Lib. I. Of Cures Phyfical , ^ 



every Morning the Ipace of ieven Days the Quantity of a Wahiut, in- 

 fufed in a Quart of fweet Wine. Other latter Farriers w^e to let the 

 Horfe Blood in the Neck, and boil that Blood with Wlieat, aud witii 

 the Powder of dried Pomegranate Fills ^ then ftrain it, and give it him 

 three or four Mornings togedier to drink, and let him by no means Tra- 

 vel thereupon ^ or elle give him of husked Beans boiled with husks of 

 Acorns beaten fmall, and mixt together. Others ufe to make him a 

 Drink with the Roots of DaiTodil mingled with Wheat-fiowcr, and 

 Sumraach Sodden long in Water, and iJo to be given to the Horfe with 

 liveetWine: Or elfe to make him drink of Goats-Milk and Sallet-Oil, 

 ftrain thereunto a little Frumenty : Or elfe to give him Ibdden Beans 

 and Deer's-Suet in Wine, each of thefe are of like Force and Goodnefs. 

 >Now there be others which ufe for this Difeafe to take Barley, and feethe 

 in tlie Juice of Gum-Folly, and give him the Barley to eat,and the Juice 

 to drink : Or elle take the Powder of Licoras and Annifeeds ror.ied up in 

 Honey, and make round Balls thereof, and caft down the Horfe's Throat 

 two or three of them : Laftly, and the beft, Take Licoras, Annifeeds, 

 and Garlick bruifed together with Sallet-Oil and Honey, and give it in ""^ 

 a Quart of new Milk to the Horfe to drink, it is very ibverain alio ;, and 

 thefe two Medidines laft rehearfed, are exceeding good alio for any Cold 

 or Glanders. 



Chap. LXXXVI. Qf the Colt- EviU 



TH E Colt-Evil by the moft ancient Farriers, elpecially the Itdinns^ 

 whofe hot Country affordeth the Beafts of more hot and ftrong 

 Katures than ours doth, is thought to be a continual ftanding Ereftion, 

 together with an unnatural Iwelling of the Yard, proceeding either from 

 fome Wind, filling the Arteries and hollow Sinews, or Pipes of the Yard, 

 or elfe through the abundance of Seed, provoked by the Natural heat 

 oi the Horfe ^ but our Farriers, who have not i^ecn that Experience, 

 becaufe our Horfes are of a colder Temper, fay, it is only a Swelling of 

 the Sheath of the Yard, and of that part of the Belly about tlie Yard, 

 together with the Cold alfo proceeding from corrupt Seed, which cometh 

 out of the Yard, and remaining within the Sheath, there putrifieth: And 

 this Judgment we find by Experience to be moft true. Now you ihall 

 underftand, that Geldings as well as Horfes areTubjeft thereunto, becaufe 

 they want Natural Heat to expel Seed any further. 



The Signs are only the outward Swelling of the Sheath and Cod^ 

 and none other - and the beft Cure is, firft to wafti the Sheath clean 

 with luke-warm Vinegar, then draw out the Yard and wafli it alfo ^ 

 which done, Ride the Horfe twice every Day, that is, Morning and 

 Evening, into fome deep running Water up to the BelJ)', toiling him to 



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