The An of Farriery 



And were it not for beneficent Nature, vvhofe 

 Power happens to be too flrong and working for 

 the Recovery of the fick Creature, in oppofition to 

 the Farrier's Prefcription, I fay, was it not for 

 this, they would moft ( if not all of them ) be 

 caiTiierM Gentlemens Stables. But it is in this Sci- 

 ence, as well as in all other Branches of Phyfic, 

 "jiz. that a Perlbn fhall have the Name of per- 

 forming a Cure, w^hen Nature has been the prin- 

 cipal, if not the only. Agent in it ; and no doubt 

 many times would (with proper Diet, Exercife, 

 ^c. ) reftore Health fooner, was it not for a long 

 Tribe of ill-contriv'd Medicines, or rather Hotch- 

 potches, forced into a Horfe's Stomach, in fmall 

 Spaces of Time, which obftru6l her in her Opera- 

 tions. But before I proceed to a Definition of Sick- 

 •nefs, I think proper firft to define what is meant 

 by Health. 



Health then is juftly defined the Faculty of per- 

 forming all the Actions proper, ( in any Creature 

 as well as a human Body) in the moll perfeft Man- 

 ner : and all the EfFedls of thefe Aftions are fuch, 

 as regard certain determin'd Mo;ions, or the Change 

 and Alteration of what is received into the Body ; 

 and on the contrary. 



Sicknefs or Difeafe, is an unufual Circulation 

 of Blood, or the circular Motion of Blood aug- 

 mented, or diminifhed, either throughout the whole 

 Body, or fom.e part of it ; and this is what has 

 been a generally received Axiom ever fmce the Cir- 

 culation of the Blood was known, and Mathema- 

 ticks and Natural Philofophy have been introduced 

 into the Prrftice of Phyfick. 



Mofl of our ancient Authors who have writ upon 

 the Art of Fantery, have puzzled the World with 

 their Accounts of Horfes Complexions, (2iS they 

 idly term it, ) and from theic Complexions they 

 imagine a great many Difeafes proceed. Orhers 

 :ig:iin, lay the greatcil Strefs up;in the four Ele- 

 ments, v/hich the Chymiils confine to Fire,- Air ^ 



