7(5 The Farrier^ New Guide. Ch. XXIII. 



the Sun, or where the Light is too ftrong, you'll be apt to 

 create frefh Trouble ; for though the ferous Part of the 

 Blood may be render'd more thin and fluid, and its Acri- 

 mony much abated by the Ufe of Exercife, and the Help of 

 pwoper Remedies, and confequently the Moilture lellcned, 

 yet as the Eyes themfelves muft be impaired by a long and 

 continued Defluxion, they mult therefore have Time to re- 

 cover that Weaknefs. For the fame Reafon, the Ufe of lit 

 Applications muft not be too foon laid afide, but fuch things 

 conftantly provided as w^ill comfort and ftrengthen thole 

 Parts, though they ought to be of more gentle Operation 

 than v^^hat v^^ere us'd during the Violence of the Diftemper. 

 Wherefore we very much recommend Decodtions of Red- 

 rofe Leaves, Plantain, Ground-Ivy, or their diftill'd Waters, 

 with thofe of Eye-bright, Chervil, Celandine, and the like, 

 lor outward Ufe ; and thefe to be continued for fome con- 

 fiderable Time: And if there be the leaft Appearance of a 

 Return, a fmall Quantity of white Vitriol, or the white 

 Troches of Rhafn may be diilblvM in either of thefe Wa- 

 ters, VIZ. half a Dram of the Vitriol, or a Dram of the 

 TVoches, to four Ounces of the Water : And by following 

 this Method, anyHorfe may certainly be cured, unlefs there 

 be fome natural Defeat in the Eye, or that it has been too 

 mucli injured by the Corrofion of the Diftetnper. 

 irn . n/r .7 J Moft Farriers, when they find this Dif- 



llhat Methods r wi- ? tt / .i r 



^re generally ^^^^ obltinate, rowel a Horle near the Lyes, 

 tiled ^jjben 'the ^nd take up the Eye-veins ; but in taking up 

 Dijienifer a Vein, I prefer Solieyfelh Method, becaule 



frcves ob/li- he does not make Incifion into the Vein it- 

 rate. felf, but ties it with a wax Thread, and by 



that Means the Communication is as efFediually flopped. 

 Eut whatever Succcfs may have been attributed to the ta- 

 king up of Veins for Infirmities in the Eyes, there can be 

 but little faid to countenance that Operation, fince by tying 

 lip thole Veins the Return of the Blood is hinder'd , and 

 Therefore it can only be fuppofed t»o do Service where thp 

 Eye is fhrunk, and like to penfh for Want of its proper 

 Nourifhment. As to Rowelling, that may indeed, and 

 often is of Service, becaufe by it many fmall Veflcls, both 

 Veins and Arteries, are opened. And as the Arterial 

 Blood moves with a greater Impetus than that of the 

 Veins, the grcatelt Part of the Difcharge mull therefore be 

 from the Arteries ; fo that a leiler Quantity of Blood mult 

 be fJeriv'd towards the Eye, 



Some 



