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been fufficient Care taken to put a Check to the Influx of 

 the Humours, or to take off their Acidity and Sharpnefs ; 

 for by this Means the Eye becomes injur'd, and is render'd 

 liable to Rheums and Defluxions, and to many other Ac- 

 cidents, notwithllanding the Horfe may, in all other Re- 

 Ipecls, be recover'd to a good State of Health. 



Sometimes thofe Symptoms do accompany, or are the 

 Effeds of an ill Habit of Body ; whether that be induc'd at 

 firft by an Over-plenitude, or if it arifes from Debility and 

 Lownefs, or from any other Caufe, whereby the Blood be- 

 comes vitiated : For as the Eyes are very tender, and of 

 exquifite Senfe, they muft therefore be as fenfibly affefted 

 m all fuch Indifpofitions, as any other Part of the Body. 



And therefore in order to the Cure, the ny ^ 

 Farrier ought to examine diligently both in- ^' ^*^^° 



to the paft State and prefent Condition of the Horfe. If 

 he finds him under any Indifpolition, then his firft and 

 chief Care mull be to remove that ; that, for Inftance, if 

 he be hide-bound, or if he has got the Farcin or Mange, 

 iJc. fuch Things as are hereafter ordeied in thofe Cales, 

 muft be adminifter'd to him at the fame Time that proper 

 Applications are made to the Eyes \ but if a Horfe be 

 otherwife in a tolerable State of Health, the Farrier may 

 conclude, that there is either feme natural Infirmity in the 

 Eye, difpofing it to thofe Diforders, or elfe that the Eye is 

 rendered very weak and difeafed by a continual Defluxion 

 upon it J in either of which Cafes it will not be very need- 

 ful to burthen him with Medicines : But yet if the Horfe 

 fae fuUof Flefli, left the Diftemper fliould be over-much 

 fed, a moderate quantity of Blood may be taken from 

 him, and he may be purg'd gently every Week, or have 

 now and then a Clyfter given him ; and the other Rules 

 of Diet and Exercife, which have been laid down in the 

 foregoing Chapter, may alfo be obferved. 



After thefe general Diredions, we fhall conclude this 

 Chapter, by inferting fuch Remedies as the Pradice of the 

 beft Marifhals has warranted to be the moft effectual in all 

 outward Intentions, where the Eyes have been troubled 

 with fharp Rheum.s and Inflammations. 



If the Eyes are only inflam'd, without a Defluxion of <?^- 

 fum upon them, they may be wafli'd once or twice a Day 

 with a little Wine, Red or White j or Wine wherein the 

 Leaves or Tops of the common Briar have been boiled ; 

 or if thefe are not in Seafon, the following may be ufed. 



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