Lib. I. 



MARKHAMs Mafter-piece. 



The FIRST BOOK. 



Containing all Cures Phyfical, or fuch Infirmities^ as 



being inward, crave the Adminiftration of Phyfick, and 

 are called in Horfe -Leach-Craft, Horfe-Sickneffes. 



Chap. I. 

 Of the Natural Com^ojitlon of Horfes Bodies. 



Ouching the true Compofition of n Horfe's Body, you 

 fliall underftand, that it is (as the Body of Man) com- 

 pounded of Thirteen feveral Things, that is to fay, Se- 

 ven Natural, and Six not Natural : The Seven Natural 

 are Elements, Temperaments , Humours, Aiembers, Toxoers^ 

 or Virtues, Ail ions, or Operations, and Spirits \ all which be 

 called Natural, becaufe the natural Per fe£lion and Excellency of every 

 lenfiblc Body doth wholly depend upon them : And hath his moving no 

 longer than they have power of Working. The Six, which are not Na- 

 tural, be the Air, A-feat, and Drink, Aiaion, and Refi, Sleep and iVatchy 

 Emptinefs and Fulnefs, and the AjfeBs, or Motions of the Mind ^ and tliefe 

 are called not Natural, becaufe as (being rightly and in due order ap* 

 plied) they preferve, fuftain, and fortify the Body ^ fo being mifgoveni- 

 ed, or ufed in any excefs, or difbrder, they are the only corrupt ciertroy- 

 ers of the whole Body : And of thefe Thirteen Principles whicii com- 

 pound the Fabrick, or whole Frame of the Body, I intend to Ipeak 

 fever ally. 



Chap. II. Of the Four Elements, their Virtues and Operations. 



FIrft, For the Expofition of the Word Element, you fliall underfland 

 that it is the primary or firft beginning of all Things, being of it- 

 fe If pure, uncorrupt and fimple ; all things being firft made thereof, and 

 all things at laft being defolved into the llime again. It is alfo in its own 

 Nature fo bright, clear, and without contradion of Impurity, that it is 



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