3^ ^he Art of Farriery 



When Swellings, like the Strangles, happen to 

 old Horfes about their Jaws and among the Glands 

 or Kernels of the Throat, it is an infallible Sign of 

 a crazy Conftitution, and often is a Forerunner of 

 the Glanders, unlefs fuch Swellings are occafioned 

 by feme violent Colds, or hard Ufage. And really 

 the fame Difpoiition may be obferved in human 

 Bodies ; for if thefe happen to be of a tender and de- 

 licate Habit, or confumptive, the glandulous Parts are 

 often tumefied and fwell'd, as well thefe in the 

 Throaty called by Anatomifis the Faroticies, as thofe 

 in the Mefentery or Cawl ; and of this Truth I 

 have been many times convinced in the Courfe of 

 my Praftice and DifTeclion of Bodies, 

 Purging Lajily, in all Cafes where there is a grofs Kabit, 



5 iOi>er in with a Tendency to Swellings in the I imbs, or any 

 groii Ha- other particular Part of the Body, Purging may be 

 neceiTary i as likcy/ife in humid or watery Difeafes, 

 fuch as tend towards a Dropfy of the. Belly, ^c. 

 in Diforders of the Liver, caufing the Jaundice, 

 and in the manifold Diilempers of the Eyes, but 

 more efpecially when they proceed from Rheum : 

 jfor really, in dry Blindnefs as it is called, I am 

 fure it cannot be of Service ; and when I come to 

 treat of the Difeafes of the Eye, I hope to do it in 

 fuch a Manner as that the World will be con- 

 vinced of the Soundnefs of my Dodlrine, which 

 does not confift in Hypothefes, and Chimerical 

 Notions, but is founded upon the flrideft Anato- 

 mical Obfervation and Experience. 



I fay Purging is proper in the Difeafes above- 

 mentioned, by reafon of the Revulfion or calling 

 back the Humours from thofe Parts : It may like- 

 wife be proper in mcfl Ailments of the Head, 

 where there is not any Fever, but only a Stagna- 

 tion or Stopping of the Circulation of the Blood in 

 fome of the fmall Veflels. For, Purging in fuch 

 Cafes puts the Blood into a more brisk and free 

 Motion ; not (as fome pretend) by carrying off any 

 cffending Matter^ for that is impoflible, (as fhall 



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