

BOOK II. a^^d Expert Ferricr, 



the fpirits animal do give feeling and moving to all the parts and 

 members of the W_y, the difeafes before mentioned do engender. 



Hippophilus. From what ff rounds hath this head-ach itspjHrce or 

 Organ ? 



Hifpoferus. The grounds and caufes are many Sir ^ fome be- 

 ing inv/ard, and fome outward, as by means of fome choleric}^ 

 humour -^hich may be predominant,by which means it doth oft- 

 times breed in thQ pan cles or elfe of fome heat taken through' 

 violent labour, and fometimes by fome blow given him in the 

 Paul or other place of the head ^ and fome do hold it cometh of 

 fome evil favour, which 1 alfo do allow of ^ fometimes itccm- 

 eth of Crudities and raw digefiions from tliC Stomavh^ by rea- - 

 fon there is fo great a fym path y betwixt the Stomach and the 

 Brain^ whereby they do continually participate as well of their 

 good difpofitions in health, as of their damages in the leaftof 

 their infirmitiesand fufFerings, 



Hippophilus. Bht many there be who do holdflijfly that a Horfe 

 hath no Brains at aU^, but only a kind of windy liquid fubilance, , 

 not unlike unto a k^nd of jelly. 



Hifpofcrus. That opinion is mofterronious, for a Horfe hath p ^ 

 a raoft perfed brain^ like as hath any other living CreatHrei 

 albeit indeed not in fo great a proportion as other Animals 

 have. For natural reafon doth didate that if a Horfe had not 

 his brain-i it were impoffiblc for him to have femblable dileafes 

 in the ^7^^^ which both /t/^ and all other living things have, 

 who are (I fay) likewife fubjed to fuch Maladies ^ which could 

 not proceed from any other caufes but only from thofe before 

 premiled. Neither were it polfible for a Horfe to endure £o • 

 great labour and toil, or to undergo, fo great and fo many" 

 ways, fuch extream violences as daily he doth, if nature hath 

 not endowed him with his organical parts correfpondent to hi$ 

 ilrength, ablenefs, and adivity of body : neither could he 

 hive any memory at all, but appear a Lump of fe[lo and bones 

 without motion. But not to verberate the Air •, I affirm that 

 ^ horfe hath his brains \a as compleat meafure, albeit (as I 

 have but now touched ) hot iii fo great a quantity as other 

 Beajis have, but in as ample, folid and fnfEcient manner, asa- 

 ry- other living Creature ■■, together with the j|?/>7,whiGhArtiits 

 ^(XC^PanieUsj which doth adhere to the .bones condud'^d by 



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