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they have eaten one half, you sometimes 

 will observe them leave off feeding for a 

 time, turn their heads back and look iat 

 their flanks ; sometimes they will even lie 

 down for a minute or two, then get up, 

 and finish their corn. Wise John Groom 

 says directly, to a master as wise as himself, 

 " Sir, your honour's horse has got the gripes ; 

 I will give him a comfortable drink, which 

 will soon relieve him/' John Groom might 

 just as well rub the horse's, or his own 

 backside with a brick-bat. This proceeds 

 from the horse having worms. The worms, 

 as hungry as the horse, begin to feed and, 

 by moving about in the body of the horse, 

 make the horse, for a time, sick. 



'iiiecure. Two drachms of calomel, given over- 



night, tying his head up to the rack, so 

 that he cannot eat any thing, and half a 

 dose of the common aloetic physic the 

 next moning, three times repeated, will kill 

 the worms, and bring them from the horse. 



Peculiar case J ^^^.q kucw a marc which took three 



of a Mare. 



doses, and they had no effect on her ; but a 

 fourth dose brought very great quantities 

 from her ; her coat began to look fine, and 



