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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	heart_n	knee_n	privity_n	3,675	5	17.0471	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39068	The Experienced jocky, compleat horseman, or gentlemans delight containing plain and easie directions in breeding, feeding, keeping and managing horses for all occasions, as war, raccing, hunting, travel, &c. ... to which are added plain and easie directions for the breeding, feeding, managing and curing distempers in bulls, cows, calves, oxen, sheep and swine, useful and necessary for all persons who expect pleasure or profit by any of the forementioned animals, the like before not extant.		1684 (1684)	Wing E3878; ESTC R1977	136,221	359

as Waterings hot Rheumes Haws Pin and Web Pearls blood-shotten and the like The opening the Palate-veins cures or pervents the Lampass or inward sickness as Stavars Anticor Yellows Drowsiness Surfeits Tirings and many times cureth the Strangles Quinsie Swelling of the kernels Pustles Inflammation or Glaunders especially if you cause him to drink the blood mixed with a little Bay-salt The next veins opened help the Yellows Farcins Stavars Mangies Agues Feavours Surfeits Scabs Glaunders and the like and often prevent sickness in your Horse or Mare The opening the palate or breast veins prevent or help the Anticor Moore-foundering occasioned by molten grease contracted in the body by hard riding it likewise preventeth diseases in the Liver Lungs and other internal parts is convenient to be done upon any hurt or sprain in the Shoulder to prevent Lameness The opening the two thigh veins helpeth foundering in the forefeet Splint Screw-ringbone Mallender or the like infirmity To bleed the four Shackle veins before is good against the Crown-scab Quitter-bone and the like distemper incident to the feet of a Horse or Mare To bleed the Spur-veins is excellent good for the Moore-founder Farcine in the side swelling under the belly or the like The Toe-veins being opened do help Frettizing foundering Hoof-bound or any grief occasioned by the Horses beating his Hoofs upon hard stony way Bleeding the two thigh-veins behind easeth the grief of the kidnies swelling in the hinder legs Foundering Scratches pissing of Blood occasioned by overstraining or the weakness of the Reins Back or Belly and infirmity in the Guts as likewise the Curb Spavin and such other distempers or griefs as proceed from rankness or impurity of Blood To open the Shackle veins behind is exceeding good to prevent foundering or any pain the Horse is subject to have in his feet To open the Flank-veins is exceeding good in case of a Feavour Swelling in the Stones Poverty or the Felt-worm And lastly to bleed the Tail-vein often prevents the Mange Scabs Itch and falling off of the Hair So that the number of veins that are usually opened upon divers occasions are Thirty the opening of which greatly contribute to the health of the Horse or Mare not only by preventing distempers as has been before said but frequently without any other application by taking away the effects cause the grief to cease or at least prepare the body of the Horse the better to receive such effectual medicines as will work his cure and dispose outward wounds bruises and the like to such a temper that they heal without much difficulty What seasons are best to let blood in IF the Horse be in great danger you need not expect the critical times but let him blood presently but if otherwise observe these following days viz. the third and fifteenth of January The fourth and ninth of February The seventeenth and eighteenth of March. The tenth and sixteenth of April The first and thirteenth of May The fifteenth and twentieth of June In July and August forbear letting blood unless upon some urgent occasion In September bleed him on the eleventh and twenty-eighth day In October on the eight and twenty third In November on the fifth and sixteenth In December on the fourteenth and twenty sixth these days being by all the experienced Farriers holden the best for sundry regards but especially in respect to the signs which are these and thus govern viz. Aries the head Taurus the neck Gemini the shoulders Cancer the stomach Leo the heart Virgo the guts and belly Libra the reins and buttocks Scorpio the privities Sagittarius the thighs Capricorn the knees Aquarius the legs and Pisces the feet from which note that it is not at all safe to let blood in that part where the sign is predominant Of the bones of a Horse and how placed IN the body of a Horse the Bones are these viz. 40 teeth his head Bones comprehending the crooks and handles of his Scull although they are compiled of part and parcel of other Bones likewise two flat handles which from the Palate and Fork or Throat have five his breast-bone and fifty two bones in his Chine his Ribs short and long are thirty six his fore legs and fore feet are composed of 44 Bones and the hinderlegs and feet of 40 so that the whole structure of his body as to Bones is computed to consist of 157. or as some say one hundred fifty nine Of the four Humours Sympathising with the four Humours incident to all Creatures IT is not the least part of the Farriers Office to consider and well understand the nature and qualities of the four Elementary Humours that go to the composition of all creatures And first as the four Elements viz. Fire Air Water and Earth give life and Nutriment to all living creatures So the four Humours viz. Choler Blood Phlegm and Melancholy are the principal Agitators in the bodies of all Creatures and as it were compose them or at least preserve them for without either no creature can subsist Choler by reason of its heat being alluded to Fire Blood by reason of its heat and moisture to Air Phlegm by reason of its coldness and moisture to Water and Melancholy by reason of its cold and dryness to Earth as for Choler its seat is in and near the Liver which by reason of its heat and dryness accords with the blood which has its fountain in the Liver and from thence disperses it self throughout the whole body nourishing and preserving it in all parts Phlegm has its chief seat in and about the Brain that seat of life altogether affecting Cold. Melancholy occupieth the Spleen being the gross and excremental part of blood and choler descending from the Liver As for the Offices or dispositions of these humours they are four viz. Choler causeth concoction and voiding of Excrements Blood nourishes the body Phlegm gives motion to the joynts And Melancholy disposeth to appetite creating a good stomach How to know by the Colour of a Horse to which of the four aforesaid Humors he is most inclinable and how thereupon to order him for the prevention or curing such distempers as he is most subject to TO know the better to prepare your Medicines necessary to be given upon sundry occasions it is first necessary that you know which of the four aforesaid humours is most predominant in your Horse which cannot better be discerned than by his Colour or complexion note then if he be cole-black without any white a bright Sorrel or an Iron-gray unchangeable that will neither turn to a Flea-bitten White or Daple gray then is he most subject to Choler by reason of the great heat in him often incident to inflammation of the Liver Yellows and Pestilential Feavours and in that case you must to prevent these distempers give him medicines to purge Choler but let them not be of a quality too much operating lest they impair his strength to that degree that he never after recover it