6o The FarrierV New Guide. Chap. XV. 



*' Morning in a Quart of the medicated Ale, ftanding 

 '' bridled as above direded." The Cinnabar, as all other 

 Minerals, but efpecially as it abounds with Quickfilver, is 

 therefore a molt efficacious Remedy for opening Obllruc- . 

 trons in the fmallefl Veflels : But the Reader may turn to 

 that Part where we have treated of the Farcin, where its 

 Virtues are taken Notice of more at length. 



But here it is to be remarked, that the laft prefcribed 

 Remedies are not only proper in that Kind of Staggers, 

 where the Horfe reels and turns round, but alfo in the 

 other Kind, when befalls on a fudden : For as in an Apo- 

 plexy, Senfe and Motion are taken away by a Prellure on 

 all the Nerves, fo in a Vertigo the Preflure is either in Part, 

 or elfe the nervous Juice is rendred more vifcid and unapt 

 to Motion than it ought to be, fo as to occafion thofe Tre- 

 mors, which are the more obfervable in the Optick Nerve, 

 as they afFeft the Sight ; and therefore the chief Difference 

 in the Cure lies only in this. That in Apopledick Cafes, 

 Things of the grea tell Efficacy mull be ufed, even in the 

 common Way of Evacuation, becaufe Senfe is fo much de- 

 llroy'd in all Parts of the Body, that Things of a milder 

 Nature will do but little Service •, whereas in Vertigo's, ^ 

 Senfation not being altogether obftruded, at leall in the 

 beginning, but render'd diforderly, the Purgations neec|_ 

 only be fuch as will make moderate Evacuation, and thefe . 

 not long continued. 

 en Mod of our Farriers cure the Stap;gers by 



*lhe common .. at.- n^u- ^u c' 



Way of dinner makmg Applications of Thmgs that are of 

 ihiSta<r(Ters.^ ^ ^o^ ^^^ pungent Nature, to the Ears ; as 

 Garlick, Rue, Aqua-vitd\ Cloves, Ginger, 

 Bay-falt, and the like, which being llitch'd up within the 

 Ear, may,^o doubt, be fometimes efficacious in thofe 

 Cafes that are limple, (and which are indeed the moll 

 common) as they llimulate the tender and fenfible Mem-, 

 brane which covers thofe Parts, and thereby rouze the Blood 

 to a quicker and brisker Motion ; but thefe ought to be us'd 

 ■with Caution and Circumfpedlion ; for I have feen Horfes 

 run flarkmad when thofe Applications have been too ftrong ; 

 and it was with much ado they could be kept from knock- 

 ing out their Brains againll the Walls ; and fometimes that 

 violent Agitation, inilead of giving Relief, makes the Fits^ 

 return the oftner upon them, by driving too much Blooc^ 

 into the Arteries of the Brain, 



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