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immoderate, or if it be given upon the Stomach, its Ef- 

 fedts are for the moft Part very bad ; and he that would 

 give fach an Horfe much Water to drink, or keep his 

 Rack conftantly full, muft be but a very young Groom : 

 For when the Stomach is full of Kay or Water, as it lies 

 upon a Level with the Lungs in all fuch Creatures, it is 

 the more apt to prefs forwards upon the Midriff, and 

 hinder the Adion of the Lungs, which cannot but be very 

 troublefome in all Cafes wherp they are any wife defec- 

 tive, as we daily obferve in purlive and broken-winded 

 Horfes. 



As to thofe Horfes who have thick mucilaginous Mat- 

 ter obftruding the Pipes, and whofe Lungs mull alfo be 

 very humid, and, as it were, more relaxed than natural ; 

 albeit the fame Rules are to be obferved in their Oeconomy 

 of Diet and Exercife, as in the former Cafe ; and though 

 the fame Remedies are alio very proper, yet becaufe this 

 .Diftemper is fometimes more violent by Fits than at other 

 Times, and may therefore require Medicines of more pow- 

 erful Efficacy ; befides Bleeding, which is neceflary when 

 the Oppreffion is upon him, the following Balls may be 

 given him with good Succefs. 



" Take Galbanum and Gum Ammoniacum, of each a 

 *' Quarter of a Pound, Burdock-root half a Pound ; firft 

 " beat them well in a Mortar with two Ounces of the 

 *' Flowers of Benjamin ; then add by Degrees fweet Oil, 

 *' until you bring them into a Pafte lit to be made into 

 *' Balls weighing two Ounces each. Let your Horfe have 

 " two of thefe every Day, one in the Morning, and another 

 " in the Afternoon, two Hours before Water, keeping him 

 " ty'd up to the Rack all that while. 



The following Balls may be alfo given with good Suc- 

 cefs, and may be eafily procured at all Times, and almoft 

 in all Places. 



" Take four Heads ofGarlick, an Ounce of Horfe-radifh, 

 " ftamp them in a Mortar ; then add an Ounce and an half 

 *' of Flour of Brimltone, and work them into a Mafs 

 *' with as much fweet Oil as is fufficient : Let thefe be 

 *' made into two Balls, one to be taken in the Morning, 

 ** and the other in the Afternoon, as above direded. 



All the Remedies prefcrib'd in a Cold, are alfo profit- 

 able and ufeful in this Cafe ; and he may have fome- 

 times fcalded Barley inltead of Oats ; and nothing will be 

 more proper than Barlev boil'd in his Water with Liquo- 



P rice, 



