aoa ^he Art 0/ F a r r i e r y 



AU the How iuch Medicines difperfe Wind may be con- 



Pa rr,s of the ceived, if we do but confider, that all the Parts of 

 Peripna^ the Body are perrpirable. Sa72aorius, in his Me- 

 tle • an 1 dicina Statica, determines all that is called Wind in 

 all Wind the Bowels to be fuch perfpirable Matter as makes 

 in th'i Vcf its efcape through the Coats of the Stomach and 

 J^^'g'^^J; °' Gats. And this likewife happens to the Mulcular 

 is faid to ' ^-^ts ; for fuch perfpirable Matter often breaks out 

 be pcrfpi- and lodges amongft the Mufcles, &c. for fome 

 rable Mat- Time. 



thro' The ^^w, whatfoever will rarefy and render thinner 

 Coats of ^^^^ Colleftions of Vapours, muil conduce to their 

 fach utter Difcharge out of the Body, and confequently 



VelTcIs. Temove thofe UneafmefTes which arife from their 

 Carmira- Detention, And as thofe Things in Medicine 

 tive Me.ii- ■which pafs under this Denomination are warm, and 

 xvarm Tub- ^^^''^^^^ of very light fubtile Parts, it is eafy to con- 

 tie Parrs, ceive how a Mixture of fuch Particles may agitate 

 and rarefy thofe Flatulences, fo as to facilitate their 

 Expulfion ; and more efpecially when we confider 

 what a Pklp to this Purpofe thofe grateful Scnfa- 

 •tions, which fuch Medicines give to the Fibres, may 

 be ; this cannot but invigorate their tonick Undu- 

 lations or tremulous Motions, infomuch that by De- 

 grees the obflrufted Wind is dillodged, and at laft 

 <3uite expelled. 



\{ the Obflruftion is not great, as it feldom is in 

 the Stomach, Inteflines or Guts, by reafon of their 

 large Vent both upwards aud downwards, the Rare- 

 faftion of the Wind upon taking fuch a Medicine is 

 often fo fudden, and its Difcharge likewife, that it 

 goes off like the E^plofion of Gun-Powder. In 

 fine, all I'hings that warm, rarefy, and attenuate 

 ]lhe obftrufted Hnmour% may (.^cording to the 

 common Acceptation of this Term ) be called Car- 

 minative Medicines. 



Before I proceed to an Account of the Colick, it 

 fnay not be thought impertinent in me to defcribe 

 the Gut-Colon in a Horfe, which differs from the 

 Colon in Man, inafmuch as in the firft it appears as 



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