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called a rochet (roach), or, also two eels putri- 

 fied in wine {what a delicious potation it must 

 have been) do infuse this virtue into the 

 'foresaid wine, that whosoever drinketh of, 

 shall have no mind afterwards to any wine 

 besides, but fall into a loathing thereof." It 

 was wonderful, however, that with so many 

 preventives at command, the streets of Rome 

 should so often have been infested with 

 drunkards." 



What pristine remedies the farriers must 

 have employed in former times. Here is the 

 '' account " of one of these ancient prac- 

 titioners : — ^' I present you with my bill for 

 horse-doctering and will particularize all my 

 trouble, I have had with them — with Blucher 

 I had much trouble in rowelling him in two 

 places gave him drinks, took his shoes off bled 

 him at Toe bled him in the inside of thigh ran 

 up and down the fields in getting herbs which 

 I boiled and made them into baths for to bath 

 him took him and led him to Brown Edge 

 near Mossley, after that I gave him many 

 bawls — the horse I have on hand at present to 

 cure I have had fifteen days and the drugs 

 which I use for him are in particular dear as 



