BOOK IT. and E:x pert Ferrkr, i^j 



Take Comin half an ounce, Annifeeds, and Licoris, of each 

 two ounces, dried roots of Elecampane three ounces, make 

 them into fin<3 powder, and boil them in a pottle of Ale or 

 Beer to a quart, then ftrain it, pnd give the liquor to your 

 Horfe in a mor.ing falling blood warm, and ride him mo- 

 derately upon it two or three hours, then fet him up warm> 

 and ufe him ntfapra. This 1 never tryed, but he that gave. 

 it me did highly commend the fame unto me. Thus have I 

 given you raaiiy Receipts {cc a cold, and fuch difeafes which 

 are thereof dependent, whereof many are to my knowledge 

 right good, and by my fclf experimented, with which 1 have 

 done cures which have been held very ftrange, and beyond 

 expedtation. 



Hippophilus. Truly Hippolerus, as touching thefe Maladies-, 

 fomething there isinthemj wherein I do earneflly defre tobeyet bet- 

 ter informed \ and fir Jl I won: d gladly know what be the diverfties 

 of the difeafes which do proceed from Colds -f andhvW we may come to 

 %oiv one malady frotn another. ^ 



Hippoferta. Sir, in anfwer hereunto you mufl underftand, 

 that from a cold taken do ifTue many infirmities, if the faid 

 cold be not fpeedily prevented ^ as namely, firfl Coughs, as 

 well wet as dry, Catars, Murs, Rhumes, Pofi, Ratlings in the 

 h^^ Kernels, and inflammations under the Chanl^ with Bun- 

 chesV-Knots , Puflils, &c. It caufeth alfo Hidebound, Fea- 

 vers, Head-aches, Frenzy, Sleeping evil, weeping Eyes, Can- 

 ker in the Nofe, Strangles, Quinfie, to haveGourded orfwo- 

 len legs : It will caufe the h^tr to flare, it will in time cauie 

 the mourning of the Chine {if there be fuch a difeaie) fliort- 

 nefs of breath ■■, purfivenefs, phthidck, broken wind, (alfo if 

 there be fuch a difeafe) Frelifed, broken, and rotten lungs,, 

 glanders incurable, if it be not in time prevented, grief and 

 pain in the breafl^ Anticor •, it will alfo caufe the evil habit of 

 ihQ fiomach., dropHe, loathing of meat, foundring both in the 

 Body and feet-, tyrednefs, putrifadlion, and inflammations in 

 th^ blood J it will alfo caufe many difeafes and inflammations, 

 in the liver., together with the ficcity and aridity thereof ,' 

 obftrudions, oppilations,coflivenefs andftoppings both i^n the; 

 body and poresy a conlumpiion in the fer, the overflowing of 



