Lib. I. Of Cures Fhyftcal, 



Duty of every good Horfeleach, to have a more careful and vigilant re- 

 fpeft unto them ^ for if any one of them fail, the Horfe cannot live. 

 Therefore whenfoever yo fee that either your Horfe refufeth his Food, 

 or that he cannot retain and keep his Food, but cafteth it up again ^ or 

 that he doth not digeft his Food, but keeps it corruptly in his Stomach : 

 Or that he cannot void his Excrements in a natural manner, but holds it 

 burning in his Body, take them for certain figns of mortal Sicknels: And 

 thus much of the Powers and Viitues. 



Chap. VII. Of ASilons or Oper^triortSy and -whereto they belong. 



AS touching Anions or Operations y which are the fixth Column or 

 Pillar whch doth uphold this natural Body of which we treat, 

 they are not only belonging, but even derived from the three Powers im- 

 mediately Ipoken in the former Chapter, as thus : The Adlion and Ope- 

 ration of the Fower-Animaly is to difceni, to move, and to feel. Horles 

 dilcern by means of the Virtue Imaginativey Difcourfath'Cy and Memora," 

 tivcy whereof the firft is placed in the Forehead, the fecond in the mid- 

 dle of the Brain, and the third in the hinder part of the Head. All 

 which are comprehended under the Power-Animal. Horfes move by means 

 of the Vertue-Motizie, whofe Aftion and Operation is to refrain, or let 

 flack the Sinews, whereby every Member hath his movin g. And Horles 

 feeling is by means of the Virtue-Sen/itive, whofe Aftion and Operation 

 is bufied in the five Senfes, as to See, Hear, Smell, Tafie, and Touch, and all 

 thefe Aftions fpring from the Power-Amimal. 



The Aftion or Operation of the Power-P^ttal, is to retrain and loolen 

 the Heart, and the Arteries which proceed from the Heart, which Afti- 

 on, whether it be hurt or difturbed in a Horle's Body, is eafily known of 

 every good Farrier or Horfe-Marjhal, by the unequal beating of his Pulfe; 

 that is to fay, of the Arteries, which come down from the Heart to the 

 infides of both his Fore-legs, a little below the Knuckles of his Shoulders, 

 and likewife crofs both the Temples of his Head, a little higher than his 

 Eyes. And if any Man be fo fimple to imagine that the thicknefs of the 

 Horfe's Skin fKall be an impediment to the feeling of his Motion •, let 

 him remember that as a Horfe's Skin is thicker than a Mans, fo alfo are 

 his Arteries greater, and beat with more violence, and fo confequently be 

 felt without any great Difficulty. 



The Anions or Operations of the Power-Natural, are to hgender, to 

 Uficreafe, to Nourijh, to deftre with Appetite, to AttraB, to Change, to Digeft^ 

 to Retaiuy and to Expel, and many other of like kind. Thele Aftions there- 

 fore are carefi||jiy to be looked unto by every Farrier, to the intent that 

 he may learn by them, not only the whole Eftate of a Horle's Body, 

 but alio what particular Member thereof is evil afFefted : As thus. If 

 either in your Horfe you find much Forgctfulnef^;, Uunimbleneis of 



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