Chap. XLVII. Of Hide-bound Horfes. 1 5 9 



after the Operation of his Phyfick, with an Ounce of the , 

 Seeds of Dwarf Elder, and two Ounces of Caraway- feeds 

 Itrewed among them. 



CHAP. XLVIL 

 Of a Horfe that is Hide-bound. 



XX^HEN a Horfe, after Travel, or after Various Ways 

 ^^ any Accident, grows fo lean, and his '^hereby aHorje 

 Flelh fo much funk, that his Skin adheres ^''°'"" ^''^'- 

 clofe to his Bones, he is then faid to be ° 

 Hide-bound ; but this is not properly to be term'd a Difeafe, 

 while it may be made up by Feeding ; but when a Horfe, 

 ^fter good Keeping, continues in the fame Condition, we 

 may then very reafonably fuppofe him to lie under fome 

 inward Indifpofition ; and in this refpecl it may proceed 

 from divers Caufes, as when the Excrements by Dung and 

 Urine are over-much enlarg'd, and the Pores of the Skin 

 obflruded ; or when the Entrance into the ladeal or milky 

 VelTels are (luffed by adhefive gluey Matter, or from any 

 Other augmented Secretion, or any large Difcharge, where- 

 by fuch a Derivation is made as hinders the Blood from 

 reaching the extreme and outward Parts, for by that means 

 the VelTels and mufcular Fibres become contracted, and 

 (lirink to the Bones for Want of their due Nourifhment ; 

 and as the Juices in thofe Parts become aifo vifcid, the Skin 

 is thereby as it were glued to the fubjacentFlefh. 



And therefore, to form a right Judgment What Blftinc- 

 of this Diftemper, the Farrier ought to exa- ^'^'^"^ ^^\ '^ ^^ 

 mine carefully both into the Quantity and ^^^^^ ""^''.'j' ^"^" 

 Quality of what a Horfe voids from him, f/fj'^^'^t", 

 foi I have known a hide-bound Horfe, Ihit °^^ ' 



often, and his Excrement foft like that of a Cow, and yet 

 not come diredlly to a Lax or Loofnefs \ and I knew ano- 

 ther very coftive, but then he had a beginning Glanders, 

 which was the Caufe of his Diftemper ; tho' in the Procefs 

 of the Difeafe that the Matter came more plentifully, his 

 Skin grew very loofe and thin, which is eafily to be ac- 

 counted for ; and a Horfe may, no doubt, alfo become 

 hide-bound from the other Caufes above-mentioned. 



And fince this is properly an Effect of fome other Difeafe, 

 therefore whatever cures that, when it is once found out,will 



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