A treatise on the prevention of diseases incidental to horses : from bad management in regard to stables, food, water, air, and exercise : to which are subjoined observations on some of the surgical and medical branches of farriery / by J. Clark.

  • Clark, James, 1732-1808.
Date:
1788
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Credit: A treatise on the prevention of diseases incidental to horses : from bad management in regard to stables, food, water, air, and exercise : to which are subjoined observations on some of the surgical and medical branches of farriery / by J. Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    s OF FOOD. 59 If thofe horfes that are intended for hunting, &c. were taken up from grafs as foon as it begins to ihoot, and kept in con- ftant daily exercife, although fed with a very moderate allowance of oats at the time, as the hunting feafon approaches, both their feeding and exercife may be gradually increafed. They will become by this management in a proper condition for the fevered exercifes, without purging or evacuating medicines of any kind. But this will be more fully illudrated under the article of Purging. I It has been obferved above, that grafs didolves thofe chalky and other concretions that are apt to grow in the domach and o- ther vifcera of horfes. Van Swieten, in his Commentaries upon the Aphorifms of Dr Boerhaave, vol. 9. p. 177. when treat- ing of chalky matter found in the liver, &c, fays, “ Sometimes there are concretions “ of the like fort found in this organ, but “ of a more friable texture, and of a whiter “ appear-