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according as the disease is more or less inveterate, white, 

 yellow, green, and sometimes almost black, and very 

 fcctid, in which case it may be concluded that the bones 

 are become foul. 



In buying a horse, feel if he has any flat glands 

 fastened to the nether jaw, which give him pain when 

 you press them, and remember that a running at one 

 nostril is worse than at both. 



VIVES. 



When the jaws are strait, that the neck swells above 

 them, it is a sign of short wind ; but if the swelling be 

 long, and close by his chaps, like a whetstone, then be 

 sure he has the vives, which only differs from the 

 strangles in this, that the swellings of the kernels under 

 the ears seldom gather or come to matter. 



When these swellings appear in an old or full aged 

 horse, they are signs of great malignity, and often of 

 an inward decay, as well as forerunners of the glanders. 



This is a distemper most frequent in high mountainous 

 countries, especially to horses that are not used to the 

 crudities produced in the stomach by the spring and 

 fountain waters that rise in hilly grounds. Standing 

 waters or those of very little current, are the least 

 dangerous, and seldom cause the vives, but very deep 

 wells are bad. 



► NOSTRILS. 



If his nostrils be open, dry, wide, and large, so as 



upon any straining the inward redness is discovered , if 



his muzzle be small, his mouth deep, and his lips equally 



meeting, they are signs of health and wind ; but should 



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