To the T^adir, 



true Office of the Ferrier.: wherein I do produce an exad 

 examen ofthisfundion. 



In the (econd Chapter, I do inculcate as well the cau- 

 fes of health as of (icknefi, wherein I make an abridge- 

 ment of all thofe things which all learned PhyGcians and 

 Chirurgions ( both antient and modern do, from the 

 grounds and principles of profound PhUofophy, find to 

 govern and bear rule in the body of the Horfe, without 

 which he can have no flefh, bones, finews, blood, or 

 life it lelf^ wherewith to make up the entire ftrudture of 

 an organical body,and fuch are firft the Elements^ (econd- 

 ly, the Humours ^ thirdly,thc natural faculties 5 fourthly, 

 the inftrumental members 5 fifthly, the Spirits animal 5 

 fixthly,the Spirits vital , feventhly, the natural parts, and 

 (b of the refidue. And having fufficiently difcufTed all 

 theie things in due order and method,! do then (hew thee 

 what means we have to preferve the Horie from all in- 

 ward difeafes, which I do find to be four in number, z;/z. 

 By Purge, by Swear, by Phlebotomy, and by Vomit, and 

 then do I proceed to inculcate unto thee the caufes of 

 health and long life, which I do make to be in number 

 twelve, which if thou do well obferve they will redound 

 to thy great utility and profit. 



In the third Chapter I do demonftrate certain things 

 moft befitting a Ferrier to know and underfland well, be- 

 fore he fhall take upon him to adminifter^ in the hand- 

 ling whereof I do begin firft with the four EIements,ana- 

 tomizing unto thee their true natures and virtues, and 

 feow and where they be fituate, a thing moft needful 

 to be known , then 1 go along with the two proper Fle- 

 ments, (hewing from whence the feed and menftruai 

 blood is ingendred 5 then I pais forwards in intreating of 

 the four Humours, explaining their natures and virtues, 

 pointing unto the places of their abode and rcfidence,and 

 what relation and coherence they have unto the four 



Complexions. 



