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■^^"^ This will heal and dry up any wound or old fore, and I 

 have often and long ufed this powder. 



SECT. 8. L. 



Hippoph. \/\r ^^f Sfeafe is that we call the Low- 

 ▼ ▼ vvorm ? 



Biff of. This is the difeafe which I cannot diftinguiih from 

 Saint ^monies-fire, or the Shingles, for that it hath the felf 

 fame Symftoms, ^nd this I have cured. This is 2i Worm that 

 breedeth in the ^^c^betwixt the j^Vz and the bone, and runneth • 

 along the breafi to the brain, and when it cometh to touch 

 the pamiicle of th e brain, it maketh the horfc ftark-mad. 

 You fhall firil difcover it by thefe figns, viz.. prefently af- 

 Uer a long and tedious journey, the horfe will be lick and for- 

 fake his meat ^ and ftand out of length withhis/cff, bending 

 down his back,, and he will often make offer to pifs, but can- 

 not, and if he do, yet v/illitbe but very little at a time, and 

 that in the jheath,2nd in time he will fall mad, gnaw the Walls, 

 Rackflaves, and Manger, and bite and llrike at every man 

 that cometh within his reach or danger : and thefe be the moft 

 pregnant and apparent figns , and this difeafe doth deceive 

 many a good Farrier. For albeit that this infirmity may be 

 many times among horfes, yet Farriers being ignorant there- 

 of, by miftaking it meerly for the Stavers, and applying re- 

 medies only for that cure, do thereby lofe many a good horfe 

 through their mifprifion. But now to come unto the Cure it 

 felf, I will give you two Receipts, the former of which I 

 learned of ^Farmer in Suffolk:, who was cried up for a very ex- 

 pert man in this faculty f'as indeed he was, and hath perfeded 

 , in ray prefence many a great Cure. ) Then thus. 



Take of Acreraent a quarter of a pound, fix heads of Gar- loc^-warm. 

 lick clean pilled, of Rue and Turmentile that bcareth the 

 Yellow flower, of each one pound, ftamp all thefe in a ilone 

 Morter, and put to it fo much white-Wine, as that when it 

 is ftrained there may be of the juyceand Wine two quarts, 

 when you have of this liquor in a readinefs, let your horfe 

 blood under the tail a good quantity, then ftanch him, and 

 dividing this pottle of liquor into fix parts, give it him fix 

 mornings together, that is to fay, every morning one part 



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