IMPROVED, 



not (o well quadrate or fquare with the outward 

 Senfes of moft People who judge by Appearances 

 only. 



In the next place you are told that the Horfe 

 wants Purging as well as Bleeding ; for the Farriers. 

 (poor Soul?) have not the leafl Notion of alterative; 

 Medicines, whereas the greateil: Feats may (without 

 any manner of difpute) be performed by fuch things 

 in moft obfiinate chronic Cafes which have puzzled 

 even the tip-top Gentlemen of the Profefiion. 



There is another Thing which feems to have 

 given Encouragement to thePraflice of adminiftring 

 Medicines to Horfes which did not thrive well (as 

 the Term goes,) I'iz. becaufe they have been ob- 

 ferved to eat plentifully and not become fatter or in 

 better liking, till fuch time as Evacuations have 

 been pretty largely and plentifully made : Indeed 

 whenever any fuch thing happens, there is then a 

 Sign of a Difeaie, proceeding from fome Obflrudtiom: 

 in the Mcfentcry or AV/ (as it is called in other 

 Creatures befides Men,) or from fome vifcid, tough, 

 or flimy Humour or Matter lodged in the firll Paf- 

 fages, (which are the Stomach and Guts ;) this in- 

 deed may hinder a fuihcient Quantity of Chyle 

 (which is the white Juice of our digefted Food) 

 from entering into the Blood : But, I don't mean 

 fuch, therefore would be underftood only as to thofe 

 Horfes, which on full Examination and Experience, 

 are found to enjoy as found and perfedt a State of 

 Health as they have ever been knov/n of. Thefe 

 are the Horfes which lliould not be bled, purged, 

 or have Cordial Drinks given, at fuch Times as are 

 prefcribed in Farriers Books : For what can be 

 more ridiculoufly abfurd, than (as is the common 

 Cullom) to bleed a whole T^roop of Dragoon Horfes 

 in a Morning, juft before they are turned to Sum- 

 mer-Grafs J furely they are not all in the fam.e 

 Diftemper at one and the fame Time, and which 

 requires Bleeding \ and this is performed by v/ay of 

 preventing Difeafes ; But let fuch, whc warrant 

 Bs the 



