^ Tte j4rt of Farriery 



particular Kind of purging Medicines fondly ima- 

 gined to carry off Humours from the Brain, it is all 

 a Jeft, and a meer Child of Ignorance, becaufe 

 NoEleftive there is no fuch thing as eleBi-ve Purgation , as I 

 Purgation. j^Qpg j^^y be underftood from what I have faid in 

 my Notes upon the Gentlemati's Pocket - Farrier. 

 Therefore, the Benefit accrues from this, to wit. 

 From that whatfoever Part of the Blood or Juices of the 



whence the Body you take off by Bleeding, Rowelling, or fuch 

 Benefit ot jjj^^ Operafions, you thereby eafe the Preffure againft 

 &c^accrues. ^^^ Sides, i^c. of the containing VefTels , and of 

 confequence there is a more free Circulation, by 

 reafon the Quantity of Fluid in the Body is leflen'd, 

 which ( as I have faid before) caufes the Blood to 

 become thinner and move fafter. 



' I Ihall not enter into a Detail of the Parts which 



we fhould draw Blood from in Diftempers of the 



Brain, feeing, in my Opinion, moft Places are a- 



like, and the Cure feems chiefly to depend on a 



proper Quantity of Blood's being taken away. But 



no Perfon can judge of this except he faw the Horfe ; 



only thus far may be faid in general, ** That where 



'* one Creature dies of a dillempered Brain from the 



" Lofs of too much Blood, there are twenty lofe 



** their Lives for want of taking away a fufhcient 



" Quantity. " 



Mr. Cihfofi\ I muft here give Mr. Gib/on his juft Praife, who 



Ball tor the in his Book of Farriery has taken care to order 



Staggers, ^h^f jg very proper in the Vertigo or Staggers, t:'/.?:. 



his Aflri Fcetida Balls with Caftor: But as thefe 



would (if continued long in Ufe) foon exceed the 



Price of a good Horfe, I believe few will make Ufe 



of them ; altho' I muft needs own, if I valued my 



The Kv- Horfe, I would give him Balls made v/ith one Ounce 



thor'sBall of Native Cinnabar to half a Pound of the Cordial 



for the Ball prefcribed in the Pocket-Farrier^ and let him 



Staggcr.3. j^^^g ^^o^j ^j^^. Bignefs of a Wallnut of fuch Ball 



every Morning before his moderate Exercife. 



It is on the Cinnabar (in whofe Compofition 

 there is a deal of Quickfilver) that the Strefs of the 



Cure 



