168 The^hv.TLi'EiCsNe-JL; Guide. Ch. XLVIII. 



'ufty when the Diftemper fcizes him, in that Cafe his Diet 

 fhould be fomewhat abated ; but if it be othervvife, that the 

 Horfe is lean and out of Heart, and that he has not had fuffi- 

 cient Nourifhment, or that his Labour has been beyond his 

 Strength and Feeding, his Diet ought then to be fomewhat 

 augmented ; for as too great a Plenitude and Fulnefs of the 

 Vellels is oftentimes the Occafion ot ihat Lentor and Slow- 

 riefs of the Juices which bring on a Farcin, the fame Effeds 

 are oftentimes produc'd by Poornefs ; becaufe in that Cafe, 

 the Blood being divelled of its Spirits, becomes languid and 

 fluggifh, and confequently is render'd the more apt to Ob- 

 Itruction in the extreme Parts, where the Vcl'cls are the 

 imalleft, as we have taken Notice in another Place. 



And therefore it will appear to be founded ahb upon Rea- 

 fon, what SoUeyJell fays he has experienced from frequent 

 Tiah and Obfervation, that Purging is of no great Service, 

 but oftentimes a Detriment to Horfes in the Farcin. This 

 is fo plain in Cafe of a Horfe that is low in Flefh, that it 

 needs no Manner of Proof, and can only be admitted of in 

 fuch Circumliances as make it unavoidable, when there 

 happens to be an extreme Collivcnefs, and then laxative 

 Cly^ers are tlie moll eligible ; but on the other Hand, when 

 2 Horfe is fat and full-body 'd, though Purging mufl in that 

 Cafe do him lefs hurt, and may be comply'd with in Mo- 

 deration, yet it is no ways fuited to make a perfedt Cure of 

 the Farcin, but has been the Ruin of many Horfes, in the 

 Hands of ignorant Smiths, who know no other v.'ay of car- 

 rying off Difeafes but by repeated Purgations, the Dilchar- 

 ges made that Way being the moll apparent to the outward 

 Senfes, and the moil agreeable to thofe who are able to 

 frame no other Ideas of a difeafed Horfe, than by imagining 

 his Blood to be full of Corruption, and that the Medicines 

 they ufe have fome eledlive Property to drain that oft' with 

 the Dung. 



But a more warrantable Experience has fufficiently taught 

 us, that in all Purgations the good mud be drain'd away with 

 the bad, and are therefore feldom profitable, but rather hurt- 

 ful in Foulnefte^ of the Skin and outward Parts ; but thofe 

 things can only be fuccefsful which work more immediately 

 upon the Blood and Humours, by changing the Contexture, 

 and rendering them thin enough, fo as their excrementiti- 

 ous Parts may go oft' by the nearell and propercll Outlets. 

 And it is plainly evident, the Medicines hitherto found the 

 mofl eftedtual for the Cure of I'le Farcin, have been cndu'd 

 Wilh fuch Properties, liu; 



