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continual fcnibbing vv^hen it is in the fleOiy part, but if it get 

 into the joynt betwixt the top cf the Rump and the Tail, then 

 you iliall know it by a kind of Scab, which you may with 

 your finger feel, and if you fcrape or pick it away, then will 

 ilTue forth by little and little a kind of thin water, which be- 

 ing let long run, will in time run down into his Tail, from 

 joynt to joynt, and there become a Cank^r^ as I faid before ^ 

 Vv'herefore to prevent this inconvenience, if the Metier be in the 

 joynt, then, 

 Tlyl^e Take of Precipitate two drams, and put it into a fmall Vial- 



www or gisfs v/ith fair water, much more then will cover the Pow- 

 Tsmr. ^^^.^ keeping it clofe Hopped, and with this water wafli the 

 plac^ every" day once, and it will infallibly cure it. And al- 

 ways (o foon as you have drefled the forrance with this water, 

 and flopped it up again clofe, then fhake it together, and fo 

 let it remain until its next dreffing, which ought to be twice a 

 day. But if the Tetter or Ring-worfn be in any fiefhy part, it 

 is killed by bathing the forrance in the juyce of Southern-wood, 

 Maudlin, and Rue, of each like much itamped together and 

 Hrained, and fo let the place be waflied and bathed there- 

 with every day once or twice, till it be whole. ^%^ I have 

 thus cured many Tetters. 



SECT. 14. F. 



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Hippoph. \K7ffat is good to k^ep a Horfe that he he mt torj 

 jnemed wit h '^lits ? 

 Hiffof. Thefe Flies arc a vermine which are more bold then 

 welcome to a Horfe, for what by their buzzing, their biting, 

 and flinging, they do infinitely annoy and afflid the poor 

 beafl, caufing him many times to falter in his travel, and lofe 

 his pace, and mofl commonly through his nodding and other 

 evil poHures and geflures, provoked by thefe Flics, they caufc 

 him fo to fret, as to lofe his rain and comely carriage of his 

 body, whereby he hath been much undervalued ^ belldes in his 

 travel thefe Flies do fo caufe him to fret and fume, that he 

 both overtoyleth himfelf in his way, caufing him to fweat 

 fo much, as that he lofing his mettle, hath many times there- 

 by inflamed his Blood, and brought upon himfelf fickncfs, to- 

 gether with a diftcmperaturc thrQUghout his whole body. 



So 



