BOOK ITo AtiA Expert Ferrkr, ^^hl^^ 



Hippophllus. Why hnt Y{i^\iokv\\s I obferve a contradfBiott in 

 yoH.^ as toHching the quantity of your Decodion ; for whereas you 

 did before affirm that yon ufe to p/it into your Clyjiers at the mofl but 

 three finis ^ and a ths leaji but a qnart ^ you fay that ym did admi- 

 niftcrtothti Horfe, bnt a pint and half only ^ which is under quantity 

 of what you dtd before preferibe ? 



■ HippoferM. Sir, in anfvver hereunto you muft under/land, that 

 in cafes of this nature, Phyfick ought with judgment to be ad- 

 ininiftred, and the reafon why 1 pat into the Cyfier of this 

 broth fo little, was, for that the Horfe was grown very weak, 

 poor, and low ofhi5/f/7^ and in good years, and was belides 

 a very froall AW, fetched out of Scotland from the mountains 

 Q^ Galoway or Galwyn ^ and therefore if I fhould have made his 

 Clyfier fo ftrong, and have added fb great a quantity of Decn- 

 ^ion to him, as I might peradventure have put to a C/yfierfora. 

 great, large, fat, healthy, or corpulent /z/orfe^ I might have 

 repented it-, and therefore I made it as I toJd you: whereby 

 it wrought mofl: kindly,and did him that good which I hoped, 

 and delired : But pafTmg from this now, let us proceed to in- 

 treat yet farther of Clyjiers^ and of their leveral kinds. 



■ Another. 

 Take Pell itory two handfuls, or for want thereof Melilot 2. 

 two handfuls, or if that may not be had, then Camomile two Cl>fier 

 handfuls, but Pellitory is the befl: if it may be had ; boil it to a ^^^^fi^^- 

 DecoSiion.) and then add to it of Sallet Oil, and of Verjuice of 

 the Crab, of each half a pint, of Honey four ounces, of Caf- 

 fia two ounces, mix all thefe well together, and fo apply it 

 blood-warm Clyfier-wife. *^*. This we do call a Clyfier Laxa- 

 tivet for this will open the body and guts of the Horfe very well, 

 it will take from him all noxious and offenlive humours •, it will 

 carry away all ipungy matter : it will allay the biiioufnefs and 

 Iharpnefs of humours j it will cleanle old Vicers ; it will refiefh 

 and comfort the f^ital parts^ &c. But if you do find that by giv- 

 ing too great a quantity, your Horfe purgeth and fcowreth 

 longer and more violently than you would have had him to 

 have done, or for fear it fhould ftir up in him upon the fudden 

 more bad humours than you may eafily know how to allay, then 3 • 

 give him this Ciyfter^ viz.. Take the aforefaid DecoBion one?]^^^^'' 

 pint, adding thereto as much of Cows milk, ^as it comethg^c^'"" 



U 2 warm 



