1^6 The FarrierV AVay Guide. Ch. XL; 



Moft Farriers, for Cheapnefs, make Ufe of Allum, black 

 Soap, burnt Vitriol, and fuch like Things : Some exhibit 

 corrofive Sublimate, or red Precipitate, as much as will lie 

 upon a Silver Penny ; but as thcie laft Medicines, viz. the 

 Sublimate and Precipitate, cannot be ufed internally without 

 great danger, efpecially to brute Creatures, who can ne- 

 ver be brought to take fuch Things as are proper to carry 

 off their ill Effeds, they ought therefore not to be given in 

 any Cafe ; for albeit they may, by virtue of their powerful 

 Efficacy, fucceed in fome Circumftances, where a Horfe 

 happens to be robuft and Itrong ; yet when it is otherwife, 

 if they are not the Occafion of fudden Diforders, they will 

 lay the Seeds of a bad Conftitution, and render a Horfe un- 

 ferviceable for the future. 



CHAP. XL. 



Of Tain in the Bowels cattfed by fudden 

 Accidents, 



XTTTE have already taken Notice, that moft of theDifeafes 

 ^ ' of the Guts will caufe Cholick Pains, when they come 

 to an Extremity ; but Horfes, who are oftentimes under the 

 Diredlion and Alanagement of bad Tutors, and are them- 

 felves only guided by Inftin<5l, muft therefore be render'd 

 liable to many Inconveniencies, and to none more than 

 thofe which (hew themfelves immediately in the Bowels ; 

 Tains caufedby f^*" ^^^ drinking cold Water when a Horfe 

 drinking ivhen '^^ ^^^' ^^ if at that time he be rid deep into 

 hot ^c. the Water, or if he be fuffer'd to cool of a 



fudden when he has been at hard Exercife, 

 any fuch Mifmanagement very frequently brings on the 

 moft intolerable Diforders, as we daily obferve. 



And this is eafy to be accounted for, becaufe when the 

 Body is hot, and the Pores open, any fudden Cold caufes 

 them to be immediately fliul up, fo that all the common 

 and necefl'ary Difcharges are in a great Meafure hinder'd, 

 by which Means the Vellels of the Colon, and fometimes 

 of the Stomach and other Bowels, are alfo cramm'd and 

 diftended ; and this is the true Caufe of the Pain, and 

 likewife of the Wind and Flatulency that is obfervable in 

 fuch Cafes ; for although Wind may often proceed from 

 cwher Caufes, as from the Vifcidity and Sliminefs of the 

 Matter that is fometimes harboured in the Bowels j yet in 



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