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%vitli eruptions, and fometimes fwellings of the 

 legs and joints, and in the latter cafe is ufually 

 to be looked upon as the termination of fome 

 chronic difeafe, or a confequence of the im- 

 proper ufe of mercurial phyfic. Surfeits are 

 ftyled DRY, or wet; in the former, the fkin 

 is covered with a thick dry fcurf, with fcabs, 

 and fmall hard tumours like warbles ; in the 

 latter, a (harp briny ichor ilfues from the poll, 

 neck, withers, quarters, and hinder legs, in the 

 bend of the hock, caufing great fliffnefs and 

 inflammation ; this is probably analogous with 

 fcurvy in the human body, and will often at- 

 tend cart-horfes with foul and unwholefome 

 blood, at ftated periods. The too free ufe of 

 beans will produce the w^et furfeit. 



The cure of surfeits depends almofl en- 

 tirely upon internal alteratives with a very 

 fmall attention to external applications : as to 

 the latter, perhaps, frequent cleanfing with a 

 good ftrong lather, of foap, is generally fuffi- 

 cient, but where the eruptions are hard, and 

 fixed, and the fcabs do not peel oflP, I know of 

 nothing letter than to rub them frequently with 

 the llrong mercurial un6tion, keeping the horfe 

 well clothed, and giving warm water in the 

 interim. The warm bath, if the animal be 

 ftrong. It is necelTary here to give a caution 

 againft the common practice of the farriers, 

 which is to bleed, and treat difeafes of this 



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