Chap. XIL Of Surfeits. 5I 



by a Diftradion of the fmall Fibres, or will otherwife break 

 cul into little Puftules among the Hair, which will alfo be 

 accompanied with Sweat, and thea the DiJeafe will proba- 

 bly come to a fpeedy Ifi'ue; but if the Blood has acquired a 

 more than ordinary Viicidity during the Lentor and Con- 

 tinuance of the Dung in the Guts, which is molt likely, and 

 what ufually happens in llich Cafes ; it will then be apt to 

 ftagnate m feme Places more than others, and call oft' the 

 Remainder of the Difeafe in Biles and Swellings, fuch as we 

 often obferve after Surfeits. 



Wemay therefore determine all fuch Tu- In ^.vhat man- 

 mors, or other Excrefcencies, as are the Ef- ner Stcrfeits are 

 feds of an over Plenitude and Fulnefs, to be, ^^ ^^ dijiingui- 

 properly fpeaking, what belongs to a Surfeit, -^ '* 

 and v/hen the like Symptoms proceed from the imperfefl 

 Difcharges of any Cold, whe. eby the Pafnges of Perfpita- 

 tion have been fuddenly obftructed, they then bear a near 

 Affinity to the former, as a Lentor of the Bowels is often- 

 times previous, or at leaft, a Concomitant of fuch a Cold. 

 And if fuch Swellings be the Refult of a putrid or malig- 

 nant Fever, that has not been of long Continuance before 

 the Difeafe was brought to a Solution, tho' thefe may un- 

 doubtedly be worfe than the other, yet they only differ in 

 degree, and require the fame Method of Cure. And with 

 thefe may be clafs'd all fuch as happen after any Kind of 

 violent Exercifethat has not been of long Continuance^ and 

 ■which proceed from fome flight Diforder arifing from 

 thence. But if the fame outwai*d Symptom, or rather 

 Symptoms, having the fame outward Appearances, proceed 

 from long continued and hard Labour, by v/hich the Ma- 

 chine is, as it were, broke and quite diforder'd ; or if they 

 be the Effeds of heftick and intermittent Fevers, or any other 

 internal Malady, that has been of fuch duration as to wafte 

 and decay the Body, and pervert the natural Juices, they 

 are in this cafe not to be deemed Surfeits^ or the immediate 

 Effed of SurfeitSy but to be iook'd upon as what will con- 

 ftitute Ulcers of the worft kind. But as we have allotted a 

 particular Place for the Cure of all forts of Tumors and 

 Ulcersj which the Reader may confult at his Leifure, we 

 fhall therefore in this Place take Notice oi S%irfeits^ and the 

 Accidents that are more efpecially peculiar to them. 



When the Farrier obferves a Horfe to be ^^^ q 

 furfeited, and under a heavy Oppreffion from 

 the want of the common and ufual difcharges, he ought, 

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