Chap. XIL Of Surfeits: ^f 



by a Diftraftion of the fmall Fibres, or will otherwife breafe 

 cut into little Puftules among the Hair, which will alfo bp 

 accompanied with Sweat, and then the Difeafe will proba- 

 bly come to a fpeedy Ifllie; but if the Blood has acquir'd a 

 more than ordinary Vifcidity during the Lentor and Con- 

 tinuance of the Dung in the Guts, which is moft likely, and 

 what ufually happens in fuch Cafes ; it will then be apt to 

 ftagnate in fome Places more than others, and caft off the 

 Remainder of the Difeafe in Biles and Swdlings, fuch as we 

 often obferve after Surfeits. 



We may therefore determine all fuch Tu- In "johat man- 

 mors, or other Excrefcencies, as are the Ef- ^^^ Surfeits are 

 feds of an over Plenitude and Fulnefs, to be, ^° ^^ dijlingiti- 

 properly fpeaking, what belongs to a Surfeit, '^ ' ' 

 and when the like Symptoms proceed from the imperfe6l 

 Difcharges of any Cold, wheieby the Pailages of Perfpira- 

 tion have been fuddenly obftrufted, they then bear a near 

 Affinity to the former, as a Lentor of the Bowels is often- 

 times previous, or at leaft, a Concomitant of fuch a Cold. 

 And if fuch Swellings be the Refult of a putrid of malig- 

 nant Fever, that has not been of long Continuance before 

 the Difeafe was brought to a Solution, tho' thefe may un- 

 doubtedly be worfe than the other, yet they only differ in 

 degree, and require the fame Method of Cure. And with 

 thefe may be clafs'd all fuch as happen after any Kind of 

 violent Exercifethat has not been of long Continuance^, and 

 "which proceed from forae flight Diiorder arifmg from 

 thence. Bui if the fame outward Sym.ptom, or rather 

 Symptoms, having the fame outward Appearances, proceed 

 from long continued and hard Labour, by which the Ma- 

 chine is, as it were, broke and quite diforder'd ; or if they 

 be the Effeds of hedick and intermittent Fevers, or any other 

 internal Malady, that has been of fuch duration as to wafte 

 nnd decay the Body, and pervert the natural Juices, they 

 are in this cafe not to be deemed Surfeits^ or the immediate 

 Effed of SurfeitSy but to be look'd upon as what w:ll con- 

 ftitute Ulcers of the worit kind. But as v/e have allotted a 

 particular Place for the Cure of all forts of Tumors and 

 Ulcers, which the Reader may confult at his Leifure, we 

 fiiall therefore in this Place take Notice of Surfeits^ and the 

 Accidents that are more efoecially peculiar to them. 



When the Farrier obferves a Horfe to be q-^^ q^^^ 

 furfelted, and unSer a heavy Oppreffion from 

 the want of the common and ufuai difcharges^ he ought, 

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