33- The Compleat Horfeman : or y 



Pots and drinking VefTels with it. The teft Affa- 

 fitida grows in the Province of Vtrad, in the In- 

 dies • for that which comes from Perfia grows on a 

 Plant, with Leaves like thofe of a Fig-tree, and is 

 much inferior to the other. 



Thefe Pills are fo univerfally ufeful, and withal 

 fo cheap and portable, that no body mould be with- 

 out them. In the Molting of the Greafe and Foun- 

 dering, they are of fingufar ufe, if they be given 

 as I directed above \ only if the Horfe be foun- 

 der'd, as foon as you let him Blood, you mud pick 

 his Feet, and pour Oil of Bay into his Fore-feet, flop- 

 ping them with Flax, and laying hot Embers upon 

 the Flax, with Splents over all \ and renew the fame 

 Application thrice, once every fix or four Hours; 

 and twenty four Hours after fuffer him to lie down. 

 The Horfe muft neither eat nor drink for four 

 Hours after the laft of the three Dofes-, nay, 'twould 

 fee convenient to keep him twenty four Hours from 

 drinking, and two or three Days from Hay or Oats, 



Three Dofes of thefe Pills, exhibited according to 

 the above- mention'd Method, may perhaps cure that 

 fatal kind of Cholick, called the Red Gripes •, being fol- 

 lowed by a Clyfter of warm Sheep's or Calfs Blood. 

 In Fevers they are very proper, the Horfe being 

 carefully cover'd up after the firft Dofe\ adding 

 another Dofe next Morning, together with frequent 

 Clyflers } for tho' the beating of his Flanks increafes 

 at firlk it will abate quickly after. 



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