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.

William Gibson

Date:: 1735

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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$muft be drefs’d with Honey of Rofes, and Tin&ure of Myrrh warm, and then healed with Bafilicon mix’d with Turpentine, &c. In giving the Fire, Solleyfell advifes to -da Obfervati- fear the large Vein above and below the concerning Thigh, from an Opinion that the Tumour the taking up is fed by it \ but it is plainly other wife, the a em' Office of that Vein being only to take up and carry back that Portion of the Blood which is more than neceflary for the Nourifhment of thofe Parts through which it paffes 5 and when that Conduit is once ftopt, there mull be a greater quantity of Blood and Nourifhment retain’d in thofe Parts, at lead for fome time, than before ; wherefore fuch an Ef¬ fect muft be owing, not to an Abatement of Humours, but to a greater quantity of Moifture derived from a greater quantity of Blood, whereby the Bone may be more eafily feparated, as we have already obferv’d ; but if it chance to have this good EffeCt in removing a Bone-fpavin, the Lofs of fo large a Veflel may eafily be of worfe Comfequenee in other Refpedts, as (hall be (hewn hereafter, CHAP. LXXIE Of the String-halt.] THE String-halt is an involuntary and convulfive Mo¬ tion of the Mufcles, which extend or bend the Hough ; when it feizes the outfide Mufcles, the Horfe ftraddles and throws his Legs outwards, but when the In fide Mufcles are affeCted, his Legs are twitched up to his Belly ; fometimes it is only in one Leg, fometimes in both ; but thefe things are fo well known, that we need not infill on them. It gene¬ rally proceeds from fome.Strain or Blow \ for whatever cre¬ ates a more than ordinary Pain in any particular Mufcle belonging to the Hough, may caufe a too great Derivation of Blood and Spirits, whereby fuch an habitual Contraction may be produc’d. The Cure is difficult, and rarely attended with Succefs 5 though, in the Beginning, a String-halt may be removed with good Rubbing, and the Ufe of Fomentations, with daily but moderate Exercife ; for by this Means the Blood and Spirits may be equally derived into the difeafed Mufcle and its Antagonift. The laft Refuge is ufually the Fire, which has been known to anfwer, at lead fo far as to pre¬ vent abfolute Lamenefs. _ Z 3 CHAP,$