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(lownefs of their motions, encouraging a gluti- 

 nous, fluggifh, and vifced flate of the blood, 

 none of the fpecies are more in need of artifi- 

 cial helps ; in a defecl of which, with the intent 

 of prevention, originate thofe frequent fits of 

 the gripes, ftaggers, blindnefs, purfivenefs and 

 greafe, to which fluffed and pampered cart and 

 coach-horfes are fo notorioufly fubjeft. Salts 

 are particularly ufeful with this fort of horfes, 

 and the load of dung and urine which I have 

 feen difcharged by them from the body of a 

 dray-horfe, has been fo great, that I have won- 

 dered how the inteflincs of the animal could 

 poffibly contain it. 



I have often heard the complaints of private 

 families in the country, who keep a pair of horfes, 

 that they are a perpetual fource of trouble 

 and uneafinefs ; they are either foot-foundered, 

 heavy-eyed, greafy, or fo purfiveand unwieldy,' 

 as to be covered with fweat upon the leaft ex- 

 traordinary exercife. Much Handing within, 

 and flrong nouhfliment, mufl, of neceffity, pro- 

 duce all this in the gentleman-horfe, even as his 

 mafler and miflrefs acquire the gout upon the 

 fame principle. Such horfes fliould have, at 

 leafi, four or five dofes of phyfic in a year, 

 with alterants in the interim, if required. It i^ 

 to no purpofe to talk of bringing on the habit 

 of phyfic ; make your eledlion, the habit of 

 phyfic, or the habit of ficknefs ? Their feet 



3 fhould 



