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that can be dooe is to empty the vetrds

Ir.!

fpeedily

liS

pollible, by nrikiog Ihe veios io fe,·er.1pa'l! at once,

tlt,edin&to four or f,ve quam, aod

raife IIp the horfe'll

head alld fhoulders, fupportiog tltem with pleoty of nraw.

he furvives the 6t, cut feveral rowds; give him oight

-aod morniog &Iyners prepared with a nroog dceoélioo of

feooa and fah, or the purgiog glyfler meotiooed io the

direélion!; blow ooce a-day up his o"nrils

"dram of

l'0wder of afarabicea, \\'hieh will promote a great dif·

charge; after",ards two or three aloetic porges fhould be

giveo

and tO fecure him from a rclaple, by attenuatiog

~od

thiooiog his blond, give him ao ounee of equal pa",

of antimooy aod crocus metaUorum for a mooth; or,

'\Vhich is preferable, the fame 'luaotity of cionabar of an–

timooy aod gum guaiacom.

If the fit procee<h o,;ly from roloefs of Hood, high

feediog, aod waot of fullicient exercife, or a fizy 'blood

(whiclt is often tite cafe tvitb young horfes. who Ihough

they

mi,

nagger, aod fometioles fuddeoly faU down,

yet are eafily cured by the above method), ao opeoiogdiet

with fcalded brao aod barley will be necelfary for fome

time, aod the bleeding may be repmed

fmall quaoti,ies.

to the other diforders ohhe head, fuch as lethargy

or Jleeping evil. epilepfy or faUiog.Gcknefs, vertigo,

frenzy, and madoefs, convulGocs. and paralytical difor–

dm, as they ue mon of them

be trealed as the apo–

plexy and epilepfy, by bleeding aod evacuatioos with

!the aheratives there direéled, we /haU lVave treatiog of

ahem reparately, but meotion fome particular rules 10 di–

flinguifh them, according to the plao we laid dowo, and

then offer fome genera! remedies for me fevera! pur–

pofes.

lo ao epitepfy, or falJiog ftcknefs, the borfe mIs aod

flaggm, bis eyes are fixed in his head, he has no fenfe

of wh¡t he is doing, he nales ¡nd duogl infenGbly, he

ruas round aod falls fuddenly;

fometim~

he is immon–

able, with his legs flretched out as if he

w:n

dead, ex·

cepl only a quick motion of

heart aod Iungs, which

caufes a violent workiog of his ftanks; fometimes he .has

involuntary motioos, and /hakiog of his limbs, fo flrong,

,hat he has not ooly beat aod fpurned his litler, but Ihe

pavcment with it; and with thefe alternate Cymptoms

horCe cootioued more thao Ihree hours,

~od

theo he has

.as furprifiogly recovered; at the going off of the fit, he

gencrally foams at me mouth, the

fo~m

being white and

dry, Iike what comes irom

healthful horre wheo he

champs on the bit.

But io all kinds of gripes, whether Ihey proceed from

diCorden io the guts, or reteotion of urine,.a horfe is of–

ten up aod dowo, rol!s aod tumbles about; and wheo he

goes to liedo"n, gcneraly makes feveral mOliOn! lVith grtat

ft:eming carefulnefs, which fhews he has a fenfe of his

pain; aod ifhe lay5 fhetched out (or anytime, it is gene·

rally but foe a Otort fpace.

EpilepGes and convulGons may arife from blows on the

head, too violent exercife, and hard nraining; aod from

a fuloefs of blood, or impoverifh(d blood, aod furfeits;

which ate fome of Ihe caufes thal deoote the original dif–

order.

In lethargic diforders, Ihe hoere geoerally rens his head

wilb ,his mouth in the manger, and his pole often reclined

VeLo

11. No. 19.

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ro one

r.de;

he will Atew an inclinatioo lo

Uf,

but

gene–

raUy falls allcep with hi. foed in hi. mouth, aod he (re–

qltently Cwallows it whole, wimoul chewing: emollieot

glyflm are extremely necetrary in Ihi, cafe, with the

oervous balls recommended foe Ihe /laggm aoa coovu).

Í1ons; lIróng purges are not re'luifite, nor mu/l you bleed

too large qURntitie., unlef. the horfe be youog and

lully. lo old horfes, rowels and large evacuationsare im–

p"'per; b\tt volatiles of all kinds are of ufe, wheo Ibey

cao be alforded: 1he alterative purge

SS4. col.

par.

~ .

from the bottom) may be given, aod repwed

011

his amendment.

This dinempee is to be cured by Ihefe meaos, ir me

horfe

oot old and pafl his vigour.

i. a good Cogn ir

he has a IOlerable "pp<tite, ¡od drioks freely without

f1abberiog, aod if he lies dowll. aod rife. up carefully,

though it be but feldom.

BUI_if a lethargic horre does not lie dowo; if he i,

2ltogether lIupid and cartlefs, and

~akes

00 natice of aoy

thing that comes oear him; if he duogs aod nales feldom,

aod eveo while he fleeps and dotes, it is abad fign:

be runs at the nofe thick white malter, it may relieve

'him; but if a vifcid gleet, that nicks tO his nonrils like

glue, turn to a profufe ruoning of rapy, reddifh and

greeoifh matter, it is ao infaUible figo of a great decay

of nature, aod that it will prove deadly.

oung borfes from fout 10 fix years, are very fubjeél

to convulGoos, from bots io the fpriog;

~od

the large

coach breed, more than the faddle They are feized with–

OUI aoy previous notice ; and if bOls aod "orms are oif.

covetcd io their dung, the cauCe Ceeros to be out of doubt;

more efpecially if Ibey have

late!

oooae

out of

dealer',

haods.

Wl1eo this coovulGoo proeeeds from a diftemper¡ture

of the midriff, or any of the principal bowels, it is to be

dillinguifhcd from bolS and

~ermio

byprC'l'ious fymptoms ;

the horfe falls off his í1omach, aocr grows gradually

weak,

feeble, and difpirited io his work, aod

turos

Jhort·breath–

ed witb {he leaíl exercife.

The lively defcription

tbat univerfal cramp orconvul.

Goo, called by fome the

nag-e.il

, which feizes all tbe mmcles

<lf the body at once, aod

10&'

up me jaws, fo thal it is im–

poflible almon to force Ihem opeo, we /hall give in

Gibfon', owo words, wbo fays:

fonn as the borfe is

feized, his head is raifed with his nofe towards the rack,

his ean prioked up, ,and his

tail

cocked, lookiag with

eagernefs as ao huogry horfe when hay is put down to

him, or Hke a high-fpirited borfe wheo be is put upon

his metde; infomuch, that Ihofe who are /lraogm to

fueh things, "heo they fee a horfe lIaod iD this maoner,

will fearce believe aoy Ihiog of confequence ails him;

but they are fooo convioeed, wben they fee olher fymp–

toms come on apace, aod that Iris neck grows niff,

.cnmped, and almon

immoveal~e;

and if

horfe io this

1l00dition lives a few days, feveral knots will ¡rire on

the tendinous pans thertof, and ¡II the

~ufcles

bot/¡

before aod behind wiU be fo much pulled and cramped,

and fo nretched, ·that he looks as if he was oailed to the

pavement, with his legs lIilf, wide, and flrarlling; his O(in

is drawn fo tight

all parts of the body, that it is almo/l

impollible to more il

aud if trial be ,mad. to make him

\Valk,