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THe Physitians in a mans body do make two kinds of Iandis: that is to say, the Yel∣low proceeding of choler dispersed throughout the whole body, and dieng the skin yellow, and the blacke proceeding of melancholie, dispersed likewise throughout the whole bodie, and making al the skin blacke. And as the yellow Iaundis commeth for
the most part, either by obstruction or stopping of the cundits belonging to the bladder of the gall, which (as I said before) is the receptable of Choler, or by some inflamation of the liuer, wherby the blood is conuerted into choler, & so spreadeth throughout the bo∣dy: euen so the black Iandis cōmeth by meane of some obstruction in the liuer-vain, that goeth to the splene, not suffering the spleene to do his office, in receiuing the dregs of the blood from the liuer, wherin they abound too much, or else for that the spleene is already too ful of dregs, and so sheddeth them backe againe into the vaines. But as for the blacke Iandis they haue not bin obserued to be in horses as in mē, by any of our Ferrers in these daies that I can learn. And yet the old writers of horseleach-craft, do seeme to make two [ 10] kindes of Iandis, called of them Cholera, that is to say, the dry Choler, and also the moist choler. The signs of the dry choler, as Absirtus saith, is great heat in the body, and costiue∣nesse of the belly, wherof it is said to be dry. Moreouer, the horse wil not couet to lie down, because he is so pained in his body, and his mouth will be hot and dry.
It commeth, as he saith, by obstruction of the cundit, wherby the choler should resort into the bladder of the gal, and by obstruction also of the vrin vessels, so as he cannot stale. The cure according to his experience, is to giue him a glister made of oile, water and Ni∣trum, & to giue him no prouender, before that you haue raked his fundament, and to po∣wer the decoction of Mallowes mingled with sweet wine into his nostrils and let his meate be grasse, or else sweet hay sprinkled with Nitre and water, and he must rest from labor, & be often rubbed. Hierocles would haue him to drinke the decoction of wild coleworts sod∣den [ 20] in wine. Again of the moist choler of Iandis, these are the signes. The horses eies will looke yellow, and his nostrils will open wide, his eares and his flanks wil sweat, and his stale will be yellow and cholerick, and he wil grone when he lieth downe, which disease the said Absirtus was wont to heale, as he saith, by giuing the Horsse a drinke made of Time and Cumin, of each like quantity stampt together, and mingled with wine, hony, and water, and also by letting him blood in the pasterns. This last disease seemeth to differ nothing at all from that which our Ferrers cal the yellowes. The signs wherof, according to Martin, be these. The Horse will bee faint, and sweat as hee standeth in the stable, and forsake his meat: and his eies, and the inside of his lips and all his mouth within will be yellow. The cure whereof according to him is in this sort. Let him bloode in the Necke vaine, a good [ 30] quantity, and then giue him this drinke: take of white wine, of Ale a quart, and put there∣unto of Saffron, turmericke, of each halfe an ounce, and the iuyce that is wroong out of a handfull of Celendine, and being lukewarme, giue it the Horse to drinke, and keepe him warme the space of three or foure daies, giuing him warme water with a little bran in it.