4^ The Com^kat Eorfimat?, CFIAP.'I-. 



.: ■ Hlppophilus. I have heard you Hippoferns attentively, biit yet 



I would molt gladly underftand one thing, which is, that 



t Whereas you fay that the opening of thefe f^eins doth help and 



fCiite fuGh Difeafes, I would gladly be fatisfied herein j for if 



by thB opening of thefe P^eifis the Horfe will be cured j then we 



,.may fparemuch labour in applyingdrinks, purgations, clyllers, 



t; z i~and fuc-h other things, which we ufually make and give to 



fHories.i t>rl3 ^':yi- :■■■'.■ 



i> . Hippoferns. Sir, \ affure me you cannot befo ignorant as you 

 q i fpcak ^ for this opening of l^eins and blood-letting., doth not al- 

 -v^7ays ablblutely curethofe difeafes which I have named j but it 

 'doth fometimes aflwage the Malignancy of the malady, fome- 

 timcj it preventeth difeafes, and fometimes again it prepareth 

 .the body the better to receive fuch phylkal drinks which doin- 

 ^wardly cure them, and fuch falves, Oyls, and Unguents, which 

 do dry and heal i>p outward infirmities j but that blood-letting 

 \doth abfolutely cure them, I fay it doth not, howfoever in 

 ibme cafes it may. 



•■]i. Hi\)piatrus. What is th^fit which departs from the head <?/ r/?ff 



•ficrfe, and ferveth him for hii principal members } . ■ <: ' ■ 



v\ Hippofems. I have fliewed you that already, they be fnew's 



2nd' nerves:, thtk J^news which depart and proceed from the 



heady give fenfe and feeling, arriving in the body of the crea- 



-ture, andfodilFufe and fpread themfelves through all the prin- 



• ; cipal members, which do defcend from the head unto all the o- 



ther members, v^hich makea conjunftion o( the bones, of thQlegs^ 



of the body, and of all the other fl|^mbers, ' ^ ? '- '■'■:■ ' . 



Hippiatius. How many bones hath a Horfe-, a-nd how are they ji' 

 :tnated in the body ? 

 Of the Hippoferhs./Th^ve are in the body of every Horfe, twohun- 

 bouci. dred fifty ^df£ven^o/7f.f. 



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■ ■ jMip'pojlemvKAW the bones which every Horfe hath whereby-to 

 ^^ make up an:organical Body, are thefe ^ Hz., hehath inhis/.'f^*^ 

 ^^ "thirty nine, and forty ^<?^^/? : the bones in his head do compre- 

 ^ thend the Crocks and Handles of the /c^///, albeit theybecom* 

 ^ pofed of parts and parcels of certain other bones, alfo the two 

 ^.■^ flat Handles, which from the Palate j, ana the Fork ov Throat 

 hath five, the Chine fifty two, the Breaft one^ Eibs thirty fix, 



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