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Quantity of the Blood is augmented, Bleeding and other 

 Evacuations are neceilary ; but if the Qtiantity thereof be 

 diminiflied, then Reftoratives, Reft, and nourifhing Food 

 may be required : And if this laft proceeds from any Error 

 in the Stomach, caufing Lofs of Appetite, in fuch a Cafe, 

 thofe Things are to be adminiftred which create Hunger, 

 and help Digeftion. If the Texture of the Blood be chan- 

 ged, as is ufual in a continual Courfe of Sicknefs, then it 

 may be neceilary, befides other Intentions, to adminiiler 

 fuch Things as may correal the vitiated Mafs. 



Fourthly, When a Difeafe proceeds from. an Increafe or 

 Diminution of feme Secretion, the Cure ought, for the 

 moft Part, to be performed by fuch Things as enlarge the 

 Secretions that are too fparing, and reftrain fuch as are too 

 liberal : And the fafeft Way to reftrain an augmented Se- 

 cretion, is by the Increafe of fome other Secretion. And 

 indeed this Method of Revulfion has been lafely pradifed 

 among all Phyficians ; and if it could be rightly underftood 

 by Farriers, it would be of the greateft Importance in 

 their Pradice. 



But here it is to be remark'd, that when we fpeak of an 

 augmented Secretion, we underftand that as a Difeafe, and 

 not as a Remedy : For fometimes a Secretion augmented 

 becomes a Cure ; and in iiach a Cafe, it is not to be flopped 

 immediately, but rather fomevvhat aflifted, when any 

 ways imperfcdl. As for Inftance, If a Horfe be lax, and 

 has a Scouring upon him ; when this proceeds from a Dif- 

 order of the Guts only, by a Putrefadion of the Excre- 

 ments too long detained, it rnay be very proper to admii- 

 nifter fome moderate Purge, provided it be of fuch a 

 Nature as will not too much relax the Inteftinal Glands. 

 But if this Caufe proceeds from an obftrucled Tranfpira- 

 tion, as is very ufual, then fuch Things as promote Sweat, 

 and a Breathing through the Pores, muft be likewife admi- 

 nifter'd. The like Method is to be obferved in moft other 

 Secretions, as in Sweat, Urine, running at the Mouth and 

 Nofe, which may be often obferved among Horfes in the 

 Decline of Sicknefs. 



Fiftkh, In the Cure of all Difeafes, Na- Nature to he 

 ture 'is the beft Guide, and therefore the Far- carefully obfer- 

 lier muft diligently follow her. Whenever fhe '^^^' 

 : finds herfelf opprelTed, flie endeavours to throw off the 

 Load, and tries all the neareft and propereft Ways for her 

 Kdief ; and it is for the Conferyation of Health, or re- 

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