126 The Compleat Horfeman : or^ 



Clyfters. And if at any time they make no fenfible 

 alteration to the better, yet at leaft they refrelh 

 and give eafe \ and never did Clyfters, given or* 

 derly, and according to method, prove prejudicial 

 to any Horfe whatfoever. 



Common Farriers don't give above a Quart or 

 three Pints of Decodion in a Clyfter, which has 

 generally no great effeft ^ for befides that the Li- 

 quor is given in too fmall a quantity ; they alio 

 fpare Drugs, and commonly mix nothing with the 

 Deco&ions, but faked Wafer, Honey, dnd Oil. 

 I think a Clyfter fhould have two or three Quarts 

 of Deco&ion, or elfe it will moiften and wafh but 

 little : For as a Horfe drinks ten times more than 

 a Man, and that People give alfo twenty times 

 more than the Dofe for a Man. to purge him, it 

 follows that the fame proportion fhould be obferved 

 for Clyfters. 



When you intend to purge a Horfe by Clyfter, 

 put no kind of fat into it, becaufe Oils and Greafes 

 adhere to the Inteftines, and fo hinder the effect of 

 the Purgatives ; but rather ufe common Salt^ Sal Gem, 

 Folychrefi, or warm Vrine, all which prick and irri- 

 tate the expulfive Faculty : Whence it is that Coun- 

 try-Farriers make commonly their Clyfters of the 

 Water in which Cod-fifh or Herring have been 

 fteeped, which by reafon of its faltnefs, caufes a 

 Horfe to empty well. 



To make a Clyfter fomewhat Purgative, a Man 

 may infule all Night in a proper Deco&ion, an 

 Ounce of Sena, and next Morning giving it a little 

 boil, ftrain it to make a Clyfter. 



A Clyfter fhould not be given till the Horfe's 

 great Gut be cleared of its* Dung, which by Far- 

 riers is called Raking. Caufe fome body who has a 

 fmall hand to anoint it with Oil or Butter, and 

 thruft it up into his Fundament, taking care not to 

 fcratch the Gut with his Nails* and draw forth all 



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