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the Bafis or principal Ingredient, to which the Cure 

 ( if any be wrought ) is attributable. 



During the Ufe of Opiates, (which may be given 

 every other Day for two or three Turns, ) it is pro- 

 per to give the Horfe a Solution of Gran Arahick m 

 the Water he -drinks, which may be thus prepared. 



Take an Ounce of Gum Arahick ; bruife it, andThe Gum- 

 hi/ it m a^art of Water, Uill'tis dij/hhed ', then^^^'^"^^ 

 mix it 'uoith half a co?n?non Pail full of cold Water, ^ ' 

 and Oatmeal ', and let the Horfe drink this Sort of 

 Water Milk-^warm for Jhme Time, to nvit, for a 

 Week ', and by that Time it may be fuppofed that 

 the Iniide of the Guts is well imbued with flippery 

 Matter to defend them from acrimonious or fharp 

 Juices. 



I hope I need not te^ll the Reader that moderately Exercife 

 walking the Horfe will do him Good in the Colick, proper in 

 feeing that moderate Exercife is proper in moft -Dif-"^j^^g 

 tempers, excepting Fevers, in which the Blood is '^ 

 already at too high a Pitch to admit of it. 



The famous Bagli'vi was of Opinion, that theBaglhi's 

 -Seat of tlie Bilious CoUck is in the Mefentery or Opinion of 

 what we call the Tset in Brute Creatures ; and there- ^*^^. ^i'*^*^ 

 fore he ordered his Patients, when the Diftemper 

 was flubborn, to take a Journey,, that the Body 

 might be fhaked up and evercifed by Riding for 

 fome Days, and the Fibres of the Meientery, which 

 by long Pain were relaxed, might afiume their for- 

 mer Oicillations to eradicate and expel the diftem- 

 per'd Impurities ,* after which he orders a Semicu- 

 pium or warm Bath, wherein the Patient fits up to 

 the Navel for fome Time : But as this lafl cannot 

 well be done for a Horfe in the Colick, tho' moft 

 certainly if he was nearly over Head in warm 

 Water it might be exceeding proper ,* yet I fay, as 

 this is fcarcely prafticable upon Horfes, we muft 

 content ourfelves with Exercife^ giving them now 

 and then an eafy Trot, to {hake the Guts a little,. 



which 



