162 The Parrier'j New Guide, Ch.XLVIII. 



make their Difcharges as regular, and as nearly proportion- 

 able as may be to the Quantity of his Food. 



And this muft certainly be the true Reafon of fattening 

 and hardening a lean Hide- bound Horfe, or in other Words, 

 of bringing a lean Horfe into good Cafe, and at the fame 

 time rendering him robuft and ftrong, and able to bear the 

 hardeft Labour and Toil, efpecially if to this be added good 

 Rubbing and Drefling, to promote the Difcharges of the 

 Skin. 



But notwithftanding thefe Rules are what we can war- 

 rant to be fufficiently agreeable to the Laws of Mechanifm 

 in all Bodies whatfoever, yet becaufe the animal Syftem is 

 fo much complicated, whereby one Horfe alfo differs vaftly 

 from another, every Man's own Difcretion muft therefore, 

 in the main, guide him as to Particulars. What we have 

 here obferved in general, has been chiefly calculated with an 

 Eye to thofe Horfes that are of a tender and delicate Frame, 

 and not to fuch as are naturally hardy, though thefe may 

 alfo, in fome Circumftances, require fuch a Care to be had 

 of them. But the Reader may confult the Fourth Chapter, 

 where he will meet with fome things that bear a near Affi- 

 nity to the prefent Subje*5t. 



CHAP. XLVIII. 



Of the Farcin. 



^ HERE is no Diftemper which has try'd the Skill and 

 -^ Invention of Farriers more than the Farcin. The Wri- 

 ters of the lower Rank, as Markham and De Grey, and 

 thofe who have borrow'd all their Knowledge from them, 

 have no otherwife accounted for it, than that it proceeds 

 from naughty and corrupt Blood, and that it is the moft 

 loathfome and infedlious of all Diftempers, brought upon a 

 Horfe by Infedion, or by eating corrupt and naughty Food, 

 or by lying in Swines Litter, and from fuch like Caufes. 

 Neither have ihofe of better Account mended the Matter 

 very much, having only amus'd their Readers with a falfe 

 and unintelligible Philofophy. 



The Sieur de SolUyfell defines it to be an Ulcer caufed 

 by the Corruption of the Blood, and that by a certain 

 Poifon which is more or lefs malignant, and confequently 

 makes the Horfe's Condition either hopeful, or altogether 

 defperate ; and after a fhort Theory built upon the Wri- 



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