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back. Would it not promote the reflux of 

 the ftacrnant humours to continue the horfe in 



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that pofture half an hour a clay, upon a foft 

 bed, extending and faftening up his four legs, 

 in fuch fort, that the ligature did not impede 

 the courfe of the blood ? I hope the ladies 

 will pardon the comparifon, but I fuppofe I 

 caught this idea from the memoirs either of 

 Mrs. Bellamy, or Mrs. Anne Sheldon ; one of 

 which laid all night with her hands tied up 

 above her head, in order, by draining them of 

 blood, to make them delicately white. 



It has, I believe, been the general pra6tice of 

 the farriers, to pare the fole of the foundered 

 foot thin, and charge it with pitch and tallow, 

 or fome fuch combuftibles, boiling hot; pre- 

 cifely fo was the patient ferved, in the cafe 

 which I have already quoted, and it appeared 

 to me to confirm the founder. The method I 

 have laid down I have always feen fuccefsful 

 in analogous cafes, but as I differ in a material 

 point, as well from our ov/n writers as from 

 Profeflbr St. Bel, who has treated this difeafe 

 more at large, I muft beg leave to refer the 

 enquirer thither. Contrary to a principle laid 

 down eifewhere by himfelf, in a cafe of fluxion, 

 inflammation, and tenfion, when, fpeaking of 

 afliringents and repellents, he fays, *' they fix 

 " the humour in the part, and coagulate it, 

 *' conflringe the veflels, check the circulation, 



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