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tain fhrubs, and medicinal herbs; rejecting the 
~ groffer parts. The blood of the he-goat dried, is 
a great recipe in fome families for the pleurify and 
inflammatory diforders *. 
Cheefe made of goats milk, is much valued 
in fome of our mountanous countries, when kept 
to proper age; but has a peculiar tafte and flavor. 
The rutting feafon of thefe animals, 1s from 
the beginning of September to. November, at that 
time the males drive whole flocks of the females 
continually from place to place, and fill the whole 
atmofphere around them with their ftrong and 
ungrateful odor; which though as difagreeable as 
affa foetida itfelf, yet may be conducive to prevent 
many diftempers, and to cure nervous and hyf- 
terical ones. Horfes are imagined to be much 
refrefhed with it; on which account many perfons 
keep a he-goat in their ftuds or ftables. 
Goats go with young four months and a half, 
and bring forth from the latter end of February to 
the latter end of -4pri/: Having only two teats, 
they bear generally but two young, and fome- 
times three; and in good warm paftures there have 
been inftances, though rare, of their bringing four 
at atime: both young and old are affected by the 
weather: a-rainy feafon makes them thin; a dry 
funny one makes them fat and blythe: their ex- 
* This remedy is taken notice of even by Dr. Mead in his 
monita medica, p. 35. under the article pleuritis. ‘The Germans 
ufe that of the Szezu-boc, or Ibex. 
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