^4 ^'^'^ Compkat Horfe-matr^ GHAP. I^ 



f/ippofertu. Mofteafiiy Sir, that the G'i^»/rorj cannot beany. 

 one of the principal Members, reafon teacheth us : For you. 

 cannot fo much as touch any of thefe three ^ but you do either 

 kill the Creature outright, or elfe defperately endanger him. 

 Now fuppofing the Stones may fortune to receive hurt or da- 

 mage, yet if I be in defpair of healing or curing them, I can 

 neverthelefs cut, or take them clean away from the body, or 

 caufethem to fall away by other good means, or by medicine, 

 without peril of his life : he will only thereby iofe his natural 

 heat, whereby he will be difina bled from having any difpofi- 

 tion to Coityy or power of Procreation. 



Hippiatrus. What U that which goeth from the Head of the Horfc', 

 and dijjufeth it fclf throughout all other Members} 



Hifpoferiis. They are tv;o Sinews^ or Tendons which are white, 

 and have a Ligature beginning at the very end of the A^o/c, and 

 extend themfelves along the AVc^, and along the Back^f and 

 make their extent to the fourZ^^j, and take their Ligaments; 

 in the fore Feet. 



jHippophilfis. I was in good hope, Bippoferus^ you would like^, 

 wile have fpokenof the number of the Sinexys^ and where eve- 

 ry one is feated ■, for it is a thing very material,, and 1 do the 

 rather delke it for that 1 am not as yet perfeit in that point... 



Hippi^trns. Thst was but forgotten both by my felf and- him . 

 Sir, Yshivoiox-Q HippoJeriiSj make anfwer to the Gentiemans der> 

 mand. •'^^■•'- ^- 



i.icnuni- Hippoferiis. I fhnll do it mofl.gladly ^ wherefore as touching 

 fixjews, ^^"^ Sinews we fay,' that there are in every Horfe twenty nine^, 

 °2 or thirty, great and fmall. Firfl, the two great 5/wfwvv/hich 

 I named before, which Jiave their firil Origin from the end of 

 '2. the Nofe. Item two branches which are vm'mSinevrs that pro- 

 ceed from the Bn^in^ and run down the Checks to the. Teeth. Item: 

 there are from the Shoulders to the firll joint of the Armcs^ or 

 2. fare-legs downwards, two great Sinews. Item from the Knees. 

 '8 to the PaJ}erns2i-Q four great Sinews^ with the fame number in 

 Xhejiinder part. Item in the fore-part of the B^eafi., and.a- 

 '10 bove it, as well within as v/ithout, are ten Sinews, fomegrea- 

 •4, te-r ?n<i fonre Irnaller. Item from the Reins of the Bad^tothQ 

 "I-:, Stoms are four gvcztSinews. LailIy,one great main Smew which 



runneth 



