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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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    G2»C3*» ;C H A P. VL Of Powers, and bow a Horfe s Body is governed by tbei* POwers which by feme are called Virtues, or principal Faculties', and do govern and controul both the Body of Man and Beaft, and have the fifth place in this Work, are in Number three, that is, the power Animal, the Power Vital, and the power Natural The power Animal, is a virtue incident to the Brain, which through the Sinews coming like little Conduit-pipes from the Brain, diftributeth feeling and moving to all the Parts of the Body. The power Vital is a vertue be¬ longing to the Heart, which doth give Life and Spirit to allthe Body by means of the Arteries * which proceeding from the Heart, which is the chief Fountain of Natural heat, carry in their little Channels over the whole Body, that Air and Spiritual Blood which makes it full of lightnefs and Alacrity. The power Natural is a virtue belonging to the . Liver, which gives nourifhment unto all the Body, and to every Part thereof, by means of the Veins, which do likewife proceed from the Liver, like greater Conduits, carrying the Blood from the Liver, which is the Fountain of Blood, into every part of the Body. Befides^ the power Natural containeth four other virtues, that is the virtue At- jt/aBive, which draweth Food, Meat to fuftain the Body ^ the virtue Retentive, by which it retaineth and keepeth the Food received $ the virtue DigeJHve, whereby it conco&eth and digefteth the fame ; and laftly, the virtue Expuljive, by which it expelleth excrements and fiiper* fluities. Thus thefe Powers or Virtues being of no lefs validity than you perceive by this Difcourfe, it is the Part and Duty of every good Horfeleach, to have a more careful and vigilant refped unto them j for if any one of them fail, the Horfe cannot live. Therefore when¬ soever you fee that either your Horfe refufeth his Food, or that he can¬ not retain and keep his Food, but cafteth it up again $ or that he doth not digeft his Food, but keeps it corruptly in his Stomach : Or that he cannot void his excrements in a natural manner, but holds it burning in his Body, take them for moft certain figns of mortal ficknefs: Ana thus much of Powers and Virtues* C H A Pc VII. Of ABions or Operations, and whereto they belong, S touching ABions or Operations, which are the fixth column or __ pillar which doth uphold this Natural Body of which we treat, they are not only belonging, but even derived from the three Powers immediate^ fpofeen in the former Chapter, as thus: The Adion and Operation of the power Animal, is to difeern, to move, and to feeL Horfes difeern by means of the virtue Imaginative} Difcomjative, and C i Memorativ*.