fog The Ccmpleut Horfe-man^ CHAP. V. 



itivenefsin them, which proceedethof much unraturalheatin 

 the body j and fuch Horfes never thrive or like well, for they 

 be naturally tender, and walh, or flew of their fiefh : and 

 therefore fuch a Horfe I could vvifh you not to keep, but to put 

 away as foon as may be. For if he come once to hard labouri 

 you cannot poffibly keep him found, but be often lick and un- 

 healthy. The belt Cure which I have was taught me by a 

 Bi!ly French Marfl^a'^ who told me that every J^orje hath about his 

 fauQt. Ccds two fmall firings, which extend from his Cods to the bot- 

 tom of his helhj to wit, of each fide one ; which faid firings 

 you mufl break with your finger, a thing very eafie to be done 

 by thofe that have prasftifed it •, and when you have broken 

 them, you muft anoint that place every day with frcfh Butter 

 and Vuauefitum Popnleon mixed together j this done, in fhort 

 time he win come to Belly well. 



This I never my feif tryed,but he that taught it me did much 

 pradife it,and he brake many of thofe firings of ii:ndry Horfes 

 in my light. 



SECT. S- S- 



Hippoph. \,\J ^^"^^ means have yon to help the fain in the Belly. 

 ^' ^ of a Horfe ? 

 /y//>p(j/frf«. This difeaie is that we call the Coiich^ which the 

 Jtalifins do call G7/f;7, from whence our En^lijh Ferriers derive 

 '^'^'^y the word Colick. ' the French call it Tranchaifons, which is a pain 

 ^^" " or griping in the Beliy^ coming fometimes of cold and wind,, 

 and fometimes of grofs hitmsitrsj which lie in the fmall Guts ; 

 fomtimes by reafon of abundance of Billibus or (harp Humors j^' 

 fometimesby inflammations in the Body ciiuCcd by feeding upon 

 raw and bad meats, which. occafion Crudities. But (5f this 

 we fliall have occafion to fpeakmore in its proper place of the. 

 Cotick : Only thus much,that whereas pains andGripingsin thc- 

 Belly do proceed oft-times from the Liver^ and the working of 

 the Spleen^ which is moft ventofous. B\fit I think it not amifs, 

 to give yon one receipt wherewith to cure any Gripings or- 

 pains which may at any time proceed either from< the Livery- 

 Spleen^ or Milt. Neither have you any figns whereby to know 

 this difeafe, bat only ths fame for the CoUtk- And the Cure is- 

 this.- Take*. 



