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xJry Ceugh, is excellent for this fhortnefs of Breath, lb you give the Eggs 

 •increafing, that is, the firft Day one, the fecond Day three, and the 

 third five ^ and withal, to pour a little Oil and Wine into his Noftils, is 

 very good aifo. There be other Farriers which ufe to take a Snake, and 

 cut cM her Head and Tail, and then take out the Guts and Entrails, boil 

 the reft in Water till the Bone part from the Flefti ^ then caft the Bone 

 away, and give every third Day of this I>ecoftion more than a Pint, till 

 vou have fpent three Snakes, and this is excellent good for the dry Cough 

 alfo. 



Now the laft and beft Medicine for this fhortnefs of Breath, ('for in- "^ 

 deed ill this Calel do not afFeft much Phyficking) is only to take Anni- 

 feeds, Licoras, and Sugarcandy, all beaten into very fine Powder, and 

 take four Spoonfuls thereof, and brew it well with a Pint of White-wine, 

 and half a pint of Sallet-Oil j and ufe this ever after your Horfe's Tra- 

 vel, and a Day before he is travelled. 



Chap. LV. Of the Broken-mvded, Purfe-fick Horfe. 



TH I S Difeafe of Brokec- winded, I have ever fmce I firft began to 

 know either Horfe or Horfe-leach-craft, very much difputed with 

 myfelf; and for many Years did conftantly hold (as I ftill do) that in 

 truth there is no fuch Diieale ; only in this I found by daily Experience^ 

 that by over-hafty or fudden running of a Horfe (or other) prefently 

 after, or by long ftanding in the Stable with no Exercile and foul Food, 

 that thereby gro6 and thick Humours may be drawn down into the Horfes 

 Body lb abundantly, that cleaving hard unto the hollow Places of his 

 Lungs, and flopping up the Wind-pipes, the Wind may be fo kept in, 

 that it may only have its relbrt backward, and not upward, filling the 

 Guts, and taking from the Body great part of his Strength and Liveli- 

 hood ; which if from the corruption of our old Inventions, we call Bro- 

 ken-winded, then I muft needs confels, that I have feen many Broken- 

 winded Horfes. The figns of which Dileafe are thefe, much and vio- 

 lent beating of his Flanks, ,elpecially drawing up of his Belly upward, 

 great opening and railing of his Noftrils, and a continual fwift going 

 to and fro of his Tuel : Belides, it is ever accompanied with a dry and 

 heltow Cough. The Cure, I muft ^eeds fay in lb great an extremity, 

 (for it is the worft of ^11 the Evils of the Lungs, which are before fpo- 

 kenof) is moft delperate, but the pi^fervations and helps both to con- 

 tinue the Horfe's health, and his daily Service, are very many, as name- 

 ly, (according to the Opinion of »the ancient Farriers) to purge your 

 Horle by giving him this Drink : Take of Maiden-hair, Ireos, Alh, Li- 

 coras, FenugreekjBafnis, of each half an Ounce, of Cardamum, Pepper, 

 Bitter-Almonds, Borage, of each two Ounces, of Nettle-feed, and of 

 Ariftolochia, of each two Ounces, boil them all together inafuificient 



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