168 The ^ARKi^Rs New Guide. Ch. XLVIIL 



^ufty when the Didemper feizes him, in that Cafe his Diet 

 fhould be fomewhat abated ; but if it be otherwile, that the 

 Horfe is lean and out of Heart, end that he has not had fuffi- 

 cient Nourifhrneni, or that his Labour has been beyond his 

 Strength and Feeding, his Diet ought then to be fomewhat 

 augmented ; for as too great a Plenitude and Fulnefs of the 

 Veilels is oftentimes the Occafion of that Lentor and Slow- 

 nefs of the Juices which bring on a Farcin, the fame EfFeds 

 are oftentimes produced by Poornefs j becaufe in that Cafe, 

 the Blood being divefted of its Spirits, becomes languid and 

 fluggifh, and confequently is render'd the more apt to Ob- 

 Itrudion in the extreme Parts, where the Vefiels are the 

 fmalleft, as we have taken Notice in another Place. 



And therefore it will appear to be founded alfo upon Rea- 

 fon, what SoUeyJell fays he has experienced from frequent 

 Trials and Obfervation, that Purging is of no great Service, 

 but oftentimes a Detriment to Horfes in the Farcin. This 

 is fo plain in Cafe of a Horfe that is low in Flefh, that it 

 needs no Manner of Proof, and can only be admitted of in 

 fuch Circumliances as make it unavoidable, when there 

 happens to be an extreme Coftivenefs, and then laxative 

 Clyflers are the moll: eligible 5 but on the other Hand, when 

 a Horfe is fat and fuU-body'd, though Purging mull in that 

 Cafe do him Icfs hurt, and may be comply'd with in Mo- 

 deration, yet it is no ways fuited to make a perfect Cure of 

 the Farcin, but has been the Ruin of many Horfes, in the 

 Hands of ignorant Smiths, who know no other way of car- 

 rying off Difeafes but by repeated Purgations, the Difchar- 

 ges made that Way being the moft apparent to the outward 

 i^enfes, and the moll agreeable to thofe who are able to 

 frame no other Ideas of a dilcafed Horfe, than by imagining 

 his Blood to be full of Corruption, and that the Medicines 

 they ufe have fome eledive Property to drain that off with 

 the Dung. 



But a more warrantable Experience has fufficiently taught 

 ns, that in all Purgations the good mufl be drain'd away with 

 the bad, and are therefore feldom profitable, but rather hurt- 

 ful in Foulncfies of the Skin and outward Parts ; but thofe 

 things can only be fuccefsful which work more immediately 

 upon the Blood and Humours, by changing the Contexture, 

 and rendering them thin enough, fo as their excrementiti- 

 cus Parts may go off by the nearell and properefl Outlets. 

 And it is plainly evident, the Medicines hitherto found the 

 moll eiTcdual for th.e Cure of the Fcucin, hayc been endu'd 

 With fuch Propcnics, ^ut 



