iB2 T^ke Compleat Horfe-ffiav^ CHAP. VI. 



fhall come withfn'hts reachy and ifbmetimfes by biting of hirti- 

 felf, and by beating his head againfb the wall andflbor, and- 

 otherfuchfrantick pofturesand psfllons : but if the malady be 

 not yet gotten into the brain^ or do not occupy that place ^ 

 but that it hath fettled it felf more intrinlecally in thei^'-^^or 

 hearty then you fhall perceive by the whites ofthteyes^ the 

 Ufs^r\d tongue^ this Dileafe to be the plain Yellows, and if the 

 clifeafe be far gone, then will the Yellows be difperfed allftver 

 the whole skin, and the //cr/>fweat in the morning when firil 

 you come to him, as if he had been foreiy ridden, or had an He- 

 ciickPeaver-y and have a delire rather tc be lying than to ftand, 

 and when he flandeth, it will be with his/(?rf-/f^j' ftradlingthe 

 one from the other, and he will alio havea loofnefs or fcow-' 

 ling, efpecially if the Horfe hath taken his furfeit by eating too 

 many Oats, or other Provender, and by drinking Ibddenly af- 

 ter, which you fhall the better know, becaufe the Hoyfe will in 

 his Ordure void fome of his Oats or other Grain whole, as not 

 being difgefted, by reafon that the cold water fofuddenly ta- 

 ken, upon his over hafty eating (not being all chewed) will. 

 cool hh fiomach-i ZTid make him to fwell j befides the Fiorfe will' 

 have a general loathing and forfaking of his meat, which is^ 

 iikewife the common fymptom of every kind of furfeit, and 

 almoft every degree of ficknefs. 

 ^ The fourth and laft ground or principle is, that if his infir- 



mity and ficknefs do proceed from accidental means, then are 

 the figns, a perplexed and troubled Wv, fometimes fweating 

 at the roots of his ears^ in the flanks , and behind the Owilders, 

 againft the/7f;^?-f, fometirneshe will be taken with a trembling 

 all his body over ,' and fometimes with a glowing and burning 

 in hh 'vita! partSj as in xhz temples of his head^ 2.^2\niih\s heart-, 

 on' the inirde oi hh ftre-Uis ^ next to the W^, and on the 

 infrdeofthe hivder-ks^s^ aho his morith will be dry and hot, 

 \mto7mte will be fubjed to be inflamed and furred ^ V« j?w, he 

 ■will have a loathing iind averlion from meat : but only that 

 he mufl eat, and a great drought and thirft, and a great long- 

 ing to drink cold water, and when he hath drunk what him li- 

 keth, yet will he never thelefs delire to keep his mouth continu- 

 ally in the Water. Many other figns there be, whereby a man 

 whois any thing at all skilful and cautelous, may byobferving 



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