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.

Of stiffling, and hurts in the stiffle.

THe horse is said to be stiffled, when the stiffling bone is remoued from the place: but if it be not remoued nor loosened, and yet the horse halteth by meanes of some griefe there, then we say that the horse is hurt in the stif∣fle, and not stiffled. The stiffle commeth by means of some blow, or some great straine, slipping or sliding. The signes be these. If he be stiffled, the [ 20] one bone wil sticke out farther than the other, and is apparant to the eie. Martin woulde haue you to cure the stiffle in al points like vnto the shoulder-pight, sauing that the pins need not bee so long, because the stifling place is not so broad as the shoulder, and stan∣ding in the stable, let him haue a pasterne with a Ring on his forelegge, and thereunto fa∣sten a cord, which cord must go about his necke, and let it be so much strained, as it may bring his forelegge more forward than the other to keepe the bone from starting out. But if the horse bee but hurt in the stiffle with some stripe or straine, then the bone wil not stand out, but perhaps the place may be swollen. The cure according to Martin is thus. First annoint the place with the ointment mentioned before, euery day once the space of a fortnight, and if the horse amend not with this, then rowel him with a hearen rowel, [ 30] or else with a quil, and let the neather hole be somwhat before the sore place, and clense the hole euery daye, by turning the rowel, continuing stil to annoint the place with the ointment aforesaid, and that wil make him whole.