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this will diffipate and diflblve the Swelling by the 



Help of the Oil of Bays, Sec. which foftens the 



Parts, and confequently gives more Room for the 



Blood and Humours to circulate, when by the 



Power of the ^ickftlver vis aforefaid a greater 



Weight is added to them. Far whate<ver Body is 



mixed nxnth a fluid (fpecijically heavier than the 



'Fluid itfelf) muft add 'to the Weight of fuch Fluid : 



Prepara- rj^^^^ Preparations of Iron, Mercury, ^c. \yhen 



VrTn jIut- mixed with the Blood add to its Weight, and con- 



cury' &c. fequently to its Momentum or Pulfe ; and by thefe 



Thuir Ope. Helps, Obllruaions, ^c. of the fmall VefTels are 



"^*'?". , opened, and many Diforders, proceeding from a 



explained. ^^^^^ Circulating, Sizey Blood, are Cured. 



During the Ufe of the aforefaid Ointment, the 

 Horfe fhould be purged with the common Aloes- 

 Purge, before fet down as a General Purge for Hor- 

 fes Tprovided the Blood is not very Feverifh, which 

 may be known from the Motion of it, by laying 

 one's Hand near his Heart upon the near Side, (as 

 it is generally called,) and by fo much as the Pulfes 

 exceed the Number 40 in a Minute, (which is by 

 Experience found to be the neareft Calculation of 

 the Syflole's or Contraaions of the left Ventricle 

 of a Horfe in a healthful State ; I fay, by as much 

 as thefe Pulfations exceed 40 in a Minute, by fo 

 much is the Feverifh Heat increafed j and if the 

 Horfe is found to be Feverifh, ( I mean to any De- 

 Purglng pree,) for Example, if his Heart, or the left ^''en- 

 Medic.nes j'^.j^j^ thereof Contraft above ^ Times in a Mi- 

 thel'r'' nute, it may be fuppofed his Fever is fo high, 

 Horfe -s that Purging Medicines would be dangerous j for no- 

 Pulfc .beats tjjing of that Kind can be given to any Animal, but 

 above ^o .^ j.^-^^g n^^^,^ Time) a Heat and Commotion in the 

 SmutV" ' Blood ; thei-efore I hy, forbear Purging a Horfe in 

 any Diflemper vvhatfoever, when his Pulfe beats 

 above 50 Times in a Minute. 

 How to To meafure the Times a Horfe^s Pulfe beats m a 



meafi^re Minute, ;\ Stop-watch which runs Second--, or a 

 the Times y^:^^^^^^ Sand-Giafs, as there are enough of them, 

 a Hojle s efpecially 



