«jo The Comple at Horj cman : or^ 



(marked 27 in the Figure) the Flank fall too low \ 

 for if fo, it is a great advance to Purfinefs, efpe* 

 dally if the Horfe be not very young. 



If he make a String or Cord in breathing, by 

 attracting the Skin of his Belly where the Ribs fail, 

 making as it were a Channel or Groove all along 

 them, then it is a token that his Flank beginneth to 

 alter^ or at leaft a certain fign that his Body is over- 

 heated, that he hath been lick, or will in a Ihort 

 time become fo. This Cord or Hollow along the 

 Ribs does many times appear in vigorous Horfes, 

 which have been undifcreetly pufh'd on or over-rid, 

 and then it is not a fign of a&ual Purfinefs, but only 

 that in a fhort time it may become fo. 



When a Horfe is far gone with this Diftemper,^ 

 Itiseafily known, yet at the beginning of it a Man 

 may readily be deceived. Therefore that you may 

 not be impofed upon, you are firft to confider his 

 'Age, becaufe young Horfes are very rarely Purfy. 

 You mult next obferve, if his Flank be not fw al- 

 low 'd up, or fall'n too low. Bat to be more cer- 

 tain, you muft prefs his Wind-pipe near the onfet 

 of the Head, that fo you may make him cough, 

 and then take notice to the found of it ; if it be dry 

 it is nought, and if it be dry and often reiterate, it; 

 is yet worfe - n if it be moift there is not fo much ha-J 

 2ard : But if he Farts as he Coughs, then it is al- 

 molt always a fign of Purfinefs. The fnreft way is 

 .£0 view him in the Stable, immediately after he hath, 

 drunk, or when he is eating his Oats \ for after 

 galloping or travelling, or when he hath not d run kt 

 for a pretty while, a Man cannot fo well judge ol 

 Iiim *, nor when he is at Soil or Grafs, which althol 

 it be thought to recover fome Horfes while they are! 

 at it, yet is quite contrary : For as foori as ever they 

 are taken up, and put to Hay and Oats again, they 1 

 will be worfe than ever, 



YoJ 



