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The CoMpkat Horfc-mar?^ 



CHAP. VL 



Difeafes 

 to pre- 

 vent. 



every day withont fail, morning and evening during the whole 

 month of y^p«7, from the firlbday to the laft, which is before 

 his turning out tografs, or fbyling, which fliould be about the 

 middle of M^y-^ and let him have the lame alfo all the whole 

 month of October (like as you muft do in .^pril) after you have 

 taken him from grafs, about Bartholememide^^ and do as you 

 before have been taught in all points. That which I pre- 

 fcribe is this. 



TakeaBufhel ofoldRie, fweet and clean, well purged, or 

 lifted from duH:, Itones, lome, feathers, cobwebs, or any fuch 

 iikefilth, and put it into a clean iron pot, dry, and without 

 water, I mean fuch an iron pot, in which ufually flefh meat is 

 boiled, for fuch alike velTel is bell for this our purpofe, itta- 

 kcth left harm, and h much more wholefome than Brafs, Cop-- 

 per, or any other metal : fct this pot thus dry, and without 

 water over the fire, and put into it your Bulhel of Rie(for a 

 Jefs quantity you cannot well have) and asit beginnethto wax 

 hot, keep theRie with continual ftirring, even from the bot- 

 tom, without any intcrmifhon, until you have fo parched the 

 Rie that it becomcth black and hard, which to be fo, will ask 

 good heat, and no lefs labour to ftir it up and down in the pot, 

 when you do find that the Rie is fufficiently parched, which 

 you fhallknowby its blacknefs, drynefs, and hardnefs, take it 

 from the fire, and put it into fome other clear and dry veflel, 

 which fo foon as it is cold, let the vclfel be kept clofe (topped, 

 and fo kept for your ufe. Now when you are to ufe of this 

 Rie, take two orthreegood handfuls of it, and let it be bea- 

 ten to fine powder and given, to your Horfe mingled with his 

 Provender, at every watring, morning and evening, or other 

 'times when you ufually give him Oats j do this thcfe two en- 

 tire months of Jfril and Ofioher^ for that all men do hold, 

 that in thefe two months the blood tmntth and altereth, as we 

 alter his diet from hard and dry meat, to grafs •, and fo like-jj 

 wife from grafs to dry meat j for this Rie thus parched and^ 

 ordered, doth refine the bloody cool the Liver^ and purgpth the?5i 

 Spleen, fo as the whole ftrufture of the Body is thereby the bet-, i 

 ter eafed and freed from all fuch bad and unnatural humourf^ 

 which would otherwife make the W)' inclinable to fund ry; Ma- 

 ladies and Difeafes, which this Rie- preventeth 3 and therefore 



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