Ij8 The ^x^rt Farrier, Chap. i$>. 



haVe found to be very good. This medicine will cure a 

 Bme-S^avan^ Splwty Cnrb^ or any other bony excretion, 



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Hippoph. T "T Ave yon any way to recover a;id m^k§ fbiwd a 

 jTx Horfe that is rotten f 

 Hippof. Truly Sir, for any man to promife that, were 

 great precipitation, only thus far he may wade therein,as to 

 give eafe and help to a horfe that hath the Rot^ for it is one 

 thing for a horfe to be rotten, and another thing for him to 

 have the Rot. For a horfe to be rotten , is to have his in- 

 ward parts wafted and confumed, or at leaft fo rotten as ne- 

 ver poflibly to be recovered, to wit, his Liver^ Lights^ &:c 

 But for a liorfe to have a difeafe called the Rot, I do find the 

 fame to be either a formal dropfe, or elfe a difeafe fo allied 

 neerly thereunto, as not to be djftinguilhed eafily : As we fay, 

 a Sheep is rotten, when his Lher is become foul and tainted j 

 neverthelefs men do eat the cartafs^ and do aver it to be good 

 meat, wherefore the Sheep is not rotten, but hath the difeafe 

 called the Rot, This malady cometh ofttimes to horfes un- 

 Ifendled, to wit, in their youth, whilft they be yet Colts , 

 which be bred, and do feed in Femjy^Marjli and voet grotwds^ and 

 fometimes it cometh to them after they have been backed 

 and ridden, when they have too hard and violent riding, be- 

 ing yet but young, whereby the hlood is firft inflamed, and af- 

 ter putrified and corrupted, begetting obftrudions in the Li" 

 vet^ and thofe do caufe putrifadion, and knots and fo pultils 

 do engender in the L;wr,which breedeth either a Droffie^ a Fc/- 

 trick, or 2. Rot. The figns how to know this infirmity are 

 thefe: After his journeys, his Hair will/Z^re, his Legs fwell 

 and burn, and when yoa fhall prefs the places fwoln with 

 your finger, upon taking your finger away, there will re- 

 main a pit or dint, he will forbear his meat very much, and 

 when he doth eat, it will be without any ftomach or appetite, 

 he will pant much, lift and beat in the Flanks many times , 

 he will fwell under the Belly, neither will he caft his Coat ia 

 feafonable time, when other Horfes tliat be found do, and he 

 will be fg faint of bodji, as that he will become Liwt, and ut- 

 terly 



