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To enumerate tlie various caufcs of The can- 



colds, would be endlefs i the mod ufual '^^• 

 ^re, riding horfes till they are hot, and 

 fuffering them to (land in that condition, 

 where the air is cold and piercirg -3 re- 

 moving a horfe from a hot liable to a cold 

 one, and too fuddenly changing his cloath- 

 irig •, hence it is, that horlbs often catch 

 fuch fevere colds, after they come out of 

 dealers hands ; and by not being care- 

 fully rubbed down, when they come ia 

 hot, off journeys. 



The figns of a horfe's catching cold The fym- 

 are, a cough, heavinefs and dulnefs, ptoms. 

 which affe6t him, more or lefs, in propor- 

 tion to the feverity of it; the eyes are 

 (bmetimes moift and watery, the kernels 

 about the ears and under the jaws fwelJ, 

 the nofe gleets, and he rattles in his 

 breathing •, and when the cold is violent, 

 the horfe will be feverifh, his flanks work, 

 ;^nd he will both loath his hot meat, and 

 refufe his water. When thefe lad fymp* 

 toms are attended with a flimy mouth, 

 ears and feet cold, and a great inward 

 forenefs, there is danger of a bad fever. 



But when the horfe coughs ftrong. Good 

 fnorts after it, is but little off his ftomach, Tymp- 

 pricks up his ears, and moves brifkly in ^on^*' 



his 



