Chap. XXXVII. Of the Lax or Scouring. 1 3 5 



CHAP. XXXVII. 

 Of the Lax or Scouring* 



P O R the better underftanding of thofe Diforders, we 

 ■*' fhall rank them under Four different Kinds. We have 

 elfewhere obferv'd, that when the Excrements have lain 

 fome Time in the Guts, the Juices, by their Putrefaction, 

 turn fnarp and corrofive, and by that Means ftimulate the 

 Intellines, to fhake off what is contain'd in d^.^^j.^ KiJids 

 them. But this does not always follow fuch ^ Loofenejfes. 

 a Stagnation of the Excrement, as may be 

 obferv'd from what has been faid in the preceeding Chapter ; 

 for fometimes before fuch a Difcharge can happen, a Horfe 

 will be endanger'd of his Life ; and therefore we may rea- 

 fonably afcribe this Difference fometimes to the different 

 Conflitutions of Horfes, and fometimes to the Difference 

 of their Food, there being fome Kinds more liable to Cor- 

 ruption than others. But however that be, it is very cer- 

 tain that the Lax and Scouring in Horfes is oftentimes the 

 Effect of a preceeding Coftivenefs ; and therefore we fhall 

 account this, and all critical Loofeneffes which tend to the 

 Solution of any Difeafe, to be of the lirft Kind, 



The fecond Kind of Loofenefs, is that which proceeds 

 chiefly from Want of Digeftion ; for by that Means a Scour- 

 ing may happen, without any previous Symptoms of Cof- 

 tivenefs ; and when it is fo, a Horfe fuddenly falls away and 

 lofes his Fleih, and likewife his Appetite ; but this may be 

 further known by iheDifcharge, for many things that he eats 

 will come away whole, and his Dung will be full of Shreds 

 of Hay, and fometimes accompanied with llimy Matter. 



Thirdly, A Loofnefs and Scouring often happens when 

 the Pores of the Skin, the urinary, or other Difcharges, are 

 obflruded : For by that Means, when the excrementitious 

 Partsof the Blood have not a free Vent thro' the common 

 Paffagcs, they are deriv'd in a more than ordinary Quantity 

 into the Aperture of the Guts, but particularly in the Gall- 

 pipe and Pancreatick Dud ; fo that they may be of diffe- 

 rent Colour and Confiftency,according to the Predominancy 

 of the Juices that flow into them. When mod of it is deri- 

 ved from the Inteltinal Glands, the Matter will be clear and 

 watry, or clear and glaffy, not unlike that which Solleyfell 

 obferves m this third kind of Cholick ; but when it proceeds 

 moitly from the Gall-pipe and Pancreatick Dud, it will 

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