^02 ON MOLTEN-GREASE. 



an inftance oi the (Irangles ending in glanders^ 

 ■ — I have feveral ; once particularly, the cafe 

 of a five-year old bred horfe in the hands of a 

 noted farrier near London ; another already 

 related. 



Greafy dejeftions may be nothing more than 

 a fpontaneous effort of nature ; in that cafe, no- 

 thing farther is indicated than to aflifl: her gra- 

 dually by evacuations, and to pay a better future 

 attention to regimen and exercife ; but our 

 bufmefs here is with the difeafe as it arifes from 

 over-exertion, and as is commonly the cafe, 

 . when the horfe has been unprepared ; of courfe, 

 horfes are moll liable in the heat of fummer. 



Symptoms, knocking up at work, refufal 

 of food on being led in, drooping of the head 

 and ears, univerfal fweat, trembling, heaving at 

 the flanks, and turning the head towards them 

 as if griped, the excrement foon appears 

 o-reafy, and a fcouring comes on in a few hours ; 

 afterwards fliffnefs and inaptitude to motion^ 

 perhaps fwelled legs. When a boy, I rode a 

 horfe with a great deal of loofe, grofs flefh 

 about him, twenty-one miles in a warm fum- 

 mer's m.orning, and reduced him to pretty 

 nearly the above defcribed (late. Many poft- 

 horfes under thefe fymptoms are neglefted, 

 and nature in a few days rifes fuperior to the 

 difeafe in a certain degree, but only to fubmit 

 to it after a while in the more formidable fhape 



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