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flrength and fanity, and fo repair daily the decay of his for- 

 mer ihte of health. 



Hippophilus. Hovf do you held the caafes of fchriefs'^ 



Hippeferus. If you mean the caufcs of Jicknefs limply, < you The '' 

 rnufl underfland, that all' Maladies snd Sicknefs of what nature "ufoef 

 foever they be, are effelh and evil difpojitions fas Learned Phy- ?^''^5 

 cians do call them) unnatural, which do proceed,' and are, as ' '^ 

 it were, the Precurfors which do moft violently hale and pull 

 iicknefs after them j and thus in a word do they deline the 

 caufes of ficknefs, and not othervviie. 



Hippophilus- Hgw ?Jiany forts of caiifes be there ? • 



HippoferHs. Only two degrees, '3'/:^. htrwfecal and Extrinfe- "^^^9 : 

 cat : the Intrinfecal are thofe which are ingendred within the J^^cknd?^ 

 hody^ and therefore cannot be n^jpvilible to the eye, but ar§ 

 made known by their fymptoms ]^he fecond are Extrinfectt^ 

 and therefore are more ealil^ difcovered and known by their 

 outward objeds, wherefore they need no further difcourle. 



Hippophilus. How do yon define fcknefs Oi it is in its amn na^ 

 tnre ? 



Hippofertts. ^^^rimdo^ or lnfirmit<u^ is none Other thing than Sicknefs' 

 that which is contrary to nature. For all intrinfecal infirmi- defined, 

 ■ties moft commonly poflefs and feizeupon the whole body \ and 

 thofe are mod frequently Feavers, Peltilence, Convulfions, o-c 

 Other infirmities again do attach, but only certain members or 

 parts of the W)-, asGoIds which do perplex the /:?fW, Surfeits 

 Vvhich do annoy the Homach, and Splents, Spavens, Pearls, and 

 Haws in the eyes, and the like extrinfical foranc^s : but more 

 ■Jbrts ef infirmities and maladies I never knew, every feveral of 

 w.hich may moft eafily and palpably be difcovered as well by 

 their inward as outward figns. 



' ' Mlppiiphil'US. What is yditr (pinion iis touching tf^e admini^ring 

 ■ef Drinvs-, Potiof^Jy and Clyflers to- a fck^Horfej to wit y whether it 

 be better to apply them very warniy or bntt indifferently ? 

 ' Hippofeuts. Sir, evei^jn this very point is a fpecial heed and How to 

 Care fit to be hadi»and taken ; for by giving Medicines or Cly- ^pply m- 

 ftei-stoo warm, a Fcrrier may eafily undo all, and utterly de-\^''^^'^^'" 

 •ftroy tht Horfe he would labour to care ^ ye^ with as great fa- ^^'^*^^^* 

 I cility, a?if he gave him in the place of a wholfom Cordial, a 

 formal p~^yf6/J : for you muft underftand, that a florfef of all o- 



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