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138 Of Cures Fhyfical, Lib. II. 



Item J AH Swellings are either hard or foft, the hard commonly will ' 

 Corrode, the foft continue long. 



Itemy If you thruft your Finger upon any Swelling upon a Horfe's Legs, 

 then if it prefently rife again, and fill, then is the hurt new and recovera- 

 ble, but if the Dent do remain and continue ftill behind, then is the Hurt 

 old, and cometh of cold Humours, and asks great Art in healing. 



Item, When Soresbegin to Matter, then they heal ^ but if the Putre- 

 f iftion be great, then beware they rot not inwardly. 



Jtem^ a1i Cauterifmg or Burning with hot Irons, ftraineth things enlar- 

 ed, drieth up what is too much moiftned, diffolveth things gathered to- 

 gether or hardned, draweth back things which are difperfed, and help- 

 old Griefs : For it ripeneth, dilTolveth, and maketh them to run and if- 

 i lie forth Matter. 



Item, You muft fbmetimes burn under the Sore, to divert Humours, 

 and fometimes above, to defend and with-hold Humours. 



Item, It is ever better to Burn with Copper than with Iron, becaufe 

 Iron is of a Malignant Kature, Steel of an indiiierent Vertue betwixt 

 both. 



IterNj All a^ual Burnings is to burn with Inftruments, and Potential 

 Burnings is to burn with Medicines, as are Caufticks and Corrofives. 



Item, If you you ufe to blow Powders into a Horfe's Eyes, it will make 

 him blind. 



Item, By no means take up any Veins in the Fore-legs, unlefs great 

 Extremity compel you : for there is nothing that will Iboner make a 

 Horfe ftitf and lame. Many other Obfervations there are, which becaufe 

 they are-not fo general as thefe be, and that 1 fliall have Occafion to Ipeak 

 of them in other particular Chapters, I think it here fit to omit them, 

 and the rather, becaufe I would not be tedious. 



Chap. VII. Of the Difeafes in the Eyes, and fir ft of the Weeping tmS 



Watering Eye. 



TH E Eyes of a Horfe are fubje£t to many Infirmities, as firft, to 

 be Rheumatick, or Watery, then to be Blood-iliotten, to be dim of 

 Sight, to have the Pin and Web, the Haw, the Wart in the Eye, the 

 Iniiaramation in the Eyes, the Canker in the Eye, or a ftroke in the Eye : 

 of all which, fome come of inward Caufes, a? Heat, Cold, or elfe by 

 Ibme Stripe or Blow. 



And firft to begin with the Rhematick, or Watery Eye, you Ihallun- 

 derftand, that according to the Opinion of the ancient Farriers, it doth 

 proceed many times from the Flux of Humours dillilling from the Brain, 

 and fometimes from the anguilh of a Blow or Stripe received. The Signs 

 are a continual Wateriiig of the Eye, and a clofe holding of the Lids 

 together, accompaKied lometimes with a little fweUing. The Cure, ac- 

 cording 



