lo Of Cures Fhyfieal, Lib. L 



his Limbs, or Dulnefs upon Corredion, it is a figii of Sicknefs in die 

 Brain, and that the Power'Animd is evil affected. If you find that his 

 Tulfes do beat extraordinary flow, or much too faft, it is a iign that his 

 Heart is grieved, and his Power-Fit d evil affe£led-, But if you find that he 

 doth confume, pine away, and lofeth his Stomach, it is a iign that his 

 Liver is perplexed, all his inwardParts out of frame, and his Power-Na- 

 turd evil alfe^led. 



Islow you ihall again underftand, that of Anions fbme be Voluntary^ 

 Ibme not Voluntary. 



The Voluntary Anions be thole, which a Horfe may either further or 

 hinder, ftay or lett when themfelves pleale, as the moving of the Legs ^ 

 for they may go ftand or lie down at their own pleafure. 



The Aftions not Voluntary, are thole which depend not upon the Will 

 of any Beaft. but be done of their own accord, and naturally ^ as the 

 moving of the Heart, and of the Arteries and the palfage of the Blood ^ 

 the firft whereof beateth Sleeping and Waking j and the other hath his 

 Courfe every Minute. And thus much of the Anions and Operations. 



Chap. VIII. Of Spirits, and in what Part of the Horfe' s Body they remain. 



Spirits, which is the feventh Natural Builder of this Natural Work, 

 : are to be underftood to be, that fine, pure, clear, and airy Sub- 

 fiance which is engendred of the finefi: part of the Blood, v/hereby the 

 virtue of every principal Member may vilit all the other Parts of the 

 Body, making them to do their Duties, according to the Rules of Na- 

 ture. Now of Spirits according to the Opinions of fome Phyficians, 

 there are but two kinds, that is, the Spirit- Animal and the Spirit-Vital : The 

 Spirit- Animd is that which giveth power of feeling and moving to a Horle, 

 and hath his refting place in the Brain, from whence through the Sinews, 

 it is difperfed into all other parts of the Body : And it is engendred of 

 the Vital Spirit, being more vehemently wrought and laboured, and partly 

 of continual breathing : Even i^o it is partly preferved by the Caul of the 

 Brain, which doth, hourly water and nouriih it. ''■ '"'''^ 



The Spirit-Vital is contained in the Heart, from whence it floweth into 

 every part of the Body, being the chief caufe of all natural Heat, and 

 it is preferved and nouriflied both by Breathing and Blood. 



Totheie two Spirits, there be moft Farriers, hoth Italians ^nd. Frenchy 

 which add a third Spirit, and call it the Spirit-Natziral, faying, it hath his 

 Refidence in the X^'wr, and the Veins •, but the two former are of llich 

 Power, and have fuch Superiority, that the Body cannot live without 

 them, nor have any being at all : Wherefore, it is the Office of the 

 Farrier continually, in all his Medicines, to have fbme comfortable Sim- 

 ple, which may maintain and keep the Spirits in their full ftrength, live- 

 lihood and virtue. And thus much touching Spirits, and thofe ^e^rexi 

 natural things which compaft a Natural Body. Chap. 



