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that may take away the Appetite, or caufe a Hoife's Appe- 

 tite to be vitiated; and when the lafl happens to Horfes, 

 we often obferve them, by a Sort of Inilinct, crave after 

 thofe things that are very different from their natural Food, 

 as the eating of Mud, or Clay out of the Walls. 



But in handling the Cure, we need fay but ^y ^ 

 very little concerning that Species of Want 

 of Appetite, which is often the fudden Effecl of fome fud- 

 den Accident, or ill Management ; for this is frequently- 

 cured by Blood-letting alone, as it is, for the moft Part, no 

 other than a Symptom of a beginning Fever, and of fuch a 

 one where the Blood, if at all, is but little vitiated. 



Wherefore, in any fuch Cafe, a Quart of Blood may be 

 taken from the Neck-vein, after which may be adminiftred 

 fuch things as are cooling, and fit to keep down a Fever. 

 His Diet ought to be fcalded Bran, and his Water fharpen'd, 

 as has been diredled in fuch Cafes, and, with the Affiftance 

 of moderate Exercife his Stomach will foon come to him. 



But when the want of Appetite proceeds either from a con- 

 ftaniFulnefs, whereby the Adion of the Stomach is hinder'd, 

 that its Sides cannot meet together fo as to excite the Senfa- 

 tion of Hunger ; or if it proceeds from an evil Quality in its 

 Contents, ai forlnftance, if there be flimy Matter mgender'd 

 in it, either from raw undigefted Food, from the Wan: of a 

 free Difcharge of the Dung, or if any fharp corrofive Matter 

 be in it, cauling a depriv'd Appetite, or a Senfation of Hun- 

 ger by Fits, as we oftentimes obferve, the moft rational Me- 

 thod in all thefe Cafes, is in the firft Place to evacuate and 

 purge the Stomach, by fuch things as are appropriated, ei- 

 ther to Aveeten the Juices, or attenuate the vifcid Phlegm. 



And this Method leems to be the moft reaforiable with Re- 

 fpedt to Horfes, becaufe, as we have elfewhere obierv'd, they 

 are no ways difpofed to vomit, or throw any thing out of the 

 Stomach that has once enter'd into it, and that feems to be 

 owing to the Figure of the Gullet, which is contraded more 

 than in fome other Creatures and has a fpiral Dire^^ion, a little 

 above its Infertion into the Stomach ; for had it been other- 

 wife, tho' a Horfe might have vomited as well as fome other 

 Animal"^, yet as he feeds much with his Head downwards, he 

 would then perhaps have lain under thelnconveniency of hav- 

 ing his Food fall fometimesback again into the Gullet, which 

 would be very troublefome to him ; and we may likewife ob- 

 ferve from frequent Experiments, if there be never fo large a 

 Quantity of any vomiting Medicine given to a Horfe, it has 



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