6 The Farrier'j New Guide. Chap. It 

 CHAP. II. 



Of the Signs of Sicknefs in Horfes. 



Dtfeafes in tT is indeed very difficult to arrive at an)? 



brute Creatures A certain Knowledge in the Difeafes -of 

 hard to be dt- \yx\xVt Creatures, and therefore it is no w^onder 

 ftinguijhed. jj- ^^ Farriers are miftakcn in enumerating 



Signs, becaufe we can only judge by outward Appearances, 

 and not from any Infight they can give into their own In- 

 difpofitions, but efpecially as there are many Difeafes that 

 are accompanied with the fame common Symptoms; and 

 therefore, tho' we may be affured that a Horfe has a Fe- 

 ver, or a Strangury, we cannot at the fame Time be certain, 

 without a very careful Examination, whether he may not 

 have an Inflammation in the Pleura^ or in his Kidney?. 

 AH the Signs that thefe Creatures ufually give in the Af- 

 fedions of particular Parts, is by turning their Head to- 

 wards that Part. Neither is that always to be depended 

 upon ; for a Horfe may turn his Head towards the right 

 Side of his Belly ; and the Farrier, who chiefly takes that 

 Indication to fignify a difeafed Liver, may be grofly mif- 

 taken, fmce a Horfe very frequently gives the fame Sign in 

 a Cholick. The only Way therefore to get an Infight into^ 

 the Difeafes of Horfes, is to make a judicious Comparifon of 

 all the Signs that can be gather'd in any Dillemper, and bj 

 that Means the Farrier may go on to adminfter his PhyficI 

 with fome AiTurance ; and herein they may be very much' 

 afTilled by the Remarks of the Sieur Be SoUeyfell^ who has 

 been a more accurate Obferver of all thofe Things, thai " 

 any other who has wrote upon the Subject. 



The firil Sign that a Horfe commonly gives of Sicknefs, 

 is loathing his Food ; this is common to all Fevers. In fome 

 Cafes a Horfe looks wild and haggard, and albeit at oth( 

 Times he was eafy and tradable, he now grows difobe- 

 dient and reftlefs, will neither ftand long, nor when he lie 

 down, will he continue in that Pofture, but immediatel] 

 flarts up again : This may, for the moll Part, be reckon'd' 

 a Sign of violent and excefTive Pain, and no doubt, pro- 

 ceeding from an Inflammation of the Phura^ or Lungs, 

 efpecially if his Heart and Flanks beat, and that he labours 

 far l^reath. Other Signs of Sicknefs are, a dry and parch'il 

 Mouthj the Tongue white and cruftcd over, and the Breath 



exceflive 



