The historie of foure-footed beastes Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day. By Edward Topsell.
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The historie of foure-footed beastes Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day. By Edward Topsell.
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Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?
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London :: Printed by William Iaggard,
1607.
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Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"The historie of foure-footed beastes Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day. By Edward Topsell." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13820.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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Of the sleeping euill.
THis is a disease forcing the beast continually to sleepe, whether he wil or not, taking his memory and appetite cleane away, and therefore is called of the Physitians Le∣thargus, it proceedeth of aboundance of flegme moistening the brain ouermuch It is easie to know it, by the continuall sleeping of the Horsse. The cure of this disease ac∣cording [ 30] to Pelagonius, Vegetius, and others, is in this sort. Let him bloode in the necke, and then giue him this drinke: Take of Camomile and Motherwort, of each two or three handfuls, and boile them in a sufficient quantity of water, and put thereunto a little wheat bran, salt and vineger, and let him drinke a pinte of that euery day, the space of three or foure daies together. It is good also to perfume and chafe his hed, with Time & Peniroy∣all sodden together in vineger, or with Brimstone and feathers burned vpon a chafingdish of coales vnder his nose: and to prouoke him to neese, by blowing pepper and Pyrethre beaten to powder, vp into his nostrils: yea and to annoint the palate of his mouth, with Hony and Mustard mingled together, and in his drinke, which would be alwaies warme water, to put Parsly seede, and Fennell seede, to prouoke vrine. His Legs also would bee [ 40] bathed, and his hooues filled with wheat bran, salt, and vineger, sodden togither, and laid too so hot as hee may indure it, and in any case suffer him not to sleepe but keepe him waking and stirring, by continual crying vnto him, or pricking him with some sharp thing that cannot passe through the skin, or else by beating him with a whip, and this doing he shall recouer.