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where there are watry Tubercles or little Bladders, 

 and often flatulent or windy Tumours. 

 A Hiftcry De Grey tells us of a young Horfe he had under 

 ^^^^ his Care in a Confumpticn of the Fleih, (as.he calh 



it,) which had been occafioned, as he believed, 

 from hard Riding after a Pack of Hounds, and aftei- 

 wards fufFering him to go up to the Saddle-Skirts in 

 Water. 



In fine, the Cafe baffled poor De Grey -, but he 

 open'd the Horfe when dead, and told his Owner^ 

 that the Man who had the Nng in teaching to am- 

 ble had given him the Diilemper, by riding him 

 when hot into cold Water ; for that the Horfe be- 

 ing very full of Flefh, the Fat about his Belly, 

 Brisket, Ribs, and Sides, was fo caked and har- 

 den\i that it never could be ciffolved ; therefore, he 

 by flow Degrees dv/indied off his Flefh, and at 

 laft died. 



Now this Account may to fome People feem pro- 

 bable enough ; but I fear De Grey tells the Story. 

 too much in Favour of his own Abilities, , when he 

 would have us believe him almofi a Conjurer, in 

 gueffing that the Ambler had rid the Horfe into 

 cold Water in the Circumftances aforefaid ; nor 

 did this Farrier know, perhaps, that there is a 

 Difference between Jdeps and Pinguedo', the firit 

 flgnifying the foft fatty Subilance, and the latter 

 Vv'hat we call Suet, or the harder Part of the Fat. 

 Therefore, in the Cafe De Grey cites, the foft fatty 

 Sub'ftance was all confumed, (as it really is in all 

 confumpdve Cafes,) and nothing was left but the 

 Pinguedo or Suet, which, when a Horfe dies lean, 

 is generally of a yeliowifh Colour. I f^y, this 

 made De Grey form the whimfical Notion of the 

 Horfe's Fat being frozen or congealed to fuch a De- 

 gree that the fame never diffolved again. 

 The Cure. I am pretty well convinced that more Stir and 

 Noife is made about Arcanums and Nojirunts or Secrets 

 for the Cure of Broken- VVinded and Purfive Horfes, 

 than there is any real Foundation for ; yet there is 



no 



