130 The Compleat Horfeman : or y 



When a Horfe is difgufted, dull, harafled, and 

 over-heated, they bleed in the middle of the Palate, 

 above the fourth Bar, with a Lance or (harp Horn. 



If your Horfe lofe too much Blood by aflroke thus 

 given him in the Palate, you are to raife his Head 

 very high, by tying a Cord about his upper Fore- 

 teeth, as if you were going to give him a Drench, 

 and it will ftop of its own accord. 



I faw once a Horfe that died of a ftroke thus 

 given him in the Palate with a Horn, and the Blood 

 could not be flopped neither with Vitriol, nor with 

 a Button of Fire, or any thing elfe they could ap- 

 ply, fo that the Horfe loft all his Blood and died. 

 I have fince fallen upon a Remedy that would have 

 faved him, and which is but a Trifle : Take the half 

 ot a Walnut-fhell, and applying the hollow fide of 

 it to the Orifice of the Wound, prefs it a little hard 

 upon it, and fo hold it for a quarter of an Hour •, 

 after which the Shell will ftick of its own accord, 

 and fo ftop the Blood, which perhaps no other Re- 

 medy could have done. 



For ftrains in the Shoulder, or the Mange in 

 thofe Parts, they take Blood from the Bafilick or 

 Fore-Thigh Veins • but this is rarely done, and 

 when it is, they do it commonly with Fleems, and 

 not with a Lance. 



For Strains and Infirmities in the Hammes and 

 Knees, they take Blood from the Patterns with 

 Fleem or Lance. 



For beating in the Feet, and Infirmities of the 

 Legs, fuch as Swellings and Oppreffions of the 

 Nerves, Horfesare let Blood in the Toes with the 

 Butteris or Drawing-Iron. 



For Cholicks, and fometimes alfo for the Farcy, 

 the Veins of the Flanks are opened with a fmall 

 Lance made for that purpofe. 



For Blows and Strains in the Haunches, Blood is 



drawn with Fkems in the flat of the Thighs. 



For 



