Book. II. Tl?e Expert Farrier. ^i 



too much Provender whillt the Horfe is yet very hotyfud- 

 denly given him after great iabour, whereby his meat not 

 being well digefted, from whence doth occalion crudities, 

 raw digeftion, and the evil habit in and about the Stomach., 

 whereby many ill Humours, are ingendred, which will foon 

 be difFufed throughout the whole Body, by which means the 

 very vigour and flrcngth of the Horfe becometh to be much 

 decayed, and in a manner quite loft, enfeebling every joynt 

 and member in fuchwifc, as to lofe almoft the ufe of going j 

 and being once laid notable to rife again without help j nor 

 can he either dung or flale, but with mickle pain. Foundring 

 in the Body cometh alfo fometimes, when by travelling ana 

 the Horfe very hot, you fuffer him then to drink his fill of 

 c6ld water, and after do not give him exercifc enough, which 

 might warm the fame in his Belly j wherefore it is mofb cer- 

 tain that ^the Greafe being molten, and the Blood inflamed^ 

 the Humours being flirred and dillblved, will presently re- 

 fort to its Center, which if they once fettle in the Body, k 

 mull be in and about the Heart, if not , they then mull down 

 -lower ^ to wit, cither to the Legs or Feet, and there redd- 

 ing, ingender thefe and fuch like maladies, whereof we have 

 entreated ^ wherefore by eating and drinking out of its due 

 feafon, begetteth an evil habit of the Stomach, fo as if often- 

 times prefent cure be not had, the-Horfe becometh defperatlf 

 fick, which ficknefs will mathematically ufher in his death. 

 Now the figns whereby to know when a Horfe is Foundred 

 in his Body be thefe; The Hair will flare, and he will be ve- 

 ry chill, he will fliiver and (hake after cold water, and whilft 

 he is drinking the water fome of it will ilfue out of his Nofe, 

 and after two or three days his Legs will fwell, efpecially his 

 hinder Legs, and after a while they will begin to pill, he wiU 

 tegin to have a dry cough at firfl, but after it will be more 

 moift, and then his Eyes will water, and his Nofe run with 

 white Flcgmatick itufF, and he will forfake his meat, and his 

 Head will fo much pain him, as that he will not be able to 

 hold it out of the Manger, and feem a J if he were always 

 ■ftecping,&c. 



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