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the pra61ice is a great prefervative of the teeth. 

 It is better to grind the corn in a fmall quantity 

 and often. If beans are ufed, one quarter of 

 them, to three of oats, is an advantageous pro- 

 portion. In cafe of apparent debiHty, from 

 over exertion, maflies of boiled rice, decoftion 

 of rice infufed in the drink, or fmall quantities 

 of ground rice mixed in the feeds, will be 

 found beneficial. Preternatural heat, coflive- 

 nefs, inertia, and fluggiihnefs of the blood, 

 will be beft remedied by warm pollard malhes, 

 or falined water : nor will gentle evacuants, in 

 fuch cafe, detract from, but rather add to the 

 conftitutional vigour of the ftallion, by reliev- 

 ing nature from the opprelTive and debilitating 

 load of obftruftion. 



I have recommended ablution for the feet 

 of flallions, it is equally neceffary for certain 

 other parts of them, where,, inftead of faying it 

 is neglefted, I may aver it is never ufed, or 

 even thought of Hence the accounts in 

 authors of horfes being burnt by the mare, of 

 mattering, and its difagreeable concomitants. 

 The inflammation in King Herod's fheath, 

 which killed him, I have no doubt was occa- 

 fioned by the negle6l of ablution. I wifh ana- 

 logies were out of the queflion here, but I 

 muft forbear to trefpafs on the limits of my 

 proper fubjeft. 



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