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Sublimate 

 Mercury 

 and Preci- 

 pitate of 

 dangerous 

 Effeas, if 

 given in- 

 wardly. 



^he Art 0/ Farriery 



Reader's Pardon for this Digreflion, and I hope he 

 will the more eafily grant it, by reafon that ^ick- 

 filver and Antimony have fo large a Share in Medi- 

 cine, and may be managed and contrived fo as to an- 

 fwer very different Purpofes. Now to return to the 

 Worms inHorfes. 



I believe I need not name any more different 

 Forms of Medicines for the Worms, feeing what I 

 have faid before is abundantly fufficient, if the Own- 

 er of the Horfe have but Patience enough to con- 

 tinue the Ufe of the Prefcriptions for a confiderable 

 Time, by reafon the Guts of a Horfe are no lefs 

 than thirty five Yards long from the Stomach to the 

 Fundament. 



Some Farriers ufe Black-Soap, AIut?i, Burnt Vitri- 

 ol, and the like, to kill Worms ; nay, they even 

 venture to give Sublimate Mercury, and Precipitate ; 

 which is moil certainly an erroneous Pradtice, efpe- 

 cially the two laft Preparations which are exceeding 

 dangerous. For Sublimate Mercury is a moll deadly 

 Poifon ; and altho' the Quantity may be fo propor- 

 tion'd that its Effefts fliall not immediately be felt j 

 yet the poor Horfe^s Conftitution and Habit of Bo- 

 dy muft be very much weaken'd and impaired by it. 

 And as to Precipitate, tho' it is fometimes in obfii- 

 nate Cafes (when deflagrated with Spirit of Wine) 

 given inwardly, yet I advife every one to be cauti- 

 ous iii the Ufe cf fuch Things. 



Novv' altho' the famous Worm-Dojfcor, Mr. John 

 Moor (who pretended to a Secret againft Worm.i, 

 tho' as long as the M^iy-Pole formerly in the Stroi^d) 

 were yet in being, I am confident that Mercu-iits 

 Dulcis, and the JEthlops, are as good Medicine^ to 

 delhoy thofe troublefome Creatures as any Compo- 

 fition he was able to find out. And as this Gci de- 

 man h; ppen'd to die jufl at the Time I am treaiing 

 of Wo- ms, for which his Pefile and Mortar in Ab- 

 church-l.ane made fo much l>{oife, I (hall con-lude 

 with a Prediftion of the juftly celebrated Mr. Pope, 



relating 



