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beat them to Powder, and give the Horfe two Spoonfuls thereof with a 

 Quart of Ale or Beer luke-warm : Ufe this at leaft three Morrings to- 

 gether, and it will not only help the Difeafe, but if it be formerly 

 ufed, it will prevent the coming thereof: This Drink is alfo good for 

 a Cold. Now although every one of thefe Medicines are very good, 

 yet for my own part, I have found this which followeth to exceed them 

 all. 



Firft, Let him Blood in the Neck-vein, then give him this Drink : 

 Take two handfals of Celladine, if it be in the Summer, the Leaves and 

 Stalks willferve, but if it be in Winter, take Leaves, Stalks, Roots and 

 all, chop them fmall, then take a handful of Wormwood, and a handful 

 of Rue, chop them likewife, put all theie into three Quarts of ftrong 

 Ale or Beer,and boil them till it come to a Qiiart ; then take it from the 

 Fire, and ftrain it till you have left no Moifture in the Herbs •, then dil- 

 Iblve it in three Ounces of the beft Treacle, and give it the Horfe luke- 

 warm to drink: Then for a Week together, once a Day, rub all the 

 Horfe's Body over with Oyl and Beer, or Butter and Beer, againft the 

 Hair, and feed him with warm Mafhes of Malt and Water, and for his 

 Provender, let him have Barley Ibdden till it be ready to break, provided 

 that you keep it not until it lower. 



Chap. XLllL Of the Glanders. 



Touching this Difeale which we call the Glanders, my Mafters, the 

 old Farriers and I are at much Diffcrnce For fome of them do hold 

 Opinion, that it is an Inflammation of the Kernels, which lie on each 

 Side of the Throat, underneath the Roots of the Tongue, near the Swal- 

 lowing-place ^ and their Reafon is, that becaufe thofe Kernels are called 

 of the Italians, GlanduU, that thence we borrow this Word Glanders • ad- 

 ding moreover, that a Horfe which is troubled with this Difeafe, hath 

 great Kernels underneath his Jaws, eafie to be felt, paining him Ibj that 

 he cannot eat, or fwallow any 'thing. Others fa^^^, it is a Swelling upon 

 the Jaw-Bones, great and hard, which being inflamed, doth putrify and 

 rot. But both thefe Opinions I hold in part Erroneous : For although our 

 old Farriers might (according to the Cuftom of our Nation, which lo- 

 veth imitation of Strangers) borrow this Word Glanders from the Italian 

 GlanduU ^ yet thefe hiflammations under the Chaps of the Tongue-Roots, 

 is that Diieafe which we call the Strangle, and not the Glanders ', and 

 whereas they could call the ^^r"/?;/^/^, the Oui7ifie, or Squinacy, there is no 

 fuch Matter, neither hath an Horfe any^lich Difeafe, except they will 

 call the Vives by that Name, which is far more fitter for the Appli- 

 cation. 



Now for the Glanders, you fliall underftand that it is a Running Impofr- 

 hume, engendred either ' by Cold, or by Famine, or by lon^ fhirfl, or 



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