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quarts, as it cometh boyling from the fire, and let it infufe 

 tlierein three hours, and then ftrain it, and give him one 

 quart thereof, if it maybe, in the morning falling blood- 

 warm, and walk him up and down an hour or better, and 

 then fet him up warm, and give him Hay fprinkled with wa- 

 ter, and the next day give him the other quart falling, and 

 then do as before, neither let him drink any cold water in 

 four or five days after, but only whiter-Water, unlefsfome- 

 timesafvvectrvjalh: And thus doing he will be cured. ^"^ 

 Tills is a moil excellent Receipt, and 1 have often ufed 

 it. - 



S ECT. 21. S, 



H ippoph. \A7 Hat remedy haveyoufor a Horfe that hath S wel- 

 ^ ^ led-Legs .? 

 Bippof. This Malady of fweHed or gowdy-legs cometh eft- 

 foones by long Handing in the Stable, when as the upper 

 parts of the planks at the fore-feet^ are much higher than 

 thofe at the hinder/ee/-, as I have before obferved in /. 1 . c.4. 

 for by that means the horfe not Handing even, and therefore 

 not at his eafe, the blood fetlcth in the hinder-legs^ which 

 caufeth them to [well. Sometimes they do come by reafon 

 the Horfe being hard ridden, was brought into the Stable too 

 hot, and carelefly fet up, who taking cold, the bloody greafe 

 and humours do fall down into the Legs, and ,fo caufe them.to 

 fwell. -Sometimes it cometh by over-ridmg, \yhereby the 

 horfe hath his blood flirred, and his greafe melted^ which fal- 

 leth down, and refteth in the hinder legs^ caufing them to 

 fwell. ' Sometimes by being ridden and gallopping upon hard 

 ways in the Heats, and by that means the /^/oW and ^r^^j^ 

 falleth down into the Legs^ congcaleth there,, whereby they 

 do become, ^ow/-^ and gour'dy. And fometimes^o/^r<^_y legs com- 

 eth by ficknefs and iurfeits taken, which after remedy had, 

 yet the faces or dregs thereof Hill remaining in the body of the 

 horfe, falleth down, and canfeth the legs to fwell as I have 

 svfdhd ,.f]|:equently feen, and thefe be the prime caufes and reafons 

 '^^^' wliich w.^. have obferved for this malady. The figns your 

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