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Markham's master-piece. Containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach / [Gervase Markham].

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1710
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Markham's master-piece. Containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach / [Gervase Markham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ,’s Mafter-piece. t#ta» The FIRST BOOK,' Containing all Cures Phyfical., or fuch Infirmities, as being inward, crave the Adminiftration of Phyfick, and are called in Horfe-Leach-Craft, Horfs-SickneJJh. CHAP. 1. Of tbs Natural Comp option of Horfes Bodies. Ouchins the tme Compofition of a Horfes Body, you £hall underftand, that it is (a < the Body of Man) compounded of Thirteen feveral Things, *ha$ h to (ay, Seven Natural, and Six not Natural: The Seven Natural are Elements, Tempera* ments, Humours, Members, Powers, or Virtues, ASions, or Operations, and Spirits^ all which be called Natural, fcecaufe the natural Perfection and ’ Excellency of every ftntible Body doth wholly depend upon them : And hath his moving no longer than they have power of Working. The Six, which are not Natural, be the Air, Meat and Drink, Motion5 and Reft, Sleep and Watch, Emptinefs and Fulnejs, and theJffefls, or Motions of the Mind * and thefe are called not Natural, becaufc as (being rightly and in due order applied) they preferve, fuftain, and fortifie the Body * To being miigovernecl, or ufed in any excefs, or diforder, they are the only corrupt Deftroyers of the whole body : And of thefe Thirteen Principles which compound die Fabrick, or whole Frame of the body, I intend to Ipeak feveralT > CHAP. IL Of the Four Elements, their Virtues and Gp nations, -Irft, F or the Expofition of the Word Ele?nent, y ou fhall unclerfiand that it is the primary or firft beginning of ail Things, being of it felf pure, uncorrupt and Ample y all things being firft made thereof, and all things at laft being refolded into the fame again. It is alfo ir» its own Nature fo bright, clear, and withoiU'-tdonaadion of lmpu~ B 2