134 The ParrierV NewGuidcCw. XXXVI. 



Had this Difordercontinu'd upon him a little longer with- 

 out aVentto the hard Excrements,which were fo firmly im- 

 paded in the ftreight Gut, a violent Inflammation of that 

 Gut, and of the Neck of the Bladder, mull have foon hap- 

 pened, which, without the utmoft Diligence, would have 

 brought him fuddenly to his End j for in that Cafe it would 

 have been very difficult to have fetch'd out the Dung, which 

 was the only Means to preferve him from ihofe Accidents. 

 ^1 r J But this will be clearly illuftrated in the 



other Inltance, which was of a Dragoon s 

 Horfe in the Regiment to vt'hich I bclong'd ; who, after a 

 full five Weeks March, coming to ftand at his Eai'e, grew 

 exceeding collive, and had his Fundament and Sheath very 

 much fwelled. He was committed to the Care of one who 

 was tolerably well skill'd in many of the common Things, 

 but being wholly unacquainted wiih the Strudure and Ale- 

 thanifm of that Crea'ture, who was the Subject of his Art, 

 committed a grand Miltake, in giving him a ftrong Dofe of 

 Purging Phyfick, there being no Vent for the Pallage of the 

 Excrements downwards, and the Horfe having no Capa- 

 city to vomit and difgorge himfelf upward?, was put into the 

 moft violent Agony imaginable, and at lalt d)-'d in ftrong 

 Conyulfions. 



Perhaps this Perfon may, by fuch a Method, have fuc- 

 ceeded in Cafes of lefs Obltinacy, and where there was lit- 

 tle or no Swelling of the Fundament ; and if there had 

 been a PofTibility of making the Horfe vomit, he might 

 have fucceeded even in this, for th.en the Phylick would 

 have gone off that Way ; and after feveral Difcharges by 

 the Mouth, the Remainder might have gone downward?, as 

 it oftentimes happens to human Bodies, becaufethe ftraining 

 to vomit makes a fttong Comprcflion of the Mufcles of the 

 lower Belly, which greatly forwards the Ejedions by the 

 Fundament ; and therefore in feme obftinate Cafes ot this 

 Nature, the beft Phylicians have ordcr'd Vomits with Suc- 

 cefs. But as it is quite otherwife with Horfes, and that 

 their Stomachs are not othervvife to be moved with the 

 flrongefl Stimuli, than to create Sicknefs, and caufe them 

 to flaver a little. Purging is not to be attempted in any llub- 

 born Coltivencfs, but Clyfiers. 



And if this Method had been taken in the Inltance now 

 before us, and due Care obfcrv'd to keep the Swelling of his 

 Fundament under, as he was a young Horfe, and not much 

 inipair'd in his Strength, he mi^hr have eafily overcome that 

 DiJbrdt;r. 



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