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tain flirubs, and medicinal herbs-, rejefbing the 

 groffer parts. The blood of the he-goat dried, is 

 a great recipe in Tome families for the pleurify and 

 inflammatory diforders*. 



Cheefe made of goats milk, is much valued 

 in fome of our mountanous countries, when kept 

 to proper age •, but has a peculiar tafte and flavor. 



The rutting feafon of thefe animals, is from 

 the beginning of September to November j at that 

 time the males drive whole flocks of the females 

 continually from place to place, and. fill the v/hole 

 atmofphere around them with their ftrong and 

 ungrateful odor •, which though as difagreeable as 

 afia foetida itfelf, yet may be conducive to prevent 

 many diftempers, and to cure nervous and hyf- 

 terical ones. Horfes are imagined to be much 

 refrefhed with it ; on which account many perfons 

 keep a he-goat in their ftuds or ilables. 



Goats go with young four months and a half, 

 and bring forth from the latter end of February to 

 the latter end of ^pril : Having only two teats, 

 they bear generally but two young, and fome- 

 times three ; and in good warm paftures there have 

 been inftances, though rare, of their bringing four 

 at a time : both young and old are afl^eded by the 

 weather : a rainy feafon makes them thin -, a dry 

 funny one makes them fat and blythe -. their ex- 



* This remedy is taken notice of even by Dr. Mead in his 

 monifa medica, p. 35. under the article //^«rA'//. The Germans 

 ufe that, of the Stein-boc^ ot Ibex. 



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