Part I. PerfeSi Farrier. 2$ 



dead Leaf upon the lower part, and troubled upon 

 the upper, is an infallible Mark that the Horfe is 

 Lunatick, but it continues no longer than while the 

 Humour doth a&ually pofTefs the Eye. Now you 

 may know when that is, by the Eye being fwelled, 

 and emitting a great deal of hot Water or Humour. 

 This mark of the Eye being of that colour and red- 

 difh, as if the Eye were full of bloody Water, is 

 one of the moll certain whereby to know when a 

 Horfe is Lunatick ^ but obferve, it is only fo when 

 the defluxion hath fallen down, and then he feeth 

 not with that Eye. Now to know a Lunatick Eye 

 when the defluxion is not actually upon it, confider 

 that if only one of the Eyes be fubjeSt to it, then it 

 will appear lefs than the other, the Chryftal of it 

 will be alfo troubled, and the bottom or ground of 

 the Eye black and brownifh. But the Moon in the 

 Eyes is better known by a troubled Chryftal than 

 any other Mark whatfoever. Moon blind Eyes are 

 commonly worft in the Wane *, fometimes in the 

 Full, and are never to be blooded but in great ne- 

 ceffity, and then in the Flank. 



The fecond part of the Eye to be confider'd is the 

 Ground or bottom, which is properly the Pupil or 

 Apple of the Eye, and Ihould be large and full, It 

 muft be clearly perceived, that you may certainly 

 know if there be any Dragon^ which is a white Spot 

 in the bottom of the Eye, which makes a Horfe 

 blind in that Eye, or will do it in a fhott time. In 

 the beginning it appears no bigger than a grain of 

 Millet, but groweth to fuch a bignefs as to cover the 

 whole Apple of the Eye, and is alfo incurable. 



If the whole Bottom or Apple of the Eye be 

 white, or of a tranfparent greenifh white, it is a bad 

 Sign, tho' perhaps he is not quite blind with it, bur 

 as yet fees a little. But you mult take notice, that if 

 you look to a Horfe's Eye when oppoilte to a white 

 .Wall, the reflexion of it will make the Apples of 



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