lo6 The Exptrt Farrier. Chap, icl* 



with your knife, and fo adminifter it, and order himaSibc- 

 ^.^fot^.\^ Thhi^uY2^tth MeUricho/ly. Another f -STfij 



ry. J Take common Honey one pint, and boyl it till it be, thick, 

 ^ and make it up into Suppofioms asitcooleth, and adraint- 

 fter it, and order him as before is prefcribed you. \^ This 

 purgeth evil httmOHrs, it cooleth and comforteth the io<^^ ve- 

 ry much, and caufeth a good appetite to meat. Ah thefe I 

 have often ufed, and I do know them to be very ^ood. But 

 you mull take with you fbrae inftrudions fit to be known j 

 which are ^ Firft, when at any time you do adminiftcr ei- 

 ther fuppojltories^ Clyfters^ fotiom, you muft do it in a morn- 

 ing faftmg, unlefs neceflity urge the contrary: Secondly, you 

 muft not at thofe times fafFer him to drink any cold water, 

 no not with excrcife, but either fweet Malhes or white wa* 

 ter. Thirdly, it is very needful that before you fliall ad- 

 min ifter either SHppofaory^ Clyfier^ or Pmo», that the iiorfe 

 be raked. And fourthly, that he be after kept warm. 



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Hippoph. TJ/^Hat benefit tometh to a Horfe^ i'^iweating ? 



Hippo/, Truly Sir very much, for by mo- 

 derate and judicious giving of Sweats, as well in his cloaths 

 in the ftable as abroad in his exercife, you may cure hunof 

 many Maladies, and prevent many infirmities which other- 

 wife might accrew unto him. For fweating doth open the 

 pores, and fendeth forth thofe peccant 2.nA malignant JjHmoftrs 

 which do annoy, opprefs, and vex him. But as touching 

 this manner of fwemng by you propofed, it hath relation 

 unto what I have already handled in /. 2. cap, 2. where I 

 treating of what is to be done to a i/or/c newly taken from 

 grafs, I there took occafion to advife /ipe^^^f, and there I 

 referred you to this place, and therefore I will here illuftratc 

 it: Wherefore if you be in the way oi enfaying your horfe 

 having already fjw^f</, to^f<i/ and c/f-^»/c<5i him,, and prepa- 

 SmdUng. red his body f[t (or /mating C if need fliall require. ; Then 

 if the weather be fair and warm, ride him a pile upon his 

 trot, and then home again, then prcfently lit]ter him very 

 well, and doathhimup fo wStttvas thath^ jnayiyw^ify but 



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