Chap. XXVI. Of Chefi-foundering, &:c.' 9 1 



he is hot to the cold Air, riding him at that Time into cold 

 Water, or letting him have cold Water to drink ; and 

 therefore it is fometimes introduc'd by a Cold. 



Sometimes it proceeds from a Horfe's eating unwholfome 

 Hay, and bad Prov^ender, or his Feeding on cold frozen 

 Grafs in Winter, efpecially if he has not been us'd to it ; 

 but the moft common and ordinary Caufe, is the over- 

 riding a foul-body'd Horfe that has not been accultom'd to 

 Exercife, for then his Blood being agitated, and put into a 

 more than ordinary degree of Motion, palTes forward into 

 the Lungs or Pleura in great Quantity, and very much 

 diftends the fmall Vellels there, but becaufe of its Vifcidity, 

 it fuddenly ftagnates, and occafions Pain and Inflammation, 

 with the other Symptoms v\^e have already mentioned: 

 And therefore young Horfes, as their Bodies are moft apt 

 to be foul, and their Blood of unequal Fluidity, are the 

 moft liable to Cheft-Foundering. 



The Signs are, an exceflive heaving of the „-, «. 

 Flanks, ftarting w^ith Pain as often as he of- ^^ ^' 



fers to move ; when violent, it is always accompany'd with 

 a Fever ; but as the Fever is only an Eifedof the Inflamma- 

 tion, it goes off'as foon as that is removed. 



But a Horfe is often faid to be Cheft-foun- The Cure of 

 der'd in his Body, when there are no vifible Chejl-founder- 

 Symptoms of much Pain, only an Opprefli- j.?. ^'^^ ^^^«- 

 on ; but as this even proceeds from the fame ^^]^ ^ 

 Caufes, and as it produces many of the fame ^ ^' 

 Effeds, as breaking the Horfe's Wind, melting his Greafe, 

 and all other Difeafes that follow fuch an Oppreflion on 

 the Lungs, and other Bowels, it ought, in the Cure, to be 

 treated much after the fame Manner as if there was Pain 

 and Inflammation, only that Bleeding may be more fpa- 

 lingly ufed ; for when there is fuch an Oppreflion that a 

 Horfe cannot breathe, but is like to be fuffocated, then 

 Bleeding muft be repeated, as the lefler Evil. 



And in this cafe I would always recommend opening the 

 Flank- veins, or thofe of the Infide of the Thigh, to make 

 a Revulflon, which will be found much more fafe, and an- 

 fwer the End much better than Bleeding in the Neck or 

 Plate-veinsj as is ufually praftifed in fuch Cafes, for this of- 

 ten caufes a greater Derivation upon the Lungs or Pleijra. 



And becaufe a Cheft-founder'd Hoi;fe has oftentimes a 

 great inward Heat and Coftivenefs, efpecially in the Begin- 

 ning, he ought to have an emollient Clyfter given him^ as 



that 



