Lib. I. Of Cures Pbyjical. 5p 



Body fomething panting \ or perhaps you Ihall but only fii:id him Sweat 

 in his Flanks, upon hi^ Neck, and at the roots of his Ears : Either or 

 both are iigns of this Sicknefs, efpecially if at Kight when you Litter 

 him^ if you find that ne is dry of his Body, and giveth no outward fign 

 of inward Sicknefs. Now there be fome that will object againft me, ar.d 

 fay, that this hifirmity is not tlie Night-Mare, but an ordinary Infirmity 

 ingendred by fuperfiuity of cold, grois, and unwholefome Food, got in 

 the Winter-feafoii :, which Nature, through the help ot' warm CUx-tths, 

 and a warm Houte expels in this Manner, in the Night fealb':. To this 

 Obje^ion I anfwer, Tliat if they do difillow this Sicknefs to be the Night- 

 Mare, that then withont Contradiftion, there is no fuch Dileafe as the 

 Night-Mare at all, and that it is but only a Name without any Subftance 

 or Confequence I, but forafmuch as this Sicknefs is not only very ufual^ 

 but alfo carrieth with it all the Eifefts and Attributs afcribed unto the - 

 Night-Marc, and that it is as yet a Dileafe unnamed, 1 do not thin:| I 

 can give it a more proper Term than to call it the Night-Mare. The- 

 Cure whereof is, every Morning and Evening, both before ai:d after his 

 VV^ater, to give the Korfe fome m.oderate Exercife, as to make him go 

 at leaft a Mile and more for his Water , and after he is watered, to Gal- 

 lop him genuly on the Hand a good fpace ^ then when he is brought into • 

 the Houfe, and well rubbed, to give him his Provender, (beiiig Oats ; 

 and to mix therewith a Handful or better of Hempfeed ^ only in this 

 Cure you rauft be careful, that your Exercife do not inforce him to Sweat, 

 nor fiiall you have need to ufe it longer than you find that he fweateth 

 mw:h in the Night-feafon. This Exercile and Medicine will not only cure 

 this Infirmity, but alfo any Cold that is newly gotten whatfoever. 



Chap. XXXVII. Of the ^4poplexy or Pnljl^. 



THele Paliies or Apoplexis whic happen unto Horfes, are of two lorts-y^ 

 the one general, the other particular. The general Palfie is, when 

 aHorle is deprived of all Senfe, and Moving, generally over his whole 

 Body, which is feldom or never found out by our Farriers ; becaufe the 

 Mortality and Suddenness of Death which pnrfues the Difeafe, takes 

 from them all Notes ar.d CbfervationS of the Infirmity : And indeed, for 

 the general Palfie, there is no Cure, and therefore there needs no Diicip- 

 tionofSignof Cure.- For tins particular Palfie, that is, when a Hcrfe 

 is deprived but of fome Part or Member of his Body, and m'-'ft common- 

 ly it is but the Neck only, as both my felf and others have found by dai- 

 ly Experience. This Dillafe proceedeth from foulnefs of Food, or from 

 Fen-feeciing, which breedeth grols and tough Humours, which joyned • 

 with Crudities andxawDigeftions, opprefs the Brain violently altogether: 

 It alfo cometh many times by means of fome Blow or Wound given upon 

 the Temples of the Head. The figns to know the Difeafe are, the ga- 

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