ON LAX OR SCOURING, &C. 42I 



horfes. Keep the flail clean, with frefli litter. 

 In fome horfes this conllant defire of eatincr is 

 merely a habit, and of no great confequence, 

 fince you can regulate their diet at will, and 

 they can fcarcely devour clean flraw enough to 

 injure them. 



CosTiVENESS, fee Chap. vii. p. 273. 



LAX OR SCOURING, OR DIARRHEA. 



There is a nervous diarrhaea in horfes, which 

 I hinted at before ; thofe fubje6l to it are gene- 

 rally young, and of a weak and irritable habit : 

 it attends them only whilft in work, w^hen thev 

 feldom carry any flefli ; the complaint is out 

 of the reach of medicine, but will fometimes 

 fubfide fpontaneoufly, after a k\v years ufe. 

 Many years ago I had a favourite young 

 horfe fubjeft to this defect, with which I made 

 the grand medical tour to no fort of purpofe, 

 the only refuit was, the nag whiHl at play was 

 always fat as bacon, and very firm in body ; but 

 a week's work reduced his flefh, and caufed him 

 to dung like a cow. Thefe delicate horfes 

 require great care and dietetic attention to 

 render them of much uic. Strong nutriment, 

 but in moderate quantities at a time. Good 

 old dried beans in their oats, lucern or the 

 hardeft and bed upland hay ; rice maflies, car- 

 rots, occafional runs at grais. 



The fcouring in horles which requires and 



admits 



