1 14 The FarrierV Ne-jj Guide. Ch. XXX. 



*' ftitution, and to cleanfe his Blood from all Impurities." 

 I have infifted the longer on this Subjed, as the Method 

 here laid down is not only to be obferved where there has 

 been an imperfedDifchargeof the Strangles, but alfo in all 

 other Impoftumalions and inflam'd Swellings, where the 

 Endeavours of Nature feem to have been infufficient j and 

 to this we fliall conllantly refer in all fuch Cales. 



CHAP. XXX. 



Of the falfe or baftard St r angle s» 



A Mijiake of np H E laft mentioned Author accounts for 

 Solleyfell- J- this Diftemper after a very ftrange Man- 



ner, and in a Way that is diredly contrary to Nature. He 

 fays, When the Strangles have not been thoroughly dif- 

 charg'd at the ufual Time, a latent Ferment will remain 

 in the Body, which, in its proper Time, will agitate the 

 Humours, and c^ufe them to fall into the fame Place where 

 they fhould have been call oft" at firft. And this, he fays, 

 will fometimes happen five or ten Years after, when a 

 Horfe is ten or fifteen Years old. But befides, that there 

 is no fuch Ferment in the Body of any Animal, there is no 

 fuch Regularity in Nature ; and that may be plainly pro- 

 ved by his own Obfervation, wiiere he takes Notice of the 

 Matter of the Strangles falling off fometimes upon other 

 Parts of the Body that have been previoufly weakened ; 

 and this is truly the Way of Nature. And therefore when 

 Swellings happen to old Horfes about the Jaws, and a- 

 bout the Kernels, it is an infallible Sign of a crazy Confti- 

 tution in them, and is oftentimes the Fore-runner of the 

 Glanders, uniefs that has been occafion'd by fome Violence. 

 And we may even obferve in human Bodies, in all tender 

 and delicate Habits, the fame Difpofitions to Swellings in 

 the glandulous and kernelly Paris, but efpecially in thofc 

 that are confumptivej and as in human Bodies the Humours 

 have chiefly a Tendency towards the Groins, i^c. in a 

 Horfe, they move towards the Head and Jaws, forming 

 Swellings in thofe Parts, as they are dependent in a Horfe, 

 according to our repeated Obfervations. 



Therefore in fuch Cafes, inftead of being too bufy to 

 ripen and draw away fuch Kernel?, uniefs tliey be inflam'd, 

 and have a Tendency to Sunpuraiion, the Horfe ought to 



have 



