Of the weakenesse in the backe.

IT doth appeare by Laurentius Russius, that there is an other kind of weakenesse in the backe, called in Italian le gotte, or morsecatura de le reni, that is to say, the fretting or bi∣ting of the reines, which as the said Russius saith, proceedeth of abundance of humors, resorting to that place, whereby all the hinder partes of the horse doe leese their feeling [ 30] and strength, and the horsse falleth downe on the ground: yea, and such humors resor∣ting to the hart, do suffocate the same, and in two or three houres do cause the horsse to die. The remedie according to Russius, is in this sort: Let him blood abundantlie in the necke, and draw his backe with a hot yron, in such sort as is declared in the last Chapter. He saith also it is good to make him swim through a riuer, and to rowell him on his han∣ches, nigh the huckle bones; and to make the haire to grow againe, it is good as he saith to aynoint the place with hogges greace, and three leaued grasse stamped together.