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THE OFFICE OF THE FARRIER.
The Signes of all Sicknesses, and how to discern them.
IF you find in your horse heaviness of countenance, extream loosness, or ex∣tream costiveness, shortness of breath, ••othing of meat, dull and imperfect eys, rotten or dry cough, staring hair, or hair unnaturally discoloured, a staggering pace, frantick behaviour, yellowness of the eyes or skin, faint or cold sweat, extraordinary lying down, or beating or looking back at his body alteration of qualities or gestures, not casting of the coat, leanness, hide-bound and the like. All these are apparant signs of distempe∣rature and sickness.
Signes from the Dung.
It is necessary to observe the horses dung,