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Next to this is often eafing yourfelf by alighting 

 ■from the Horfe, and either walking flowly, or reft- 

 ing yourfelf upon fome eafy Seat, and now and 

 then cooling your Buttocks in cold Water to harden 

 the Skin : For it is much eafier to prevent, by good 

 Management, the Buttocks from galling, than to 

 make the Skin come on again, upon a Journey. 

 And herein People are as negligent and carelefs for 

 their Eafe, as they are in other Particulars relating 

 to Health ; for while their Buttocks are eafy and 

 well, they think nothing of a gall'd A-fe, than 

 which fcarce any thing is more painful, by reafon 

 we have fo often Occafion to makeUfe on't. There- 

 fore they mount any Sort of Saddle, and caufe an 

 Inflammation before they are aware of it-; neither 

 will they apply any Helps, or ufe any preventive 

 Methods, before 'tis too late. For when by the 

 Fndging, &c. in Riding, the Serum or watry Part 

 of 'the Blood is gathered between the two Skins, it 

 is then too late to prevent a fore Backfide. There- 

 fore, either apply pretty large Piaiilers fpread thin 

 upon Leather with Diachylon, or what is fometimes 

 cali'd Dinpabna, to the Buttocks, before you really 

 ^want them, or be content to jog on with a wry 

 .Face and fore A--fe. 



There is a great deal to be faid why fuch cooling 

 Plaifter fhould preferve the Skin from fretting, or 

 excoriatiDg, tho' I fliall only nam.e a few of its Vir- 

 tues. And frji, it thickens your own Skin, or, as 

 it were, adds a new and flronger Scarf-Skin to de- 

 fend the Ends of the Blood- Veifels, ^c. from being 

 heated and inflamed, and hinders the Skin from rub- 

 bing into Wrinkles, which is one Reafon why we 

 gall fo foon. 



Secondly, it performs this by a Com.pofition that 

 is very cooling and pleafant, and an Enemy to Heat 

 and Inflammation in the Flefli, ajid which is in its 

 ov/n Nature drying and healing. 



Lajily, I advife thefe Plaifters be large, and ap- 

 plied to the Buttocks as plain and even as pofiible, 



and 



