Lib. I. Of Cures Phyfical, jp 



that is more excellent. Others hold that this Powder given with Goats 

 Milk Luke-warm, is very good. Others hold that Malmfey, and the 

 Juice of Featherfew given to drink is alio good. 



Others ufe fand hold it equal with the beft) to take an Ounce of Sul- 

 phur, Vive, beaten into fine Powder, and a Penny-weight of Myrrh 

 beaten into fine Powder, mix them together with a New-laid Egg, and 

 give them to drink with half a Pmt of Malmfey ^ ule this divers times, 

 and keep the Horfe fafting, yet feparate him from other Horfes, for this 

 Difealeis Infedious. 



C H A p. LXX. OJ the Blfeafcs of the Gall. 



AS is the Liver, even fo the Gall of a Horfe is fubjeft to divers and 

 many Infirmities, as to Obftruftion, according to the Opinion of 

 old Farriers ^ from whence lioweth the Fulnefs and Emptinels of the 

 Bladder, and Stone in the Gall. And thefe Obftruftions do Chance two 

 feveral Ways . Firft, When the Palfage by which Choler ihould pals 

 from the Liver unto the Bladder of the Gall, as unto his proper Recep- 

 .tacle, is flopped, and fo the Bladder of the Gall remaineth Empty : For 

 you are to underftand, that the Gall is none other thing than a lone; 

 flender, little greeiiiih Bladder fixed underneath the "Liver whicli 

 doth receive all the Cholerick bitter Moifture, which would o'therwife 

 olfend not only the Liver, but the whole Body alfo. Now if the Pal- 

 fage of this neceffary Veffel be flopped, there cannot chufe but follow 

 many h^firmities, as either Vomiting, the Lax, the Bloody-Flux or the 

 Yellows. ' 



Secondly, When the Way whereby fuch Choler Ihould ifTue forth 

 of the Bladder of the Gall, down into the Guts and Excrements, is 

 clofed up, aixi fo fuperaboundeth with too much Choler ; from whence 

 Ipringeth dulnefs of Spirit, Suffocating, Belching, Heat, thirft, and 

 dilpofition to Rage and Fury • and truly to any Beaft, there is not a more 

 dangerous Difeafe, than the Overflowing of the Gall : But our latter Ex- 

 perience findeth, that a Horfe hath no Gall at all • but that filthy and 

 corrupt Matter is wafted and fpent, either by Sweat, Exercife, or elfe 

 doth turn to hifirmity. The Signs of both thefe kinds of Evils, or Ob- 

 Itrudions, are Yellownefs of the Skin, infeded with the Yellow-Jaundife, ^ 

 and. a continual Coftivenefs of the Body : and the Cures of them are, "^ 

 according to the moft ancient Farriers, to give the Horfe Milk, and 

 gr^t itore of Saffron boiled together, or inftead of Milk, to give Ale, 

 Saltron and Annileeds mixt together. But tliere be other Farriers, 

 with whom 1 more do agree, which hold, that Selladine-Roots and 

 Leaves chopt and bruifcH, and boiled in Beer • or for want of Selladine, 

 Kue, or Herb of Grace, and given the Horfe Luke-warm to drink, is 

 molt lovereign. 



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