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total lofs of appetite ; but this laft fymp- 

 tom may probably be owing to an inflam- 

 mation, which is fuppofed to afFedt the 

 whole gullet and throat, fo great as to 

 make the horfe fwallow with the utmofl: 

 difficulty, and to endanger fufFocation. 



The cure. The cure fliould firll be attempted by 

 large and repeated bleedings, to abate 

 the inflammation 5 emollient glyfters 

 fhould be injeded twice or thrice a day, 

 with an ounce of fal prunellas in each, 

 and the cooling drink in the chapter on 

 Fevers fhould be given inwardly ♦, the 

 fwelling (hould be bathed with the marfli- 

 mallow ointment, and a ripening poul- 

 tice, with onions boiled in it, (hould be 

 daily applied over it. If by this method, 

 continued four or five days, the inflam- 

 mation in the throat and gullet is remov- 

 ed, our attention fliould more particular- 

 ly turn to encourage the fwelling at the 

 breaft, and bring it, if pofllble, to matter: 

 to which end, continue the poultice, and 

 give two ounces of Venice treacle diflTolv- 

 ed in a pint of beer every night : when 

 the fwelling is grown foft, ic mufl: be 

 opened with the knife, and dreflfed with 

 the turpentine digefl:ive, the danger now 

 being over. 



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