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and unable to lie down ; To that by continual {landing the 

 Legs become fwell'd and gourded. 



Secondly y By immoderate hard Riding, the Sinews and 

 Ligaments are aduated and llretch'd, which is fuddenly 

 followed with StifFnefs and Pain in the Joints, whereby, as 

 in the preceeding Gafe, a Flux of Humours is drawn down 

 upon the Legs. 



Thirdly i When Horfes are come off a Journey, or from 

 Grafs, to Hand in a Stable, their Legs are apt to turn gour- 

 dy and fwell'd ; the firfl of thefe Cafes differs not from the 



£receeding in what relates to the Pain and StifFnefs in the 

 rimbs ; but it has alfo, in common with the latter, the 

 abrupt breaking off a Habit from the Exercife to Rell and 

 full Feeding ; for while a Horfe is upon his Journey, or at 

 his Liberty in the Fields, he is every Day more or lefs in 

 Motion, whereby the Blood is kept in conftant Agitation ; 

 but when he comes to ftand flill in the Stable, a Check is 

 lUt to the Motion of the Blood in the fmall VefTels of the 

 "iimbs, while, by an habitual Aptitude, it Hill continues to 

 be equally detach'd into all Parts by the larger Arteries, 

 which may eafily bring on the Greafe, even while there is 

 yet no manifeft Diforder in the Blood itfelf. But in the 

 Cafe of Horfes newly taken up from Grais, there is befides 

 this, oftentimes a Default in the Blood, efpecially when 

 they are fuffered to run abroad till late in the Year ; for 

 then the Grafs lofes its Strength, and begets Crudities ; 

 which render the Blood and other Juices vifcid and thick ; 

 and v/hen a Horfe is taken off his Exercife, and brought to 

 more generous Feeding, a Plethora or Fulnefs will foon 

 happen, whereby it will be the more apt to ftagnate in the 

 Limbs, and caufe fuch Heat and Itching, as mult be foon 

 follow'd with a Gourdinefs and Swelling. The fame EfFedl 

 is alfo produc'd by Colds, Surfeits, and fometimes by pam- 

 pering and full Feeding alone, without the Concurrence of 

 other Circumftances. 



And Lq/ily, When a Horfe has been brought low by Sick- 

 nefs or repeated Evacuations, or by any other Caufe, there 

 follows an univerfal Relaxation of Body, fo that the Blood 

 and other Juices become languid, and are apt to ftagnate 

 in thofe Parts that are the moll: dependent and remote from, 

 the Heart ; not only as the Veilels themfelves are relaxed, 

 and lofe their Spring, but alfo from the Heavinefs and In- 

 adlivity of the Spirits, Vv'hereby they become unable to give 

 their Afliftance in its Return ; and thus the Greafe is often- 

 times complicated with fome other Diftemper. 



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