£i8 0/HUMOURS. 



low diet, would be increafed by evacua- 

 tioiis, ?nd cured by recruiting the con- 

 flitution But fwelled legs from a grofs 

 conftitution, where the vefTels are too 

 replete, and rhe blood in bad condition, 

 will feldom be cured without bleeding, 

 purging, roweling, and alteratives; un- 

 lefs, perhaps the horfe is turned out to 

 grais. 



The word To treat this rubje61: properly, and 

 humours prove in a ftri6l fenfe what ought to be 

 abufed by ^^riderfiood by the v/ord humours^ would 

 faniers. take up more time than the brevity we 

 have prefcribed ourfelves will admit on ; 

 but theie hints may be lufficient to expofe 

 the abfurd cant of farriers, who are eter- 

 nally mifapplying a term they by no nieans 

 underfland, and making the word humours 

 fubfervient to all purpofes. 



Obferva- We fhall conclude this chapter how- 

 tionson evcr With obferving, that there are more 

 humours, j.]^^^ thirty different juices, or humours^ 

 conflantly floating in, and feparated from 

 the blood; the chief of which are the 

 bile, perfpirable matter, fweat, faliva, 

 urine, lymph, kQi\^ i^c. which, when 

 properly m.ixed and thrown off in due 

 quantity from it, are extremely neceffary 

 to the health, and welfare of the animal ; 



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