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the Chaul of the ^or/>^ and^s-they do grow in bignefs, fb, 

 do the Glanders grow and increafe within the Body of the j 

 Horfs^ which firft beginning with a thin Rheum, afcendeth ! 

 up to the Head, and fetleth neer to the Brain, and fo vent- ■ 

 eth it felf at the Nofe, which yet may be eafily cured, as I 

 have before inculcated, where I entreated of Golds, after- 

 wards it grows thicker, and then it is worfe to cure, but yet 

 faifable enough, in longer time it comcth yet to a thicker 

 fubftance, and its colour is Ycllowilli, much like unto Butter, 

 and then it is more hard to cure, but yet curabk, albeit that 

 now it is come to be a perfe(^ Glanders : But when it com- 

 eth to be a Vifcuous,and of a tough and (limy fubllance, and 

 of a Green colour, and to ftink terribly, and that it hath 

 now run forae months, or peradventure half a year or bet- 

 ter, as alfo having fome fraall fpdcks of a reddifh colour in 

 it, then is it not every Farriers work or Art to cure the fame, 

 for in a cafe of this nature the ablefl: Farrier may receive the 

 foil, and the Horfe die under his hands and cure, as I have 

 often by experience have been an Eye witnefs, albeit there 

 hath been no defed in the Farrier, either , in Art, Induftry, 

 Care or Diligence. I do therefore aver that I would not 

 have any man, (be he never fo expert an Artifl) topro- 

 mife to himfelf the cure of every Horfe he Ihall take in hand, 

 by the rcafon that the Glanders it felf is the thing he muft 

 cure, but in taking upon him to cure that malady, he mull 

 before he can have perfedled his cure, cure him alfo of many 

 other difeafes, which the CF/^^s/e^^ will bring along with it, 

 as (v.g.^ the Confumption of the Flefli and Lungs, Griefs 

 and Aches in the Head and Brain, inflammations under the 

 Chaul^ difeafes in the Liver, Purlivenefs, Hide bound, Drop- 

 lie, fwelled Legs, and many other infimities too prolix to re- 

 peat, all which ( I fay ) are inherent to the Glanders ^^.nd. its 

 Origine,that it is of Cold paftall peradventure,howfoever it 

 fometimes cometh of Surfeits, fometimes of Morfounding, 

 fometimes by Infedion, all which (the lafl; only excepted j tak- 

 eth its firft fource, from Cold, and when it runneth ( as be- 

 fore I faid ) Greenifli with Reddifh fpecks, accompanied al- 

 fo with an ofFenfivc or {linking Breath, then are his Lungs 

 ulcerated, by means whereof the cure is the more defperate 



Hhh aad 



