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Error IX. 



They fay there are horfes troubled with the 

 vertigo, and therefore run a red-hot- iron thro* 

 the foretop and mane, near the occipital bone; 

 which fometimes falls upon the cervical liga- 

 ment which is inferted into the pofterior creft 

 or ridge of the occipital- bone, this operation is 

 intended to deftroy a live worm which beyond 

 difpute is a meer chimera -, for I opened feveral 

 of thefe horfes, attacked (as they faid) with the 

 fame diforder, and never faw any worms, nor 

 any perfon who faid he ever found any. I be- 

 lieve this diforder to be nothing but an inflam- 

 mation of the brain. I faw a horfe cured of this 

 inflammation, but he was plagued for four 

 months with the application of the cautery, and 

 not being able any longer to hold up his head, 

 he was abandoned. I found that the cautery 

 had deftroyed the cervical ligament, which 

 confirms what I have faid above. 



Error X. 



I faw a horfe into whofe throat they had 

 thruft a leek, imagining he had fwal lowed a fea- 

 ther, which made him cough ; they thruft it to 

 the very trachea and feveral of its fragments re- 

 mained behind, which made him cough more 

 and more : they then thruft in an oxe's fmew 



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