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foritcureth all forts of living Creatures which (hall be bit- 

 ten b^j z mid Do^ : I my felfcan fay thus much of this Receipt, 

 that 1 knew it cure a whole Kennel of Hounds of a Gentlemans, 

 one Beagle excepted, which they did not fufpedt to be bitten, 

 fo he fell mad and died, bat all the rciidue efcaped, and did ve- 

 ry well. Another time a Gent'em.tns fon of my acquaintance 

 was unfortunately bitten by a mad Dog who was cured by the 

 p.irty who taught me this Receipt, and this young Gcnt-enun 

 (for he was then but a Boy or ten Years old )- was lb far fpenc 

 with the rancor of the Difeafe, before this man took him in 

 hand, as that his head began to be addle, and he to talK rery 

 idiyi yet he cured him, fo as he lived and did well, and is ac 

 this hour living, he being now ccme to mans Hate and a very 

 handfom and proper man \ .whofe Parents whillt they lived, I 

 very well knew, and with whom I was very intimately ac- 

 quainted. *^*. 



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Hippoph- \/\7 Hat remedy have you p.r a Spaven ? 



H/ppcfcrus. We have two forts of .^/?.fci'f;7j : 

 The one we call a Through wet, Blood or Bog Spaven, theo- 

 thera dry or Bone Spaven ; the firft of thefe two iseauly cur- 

 ed i the fecond may be cured, but fuch a cure is not for every 

 Ferrier to take upon him to compafs : For that it is a Cure of 

 very groat difficulty, and of no lefs danger. To fpeak there- 

 fore firll of the B!cod Sp rucrj^^ it is a Difeafe which groweth up- bIocJ 

 on the hQH^b with a fwelling which is full of ^,W^, which Sparcn. 

 though it be greatelt upon the inlide, yet the fwelling appear- 

 cthalfo upon the ontfule, being fed and nourirtied by the great 

 Fehii which runneth along the inlide of the thi^h^ and fo Com- 

 eth along the iniide of the kcughi and fo down ih^leg to th'^ 

 pajie.^/t and fo from the p^ijhm to the bottom of the/^a This 

 malady com.eth by means that the /'/coc/ is corrupted through 

 hard riding, efpecially when the Horfe is very young. Now 

 the blood being through overmuch heating too much ftirred, it 

 begcttethS. flexible hnnvpir^ which being marvellous thin, fal- 

 leth to runriin'^downwards towards its Center, but it is flop- 

 ped in its palTage in the hongb^ where it relideth, and by that 



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