232 The Compleat Horfewan : or, 



nice Treacle may be us'd in like manner with good 

 efFeft. 



Ta\e a Pound of Liver of Antimony 

 Stomaticl { n f ne Ponder, and with the mucilage 

 Tills. j? Gum-Tragacanth, make Tills weighing 



ten Drams , to be dry*d in the Sun, of which, let the 

 Horfe fwallow two with a Tint of Wine, keeping 

 him bridled two hours after, and repeating the 

 fameDofe every day for a Month. This being a 

 cooling Medicine, is only proper when the Horfe is 

 not inclined to the Strangles, or does not require 

 hot Medicines. 



When the Horfe is fick, aad hisDifeafe occafions 

 the lofs of Appetite, you mult not force him to 

 cxceffive eating. The common method of giving 

 MilkwithTelks of Eggs, and Flejh-broths or Jellies* 

 is very pernicious in this cafe. Indeed a thin Broth* 

 of the crum of Bread with Water and a little Salt, 

 is not amifs. 1 muft commend Brbth made of a 

 pound oj Barley Flower, well purg'd of the Bran, and 

 boil'd in two Tints of Water, to a fqfficient thick- 

 Befs *, adding to it, a quarter of a Pound of Sugar* 

 and giving it with a Hora, once in 24 hours. 



CHAP. II. 



Of the Strangles. 



THE Strangles are the throwing forth of fuper- 

 fluous humours in Foals, commonly thro' the 

 Nofhils', and fometimes by fwellings under the 

 Throat, or in the Shoulder, Loins or Feet, or any 

 part that happens to be weaker than the reft. Tis a 

 Northern Diftemper, bearing fome refemblance of 

 She fmall Pox in Children. The Cure confifts in 

 promoting a perfedt evacuation of the Hurooun 



For 



