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Quotation dates: 1813
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CRUGGLES, n.pl. A disease of cattle (Sc. 1814 J. Sinclair Gen. Report Agric. Scot. III. 105).Mearns 1813 G. Robertson Agric. Kcd. 384:
The Cruggles also is an odd kind of disorder with which young beasts only are seized. . . . In this disease the animal is affected with a convulsive movement in its limbs, by which they are contracted, and intertwined among each other; and soon becoming unable to stand, it dies seemingly of pure weakness.
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