Chap.XLVII. Of Hide-bound Horfes: i6i 



But as in this Cafe the Veflels are contraded and IciTen'd in 

 their Bore and Capacity, his Food ought at firfl to be but 

 moderate, otherwife a larger Quantity of Blood will be 

 tranfmitted into thofe Veflels, than they arc capable at once 

 to receive, which muft needs be the Occafion of many Dif- 

 orders, as it will caufe an Over-plenitude in the extreme 

 Parts, and fo, by its Redundancy, over burden and load the 

 principal Bowels. 



And this is truly the Reafon why lean and tired Horfes, 

 who have been fuddenly fattened by Jockeys, become fuch 

 Jades, turn broken- winded, or lame, or loie their Eye-fight 

 upon the leaft Service ; for while the main Study of thofe 

 Perfons is (as every one fufficiently knows) only to make 

 them look fat and plump, they foften all their Food, that it 

 may digeft foon, and turn the fooner to Blood, and allow 

 them no Manner of Exercife, being fenlible that any fuch 

 Method would foon turn to their own Detriment. 



But to apply this more particularly to our prefent Purpofe ; 

 a lean Horfe fhould have his Exercife and Food increas'd by 

 degrees, and juftly proportion'd to the Augmentation of his 

 Strength ; and becaufe of the Contradion and Want of Ca- 

 pacity, which we have obferv'd to be in the Blood- veflels of 

 llich Horfes, his Exercife fhould always be given him fo as 

 he may reft fome time before he has his Feeding of Oats ; 

 becaufe Exercife, by thinning the Blood, and making it take 

 up more Space in the Canals, may therefore, befides other 

 Injuries to which it expofes a lean hide-bound Horfe, caufe 

 a more than ordinary Senfe of FuUnefs, by diftending the 

 Blood- veflels of the Stomach, which are in that Part very 

 fmall, and therefore hurt Digefl:ion ; whereas if he be fufler'd 

 to Hand fome time before an empty Rack, or only to eat a 

 little frefh Hay until the additional Motion of the Blood be 

 decreas'd, and the Veflels become fubfided by a gradual run- 

 ning off of the Blood, a Horfe will then become lightfome, 

 and able to digeft his Food, fo as it may be converted to 

 true and folid Nourifliment. 



And for the fame Reafons a Horfe in this Condition ought 

 never to be taken out foon after Feeding, but upon Necef- 

 fity, and then he fhould only be walk'd gently, as every Meal 

 makes a frefh Augmentation of the Blood ; and indeed, at 

 all times his Exercife fhould be gentle and eafy, until 

 his Veflels are render'd capacious, and ftrong enough to 

 bear the fudden Sallies of the Blood, and that the Of- 

 fice of Secretion have alfo acquired a fuSicient Aptitude to 

 T make 



