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four days after, let him fee that no Hay-dnll ftick upon the 

 places fo clipped, and he will foon be wcli again. 



SECT. 3. B. 



Hippophilus. \]\7 ^'^^^ good Receipt have you to diffotve and dry 

 Y V up all ill ham )nrsi>; the Body ? 

 Hippoferus. The befl; tiling that i -could ever know, is a cer- BaHifw 

 tain Bath which I make, wherewith I bathe him, and I do find ^'^^^^^ 

 it to be right good,which I make thus,t;;c. Take Sage and Rofe- JJ^^ 

 mary, of each a handful, and of the Barke of the Root Beech, 

 three pound, and of tjie Brakes of young Elms, Gakes an<sl 

 iSlhc, ofeach a handful, of Nep, Pennyroyal, and of Chefl:-. 

 nuts, the Rinds being taken away, ofeach a handful, three or 

 four white Onions clean pilled and cut into imail pieces or 

 dices, red Wine three pottles, ftrong white Wine Vinegar 

 two pottles', boil all thefe together, andcaufe your Horfc to 

 be walked a quarter of an hour before, a good pace, that he 

 may be only warm, then let him be prefently bathed with 

 this Bath good and hot, and then fct him up warm, and let 

 his drink be either fwcct Mafhes, or white water-, bath him 

 thus three days together, and feed him with fuch meat as is 

 fweet and wholefom, and let him not be ridden into any water 

 in eight or ten days after, and this fhall diflblve and dry up all 

 his bad Humours. "^;^^. This I learned of an Italian Rider in 

 Briixeh't whom I ^^i\'v pradlilcit very ofccn wiiilft I was there, 

 and rode with him. And lincelhave my felf 'adni in illred it 

 to many good Horfcs here in England^ with which I have done 

 .very much good. 



Hippophilus. No-^'tb;jtwi /peak ^/ Baths, I would gladly k^iow 

 what are their f'^'ertiics. 

 \ , Hippofertis. Baths have been much more in ufe in former times 

 ' tiian now they arc ;, howbcic I and my Mafter do ufe them of- 

 ten, and we do find great profit Irj them : For they are fo- 

 mentations, v^hich be the moil comfortable things of any to 

 the joyntszx\<\ Limbs of a Horfe. Bathes dijlblve all ill hnmoysj 

 and give heat and warmth unto all the Members that are be- 

 nummed with cold, or for want of Blood j it comforteth and 

 ftrengthcneth them, and it giveth very gicateafe tothcpuin- 



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