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properly aded on, aftbrd fo much nutriment, that 

 he can fall twenty-four hours after a meal without 

 prejudice; and hence dogs who are fed with fle(h 

 .once a day fatten ; but, if they have vegetable food, 

 as bifcuit, &c., they fliould be fed moderately, but 

 more often. 



A horfe cannot vomit ; the principal hindrance to 

 which arifes from a very ftrong fphinder, or bundle 

 of fibres, around the mouth of the flomach. If a 

 liorfe could vomit, he mufl be choaked ; as, from a 

 peculiarity in his mouth, the returned fubftance 

 would probably pafs into his nofe. 



The intejlines are a long track of membranous 

 canal, vulgarly called guts, that reach from the 

 llomach, and wind round the belly many times, and 

 end in the fundament : they are divided into fmall 

 and large, but both are a continuation of the fame 

 track. In animals who live on flefli, as dogs, the 

 difference between the fmall and large is trifling ; 

 but the large inteftincs in a horfe contain a vaft 

 quantity. The food here becomes mixed with the 

 bile and other juices [fee k, frontifpiece], where the gall 

 du6l is fcen entering the firfl fmall inteftine, jufl as 

 it arifes from the ftomach : the juice of the pan- 

 creas, or fwectbread, is likewife feen entering at the 

 fame place. Throughout this long track of inteftines 

 the food mixed with thcfe juices pafles ; and, as it 

 flays a lefs time in the floriiach of the horfe, fo it 



