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rarify lhe gommy joices, and bring neIV fupplies of nou–

ri/hmenl

rhe perilhiog eyes_

This

c~urfe

nOl fncceerling, in otder more powerfully

lO open rhe . errels of the chryfialline humour, (which in

,hefe nf·s is always found opake, and, whcn lhe cararaa

is con6rmcd,enlirel)' lofes il! rranfparen<:y,) and hinder as

much as poOible lhe fornl'ng of obOruélions, mercurials

are chieAy robe d..pended on: lhus give every olher d.y,

for rhree or fqur mornings,

111'0

dram.s of calomel, mixed

Wi.lh

cnnfme of rofes; and lhen

pur~

off Wilh lhe

eommon hall.

Duriog rhis courfe, partiC\llar care /hould be t>ken of

tbe horfe: afrer "pealing rhis, lhe alrerarive powders be–

fore·meotiooed /buuld be given for fome weeks or

months, if you expeél any benefit from lhem; or rher

o\ay be beat up iOlO a ball witb live millepedes, and an

ouoce and a half giveo every day: if rhefe /hould not

[ucceed, aod lhe'horfe is avaluable one, the tnrbirh courfe

r.ccommeoded in the

fe~on

on alteralives, feems to be

the moíl promifing melhod left. But to horfes rhat·are

Mt fo, an onnce of aotimonr, gronnd into an

impalpa~le

po\vder, may be gÍl'en emy day in one of his

fee~s

for

!hree mOlllhs or longer; or a flrong deccélion of guaia–

cum /bavings may be giren for fome time, ro which

érude anrimony may be giveo io the (ollowing mann".

TUE guaiacutn /bavings one pound, crude antimonr

tied in a rag the fame quantity; boil io tWo galtons

of forge'1I'2ter ro onr, aod give a quan a·day, ei–

,ther a1one, or mixed wirh his \I'arer,

The haws is a fwelling and (ponginefs that grows io

tbe inner corner of the eye, fo large fometimes as to co–

.er a part o( rhe eye_ The opmtion here

i'l

eafily per–

formed by cuuiog part of it away; but!he farriers are

Ipt to cut away too much; !he wouod may be drerred

\~ilh

honey of rofes; and if a fuogus or fponfY flefh ari–

les, it /bould be (prinkled

witb

burnt alum,

touched

'lVilb blue ,itriol.

'''e

GLANDEtS,

TH! caufe and (eat oflhe glanders has tilllatcly been

imperfeélly handlcd, and fo little underflood by the

'fIriters

this diOemper, that it is no wonder it fhould

ranked among the incurables: but a new light ha.ing

been mrolVD on lhis whole affair by the fiudy of M, La

Forre, the king of France', farrier, who has been al rhe

,aiD' to trace out, and difcover, by di¡¡"célions, !he (ourr.e

'¡Dd caufe of rhis diforder; we hope the method he has

propofed, \Virh fome funher experimeríl! and

impr~ve

mnts, lIIill (oon bring to acerrainry of cure (io moll ea–

fel

at ItaO) a diOemper (o dangerou! to our horfes, aud

,that hithmo has c1uded thc-force ofart,

M de la Folre has,diOinguifheil feven di/l'crent kinds

(jI glanders, four of which are incurable,

The GrO proceeds from ulcerated lungs,

th~

purulent

lllatter of which com., up rhe trarhea, aorl is difcharged

throughthe n(,Orih, like a whirifh liquor, fomeri01es ap'

llming in lun¡ps and grumes: in rhis diforder, though

Ihe matter i: difcharged from the nollrils, yet rhe mala–

foldy in the longs,

Th~

(ecood is .' waOing homour, \\'hich ufually feizes

1Jorfes

rhe decline of a difeafe, caufed by tOo hard Ia:-

1I0ur; rbis deOuxiOD al(o procecds (rom lhe lungs,

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557

The third is a mal:gnaot Ji(chargr, which wcnds rhe

firangles fometimcs, and falls uFon

th~

lungs. which runi

off by rhe noflrils,

The founh is, when ao acrimoniou. humour in (he

farcy feizesthefe pans, where il foon makes rerrible ha.

vock,

The fi(th kind we fhall defcribe by aod by, ... arifing

from takingcold,

The

r.~rh

kind is adifcharge from the llrangles, whicb

(omelimes vento itfelf ar the ooflrils.

TheCe are rhe various diforders which have beco oh–

ferved fometimes to throw matrer OUt from the noilril, .

let us now defcribc the mi glande",

The marrer, tüen, difcharged from rhe nollrils of

glandered horfe,

i.s

either whire, yellow, or greení/h,

fometi01es Oreaked, or ringed wirh blood: when the di(–

eafe i!

oí

loog f!.nding,

.nd

lhe bones are fouled, the

mmer lurn. blackifh, and become. vory (ctrid; and i.

al"ays artended with a fwelling

1)(

tlle.kernels or glands

u"der t,'e jaws; in every orher refpeél rhe horre i. gene'

rally healthy and found, till rhe dillcmper has beeo of

fome conrinuance.

It is always abad c,gn, when rhe m2tter fiicks to

th~

infide of the nollrils, like ghte or aiff paae; when th,

iofide of the oofe is raw, Md looks of a fivid or le:tdcl>–

lour; \Vhen rhe matler becomes bloody, aod fiinks, and

whenit looks of an alh·colour, Bur when only alimpid

fluid is Grfl difcharged, and afterward. a whirilb mmer,

the gland uoder the jawnot increafing, lIOd rhe Morder

of no longcOOlinuance, we may expeél a Cpeedy cure

for in this cafe, which arifes from taking cold. after

horre has been overhemd, the piruitary membrane is bel

flighrly inflamed, rhe Iymph inthe fmall verrelscoodenfed,

and the glands overloadetl, bU! nor yet ulcerared.

From thefe (ymproms, and fome nbfervationc made bo:h

by Bracken and Gibfon, it is plaio rhey werenot

abfolut~

firangers

rhe feat of this diforder, though they neglec.

ted pu/hing lheir inquiries to the (ountain'Mad, and coll.

fequently were ar a lors to know how to apply the reme.

dy to the parrs affeéled,

•

But our author, after examining by difTe(lion the

caro

eafes of glandered horfes, and mtking a Oriél fcM1tiny in.

to the llare of the vifcera, afi,f!ed for rhat purpafe

in.

genious and expen anatomill., for ten yem togerher, af·

firms this difeafe to be altogerher local; and rhat the

tru~

feat of it ís io the piluitaty memerane which lines

th~

partition along rhe infide of the oofe

me maxillary (¡.

nufes or cavities of the cheek·booes on each fide lhe no(e,

and rhe frontal finufes or caviries above the orbiu of the

eye.; that the vircera, as liver, h1ngl,

CJt,

glandere~

horfes are in general exceeding (ouoo; and eonfequently

that rhe

(el!

of rhi, diforder is not in thofe part!, as h>l

beeo alrerred by mofi

~urhors;

nnr indeed is it probable

it /hO\lld: for howcould (ueh horfea pr&rve !

h.ir

appe'

tire, rheir good arpearaoce, fleek and /bining coar, I in a

\\lord, all rhe

(¡gn~

health for many yeara

rog~rher

(which many glandered bor(cs'are koown ro enjoy) wirh

fu ch cfiflempered hOIVels,

Bm on nieely.examiniog rhe heads of

fuch. ~()t'fes,

found lhe eaviries abovc·menrioned more orlefs filled with

a v:fcous Oimy marter, the membrane i.hich lioes borA

:them and the nonril. inflamed, thick,ne!l, and cor:rodod

wirh