ly'6 The Compkat Horfc-w.w^ CHAP. VI. 



is feeble or fick : but in fuch cafes, let him be walked to hijs 

 airings in a warm Evening, an hour before Sim let at lealbjand 

 in a, Morning an hour after the Sun is up, efpecially if the wind 

 be not too high, or blow too cold, and that the Sun fhinc 

 warm: For by airing before Sun riling, anda^ter Sunfet (like 

 as is to be ufed with running and hunting Horfes) will make a fat 



' flrong Horfe both poor and lean, as not to have a Crovv of 

 fiejl^ on his back, as the Proverb is, and fo feeble as not to be 

 able to arife being laied, and therefore give not fuch kind of 



■ airings to a Horfe _x}\^i is infirm-, but thofe which I do term 

 thetemperate airings, will greatly comfort the fpirits of your 

 Borfe^ give him a very good appetite to his meat, and encreafe 

 hhfiefl) and good liking ^ whereas the late airings will be (as 

 I faid before) very noxious to lick, difeafcd, oriean/:/or/fj-. 



SECT. 17. C. 



Hippoph. TJ^J^' do yon help a Hor]£ that ^rcweth ccfiive 9r 

 H i belly- hoHnd ? 

 Hippofert^. The nature of this dileafe is fuch as that the 

 Horfe that is therewith troubled, cannot difcharge himfelf, but' 

 ■with great pain and trouble, his ordure coming from him both 

 very dry and hard. Horfes that are kept too much to'hard,' 

 dry, and hot meats, are molt incident to this Malady , fome- 

 times it cometh by eating too much Provender, efpecially 

 Beans, Peafe, Tares, or Wheat, which albeit thele Grains be 

 more hearty than any other, yetthey liccicate and dry up the 

 moifture, becaufe they beget more heat and coftivenefs in the 

 body, than other Grains do, yea and vcind too, and bad hn- 

 moHrs caufing obftrudions ^ and fometimes this coftivenefs com- 

 eth to a Ho-rfe by reafon he hath been kept to too fpare a diet, 

 asisufually feen in /i/or/>j in diet ^ for this hot and dry food 

 doth fuck up (like to afpunge) iht fiegmatich^moiQimz of the 

 i'<'<afy, pving way thereby th^it choler h become the more pre- 

 dominant, fo that the meat he eateth cannot be fo well dige- 

 fted. This is a Difeafe very perilous, and the origine of manf 

 maladies^ audit is eafily known by its fymptoms. And yoof: 

 may cure him after this manner, v/x.. * 



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