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And by no Means, for four or five Days, let him drink no cold Water, 

 or eat any Grafs or green Corn, but keep him upon wholefome dry Meat 

 in a warm Stable. 



,G H A p. LXXV. Of the Belly- Ach, or Fretting m the Belly. 



BSfides the Cholick, there is alfo another grievous pain in the Belly, 

 which Farriers call the Belly-Ach, or Fretting in the Belly, and it 

 proceedeth either from eating of green Pulfe, when it grows on the 

 Ground, or raw undried Peafe, Beans, or Oats, or elfe when iharp fret- 

 ting Humours, or Inflammations, or abundance of grofs Matter is got- 

 ten between the great Gut and the Panicle. The figns are, much Wal- 

 lowing, great Groaning, and often ftriking at his Belly, and gnawing up- 

 on the Manger. The Cure, according to the Opinion of Ibme Farriers, 

 is, firft to anoint your Hand with Sallet-Oil, Butter, or Greafe, and then 

 thrufting it in at the Horfe's Fundament, pull out as much Dung as you 

 can reach, which is called Raking a Horfe ;, then give him a Cliiter of 

 Water and Salt mixt together, or inftead thereof, give him a Suppofito- 

 ry of Honey and Salt, and then give him to drink, the Powder of Cen- 

 tuary and VVormwood, brewed with a Qiiart of Malmfey. Others ufe 

 only to give the Horfe a Suppofitory of Nervcafile-So?.^, and for mine 

 own pai:t, I hold it only the beft. 



Chap. LXXVI. Of the Cofiivenefs^ or BeUy-Bound. 



ClOftivenefs, or Belly-Bound, is, when a Horie is fo bound in his 

 j Belly that he cannot Dung, it is a Difeafe of all other moft incident 

 to Running Horfes, which are kept in dry and hot Diet. Now my Ma- 

 ilers, the great Farriers affirm, that it proceedeth from Glut of Proven- 

 der, or over-much Feeding and Reft \ or from Wind, grofs Humours, 

 or Cold, caufmg Obftruftions, and ftoppings in the Guts :, but I fuppofe 

 (and imagine that all the beft Keepers of Hunting or Runniiig, Florfes 

 will Conlent with me) that it:rather proceeds from much Fafting, where- 

 by the Gut wanteth frefii Subftance to fill it,doth out of his own greatHeat, 

 bake and dry up the little which it containeth : For it is a certain Rule, 

 that nothing can overflow before it be full : Or elfe it may proceed from 

 eating too much dry and hot Food, which fucking up the Flegm and 

 Moifture of the Body, leaves not fufficient whereby it may be digefted ^ 

 however it is a dangerous Infirmity and is the beginning of many other 

 Evils. The Signs are only Abftinence from the Oflice of Nature, (1 

 mean Dunging) which is moft ufual in all Beafts. The Cure whereof, 

 according to the Opinion of the ancienteft Fasriers, is. To take the Water 

 v/ herein Mallows have been long boiled, to the quantity of a Quart, and 

 put thereto half a Pint of Oil, or inftad thereof, half a Pint of Butter 

 very fweet, and one Ounce of Benedicle Laxatu, and pour that into his 

 Fundament Clifter-ivife •, then with a String faften his Tail hard to his 



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