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Theexercife ftioukl be proportioned to the phyfic's 

 working: it (hould be continued at fliort intervals of 

 two hours, till it operates favourably, and then may 

 be omitted, as it would fatigue. Cold water fliould 

 never be allowed ; but if the horfe will not drink it 

 warm, it may be cool, but never cold. 



Unlefs a horfe is ver^'- open in his body, he fliould 

 always be prepared for phyfic, one or two days at 

 leaft before, by bran maflies. 



During the working, he fliould be kept warm; and 

 he mud be exercifed (if in winter) in cloaths pro- 

 portioned to the cold. 



A purge is to be given thus:— A horfe having fafted 

 an hour or two in the morning, the ball is to be 

 given him ; after which he fliould be offered fome 

 warm water, as it will not be improper to let him 

 have his ball a quarter of an hour after he has had 

 about half his ufual quantity of water only luke- 

 warm ; for it fometimes happens that the ball difgulls 

 him, and then he will not drink for fome hours after, 

 which is not fo favourable. After the ball is given, 

 he fliould be fafted another hour, or an hour and a 

 half, when a fmall quantity of good hay may be al- 

 lowed, or a bran mafli, with a very few oats fprinkled 

 in it, to make it palatable: he fliould, at noon, be 

 walked for half an hour, and again half an hour in 

 the evening, being allowed warm water during the 

 day, and hay and bran maflies again towards night. 



