Another of a Horse that is taken.
A Horse which is bereft of his feeling, moving or stirring, is said to be taken, and in sooth so he is, in that he is arrested by so villainous a disease; yet some Farryers, not well understanding * 1.1 the ground of the disease, conster the word taken, to be stricken by some Planet, or evill spirit, which is false; for it proceedeth of too great abundance of phlegm and choler, symbolized together: the cure is thus; Let him bloud in his spur veins, and his breast veins, and then by foulding him in abun∣dant number of cloaths, drive him into an extream sweat, during which time of his sweating, let one chafe his legs with Oyl-de-bay; then after he hath sweat the space of two hours, abate his clothes moderately; and throughly after he is dry, anoint him all over with Oyl Petrolium, and in twice or thrice dressing him he will be found.