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Next Morning he was bled two Pounds or more; 
after which I gave i him in 'Milk* Lichen ciner . terreft. 
3 vj. ’Lip. nig . 3 iiij. five Mornings fucccflively ; 
which I repeated at the End of a Fortnight for four 
Mornings more. 
As the Tutv. AntilyJJus was not in our Shops, 
and no one in Town knew the Lichen but myfelf, 
1 went with my Servant Sunday Forenoon, the Day 
of my Horfe’s Misfortune, to feek it. What I found 
was, I fear, too young; for it feemed juft coming 
from the Earth, and the Leaves were fcarce one third 
as big as at its full Growth. I got what I hop’d 
might be fufficicnt ; and, after cleanfing, perhaps 
too haftily dry’d it at the Fire, that it might be ready 
for Ufe the next Day. 
The Wounds heal'd up foon, without any other 
Application; and the Horfe fed uncommonly hearty 
after a Day or two (during which the Fright had 
made him uneafy and fretful) and feemed to im- 
prove conliderabiy in every refpett. I omitted riding 
him for 20 Days ; but about the 20th rid him two 
fhort Journeys only. He travcll’d chearful and brisk, 
and I took care not to heat him (for tho’ the Horfe 
was old, I would not willingly have parted with him 
for 20 Pieces). I faw him every Day, but could 
in no refped difeover any thing amifs. 
Dec. 2f, two Days before the full Moon, my 
Servant told me, that in the Morning he trembled 
much on entering the Horfe -Pool, and refufed to 
drink at the watering Trough ; but in the Evening 
drank heartily at another Well. This alarmed me; 
but conltdering that Horfes frequently refufe to drink 
there, and that he drank in the Evening, I was fome- 
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* See thefe'f ranf. No. 237* p. 49, <1717101697. 
