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the lively Spirits give Feeling and Motion to the Body, there do breed 

 theTurnfick, or Sturdy, the Staggers, the Falling-Evil, the Night-Mare, 

 the Apoplexy, the Palfie and Convulfion, or Cramp, the Catarrh, or 

 Rheum, and laftly the Glanders. And thus much of the Head in ge- 

 neral. 



C H A p. XXX. Of Head-ach, or fain in the Head. 



' I ^ H E Head-ach is a Pain that cometh either from fbme inward Caule, 

 -»- or of Ibme Cholerick Humour gathered together in the Panicles of 

 the Brain, or elfe of ibme extream Heat or Cold, or of fome fudden 

 Blow, or of fome noifome Savour. The figns are, the hanging down of 

 the Horfe's Head and Ears, dropping of his Urine, dimnefs of Sight, 

 fwoln and watriih Eyes. The Cure according to the Opinion of fome 

 of our Engliih Farriers, is to let him Blood in the Eye-veins, and to 

 Iquirt warm Water into his Noftrlls •, and for that Day give him no 

 Meat ; the next Morning fafting give him warm Water, and fome Grafs: 

 At Kight give him Barley and Fitches mixt together, and fb keep him 

 warm till he be found ", but this Cure I do not fancy. The beft help is 

 firft to make him Sneeze by Fuming him, then let him Blood in the Pa- 

 late of the Mouth, and keep him fafting at the leaft twelve Hours after : 

 Then pour into liis Noftrils Wine, wherein hath ben fbdden Euphorhium 

 and Frankicenfey and after feed him, and keep his Head warm. 



C H A p. XXXI. Of the Frenz.y, and Madnefs in a Horfe. 



TH E Madnefs of a Horfe, by the moft ancient and beft approved 

 Farriers, is divided into four Paffions : The firft is, when fbme 

 naughty Blood doth ftrike the Panicle of theBrain butin one part only, it 

 prefently makes the Horfe dull both in Mind and Sight, and you ftiall 

 know it by this fign, the Horfe will turn round like a Beaft that is trou- 

 bled with the Sturdy : The Reafon being, becaufe the outfide of the Head 

 is grieved only. The lecond is, when the Poyfon of fuch Blood doth 

 infeft the middle part of his Brain ^ then the Horfe becometh Frantick, 

 leaping againft Walls or any thing. The third is, when that Blood fiUeth 

 the Veins of the Stomach, and infe^leth as well the Heart as the Brain; 

 then he is faid to be Mad. But the fourth and laft is, when that Blood 

 infefteth not only the Brain and Hearty but even the Panicles alio, and 

 tlien he is faid to be.Stark-mad, which you ftiall know by his biting at eve- 

 ry Man which comes near him, by his gnawing of the Manger and the 

 Walls about him. And laftly, by tearing his own Skin in pieces. 



Now for the Cure, you ftiall caufe him to be let Blood in all the lower 

 Parts of his Body, to draw the Blood from his Head ^ as namely, on the 

 Shackle-veins,the Spur-veins, the Palat-veins, and the Thigh-veins, and 

 you fhall let him Blood abundantly, then give him this Drink : Take the 



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