14 DtreBiom in regard t6 



Purging is always found very beneficial 

 in ftubborn dry coughs ; but mild mercu- 

 rials joined with them, make them yet 

 more efficacious. 



Horfes that have thofe forts of lame- 

 neffes, that are faid to proceed from hu- 

 mours flying about (which are of iht rheu- 

 matic kind, and in young horfes proceed 

 from fizy blood, and occafion lamenefs 

 in every limb) require frequent purging ; 

 and fhould alfo have, between whiles, 

 medicines that attenuate and thin the 

 fluids. 



Horfes of a watery conftitutlon, who 

 are fubje(51: to fwelled legs, that run a 

 fharp briny ichor, cannot have the caufes 

 removed any ways fo effedlually as by 

 purging. 



The firil purge you give to a horfe 

 fhould be mild, in order to know his con- 

 llitution. 



Some mif- \^ jg ^ miflaken notion, that if a proper* 



rrnb^^"^" prepared purge does not work to expedla- 



purges. tiQu^ the horfe will be injured by it ; for 



though it does not pafs by ftool, its 



operation may be more efficacious, as 



an alterative, to purify the blood, and 



it 



