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obferved, that injhad of presenting Difeafes it 

 becomes the Parent of mAny. • 



Purging does much the fame as Bleeding, though 

 after a different Manner, and may indeed be of 

 much worfe confequence to Horfes, feeing ail fuch 

 Evacuations a£'t more diredly againll Nature, even 

 to fuch a Degree, tiiat the whole animal Frame is 

 put into great Hurry and Difcompofure by the 

 Exhibition of purging Medicines; for there is a 

 wide and very different Operation of Purges given 

 to a Horfe from that in a human Body, which the 

 leafl Difcernrnent may difcover : For Example, a 

 Man is in an upright PoUure, which helps to for- 

 ward fuch Difcharges -, but this Creature, being 

 in a prone and horizontal Oiie, the Medicine, 

 by fuch Means, lies longer in his Stomach and 

 Guts, and twitches and ve-llicates their tender 

 Membranes in a much greater Degree ; neither can, 

 you force or oblige him" to drink warm V/ater, 

 if he be not of himfelf inclinable thereto. The befl 

 Method, in my Opinion, to prevent Difeafes, is,, 

 in the firll place, not to give a Horfe any kind 

 of Food which m-iy be thought unwholfome, and 

 let them drink P.ain or River Water, which is 

 clear aiid not troubled. I fay thefe, along with, 

 propex Exercife, mull conduce more to the Pre- 

 fer vation of Health, than all or any the diffcrent- 

 \y prefcribed purging Phyfick too commonly made 

 "Ufe of without Realbn. 



Exercife, no doubt, is e/Tentially neceflary for 

 preferving Health in any kind of Animal, but 

 more efpecially a Horfe, whofe very Nature re- 

 quires Abundance of it, (if he has his full Feeding ;) 

 for, by Exercife the Blcod is not only forced thro' 

 the fm:^Jleft Veins and Arteries by the feveral, 

 Contra^ions cf the Mufcles ; but all the little 

 Glands and Strainers of the Body are thereby for- 

 ced to throw out and difcharge their feveral Con- 

 tents, which certainly muft be a great, if not the. 

 greatell Means lo prefer ve Health. And this 



Prefervation 



