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 22, 2024.
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Of the paines. [ 30]
THis is a kinde of scabbe, called in Italian, Crappe, which is full of fretting matterish water, and it breede••h in the pasternes for lacke of cleane keeping and good rub∣bing after the horse hath beene iournied, by means wherof the sand & dirt remai∣ning in the haire, fretteth the skin and flesh, and so breedeth a scab. And therefore those horses that haue long haire, and are rough about the feet, are soonest troubled with this disease, if they be not the cleanlier kept. The signes be these. His legs wil bee swollen and hot, and water wil yssue out of the scab, which water his hot and fretting, as it wil scalde off the haire and breed scabs, so farre as it goeth. The cure, according to Martin is thus. First wash wel al the pasternes with Beere and Butter warmed togither, and his legs be∣ing [ 40] somewhat dried with a cloth: clip away al the haire, sauing the fewter lockes. Then take of Turpentine, of Hogges-greace, of hony of each like quantity, mingle them to∣gither in a pot, and put thereunto a little Bole Armony, the yelkes of two Egges, and as much Wheat-flower as wil thicken the things aforesaid, and make it plaister-like, and for that cause it had need to be very wel wrought and stirred togither. Then with a slice strike some of the plaister vpon such a peece of linnen cloath as wil serue to go round about the pasterne, and bind it fast on with a rowler, renewing it once a day, vntil it be whole, and let not the horse be trauelled nor stand wet.