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fign to know the Dileafe, is, the Hoiie will f^all fuddenly, both throu"-h 

 the Refolution of his Members, and the Diftentioii of his Siiiews, all his 

 Body fwill quake and quiver, and they will Foam much at their Moutlis 

 yet when you think them paft all hope of Life,they will ftili ftart up fud- 

 denly and fall to their Meat. Kow, if you will know whether thefe 

 Fitswill come often, or but feldom, you fhall feel the Griftle betwixt 

 Iiis Noftrils, and if it be Cold, he will often, bat if he be Warm he 

 will fall feldom. The Care is, You fliall firft let him Blood in the 

 Keck-vein, taking good ftore of Blood away : Then within four or five 

 Days after, you ihall let him Blood on his Temple-veins, and on his 

 Eye, veins: Then anoint all his Body over with a comfortable Friftion 

 then Bathe his Head and Ears with Oyl de Bay, liquid Pitch and Tar 

 mixt togetlicr, and of the lame put fbme into his Ears : Then make him 

 a Cap or Biggen of Ganvafe, quilted with Wooll to keep his Head warm: 

 llicn give him a Purgation or Scouring, of which you ihall find plenty 

 '-ii a Chapter hereafter : You fiiall alio force him to Sneeze, but if tiie 

 Diieale notwithflanding continue ftill, you iliall then with a hot h'on 

 pierce the Skin of his Fore-head in divers places, and after anoint it 

 with Sweet-Butter, for thereby you flvall draw oat the grofs Humour.'j 

 which do opprels the Brin, and in any wife during the time that he 

 remainpth iji Phyfick, let his Stable be kept exceeding warm, and his Diet 

 thin, " ' ■ " ' 



Chap. XXXVI. Of the Night-AUre. 



H I S Difeafe which we call the Kight-Mare, is an Infirmity which 

 only troubleth the Horfe in :he Kight-feafbn, flopping the draw- 

 ing of liis Breath, in fuch violent fort, that with the flruggling and ftri- 

 ving he will be driven into a great Sweat and faintnefs : It proceedeth, 

 according to the Opinion of ancient Farriers, from a continual Crudity, 

 or raw Digeftion of the Stomach, from whence grofs Vapours afcending 

 -up into Head, do not only opprofs the Brain, but all the fenfitive Parts 

 alfo. Now for my part, I rather hold it an Infirmity of the Stomach 

 and inward Bowels, which being cloyed with much Glut and Fat, doth 

 in the Night-feafon fo hinder the Spirits and Powers from doing their 

 Natural Office, that the Baft having, as it were his Breath ftrangled, 

 doth with an unnatural ftrugglin in his Sleep, put his Bedy into an ex- 

 tream Sweat, and with that Paflion is brought to much Faitnefs ^ of 

 which I have had much and con.tinual Experience, not only in Horles 

 exceeding Fat, and newly taken from the Grafs, but efpecially from luch 

 Horles as are either fatted upon Eddifh Grafs, which in fome Countries 

 is called After-Mathes •, or flich as are taken up Fat inthe Wmter-leafbn* 

 The figns to know this Difeafe, is, that in the Morning when you come 

 early to your Horfe, you ihall find him s^ll of a great Sweat, and his 



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