17+ TheTARRiiRs Ne'uJ Guide. Ch.XLVIIL 



" This I recommend to you for the beft and moft certain 

 ** Cure that I could ever meet with ; for with this Receipt on- 

 *' )y, I allure you on my Credit, I have cured more than an 

 *' hundred Horfes, many of which were by other Farriers hol- 

 •' den for incurable, and fentenced to be Food for Hounds. 

 A Obr t' ^^^ ^^ '^ ^^'^ plain, all that Rue can do, 



en the recited ^^hen ufed in this Manner, is but little, efpe- 

 Pajfage out of cially in the fpaceof twenty four Hours ; for 

 De Grey, it is demonllrable from the Nature of the 



Farcin, as it is a Difeafe brought on by 

 Length of Time, fo it mult of Confequence require Time 

 to its Removal, and in all chronical Difeafes and ill Habits 

 it is the fame ; and therefore what this Author has applied 

 to the Rue, was only owing to the Exercife, though I 

 cannot approve of his Method of keeping a Horfe to hard 

 Labour and a very fpare Diet too, that being diredlly con- 

 trary to the Nature of all animal Bodies whatfoever, which 

 muft be enabled to do their Work by Food ; and I am tru- 

 ly of Opinion, no Horfe was ever yet cured where this 

 Rule was ftridly put in Praft'ice ; but how far a Horfe may 

 be indulg'd in Feeding while the Farcin is upon him, any 

 one, with a little Care and Obfervation, may in fome lylea- 

 fure be a Judge. What relates to putting Rue, and other 

 pungent and liimulating Medicines within the Ears of a 

 Horfe, for fudden Dilbrdcrs of the Head, has been al- 

 ready fpoke to, where we treated of the Staggers^ to which 

 we refer the Reader. We fhall therefore go on to the re- 

 maining Part of the Cure, which chiefly concerns the Ap- 

 plications made externally. 



If due and proper Care was taken in the Beginning of 

 the Farcin, there would be little Need of outward Means, 

 otherwife than by wafhing the Sores with Aqua Vita^ 

 Brandy, or Wine, or with Urine, and fuch like things. But 

 the frequent Mifmanagement which Horfes have been expo- 

 fed to in this Diftemper, has render'd both the Difeafe and 

 the Cure themoft complicated and perplexed of any that is 

 to be met with in the whole Syllem of Difeafes, infomuch, 

 that there is fcarcely an Herb or Plant, but what has been 

 internally ufed and outwardly : There is no Poifon, natural 

 or artiHcial, that has not had fome Share, either in killing, 

 or curing Horfes who have lain under this Malady. But, 

 out of thofe we fhall endeavour to make the beft Choice ; 

 neither fiiall we ufe them promifcuoufly, and at a Venture, 

 as has been hitherto done by moft Pra<^tiiionerSj but by 



making 



