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Cold, or extream Heat, or raw Digeftion ftriking into the empty Veins 

 luddenly , or elle of extream Hunger cauled by long Fafting. The 

 Signs thereof are Numbnels, and want of Motion before fpoken of: As 

 for the Caufe, it is diverfe : For firft you muft note, whether it come of 

 Cold or Heat : If it come of Cold, you fhall know it by the fluffing and 

 poze in the Head, which is ever joyned with the Dileafe : If of Heat 

 by the hotnefs of his Breath, and clear fetching of his Wind. Now if 

 it proceed from Cold, you fliall give him to drink one Ounce of Lafer' 

 pitiiim mixt with Sallet-Oil and Muskadine Luke-warm : If it proceed 

 of Heat, you fhall give him one Ouace of Laferpitium with Water and 

 Honey luke-warm : But if it proceed of Crudity, or any raw Digcftion^ 

 then you iliall help him by Fafting •, and if it proceed from Fafting, then 

 you ihall heal him by feeding him often with good Meat, as with whole- 

 Ibme Bread and dry Oats ^ yet but a little at a time, that he may erer 

 eat with a good Stomach. 



Now for the French Farriers, as Monfieur Horace and the reft, who call 

 this Difeaie Surpriusy they hold it cometh only from cold Caules, follow- 

 ing hot Accidents, and thcv ufe for their Cure to let him Blood on the 

 Breft-veins, and then put him into a Sweat, either by Exercife, or multi- 

 plicity of Cloaths ; but many Cloaths are better, becaule the Horie is not 

 capable of Labour : And ibmetimes they will bury him all fave his Head 

 in an old Dung-hill, till through the heat thereof his Limbs receive fuch 

 feeling, that he begins to ftruggle out of the fame. All which Cures are 

 not much amifs •, yet in mine Opinion, this is the beft, eafieft, and fu reft: 

 Way : Firft to let him Blood in the Neck and Breaft, then to anoint aU 

 his Body with Oyl FetroUum^ then give him this Drink : Take of Malm fey 

 three Pints, and mix it with a quartern of Sugar, Cinamon and Cloves, 

 and let him drink it luke-warm, then take old rotten wet Litter, and for 

 want thereof wet Hay, and with Cloaths, Surfmgles and Cords,Swaddle 

 all his whole Body over with the fame of a good thicknefs, and renew it 

 once in three Days till he be whole ^ let his Stable be warm, his Exercife 

 moderate, and if he grow Coftive, let him firft be raked, and after give 

 him either a Clifter, or a Suppofitary according to his Strength. There 

 is alfb another kind of taking, and that is, when a Horfe is Planet-ftruck, 

 or ftricken with Thunder : But it is utterly uncurable, and therefore I 

 will omit to fpeak further of it. The laft kind of taking is when a Horfe- 

 is Shrow-run,that when a Horfe lieth fleeping,there is a certain Venemous 

 Field-Moufe called a Shrow, whofe Head is extraordinary long, like a 

 Swine's Head, and her Feet fhorter of the one Side than the otlier. This ' 

 Moufe if fhe happen to run over any of the Limbs of the Horfe,prefently " 

 the Horie lofeth the Ufe of that Limb flie ran over..and if fhe run over his 

 Body, he commonly lofeth the Ufe of his hinder Loins : And thefe Ac- 

 cidents having been often found unexpefted, common Farriers have 



F z held 



