MISCELLANEA. 
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The signs are yellownesse of the eies and skin, a sudden and 
faint falling down by the high-way, or in the stable, and an 
universal sweat over all the body. The cure is, first to let the 
horse blood in the necke, in the mouth, and under the eies : then 
take twopenny worth of saffron, which, being dried and made 
into fine powder, mixe with sweet butter, and in manner of a 
pill give it in balls to the horse three mornings together. Let 
his drink be warm, and his hay sprinkled with water. 
Of the Sicknesse of the Spleen, 
The spleen, which is the vessel of melancholly, when it is 
overcharged therewith, grows painful, hard, and great; in such 
sort, that sometimes it is visible. The signs to know it, is much 
groaning, hasty feeding, and a continual looking to his left side 
only. The cure is, take agrimony, and boil a good quantity of 
it in the water which the horse shall drink; and, chopping the 
leaves small, mix them very well with sweet May butter, and 
give the horse two or three good round balls thereof in the man¬ 
ner of pills. 
Of the rives. 
For the vives, which is an inflammation of the kernels between 
the chap and the neck of the horse, take pepper one penny¬ 
worth, swine’s grease one spoonful, the juyce of a handfull of 
rew, and vinegar two spoonfuls, mixe them together, and then 
put it equally into both the horse’s ears, and then tie them up 
with two flat laces; then shake the ears that the medicine may 
go down; which done, let the horse blood in the neck, and in the 
temple veines, and it is a certain cure. 
Strangle. 
Take southernwood, and dry it to powder, and with barly- 
meal, and the yolk of an egge, make it into a salve, and lay it to 
the impostume, and it will ripen it, break it, and heal it. 
Upon the top of the excression make a slit with your knife, 
the length of a barley-corn, or a little more; and then with a 
fine cornet raise the skin from the bone, and hollow the compass 
of the excression. Then take a little lint, and dip it into the 
oyl of origanum, and thrust it into the holes, and cover the knob, 
and so let it bridle till you see it rot, and that nature casteth out 
both the medicine and the cure. As for the lling-bonc, you shall 
need to scarifie and annoint it with the oyle only. 
