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THE  NATURALL  HISTORY
which caufe a great flaughter. Cfar wading
over a River in Brittain, mounted on an Ele-
phant, amazed the Britili Horfes. dporta re-
ports, that they cannot abide fo much as
drums made of the skins, either of Elephant,
or Camel,or Wolf Pliny teftifies, that it went
by tradition, that a Horfe will burft that under
his rider treads in a Wolfs fteps. We read in
.Mlian, that if a Wolf tread on a Horfe heel,
as he is drawing a Cart, he ftands ftill, and 1if,
as if with the Carter he were frozen. Pierius
Valerianus reports,that you cannot get a Horfe
to paffe by, where a Wolfs bowels are buried.
Pliny faith, that if you ty great teeth to horfes,
they will never tire. We fhall fpeake of Ly-
co/badi, and Lycophori, or Horfes that men ride
with bits, when we ihall deal with the diffe-
rences of Horfes. Wee ow it to Portaes re-
lation,that Bears in the wildernelle,are affright-
ed by a drum, made of a horfehide. Geldings
will by no meanes come neare a Lion, others
not gelt will run on him. If sheep Hand in a
fable wherein Mules, Horfes, or Affies have
fRood, they eafily get the fcab. Braying 4fles
in Darius his expedition againft the Stythians,
troubled their Horfes.Of serpentssand eorfes,
Siius Ital. hath written. The tayl of a Trachu-
rus hung at a Mares belly, makes her caft her
foal, if we beleeve JElian. They cannot abide
the fight of a fea-calf They fwound, if they
carry Appels, or Figs; but come to themfelves
again, if you lay bread afore them: They will
not touch a kind of barley, that grows in
Thrace, near a Province of the Scythians and
Medes. They run mad, if you fineare their
noftrils with the herb lafer, or benjamin. Ge/iher
was informed by an old man, that Gentiania,
or Pelwort, caufes Mares to caPt fole. If they
tread on henbane, they caft their fioos.  If
Horfes drink of the River Sybaris, they are
troubled with neezing: if of Coffiniris in
Thrace, that fall into the land of the Abdee-
rites, they run mad. The fame is faid of a well,
or pit, not far from Potnix a city of BJcotia.
Sil/us ital. writes, that Catoes Horfe, though
fpurr'd on,would not approach a black Moore
in black harneffe. We have it from Homer,
that they loath carcafes.
  Wee have great ufe of the Horfes in meat,
phifick, war, hunting, journeying, triumphs,
and other occafions: we will onely fee in what
account they are to be had in meats, and me-
dicine. That not onely befieg'd perfons have
eaten horfe-flefli, as in Verona under Maxi-
milian the Firft, in Novara, under Lewis Au- I
relian; at Rupel, under Lewis I 3 of France, to
name no more,but we read that heathens make
it their food the name of the Nomedes, the
Scythians, the Scarmathae, and the late Tarta-
rians is well knowne; thefe take pleafure in I
wounding and cutting ofHorfes, and feeding
upon half rawe flelh: they eat Horfes dyeing
the day before of themfelves , or of a defeafe,
the impoftumed place being cut up; and their
Kings, when they would diftribute provifions
amongft them, were wont to give one horfe
amongft 40 men. And alfo amongli the Per,
fians in their Feafts on their beartlh-day , they
had fet before them whole roafted horfes: and
among the Gearmans, they ate both wild and
tame horfes, untill it was forbidden by Grego'y
the I 1 I. Bruerenws relates,that he lath hard Brtiyer.
that the Inhabitants of the .dpes , eate colts.  3c 40.
                                           Plin
Blood alfo hath beene a delicate: Pliny indeed H. N.
reports that the Sauromatac doe live of hirfe, I.S. c.Im
efpecially puls, and alfo rawe meal mingled
with blood out of the thigh vaines. Mecovius
and Paulus Venetus have written, that if tra-
vellers be furprized with hunger and thirft,
they fatisfie themfelves with openingofvaines
and drinking of blood. Wee read in Horace, 1. 2. Cann.
that the Cancany, who according to fome are
Befalte,and according to Acron and Porphiry
are Spanifih nations,delighted in the fame food.
Concerning miltthere is no doubt. For the
Scithyans give their children Mares-milke, af-
foone as they are borne. Thence have they
their names of horfe and milke-fuckers. The
fame lay the milke in the Sun, that the thicker
part may fettle downe, and by and by they
feath it. They fay that it becomes like white Cro.
wine. The Mofclhy once, the fervants of the Hift.
Tarters, were wont to prefent them Mares- 1. 29.
milke upon their journey, as they came with
their Captaine to demand tribute. Writers are 1. 4 (be
not agreed what Hippacks is. Hypocrates , norm.
Diofcoria'es, and Pliny, write that it is chees, 2. C.9
which he ads fmels of vennome, and anfwers
in proportion to ox-liilke, others beleeve it
to be Mares-milke crudled. Theoponpjus writes
that it was Scithian food of Mares-milke;
however it is, we read in Theophraftus that
they could live i I or i2 dayes together upon
that and licourife: Hynocrates teftifies,that for H. P.
the moft part they ufe Mares- milk chees. Nei- 1. 9 c. I .
ther is that any wonder, fince fome relate, that
.Z-oroafler lived once fix moneths with milke
alone;which iheneus declares alfo of another.
As for what belongs toMedicines,Horfes milk, Tlleir
whay, blood, greace, curd, teeth,heart- bone, tifc inl
liver, Htones, gall, hayre, hoofes, fweat, foame, Phifj~1uc
fnittle. fale and dunge hath nlace therein.
their Afllke is very purgative, as Diofcorides M. M.
delivers. U'hay ferves to cleanfe the Ulfers of 1 2- c- 7-.
the reins, to wit that,that by feathing is fever'd
from the milk, if we beleeve ]Ethius.  bhaji's
writes that a woman, if Ihee unwittingly drink
Mares-milk, if fliee prefently accompany with
her husband, fhall conceive. I find alfo in Pliny,
that the fame milk is good to walh the matrix.
Their blood is of a purifying quality, but whe. Her.
ther that of mares, that have taken horfe, or of BarlN
Hallions, or of either fex, experience may beft
decide. Pliny writes, that the fame is good
for the Kings evill: and fariers ufe it for di-
vers difeafes. The Phragmaticum drawn from Pjjn
the matrix, warme with oyl and wine, and Ve,,et.
fmeard on over the whole beaft againft the 1I I. c17.
hayr, cures it.
  The Gal is ofa malignant nature, and is
reckoned among poyfonsfo that the Prieft for
that caufe muft not touch a Horfe. His greafe
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1I. A.
1.I' C.27
PlUt.
Symp.
1.6. q. 8.
.1 U.
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