1 4^ The FarrierV New Guide. Ch. XL 



Mod Farriers, for Cheapnefs, make Ufe of Allum, black 

 Soap, burnt Vitriol, and fuch like Things : Some exhibit 

 coriofive Sublimate, or red Precipitate, as much as will lie 

 upon a Silver Penny ; but as thefe laft Medicines, "jIz. the 

 Sublimate and Precipitate, cannot be ufed internally without 

 great danger, elpecially to brute Creatures, who can ne- 

 ver be brought to take fuch Things as are proper to carry 

 off their ill Effeds, they ought therefpre not to be given in 

 any Cafe ; for albeit they may, by virtue of their powerful 

 Efficacy, fucceed in fome Circumftances, where a Horfe 

 happens to be robuft and Ilrong ; yet when it is otherwife, 

 if they are not the Occafion of fudden Diforders, they will 

 lay the Seeds of a bad Conflitution, and render a Horfe un- 

 ferviceable for the future. 



CHAP. XL. 



Of Tain in the Bowels caufed by fiidden 

 Accidents, 



"tlT'E have already taken Notice, that moft of theDifeafei 

 •'^ '^ of the Guts will caufe Cholick Pains, when they come 

 to an Extremity ; but Horfes, who are oftentimes under the^ 

 Diredion and Management of bad Tutors, and are them- 

 felves only guided by Inftindl, muft therefore be rendered' 

 liable to many Inconveniencies, and to none more than 

 thofe which fhew themfelves immediately in the Bowels ; 

 Tains caufed hy f"^^ ^^^ drinking cold Water when a Horfei 



hot ^c. the Water, or if he be fuffer'd to cool of i 



fudden when he has been at hard Excrcife^ 

 any fuch Mifmanagement very frequently brings on th( 

 moil intolerable Diforders, as we daily obferve. 



And this is eafy to be accounted for, becaufe when th< 

 Body is hot, and the Pores open, any fudden Cold caufe 

 them to be immediately fliui up, fo that all the common) 

 and neceiiary Difcharges are in a great Meafure hinder'd^ 

 by which Means the Vefibls of the Colon ^ and fometimc 

 of the Stomach and other Bowels, are aifo cramm'd an 

 diftended ; ?nd this is the true Caufe of the Pain, an 

 likewife of the Wind and Flatulency that is obfervable ii 

 fuch Cafes ; for although Wind may often proceed fro 

 other Caufes, as from the Vilcidity and Sliminefs of th 

 Matter that is fometimes harboured in the Bowels j yet in 



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