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SIVE SUBLIMATE OR RED PRECIPITATE, AS 

 MUCH AS WILL LAY UPON A SILVER PENNY; 



but as thefe laft medicines, viz. the fublimate 

 and precipitate, cannot be ufed internally with- 

 out great danger, efpecially to brute creatures 

 who can never be brought to take fuch things 

 as are proper to carry off their ill effects, they 



OUGHT THEREFORE NOT TO BE GIVEN IN 



any case." Gibfon's Farrier's New Guide, 

 5th edition, 1727, page 146. — " I need not ac- 

 quaint any one, who knows what belongs to 

 horfe-keeping, how much mifchief has been 

 done by purging Horfes, either when the ingre- 

 dients have been bad, or when the purges have 

 been made too ftrong, or when they have been 

 ill-timed." Gibfon's New Treatife on the Dif- 

 eafes of Horfes, 2d edition, 1754, page 221, 

 vol. 1. — " Thofe purges are the molt efficaci- 

 ous, and the molt fafe, that work off with 

 the lcaft ficknefs. The iirfl purge fhould al- 

 ways be mild,unlefs where a Horfe's conflitution 

 is well known to be hardy and ftrong; for fome 

 Horfes are indeed fo ftubborn in their conftitu- 

 tions, that fcarce any thing will move them. 

 Neverthelefs miftakes of this kind may bring 

 on a fuperpurgation, which is always danger- 

 ous," &c. page 226 — " If a Horfe be of a robuft 

 conflitution, and a good feeder, he may be 

 purged with the common aloes, though I have 

 generally myfelf ufed the fuccoirine, and always 



e 4 advifed 



