7<5 The FarrierV Ne'uj Guide. Ch. XXIIL 



rhe Sun, or where the Light is too ftrong, you'll be apt to 

 create frefh Trouble ; for though the ferous Part of the 

 Blood may be render'd more thin and fluid, and its Acri- 

 mony much abated by the Ufe of Exercife, and the Help of 

 proper Remedies, and confequently the Moifturc leflcned, 

 yet as the Eyes themfelves muft be impair'd by a long and 

 continued Defluxion, they muft therefore have Time to re- 

 cover that Weaknefs. For the fame Reafon, the Ufe of fit 

 Applications muft not be too foon laid afide, but fuch things 

 conftantly provided as will comfort and ftrengthen thofe 

 Parts, though they ought to be of more gentle Operation 

 than what were us'd during the Violence of the Diftemper. 

 Wherefore we very much recommend Decodions of Red- 

 rofe Leaves, Plantain, Ground-Ivy, or their diftill'd Waters, 

 with thofe of Eye-bright, Chervil, Celandine, and the like, 

 for outward Ufe ; and thefe to be continued foe fome con- 

 iiderable Time : And if there be the leaft Appearance of a 

 Return, a fmall Quantity of white Vitriol, or the white 

 Troches of Rhajls may be dilTolv'd in either of thefe "Wa- 

 ters, viz. half a Dram of the Vitriol, or a Dram of the 

 Troches, to four Ounces of the Water : And by following 

 this Method, any Horfe may certainly be cured, unlefs there 

 be fome natural Defeat in the Eye, or that it has been too 

 much injured by the Corrofion of the Diftemper. 

 rev . nt .1 J Moft Farriers, when they find this Dif- 



iPhal Methods r , n- y it r ^ -n 



are penerally ^^^^ obftinate, rowel a Horfe near the Jbyes, 

 vfed^vben the ^^^ ^^^^ up the Eyc-veins; but in taking up 

 Dijiemper a Vein, I prefer SolieyfelN Method, becaule 



fra^ss ob/Ii- he does not make Incifion into the Vein ir- 

 «^/f- felt, but ties it with a wax Thread, and by 



that Means the Communication is as effedually flopped. 

 But whatever Succefs may have been attributed to the ta- 

 king up of Veins for Infirmities in the Eyes, there can be 

 but little faid to countenance that Operation, fince by tying 

 up thofe Veins the Return of the Blood is hinder'd ; and 

 therefore it can only be fuppofed to do Service where the 

 Eye is Ihrunk, and like to perifli for Want of its proper 

 Nourifliment. As to Ro welling, that may indeed, and 

 often is of Service, becaule by it many fmal{ Veflels, both 

 Veins and Arteries, are opened. And as the Arterial 

 Blood moves with a greater Impetus than that of the 

 Veins, the grcatcft Part of the Difcharge muft therefore be 

 fro.m tlje Arteries ; fo that a lefi'er Quantity of Blood muft 

 be dcriv'd towards the Eye. 



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