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CHAP. LXXXVII.
Of the Art of Curing Cattel.
THere is another sort of Physical practice which consists in the Cure of Cattel, more certain and more profitable than the rest, invented, as they say, by Chiron the Centaur, and wrote of by Columella, Cato,
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Varro, Pelagonius, Vegetius, and other eminent Au∣thors. But this your fine Physicians account so great a shame to practise, that they are utterly ignorant thereof; so delicate, that, like the Lapwing, they are never well, but when they are nestling in the dung and ordure of men: so that if any one require a Remedy for his Beast, in stead of a Cure, he shall receive no∣thing but ill words: As if it did not belong to them, to cure not onely men, but also other creatures, especi∣ally those which are profitable to men. For which purpose Alphonsus King of Arragon kept in pay two most expert Physicians, and commanded them dili∣gently to examine what Method of Cure, and what Remedies were most proper for the several Diseases of Beasts. Which they observing, put forth a most excel∣lent Treatise thereof. The same of late years did John Ruellus of Paris, a person skilful in both Languages, and the first Physician that compil'd a Volume of the Diseases of Horses, and their Cures, extracted out of the Works of most ancient Authors; Apsirchus, Hiero∣cles, Theomnestus, Pelagonius, Anatolius, Tiberius, Eu∣melus, Hemerius, Africanus, Emilius the Spaniard, and Litorius the Beneventan: a Work very profitable for all Parriers, and very advantageous to the Common∣wealth.
Of the Art of Curing Cattel.
THere is another sort of Physical practice which consists in the Cure of Cattel, more certain and more profitable than the rest, invented, as they say, by Chiron the Centaur, and wrote of by Columella, Cato,
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Varro, Pelagonius, Vegetius, and other eminent Au∣thors. But this your fine Physicians account so great a shame to practise, that they are utterly ignorant thereof; so delicate, that, like the Lapwing, they are never well, but when they are nestling in the dung and ordure of men: so that if any one require a Remedy for his Beast, in stead of a Cure, he shall receive no∣thing but ill words: As if it did not belong to them, to cure not onely men, but also other creatures, especi∣ally those which are profitable to men. For which purpose Alphonsus King of Arragon kept in pay two most expert Physicians, and commanded them dili∣gently to examine what Method of Cure, and what Remedies were most proper for the several Diseases of Beasts. Which they observing, put forth a most excel∣lent Treatise thereof. The same of late years did John Ruellus of Paris, a person skilful in both Languages, and the first Physician that compil'd a Volume of the Diseases of Horses, and their Cures, extracted out of the Works of most ancient Authors; Apsirchus, Hiero∣cles, Theomnestus, Pelagonius, Anatolius, Tiberius, Eu∣melus, Hemerius, Africanus, Emilius the Spaniard, and Litorius the Beneventan: a Work very profitable for all Parriers, and very advantageous to the Common∣wealth.