BOOK II. and Expert Ferrier, j 4^ 



fick, as Artifls do call it. Three caufes there be of this in- 

 firmity, two whereof proceed from a cold formerly taken, 

 -and the third from another caufe, as (hall prefentiy be demon- 

 flrated. The firfl; is an exnlceration of the lungs , which doth . 

 begin from a cold ^ the fecond by clinging or growing toge- 

 ther of the lights^ whofe origin came alfo of cold •-, and the 

 third is a diQocatioa of the Lnyigs^ and this lafl; cometh bj 

 means of fome violent or fudden adtor miotion of the body, or 

 by fome f-dl whereby the lungs were become dillocated, difpla- 

 ced, or turned in the hody of the ^orfc^ every of which do oc- 

 caiion Jhortnefs of breath by rcafon the lungs have not power fuf- 

 ficient (being the bellows of the body) to open, Ihiit and ply 

 at pleafure •, an-d this is the caufe why the Horfe heaveth at the 

 rihs and flanks-, fetcheth his breath fhort and hot at the mfe^ 

 wheefeth, and oft times reeleth when he is put to little that 

 doth reftrain his iv/W, and therefore fo long as he is kept in 

 the Stable at dry and hard meats, he heaveth more than when 

 he is at grafs, for if you do wa(h his Provender in Ale or Beer, 

 and fprinkle his Hay with water, you fhall perceive him to heave 

 the lefs : but when he runneth at grals, he heaveth fo little, as 

 hardly to be feen, and the reafon is, for that the Horfe having 

 naturally a very moift body, the cold which he hath taken 

 doth fo condenfe and make thick thole humours which before 

 were thin, which do (whilit they were /'fww/) pafs mofl eafily 

 through the pores, but now they are become thick, vifcous, and 

 flimy, (topping the pores in fuch fort as hardly to be able to 

 Breathe., but with greet labour and no lefs pain, which doth 

 provoke him to heave and lift, by reafon that the lungs.y pores, 

 and jp/'/jf/ are fo (topped and opprelt, as not to be able to per- 

 form their fundlion and natural office, for which nature hath 

 created them, and befides thofe ftoppings do conftrain him to 

 cough and labour foextreamly, as to endanger oft times the 

 breaking of a vein-f from whence enfiie many more inconve- 

 niences than this one : neverthelefs you may have means to help 

 his wind., but to recover him perfed and found again, I dare not 

 abfolutely promile you, and if you be folicitous to underltand 

 more of this fubjed, to fave both your own labour and .mine, 

 if you will be pleaiidto perufe Mafter BlundevUe., and Malter 

 Markham., they are able to give you ample fatisfadion. 



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