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colder then either River or Pond water, doth more chill the 

 the Horfe inwardly, whereby he is mucii more diftempered, 

 caufing him to quake, and to ihake exceedingly after his drink, 

 which occafioncth crudities, and an evil habit in the Stomach, 

 which doth beget and ingenders an yigne or Feaver^ wherefore 

 after fweating and great labour, I do advife you that whatfo- 

 ever is given him, be firH fet over the fire to take away the 

 chilnefs, whereby your Horfe may take the lefs damage, for 

 that Feavers taken of this nature, do commonly prove pefti- 

 lent Feavers, whofe nature is to infsftall his fellows which are 

 in the fame Stable or Room w-th him, if he be not either 

 fpeedily removed from his confoi ts, or elfe fuddenly curved ^ 

 and the reafon hereof fs moft evident for that when as a Hoi^fe 

 hath been all the whole day travelled f efpecially in the Win-' " 

 tcr) and brought into the Stable all hot and fweating, when 

 Ki niort time after his Blood and Pores begin to be fettled, and 

 to return to his Heart again, and to his Intrals, then if yon 

 give him cold water, you may inftantly perceive him to fall 

 into a formal quivering and (baking for a time, which being 

 once palTed over, you Ihall fee him moft palpably afiume a moft 

 extreme and violent burning, and peradvanture after falls into 

 a moft defperate fweating, whereby is moft eafie to be found 

 in him a general diftemperaturc throughout his whole Body,. 

 together with a formal and dangerous Feaver, wherefore if the 



. Farrier be not more expert, it may ftick dofcr unto him, and 

 remain longer by him then abufhel of Oats will do. But a 

 Feaver which doth proceed either from the corruption of the 

 JBlood j or from the contagion of the -^/V, ( according as 1 have 

 before intimated ) that I fay is moft frequent, albeit not fo well 



' known to all Farriers, and I am able to ajfjirm thus much of thefe 

 kind of Feavers out of mine own long experience, that they are. 

 of that extreme violence, and fo malignant, and their Poiicn 

 of that infinite force, as that if through the-ir own violence they 

 be not able of themfelvcs to bring the creature vilited there- 

 with to his end •■, yet will thefe convert their Malice into ether 

 mortal maladies and difeafes, which willin time prove as noxi- 



, -ous, to "wit, into the Yellows,. Stavers, Glanders, Dropfie, Con- 



^jTumption, Farcin, &c. unto which a peftilent Feaver is evermore 

 ■the precurfor : In fomuch as if the Farrier be not very skilful 

 and cautelousin obferving and knowing the true Symfto^yis oi 



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