^■0 Wie Compleat Hor/e-i&ta?;, CHAP. I. 



bcgetfccth evil humours in the body, which when they (hall be- 

 gin to break from the Horfe, by his running a^ d purging ^t 

 ihtNefe, whereof other Horfeswill have a delire to lick, anid 

 thereby they do become infedlcd. 



Hippiatrus. Many Horfes there he which do run at the NolCyfrht- 

 have not the danders. ■ 



Hifpoferus. Tis very true, but this Diftafc of the Glanders 

 may beknown by its Knots, Kernels, and Puftils which are un- 

 der the Jaw. You may alfo know it by the colour of the cor* 

 ruption which the Horfe venteth .* For, if that mattrative fluff 

 be green, and of a ftrong and ofFejifivc favour,, or if it be 

 white and flinketh, as aJfo vifcous and flimy \ then be yoa^ 

 confident it is the Glanders \ but if he fliall cafl forth corrup- 

 tio* at his A'cj^, which is white, andthat by bits and gobbets, 

 which doth not flink or have any evil favour or fincll, then it 

 is not the Glanders, but fome diflempcraturc which coracth 

 of a cold lately taken, which is eafily cured, if it be not let rua 

 too long, ^OV there is great danger in delay* 



Hippiatrus. ifhatbetbearidordryDifeafes.} 



HiffoferHs. They arc an alteration of the body, which WC- 

 clo commonly call Surfeits and Purfivenefs,- which is occafioned' 

 oft by riding of a Horfe beyond his flrength or breath, efpoc 

 cially prelently after water, or by putting him to too much la- 

 bour, or too violent running and ftreining, or by wafhing him. 

 when he is very hot. 



Hippiatrus. Horv. cometh a Horfe to have the Tranchaifonss or 

 Grifings ? 



Hif^erm. By fuffering him to drink when he is too hot^ OE 

 by over-riding him ; they alfo come of bad wind which ingen- 

 dersin him, and by not fuffering him to flale in his riding in . 

 convenient time, and of evil humours.. 

 . Hippiatrus. Whatfigns have yon of the Scai^or Mainge } 



Hifpoferus. We may with good realbn fay that this Difeafie 

 we call the Scab, Maiijgc^ or Itch in a Horfe proceedeth of too 

 great abundance of iU bloud, which, when it is once inflamed 

 By over* hard riding, cauieth itsLeprbfic to conic forth upon 

 the Si^w,. which cometh to be an itch running over the whole 

 iSiody, beginning betwixt the ffeth and the skin, infbrauch as it 



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