THE HOBSE AXD ITS DISEASES. (7 



Leather Soles. 

 Wlion the foot is bruised or inflamed the conenssion 

 or shock produced by the hard contact of the elastic iron 

 on the ground, gives the animal mach pain, and causing 

 a short and feeling step, or even lameness, a strip of 

 leather is placed between the seating of the shoe and 

 the crust, which, from its want of elasticity, deadens, 

 or lessens the vibration or shock, and the horse puts his 

 leg to the ground more freely, and is much relieved. 



SECTION TV. 



NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF THE BLOOD — NATURE AND PROPER- 

 TIES OF THE LUNGS — INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS NATURE 



AND PROPERTIES OF THE KIDNEYS INFLAMMATION OF THE 



KIDNEYS NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF THE STOMACH 



NATURE OF THE HEART — NATURE OF THE LIVER NATURE OF 



THE BLADDER — NATURE OF THE PULSE WHAT IS INFLAMMA- 

 TION .? — DIGESTION — THE ARTERIES — THE NERVES. 



Nature and properties of the Blood. 



The nature and properties of this fluid belong to 

 hyrology. The blood was in the earliest ages accounted 

 as the greatest consequence in the machine ; perhaps the 

 great stress laid upon it in the Eible, might i^ot a little 

 contribute to this, when men were strictly commanded 

 to refrain from blood, because '*it was the life ;" but it 

 is remarkable, that though the very great importance 

 of this fluid was known to the ancients, and to an 

 alteration of its properties was attributed most of their 

 maladies, jet they had no just conception of its motion 

 through the body. That it had motion they were 

 aware, but they in general conceived it to be like the 

 ebbing and flowing of the sea, and that during sleep this 

 was reversed. Doctor "William Harvey, who lived in 

 the year 1628, published his grand discovery of the 



