FACT NUMBER ONE. 11 



the effects of the Slobbe?'s, and saw at once the animal was 

 salivated, and that both cow and horse, were diseased alike, 

 though the glandular affection was not so strongly apparent 

 in the former as in the latter. Both however were sensibly 

 relieved, temporarily, by a mess of wheat bran, and hence 

 the direct intimation of the propriety of a change of feed. 



A few experiments satisfied the enquirer, that whatever 

 the cause might be, the disease was destruction to both ani- 

 mals ; if not directly so, as by poison, then by the induction 

 of other diseases. By a course of experiments made upon 

 the horse, it was found the animal lost his flesh, his strength, 

 his spirits, and his ambition ; dropping successively into the 

 Scoioers, — then the Yellow Watei\ and, lastly, to death. 

 Yet in the worst stages of the complaint, he could be brought 

 back and built up in a short period, by a course of dry feed, 

 oats, shorts, bran, &c, in the place of pasture or grass 

 feed. 



The next advance in the enquiry went to prove that there 

 were kinds of grass feed or pasture, which did not inflict 

 the disease at any time, and that the commencement of the 

 complaint, was about the period of the full blooming of the 

 chestnut-tree ; while its end was, at latitude 43 north, late 

 in October. Yet a few cases of the disease were found to 

 have been known while feeding on dry hay in the winter 

 season, but they were not very violent nor of long duration. 



Following the horse from one day to another, and from 

 one pasture to another, and watching the effect of each move, 

 the long sought cause was finally discovered, and it was also 

 discovered, at the same time, to be more abundant in certain 



