boiled in Vineger dissolveth any hard Swelling or Tumor the Juice of the Leaves and Roots heal the Mange and all other running and spreading Scabs Golden Rod is hot and dry in the second degree and cleanseth with a certain Astriction or binding quality and is good for the Stone in the Reins and Kidneys it is good taken for inward bruises and outwardly applied for outward ones it stayeth Bleeding in any part of the Body and of Wounds also the Fluxes of Humours the bloody Flux Ruptures It is an excellent Wound-Herb inferiour to none either taken inwardly or outwardly applied and is good for all Sores and Ulcers whatsoever whether they be in the Mouth or Throat Gout-wort Cures all manner of pain in the Hip or Joynt-aches Gromel the seed of it is hot and dry in the second degree it is good to break the Stone and to avoid it out of the Reins and Bladder by Urine and helpeth the Strangury Gum Armoniack outwardly applied dissolves hard Knots and Swellings in any part of the Body and inwardly given cures hard Milts and frees from Obstructions moves Urine and fetcheth forth Stones Winter-Green is a very good Wound-herb and is good taken inwardly being bruised for Ulcers in the Kidneys or Neck of the Bladder it stayeth also Fluxes whether of Blood or Humours as the Lask bloody Flux bleeding Wounds and taketh away Inflammations and is good for foul Ulcers Cankers and Fistulaes Groundsel hath mixt Faculties it cooleth and disgesteth it is a universal Medicine coming from heat whatsoever they be it is good against the Yellows Falling Sickness provokes Urine expels Gravel in the Reins and Kidneys is good for Griping in the Bowels and Cholick and dissolveth any hard Knobs and Kernels in the Body English Galingale hath a heating quality and some do reckon it to be hot and dry in the second degree the greater Galingale Roots are hot and dry in the third degree but the lesser are somewhat hotter it is good for cold Griefs in the Stomach strengthens the Brain and comforteth the Sinews Ginger heateth and drieth in the third degree and is good for the Stomach answering the effects and qualities of long Pepper Glass-wort is hot and dry the Ashes of it are both drier and hotter even to the fourth degree and have a Costick and burning quality Green-weed or base Brome are hot and dry in the second degree they are thought to be in vertue equal with the Broom the Dyars use it very much to dye withal Galls are dry in the third and cold in the second they cleanse and mâ—ndifie they keep back Rheums and such like Fluxes and doth dry up the same and are good to stop Lasks and bloody Fluxes and the falling out of the Fundament Grains of Paradice are hot and dry in the third degree they comfort the weak cold and feeble Stomach and helpeth the Ague Farcin and Falling Sickness Gum Lacke is hot in the second degree and comforteth the Heart and Liver and openeth Obstructions expelleth Urine and is good for the Dropsey and Yellows and expelleth the Stone out of the Reins and Bladder Fresh Grease is hot and moist in the first degree and mollifieth ripeneth and healeth Wounds Imposthumes and Ulcers Galbanum is a Gum which is hot in the third degree and dry in the second it softeneth stoppeth and draweth away evil humours and is good against Colds the Fume taken up the Head as also for the Dizziness thereof H. Hearts-ease is obscurely cold but more evidently moist and of a fat and slimy Juice like that of the Mallow for which cause it moisteneth and suppleth but not so much as that it is good for the Inflammations of the Lungs and Breast Scabs and Itch. Hearts-Tongue is of a binding drying Faculty strengthens the Liver and is good for the Lask and bloody Flux and is good against the biting of Serpents Hawk-weed all the kinds of them are somewhat dry and somewhat binding and is good for the heat of the Stomach the Fits of the Ague the Wind provoketh Urine is good for the biting of venomous Beasts the Dropsey the Wind-Cholick and is good to digest thin Phlegm from the Chest and Lungs it is good for Ulcers Burnings Inflammations and St. Anthonies Fire and being made into a Poultess is good for Cramps and Pains in the Joynts The Hawthorn-Berries are very binding therefore are good to stop a Lask the Berries dried and drunk in white-Wine is very good against the Stone and Dropsey the Seed bruised after it is cleared from the Down and drunk is good for the tormenting pains of the Belly Hemp is hot the Seed consumeth Wind it is good for the Yellows openeth the Obstructions of the Liver and Gall and is good for hot Inflammations the Seed Loosneth the Belly strewed amongst a Horses Provender and allayeth the troublesom Humours of the Bowels Hedge-Hysop is drying and is good outwardly applied to pains in the Hips or Joynts and is good to cleanse old and filthy Ulcers Herb-Robert is good for the Stone and to stay all inward Flowings of Blood and is a great Healer of green Wounds and is good for old Ulcers Herb True-love or One-berry is exceeding cold and the Leaves or Berries is good to expel Poison of all sorts as also the Plague and Pestilence is good for the Cholick green Wounds and to cleanse old and filthy Ulcers and is good to discuss all Swellings in any part of the Body Hore-hound the white and the black are hot in the second and dry in the third degree it helpeth the Obstructions of the Liver openeth and Purgeth and is good against Colds Consumptions short-windedness an Expeller of Poison and a Cleanser of old Sores and Ulcers cleareth the Eye-sight and snuffed up the Nostrils is good for the Yellows Horse-taâ—l is of a binding Faculty and doth moderately dry and is good to Cure Wounds nay though the Sinews be cut asunder and is good not only for all inward Ulcers of the Bladder but all outward Sores provoketh Urine helpeth the Stone and Strangury and is good for all Lasks and bloody Fluxes and Pissing of Blood or Bleeding at the Nose Housleek or Sengreen are of a cooling Nature and is good for all inward Heats as well as outward as in the Eyes and other parts of the Body it cooleth all hot Inflammations as St. Anthonies Fire Scaldings and Burnings Cankers Tetters Ring-wormes c. Hounds-tongue but especially the Root is cold and dry it is good for Coughs and short-windedness the biting of mad Dogs and is good for green Wounds and is good inwardly for the Farcy Holly-holm or Hulver bush the Berries are hot and dry and of thin parts they expel Wind they purge the Body of gross and Phlegmatick Humours eaten not dried but if they be dried and beaten to powder and eaten they bind the Body and stop Fluxes and the Lask the Bark of the Tree and Leaves are good in Fomentations for broken Bones and Members out of Joynt
brought low with Sickness then mix them with Milk and Eggs. Observations upon Raking a Horse Observe whensoever you Rake your Horse with your Hand which is to draw his Ordure out of his Fundament when he cannot dung that you anoint your Hand with Sallet Oyl or Butter or Hogs-grease the like you must ever do when you put up any Suppository but when you Administer any Glister you shall then but anoint the Glister-Pipe Observations upon Blood letting Observe in Blood-letting that you take not so much Blood from a Colt as an old Horse and but the fourth part from a yearling â—oal you must likewise have regard to his Age and strength taking more or less according to his Ability of his Body Lastly letting of Blood is either to divert Sickness and preserve Health or to refresh and cool the Spirits or to diminish Blood or to pâ—rge Grease and bad Humours Before you let him blood moderately chaâ—e or exercise him and let him rest a day before his blood-letting and three days after not forgetting that April and October are the two principal Seasons for that purpose unless urgent occasion requires He will bleed the better if you let him drink before you blood him conditionally you do not heat him When he is bleeding put your Finger into his Mouth and tickle him in the Roof thereof making him chaw and move his Chaps and that will force it to spin forth which when he hath bled enough according to your Discretion rub the Horses Body all over therewith but â—especially the Place where he is blooded on for the Ancient Farriers hold that it is endued with a certain natural Vertue to comfort the weak and feeble Members of a Horse and to dry up all evil Humours And Tie him up to the Rack for an hour or two lest he bleed afresh for that will turn his Blood Signes to know when he wanteth Bleeding If he stand in need of Bleeding his Eyes will look Red and his Veins will swell more then ordinary also he will have a certain Itch about his Mane and Tail and still be continually rubbing them and sometimes will shed some of his Hair also he will now and then pill about the Roots of his Eares or in those places where the Head-stall of the Bridle lies His Urine will be red and high-Coloured and his Dung will be black and hard Also if he hath red Inflammations or little Bubbles on his Back or doth not digest his Meat well or if the Whites of his Eyes be yellow or the inside of his Lips either upper or nether Many other Signes there are of Bleeding but let these suffice c. Of Outward Sorrances what they are and of General Observations in the Cure of them Outward Sorrances according to my meaning in this place are taken two manner of Ways that is to say either it is an evil state and composition of the Body which is to be discerned either by the Shape Number Quality or sight of the Member evil affected and difeased or else it is the Loosning and Division of any Unity which as it may chance diversly so it hath divers Names accordingly For if such a Division or Loosing be in the Bone then it is called a Fracture if it be in any Fleshy part then it is called a Wound or an Ulcer if it be in the Veins then a Rupture if in the Sinews then a Convulsion or Cramp and if it be in the Skin then it is called an Excortication And of all these severally I intend to treat of in the Chapters following Now for as much as in this General Art of Chyrurgery or Sorrance there are certain General Observations or Caveats to be held inviolate I will before I proceed any further give you a little taste thereof Burning First You shall therefore understand that it is the duty of every good Farrier never to burn or Cauterize with hot Iron or with Oyl or to make any Incision with Knife where there be either Veins Sinews or Joynts but either somewhat lower or somewhat higher Corrasives It. You shall never apply to any Joynt or Sinewy part either Resalgar Arsnick Mercury Sublimate nor any such violent Corrasive Cauterizing It. It is ever better to Lance with a hot Iron then a Cold that is it is better to Cauterize then to Incise Blood It. Blood doth ever produce white and thick Matter Choler a waterish and thin Matter but not much Salt Phlegm great abundance of Matter and Melancholy many dry Scabs Bleeding It. You must never let Blood except it be either to divert Sickness and preserve Health or to refresh and cool the Blood or else to diminish Blood or to purge bad Humors It. When you let Blood take but the fourth part from a Colt which you take from a grown Horse Swellings It. In all Imposthumes and swelling Sores called Tumors you must observe the beginning of the Grief the increase of the Grief the perfection and state of the Grief And lastly the declination and ending of the Grief It. In the beginning of every such swelling Impostumes if you cannot quite destroy them use Repercussive Medicines if they be not near some principal part of the Body but then not for fear of endangering Life and in Augmentation use mollifying Medicines and suppling to Ripen them and when they are Ripe Lance them and let out the Corruption or dry them up and in the declination of them use cleansing and healing Medicines Hard and soft Swellings It. All Swellings are either hard or soft the hard will commonly corrode the soft will continue long It. If you thrust your Finger upon any Swelling upon a Horses Legs then if it presently rise again and fill then is the Hurt new and recoverable but if the Dent do remain and continue still behind then is it an old Hurt and cometh of cold Humours and asks great Art In healing Sores When Sores begin to Matter then they heal but if the Putrefaction be great then beware they rot not inwardly Cauterizing All Cauterizing or Burning with hot Irons straineth things enlarged drieth up what is too much moistned dissolveth things gathered together or hardened draweth back things which are dispersed and helpeth old Griefs for it repineth dissolveth and maketh them to run and issue forth Matter as you may finde more at large hereafter Burning It. You must sometimes burn under the Sore to divert Humours and sometimes above to defend and withhold Humours It. It is ever better to burn with Copper then with Iron because Iron is of a malignant Nature Steel is of an indifferent Vertue betwixt both Actual and Potential Burning what it is It. All Actual Burnings is to burn with Instruments and Potential Burning is to burn with Medicines as are Causticks and Corrasives Of blowing Powder into a Horses Eyes It. If you blow Powder into a Horses Eyes often it will make him blind Of taking up of Vâ—ins It. By no means take up any Veins in
â—mpostumes being laid to with Barley Meal and applied with Salt helpeth the biting of a mad Dog it is good in all manner of breakings out of the skin and is good against Poison Nep or Cat Mint hath the same faculties with the other Horse-Mint is hot and dry it dissolveth Wind in the Stomach helpeth the Cholick and short-windedness it is good against the biting of venomous Beasts the Farcy taken inwardly and squirted up the Nostrils purgeth the Head of evil humors Misletoe the Leaves and Berries are hot and dry and of subtil parts the Bird-lime doth mollisie hard Knobs Tumors and Impostumes ripeneth and discusseth them and being mixed with equal parts of Rosin and Wax heals old Ulcers and Sores Missletoe bruised and the Juice put into the Eares healeth the Impostumes in them in a few days The Missletoe of the Oak being given inwardly Cures the Falling Sickness or hung about his Neck Money-wort or Herb Two-pence it is moderately cold it stays Lasks and bloody Fluxes Bleedings inwardly or outwardly and is good for all Wounds inward or outward Moon-wort is cold and drying more then Adders Tongue and is good for all manner of Wounds both inward and outward it stayeth all inward Bleeding as Veins broken bloody Fluxes and the like it consolidateth all Fractures and Disâ—ocations it is good for Ruptures it is reported that it will unlock Locks and unshooe Horses that tread upon it Tree-Moss is cold and binding and is the more binding according to the nature of the Tree it grows upon that of the Oak is the most binding and is good to stay Fluxes and inward Bleedings Moss boiled in Milk with the powder of Anniseeds Elecampane and Licoris is a most excellent Medicine for a Cold or Cough Mechoachan-Root is hot and dry in the second degree and purgeth filthy humors It is very safe and is good for inveterate Coughs Cholick Dolour and the Farcin Ground-Moss is dry and astringent without any heat or cold It breaketh the Stone and driveth it forth by Urine being boiled in white-Wine and given and being boiled in Water and applied easeth all Inflammations and pains coming of a hot cause Mother-wort is hot and dry in the second degree by reason of the cleansing and binding quality It is a very great Comforter of the Heart provoketh Urine cleanseth the Chest from cold Phlegm and killeth the Wormes in the Belly it warmes and dries up the cold humors in the Body and helps the Cramp and Convulsions of the Sinews Mouse-ear is hot and dry of a binding quality it is good for the Yellows it is good for the Stone and pains in the Bowels and is a very good Herb for inward or outward Wounds it is good for the Dropsey and stayeth the Fluxes of Blood both outward and inward the Juice of it is good to stay the spreading of all fretting Cankers and Ulcers whatsoever Mugg-wort is hot and dry in the second degree and somewhat binding it expels the dead Foal it breaks the Stone and is good for stoppage of Urine the Root made up with Hogs-Grease to an Ointment taketh away Wens and hard Knobs The Mâ—lbeerry-Tree the Mulberry is of different parts the ripe Berries by reason of their slippery moisture doth cleanse and open the Body the unripe fruit is cold and dry in the second degree the Bark but chiefly the Root is hot and dry in the third degree the unripe fruit being binding is good to stop Lasks and bloody Fluxes the Bark of the Root killeth the broad Wormes in the Belly the Juice made of the Berries is good for Inflammations and Sores in the Mouth or Throat Mullein doth dry the Leaves are of a digesting and cleansing quality the Root is good against Lasks and Fluxes of the Belly it is good for Burstness Cramps and Convulsions for old Coughs the Decoction of the Root in red Wine or in Water wherein Steel hath been quenched doth stop the bloody Flux it opens the Obstructions of the Bladder and Reins the powder of the dried Flowers is good for the pain of the Cholick the Decoction of the Roots and Leaves are good to dissolve Tumors Inflammations or Swellings the Seed bruised in Wine draweth forth thornes and splinters Common Mustard-seed doth heat and make thin and is a Loosner of the Belly it also draweth forth and is hot and dry in the fourth degree it cleanseth the Blood strengthens a weak Stomach and heats it if cold and is very good for the Head it draweth forth splinters and bones out of the Flesh provokes Urine resisteth Poison it is good applied outwardly to fetch out cold or any other pain of the Body or Joynts and is good for all Scurfs or wilde Scabs Hedge Mustard is good for Diseases of the Chest and Lungs and for Coughs shortness of Breath Yel ows and is used commonly in Glisters the seed is good against poison or venom Millet is cold in the first degree and dry in the third and is of a thin substance the Meal of it mixed with Tar and applied to the biting of any venomous Beast is good to take out the venom The Myrtle Tree consists of contrary substances a cold Earthliness it hath a subtil heat and drieth the Leaves Fruit and Juice doth bind outwardly applied and inwardly taken stayeth all Issues of Blood Mâ—stâ—ck is good to draw forth splints and nails out of the Flesh it bindeth and strengthneth weak parts and is good for old or new strains and inwardly taken strengthens the Stomach and is good to stop the Distillation upon the Lungs Mâ—lva is cold and moist it stoppeth softneth and mitigateth pain Malva visâ—us is very dry it softneth loosneth and mitigateth Mace is dry in the third degree without heat and only bindeth it is a comforter of the Heart and Spirits Maâ—na is of equal temper hot and dry it openeth mollifyeth and incarnateth Mariaton or Martiaton is a hot Unguent against all cold humors it helpeth the grief of the Sinews purgeth cold watery matters and ripeneth Tumors Marrow of what kinde soever is cold and moist and mollifieth Ulcers Now the best Marrow is that of a Hart or old Stag the next that of a Calf the next that of a Sheep and the last that of a Goat Myrrhe is a sovereign Gum it is hot and dry in the second degree it conglutinateth bindeth and cleanseth Wounds it is good against all colds it killeth Wormes and helpeth Pursiness for though it doth cleanse much yet it doth not exasperate the Arteries also it doth incarnate it helps all diseases of the Lungs the cholick stops Fluxes Morcosita or Marcasita is hot and dry it comforteth bindeth and melteth humors The fruit of the Myrtle-tree is dry in the third degree it doth bind good and loosen evil humors N. Narlwort or VVhitlow-grass is good for Imposthumes in the Joynts Neepe or Cat-mint is good for the Head ach coming of cold causes all Catarrhs Rheumes It is good for windiness of the Stomach
Saffron boiled in Beer or Ale and this now and then used will keep a Horse in perfect Health Wormwood is good against Poison Quinsey biting and stinging of venomous Creatures Cholick Wormes and to keep Clothes from the Moths it helps the Spleen strengthens the Heart and heats the Stomach VVillow-Herb vide Loose-strife Wallwort or Danewort vide Dwarf-Elder Woodroff is of Temperature like unto our Ladies Bed-straw but not so strong being in a mean between heat and driness it prevaileth in Wounds as Cruciata and other vulneary Herbs doth The Leaves and Berries of the Wafering Tree are cold and dry and of a binding quality the Decoction of the Leaves is good to Seringe a sore Mouth with and is good for the Diseases of the Gums and fastneth loose Teeth VVormes do conglutinate and comforteth Sinews VVhite Lead is a great drier and shealer of Scabs and is good put into Medicines for Scratches and for Sellanders and Mallenders Y. Yarrow called also Nose-bleed Milfoyl and Thousand-leaf it cleanseth and is meanly cold but it most of all bindeth An Ointment of it Cureth wounds and is good for Inflammations It is good for the bloody Flux The Ointment is good not only for VVounds but Ulcers likewise and Fistulaes especially such as are bound with moisture The Hair being washed with the Decoction stayeth the shedding of it taken inwardly is good for the Mattering of the Yard and the Juice of it is most excellent or the decoction of it injected into the Yard with a Syringe to stop the extreme flowing of the Seed although the Issue dorh cause Inflammation and Swelling of the secret parts and though the Spermatick Matter do come down in great quantity as hath been very well proved VVater Yarrow is of a dry Faculty by reason it taketh away hot Inflammations and Swellings Z. Zuche which are called Gâ—urds are cold and moist in the second degree and allayeth all manner of Inflammations or hot Swellings Softning or dissolving Herbs are Four viz. Mallows Marsh-mallows black Violet and Bears-breech THE EXPERIENCED FARRIER The Second Part. Before you Enter upon the Drenching and Physicking of Horses Take these Directions with you I. THAT all Diseases are Cured by their Contraries and all parts of the Body are maintained by their like viz. If Heat be the Cause of the Distemper then appropriate those Medicinâ—s that are cold to it If cold then give hot If Wind be the cause of Illness then finde out in your Table of Simples proper Medicines for that Disease and use them according to Directions II. Apply not the Medicines to one part of the Body that are appropriated to another part viz. If the Brain be over-heated use not such Medicines as cool the Heart and Liver III. If you give distilled Waters for the Disease you intend to Cure Give such Water as is distilled out of the Herb proper for that Disease and sweeten it with the same quantity of Syrup as you give Water made also of the same Herb or some other proper for the Disease IV. If the Disease of the Body lie remote from the Stomach and Bowels then use Pills or Balls which is the most proper Physick for the Distemper because they are longest in digestion and therefore the most fit to carry off the Disease by degrees V. Rather be found faulty on the safer side by giving your Physick too weak then too strong VI. Consider the natural temper of your Horses Body that is afflicted and support it in that or else you weaken and destroy Nature in stead of Repairing it as the Heart is hot the Brain cold so apply your Simples accordingly 7. Those Medicines that are hot in the first degree are just of the heat and temper of the Blood and therefore most wholesom and proper for the Body VIII All Medicines that are opening and provoke Urine are best given in white-Wine or Ale for they are of an opening Nature and a great Strengthner of the Reins IX All Medicines that are given to stop any Loosness or Scouring let him fast three houres or more before he receive them X. Let your Medicines be proper to the humor offending or else you will weaken Nature not the Disease XI If the Humor offending be thin that you intend to remove then let your Medicine be gentle but if it be thick and tough then give him some cutting and opening thing the Night before to prepare his Body the better for his Purge the next day XII Have a care how you use binding Medicines when you purge tough humors XIII If your Horse be bound in his Body either Rake him with your Hand being first anointed with Sallet Oyl Hogs-Grease or sweet Butter before you pull his baked or hard dung from him or else give him a Glister before you give him a Purge XIV You must consider the strength and stature of your Horse and accordingly prepare your Medicines either stronger or weaker XV. If you give your Horse a Drench for a Cold you usually give him of these sorts of Powders viz. Fennegreek Liquoris Bay berries Anniseeds Cummin-seeds Grains of Paradice Long Pepper Elecampane Turmerick c. But be sure you exceed not above three Ounces of them in his Drench at one time XVI If you give a Horse a Scouring that is very strong and lusty you may venture to give him with safety an Ounce or more of the best Barbadoes Alloes which is the strongest sort of Aloes that is powdred and made up into Balls with fresh Butter as you have Directions afterwards XVII If you give Aloes Succotrina you may give an Ounce and an half of it because it is of a weaker Nature than the other dissolved on the Fire in half a Pint of white-Wine and brewed afterwards in a quart of strong Beer with about two Ounces of fresh Butter put into it which by reason of the Loosning and Opening quality it hath will cause the Aloes to work so much the sooner and better This Proportion is to be given only to a large and strong constitutioned Horse a less quantity will serve a smaller An Advertisement about the several sorts of Aloes and how you may know not only their Goodness but also distinguish them one from another There are four several sorts of them and differ only in Purity viz. Aloes Caballina Aloes Hepatica Aloes Barbadoes and Aloes Succotrina 1. Aloes Caballina is a yellowish sort of Aloes much of the colour of a boiled Liver and is somewhat dearer stronger and better then Aloes Hepatica This is seldom sold by it self but kept only to mix amongst the black and courser sort of Aloes to give them a good colour 2. Alâ—es Hepatica is much of the same kind with the Caballina for they come over mixt together but is of a blackish Roziny colour when Refined which is accounted the best colour 3. Aloes of Barbadoes is found out but of late years but is accounted the strongest sort of all the kinds of
for fifteen days together yet before you purge him in any case let him Blood and whilest he is in Purging let him have no Prevender A Horse good store of Blood after Travel A Horse after Travel hath ever more Blood then any Beast whatâ—oâ—ever therefore it is good to take Blood from him to prevent the Yellows or other Diseases that may follow What you are to do in Case of Necessity coming late to your Inn. If you come late to your Inn so that your Journey be great and earnest and that your Horse will not eat till he hath drunk and yet is hot notwithstanding then let his Drink be Milk given in the dark lest the whiteness make him refuse it this is both cordial and pleasant If you cannot get Milk enough then mingle Milk with water luke-warm To give him Mares Milk to drink if he be poor If your Horse either by Labour or any Surfeits be brought low lean and weak give him Mares Milk to drink many days together and it will make him strong The best-times to Water in the Winter The best Houres to water your Horse in the Winter when he is at Rest is betwixt seven and eight in the Morning or four or five in the Evening Not good to wash a Horse if he be hot It is not good to wash a Horse when he is hot but you may wash him above the Knees so that you do not wash his Belly and that you ride him after he is washed and so set him up and dress him The purer the water is wherein you wash your Horse the more wholesom it is so that it be not too extream cold To light at every steep Hill When you Travel at every steep Hill light both to refresh your Horse and your self How a fat Horse is to have his Meat and his Water Let a fat Horse have his water at four times and not as much as he will drink at once and let him stand two or three houres every day without Meat Rubbing is good for a Horse Rubbing much hard and well doth profit preserve and it keeps both legs and body in strength and he doth much delight in it and it doth better then much Meat Boiled Barley is good Boiled Barley is a great Fatner of a Horse To Pick his Feet after Travel Cleanse and pick the Soles of his Feet ever after Travel and stuffe them well with Ox-dung and anoint his Hoofs with Grease Tarr or Turpentine Much Rest naught Much Rest is the Nurse and Mother of many Diseases Be careful to look to your Saddle When you Ride look often to your Saddle and your Horses Shooes and you shall find much more ease in your Journey A Horse-Mans Rule If you do intend to keep your Horse in his Skin Go softly out and come softly in Riding softly Ride moderately the first two houres but after according to your occasions Trotters Oyl is good to help stiff Limbs Trotters Oyl is an excellent Ointment being applied very warm to your Horses Limbs to nimble them and to help Stiffness and Lameness And Dogs Grease is better therefore never want one of them in the Stable To Bath his Legs with cold water is good to Keep his Legs from Scabs and Swellings Bath the Fore-legs from the knees and Gambrels downwards with cold water for it is wholesom and both comforteth the Sinews and prevents Scabs and Swellings To Wash at the Stable door if Necessity requires If foul ways compel you to wash your Horses Legs then do it with a Pail of water at the Stable-door rather then to endanger him in Pond or River and for walking rather Sit on your Horses back to keep his spirit stirring then to walk him in your Hand for he will soon catch Cold that way the Wind and Air getting between his Saddle and Back Dressing upon Travel and Rest Dress your Horse twice a day upon Rest and once upon Travel Blooding Spring and Fall are the best times to take Blood from a Horse Ordering of Hunting Horses While he is at Rest let him have all the quietness that may be let him have much Meat much Litter much Dressing and Water ever by him and let him sleep as long as he pleaseth keep him to Dung rather soft then hard and look that it be well coloured and bright for Darkness shews Grease and Redness inward heating Let Exercises and Mashes of sweet Mault after his usual Scourings or let Bread of clean Beans or Beans and Wheat mixt together be his best food and Beans and Oats the most ordinary Sir Robert Chernock's Manner of Hunting in Buck-season He never takes his Horse up into the Stable during the Season but Hunts him upon Grass only allowing him as many Oats as he can well eat And he approves of this to be a very good way by reason that if there be any Molten Grease within him which violent Hunting may raise up this going to Grass will purge it out He hath Rid his Horse three days in a week during the Season and never yet found any hurt but rather good by it so that you turn your Horse out very cool The Ordering of your Running Horse Let him have no more Meat then will suffice Nature drink once in twenty four houres and dressing every day once at Noon only Let him have moderate Exercise Morning and Evening Ayrings or the fetching of his water and know no other violence but in his Courses only If he be very fat scoure oft if of reasonable stature seldom If lean then scoure but with a sweet Mash only let him stand dark and warm having many Clothes and much Litter and that Wheat-straw only Let him be empty before you Run and let his Food be the finest lightest and quickest of Digestion that may be The Sweats are most wholesom that are given abroad and the Cooling most natural which is given before he cometh into the Stable Keep his Limbs with cool Ointments and let not any hot Spices come into his Body If he grow dry inwardly wash'd Meats is most wholesom If he grow loose give him Wheat-straw in more abundance And be sure do every thing Neat and cleanly about him which will Nourish him the better Ordering of Coach-Horses Let them have good Dressing twice a day Hay and Provender their Belly-full and Litter enough to tumble on Let them be walk'd and wash'd after Travel for by reason of their many occasions to stand still they must be inur'd with all hardness though it be much unwholesom Their best food is sweet Hay or well dried Beans and Oats or Bean-bread Look well to the strength of their Shooes and the Galling of their Harness Keep their Legs clean especially about their hinder Fetlocks And let them stand in the House warmly Cloathed Ordering of the Pack and Cart-Horse They need no walking washing or houres of Fasting only dress them well look to their Shooes and Backs and then fill their Bellies and they will do their
which may be any ways noxious to the inward part of the Body And it also preventeth sudden Sickness if you do suspect it Fifthly the opening of the two Plate or Breast-Veins do help the Anticor Sickness of the Heart Morfoundring which is the Foundring in the Body by over-riding whereby the Grease of the Horse is molten it also preventeth Diseases in the Liver Lungs and inward parts grieved and sometimes Hurts in the Shoulder which causeth Lameness before Sixthly we use to touch the two Thigh-Veins before which helpeth Foundring in the fore-Feet Mallenders Splent Screw Ring-bone and such like infirmities in the fore-Foot and such other higher Parts Seventhly we use to take Blood from the four Shackle-Veins before and this is very good for the Crow-scab Ring-bone and such like Diseases Eighthly we use to strike the two Spur-Veins which Cureth the Farcin in the Sides Morfoundring swelling under the Belly which is a Disease called the Feltrick and the like Ninthly we prick the two Toe-Veins which do help Frettizing Foundering Hoof-bound beating of the Horses Feet by Riding upon hard and stony ways and the like Tenthly we open the two Thigh-Veins behind and this doth help the Grief of the Kidneys swelling in the Hinder-Legs Foundring Sellenders Scratches Kybes c. And it also helpeth Diseases in and about the Belly as Pissing of blood Pissing oft after great and extraordinary hard labour and the weakness of the Reins the Back Belly Guts or any other of the inward Parts the Curb Spaven and such Diseases which come of Rankness of Blood Eleventhly we sometimes do open the four Shackle-Veins behind and this is very good against Founderings and other pains in and about the Feet Twelfthly we let Blood in the two Flank or Hanch-Veins and this is most probable for all kind of Feavers the Stones Poverty and the Felter-worm Thirteenthly we draw Blood from the two Tail-Veins which Cureth the Mange in the Tail falling of the Hair or Itch in the Tail And these are for the most part all the Veins that are usually opened So that the full sum or number of Veins which Farriers commonly open are thirty Other Veins there are which are of a smaller proportion and therefore not fit to be opened I will not say that these Veins so opened doth Cure the Diseases absolutely but it doth sometimes asswage the Malignancy of the Malady sometimes it preventeth Diseases and sometimes again it prepareth the Body the better to receive such Physical Drinks which do inwardly Cure them and such Salves Oyls Unguents which do dry and heal up outward Infirmities c. How many Bones a Horse hath and where they are Situated All the Bones which every Horse hath whereby to make up an Organical Body are these viz. He hath in his Head thirty nine or fourty Teeth The Bones in his Head do Comprehend the Crocks and Handles of the Scull albeit they be composed of parts and parcels of other Bones also the two flat Handles which from the Pallat and the Fork or Throat hath five the Chine hath fifty two the Breast one the Ribs hath thirty six the fore-Legs and fore-Feet hath fourty four and the hinder-Legs and Feet fourty so as the whole structure of the Body of a Horse whereby to perfect a full Building of Bones consisteth of about two hundred fifty seven or two hundred fifty nine if they be rightly computed which do represent themselves altogether at what time the perfect Anatomy of a Horse is laid open Of the Elements The Elements are four and they give Life and Nutriment unto Man and all other living Creatures They are these Fire Air Water and Earth Their Nature The Nature of Fire is to be hot and dry Air to be hot and moist Water to be cold and moist and Earth to be cold and dry Signes of the Zodiack Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces These do all Govern the twelve Months of the year and are placed above the Zodiack Names of the Planets Saturn Jupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercury and Lunâ—a The Government of the Signes Aries governs the Head Taurus the Neck Gemini the Shoulders and Armes Cancer the Stomach and Breast Leo the Heart Virgo the Belly and Guts Libra the Reins and Buttocks Scorpio the Privy Parts Sagittarius the Thighs Capricornus the Knees Aquarius the Legs and Pisces the Feet The best time to let a Horse Blood in If there be no extraordinary cause as in Case of desperate Sickness or so then Jan. the third and fifteenth Feb. the fourth and ninth Mar. the seventeenth and eighteenth April the tenth and sixteenth May the first and thirteenth June the fifteenth and twentieth But for July and August by reason that the Canicular days be then predominant Blood-letting is not so good but only in urgent Case of Necessity In Septemb. the eleventh and twenty eighth Octob. the eighth and twenty third Novemb. the fifth and Seeds Gather Seeds and Fruits when they be fully ripe and they also last but one whole year Rind or Bark Gather the Rind or Bark of any Simple when the Herb is ripe dry them and they will last many years The Office of the Farrier What Points Consist the Office of the Farrier IT Consists in four things viz. Science Experience Knowledge and Handy Work But I shall let pass the first three and speak to Handy-Work and that is To Heat an Iron well to Turn a Shoo well to make and Point a Nail well to Pare the Hoof well to Cauterize well to let Blood well to be light and well-Handied Bold and Hardy and Dressing of a Horse well of such Accidents as may happen unto him The Principal Members of a Horse Some hold that there be four and make the Stones or Gignitors one but I say there are but three The Liver the Heart and The Brain and if he be offended in any of these he will die but if any other Member besides these be hurt he may live and therefore the Stones or Gignitors cannot be one of the Principal Members for you cannot touch any of those three but you kill him out-right or desperately endanger him Now the Stones may receive hurt and if I despair of Curing them I can cut them out without peril of his life Of the Sinews and of the number of them There are two Sinews or Tendons which are white and begin at the end of the Nose and extend themselves along the Neck and along the Back and make their extent to the four Legs and take their ligaments in the fore-Feet There are in every Horse twenty nine or thirty great and small The two great Sinews which I named before It. Two Branches which are main Sinews that proceed from the Brain and run down the Cheeks to the Teeth It. There are from the Shoulders to the first Joynt of the Armes or fore-Legs downwards two great Sinews It. From the Knees to the Pasterns are four
hath one Complexion as green if upon Hay then another as a little more dark If upon little Provender then inclining to yellow But to avoid both curiosity and doubt observe well the Complexion of his Dung when he is in best Health and the best feeding and as you finde it alter so judge either of his Health or Sickness as thus If his Dung be clear crisp and of a pale yellowish Complexion hanging together without separation more then as the weight breaks it in falling being neither so thin nor so thick but it will a little flat on the Ground and indeed both in Savour and Substance resembling a sound Mans Ordure then is he clean well fed and without Imperfection If it be well Coloured yet fall from him in round Knots or Pellets so it be but the first and second Dung the rest good as aforesaid it matters not for it only shews he did eat Hay lately and that will ever come away first But if all his Dung be alike then it is a Sign of foul feeding and he hath either too much Hay or eats too much Litter and too little Corn. If his Dung be in round Pellets and blackish or brown it shews inward Heat in the Body If it be Greasie it shews foulness and that Grease is Molten but cannot come away If he void Grease in gross Substance with his Dung if it be white and clear then it comes away kindly and there is no danger but if it be yellow or putrified then the Grease has long layn in his Body and Sickness will follow if not prevented If his Dung be red and hard then he hath had too strong Heats and Costiveness will follow if not prevented if it be pale and loose it shews inward coldness of Body or too much moist and corrupt feeding Signes from the Vrine Though the Urine be not altogether so Material as the Dung yet it hath some true Faces as thus Pale Colour That Urine that is of a pale yellowish Colour rather thick then thin of a strong smell and piercing condition is an healthful sound and good Urine but if it be of an high red Complexion either like Blood or inclining to Blood then hath he had either two sore Heats been over-ridden or ridden too early after Winter-Grass High Complexion If the Urine be of an high Complexion clear and transparent like old March Beer then he is inflamed in his Body and hath taken some Surfeit White like Cream If it carry a white Cream on the top it shews a weak Back or Consumption of the Seed Green A green Urine shews Consumption of the Body Bloody streaks A Urine with bloody Streaks shews an Ulcer in the Kidneys and a black thick cloudy Urine shews Death and Mortality Of Sickness in general Whensoever upon any occasion you shall find your Horse droop in Countenance to rorsake his Meat or to shew any other apparent sign of Sickness if they be not great you may forbear to let Blood because where the Blood is spent the Spirits are spent also and they are not easily recovered But if the Signes be great and dangerous then by all means let Blood instantly and for three Mornings together the Horse being Fasting give him half an Ounce of the Powder called by me Diahexaple and by the Iâ—alians Râ—gina Medicinae the Queen of Medicines brewed either in a Pint of Muskaâ—iâ—â— or 〈◊〉 or a Pint of the Syrup of Sugar being two degrees above the ordinary Molosses or for want thereof Molosses will serve the turn and where all are wanting you may take either a Pint of Dragon-water or a quart of the sweetest and strongest Alâ—wort or in extremity take a quart of strong Ale or Beer but then warm it a little before the Fire This must be given with an Horn and if he hath Ability of Body ride him in some warm place after and let him fast near two houres after the Riding At Noon give him a sweet Mash Cleath very warm and let him touch no cold water The making of the Diahexaple you may finde in the Table General Observations in the Physi king Horses Know then first that whensoever you give your Horse any inward Portion or Glister give it him no more then Milk-warm for there is nothing more Mortal to a Horse then the Scalding of his Stomach for a Horse of all living Creatures can worse endure to receive inwardly hot things Besides let his Drinks and inward Medicines be given him easily and gently leâ—t in making too much haste you suffocate him which if it do you must then let his Head loose and walk him up and down till the Passion be past Now for the Administring of Pills â—alls and such like Medicines little Advice is required if they be not made too great only if you take forth his Tongue first and then put them up into his Mouth upon the end of a stick then let go his Tongue again which when he draws it into his Mouth he must needs force the â—alls down his Throat You are to Administer your Physick â—ermore fasting unless upon urgent occasion as in case of sudden and dangerous Sickness and the longer he be kept Fasting from Meat and Drink as well before he taketh as Physick as after it will be the better for by that means his Medicine will work the more kindly in his Body for he ought to be kept from eating and drinking at least three houres before and after Purging Balls how made and given Take an ounce or an ounce and a half of Aloes Succotrina more or less according to the strength and Constitution of your Horse powder it very well and mix it with a little fresh Butter Then divide it into three equal parts and cover them all over with fresh Butter to prevent the bitter taste of the Aloes Make them about the bigness of a large Wall-nut shaped thick in the middle and sharp at both ends and given him in the Morning fasting If you think them not stiff enough with Butter alone you may mix some Bran with it and then they will be as stiff as Dough or Paste What Exercise is meet with Physick A little moderate Exercise is very necessary whereby his Physick may work the better and the sooner as to Trot him easily about or to walk him up and down under the Wind in the warm Sun about a quarter of an hour Then bring him into the Stable and Cloath him up warm and Litter him well and let his keeper be with him three or four houres observing his Postures and as occasion may require to help him with all things necessary for his use No Creature hath a moister Body then a Horse Of Mixing your Simples If your Horses Sickness be a Feaver to mix always your Simples with warm Water with Honey or with Oyl but if the Disease be Coughs Rhenms or any thing that proceedeth of cold Causes then mix them with good Ale or Wine but if he be
and anoint it all over with sweet Butter and give it him in the Morning in the manner of a Pill then ride him a little after it if you please otherwise you may chuse and feed and water him abroad or at home according to your usual custom And thus do three or four Mornings together If you use them to Cure either Cold or Glaunders then use them in the same manner for a Week together If you use them to satten a Horse then give him them for a Fortnight together But if you use them in the Nature of a Scouring to take away Moulten Grease and Foulness then instantly after his heat and in his heat Again if you find your Horse at any time hath taken a little Cold as you shall perceive by his inward Ratling if then you take one of these Balls and dissolve it in a Pint of Sack and so give it him it is a present Remedy Also to dissolve the Ball in his ordinary water being made luke-warm it worketh the like effect and fatneth exceedingly To give one of these Balls before Travel it prevents tyring to give it in the heat of Travel it refresheth the weariness and to give it after Travel it saves him from all Surfeits and inward Sickness A Reccipt to Fat a Lean Horse in twelve or fifteen days First Therefore to let him Blood if he wants Bleeding then instead of Oats in the Morning give him Wheat-Bran prepared after this manner Set over the Fire a great Kettle and fill it almost full with fair water and when it boyls put in your Bran and let it boyl a quarter of an hour at least then let it stand to cool and in the Morning early give him of this Bran so hot as he can eat it and let his drink be of the same water and at night give him Oates and white Water and let him be well Littered and warm covered but if it be in the Summer his Stable ought not to be too hot and at Night with his Oats give him an Egg full of this Powder with which you are to continue him for the space of eight days or according as you shall see cause You must understand that Bran thus prepared drieth up his naughty gross and corrupt humours and doth the better prepare the Body to assume Lust Courage Strength and Flesh together with the help of the Powder which is this The Powder how to make a Lean Horse Fat Take of Cummin Fennegreek Sileris-Montani Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two Ounces Quick Brimstone six Ounces make all these into Powder and give him the quantity of an Egg-shell full with his Oats every Night but first let him be watered with white water which is two or three handfuls of Bran stirred amongst his water then Rub him Litter him and Cloath him well and then give him some sweet Wheat-straw in his Rack and let himseed on that for an hour then give him his Oats mixed with his Powder and when he hath eaten them give him Hay at your pleasure remembring to keep him warm but so as with Moderation and you shall find him amend exceedingly but you must put into his Oats every time two handfuls of Nettle-seeds for that is the thing that will principally cause him to Battle It will also greatly avail to his amendment if he be Aired every Morning and Evening an hour after Sun-rising and an hour before Sun-set if the Weather be warm and the Sun do shine And this is the best Course you can take to set up a Lean and poor Horse Another Receipt to make a Lean Horse Fat Take of Elecampane dried Cummin Turmerick Anniseeds of each two Ounces Groundsel half a handful boyl all these together in a Gallon of Ale with three Heads of Garlick well bruised and picked then strain it and give him a quart of it in the Morning fasting Blood-warm and Ride him after it but not to heat him and thus do four Mornings together and in a short time after if the year be seasonable turn him to Grass and he will Fatten suddenly But if the time of the year will not serve and that you have a mind to raise him in the Stable then give him amongst his Oats this Powder Take of Elecampane dried and of Cummin both alike well beaten and searced and when you give your Horse Provender then give him half an Ounce of them well mixed amongst it for fourteen days together and you shall find him to amend and prosper after a strange manner provided that you give him seasonable Ayring moderate Exercise and Mashes and white Water Of the Drink called Acopum Take of Euforbium half an Ounce Castoreum one Ounce Adraces half a quarter of a pound Bidellium half an Ounce and half a quarter Opoponax one Ounce Fox Grease half an Ounce Pepper one Ounce Laserpitium three quarters of an Ounce Ammoniacum half a quarter of a pound Pigeons Dung as much Galbanum half an Ounce Nitrum one Ounce and a quarter Spuma nitri three quarters of an Ounce Ladanum a quarter of a pound Pyrethrum and Bay-berries of each three quarters of an Ounce Cardanum two Ounces Seed of Rue half a quarter of a pound Seed of Agnus Castus one Ounce Parsley seed half an Ounce dried Roots of Ireos or Flower-de-luce one Ounce and a quarter and half a quarter of Oyl de Bay as much of Oyl of Spikenard three quarters of a pound of Oleum Cyprinum three quarters of a pound and half a quarter the oldest Oyl Olive a pound and a half Pitch a quarter of a pound and two Ounces Turpentine a quarter of a pound Melt of every of these that will be Molten severally by themselves and then mingle them together with the rest of the Ingredients being first beaten to fine powder and after they have boiled a little on the Fire take it off and strain it into a clean Gally-pot and so keep it for your use And when you give your Horse any of it at any time you must not give him of it above two spoonfuls in a Pint of Sack or Muscadine and if by long keeping you find it wax hard then soften it with the Oyl of Cypress so that it may be good and thick The Vertues of it It is both a Medicine and an Ointment for it helpeth Convulsions in the Sinews and Muscles it draweth forth all Noisom humours and disburdeneth the Head of all Grief being put up with a long Goose Feather anointed in it into the Nostrils of a Horse it healeth I say all manner of Convulsions Cramps Numbness and String-halts Colds and Rhumes it dissolveth the Liver being troubled with Opilations and Obstructions it helpeth Siccity and Aridity in the Body it banisheth all weariedness and tiredness if his Limbs be Bathed with this Medicine And lastly it Cureth all sorts of inward Diseases if it be administred by way of a Drench in Wine strong Beer or good Ale The Nature of it It is hot
all these together and cause him to be walked a quarter of an hour till he be warm then Bathe him with this Bath good and hot and set him up warm and let his Drink be either sweet Mashes or white Water and thus Bathe him for three or four dayes together and let him not be Ridden in any Water for eight or ten days after The Vse or Vertues of Paths Baths are somentations which are the most comfortable things of any to the Joynts and Limbs of a Horse for they dissolve all ill Humours and give heat and warmth unto all the Members that are benumbed with Cold or for want of Blood it comforteth and strengthneth them and giveth very great case to the pained Sinews Besides it asswageth Swellings in or about any part of the Body for Legs swelling stiff or benummed or for any other Joynt pained or grieved or for any String halt Cramp or Convulsion Which Bath to Cure all such Maladies is this Bath 1. Take Muscadine and Sallet-Oyl of each a pint Bay-leaves and Rosemary of each two handfuls let them boyl half an hour and when you are to Bathe your Horse therewith rub and chafe the grieved place with a Wisp or Hair-Cloth a pretty while then put the Foot into some broad Bowl or Pail whereby to preserve the Liquor and Herbs and Bathe him thus a quarter of an hour which ended bind upon the place a piece of Sheeps or Lambs Skin with the Woolly side to the Leg and let him stand so twenty four houres apply this five or six times and it will be a perfect Cure Bath 2. A Bath to Cure all Goâ—â—dy and Gâ—uty Legs which cometh either by Farcin Scratches or the like c. Take a quart or more of Chamber-ly and put into it a Handful of Bay-Salt a quarter of a pound of Soap a pretty quantity of Soot a handful or two of Misle-toe Chopped small boil them very well together and Bathe the place very well therewith and in three or four days Bathing it Morning and Evening it will not only take down the Swelling but prevent the Farcin Bath 3. Another Bath for the same purpose Take the Grounds of a Beer-Barrel with the Barm Smallage Featherfew Winter-Sâ—voâ—y Coâ—â—rey Mallowes Ruâ— Seâ—-â—â—â—l Penny-Royal Wormwood Archangel of each a good handful and of the Leaves and Berries of Misle-toe three or four good handfuls Sheeps Tallow one pound tried Hogs-Grease half a pound three or four Handfuls of Rye or Wheat-Bran boyl them altogether till the Herbs and Misle-toe become soft and be sure you have Liquor enough and a little before you take it from the Fire put into it some Hay with this Bathe his Legs first one then the other as was before shewed and when you have Bathed that Leg sufficiently make a Thumb-Band of the Hay in the Bath and rowl it about the Leg above the uppermost or middle Joynt and put off the Herbs between the Thumb-band and his Leg which done pour on the Liquor remaining upon the Thumb-bands and so Bathe him for so many days once as you shall think requisite and it will bring down the Swelling quite and make him sound Bath 4. Another Bath very Excellent Take Smallage Ox-Eye and Sheeps Suet of each alike to a good quantity chop them small together and after stamp them in a Stone Mortar then boyl them with Mans Urine and bathe the grieved parts herewith warm doing as before with â—owl or Pail then with Thumb-bands of soft Hay made first wet in cold water rap up the Member as well above as below the Grief and use it as often as you shall see cause This Bath is very good for Swelled Legs upon Travel or for any other Lameness which cometh either by stroke strain or other Accident Bath 5. Another Bath Take Savin and the Bark and Leaves of the Bay-tree Pellitory Rosemary Sage Rue of each three Ounces boyl these in a Gallon of white-Wine until half be consumed And Bathe your Horse as before is shewed To bathe a Horse in Salt water is very wholesom both for the Horses Skin and for any Disease in the Stomach Bath 6. A Bath for a Horse that is Tired or over-Travelled Take of Mallows of Sage of each two or three handfuls and a Rose-Cake boyl them together in water till it be all consumed then add to it a good quantity of Butter or Sallet Oyl and mix them together and bathe all his fore-Legs therewith and all the parts of his Body also or to let him Blood and with that Blood Oyl and Vineger mixed together presently to anoint his Body helps most sorts of Infirmities Of Perfumes or Purges of the Head of all filthy and gross Matter Perfumes are necessary to be applied to Horses in Cases of Colds Glanders Rheums Murs Pâ—zâ—s Catharrs c. For they do not only break a Cold but dissipate congealed humours which do annoy the Head Brain and Stomach of the Horse and sometimes they expel and cause him to vent at his Nose and Mouth much Filth and Corruption which doth stop clog and pester his Head and Body and sometimes they do siccicate and dry up many bad Humours which are engendred in the Head and Brain The Ingredients of which Simples wherewith we Persume sick Horses are many As The Juice of Onions snuffed up the Nose draweth forth raw phlegmatick Humours The Juice of Coleworts squirted up his Nose or the Juice of red Beets The leaves of the Wind-Flower stamped and the Juice squirted up his Nose or the Juice of Dazies purge the Head of filthy slimy Humours The Juice of Sage draweth forth thin phlegm The Juice of the Primrose stamped strained and squirted up his Nose is good to purge the Brain The Juice of the small Cellendine purgeth the Head of foul and filthy Humours The Juice of the Leaves or Berries of Ivy that grows upon Walls doth infinitely purge the Head Fennel Gyaâ—â— or Ferula snuffed up the Nose white Hellebore or Neesing Root beaten to powder after it is dried and blown up into the Nose purgeth the Head and Brain from gross and slimy humours wild white Hellebore hath the same Vertues The Juice of sweet Maâ—yâ—em draweth forth much phlegm The Juice of stinking Gladdon squirted up the Nose draweth down to the Nose great store of filthy Excrements Mustard-seed beaten to powder and blowed up the Nose purgeth the Head The Juice of Sneesâ—wort squirted up the Nose bringeth from the Brain slimy phlegm The Juice of the Leaves of Elder purgeth the Head The Juice of Mercury purgeth the Head of all gross and vitious humours Pellitory Pimpernel Rosemary the smoke taken up his Nostrils or take a Feather and anoint it in Oylde Bay and thrust it up his Nose is good for any cold or obstruction in the Head The best Perfume of all But the best Perfume of all is to take the best Olibanum Storax Benjamin and Franke cense bruised grossly together and strowed upon a Chasingdith of
Saffron the fruit of the Pine with the Yolks of Eggs given him to drink with Wine and Sallet-Oyl is good to Conglutinate any inward Member or Vein broken the Roots and Seeds of Asparagus sod in water and given him and after three days give him Opoponax with Honey and Myrrh and it will Conglutinate any inward Ulcer or Rupture whatsoever The Bark of Ash beaten with Wine and Plaister it is a great Knitter of broken Bones or the inward Bark of an Elm laid in Running water and Bathe the place therewith or the Roots of Rocket boiled in water and plaister it or Wilde Briony stamped and plaistered also Hazel-tails and the Seeds of red Docks made into powder and given him to drink is good or Bugel is a Knitter of Wounds inward or outward so does Lions-paw or Self-heal the distilled water of sow-Bread doth Knit any broken Sinew in the Body Bole-Armoniack beaten to powder and finely Sifted and beaten with the white of an Egg and spread upon the Leg and covered over with Flox is very good for a Sinew-strain and is a great Strengthner of the grieved place where a Bone hath been out of Joynt and put in again The yellow Wall Flower strengthens any weak part out of Joynt A Poultess made of brank-Ursin and applied is good so is a Decoction of the Root of Butchers-broom or Knee-Holly with the Berries made also into a Poultiss the Root of the great Comfrey bruised and laid to them doth consolidate and knit them together The Decoction of the Leaves Bark or Roots of Elecampane healeth them being bathed therewith The Roots of Eringo or Sea-holly boiled in Hogs-grease and applied to them draweth not only Bones out of the Flesh but also Thorns and healeth them again An Ointment made of the Roots of Osmond-Royal or Water-Flag in a Mortar with the Oyl of Swallows and the place grieved anointed with it is very good Flix-weed doth consolidate broken Bones so doth the leaves of the Holly-tree used in Fomentations so doth Knot-grass and Moon-wort the leaves of Mullen bruised and boiled in Wine and laid to any Member out of Joynt and newly Set again taketh away all swellings and pains thereof the Leaves of Nettles also bruised and laid to them refresheth them the Juice of Plantine applied to any bone out of Joynt hindreth the Inflammation swelling or pain that shall arise thereon Solomons Seal knitteth any Joynt which by weakness useth to be often out of its place Or the Decoction of the Root being bruised and infused in Wine all Night and given him much helpeth towards the Cure the Leaves of Turn-Sole bruised and applied to Bones out of Joynt is very good for them c. Simples that are good to cleaâ—se the Blood Avens VVater-Cresles or Brook-lime Burage or Bugloss Butchers broom or Knee-holly Cardus Bâ—nedictus the red Dock which is commonly called Blood-wort Fennel-seeds Fumitory Hops VVall-Rue or ordinary white Maiden-hair Mustard-seed the Root of the bastard Rubarb Sage Succory Scurvey-Grass Smallage VVood-sorrel Star-Thistle Ladies Thistle the yellow VVall-Flower c. Simples that are good in general to ex pel the dead Foal Aâ—heal the Herb Alkanet applied to her Shape draweth it forth Angelica Brook-lime or Water-Pimpernel Centaury or sweet Chervil given her in Wine is very good The powder of the Root of Cuckow-point or the Juice of it given in Wine bringeth it away Flax-weed or Toad-Flax is good Flower de-luce made up in a Pessary with Honey and put up into her Body bringeth it forth Germander Hore-hound Filapendula or Drop-wort is good also given her so is the Root of Masterwort Ground-pine is excellent good to expel it The Decoction of the Leaves and Branches of Sage given is also good so is the Juice of the yellow Wall-Flower c. Simples good in general to provoke Lust in Horses The Decoction of Asparagus given him for some time the seed of the Ash-tree powdred with Nutmegs is a great Increaser of it Beans Chest-Nuts Cream of Cich-pease or Cicers boiled in water and given The Seeds of both the sorts of Clary the pith of the stalk of the Burr-dock before the Burr cometh forth The weight of one Ounce of Cloves given in Milk provoketh it exceediugly Bread made of Potatoes and Bean-flower and given him is a great Provoker of it The Roots of Chervil the Roots of Fennel-gyant Spear-mint Mustard-seed Nettle-seed The seed of the wilde Rocket encreaseth it exceedingly Raisins of the Sun sweet Almonds Pine-Nuts the pizzle of a Bull or Hart Boars stones dried and powdred and given him amongst his Provender c. Simples good in General to increase Milk in Mares The seed or leaves of Burrage or Bugloss Cicers boiled in Milk Cocks-Head the leaves or seed of Fennel the seed of wilde Rocket Sow thistles the seed of Vipers Bugloss given him in Ale Dandelion c. Things good in General to wash all manner of Sores and Vlcers Alehoof bruised with white-Wine and Allom is very good to wash all sorts of them Flixweed made into a Salve doth quickly heal them how foul or malignant soever they be the distilled water of the Herb worketh the same effect but it is somewhat weaker The Juice of Fox-Gloves doth cleanse dry and heal them The Juice of the Leaves or Roots of stinking Gladwin and anoint any Scab or sore in the Skin it taketh them away The Juice of Purslain is good to allay the heat in sores and hurts Meadow sweet Ragwort the Juice of the green Herb of Tobacco wilde Tansie boiled with Vineger and Honey is good to heal moist corrupt and running Sores c. Simples that are good in General for all manner of swellings or risings in the Skin viz. hard Knobs and Kernels as also swelled Legs Swellings under the Chaul hard or soft and to ripen them Archangel stamped with some Salt and Vineger and applied dissolveth them Bdelium a kind of Gum doth ripen them The leaves of the Beech Tree is good to discuss hot swellings Barley-meal and Flea-wort boiled in water and made into a Poultess with Honey and Oyl of Lillies cureth swellings under the Throat Brine dissolveth hard swellings Chickweed boiled in water very soft adding to it Hogs-Grease with the powder of Fennegreek and Linseed and a few Roots of Marsh-mallows stamped in the form of a Cataplasm or Poultess and applied taketh away the swelling of the Legs or any other part Bâ—ook-lime or water Pimpernel used in the like manner is also very good the Decoction of Coleworts taketh away the pain and Ach and allayeth the swellings in swollen Legs wherein any gross or watery Humours are fallen the place being bathed with it warm Oyl of Camomil is good to dissolve hard and cold swellings Cummin put into a Poultiss is also good for them so is Chervil bruised and applied Cinquesoyl boiled in Vineger helpeth all hard swellings so does Clary and Cleavers boiled in Hogs-Grease do the like Cocks-head bruised when they are green
small flat Beans they ease the pain of the Spleen kill Wormes given inwardly and being outwardly applied cleanse filthy Vlcers and Gangrenes helps Scabs Itch and Inflammations the price of them the Pound are 0 s. 10 d. SIMPLES out of PLANTS Agarick purgeth Phlegm and Cholar cleanseth the Breast Liver Stomach and Reins you are to Correct it with Powder of Ginger the Price of he best the pound is 7 s. 0. d. The outward Parings of it the Pound is 1 s. 6 d. congealed JUICES GUMS and ROZINS Aloes Succotrina see the Virtues of it in the Table of Simples the price of it the pound is form 1 s. 8 d. to 8 s. Barbadoes Aloes hath the same virtues as the other but is a great deal stronger and therefore the better Purge for a Horse of the two for an Ounce and a quarter of it is a Purge strong enough for the strongest BodiedHorse almost that is The price of the best the pound is 1 s. 8 d. Assâ—loetida see the virtues of it in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 1 s. 4 d. Camphire is cold and dry in the third degree if beaten to Powder and mixed with Oyle of Olives and the Temples anointed with it easeth the pain in the Head coming of Heat It takes away also any hot Inflammation in the Eyes and cools any place that ' t is applied to The price commonly the pound was 6 s. or 7 s. but now it being very scarce it is worth 16 s. Bitumen see the virtues of it in the Table of Simples the price of it the pound is 3 s. 0 d. Colophony the pound is 0 s. 4 d. Benjamin is a very good Perfume for a Horse Head that is stuffed with a Cold the smoke being received up his Nostrils through a Tunnel strowed upon a chaffing-dish of Coals The price the pound of the best is 5 s. 0 d. The price of the course which is good enough for a Horse is 2 s. 6 d. GUM COPPAL and Gum Anime are in Nature much alike It is good for pains and Meagrim in the Head and to stop Desluctions that flow from thence if it be used as the Binjumin It is also a great Strengthner of the Sinâ—ws The price of it the pound is 2 s. 6 d. Gum Lack see the virtues of it in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 1 s. 0 d. Gum Armoniack or Amoniack softends draws and heats dissolved in vineger and applied Plaister wise taketh away hardness in the flesh and made in o an Cintment with Sallet Oyl is good to anoint the sâ—ff and wearied LImbs of a Horse An Ource of it made up into a Pill according to Art Loosneth the Belly and is good for a Horse that stales Blood The price the pound is 1 s. 6 d. Opopoâ—x is of a heating mollifying digesting quality See more of the virtues of it in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 5 s 4 c. Gum Arabick thickneth cooleth and correcteth sharp humors helpeth Burnings and keepeth the Place from Blistering the price the pounds is 0 s. 10 d. Opium is good to cause Sleep but be very cautious how you use it two or three Crains is enough to give him at a time the price the pound is 12 s. 0 d. Gum Dragon is good for Coughs and Distillations upon the Lungs and is also a good put into Poultisses to sodder Wounds together especially Nerves and Sinews that be hart the price the pound is 1 s. 6 d. English Liquoris Juice strengthens the lungs and helpeth Colds and Coughs and is better for use then the Powder of Liquoris the price of it the pound is 1 s. 0 d. Spanish Liquoris-Juice is of far better use then the English and hath the same virutes as the English but more effectual for the Purposes aforesaid the price of it the pound is 1 s. 4 d. Accatiae is a small Thorn growing in Egypt out of the leaves and fruit wherof is drawn a Juice or Liquor which being dried is called by this Name it is cold and very Astâ—ingent and binding and therefore is very good to stâ—p Lasks Loosness or Scouring The Apothecaties hath seldom the right but instead thereof use the juice of Sloes which they call by this Name The price of the Right is worth five or six shillings but of the common but one Rozin of Jallop is a very good Purge for a Horse but if you think it too dear you may use the Powder of the Root the price of it the Ounce is about 4 s. 6 d. Mastick see the vertues of it in the Table of Simples the price the pound according to its goodness is from 2 s. to 5 s. Manna is a very safe and gentle Purger you may give him a quarter of a pound of it or more dissolved in a Pint of Canary or four want of that aquart of warm Ale or Beer It is temperately hot and cleanseth the Throat and Breast The price the pound is according to its goodness from 2 s. to 6 s but now it is so scarce that it is worth 11 s. Olibanum is hot in the second degree and dry in the first You may give an Ounce of it safely at a time It helps Loosâ—ess and the shedding of the Seed It is also good for Colds and Coughs and to make Plaisters of the price the â—ound is 2 s. 0 d. Burguncy-Pitch is good applied as a Plaister for all Pains coming of Bâ—uâ—ses or Dislocation the price the pound is 0 s. 4 d. Bdelium see the vertues of it in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 5 s. 6 d. Gum Carauna outwardly applied is very good fo Aches and Swellings in the Nerve and Joynts and also good 〈◊〉 draw back humors from the Eyes spread upon a Leather and laid behind his Eares the price the pound is 10 s. 0 d. Pitch common Mollifieth hard Swellings and bringeth them to Suppupuration It cleanseth Ulcers and filleth m with Flesh The Table of Simples will shew you more of the use of 〈◊〉 the price the pound is 0 s. 2 d. Rozin all the sorts of them are good to fâ—â—l 〈◊〉 holl w U cers and Wounâ—s with Flesh and to comfort the Body oppressed with cold Griefs the price of the best the pound is 0 s. 3 d. Stone-Pitch is very good to strenghten wâ—ak and swayâ—d Backs or Sinew-strains applied in the nature of a Charge with other strengthning Gums the price the pound is 0 s. 5 d. Sangus Draconis in the Luâ—p the Pound is 3 s. 0 d. Sanguis Draconis is drops the pound is 4 s. 6 d. They cool and bind exceedingly and are very good given inwardly or applied outwardly for the stopping of Fluxes of blood Tartar French is the Excrements of Wine which sticks to the Vessel it is hot and dry an cleanseth the pricethe pound is 0 s. 6 d. Tartar Renish the pound is 0 s. 7 d. Frankincense applied to
the white and is in like manner hot and dry in the third degree it is safer to be taken being purified by the Art of the Alchymist then given raw the roots are good against all melancholy diseases as Quartan Agues and Madness It is good for the Falling Sickness Leprosie Yellows pains in the Hip the Root beaten to powder and strewed upon Ulcers or putrified Sores consumes the dead flesh and instantly heals them It will help Gangrenes in the beginning twenty Grains is a sufficient dose for one time and let it be Corrected with half so much Cinnamon The Root boiled in Vineger is excellent good against Sâ—abs Mâ—nge and Leprosie a piece of it being put into a Hole made in the Ear of a Beast troubled with a Cough or that hath taken any Poison and taken out in twenty four houres helpeth them And is very good also to Rowel Cuttel withal that hath the Gargel and also for many other uses Balâ—moâ—y or Fâ—ltwart the roots are hot cleansing and scouring some say it is likewise binding withal Bâ—lâ—â—om is hot and dry in the second degree and is good for new and green wounds Bishops-weed Herb-VVilliam Amtos the seed is hot and dry in the latter end of the third degree it is given against the biting of any venomous Beast It causeth Urine it is good against Poison the Plague and all Pestilential Feavers Sweet Briar or Eglantine Balls are binding and are good for bloody Fluxes and is good to stop a Lask or Loosness VVilde Briar-balls are greater Binders and are good to stop a Lask and bloody Flux and for staling of blood and is a great Drier up of evil Humours Bucks-thorn or Laxative Ram the Berries as they are in taste bitter so they are binding and are also hot and dry in the second degree and doth purge thick phlegm and cholerick humors The Box-tree is of a binding quality and is good against the biting of mad Dogs Bâ—acca is cold and dry in the second degree it closeth things opened it softens hardness filleth places empty and do extenuate all excretions Brimstone is hot and dry in the third degree draweth and disperseth humors killeth the Itch given inwardly and outwardly applied it is good for Coughs and rotten Phlegm It is good likewise for the Wormes being mixed with a little Salt in his Provender it helps Lethargies snuffed up the Nose heing beaten to powder Bâ—learmoniack is a certain red Earth which is cold and dry which draweth and driveth back evil humors and is also an excellent defence against Fluxes of Blood and all manner of bleeding whatsoever either taken inwardly or outwardly applied Brine or Water and Salt is of the same Nature as Salt is it is good given inwardly to kill Wormes or applied outwardly to dry humors and takes away swellings C. All Cabbages and Coleworts have a drying and binding faculty with a certain salt quality whereby they cleanse and being boiled in Broth opens the Belly but the second Decoction binds the Juice of them drank is good against the Poison of venomous Beasts they are good against a Consumption obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Stone Swellings Sores and Scabs and the Juice being dropped into the Eyes with Honey is good to clear them The Sea-Colewort is of a biting quality the first decoction Loosneth and is more cleansing then the other kind the seed bruised and drank killeth Wormes the Juice of them cleanseth and healeth Sores dissolveth Swellings and taketh away Inflammations Calamint or Mountain Mint is of a fervent taste and biting hot and of a thin substance and dry after a sort in the third degree it wasteth away thin humors cuts and maketh thick humors thin it is good for Ruptures Convulsions Cramps shortness of Breath torments and pains in the Stomach helpeth the Yellows killeth Wormes given with Salt and Treacle killeth Scabs either inwardly taken or outwardly applied and killeth the Wormes in the Ears the Juice being dropped therein Camomel is hot and dry in the first degree and of thin parts and heateth moderately and drieth little it mollifieth and dissolveth all Griefs and especially for the Liver it is good for Swellings Cholick Stone Pains in the Belly Cold Yellows Dropsey and Cramps VVater-Caltrops are of a cold Nature and consisteth of a moist Essence being made into a Poultess are good for Inflammations Swellings Cankers sore Mouths and Throats they are good for the Farcin and Stone especially the Nuts being dried they resist Poison and this biting of venomous Beasts VVilde Champions are reserved to those of the Garden they are good to stay inward bleeding taken inwardly and outwardly it doth the like to Wounds it expelleth Urine and Gravel and purgeth the Body of Cholerick humours and is good against the poison of venomous Beasts the Plague c. and is good for old Sores Fistulaes and Cankers to cleanse and heal them Cardus benedictus is good for pains in the Head the Yellows and other Infirmities of the Gall cleanseth the Blood helpeth the Itch biting of mad Dogs and other venomous Beasts and is good for Agues VVilde Carrets are hot and dry in the second degree expelleth Wind provoketh Urine and causeth Lust they are good for the Dropsey Cholick Stone for running Sores and Ulcers the seed of them worketh the same effects as the roots do Caraway-seeds are hot and dry in the third degree hath a moderate sharp quality whereby it breaketh Wind provoketh Urine the seeds are good for Colds in the Head and Stomach Cellandine is hot and dry in the third degree the Juice of it put into the Eyes cleareth them from Films and Cloudiness which darkneth the Sight it is good in old filthy creeping Ulcers to stay their Malignity of fretting and running and to cause them to heal the more speedily It heals also Tettars Ring-wormes and spreading Cankers the powder of it mixed with brimstone killeth the Mange it is good taken inwardly for the Yellows and openeth the Obstructions of the Liver and Gall. The lesser Cellandine called Pilewort is hot and dry and more biting and hotter then the greater and cometh nearest in faculty to the Crow-foot it is good taken inwardly for the Farcin and to be applied outwardly for the same Disease The ordinary Centaury purgeth cholerick and gross Humors openeth the Obstructions of the Liver and Gall helpeth the Yellows killeth Worms is good for Cramps and Convulsions against venomous Beasts it cleanseth foul Ulcers and killeth spreading Scabs all the Centaurys are much of one and the same Nature only take this Observation That in Diseases of Blood use the red if of Choler use the Yellow but if of Phlegm or Water the White is best VVâ—nter-Cherries the leaves are cool and are used in Inflammations but not opening as the Berries and Fruit are which draw down the Urine and expel the Gravel and Stone out of the Reins Kidneys and Bladder it is also good for all Imposthumes in them likewise to cleanse them and is
good for bloody and foul Urine Chervil is of temperate heat and moderate driness but not so much as the Parsley it warms the Stomach and is good to dissolve congealed blood in the Body it is good for the Stone the wilde Chervil applied dissolveth Swellings in any part of the Body Sweet Chervil or sweet Cicely the Roots warmeth the Stomach oppressed with Wind and Phlegm and is good for the Consumption of the Lungs it is good against the Plague the Juice of it is good to heal Ulcers Chest-Nut-tree the Fruit is dry and binding and is neither hot nor cold but in a mean between both the inner Rind that covereth the Nut is of so binding a quality that it will stop any Lask or Loosness whatsoever and likewise the bloody Flux Earth Chest-Nuts are hot and dry in quality and also binding in quality but the seed is hotter they provoke Lust exceedingly the seed provoketh Urine Chickweed is cold and moist and of a waterish substance it cooleth without binding and is good for all Swellings and Imposthumes whatsoever Itch Scabs Cramps and is good for Ulcers and Sores in the privy Parts Bastard Chickweed is like to the other in Vertue and Operation Cinquefoil or Five-leaved Grass the Roots of it are dry in the third degree and without biting for they have very little heat and sharpness it is good given inwardly for Agues and to cool the heat of Pestilential Feavers the Juice of it drunk for certain days together Cureth the Quinsey and Yellows It is good for the Falling Sickness Cough of the Lungs the Roots boiled in Vineger is good for all hard Swellings Knots and Kernels and Lumps growing in any part of the Flesh and all Inflammations and St. Anthonies Fire and all sorts of running and foul Scabs and is good for Ruptures or Burstings used with other things taken inwardly or outwardly applied and is good likewise for to stay bleeding of Wounds inwardly taken or outwardly applied Garden Clary or more properly Clear-Eye is hot and dry in the third degree the feed put into the Eyes doth clear them of Motes and takes out the red spots out of them It is good for Swellings and draweth forth Splinters and Thornes out of the Flesh the Powder of the Root put up the Nose purgeth the Head and Brain of much Rheum and corruption It is a great Strengthner of the Back the Juice of it drank in Ale or Beer expelleth the secundine Wilde Clary is hotter and drier then the Garden Clary the seeds provoke lust warmes the Stomach scatters congealed Blood in any part of the Body and helps dimness of Sight being put into the Eye and there let it remain till it drop out of it self and it will cleanse the Eyes from putrified matter and by often using of it will take off a Film Cleavers or Goose-grass is moderately hot and dry and somewhat of â—â—in parts it is good for the biting of any venomous Beast for the Yellows it stayeth Lasks bloody Fluxes and bleeding Wounds being bruised and laid to them as also to close up green Wounds the powder of the Herb dried and strewed upon old filthy Ulcers helpeth them and being boiled with Hogs-grease helpeth all hard swellings about the Throat being anointed therewith It is a great Cleanser of the Blood and Strengthner of the Liver Clowns wound-wort is hot in the second degree and dry in the first and is a most excellent Wound-herb for all green Wounds and is a Stancher of Blood and will dry up fluxes and humors in old fretting Ulcers and â—ankers that hinder the healing of them A Syrup made of the Juice of it is inferiour to none for inward Wounds Ruptures of Veins and Pissing of Blood Cocks-head red Fitching or Medick Fitch the green leaves bruised and laid as a Plaister disperseth knots or kernels in the flesh and being dried and taken in Wine helpeth the Strangury and being anointed with it provoketh Sweat it is a good food for Cattel to make them give good store of Milk so is Alder and Medick Fitch Columbines are thought to be temperate between heat and moisture the Leaves are used in Lotions for sore Mouths and Throats the seed openeth the obstruction of the Liver and is good for the Yellows Colts-foot the leaves of it while it is green have a drying quality and are somewhat cold but the dried leaves are not so biting they are good for Wheezings and short-windedness Agues Inflammations and Swellings St. Anthonies Fire and Burnings Comfrey is cold and dry and of an earthly quality the use of this is the same with Clowns wound-wort the great Comfrey helpeth a bloody Urine and is good for all inward Wounds Bruises Hurts and Ulcers of the Lungs is good for the falling or shedding of the seed and is good made into an Ointment for all pains and old Aches Coral-wort cleanseth the Bladder and provoketh Urine expels the Gravel and Stone and easeth pains in the Sides and Bowels it is good for inward Wounds especially for those in the Breast and Lungs and is good for outward Wounds made up in an Ointment it stops Fluxes and is good to dry up the watery humour that is in Ulcers that hinder their Cure Red Corral bindeth and meanly cooleth and is very effectual against Issues of Blood and easeth the difficulty of staling and is good for the Falling Sickness Costmary or Alecost or Balsam-herb is hot and dry in the second degree provoketh Urine as well as Maudlin it purgeth choler and phlegm and is good for Agues and dries up all thin Rheums from the Head and Stomach Of Cud-weed or Cotton-weed their kinds are of a binding and drying quality and are good for defluxions of Rheums from the Head and to stay all Fluxes of Blood whatsoever it helpeth the bloody Flux and is good for inward and outward Wounds Hurts and Bruises and is good for burstness the Wormes and old and filthy Ulcers Crabs-Claws is a great strengthner of the Reins it is good for St. Anthonies Fire and all Inflammations and Swellings in Wounds and an Ointment made of them is good to heal them It is a most excellent thing for bruised Kidneys and upon that account Pissing Blood Winter-Cresses is hot and dry in the second degree the seed causeth Urine and drives forth Gravel and helps the Strangury the Juice of them made up into the form of an Ointment with Wax Oyl and Turpentine cleanseth foul Ulcers Banck-Cresses the seeds are of a fiery temperature and doth extenuate and make thin they strengthen the Brain and is little inferiour to Mustard-seed and are good to stay those Rheums that fall down from the Head upon the Lungs It is good likewise for the Yellows and the paint in the Hip. Sciatica-Cresses are hot and dry in the fourth degree like to Garden-Cresses both in smell and taste they are good to put into a Poultess to help all old Pains and Griefs in the Hips or Joynts and other parts of the
hot in the third degree it cutteth and maketh thin it provoketh Urine and driveth forth the Stone which the Bark of the Root doth very powerfully It is good to open the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and is good for a Rupture The wilde Rochet is hot and dry in the third degree it provoketh Urine exceedingly expelleth Poison killeth Wormes and other noisom creatures that breed in the Body Wintâ—r-Rochet or Cresses is hot and dry in the second degree the Seed of them provoketh Urine helpeth the Strangury and expels Gravel and the Stone It is a good Wound-herb inwardly given or outwardly applied It cleanseth and healeth foul Ulcers and Sores by the drying quality they have Roses of all sorts the leaves and the flowers of them consist of divers parts as binding yet moist and watery they come very near to a mean temperature the white and the red are very binding and those that are not full blown do cool and bind more then those that are blown they being dried and bâ—aten to Powder stayeth the Lask and Pissing of Blood the Red strengthens the Heart and Stomach asswage inflammations the Mattering of the Yard and Fluxes of the Belly the Beards of them are binding and cooling Rosa Sâ—lis or Sun-dew the water of it distilled helps a salt Rheum distilling from the Lungs Wheesing shortness of Breath the Cough and to heal Ulcers in the Lungs comforteth the Heart Rosemary is hot and dry in the second degree and of a binding quality and is good against all Fluxe of Blood and cold diseases of the Head and Stomach It is good for the Lethargy and Falling Sickness It opens the Obstructions of the Liver and is good for Windedness of the Belly It is good for dim Eyes Yellows Cough Consumption Rubarb the best which is the Indian hath two contrary Natures for if you either cut scrape or grate it then it is a Loosner for it dissolveth and openeth the Liver and expelleth the Obstructions thereof It expulseth all bad humors in and about the Heart Liver and Spleen It cleanseth the Body and sendeth away the peccant humors among the Excrements and all such things as may annoy or offend the Entrails But if you shall pound and beat it in a Mortar or otherwise the Spirit thereof being a subtil Body will Transâ—e and flie away whereby the Operation thereof will be to bind and no way profitable Garden Patience or Monkâ— Rhubarb is a kind of dock bearing the Name of Rhubarb for the purging quality therein It purgeth Choler and Phlegm the Seed binds the Belly and stayeth any Lask or bloody Flux the distilled water of it is good to â—â—eanse and heal soul Ulcers and to allay the â—nflammation of them Bastard Rhubarb hath all the Properties of the Monks Rhubarb but more effectually for inward and outward Diseases It Cureth the Yellows the Seed boiled in Wine helpeth the Farcin the Stone provoketh Urine helpeth the dimness of the Sight It is a Cleanser and Cooler of the Blood The Properties of the English Rhubarb is the same with the other but much more effectual and hath all the Properties of the Indian Rhubarb except the force of Purging wherein it hath but half the strength it purgeth the Body from choler and phlegm it cleanseth the Stomach Liver and Blood opening Obstructions Curing the Yellows Dropsey cleanseth the Reins being taken with Venice Turpentine Medow Rue bruised is good for old Sores It is a Loosner of the Body It is good for the Yellows and Plague Garden Rue is hot and dry in the latter end of the third degree and the Wilde in the â—ourth it is of thin parts it consumeth Wind and disgesteth gross and tough Hamors provoketh Urine is good against Poison the Plague the pains and gripings of the Belly It is good for the Cough Wind-cholick Wormes Dropsey stops Bleeding It is good for the Farcin Scabs Tettars and Ring-wormes Rupture-wort is dry closeth up and fastneth It is good for the Ruptures Fluxes Mattering of the yard Strangury stopping of Urine Stone and Gravel It is good for all Griping Pains in the Stomach and Belly Obstructions of the Liver Yellows Wormes Wounds It stayeth the defluctions of Rheums from the Head and drieth up the moisture of Fistulaes and Ulcers Reeds are hot and dry in the second degree and are Drawers out of splints and thornes out of the Flesh Rye is hotter then Wheat and is more forcible in wasting and consuming away It ripeneth Imposthumes Boyles and other Swellings All the Rozins are hot and dry the Rozin of the Cedar-tree is the hotter the Rozin of the Pitch-tree is not so sharp and biting and therefore not so hot the Rozin of the Firr-tree is in a mean between both the liquid Rozin of the Pine is moister The Rozins which are put in Plaisters which is our common Rozin stoppeth softneth cleaâ—seth draweth and purgeth wounds and is good against cold Causes Risigallo is a Composition of old Sulphur or Orpiment and unslackt Lime and is a most strong Corrosive S. Saffron is binding it is hot in the second and dry in the first degree It strengthens the Heart is good for the Consumption of the Lungs and shortness of Breath it is an excellent thing in Epidemical diseases as the Plague and is good for the Yellows Garden Sage is hot and dry in the beginning of the third degree or in the latter end of the second It is good for the Head and Brain strengthens the Sinews restoreth Health It is good for a Cough biting of Serpents expelleth Wind drieth the Dropsey and is a Cleanser of the Blood It is good to put into a Water to wash a sore Mouth withal and is good for old Cankers and Sores Wood-Sage is hot and dry yet less then the common Sage being hot and dry in the second degree It disgesteth and discusseth Swellings and Knots in the flesh It is good for Ulcers Sores Burstness green Wounds and provoketh Urine Solomons Seal is binding the Roots of it is good in Wounds and Hurts to cleanse them and to dry and restrain Fluxes of Humors and bloody Flux and Lask It is good for Ruptures and Burstness taken inwardly or outwardly applied and is good for inward and outward bruises Sanicle is bitter and hath a certain binding quality so that it cleanseth and strengthneth and is hot and dry in the second degree and in some Authors hot in the third It is a most excellent VVound-herb either outwardly applied or inwardly given and is good for Ulcers and Impostumes in any part of the Body It is good to stop a Lask and all Fluxes of Blood either inwardly or outwardly It is good for the Ulceration of the Kidneys and pains of the Bowels and Ruptures It is good in binding restraining heating drying and healing as Comfrey Bugle Self-heal or any other of the Consounds or Vulnerary Herbs whatsoever Sarasens Consound or Sarasens Wound-wort is dry in the third degree with some manifest heat
It is a good Wound-herb and is good for the Obstructions of the Liver and Gall Yellows Dropsey for all Ulcers of the Reins or other inward Wounds and Bruises and for Ulcers in the Mouth and Throat and pains in the Stomach Sawce alone vide Jack in the Hedge VVinter Savory and Summer-Savory is very good for the Cholick the Summer-kind is the best it expelleth Wind in the Stomach and Bowels it provoketh Urine it cutteth tough Phlegm in the Chest and Lungs the Juice dropped into the Eyes cleareth the Sight if it proceed of thin cold humors distilling from the Brain and being used in a Poultess is good for old Aches and Pains in the Hips and Joynts coming of cold Savin is hot and dry in the third degree of subtil parts It cleanseth old Ulcers being dried and mixed with Honey It is good to break Carbuncles Plague-Sores Farcin Wormes Scabs Itch and Running Sores Cankers Tettars Ring Wormes it kills the quick Foal and expels the dead Common Saxafrage the Root and seed thereof is of a warm and hot Composition it cleanseth the Reins and Bladder and dissolveth the Stone and expels the Gravel by Urine helps the Strangury cleanseth the Stomach and Lungs from phlegm Bâ—rnet Saxafrage the Seed Leaves and Roots of the great and small are hot and dry in the third degree and of thin and subtil parts they have the same Properties as Parsley hath in provoking Urine and easeth the pains of the Cholick breaks and avoids the Stone by Urine and is good against Venom and is good for Cramps and Convulsions the Juice of it dipped into Wounds drieth up the moisture of them Scabius three sorts there are of it though there be many others yet these be most Familiar and the Vertues of these and the rest are much alike it is hot and dry in the latter end of the second degree or near hand in the third and of thin and subtil parts It is good for Coughs short Windedness and all other Diseases of the Breast and Lungs ripening and digesting cold phlegm and other tough Humors it ripeneth also all inward Ulcers and Impostumes it is good for running and spreading Scabs Tetters and Ring-wormes English Sâ—urvey-Grass is evidently hot and dry very like in taste and quality to the Garden-Cresses it openeth and cleanseth the Blood the Liver and Spleen it openeth Obstructions and Evacuateth cold clammy and Phlegmatick Humors both from the Liver and Spleen the Juice of it is good for soul Sores in the Mouth Self-â—eal is of the temperature of Bugle moderately hot dry and something binding It is a most excellent Herb for inward and outward Wounds or Bruises in any part of the Body it stayeth the Flux of Blood in any Wound and cleanseth soul Ulcers and Sores The Service-Tree the Berries are cold and binding it is good to stay bleedings of Wounds Lasks and Fluxes of Blood Shepherds Parse is cold dry and very much binding it help all Fluxes of Blood either caused by inward or outward Wounds and also Flux of the Belly and bloody Flux or Pissing of Blood is good for the Yellows and being made into a Poultess helps Inflammations and St. Anthonies Fire an Ointment being made thereof is good for all Wounds in the Head Smallege is hotter drier and much more Medicinable then Parsley it openeth the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen cleanseth the Blood provokes Urine helps the Yellows Agues the Juice is good for sore Mouths and Throats cleanseth all the foul Ulcers and Cankders being washed therewith The Seed is good to expel Wind kill Wormes the Roots are effectual to all the Purposes aforesaid and is stronger then the Herb. Sope-wort or Bruise-wort is hot and dry and a little Scouring the Juice is good to heal up green Wounds it provokes Urine expels the Gravel and Stone and is good for the Dropsey The Sorrels are moderately cold dry and binding the common Sorrel is good to cool hot Diseases Inflammations or heat of Blood for it puriâ—ieth it it killeth VVormes and is a Cordial to the Heart which the Seed doth more effectually being more drying and binding and therefore stayeth the humors of the bloody Flux and Flux of the Stomach It is good to resist Poison expelleth the Gravel and Stone helpeth the Yellows The Juice of it with Vineger killeth the Itch Scabs Tettars Ring wormes and the like VVood-Sorrel is cold and dry like Sorrel and serves for all the Purposes that the other Sorrels do and is more effectual in hindring the Putresaction of Blood and Ulcers in the Mouth and Body and cooleth Heats Inflammations and Pestilential Feavers or other contagious Sickness Sow-Thistles are of a mixt temperature for they consist of a waterish substance cold and binding the Milk of them is good for short windedness and causeth the Stone and Gravel to be avoided by Urine it helpeth the Strangury it causeth Milk in Cattel Southern-VVood is hot and dry in the third degree the Seed is an Antidote against all deadly Poison and is good to kill VVormes it is good to draw forth thornes out of the Flesh the Ashes of it drieth up old Ulcers that are without Inflammation Spignel provokes Urine helpeth the Strangury and all Joynt Aches the powder of the Root with Honey breaketh tough Phlegm and drieth up the phlegm that fasteneth upon the Lungs the Roots are good against the biting and stinging of venomous Beasts Spleen-worts are of thin parts and are in a mean temper it is good for the Spleen helpeth the Strangury wasteth the Stone in the Bladder and is good for the Yellows Straw-berry leaves do cool and dry with a binding quality they are good for all hot inflammations and swellings applied outwardly and being inwardly given after they have been boiled in Vineger doth cool the Liver and Blood and asswage all inflammations in the Reins provoketh Urine and allayeth the heat and sharpness thereof stayeth the bloody Flux The Juice of the leaves are good to make a Lotion for a sore Mouth or Ulcerstherein Succory and Endive are cold and dry in the second degree and withal somewhat binding they cleanse phlegmatick and waterish humors out of the Stomach opens the Obstructions of the Liver Gall and Spleen is good for the Yellows heat of the Reins Urine and Dropsey the water or the Juice of the bruised leaves applied outwardly allay swellings inflammations and St. Anthonies Fire and to wash Pestilential sores Wilde Succory agrees in nature and temperature with the Garden Succory and as it is more bitter so it doth more strengthen the Stomach and Liver Stone-crop Prick Madum or small Housleek grows upon the ground with divers branches with thick and whitish green leaves it is cold in quality and somewhat binding and therefore very good to stay defluctions that flow from the Eyes it stops Bleeding both inward and outward helps Cankers and all fretting Sores and Ulcers it abates the heat of Choler expels Poison resisteth Pestilent Feavers and is good for
a Splint Take of the Oyl of Vitriol and dip a stick or feather into the Glass and touch the place with it and it will eat it away If you find it eat too much you may stop it by bathing it with cold water Or if you boyl some green Copperas in water and wash the sore with it it will not only cleanse the Sore from any piece of the remaining Splint but soon heal it up likewise To take away a Splint and leave no Scar behind Take a red Hazel stick about the bigness of your Thumb about a quarter of a yard long and after you have beaten and knockt the Splint very well with it then take and cut one end of it very smooth and stick a Needle into the pith of it leaving so much of the point of it out as will prick through the Skin pricking it full of holes then take some of the Oyl of Peter and rub all over it and bath it in with a hot Fire-shovel and do thus four or five days together and it will cure it Another First wash the place with warm water and shave away the hair then slit a Hole in the skin more then the length of a Barley-corn and then convey into the Hole so much Arsnick in the fourth part of a Hazel-Nut and bound on with a Bolster and Rowler of Linnen and made fast with a Needle and Thread and so let it remain for three whole days and Nights in which time the Arsnick wâ—â—l eat and corrode clean away the Splint then to kill the Fire anoint the place with sweet fresh Butter eight or ten days after being first molten and it will be whole Another Take the Root of Elecampane well washed and cleansed and lap it in a brown Paper wet it and roast it in the hot Embers as you do a Warden then after you have rubbed and chaâ—ed the Excression bind it fast on but not so hot as to scauld away the hair this will consume it away in two or three dressings or if you anoint the Splint with the Oyl of Origanum Morning and Evening it will take it away but not presently Observation You must stay the falling down of new humours to the place troubled by binding Plaisters as Pitch Rozin Mastick red Lead Oyl Bole-armonâ—ack and such like then to draw forth matter which is gathered with drawing Simples as VVax Turpentine and such like And lastly to dry up the Relicks with drying powders as Honey and Lime Oyster-shells Soot and such like and also you must know that all Splints Spavens or Knobs must either be taken away at the beginning or after the full of the Moon Another Receipt to take off a Splint which though it seem difficult yet de Grey declares that he hath taken off more then 100 Splinâ—s Take two Heads of Garlick and peel them and cut them small and do neither stamp nor bruise them then take the like quantity of Salt and mix with them and divide them into two equal parts and put them into two fine Linnen Clouts and bind them upon the ends of two sticks about a foot in length of the fashion of two short wooden foyls but not so long being not above twelve inches a piece Take then your Blood-stick and rub knock and beat the splint therewith very well to soften it then prick it through the skin with your Blood-staff and Fleam then take of the Oyl of Nuts one pint and put it into a small Pipkin and set it upon the Fire with a Chasing-dish of Coals and make it boiling hot and when it is ready to boyl put in your short sticks or â—oyles which hath the Garlick and Salt fastned unto them and first with the foyl and then with the other I mean by turnes apply them hot to the Splint and between whiles rub and stroak the Splint downwards with your Thumb whereby to bring forth the Blood till having with the foyls very well mollified the said Splint you may the more easily crush forth the Blood whereof the Splint is engendred and formed and thus it is cured only you must remember to anoint the place two or three times after with sweet or fresh Butter Things good in general for a Curb Oyl of Vitriol Arsnick Verdegrease an Elecampane Root roasted and laid to it an Onyon roasted with unslackt Lime and laid to it Mercury Turpentine Nerval green Gopperas Tartar c. Particular Receipts to Cure a Curb First shave away the hair then bind the Hough strait above the Joynt then with a small stick beat rub and Chaâ—e the Curb like as you do in the Cure of a Splint then pierce the skin with your Fleam in two or three places and so with your Thumb thrust forth and crush out the corrupt Blood and after convey so deep as you can get into every hole the bigness of two Barley cornes of Arsnick and so bind up the place and let it remain for the space of twenty four houres then open the place and anoint it every day with fresh Butter till it be whole Oyl of Vitriol used as you do to take away a Splint will take off a Curb also Note that whatsoever Cureth the Splint or Spaven Cureth the Curb also Another Receipt Take white-Wine Lees one Pint a Porringer-full of Wheat Floure of Cummin in fine powder half an Ounce mix all these well together and being made warm upon the Fire charge the place therewith renewing it once for three or four days together and when the swelling is almost gone draw it with your hot Iron and charge the Burning with Pitch and Rosin molten together which must be applied warm to the end the Charge may stick on the better then presently clap on Flox and let it remain until it fall away of it self and let it come in no wet or water for the space of fourteen days Another Take a Bar of Iron heat it red hot and hold it near to the place till it become warm then with your Fleam prick six or seven holes through the skin and anoint the Sorrance with Nerval then take a spoonful of salt and a penny weight of Verdegrease in â—ine powder with the white of an Egg incorporate them well together and wet some Flax in this Medicine and bind it to the place renewing it every day once and in a short time he will be perfectly â—uâ—ed Or to â—alcinate Tartar and dissolve it in water and congeal it like Salt and mingle it with Soap like an Ointment and dress it therewith and this will in fourty houres heal any Mules Pains and Scratches whatsoever Things good for the Mules vide Scratches Things good for the Pains vide Scratches Things good for Kib'd Heels vide Scratches Things good for Crepances and Rats-tails vide Scratches What Cures the Scratches Cures all these Diseases Things good in general for the Scratches These things boiled in Hogs Grease and Train-Oyl viz. Tarr white Lead Bolâ—armoniack Verdegrease green
together and put to it half a pound of Bolearmoniack beaten to powder strong white-Wine Vineger one Pint Sanguis dracâ—nis three Ounces in fine powder make this up with Wheat-Meal good and thick with this Charge his Back Reins Breast Thighes Fetlocks and Soles and spread two Cloaths Plaister-wise good and thick and apply them to the Coffin of his Feet and bind the sore-Legs about the Knees good and streight with broad Filleting or Lists then ride him two houres upon a hard way which if it be Paved or Pitcht it is the better his Feet being Pared reasonable near before-hand and when you do bring him into the Stable let his Feet he stopped with this Charge Take Rye or Wheat-Bran Ox or Cows-dung Sheeps Suet or Turpentine which must be put in last Mince your Sheeps Suet small melt and heat all these upon the Fire stirring them very well then put in your Bran to make it into a stiff Paste then put in your Turpentine and incorporate them all very well together and stop your Horses Feet with it which being thus charged and stopped three or four days together ridden and kept warm and not suffered to drink cold water but either Mashes or white Water he will be sound in four or six days If it be a dry Foundered by standing too long in the Stable then Pare him somewhat near and let him Bleed well in the Toe Veins Then take Eggs and roast them blew hard and together with the Powder of Cummin stop his Feet therewith so hot as they may be taken out of the Embers and put over the Soles a piece of Leather with Splints cross to keep the Eggs from coming out Take then a great Onion peel and stamp it and let it infâ—se twenty four houres before in the strongest white-Wine Vineger you can get and give it the Horse presently after you have stopped the Horses Feet and cover him up warm and let him stand upon the Trench three houres and then give him Meat and white Water Another for Foundering a Month or more You must take out the Soles of his Feet and have in a readiness these Things Viz. Take the tender tops of Hysop three handfuls pound them together in a Mortar to stench his Bleeding then have this Receipt in a readiness Take Snails in the shells and take them forth and reserve them then take a handful of Bay-salt and two or three handfuls of the tender tops of the angriest Nettles you can find beat them with your Snails and Salt to a Salve then take out the Sole and stench the bleeding with your Hysop and when it leaveth Bleeding apply this Medicine to it and bind it up with Cloaths and let it remain twenty four houres then open it and heal it up with your green Ointment which you may find in my First Part and in two days you shall see a new Sole coming But if he be but Hough-bound then take Turpentine and Sheeps Suet of each half a pound Wax a little Sallet-Oyl half a Pint boyl altogether but put in the Turpentine last and as they boyl keep them with a continual stirring and anoint his Houghs once a day well For â—n ordinary Heat in his Feet Take Wheat-Bran and Hogs-grease and make them into a Poultess and apply it as well to the Coffin as the Soles and it will be well again Another for a Founder or Frettize wet or dry First pare thin open the Heels wide and take good store of Blood from the Toes then Tack on a Shoo somwhat hollow broad at the Heels and the inside of the Web from the first Nail to the Heel turned inward towards the Frog yet not to touch any part thereof or the Hough so as he may tread on the out-Verge of the Shoo and not on the inward Then take Burgundy Pitch or Frankincense and Rowling it in a little fine Cotton-Wooll or Bombast with a hot Iron melt it into the Foot betwixt the Shoo and the Toe till the Orifice where the Blood was taken be filled up then take half a pound of Hogs-grease and melt it and mix it with Wheat-Bran till it be as thick as a Poultess then boyling hot stop up his Feet with it then cover it with a piece of an old Shoo and splint it up and so let him stand for three or four days then if occasion serve you may renew it otherwise the Cure is wrought Observations on the Cure First You shall not need to Remove or stir his Shooes then after twenty four houres rub off the Charge from his Back It. Take away his Gartâ—rs after twelve houres and rub his Knees and Houghs with your Hand and with Wisps to take away the Numbness It. If you cannot get Wheat-Meal take Oat-Meal It. If he will not Bleed in the Veins before-named then bleed him in the Neck-Vein Lastly if you take him in Hand to Cure within twenty four houres after he is Founded he will be Cured in twenty four houres but if he go longer the Cure will be longer in doing Now if he be Foundred through streightness of his â—hoâ—e which is not a Founder but a Frâ—ttizing which is a degree less then Foundering Then let him Blood on the â—oes and stop the place with bruised Sage and tack his Shoo on again and stop it with Hogs-grease and Bran boiled together as hot as possible you can and do this twice in a Fortnight and give him rest and it will help him An odd kind of Receipt to Cure a Foundred Horse Ride him so hard as to Swâ—at then Ride him up to the Knees in Water and there let him stand about half an hour which will cause the humour to ascend out of his Feet into his Body then an hour after you come home give him a thorough Scouring and ride him gently after it and so bring him home and Cloath him up warm and this will carry it out of his Body again Probatum by Mr. Goodman Give him the Purge as aforesaid Another for the taking out of his Sole If you find that none of the Receipts for this Disease have had their wished Effects in Order to his Cure then follow these Directions for the taking out of his Soles and though it be not the common way that is practised amongst our Smiths yet 't is looked upon to be the best and safest 'T is this First Tâ—e about his Pastern a List or Cord so hard as will keep up the Blood into his Leg that it fall not down to trouble you then pare the Foot thin and cut the Hough round with your Incision Knife to the quick as near to the inside of the outward shell of the Hough as you can raise the â—ole at the Toe then take hold of it with a pair of Pinchers and pluck it gently upwards towards the Heel for fear of breaking the Vein in the Foot When you have so done tack on the Shoo again somewhat hollow and broad then untie the
the Sore you cleanse wash and inject the Wound with this water A Water to wash and cleanse a Sore or VVound before you use the Ointment above Take red Sage Plantain Rib-wort Yarrow Bramble-leaves Rosemary Hysop and Honey-suckle leaves of each half a handful boyl them in one Pint of white-Wine and as much of Smiths or Cold Trough water then add thereto the boyling of common Honey one spoonful and as much Allom as a Wall-nut and a bright black piece of a Sea coal the bigness of an Egg unbroken then let it boyl till half be consumed then strain it hard and wash the Sore therewith and if the Wound be deep inject of this Water with a Syringe into it every day when you dress him and by this doing you shall cleanse the Wound and take away all bad and dead flesh and heal it up soundly Another Water to cleanse and heal a Sâ—re To a Gallon of Smiths Water and a quart of Ale add two Handfuls of Sage a Pint of Honey an Ounce of common Allum and half an Ounce of white Copperas boyl them very well together till they be all consumed and put them into a clean Vessel and keep them for your use Dr take Spring-water and put to it Roch-Allum and Madder and boyl them till they be both consumed and put them up for your use Or take Sage Cinquefoyl and Fennel of each a good handful and boyl them in a Gallon of Spring-water till they be tender then strain the Liquor from the Herbs and put to it a quarter of a pound of Roch-Allum and let it boyl again a little while till the Allum be dissolved then take it from the Fire and make use of it after this manner viz. Dip Lint in it warm and lay it upon the Sore and if it be hollow apply more Lint Then make a Bolster of Linnen Cloth and wet it well in the Water then wring out the Water and bind on the Bolster close A Receipt for a Puncture or green Wound If it be in the Foot or any other part of the Body if you can come well unto it or if it be an Imposthumation unbroken scald it first with this Medicine Then wash it with the Water above Medicâ—ne Take red Tarr a penniworth of the reddest and best of Hogs grease half a pound of green Copperas and Bay-salt of each a handful both made into fine Powder boyl all these very well and with a Clout fastned upon a stick apply it scaulding hot four Mornings together for this scaulding doth so kill the Malice of the Fistula that it can never break to annoy the Horse any further It Careth the Imposthumes and â—oul Ulcers being thus applied Things gâ—od to take a VVen or any other Excression arising in the Flesh or hard Swellings Balm used with Salt taketh away the hard Swellings in the Throat or Wâ—ns or Kernels therein The Decoction of the lesser Sellendine wonderfully Cureth all hard Wens or Tumors applied to them The seed of Darnel Pigeons dung Sallet-Oyl and the Powder of Linseed boâ—led to the form of a Plaister consumeth them the Seed of Turn-Sole laid upon them Archangel or rather the Hedge-Nettle stamped with Vineger and applied as a Poultess taketh away any hard Swelling and also fiery hot Inflammations To Tie a double Thread about it to eat it off then with your Incision-Knife cut it a cross in four equal parts or quarters to the very bottom but beware you touch not either Vein or Sinew then with Oyl of Vitriol eat it away or with Mercury or else burn them off with your hot Iron then heal the place with your green Ointment The Leaves of Bucks-horn bruised and applied will consume them The Milk that issueth out of the Fig-Tree Branches when they are broken and applied is also very good so is the Juice of Housleek or Mercury the Juice of the Leaves and Flowers of Mullein with the Powder of the dried Root rubbed upon them taketh them away The Water that droppeth from the hollow places of the Poplaâ—-Tree anointed with it doth the like Garden-Rue bruised with a few Myrtle-leaves made with Wax and applied taketh away all sorts of them so doth an Ointment made of the burnt Ashes of the Willow-Tree mixed with Vineger and the place anointed therewith c. Things good to Cure an Anbury which is a great spungy Wart full of Blood To Tie it about with a Thread or Hair so hard as you can pull it and in few days it will fall away of it self then strew upon it the Powder of Verdegrease to kill it at the Root and heal it up again with your green Ointment But if it be so flat that you cannot bind any about it then take it away with your Incision-Knife close to the Skin or else burn it off with a hot Iron and then first kill the Fire with Turpentine and Hogs Grease molten together and heal it up as before prescribed but if it grow in such a Sinewy place that it cannot be conveniently cut away with a hot Iron then eat it out with the Oyl of Vitriol and heal it up as you do other Wounds Head Purged Vide Perfumes in the First Part. Things good for to put in Ointments and Salves for the Cure of all manner of Wounds in General The Juice of ordinary Centaury is good to cleanse Old Sores and to heal â—p Wounds the Juice of the leaves of Cleavers do close up the Lips of green Wounds or the powder of the Seed of the Herb doth the same Clowns Wound-wort Coral-wort Cole-wort the powder of the Root of Sow-Fennel or Hogs-Fennel Fox-gloves Golden-rod Winter-green True love or one Berry Hounds tongue St. Johns-wort Kidney-wort Knape-weed Ladie Mantle is the best Wound-Herb that is and is good for inward and outward Wounds Loosestrifâ— The dryed leaves of Medlers strewed upon a Wound healed it quickly Money wort or the Herb two pence The Juice of Nettles is good to wash a Wound with and if it be bound to it but three days you need no other Medicine Pimpernel Ground-pine Plantine Rag-wort wâ—ld Sage Sarasens Consound Solomons Seal Sanicle Burnet Saxafrage Scabius Self heal Southern-wood the Juice of wild Tansie Tutsan Vervain Blew-bottle Elder Couch-grass or Dogs-grass Daffadil Cranes-bill Comfrey doth so Conglutinate things together that it is reported that it will sodder Meal together being cut into pieces and put into the Pot Celandine Broom Turpentine Mastick Frankincense Balsom the leaves of Elm Flix-weed is good for Ulcers and VVounds Byfoyl Costmary Cowslips Cross-wort Yarrow is good for Fistulaes and Ulcers c. Particular Receipts for Salves or Ointments for VVounds Old or New Take common Honey and Verdegrease finely pulverized of each as much as will suffice boyl them together till the Medicine wax red and this will heal up any Old or green Sore in short space Another Take Turpentine black Soap Hogs-grease green Treat and Pitch a like quantity mix and boyl them
Bursa-pastoris Bugle Chervil Mallows Solomons Seal Sarasens Consound Sarasens Wound-wort Scabius Self-heal Sanicle Sope-wort Thorough-wax Rosin Turpentine Honey Galbanum St. Johns-wort Pitch c. The Juice of Arsmart consumeth all cold Swellings and dissolveth all congealed Blood got by Bruises Strokes or Falls The Root of Cinquefoyl Cud-weed or Cotton-weed doth the like Osmond-royal or Water-Fern is also good Golden Rod outwardly applied is good for them Nep or Catmint bruised and the Juice given inwardly is also very good The Decoction of Wood Sage is a very good Remedy for any inward Vein broken to disperse and avoid the congealed Blood and to consolidate the Veins Sanicle is also good The powder of Bolearmomack given in warm Ale stops any inward Bleeding the powder of Irish Slate given also in warm Ale is good for any inward Bruise whatsoever c. Particular Receipts for the Cure of Bruises or Swellings First Ripen it with Hay boiled in Chamberly or with rotten Litter laid upon it then let out the Corruption then fill the hollowness with the powder of Rosin and lay a Plaister of Shoomakers Wax over it and thus do once a day while it be whole if it be slow of skinning or healing up strew on the powder of unslackt Lime and Bolearmoniack mixt together and if any proud Flesh arise take it down either with burnt Allom or Verdegrease in powder Another Take Ale or Beer Yest and Verjuice and putting a little fine Hay thereunto boyl them well together then bind the Hay to the swelling and pour on the Liquor and do thus three or four days together and it will take away the swelling or rotten Litter and Hay boiled in Urine will take it away Another for any inward Bruise by Fall or otherwise Take near a quart of strong Beer or Ale and put to it one Ounce of the powder of Bolearmoniack and half an Ounce of the powder of Irish Slaâ—e and boyl it a little and give it him fasting in the Morning for three or four Mornings together lukewarm and he will do well Another for a Swelling upon the Head occasioned by a Blow or oâ—herwise If the Swelling be on both sides then Blood on both sides but if it be but on one side then Blood but on that side the Swelling is of and give him this Drink viz. One Ounce of Anniseeds one Ounce of Turmerick half an Ounce of Bayberries all beaten to powder with a Gill full of the Juice of Herb-grace red Sage and Wormwood Put all this into a quart of strong Beer lukewarm and give it him fasting in the Morning and Order him as you do a Horse that hath had Physick 'T is good also to apply this outward application to it viz. a little common Soap put to a quarter of a Pint of Brandy and rub and chase it in with your Hand very well and heat it in with a hot Fire-shovel Leave it as thick upon the Swelling as you can This will prevent a Farcy which Blows and Strokes do commonly breed and is also very good for any old or new Swelling whatsoever Another which will take away any Crusty Knobs or hard Swellings in any part of the Body of a Horse According to the Cure you are to undertake whether great or small proportion Oyl of Turpentine and strong Beer or Ale and let it be of equal parts alike well shaked together in a Glass and then rub and chafe it very well in with your Hand and heat it also in with a hot Fire-shovel and two or three days after apply a Charge of common Soap and Brandy well chafed in as you did the Turpentine before You may if you please put in a little of the Oyl of Wormes which is a great Mollifier of any Crusty hard or Bony part If you will see more of this kind vide Observations upon Bruises and Strains about three Leaves further Things good in General to Cure Swelled Legs Nerve Oyl black Soap and Boars Grease melted together and anoint the place with it or to Bathe his Legs in Butter and Beer or in Vineger and Butter melted together or with Sheeps-foot Oyl or with Train Oyl or with Piss and Salt Peter boiled together and to rowl his Legs with Hay-Ropes wet in the same Liquor from the Pastern to the Knee but not bind them too hard or to Bathe him with the water wherein had been boiled Sage Mallows and Rose Cakes and Butter and Sallet Oyl put into it or to take Frankincense Rosin fresh Grease of each alike boiled and strained and used once a day as you see occasion Or to Wash his Legs with the coldest Fountain-Water you can get or to let him stand every day till the Swelling be asswaged in running Water up to the Knees Or else take Primrose-leaves Violet leaves Straw-berry Leaves of each a handful boyl them in new Milk till they be soft then put into it of Nervel of Petroleum and of Pumpilion of each an Ounce anoint him with it for five or six days together Or take Pitch Virgins Wax Rosin the Juice of Hysop Galbanum Myrrh secondary Bdellium Arabicum Populeon and Storax according to your Discretion and boyl them in Deers Sewet and when it is cold put into it Bolearmoniack and Costus beaten into fine powder and incorporate them well together into the other Ingredients and boyl them all over again and when it is almost cold work them up into Rowls and when you use it spread it upon a Plaister and wrap it about the Swelling and let it stay there till it drop off of it self this is good for a Surfeit To Asswage the Swelling of a Horses Legs that is very much Swelled by reason of the Scratches Take a quart of Chamberly or more as you shall think fit and put into it a handful of Bay-Salt a quarter of a pound of Soap a pretty quantity of Soot a good handful of Misle-toe chopt boyl them all very well together and Bath his Legs with it very warm two or three times a day and wrap a Cloth wet in the same and lap about it and this will asswage them If you will have more Receipts for swelled Legs see the first Part for Plaisters and Baths for swelled Legs Things good to Cure a Horse that is Spuâ—-gall'd or Shackle-Gall'd or Lock-Gall'd Salt and Urine mixt together or Salt and Water and the place bathed with it takes out Venom warm Vineger is likewise good or else bind unto the place the tender tops of Nettles stamped Oyl of Turpentine is good or Allom and green Copperas boiled in Water and wash the place with it the leaves of Briony stamped and bruised with Vineger and applied to the Place Honey and Verdegrease boiled together till it look red and anoint the place with it twice a day and strow upon it some chopt Flox to keep on the Salve is very good for Shackle-galls and chiefly for the Scratches c. Things good in General to
stop a Rheum flowing to the Eyes Take Flox or Hurds and dip it in the best melted Rosin you can get and apply it to the hollow of the Eyes driveth it back Some Observations to be observed upon Bruises and Strains 1. In all Bruises by Falls or any other Accidents 't is good to Bleed first in the common Bleeding Neck-Vein before you give him any inward Medicines for it and be very careful that what you give him be not binding things for they will so coagulate and thicken the strained blood that it cannot have its free passage through the Uriter Vein as it should have which will be very prejudicial to his Health 2. The best thing you can give him for any inward Bruise or Wrench in the Back or Kidneys is common Turpentine made into Balls with the best English Liquoris-powder you can get for Money about an Ounce of it given him every Morning for about a Week together and a Plaister or Charge applied at the same time to his Loyns or Fillets made up with Oxicrocium and Paracelsus melted together will perfectly Cure him in a Month at farthest you may renew your Charge if there be occasion 3. All things that provoke Urine are very good for him for the congealed Blood must have its Vent through the Uriter-Veins or else it will do him but little good 4. If your Horse hath a Strain upon the Back-Sinews 't is also very convenient to let him Blood with your Fleam on the Shackle-Vein on the Pastern-Joynt the Hair being first clipped away to the end you may the better see how to strike the Vein When you have so done apply your Piaister or Charge of Oxicrocium and Paracelsus melted together as before directed and laid hot upon the grieved part and let it lie on till it come off of it self and it will Cure him in a very short time Things good in General for the Cure of any Halting coming by strain or strolâ— â—ither before or behind from the Shoulder or Hip down to the Hoof. If it be in the Shoulder to let Blood and apply things to it as you do other strains A Poultess made of Pellitory of the Wall and Mallows boiled in strong Beer Tilt with Bran Bean-flower and Sallet-Oyl put thereto and applied warm is good to restore any Sinew-strength in a short time the Decoction of the Herb Scabius applied is good for any shrunk-Sinew or Vein or Tansie boiled in Oyl is good for it Oyl of Turpentine Brandy Aquavitae Oyl of Spike Nerve Oyl Sallet-Oyl Bears-Grease Oyl of Swallows Bolcarmoniack is good for Sinew-strains so is Arâ—mart and Brook-Lime steeped together good for old Strains Glovers speâ—ks boiled in Ale and applied hot to the place is good Oyl of Organum Oyl of Exceter Oyl of Peter Oyl of St. Johns wort Oyl of Roses Mirtles Sanguis draconis Pickle or Brine from Olives Train-Oyl Mallows Oat-meal and Bran bruised together and boiled with Urine and laid to it Poultess-wise Dialthea and Nerve-Oyl mingled together Pumpilion Nerve Oyl and black Soap minglod together upon the Fire and anointed therewith Brandy and Soap boiled together is good or white-Wine Vineger and fresh Butter boyled together with as much Bran as will bring it to a Poultess and said to it Morning and Evening is good or Mallows and Chickweed boiled together in Ale c. Particular Receipts for the Cure of all Manner of Haltâ—ngs coming by Strain or Stroke â—ither before or behind from the Shoulder or Hip down to the Hoof. Markhams Master-Medicine for a Back-Sinew Strain or any Strain Shrinking or Numbness of Sinews Take a â—at sucking Mastive Whelp flay it and Bowel it then stop the Body as full as it can hold with gray Snails and black Snails then roast it at a reasonable Fire when it begins to warm Bast it with six Ounces of Oyl of Spike made yellow with Saffron and six Ounces of Oyl of Wax then save the Droppings and whatsoever moisture falls from it while it any drop will fall keep it for your use With this anoint the strain and work it in very hot holding a hot Fire-shovel before iâ— thus do both Morning and Evening till amendment Another in Nature of a Charge for a Back-Sinew-Strain Take five quarts of Ale and a quarter of a Peck of Glovers specks and boyl them till it come to a quart then apply it hot to the Grief and remove it not in five or six days Another for a Strain in any Part New or Old Take of Sheeps Sewet a pound of Sheeps dung two handfuls chopt Hay a handful Wheat Bran a pint sweet â—oap a quarter of a pound boyl all these in a quart of strong Ale till it come to a Poultess then take it from the fire and put in half a pint of white-Wine Vineger and a quarter of a pint of Brandy and apply it hot to the grief and give him Moderate Exercise Another for a Strain or Sinew-bruise Take Cumminseeds and bruise them gross then boyl it with the Oyl of Camomile and put to it so much yellow Wax as will bring it to Cerots and spread it upon a Cloth or Leather and apply it hot to the grief Another for old Strains Griefs or old Cramps Take Brandy Oyl de Bay Oyl of Swallows Bolearmoniaek Hogs-grease black Soap of each half a pound boyl them till the Brandy be incorporate then take of Camomil Rue Red Sage and Misle-toe of each a handful dry them and bring them to powder and mix it with the Ointment and bring all to a Salve With this anoint the Grief and hold a hot Bar of Iron before it Chasing it well in and do thus once a day and in nine days the Cure hath been effected A sudden Cure for a Kneck or Bruise on the Sinews or Sinew-strain New or Old Take a live Cat wilde or tame and cut off her Head and Tail then cleave her down the Chine and clap her hot Bowels and all to the Bruise let it lie on twenty four houres and serve another Cat or two so if there be occasion when it is dry anoint it with Oyl of Turpentine Brandy and Soap and heat it well in with a hot Iron The Cats Bones must be brâ—ken Another for a Strain newly done to help it in twenty four hours Take the Grounds of Ale or Beer a quart as much Parsley chopt gross as you can gripe boyl them till the Herb be soft then put to it a quarter of a pound of sweet Butter and when it is molten take it from the fire and put it in a pint of Wine Vineger and if it be thin thicken it with Wheat-bran and lay it upon Hâ—rds and Poultess wise as hot as â—ie can endure it lay it to and remove it once in twelve houres and give him moderate Exercise Another which is Markhams own Balm which he says hath never failed hâ—m in any Strain in the Shâ—ulder or other Parts â—id or apparent or for any VVind-gall or
if it be in the Summer you may Charge him abroad If the strain be in the Coffin Joynt you must let him blood in the Toe which every common Smith can do then stop the bleeding of it by some Flax or Tow dipt in the white of an Egg beaten with Bolearmoniack use it as before shewed laying it all over the Hough Heels and Foot lock-Joynt and especially at the setting on of the Hough How to know when it is well made If it be well made you may know it by this Sign viz. If you drop it upon a Piece of white Paper and let it lie until it be cold then take and break it asunder and if it Crumble in the breaking it is too hard but if it break clear without Crumbling it is well made and if you find it too soft and that it will not keep on the Horses Foot then put in a little more Rosin and Bolcarmoniack into it and if you find it too hard put in a little Tallow or Saâ—let-Oyl but Tallow is the best If it be in hot Weather you must make it the harder and especially if he run abroad and if it be in cold Weather you must make it the softer If you desire to see more Charges for these Uses look in my First Part. For Swelledor Garded Lâ—gs whether by Grease or other A cident If your Horses Legs be Swelled only because the Grease is fallen into them and there is no other outward Ulcer neither will the Bathing with cold Fountain water and other ordinary helps asswage them then take a Pottle of Wine Lees or else take the Grounds of strong Ale or Beer and boyl it with a pound of Hogs-grease then with as much Wheat-Bran as will thicken it make thereof a Poultess and having made him a Hose of Woollen Cloth fill it with this Poultess as hot as he can suffer it then close up the Hose and let it abide two days the third day open the Hose at the top but stir not the Poultess but put in hot Moulten Grease to it whilst it will receive any for that will renew the strength thereof then close it as you did before and let him stand two or three days longer then open the Leg and rub it down and if you find occasion you may apply another if not the Cure is wrought Now if besides the Swelling he hath Ulcers Chops and Sores then apply the Poultess as before shewed And after a Week Application take a quart of old Urine and put to it half a handful of Salt as much Allum and half an Ounce of white Copperas boyl them together and with it wash the Sore once or twice a day then after a little drying anoint them with the Oyntment called Aegyptiacum and is made of Vineger eight Ounces of Honey twelve Ounces of Verdegrease two Ounces of Allum one Ounce and a half and boiled to the height till it come to a red Salve and it will both kill the Malignant Humours and heal and dry up the Sores Another for swelled Legs wheather by Grease â—oâ—tiness Wind or Travel First Bathe them well with the Pickle or Brine which comes from Olives being made hot Then take a Pint of Train Oyl as much Nerve Oyl and as much Oyl de bay a quarter of a pound of Allum half a Pint of Sallet-Oyl half a pound of Hogs-grease put all these to a Pottle of Urine and with a handful or two of Mallows Oat-meal bruised and Bran boyl them to a Poultess and very hot apply it to the Grief Do this once in two days Things good in General for a Horse that hath a Wrenâ—h in his Back To shave away the Hair but then you must not lay his Charge on too hot You may find many sorts of them in my First Part. But more particularly take this Take of Bolearmoniack Comâ—rey alias Consolida Major Galbanum Sal-Armoniack Sanguis draconis his own Blood Burgundy-pitch Mastick Olibanum of each alike stamp them well together with Wheat-Meal Vineger and the white of an Egg and lay it upon the place grieved then clap upon the top of it all along the Chine and Back a Sheeps Skin newly taken off from his Back and change it every day and in three or four days it will be well but let the Charge lie on till it fall away of it self Or to Bath his Back with Brandy well warmed and the powder of Bolearmoniack mixt together is very good But if your Horse be Naturally weak in the Back or swayed in the Back these two Diseases are not absolutely Cured but Coleworts boiled in Sallet-Oyl and put Bean-Meal into it and Charge the Back with it will strengthen it Or you may give him these things inwardly which is good for a Back swanckt in the Fillets or Loyn Or for a Wrench in the Back-bone viz. Take one Ounce of Solomons Seal one Ounce of Comfrey one of Clary a quarter of a pound of Pollipody of the Oak Wood-bitony two handfuls Boyl them in a Gallon of strong Beer or more till half the quantity be consumed then take it off the Fire and put into it a quarter of a pound of Butter and a quarter of a pound of Honey and give him a quart of it luke-warm in a Drenching-Horn fasting at the end of every third day for about three or four times and Order him as in Observations how to Order sick Horses Iâ—â—ing-Glass boiled in Milk with a little Bole armoniack is a great Strengthner of the Back given him for several Mornings together But the more easie and familiar way to Cure these Distempers and is as good a thing as I think you can possibly give him is to make him some Balls of common Turpentine and the powder of English Liquoris and give him about two Ounces of them for about a Fortnight together and apply at the same time to the Reins of his Back this excellent Plaister viz. Oxicrocium and Paracelsus of each a like quantity but rather more of the Oxicrocium melted together and spread upon Sheeps Leather and apply it to grieved part and let it lie on till it fall off of it self You may renew his Charge if you think it convenient after the other hath been about a Fortnight on This is also a very excellent Plaister for a Back Sinew-strain in the Foot-lock Joynt and indeed for all manner of Strains whatsoever To Cure the Lampas Take a roasted Onion very hot and put it upon a Clout or upon Hurds and with it rub the Lampas very much and do this two or three times a day till it be whole but the best Cure is to burn it away which every common Smith can do Things good to Cure the Camery or Frouncâ— To let him Blood in the two greatest Veins under his Tongue and to wash the Sore with Vineger and Salt or to burn the Pimples on the Head and to wash them with Ale and Salt till they Bleed To Cure the Barbes
lay it to the Vein or Wound that Bleeds and it stancheth them Another Take the Root of Rubarb and bruise it in a Mortar and stop it into the Nostrils that bleeds and it stayeth it Anoâ—her for the Bleeding at the Nose Take Bitony and stamp it in a Mortar with bay-Salt or other white Salt with Wine-Vineger and put it into his Nostril that bleeds and it stayeth it Loosening Things in General Vide the first Part. Binding Things in General which is good to stop a Loosness Lask or Flux of Blood Sloes or the inner Rind of the black Bush wilde Bryar-ball or the inner Rind of it Dock-Roots or the seeds of Docks boiled in Beer the inner Skin that covereth the Chest-Nut Cud-weed or Cotten-weed the Root of the Water-flag or Flower-de-luce the seed of Flea-wort fryed and given the seed of Flix-weed given in Water where Steel hath been quenched the powder of stinking Gladwin is good for the Flux Winter green the dried shells of Hazel-Nuts or the red Skin that is over the Kernel the berries of Holly-holm or Halver-bush beaten to powder and given Knape-weed Knot-grass Ladies Mantle the seeds or Roots of Water-Lilly Loose-strife or Willow Herb Honey-wort or the Herb Two-pence Moon-wort the Oaken-Moss of a Pale or Spear Mulberries the Roots of Mullen the Leaves and Bark of the Oak and Acorn Cups the leaves of the Pear-Tree or sour Pears Periwincle Queen of the Medows red Roses Sanicle the powder of Services when they are mellow Shepherds Purse wilde Tansie the Bark of the Wall-Nut Tree or the Kernels of the Wall-Nuts when they are old Yarrow Wormwood the Juice of Rue mixed with clarified Honey with red Wine or Bean flower and Bole-armoniack boiled in Milk or red Wine and Bay-Salt bruised together Cinnamon and Nutmegs boiled in red Wine Tanners Bark Dragon-water a pint of it sweetned with Treacle Myrrh Mastick Storax the Rind of Pomegranate Allum for a Foal give him a Pint of Ver-Juice to drink The inward and outward Barks of the Willow-Tree burnt to Ashes is a great binder and dryer up of Sores c. Particular Receipts to stay a Lask or Loosness Take Bean-flower and Bolearmoniack of each three Ounces mix them with red Wine or stale Beer and give it him blood-warm Another Take half a Pint of Plantine water and half a pint of red Wine or for want of that Claret and put into it an Ounce of Cassia powder finely beaten with as much of the powder of Pomgranate Rinds and boyl them well together then take the Yolks of two Eggs and some Loaf Sugar and make a Caudle of it and give it him luke warm and it will help him Another The powder of a Stags Pizel dried and grated and given him in Claret or stale Beer is a very Sovereign Remedy for it so is the powder of the Jaw-bone of a Pike Teeth and all given after the same manner Another very Excellent Take three pints of stale Beer and put to it the powder of Cummin-seeds three spoonfuls and boyl them together till half be consumed then take Knot grass Shepherds Purse and Plantine and stamp them severally and put four or five spoonfuls of the Juice of each of them and put to the Beer and boyl them again a little and give him it half over-night and half the next Morning But if it fall out in the Winter that you cannot get the Herbs then take the Water of the distilled Herbs and use it as before Another Take as much Bole-armoniack as contains the bigness of a Wall-Nut beat it into fine powder and put it into a pint of Claret or for want of that Verjuice and give it him when you find occasion Or take a pint of Claret Verjuice or Beer and put into them an Ounce of the powder of Cinnamon with some of the powder of the wild Briar-balls and two or three â—olks of new laid Eggs warmed over the Fire This Given twice or thrice at most will perfectly Cure him Another very good Take a quart of Claret and put to it four Yolks of new laid Eggs half an Ounce of long pepper with as much of the Grains of Paradise boyl them together and give it him luke-warm Or take an Ounce of the inward Bark of an Oak and half an Ounce of the powder of long pepper boiled in a quart of new Milk and give it half over-night and the other half of it the next Morning fasting is very good Another Take two or three wild Briar-balls if they be not very large and beat them to powder and boyl them in a quart of Beer with a little of the powder of Bolearmoniack and give it him Blood warm and it is a certain Cure Another for a violent Scouring Take the Intrails of a Pullet or great Chickin all but the Gizard and mix with them of Spikenard one Ounce and make him swallow it and this will infallibly stay his Scouring yea though it be a bloody Flux Another which will stay a Lask be it never so violent Take a penny worth of Allum powdered Bolearmoniack powdered an Ounce put them in a quart of Milk keeping them stirring till the Milk become all of a Curd and give it him luke-warm Another Take a quart of Red Wine and put into it an Ounce and a half of Bolearmoniack in fine powder and two Ounces and a half of the Conserve of Sloes mix them together and boyl them pretty well then take it off and put into it a spoonful of the powder of Cinnamon brewed altogether and give it him and let him fast two houres after it and leâ— him eat no washed Meat Hay is wholesom so is Bread and Oats if they be well mixt with Beans or Wheat but not otherwise Another Take a handful of the Herb Shepherds Purse and boyl in a quart of strong Ale and when it is luke-warm take the leaves of Woodrose stampt and put therein and give it him Things good in General for a Bloody Flux Cummin-seeds Knot-grass Plantine the leaves or seeds of Agrimony the inner Rind of the Barberry-tree or Berâ—ies or red Beets Bistort or Snakeweed and Turmentil is very excellent Brank uâ—sine Bears-breech Bucks-horn Plantine Burnet the Roots of Cinquefoyl or Five Leav'd Grass the Juice of Clowns Wound-wort red Darnel the powder of the yellow Water-Flag or Flower de luce the Flower of â—vy Kidney-wort Sage Wormwood Shepherds pouch Red Robin the seeds of Sorrel or Roots wilde Tansie â—ole-armoniack Myrrh Southernwood Parsley Rue Spittlewort Cassia Cinnamon Chalk Vineger Bursa Pastoris Tanners Bark Red Wine Sloes Arsmart Self-heal Pauls bittony Milfoyl the blood of a Hare made into Powder the Powder of Mens bonâ—s the powder of white Dogs Turd the Pizzle of a Hart or of Harts or Goats Hornes burned the Jaw bone of a Pike beaten to powder red Saunders c. Particular Receipts for the Bloody Flux Take an Ounce of Saffron two Ounces of Myrrh three Ounces of
a Cloth into some convenient thing and put to it so much of black or white Wooll as it will well drink up and fill each Ear full of it putting a piece of dty Wooll upon it to keep it in the better Then sowe them up as you have Directions before and do not unstitch them in twenty four houres If you open his Head in the usual place under his fore-top and put into it about the length of an Inch of the inner Rind of Elder and let it remain there about the same time the Cure will be the sooner Expedited Another Medicine to put into his Eares to Cure it when it is in his Head After you have let Blood bruise so much of Housleek and Hemlock as will contain two spoonfuls of the Juice of each of them and add to them two spoonfuls of Sallet-Oyl and fill each Ear full of it leaving so much room as you may put Flox or Wooll upon it to keep it in the better When you have so done stitch up his Eares as in the former Receipt and at twenty four houres end take out the stuff If you like best the former way of soaking up the Juice with the Wooll better then this you may use that A Drink to Cure the most malignant Farcy that is Before you Give him this Drink here under-written let him be kept very sparing of Meat all night and the next Morning Blooded on both sides the Neck very well 'T is this Take the inner Rind of the Barberry Tree Herb-grace Sage Wormwood Fennel Lungwort of each half a Handful chopped small Anniseeds Turbich Turmerick and of Aristolochia rotunda about two Ounces of all of them beaten to powder boyl the Herbs pretty well in two quarts of small Beer to one quart then strain it forth and put in your Powders to it and when it is cold enough to take give it him How to Order him before and after you have Given it him 1. Before you give it him let him fast four houres and after it as much when you have given it him Air him well by Riding him after it 2. Let him drink but once a day and let it be white Water which is a handful or two of Wheat-Bran stirred in amongst his water made first luke-warm 3. Let him be kept in the House with very dry Meat during his Cure 4. Exercise is very good in this Distemper and the more you use him to it the better you will find him 5. 'T is good also in order to his Cure once or twice a day to Flounce him backward and forward in some clear River or Pond up to the Midsides which will cleanse his Body and take away the Filth and Venom of the Disease 6. This often washing him in cold water will wash off the poisoned Medicines if he hath been poisoned with any and also abate very much the Malignancy of the Disease 7. Let him rest three or four days after his first Drink and then give him another and Order him in every thing as you did before 8. If you find him after this second Drink that he is not perfectly Cured you may give him the third and this will certainly Cure him 9. When you give him his first Drink if you please you may Blood him with the end of your Cornet in the Furrow on the top of his Mouth The Vertues of this Malignant Drink for the Farcy are these It will cause him to vomit up much Filth and run at the Nose very nauseous and stinking stuff and yellowish Water It is a great Sweetner and Purifyer of the Blood as also a great Drier up of all evil and malignant Humours that are seated and rooted in the Body If the Heads of the Buds appear red and loose lay upon them a little burnt Allom mixed with a little Butter or Hogs-grease and you shall quickly find them to fall off A Receipt for the Câ—re of the Water Farcy This is the usual and common Way for the Cure of it viz. To take a long and small Iron Rod and bend it backward at one end about the length of a Fleam then heat it red hot in the Fire and strike the swelled places under his Belly and chaps full of Holes and let and squeeze out the grey and Oyly water that you find pent up in the Skin and wash the places to keep them from wrankling and to take out the Fire with Chamberly and Salt and some powder of Bolearmoniack mixt amongst it as hot as he can weâ—l endure it for three or four times and he is Cured Things good in general to Cure the Running or rotten Frush To take off the Shoo and pare away all the corrupt places and make them raw then put it on again being widened then take Soot and Salt bruise them well together in a Dish and mix therewith the Whites of three Eggs and dip Tow therein and stop all the Foot with it renewing it seven days together or to wash it with Urine three or four times a day or take a quart of urine and boyl in it a quarter of a pound of Allom with some green Copperas and strain it out and keep it for your use and after you have washed the Sore with it strow on it the powder of green Nettles Fryed and Pepper and it will dry it up When you dip Tow in any thing you must splint it in that it may not fall off and during the Cure to let him come into no wet and at the seven days end leave stopping him and ride him abroad and bring him in very clean into the Stable for dirty setting up breeds this infirmity c. Things good in general for the Over-flowing of the Gall which is a yellowness of the Skin and a Costiveness of the Body Saffron boiled in Milk is good or Ale Saffron and Anniseeds mixt together or Cellandine Roots chopt bruised and boiled in Beer or for want of Cellandine Rue and give it him luke-warm c. Things good for Gangrenes inward or outward The Leaves Fruit or Roots of Briony but it is a great Purger which must be Corrected the Leaves of Bugle bruised and applied or the Juice of it to wash the place the Meal of Darnel is good to stay them Cankers or any other eating and fretting Sores Water-Cresses Mallows Elder-leaves Brook-lime mouldy Hay and Bran boiled in the dregs of strong Beer and laid to very hot is good to stay its spreading if any thing will do it Nettles bruised and laid to them is good so is the decoction of the Leaves or Bark of the Tamarisk-Tree and the place Bathed therewith VVhat the Spleen iâ— It is a long flat narrow and spungy substance of a pale fleshy colour joyning with the Liver and Gall it is the Receptacle of Melancholy and the dregs of the Blood and it is as subject to Infirmity as any inward part whatsoever as to Inflammations Obstructions Knobs and Swellings it is through
of Populeum one Ounce of Galbanum one Ounce of the drops of Storax one Ounce of common Wax one pound of Rozin Cabial half a pound of Viscus Italicus one Ounce and a half of Apoxima one Ounce of the Juice of Hysop one Ounce of the drops of Armoniack one Ounce of Pitch half a Pound let them be well molten together and incorporated and make a Plaister thereof Another Plaister to dry up any Swelling VVind-gall Splint or Bladder in or about the Joynts Take of Virgin-Wax half a pound of Rozin one pound and a quarter of Galbanum one Ounce and a half of Bitumen half a pound of Myrrh secundary one pound of Armoniack three Ounces of Costus three Ounces boyl all these together in an Earthen Pot saving the Armoniack and Costus which being first Ground like fine Flower must be added unto the other things after that they have been boiled and cooled and then boiled together again and well stirred so as they may be incorporated together and made all one substance and then applying as occasion shall be administred Things good to dissolve Humours To bath the Sorrance well with hot melted Butter and to strew upon it the powder of Rozin for a day or two then take Cream and Soot and work them to a thick Paste and apply it to the Sorrance and it will dry up the humour and skin and heal the sore VVormwood Sage Rosemary and the Bark of an Elm or of a Pine and Linseed boiled in Oyl and make a Bath thereof and lay it to the grieved place and it will dissolve any humour that are bound and gathered together A pound of Figs stamped with Salt till they come to a Salve dissolveth all manner of Humors by opening the Pores and giving a large Passage Look for more Receipts in my first Part of this Nature Things good to stop Humours The Flower of VVheat mixed with the Juice of Henbane stayeth the Flux of Humors The Flowers of the VVillow-Tree boiled in white-Wine and given inwardly drieth up evil humors Wormwood Sage Bolearmoniack Camphopia a kind of Gum Cardimonium is good Things good to drive back Humours Vineger Salt and bold-Armoniack beaten together and spread about the Sore driveth it back or White-Lead and Sallet Oyl beaten together or Red Lead and Sallet Oyl or else Vâ—gueâ—um Album Camphoratum and such like but to take away the evil Humours of the Legs take of common Honey Turpentine Mastick Frankincense Bolearmoniack made into powder Sanguis Draconis New laid Eggs white-Wine Vineger the Flower of Rice mixed altogether and make a Plaister of it and Lap it round about the Legs from the Feet to the upper Houghs do this four or five times Hmours made thin Garlick maketh thin thick and gross Humours and cutteth such as are tough and clammy French Mercury a Decoction made of it and Cummin-seeds Humours Purged A Conserve made of Musk Roses are a great Purger of waterish Humours Sene purgeth cholerick and phlegmatick Humours also gross and Melancholick Simples that are good to cleanse the Body from all manner of evil Humours Agrimony Anniseeds the inner Rind of the Barberry-tree boiled in Ale and given him for three or four Mornings together cleareth the Body from Itching Mange Tettars Ring-wormes Yellows and Boyls The Flowers of Broom or Fuz clenseth it of Choler The Decoction of the root of Butchers Broom or Knee-holly made in Wine and Treacle pâ—c thereto clenseth the Breast from Phlegm and the Chest from much clammy Humors gathered therein wild Marjorem clenseth it from Choler the seed of Cow Parsnips clenseth it from tough phlegmatick matter therein the powder of English Rubarb steeped all night in Ale and given him fasting clenseth the Stomach Liver and Blood by purging away those evil Humours that offend the Body the distilled Water of Dragons given him is a great Clenser of the internal Parts Mallows or Macsh-mallows does the like Mercury clenseth the Breast and Lungs from Phlegm the distilled Water of the Star-thistle or Root beaten to powder is very good Common Wormwood clenseth the Body from Choler Ground-Pine is good for all Diseases of the Brain procured from cold and phlegmatick Humours c. Simples that are good to dry up all manner of evil Humours in Sores or Wounds The powder of the root of the Butter-bur doth wonderfully help them wilde Bryar-balls dried and beaten to powder and strewed upon them doth the like the root of Sow Fennel beaten to powder and used as before doth the like so doth Fig wort Mother-wort and Lung-wort Nettles bruised and applied to them is very good Pollipody Rupture-wort bruised and applied to the place grieved drieth up all manner of filthy Ulcers and Humours Green Copperas boiled in water and the place bathed therewith drieth them up About two Ounces of burnt Allom put into a quart of Spring-water after it comes off the Fire and the place grieved Bathed therewith warm Morning and Evening and a wet Cloth dipped in the water and bound about it three or four times double wet is excellent good to dry them up the powder of the root of Turmentil is good The Flower of Wheat mixed with the Juice of Henbane laid to them stayeth the Flux of them to the Joynts the Leaves Bark or Seed of the Willow-Tree doth the like the Flowers also hath the same Faculty in drying up of evil humours Wood-Sage digesteth Humours c. Things good in General for the Shedding of the Hair from the Main or Tail To anoint the Main and Crest with black Sope and then to make a strong Lie of Ash Ashes or else of Urine and Ashes and wash it all over with it but if there should grow on the Horses Tail a Canker which will consume away â—oth the flesh and bone then lay some Oyl of Vitriol upon it and it w ll kill it if you find it eat too much 't is but wetting it with cold water and it will stop it Or take of green Copperas Allom and white Copperas boiled in Running water till half be consumed and wash it with it till it be whole but if the Hair fall away then take Southernwood and burn it to Ashes and mix it with common Oyl and anoint it with it and it will presently bring Hair again If it be in the Main let him Blood but if it be both in the Main and Tail then take Quick-silver and tried Hogs-grease the Quick-silver being first mortified with fasting Spittle incorporate them very well together till the Hogs-grease be of a perfect Ash-colour and anoint the Sorrance with it every day once heating it in with a hot Fire-shovel and three or four days thus dressing him he will be well Things good in General to take away Hair in any part of the Body The Gum that grows on the Body of Ivy rubbed therewith for it is of so hot a quality that it doth obscurely burn the Juice of Fumitory of that which groweth amongst Barley
will do him much good in order to his Cure A Receipt for a Sprain Shoulder And if you desire to see more Variety of Receipts look for Sinew-strains Take Oyl de Bay Dialthaea fresh Butter Oyl of Turpentine of each two Ounces boyl and mix them well together and when they be well incorporated anoint the grieved place therewith so hot as he can well suffer it without Scaulding and anoint him thus twice or thrice a day and give him moderate Exercise by walking him a Foot pace gently up and down and this is a certain and approved Remedy Another for a Sprain in the Shoulder Take one Ounce of the Oyl of Spike half an Ounce of the Oyl of Linâ—eed half an Ounce of the Oyl of St. Johns wort with half an Ounce of the Oyl of Pompilion and put them all together into a Glass Viol and shake them very well together to mingle them then put them forth into some earthen Vessel to prevent penetrating and loss of the Medicine And when you have occasion to use it chafe and rub it all over the grieved place with your hand one holding at the same time at a little distance a hot Fire-shovel or Brick-bat before it to make the Oyls sink in the better This is very good for a slight Strain Then Blood him in the Shoulder and Tie his fore-Feet together Another for a very great and violent Shoulder-strain which is the best Râ—ceipt I know for the Cure of it If by any Accident he get a Strain in his Shoulder take this common and usual way which our Smiths do now generally use viz. To take up his sound Leg before and double it backwards in the Joynt and Tie it so doubled with some List or Garter so fast that it Untie not then force him to go upon his three Legs till he sweat at the Roots of his Eares Flanks and between his Legs then let down his Leg again by untying it which will cause the Blood to descend so into the Plate-Vein that it will be more visible to be seen then when it was Tied up but in case it does not appear so plain as you would have it dabb a little warm Water upon it with your Hand and stroke it downwards towards the place you are to let Blood and this will make it appear more visible to be seen then it was before Then Tie up his Leg again and let him Blood in the common bleeding place viz. between his Chest and lame Leg about two quarts or more according to the greatness or smalness of his Strain Let the blood that you save for this purpose to anoint him with be about a quart add let it be the last blood for that is the best and therefore most proper and fit for your use put a handful of Salt into the Bowl you receive it into and keep it stirring all the while it is running to keep it from clotting When he hath bled so much as you think Fitting pin up the Mouth of the Vein with a Pin or Needle to prevent Bleeding winding some Hairs of the Mane or Tail about the Pin to keep the Pin fast and steddy and a day or two after take it out but before you pin him up anoint him all over the Shoulder and bottom of his Breast between his Legs and down to his Knee with Oyl of Turpentine and strong Beer or Ale of equal parts alike shaked and mingled very well together first in a Glass Vial clapping and dabbing it well in with your hand And after you have anointed him as much as you think good smear all the said places anointed before with the Blood and Salt chafing and dabbing this also very well in with your hand as you did the other Then bring him home softly into the Stable and give him some Meat and Tie his Fore-legs together with his Surcingle or any other String that is broad and easie The next day you may untie his Legs and walk him abroad in your Hand at the Halters end which if you find that he goes pretty well you may Mount his Back and Ride him a Mile or more gently Then set him up again and Tie up his Legs as you did before The third day after his Dressing make him a thin flat Wedge of Wood about the bredth of a Six-pence and drive it between the Shooe and â—oe so fast that it stir not not forgetting still to Tie his Legs together Thus Order him for three or four days together which is the usual time limited to make him sound again conditionally it be but a new Strain When you take him out of the Stable or Ride him at any time you must untie his Legs and take forth the Wedge This Receipt is good also for a Shoulder that is pulled out of its place about the bredth of a Mans Hand or more or a Wrench Shoulder or a splayed Shoulder c. Things good in General to Cure the Sit-fast or hard Knobs growing under the Saddle Take a long Nail with the Point turned inwards and catch hold of the edge of the dead Skin or Horn which will rise from the sound Skin and with a sharp Knife cut away all the dead and hard skin from the sound Flesh and heal it up by pouring hot Butter into it Morning and Evening and when the Flesh is made even dry and skin it either with the powder of Honey and Lyme or with Soot and Cream mixt together or to wash the Wound either with Urine or white-Wine and dry it up with the powder of Oyster-shells burnt or of Bole-Armoniack or take the green Leaves of Cabbage and stamp them with Hogs-grease and work them to an Ointment and lay it to his Back then put on the Saddle and Mount his Back to the end that the Ointment may the better enter or sink into his Back and in few days it will Cure him c. Things good in General for a Navel-Gall To anoint it with the Oyl of Turpentine will not only cleanse it but heal it also but if you find any dead or proud Flesh arise in it either cut or eat it away before you use any Medicine with either burnt Allom or the powder of Verdegrease or after you have washed and clensed the Sore with your Copperas water or with warm Vineger strow this powder on it Take of Honey a Quartern and as much unslackt Lyme as will thicken the Honey and make it into a Paste and bake it so hard as that you can beat it to powder and strow it on the Sorrance c. Particular Receipts for the Navel-Gall Take Oyl de Bay Oyl of Costus Fox Grease Oyl of Savin of each an Ounce then take one hundred of great Garden Wormes and scour them with Salt and white-Wine and put all the Ingredients together into an earthen Pot very well stopped and boyl it well then add thereto of Sallet Oyl one Ounce and a half and boyl it over again till it
Simples and Order him as you do sick Horses with Mashes bursten Oats scalded Bran warm Clothing and warm Water c. About three or four days after he hath done Purging and drank cold Water to bring him to a Stomach give him Honey and white-Wine and to comfort him and Loosen his Body and to make him Stale freely give him the Cordial of Houshold Wheat Bread boyled in Beer c. You may find the manner how to make this also in the Directions how to Order sick Horses after the Table of Simples As to the Ordering of his swelled Cods or Legs you may apply to them after his Physick hath done working the common Charge of Soap and Brandy scalding hot and three or four days after Ride him into some River or clear Pond up to the mid side and Flounce him backwards and forwards which will be a means to abate and take away the Swelling You need not lay on your Charge above once These Directions are in case of a dry Surfeit But if he be troubled with a Cold which you may soon know by his Coughing and Running at Nose then give him this Drink viz. of the Powder of Anniseeds and Turmerick of each on Ounce put into a Pint and a half of strong Beer half a quarter of Brandy and about five or six Spoonfuls of white-Wine Vineger or for want of either Verjuice Boyl all these a little and give it hâ—m luke-warm Fasting in the Morning If you find his Stomach lost give him his Cordial But if you find that your Horse is fat and strong and hath his Grease setled within him then give him the Purge of Aloes first but if you find him both fat and ill together then give him this white-Wine and Honey and Cordial to bring him to a Stomach and after them give him his Purge Observation These Heats and Colds which are occasioned by hard Labour or violent Riding does commonly bring along with them hard Pustules and Kernels under his Chaul which you may either sink or break with your common Charge of Soap and Brandy boiled together and applied hot If you find that they break wash them with Verjuice and Butter or Vineger and Butter melted together and they will do well Things good in General to Mollifie Hardness Linseed Fennegreek Rosin Pitch of Greece Flower of Roses boyled together with Turpentine Honey and Sallet Oyl till it come to an Ointment Malvarâ—sco Oleum Rosatum Brank-ursine Mallows Coleworts Lard Oyl of Cypress with Meal Pellitory Wormwood or Grease Mustard-seed and Cummin boiled together or the Juice of the Roots or Leaves of Elder Armoniack Aloes Opoponax Nettles Mercorella the Roots of Cucumbers Hogs-Grease and Tar Turpentine and old Grease beaten together Oyl of Turpentine is very excellent to take down a Swelling Patch-Grease and Turpentine melted together and stop his Feet therewith and anoint his Coffins therewith or Salt and Water mixt together and Bath the Swelling therewith and dip a Linnen Cloth in the same and lay that upon it and it will dissolve it What is good for bruised Kidneys The powder of the Herb called Crabs-Claws Plantine Licoris Broom c. Things good in General for a sore Mouth and Throat Wood-bine leaves Bolearmoniack Plantine water to wash it with a Water made of them or to wash it with Bay salt and Verjuice warmed together If the Palate be sore then let him Blood there then take Honey young Onions and toasted Cheese boiled together and anoint the Pallate with it or to wash it with the Juice of Alehoof the Juice of Golden Rod Mallows or Marsh-Mallows or Mint or Mulberries or Nettles or Pellitory of the Wall or Privet or Queen of the Medows or Rag-wort or Sage and Allum or Self-heal or Succory or the Juice of the English Vine the Decoction of Rag-weed Plantine boiled in white-Wine Mustard-seed applied outwardly dissolveth the Swelling of the Throat What is good for the Quinsey To let Blood under the Tongue and if his Throat is so swelled that you can get nothing hardly to go down it lay a Poultess under his Chaul and that will open the Passage then take a Bulls Pizzle or a Whale-bone and Tie a Linnen Rag about it and dip it into Milk wherein Allum and the powder of a Dogs-turd hath been dissolved and thrust it up and down his Throat and put a Hornful of it down after it if he be so bad that he can eat nothing but what you give him with a Horn which must be comfortable and Cordial things be sure let the Hornful of Milk wherein Allum and Dogs-turd hath been dissolved be the last thing you give him or else it will do him no good and to Tie him up to the Rack half an Hour after it you are to use it two or three times a day or oftner as you shall see occasion or four Ounces of the Juice of Cinquefoyl given down at a time for certain days together cureth it or the Juice of Cudiweed or Cotton-weed taken in Wine and Milk is a good Remedy against t so is Hysop boyled with Figs. Another Receipt good for it After you have Blooded him under the Tongue take as many Leaves of common Mallows as you think fit for your use Boyl them very well in his own Piss and apply it as hot Poultiss-wise to his Throat as he oâ—n well endure it and you shall soon find the wonderful effects of it for it will open the Passage of his Throat and take down the Swelling occasioned by the Inflammation of it Do this two or three times if you see occasion and apply your inward Medicine also to it as the Receipt above will direct you Things good in General to Kill Lice or Vermin The Decoction of the Herb or seed of Henbane and wash him with it to wash his Body all over with Cows Piss for three or four days together it is an approved and certain Cure and is as good as any I can give you However I shall give you some more Receipts which is to anoint him with Quick-silver and Hogs-grease mixed together or take Staves-acre and green Copperas boiled in Running water and wash him all over therewith and at twice dressing it will Cure him or Tobacco shred small and boyled in small Beer with some powdred Allum and when the Allum is dissolved to wash him therewith Another very good to destroy them Take Hogs Lard and anoint your Horse all over his Back-bone and under his Mane and about his Flanks or any where elsewhere you find your Lice do come and it will destroy them the reason is that this food being so very delicious and so well lik't of by them makes them seed so much upon it that it causeth them to burst Or to take Train Oyl which is Whale Oyl and anoint his Breast and Flanks with it and then dip a broad List of Woollen into it and sow it about his Neck and this will destroy them Things
good in General to keep the Flies off a Horses Head To anoint his Head with Oyl and Bay-berries mingled together or to rub his Head all over with the water wherein Rue hath been steeped in after it is well bruised or to anoint his Head or round about his Eyes with Lynseed Oyl and it will keep them away or with the water wherein Devils dung hath been dissolved is the best of all or with the water of Pellitory of Spaein or the leaves of Ivy bruised with a little Water and his Head washed therewith Things good in General for the Cure of the Leprosie or Mange To take Blood first from the Neck-Vein good store and scrape away the Scurf with an old Curry-eomb Oyster-shell or such like then these things you are to use as your discretion serves Staves-acre Chickweed Elecampane Mercury Sublimate the leaves of Bramble boyled in Lye Cow-Piss the powder of the dried root of Briony the powder of the red Dock or the powder of Arsnick Resalgar or white Mereury mixed with Hogs grease till it be killed Urine Tobaccho and Brimstone boiled together is very good or Salt Verdegrease Allum Verjuice and Train Oyl boiled together and anoint him therewith or Broom Wormwood Mustard-seed Elecampane Chimney-soot and black Soap boyled together or the Juice of Hemlock unslackt Lyme Pepper and Ginger boiled in Beef-broth and anointed therewith is very good Particular Receipts for the Mange Take a quart of fair Running Water and put into it half a pound of green Copperas and an Ounce of Allum and an Ounce of Tobaccho chopped small then boyl them together till they come to somwhat more then a Pint and anoint him all over with it very warm after you have rubbed off the Scabs and Tie him to the Rack three or four houres twice dressing him cures him Or the Ashes of the Bark of the Ash Tree made into a Lie and the Body washed therewith Calamint taken inwardly the Decoction of the Leaves of the Fig tree wilde Flower c. Another First let Blood then take a quart of old Urine or Vineger and break it into a quarter of a pound of Tobaccho and set it on the Embers to stew all Night and wash the infected places whether it be in the Mane or otherwise Another for any Mange or Vniversal Leprosie in a soul Surfeited Horse After you have let him Blood and scraped off the Scabs or Scurf take of Verjuice and Vineger a Pint Cow-Piss a Pint Train Oyl a Pint old Urine a Pint and put to them a Handful of wilde Tansie and a Handful of Bay-salt a quarter of a pound of Brimstone as much Allum two Ounces of Verdegrease and four Ounces of Bolearmoniack boyl all well together with this very hot wash him well and if you put to it a quantity of a Pint of Blood you take away it is not amiss do this twice or thrice Another Take Mother of Salt Peter the best and strongest and wash the Sores therewith so hot as he is able to suffer it and in three or four times dressing it will cure him this will not only kill the Mange but all Scratches Pains and Rats-tails c. Another Take of Sopers Lees and after you have scraped away the Scurf wash him with it and in once or twice dressing he will be well it cures the Mange not only in Horses but also Dogs provided they get not to it with their Mouth An inward Drink with an outward Application which I think is the best Remedy that can be Invented for this Disease Take Anniseeds and Turmerick of each an Ounce finely beaten of the blackest Rozin powdered one Ounce put them into a quart of strong Beer heated luke-warm and give it him in the Morning lasting with a little of the Flower of Brimstone at the Mouth of every Horn you give him not exceeding above an Ounce in all and let him fast four or five houres after it and Order him afterwards as you do a sick Horse About two or three days after his Drink when he hath a little recruited and recovered his strength again apply this outward application but first curry off all the Scabs with an old Curry-comb till the blood and water appear viz. Take Oyl of Turpentine and Beer of equal parts alike with some Flower of Brimstone well shaked and Jumbled together in a Glass Vial to incorporate them the better and anoint him all over with it Tying him first with a strong Bridle to the Rack to prevent him from biting at it for it is a very terrifying biting and sharp Medicine and will torment him for about half an hour or more and then the smarting will be over If you find your Horse full of good and in heart you may venture to give him two or three of these Drinks and Ointings if you see the Cure will not be performed without them but if he be a very poor lean Horse then one is enough till he hath recovered more heart and strength Things good in general for the Cure of the Scab Tetter or Ring-worm The water that is â—ound in the hollow places of a decayed Beech-tree and annoint him with it the Juice of the leaves and roots of stinking Gladwin one part of Plantine water and two parts of the Brine of Beef boyled together and clarified and anoint him with it Plum-tree leaves boyled in Vineger killeth Tettars the Juice of the Root of Monks Rubarb which is a kind of Dock some call it Garden-Patience is very good the Oyl of Wheat pressed between two thick Plates of Copper the Juice of Mercury mingled with Vineger Water-cresses the Roots of Docks boiled in Vineger and bathed therewith Cardimonium mixt with Vineger To make a strong Lye of old Urine Ash Keys and green Copperas and bathe the Knots therewith and it will kill and heal them or to cut the Head and Tail of a Snake and cut it into small Pieces and roast it and anoint the Sore with the Grease of it and it will heal it in a shor time and have a care you touch no place but the Sorrance for it will venom Particular Receipts to Cure the Tettar or Ring-worm Take two drams of Precipitate and put it into a small Vial-Glass with fair water much more then will cover the powder keep it close stopped and with this Water twice a day wash it and it will infallibly Cure it and after you have dressed the Sorrance shake the Glass and let it stand till the next dressing But if it be in any fleshy part you may kill it by Bathing the Sorrance with the Juice of Southern-wood Maudlin and Rue of each alike stamped together and strained and Bathe the place with it twice a day till it be whole Another Take the roots of Elecampane and the roots of red Docks of each alike slice them thin and put them into three quarts of Urine with two Handfuls of Bay-salt let it boil till one quart be
the Juice of Sage Morning and Evening in Wine or Ale but if he be outwardly venomed bruise the Sage and apply it to the grieved part twice a day and it will take out the Venom Things good in General for Vlcers Tarr Hogs-Grease green or white Copperas Salt-Peter Bees Wax Honey Rozin Verdegrease Linseed Oyl all boiled together and make a Salve of it and dress it with it Euphorbium Mastick French Soap is good or to wash the Sore with white Wine and green Copperas dissolved together and to heal it up with Swines Grease the Leaves of Lillies beaten in a Mortar and make a Salve of it and lay it upon the Sore and cover it with a Plaister or Loam and Horse dung mixed with Pepper and the white of an Egg or to strow upon the Sore of the powder of Galls or to scald it once a day with Sallet-Oyl or Sack Frankincense Cloves green Copperas and Brimstone and double as much Myrrh as any of them and put it upon a Chafing-dish of Coals and receive the smoke of it upon Hurds and keep it close in a Box and when you use it wash the Sore with Urine or Vineger twice a day Things good in General for a Vlcer or Canker in the Nose Green Copperas and white Copperas with some Allum boiled in Running water and squirted into his Nostrils luke-warm three or four times one after another is good but if the Canker be hot and very burning with great pain then take the Juice of Purslain Night-shade Lettice and mix them together and wash the Sore with a fine Cloth dipt therein or else squirted up his Nostils and it will allay the heat of it Or to take Sage Rue Hysop of each a Handful and seethe them in Urine and Water and strain it out and put into it a little white Copperas Honey and Aquavitae and wash or squirt it into the place But if the Canker be killed heal it with this Water take of Rib-wort Bitony and Dasies of each a Handful and Seethe them well in Wine and Water and wash the Sore therewith Or take Chrystal made into fine Powder and strow upon it Pauls Bitony bruised is very good Things good in General to Cure the Vives To Cut a Hole where the Kernels are and pick them out with a Wire and â—â—ll the Hole with Salt and at three days end it will run then wash it with the Juice of Sage and heal it up with an Ointment made of Hony Butter and Tarr or with your green Ointment in my First Part or to wash the Sore wherein hath been boiled green Copperas and Allum and to Taint it with Flax dipt in the white of an Egg beaten to an Oyl or to heal it up with Hogs Grease Turpentine and Wax molten together or take a Spunge dipped in white-Wine Vineger and bind to the Sore and renew it twice a day till the Kernels do Rot then open the nethermost part of the softness and let the corruption out and fill the Hole with Salt finely brayed and the next day wash away the Filth with warm water and the next day after wash the Sore with Honey and Fitch-flower mingled together till it be whole Particular Receipts for the Cure of the Vives Take Tar tried Hogs-Grease Bay-Salt and Frankincense powdered of each as much as will suffice melt them together and with a Clowt fastned to a stick scald the place four or five Mornings together until the inflamed places do become soft and ripe then slit the Skin with your Incision-Knife and let forth the Corruption and heal up the Sore with tried Hogs-grease and Verdegrease made up into fine Powder melt them upon the Fire and let it not boyl more then a Waum or two then put in some ordinary Turpentine and so stir all together till it be cold and anoint the Sorrance with it till it be whole Another which is the best Cure for it Take a penniworth of Pepper beaten to fine Powder Swines Grease a spoonful the Juice of a Handful of Rue Vineger two spoonfuls mix them very well together and convey it equally into both the Eares of the Horse and so Tie or stitch them up then shake his Eares that the Medicine may sink downwards which done let him Blood in the Neck-Vein and Temple-Veins and this is an infallible Cure Another very good for the same The Vives are Cured several manner of ways as you find by the Receipts above but the most usual and common way that our Smiths generally use for the Cure of this Infirmity is for to let Blood on both sides the Neck-Veins then to sear the Swelling with a small hot Iron from the Root of the Ear down to the bottom of it till the Skin look yellow the manner and form of the Searing-Iroh must be somewhat like the shape and fashion of a great Arrows Head as you see by the Figure in the Margin with three or four small Lines or Stroaks on each side drawn from the Body of it After you have seared it to take out the Heat of the Fire and to make it sound again anoint it with fresh Butter or Hogs-Grease and he will do well What is good to Cure the Arraistes or Rats-tails which is a kind of Scratches To Ride him till he be warm which will make the Veins to swell and the better to appear then let him Blood on the Fet-lock Veins on both sides making him to bleed well and the next day after to wash the Sores with warm water and then clip away all the Hair from about the Sores and anoint the grieved place with this Ointment viz. Take green Copperas and Verdegrease of each two Ounces and of Common Honey four Ounces beat your Copperas and Verdegrease very small and so work them with your Honey to an Ointment and anoint the Sores daily with it till it be whole Things good in General for the Cure of the Wind-Cholick Alheal True-love or one Berry the Berries of Holly Holm or Hulver-Bush Juniper-Berries the Flowers of Lavender steeped in Wine wilde Parsnips Jack by the Hedge Winter and Summer Savory but the Summer is the best Burnet Saxafrage the leaves of the Willow-tree bruised and the Juice given with some Pepper in Beer Cardamum Fennegreek Hawes beaten to powder Rue Cloves Cinnamon an Onion peeled and Jagged and put it into his Fundament or to give him a Pipe of Tobaccho at his Fundament lighted and the Wind of his Body will draw it out If you intend to see more of this Nature look for Cholick Angelica Wood-bittony Mullen Mustard-seed Centaury A Plaister to lay upon the Wound to keep in the Taint or Salve Take Pitch Rozin Mastick Turpentine Hogs grease of each so much as will suffice melt them together and keep it for your use when you use it spread it upon Leather and cover the wound therewith this Salve doth infinitely comfort a Wound both green or old be the same Fistula or
is the least of all Weights M. A handful P. A Pugil p. A. part A. Of each alike Note that Twenty Graines Make A Scruple Three Scruples Make A Dram Eight Drams Make An Ounce Twelve Ounces Make A pound FINIS A TABLE Alphabetically set down shewing where the Diseases of a Horse do Grow either inward or outward in any Part of his Body and how you may Know them and what were the Causes that Bred them The Pages Direct You to their Cuâ—es which are found only in the Second Part. A. ACcloyed or Cloyed is no other then Prickt with a Nail in the Shooing vide Prickt page 396 Arristes vide Rat-tails 377 St. Anthonies Fire is a vehement burning disease in the Flesh and is of the Nature of Noli me tangere or Wilde Fire and is named of some The Singles of an horse which is very hard and difficult to Cure 233 and 234 Anticor or Heart-sickness is caused many times by too much seeding without exercise and sometimes by hard and immoderate Riding and careless looking after him afterwards which makes the Blood of this useful Creature a Horse so corrupted and inflamed that unless it find some way to vent it self forth it soon puts a Period and End to his Life This Disease hath its Seat and Residence near the Heart and is known by a Swelling in the middle of his Breast against the Heart from whence it derives its Name 234 Attaint upper is a Swelling of the Master or Back-Sâ—new of the Fore-legs near the Pastorn-Joynt and cometh ordinarily by an Over-reach 235 Attaint Nether is the same with the other coming sometimes by a Wrench and sometimes by a strain All the difference of them is whereas the other is upon the Foot-lock Joynts this is under it and is usually upon the Heel or Frush and is not always visible to the Eye but it may be felt by the heat and burning of it and by its softness which will arise by a Swelling like a Bladder or Blister wherein will be corrupt and vitious matter like to Jelly which will make him complain very much ib. Anbury is a kind of Wenâ— or spungy Wart growing upon any part of a horses Body 279 Apoplexie vide Palsey Ach or Numbness in the Joynts cometh by Cold taken by hard and violent exercise or labour 232 Avives Vives or Fiveâ— see Vives B. Bloody Flux vide Flux bloody 310 Back-swayed vide Swaying in the back Barbes are a common Disease and few horses are without them they are known by two Paps under his Tongue which seldom prove hurtful to him till they be inflamed with corrupt blood proceeding from vitious humours which wilâ— make them raw and grow beyond their usual length and cause them to become very painful to him which will hinder his feeding You must clip them away with the Scissers 301 Blood-spaven is a soft Swelling which groweth through the Hough and is commonly full of blood and is biggest upon the inside and being fed by the Master-Vein makes it greater then the swelling on the outside It runneth down the inside of the Hough down the Leg to the Pastorn This Disease is occasioned from the corruption of the Blood taken by hard Riding when the Horse is young and tender which by overmuch heating makes it so thin and flexible that the humour falling downwards resideth in the Hough which makes the Joynts stiff and causeth him to go with great pain and difficulty This Disease not growing hard makes it more easie to Cure then the Bone-spaven 260 Bone-spaven is a great Crust as hard as a bone if it be let run too long it sticketh or rather groweth on the inside of the Hough under the Joynt near to the great Vein which maketh him to Halt very much it cometh at first like a tender Gristle which by degrees cometh to this hardness It is bred several Ways either by immoderate Riding or hard labour which dissolves the Blood into thin humours and falleth down and maketh its residence in the Hough which causeth the place to swell and so becometh a hard Bone which occasions this name of Bone-spaven it cometh also hereditary from the Sire or Dam which are troubled with the same dâ—sease 261 Blood-running Itch cometh by the Inflammation of the Blood being over-heat by hard Riding or other sore labour It getteth between the skin and the flesh and maketh a Horse to rub scrub and bite himself which if let alone too long will come to a grievous Mange and is very infectious to any Horse that shall be nigh him What cureth the Mange cureth this disease 369 Bots and Wormes in general are of three sorts viz. Bots Trunchions and Maw-wormes Bots are usually found in the great Gut near the Fundament Trunchions are found in the Maw and if they continue there too long they will eat their Passage through which will certainly bring death if not killed The third sort are called plain Wormes which remain in a Horses Body which are of an evil effect also Bots are a small worm with great heads and small tails breeding in the great Gut adjoyning to the Fundament which may be taken away by your hands by picking them away from the Gut where they stick Trunchions are short and thick and have black and hard heads and must be removed by Medicine Maw-wormes are of a reddish colour somewhat long and slender much like unto Earth-wormes about the length of a Mans Finger which also must be taken away by Medicine They proceed all from one cause which is raw gross and phlegmatick matter engendred from foul feeding which causeth all these three sorts of evil creatures to breed The Signes to know when he is troubled with them is He will stamp with his feet kick at his Belly turn his Head towards his tail forsake his meat He will groan tumble wallow and also frisk his tail to and fro 303 Bunches Knots Warts and Wens come somtime by eating of foul meat by bruises by hard riding and sore labor wherby the blood becomes so putrified and foul that it turns into evil humors which occasions these kind of sorrances 278 Blood-shotten Eyes or all diseases of the Eyes come of two causes viz. either inward or outward The inward Causes proceed from evil Humors that resort and flow to the Eyes or by some stroke or blow that is given him thereon 290 to 291 Bleeding at Nose cometh commonly among young horses proceeding from great store of blood or by means that the Vein ending in that place is either opened broken or fretted It is opened many times by reason that the Blood aboundeth too much or that it is too fine or too subtil and so pierceth through the Veins Or it may be broken by some violent strain cut or blow Or it may be fretted or gnawn asunder by sharpness of the blood or by some other evil humours contained therein 306 Botch in the Groyn cometh by reason that a horse being full of humours and
suddenly laboured causeth them to resort to the weakest parts and there gather together and breed a Botch and especially in the hinder parts of the Thighs not far from the Cods The Signes be these His hinder Legs will be all swoln especially from the Gambrels or Hoofs upwards and if you feel with your hand you may find a great Knob or Swelling and if it be round and hard it will gather to a head 388 Blisters are certain hollow risings between the skin and the flesh proceeding either from some Burn Scald or Chasing and are very full of thin water 389 Burstness vide Rupture C. A Canker is a very filthy and lothsom Sorrance which if it continue long uncured it will fester and putrifie the place so where it is that it will eat to the very bone and if it happens to come upon the Tongue it will eat it asunder if it lighteth upon the Nose it will eat the Gristle through and if it cometh upon any part of the flesh it fretteth and gnaweth it in great breadth you may easily know this Sorrance for where it is the places will be raw and bleed often and many times a white Scurf will grow upon that place infected with it It proceedeth many ways either by Melancholy and filthy Blood ingendred in the Body by unwholesom Meat or by some sharp and salt humours coming by Cold not long before taken which will make his Breath to stink very much 302 and 318 Clifts and Cracks in the Heel cometh several ways either by over-hard riding or labour which occasions Surfeits or by giving him unwholesom Meat or by washing him when he is hot which corrupts his Blood and causes the Peccant humours to fall down and settle where the Sorrances are which makes his Heels very raw and run very offensively with stinking Water and Matter which prove very troublesom to the poor Creature 266 Cods and Stones Swelled cometh several Ways Either by some Wound or by the sting of some Venomous Creature or by Fighting of one Horse with another or by means of some evil Humors which corrupt the Mass of Blood which fall down to the Cods sometimes after Sickness or Surfeiting with Cold and then it is a Sign of Amendment and sometimes from having too much plenty of Seed 386 and 387 Cord is a streight Sinew in the Fore-Legs which cometh from the Shackle-Vein to the Gristle in the Nose between the Lip the length of a Bean. Or there bâ— two strings like threads that lie above the Knee and the Body and runneth like a small Cord through the Body to the Nostrils which causes a Horse to stumble and sometimes to fall and is a defect which is very common amongst young Horses You may know this Infirmity by his stiff going and stumbling without any visible Sorrance 341 Cholick is commonly occasioned by Wind which makes it bear this Name of Wind Cholick It causeth very violent pain by Griping of the Belly of a Horse which will make him strike at it and sometimes to lie down and tumble and stamp with his Feet and be so painful as to make him forsake his Meat 362 Colt-Evil is a Disease that is subject both to a Horse or Gelding It cometh to a Horse with an unnatural Swelling of the Yard and Cods proceeding of Wind filling the Arteries and hollow Sinew or Pipe of the Yard or else through the abundance of Seed And to a Gelding for lack of Natural Heat to expel their seed any further 330 Cold or Poze in a horses Head is gotten by means and ways unknown according to the Temper and Constitution of a Horses Body and the best Keeper that it cannot warrant his Horse from this Infirmity You must know that if the Horse be subject to bad Humors you must endeavour to expel them by Purging of his Head Now according as the Cold which a Horse hath taken is new or old great or small according as the Humours do abound in his Head and as those Humors be thick or thin so is the Disease more or less dangerous If he hath but a new taken Cold he will have small Kernels like Wax Kernels under his Chaul about the Root of his Tongue but if he hath great then you may imagine his Cold of a longer date His Cold may be new also if you find him Rattle in his Head or avoid thin Matter out of his Nose or Eyes or if he hold down his Head in the Manger or when he drinketh his Water cometh up again out of his Nostrils or if he cheweth between his Teeth Matterative stuff but if he casteth foul stinking Matter out of his Nose and Coughs grievously Then it is a sign he may have the Glanders or Consumption of the Lungs 242 to 250 Consumptions are of two sorts One is called A dry Malady the other A Consumption of the Flesh The first cometh by violent Heats and Colds with fretting and gnawing Humours descending out of the Head which fall upon the Lungs which causeth at first thin Matter to Run from the Nose but after some certain time it groweth thick tough and vitious which ceaseth and causeth a Maceration and Leanness of the whole Body whereby he droopeth and pineth away and though he doth eat and drink yet he doth not digest it kindly to do him good The Signes to know this Malady is His Flesh will soon consume away his Belly is gaunt and the Skin thereof so hard stretched or rather shrunk up that if you strike it with your Hand it will sound like a Tabor neither will his Hair shed in due season as other Horses do he will Cough and that but Huskingly as if he had swallowed some small Bones And is a Disease hard to be Cured The other Consumption is that of she Flesh which also is occasioned by a Cold which for want of a Cure in time causeth this Maceration and Leanness throughout the whole Body and cometh several Ways either by violent Heats or immoderate Labour or Riding him into the Water before he be thoroughly Cold and setting him up negligently afterwards 333 and 334 Cramp or Convulsions are all of one Malady they are forcible Contractions of the Sinews Veins and Muscles in any Member or part of the Body which proceeds several Ways Either from some Wound or Sinew cut asunder or for want of Blood or by over-heats and sudden cooling afterwards Or lastly by over-much Purging him The Signes to know this Malady is That the Infected will be so stiff that the whole strength of a Man is not able to bow it he will be Lame and well as it were in a moment There is also another kind of them which seizeth upon a Horses Neck and Reins of his Back and so almost universally over his whole Body which proceedeth several Ways Either from some great Cold which may be catched several Ways or by loss of Blood whereby a great Windiness entereth into the Veins and so benumbeth the Sinews
Provender suddenly when he is too hot panting whereby his meat not being well digested breedeth evil humors which by little and little do spread through all his members and at length doth so oppress all his Body that it taketh away his strength and make him in such evil condition that he can neither go nor bow his Joynts and being once laid is not able to rise again neither can he stale nor dung but with great pain Itcometh also if he drink too much upon Traveling when he is hot and not riding him after it The Signes to know it He will be Chill and quake for Cold after drinking and some of it will come out of his Nose and some few days after his Legs will Swell and after a while begin to Pill and have a dry Cough which will make his Eyes to Water his Nose to run with a white Phlegmatick stuff and cause him to forsake his Meat and make him hang down his Head for extream pain in the Manger Foundering is a French word and signifieth no more then a Surfeit given in the Body of a Horse 272 and 399 Chest-Foundered is discovered by this infirmity He will often covet to lie down and stand stradling with his fore-Legs 275 Fa se Quarter is a Rift Crack or Chink on the out-side but most commonly on the inside of the Hoof which is an unsound Quarter seeming like a Piece put therein and not all of one entire Piece It cometh several ways somtimes by ill Shooing and Parâ—ng sometimes by Gravelling or a prick with a Nail or Stub which will make him halt and waterish Blood will issue out of the Chink or Rift 335 Flux cometh several ways vide Lask or Loosness Bloody Flux or Flix are of several kinds sometimes the fat of the slimy filth that is avoided is sprinkled with a little Blood sometimes the Excrements is like waterish blood and somtimes like pure Blood and all these do spring from one and the same cause which is the Ulceration of the Guts Now you may know by their several mixtures whether the Ulceration be in the inner small Gut or in the outward great Gut if it be in the inner Guts then the Matter and Blood will be mixt together but if it be in the outward Gut then they be not mingled together but come out severally the Blood most commonly following the Matter It cometh commonly of some sharp Humour breeding by filthy raw Food or sore Travel or Labour being violently driven through many crooked and narrow Passages do cleave to his Guts and with their heat and sharpness fret them causing Ulceration and grievous pains It cometh also by some great Cold Heat or moistness or by means of receiving some violent Purgation as Scamony Stibium or such like violent Simples applied in too great a quantity or it may come by weakness of the Liver 310 The Fig this disease bears its name from a hard piece of Flesh growing upon the Frush or Heel which resembleth the shape and fashion of a Fig. It cometh by reason of some hurt received in his Foot being not throughly Cured or by some Stub or Nail Bone Thorn or Stone and sometimes by an over-reach upon the Heel or Frush 389 Falling-Evil is a disease that is seldom seen which is no other then the Falling Sickness proceeding from ill Blood and cold and thick Phlegm gathered together in the fore-part of the Head between the Panicle and the Brain which being disperst over the whole Brain doth suddenly cause the Beast to fall and bereave him of all sense for a time It is more subject to Italian Spanish and French Horses then to English Some are of opinion that at a certain course of the Moon Horses and other Beasts many times do fall and die for a time as well as Men. This Disease is known by these Signes When they are fallen theiâ— Bodies will quiver and quake and their Mouths will foam and when you think they are dying they will rise up immediately and fall to their Meat You may know whether they will fall often or not by putting your Fingers to the Gristle of their Nostrils and if it feel cold he will have most but if it be warm he will seldom fall 239 397 Frenzy vide Madness G. Gigges Bladders or Flappes in the Mouth of a Horse are small Swellings or Pustules with black Heads on the inside of his Lips under his great Jaw-teeth which will sometimes be as great as a Wall-Nut and so painful withal that they will make him let fall his Meat out of his Mouth or at least keep it in his Mouth unchawed They do proceed from foul Feeding either of Grass or Provender you may feel them with your Finger 418 Gangrene is a running and creeping Sore that as far as it runs mortifies the Flesh causing it to rot so that of necessity that Member wherein a Gangreen is Radicated must be cut off 329 Grease Molâ—tn is when his Fat is melted by over-hard Riding or Labour You may know it by his Panting at the Breast and Girting place and heaving at the Flank which will be visible to be seen the Night you bring him in and the next Morning and besides his Body will be very hot and burning ib. Glaunders is such a lothsom and filthy disease and withal so infectious that it will infect those that stand nigh him It cometh first of Heats and Colds which beginneth with a thin Rheum and ascendeth up to the Head and setleth near to the Brain and so venteth it self at the Nose which in time groweth thicker and thicker till it comes of a yellowish Colour like unto Butter which is then very hard to cure but if it comes to a viscious and of a tough and slimy substance and the Colour be Green and stink much having run some Months with some reddish Specks in it then the most Experienced Farrier may fail in the Cure thereof and the Horse die under his Hands for then it is most certain if he hath those last Symptomes that his Lungs are Ulcerated and his Cure not to be performed without great difficulty Besides these inward Signes to know this Disease I shall give you one outward one which is He will have some Kernels and Knots that may be felt under his Chaul and as they grow bigger and more inflamed so doth the Glaunders more increase within the Body of the Horse I would advise you before you begin his Cure to prepare his Body for four or five days together with scalded Bran and give it him instead of his Provender for this will dry up the moisture and bad humours in his Body then let him Blood in the Neck and the next day Rake him and give him the Glister in the First Part. 254 and 414 Graveling cometh to a Horse in traveling by meanes of little Gravel stones getting betwixt the Hoof and the Shoo which setleth at the Quick and there festereth and fretteth 364 H. Hoof-Brittle
no such thing 387 388 Râ—t-tails is a most venomous disease and not much unlike to the Scratches of a horse It cometh to him several ways sometimes by too much rest and the Keepers negligence in not rubing and dressing him well and by reason of too much rest and good keeping without exercise the blood corrupting in his body falls down into his Legs which causeth this disease 377 Retrat is no other then a Prick in the Foot by a Nail vide Prickt 395 Rheum cometh by Cold which maketh his Teeth loose and seem long by the shrinking up of his Gums which will spoil his feeding that all the Meat will lie in Lumps in his Jaws vide Colds 241 Rot is a disease so like unto a Dropsey that it is hard to distinguish it from the same mistake not this disease for rottenness for if he be rotten his Liver and Lights are so putrified that they are not to be recovered But this Rot is of the Nature of a Sheeps Rot that is said to be rotten when his Liver is become soul and tainted yet we do eat his flesh and affirm it to be good meat whereby the Sheep is not rotten but hath a Disease called the Rot It cometh several ways sometimes to young Horses feeding in Wet or Fenny Grounds and sometimes when they are over-heated in their breaking whereby their Blood is enflamed putrified and corrupted causing Obstructions in the Liver which cause putrefaction and so knots and pustils do engender therein which breedeth this Disease The Signes are these he will lose his Stomach pant much beat and heave in his Flanks swell under his Belly his Hair will stare his Legs swell burn and dint when you press it with your Finger and his Coat will not shed at those usual times as other Horses do and will be so faint and feeble that he will lose his courage and mettle 398 Running of the Reins vide Mattering of the Yard 131 S. Shedding of the Seed cometh somtimes from abundance and rankness of the Seed sometimes by Strains or putting too heavy a load upon his Back and sometimes by weakness of the Stones and Seed-Vessels not being able to retain the Seed until it be digested and thickned 331 Strain or Sprain is the Sinews stretched beyond their strength by reason of some slip or wrench 294 Shackle-gall is on the Pastornes vide Gall 284 Surbating is a beating of the Hoof against the Ground It cometh sometimes by means of evil shooing lying too flat to his Feet sometimes by Travelling a Horse too young before his Feet are hardned which many times doth occasion a Foundring sometimes by hardness of the Ground and high lifting up of the Horses Feet and those Horses that are flat footed their Coâ—â—ns are so tender and weak that they be most subject to this Sorrance The signes to know it is he will Halt on both his fore-Legs and go stiffely and creeping although he were half Foundred 373 Spleen see the Nature of it 329 Screw is the Nature of a splint only the splint is on the inside of the Knee and the screw is on the outside 263 Swellings and Tumors cometh by Heats and Colds taken by hard Riding or fore Labour whereby the Horse being overmuch heated the Grease falleth down and setleth in his Legs and other parts which grow dry and hard and breedeth splints spavens curbs Ring-bones and the like sorrances which in time are no other things then proper Tumors Besides it doth occasion other Knots and swellings See the First Part for the Cure of them Scratches are of several sorts and kinds though they are called by several Names viz. Crepances Rats-tails Mules Kibes Pains c. being no other then the very Scratches which are certain dry Scabs Chaps or Rifts that breed between the Heel and the Pastorn-Joynt and so goeth many times above the Pastorn even up to the very Hoof of the hinder Legs but sometimes they are upon all four Legs though not very common They proceed several ways sometimes by dry melancholy Humors which fall down upon his Legs sometimes by fuming of his own dung lying under his heels or near him sometimes by the Negligence of the Groom in not rubbing his Heels well especially after a Journey or hard Labour when he brings in his Horse from Water and doth not rub his Legs and Heels dry from the Sand and Dirt which doth burn and fret them and so cause Swellings and those Swellings cause Scratches sometimes it cometh by corruption of the blood after great heats and surfeits taken sometimes by being bred in Fenny Marish and watery Grounds and sometimes they come to a Horse after a very great Sickness taken by Surfeit Or lastly by over-hard Riding or Labour whereby his Grease is molten which falleth down and setleth in his Pastorns and Feet-locks which doth occasion this Sorrance The Signes to know it are these The staring dividing and curling of the Hair it beginneth first with a dry scab upon his Pastorn Joynts like unto chaps or chinks and are in several shapes and formes sometimes long sometimes downright sometimes overthwart which will cause the Legs to swell and be very gourdy and run with fretting waterish matterative and offensive stuff which will make him go so lame at the first setting out that he will be hardly able to go 'T is good to clip away his long shaggy hain from his Pastorns if he have any which will in some measure prevent them or or at least curb them 266 Sit-fast or Stick-fast is a hard Knob which is as hard as a Horn that grows in a Horses Skin under the Saddle fast to his Flesh which cometh by a Saddle-Gall or Bruise which not Imposthumating the Skin falleth dead and looketh like a hard piece of Leather 352 A Surfeit is occasioned by Heats and Colds The Signes to know it is He will not thrive but be gaunt Bellied and dried up in his Body and cannot Cough but Gruntingly His Coat will stand staring and doth not lie smooth sometimes his Cods will swell And when it falleth out of his Body into his Legs they will swell also and stink by reason of the thin moist white yellow thick and stinking Water or Matter that flows from them which will make them so stiff that he is not able to go over the Threshold 366 Not Staling or Dunging cometh several wayes sometimes by being too high kept and but little exercise given him therefore exercise is as wholesom for a Horses Health as good Food is nourishing to his Body sometimes it cometh when you suddenly travel him when he hath been newly taken from Grass before his Body is emptied of it and dry meat put into the room thereof The Signes to know this Grief is He will lie down and tumble with extream pain as if he had the Bots. 357 Staling of Blood vide Pissing of Blood Selender is a kind of Scab and is the same with the Mallender only the difference
the Temples stops the Rheum that flows to the Eyes and also is very good to stop th bleeding of Wounds though the Arteries be cut if it be applied to them made up into a Salve or Ointment The price the Pound is 0 s. 4 d. Borax inwardly taken in small quantities stops Fluxes and the Running of the Reins and eing be atcn to fine Powder and put into green Wounds Cureth them specaily The best is that that comes out of the Silver and Godl Mines the Price the Pound is 2 s. 6 d. Turpentine common see the vertues of it in the Table of Simples the Price the Pound is 0 s. 3 d. If you intend to clcanse the Horse Reins being soul which you may know by the Mattering of his Yard then make it up into Balls according to Art with some Flower and Bole-Aâ—moniack and give him a Ball of it every Morning till you find him Cured Turpentine Venice the best the pound is 1 s. 3 d. Tarâ— is very good for a Cold given a Horse mingled with the Flower of Brimstone the Fat of Rusty Bacon and Honey made up into Balls with some Powder of Liquoris and given him for two or three Mornings together It is also good to put into Salves for the Cure of Wounds The price the pound is 0 s. 2 d. Gum Elmni is very good for Fractures in the Skull and also for Wounds and is commonly put into Plaisters for that purpose the common price of it the pound when it is plenty is about 2 s. but now it is worth 3 s. 0 d. Eusorblum is a Gum that comforteth wounds you may see more of the vertues of it in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 0 s. 8 d. Labdanum is a Gum that is of a very heating Nature yet mollifying It is used in Plaisters to open the Mouth of Veins and is also good to keep hair from falling off and for pains in theEars the price the pound is 1 s. 10 d. Myrrh is a Gum that heats and dries yet opens and softens the Womb given inwardly and expels the Heam in Beasts which is t he same as the after-birth is in Women It is also very good for Cold and Coughs and outwardly applied fills up hollow Ulcers with Flesh The quantity that you may give him inwardly with safâ—â—y is about two or three drams with other Compounds You may sie more of the verâ—ue of it if you look into the Table of Simples she price of it the pound is 2 s. 6 d. Storax Calamite is a sweet Gum which helps Coughs and Distillations upon the Lungs It is also a very good Perfume for Sickness in the Head to draw away evil Humors from thence the price of the best the pound is 7 s. 6 d. Storax Liquid is much like Tarr It is good put into Plaisters to modifie hard Wounds and Swellings the price the pound is 0 s. 8 d. Galbanum is a Gum that is hot and dry and disussing applied to her Shape expels the Heam See more of the vertues of it in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 2 s. 6 d. ANIMALS their Parts and Excrements Issing glass is made of the Skin of Fishes it is a very great Strengthner of a weak Back given inwardly boiled in Milk with some fine Bole Armoniack if you find it very clear and sweet when you break it you may conclude that it is very good the price of it the pound is 3 s. 6 d. Oysters newly opened and applied to a Pestilential Swelling draweth the venom out of it the price of these are very well known Grashoppers bruised and given in Ale or Beer is very good to â—ase the Griping Pains of the Guts and Bladder every Meadow affords plenty of them which you may have for Gathering Cantharides are Spanish Flies that will raise Blisters in any sound part of the Body if they be bruised and applied the price of them by the Ounce is 0 s. 3 d. Harts-Horn-Shavings resists Poison and Plague provokes Vrine and strengthens Nature very much the price the pound is 1 s. 4 d. Ivory Raspt strengthens the Heart and Stomach and helps the Yellows the price the pound is 0 s. 4 d. Ivory burnt strewed upon a Galled Back or any raw place drieth and healeth it up the price the pound is 0 s. 10 d. Wax sotens heats and fills up Sores with flesh put into Oyntments and used as a Salve the price of the white the pound is 1 s. 6 d. The price of the Yellow is 1 s. 3 d. Honey is a most excellent cleansing thing and profitable in all inward Vlcers and Wounds in what part of the Body soever they be It also opens the Veins and strengthens the Reins and Bladder The price the pound is 0 s. 6 d. A Stags Pizzle dried and the powder given him in Ale helps the Biting of venomous Beasts stirs up Lust and provokes Urine the price the Ounce is 0 s. 6 d. The Bone that is found in a Stags Heart being well dried and beten to powder and given him in Ale is also very good against Poison and Pestilence the price of it the Ounce is 1 s. 4 d. MINERALS METALS and STONES Verdegrease see the Nature of it in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 1 s. 8 d. Allom Common the pound is 0 s. 3 d. Allom Roch is the best see the virtues of them in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 0 s. 5 d. Bole-Armoniack is a certain red Earth which is cold and dry and driveth back evil Humors It is also very good to stop Bleeding either inwardly given or outwardly applied by strewing the powder of it upon Wounds the Greasiest is accounted the best the price of it the Common the pound is 0 s. 2 d. The pric of the best is 0 s. 4 d. Quick-silver is good given a Horse that hath his Guts Twisted by Wind and is also good for the Farcy you may give him with safety a quarter of a pound of it at a time with Sallet-Oyl the price of it the pound is 3 s. 6 d. Brimstone see the Table of Simples for the virtues of it the price the pound is 0 s. 2 d. Flower of Brimstone is better then the common Powder for any inward use you apply it Therefore I advise you wherever you meet with any of the common powder in your Medicaments take this in the Room of the other the virtues are the same with the common Brimstone but more effectual in â—peration 'T is good for Colds Coughs and rotten Lungs as also for the Wormes Yellows and Mange the price the pound is 0 s. 6 d. Red Corral prepared according to Art that is made into a very fine powder and about as much of it as will lie upon a broad shilling given him in Claret or Beer stops any Issue of Blood Scouring or Running of the Reins if it be often Repeated you may see more of the
virtues of it in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 6 s. 0 d. Steel Filings cleanseth not only the Reins and Bladder from Gravel but is also a great Purifyer and Sweetner of the Blood the price the pound is 0 s. 6 d. White-lead is of a cold dry and earthy quality It helps inflammations and dries up evil humours the price of it the pound is 0 s. 4 d. Lythargy of Gold and Silver binds and dries much they fill up Ulcers with flesh and heals them the Gold is accounted the best and is worth the pound 0 s. 5 d. The Silver the pound is 0 s. 3 d. Red Lead mixed with Sallet-Oyl being beaten to a very fine Powder and the grieved place where the Pole-evil is anointed with it every day and heated well in with a hot Fire shovel will sink it the price of it the pound is 0 s. 3 d. Lapis Haematites or Blood-stone is good to stanch Bleeding inwardly and outwardly being Ground very fine and given him It hath also many other Medicinal Vertues The price the pound is 3 s. 0 d. Sal Prunella the pound is 0 s. 10 d. Mercury Precipitate the pound is 8 s. 0 d. Sal Armoniack is hot and dry in the fourth degree the pound is 1 s. 0 d. Sal Jemma see the vertues of it in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 0 s. 4 d. Sâ—â—t-Peter refined in the Lump evaporateth It comforteth the Sinews and taketh away tyring and weariness The price in the Lump or Chrystallized the pound is 1 s 0 d. Tutia is a certain Mineral that is cold in the first and dry in the second degree and is very good for the defects in the Eyes the price the pound is 2 s. 0 d. Vitriol which we call Copperas is of two Kinds viz. Vitriol Romanum which we call green Copperas and Vitriol Albium which we call white Copperas They are both hot and dry but the white accounted the stronger They take away Scurfs and kill Scabs boiled in Spring water and the grieved place Bathed therewith the price of the white the Pound is 1 s. 6 d. The price of the Green the pound is 2 s. 4 d. It is very good laid in Spring water till it be Coloured for sore Eyes Vitriol Common or Copperas green and white which is sold at the Colour-shops is worth about three half pence or two pence the pound Irish Slate beaten to a very fine Powder and about an Ounce of it given in a quart of warm â—le is very good for a Horse that hath been bruised by Falls the price the pound is 0 s. 8 d. SIMPLES that you may buy â—heaper at the Druggists t' en you can prepare them your selves Elecampane Powder the best the Pound is 1 s. 2 d. Elecampane Powder the common the Pound is 0 s. 8 d. Liquoris Powder the best the Pound is 1 s. 4 d. Liquor is powder the common the Pound is 0 s. 5 d Red Sanders Powder the best the Pound is 1 s. 4 d. Turmerick powder the best the Pound is 0 s. 11 d. Powder of Ginger the Pound is 0 s. 6 d. PRICS of s veral Things bought of the GROCERS Sugar candy white is good for sore Eyes being beaten to Powder and blown into them the price of it the pound is 1 s. 4 d. Sugar-candy brown is good made up with other Simples or Compounds for Colds or Coughs the price the pound is 0 s. 10 d. Common Treacle is also very good for Colds Coughs and Surfeits made up with other Compounds or his Drink sweetned therewith and a Lump of sweet Butter put to it the price the pound is 0 s. 3 d. OYLS Oyl of O rganum is very good for all manner of Swellings occasioned by Bruises or Strains in the Nerves and Sinews the price the pound is 32 s. Oyl of Euphorbium helps Sinews and strengthens them mollifying their hardness the price the pound is 32 s. Oyl of St. Johnswort is also very good for all Sinew-Strains and Swellings in any part of the Body the price the pound is 1 s. 6 d. Nâ—â—vâ— Oyl is good to strengthen the Nerves and Sinews the price of the best the pound is 0 s. 6 d. The price of the Common is 0 s. 3 d. Oyl of Turpentine is good for Swellings Bruises Strains and old sores and Fâ—â—â—ulaes the price the pound is 0 s. 6 d. Oyl of Spike is also good for all manner of St ains whether in the Shouder or Joynts and also for all manner of Swellings in any part of the Body the price of the righ the pound is 1 s. 0 d. Oyl of Peter is very good for stains hard swellings splints spavins and â—ruises The Places grieved being anointed with it the price the pound is 2 s. 6 d. Oyl of Exceter is also good for the same Distempers the price the pound is 1 s 6 d. Oyl of sweet Almonds helps Colds and Coughs wet and dry sweetned with brown sugar Candy it is good also for Ulcers in the Bladder and Reins and is a great Encâ—easer of seed if you give it inwardly use new for it will soure in three or four days the price the ounce is 0 s. 4 d. Oyl of Bays is good for the Cholick and is a Sovereign Remedy for any Disease in any part of the Body coming of Wind or Cold you may safely give him feur or five drops of it at a time in any Compound Medicine appropriated to that use the price the pound is 1 s. 4 d. Oyl of Swallows is very good to anoint the Sinews of a Horse that stumbles or ae shrunk to stretch and make them give way again and is also good for all manner of Bruises Sprains and Strains the price the pound is 1 s. 6 d. Chymical PREPARATIONS bought of the Druggist Mercurius dulcis sub the Ounce is 0 s. 6 d. Tartaâ—um Vitriolarum the Ounce is 1 s. 0 d. Chymical Prices of CYLS and SPIRITS which do Corrode and eat off dead and proud Flesh and Dony Excrescences Aqua fortis Singlethe Pound is 2 s. 0 d. Aqua fortis double the Pound is 4 s. 0 d. Oyl of Anniseeds the Ounce is 0 s. 8 d. Oyl of Organum the Ounce is 0 s. 3 d. Oyl of Tartar Deliq. the ounce is 0 s. 6 d. Oyl of Vitriol the ounce is 0 s. 3 d. COMPOUNDS or ELECTUARIES Diascordium stops fluxes and mightily strengthers the Heart it is not so hot but it may be Given to a sick Horse to provoke Sleep one ounce of it is enough to give him at a time dissolved in a quart of warm Beer the price the ounce is 0 s. 2 d. Diatessaron see the virtues of it in the First Part 'T is worth the Pound at the Apothecaries 1 s. 8 d. but if you make it your self you may make it for 1 s. Mithridate is good against Poison provokes Sweat is good for Consumptions and Colds helps the
Body that is hard to be Cured Garden-Cresses are sharp and biting and therefore it is hot and dry whilest it is young and tender the seeds are much more biting then the Herb and is hot and dry almost in the fourth degree and is good for Pains in the Hip and hard Swellings and Inflammations Dock-Cresses are of nature hot and somewhat obstersive and cleansing the Juice of them is good for ulcerated Sores Water-Cresses are hot and dry they cleanse the Blood and Humors serve in all other uses in which Brook-lyme is available as to break the Stone and to provoke Urine and cleanse Ulcers Cross-wort is of a binding and drying quality and is a most excellent Wound-herb both inwardly taken and outwardly applied it sendeth forth Phlegm out of the Stomach and is good for Ruptures and Burstness Crow-foot is a fiery hot Herb not fit to be given inwardly unless it be Corrected it will draw a Blister as well as Cantharides Cuckow-Point or VVake-Robin is hot and dry in the third degree it is good given against the Plague or Poison being mixed with Vineger it is good for short-windedness and Cough of the Lungs it is good to provoke Urine is good for the Itch Ulcers and to take away the Pin and Web in the Eye Calamus is of a hot heating quality saith Dioscordes but Gallen and Pliny affirms that they have thin and subtil parts both hot and dry it provoketh Urine expelleth Poison and is good for inward Bruises and the Juice of it strained with Honey taketh away the dimness of the Eyes Corneflag is of force to waste consume and dry as also of a subtil and drying quality being stamped with Frankincense and Wine draweth forth Splinters out of the Flesh It is likewise good for hard Swellings Cowslips of Jerusalem is of the temperature of great Comfrey and is somewhat more drying and binding Colloquintida is hot and dry in the latter end of the second degree and therefore it purgeth cleanseth and openeth and performeth all those things that bitter things doth but that the strong quality that it hath is as Gallen saith of more force then all the rest of the Operations therefore it is not rashly to be used but upon some desperate Diseases Cranes-bill is cold and somewhat dry with some binding quality it hath power to joyn and sodder together and is therefore good for Burstness and broken Bones The seed of Garden Cummin is hot and dry in the third degree and hath also a binding quality and is good for the Wind the Chest and Lungs and all Raw Humors and is good to put into Plaisters and Poultesses for Swellings The seed of Cockle is hot and dry in the latter end of the second degree and is good against the Yellows Camock is hot in the third degree it cutteth and maketh thin the Bark of the Root given in white-Wine causeth Urine and breaketh the Stone and drives it forth Cyprus-Roots long and round are of a hot Nature the Ashes of them burnt is good for Ulcers in the Mouth Cankers c. Cypres the fruit and leaves are dry in the third degree and Astringent the Nut being stamped and drunk in Wine stoppeth the Lask and bloody Flux Cassia Fistula or Pudding-Pipe the Pulpe is moist in the latter end of the third degree it gently purgeth Cholerick Humors and sâ—imy Phlegm Cochinile is given alone and mixed with other things in malignant diseases as Pestilential Feavers and the like and is a great Cordial Cynamon hath power to warm and is of thin Parts it is also hot dry and Astringent it breaketh Wind provoketh Urine and is good against the fretting pains of the Guts and Entrails proceeding of cold Causes Cloves are hot and dry in the third degree they strengâ—hen the Stomach Liver and Heart provoketh Urine the Oyl of them taketh away the Pin and Web in the Eye China Roots is thought to be moderately hot and dry it strengthens the Liver removes the Dropsey Cures malignant Ulcers and Scabs and is good in a Consumption and for the Farcin Copperas are of two sorts green and white they are hot and dry but the white is much the stronger they are great Driers up of evil Humours being outwardly applied they kill likewise Scurfs and Scabs Costus hath an heating and attenuating quality it is good to help Strains Convulsions and Cramps killeth Wormes and is good against the biting of Vipers and against Windiness in the Stomach Calafonia or Colofonia doth incarnate Ulcers and doth Conglutinate things that are separated Camphopa is a kind of Gum which is cold and dry in the third degree and preserveth the Body from Putrefaction and bindeth Humors it is good against Poison Plague and Feavers Cantharides are certain Spanish Flies which are hot and dry in the third degree they increase Lust taken inwardly and being applied outwardly to any part of the Body they will raise Blisters Cardamonium is not and extenuateth Humors and being mixt with Vineger killeth Scabs Castorum is hot and dry and purgeth much Cerusa is a white Ointment made of Oyl and white Lead It is cold and dry in the second degree and is a great healer and shealer of Scabs Cito or Cisto is dry in the second degree and bindeth much Citrons or Cithrons are cold and moist in the second degree they do cleanse and pierce Camâ—â—ry is cold and conglutinateth and bindeth and is good against Ruptures Castro or Cosse being bitter is hot and healeth Ulcers Cane-reed is hot and dry in the third degree D. Daisies are cold and moist being moist in the end of the second degree and cold in the beginning of the same They are good for Wounds in the Breast and therefore sitting to be made into Oyls Ointments and Plaisters as also into Syrups the great and wilde ones is a very good Wound-Herb and the distilled water of them both is good to refresh the inward parts and to allay the heat of choler They are good for Ulcers Swellings Kernels Bruises by Falls Ruptures Burstings and all Inflammations Dandelyon vulgarly called Piss-a-beds is like in temperature with Succory that is to say of wilde Indive it is cold but it drieth more and doth withal cleanse and open by reason of the biting quality it hath and therefore is good for the Obstructions of the Liver Gall Spleen and Yellows the distilled water of it is good to allay the heat of Pestilential Feavers and to wash Sores Darnel is hot in the third degree red Darnel drieth with sharpness The Meal of it is good to stay Gangrenes Cankers and putrid Sores It killeth Ring-wormes and soul Scabs If it be used with Salt and Radish-roots with Brimstone and Vineger it dissolveth Knots and Kernels and being boiled with Wine Pigeons dung and Linfeed dissolveth those that are hard to be dissolved Darnel Meal draweth forth Splinters and broken bones being applied as a Poultess the red Darnel boiled in Wine stayeth the Lask and bloody Flux and all
other Fluxes of Blood D ll is hot in the end of the second degree and dry in the beginning of the same or in the end of the first degree it provoketh Urine and is good against Windiness it is good to case Swellings and Pains Devils-bit is somewhat bitter and is of a hot and dry temperature and that in the latter end of the second degree it is good against the Plague and all Pestilential diseases as Poisons Feavers and biting of venomous Beasts It is good for Bruises either inward or outward it is good to expel Wind drive forth Wormes The distilled Water of it is good for green Wounds old Sores and cleanseth the Body inwardly and the Seed outwardly from Sores Scurss and Itches Docke all of them are generally cold a little and moderately and some more They do all of them dry but not after one manner yet some are of opinion that they are dry in the third degree The red Dock cleanseth the Liver but the yellow is best to take when the Blood is afflicted with choler The Seeds of most of the kinds do stay Lasks and Fluxes of all sorts they are good for the itch and breaking out of the Skin if it be bathed therewith Dodder is of the Nature of the Herb on which it groweth is more dry then hot and that in the second degree It is a Purger of Choler and Phlegm from the Head Obstructions of the Liver Gall and Yellows Dogs-grass Quich-Grass or Couch-Grass opens Obstructions of the Liver and Gall stopping of Urine and easeth the pains of the Belly Inflammations and wasteth the Stones in the Bladder and Ulcers thereof Also being boiled the seed doth more provoke Urine and stayeth the Lask it is a good Remedy against all Diseases coming of stoppage Doves-foot or Cranes-bill is cold and somewhat dry with some binding quality It is good for the Wind Cholick and Stone the decoction thereof in Wine is a good Wound-drink for inward Wounds Hurts or Bruises and is good to cleanse and heal outward Sores Ulcers Fistulaes and green VVounds and is excellent for Ruptures Ducks-meat is cold and moist in a sort in the second degree it is good for Inflammations and St. Anthonies Fire Dragons is under Mars and therefore the best way to use it is after it is distilled and then the VVater of it cleanseth all internal parts of the Body and so it doth the external from Scurfand Scabs and being dropped into the Eye taketh away the Pin and VVeb and is good against Pestilence and Poison Dogs-tooth is of a very hot temperament and of an excrementitious Nature The Roots of all the Daffodils are hot and dry in the third degree Dyars-weed is hot and dry of Temperature the Root as also the whole Herb heats and dries in the third degree it cuts attenuateth opens and disgests It is good for the biting of venomous Beasts and Poison taken inwardly or applied outwardly Bastard-Dirtany is hot and dry in the second degree and of a wasting attenuating and opening quality and is good for the Stone in the Kidneys and Bladder Dropwort or Filipendula is hot and dry in the third degree opening cleansing and a little binding All the kinds of them have the same faculty unless it be the pernicious Drop-wort they are good against pains in the Bladder and break the Stone E. Elder is of a drying quality glewing and moderately disgesting It purgeth choler and phlegm both the inward Rind and the Berries and the Dropsey the Bark of the Root worketh more powerfully then either of them it is good against the biting of any venomous Beasts the Juice of it asswageth the hot Inflammations of the Eyes and all manner of Burnings and Scaldings being laid to the grieved place Dwarf-Elder called Dane-wort and Wall-wort it is of Temperature hot and dry in the third degree it doth waste and consume by Purging of Choler and Phlegm and Water and is more powerful then the common Elder and hath all the Properties of it The Elm-Tree the Leaves and Bark of it is moderately hot with a cleansing Faculty the Leaves bruised and applied healeth green Wounds it is good to Cure a Scurf Ruptures broken Bones Swellings and Burnings Endive and Succorie are cold and dry in the third degree and withal somewhat binding it is a fine cooling and cleansing Plant the Garden Endive is colder and not so dry and cleansing the Juice or the water of it is good to cool the excessive heat of the Stomach and Liver or any inflammation in any part of the Body and being applied outwardly it is good for Ulcers hard Swellings and Pestilential Sores Elecampane is hot and dry in the third degree especially when it is dry for being green and full of Juice it is full of superfluous moisture which somewhat abateth the heat and dry quality thereof It is good for Colds and Coughs and to warm a cold Stomach Wind short-Windedness Wheezing Stone in the Bladder resisteth Poison the Plague Cramps Convulsions Wormes Cankers Fistulaes Ensula or Devils-Milk is hot sharp and drying and draws choler from the Joynts Eringo or Sea-holly breedeth Seed exceedingly and is hot and moist it is good for the Yellows Dropsey Cholick provoketh Urine expelleth the Stone the Roots bruised and applied outwardly is good for the Farcin or taken inwardly for the same disease it is good for broken Bones and to draw thornes out of the Flesh the Juice dropped into the Ears helpeth the Impostumes in them the distilled water of it is good for all the Purposes aforesaid Eye-bright is hot and dry but yet more hot then dry the Juice or the Water of it is good to help all Infirmities of the Eyes that cause dimness Elusa is a Herb like a Spunge and is hot in the fourth degree it drieth and cleanseth exceedingly and of some is called Wolfes Milk Excrusion is that which we call Oxicration it is a certain Composition of Aceto and Water and is good to allay Swellings and Tumors Eggs the Whites are cold and the Yolks are hot and doth strengthen and incarnate the shells beaten to powder and given in Beer or Ale is very good to expel the Stone out of the Bladder F. Fern both the kinds of them Male and Female are hot and dry and somewhat binding their Vertues are both alike the Roots of them are good to kill Wormes the green leaves purge the Belly of cholerick Humors An Ointment made of the Roots bruised with Hogs-Grease is good for the Wounds in the flesh the powder of them is good to dry up moistures in malignant Ulcers The Water Ferne or Osmond-Royal is hot and dry but lesser then the former and hath all the Vertues the other hath but more effectually and is good for Wounds or Bruises and the like the decoction thereof being drunk or boiled in an Ointment or Oyl as a Balsam or Balm is very good for Bruises or Bones broken and out of Joynt it is good for the Cholick