174 27?^ Farrier' j- New Guide. Ch.XLVIII, 



*' This I recommend to you for the belt and moft certain 

 *' Cure that I could ever meet with ; for with this Receipt on- 

 *' )y, I afllire you on my Credit, I have cured more than an 

 *' hundred Horfes, many of which were by other Farriers hol- 

 *' den for incurable, and fentenced to be Food for Hounds. 

 J nir r ^^t it IS very plain, all that Rue can do, 



on the recited ^hen uled m this Manner, is but little, efpe- 

 PaJTage out of cially in the fpaceof twenty four Hours ; for 

 Dc Grey, it is demonftrable from the Nature of the 



Farcin, as it is a Difeafe brought on by 

 Length of Time, fo it mud of Confequence require Time 

 to its Removal, and in all chronical Difeales and ill Habits 

 it is the fiime ; and therefore what this Author has applied 

 to the R-ue, was only owing to the Exercife, though I 

 cannot approve of his Method of keeping a Horfe to hard 

 Labour and a very fpare Diet too, that being diredly con- 

 trary to the Nature of all animal Bodies whatfoever, which 

 muft be enabled to do their Work by Food ; and 1 am tru- 

 ly of Opinion, no Horfe was ever yet cured where this 

 Rule was ftridly put in Pra6lice ; but how far a Horfe may 

 be indulged in Feeding while the Farcin is upon him, any 

 one, with a little Care and Obfei va.tion, may in fome Mea- 

 fure be a Judge. What relates to putting Rue, and other 

 pungent and ftimulating Medicines within the Ears of a 

 Horfe, for fudden Difordcrs of the Head, has been al- 

 ready fpoke to, where we treated of the Staggers^ to which 

 we refer the Reader. We fliall therefore go on to the re- 

 maining Part of the Cure, which chiefly concerns the Ap- 

 plications made externally. 



If due and proper Care was taken in the Beginning of 

 the Farcin, there would be little Need of outward Means, 

 otherwife than by wafhing the Sores with Jqua Vitcs^ 

 Brandy, or Wine, or with Urine, and fuch like things. But 

 the frequent Mifmanagement which Horfes have been expo- 

 fed to in this Diltemper, has render'd both the Difeafe and 

 the Cure the moft complicated and perplexed of any that is 

 to be met with in the whole Syftem of Difeafes, infomuch, 

 that there is fcarcely an Herb or Plant, but what has been 

 internally ufed and outwardly : There is no Poifon, natural 

 or artificial, that has not had fome Share, either in killing, 

 or curing Horfes who have lain under this Malady. But, 

 out of thofe we fhall endeavour to make the beft Choice j 

 neither fhall we ufe them promifcuoufly, and at a Venture, 

 as has been hitherto done by moft Praditioners, but by 



making 



