Of the diseases in the throate and lungs, and why the griefs of the shoulders and hips be not mentioned before amongst the griefs of the withers and back.
SOme perhaps would look here, that for so much as I have declared the diseases of the neck, withers and back, that I should also follow on now with the griefs of the shoulders and hips. But * 1.1 sith that such griefs for the most part doe 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, leg, joint, or foot, I think it is not good to separate those parts asunder, specially sith nature hath joyned them together, that is to say, the shoulders to the forelegs, and the hips to the hinder legs. And therefore according to natures order, I will treat of them in their proper place; that is to say, after that I have shewed all the diseases that be in the inward Horses body, not only above the midriffe, as the diseases of the throat, lungs, breast and heart, but also under the midriffe, as those of the stomach, liver, guts, and of all the rest. And first, as touching the diseases of the throat, the Glaunders, and Strangullion, to all Horses is most common.