IMPROVED. 27P 



fecretory Du<Sk will be fluff 'd with a Kind of flimy 

 Matter, and thereby render'd unfit to perform their 

 proper OfRce of feparating each particular Humour, 

 as is required by the Animal Machine. 



It is abfurd to jmagine the Farcin can be produced RuftySpnr* 

 from Wounds of Spur-rowels, i^c. as fome Authors ^o "''=^[•3 

 fondly fuggell ; but fuch Writers when they mention caail°\he 

 the Farcin to proceed from rufty Spur-rowels, furely Farcin, 

 did not underftand, that to be hurt or cut with a rufty 

 Inftrum.ent is rot more dangerous than to be cut 

 with a fine polilVd one ; or that the Ruil of Iron 

 is an excellent Medicine given inwardly, even in the 

 Difeafe call'd the Farcin : For as 'tis now univerfally 

 allow'd by the thinking Part of our Frofefiion, that 

 Medicines operate mechanically ; therefore if any of 

 the Particles of Iron, or in other Words, if any of 

 the Ruft get into the Blood by the Wounds in the 

 Horfe's Sides, it muft rather aflift in the Cure of the 

 Diftemper, than otherwife, by opening the Obftruc- 

 tions in the fmall Capillary or Hair-like Veffels, 

 and caufing it to move more briskly and freely. 

 Therefore, if any of the ancient Farriers have ob- 

 ferved the Farcin to fucceed fore or wdunded Sides 

 from rufty Spurs ; I imagine, firft, either that fuch 

 Horfes are over exercifed and heated, and afterwards 

 cool too haftily ; or, fecondly, that their Food has 

 not been proportionably good as their Exercife, &'c. 

 have been violent. For^ he nvho rides ivith riifly 

 Spurs, generally rides a foor lean Horfe, ivhich is 

 ^very unfit to answer any Kind of Spur, without mov- 

 ing beyond what he is well able to perform. 



It is faid, the Farcin is contagious or catching, The Farcin 

 which I be]ie\^e may be true, if the Matter difcharged^^^^^S^o^s. 

 from the Sores happen frequently to fall, or^be 

 rubb'd upon another Horfe. Neither can the Efflw 

 tvia, which Horfes in this Diftemper perfpire, be 

 without Danger, in Cafe fuch Horfes ftand conftant - 

 ly near others ; for it may no doubt be communica- 

 ted as the Itch in human Bodies, if efpecially the 

 Horfes lie together. 



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