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foe confequently laid under by the ufual purg- 

 ing medicines ; and the leaft doubt need not 

 be entertained but fuch feafonable adminiftra- 

 tion will obliterate the foundation of much 

 difquietude and trouble. 



The laii fubjedl we fhall enlarge upon of 

 this kind is very frequently both dangerous and 

 alarming, being in general caufed more by the 

 inexperience or indifcretion of boys^ negledt of 

 fervan/Sy or want of knowledge in the majlery 

 than any other complaint in the long lift of dii- 

 eafes to which the horfs is incident. Experience 

 and accurate obfervation fuUv juftify the declar- 

 ation that nineteen out of every twenty ^ attacked 

 with the flatulent cholic, or frety become fo 

 from the previous and uncertain quantity of 

 water inconliderately given, or permitted to be 

 taken, either when they are exceedingly hot 

 and the blood in the ftate of increafed circula- 

 tion, or after being kept a conliderable time 

 in extreme thirft , when, in either cafe, it is 

 generally known they vv^ill fwallow very large 

 quantities with the greateft avidity. And it 

 may not be confidered inapplicable to obferve, 

 that, fince the former editions of this work 

 appeared in public, I have been twice requefted 



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