rip5 ^he Art 0/ Farriery 



Forms either folid or liquid ; for, if this will not 

 flop the Blood, the Cafe is defperate. And before \ 

 I quit the Subjed I muft declare, that I have not 

 found a more powerful or efFeftual Styptick in the 

 whole Materia Mtdica, either outwardly apply' d or 

 inwardly adminiltred. The Dofe to a Horfe in- 

 wardly, either to Hop Bleeding or even mofi Kinds 

 of Fluxes, is about two Scruples or a Drachm. 

 Mix it with a little warm Ale or red Wine, Nut- 

 meg and Sugar if you pleafe, and give it Milk- 

 warm. : If this fail in two or three Dofe?, every 

 Day one, I cannot fay what will anfvver ; for, I 

 have known it flop the Keeding of an Artery, 

 which has been cut, upon unskilliilly ftriking the 

 Fleam into a Korfe's Neck to let him BJood ; and 

 this it did after moil other Remedies had been un- 

 fuccefsfully try'd. 



There are fome Surgeons and Apothecaries, I 

 believe, keep this Preparation ; and really none 

 fliould be without fuch a Thing, by reafon 'tis often 

 wanted in Hafle. Therefore if you fend for it to 

 the Apothecaries, enquire for it by the Name of 

 Colehatch\ Styptic ; and if 'tis good, it will be in 

 little hard Lumps of a brownifli Colour j but if it 

 has been kept badly cork'd, it has lofl its Virtues, 

 and becomes moifl and foft. 

 Little ro There is little to be done in the Cafe of inward 

 tc done in V/ounds more than flopping the Efflux of Blood ; 

 inwa'd for Nature mufl perform the Reft of the Work. 

 Wminds y^^ ^Q ^^^^^^ l^^j. Surgeons as well as Farriers will- 

 llomTng pretend to heal fuch Sores by applying Ointments, 

 the Biuod. Plaiflers, &c. to the outward Orifice, when in Faft 

 they mJght as well, and with as much Reafon ap- 

 ply the flmie to the Patient's Heel as to his Side, 

 for a Wound either in the Lungs, Liver, Stomach, 

 l^'c. which lye far beyond the Power of outward 

 Applications. Therefore a proper cooling and bal- 

 famic Regimen is, no doubt, all ( after flopping the 

 Blood ) which either Phyfician or Surgeon can put. 

 in Praaice for the Benefit of the Sick. 



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