^4 ^f ^^^^^ Phy fecal. Lib. I. 



and fuch like, it will abate and be the lefs : He Cougheth leldome, yet 

 when he congheth, he cougheth violently a long time together, and 

 drily with a hollow found from his Cheft : He alfo boweth his Head 

 down to the Ground, and forfaketh his Meat whilft he Cougheth, yet 

 never cafteth forth any thing, either at his Mouth or Noftrils. 



This Cough is moft dangerous, and not being taken in time is incura- 

 ble : For it will grow to the Purfick or Broken-winded altogether. The 

 Cure, according to the Opinion of the ancient Farriers, is, that foraf- 

 much as it proceedeth from hot Humours, therefore you fliall perfume 

 his Head with cold Simples, as Camomile, Mellilot, Licoras, dried Red 

 Rofes and Camphire boiled in Water, and the Fume made to pafs up into^ 

 his Mouth and Noftrils. 



Others ufe to take a clofe Earthen Pot, and to put therein three Pints 

 of the ftrongeft Vinegar, and four Eggs, Shells and all, unbroken, and 

 four Heads of Garlick clean pilled and bruiled, and fet the Pot being 

 very clofe covered in avvarm Dung-hil or a Horfe-mixen, and there let 

 it ftand 24 Hours, then take it forth and open it, and take out the Eggs 

 which will be as loft as Silk, and lay them by, until you have ftrained 

 the Vinegar and Garlick through a Linnen Cloath : Then put to thai Li- 

 quor a quartern of Honey, and half a quartern of Sur^r-candy, and two 

 Ounces of Licoras, and two Ounces of Annifeeds beaten all into line 

 Powder, and then the Horfe having fafting all the Night, early in the 

 Morning, about feven or eigiit a-Clock, open the Horfe's Mouth v/ith a 

 Drench-ftaif and Cord, and firft caft down his Throat one of the Eggs, 

 and then prefently after it a Horn full of the aforefaid Drink, being made 

 luke-warm •, then caft in another Egg, and another Hornfull : Aiid thus 

 do till he hath fwallowed up all the Eggs, or three at the leaft ^ then Bri- 

 dle him, and cover him warmer than he was before,aiid let him up in the 

 Stable, tying him to the bare Rack for the fpace of two Hours •, then 

 unbridle him, and give him either fome Oats, Hay, or Grafs ^ yet in any 

 Cale give him no Hay, until it hath been fomewhat fprmkled with Wa- 

 ter : For there is no greater Enemy to a dry Cough than dry Hay, dry 

 Straw, or Chaff ^ then let him have cold Water the fpace of nine Days. 

 Now if you chance the firft Morning, to leave an Egg untaken, you 

 ihaH not fail to give it him, and the remainder of the Drink the Morn- 

 ing following. If you find by this Praftice that the Cough weareth not 

 away, you ihall then purge his Head with Pills, of which you ftiall read 

 in the Chapter of Turgations : After his Pills received, you fhall let him 

 faft three Hours, ftanding warm cloathed and littered in the Stable : You 

 ihall alfo now and then give him a warm Maih, and once a-Day Trot him 

 moderately abroad. 



There be other Farriers which for this dry Cough take only the Herb 

 called Lyon's-Foot, Lady's-Mantle, Spurge, and Smallage, of each a 



like 



