The farrier's new guide: containing first, the anatomy of a horse ... Secondly, an account of all the diseases incident to horses, with their signs, causes, and methods of cure / [W. Gibson].

  • Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750.
Date:
1731
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Credit: The farrier's new guide: containing first, the anatomy of a horse ... Secondly, an account of all the diseases incident to horses, with their signs, causes, and methods of cure / [W. Gibson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It will be neceffary to confider, that the Blood, ex a min d chymically, is found to confift only of the following Prim ciples, viz. Volatile Salt and Spirit, fome Phlegm and Sulphur, and a little Earth, but little or no fix d Salt. Now every one, who is the ieaft acquainted with Chymii- try mult be fenfible how many different forts of Liquors may be form’d out of a few Principles varioufly combin’d together: So that although the Blood itfelf fimply com fills only of thefe abovemention d, and to the Eye feems only to be made up of its red and ferous Part» yet, ac¬ cording to the lateft Obfervations, there are near thirty feveral Liquors feparated from it 5 all which is owing to the various Strudure of the Glands, fome of which are lo fmall, and fo varioufly wound up, and their Veffels drawn out into fuch extraordinary length, that nothing but the moft minute and fpirituous Particles of the Blood can pafs through them • and, doubtlefs, of fuch a Structure f the cortical Part of the Brain, by which the Animal Spi¬ rits are fecern’d. Others again are more wide, and fepa- rate chiefly Excrements. But I fhall not enter upon this Subjed, feeing thofe who have any Curiofity that way, may be fully fatisfy’d by peruimg feveral Books that have been profeffedlv writ on that Subjed. the End of the Anatomy of a Horfe.