152 TkeTAKKim'sNew Guide, Ch. XLII. 



*' half an Ounce of iEthiops mineral : Make them into 

 *' Pills with a fufficient Quantity of Flour and Butter. 



Thefe may be given twice a Week/or according as you 

 find he has Strength to bear them, until he has been fcoured 

 four or five Times ; after which Cinnabar Pills, or thofe for 

 the Farcin, may be given, and their Ufe continued for 

 fome confiderable Time ("if your Horfe be worth the Ex- 

 pence) but efpecially if you obferve him rather to mend 

 than grow worfe. And this Method, when it is rightly 

 follow'd, will be found the mod rational to remove all ob- 

 Hinate Difeafes of the Liver. 



CHAP. XLIL 



Of the difeafes of the Reins or Kidneys, &c. 



■fl/'E find in the Books of Farriers, an Account of all the 

 ^^ Difeafes of the Reins and Bladder, tho' there are but 

 few who have delivered them in any regular Order ; and 

 indeed, fome of them, as the Stone in the Bladder, ^c. are 

 but feldom met with ; we fhall therefore make it our Bufi- 

 refs to fpend as little of the Reader's Time as poflible, in 

 Things that are common and unprofitable. However, we 

 make no doubt but fome rare and unufual Inftances of Stones 

 and Slime happen to thofe Creatures, yet the mod common 

 are only thofe that proceed from Coltivenefs, from an In- 

 flammation or Ulceration in the Kidneys, or fome Defedl in 

 the Bladder, or in the Urine itfelf ; w^hat relates to the Pain 

 or Stoppage of Water caufed by Coflivenels, has already 

 been difcufs'd under that Head j and as it is not to be accoun- 

 ted a Difeafein thofe Parts, but only a Symptom of another 

 Difeafe, and is removed as foon as that ceafes ; we Ihali 

 therefore, in the eniuing Chapter, only conlider a Stoppage 

 or Painpifs in the latter Senfe, when the Difeafe is confin'd 

 to the Reins and Pailages of the Urine. 



CHAP. XLIII. 

 Of the Tain-pfs or Strangury, 



^HO' this Difeafe happens moft frequently wlien there 

 -■- is an Obftrudion of the Dung harden'd and indurated 

 in the flreight Gut, as we have objerv'd ; yet when it pro- 

 ceeds from another Caufe, it is molt likely to be occafion'd 

 t'iijier by an Inflammation of the Bladder, or an Ulcer in the 



Kidneys 5 



