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Chap. XLVI. u4 ntofi Rare and Certain approved Medicine^ to Cure any 

 High Running G lander s^ called^ The Mourning of the Chine ; held of all Men 

 incruable. 



THIS Difeafe to my Knowledge, there is not any Smith or Farrier «C^ 

 in this Kingdom can tell how to cure *, for it comes not to the ex- 

 tremity, till the Horfe have run at his Nofe a Year or more ; and have 

 at the Roots of his Tongue, a hard L,ump gathered, which will not be 

 difiblved. Now for mine own Part, it is well known I have cured many 

 with this Medicine only : Take of Aurifigmentum and Tujfilaginis beaten 

 into fine Powder, of each of them four Drams : Then beating them 

 with fine Turpentine, bring them into a Pafte, then make of it little 

 Cakes, or Troches, as broad as a Groat, and dry them : This done, lay 

 about two or three of them on a Chafing-diili of Coals, and cover them 

 with a Tunnel, lb that the Smoak may come out only at the End thereof, 

 and lb without any lofs afcend up into the Horfe's Head through his 

 Koftrils ^ then ride the Horfe till he begin to Sweat •, do this once every 

 Morning before Water, till the Running be ftopt, which will be in a 

 very ihort Ipace, confidering the greatnefs of the Difeafe. 



C H A B, XLVII. Of the Cough. 



Coughing Is a Motion of the Lungs, railed naturally from its expul- 

 five Power, to cafl out the hurtful Caufe, as Neefuig is the Motion 

 of the Brain, Now of Coughs, there be fome outward, and fome in- 

 ward : Thole are faid to be outward, which proceed of outward Caufes, 

 as when a Horfe doth eat or drink too greedily, lb that his Meat goeth 

 the wrong way, or when he licketh up a Feather, or eateth dufly or fliarp- 

 bearded Straw, and fuch like, which tickling his Throat, caufeth him 

 to Cough ^ thofe which are faid to be inward, are either wet or dry, of 

 which we fhall fpeak more hereafter. Now of thefe outward Coughs, 

 they may proceed from the Corruption of the Air, which if it do, you 

 ihall give him half an Ounce of Diapente in a Pint of Sack, and it will 

 help. It may alfo proceed from Duft, and then you muft walh it down 

 by powring into his Noflrils Ale and Oil mingled together. It may come 

 by eating fliarp and fowre things -^ and then you muft put down his Throat 

 Pills of Sweet-Butter, whofe Ibftnefs will help him. It may proceed 

 from fome little or flight taken Cold, and then you fhall take the Whites 

 and Yolks of two Eggs, three Ounces of Sallet-Oil, two Handfuls of 

 Bean-Flower, one ounce of Fenugreek, mix them with a Pint of old 

 Malmfey, and give it the Horfe to drink three Days together : Or elfe 

 take Tarr and frefh Butter, mix them together, and give Pills thereof 

 to the Horfe four times in feven Days : That is, the firfl, the third, the 

 fifth, and the feventh Day. There be others which ufe to take a Gallon 



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