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In this Extremity you have no help but to draw out a iliarp-pointed 

 Knife, £)agger, or Rapier for a need, and as near as you can, opening 

 the Hptlib's Mouth, ft-rike him Blood about the third IBarr of the Root 

 of his Mouth, and ih letting him eat and i\vailow his own Blood a good 

 while, then raife him up, and be fare he will go as frefa as ever he did : 

 But after you come to a place of Reft, then be fure to Blood him, and 

 give him half an Ounce of the Powder of Diapente in a Pint of Muska- 

 dine well brewed to^fether, and thus do three or four Morninp;s together, 

 and let him be rafting before, and faft two Hours after j and after the Po- 

 tion give him a little moderate Exercife, or elfe there will be a worle Fit 

 come upon him. 



Now to Conclude, for the Black Jaundice, which of Ibme Farriers is 

 called the Dry -Yellows, though for mine own Part, I hold it to be incu- 

 irable, yet there be other Farriers which are of a contrary Humour, and 

 prefcril3e this Phyfick for the Cure therof : Firft, To give the Horfe a 

 Clifter made of Oil, Water, Milk and Nitrum, after his Fundament is 

 raked, then to pour the Decoftion of Mallows, mingled with fweet Wine 

 in his Noftrils, and let his Meat be Grafs or Hay fprinkled with Water, 

 and a little Nitre, and his Provender dried Oats ^ he muft reft from La- 

 bour, and be often rubbed. Now there be other Farriers, which for this 

 Diseafe would only have the Horfe drink the Deco^lion of Wild Cole- 

 worts fodden in Wine ^ the Elfecls of all which I only refer to Expe- 

 rience. 



Chap. LXXIII. Of the Dropfa or Evil Habit of the Body. 



Hereas we have Ipoken before of the Confumption of the Fleih, 

 ' V which proceedeth from Surfeits, ill Lodging, Labour, Colds, 

 Heats, and fuch like : You fliall now alfo underftand, that there is ano- 

 ther Drynefs or Confumption of the Flefh, which hath no apparent 

 Caufe or Ground, and is called of Farriers a Dropfie, or evil Habit of 

 the Body, which is moft apparently feen, when the Horfe by difiike doth 

 lofe his true natural Colour, and when Baynefs turns to Dunnefs Black- 

 nefs to Duskiihnefs, and Whitenefs to Afhinefs, and when he lofeth his 

 Spirit, Strength, and Alacrity. Now this cometh not from want of 

 Nutriment, but from the want of good Nutriment, in that the Blood is 

 corrupted, either with Flegm, Choler, or Melancholy, (coming accor- 

 ding to the Opinion of our beft Farriers) either from the Spleen, or the 

 Weaknefs of the Stomach or Liver, caufmg naughty Digeftion. 



Others think it cometh from foul Feeding, or much Idlenefs, but for 

 mine own Part, albeit I have had as much Trial of this Difeafe as any one 

 Man, and that it becometh not me to controul Men of approved Judg- 

 ment : Yet this I dare averr, that I never faw this Difeafe of the evil 

 Habit, or evil Colour of the Body, fpring from any other Grounds, than 



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