3^5 ne Jii 0/ Farriery 



making a lates from larger into fmaller Veffels, but the Venal- 

 Ligature Blood from fmaller to larger ; fo that if you tie a 

 Blood-^"^ Vein above the Hough, without tying it alfo below, 

 Veflel. ^^^ Tumour muft neceflarily increafe as the Blood 

 meets with Refillance at the Ligature ; for the Veins 

 carry back to the Heart the fuperabundant Blood 

 from the Arteries. Therefore a Vein muft be tied 

 below, and an Artery above the Hough to cure a 

 Swelling or Dilatation^ of which I am now treat- 

 ing : And really no one Thing is more common 

 amongil the ignorant blundering Farriers, than to 

 tie lip a Vein on the wrong Side the Varicofe-Tu- 

 mour ; for thefe Fellows have no Notion of the 

 Difference between a Vein and an Artery. There- 

 fore they imagine that all the Blood - Veffels are 

 alike, and convey that Fluid from the Heart to the 

 extreme Parts of the Body without carrying any of 

 it back again. 



From what has been faid it may be obferved, 

 that the Cure of a Blood-Spavin confifts in differing 

 the Skin and mufcular Flefh off the Vein, but fo as 

 not to cut any, or however very few, of the Car- 

 nous Fibres tranfverfely. Then pafs a Piece of ftrong 

 Silk doubled and well waxed with Bees-wax both 

 below and above the Tumour, which is performed 

 with a crooked Needle not very fharp, with an Eye 

 in the Point fuffi«*ently large, that the Thread may 

 leave it eafily. And when the Blood-Veffel is well 

 tied both above and below the Swelling, cut it in 

 two in the Middle, and heal the Wound with the 

 common Green Ointment, (p. 283.^ 

 Giving the Some Farriers give the Fire after tying up the 



Fire in the yein, but I think fuch Praftice unnecefiary. 

 Cure ot a ^ 



Blood- -^ 



Spavin im- CHAP. XLI. 



necefiury. qj> ^y p^ii ^,,^ii^ p^,,,,jres in the Withers, Warlles 

 in the Back, Sec. 



The Poll- ^"T^ H E Poll Evil is a Swelling in the Nape of 



Evil. JL rhe Neck or Poll of the Horfe jufl behind' 



the £:.:■: , This-. 



