f44 ThcCompleat Horje-ffiatt, CHAP. VI. 



with famous Marjhah and Ferriers-, I at length faitned upon 

 one eminent for this faculty, who upon occafion offered, ufed 

 to adminifter Fcmit to Horfes, as frequently as he did either 

 Purgation or Qyfier : which thing when I well obferved, I de- 

 manded if a Horfe could P^omit, and to what purpofe he did ad- 

 minifter in that kind; Heanfwered me that a Horfe could ro- 

 imt^ and that he oft-times adminiftred for the lame end, and 

 thereupon both gave me his Receipt, and did adminifter in m.y 

 prefence, and made me an eye-witnefs to the working, not in one 

 Horfe alone, but in fundry others. But now leaving this to 

 its proper place I come to aflbil your demand as touching Cly- 



- Jiers^ their natures and virtues. Clyfiers Jecnndum vhI^hs are 

 called Clfftersy but the more learned ailbmed the name Clyfter^ 

 borrowed from the Latin word Clyfter ^{vom whence the French 

 hath it Clyfter. Now whereas all other kind of Phyfick is re- 

 ceived in at the Month.) Clyfiers and Suppofitories are adminiftred 

 per Amm^ whofe nature for the moft part are to purge the Gntsy 

 and to caufe the Horfe to void, (and to throw forth of his 

 hfJiy fuch humours as do offend him in matter of his health,) to 

 allay the fharpnefs of bad humenrs, to cleanle ulcers, to aflwage 

 the griefs and pains in the belly cauled by wind or otherwile, 

 and fo likewile in many other cafes. Now Clyfiers are not all of 

 one and the fame nature, neither are they all Uxatives (as many 

 do imagine) or do ferve to one and the fame end : for Ibme 

 muft be made to give eale, fome are reftringent and do bind, 

 fbme do loolen and pur^e., fome are to cleanfe ulcers, old and 

 long running fores, and fome to prepare the body the better to 

 receive its?/jj:l/J"cit,whereby it may the better work,which other- 

 wife cannot be adminiftred without much peril to the life of the 

 lick creature. So that a Clyfier is (i fay) commonly given for a 

 Preparative or beginning topurgation. And a Clyfier by cleanfing 

 thtgutS) refrelheth the vital parts, and prepareth the way be- 

 fore. Wherefore I do admonifh every Ferrier, that when at 



- any time they are to adminifter Phyfick, to a Horfe, whether 

 Purgative ox oth.txm{k, ifthe Horfe be not at the timefoluble 

 in body, thzt 2Lhtx blood-letting the next day he give aC/yy?fr,and 

 then may he be the bolder to adminifter what he Ihall thifik 

 moft requilite : left otherwife by giving medicine, without 



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