134 The FarrierV NewGuide.Cn. XXXVI. 



Had this Diforder continued upon him a little longer with- 

 out aVentto the hard Excrements,which were fo firmly im- 

 pacted in the ftreight Gut, a violent Inflammation of that 

 Gut, and of the Neck of the Bladder, muil have foon hap- 

 pen'd, which, without the utmoft Diligence, would have 

 brought him fuddenly to his End ; for in that Cafe it would 

 have been very difficult to have fetch'd out the Dung, which 

 was the only Means to preferve him from thofe Accidents. 

 jjy r J But this will be clearly illuftrated in the 



° * other Inftance, which was of a Dragoon's 



Horfe in the Regiment to which I belong'd ; who, after a 

 full five Weeks March, coming to Hand at his Eafe, grew 

 exceeding coilive, and had his Fundament and Sheath very 

 .much i\\ elled. He was committed to the Care of one who 

 -vias tolerably wdl skill'd in many of the common Things, 

 but bemg wholly unacquainted with the Strudure and Me- 

 chanifm of that Creature, who was the Subject of his Art, 

 committed a grand Miftake, in giving him a ftrong Dofe of 

 Purging Phyfick, there being no Vent for the Paflageof the 

 Excrements downwards, and the Horfe having no Capa- 

 city to vomxit and difgorge himfelf upwards, was put into the 

 moit violent Agony imaginable, and at laft dy'd in Itrong 

 Convulfions. 



Perhaps this Perfon may, by fuch a Method, have fuc- 

 ceeded in Cafes of lefs Obitinacy, and where there was lit- 

 tle or no Swelling of the Fundament ; and if there had 

 been a Poflibility of m.aking the Horfe vomir, he might 

 have fucceeded even in this, for then the Phyfick would 

 have gone off that Way ; and after fcveral Difcharges by 

 the Mouth, the Remainder might have gone downwards, as 

 it oftentimes happens to human Bodies, becaufethe draining 

 to vomit makes a ftrong Compreflion of the Mufcles of the 

 lower Belly, which greatly forwards the Ejedions by the 

 Fundament ; and therefore in fome obftinatc Cafes ot this 

 Nature, the beft Phyficians have order'd Vomits with Suc- 

 cels. But as it is quite otherwife with Hories, and that 

 their Stomachs are not otherwife to be moved with the 

 itrongeit Stirmdi, than to create Sicknels, and caufe them 

 to Haver a little, Purging is not to be attempted in any itub- 

 born Coltivenefs, but Clylters. 



And if this Method had been taken in the Inltance now 

 before us, and due Care obferv'd to keep the Swelling of his 

 Fundament under, as he v/as a young Horfe, and not much 

 impair'd in his Strength, he might have eafily overcome that 

 Diforder, 



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