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Ipace ofa^Day and a Night :Then let him Blood in the Neck-vein,and give 

 him a comfortable Drench, of which Drenches yoii fhall find great pler- 

 ty, together with their Ufes, in a Chapter following. There be fome 

 Smiths which only take Rue and Selladine, of each a like Quantity, 

 and ftamping them with White-Salt, thruft it into the Horfe's Ear, and 

 it helpeth. Others take an Ounce and an half of the Oyl of Bitter-Al- 

 mondSjtwo Drams of Ox-Gall,and a half-penny in black EUebor flamped, 

 and five Drams of the Grains of Caftoreum, Vinegar, and Verjuice, 

 leethethemaltogethertill the Vinegar be eonfumed, then ftrain them, 

 and put it into the Horfe's Ears. All thele Medicines have been divers 

 times approved to be fingular good, and for mine own part, I have found 

 great Effeds in them : Yet that which I have found at all times moft ex- 

 cellent, is, if the Dileafe be young, and early taken, (that is, before the 

 Horfe be grown into an Extremity of Weaknefs) to take only Verjuice 

 and Bay-Salt^ and mixing them well together, to ftop it into the Horle's 

 Ears. But if the Difeafe be old, and the Horle brought to a defjperate 

 ftate of Mortality, then you fhall take AlTa-foetida, and having dilfolved 

 it in Vinegar, warm it upon a Chafing-difh of Coals, and with ronnd Balls 

 of Tow, fluff it hard into the Horfe's Ears, and fo bind them up for four 

 and twenty Hours, after which time give him a comfortable Drink. 

 Now, whereas fome Smiths do ufe to ftamp Aquavltx and Garlick toge- 

 ther, and ftop that into his Ears \ I for my part, think it too ftrong, 

 except the Horfe be in great Luft, and full of Fleih, which if he be, 

 doubtlefs it may do well enough •, only for a general Rule you muft ob-^ 

 ferve, ever to let the Horfe Blood in the Neck-vein two or three Morn- 

 ings together, and every time take a great Abundance of Blood from 

 him. 



Chap. XXXV. Of the Falling-Evil. 



THIS Failing-Evil, or as the Italians call it, This Malcoduco, is no- 

 thing elfe but that which we call in Men the Falling-Sicknefs, in 

 Beafts the Falling-Evil ^ for it doth for a certain Seafon, deprive them 

 of all Senfe whatfoever. It is a Difeafe not commonly incident to our 

 £fff///?; Races, butamongftthe Italian^ Spanijlj, and French Horfes, many- 

 times found. 



^ Now confidering that the mofl of our befl of EngUjl] Stables are fur- 

 nifhed even with fome Horles of thefe Countries, I think it good to write 

 Something touching the Difeafe. It proceeds from cold and grofs Flegm, 

 gathered together in the fore-part of the Head, betwixt the Panicle and 

 the Brain, which being by any hot Vapour difperfl over the whole Brain, 

 it doth inflantly caufe this falling. There be others which fuppofe it t© 

 be governed by the Moon ^ and that by a certain Courfe thereof, both 

 Horfes and other Beafls do fall, and as it were die for a fmall time. The 



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