IMPROVED. ao3 



three Guts, being (as it were) divided by two Necks, 

 {as they are termed by Hippotomijls,) whereas in Man 

 this Gut is feemiiigly but one; and in my Opinion, 

 the Reafon the Necks or narrow Places in the Colon 

 of a Horfe are io ordained by Nature, is that the 

 Food ( which is moilly hard to digefl ) fhould not 

 pafs off before the Glands of the Inteilines have 

 taken in and fuck'd up what was neceiTary to lubri- 

 cate and make them ilippery, as well as for other 

 Reafons hereafter fet down in the following De- 

 fcription. 



The Colon of a Horfe, which ( as I have faid ) The Colon 

 feems to be three Guts, by reafon of the two Necks ":} ? ^^ f^ 

 of about Jialf a Yard in Length each, is drawn up 

 into many Cells or Purfes by Means of two Liga- 

 m«nts, one of which runs along the Upper, and the 

 other the Under Side of it, which, with the AfTif- 

 tance of a Valve or Flap at its Beginning, hinder 

 the Excrements either from returning back into the 

 fmall Guts, or falling too foon downward, as I juil 

 -now hinted, before the Chyle or Milky Subllance 

 • prepared from the Food be fent into its proper Vef- 

 fels. And indo<3d the Ccecum or Blind-Gut, which 

 is the firll of the three larger Guts, feems to be {o 

 contrived in Manner of a Valve to hinder the Ali- 

 ment and CThyie from pafling too foon into the 

 Colon ; for if the Aliment and Chyle were not in 

 feme Meafure hinder'd in their Paffage thro' thefe 

 large Guts, the Body could not be fafRciently fup- 

 .ply'd with Nourifhment : And thofe who pretend 

 that nothing can enter into the Mifs of Blood which 

 is injeded by way of Clyfter, may go on in their Ig- 

 norance ; but I am fatisfied of the coiitrary, for I 

 have cured a great many People of Agues by admi- Agnes 

 niftring the Jefuit's Bark in Clyflers, when tlie Pa-cu-cd by- 

 tient could not bear the Thoughts of it in any other ?,' ^i'^S the 



^ ^^^' Clyfters. 



The firfl of thefe Colons is about a Yard and 



half in Length, the fecond about a Yard, and the 



third, or that Part which joins to tJie Redum or 



K 6 Arfe- 



