CHAP. XVIII. 

 OJ MOLTEN-GREASE, 



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Y molten -greafe is meant a fat or Molten- 

 oily difcharge witii the dung, and g^^^^^ 

 ariles from a colliquation or melting ^ ^^* 

 down of the fat of the horfe*s body, by 

 violent exercife in very hoc weather. It The fym- 

 is always attended with a fever, heat, ptonis* 

 reftleffnefs, darting, and tremblings, 

 great inward ficknefs, fhortnefs of breath, 

 and fometimes with the fymptoms of a 

 pleurify. His dung will be extremely 

 greafy, and he will fall into a fcouring^ 

 his blood will have a thick fldn or iat 

 over it when cold, of a white or yellow 

 hue, but chiefly the latter ; the con- 

 gealed part, or fedimenr, is commonly a 

 mixture of fize and greafe,- which makes 

 it fo extremely flippery, that it will not 

 adhere to the fingers, and the fmall por« 

 tion of ferum feels alfo flippery and clam- 

 my. The horfe foon lofes his flefh and 

 fat, which probably is diflJblved and ab- 

 forbed into the blood : and thofe that 

 furvive this fliock, commonly grow hide- 

 bound for a time, their legs fwejling 



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