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It is needlefs to detain the Reader with the 

 Manner of preparing the Body for this Operation j 

 neither fhall I lay down Rules for rendering this or 

 that Sort of Humour fit for Difcharge by Medicines, 

 which have with much Induftry and more Igno- 

 rance, been devifed to prepare Choler, Phlegm, 

 Melancholy, and the like whimfical iniagin'd Hu- 

 mour i ; that Sort of Practice being new juHly ex- 

 ploded as ridiculous and uncertain ; fmce it is plain, 

 that all Kinds of purging Medicines differ only in 

 Degrees of Strength, and operate no otherwife upon . 

 different Humours, than as they flimulate more or 

 lefs, and either work no farther than the Prima 

 Via, or firft Paffages, or elfe caufe a Difcharge 

 from the Parts more remote from their Scene of 

 Aftion, which principally li^es in the Stomach and 

 Guts. And what particular Regard is to be had to 

 the different Kinds of purging Medicines will, I 

 hope, be fufHciently Ihewn to the Reader's Satisfac-' 

 tion in the Sequel of this Treatife, when I come to 

 treat of Diilempers which may demand Purging. 

 And therefore at prefent, I fhall only lay down 

 fome general Diredions, which may be of ufe to 

 all thofe Gent!e?neK who keep valuable Horfes. 

 And 



Firfi, I fay, Purging is neceffary in mcH: or all 

 Plethorick Cafes when there is a Redundancy cf 

 Blood, but the Korfe fh*uld firfl of all be bled to 

 render his Body cool and lightfome : For, if he be ' 

 purged when his Body is full, it may, ( unlefs the 

 other Secretions are free ) I mean the Difcharges by 

 Urine, t3c. occafion (during the Operation ) a too 

 great Hurry in the Motion of the Blood, or by . 

 driving or forcing off too great a Quantity of Blood, 

 ^c. into the Inteflines or Guts, an Inflammation 

 may enfue. And for this Reafon it is judged proper 

 that thofe Horfes, which are Plethorick or full 

 of Blood, fhould only have mild and eafy working 

 Purges given them. 



S^candly, 



