT." Mr. Blaine calls it " a fpecific fever of 

 horfes." The reader may, if he pleafe, accept 

 this as another fliining example of the fuperior- 

 ity of the new fchool. Mr. Blaine never faw 



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