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heart_n	brain_n	spirit_n	vital_a	2,340	5	11.1626	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00291	The English farrier, or, Countrey-mans treasure Shewing approved remedies to cure all diseases, hurts, maimes, maladies, and griefes in horses: and how to know the severall diseases that breed in them; with a description of every veine; how, and when to let them blood, according to the nature of their diseases. With directions to know the severall ages of them. Faithfully set forth according to art and approved experiment, for the benefit of gentlemen, farmers, inholders, husbandmen, and generall for all.; Verie perfect discourse, and order how to know the age of a horse, and the diseases that breede in him, with the remedies to cure the same	L. W. C.	1639 (1639)	STC 10410; ESTC S109988	27,722	64

ful soone after follow if the greater care be not taken to hinder and preuent the same Chap. 8. How to judge of the sicknesses or impediments in a horse by his Stale or Vrine IF he shall find his water to be either pale whitish or yellow not much unlike to the colour of Whey or fat Amber or if it be not very cleare but smelleth somwhat strong let the ferrier then be confident the horse is not sicke but sound and healthy and in perfect state of body but if his Vrine be extreame cleare and white and of the colour of Rock-water and withall slimy then hath he a taint in his Kidneis Reines or back or else he enclineth to the stone or else he hath som stoppage in his Kidneys But if his water be high coloured like to the colour of strong Beer then is it a token the blood of the horse is enflamed and that he is subiect to a Feauer or to some strong Surfet but if it be red and of the colour almost of blood then is the blood more inflamed which came of ouer hard riding which may prone very dangerous to his life But if it be of a pale greenish colour thick and viscous then certainely his Backe is growne weake and he is in danger of a Consumption of his Steed But if it be high coloured and nebuled or mixed with small Clouds with a kind of blacknesse therein then this doth demonstrate ensuing sicknesse and death if it be not carefully preuented But if the Nebulosity be dispersed into seuerall parts and not combined as it were into on Masse or Body this then argueth that the malice of the disease beginneth to depart whereby the Ferrier may haue great hope of the health of the Horse Chap. 9. A discription of the number quallity and measure of the sinewes of a horse IT behooueth vs also to describe vnto you the number quality and measure of the sinewes of a horse From the ●…id nostrils vp to the top of the head and so downe along the backe euen to the crooper comes it great cords or tendons euery one xii foote long Th●n is there two branches and principall sinewes of the braine containing foure foote Then from the shou●ders to the nex● io●…t downwarde two great sinewes or tendons And from that ioynt downe to the pastorns foure great s●newes Also in the forepart and about his brest aswell within ●…s without are x. sinews and as many in his hinder parts Then from the reynes of his backe vnto his stones are foure so that in his whole body he hath in all foure and thirty apparant sinewes Chap. 10. Of the three powers or vertues whereby as well the body of a horse as every other beast is governed THe powers and vertues whereby the body of euery beast is gouerned are in number thrée that is to say the power Animall the power Vitall and the power Naturall The power Animall is a vertue incident to the braine which through the sinewes c●mming like conduite pipes from the braine distributeth féeling and moouing to all the parts of the body The power Vitall is a vertue belonging to the heart which giueth life and spirite to all the body and to euery parte thereof by meanes of the arters which also like conduit pypes doe procéede from the heart the chiefe fountaine of naturall heate The power Naturall is a vertue properly appertaining to the liuer which giueth nutriment vnto all the body and to euery part thereof by meanes of the veins which like wise procéed from the liuer like conduit pips carying the blood from the liuer which is the fountaine of bloud vnto euery part of the body Moreouer the power naturall comprehendeth foure other vertues that is to say the vertue attractiue whereby it draweth sustinance méet to nourish the body then the vertue retentiue whereby it retaineth and kéepeth the sustinance receiued thirdly the vertue digestiue whereby it digesteth the same and finally the vertue expulsiue whereby it expelleth excrements or superfluitys Thus you sée that the thrée powers before recyted be of no small importance and therefore the Ferrer had néed to haue a speciall regard vnto them For if any of them fayle the beast cannot liue Chap. 11. Of the number and situation of bones that be in a horses body EUery Horse or Oxe hath in the vpper part of his head two bones and from his forehead vnto his nostrills other two Also two nether Iawe bones and of téeth in all to the number of xl that is to say of Iaw téeth or side teeth xxiiii of tushes xiii of fortéeth otherwise called the shearing téeth xii The ioynt bones aswel of the necke as of the backe be in all twenty two that is to say from the head to the withers vii and from thence to the reynes or kidneys viii and from thence to the tayle seauen then is there the great broad hinder bone called the sacred bone which hath xii seames or ioyntures Also in the horses shoulder be two great bone called the spade bones and from thence to the forcelles or Canell bones other two bones and from thence to the first ioynt aboue the legges other two and from thence to the knees two called the thigh bones and from thence to the pastornes other two called the shanke bones and from thence downward to the hooues be in all xvi little bones Then there is a great bone in his brest wherevnto are fastened xxvi ribbes And to the Col●…elle behinde be two bones and from the mo●ayrs to the ioints other two and also two towards the ribbes From the bending of the hough vnto the legge are two small bons and from the legge to the two feciles of the legge other two little bones and from the pastorns to the hooue sixteene little bones The summe of all the bones is one hundrad threescore and ten Chap. 12. In what points the art of shooing doth consist and of hooves and of divers kinds thereof THe Art of shooing consisteth in these points that is to say in paring the hooue well in making the shooe of good stuffe in well fashoning the webbe thereof and well piercing the same in fitting the shooe vnto the horses foote in making nayles of good stuffe and fashoning of the same and finally in well driuing of the said nayles and clenching of the same But sith neither paring nor shooing is no absolute thing of it selfe but hath respect vnto the foot or hooue for the shooe is to be fitted to the foot and not the foote to the shooe and that there be diuers kinds of hooues both good and bad requiring great diuersity as well of paring as shooing Of hooues some be perfect and some be voperfect The perfect Hooue is that which is round smooth and short so as the Horse may treade more on the Toe than on the Heele and also right and somewhat hollow within but not ouer hollow haueing a narrowe frush and broade Heeles The vnperfect Hooue