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a Man, that by hard or crooked fitting hath both his Feet afleep (a^ 

 we call it) during which Paflion we know we can neither well go nor 

 {land ; and even lb it fareth with a Horfe in this Cafe; for the 

 CourCe of the Blood being Hopped, thofe Obftrudions caufe this Tor- 

 niCDt. Jt cometh molt commonly when a Horfe is very fat, and hath 

 his Greafe molten within him, and then fuddenly cooled by taking 

 his Saddle off too foon, or by ftanding up in the cold unftirred, or 

 elfc by letting him ftand in fome fhallow Water tittle higher than 

 his Fetlock. 



A Horfe alfo may be foundred by wearing {trait and uneafic 

 Shoces, efpecially in the Summer Seafon, when a Horfe travelleth 

 upon the hard Ground. 



The Signs to know it, are. The Horfe goeth crouching, and drawing 

 all his four Feet within the compafs almoft of a Peck, and will ftand 

 fo fearfully as though he ftood upon Needles, 



Now you fliall underftand, that a Horfe will fometimes be only 

 Foundred of his fore Feet, and not of his hinder, which you fhall 

 know in that the Horfe will tread only upon his hinder Feet, and not 

 on his fore Feet, and go as though his Buttocks would touch the 

 Oroundj and fometimes he will be foundred upon his hinder Feet, 

 and not upon his fore Feet, and that you fhall perceive by this Fear- 

 fulnefs to let his Feet to the Ground, being alfo fo weak behind, that 

 he will ftand quivering and quaking, and covet always co lie down; 

 and fometimes he will be Foundred of all his four Feet, the Signs 

 whereof were firft declared. 



Nowforafmuch as the Cures are all of one and the felf- fame Nature, 

 and what cureth the firft cureth alfo the reft ^ I will join them all to- 

 gether with this Advice, that if you find the Horfe to be Foundred 

 on the fore Feet only, then to apply your Medicine to the fore Parts 

 only ; if on the hinder Feet, then to the hinder Parrs ^ but if of all 

 four Feet, then to apply your Medicine to all the feveral Parts of 

 the Body, as fhall be prefently declared. 



To come then to the Cures, (according to the Opinion of a wor-= 

 thy Knight well experienced in this Difcafe) If your Horfe be Foun- 

 dred of all his fore Feet, you fhall caufe him to be let Blood on his 

 two Breaft Veins of his two fore Legs, fomewhat above his Knees ; 

 alfo you fliall let hira Blood on his two Spur- Veins, and on the Veins of 

 his two hinder Feet a little above the Hoof, between the Hoof and the 

 Pattern : you ftiall let thefe Veins bleed well, to the quantity of a 

 Quart or three Pints, which Blood you muft fave in fome Velfel, and 

 ftir it with a Stick to keep it from clearing • and when it hath bled as 

 abovefaid, put it all into one VelTel, then flop the Wounds with fome 

 Horfe-dung, or fome Earth, and make a Charge with the Blood iu 



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