IMPROVED. 179 



Exprefs or Strabi it cUt ftrbftglyy a7id gi've it Milk- 

 ^varm a ^art e^cery other Day for a Fortnight. 



I need not tell the Virtues of the Lignum Vitas 

 Wood, or Gum of that Tree, in healing inward 

 Ulcerations, or promoting infenfible Perfpiration by- 

 its warm deterfive Quality, feeing the fame is fuffi- 

 cientiy Experienced in obftinate chronick Cafes ; 

 and if it promote Sweat it mull be good in the firll 

 Stages of the Glanders, which are in my Thoughts 

 .oftener occafioned from obftrufted Perfpiration, 

 brought on either by hard Riding and Slaving tlie 

 Horfe afterwards, or by repeated Colds in Winter 

 Fafturage, than from any other Caufe whatfoever, 

 excepting fuch as are Dirtemper'd from Foals. 



I muil own, that if Liquors could be injeded 

 fo far up the Horfe's Noilrils as to reach the Seat 

 of the Diftemper, fuch Things would be very pro- 

 per j in like Manner as v^'e cure a Gonorrhoea or Gonor^ 

 Clap in Human Bodies of either Sex, furely, fafely, ^Jj*^ or 

 and in the leaft Time, by Injeaion : And this iSbPii^^jJJc 

 applying the healing Liquor to the very Parts af- tion. 

 fedfted, wichout fuffering it to go the tedious Round 

 of Circulation from the Stomach to the Penis i 

 lieither need any one be in the leafl: afraid of a 

 Relapfe or locking up the offending Matter in the 

 Body, (as the common Phrafe is;) for I have 

 (with never failing Succefs) cured Gonorrhoea's by 

 Injedion for .twenty Y"ears paft, unlefs I happened 

 to have to do_ with a whim.fical Fellow now and 

 then, 'who wbuld not' be. fatisfied except he was 

 continually taking Bolus's, and keeping a Corre- 

 fpondence with the Clofe-StooL But to return to 

 the Glanders in Horfes. 



I fay, if with a long and well contrived Syringe 

 one could throw up the Liquor fo faf as to reach 

 the parotid Glands or Glands fituate at the upper 

 Part of the. Throat, it might be of Service; but I 

 am afraid that will be hard to be done : However, 

 for the Satisfa^lion of fuch as iiave a Deiire to try, 

 I 6 - . I fuall 



