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per mentioned. And this is not a very ill grounded 

 Hypothefis, if it be confidered, (as is really the 

 Cafe with feveral Kinds of Seeds,) how they will 

 lie in the Earth Scores of Years together, without 

 producing any fuch Thing as a Crop till fuch Time 

 as the ground be dug up and hufbanded, and then 

 indeed you fhall have Turneps, Muftard-Seed, and 

 fuch like, without fowing one Grain ; nay, altho"* 

 the fame Ground has not been turned over for a Hun- 

 dred Years before. And of this Fa<5l I have been an 

 Eye-Witneis, (fo far as my own Memory could in- 

 form me;) and it is well known in the Field- 

 Country of Lancajhire, that fo fure as any Perfon 

 throws up a new Ditch, fb fure he will reap a fine 

 Crop -of Muftard-Seed, without ftrewing any upon 

 the Ground before-hand. 



Mr. Ray, in his Natural Hiilory of Plants, has 

 faid enough to convince any unprejudiced Perfon of 

 the afcrefaid Truth ; and I have dwelt the longer 

 upon this Matter, by reafon of the great Analogs 

 there is between Plants and Ani?nalsy with relation 

 to a great many inward as well as outward Dillem- 

 pers : And this, if my Time would permit, I 

 could with great Reafon make appear. But I mull: 

 proceed to my Subjed-Matter. 



I fay then, fo foon as it is perceived that a Colt 

 (or it may be a Horfe of riper Years) has the Symp- 

 toms or Signs of the Strangles upon him, and that 

 the fame has a Tendency between the Jaws, ( as is 

 moll common, from the dependant Situation of the 

 Head,) and that the PaiHiges of the Gullet and 

 Wind-Pipe are not endangered, the fafefc Way is 

 to ripen the Swelling, and bring it to fappurate, or 

 burft, b)' warm Cloathing, and Applications which 

 foften the iniiamed Parts. For Example ; the fol- 

 lowing excellent Poultice is proper to bring the of- 

 fending Matter outward, and thereby prevent Suf- 

 focation, and other evil Accidents attending the La- 

 rynx and Phar^nxy or Mufclcs of the Wind-Pipe 

 and Gullet. 



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