Part I. Perfett Farrier, a 7 



If there be a fixed Kernel, painful and faftned to 

 the Jaw-bones, it is almoft always a fign of the Glan- 

 ders^ efpecially the Horfe being paft feven Years 

 of Age \ but if he be not as yet fix, then it may be 

 only the Strangle" efpecially if he have a Cough 

 with it • for commonly a Cough is only an effect 

 of the Strangle. However, if there be the leaft ap- 

 pearance of the Glanders, I would not advife you 

 to meddle with him, becaufe it is a Difeafe which 

 is very rarely cured, whatever great Secrets fo many 

 printed Books do promife for it. A Rheum or Cold 

 may be alfo the caufes of a Kernel fix'd to the Jaw- 

 bone, after the fame manner as thofe which pro- 

 ceed from the Glanders, but then it may be difcufs'd 

 by a due application \ yet if negle&ed, it for the 

 moft part turns to a Glander. 



Some Horfes have big and fix'd HardnefTes, which 

 are faften'd commonly on the infide of one of the 

 Jaw-bones, and are no token at all of the Glanders : 

 Thefe are Excrefcencesor Figs, which are of no 

 Confequence, and are remov'd firft with the Inci- 

 cifion Knife, and then the roots of them are eaten 

 away with Powders*, but the neareft Method of 

 taking them away, is by tying them hard about the 

 Roots in the decreafe of the Moon, with a thread 

 of crimfon Silk, and then anointing them every day 

 with the Juice of Purflain. Thefe Figs are not dan- 

 gerous, nor any fign at all of the Horfe's having the 

 Glanders. 



When you perceive a Horfe to have any kind of 

 Kernels between his Jaw-bones, whether fixed or 

 loofe, you mult with your Hand flop his Noftrils, 

 to fee if being a pretty while without breathing 

 through them, he will force himfelf to fnear when 

 you let him go, which if he do, you muft ob- 

 ferve if the Noftrils run, and if he throw out of 

 them a Matter fomewhat refembling the Glair or 

 Whites of Eggs, which if it be but in a fmall quan- 

 tity 



