2S The I arrur' s New Guide. Chap. VII. 



and this Variation may be in Proportion to the Size and 

 Make of the conftituent Vellels of different Horfes, iJc. 

 But if the Farrier will only endeavour after a competent 

 Skill in the animal Oeconomy, he will be the better able 

 to fuit his Methods of Cure to the feveral Indications that 

 may proceed from any fuch Variety. 



CHAP. VII. 



Of a Jimple continued Fever, 



Ji jimph legi- np HIS Sort of Fever is not the leaft com- 

 timate Fever. A ^^^ among Hones, neither is it very 

 difficult, but may be eafily cured, clpecially in the Begin- 

 ning. It confifts in an equable Augmentation of the Blood's 

 Velocity, as has already been oblerved, and may proceed 

 *Th Ca fi ^'^°'^ divers Caufes: AsFirJl, From riding in 



thereof. " very hot and dry Weather, for by that Means 



the Blood being once fet in Motion, it there- 

 by becomes rarefy'd, and the external Heat contributes to 

 keep up both the internal Heat and Rarefadtion thereof. 



Secondly^ This Fever is fometimes brought on Horfes by 

 turning them out to Grafs in hot and dry Weather, and in- 

 to fmall Inclofures, where there is but little Air, and where 

 there is not fome convenient Shade to cover them from the 

 fcorching Heat of the Sun. 



Thirdly^ The eating hot and fpirituous Herbs, or other 

 Food, that communicate too great a Heat and Warmth to 

 the Blood (efpecially until a Horfe has been habituated to 

 fuch Feeding) will be the Caufe of fuch a Fever. 



Fourthly^ This Sort of Fever is fometimes caufed by 

 Bleeding Horfes in the Heat of the Sun in the hot Seafon, 

 xvithout houfing them ; becaufe during the Time of the 

 Operation, the Blood is put into a greater Motion than be- 

 fore i and that new Motion is further increafed and kept up 

 by the additional Heat of the Weather, as has been obferv'd: 

 And this may be illultrated by the common EfFeds of Fire 

 under a Pot or Kettle, where the Heat of the Water in- 

 creafes more in the fame Spaces of Time, according to the 

 Degrees of its Motion, though the Fire be not increafed. 



Fifthly^ External Cold will fometimes bring on fuch a 

 Fever, by hindring Perfpiration, efpecially when its Effects 

 are fudden ; for in fuch a Cafe the Quantity of the Blood 

 muft be fuddenly increafed, and that Increafe will be fol- 

 Ipv^'cd by an immcdute and fpcedy Rarefiidtion of the Blood. 



And 



