ANTICOR

ANTICOR, Anticoeur or Anticogur, or Avant-Coeur, among Farriers, is usually described as a preternatural Swelling, of the Size and Figure of an Apple, occasioned by a sanguine and bilious Humour; and appearing in the Horse’s Breast opposite to his Heart. A late Author affirms that the generality of Writers on that Subject have been mistaken as to this Disease; attributing it to the Heart, whence it is by Solleysell, called the Swelling of the Pericardium; whereas it is really an Inflammation in the Gullet, and Throat; and the same that in human Bodies, is called the Angina, or Squinancy.

ANTICOR