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reftralning fuch as are too liberal ; and no doubt the 

 fafeft Method to rejiram any augmented Secretion^ is 

 ' b^ increnftng fotne other . And this Praftice, if right- 

 ly underftood, would be of the greateft Ufe and Be- 

 nefit to Farriers, as it is now a received Maxim in 

 Phyfick. 



I would be underftocd, when I fpeak of an aug- Augment- 

 mented Secretion, th^.t fuch Secretion or Difcharge ^'-^ Sccre- 

 is a Difeafe, and not a Remedy; for very often a^^^"» '''' •^'^• 

 Secretion augmented proves a Cure of fome Difeafe 

 either already broke oui-, or lurking in the Body ; 

 and in fuch Cafe all imaginable Care is rec^uired, 

 leall we fliculd by flopping (or even checking) fucli 

 critical Difcharges, bring on a Train of Evil far 

 worfe than the prefent. 



It is impoflible for me to teach (the greatefl Num- 

 ber of) my Readers, the Ufefulnefs of this Theory ^ 

 by reafon it requires long Study and Experience ; 

 however I ihall give an Inllance or two, and then 

 proceed. 



I fay then, if a Hcrfe be Lax, or has a Scouring 

 upon jiim, if fuch Difch?rge proceed from a Dii~- 

 order of the Guts, only by a PutrefaSlion of the". 

 ExcremiCnts too long retained, in fuch Cafe no Man 

 in his Senfes will give Medicines which Aftringe or 

 Bind, but on the contrary, exhibit fomething which 

 may flowly and fafely promote this fo neceffiry Dii- 

 charge. But if the C?ufe of a Loofenefs proceeds perfn ra- 

 from an objiru^ed Travfpiration, or tliat Sweating, ■ ion ob- 

 which we call ir.fenjlhle Per/pi ratioti, being flopped, itnicud,^ 

 then indeed fuch Things as promote S^veat and ^V^j^^''^-.^,^ 

 Vri^e are moil eligible. The like Method is tOneis.^ 

 be obferved in moft other Secretions, as in Siveat, 

 Urine, running at the Mouth and Nofe, which is 

 often obfervable in Horfes in the decline of Sick- 

 nefs, and when the Di-lemper is going off. 



Fifthly, as in Man, fo in Horfes, Nature ( or Nature the 

 at leaft what we underftand by that Name) is the btltGvi.dc. 

 befl and (urejl: Guide, and therefore the Farrier 

 ought diligent)/ to foHow her, becaufe whenever 

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