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adaptation to receive the infection. This well at- 

 tested fact ought to be received as quite conclusive 

 of the doctrine all along insisted upon in this 

 volume, as to the actual bodily state of health, we 

 term depravation of the humours, originating or in- 

 fluencing every disorder whatever. But we will 

 adduce another authority — a veterinary writer of 

 France, much looked up to there, who carries the 

 principle even farther than we have adventured to 

 push it. 



With that specious ingenuity which attends all 

 affairs of research in that country, an author named 

 Dupuy, who also quotes the rapport of another, 

 called Guibertj deduces the disposition to contract 

 such disorders from the progenitors of the afflicted, 

 or, as we should have said, from the blood or breed, 

 and he recommends a corrective kind of regimen 

 for brood mares and stallions ; that is to say, an 

 airy situation for the breeding stud, with pasture 

 rather elevated, where they will have sufficient 

 nourriture during the period of gestation, and can 

 find occasional shelter from the weather. " By 

 these means (says M. Dupuy) the disorder may be 

 prevented in great measure." The disorder he 

 here speaks of, he calls " scrophulous tubercle ;" to 

 which " all cattle whatever, bred in marshy situa- 

 tions with scanty allowance to the parents, are very 

 liable." This disorder of the blood or breed, ac- 

 cording to M. Dupuy, " predisposes the horse to 

 contract those diseases that are known to us under 

 the terms strangles, bastard strangles, farcy, and 



