334- Q/* Ruptures, Anticor, 



mon or peculiar to horfes in this climate, 

 we have thought proper to throw them 

 together in this laft chapter, that the 

 reader might not be difappointed in his 

 enquiries after their cure. 



Ruptures In regard then to ruptures, though 

 defcribed. j-j^^y ^j.^ generally divided into particular 

 .clafles, we fhall only obferve, that by 

 violent efforts of the horle, or other ac- 

 cidents, the guts or caul may be forced 

 between the mufcles of the belly at the 

 navel, and through the rings of the 

 mufcles into the fcrotum or cod. The 

 fwellings are generally about the fize of 

 a man's fift, fometimes much larger, 

 defcending to the very hock ; they are 

 frequently foft, and yield to the prelTure 

 of the hand, when they will return into 

 the cavity of the belly with a rumbling 

 noife ; and in moft the vacuity may be felt 

 through which they paiTed. 



The me- On their firfl appearance, endeavours 



thod of fhould be made to return them by the 



treating ^3^^. ^^f jf ^^e fwelling fhould be hard 



rup ures. ^^^ painful, in order to relieve the ftric- 



ture, and relax the parts, through which 



the gut or caul has pafTed, let a large 



quantity of blood be immediately taken 



away, and the part fomented twice or 



thrice 



