l6 The Jrt of Farriery 



reafon of the Smallnefs of the Vefiels, and the 

 Diflance from the Heart. And I hope (in the 

 Sequel of this Difcourfe) plainly to make appear, 

 that this undue Circulation is moflly the Caufe of 

 the Greafe, which is contrary to the Notions of 

 former Writers, who imagined that in fuch Cafes . 

 the Blood was full of Impurities and Corruption, as 

 they idly term it. 



Fourthly, Bleeding is requlfite in any violent 

 Pains, inwardly or outwardly, or as the Phyficians 

 write, Internal or External, as Wounds or Bruifes, 

 and Pain and Inflammation of the Lungs or Pleura^ 

 which is the Noble and Senfible Membrane that 

 covers all the Cavity of the Thorax, or Cheft in 

 Horfes; or in Inflammations of the Liver, when 

 they can be difcovered ; and I fliall do my bell to 

 inform the Reader, how he may diftinguiih each of 

 thefe Kinds of Inflammations, when I come to 

 treat of the Dillempers of the Brejfl. Though, 

 notwithfl;anding what forne Gentlemen have writ 

 about Pains in the Stomach, Lungs, Li'ver, Paji- 

 creas or Sweat-Bread and the like, I mull own it a 

 very difficult Task to difcover the Seat of internal 

 Pains in Horfes. 



Fifthly, Bleeding is proper, in moll, if not all, 

 Diforders of the Head ; fuch as Vertigo'' s, common- 

 ly called the Staggers in Horfes ; and in the firll 

 Stage or Beginning of Colds, by wliich Defiudlions 

 of Rheum are apt to fall upon the Lungs and often- 

 times the Eyes. Several form.er Authors forbid 

 Bleeding in the Difeafes of the Eyes, particularly 

 the Sieur de SoUeyfell, who no doubt has made the 

 Remark from his having feen fome ill EiFeds of it 

 in fuch Difl:empers : But the Queftion is, whether 

 this Gentleman form'd a right Judgment of particu- 

 lar Cafes, and duly weighed a^nd confidered all the 

 Symptoms together ? For if a Horfe be Lean and 

 out of Order, that is, when the State of the Blood 

 is very low and poor, and the Heart fcarce able to 

 drive it round the Horfe's Body, why^ then indeed 



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