[Ill] 



Error III. 



When horfes are foundered they flop the 

 circulation of the blood without knowing it, 

 with bands of ftraw, which they roll round the 

 legs before and behind, or with a ribbon, and 

 bind it very tight, for fear the difeafe fhould 

 defcend to the feet. I have feen horfes who 

 had gangrenes upon thefe parts, by fuch com- 

 preflions. 



Error IV. 



It is a very bad method to fufpend horfes 

 who cannot Hand on their feet ; for while they 

 leave them on the flings a gangrene happens 

 where thefe prefs. The reafon of this is plain, 

 it is becaufe they flop the courfe of the fluids. 



Error V. 



There are fome who pretend that the gripes 

 in a horfe are caufed by the vives *, and in 

 order to cure it they open the maxillary glands 

 which they vulgarly call the Avives^ and, by 

 this opening, often deflrroy the maxillary ca- 

 nals which carry the faliva to the mouthy and 

 fometimes the fore becomes fift:ulous, and the 



♦ Swellings of the glands under a horfe's ears. 



fluid 



