Chap. XXXIII. Of the T>ifeafes, ^c 1 2 5 



Thefe Balls, or the preceeding Draught, may be given 

 with Succefs to recover loft Appetite ; and may for that 

 Purpofe be repeated as often as there is Occafion, which 

 needs be but feldom, unlefs a Horfe has been fome confidc- 

 rable Time without a good Appetite, and in that Cafe he 

 may be purged twice a Week, for a Fortnight or three 

 Weeks fucceffively ; and the Days he does not purge, the 

 following Powder may be given him in a Deco<5lion, where- 

 in a handful or two of Rue has been boiled. 



*' Take Gentian in Powder two Drams, Galangal, Ze- 

 " doary, and Calamus Arojjiaticus^ of each a Dram and a 

 ** half, Cinnamon and Bay- berries of each a Dram." LeC 

 thefe be pounded together, and be given in the Deco6lion, 

 or in a Pint of White-wine. 



If the Horfe be of a delicate wafhy Conftitution, and un- 

 able to bear much Purging, all that is neceilary in that In- 

 tention may be anfwer'd by Clyfters, with the Ufe of fcald- 

 ed Bran now and then. The preceeding Powder ought alfo 

 to be given every Day, or what our common Farriers of- 

 tentimes adminifter to reftore Appetite, viz. Garlick and 

 Rue champ'd and pounded with Butter and Flour, may 

 be very ferviceable, efpecially to ftPong robuft Horfes. 



But above all Things, the Ufe of Chewing Balls, and 

 conftant Exercife, is abfolutely neceflary, and with the Con- 

 currence of a few of tho-fe Helps above direded, will foon 

 recover a Horfe to his Appetite. 



If you obferve your Horfe mangle his Hay, and continu- 

 ally nibling Mud and Dirt, you may then very reafonably 

 fuppofe his Stomach to be foul and out of Order ; nor is it 

 improbable that this Defire after Earth and iVIud proceeds 

 from an Acidity and Sourneis of the Juices ; for thofe 

 Creatures, by a Sort of Inftindt^ very often, of their own 

 Accord, take to fuch things as are proper to relieve them 

 of troublefome and uneafy Senfations : And this is very 

 obfervable in Dogs and Cats, who are led by the fame In- 

 ftin6l to fwallow rough Blades of Grafs, in order to make 

 themfelves vomit, when they find their Stomachs opprefs'd. 

 Thefe are Inllances that are familiar, and known to every 

 one ; but Natural Hiltory abounds with an infinite Num- 

 ber of the like Inftances in other Creatures ; fo that we 

 are not to doubt but an A.nimal of the greatell Sagacity, 

 as a Horfe certainly is, and as he is alio as much expofed to 

 Difeafes, if not more, than any other Creature, muft there- 

 fore, when 31 Liberty, oftentimes bs led to his own proper 



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