ao TheQempkat Eorfcwatt, CHAP. IV. 



chifa of fuck difeafeSf the (i^ns how to k"ow themy and the means 

 and manner bow to cure them. 



Hipptittruj, Allfhallbe done to your mind Sir : Wherefore 

 I pray proceed. 



fJippoferus. I will : Nevcrthelefs I hold the beffc and cleareft 



* way will be to handle the Cures by way of Alphabet -^ whereby, 



whofoever doth defire at any time to inform himfelf of any Cnre^ 



he may the more readily turn thereunto, without looking over 



the Index ov Table. 



fjippiatrm. I think not that to be amifs. 



SECT. I. ^. 



Hippoph. ^ I "^Hen thus: T<r// w^ Hippolerus, do yon know the 

 I Receipt which is called Acopum ? Do you alfo 

 know its Nature ? Whether it is a Medicine to 

 be taken inwardly^ or an Unguent to be applied outwardly ? 



Two fJippoferus. Sir, to make anfwer to two things in one, I fay ; 



things to firft, it is impoflible for any man to become a perfed Ferner-y 



be obfer- ^j^q ^^h ^q^ ^^^ know, unto what difeafes a Horfe is inclin-. 



vervCure ^^^^ ' Secondly, what be the caules of every difeafe in parti- 

 cular: Thirdly, how, and by what ways and means thefe dif- 

 eaiesdoaccrevv : Fourthly, the figns how to know and diftin- 

 guifh them : And lailly the means and manner how to cure them. 

 Secondly, as touching this your demand o{ jicopum-, and its true 

 Nature ^ I anfwer, that I do know it well, to be a molt fove-* 

 reign thing in fome caules , for I have occafion to make ule 

 thereof very often : It is both a medicine to be taken inward- 

 ly, and an Ointment to be applied outwardly. Matter Blun- 

 devile was the firft that ever brought the knowledge and uie 

 thereof into our Kingdom, who had it from the ^.7//^;;!^ when 

 he lived in Naples^ as himfelf told me, where it is very much 

 uied-,«and he alfo affirmed that it was formerly in much ufe 

 and highelteem among the ancient Grecian Femers^ who gave 

 it the name of j^copum. Mailer Marhbam hath alfo in his Ma- ■ 

 fier-pcice the fame Receipt, but he would make it his own, for - 

 he giveth it no name, but ftileth it in his nineteenth Chapter 

 of his Cures Phyficalthus : A moji famcPts Beceipt^vchichis bvth a fin- ' 

 gftlar drench-yanda fingular Ointment : And in reciting the Ingre-' 



/ dients,, 



