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that all cold Caufes are cured with Medicines that open and warm^ and 

 the hot with fuch as cleanle and cool. Some ufe to take a pretty Quan- 

 tity of Benjamine^ and the Yolk of an Egg, which being well mixt to- 

 gether, and put into an Egg-ihell, caft all down into the Horfe's Throat, 

 and then moderately Ride him up and down for more than a quarter of 

 an Hour : And do this three or four Mornings together. Others ule to 

 keep him warm, and then to give him this Drink : Take of Barley one 

 Peck, and boil it in two or three Gallons of Running-Water, till the 

 Barley burft, together with bruifed Licoras, Annifeeds, and Raifms, of 

 each a Pound ; then ftrain it, and to that Liquor put of Honey a Pint, 

 and a quartern of Sugar-candy, and keep it dole in a Pot to lerve the 

 Horfe therewith four feveral Mornings, and caft not away the Barley, 

 nor the reft of the ftrainings, but make it hot every Day to perfume the 

 Horie withal in a clofe Bag -^ and if he eat of it, it is ix) much the better^ 

 and after this, you ihall give the Horfe fbme moderate Exercife ^ and 

 for his Diet, let him drink no cold Water till his Cough abate, and as it 

 leffeneth, fo let the Water be lefs warmed. 



Now for mine own Part, though all thele Receipts be exceeding good, 

 and very well approved, yet in this Gale, thus hath been, and ever ihall 

 be my PratT:iDe ; if I found either by the heavinefs of the Hoffe's Head, 

 or by the ratling of his Noftrils,that the Gough proceeded moft from the 

 flopping of his Head, I would only give him four or five Mornings toge- 

 ther, three or four good round Pills of Butter and Garlick, (well knodden 

 together) fafting, then ride him moderately an hour after -^ but if I found 

 that the Sicknefs remained in the Gheft or Breaft of the Horfe, then I 

 would give him twice in four Days a pint of Sack,half a Pint of Sallet-OiJ, 

 and two ounces of Sugar-candy well brewed together,and made luke-warm, 

 and then ride him half an hour after,and i^Qt him up warm, fuffering him 

 to drink no cold Water, till his Gough begin to abate and leave him. 



But for all wet Goughs, frettized and broken Lungs, putrified and rot- 

 ten Lungs, or any fuch moift Dileafe, fee the new Additions far the 

 Mourning of the Chine, and it is a certain Gure. 



Chap. XLIX. Of the Dry Cough. 

 ^JT H I S Difeafe which we call the dry Cough, is a grofs and tough 

 -*■ Humour, cleaving hard to the hollow places of the Lungs, which 

 ftoppeth the Wind-pipes, fo that the Horfe can hardly draw his breath. 

 It doth proceed by Ill-government, from the Rheum which diftilleth 

 from the Head, falleth dow to the Breaft, and there inforceth the Horfe 

 to ftrive to caft it out. 



The fpecial figns to know it, i§, by eating hot Meats, as Bread that n 

 i|)iced. Straw, dry Hay, or fuch like, his extremity of Coughing will 

 will increafe, by eating cold arjd moil! Meats, as Grafs, Sorage, Grains^ 



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