2 1 1 T^e Expert Farrier, Cliap. i 2. 



travel be moderate and with great difcrction, and he will 

 both hold out his journey, and get Ilrength and fiefh alfo in 

 his travel. "^^^ And this I have often tryed both upon my 

 own horfis and others, in whofe company I have travelled, 

 as well in England as in parts abroad. 



CH A P. XXII. 



SECT. I. r. 



Hippophylus. 



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Ow do ym frefcrihe a Vomit to a Horfe? 



Hiffof. Of this I have fpoken a little already 

 where I did remit you to this place, we do ufuai- 

 ly give vomits unto horfes newly taken up from 

 grais, by reafon they are thereby full of very grofs phleg- 

 xnatick humours, which do abound in the flomach , and head, 

 which if they be not fetched from the horfe in its due time, 

 will be means to impair greatly the health of the horfe, 

 which muft be oft times neceffarily expulfed by vomit, and 

 you fhall have a receit of a vomit which I had in Frmce from 

 a fpecial Farrier there who ( as I have before touched ) hath 

 in my prefence adminillred to fundry horfes, which did work 

 Tery kindly upon them, and I my fclf have adminillred tiie 

 fame to fundry Horfes here in ETJgLtud^ to very great profit 

 unto them. The Receit is this, 

 renting. Take two of the greatefl: roats of Polipodium you can get 

 from the Oak, wafh and fcrape them very clean, andtyeit 

 to his Snaffle, Trench, or Bit, then let it be Jfleeped in the 

 Oyl of Spike a v/hole night, and in the morning fafting,put 

 on his bridle with the faid roots , and ride him with it in 

 his mouth an hour or better, fair an foftly ^ and if he be trou- 

 bled with any Rheumatick or Phlegmatick humours or with 

 any cold or filthy matter, which may any w^ay pefler, clog, 

 ©r annoy his ftomach: This thing will force him to vent 

 them at his. mouth and nofe, and it will caufe him to cough 

 and Bcc^y where, iie ; will fend forth a great abu ndance of 



filth, 



