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that may take away the Appetite, or caufe a Horfe's Appe- 

 tite to be vitiated; and when the laft happens to Horfes, 

 we often obferve them, by a Sort of Inftinct, crave after 

 thofe things that are very different from their natural Food, 

 as the eating of Mud, or Clay out of the Walls. 



But in handling the Cure, we need fay but <t-^^ q^ 

 very little concerning that Species of Want 

 of Appetite, which is often the fudden Effecl of fome fud- 

 den Accident, or ill Alanageinent ; for this is frequently 

 cured by Blood-letting alone, as it is, for the moft Part, no 

 other than a Symptom of a beginning Fever, and of fuch a 

 one where the Blood, if at all, is but little vitiated. 



Wherefore, in any fiich Cafe, a Qiiart of Blood may be 

 taken from, the Neck- vein, after which may be adminiftred 

 fuch things as are cooling, and fit to keep down a Fever. 

 His Diet ought to he fcalaed Bran, and his Water fharpen'd, 

 as has been directed in fuch Cafes, and, with the Affiftance* 

 of moderate Exercife his Stomach will foon come to him. 



But when the want of Appetite proceeds either from a con- 

 ftantFuInefs, whereby the Action of the Stomach is hinder'd, 

 that its Sides cannot meet together fo as to excite the Senfa- 

 . tion of Hunger ; or if it proceeds from an evil Quality in its 

 Contents, as forlnftance, if there be flim.y Alatter ingender'd 

 in it, either from rav/ undigefied Food, from the Want of a 

 free Difcharge of the Dung, or if any (harp corrofive Matter 

 be in it, caufing a depriv'd Appetite, or a Senfation of Hun- 

 ger by Fits, as we oftentimes obferve, the moft rational Me- 

 thod in all thefe Cafes, is in the firft Place to evacuate and 

 purge the Stomach, by fach things as are appropriated, ei- 

 ther to fweeten the Juices, or attenuate the vifcid Phlegm. 

 And this Method ieems to be the moll reafonable with Re- 

 ' fped to Horfes, becaufe, as we have elfe where obferv'd, they 

 are no ways difpofed to vomit, or throw any thing out of the 

 Stomach that has once enter'd into it, and that feems to be 

 . owing to the Figure of the Gullet, which is contracted more 

 ; than in fome other Creatures and has a fpiral Direction, a little 

 above its Infertion into the Stomach ; for had it been other* 

 wife, tho' a Horfe might have vomited as well as fome other 

 1 Animal?, yet as he feeds much with his Head downwards, he 

 ' would then perhaps have lain under thelnconveniency of hav- 

 ing his Food fall fometim.es back again into the Gullet, which 

 would be very troubiefome to him ; and we may likewife ob- 

 ferve from frequent Experiments, if there be never fo large a 

 Quantity of any vomiting Medicine given to a Horfc, it has 



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