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Mippoph. \ i\ 7 iiat nieayis have you to help a Conrumpcion ? 



V V HippofcrHs. We have tv*?o kinds of Confurap'- 

 tioDS, the firft is called the dry nialady, the other the Con- 

 .fumption of the/# : as touching the firlt, which comn;only. 

 t:omech at thetirll of a coid, taken, then it exulcerateth the 

 t/w^s^ which in the beginning lendeth forth thin matter from 

 the «c|/<?5 but after, when it is grown more tough and vifcous,, 

 it runneth no more, but caufeth a maceration and leannefs 

 through the whole body, whereby he droopeth and pineth a- 

 way, and albeit he eatcth and drinketh, yet it is without ap- 

 L - r;a P^^i^^' ^"-^ 'Xit'^X- doing him but little good. The ligns to know 

 liVy. it are thefe : his My will be gaunt, and he will be Hidebound, 

 hisj?f/7j willconfume almoft to Skin and bc^es^ if you flrike him. 

 on the belly it will found hollow, his hair will ftare, neither 

 will he calt it in due feafon, when other Horfes which be found 

 will do, he will cough hollow and faintly : the Horfe that is 

 troubled with tliis difeafe, well may he be kept for fome time 

 alive, but long he cannot be, for the malady is incurable, ific 

 be too long let run: ajid therefore I leave him to Dogs and 

 Crows in his languilhing plight. The other Confmnption is that 

 of the /f]?J, which alfo beginneth of a cold formerly taken, 

 which for want of remedy in time , occafioneth a general 

 (liilike and maceration throughout the whole body: it Com- 

 eth from immoderate labour or travel by violent he^t and cold 

 taken upon it : it cometh alfo by riding him into the water after 

 a greater heat given, andthen fet up prelently negligently \ as 

 once it happened to a young iV««^ of good mettle and fpirit,and 

 of very great hope, the owner of which iV<«^ delivered himtoaa 

 Jmblcr to pace, who whilelt he had him in agitation, hearing 

 Hounds abroad made into them,and rode him hard all day to the. 

 death of the Hare j then coming home hot and ail in a fweat, 

 near to the Amblers houfe was a River with a Water-Mil, where 

 he fet him up to the skirts of the Saddle, and then brought him. 

 into theStable where was neither clotb,Iitter,or any other thing, 

 to keep him warm, or wherewith to rub him, at which time he. 

 took lo defperats a cold as never after to be cured : for in fliort 



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