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nourished him carefully, and never permitted any man 

 to backe him but himselfe, which he afterwards dedi- 

 cated in the Temple of Venus. . . . 



" If one do cut the vaines of the pallet of a horse's 

 mouth, and let it runne downe into his belly, it will 

 presently destroy and consume the maw, or belly worms, 

 which are within him. The Marrow of a horse is also 

 very good to loosen the sinewes which are knit and 

 fastned together, but first let it be boiled in wine, and 

 afterwards be made cold, and then anointed warmly 

 either by the Fire, or Sun. The teeth of a male horse 

 not gelded, or by any labor made feeble, being put under 

 the head, or over the head of him that is troubled or 

 startleth in his dreame, doth withstand and resist all 

 unquietnes which in the time of his rest might happen 

 unto him. The teeth also of a horse is verye profitable 

 for the curing of the Chilblanes which are rotten and 

 full of corruption when, they are swollen full ripe. The 

 teeth which do, first of all, fall from horses, being bound 

 or fastned upon children in their infancie, do very easily 

 procure the breeding of the teeth, but with more speed, 

 and more effectually, if they have never touched the 

 ground. . . . 



" If you anoint a combe with the foame of a horse, 

 wherewith a young man or youth doth use to comb his 

 head, it is of such force as it will cause the haire of his 

 head neither to encrease or any whit to appeare. The 

 foame of a horse is also very much commended for them 

 which have either pain or difficulty of hearing in their 

 ears, or else the dust of horse dung, being new made 

 and dryed, and mingled with oyle of Roses. The griefe 

 or soreness of a man's mouth or throat, being washed 

 or annointed with the foame of a Horse, which hath bin 



