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All fharp and piquant Things do likewife irritate 

 and excite the expulfive Faculty ^ fuch as almoft all 

 Salts, the Seed of Nettles, and many others. But 

 all thefe Remedies are rather laxative and deterfive, 

 than true Purgatives. 



All Purgatives have in them a kind of Malignity : 

 therefore never give a violent Remedy for a fmall 

 Indifpofition. If People fail in any fide, it fhould 

 rather be in giving too weak than too ftrong Reme- 

 dies ^ and if the Horfe do not purge fufficiently, 

 there is nothing loft, becaufe it hath difpofed the 

 Humour ; and by reiterating the Purgation fome 

 Days after, and making it a little ftronger, you will 

 find it fucceed very well. You fhould alfo confider, 

 that a Remedy given in Subftance, for example, ia 

 Powder, fhould be given in lefs quantity than when 

 it is only infufed in fome Liquor, and the folid 

 Subftance thrown away. 



Generally fpeaking, no Infufion of any Drug 

 whatfoever will purge a Horfe, becaufe it pafTes 

 too quickly : For he is a Creature fo difficult to be 

 wrought upon, that altho' a Drug be given him 

 in Subftance, yet it will be twenty four Hours in 

 his Body before it begin to purge, whereas an In- 

 fufion being liquid, pafTes in five or fix, fo that it 

 hath little or no effeft, unlefs you give him the 

 Drugs and Infufion mixt together. 



Never purge a Horfe in the beginning of a Dif- 

 eafe, becaufe the Humour not yielding to the Re- 

 medy, is thereby over-heated, and brought to a 

 Fermentation, which increafes the Difeafe inftead 

 of diminifhing it : And fince in Horfes we cannot 

 obferve any certain fign of Co&ion, and feparation 

 of bad Humours, which occafion the Difeafe, their 

 Urines being almoft always troubled, and not much 

 unlike to one another, and the Excrements of the 

 Belly almoft the fame } therefore we fhould delay it 

 until the Horfe be recovered : But this is to be only 



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