3^ Of Cures Pbyj'icd. Lib. I. 



When therefore at any time yoj Ihall find by any of the Signs foi"*- 

 merly rehearfed, that your Horie droopech, you fmdi prefently let him 

 Blood in the Neck- vein, and let him bleed well, then three Mornings 

 together (the Horfe being falling) give him half an Ounce of the Pow- 

 der called Diapente (the Composition whereof you ihall find in aparticu- 

 lar Chapter, together with the Virtues,) and this Di^pcute you fliall brew 

 it in a Pint of Muskadine, and fo give it the Horfe to drink with an 

 Horn: Then let him be ridden or walked abroad for an Hour ^ after he 

 Cometh in, give him any Meat v/hatfbever that he will eat. At Noon 

 ^give him a fweet Maili. hi the Evening perfume his Head with a fweet 



And thus do tliree Days together, and without doubt Health will come 



fuddenly. .>w.A «-' w.^^, •{ 



Chap. XXIX. Of the Difeafes Inthe Head. 



■ A S a Horfe's Head is compofed oF many Parts, fb are thofe many 

 Jr\_ Parts fubjeft to many and fundry Grievances, as namely, the Pa- 

 nicles, or thick Skins, which cleave to the Bones, and cover the whole 

 • Brain are fubjed to Head-ach, Megrim, Dizzinefs, and Amazes ; the 

 whole Brain it lelfis properly fubjeft to breed the Frenfy, Madnels, 

 Sleeping-evil, the taking and forgetfulneis. And here is to be noted, 

 that many Farriers, and thofe of approved good skill have ftrongly held 

 Opinions, that Horfes have very little or no Brains at all : And my lelf 

 for my own part, being carried away with their Cenfures, did at laft up- 

 on good Confideration, cut up the Heads of divers Horfes, fome dead, 

 and fome in dying, and could never find any Liquid or thin Brain, as in 

 other Beafts, but only a very thick, flrong, tough, and wining Subftance, 

 .iblid and firm like a tough Jelly, which I ever held to be only a Panicle, 

 and lb relblved with others, that a Horfe had no Brain : But after, upon 

 further Difcourfe v/ith Men of better Learning, I had this Refolution 

 given me : That a Horfe being a Beaft of extraordinary Strength and A- 

 .bility, made even to endure the worft of all Extremities, either by fore 

 Labour, or heavy Burthen, tliat Nature in his Creation had endowed 

 him with Members anfwerable to fuch Vigour : As namely, that his Brain 

 was not liquid and moift, as llibjecl to fleet, or to be diftempered with 

 very fmall Diforder, but tough and hard, even unpenetrable, and not to 

 be pierced by any reafbiiable Motion. And for the Panicles, they ihcwed 

 me thofe thin Skins over and befides that great Subftance \ fo that by ex- 

 perience 1 law, and now know, that a Horfe hath both Brain and a Pa- 

 nicle, and in them two are bred the Difeafes beforementioned. Now in 

 -the Venntricles, or Cells of the Brain, and in thofe Conduits by which 



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