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Water your Horfe, dilTolve into his cold Water one of thefe Balls, by- 

 lathering and chafing the fame in the Water, and then give it him to 

 drink. The Horfe it may be will be Coy at the firft to drink, but it is 

 no matter, let him taft till he take it •, for before two Balls be fpent, he 

 will refufe all Waters for this only. This is the Medicine above all 

 Medicines, and is truly the beft Scouring that can be given to any Horle 

 whatfoever : For befides his wonderful Feeding, it cleanfeth the Body 

 from all bad Humours whatfoever. 



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Chap. LX. Of the Breafi-^mn^ or Pain in the Breafi. 



HougKmoft of our Farriers are not curious to underftand this Dif- 

 eaie, becaufe it is not fo common as others ^ yet both my felf 

 and others find it a Difeafe very apt to breed, and to indanger the 

 .Horle with Death. The Italians cail it Grandez.z,a di petto, and it pro- 

 ceedeth from the fuperliuity of Blood and other grofs Humours, which 

 being diffolved by fome extream and diforderly Heat, reforteth down- 

 ivard to the Breall;, and paineth the Horfe extreamly that he can hardly 

 go. The Signs are a ftiff daggering, and weak going with his Fore- 

 t,eg.^, and he can very hardly, or not at all bow down his Head to the 

 Ground, either to Eat or Drink, and will groan much when he doth 

 either the one or the other. The Cure is, Firft to Bathe all^his Breaft, 

 and Fore-booths with the Oil of Peter, and if that do not help him 

 within three or four Days, then to let him Blood on both his Breaft- 

 veins in the ordinary Place, and then put in a Rowel either of Hair, 

 Corn, Horn, or Leather, all of which, and the manner of Rowelling, 

 you fhall read in a more particular Chapter hereafter, in the Book of 

 Chirurgery. 

 E<?- Now there be other Farriers, which for this Sicknefs, will firft give 

 the Horfe an inward Drench, as namely, a Pint of fweet Wine, and two 

 Spoonflils of Diapente, then bathe all his Breaft and Legs with Wine and 

 Oil mingled together, and in fome ten or twelve Days it will take away 

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Chap. LXI. Of the Siclnefs of the Hearty sailed the Anticor. 



THIS Sicknefs of the Heart, which by the Ancient Farriers is cal« 

 led Anticor, as much as to fay, againft or contrary to the Heart, 

 is a dangerous and mortal Sicknefs, proceeding from the great abun- 

 dance of Blood which is bred by too Curious and Proud Keeping, where 

 the Horfe hath much Meat, and little or no Labour, as for the moft 

 part your Geldings of Price have, which running all the Summer at 

 Grafs, do nothing but gather their own Food, and fuch like, where 

 the Matter's too much Love and Tendernefs is the Means to bring the 

 Horfe to his Death, as we find Daily in our Pradice 5 for when fuch 



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