20 8 Of Alterative Medicines, 



The Whenever therefore mercurial prepa- 



caufe. rations are given to horfes, they fhould 

 be well attended to, and fufficient inter- 

 vals be allowed, to prevent a flux on the 

 mouth and nofe. The reafon why thefe 

 kind of mercurials will flux horfes fooner 

 than men, may be owing to the mouths 

 of the ladteals in horfes being more open, 

 large and free, than thofe in men -, whofe 

 orifices may alfo be furred up by vifcid 

 oily things, to which inconveniences horfes 

 are not fo liable, by reafon of their Am- 

 ple diet; befides, the horizontal fitua- 

 tion of the guts of horfes may contri- 

 bute not a little Co it, by preventing the 

 mercury from pafTing through them fo 

 quick as in men •, and the depending 

 fituation of the horfe's head, may occa- 

 fion its being fo foon aff^ecled, when the 

 blood is once faturated with mercurial 

 particles. 



Jmpraai- But as it has been found impradlica- 

 cable to blc to carry a horfe through a falivation^ 

 lahvate ^j. ^.^^^ j.^ j^^^p jhjjj^ ^^^ week under it, 



by reafon of the great plenitude or full- 

 nefs brought on all the velTels of the 

 head, fo that the horfe can neither chew 

 his food, nor fwallow liquids ; whenever 

 fuch fymptoms appear, the medicine mufl: 



be 



