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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    and take off from its Violence* which is alfo an Extreme to be avoided; neither need you be afraid of the Swelling that may cafually happen in the Fore-legs 5 and, perhaps, even his Limbs, by Cauterizing, for that cannot be of iuch ill Confequence, as when it is upon the Neck and Throat, neither will it be of any Continuance, if due Care be taken of the Ifliies. The Sieur de Solleyfell recommends the making of fmall Incifions with a Fleam or Lancet, in eight or ten Places on the Swelling, and to thruft into the Holes between the Skin and the Flefh, Pieces of the Root of black Hellebore of the Bignefs of the Tag of a Point, and if the Tumour be very large, he recommends the ufe of white Hellebore, at the fame time chafing the Part with the Ointments of Jlgrippa and Marfh-mallows. The Roots, by their hot burning Quality, draw down and increafe the Swelling, and the Ointments are to ripen the inclofed Matter, and fit it for a Dilcharge. The fame Author alfo recommends the Ufe of Retoriesy .or Ruptories, for drawing an immediate Flux of Moifture from the difeafed Part. Thefe are Ointments of the fame Nature with thofe which are made to draw B lifters on the human Body, and are compofed of the like Materials ; and becaufe they maybeufed with much Safety, we fhail infert two or three that are eafily made, and will be found of no lefs Efficacy than thofe that are more compounded. u Take of Bafilicon four Ounces, black Pepper and « Ginger of each half an Ounce, Spanijh Flies two Drams. “ Let the Flies, Pepper, and Ginger, be made into a fine u Powder, and incorporated with the Baiilicon.” The following is yet more powerful. “ Take a quarter of a Pound of Bafilicon, one Ounce of red Precipitate in Powder, half an Ounce of Euphor- ,<c bium, and two Drams of the Flies.” Or the following, which is yet more efficacious than either of the former. “ Take Oil of Bays four Ounces, Euphorbium in Powder cc two Ounces, Cantharides, or Spanijb Flies, half an Ounce. Thefe may yet be made ftronger or weaker, according to the Ufe they are put to. The Way they are apply’d,^ is by fpreading them by little at a Time upon the Part afte&ed, holding a hot Bar of Iron to make them fink in ; and this Operation may be repeated as often as the Cafe requires, but efpecially until they have drawn out a plentiful deal of reddifh Water ; but they mull be fparingly us’d on fome Parts, as we fhail more particularly obferve hereafter. i f CHAP.