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that mollify and difperfe Humours, as by thefe, Linfeed, Fenugreek, 

 Camomile, Annifeed^, Mellilot, and fuch like , to which mollifying 

 Simples, would be ever added Ibme Simples that are Aftringent or Bind- 

 ing, as are tliele, Pved-Rofe-Leaves, Bramble-Leaves Wormwood, Plan- 

 tain, Myrrh, Maitick, Storax, and fuch like. Now for Apofthumes, 

 they are to be ripened and voided, and Ulcers muil: be cleanfed and fcou- 

 red downward, either by Excrement or Urine, and therefore the Ufe of 

 liich Simples as provoke either the one or the other, (of which you ihall 

 find plenty in other Chapters) is moft necelTary. 



Chap. LXIX. Of the Confumpion of the Liver. 



OF the Gonfumption of the Liver, I have fpoken fomething in the 

 Chapter of the Mourning of the Chine : Yet becaufe amcngft our beft 

 Farriers it is diverfly taken, I will iliew you their divers Opinions. Firfi, 

 Some hold it cometh only from fudden Cold after Heat, taken either by 

 drinking or ftanding ftill. Others hold it cometh of any Humour, efpe- 

 cially of Cholerick Matter, Ihed throughout the whole Subftance of the 

 Liver, which rotting by leillirable degrees, doth in the End corrupt and 

 confound all the Subftance of the Liver, proceeding as they think, from 

 corrupt Meats and iweet Drinks. And the laft thinketh it cometh by 

 extream heat gotten in Travel, which inflaming the Blood, doth after- 

 ward Putrify, "Corrupt, and Exulcerate the whole fubftance of the Li- 

 ver •, becaufe the Liver is Spongeous like the Lungs, therefore the Cure 

 of this Difeafe is held defperate •, yet it bringeth no fpeedy or fudden 

 Death, but a wafting and lingring Infirmity : For the Liver being cor- 

 rupted, Digeftion is taken away, and fo the Body for want of good Nu- 

 triment, doth in time confume. The figns of this Difeafe is a loathing 

 of Meat, and a ftretching forth of the Horfe's Body at length as he 

 flandeth, he will feldom or never lie down, his Breath will ftink marvel- 

 loufiy, and he will continually caft exceeding foul Matter, either at one 

 Noftril, or both, according as one fide, or both fides of the Liver is 

 confumed-, and on that fide which he cafteth,he will ever have betwixt his 

 neather Jaws, about the middle of them, a hard Knob or Kernel about 

 the bignefs of a Wall-nut. Now the prefervative of this Difeafe, (for 

 in Truth it is Incurablej is, according to the Opinion of fome Farriers, 

 take half a Pint of Malmfey, and as much of the Blood of a young Pig, 

 and to give the Horle L.uke-warm to drink. Other Farriers ufe to give the 

 Horfe no other Food for the fpace of three Days, than Worm-wort, and 

 Oats baked in an Oven, being fure that the Horfe be kept fafting the firft 

 Night before he receive his Medicine. Others fuppofe,that if into theWort 

 which he driketh,you do put every Morning two or three Spoonflils of the 

 Powder made of Agrimony, Red-Rofe-Leaves, Saccharum Rofaceum, 

 Diarrhadon Abbatis,"Difantelon, Licoras, and of the Liver of a Wolf, 



that 



