vi The PR EF ACE. 



this ufejul animal, and fpare no expense 

 for the cure of their maladies^ yet fi(ffer 

 themjelves to be impofed on by iliiterate 

 grooms^ and unskiijul farriers ; who^ 

 for the fake of their oun private ad- 

 vantage^ are frequently poaching their 

 borfes with drenches^ which 72ot only 

 clajfj with every inteiition of cure, but 

 aggravate the dif order : whereas y would 

 gefitlemen but take a little pains (and 

 fure the (iudy wcidd be an entertain- 

 ment) to 7nake thernfelves acquainted 

 with the laws of the bloods circidationy 

 {2nd the different fecretions of the va- 

 rious fluids ; they would foon be convinced 

 {of what I have before hinted) that in- 

 judicious jumbles of drugs are only a 

 load on the conftitutiony and frequently 

 dejeat the very intentions of nature \ 

 who of herfelf or with very little af- 

 f fiance, would in gejieral foon work 

 her own deliverance ; but when the load 

 if the fuppofed remedy is added to the 

 difeafe^ the opprejjion becomes too violent 

 for nature long tofupport j and though 

 the animal has the conjlitiition of a horf\ 

 yet mufi it at lajl fubmit, and fall a 

 facrifce to ignorance and blind credit- 



lity 



