,20 The Jrt of Farriery 



vet more effeftual Means. Witnefs Ward's Pill 

 and Drop^ which is a fingular Inftance of this Trath : 

 For the fame being Preparations from Antimony, 

 feveral very notible Feats are performed by them, 

 efpccially in diflodging Gouts and other Humours 

 which obilruft the Glands and fmaller PafTnges. 

 And tho' we well know why the Pill and Drop ef- 

 feftthis and that Cure, yet,'forfooth, becaufe Anti- 

 monial Preparations are accounted rough and harfh 

 in their Operation, they murt be excluded the Shops, 

 to oblige the prefent delicate Age, who rather 

 choofe wh.at they ignorantly ftyle a fafe Many than 

 one who prefcribes more effeif^ual Medicines, and 

 moves upon a more certain Bafis, and much better 

 Plvilofophy. 



I fee no Harm in Firing or Cauterizing young 

 Coke, that arefiender Icgg'd, upon the back Sinews, 

 before they are lam'd, and abfolutely require fuch 

 Operation. For it was a Praaice am.ongft the 

 Ecxficrn Bonx:men, before the Ufe of Fire-Arms, to 

 do the like upon the brawny Part of the Arms of 

 mod of their Youth, that they might become 

 llronger, and fhoot their Arrows with more Force. 



I need not farther enlarge upon the Manner of 

 giving the Fire, feeing it is fufRciently known and 

 praftiTed by Farriers : Therefore I muil now pro- 

 ceed to Ro^Mclling, &c. 



CHAP. XXXIX. 



Of RoiKcIling Horjes. 



IO N C E thought not to have made a particular 

 Chapter upon RGrojc/lhsi, feeing I have in my 

 Notes upon Burden given^my Reafons when the 

 fame is ufeful, and when otherwife ; but left that 

 fmall Piece may not be in the Hands of every Sub- 

 fcriber to this Work, or if it were, it is incorred 

 thro' the Negligence of the Irijh Printer ; I fay, for 



thefe 



