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 16, 2024.
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Of halting behind, and where the griefe is.
IF a horse halt behind, the griefe must either be in the hip, in the stiffle, in the hough, in the hamme, in the legge, in the neather ioynt, pasterne or foot. If he halt in the hippe of a new hurt, the horse wil go sideling, and not followe so well with that legge as with the other. But if it be old hurt, the sore hippe wil shrink and be lower then the other. And is best seene, when hee goeth vp a hil, or vpon the edge of some banke, so as the woorste legge may go on the higher side, for then he wil halt so much more, because it is paineful vnto him to go so vneuenly wrinching his legge. If the griefe bee in the stiffle, then the [ 10] horse in his going wil cast the stiffle ioynt outward, and the bone on the inside wil be farre bigger than the other.
If the griefe bee in the hough, then it is by meanes of some Spauen, or some other hurt apparant to the eie. And the like may be said of the ham, wherein may be seene the Selander, or such like apparant sorance, causing the horse to halt: If the griefe be eyther in the leg, pasterne or foot, then you shal finde it by such signes as haue bin taught you before. And therefore let vs now speake of those sorances, that are properly incident to the hinder legs.