i 7 he Jrt of F A KKIEKY 



!'-?//;•, all that can be expedled, from tampering 

 with Horfes that are in their beft State, is little 

 or no Alteration ; more efpecia'ly if a Horfe has 

 Youth and Strength to withftand the Shocks given 

 to Nature by Phyfick ill admin i ilered ; or if 

 othenvife, it will certainly be an Alteration for the 

 worfe, by rertfon that a Horfe (naturally of a 

 flrong Fit bit of Body) may thereby be brought 

 into an habitual Weaknefs, and this becomes a 

 Difcafe. So likewife may a weak Horfe be made 

 much weaker ( I mean a naturally weak and tender 

 conliitutioned Horfe) by Male-Adminiftration of. 

 Tampering or Tampering with Phyfick, which Accidents very- 

 ftckV^^^^ 1 ^^^^^'^^^y happen by fuch un&ilful Management, 

 ofill Corfc- ^^^^Q' ^^^^J ^^'^ generally attributed to feme other 

 querxe. Caufe, as foreign to the Affair, as to fay, that 

 Tenterden Steeple n^as the Caufe of the Good'v.in 

 Satids. 

 The Caufe I fancy what hns led Farriers into thefe Errors, 

 o.Krcial i? their confufed Notion of Blood and Humours; 

 b^^p"^.'" although I muft ingenuoufly confefs, I never yet 

 tice Qi Far- ^^^^^ with any one of their Tribe that could diftin- 

 ric.s. guilh between a Vein and an Artery^ or a Tendon and 



Ner'^se, l^c. Therefore, how can it be expefled, 

 fuch illiterate (but pofitively ignorant) Coxcombs, 

 ffiould perform any Thing extraordinary in the Cure 

 cf either inward or outv/ard Maladies. For thefe 

 Adepts would make us believe, that almoft all Dif- 

 eafes proceed from corrupt Blood, and therefore 

 imr^gine the fame, like Pond, or Ditch- V>''ater, 

 which gathers Mud, or Filth at certain Times, fo 

 A vv.'gar that it fhould be often cleanfed. And becaufe the 

 Blood of thefe Creatures (moft of them being ufed to 

 Toil and hard Labour) is for the mofl part of an un- 

 pleafant Afpe£l, they feldom or never take it away, 

 but they declare him full of corrupt and bad Hu- - 

 mours, not coniidering that this may be the moll 

 natural State his Blood could be in at tliat Time, 

 and that tlie fame may be cleanfed or purified foonei; 

 than. by Bleeding, although I-ov/n x.\\h p'ncfice does 



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