14 ne T ARR jer' s Ne'ju Guide, Chap. IV. 



and 1 (hould the ratlier lb fjir give into thofe Methods, 

 ■with rel'pedt to brute Creatures, becaul'e feveral of their 

 Difeafes may adtualiy have Ibme Footing before they can 

 be well difccrned. But yet, as there is even in all thefe 

 Cafes an Indication given, at lead from foreign Caufes, 

 what has been here advanced, will not juitify the Condudt 

 I am cenfuring, which is only adminillring Things at 

 Random, and which therefore often prove prejudicial. 



lihall theretore venture to affirm, that unneceflary Eva- 

 cuations cannot be the Way to prevent Difeafes in Horfes, 

 but that may be better efteduated by a due Care in their 

 Keeping. 



A J r„ -^ All Evacuations leflen the Quantity of the 

 A due Lare »« ,,, , , ^ . ,. , TTr i i • 



Kecptn?, the i>lood, but moft immediately Blood-letting; 

 froperejl Way to ^^d when that has been frequently repeated^ 

 frcventSUknefs. or been taken away in a large Quantity, it 

 often becomes languid in its Motion, by a 

 leller Quantity of Spirits, derived from a lefler Quaniit/ 

 of Blood, fo that what remains has not Force enough from 

 thefe Spirits to reach the Paflages of the Skin, fo as to make 

 a Secretion there ; and from hence, inllead of preventing 

 Difeafes, it becomes the Caufe of many. Purging has alio 

 the fame Effect, though after a different Manner, and may 

 be of a worfe Confequence to Horfes, as all fuch Evacua- 

 tions a6: more diredtly againft Nature, and in fuch a Man- 

 ner, that the whole animal Frame, when the Medicines 

 happen to be of any Strength, is difcompofed by them ; and 

 thus a Horie that was in Health, is expofed to all the In- 

 juries that can proceed from any Element. But in good 

 and proper Keeping, all thefe Accidents are avoided, and 

 the lame thing effected. 



The bell Way therefore to prevent Horfes being difeafed, 

 is, in the firll Place, to have no Kind of Food given them 

 but what is wholfome, and their Diir.k fliould be Rain- 

 water, or that of the running Brook, if fuch are to be had. 



Secondly.) The next Thing to be regarded is Exercife, ef- 

 pecially fince the Health of all Animals depends fo much up- 

 on the Blood's regular Motion, for without that it is impofii- 

 ble but that it mull be apt many times to flagnate ; whereas 

 if the Body is often kept moving, the Blood is not only forc'J 

 thro' the Imallell Veins and Arteries, by the feveral Contrac- 

 tions of the Mufcles, but ail the little Glands and Strainers 

 throughout the Body are thereby forc'd to difcharge their fe- 

 veral Contents, which mult be a great Mean? to preferve 

 Health. ' rhh-diy 



