4 Of Cures Fhyfical, Lib. I. 



either dilbrderly or wild Riding, or from Hunger, or Barren Woody 

 Keeping. Betwixt it and the Dropfie, there is imall or no Difference. 

 For the Dropfie being divided into three Kinds, this is the firft thereof* 

 as Namely, an univerfal Swelling of the Body, but efpecially the Lungs, 

 throiu^h the abundance of Water lying between the Skin and the Fleih. 

 The Second, a Swelling in the Covering or Bottom of the Belly, as if the 

 Horfe were with Foal, which is only a Watrifli Humour abiding betwixt 

 the Skin and the Rim : And the Third, a Swelling in the fame Place by 

 tliQ like Humours abiding betwixt the great Bag and the Kell. 



The common Signs of this Difeafe, ar Shortnefs of Breath, Swelling 

 of the Body or Legs, lofs of the Horfe's natural Colour, no' Appetite 

 unto M«at, and a continual Thirft ^ his Back, Buttocks, and Flanks will 

 be dry, and ihrunk up to their Bones : His Veins will be hid, that you 

 cannot fee them, and where-e ver you ihall prefs your Finger any thing 

 iiard againft his Body, there vou ihall leave the Print behind you, and 

 the Flefli will not arife a good fpace after : When he lieth down he will 

 fpread out his Limbs, and not draw them round together, and his Hair 

 will ihed with the fmalleft rubbing. There be other Farriers which make 

 but two Dropfie5, that is, a Wet Dropfie, and a Windy Dropfie, but be- 

 ing examined, they are all one with thofe recited,have all the Ilime Signs, 

 and the fame Cure, which according to the ancient Farriers is in this 

 ibrt : Fiift, To let him be warm covered with many Cloaths, and either 

 by Excrcife, or otherwile drive him into a Sweat •, then let his Back and 

 Body be rubbed againft the Hair, and let his Food be for the rapft Part 

 Colxvorts, Smallage and El ming Boughs, or whatsoever elle will keep his 

 {•iod})' Ibluble or provoke Urine \ when you want this Food, let him eat 

 Cirals or Hay fprinkled with Water, and fometimes you may give him a 

 kind of Pulfe called Ciche, fteeped a Day and Night in Water, and 

 then taken out and laid lb as the Water may drop away. 



There be other Farriers which only would have the Horfe drink Farf- 

 ley itampt and mixt with Wine, or elfe the Root of the Herb called Pa- 

 nax llampt and mixt with Wine. Now whereas Ibme Farriers advife to 

 flit the Belly a handful behind the Navel, that the Wind and Water may 

 leifurely iJfue forth, of mine own Knowledge, I know the Cure to be 

 moft Vile ; nor can it be done, but tothe utter fpoiling and killing of the 

 Horfe, for the Horfe is a Beail:, and wanting Knowledge of his own 

 Goo<.l, will never be Dreft but by Vialence, and that Violence will bring 

 down In's Kell, fo as it will never be recovered. Now for thefe Dropiie^ 

 in the Belly, although I have fliewed you the Signs and the Cures, yet 

 they are rare to be found, and more rare to be cured ^ bat for the other 

 Dropfie, which is the fwelling of the Legs, and the lofs of the Colour 

 o^ the Hair, it is very ordinary and in hourly Praftice : The beft Cure 

 whereof that ever 1 found nmongft the Farriers is tliis l 



