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apprehenfive, that all I can fay againft giving Me- 

 dicines for the Cure of Broken- Winded Horfes, will 

 not have its due Weight ; becaufe I know there are 

 many who give Credit to every Thing they fee writ 

 xlown, provided there is Frohatum eji at the Clofe 

 of the Receipt. But the Family of the Wrong- 

 Heads is, and no doubt will be, a very numerous 

 one, while the World endures j and there will be 

 ilill more Fools than Philofophers, though there 

 were twenty greater Men than Sir Ifaac Nekton, 

 yet in Being to inftru<ft them. 



Mr. Gibfon orders a Ball made with Gum Galba- Mr. G'tkfons 

 mtm, Ammoniacum^ Burdock-Root^ Flo^vers of Benja-^^^^^'^'^ 

 min, and Siveet Oil, to be given four Ounces a Day winded 

 at twice ; and I cannot fay but the Compofition is Horfes. 

 a good one, though there is not in the Burdock- 

 Root much of a Perioral Quality -. But, according to 

 my Thoughts, this Ball would ftand in £ve or fix 

 Shillings a Day, at the Rate Galbanum, iffc. now 

 fell. Therefore, unlefs the Horfe be a valuable 

 one, I believe no Perfon will bellow fo much Mo- 

 ney upon him when Purfive, efpecially when there 

 is fo little Hopes of a Cure according to our bell 

 Accounts and Obfervations. 



I fhall now proceed to a Defcription of the Glan- 

 ders, v/hich the Farriers term Mourning of the Chine. 



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CHAP. XX. 

 Of the Glanders, or Mourning of the Chine. 



Cannot defcribe the Glanders better than Mr. The Sitns. 

 Gibfon has done, to wit, *' that it is a Flux or 

 Running of corrupt Matter from the Nofe of a 

 Horfe, which Matter is of different Colours ; as 

 White, Yellow, Green, or Black, according to 

 the Degree of Malignity, or according as the 

 Dillemper has been of long or ihort Continuance." 



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