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. The whole interspers'd with many curious and useful observations concerning feeding and exercise, &c / By W. Gibson.

  • Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750.
Date:
1735
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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. The whole interspers'd with many curious and useful observations concerning feeding and exercise, &c / By W. Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Quantity of the Blood is augmented, Bleeding and other Evacuations are neceffary; but if the Quantity thereof be diminifhed, then Reftoratives, Reft, and nounfhing Pood may be required : And if this laft proceeds from any Error in the Stomach, caufing Lofs of Appetite, in fuch a Caie thofe Things are to be adminifler’d which create Hunger, and help Digeftion. If the Texture of the Blood be chang'd, as is ufual in a continual Courfe of Sicknefs, then it may be neceffary, befides other Intentions, to admi- Her fuch Things as may corred the vitiated Mafs. Fourthly, WhenaDifeafe proceeds from an Increafe or Diminution of fome Secretion, the Cure ought, for the moft Part, to be performed by fuch Things as enlarge the Secretions that are too fparing, and reftrain fuch as are too liberal : And the fafeft Way to reftrain an augmented Se¬ cretion, is by the Increafe of fome other Secretion. And indeed, this Method of Revulfion has been fafely pradifed among all Phylicians ; and if it could be rightly under- Itood by Farriers, it would be of the greateft Importance in their Pradice. rlf But here it is to be remark'd, that when we fpeak of an augmented Secretion, we underftand that as a Difeafe, and not as a Remedy : For fometimes a _ Secretion augmented becomes a Cure ; and in fuch a Cafe it is not to be flopped immediately, but rather fomewhat afiifled, when any ways imperfed. As for Inflance, If a Horfe be lax, and has a Scouring upon him ; when this proceeds from a Dd- order of the Guts only, by a Putrefadion of the Excre¬ ments too long detained, it may be very proper to admi¬ nister fome moderate Purge, provided it be of fuch a Nature as will not too much relax the lnteflinal Glands. But if this Caufe proceeds from an obftruded Tranfpira- tion, as is very ufual, then fuch Things as promote Sweat, and a Breathing through the Pores, muft be hkewife admt- nifter’d. The like Method is to be obferved in molt other Secretions, as in Sweat, Urine, running at the Mouth and Nofe, which may be often obferved among Horfes m the In the Cure of all Difeafes, Na- Nat«rt to be ture is the beft Guide, and therefore the Far- “J udy oofe,- rier muft diligently follow her. Whenever flie ' finds herfelf opprelled, ihe endeavours to throw off the Load, and tries all the neareft and propereft Ways for he ’ Relief ; ^nd it is for the Confervation of Health, 01 re-