cr^: Of Cures Phyficai, Lib* ^B 



Spring-time of the Year, when Blooi begins to e.^creafe, and moil: com- 

 monly to Colts and youne; Horfes. It proceeds of the feme Caufes that 

 the Quotidian doth, and fometimes of Ilanknefs and 111 Blood. The figns 

 to know it, are all the flgns formerly fpokeii of, aiid this is the chiefeft, . 

 that the Korle will be apparently Sick •, as it were on the A^fonday^ then 

 apparently well on the Tifday^ and fick on the Wcdnefday following. This 

 Fever is never feen, but it beginneth with fliaking. The Cure thereof is,, 

 ajToon as you perceive the Horfe begin to fnake, you ihall take a certain 

 Herb, or rather a Weed called Stonc-crcf. and bruizing it in a Morter, 

 Cake four Spoonfuls of the juice thereof, and infufe it in a Quart of firong 

 Ale, and give it the Eorie to Drink: Then walk him gently up and 

 down in fome temperate Air for an Hour, then fet him up, and with the 

 help of Cloaths put him into a Sweat for another Hour, then cool him ^ 

 and in any wife till his Fits leave him., let him drink no cold Water, and 

 let his Provender be the oldeft and drieft Oats you can get, only upon his 

 good Days before his Fits come, keep him very long failing and 

 empty. 



C u A r. XV III. Of the Quartan Fever. 



"^ H E Quartan Fever y is that which Ibme Farriers call a Tliird Day's 

 ficknef?^ as tlius : If his Fits begin on the Monday^ he will be well 

 owtheTuefday and IFedmfday, and fick again on the Thurfday. It p'/oceeds 

 from the fame Caufss that the Tertian Fever doth, yet in his working is 

 not fo apparently violent, but of much longer continuance : For if 

 greater Care ar.d Help be not, thefe Fevers will 'taft fome a Quarter of 

 a Year, fome forne Half a Year, and fome a whole Year, there needs no 

 other fign to know it, then the coming and going of the Fits, as hath 

 been declared a Irendv. And for. the Cure, it is the felf-fime which is 

 defcribed in the former Chiapters, for the Tertian Fever :■ Only if his Fits 

 doth not leav-e him at the firft taking of the Medicine, you fliall then 

 give it him again the fecond time, but not above thrice at the moft in 

 any wife. 



C H A ?. XIX. Of the Fever Continual. 



TH E Fever Continual, is that which continueth without any ir.ter- 

 mi/lion, and it h moft dangerous and violent : For there is in it 

 the Eifefl? of all tlie former Fevers, everyone taking place as the other 

 cndeth ; as the Quotidian beginning is purfiaed by a Tertian^ a-'d a Te-^i.tn 

 by a Quartan, and thofe two lupp'y fo many Hours till the Quotidian doth 

 be'jir'^gain. This kind of continual Fever moft often fpringeth from 

 ibme Inflaimrnation or violent Heat in.gendred in the Princ'pal Members 

 about, the Heart : And the f:gns thereof are want of Reft, ar-d falling 

 ikway of the Fielh, belides certain InJBammations or Swelliiigs, which 



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