^he Jrt ^/Farriery 



good Reafon there is for it, to wit, that by making 

 a Ligature upon the Temporal Arteries and dividing 

 them, the too great Influx of Blood to the Eye is 

 impeded, though tliere are fufficient Branches left,. 

 to fiirnifti a proper and due Quantity of Blood to the 

 Parts : Yet fetting all thefe Things ahde, if I had 

 a Horfe fubjeft to this Diftemper, the hrft Thing I 

 ihould do, would be to get rid of him, though I 

 don*t fay I would fell him for a found Horfe, as I 

 have heard is too common among Dealers, who- 

 think nothing of Confcience or Reputation. 



There is little or no Reafon in what Mr. Gib/on 

 or the Skur de Solleyfcl have writ, with relation to 

 Foals or Colts which have 0.-ts given them, to wit, 

 that their Eyes are in Danger from thence ; becaufe, 

 in chewing the Oats, tlie Mufcles about the Eyes 

 are fo llrained, that a Defiuxion of Rheum, or, in 

 their Words, more Blood than neceffary is drawn 

 towards the Eyes, by the Motion as aforefaid. And 

 therefore they dire<Sl, that the OpJ:s be firft ground' 

 or {lamped, w^hich I think is proper, fo far as they 

 are nearer Digeftion, or in other Words, more eafy 

 to digeft : And this is all I can fay in Recommen- 

 dition of the Paragraph, 



CHAP. XVII. 



Of Films i Wehsy &c. caufing Dimnefs of Sight. 



Kye- T^ ^^ T[io^ certainly of the utmofl Importance, 



Water.s,c--c JL to diftinguifh betv/een thofe Difcafes or Infirmi- 

 of no ScT- ties afFedling the outward^ from fuch as have their 

 orders" ^^^'S^^'^ "P^*"^ ^^^ inv;ard Parts of the Eye ; for if the 

 wiihin the Disorder be inv/ard or within the Globe of the Eye, 

 Globe of all outward Applications of Waters, Powders, Oint- 

 ihe Kye. ments, ^'c. are quite out of the Qucllion : And 

 where there is one Diforder of the Eye outwardly, 

 there is ten inwardly, ( I mean in the Globe of tlie 



Eye;) 



