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Watef and Earth, and then proceed to give an Ac- 

 count of the four Humours, which they will have 

 to be Blood, Fleghm, C holer and Melancholy ; then 

 they go on with their Te7nperamefits, fuch as Hot 

 Dry, Cold and Moiji, as this or that Humour is pre- 

 dominant ; and fome of them, particularly Mark- 

 ham, has refined fo far on this Head, as to pre- 

 tend to tell by the Colour, of a Horfe, which of 

 the Elements has the Afcendant in him. 



Indeed I cannot fay but there is fomething in 

 the Colour of a Horfe which may denote his being 

 hardy and able to endure all Weathers, or other- 

 wife, of a wafhy Conftitution ; But I am for from 

 thinking, that there is fo much in the Colour as 

 Markham imagines ; I fhall therefore deviate from 

 the common Paths of thefe Rcjtcrujtan Sages, 

 (whofe Brains were much more full of Humours 

 than moll Horfes Bodies with which they had any 

 thing to do, ) and inculcate a Praftice founded upon 

 right Reafon and Experience. 



I take a Hcrfe, of the beft Sort, to be one nei- 

 ther too fi'ry nor fluggifli ; for if he be of the 

 firft Difpofition, he's fubjec^ to Fevers and Afth- 

 ma's, which laft is what the Farriers call a Broken Broken 

 Wind; and if he's of a dull, fluggifh Temper, he's Wind 

 more fubjeft to the Greafe, and Scratches, with Greafe, &x, 

 all the foul Concomitants of a flow and languid 

 Blood ; fuch as the Farcin, dillemper'd Eyes, Poll- 

 Evil, all Eruptions or Breakings out upon his 

 Body, with feveral other Diforders, which I Ihall 

 touch upon in the Sequel of this Difcourfe. 



As to the fix Non-naturals, or Res non naturales The Six 

 as they are called by the Latins, 1 fhall not trouble J^J*"'^'*^^'' 

 the Reader with a Difcourfe upon them, feeing I * 

 think the fame would not profit much. Therefore, 

 I fhall content my felf with the bare mention of 

 them, and ma;ke ufe of the Term as often as I fhall 

 find occafion ; though, I hope, with greater Per- 

 fpicuity and Plainnefs than many v^'ho have writ, 

 upon this Subjed, before me. 



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