Book. II. Tt?e Expert Fmrier, I'vr 



ry time ride or walk him till he dungeth, and keep him 

 warm, and give him white- Water,and at three days end give " 

 him Rice boyled in water, and after dryed in thqSun, and 

 give him alfoto eat the leaves of fallows , and it will caufe 

 him to void die worms with his ordure, but if you fhal] 

 rake himfirlt, it v>rill be the better. ^"^ This is very good. 

 Another. 



Take the tender tops of Broom and Saven, of each half 

 a handful, chop them very fmall, and work them into Pills 

 with fweet Butter, and having kept your horfe falling over- 

 night, give him then in the morning, to wit, three of thofe 

 Pills at a time, and then fet him upon the Trench for two 

 or three hours after, and then give him meat, but no drink 

 at all till night by any means, and then let him have warm, 

 but no white- Water. ^:J^ This I have often experienced, and 

 do know it to be a mofl excellent receit. 



G H A P, XXIV, 

 SECT. I. r. 



Hippophylus, 



'Hat is y9nr hefi Cure for the Yellows ? 



Hiffof. This difeafe of the Tellows'm a Horfe is 

 the very fame that Phylicians do call the Jaun- 

 dife in a man ^ and as therebetwofortsof Jaundifeinaraan, 

 fo alfo are there the like in a horfe, viz.. the Yellow and the 

 Black, the yellow being moiil, the black dry, the yellow 

 proceeding from the overflowing of the gall, occalioned of 

 choler, and the black, coming from the overwork ing of the- 

 Spleen^ by means of over much melancholly, both bad infir- 

 mities, but the black worfl, more dangerous and moft mor- 

 tal, the yellow is more eafily difcovered by reafan of its co^ 

 Jour^ for it coloureth the whites of the eyes, the tongue, . 

 the lips, and the inward parts of his noftrils, which the 

 black Jaundife doth not apparently, albeit by due and ftrid 

 obfervation, you may come to know when your horfe hath : 



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