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reafon fuch Means muil efFe£l a Change in the Ani- 

 mal O economy, more than neceffary. Thus Bleed- 

 ing and Purging, may be ferviceable to prevent a 

 Difeafe, provided a Horle be Plethorick and full of 

 Blood ', or if he has other Signs or S)'mptom3 

 which denote fuch Evacuations ufeful :' But then it 

 muil be allowed, thefe are Pifeafes actually begun, 

 and if a Horfe has none of thefe Signs that require 

 Evacuation, all the Efredl bleeding can have upon 

 him, is the Lejfening the ^lantify, which is too 

 often the Cafe, and of pernicious Confequence, by 

 reafon fuch Evacuation gives the Blood a different 

 Motion from what it before had in a healthful State, 

 Should any one pretend to infill, that thefe Eva- 

 cuations are made in order to bring a Horfe in- 

 to a better and more healthful State, and thereby 

 ftrengthen his Body, and enable him the more to- 

 refill Difeafesj I anfwer, that there is a certain 

 State of Health v/hich is natural and agreeable 

 to every Horfe, and that it confills in the before- 

 mentioned Pvequifites, 'vi%. in a Life free from 

 Fain cr any Jenjible ImperfeSlion. And there is- 

 not the leall doubt but ( as among Men ) one Horfe 

 may in Conftitution differ^ from another, and enjoy 

 a more perfed Degree of Health ; which Diffe- 

 rence lb cvving to their original Conformation, 

 Structure or M?l'e. And of this Part of Know- 

 ledge we are much more in the Dark with i-Iation 

 to Brute Creatures, for as much as their Com.-Horfes 

 pic/;, ens or Conilituuions are not difcoverable thro' Cnmple- 

 tiic.A Skins J but: thefe may eafily be perceived y^}'^j^'^ not 

 in a human Body, ;.;.d a very jnft Progno(fick or'^^''^ " '•■ 

 Tol.en formed wi?:. i /i; .tion to their inward Sta^e 

 cf Health, For i.rv/ common i-s it for us to fay v., ,:- 

 of a Cnild or young Perfon, ue or ihc is an>'^'^"/'^"=f^ 

 IL-thriven or puny Creature ; but as I have jull ^^ ^^^'^' 

 now hinted, this JiiogTient is not fo eafily m de 

 in Brutes, for Reaions too plain to 'be obj^:cled 

 againil. 



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