-2^, Of Cures Fhyfical, Lib. I. 



veiled fore all the Day, and is brought into the Houfe hot, if, after his 

 Blood and inward Powers are fetled and. cooled, you then prefently, or 

 the fame KiLj;ht, gi=/e him cold Water a-s much as he will Drink, you 

 fhairiee him g. : of Hand fail into an extream Quaking, aiid from 

 thit Quaking inco a violent Burning, with all odier Diftemperatures, 

 of a Fever. 



l\Q\v fov cxtraordir.ary Fevers, they ever proceed either from Corrup- 

 tion of BLcd, or from Infeftion of the ^Ir : And albeit thefe Fevers are 

 i.:ot ufaally known unto our Farriers, yet they are as common as the for- 

 mer ^ only the Violence of them is ib great, and tlie Poyfon lb ilrong, 

 that they ever carry with them Ibme. other mortal Sickneis,_ as nam.ely, 

 tiie Stoiggers, Tdlovos, Aifticrr-, and fuch like, which never are, but a ?ejti^- 

 l.e?it Fever ever goeth before them : And they, like the Marks of the 

 Plague, are feldom ieen till the Cures be deiperate, and then the unskil- 

 ful Farrier,, neither nqdng nor knowing, if ire did, the Effefts of the. Ff- 

 ver, doth ever mifcall the Karne of the FJorfe's h:firmity , and taking 

 the lelTer for the greater, fails many times to do the Office and Cure, 

 which he interidetli. 



Kow the Signs to know the Fever be thefe : Firft, he will ever hold 

 down his Head, he will qnake and tremble :, but when his Trembling is 

 pafi:, then will his Body burq, and his Breath be hot ^ he will breathe faft, 

 and his Flank will beat ; he will reel, he will forfake his Meat, his Eyes 

 will be flvoln and clofed up, yet therewithal much watering ^ his Flelh 

 will as it were fill from his Bones, and his Stones will hang down low, he 

 will often lye down and rife, up again : As his defire will be to Drink ; 

 yet. at no time drink much, neither will he at any time fleep. 



Now for the general Cure of thefe general Fevers, you fliall under-^ 

 ftand, that fome Farriers ule to let the Florfe blood in the Face, Tem- 

 ples, and Palate of the Mouth, and the firfl.Day to give him no Meat, 

 but warm Drink only, by a little at a time : And after, the fineft Grafs- 

 or, fineiliHay wet in VVaterr, keeping him warm, and, often walking him 

 up and down in a temperate Air, and giving him good Store of Litter : 

 Then when he. begins to mend, to feed him with Barley fodden, husked 

 and beaten, as you do Wheat before you make Furmity. And this Cure 

 is not amifs, for it agreeth with the antient Experience of the Italians : 

 But in our EngFifli Horfes, (through the Clime, as I fuppofej it often 

 faileth. 



The beft Cure therefore that I -have found, is, as loon as you per- 

 ceive him begin to fnake, to give him the Yolks of three or four Eggs 

 beaten with feven or eight Spoonfuls of Aqua-Vita to drink, and then 

 chafe him up and d,own till his Shaking be paft, and then fet him up clofe 

 and warm, and with miany Cloaths make him Sweat an Hour : Let. his 

 Boo\hQ, Ofits vt?ry well dry'd and fifted, and once a Day fome vvaih'd. 



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