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(perhaps in an Hour) that the Horfe will void his 

 Excrements, together with Wind, &"€. and by that 

 Means his feverifh Heat will be diminifhed : For, if 

 the Excrement or Dung of Animals be longer than 

 ordinary retained, fome of its putrefying Particles 

 are imbibed by the Inteftines or Guts, and thereby 

 get into the Blood, which ftill adds Fewel to the 

 before inkindled Flame, 



The Clyfter may be repeated e^^ery two or three 

 Days, as Occafion offers ; and the Horfe*s Food 

 fhould be fuch as is ordered in the Strangles, as 

 white Water with a pretty deal of Oitmeal in it j 

 for if you can nourifh him up with this, and foft 

 Food, fuch as boil'd Barley given moderately warm, 

 Cff c. it is much the bell ; not only as fuch Things 

 are eafieft to digeft, but alio by reafcn that Hay 

 gives the Horfe mucli Trouble in chewing, and by 

 the Motion of the Mafcles deftin'd for Majlicatlon, 

 and Deglutition or Swallowing, the Inflammation 

 npon the Throat is increafed ; for, this Dillemper 

 (as I faid before) fometimes rifes from the Breafl up 

 the Gullet, and threatens fuffocating or choaking 

 the poor Beaft. 



If the Fever runs high, which (as I have hinted) 

 may be known from the Number of advanced Pulfes 

 above Forty, the common ftated Number in a Mi- 

 nute, when a Florfe is in Health, and not feared or 

 frighted ; I fay, if his Fever has run high, you 

 may (after the Eighth or Ninth Day of the Difeafe, 

 accounting from the firft Attack of it) give him 

 about two Ounces of the common Cordial Ball^ 

 ^^^^' ^^' which contains mofl Things proper for that Purpofe, 

 and you may mix it with t^vco Ounces of Venice- 

 Treacle, four Ounces of common Treacle, and a ^uart 

 of flale Ecer-y tho' if you will go to the Charge, a 

 Quart of Canary is much better than Beer, provided 

 the Canary be genuine and frefh. When this is 

 done, give it the Horfe carefully, fo that as little 

 may be loll as polfiblc, and walk him a while in his 



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