The farrier's and horseman's complete dictionary / by Thomas Wallis.

  • Wallis, Thomas
Date:
1759
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    ¢ (train the whole compofition, and ‘ keep it for ufe.’ This is a very odd compofition, but it is extremely hot and penetrating, and, if it could be eafily made, might be of good fervice outwardly, applted after numbneffes, in all old griefs of the joints, finews, and all other nervous parts, where there is either drinefs, or too much relaxation and foftnefs. ‘The antients ufed it in all fuchcafes, and likewife were wont to diffolve it, and fquirt it into the nofe in violent colds, and in all diforders inthe head. “They alfo give it.as a confection inwardly, in all cafes of malignity, diffolvedin a cup of wine. But fome of the ingredients, as the oi! of fpikenard and oleum cy- prinum are not now to:be had, though thefe might be fupplied by adding a fufficient quantity of fpikenard in pow- der, and increafing the quantity of the ‘oil of bays. Gib/on’s Farrier’s Difpen- fatory. “ACTION of the mouth, a phrafe, in the tongue and mandible of a horfe, or his champing upon the bit of the bridle, to keep his mouth frefh, whereby he emits a white ropy foam, which is look- ed upon as a fien of vigour, mettle and health. Gauzllet. ACULER is ufed, in the manage, for the motion of a horfe when, in working upon volts, he does not go far enough forward at every time or mo- tion; fo that his fhoulders embrace or tike in too Jittl ground, and his croupe comes too near the center of the volt, Horfes are naturally inclined to this fault in making demi-volts. Guzilet. ZEGY PTIAGU Mo:niment, in the farrier’s difpenfatory. See the. aiticie OINTMENT. AGE of a horfe makes a confiderable point of knowledge ; the horf= being an animal that remarkably fhews the pro- prefs of his years by corre!pondent al. terations in his body. The age of a horfe is eafily known by his teeth, till he comes eight, after which the ufual marks wearout. A horfe, like many other brute animals, has his teeth divided into three ranks, viz. his fore-teeth, which are flat and {mooth ; his tufhes, and his back-teeth. See the article TEETH. The firft that grow are his foal-teeth, which begin to come forth a few months after he is foaled. ‘They are twelve in number, viz. fix above and fix below, and are eafily diftinguifhed from the teeth that come afterwards, by their {mallnefs and whitenefs, not unlike the fore-teeth of a man. Whena coltis about two years and a half old, he cafts the four middlemoft of his foal-teeth, viz. two above and two below : but fome do not caft any of their foal-teeth till they are near three years old. The new teeth are eafily diftinguifhed from the foal-teeth, being much ftronger and almoft twice their fize, and are called the nippers or gatherers ; being thofe hy which a horfe nips off the grafs when he- is feeding abroad in the fields ; or in the houfe, gatners his hay from the rick. complete, be is reckoned three years old ; when he is about three and a half, orin the fpring before he 1s four years old, he caits four more of his foal-teeth, viz. two above and two below, one on each fide the nippers or middle-teeth. So when you look intoa horfe’s mouth, and none of the foal-teeth remaining but the corner teeth, you. may conclude that he is four that year, about Apnil cr May. But fome are later colts, which, however, makes little alterasion in the mouth. The tufhes appear near the fame time with the four Jaft mentioned teeth ; fometienes fooner than thefe, and fome- times not til after a horfe is four years old. They are curved like the tufhes of other beafts, only in a young horfe they have a fharp edge all round the top, ‘