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 24, 2024.
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Of the diseases in the throat and lungs, and why the griefes of the shoulders and hippes be not mentioned before amongst the griefes of the [ 10] withers and backe.
SOme perhaps would looke heere, that for so much as I haue declared the diseases of the necke, withers and backe, that I should also follow on now with the griefes of the shoulders and hips. But sith that svch griefes for the most part doth cause a horse to halt, and that it requireth some skill to know when a horse halteth, whether the fault be in his shoulder, hip, legge, ioynt, or foot, I thinke it is not good to seperate those parts assun∣der, specially sith nature hath ioyned them togither, that is to say, the shoulders to the forelegs, and the hips to the hinder legges. And therefore according to natures order, I will treate of them in their proper place: that is to say, after that I haue shewed al the di∣seases [ 20] that be in the inward horses body, not onely aboue the midriffe, as the diseases of the throat, lungs, breast, and hart, but also vnder the midriffe, as those of the stomacke, liuer, guts, and of all the rest And first, as touching the diseases of the throat, the Glaun∣ders, and Strangullion, to al horses is most common.