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down his throat which they forced yet farther, 

 and the horfe was fuffocated •, I opened him 

 and found the fragments of the leek as far 

 down as the Bronchia. 



As to the notion of a horfe's cough proceed- 

 ing from feathers fwallo^wed down, it is very 

 falfe, for before they can reach the oefophagus 

 they are moiftened by the faliva, which is al- 

 ways in great abundance in horfes -, I more 

 than once made the experiment ; for I gave to 

 fome greedy horfes feathers of different fizes to 

 eat among their hay, which never did them any 

 harm ; they very often eat them in farms where 

 there is poultry, and nothing happens to them 

 from it. 



Error XI. 



I once faw a horfe who was thought lame in 

 the fhoulder, and was forced to go on the part 

 affedled, by tying up the other foot to the leg 

 with a cord •, this is called fwimming on dry 

 land •, fome time after there appeared a fwelling 

 on the coronet, which fhewed the feat of the 

 lamenefs to be in the foot, and that it was very 

 injudicious to have forced him to move upon the 

 difeafed part. This horfe, inftead of being re- 

 lieved, continued lame. 



Error XII. 



They perform, what is called drawing the 

 thorny upon lame horfes, being perfuaded that 



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