ij78. ^^^ ^^t of Farriery 



will dung foft like a Cow ; and indeed if you de- 

 fign him for your own Service, it is bell to raife his 

 Flefh with boil'd Barley, and other Kinds of foft 

 Food, White- water, and the like. But again, you 

 mull have Patience with fuch Horfe after his FleHi 

 is raifed, to harden it with good Oats, Beans, Ex- 

 ercife, i^c. For whatfoever, either vegetable or a- 

 nimal Bodies, is of quick or hally Accretion or 

 Growth, fuch Body will abide leall Hardlhip, that 

 is, it will be fooner confumed or walled. So that 

 in the Main, nothing comes up to Length of Time and 

 good Meat for making a Horfe perform his fourney 

 firongly. And I dare fay many a Horfe is, by the 

 ignorant and unthinking Part of Mankind, deem'd 

 a Jade upon a Journey, when his Wea.knefs is ow- 

 ing to Mifmanagements of the Owner or Keeper, 

 whofe Inconfideratenefs makes them expedl Impof- 

 fibilities. Proceed v/e now to the Farcin, fome- 

 times lliled Farcy in Horfes. 



I 



CHAP, xxxni. 



Of the Farcin in Horfes. 



Do not know any Dillemper to which Horfes are 

 fubjeft, which is more loathfome or more filthy 

 than the Farcin. 



The Signs. The Farcin is a Kind of creeping Ulcer, begin- 

 ning with hard Knots and Puftules, which fpread 

 fometimes ever the v/hole Body of the Florfe, like 

 the Branches of a Vine or Ivy-Tree. I Ihall not 

 trouble the Reader with a Defcription of the Wet 

 Farcy, the Dry, the inward Farcy, the flying Foi"- 

 cy, the corded Farcy, the yellovv', or black Farcy, 

 l^c. becaufe they are all Degrees of one and the 

 f: ime Difeafe. 



The Caiifc. The Caufe lies in the Blood ?nd Humours : For, 

 as the firft is in tlii Dillempei of too fxov/ a Motion, 

 efpecially in the capillary Arteries, the Glands and 



fccretory 



