the true knowledge whereof consisteth their preservation I doe hold it a thing most needfull that we doe perfectly know that thing which wee doe cal Generation and Corruption which all Physitians and Philosophers have so much discussed both in their Schooles and Writings and how the body of the Horse like also to that of Man is compounded of the foure Elements viz. Fire Aire VVater and Earth Of the foâ— Elements Fire Ayâ—â— Water anâ— Earth The natures of these four Elements are different for Fire is hot and dry but it participates most of Heat Ayre is hot and moyst but chiefly moyst Water is moyst and cold but most cold Earth is cold and dry but most dry Fire and Ayre are both light Elements and VVater and Earth both heavy Four Humours also there are Of the foâ— Humours Bloud Phlâ—gme Choler 〈◊〉 Melanchoâ—â— which be as it were four Children to these four Elements and these are Bloud Phlegme Choler and Melancholy These foure Humours are attendant upon the four former Elements without which a naturall body cannot be made for Bloud naturally if it be perfect is hot and moyst but taketh most from heat and therfore is subordinate to Ayre Phlegme is cold and moyst but the principall quality thereof is coldnesse and therefore hath reference to VVater Choler is hot and dry but his chiefest nature is heate and therfore is governed by the Element of Fire Melancholy is cold and dry but his chiefest condition is drynesse and therefore subjects it selfe unto the element of earth Now the fountaine of the bloud is the Liver which dispersing it selfe by the helpe of the veines into all the parts of the body nourisheth and preserveth the same Flgme preoccupateth the braine being a cold and spungy substance and the seat of the sensible soule Choller inhabiteth the Liver which being hot and dry maketh a pleasing harmony with the bloud Melancholy resideth in the spleene which is the receptacle and discharge of the excrements of the Liver From whence we may collect that it hath its proper use and end as for demonstration Bloud principally nourisheth the body Flegme occasioneth motion of the joynts and members Choler exciteth and provoketh the body to avoyd it's excrements and lastly Melancholy disposeth the body to an appetite Whereupon all the learned Philosophers doe with one unanimous assent agree in this that in every naturall body there are foure principall instrumentall members The instrumentall members The braine the heart the liver and the stones or gignitors from which all the parts of an organicall body is said to be framed and these are the braine the heart the liver and the stones or gignitors and each one of these doe performe its true function to all the particular members of the body for the sinewes doe receive their sustentation from the braine and these are called animall spirits the arteries from the heart which are vitall spirits the veines from the liver which are naturall parts and the seed-vessels from the stones or gignitors as the place of generation Now forasmuch as I have shewed you the foure elements with their true natures the foure humours with their qualities and the foure instrumentall members with their true conditions It now remaineth that we intreat briefly of the foure naturall faculties which is in every body together with their true attributes The foure naturall faculties To eate to retaine to concoct and to expell The first faculty is to eate the second to retaine the third to concoct and the fourth to expell And to answer to these foure faculties you must understand that there are residing in the body the afore-named humours that is to say Bloud Flegme Choler and Melancholy whereof nature maketh use of the service of but one of these onely to work upon which is an excrement which we doe justly call whey or wheyish-bloud whose engendring is wrought in the liver and so conveieth it selfe into the veines at what time the foure humours doe take from the body that forme and substance it ought to assume and of this very liquor doth nature serve it selfe to resolve the meat and so to operate that the same may passe through the straight caves conducts pores and passages carrying nourishment to all the parts of the body You must therefore understand that the veines are the receptacles for the bloud which is mixed with the vitall spirits so as the said veines have their source or origin from the liver whereby their office is to exhaust from the liver unto the veines the said wheish substance and to inject part thereof through the passages into the bladder and from thence againe forth of the body by which meanes the body is freed from offence and from sustaining domage whereof two of the veines conduct part of the said whey from the liver unto the coddes and so to the seed-vessels where it remaineth with some small quantity of the purest bloud by which meanes the operation of the stones whose quality are hot and dry doe thereby effect a most perfect seed Which two veines nature who is the most exquisite Artist and Quae nihil habet vitii hath planted one in the reines on the right side which endeth in the right cod and another semblable in the left both which take their issue from either of the coddes accordingly besides nature hath bestowed upon the right cod much heat and drynesse so hath she also given unto the left as great a quantity of cold and moysture the right cod by meanes of its heate engendring the male and the left by reason of its cold engendring the female and so likewise is it as well of the female as of the male of every creature But now to come to the heart which is formed with the liver and braine and maintained with the purest bloud which is so excessively hot as whilst the creature liveth if you put but your finger into its hollow part it is impossible to continue it there long without burning or scalding the same from whence it must necessarily ensue that the liver being the fountaine of all the bloud must of necessity have great and abundance of pure bloud wherwith to support and maintaine the structure of the whole body and the vitall spirit of any creature is none other thing than a corporeall fume or vapour to speake properly very pure and subtile begun in the heart by the operation of the naturall heat spread by the arteries and veines to refresh and comfort the whole body which agitative or subtile Spirit proceeding from the heart and vitall spirits being a continuall motion by reason that motion and agitation is the true life therof which continually remaineth in all living creatures But the heart which may be truely and rightly stiled the fountaine of life and heat nature hath assigned it its proper place which is to be scituate in the center that is the middle part of the body from whence proceedeth life and heat into each
is right good for this Malady Another Take Muskadine or sweet Sack one pint life-honey thâ—â—e Spoonfuls Myhrre Saffaron Cascia and Cinamon of each like much make all these into fine powder and mixe two Spoonefuls of this powder with your Muskadine and Hony and give it him warme with a Horne give him this drinke fifteene daies together continuing to give him mashes and white water and this is a most certaine Cure ✚ But if you do find that his Lungs be rotten and impostumated then Take of the juyce of Purslaine halfe a pint and mix therwith of the Oyle of Roses so much as will suffice and put thereto a little Tragantum steeped before in Goates Ewes or Cowes milke and give him thereof to drinke seven mornings together but this drinke will but only ripen and breake the Impostume which you shall know to be done by his exceeding stincking breath then shall you give him in fine powder Cassia three ounces and seaven Raisins of the Sunne stoned boyle these in Muskadine one pint and bloud warme give it him and it will heale up his Lungs againe ✚ This is very good §. 19. D. Hippoph IS there no good thing to be given to a Horse wherewith to prevent diseases all the whole yeare Hippos As touching the prevention of all diseases I have spoken before I thinke sufficiently but yet I will teach you one thing for that you are desirous to learne and learning is no burthen which may bee worthy your notice for I will keepe no secret from you Sithence it is my Masters pleasure I should dilate the utmost of my skill and Art First therefore the spring of the yeare comming on a time when new bloud beginneth to come and that ere long grasse wil be able to take heart whereby the better to give nutriment to a Horse The first day of April open a veine in the Neck to see the better how the bloud is if good take the lesse if bad then the more then from that day untill the first of May give him this which I shall prescribe you and let him have it every day without fayle Morning and Evening during the whole month of April from the first day to the last which is before his turning out to grasse or soyling which should be about the middle of May and let him have the same also all the whole month of October like as you must do in April after you have taken him from grasse about Bartholmewtide and do as you before have bin taught in all poynts That which I prescribe is this Take a Bushell of old Rie sweet and cleane well purged Diseases 〈◊〉 prevent or sifted from dust stones lome feathers cobwebs or any such like filth and put it into a cleane iron pot dry and without water I meane such an iron pot in which usually flesh meat is boyled for such a like vessell is best for this our purpose it taketh least harme and is much more wholesome then Brasse Copper or any other mettall set this pot thus dry and without water over the fire and put into it your Bushell of Rie for a lesse quantity you cannot well have and as it beginneth to wax hot keepe the Rie with continuall stirring even from the bottome without any intermission untill you have so parched the Rie that it becommeth black and hard which to be so will aske good heat and no lesse labour to stirre it up and downe in the pot when you do find that the Rie is sufficiently parched which you shall know by its blacknesse drynesse and hardnes take it from the fire and put it into some other cleane and dry vessell which so soon as it is cold let the vessell be kept close stopped and so kept for your use Now when you are to use of this Rie take two or three good handfuls of it and let it bee beaten to fine powder and given to your Horse mingled with his Provender at every watring morning and evening or other times when you usually give him Oates doe this these two entire months of April and October for that all men doe hold that in these two months the bloud turneth and altereth as wee alter his diet from hard and dry meate to grasse and so likewise from grasse to dry meate for this Rie thus parched and ordred doth refine the Bloud coole the Liver and purgeth the Spleene so as the whol structure of the body is thereby the better eased and freed from all such bad and unnaturall humors which would otherwise make the body inclinable to sundry Maladies and diseases which this Rie preventeth and therefore if you bee willing to keepe your Horse sound and free from diseases order him in these two months according as I have prescribed you and you shal be secure ✚ This I have oft made use of and it is good §. 20. D. Hippoph HAve you any comfortable drinke to administer to a Horse that is very sicke Hippos I have heretofore shewed you divers but yet I will give you one more Take of good white Wine one pinte of white Sugar Candy Drink comfortable and of Cinamon of each one ounce of Cloves halfe an ounce Saffron three drammes of Sugar refined three ounces make all these into fine powder then take Mithridate two ounces Honey of Roses foure ounces mixe all these well together and put it to the Wine and make it bloud warme over the fire and so give it him and now and then as he standeth upon the trench let him chew upon the end of a Buls pizell some Arman let him be cloathed and littered warm and remaine fasting upon the trench three houres and after give him a sweet Mash or white water and after order him as is usuall for a sicke horse ✚ This is one of the best preservative drinkes that I know and I have had great proofe thereof §. 21. D. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you for a dislocated joynt Hippos Let it be first put into its right place then in the binding up apply this plaister Dislocated joynt Take Wheate Bran and Hogs-grease of each as much as will suffice make them into one body and make thereof a Plaister of Hurds and so apply it to the place and after binde and swathe it up and the joynt and member will be well againe having rest §. 22. D. Hippoph WHat disease is that is called Tranchaisons Hippos This tearme we have from the French which is onely a paine or griping in the belly caused partly of winde and partly of cold and eftsoones of both and our English tearme is the Chollicke which is a most grievous paine ingendring many infirmities as I have before declared in its due place notwithstanding because you have given me the French tearme I will give you two or three French Receits for the same disease albeit I did never experiment any of them yet I doe hold them to be good Disease of Tranchaisons or the chollicke Take of
to segregate each sort of cattell by it self as your young and old rase or breeding Mares by themselves your weanlings by themselves your Fillyes by themselves and your stoned Colts by themselves according as your best judgement shall dictate otherwise your breed will be in confusion and come to nothing and so you may run the hazard to lose both your cost and paines Places must be also made apart wherin both your Mares with fole and those who have their Colts sucking upon them may run by themselves with all quietnesse and retirednesse and every of these partitions must be so sufficiently fenced as that no one sort of cattell can breake into the other And I doe yet further advise that these grounds be well furnished with sweet and wholesome water whereof ought not to be any want either in winter or summer for otherwise you may endanger the tainting and surfetting of them Furthermore that certaine Sheds and Hay-houses be erected for them to be fed in during the time of the winter when grasse is scanty and not so much nourishing and the cold winds frosts raines and snowes may greatly pinch and annoy them in which housings would be set up Rackes and Mangers whereat to feed them there would also be laid cleane straw for them to lye upon which will very much comfort and keep them warm But above all the greatest care must be had to the fences in generall whether wall which is evermore the best pale quicksets broad ditches or high banks lest they should at any time breake forth and trespasse your neighbours to bastardize and wrong your breed and you ought also to institute a trusty and diligent Bayliffe or servant whose onely function should be to make his fence-walke morning and evening as duly as any wel-experienced Keeper or Wood-man doth his Pale-walke to see that the fences be fast and his cattell safe and let him not faile every day once at the least to take a true tale and inventary of every sort of cattell he hath in his severall grounds for feare any should be missing or some misfortune befalne any of them and it hee shall finde any wanting let him not rest searching untill he hath found it and if it be in danger or sicke let him not give over himselfe if he can otherwise let him haste to call company and strength enough to free it out of harmes way Now as touching the grounds themselves as I would not have them too rich or too rank and deep with grasse so must they not be too barren short and mossie for as well in this subject as in all other things the golden meane is evermore to be preferred Having thus provided your selfe of a Stud of the choicest and ablest Mares for age colour shape and marks your Stallions also of like attributes your care must be to see your Mares well covered for in this chiefly consisteth the life and quintessence of your breeding Be you therefore marvellous carefull that neither your Stallion or Mare have any of these ensuing defects viz. neither Moon-eyes watry-eyes or Bloud-shotten-eyes or other defect in their eyes or sight no taint in their wind by Glanders or otherwise no way subject to Mainge Mallender Sellender Splents Spaven Curb Ring-bone Scratches Kybed-heeles or any other the like sorances that they be not Cock-thropled but their Throples very loose for let either Stallion or Mare have any of these maladies then be you well assured their Colts will take them as hereditary from their Parents insomuch as when you esteem your selfe confident of such young Horses you so much desired to be master of you will be mistaken for instead of a Stirrier or Horse for mannage you have bred him fit for nought else but the plough and in the place of a Hunter he proves a Mil-horse and in hope you had a Horse for a Course he proves for no better use but the Cart and him you desire to have for your own Pad-saddle you will be constrained to sell him to a Carrier to beare a Pack-saddle with a burthen To come to intreat of the time most fitting for covering your Mares let that be so done that they may cast their Foles in the dead of winter as either in December or Ianuary for during their time of going with Fole to wit from the day of their Covering unto that of their Foling is commonly 12 months and 10 dayes yet some do aver they doe want 11 dayes of 12 moneths of which computation there is just three weeks oddes others againe doe affirme that a Mare goeth but only 11. months and 10 dayes wherein is greater oddes but I have found it to be a most certain rule which never did faile me unlesse in a yong Mare upon her first Colt who will want some few dayes of the ordinary account and long and frequent experience hath made me to be very perfect that a Mare goeth unlesse some mischance or other accident hath otherwise occasioned twelve moneths and ten dayes for when at any time I have been present when a Mare hath been covered I have in the very minute entred into my Almanacke the very day and houre in which she tooke the Horse and because I would not be deceived I have been present at her foling and I have found the time never to faile me And therefore I could wish all breeders to observe with me the same course and they shall finde this account to fall out just as I have delivered If your Mare be covered about S. Lucies day which is the 13 of December then will she fole about S. Thomas day the same month in the yeare following But before you suffer her to be covered let neither the Stallion or Mare be at grasse but taken into the house sixe weekes or a moneth at the least during which time let them be both very well fed with good old Hay and Oates well dusted and sifted to the end they may have strength and seed to performe the office for which you have them But if you will have your Mare certainly to conceive then take bloud from both sides of her necke and let her bleed at either veine well nigh a quart which must be done five or sixe dayes before she is to be covered and the next day after her bleeding give her in a quart of new milke halfe a iij. of Artimesia alias Muggewort chopped very small a piece of sweet Butter and â„¥ 2. of London Treacle warm all these put upon the fire till the Butter and Treacle be dissolved and give this to the Mare bloud-warme in the morning fasting and so the next morning again and let her drinke be white water This drink is most soveraigne to cause conception it provoketh seed abundantly it openeth the pores in the body and causeth the Mare to keep the seed she receiveth from the Stallion Moreover this drinke comforteth the womb and matrix very much so as it is great oddes but that she being thus
passe the first three tell mee what is Handy-worke Hyppos Handy-worke is to heat the Iron well to Sodder well to Forge well to turne a Shoo well to make and point a Nayle well to pare the hoof well to Cauterize well to let bloud well to be light and well-handed bold and hardy in dressing of a Horse well of such Accidents as may happen unto him Hyppiat What are the principall members of the Creature Hyppos They be three viz. the Liver the Heart and the Braine and if the Creature be offended in any of these three especially the Braine which is in the top of the head then I say he will dy Hyppophyl I alwayes tooke the principall members of any living creature to be foure Hyppiat Therein Sir you were mistaken for any of these former three being hurt there is evermore present death especially the Heart and the Braine but if any other member besides these three be hurt yet may your Horse live and doe well againe But which Member I pray you Sir do you hold to be one of the foure principall Members Hyppophyl The Stones or Gignitors Hyppiat How doe you assoyle this Objection Hypposerus Hyppos Most easily Sir that the Gignitors cannot bee any one of the principall Members reason teacheth us for you cannot so much as touch any of these three but you doe either kill the Creature outright or else desperately endanger him Now supposing the Stones may fortune to receive hurt or domage yet if I bee in despaire of healing or curing them I can neverthelesse cut or take them cleane away from the body or cause theÌ„ to fall away by other good means or by medicine without perill of his life he will only thereby loose his naturall heat whereby hee will bee disenabled from having any disposition to Coity or power of Procreation Hyppiat What is that which goeth from the Head of the Horse and diffuseth it selfe through-out all the other Members Hyppos They are two Sinnewes or Tendents which are white and have a Ligature beginning at the very end of the Nose and extend themselves along the Neck and along the Back and maketh their extent to the foure Legges and taketh their Ligaments in the fore Feet Hyppophyl I was in good hope Hypposerus you would likewise have spoken of the number of the Sinnewes and where every one is seated for it is a thing very materiall and I doe the rather desire it for that I am not as yet perfect in that point Hyppiat That was but forgotten both by my selfe and him Sir wherefore Hypposerus make answere to the Gentlemans demand Hyppos I shall doe it most gladly wherefore as touching the Sinnewes we say The number of the sinews that there are in every Horse twenty nine or thirty great and small First the two great Sinnewes which I named before which have their first origin from the end of the Nose Item two branches which are maine Sinnewes that proceed from the Brain and runneth downe the Cheekes to the Teeth Item there are from the Shoulders to the first joynt of the Armes or fore-Legges downewards two great Sinnewes Item from the Knees to the Pasterns are foure great Sinnewes with the same number in the hinder part Item in the fore-part of the Breast and about it as well within as without are ten Sinnewes some greater and some smaller Item from the Raines of the Back to the Stones are foure great Sinnewes Lastly one great maine Sinnew whith runneth along to the end of the Tayle So as the full number of the Sinnewes are twenty nine or thirty which are to be discerned Hyppiat What is that which we doe commonly call principall or vitall Bloud Hyppos Those be Veines which are vessells of quick or running Bloud which men doe call Vitall Bloud Hyppiat What is that which men doe call Vitall Bloud Hyppos It is that which when the Creature sleepeth his bloud is in continuall agitation and never ceaseth Hyppiat How many Veines hath a Horse in his whole body Hyppos To speake properly a Horse hath but only one Veine which is that which we call the Median or Lives Veine which is in the Liver being the true Fountaine Source and great Tunne from whence the Canes Conduite-pipes and little Veines as the smaller Rivers doe separate themselves which doe run thorough all the parts and members of the whole body Hyppiat What call you Separation Hyppos Separation is of two kinds viz. ascendant and descendant those which do ascend to the Head and body are called Veines Ascendant and those which doe run low or to the Legges and lower members are called Hollow or Descendant Veines Hyppophyl I did ever thinke and beleeve till now that a Horse had more Veines than one how then cometh it to passe that we open Veines in so many severall parts of the body being so different Veines the one from the other Hyppiat I answere you Sir if you bee pleased to examine your paper there you shall find how that Hypposerus told you that a Horse hath but only one Veine and it is a most infallible verity for that all those other Canes which you call Veines are but the very same with that One which evermore standeth full of Bloud up to the top conveyed into him which said great Veine is annexed unto the Liver which Veine doth resemble a great Tunne or Cestern which conveyeth the Bloud into all the lesser Veines by which meanes they continually remaine full having no vacancy or want Like as a Cestern V. G. râ—ceiveth its water from a Pump and so conveyeth and bestoweth it into and among the smaller Pipes ofttimes storeth with plenty of water a whole Village or Towne or at least a whole Family Hyppophyl I understand you well but now friend Hypposerus tell me I pray you in how many Veines may a man take Bloud from a Horse in case of necessity Hyppos In many parts to wit In the Neck in the weeping-Veines The numbâ— of ths veinâ— under the Eares and in six other places of and about the Head as in the Palate-Veines in the Tongue in the Flank-Veines in the Breast and Spur-Veines in the foure members to wit the Legges Thighes Pasterns and Feet also in sundry other places according as necessity shall require it and in places which may the better kill the Malady or Disease of the said Horse Hyppophyl But yet I was in good hope you would have delivered the reasons for which you doe open any Veine as also which they be in particular Hyppos The Veines which we doe usually open are First The particâ—lar veines the two Temple-Veines which easeth the paines in thâ— Head coming of Colds Rheumes Feavers Yellows and Stavers drowsinâ—sse Frenzy the Sleeâ—â—-â—vill Falling evill or any griefe in or about the Eyes or Braine Secondly we opâ—n the two Eye or weeping veins being most soveraigâ—e for suâ—h diseases whereunto the Eyes are subjâ—ct as watery or weeping Eyes Bloud shotten Pâ—n and wâ—hhe h w
or the like Thirdly we opâ—n the two Pallet veines in the Mouth and thosâ— doe Cure the Lampas and any inward sicknes within the body as the Yellowes Stavers Anticor Surfets Drowsinesse Tyrednesse or wearinesse of the body or if the Horse have any Mâ—lady in the Throat as the Strangles Quincy Kernells Pustills either within or without it many times helpeth Inflamations Glanders or the like for the eating or swallowing of his owne bloud is most wholesome and soveraigne in such cases Fourthly we doe usually open the two Neck veines which helpeth Farcins Yellowes Stavers Scabs Mainges Agues Feavers Colds Surfets Glanders or any other Mâ—lady which may be any way noxious to the inward parts of the body And it also preventeth sudden sicknes if you have any suspect therof Fiftly the opening of the two Plate or Breast Veines doe help the Anticor Sicknesse of the Heart Morfounding 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 lamenesse before Sixtly we use to touch the two Arme or Thigh Veines before which helpeth Foundring in the Fore-feet Mallenders splent serewe Ring-bone and such like infirmities in the Fore-feet and such other higher parts Seventhly we use to take Blood from the foure Shackle-veines before and this is very good for the Crown-scab Ring-bone and such like diseases Eighthly we use to strike the two spur-Spur-veins which cureth the Farcin in the Sides morfounding swelling under the Belly which is a disease called the Feltrick and the like Ninthly we prick the two Toe-veines which do help Frettizing Foundring Hoof-bound beating of the Horses Feet by riding upon hard and stony wayes and the like Tenthly we open the two Thigh-veins behind and this doth help the griefes of the Kidneys Swellings in the hinder-legs Foundrings Selenders Scratches Kybes c. and it helpeth also diseases in and about the Belly as pissing of Blood pissing oft after great and extraordinary labour and the weaknesse of the Reines the Back Belly Guts or any other the inward parts the Curb Spaven and such diseases which come of ranknesse of Blood Eleventhly wee sometimes doe open the foure Shackle-veines behind and this is very good against foundrings and other paines in and about the feet Twelfthly we let bloud in the two flanke or hanch-veines and this is most profitable for all kind of feavers the stones poverty the felter-worme Thirteenthly we draw bloud froÌ„ the two tayle-veynes which cureth the mainge in the tayle falling off the haire or the itch in the tayle Scown-scab And these are for the most part all the veines which are usually opened or that my selfe have ever known or have seen my Master open which are very great meanes to help these diseases by me mentioned So as the full summe or number of veines which Ferriers use commonly to open are thirty Other veines there are which are of a smaller proportion and therefore not fit to be opened Neverthelesse some Ferriers there are who have fondly reported unto me that they have let horses bloud in many of those small veins but I could never learne for what purpose the same was done let this therfore which I have here set you down suffice for this matter Hyppophyl I have heard you Hypposerus attentively but yet I would most gladly understand one thing which is that whereas you say that the opening of these veines doth help and cure such diseases I would gladly be satisfied herein for if by the opening of these veines the horse will be cured then we may spare much labour in applying drinks purgations clisters and such other things which we usually make and give to horses Hyppos Sir I assure me you cannot be so ignorant as you speake for this opening of veines and bloud-letting doth not alwaies absolutely cure those diseases which I have named but it doth sometimes asswage the malignancy of the malady somtimes it preventeth diseases and sometimes againe it prepareth the body the better to receive such physicall drinks which doe inwardly cure them and such Salves Oyles and Vnguents which doe dry and heale up outward infirmities but that bloud letting doth absolutely cure them I say it doth not howsoever in some cases it may Hyppiat What is that which departs from the head of the horse and serveth him for his principall members Hyppos I have shewed you that already they be sinewes and nerves these sinewes which depart and proceed from the head give sense and feeling arriving in the body of the creature and so diffuse and spread themselves through all the principall members which doe descend from the head unto all the other members which make a conjunction of the bones of the legges of the body and of all the other members Of the boâ— Hyppiat How many bones hath a horse and how are they scituated in the body Hyppos There are in the body of every horse two hundred fifty and seven bones Hyppiat Name them severally Hyppos All the bones which every horse hath whereby to make up an organall body are these viz. hee hath in his head thirty nine and forty teeth the bones in his head doe comprehend the Crocks and Handles of the scull albeit they be composed of parts and parcels of certain other bones also the two flat Handles which form the Palate and the Forke or Throat hath five the chine fifty two the breast one ribbes thirty sixe the fore-legges and fore feet have forty foure and the hinder-legges and feet forty So as the whole structure of the body of a horse whereby to perfect a full building of bones consisteth of about 257. or 259. if they be rightly computed which doe represent themselves altogether at what time the perfect Anatomy of the horse is laid open Hyppiat What naturall composition hath the head of the horse Hyppos He hath eyes to see eares wherewith to heare nostrils to smell or scent a mouth and tongue to taste and eat and wherewith to nourish him Hyppiat What naturall composition hath the whole body of the horse in generall Hyppos The whole body hath its heart liver lungs spleene stones and gignitors all which are called the noble parts and that most justly for when either the one or the other of any of these parts receive hurt or domage the poor beast is in perill of his life except in the gignitors according as I have declared Hyppiat What maladies or diseases are most usually incident to the horse Hyppos Sundry diseases as namely Auynes and Gripings called in French Tranchaisons Foundrings Farcins Mainges and very many more which severally to recite would spend much time Neverthelesse I will handle briefly their natures dividing them into two sorts viz. Moyst and Dry the moyst doe proceed commonly from naughty bloud the dry commeth of heat as the Scab Mainge and such like diseases proceeding from moystnes
organ of the body by which meanes they are preserved and enabled to perform their naturall and proper function And as touching the cods if the liver be not well stored nay full of pure and perfect bloud neither is the creature able to concoct and digest its meat nor can the cods be hot so as if there be in those parts a defect of heat the seed of the beast cannot be perfectly concocted by which meanes the Horse becommeth frigid and impotent and without any power at all of Procreation And this is as much as need be said of this subject wherein if I have any way erred or not delivered my self so cleerly whereby to be understood as I desire the blame must light upon the great desire I promised to brevity howsoever I have endeavoured what in me lyeth to dilate and explicate my self at full Now will I begin to shew to you what meanes we have to preserve horses from all inward diseases which consisteth of four wayes viz. by Purging Sweating Flebothomy or Bloud-letting and Vomit As touching the first which is Purging it is twofold to wit Cleansing and purging Of outward Purging outward and inward This outward purging is by cleansing the outward parts which must be done immediately at what time you take up your horse from grasse which would be about Saint Bartholomewes day for then the heart of grasse doth begin to decline and therfore after that day the grasse he then feedeth upon breedeth no good but bad and corrupt bloud and so consequently sundry sorts of maladies and infirmities in his body besides the ayre beginneth then to grow sharpe which is also very dangerous yea and most contagious for him and if you suffer him to runne after that time his haire will grow long and rough so as he will not have for that winter any slicke or glittering coat Of this outward cleansing or purging your horse you shall finde taught you in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 6. and the manner how and when it would be done viz in a warme day in the Sunne at what time every part and member of him would be soped washed dryed and cleansed from all manner of sweat scurfe dust dirt and filth yea and that all his whole body over especially his Maine Tayle and Cods who being thus cleansed and made dry again and his yard drawne cleansed and annointed with tryed hogs grease let his eares his Maine just so farre as the top of the head-stall will cover and no more and under the Chaule be handsomely trimmed then pull away by the roots all the smelling haires about and under his mouth and nose and the long stubborn hayres under and about his eyes which done cut away about a handfull of the lower part of his tayle even and decently then cause the Ferrier to shooe him up but let him be carefull to pare him neatly and to open the Heeles and Frush Then cloath him up warme and stopped with small wispes this done annoint all his hoofe with the oyntment having first washed them cleane and made them dry againe prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 11. § 9. Then let his feet be picked cleane and stoppe him with Oxe-doung Cleansing and purging inwardly Now as touching his inward purging this ought to be done evermore before you put him to any labour or exercise and first let him be raked by causing some one who hath a small hand and arme to annoynt them first with a little sweet Butter or Oyle de Bay but some doe use Sope which I doe hold too sharp and so putting his hand into his fundament let him bring forth all his doung and while he is in so doing let him try to feele for Bots or wormes which may sticke fast unto the great Gut and the place where the doung lyeth which if he finde let him pluck them away gently and by degrees and so bring them all out this done give him the Clister mentioned in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 8. Clist c. 4. and so soone as the horse hath received it Clister-wise then presently clap his tayle close to his Tewell and so cause him to keep it so long as you can and this would be done three or foure dayes before the Full or Change of the Moone The next day after give him his first drink inserted lib. 2. cap. 16. § 14. Drinke 1. Drinke 2. purg 4. the next day following give him his second drink shewed you in liq 2. cap. 16. § 14. Purg. 5. and so follow such directions shewed you in those Rules The next day following you have thus given him his two drinks let him bloud Let bloud if you shall finde the bloud to be very bad take the more from him if reasonable good take the lesse but if very good then draw your cord and so do but give the veyne vent and no more then afterwards keep him with warm Mashes as is taught you else-where The next day after bloud letting sweat Sweat him like as is prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 18. § 28. S. And if you doe discover any cold in him by any symptomes then give him the vomit Vomit prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 20. § 1. V. And to prevent any Obstructions in the liver or lungs or his heart any way oppressed or otherwise to preserve the blood pure and from corrupting all which inconveniencies may be a ready meanes to bring your horse to his end give him in his Provender Powderâ— be put iâ— his proâ—der such powders and other Simples which you shall find in sundry places of this Treatise for this will refine his blood and preserve his liver from infection and keep him in perfect health Thus far Sir I have declared unto you what I understand of the Cause of Sicknesse in generall It remaineth now for me to inculcate what are the causes of health and long life which to be briefe are twelve in number viz The first is Nature good digestion 12. Canâ— of healtâ— long life and good Nutriment the second is moderation in feeding and dyet the third is moderate labour the fourth is moderate use of sleeping and waking the fifth is moderate spending upon Mares the sixth is moderate journeyes the seventh is wholesome ayre the eight is not to be exercised too soone after grasse the ninth is to be kept from raw and greene meats the tenth is not to be suffered to eate or drinke being hot the eleventh is not to be either washed or walked at the end of his dayes journeyes the twelfth is to give him with his Provender such powders and simples as are prescribed you in all those Chapters which are by me mentioned Hippiat You have spoken well Hipposerus but I would have you shew me how long life is acquired by these causes which as yet you have not done for you have but onely delivered them in generall heads and termes Wherfore I would gladly know what you can say of
you call your Arman What other vertues hath it more than what you have already delivered Hippos Truely Sir I have shewed you before in a manner all its vertues and to recite them again I say it is most soveraign for Horses that have taken a cold or have inflamations or Pustils under their Chaule or thereby are troubled with the Quinsye or Squinansye These maladies this Confection will help if it be given good and thick with a horne for having the Quinsye in the throat if in giving this Arman it provoketh him not to cough then take some of the confection upon the end of a Buls-Pizell and put it a pretty way down his throat by which meanes he strayning to cough may breake the impost humation in his throat whereby the Horse may be in the lesse danger of his life and causing the Matterative stuffe to vent out the Horse will be in short time perfectly cured Hippoph Are there any other kindes of Arman besides this Hippos Onely one more Sir which also the French have brought amongst us which is not altogether so operative as the former and this it is Arman 2 viz. Take hony one pound and warm it a little upon the fire then take half a pinte of Vineger a little Wheate flower and one penny-worth of Pepper in fine powder mixe all these and administer it bloud warme as aforesaid Hippophil With what manner of vineger doe you usually make up your medicines Hippos When we speake in generall termes of vineger to be put into any medicines to be given either for inward or outward diseases we alwayes intend it must the strongest and best white wine vineger Vineger but if it be of any other kinde of vineger or verjuyce we then do give it in the Receit its proper name Hippophyl As touching hony wherewith you make up your medicines what manner of honey must it be Hippos That should be made of life-honey onely Honey and of none other unlesse common honey or course-honey be in the Receit particularly named as it many times is Hippophyl Let us now goe on to somewhat else what hold you good for the head-ach in a horse § 3. A. Hippos VVE administer according to the nature of the Disease for that the pains in the head are severall and distinct diseases and therefore have severall cures Hippoph Which be those severall maladies and how may a man know and distinguish them each from other Hippos A judicious and cautelous observation is it whereby we doe know and distinguish all sorts of maladies for the Horse being a dumb creature without reason and speech Ach in th◠head is not able like as man can to tell you where his paine lyeth and therefore it must be the eye and judgement of the Ferrier to be able to observe his true symptomes whereby he may goe right to accomplish the cure otherwise he must of necessity faile Wherefore as the diseases of the head are of severall natures every of which doe beget his paine even so are the medicines which we apply as different Now these paines in the head doe proceed from the braine or from the panicles by which meanes they doe properly breed Megrims the Night-Mare Glanders Rhumes Cathars Apoplexies Convulsions Palsies Frenzies the Takings Sleeping-evill Madnesse and the like all which commonly doe proceed from the substance of the braine or from the panicles for that from the cels and ventricles through which the spirits animall doe give feeling and moving to all the parts and members of the body the diseases before mentioned doe engender Hippophyl From what grounds hath this head-ach its source or Organ Hippos The grounds and causes are many Sir some being inward and some outward as by meanes of some cholericke humour which may be predominant by which meanes it doth oft times breed in the panicles or else of some heat taken through violent labour and sometimes by some blow given him in the Poule or other place of the head and some doe hold it cometh of some evill savour which I also doe allow of sometimes it cometh of Crudityes and raw digestions from the Stomack by reason there is so great a sympathy betwixt the Stomack and the Braine whereby they doe continually participate as well of their good dispositions in health as of their domages in the least of their infirmities and sufferings Hippoph But many there be who do hold stifly that a Horse hath no Braines at all but only a kind of windy liquid substance not unlike unto a kind of jelly Hippos That opinion is most erronious for a horse hath a most perfect brain Braines like as hath any other living Creature albeit indeede not in so great a proportion as other Animals have For naturall reason doth dictate that if a Horse had not his Braine it were impossible for him to have semblable diseases in the Head which both Man and all other living things have who are I say likewise subject to such Maladies which could not proceed from any other Causes but only from those before premised Neither were it possible for a Horse to endure so great labour and toyle or to undergoe so great and so many waies such extreame violences as daily he doth if Nature had not endowed him with his organal parts correspōdent to his strength ablenesse and activity of body neyther could he have any memory at all but appeare a Lump of flesh and bones without motion But not to verberate the Ayre I affirme that a Horse hath his Braines in as compleate measure albeit as I have but now touched not in so great a quantity as other beasts have but in as ample solid and sufficient manner as any other living creature together with the skinne which Artists doe call Pannicles which doth adhere to the bones conducted by the Cells or Conducts by which the Vitall Spirits doe give some feeling sense motion to the body from whence proceeds the causes of diseases and sicknesse And for your better satisfaction if you please I may be present when at any time your Huntsman is to cut up a horse for your Hounds I will let you see most plainely both the Braine and the Pannicles Hippoph How shall a man come to know when a Horse hath any pain in his Head Hippos The Symtomes are most evident if you eye him well for his eyes will swell and become watry and ofttimes Matterative he will hang downe his head as if he were sleepy he will pricke his eares upright forsake his meate and his sight will be dim Hippoph What cure have you for the Head-ach Hippos Some use to perfume his head with the stalkes of Garlick and Frankinsence two or three severall times which will bring much liquid stuffe forth of his Nose which indeed is very good and I doe practise it sometimes as occasion is offred but then withall after I have perfumed him I use to let him bloud in the Palate vein
it upon the ground before him and if he hath a minde to eate thereof albeit he make proffer to bring his mouth towards it yet he shall not be able to reach it but will sooner famish when you doe perceive the swelling to appeare first draw bloud from both the Plate-veynes but if you cannot finde them then let him bloud on both sides of the necke to a good proportion which done you may give him the drinke of Diapente with Beere or Ale putting thereinto one ounce of browne sugar candy and halfe an ounce of London Treacle which will drive the sicknesse and griefe from his heart which done annoynt the swelling with this Oyntment Take Hogges grease Bores greace and Basilicon Anticor of each three ounces incorporate all these well into one body and annoynt and rub the swelling therewith every day till it come to a softnesse and then open it and let forth all the corrupted matter then wash the Sore with your Coperas water mentioned in lib. 2. cap. 10. § 4. and then put in your green Oyntment prescribed you in capite ibidem and it will be soon whole ✚ Thus have I cured many Horses of this Disease and I never failed if the Horse had not been swelled too high towards the throat or necke before I took him in hand ✚ But Master Blundeviles and Master Markhams cure for an Anticor is thus First they let him bloud in the plate-plate-veins and then they give him this drinke Take a quart of Malmesey and put thereto halfe a quarterne of Sugar and of Cinamon two ounces and so give it him bloud-warme and keep him warme in the Stable especially his breast that no winde doe offend him and for his drinke let it be warm Mashes and such meat as he will eate And if the swelling doe appeare then besides letting him bloud they doe strike the swelling in divers places with their flegme that the corruption may goe forth and annoynt the place with warme Hogges grease and that will cause it to weare away or else grow to a head if it be kept warme Thus Master Blundevile and Master Markhams cure is in effect the very same Master Markham also prescribeth Malmesey and Diapente which is used also by others and it is very good and he also saith that some do administer Doctor Stephens water whith he affirmeth he hath seen to have wrought in this kinde strange effects For my part I submit for that these Receits seeme very probable howsoever I never did experiment any but that onely which I first inserted which I had of a famous Ferrier in France and therefore I finding mine to be infallible made tryall of none other § 9. A. Hippos Attaint upper VVHat is that you doe call an Vpper Attaint Hyppos It is none other thing but a swelling of the master or Back-sinew of the fore-legge above the Pastern-joynt and most commonly commeth by an over-reach that is when the Horse in running either down a hill or upon deeps or upon or over-thwart high furrowes of plowed lands or upon other evill or uneven grounds doe strike the toe of his hinder-foot against the great sinew of the fore-leg This I say we terme an Vpper Attaint Hippophyl How may a man come to know assuredly that the griefe lyeth in that sinew Hippos Your eye and hand Sir will shew it you very palpably for the sinew will swell and burne and be sore and the Horse will hault therewith Hippoph What cure have you for it Hippos We use to apply to the place a charge restringent which must be siccative Hippoph I should rather think that by applying suppling or mollifying Oyles or Vnguents you might cure it sooner and much better Hippos Herein Sir under your favour you are much mistaken For all things that are suppling are most noxious unto these kinde of Maladies by reason that all Oyles and unguents will cause the Sinew to swell much more than otherwise and therefore we do apply siccative and drying things Some use Cauterizings which indeede will cure and set the Horse upright againe but therein are two inconveniences to wit First albeit it taketh away his paine so as hee desisteth from haulting yet will the place be ever after swelled which wil be a continuall eye-sore during his life Secondly the markes and stroakes where the Iron went wil be ever after seene making the haire of a different colour both which are great blemishes to the Horse Hippoph Wherein then consisteth your best Cure in this case Hippos I alwaies use for a Sorance of this nature to apply this ensuing Charge Take Cantharides two ounces Masticke foure penniworth Attaint â—per or baâ— sinew spraâ— Venice Turpentine two penniworth Euforbium foure drammes Black-Rosin six ounces Aqua-fortis two drammes beate the Cantharides and Euforbium into fine powder then first melt the Masticke and Black-Rosin then put in your Turpentine which so soone as it is molten put in your Cantharides and Euforbium and let all boyle together keeping them stirring and have a speciall care it boyle not over and when you have taken it from the fire put in your Aqua-fortis and so stir them well together and put it into a glasse or gally-pot and so keepe it for your use And when you have occasion to use the same first wash and bath the grieved place well then with your Splatter spread it upon the place being made warme and clap flox upon it of the same colour and give him rest and he will doe well But he must have time and after a weeke that hee hath beene thus charged let him be put forth to grasse if it be not in Winter or the Winter or cold weather approaching ✚ Another Take the whites of two new-layed Egges and the powder of Bole-Armonack and the best and strongest white Wine Vineger incorporate these very well together with the powder of Sanguis draconis and having shaven away the haire as aforesaid spread it good and thick upon the grieved place adding still more every three daies for fifteene dayes together and then put him forth to grasse and let him run a whole March and after so long as you shall thinke to bee sufficient and he wil be sound againe ✚ This I have also made tryall of and I have found it to be right good A French Marshall taught me a Medicine for an Attaint or Over-reach whereof I did never make use howbeit he protested unto me he thought it one of the best cures that he could ever know and I my selfe saw him dresse a Horse therewith but how the Horse became cured I had not time to know by reason I departed from Orleans before the Cure was performed And the Cure was this Take one or two handfuls of Saxafrage and all the Sewet of a Loine of Mutton and a pint of white Wine chop the Hearb and mince the Sewet very small and so boyle all these together which being thus well boyled take a sufficient quantity
doe say that the Italians use to take a spunge well dipped in strong wine vineger and bound to the Sore renewing it twice a day till the kernels doe rot then they open the neather most part of the softnesse and so let the corruption forth and then fill the hole with salt finely brayed and the next day they wash away the filth with warme water and the next day after they annoynt the Sore with Honey and Fich flower mingled together till it be whole This Cure I never made tryall of but it seemeth to me to be a very good and probable Cure Another for the Avives Take Tarre tryed Hogges grease Bay-salt and Frankinsence powdred of each so much as will suffice melt these on the fire all together then with a clout fastened to the end of a sticke boyling hot scald the places 4 or 5 mornings one after another untill the enflamed places doe become soft and ripe Then with your incision knife slit the skin and let forth the corruption then to heale up the sorances take tryed Hogges grease and Verdigrease made into fine powder melt them upon a gentle fire but suffer it not to boyle more then a waume or two at the most then take it off and put to it of ordinary Turpentine as much as will suffice and so stirre all together untill it be cold And herewith annoint the sorances daily till they be whole ✚ This is very good Master Markham in his Master piece hath a Cure for the Avives which he intituleth A most rare and certaine approved Medicine which will cure the Vives without either burning melting rotting or any such like violent exercise But as yet I did never experiment the same The cure is this Take a penniworth of pepper beaten to fine powder Swines grease a spoonefull the juyce of Rue a handfull and of Vineger two spoonfuls mixe all well together and convey it equally into both the eares of the Horse and so tye or stitch them up then shake his eares that the medicine may sinke downewards which done you shall let him bloud in the neck-veyne and in the temple-veine And this saith he is an infallible cure § 12. A. Hippoph VVHat disease is that which we doe call the Arraistes Hippos Arraistes is also a French Epitheton which is a disease we doe commonly call the Rat-tayles engendring in the heeles of a Horse not much unlike to the Scraches but that it is much more venimous and malignant It commeth of too much rest and the Keepers want of care in the not rubbing and dressing him as also by reason that the Horse standeth continually in the Stable his fore-feet being higher than his hinder-feet for by reason of his great rest and pampering the bloud corrupting in his body falles down into his hinder-legges and breedeth this disease which now we doe call the Arraistes Arraistes or Rat-Tayles Rat-tayle◠The best Cure for this Malady is first to let the Horse be ridden till he be warme whereby the veines will swell and the better appeare Let him bloud in the fetlocke veins on both sides making him to bleed well and the next day after wash the sores with warme water and then clip away all the hayre from about the Sores then annoynt the grieved places with this Oyntment viz. Take greene Coperas and Verdegreace of each two ounces and of common honey foure ounces beat your Coperas and Verde-greace very small and so worke them with your honey to a perfect unguent and herewith annoint the Sores daily till they be whole ✚ And thus we doe conclude this Chapter CHAP. V. § 1. B. Hippoph VVHat is your best way to breake and heale the backe of a Horse that is swolne Hippos We have many wayes to cure a Malady of this nature if the place be swelled and yet not ripe enough to be opened then apply that remedy which you shall finde taught you hereafter to resolve or ripen the same and when it is ripe put your incision knife unto it or a hot iron and so open it in the lowest part so as the putrifaction may the more easily passeaway then every morning inject this Lotion with a Seringe which is thus to be made viz. Backe swelled Take Honey-suckle leaves Plantine Ribwort Yarrow Bursa-Pastoris Knot-grasse and Cumphrey of each halfe a handfull boyle these in a quantity of running water till a moity be consumed then straine the herbs from the water casting away the hearbs and then set the water upon the fire again and so soon as it beginneth to boyle againe put into the said water hony of Roses one ounce Allum and Alkenet of each two drams stirre all these well together and let it boyle till these latter ingredients be well dissolved then take it from the fire and when it is cold put it into a cleane glasse keeping it close stopped for your use Vse this water every day five or sixe dayes together and it will cure any Sorance in the backe or other part of the body provided that to skin the sore you apply a rag made wet in the said water ✚ Another Receit I have wherewith I have cured many galled backs and other sorances which is as followeth Take water and salt and boyle them well together and first wash the sore place therewith Then take Pepper made into very fine powder and strew it upon the sore it will heale it in very short time ✚ A third I have much more soveraigne than the two former which cureth not onely all galled backs but any other wound whatsoever Take Rosin and common Pitch of each sixe ounces Masticke and Incense of each one ounce Turpentine Galbanum Bolearmonacke of each three ounces melt dissolve and incorporate all these together upon a gentle fire and as they doe begin to coole make them up into rolles and when you would use this Salve spread it upon a cloath or leather somewhat thin but if you be to use it without either cloath or leather to any outward part that is not yet broken then lay it on much thicker than you use to doe plaister-wise and whilst it is warme clap flocks of the same colour upon it This Emplastrum as it cureth any swelling gall wound sore or hurt so it ripeneth breaketh and healeth all impostumations biles and pustils It is also a most excellent defensative plaister for the staying and drying up of all evill humours and also very soveraign for asswaging of swellings ✚ Another Receit I have taught me by a worthy Knight but I never made use thereof Take the leaves of Asmart and wash them and lay them all over the place and albeit you ride him every day yet will he heale very fast But if he doe remaine in the Stable without exercise if you put the water of the leaves upon the place it will heale him speedily Another Receit I have which was taught me by a French Marishall howbeit I made no tryall thereof but he
thicknesse or white filmes in his eyes it commeth most commonly of a rhume which passeth into his eyes from his head which you may soone perceive by his continuall weeping and sending forth watery moysture which will run from his eyes upon his face which when you shall observe let then his Keeper sundry times every day wash and bath his eyes with cold water newly drawn from the Well and this will prevent his filmes and cure that flux or rhume but if the films doe come before you observe that he had any such rhume or running at the eyes then Take mans dung and put it into a Fire-pan and so burne it untill it come to be a cole then beat it to fine powder and put thereof into a Goose quill and blow it into his eyes twice a day and this will cleer his eyes againe ✚ Take also the tops of the angriest young red nettles a handfull and stamp them very well then put it into a fine linnen cloth and then dip it into beere a little and so straine forth the juyce which done put a few graynes of salt bay or white to it and when it is dissolved drop of this liquor into the grieved eye one drop and do thus morning and evening and it will take away not onely a filme and other such like thicknesse which may hinder his sight but it will also take away a Pearle These two Receits I have often practised and I have found them very good ✚ Hippoph I have heard some say that they can make a Horse suddenly blinde and yet after restore him to his perfect sight againe but I think they doe boast and cracke of more then they be able to doe how thinke you Hipposerus Hippos Why truely Sir this is easily done and I will briefly discover unto you the secret which is thus Take Saffron and dry it and make the same into very fine powder as much as will suffice and put of this powder into a quill and so blow it into his eyes and when it hath remained there by the space of halfe a quarter of an houre wipe this powder from his eyes so cleane as that it may not be discerned and this will make him stone blinde But if you be desirous to have him to reassume his sight again then Take Garlicke and chew it in your mouth and then whilst it is still in your mouth breath into his eyes and in five or sixe times thus doing he will againe see very perfectly ✚ But this latter must be administred within eight dayes after the Saffron was blowne into his eyes otherwise his sight will never be recovered ✚ §. 9. B. Hippoph VVHat is good against the biting of a mad dog Hippos I have onely three cures for it whereof I never had occasion to make tryall howbeit they were all recommended unto me for speciall good the first is Take the tendertops of Rue Boxe-leaves and Primrose-roots Biting of mad Dog of each a handfull pound them together in a morter and put them into a quart of new milke with London Treacle one ounce and so give it him bloud warme This proportion will serve very well for two Horses Another Take Hobgoblin perewincle and Boxe leaves of each one handfull first mince them small and then stampe them very small in a stone morter and with milke or beere administer it both at the Change or Full of the Moone A third cure I also have which is this Take the hearb which groweth in dry and barren hils called The Starre of the earth you must give it three dayes together the first time you must gather three of these hearbs with all the whole roots and wash them cleane and wipe them cleane then pound them well loosing no part of them which done give it your Horse in Milke Beer Ale or white Wine but be carefull the Horse take all the hearbs and roots but if you will you may make up these hearbs and roots in fresh or sweet butter which will doe as well the second day give your Horse five of these hearbs and roots like as you gave him them the day before and the third day give him seaven Doe this punctually as I have here prescribed you and be you well assured your Horse will be perfectly cured for albeit I my selfe have never tryed this medicine yet I doe know the party of whom I had this Cure hath cured much cattell of all sorts therewith for it cureth all sorts of living creatures which shall be bitten by a mad Dog I my selfe can say thus much of this Receit that I knew it cure a whole kennell of Hounds of a Gentlemans one Beagle excepted which they did not suspect to be bitten which indeed was bitten so he fell mad and dyed but all the residue escaped and did very well Another time a Gentlemans sonne of my acquaintance was unfortunately bitten by a mad Dog who was cured by the party who taught me this Receit and this young Gentleman for he was then but a boy of ten yeares old was so farre spent with the rancor of the disease before this man tooke him in hand as that his head began to he addle and he to talke very idly yet he cured him so as he lived and did well and is at this houre living he being now come to mans state and a very handsome and proper man whose Parents whilst they lived I very well knew and with whom I was very intimately acquainted ✚ § 10. B. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you for a Spaven Hippos We have two sorts of Spavens the one we call a Through wet Bloud or Bog-Spaven the other a Dry or Bone-Spaven the first of these two is easily cured the second may be cured but such a cure is not for every Ferrier to take upon him to compasse for that it is a Cure of very great difficulty and of no lesse danger To speake therefore first of the Bloud Spaven Bloud-Spaven it is a Disease which groweth upon the hough with a swelling which is full of bloud which though it be greatest upon the inside yet the swelling appeareth also upon the outside being fed and nourished by the great veine which runneth along the inside of the thigh and so commeth along the inside of the hough and so downe the legge to the pasterne and so from the pastern to the bottome of the foot This malady commeth by meanes that the bloud is corrupted through hard riding especially when the Horse is very young Now the bloud being through over much heating too much stirred it begetteth a fluxible humour which being marvellous thin falleth to running downwards towards its center but it is stopped in its passage in the hough where it resideth and by that meanes swelleth and so becommeth a disease which pestring that place makes the joynt stiffe whereby he becommeth starke lame not being able to goe but with great difficulty and paine The signe is most easie being most apparant
Balsome lay on the said Charge ✚ Hippophyl But let us looke backe againe to the Eyes What say you to Bloud-shotten Eyes For a Bone or Dry-Spaven or Curbe First take up the veine that feedeth it whether Spaven or Curb as well below as above then give it fire then charge the place with pitch made hoat clap flax upon it then foure daies after you must dulcifie the sorance with the Oyle Pampileon and fresh Butter molten together upon a gentle fire and when the scarre shal be falne away you must applie unto it a kind of stuffe which is called Blauco or white made I think of Iessoe and so continue it untill it be whole ✚ This is very good § 12. B. Hippos I Say Sir that Bloud-shotten Eyes may easily be holpen if a right Cure be taken and the Ferrier perite for as touching Eyes they are a tender Member soonest hurt and offended of any part about the body of any living Creature and therefore there ought the greater care to be taken in the Cure thereof and take this by the way for a point of good Counsell and for a good Rule that in administring to the Eyes you be very carefull that your Medicine bee not too old but often made and renewed for by using old made Medicines either their Vertues do passe away whereby the Member dressed receives no good or else by being too old the Medicines may most easily putrifie and corrupt and so by that meanes do much more harme than good to the Member you hoped to cure insomuch as if you be not very cautelous in making and compounding your Receipts for the Eyes aright you may most easily endeavouring to cure one Eye not faile in putting out both All diseases in the Eyes come only of two Causes viz. First either inward or outward Secondly by meanes of some Blow Stripe Prick Cut Bruise or some such like accident The Inward Causes do either proceed from evill Humours which do make their resort to the Eyes Bloud-shoten Eyes or else by the meanes of some cold taken which breaketh forth at the Eyes into some great Flux or else by meanes of some hot sharp or salt Humours which doe make their resort to the Eyes all which doe and will engender Bloud-shotten weeping or watery Eyes and these doe proceed from Inward causes Now these Maladies which have their source from outward Causes are as I have before mentioned eyther by a Blow Stripe Prick bruise or the like which will cause paine and anguish and such like inconveniencies whereby the Member being distempered through heat burning glowing c. will weepe and send forth much moisture which will produce not only Bloud-shotten and Weeping-Eyes but also if Art and Care be not added in time convenient Dimnesse of Sight Filmes Pearles Pin and web Dragons Serpentines and such numberlesse Sorances yea and â—irect Blindnesse it selfe without speciall providence and care used by way of prevention Wherefore for Maladies of this Nature I will prescribe you a few Receits which shal be very good and approved First therefore whereas the common cure in practise among our ordinary Ferriers and Smiths is to draw bloud as well from the Temple-veines as for the Neck veins my Counsell is which experience is taught mee by my Master here and it hath not a little profited and pleasured me to be very cautelous how you draw bloud from weake and enfeebled Eyes as bloud-shotten and Rhumatique-eyes must bee unlesse in cases of extreme necessity for by so doing I have known Horses in like cases which before they had bloud taken from them were able to see a little but after bloud-letting they have become so blind as a Beetle nor were they ever able no Art wanting to see more so as they after became very notable strong able Millhorses First therefore I aver that insteed of opening a veine I counsell you to lay unto the Temple-veines a Charge whereby to stay and hinder that Flux of noxious Humours which were the cause of this Malady and let this Charge bee made thus Bloud-shotten Eyes a Charge Take Pitch Rosin Mastick of each like much melt all these together and either apply it upon a Plaister made of Leather cut round or of Velvet of that color or as nere to the colour of the horse as may bee or else lay it good and warme to the Temple-veines with a cloth fastned to a sticke and before it be cold clap Flockes of the same colour to the place and let it so remaine on till of it selfe it fall away Then dresse the grieved Eyes with these ensuing things Take the white of a new-layed Egge Hony Selandine and red-Fennell of each so much as will suffice stamp them all well together and so bind it unto the grieved Eye ✚ But if you do find that the sight waxeth thick and that you observe dimnesse of sight in him through his weeping Take then Lapis Calaminaris and put it into the fire making it red-hot which infuse or quench in a pint of white Wine which done let the stone be made red-hot and quenched in the same Wine the second time and so in like manner the third time and after the third quenching when it is through cold dry it and beat it into fine powder and put the powder thereof into a glasse Viall and put thereto your white Wine wherein your Stone was quenched and after it hath stood and infused one whole night at the least put one drop of the cleerest of the Wine into the eye of the horse and so into the other eye also twise a day till you have staied the Rhume quite cleered his Eyes ✚ Another Take the Iuyce of Selendine Red-Fennell Vervine and Rue of each a like quantity viz. one Branch or Sprigge of eyther stamp them together and straine it through a cleane fine linnen ragge into a little cleere running water then put into it as much grated Ginger and Bay-salt finely powdred of each so much as will lie upon a two penny piece putting all these into a glasse-viall let it stand to settle and when you doe see it as cleere as it will be drop a drop of this water into either eye morning and evening bloud-warme c. ✚ Another Take also Ale-hoofe which is indeed your true ground-Ivy and stampe it well in a stone morter and if it be too dry put thereinto a little white Rose water or the water of Eye-bright distilled then straine it into a glasse and annoynt wash bathe and taint if need be the sorance therewith and in short time it will cure the eyes perfectly ✚ The residue of Receits I reserve to their due places § 13. B. Hippoph VVHat good cure have you for a bloud-running itch Hippos This sorance commeth to a Horse commonly by meanes of some extreame heate giuen him in the body through over-violent exercise whereby the bloud is enflamed Bloud-râ—ning itch some whereof getteth betwixt the skin and the
salt or other filth and wash it so long in sundry waters in some great bowle until it come to be very white Then melt onely this oyntment and so keep it for your use wherewith annoynt the places grieved and in short time it will cure them ✚ This I had of a famous French Marishall and I have often used it and I ever found it to be most soveraigne for all sorts of burnings But if Hogges grease may not be had then take the fat of Bacon and wash it well and it is marvellous good ✚ Another Take fresh butter and the whites of egges of each as much as will suffice beat them well together till you bring them to a formall unguent and annoint the places burned therewith and it will speedily take away the fire and cure them soundly ✚ This is also speciall good Another Take a stone of quick-lime which must be well burned that which is best burned will be lightest dissolve it in faire water and when the water is settled so as all the Lime remaineth in the bottome straine the cleerest of the water thorow a fine cleane linnen cloath then put unto this water either the oyle of Hemp-seed or of the oyle of Olive of like quantity with the water and so beating them well together you shall have an excellent unguent most precious for all sorts of burnings And the nature of these three unguents be to leave no scarres Wherefore we apply them for most soveraign remedies as well for man as beast in cases of this nature ✚ This also I have often tryed and I have found them all to be most singular § 19. B. Hippoph HOw doe you take away bunches knots warts and wens from a Horse Hippos These kindes of sorances doe come to a Horse by meanes of much ranknesse of bad bloud which is engendred of peccant humours which humours doe proceed of naughty meat Bunche◠Knots 〈◊〉 They are so apparant to the eye that any man may point at them with his finger The way to free your Horse of them is first take up such veines as you may know to feed them then shave away the hayre from about the places and for foure dayes together lay Aegiptiacum to them at foure dayes end wash and bathe the places with strong wine vineger made hot then take wine vineger one pinte green coperas and Dyers gals of each foure ounces cantharides two ounces bay salt one handfull make these into fine powder and let them boyle on the fire with the vineger a little and so wash the sorances therewith scalding hot and every third day continue thus to doe till you perceive them to dry up Let the scurfe fall away of its own accord at leisure if any more shall happen to grow forth afterwards apply the same medicine againe albeit it was formerly cured by the same thing yet I have not seen any Horse to fall into the same malady againe and during the time you have him in cure let him not come in any water but keep him in the stable warme ✚ Another cure is this First as before shave away the hayre and take up the veins which feed those sorances then sixe dayes after let him bloud in the heeles to draw away the humours downwards then wash and bathe him well with hot vineger which done take a quart of oyle of Nuts and Verdegreace powdred two ounces and a quarter of a pinte of Inke mixe all these well together and apply it cold to the places rubbing and bathing them well therewith and if the knots and warts doe not begin to dry up at the first dressing then must you begin again every fourth day untill such time as they be throughly cured ✚ Another Take course honey one pound Verdegreace in powder three ounces mixe these well together with the finest wheat flowre and so bring it to an oyntment and after you have cleansed the sorances as before is shewed you apply this oyntment to the place with a rowler if there be any warts among the knots cut them away cleane before you doe apply the said oyntment and thus doing ten or twelve dayes every other day he will be perfectly cured ✚ Another Shave away the hayre and take up the veins as aforesaid then wash and bath the place well then take mutton sewet mallowes and brimstone make a decoction hereof when you have very well bathed the sorances with the said decoction take the substance thereof and putting it between two linnen cloaths make it fast to the place over night and in the morning take it away which done apply unto the place this unguent viz. Take vineger and mutton suet the gumme of the Pine-tree new waxe and rosin of each like much melt all these together but put in your Gum last and so annoint the sorances with a feather twice every day till they be whole Of this Cure I never made tryall but it seemeth to be a good one You must not forget in every of these Cures to take up such veines which in your judgement you may finde to feed those sorances and to shave away the hayre from about them cleane Now with this other Cure I will conclude Wash and bathe the places with the decoction last before mentioned and lay the substance to the sores Take then new Waxe Turpentine and Gum Arabicke of each like much melt them to an unguent and herewith annoint the sorances during which time let him come into no water and the Poults of Mallowes c. must be every night applyed till he be whole Another Take and to conclude blew slate and brimstone of each four ounces Verdigrease one ounce made into fine powder then take fresh butter four pound melt it in a small kettle or Posnet and so soon as the butter is molten put into it all the former ingredients and so let them boyle wel and when you have brought it to a perfect unguent take it off and keep it for your use And when you would use it warm thereof upon a chafing dish and coles and annoynt your Horse therwith upon the sorance and that but once and it will suffice But you must let him bloud the day before you doe annoint him in the necke veine And at the end of eight dayes take a quantity of cold Lee and three ounces of blacke sope and wash the sorance therewith This quantity of oyntment will serve but onely for two Horses Of this Receit I never had occasion to make tryall but it was taught me by a famous Marishall of France who commended it unto me for an extraordinary good Receit and truely it seemes to me so to be CHAP. VI. §. 1. C. Hippophylus WHat is good to bee applyed to a Horse that hath cast himselfe in his Halter Hippos This commonly commeth to a Horse which being tyed down to the manger his eare or Poule itching with his hinder Foote scratcheth the the place that itcheth so as when he taketh away his Foote
Take also Turpentine halfe a pound Tarre halfe a pint new Wax halfe a pound Sallet Oyle one pint Melt all these except the Turpentine together till they be well mixed and a little before you take it from the fire put in your Turpentine and so stirre it till it be cold but before hand make him a Buskin of Leather with a thick sole made fit for his hoofe but wide enough that it may be tyed about his Pasterne and dresse his hoofe with this medicine laying Tow or Hurds upon it and so put on the said buskin and fasten it to the pasterne joynt or a little above but so as that the buskin may no way offend or trouble the foot renewing your medicine every day once till it be whole ✚ This Receit is also most soveraign for a Horse that is hoofe-bound and as the new hoofe beginneth to come it behoveth you carefully to observe where it groweth either harder or thicker in one place more than in another or crumbleth or goeth out of order or fashion any where about the Hoofe which when you shall perceive file the place with your Rape and so keep the hoofe in good fashion by which meanes there will come a very perfect hoofe againe which being put him out to grasse into some moyst Pasture or Meadow for that is the onely way to cause the hoofe to becomme tough Hippophyl What is the reason that in all your medicines in which you use Turpentine you put that in last and not when you put in your other ingredients Hippos Sir I shall give you in a word a sufficient reason for this demand to wit if the ingredients which I doe put into any medicine be to be molten upon the fire as Gums Pitch Tarre Rosin and the like if I should put in my Turpentine together at once with the residue before it could be sufficiently molten or boyled the Turpentine being a drug so subtile would consume it selfe into vapour and by that meanes leave the medicine imperfect and that is the cause why I doe put in my Turpentine evermore a little before I take it from the fire §. 4. C. Hippoph IN what cases doe you Cauterize and what be its vertues Hippos Cauterization or giving of fire is of two natures viz. Actuall and Potentiall your Cautery actuall is made by hot burning instruments with which you seare and burn those places which be requisite for the perfecting of the Cure you have in hand which cannot be peradventure otherwise well cured but by giving of the fire as in case of great impostumations stanching of bloud in wounds or in searing of veines sinewes or the like or else in case of dismembring if other meanes be not at hand whereby to stay the flux of bloud without danger of bleeding to death and so likewise in very many cases of this nature wherein I doe advise all men that are not very perfect in giving the fire that they doe not practise upon Horses of price Cautery actuall but first upon Iades and low-prized Horses to the end they may the better come to know how to carry their hand and to understand themselves in this Art the better as when they are to use the lighter and when the heavier hand as also that they do make their circles round and their lines streight and even and not crooked or waving For this actuall fire is a thing most necessary for them that doe truely know and understand the true use and vertue thereof and therefore it ought to be very carefully judiciously and moderately applyed and never but upon good and very considerate grounds which in so doing you shall finde it to be a most soveraigne remedy to hinder and stay all manner of corruption whereunto any member may be enclined provided that in the handling of your instrument you touch not Muscles Arteries Sinewes Ligaments Cords or the like for so you may utterly lame where you would set upright and destroy where you would cure excepting onely in cases needfull For by applying this actuall fire you shall joyne and conglutinate parts and members severed dry up superfluous moysture and sinke members swelled you shall besides bring forth all evill and putrifactious matter congealed and gathered into knots as Wens Biles Pustils Exulcerations and the like you shall also asswage old griefes and make perfect all such parts of the body as be any way corrupted neither shall you need feare the increase of any evill humours by reason that the skin being severed by meanes of the hot iron it doth ripen and digest all manner of putrifaction and matrative stuffe whereby it venteth and passeth away much more easily healing and qualifying all griefe and paine causing the member which before was subject to festring and to gangrene to become the sounder and by much the stronger so as nothing of disadvantage will be remaining but the scar onely where the iron passed and the worst that can be made thereof will be but a little eye-sore But then you must have a very great regard unto your Instruments that they be made according to the nature and quality of the place and member which is to be seared for one fashion will not serve in all causes for as the places which are to be cauterized are commonly different in shape and proportion so also ought the shapes and fashions of your instruments to be made accordingly You are also to have a speciall care to the heating of your instruments which ought to be done with a right good judgement for as they must not be too cold so ought they not to be too hot for by that meanes you may easily enflame the cauterized places too much Againe in giving the fire great care must be had to the bearing of the hand for therein consisteth very great cunning and as I have before admonished you to be carefull that you touch not any sinew or ligament so no fire is to be given to the dislocation or fraction of any bone And as touching the mettle whereof your instruments are to be made some commend and prefer gold silver and brasse or copper before steele or iron but I will not controule any mans knowledge confessing mine own to be the least Onely thus much I may averre of that little I have through Gods permission that having made tryall of them all yet I have ever in all my practise found iron and steele to be the very best and most certaine to worke with of all the other mettals and my reason is because steele or iron will retaine it s once received heat longer than any other mettle whereby I cannot be so much deceived in my work for gold silver and brasse as they be sooner made hot than iron or steele so are they as soone cold now steele and iron mettals are much more substantiall and harder of nature then the other mettals be and therefore as they are somewhat longer before they be hot so they retaine their heat much
it come by ranknesse of seed or of bloud then let him have a Mare and cover her two or three dayes together and halfe an houre after ride him into the water above the cods or stones against the streame and he will doe well ✚ But if this disease come by other causes then Take the Lees of Claret Wine and Comen-seed made into fine powder and a little Wheat or Beane flower boyle these together to an unguent and so warme as he may well endure it annoint the cods therewith which done draw forth his yard and wash it and his sheeth also with white wine vineger and three or foure houres after ride him into the water above the cods and let him also stand in the water some short time and sometimes ride him against the streame doe this every day till the swelling be asswaged ✚ This is a very good Cure Another Take the roots of wild Cucumbers and white salt so much as will suffice boyle these in faire water to an oyntment and annoynt the cods therewith warme and then apply this oyntment Take Goats grease or for default thereof Deeres suet the white of an Egge and Sallet oyle boyle these over a gentle fire and herewith annoynt the cods but this must be applyed after he hath been ridden into the water and dry againe doe this every day once till he be well ✚ This I have often tryed and have found it to be right good Another First annoynt and bathe the cods in the juyce of Hemlock and when it is dryed then Take Pigeons dung and new Milke and boyle it till it be as thick like to a Poultesse and therewith annoint the cods every day once Another First let him bloud in both the spur or flanck veines Then take oyle of Roses and vineger of each a pinte and of Bolearmonack in fine powder two ounces make all these into one body and being luke-warme annoynt the cods therewith and the next day ride him into the water up to the cods against the streame then bring him into the stable and when he is through dry annoynt him againe thus continuing to do till he be well But if the cods be swolne by meanes of any hurt bite or stroke then apply to them this following charge A charge for swelled cods Take Bolearmonack in powder vineger and the whites of Egges as much as will suffice well beaten and wrought together and annoynt him therewith daily till it be abated and if it impostumate where you finde it to be soft open it either with a hot iron or with your incision knife if it breake not of it selfe and so heale it up with the oyntment taught you in lib 2. cap. 10. § 4. and it will soone be whole ✚ This is very soveraigne §. 11. C. Hippoph VVHat say you to the Collick Hippos It is Sir a disease which commeth of winde and therefore we generally call it the winde collicke the French call this disease the Tranchaisons Collicke it causeth great gripings and extreame paine in the belly of the Horse so as he will oft times lye down and tumble he will also strike at his belly with his hinder feet and stamp with his fore-feet and the paine will be so great as to cause him to forsake his meat these signes I have often observed in Horses perplexed with this malady and albeit I have sundry Receits for it and all or the most of them by me tryed and approved good yet one of Master Blundeviles and Master Markhams I hold inferiour to none of mine for I have often tryed it and this is it Take a quart of Muskadine or of sweet Sack of Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each halfe an ounce Sugar two ounces make all these into fine powder and give it him bloud warme then annoynt his flankes with oyle de Bay but I often use to annoynt them with the oyntment of Acopum I finding it to be much better then bridle him up and trot him out a good round trot or gallop him softly sometimes the space of an houre untill he doe dung but if he will not then rake him or else put an Onyon pilled and jagged into his fundament then for three or foure dayes let his drinke be either sweet Mashes or white water and keep him warme and he will doe well againe ✚ Another Keep him fasting over night and in the morning give him this drinke Take of white Wine a quart Fenugrick foure ounces Bay-berries and Pepper of each foure ounces Graines and Ginger of each one ounce Water-Cresses two handfuls Sage one handfull Sengrene one pound Mints a handfull stampe the hearbs and pound the spices and put them into the wine and let it boyle a little then straine it and put to it of life Honey two spoonfuls and so give it him bloud-warme ✚ This I have also found to be very good notwithstanding if he be a stoned Horse the best cure for him is to have a Mare especially if he be so troubled with the collicke so as that he cannot pisse besides it helpeth and preventeth sundry sorts of sicknesses and diseases and strengtheneth nature ✚ Another Take of white Wine one pinte and three or foure Cantharides and make them into very fine powder and give this to the Horse well brewed in wine bloud-warme This I never tryed for that these flyes being a strong corasive have deterred me howsoever I have been often invited thereunto by many good Ferriers who have averred unto me that they have often used it and have found it to be right good Another Take Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each one ounce all made into fine powder and well mixed then put it into a quart of Muskadine and let it boyle a while then take it off and put to it of Honey one spoonfull give it him bloud-warme which done cloath him up and litter him and so let him stand upon his trench foure houres then give him meat and an houre after a sweet Mash or white water This was taught me by a Noble Knight who said he had often used it But if your Horse hath the collicke and stone then Take of white wine one pinte of Burr-seeds eight ounces Collicke and Stone made into fine powder of Parsley-seed two ounces in powder also of Isope unset Leekes and Water-Cresses of each halfe a handfull of black Sope halfe an ounce stamp all the hearbs in a morter and straine them with the Wine then put to that liquor your Burre and Parsley seeds and so give it him bloud-warme this will breake the stone and bring it from him with much ease and cure his Collicke ✚ This I have often administred § 12. C. Hippophyl VVHat Disease is that which is called the Colt Evill Hyppos It is a disease in the yard sheath and cods of a Horse or Gelding and it commeth to Horses by meanes of heat and ranknesse of seed and to a Gelding by weaknesse and coldnesse of seed to the Horse through
time doth waste the liver of the Horse whereby he dyeth for if for your better understanding you shall be pleased to open Horses which doe dye of this disease you shall evermore finde the chine and pith of the Horse to be sound and whole but the liver perished and his lungs putrified by reason whereof the Horse long before his death casteth forth of his nose much corrupt and stinking matter and filth wherefore this malady cannot in reason be stiled the mourning of the Chine but meerely the Glaunders and for remedy thereof you shall have sundry excellent Receits when we shall come to handle this disease and therfore till then I forbeare to speake any more thereof Hippoph You question also another disease called a broken winde why this is so generall a malady as that no man but giveth it that name what doe you call it Hippos Sir as touching this infirmity I say there is none such for you must understand that this disease so vulgarly called a broken wind is truely a shortnesse of breath or a taint or defect in the winde Pursivenesse the Asmat or Purtisick as Artists doe call it Three causes there be of this infirmity two whereof proceed from a cold formerly taken and the third from another cause as shall presently be demonstrated The first is an exulceration of the lungs which doth begin from a cold the second by clinging and growing together of the lights whose origen came also of cold and the third is a dislocation of the lungs and this last commeth by meanes of some violent or sudden act or motion of the body or by some fall whereby the lungs were become dislocated displaced or turned in the body of the Horse every of which doe occasion shortnesse of breath by reason the lungs have not power sufficient being the bellowes of the body to open shut and play at pleasure and this is the cause why the Horse heaveth at the ribs and flankes fetcheth his breath short and hot at the nose wheeseth and oft times reeleth when he is put to little that doth straine his winde and therefore so long as he is kept in the stable at dry and hard meats he heaveth more then when he is at grasse for if you doe wash his Provender in Ale or Beere and sprinkle his Hay with water you shall perceive him to heave the lesse but when he runneth at grasse he heaveth so little as hardly to be seen and the reason is for that the Horse having naturally a very moyst body the cold which he hath taken doth so condense and make thicke those humours which before were thinne which doe whilst they were tenues passe most easily through the pores but now they are become thick viscous and slimy stopping the pores in such sort as hardly to be able to breath but with great labour and no lesse paine which doth provoke him to heave and lift by reason that the lungs pores and pipes are so stopped and opprest as not to be able to performe their function and naturall office for which nature hath created them and besides those stoppings doe constraine him to cough and labour so extreamely as to endanger oft times the breaking of a veyne from whence ensue many more inconveniences then this one neverthelesse you may have meanes to help his winde but to recover him perfect and sound againe I dare not absolutely promise you and if you be solicitous to understand more of this subject to save both your owne labour and mine if you will be pleased to peruse Master Blundevile and Master Markham they are able to give you ample satisfaction §. 15. C. Hippoph VVHat meanes have you to helpe a consumption Hippos We have two kindes of consumptions the first is called the dry malady the other the consumption of the flesh as touching the first which commonly commeth at the first of a cold taken then it exulcerateth the lungs which in the beginning sendeth forth thinne matter from the nose but after when it is growne more tough and viscous it runneth no more but causeth a maceration and leannesse through the whole body whereby he droopeth and pineth away and albeit he eateth and drinketh yet it is without appetite his meat doing him little good The signes to know it are these his belly will be gaunt Dry Malady and he will be Hide-bound his flesh will consume almost to skinne and bones if you strike him on the belly it will sound hollow his haire will stare neither will he cast it in due season when other Horses which be sound will doe he will cough hollow and faintly the Horse that is troubled with this disease well may he be kept for some time alive but long he cannot be for the malady is incurable if it be too long let runne and therefore I leave him to Dogs and Crowes in his languishing plight The other consumption is that of the flesh which also beginneth of a cold formerly taken which for want of remedy in time occasioneth a generall dislike and maceration throughout the whole body it commeth from immoderate labour or travell by violent heat and cold taken upon it it commeth also by riding him into the water after a great heat given and then set up presently negligently as once it hapned to a young Nagge of good mettell and spirit and of very great hope the owner of which Nagge delivered him to an Ambler to pace who whilst he had him in agitation hearing Hounds abroad made in to them who rodde him hard all day to the death of the Hare then comming home hot and all in a sweat neere to the Amblers House was a River with a Water-Mill where he set him up to the skirts of the Saddle then brought him into the Stable where was neyther cloath litter or other thing to keepe him warme or wherewith to rub him at which time hee tooke so desperate a cold as never after to be cured for in short time after he brought him to the Gentleman that did owne him when upon his comming home the Nagge drooped forsooke his meate and became very sick the Gentleman desired me to endeavour the best I might for his recovery for that he loved the Nagge well I ignorant of the cause of his Malady went as I thought according to Art I tooke bloud from sundry veines I gave him a Suppository and after certaine Clysters which I assured me were most needfull for him Consumâ—â—â—on all that I did administer wrought very kindly and well but yet nothing could provoke in him an appetite or be the meanes of any amendment I then sayed him then with frictions and Cordialls but all was cast away ayring or ought else would not prevaile then I perswaded the Gentleman to turne him to grasse it being in the middle of May and a very seasonable time for I found him to bee inwardly sound he ran at grasse about a month but still grew weaker and every day more meager
and Sallet Oyle of each one pint then take wax foure ounces and Beane Flower twelve Spoonefuls and so boyle it and after straine it and bring it to an Vnguent and therewith anoynt the Tumors and swelled parts which being done apply this Plaister to the places Another Take Darnell and red Docks of each two handfuls bruise them and then boyle them in wine and Salet Oyle of each one pint and Beane Flower foure Spoonefuls and put thereto of Asses or Oxes dung so much as will suffice when it is boyled to a pultis apply it Playster-wise and use this every day once till it be well ✚ This is also very good Another Take Linseed and pound it in a Morter and of Fenugrick in powder of each foure ounces Pitch and Rosin of each three ounces Damaske Rose leaves dryed two ounces Pitch of Greece six ounces boyle all these together and when you are ready to take it from the fire adde thereto of Turpentine two ounces Honey six ounces and Sallet Oyle so much as will suffice and thus applying this Salve Plaister wise to the place it will mollifie any hard substance ✚ This I have often tryed and have found it to bee very good §. 7. D. Hippoph BVt Hipposerus is there any cure for a sick Horse whose infirmity is so desperate and he so farre spent as to bee generally judged to be almost at the poynt of death Hippos Truely Sir both my Master and my selfe have done such cures upon Horses which have beene so desperately sick as you speak of insomuch as the beholders have pronounced sentence of death upon them and the owners would have beene well content to have beene satisfied and well appayed with their skinnes and shooes and I will shew you what our cure is First open the neck veine and let him bleed well then two houres after his bleeding Take of Diatesseron halfe an ounce and give it him bloud warme in Muskadine a pint Desperate sicknesse or Sack for want thereof or else if these be not on the suddaine to be gotten then take good Ale or Beere with the like quantity of Diatesseron then having given it walke him halfe an houre if he be able in the warme Sunne or if there be not Sunne-shine then in some warme Stable or Barne then set him up warme cloathed and littered and let him be rubbed all over as Head Pole Neck and Legges and especially twixt the Eares for that greatly easeth the payne in the head by reason it dissolveth and disperseth the humors at noone unbridle him and offer him a little sweet Hay sprinkled with water which if he shall refuse to eate as t is likely he will then offer him so much bread as the quantity of a penny loafe and let him eate it all if he will but if he do refuse to eate thereof also then give him one gallon of the strongest Ale-wort you can get of the first runnings so soon as it is mashed but let it not be over-hot and before barme be put unto it give him this I say bloud warm but if that cannot be gotten then provide him in a readinesse against the same houre a sweet Mash which when he hath taken fume his head with Olibanum Storax and Benjamin and then let him be rubbed againe as before and see him warme kept as is usuall for sicke Horses in physicke and thus doe for three dayes together in all poynts bloud-letting excepted for that must be once onely unlesse extraordinary cause doe require the same and assure your selfe your Horse will mend daily and recover his health and strength in short time and at three dayes end give him no more Mashes but in their stead let him have white water onely if by meanes of this sicknesse he hath any Pustils or inflamations risen under his chaule then clip away the hayre and apply such things thereunto as may ripen them and bring them to a head and after breake them with Shoomakers waxe or other such like good things and so let them runne and heale at pleasure Also if you doe finde your Horse to be costive by meanes of his sicknesse as commonly horses will be after Physicke then first rake him and finding his doung to be hot dry and hard give him the suppository of a candle shewed you in chap. 18. § 27. Suppos 1. of this second Booke And this is the best Suppository can be given him in a case of this nature ✚ But if contrariwise you finde him to have a strong and violent laxe or scowring upon him whereby he purgeth overmuch and so continueth then be you assured that hee hath something in his body wherewith nature is offended which you must labour to remove and for remedy thereof Take of new milke one quart and put to it of Beane flower two spoonfuls and as much of the powder of Bolearmonack searsed boyle these untill the milke thicken and so bloud warme give it your Horse and in a morning or two fasting with a horne and it will stay his loosenesse ✚ but if this doe it not then shall you Take of red Wine one pinte or Tinto the like quantity and put into it of Bursa-Pastoris one handfull and of Tanners Bark in fine powder half a handful the outside being first taken away then boyle it till the hearb do begin to be soft then straine it and put thereto of Cinamon powdred two spoonfuls and so give it him bloud warme one or two mornings and this will infallibly stay his fluxe and if you cannot get Diapente or Diatesseron then give him this drinke Take of Dragon-water one pinte London Treacle one ounce warme it till the Treacle be dissolved and so give it him bloud warm give him this drinke three mornings together and for his drink otherwise let him have sweet Mashes three mornings onely and after till he be well recovered let him have no cold water by any meanes but onely white water and through Gods assistance he will be soone restored to his former health ✚ These things I have often practised to good purpose § 8. D. Hippophyl VVHat is to be done to a Horse that droopeth pineth or languisheth Hippos This disease commeth by a cold taken or by some unnaturall surfet by reason of over-hard riding or by being washed after an extreame heate the fignes to know it is he will feed but with no appetite neither will the meate he eateth disgest well with him for give him Oates and you shall finde many of them come forth whole in his ordure besides he will be lanke in the belly and flankes and his flesh will fall away The cure for such a malady is first to Drooping Take bloud from him as well in the necke as spurre veines for that the bloud is most corrupt and naught the next day rake him and administer unto him the Clister prescribed you in lib. 2. chap. 6. and § 7. Clist 3. C. the next day after he hath taken his Clister
cold water but eyther a sweet mash or white water This scowring I once did see made and given by a Iocky to a strong lusty able hunting Horse which he had in agitation for a hunting match but it wrought so violently and made him so extreame sick for more then twenty foure houres after the taking thereof as that I never durst be so hardy as to put the same in ure neverthelesse the Creature did very well recover againe and wonne his match §. 14. D. Hippoph HOw may a man come to know what are the diseases of the Liver Hippos Assuredly Sir the diseases of the Liver are many but yet the true and certaine grounds how to discover them is beyond every Ferriers skill to compasse neverthelesse that there be many and those severall and distinct Infirmities in the Liver no man needes make doubt for if the Liver be eyther too hot or too dry too moist or too cold may easily be diseased which must needs occurre to the Horse eyther by intemperate riding or labour or by evill foode or by meanes of evill and corrupt humors which do gather to the place or by the overflowing of the Gall or when Choler is predominate it being cheifly ingendred through heat like as cold begetteth Flegme which causeth the sicknesse and ill disposition of the Liver together with its payne and anguish whence proceede inflamations and Impostumations stoppings obstructions knobs yea and very pernicious Vlcers every of which do cause the generall Consumption and disease thereof If the disease of the Liver do proceed from any hot cause it is more easie to bee discovered then if it came from any cold cause for that it doth discover it selfe by these apparant signes viz. He will bee leane and fall away of his flesh hee will loath his meate and that which he eateth doth him little or no good for want of ready digestion his ordure wil be very offensive his thirst great and he will be verv much subject to a loosenesse whereas on the other side if the disease ariseth from any cold cause you cannot discerne it bv any of these signes for that he will be in very good liking state of body eate his meat with a good appetite his excrements will have no evill savour when he dischargeth himselfe he will drinke orderly and temperately neither will he be loose or costive wherefore if it come of any cold cause we must then endeavour to finde out its symptomes Now if a Horse be diseased in his liver the infirmity must I say proceed from an inflamation and impostumation or from an ulcer If it come from a cold cause it cannot be an inflamation nor an impostumation for that these two doe both come from a hot cause as all the learned doe know full well and therefore of necessity it must be an ulcer which proceedeth from a cold cause and the signes to know it is continuall coldnesse of his body his hayre will stare and he will be subject to great feeblenesse faintnesse and debility of body and the reason is for that the exulcerated matter doth diffuse throughout the whole body its evill vapours which corrupteth and very much offendeth the heart in such wise whereby to occasion and hasten the death of the poore beast if in time the malady be not discovered and skilfully and by Art cured I have intreated sufficiently upon this subject to wit of the nature of this infirmity and the signes how to know the same And therefore I thinke it time we doe goe to the Cure Disease of the Liver So soone as you have discovered this disease first let him bloud on both sides the necke the first day and the next day let him bloud in both the spurre veynes then give him this drink viz. Take Isope Cowes-lip-leaves Liver-wort Lung-wort alias Molin or Molet-leaves Harts-tongue of each a handfull then take Gentiana Aristolochia rotunda Fenugrick Enulacampana dried and long-Pepper of each like much so as when they be pounded and searsed you may have of each a spoonfull chop the hearbs and then mingle them with this powder and put to it of life honey one spoonfull then boyle all these ingredients in a quart of strong Ale untill a moyety be consumed and straine it well and so give it him bloud warme and keep him warm and having made him fast three or foure houres after this drinke give him Barly boyled but if he shall refuse to eate thereof by reason the drinke hath made him dry and thirsty then give him a warme Mash and after the boyled Barly againe but let him not have this drink but the day after he hath been let bloud in the spurre veynes give him this drinke three times but let him alwayes rest three dayes betwixt every drench and give him white water for fifteen dayes after his last drinke and let him every day be well rubbed and this will cure him ✚ I have often made tryall of this cure and I have found it to be very good and it is also singular for the lungs but if you doe suspect the liver to be wasted then give him this drinke viz. Take of strong wort either of Ale or Beere and give it him to drinke in a morning having fasted all night from meate and drinke and three houres after he hath drunke his Wort give him Oates baked in the Oven and doe thus for three or foure dayes together or longer as you shall see cause and he will be sound againe ✚ But if you doe suspect his liver not to be very sound then Take a good root or two of Polipodium of the Oake made very cleane and of Liverwort alias Mullet one handfull cut them very small then take of Rubarb scraped or grated into fine powder sixe penny weight and three or foure dayes in a moneth give it him in his provender early in the morning two or three houres before hee drinketh and let his drinke be white water during his cure and once in sixe moneths make tryall of his bloud by opening a veyne whether it be pure or corrupt so as you take it from him accordingly that is the greater quantity if the same be bad and the lesse if it be good and administer helpe as cause shall require it ✚ This is also a most soveraigne receit § 15. D. Hippoph YOu have formerly delivered me many good Receits for colds but yet would I gladly have something which should be good for a Horse that runneth at the nose Hippos Very well Sir I will therefore give you that which shall be very good and which I have often my selfe proved First then if you shall finde your Horse to have taken a cold and therewith he runneth at the nose whereby he may be in danger of a Glanders let him bleed at the necke veine well then Take of Assefetida the quantity of a hasle nut Cold or running at the nose and dissolve it in a saucer full of white Wine vineger
in the Eye this every Smith can take away neverthelesse whereas all other Ferriers that ever I saw worke upon this disease do use to take it away from the out-side of the Eye I doe take it away from that part which lyeth next of all to the eye and I doe finde my way to be much better and a safer way as well whereby to preserve the sight of the eye as also the wash and so soone as I have cut out the Haw I doe use to wash the eye with white Wine and the juyce of selendine mingled together of each a like much for this healeth the sorance and keepeth the eye from rankling Now I have oft times seene the French Marishals take up the wash of the eye with a Spanish needle threeded with a double brown threed and to pluck forth the Haw so farre as he well can then with a payre of sizers to clip off the Haw so close as he can but I cannot commend this manner of curing the Haw for by that meanes he cutteth away the wash of the eye which indeed is the beauty of the eye whereby the Horse becommeth bleare-eyed which is in him a very great eye-sore he being thereby very much disfigured ✚ But if your Horse have gotten a canker in his eye then Eye a Canker Take Ale-hoofe which is indeed your true ground Ivy and stamp it well in a morter and if it be very dry then moysten it with a little white Rose-water or the water of Eye-bright distilled as much as will suffice and so straine it into a cleane glasse and therewith wash bathe annoynt and taint the sorance therewith and in short time it will cure it ✚ This is very good to cure a Canker a Pin and Web bloud shotten eyes or any such griefe in or about the eyes and I have often made use of this medicine Another much better Take of stone Coperas a thing knowne to few and therefore very hard to get but in the stead thereof you may use ordinary white Coperas make it into fine powder as much as will suffice for I must leave the quantity to your owne discretion and put it into a small Pipkin and put thereto so much very faire cleare running or Well water as will fill up the Pipkin to the very top then set the Pipkin upon a few coales and cause the water to boyle but so treatibly as it may but onely simper and as the scum doth arise take it away with a feather continuing so to doe till the scum doe leave to arise any more and when you have sufficiently well boyled it take it off and let it stand till it be through cold then poure away the cleare from the bottome which must be cast away and the cleare kept in a glasse viall very close stopped and bound up for your use which being thus carefully kept the water will remaine in its perfection long yea a whole yeare together or longer This water cureth almost all diseases in the eyes as Filmes Pearles weeping eyes Pin and Web Dragons Cataracts dimnesse of sight Blindenesse Rheumaâ—icke watry stroake blow or stripe of or in the eye and so consequently in many other cases of the like nature ✚ And of this water I have had great experience Another Take Sal-Armoniack Lapis-Tulia prepared Sagina called in Latine Panicum-Indicum and of Ginger of each halfe an ounce and of white sugar-candy two ounces powder all these and searse them and being well mixed put this powder into a cleane and dry boxe very close stopped and so keep it that no ayre come to it for your use and when you have occasion to use of this powder take a little thereof and mixe with it of the juyce of ground Ivy alias Ale-hoofe as much as will suffice and so twice a day convey thereof into his eye with a feather till it be throughly whole ✚ This is a principall good receit I will give you another speciall good receit which will cure all manner of sore eyes Take the leaves and roots of Vervine ordinary honey and Roman Vitrioll of each like much beat bruise and mixe these together and put it into a stillitory glasse and distill it by Balnea-Maria with a gentle fire and the water you take into your Receptacle put into a viall glasse and keepe it very close stopped that no ayre get into it and when you are to use of the same water poure of it a little into a silver spoone and mixe with it of the fat of a Henne or Capon a small quantity and therewith annoynt the sore eye twice a day and it will cure the same perfectly ✚ I will give you another receit which will take the filme from off the eye albeit there be a very great and thicke skin growne Take the gall of a Hare and life honey of each like much put them together into a spoon and hold the spoone over the fire till the medicine be bloud warme and with a feather convey part of this medicine into the eye of the Horse and thus dresse him morning and evening and in short time it will take it quite away so as the eye will become as bright and cleare againe as ever it was before ✚ This receit I doe hold no whit inferiour to any of the former for I have often made use thereof But if your Horse have gotten a stripe in the eye then let him bloud in the necke and in the weeping veyne on the same side where the stripe is then Take white Rose-water and the white of a new laid egge beat them very well together then wash and bathe the eye well therwith and lay round about it with your splatter this charge restringent Take Masticke Bolearmonacke Sanguis Draconis the white of a new laid egge and white wine vineger of the strongest Eye a charge beat first the hard simples to very fine powder and then searse them and they must be beaten severally then mixe them all together with the white of the egge and the vineger so well wrought as that the medicine come to a thicke oyntment and with this charge the sorance round about the eye and this will keepe off the humour and when that you finde that the eye doth begin to amend then wash and bathe the eye twice or thrice a day or oftner with cold fountaine or Well water so fresh as it is taken or drawne out of the Well or Fountaine and if after you shall perceive that there doth grow a filme or skin over the eye then take it away by blowing or putting the powder of Camphire or Sol Armoniacum or white sugar-Candy in fine powder according as I have before prescribed you ✚ This is a most soveraigne receit Also if your Horse in his eye have gotten a stripe Take of fresh Butter wherein never came salt the quantity of a Walnut and put it into his eare on that side where the stripe is and it will helpe him
Another Take Lentels or Gray-Pease and champe or chew them in your mouth and then whilst they be in your mouth blow and breath into your Horses eye but not any of the Pease by any meanes doe this every day often and a little after wash the sore eye with cold Fountaine water till it be whole ✚ But yet I will teach you another receit which will take off a Pin and Web Filme Thicknesse or any other foulenesse which may be in the eye whatsoever whereof I have had great experience and have done many rare cures in this kinde viz. Take the shels of seven or eight egges cleanse them from all manner of inward slime and dry them well within then lay those shels betweene two new Tyles or old so they be made very cleane and free from Morter and then lay them in the glowing embers and cover them all over and on every side with burning hot embers and so let them ly a good space untill the moyst substance be quite taken from them then take them up and beat the shels to very fine powder and searse the powder then with a goose quill blow of this powder into your Horses eye doe this twice every day and it is a certaine cure ✚ But if you doe finde the eye to be fed with any Rhumaticke humour or that it be inflamed or that it hath goâ—ten a bruise stripe or the like then Take of the purest and whitest refined loafe sugar one spoonfull and a halfe let it be made into fine powder and searsed or else of the best white sugar-Candy which is much better the like quantity let it be finely powdred and searsed and mixe with it so much May or sweet butter wherein never came salt as a Walnut and adde also to it so much of the former powder of Egge shels as of sugar-Candy make these into one body and bring it to a salve and put thereof into the Horses eye morning evening and noone and this will make the eye to be cleare sound and whole againe ✚ This unguent doth purge cleanse coole and comfort the eye of the Horse and helpeth greatly his sight make use of this for it is very good But if the eyes be inflamed which you may easily know by the red strakes which will be in them then Take Thuris Masculi the marrow of a Lamb Saffaron Cuttle-bone of each one ounce of the oyle of Roses one ounce and the whites of ten new laid egges beat and incorporate all these very well together and then with a feather put some of this medicine into his eyes once every day ✚ This receit is very good for I have had great triall thereof Another Take of white Starch made of wheate Frankincense life-honey of each as much as will suffice make all these into one body and with a feather apply it to the grieved eye ✚ Another If the inflamation be great let him bloud in both the temple veynes and in the weeping veynes and then wash his eyes with womans milke and life honey mingled together ✚ Another for a wart or spungy excretion growing neere to to the eye of the Horse which commonly doth proceed from a condensed flegme that descendeth to the eye which in time will cause the eye either to consume or to grow little if it be not prevented which must be done thus Take Roch Allum and burne it Eye a W and then adde unto it so much white Coperas unburnt grinde them together to very fine powder then lay a little of this powder just upon the top of the wart but take heed none get into the eye for it is a strong corrasive and will corrode let the Wart be thus dressed once every day and in short time it will consume and eate it quite away never to come more ✚ But as touching Lunaticke eyes Lunaticâ— eyes this word Lunaticke is derived from the Latine word Luna which signifieth the Moone and the reason why this disease takes its denomination from thence is for that at certain times of the Moone he will see well and at other times a little but then at other times no whit at all and therefore this disease is called lunaticke and this kinde of blindenesse we do hold to be the very worst of all other but when he doth see you may know it by the colour of his eyes for then they will be dimme and yellowish but when he seeth nothing then will they looke fiery and red This disease commeth sometimes naturally taking it hereditary either from the Stallion his Sire or from the Mare his Damme by whom he was begotten and foled it commeth also sometimes by meanes of evill humours which descending from the head make their residence in and about the eyes and these naughty humours are occasioned by the meanes of intemperate riding drawing or other laborious exercise in which the poore creature hath bin put to doe more then nature was well able to performe wherefore by one of these wayes this malady commeth the cure is thus Take Pitch Rosin and Masticke of each like much melt them together and having before hand provided in a readinesse two round plaisters of leather the breadth of a 20 shilling piece of gold lay and spread the medicine hot upon these two plaisters and so hot as the Horse can suffer them apply them to his temples causing them to stick fast to the skinne and let them there remaine untill they shall fall off of themselves then rowell him on the face just under his eyes with a very small French Rowell the bredth of a three pence at the most and let it be turned every day once the space of 12 or 15 dayes then take forth the Rowell and heale up the orifice with the greene oyntment prescribed you in lil 2. cap. 10. § 4. G. and this will undoubtedly very much help his sight ✚ Another Shave away the hayre the breadth of a shilling on either side of the head upon the temple veines and after apply to the place this charge Take Taca-Mahaca and lay it upon those places which were shaven and clap upon them flocks of the same colour then make incision and put in two French Rowels as is shewed in the cure going before to bring downe the peccant humours and let the eyes be washed twice every day with the medicine before taught you made of ground Ivy Honey Selendine and womans milke X This is very good for this disease and this I can boldly commend unto you to be a very good medicine for I have often used Now as touching sore eyes which must be cured by medicine you must understand that the eye is the most delicate part of any one member in all the whole body it is the Torch or Candle which doth give light to the whole body it is the guide which doth usher the body and to carry it from danger so as it shall not at any time either stumble upon rockes or blockes or
his Eares therewith and then stitch them up that it get not forth renewing it once in two dayes till the swelling bee cleane gone your Harse will be certainely cured ✚ But if the griefe be in any other part of the Body then with this Vnguent you shall anoint the grieved or swolne place once or twice a day till it depart ✚ But if the swelling be neere or about the Cods or privy parts then First Bathe the place well with cold water and after being made dry againe with a cloath anoynt it with the said oyntment every day once or twice and you shall find it to be a present cure ✚ This also cureth the Vlcer and Canker in the Nose and it is a sure Cure for the Vives ✚ I have often cured all these maladies with this Receipt CHAP. 9. §. 1. F. Hippophylus WHat cure have you for the Farcin Hippos Of all the diseases whereunto Horses are inclinable this of the Farcin is the most loathsome the most stinking and the most filthy wherefore for the same I shall set you downe many cures but first I intend to discourse somewhat of it's Nature and how it comes to a Horse This disease we here in England do for the most part call the Farcy and Secundum Vulgus it is called the Fashions for so Master Markham doth stile it But Master Blundevile the Italians and the French do give it the name of Farcin to which denomination I doe the rather incline by reason we take the said name from the Italians and the French for that truely I do find that to be the proper name of the said Infirmity derived from the word Farcina which is a disease most infectious poysnous and dangerous being never so little let alone or neglected It is a kind of creeping Vlcer beginning with hard knots and Pustils and after dilating and spreading it selfe into branches like to a Vine or Ivy doth not cease from running untill such time as it hath visited every part and member of the Body for Quasi Cancer serpit it commonly beginning either in a veine or neere to some Master veine which feedeth and nourisheth the disease that is the cause of it's diffusion It is ingendred sometimes of corrupt bloud which heats and surfets have occasioned in the Body sometimes by hurts and wounds received as also by some Cankerous poysnous thing as rusty spurres snaffles bits or the like it is also taken from another horse which is faln into the same disease also by hewing one legge against another and being smitten with some staffe whereon are hard knots and sundry such like meanes and wayes it comes also to a Horse by surfets given him which finding no other way of avoidance lais hold of this disease wherby the bloud being over much heat his grease molten and his taking a suddaine cold which is most frequent after great heates then growing in the body and especially in the bloud such obstructions corruption and putrefaction not having any meanes to vent it selfe or to voyde or evacuate but by this way only by growing into knots Pustils Vlcers or the like which be so contagious and infectious so as if but any other horse doe but gnaw or lick with his teeth or tongue upon the place infected hee will be assuredly within a short time after himselfe infected also and when once a horse is strucken or infected with this leprous malady if he be not presently and skilfully cured it is as infallible death to him as if he had eyther his throate cut or his braines beaten out with a Butchers Axe Farcin wherefore if in this case your horse be visited with this sinistrous disease I could wish you would carefully observe two things the first is that so soone as you doe perceive this Malady to appeare upon him that you presently sequester him from his fellowes into some other Stable or stall by himselfe alone for feare he might infect them for that it is catching And secondly to be very diligent in omitting no time or opportunity in getting him administrâ—d unto for his Cure The signes of this disease are so plaine and familiar as that it needeth no description I will passe to the cure To the end therfore you may go the more securely to work wherby you may make it an able and perfect cure especially if you do finde the Pustils to be malevolent and greatly inflamed then the first day let him bloud in or neere to that Master veine which doth most feed and nourish the Farcin then so soone as you have well bloudied him give him this purge viz. Take of Aloes made into fine power one ounce and a quantity of London Triacle so much as will suffice and of life hony so much as will suffice mixe these well together and give it him in a morning fasting and six houres after give him white water neyther needeth this bloudying him or Purgation any way hinder him from being dressed for his disease for that bloud-letting doth but only hinder it from running any farther for that time and the Purge sendeth the disease from the heart to the end it may no way annoy that place wherefore for the perfecting of the cure Take of oyle de-Bay two ounces of Euforbium made into fine powder one ounce incorporate both these so well together that they may become but one body then fearch for the first origin or spring where the first knots did begin and so continue searching till you find out the last clip away the hayre from off and about all these knots and annoynt them very well with this oyntment once every three dayes and after you have thus dressed him three times if you do not find the Farcins to be killed and that the knots do not dry up then bathe the places three dayes together with the stale or vrine of a Cowe or Oxe and with the hearbe called Lions foote in latine Leontipodium both boyled together and this will cure him ✚ This medicine I never made use of but once only and it cured the horse unto which I did administer the same ✚ Another Take nine leaves of the pot herbe called Beetes of the smallest but soundest leaves and nine grains of Bay-salt beat these very well together to salve and in a morning before Sun-rising put this medicine into both his Eares by equall portions and put into them after it a little wooll to keepe in the medicine and so stitch up his eares and let him stand so with meate and white water 24 houres at the least then take forth the wooll and stuffe and he is cured ✚ With this receit I have cured sundry horses Another If your Horse have a farcin in any of the foure quarters of his body let him bleed well in the necke veyne fasting then Take of Arsenick two ounces and put it into a piece of new cloth and binde it up with a piece of new Pack-threed and fasten it unto the mayne of the Horse
and Spurre veines and take from him of bloud two quarts which you must receive in a Basin or other cleane vessell with which make this Charge as followeth Take the bloud and put into it eight new laid Egges shels and all beat them well with the bloud put to it of Bole-armonacke in fine powder halfe a pound strong white Wine-Vineger one pinte Sanguis Draconis three ounces in fine powder make this up with Wheate meale good and thicke so much as will suffice with this charge his Back Reines Breast Thighes Fetlockes and Soles spread two cloathes Plaister-wise good and thick and apply them to the Coffin of his Hoofes and bind the fore-legges above the knees good and streight with broad Filletting or Listes then Ride him two houres upon a hard way which if it bee paved or pitched is the better his feete having beene pared reasonable neere before hand and when you doe bring him into the stable let his feet be stopped with this Charge Take Rie or Wheate-branne Oxe or Cow-dunge Sheepes-suet Turpentine which must be put in last let your Sheepes-Suet be of the fat of the loyne of Mutton and minced very small melt and heat all these upon the fire and mixe them very well in the heating and then put in your branne to make it into a stiffe paste all which being through hot then last of all put in your Turpentine and so incorporate all very well together with this stop your horse who being thus three or foure dayes charged and stopped ridden and kept warme and not suffered to drinke cold water but eyther Mashes or white water he will be sound in foure or six dayes ✚ This is a most excellent Receipt for with it I have recovered many foundred horses If it be a dry Foundring especially with too long standing in the Stable then first pare him somewhat neere and let him bleed well in the Toe-veines then Take Egges and rost them blew hard raked up in the hot embers and together with the powder of Comin stop his feete therewith so hot as they may be taken out of the embers and put ouer the sole a peece of leather with splents close to keepe the Egs that they come not forth Take then a great Onion pill and stampe it and let it infuse or steepe foure and twenty houres together before in the strongest white Wine-Vineger you can get so much as will suffice so that it may bee in a readinesse against you have stopped your horse which must be given him to drinke with a horne fasting and after let him bee warme covered littered let him stand upon the Trench three houres and after that you may give him meate and white water ✚ This is a most approved good cure If your horse have beene long foundred as a month or better to make a perfect cure and to set him up sound againe it is needfull the soles of his feet be taken out by which meanes new and better will come in their roome wherefore when you do intend to take them off have in a readinesse these things viz. Take the tender tops of Isope three handfuls Foundre◠long pound them to mash in a Morter wherewith to stanch his bleeding then have also further in a readinesse this receipt Take Snayles in the shels and breake the shels so much as will suffice and take forth the Snayles and reserve them then take Bay-salt one handfull and of the tendrest tops of the angriest red-nettles you can find two or three good handfull beat them with your snailes and salt in a Morter to a very salve then take out the sole then presently stanch the bleeding with your Isope and so soone as the foote leaveth bleeding apply to the foote your other Medicine of Snayles Salt and Nettles and so bind up the foot with cloathes and so let it remaine foure and twenty houres then open it and heale up the sorance with your greene oyntment taught you in lib 2. chap. 10. § 4. and within two dayes you shall see a new sole comming ✚ This is right good But if hee bee foundred both in feete and body at once Foundred the feet a◠body and the same time as falleth out oftimes through indiscreete and immoderate Riding by a most violent heat giuen him whereby the bloud is become inflamed and his grease molten then first rake him and give him the Clister prescribed you in lib. 2. chap. 11. § 8. C. Clister 8. and the next day let him bloud in the neck veine to a good quantity reserving the bloud and keeping it from clotting by continuall stirring till it be cold reserve I say of this bloud halfe a pint by it selfe to put into his drinke and the residue keepe wherewith to make a charge Now for his drinke let it be thus made Take of good Sack one pint of the bloud you saved for his drinke halfe a pint of London Triacle and of Diapente of each one spoonfull and of mans-ordure warme as it commeth frō him the quantity of a wall-nut brew and mixe all these well together and give it him to drinke bloud warme This drinke thus given Charge him with this Charge Take the residue of the bloud you kept and put unto it twelve new-laid Egges with their shels and beat them together then put thereunto of Bole-armoniack in powder foure ounces Vineger halfe a pint Sanguis Draconis in powder three ounces and with Wheate meale thicken it to a convenient Charge Charge his Backe Breast Loynes Legges and Feete herewith both above and beneath the knees laying it on against the hayre This done then Take unslaked-lime Orpiment of each like much q.s. dissolve them in running water and let it stand two good houres and after it is thus prepared take as much Matrosetum as will bring it to a thicke substance which being made good and hot annoynt the coffins of his hoofes therewith especially about the cronets and stop also the soles of his feet with the same medicine and if you let him bloud in the toe-veynes well it will be the better and he will be the sooner better and sounder cured ✚ This way I have cured two Horses foundred in the body and feet never having applyed it but unto those two onely But if your horse be hoofe-bound then Hoofe bounden Take Turpentine and sheeps-suet of each halfe a pound Waxe a little as much as will suffice Sallet-oyle halfe a pinte boyle all these together but put in your Turpentine last and as these boyle keepe them with continuall stirring and herewith annoynt his hoofes once a day well or once in two dayes and he will doe well ✚ But if it be but an ordinary heat in the feet newly taken then Take Wheate bran and Hogs grease and make them to a Poultesse and apply it as well to the coffins as the soles and he will be well again These two latter receits a worty Knight taught me but as yet I
other diseases but first to rake him then to administer to him this Clister Take of Mallowes three handfuls and boyle them in faire water tvvo quarts to one quart then straine it and put to it of fresh or svveet butter sixe ounces and of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and so administer it to him Clister-wise bloud warm that done vvalk him up and dovvn in the vvarm sunne or in some vvarm house untill he doe begin to empty himselfe then keep him fasting three or four hours keeping him vvarm and to a stomacke for three or foure dayes but let him have but that one Clister onely and let all his Hay be sprinckled with water and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water which when he hath drunk give him the Malt or Bran to eate and let his Provender be very little for fourteen dayes after especially if his disease came through glut of Provender Neverthelesse the day after his Clister give him this cordiall drinke Take of Muskadine one quart of Sugar two ounces of life honey foure ounces of Cinamon halfe an ounce Licoris and Anniseeds of each one spoonfull all these made into fine powder put them into the Muskadine and warme them on the fire till they be dissolved and then give it him bloud warme then walke him in the Sunne or warm house an houre then set him upon the trench warm cloathed and littered and so let him stand three houres fasting unlesse sometimes you put a little Armen into his mouth then give him Hay sprinckled with water and after an houre a sweet Mash or white water and then a few Oates well sifted and dusted and this by a little at once remembring to take bloud from the necke veyne the same morning you give him this drinke and that a little before he taketh it and pricke him also in the mouth and the next day after this drink perfume his head with Storax Benjamin and Frankincense and so order him according as you in your discretion shall think to be most meet onely remember to ayre him every day abroad if there be no winde for winde is hurtfull to him and thus doing you may recover him and make him a sound Horse againe ✚ This is singular good Another First give him this Clister take the flowers of Melelote Anniseeds and Licoris Linseeds Silleris-Montani of each halfe an ounce Polipodium of the Oake two ounces and a halfe Agnus-Castus one handfull the hearb Mercury Mallowes Pellitory of the Well Branca-ursina of each three handfuls make a decoction of al these lettiog it boyle to a quart then put to it of red waxe one ounce and a halfe of Cassia newly drawn three ounces of Diafennicon two ounces of Benedicta one ounce of oyle of nuts as much as will suffice and of all these make your Clister according to Art which you shall give to your horse so soon as you doe suppose or suspect him to droope and after this Clister hath done working give him the drink prescribed in lib. 2. chap. 9. § 10. F. which is very proper and good provided that you doe administer it so soon as you doe perceive your horse to be foundred in the body and withall adding to the drinke the juyce of three great Onions well beaten and strained into the white Wine and that he be dressed ayered ridden and ordered as is fitting and usuall for horses in physicke ✚ Of this I have made tryall and doe finde it to be good Another Take a head of Garlicke of Pepper of Ginger and of Graines of each two penny worth make all these into fine powder and put them into strong Ale one quart and so give it him to drink bloud-warm give him this drink two or three mornings and order him as is before prescribed And when you doe finde that he hath gotten strength let him bloud in the necke and spurre-veynes ✚ This is very good All cordiall drinkes are good for this infirmity §. 23. F. Hippoph VVHat is your best cure for a false Quarter Hippos A false Quarter is a very evill sorance it is a rift cracke or chinke which is most commonly upon the inside of the hoofe yet sometimes though rarely it happeneth upon the out side it is occasioned sometimes by evill shooing by evill paring and sometimes by gravelling or a prick with a nayle or stub neverthelesse which way soever it commeth it will cause the Horse to halt and watrish bloud will many times issue out of the rift or chinke the signes are needlesse to recite they be so manifest the onely way to cure this malady and sorance is first to take off the shooe and to cut away so much of the shooe on that side where the griefe is as that the shooe being immediately set on again the chinke may be wholy uncovered False quarter then open the chink to the quick with your drawing yron and then fill up the rift with a rowle of hurds dipped in this unguent Take Turpentine Waxe and Sheepes-suet of each like much melt them together and your rowle of hurds being dipped therein stop the rift therewith renewing it once a day till it be whole and thus the rift or chinke being with this oyntment closed in the top draw the place betwixt the hoofe and the hayre with a hot yron overthwart that place which will cause the hoofe to grow and shoot all vvhole dovvnvvards and vvhen your Horse goeth upright and sound again let him not be ridden vvith any other shooe untill the hoofe be throughout hardened neither let him be ridden upon any hard ground till his hoofe is become very sound and perfect ✚ Another For a false Quarter and to cause the hoofe to grow First prepare a flat piece of wood making it an inch broad at the least and so slender as that it will bend like to a hoop which must be also so long as that it may come well nigh twice about the cronet of the hoofe then when you are to bring it about the hoofe have in a readinesse a piece of filliting which must be long enough which you must cut into two pieces then having brought the hoope about the cronet with one piece of the filliting binde fast the top of the hoope which fastning must be behinde against the heele and bound very straight and hard and then the filliting so bound must be twisted three or foure times and so brought about upon the hoope and the ends made fast before upon the hoop then take the other piece of filliting and few it upon the top of the first filliting which you bound about the hoofe and then let it be sewed as well upon the one side of the hoofe as the other so fast sewed on as that it cannot get off Now you must understand that before you doe binde the foot of the Horse with the wooden hoop and filliting you must prepare the sorance of the said false quarter by drawing the place with yowr drawing
yron so close neer till you come almost to the very quick and then will issue out a kinde of sweaty or deawy moysture which you shall perceive then is it time to binde on the hoop and filliting according as I have before prescribed you but yet before you doe any thing at all unto the foot or false quarter have your salve in a readinesse which is to be applyed unto the chinkes of the false quarter viz. Take of the roots of Lingua-Bovis green and newly gathered of the roots of Consolida-Major and the root of Mallowes all newly gathered of each halfe a pound these must be washed and scraped very cleane and cut into small pieces let these roots be boyled in Aligant two quarts untill the â—ine be boyled quite away and that the roots become very soft then pound them very well and straine them through a fine searser and that it may straine the better reserve a little of the Wine as it boyleth wherewith to moysten it in the strayning Take then of Venice Turpentine of new Waxe and of Burgundy Pitch of each halfe a pound of blacke Pitch foure ounces of the oldest oyle Olive one quart put these things with the former ingredients into a cleane kettle or Posnet but yet after this manner viz. First the roots then all the other things by themselves the one after the other the Turpentine onely excepted which must be put in when all the other ingredients be molten you must let all these boyle untill all the Wine be consumed and the ingredients be very well incorporate and then put in the Turpentine and then when it hath boyled one waume or two take it from the fire keep it with continuall stirring till it be cold and so keep it in some cleane vessell for your use you must also adde unto these things which I had almost forgotten of Frankincense foure ounces made into fine powder This salve is to soften and mollifie the hoofe whereby to make it to grow having thus prepared your salve before you bind the hoofe with the hoope and Filleting as before is shewed annoynt and rub very well where the hoope and filletting is to bee placed with the salve then bind on the hoope with the said filletting that don take hurds rowle it up into a rowle the full length of the chinke of the quarter having first annoynted the hurds very wel with the salve lay it upon the chinke of the false quarter and so bind the hoofe up with the two long peeces of the aforesaid Filletting which were sewed unto the other peece of the Filletting which bound and made fast the hoope and let him not be dressed but once every three daies untying all aswell the hoope as filletting Continue him to this kind of dressing fiveteene or twenty dayes or otherwise according as your discretion shall thinke to be requisite Now when you shall find that the salve hath brought up the hoofe and that now you know not how to harden it and make it solide and sound to make an able cure thereof apply this ensuing salve Take of the strongest white Wine-Vineger one quart Diers-gals of greene-Coperas both bruised of each foure ounce boyle these in the Vineger to the consumption of a moyity then straine it and put unto it of old Sallet-oyle one pinte and so boyle it againe untill the Vineger be all consumed which you shall know by stirring it with a little stick and drawing the sticke forth let it drop into the fire and if that which droppeth from the stick into the fire do not crackle theÌ„ let it boyle yet longer for then it is not enough but when it is sufficiently boyled by dropping in a little of the medicine it will burne without crackling then take lyturgy of Gold and lyturgy of Silver of each halfe a pound make thâ—m into very fine powder and searse them Take then the Skillet from the fire and let the medicine stand till it be almost cold then mixe well the lyturgys and put them in for if they should bee put in whilest the liquour is hot they would fly forth of the Skillet againe tâ—en set the Skillet upon the coales againe and so let it boyle upon a gentle fire otherwise you shall not now bee able to keepe in the medicine and so boyle it up keeping it continually stirring untill it become to be of a deepe or darke gray and do cleave unto the thing with which it is stirred and that it doth rope like unto glew then adde unto it of new Bee-waxe three ounces which must bee first molten by it selfe and then put also into the medicine of foote made into very fine powder and which is made of wood and also of white leade in powder of each three ounces these I say being made into very fine powder must bee put into the medicine after it is taken from the fire and by continuall stirring made halfe cold and so set upon the fire againe and kept by continuall stirring untill it bee throughly incorporate and thus it is made and when it doth begin to be so cold as that it may be handled then make it up into Rowles and so keepe it for your use And when you are to use the salve take away the hoope Fillitting and all and all annoynt the hoofe with the salve and so bind upon the hoofe a linnen cloath to cause that the medicine may remayne on and let him bee annoynted therewith every day once till the hoofe bee so hard as that he may be able to travell ✚ This receipt I do hold to be the most soveraigne of any that ever was yet knowne which was taught me by a French man who was so carefull to give me ample instructions therein as that he bound on the hoop and Fillittings which are the most difficult parts of the Cure in my presence for he was very desirous to have me fully instructed therein § 24. F. â—â—ppoph WHat disease is that which is called the Flankes Hippos This disease called the Flankes is different from the former neyther have we no proper name for it unlesse wee will name the same the Plurisie for the Epithete wee have from the French who stile the same Mal-de-Flankes it is when your horse is troubled with over much abundance of bloud whereby he eyther ingendreth a Mainge or else falleth dangerously sick thereby who by reason he hath beene oft-times let bloud before his body now will looke for it whereof he missing falleth eyther into very dangerous or no lesse loathsome Maladies the cure is First take bloud from both sides the Neck Flankeâ— maldesâ— and three dayes after in both the spurre veynes in the Mouth and in the Temple-veines then give him a drinke of Diapente and sweete Sack and he will do well ✚ This is very good §. 25. F. Hippoph VVHat good Charge have you wherewith to stop the Feet Hippos I think I have sufficiently shewed you already notwithstanding
other receipt for the mourning of the Chine he intituleth thus A most rare and approved Medicine to cure any high running Glanders called the mourning of the Chine held of all men incurable This disease to my knowledge there is not any Smith or Ferrier in this Kingdome can tell how to cure for it comes not to the extreamity till the Horse hath runne at the Nose a yeare or more and have at the roots of his tongue a hard lung gathered which will not be dissolved Now for mine owne part it is well known that I have cured many with this Medicine only Perfume Take of Agri-pigmentum and of Tussilaginis beaten into fine powder of each foure drammes then beating them with fine Turpentine bring them into a paste then make of it little cakes or trotches as broad as a groat and dry them This done lay about two or three of them on a Chafing-dish of coles and cover them with a Funnell so that the smoake may come out onely at the end thereof and so without any losse ascend up into the Horses head through his nostrils then ride the Horse till he begin to sweate this doe once every morning before water till the running be stopped which will be in very short space considering the greatnesse of this disease These be Master Markhams two great cures which by reason hee hath so great Eecomions of their vertues and also what great cures he hath wrought and perfected with them I thinke it not amisse to insert them in this place Thus I have delivered unto you a great number of Receipts for this one disease many of which I have tried and have found them very good some I could never have meanes or occasion to prove and therefore I must expect prompt opportunities in the interim I do remit them to my brethren to practise But I will now conclude this Chapter with one only Receipt more which I do esteeme my Master-peece for this Malady having had much experience thereof nor did it ever faile mee upon often tryall made This cure is called The black drinke for the Glanders The Cure First prepare his body with branne prepared and after with a Clyster and your Goose-feathers as before hath bin taught you This done The black drinke for the glanders Take new made Chamberly and of the best and strongest white-Wine-Vineger of each halfe a pint then take of Mustardseede two or three spoonfuls and make Mustard thereof with Vineger and let it be very well ground that done put your Vineger and Chamberly to the Mustard and so stirre them well together Then take of Tarre and bay Salt of each like much so much as will suffice incorporate them well together and convey so much thereof as three Egges-shels will hold the meate first taken forth and having first prepared these things let the Horse be taken forth of the stable being kept that night to a very spare dyet and ride him first till he begin to sweate then give him the three Egges-shels filled with the said Tarre and Salt and so soone as hee hath taken that give him with a horne the fore-named-drinke made of Chamberly Vineger and Mustard all at the mouth excepting only two small or halfe hornefuls which let be conveyed into his Nosthrils which so soone as he hath taken let him bee ridden againe so much as before you did then bring him into the Stable cloath him up warme and litter him well and so let him stand upon the Trench untill three or foure of the clocke then unbit him and give him a warme Mash and order him in all things as is usuall for Horses in Physick Give him this Medicine or drinke every other or third day three or foure times and it is an infallible cure ✚ This cure I gat from a Noble Knight who had done many great Cures therewith who was very precise in teaching it and since I came to know thereof I have perfected many great Cures therwith upon horses far spent with the Glanders insomuch as if it be rightly and carefully administred it will cure the rankest Glanders that is And with this Cure I conclude this Chapter CHAP. 11. §. 1. H. Hippophylus WEll Hipposerus sithence we have finished this Chapter let us goe to the next and tell me what meanes have you to helpe the falling away of the hayre from the Mayne and Tayle of a Horse Hippos Sir this disease commeth sometimes by a heat which the horse hath taken which hath engendred a dry Mainge in the mayne and tayle which is the occasion of the shedding of the hayre from those parts and sometimes it commeth by a surfet causing evill humours to resort to those parts which is the cause of the falling away of the hayre I have also known a Horse to shed the hayre both of mayne and tayle after hee hath beene violently and dangerously visited with the Stavers The signes are evident And the Cure is First take bloud from the necke veine if it be onely in the mayne Hayre fr◠the May◠and Tayl◠falling a◠but if in both mayne and tayle and then after you have opened the necke veyne and taken from thence a reasonable quantity of bloud then slit the skin of the inward part of the taile next to the tuell from the buttocks to the fourth joynt and there with your Cornet you shall finde a hard gristle which the French Marishals do call Barivole raise it up with your Cornet and take it forth that done fill up the clift with salt finely beaten and then with a hot iron steep it in Buck-lye burn the tayle in sundry places and then annoynt the places so burned with Hogs grease till it be whole ✚ This cure I gat in France among the Marishals there whom I saw cure sundry Horses of this malady and I my selfe have cured four or five after the same method If it be both in the mayne tayl and that you be feareful to experiment this cure by reason you never saw the manner of it then search both mayne and tayle well with your finger as aforesaid and annoynt the places with this unguent Take Quick-silver and tryed 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 annoynt the sorance therewith every day once holding a hot bar of iron neer to cause the oyntment to sinke in and in three or four dayes thus dressing him he will be well ✚ This is a very good receit and I have often used it § 2. H. Hippoph BVt then what is good to cause the hayre to grow againe Hiposp Take the dung of a Goat newly made ordinary Honey Hayre to grow Allum and the bloud of a Hog the Allum being first made into fine powder boyle all these together and rub and annoynt the places therewith every day and it will cause the hayre to come again apace ✚ This is
both supple and loosen his skin the next day give him this drink Take of Muskadine and of strong Ale of each one pinte Grunsell Rue Smalage Rosemary and Betony of each like much all together amounting to a handfull Then take Gum-Dragamant one ounce two heads of Garlick pilled and bruised let all these boyle in the Muskadine and Ale to the consummation of one pint then put to it of sweet Butter a penny worth and when it is molten take it from the fire and straine it very hard and so give it him bloud warm Let this drink be divided into three parts whereof give him one part the first morning the other second parts the second and third mornings following for you must understand that when I said that this drink must be boyled to the consummation of one pinte my meaning is that it must boyle till one part be consumed and not otherwise and in the interim you must keep your Horse very warm and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water and four dayes after he hath been thrice thus drenched give him this other drink Take Anniseeds Licoris Fennel-seeds Bay-berries Elecampane dryed Fenugrick Turmerick of each like much all made into very fine powder and searsed let two spoonfuls of this powder being well mixed be infused in good Ale one quart with Sallet oyle two spoonfuls give him this drink four mornings together wherein you are to observe that the first time you are to administer this drink to your horse you are to put into the Ale two spoonfuls of this powder and the other three mornings but one spoonfull keep him warme and order him as is behoovefull for a sicke Horse that is in physicke and he is certainely cured ✚ This is a speciall good Receit Another Let him bloud in both the flanke veines then take of good white Wine one quart and put thereto of Sallet oyle three ounces of Comin one dram Anniseeds and Licoris of each two ounces make all these into very fine powder and searse them and give it him bloud warm then set him up and let him be throughly rubbed against the hayre and along the back and ribs and nape of the necke halfe an houre together then cover all his backe with a Sacke made throughly well soaked in a tub of water and when it hath drained a while lay it upon him and upon that two housing clothes at the least and gird them close unto him well wipsed which will bring him into a sweat which truely will be the prime cause whereby to restore him to his pristine sanity but let him not sweat above one houre at most and coole him by degrees taking away the Sack first and keep him to sweet Mashes or white water during the time of his physicke and longer let him be thus drenched sweated and ordered seven dayes together and give him in stead of his Oates Barly boyled and dry Beanes bruised in a Mill and good old sweet Hay well shaken and dusted and sometimes green Mault from off the floore and after eight dayes let him bloud in both the brest veines but take not above a pinte of bloud from him in all and that day you bloudy him give him of good Sacke one pinte and put to it of Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte and of London Treacle one ounce warm this upon the fire and brew them well together and so administer it bloud warm then leap his backe and ride him till he sweat then set him up warm clothed and littered and at night give him a sweet Mash putting into it the powder of Brimstone two spoonfuls and he will be well again ✚ This is very good Another Take Hogs grease two drams and of the juyce of Dragon-wort one ounce of Incense halfe a dram of Sirrop of Roses three ounces dissolve all these in Tison one pinte and a halfe set it upon the fire till all be dissolved and so give it him bloud warme and exercise him moderately upon it till he do begin to sweat then set him up warme and let him fast three houres after and this will scowre from him all his infection loosen his skin and procure a good appetite to meat provided you take bloud from him the day before and if as well in this receit as in all the former you doe give your Horse a suppository the day before you drench him you will much better and sooner perfect your cure especially if you finde him costive otherwise a gentle Clister will not be amisse ✚ This is a well approved cure and I have often used it § 7. H. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Horse that is Hip-shot Hippos Sir this commeth sundry wayes that is to say either by a stroke with another Horse or by a wrench by which meanes the bone may be slipped out and then it must be put in again or by a straine which may cause him to halt or by meanes of some thorne which he may get by leaping or running among bushes which must first be gotten out otherwise the place will fester and he goe lame The cure is first let him bloud in the thigh veine on that side whereon the griefe is then charge him with the charge we call a honey-charge prescribed you in the next § and so put upon the other foot a Pattent-shooe and let him not lye down in ten dayes if that the bone have been out after bathe the place well with that bath which is already taught you in lib. 2. cap. 5. lit B. and the receit beginneth thus take Smalage Oxe-eye and Sheeps suet c. and put into the Bath some of the said honey charge and if this doe not cure him as it is most probable it will then apply to the place this Ceroene as the French doe terme it which is a Searcloth very hot and this Ceroene is thus made Take of blacke Pitch halfe a pound of Masticke two ounces of Galbanum four ounces of fat Pitch and of Turpentine of each halfe a pound melt these in a pot together and when it is halfe cold charge the place up to the hanch and so overthwart the reynes of the backe and if he be not cured at the end of eight or tenne dayes more with this Ceroene or Searcloth then take it off and apply to the place grieved this unguent Take of oyle de Bay Althea tryed Hogs grease of each halfe a pound incorporate all these together to an unguent and therewith annoint rub and chafe the place grieved and he shall doe well ✚ This is a very good receit and I have made great use thereof §. 8. H. Hippoph HOw doe you make this Honey-Charge Hipposerus Hippos I will shew you Sir Take of Wheat meale two pound and put a little Wine to it as much as will suffice put it into a kettle as if you were to make a Poultesse when it is wel mixed adde to it of Bolearmoniack in fine powder half a pound of
eate good sweet Hay and Bran in stead of Oates aad let his drinke be only white Water ✚ This is a most excellent Receipt § 5. I. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Ioynt that hath in it any Ach Numnesse Weakenesse or Swellings which commeth of a cold cause Hippos This commeth sometimes of a Streyne and sometimes of a Cold taken after a great and violent riding or labour The signes are apparent and the Cure is Take Acopum and mixing it with sweete Sack all to rub and chafe the Ioynt greived Joint gâ—ved therewith And if it come of cold it will at foure or five times thus doing cure it ✚ This is singular good Another Take Aqua-vitae and warme it upon the fire and therewith bathe and rub the greived Member therewith very well and hold a hot bar of iron before it to cause it to sinke in the better take then a rag and wet it in the same Aqua-vitae and lastly take Pepper finely powdred and searced anâ— strew it good and thick upon the said wet rag and so bind it to the place greived take then a dry Rowler of linnen and swathe the place therewith and so let them remaine and thus do every day once and in short time it will recover him ✚ Of this I have made often tryall §. 6. I. Hippoph VVHat is good to encrease the Hoofe of a Horse Hippos I have given you sundry good Receipts before but I will adde one more which the most Famous Marishall of all Paris gave me which he recommended unto me for tresbonne but I never had yet a good occasion to make tryall thereof The receipt is this Take of the Oyle of Hempe-seed of Waxe of Venice Turpentine Increasâ— Hoofe Rosin Pitch Bay-seeds dryed and powdred of each halfe a pound Roch Allume two ounces mixe all these together and let them boyl softly upon a gentle fire then straine it through a hayre-cloath and keepe it for your use With this annoynt every day the hoofes of your Horse and this will cause them to grow very much This is probably a good Receipt CHAP. 12. §. 1. L. Hippophylus HOw doe you cure the Lampas Hipposerus Hippos This is a Malady that every common Smith can easily cure by putting into the Mouth of the Horse a good big Bat of wood where unto two long peeces of the Head-stall of an old bridle is nayled at either end which will cause him to keepe open his Mouth and then holding up his Lip with your left hand burne away the ranke flesh with a hot Iron made of purpose and after rubbing the place with Salt and giving him Bran for Oats three or foure daies at the most he will bee whole ✚ This disease is a Swelling proceeding from ranknesse of bloud which groweth in the Mouth adioyning to the fore teeth which said Swelling is an impediment to his feeding it is apparant enough to be seene and therefore needs no further remonstrance ✚ Neverthelesse I will shew you how the Marishals in France do use to cure the Lampas from whom I had the Cure and wherewith I my selfe have cured many horses Take a rosted Onion and very hot put it upon a clout or upon hurds and with it rub the Lampas Lampas very hard and do this two or three times a day till it be whole ✚ But many times they burne away the Lampas like as do our Smithes with an iron instrument which they do call a Bistory which is the very same that our Smithes use here in England § 2. L. Hippoph HOw do you stop a Lax or Loosenesse when it commeth to be violent Hippos Very easily Sir but I had thought I had handled that point sufficiently before in letter F. where you made your demand touching the Flux in a Horse notwithstanding I will give you other very good Receipts by me almost forgotten To illustrate the manner of it's comming Laxe to stop and the signes how to know the same I hold unfitting for this place by reason I have sufficiently already performed it Take of Allome one penny-worth powdred Bole-Armoniack poudred one ounce put these into Milke one quart continually stirring it till the Milke doth become all of a Curd give him this with a horne and it will stay his Laxe bee it never so violent ✚ This I have used Another Take Beane flower and Bole-Armoniack in fine powder of each foure ounces put them into red Wine one quart and give him this with a horne bloud warme Let his drinke be white water only insteed of Wheate-bran put in Bean-flower and that for three or foure daies after then let him bloud in the Temple veines and give him warme Mashs made of ground Malt and Beane-flower and having drunke up the Wort let him eate up the residue but if this doe not stay him within two daies then put in each Nosthrill Sallet-oyle and that will do it ✚ This is speciall good §. 3. L. Hippoph VVHat meanes have you to raise a leane Horse and to cause him in short time to hecome very fat Hippos I have shewd you this before but yet I will give you Rereipt which you yet have not Take Elecampane dryed Comin Turmerick Anniseeds Leanâ— to maâ— of each two ounces Grunsell halfe a handfull boyle all these very well with three heads of Garlick picked a little bruised in strong Ale foure quarts then straine it well and give unto your Horse of this drinke one quart in a morning fasting bloud warme and then ride him upon it till he do begin to be warme but not to sweate and thus do for foure mornings together and within some short time after turne him to grasse if the time of the yeare be seasonable and he will feed wonderfully and fatten sodainely but if the time of the yeare doe not serve for grasse then shall you keep him in the Stable and besides his former drinke you shall give him in his Oates this powder viz. Take the powder of Elecampane dry and of Comin both pulverized and searced of each like much mix them wel together and every time you give your Horse this Provender take of this powder half an ounce and strew it by little and little among his Provender for feare of offending him till he hath eaten up all cleane and doe thus but foureteene daies together and you shall perceive your Horse to thrive mend and prosper after a strange manner provided that you do give him seasonable ayring moderate exercise and Mashes or white water ✚ This is marvelous good §. 4. L. Hippoph VVHat is to bee done to a Horse whose Legges doe swell Hippos If this Swelling be only in his fore Legges and not behind then it is a signe that this his Swelling came by over-violent labour when the Horse was very fat especially inwardly by reason that the grease that was molten fell downe into his fore-Legges which if it had staid in his Body must of necessity have engendred either an Anticor
dropping of the trees falling upon the Horse together with his poverty doth cause them to engender and albeit they may be at first but a few yet will they in short time multiply abundantly sometimes also a Horse will catch them by standing neer to another horse that be lowsie and so long as he be visited with them he can never prosper but remaine very meager and leane You may easily know when he is annoyed with this kinde of vermine for that he will often scrub and rub himselfe against Wals Posts and Doores with his mouth and hinder feet The way to destroy them is Lice Take Staves-Acre and boyle it in running water and wash him all over with that water warme and it will kill them ✚ Another Take Quick-silver two ounces and first kill it with fasting Spittle and when it is throughly mortified take Hogs grease tryed and so work them together till it become of an Ash-colour and annoynt him therewith and it will in twice or thrice dressing kill them all ✚ Another Take Tobacco as much as will suffice and shred it very small and put it into small Beere and put to it of Allum powdred as much as will suffice and when the Allum is dissolved wash him therewith and it will kill them X All these I have often tryed and have found them to be very good §. 7. L. Hippoph HOw doe you make your powder of Lime and Honey Lime 〈◊〉 Honeâ— with which you doe heale and dry up Sores Hippos Take of English Honey and of quick-lime newly taken from the Kill unslaked of each like much as will suffice beat your Lime into fine powder and with your Honey and your Lime knead it to a paste and when it is throughly wrought make it into a thin Cake then lay it upon a cleane fire-pan and set it upon the fire and so let it bake and as it is baking take the soles of two old shooes and cast them into the fire and let them burn untill they have done flaming and that they do come to be fire coale then take them forth and when the Cake is baked sufficiently and cold beat the Cake together with the burnt shooes soles to very fine powder and so keep this powder in a bladder or dry boxe for your use X This will heale and dry up any wound or old sore and I have often and long used this powder § 8. L. Hippoph VVHat disease is that we call the Low-worme Hippos This is that disease which I cannot distinguish from Saint Anthonies fire or the Shingles for that it hath the selfe same symptomes and this I have cured This is a Worme that breedeth in the back betwixt the skin and the bone and runneth along the breast to the braine and when it commeth to touch the pannicle of the braine it maketh the Horse starke mad You shall first discover it by these signes viz. presently after a long and tedious journey the Horse will be sick and forsake his meat and stand out of length with his feet bending down his backe and he will often make offer to pisse but cannot and if he doe yet will it be but very little at a time and that in the sheath and in time he will fall mad gnaw the Wals Rack-staves and Manger and bite and strike at every man that commeth within his reach or danger and these be the most pregnant and apparant signes and this disease doth deceive many a good Ferrier For albeit that this infirmity may be many times among horses yet Ferriers being ignorant thereof by mistaking it meerely for the Stavers and applying remedies onely for that cure doe thereby lose many a good horse through their misprision But now to come unto the Cure it selfe I will give you two receits the former of which I learned of a Farmer in Buffolke who was cryed up for a very expert man in this faculty as indeed he was and hath perfected in my presence many a great cure Then thus Take of Acrement a quarter of a pound Loe-â—â— sixe heads of Garlicke cleane pilled of Rue and Turmentile that beareth the yellow flower of each one pound stamp all these in a stone morter and put to it so much white Wine as that when it is strained there may be of the juyce and Wine two quarts when you have of this liquor in a readinesse let your horse bloud under the tayle a good quantity then stanch him and dividing this pottle of liquor into sixe parts give it him sixe mornings together that is to say every morning one part or portion till he hath taken it all and by that time he will he perfectly cured ✚ The second receit was taught me in France by a famous Marishall of Burbon who hath cured very many horses of the selfe same malady but in a quite contrary way For whereas the first Cure was wrought by medicine this second is perfected by giving of fire Take an iron with a Button at one end and make it red hot then burn him therwith upon the top of his forehead and a little under his foretop and another in the fore-top and foure other in the necke cleane through upon the crest whereof two of the holes must be upon the one side of the crest and two on the other side and to take away and kill the fire put into every hole Vnguentum Rosarum and then let him bloud in the necke veine and he is cured ✚ This is also an approved Cure The French do call this malady ver-coquin and the Italians doe name Vermiforme but they both have but one manner of Cure for the fame This Ver-coquin or Low-worme is a living worm which breedeth upon the back bone running along the necke and so by degrees commeth to the head of the horse where with its hard beake it first pierceth the panicle and then worketh it selfe to the very brain of the creature where it lyeth biting gnawing and feeding causeth the horse to become enraged and to dye mad if otherwise he be not cured in time and therefore the French Marishals doe affirme that the prime remedy wherewith to kill and destroy this Worme is by fire and they hold that it cannot be destroyed any other way §. 9. L. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you to helpe the disease of the Lungs Hippos This disease of the Lungs is a malady which is first engendred of cold taken and let runne till the horse be either frettized or putrified in the lungs at what time they become inflâ—med and to come at last to rottennesse and corruption the means how to come to the knowledge of this infirmity is that by carefull observance you may perceive his flankes to beat and his ribbes to work but most chiefly when he cougheth and then the more slowly they doe beat and heave the more old and dangerous is the disease he will also draw his breath at his nose short and yet weakely and he will grone often
ounce stampe all these things together till you have made them to be of one body and plaister-wise apply it to the Malender renewing it once a day for three daies And this will kill the humour that feedeth it which once done annoynt the place with the oyle of Roses and that will cause the Crust to fall away then wash it once every day with Chamber-ly and strew upon it the powder of Oyster-shels and it is made whole and sound againe ✚ This I dare promise to be a very good Receipt § 2. M. Hippoph VVEll what saey you now to the Mainge Hippos This of all other is the worst vildest and most filthy and it will cause the Horse to be ever more rubbing scrubbing and scratching It is a formall Leprosie and the French doe call it the Elephantick Malady by reason that Elephants are very much subject thereunto The hayre will stare and in many places pill and fall away and a lothsome Scurfe will be upon the places touched therewith and he will infect all other horses which reside in the same stable with him Wherefore so soone as the Malady may be espyed let him be seperated from his fellowes whether in the Stable or abroad at Grasse This disease commeth of corrupt and melancholy bloud by meanes of it's over-heating and sometimes by feeding upon naughty and unwholesome meate It is so easie to be discovered as that it needs no other description then what hath beene already shewed and I will give you many good Receipts for this Malady Mainge Take Spurge Selendine Brimstone all in fine powder of each three ounces Hogge-grease tryed new-Wax Sheeps-suet quick-Silver well mortified with fasting-spitle of each two ounces melt and incorporate all these together and so bring them to an oyntment then first wash and make raw the places infected with stale Vrine and greene Copperas boyled together the infected places being scraped and made raw with a Curry-combe or some such like thing and then annoynt him with this Vnguent but first of all you must take bloud from the Neck-veine the day before you dresse him with this Vnguent ✚ This is one of the best Recepts for a Mainge that I have and with it I have done very many rare Cures Take the rootes of Elecampane newly gathered and the rootes of red Dockes of each like much slice and cut them thin and put unto unto them of Chamber-ly three quarts and of Bay-salt one handfull boyle these till one quart be comsumed then take it off and with a rag fastned to the end of a stick wash the places infected very hot you having first made the places raw with an old Curry-combe Oyster-shell c. Vse this foure or five mornings together then some three mornings after annoynt the places greived with this Oyntment Take quick-Silver one ounce let it bee well mortified in fasting spittle and mix with it so much Hogs-grease as a Hens Eg or better then take powder of Brimstone so much as will suffice and incorporate all these very well together and annoynt all the Maingy places therewith till they bee perfectly whole ✚ This is very good Another Take of the Oyle of Pilchards and of Chamber-ly of each one quart Guinny powder and the powder of Brimstone of each three ounces white Wine-Vinegar one pint boyle all these together till they bee thicke make the places raw and annoynt them therewith three times in nine dayes that is to say every three daies once and this will cure him ✚ This is very good but you must not forget evermore for this Malady to take store af bloud from your Horse a day or two before you do administer any thing unto him for untill such time as the Melancholy corrupt-bloud be first let out he will not easily be cured Another for a Mainge Itch or Running Scab c. Take as much Auripigmentum finely powdred and mixed with Hogges-grease as will bring it to be yellowish but not too yellow a colour annoynt the places infected therewith and it will kill it in three or foure dressings This Vuguent will take away both the Scab and hayre together but have you no feare for it will not be long ere new hayre will come in it's place ✚ With this receipt I have cured very many horses who have not beene a little over-run with this disease Another The first day let him bloud on the left side of the Neck then two daies after open the other Veine and three daies after that let him bloud on both the Spurre-Veines and lastly two daies after that under the Tayle and let him bleed in every of these Veines then scarrifie all the places and wash them with new Brine made very salt that done annoynt the places with this Vuguent Take of quick-Silver one ounce tryed Hogs-grease one pound Brimstone made into fine powder foure ounces Rape-oyle one pint First kill the quick-silver with fasting-spittle and then incorporate them together throughly with all the other Ingredients and having annoynted all the raw places with this Oyntment cause it the better to sinke in by holding a barre of hot iron neere to the places and then touch him no more in three daies after and evermore when you dresse him forget not first to rub and scarrifie the places infected till they do begin to bleed but if all this will not avayle then burne the rankest places of the Mainge with an iron having a button on the end thereof but then take heed you enter not the flesh but beare your hand light upon the skin only and let each hole be well-nigh a span from the other ✚ This I have often used Another Take of Chamber-ly foure quarts Bay-salt foure handfuls boyle them well together and wash the Horse therewith so hot as hee can well suffer it and when he is well washed take Neats-foote oyle and put it into water and beate them well together and therewith annoynt the raw places and in foure or five times thus doing he will be well This seemes to a good cure but I do not remember that I ever did use it Another Take Mother of Salt-Peter the best strongest and wash the sores therewith so hot as the Horse is able to suffer it and in three or foure times dressing it will cure him This I never tryed but the party that taught it me averred that it would not only kill any Mainge but all Scratches Paines Rats-tayles c. Another Take Sopers-lees and first make the Maingy places raw and after wash them with the said Sopers-leâ—s and in once or twice dressing he will be well ✚ This was taught me by the most able Ferrier I do now know living in England and I have often used it and I have done with it very many great Cures It cureth the Mainge both in Horses and Dogges provided they get not to it with their mouth and teeth Another Take Hogges-grease halfe a pound Oyle de Bay one ounce and halfe Crude-Mercury and
malignancy of the infection from the heart and to send it forth first let him bloud in the necke and weeping veines and then give him of Diapent two sponfuls with white Wine one pinte and of London Treacle one ounce and this will recover him And for your other Horses which you may have just cause to suspect to be infected to prevent their danger give him this preparative Preâ—arative Take two Walnuts the kernels onely and the older the Nuts be the better take also two Figs and twenty leaves of Rue stamp them all well together and let every Horse have his proportion three or foure mornings together fasting being made up and given in pils and let them fast three houres after and this will both preserve and free them These things I have often used and found them to be speciall good § 5. P. Hippoph VVHat good purging pils have you Hippos I have already shewed you many in lib. 2. cap. § But yet I will give you one or two more Take fresh Butter one pound Aloes and Fenugrick of each one ounce life Honey and white refined Sugar powdred of each foure ounces Agarick halfe an ounce make all these into fine powder and being well incorporated with the Butter and Honey make pils thereof and give them to your Horse and if he be a small or weake Horse then you must give him but two parts of three but if your horse have a strong cold and a cough withall then Take of fresh Butter and of Mel-Rosarum of each foure ounces of Aloes and Sene of each one ounce Rubarb and Bay berries of each three ounces Colloquintida and Saffaron of each two drams cordiall powder one ounce Ducke or Dutch powder foure ounces make all these into fine powder and mixe them well with Mithridate two ounces and with your Butter and Mel Rosarum beat and pound them well together and so make them into pils and give them your Horse this receit will purge him very well albeit it may heat him for some time and as touching the ordering him in his dyet or otherwise let all things be done as in other physicall cures of the like nature if it be a small horse then give unto him two parts in three and proportion the pils according to the strength greatnesse and corpulency of your horse ✚ This is very good § 6. P. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure the paines in the Heeles of a Horse Hippos This is a noysome Sorance comming to a Horse either by ill humours and corrupt bloud by meanes of Surfets proceeding from great heats by intemperat ridings as I have sufficiently declared before or else through the negligence of his Groome or Keeper for want of good rubbing clensing and picking this doth grow betweene the Fetlock-ioynt and the heele in the very Pasterne which will cause the place to swell and to have chops from whence will issue a thin and stinking water and those horses which have shaggy and long hayre upon their Fet-locks are most subiect to this Malady the signes bee easily knowne by reason that the chops may be soone felt for they will cause the Legges of the horse to swell and much filthy matter will come from the place greived being of that hot nature as that it will scald the very haire from about the sorance and this will cause the horse to go very stiffe and lame at first setting forth The cure is Take of the Lees of red Wine one pint of Wheat-branne one handfull of House-leeke one head of common Hony two spoonefuls of the dust of Tanners bark Allome and tryed Hogges-grease of each one pound of Verveine halfe a handfull bray all these well in a Morter and adde unto them of the leane of of Martlemas or dryed Beefe burned and made unto fine powder halfe a pound and so work them to a kind of salve and apply it unto the Sorance so hot as the horse can suffer it But before you do apply this medicine you must draw the skin with a hot iron a little above the houghes or knees or else take up the veines which I altogether use to do then take of Tarre and of sweet Butter and of Hony of each two spoonfuls and warme them upon the fire and eyther annoynt the places seared or else the veine so taken up with this Vnguent once every day till his Oyntment be all spent and by that time your horse will be perfectly cured especially if you continue this former Emplayster daily to the sorance having first clipped and shaven away the hayre from about the place greived ✚ With this I have cured many horse Another Take of Turpentine Hogges-grease and Honey of each like much Pastons so much as will suffice a little Bole-armoniack in fine powder and yolkes of two Egges with so much Wheat-flower as will thicken all the other ingredients incorporate all these well together and so bring it to a salve and Plaister-wise apply it to the Sorance and so bind it up renewing it every day and let him not come out of the Stable or come into any wet and he will be soone cured ✚ This is also very good Another Take of tryed Hogges-grease one pound Verdegrease one penny-worth of strong Mustard two ounces Nervall foure ounces of oyle de Bay of Hony and Wax of each halfe a pound Arsenick one ounce Red-lead two ounces and of white-Wine-Vinegar halfe a pint powder your Verdegrease and then boyle all together and the hayre first clipt away which must alwaies be done in any of these Cures apply this Medicine hot to the place and renew it daily and it will not only cure the paines but all manner of scratches scabbed and kibed Heeles to wash also the Sorance with Vinegar and Gunpowder is very good to helpe the paines and scratches ✚ This I have often used §. 7. P. Hippoph DOe you not use to purge a Horse that is Pursive Short winded Hippos Yea Sir and I do it after this manner Pursivenes a pill Take of the fat of a Boare three pound mince it very small and lay it in faire Water foure and twenty houres to the end the salt if any be in it may soake out of it then Take of Agarick Pulverized two ounces of Colloquintida in powder halfe an ounce mel rosarum six ounces in corporrate all these well together and worke it to a paste which you must make into Pils the bignesse of an ordinary tennis Ball one of which you most give him at a time rowled up within the powder of Lycoris but the night before you doe administer it you must give him no Oats at all but a little Hay and wheat-Branne prepared only then the next morning about six or seven of the clocke give him one of these Pils and then cover him up warm and ride or walke him two houres space then bring him in and let him stand upon the Trench two houres more then unbridle him and give him
a little Hay sprinkled with water and eight or nine houres after the taking of his Pill which will be about three of the clocke give him white Water to drinke and let him eate of the Branne then at night when you are to go to bed put a muzell upon his mouth und let him remaine so all night fasting and let him be warme covered and the next morning unmusell him and give him Hay sprinkled with water to eate and continue to let his drinke bee white Water only the third day give him another of these Pils after which you may begin to give him Oates but a little at once but then the dayes he do not take his Pils you must remember ever more an houre after you give him his white Water to give him of Agarick and of Rubarb in powder of each one ounce which he must take in fresh or sweet Butter made up like to a Pill This Purgation may be given to any Horse but especially to that Horse you shall feare is in danger to become eyther pursive of Glandery and if perhaps the Malady to have beene longer upon him give him then of Antimony thirty graines drams more or lesse according to the strength and age of the horse and also according to the nature and quality of the disease and if after the application of this medicine your horse will not feed as it may be very probably you may cherish him with milke mingled with the yolkes of Egges and Sugar well beaten and brewed together ✚ This I applyed to a horse of more then twelve yeares old who in seven dayes eate not one bit of any thing but onely the said Milke Egges and Sugar and yet in fourteen dayes after I cured him and made him perfectly healthy and sound §. 8. P. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you for a horse that pisseth bloud Hippos This disease comes sometimes being troubled with the stone like as we have it often times among men sometimes it comes to a horse that being very fat is put to more then his strength is well able to performe like as I once saw a very proper Gelding a young Gentleman being upon his back in hunting who comming to a great leap and the horse being ridden off from his winde his Rider inconsiderately forcing him to take that leap which the Gelding with much difficulty tooke but withall fell and was not able to arise but with the help of men and comming home the same night he pissed bloud whereof he dyed four dayes after maugre the endeavours of three very able Ferriers and being opened they found two veynes broken neere to the kidneys and much blacke bloud found in the place This malady may also come by bearing too great a weight as also when a horse is too hard ridden he will pisse water like to bloud your eye sheweth you the disease and therefore it needs no further remonstrance The cure is Take of Ambrosio Sanguinario alias Bloud-wort and Bursa Pastoris Pissing of bloud of each three ounces stamp them well and boyle them in faire water very well and so give the liquor thereof being strained to the horse bloud warme ✚ Give him this five mornings together and it will help him Another Take Barly and boyle it in the juyce of Gumfolly and give him the Barly to eate and the liquor to drink and this will cure him ✚ This is also very good Another First cleanse his yard from all filth and his sheath also with broken Beer and Butter then let him bloud in the necke and mouth then take the juyce of Leeks or green Onyons to wit the water wherein they have been steeped twelve or sixteen hours at the least the vessell wherein they be steeped being kept close stopped Take of this liquor and of white Wine of each one pinte and stir and jumble them together till they become slimy then give it him to drink and do this sixe or seven mornings together and it will stay his fluxe of bloud and bring his urine to its naturall and ordinary colour ✚ This is a very good medicine and I have often tryed it Another no whit inferiour to the former Take Beane flower finely sifted and adde unto it the Suet of a Stagge as much as will suffice and give it him three mornings together warme with a horn with a sufficient quantity of red Wine and during that time let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white watâ—r made with Beane meale ✚ This is an approved good receit §. 9. P. Hippoph VVHat good receit have you for a horse that hath taken a surfet by Provender Hippos This comes commonly to such horses as are insatiable feeders and therefore it is requisite that they be dyeted especially if they have too much rest and too little exercise for such horses if they can either breake or steale to a Bing of Provender and drink presently after will undoubtedly surfet upon them for drinking after Oates Pease or Beanes doth cause the Provender to swell in their belly and stomacke and so clogge the stomacke as that crudities will arise and so cause him to be very sicke yea and perhaps to no little danger that you shall see him to stand with his four legges asunder the one farre from the other and he will scowâ—e and cast forth of his fundament corn which will goe forth as whole and entire as he did greedily swallow them without chewing or grinding them The cure is first open a veyne in the necke to keep the bloud from inflaming then draw his yard and wash it with broken Beere and Butter then anoynt it with soft grease and put into the pipe of his yard a small piece of a clove of Garlick whereby to provoke him to stale then rack him and give him the Clister prescribed in lib. 2. cap. 6. Sect. 8. Clister 8. C. and it is called a Clister lenative then keep him warm and to a spare dyet for four or five dayes after and let his drink be white water during that time ✚ with this receit I have cured many a horse but one horse amongst the rest of very great price who otherwise had infallibly dyed § 10. P. Hippoph HOw doe you cure the Poll-evill Hippos This mallady we do tearm the Poll-evill because it breedeth in the top of the Poll behinde the eares of the horse but let it assume what name it shall yet it is none other thing then a Fistula in graine that is a formall Fistula which doth begin like all other Fistulaes with a great inflamation and imposthume in the nape of the necke sometimes it comes by meanes of his unruly striving the halter being new and therefore hard which doth so pinch and gall him that the harm thereof by reason that the flesh is bruised doth fester and inflame and from thence is ingendred this most lothsome sorance and sometimes it comes againe of bilious and evill humours which do make their approach to that place
corrupt the bloud and consequently the flesh and at the last breaketh forth into this malady which we call the Quick-scab Quick sâ— And the reason why we do give it this name is for that it runneth from one member of the horse to the other sometimes it will be in the neck and at other times in the breast of the horse now in the maine and then in the tayle c. The cure is First shâ—ve oâ— clip away the hayre from that place visited so close as may be and take off the scurfe and scabs with some old Curry-Comb Oyster-shell or some such like thing Then Take faire cold water with a linnen cloth wash and bathe the places very well and lay the linnen cloth well wet upon the place and so touch it no more in ten dayes and if in that time the quick-scab do not heale then dresse it as before and so a third time or a fourth or so oft as necessity requireth till it be throughly healed But remember that the day before you thus dresse the sorance after this manner you take to a reasonable quantity of bloud from the neck-neck-vein ✚ This is an approved cure Another as good as the former First let him bloud and then shave or clip away the hayre close as in the former cure Then take Mallowes and Marsh-Mallowes of each like much and boyle them in faire water as much as will suffice till the hearbs be soft and with the hearbs and decoction bathe and wash the sorance two or three dayes together warme then take of common Honey one pinte Coperas Allum of glasse and Verdigrece all made into fine powder of each four ounces Turpentine and Quick-silver mortified of each two ounces boyle all these together with the Honey unto an Vnguent and herewith dresse him every day till he be whole ✚ This I say is very good § 2. Q. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Quitter-bone Hippos This commeth to a horse by some hurt he hath taken in the foot either by a pricke with a nayle in shooing or by graveling or by a stub or the like when it was not so well healed that it impostumated and so brake out above the cronet which bred the malady or else being neglected it brake out above the hoofe before it was perceived It is bred also sometimes by a hurt upon the hoofe by a blow or by striking one foot upon the other and sometimes it commeth by evill humours which fall down into that place and it groweth most usually upon the in-side of the foot where when it beginneth it causeth a hard round swelling upon the cronet of the hoofe betwixt the heele and the quarter of the long talent it begetteth an Vlcer at what time it doth beginne to impostumate and it breaketh out above the Cronet like as I said before The signes I have already given you for the place will be swelled the bignesse of a hasle nut and the horse will hault right down The cure is so soon as it is espied to open it above if it doe begin to be soft then Take Auripigmentum made into fine powder and infuse it in the strongest white Wine Vineger can be gotten forty eight houres and then apply it to the sore and it will so eat about the Quitter-bone Quitter-bone as that you may pluck it away with your finger or pliers which so soon as the bone or gristle is taken forth you may heale up the wound with your Coperas water and green oyntment prescribed in lib. 2. cap. 10. § 4. G. till it be whole but he must not come into any wet during the time of the cure ✚ This is very good Another First cut the hoofe to the quicke then Take a Snake the greatest you can get and cut off his head and taile and flea it and so boyle it in water till the flesh come from the bone and then you may bring the flesh to be a very oyntment put of this into the sorance down to the bottome and this will kill the Quitter-bone and dry up and heale it but you must not suffer him to come into any wet dirt or gravell during the time you have him in cure ✚ With this medicine I cured one horse onely for that I had no cause to use it to any other since Another Take of Arsenick the quantity of a small beane make it into powder and put it into the hole of the Sorance conveying it downe unto the bottome with your instrument and then stop the mouth of the wound with Hurds and binde it on with a cloth and a rowler that the Horse may not bit it away and so let it remaine foure and twenty houres then open it and if you shall perceive the wound to looke blacke within it is a token that the Arsenick did its office in well working then to allay the fire and to restore the flesh that is thereby become mortified taynt the hole with Turpentine and Hogs-grease molten together Then take Pitch Rosin and Waxe of each like much and of Turpentine as much as of all the other three and melt them and so make a Plaister of Leather with which you must cover the top of the Sorance but first be sure to convey the aforesaid taint to the bottome and then lay on your Plaister and thus dresse him dayly till you have gotten forth the Core or sharpe Gristle if the Arsenick have not eaten it out before for if the Gristle be in the bottome of the wound and uncovered you may raise it with your Fingers or Instrument and so pluck it quite away for till that be out the Sorance will not heale that done heale it up with your green oyntment or else with this Vnguent Take of common-Hony and of Verdegrece in fine powder of each so much as will suffice boyle this till it bee red and therewith Taint the wound till it be whole keeping evermore the mouth of the wound open least it heale up above before it be well healed at the bottome neyther let your Horse come into any wet or go forth of the Stable untill he be throughly cured ✚ Thus I have cured many Quitter-bones Another Cut the place to the quick then take Virgin-wax Pitch of Greece Galbanum Mastick Sagapenum Olibanum and Sallet-oyle of each one ounce and of Deere or Sheeps-suet halfe a pound melt these upon a soft fire and incorporate them well together and therewith Taint and dresse the same till it be whole ✚ This is also very good CHAP. XVIII §. 1. R. Hippophilus WHat is good to cure the Red-water Hippos This Red-water is that which issueth out of old incurable Vlcers and Sores which when you shall see it to come forth of any wound then be you assured that it is very hardly or seldome cured till that Water be gotten away for it is a signe that the wound is poysoned with the said Red-water nor could I ever finde any cure for the Red water
upon it to keep it from falling off ✚ This will cure any old or new sore whatsoever in any part of the body as galled backs Spurregals gravelling prickt or accloyed the wound being dressed herewith every day once it will cure any Fistula if the juyce thereof be injected to the bottome With this one thing alone I have done cures which very good Ferriers could not cure Another Take common Honey and Verdigrece finely pulverized Aegyptiacum of each as much as will suffice boyle them together till the medicine waxe red and this will heale up any old or green sore in short space ✚ This is also very good Another Take the white of a new laid Egge Oyntment and Sallet oyle as much as will suffice and beat them well together and before you do apply it unto the wound poure into the wound burnt Butter and then lay on your medicine with Hurds plaister-wise and this will cure any green wound ✚ This is very good And thus much for sores §. 2. S. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Horse that hath gotten wrench in his shoulder Shoulder wrench Hippos If you do finde that the griefe be in the shoulder and that you do know it to be a wrench make this charge and charge the grieved shoulder therewith Take Wheate-meale two pound and allay it with red Wine in a Pipkin or Postnet as if you would make thereof a paste then take of Bolearmoniack made into fine powder halfe a pound of ordinary Honey one pound boyle all these together and adde thereunto in the boyling of Pitch halfe a pound and so keep it continually stirring untill your Pitch be throughly molten but before you take it from the fire put into it of ordinary Turpentine halfe a pound of Comin oyle de Bay Dialthea Sanguis Draconis Bay-berries Fenugrick Linseed flowre of each two ounces make all these into fine powder then take of the oyle of Aspick one ounce boyle and mixe all these very well together that done charge Charge the grieved shoulder all over very well even down the knees ✚ This charge is most soveraign for any wrench or straine in the shoulder knees or hips it also cureth Kibes Scratches and all such like sorances it is also most excellent to comfort the sinewes offended or hurt it is very good for a back-sinew-spraine it draweth away all bad humours and abateth swellings X I have often made use of this receit but if it be a shoulder-pight or joynt-dislocated then thus he is to be cured viz. Shoulders dislocated First cast him and lay him upon that side which is not hurt then fasten with a cord the foot of the same legge all along a board and so fasten the foot to some tree or post which must be some two or three paces distant from the horse and neer to the ground and let one stand at the middle of the boord with a stick to turn it easily and by degrees in the middle thereof and whilst that is in doing let another with a paile of cold water rub wash and bathe the grieved place with his hand or foot and that very hard and in so doing he must take up the member grieved which he must chafe from the very top to the farther end of the legge and by thus doing you shall put in the bone which was out into its right place and after this is done you must raise him as gently as may be and when he is up let him bloud in the breast-veine on that side the griefe lyeth putting a Patten-shooe upon the contrary foot and let his forefeet be tramelled fifteen dayes after at the least to hinder him from lying down and charge the grieved shoulder daily with a restringent charge and look upon the grieved member every two or three dayes by the space of fifteene dayes after that you have thus set the same neither let him be removed out of his place during that time and after swim him and apply bathes unto the shoulder made of good hearbs such as I have prescribed you in the Section of bathes and lastly annoint him with this Vnguent Take oyle de Bay the oyle de Petra oyle de Spike and Nervall of each like much and thus ordering him he will be sound and well again ✚ I have proved this upon sixe horses and cured them all Another If the shoulder be either strained or dislocated it were uery good to swimme him then take bloud from the breast veyne on that side the griefe lyeth then tramell his fore-feet that he do not lye down and so let him remaine three weeks then anoynt the member grieved with Sallet oyle onely and the first time you shall take but of Sallet oyle halfe a pound which you must rub in against the hayre very hard both upon the shoulder and the breast by the space of halfe an houre the next day after you shall likewise rub and chafe the shoulder and breast by the space of halfe an houre more Shoulders strained without applying any thing unto them and so continue rubbing and chafing him for the space of eight or ten dayes together as for the Sallet oyle you must take four ounces thereof every third day wherewith to chafe rub and anoynt the shoulder and the other two dayes betwixt you must not rub and chafe it with any oyle at all and at the end of eight or ten dayes his shoulder will be swelled down to the very knee then take off the oyle and apply a restringent charge to the part grieved and swelled and adde to it of ordinary Turpentine halfe a pound to cause the charge to remaine on the better and the next day and all other dayes after in stead of this restringent charge Take Vineger and bathe the shoulder therewith upon the said charge and by degrees the haire will fall away and when the swelling is asswaged send your horse in the beginning to the water upon a foot pace and he will be cured this receit certainly is very good and not costly but I did never make tryall thereof albeit it was highly recommended unto me by a famous French Marishall who averred that he hath recovered very many horses therewith but for a horse that hath gotten a wrench or slip the onely remedy is to put in a French rowell and then to blow him and put on a Patten shooe and let his Keeper turne the rowell every day once as well to cause the putrefaction the better to issue forth from growing to the flesh and after twenty dayes you may take it forth at your pleasure ✚ This is good for a new straine § 3. S. Hippoph VVEre it not much better Hipposerus that after you have thus rowelled and blown him and set a Patten-shooe upon the contrary foot that he were turned forth to grasse for that the horse keeping himselfe in continuall agitation and motion as hee feedeth in the pasture the humour may the better descend and so
issue forth whereby he may sooner be cured Hippos Sir I answer negatively to your assertion for by his being abroad the winde will take the wound and cause him to swell and thereby doe the horse more harme then you are aware of secondly I say if when he is abroad there might happen to fall raine that the place rowelled might take wet and cold Shoulder rowelled it might thereby endanger a Gangrene and therewith endanger the life of your Horse for the like I my selfe have done but having rowelled your horse and that you be to blow him if you use to take Tobacco then forbeare to blow him your selfe but let some other who taketh not any to blow him for the very scent and steame of Tobacco will cause your Horse to swell both in the shoulder and all along under his belly even to the sheath and stones most violently and the effect thereof I have very often seen ✚ With rowelling I have cured very many horses if the straine be newly taken but if the horse have gotten hurt on his shoulder that the skin be broken Shoulder the skin broken then first cut away all the dead and bad flesh if there be any then Take the white of an Egge and beat it and lay it upon a few Hurds plaister-wise but first wash the wound with a little white Wine made bloud warme and then apply your plaister to the sorance and then anoynt the shoulder round about the sorance with sweet Butter do this every day once and it will be whole ✚ This I have often tryed Another Take your lancet or fleame and make a little hole in the skin upon the pitch of the shoulder and blow the place with a quill that the skin may arise from the flesh then Take of stale Vrine two quarts and boyle it to a moyety then straine it and put thereto of sweet Butter and of tried Hogs grease of each halfe a pound then take of Mallowes Tansey Vervine red Nettles Sothernwood and of the tender tops of broome of each halfe a handfull chop all these together and boyle them in the Vrine till they be soft and then first bathe the shoulder with the decoction or Vrine and after anoynt the shoulder with the hearbs being first mâ—de into an Vnguent using thus to doe every day once or twice till it be well but during this cure the horse must be kept within doores and in a few dayes he will goe sound againe ✚ This is very good for I have often tryed it Another If your horse have any griefe in his shoulder first put into it a French rowell and blow it and put a patten-shooe upon the contrary foot then apply this charge unto the place take of Pitch and Rosin of each one pound and of Tarre halfe a pinte melt them upon the fire and before it be cold charge the shoulder therewith and clap Flaxe upon it and let the charge lye on till it fall away of it selfe and once a day turn the rowell for fifteen dayes together at least then take out the rowell and heale up the wound then if the season be fit for it turne him to grasse with his patten-shooe on and let him runne three or foure moneths and he will goe upright againe ✚ This is very good Another First swimme him as you may doe well to doe for any griefe in the shoulder or hips and before you do rowell him apply unto the grieved member this bathe and unguent Take Pimpernell an arme full Bay berries Primrose leaves Camomil Crow-foot Mallowes Fennell Rosemary and fine upland Hay which was cut about Midsummer of each like much and of each a good quantity put all these into a Leade or Cauldron and there let it steep in faire water two dayes and two nights then boile it untill the hearbs be soft and bathe your Horse therewith every day once good and warm and binde of these hearbs with the Hay to the shoulder or place grieved in what place or joynt soever it be use this bathe foure dayes and at the expiration of foure dayes let him bloud in the breast on that side the griefe lyeth if the griefe be in the shoulder but if in the knee or fetlock joynt then let him bloud in the pastern veyne and so likewise if the paine be behinde and let him bleed well but if you have not skill or knowledge enough to open any of these veynes then pare the foot very close and open the toe veyne and there let him bleed well after this his foure daies bathing when he is dry againe anoynt the grieved member with this Vnguent Take Petroleum Nervall Patch or piece grease and oyle of Wormes of each like much and anoynt him herewith by the space of halfe an houre and then for halfe an houre after trot him in your hand in a faire soft ground then bring him into the Stable and observe if any of the said oyntment be come forth or doth stick to his hayre which if it doe let it be rubbed and chafed in againe also bathe him morning and evening and at noon anoynt him and trot him as before is advised but at night onely binde or rope on the hearbs and this is the cure Vse this but foure dayes onely for feare of making his joynts too supple and weake and if this help not as I do beleeve it will then rowell him this I never tryed but my opininn is that it is a very good receit Another If your Horse be shoulder splat Shoulder splat then put upon him a paire of short pasternes upon his fore-feet then take of Dialthea one ounce of Sallet oyle one pinte of oyle de Bay halfe a pinte of fresh Butter halfe a pound melt all these together in a Pipkin and anoynt the grieved place round about viz. as well all over the shoulder as the breast and betwixt the fore-legs upon and about the brisket and in two or three houres after all the shoulder will be swelled then with your fleame strike the swelling in very many places that the corruption may issue forth and continue to anoynt him with the said ointment and if it gather to a head as it is likely it will when it is ripe enough open it where you doe finde it to be softest and then heale it up with your green oyntment so often commended unto you and thus your horse will goe sound againe ✚ This I have often tryed and let this suffice for this malady § 4. S. Hippoph YOu have delivered your selfe very well but yet Hipposerus but yet I am to seeke to know and understand when I see a horse doth hault or complaine where the griefe lyeth being a thing most needfull for a Gentleman to be very perfect in but more especially for him that is a Ferrier who is to cure and set upright the Horse that is lame Hippos You speake pure truth Sir and therefore I will give you such assured rudiments whereby you shall
so after that a third Egge then let him bloud in the palat and rub it well with white Salt then set him upon the Trench cloath stop and litter him againe warme and let him fast an hour or two after it and then feed him by degrees both with Hay and Oates giving him either a sweet Mash or white water and he will doe well againe This drink refresheth all the spirits being over-laied through heate and labour and causeth a good appetite to meat ✚ With this drinke I have cured many sicke horses as well of mine own as of my friends which have faln away very desperately sick upon the way in travell but if I do finde that his bloud is inflamed as many times it will be I then use to open a veyne in the neck §. 11. S. Hippoph BVt what is to be given to a Horse that falleth suddenly sick Sudden sicknesse Hippos First let him bloud in both brest veines or if you have not skill sufficient to open these veynes then let him bloud in both sides the necke and let him bleed well nigh two quarts then give him this comfortable drink Take of sweet Sacke one quart and burn it with Graines Cloves and Cinamon of each like much being all beaten grosse put to it of Suger three ounces and when it is burnt adde unto it of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and of London Treacle two ounces warm all these and brew them well together and so give it to your horse bloud warme then ride him gently untill he do begin to sweate and so set him up warm clothed and littered but be sure to keep his head and heart warme neither must you stuffe and cloth him too hot for this drink will cause him to sweate sufficiently of it selfe yet litter him well keeping the Stable close and so let him fast sixe hours after against which time let him be rubbed very dry and give him to eate sweet Wheat straw and after give him either a sweet Mash or white water and boile therein of Mallowes and Water-cresses of each one handfull of Fennell-seed and of Persley-seed of each one ounce if he will drink the same After that morning and evening your horse being fasting ride him a mile or two to the end he may take the ayre which is very wholesome for him if the weather be temperate and let his meat be sweet straw old clean dry Oats and some Wheat and Pease mixed therewith give him a little at once and often untill you doe perceive his stomacke to come well unto him and let him be daily well rubbed and warm clothed to provoke him to sweat and let him be also well littered and his drink either sweet Mashes or white water and by this manner of keeping and ordering of him in short time he will recover his pristine sanity ✚ This I have often tryed and it is very good § 12. S. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Selender Hippos This disease is the very same with the Melander but the sole difference is in that the malander breedeth upon the bending of the knee or the legge before and the Selender engendreth of the bending of the hough in the legge behinde but it commeth just as doth the Malander and the cure is the very same with it but yet I will give you one good receit which will cure both first wash and shave away the hayre and rub the sorance with a wispe or hayre cloth till it be raw 〈…〉 then take the shreds of white leather untanned which Glovers doe make and boyle them in Vineger till they be soft and binde of this hot to the place but if you do not finde that by once or twice dressing taketh not away the scurfe or scab renew it daily untill it doth for by this meanes the roots of the bristly haire which groweth in and about the sorance is the onely thing that feedeth the Malander wherefore the roots of the hayre being taken off which this medicine will doe the sorance will soon be cured and to heale up the rawnesse thereof Take fresh or sweet Butter bay Salt and Frankincense both made into fine powder of each as much as will suffice and boyle them all together on the fire and with a ragge upon a sticke apply this medicine to the place scalding hot two mornings together and after heale it up and cause the hayre to come againe being daily anointed with Mallowes and sweet Butter made into an Vnguent ✚ This is a very good cure §. 13. S. Hippoph VVHat is to be given to a Horse sicke surfetted Sick or surfetted and his grease molten Hippos The onely way is first to take bloud from him if there be just cause and after to scowre his guts with this purge Take Cassia one ounce Filonio-persio or Persico and Trifora magna of each halfe an ounce sirrop of Violets two ounces dissolve these in mel Rosarum four ounces and give it him with a horne in a morning fasting and after either ride him gently or else walk him up and down an houre or better and for an houre after at the least let him stand upon the Trench then give him a sweet Mash which when he hath dispatched give him old dry Oates cleane and well sifted and after sweet Hay neither let him have any cold water in eight dayes after nor after that time but with exercise ✚ And this is a speciall good cure §. 14. S. Hippoph NOw let us come to the sinewes what say you to a sinew spraine Hippos I have already handled this point sufficiently in lib. 2. cap. 4. § 9. A. for an Attaint upper neverthelesse I will give you more receits for a sinew spraine albeit it be the same malady the first shall be for a sinew sprung Sinew sprung or when the sinew is broken and severed from the flesh as many times it falleth out then Take Tartar and the lees of Claret or red Wine of each three ounces Wheate Bran one handfull boyle these with the juyce of Smalledge two handfuls or better and when you take it from the fire put into it of Turpentine one ounce binde this to the sinew grieved so hot as he may well suffer it and using this medicine foure or fiue dayes he will be sound againe ✚ This is very good Another if the sinew or artery be broken with Corasives or other accident to cause it to soder or joyne againe Take the leaves and roots of Solomons seate and of great Cumfrey of each like much pound them small and infuse it in white Wine foure and twenty houres bathe the sorance herewith warme you having first boyled it and after you have bathed the place well binde the hearbs and roots to the place grieved dressing him every day once untill he be perfectly consolidate And if the flesh be still broken when you do finde the sinew to be knit strew theron the powder of Lime and Honey which will heale and
bloud being most wholesome for him and whilst he is thus bleeding thrust an iron Bodkin through the gristle of his nose skin and all then Take Assafetida the quantity of a hasle nut and dissolve it into a sawcer full of white Wine Vineger then take Lint or fine Flax and dip it into the liquor and so stop both your Horse eares therewith and so stitch them up and at the end of foure and twenty houres unstitch them and he is cured ✚ This is very good Another First let him bloud in both the weeping veynes and in the mouth then Take of bitter Almonds one ounce and a halfe of the gall of an Oxe two drams of black Ellebore made into fine powder a halfe penny worth of Graynes Castoreum Vineger and of Varnish of each five drams boyle all these together untill the Vineger be all consumed then straine it and put it into his eares and do as before ✚ This is very good Another Bloudy him as before then with your incision knife make a slit down his forehead an inch long and better and with your cornet loosen the skin round about but most toward the foretop then put into the place the root of a red great Dock cut thin and let it remaine there fourteen or fifteen dayes and once in two dayes at furmost crush out the mattrative stuffe and then take forth the Dock roots and heale up the place with your healing Salve and give him during these fourteen dayes white water onely and he will doe well ✚ This I assure you is very good Another Bloudy c. Then take Aqua-vitae and Garlicke of each so much as will suffice stamp them together and convey it into his eares doing vt supra ✚ This is singular good Another Let him bleede well in the neck and mouth for the abundance of bad bloud is the cause of this disease then with your Incision knife slit the forehead of the Horse and with your Cronet raise the skin especially upwards put in three or foure cloves of Garlick pilled put upon it a little lint or fine Flax to keepe away the Wind for that is dangerous and then give the Orifice a stitch to keep in the Medicine the better Then Take the seeds of Cresses of Poppy of Smallage of Parsly of Dill I say the seeds only of these hearbs and take also pepper and Saffaron of each two drammes make them all into fine powder and put unto them of Barley water two quarts as it commeth boyling from the fire and let it infuse therein three houres and then straine it and give him one quart thereof if it may be in the morning fasting bloud-warme and walke him up and downe an houre and better and then set him up warme and give him Hay sprinkled with water and the next day give him the other quart fasting and then doe as before neither let him drinke any cold water in foure or five daies after but only white water unlesse sometimes a sweet Mash And thus doing he will be cured X. This is a most excellent Receipt and I have often used it §. 21. S. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you for a Horse that hath Swelled-Legges Hippos This Malady of swelled or Gourdy-Legs commeth eft-soones by long standing in the Stable when as the upper parts of the plancks at his fore-feete are much higher then that at the hinder feete as I have before observed in lib. 1. cap. 4. for by that meanes the Horse not standing even and therefore not at his case the bloud setleth in the hinder-Legges which causeth them to swell Sometimes they doe come by reason the Horse being hard ridden was brought into the Stable too hot and carelesly set up who taking cold the bloud grease and humours do fall downe into the Legges and so cause them to swell Sometimes it commeth by over-riding whereby the Horse hath his bloud stirred and his grease melted which falleth down and resteth in the hinder-Legges causing them to swell Sometimes by being ridden and gallopping upon hard waies in the Heates and by that meanes the bloud and grease falleth downe into his Legges congealeth there whereby they do become gowty and gourdy And sometimes gourdy-Legges cometh by sicknes and surfets taken which after remedy had yet the faeces or dregges thereof still remayning in the body of the horse falleth downe and causeth the legges to swell as I have frequently seene And these be the primme causes and reasons which we have observed for this Malady Swelled-Legges The signes your eie doth demonstrate and you may without teaching point to it with your finger and therefore we may say nothing thereof Wherefore now we will to the cure If the swelling come by ordinary meanes then take up the Thigh-veines and then you neede doe no more for that alone will cure him and after open the heele-veines and lay a Retoyre to the Legges or else give him the fire which will siccicate dry up the bad humours which must be given gently and lightly neither would I have you give him the fire unlesse you might thinke or find it in your iudgement to be very requisite But my meaning is not that this remedy of the fire bee applyed but only to an old griefe otherwise not at all ✚ This is good But if besides his swelled-Legges they also be stiffe comming to him after much labour and travell therefore Take of Violet-leaves Primrose-leaves and Strawberry-leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in new-Milke till they become very soft and then take it from the fire and put to it of the oyle of Nervall of Petroleum and of Pamphilion of each one ounce and so stirre all together untill it becometh bloud-warme and therewith chafe rub and anoint the Legges Nerves Sinewes and Ioynts holding a hot barre of Iron neere to the place to cause the Vnguent to sinke the better in Anoint him thus with this Vnguent five or sixe daies together and it will helpe him ✚ This I have often used Another Take Traine-oyle and warme it upon the fire and therewith bathe his legges morning and evening and in short time he will be well ✚ This is very good also to ride your Horse into the water morning and evening up to the belly doth take away the swelling of his legges X. This is mervelous good § 22. S. Hippoph VVHat is good to asswage the swelling of the Cods in a Horse Hippos This Malady commeth many waies to wit by violent riding heats when there was not sufficient care had of him but was neglected in the setting up also it commeth by washing walking and cold taken after immoderate labour and sometimes by feeding to intemperately upon Provender and sometimes by feeding upon unwholesome meate The signes to know it are his stomacke may be peradventure good to his meate but yet it will do him little good for he will be alwaies meagre and leane his hayre will stare neither will he cast his
him Hay and an houre or better after that give him either a sweet Mash or white water and then Provender sufficient but with discretion and by degrees and so also in the morning give him both Oates and Bread whether he will eate best feeding him by little and little so long as he will eate and in the morning when you are ready to take his backe give him the same drinke againe and you shall finde him to travell with spirit and mettle and if you tye a branch of Penny-royall upon his Bit it will greatly comfort him But yet for all that which hath been said if he happen to tire then Take Arsmart and rub his bare backe where the Saddle resteth and lay also some of the leaves upon his backe under the Saddle and so clap on the Saddle and this will cause him the better to hold out ✚ This is good Another Take the best Spanish Tobacco you can get shred it small and dry it and make it into fine powder and mixe therewith the powder of Cockle shels of the like quantity which must be searced and put this powder into a glasse keeping it close stopped and so keep it to your use And when you are to use it take of this powder and mixe therewith of the oyle of Dill and of the oyle of Cloves such a quantity as will make this powder into a stiffe paste and so make it into pils every Pill the bignesse of a Walnut which must be dried in the shade these Pils must be made in the Canicular or Dog dayes onely then keep them close stopped in some glasse or gally pot that no ayre can get into it and when you have cause to use any of them give him one of them at what time you shall perceive your horse to faint or tire or that you do perceive him to have taken a cold or surfet which may very well be the cause of his debility give him I say one of these Pils when you do come unto your Inne But if hee hath taken a cold or surfet then give him a Pill in the morning fasting and let him be well rubbed clothed warme and well littered and suffer him not to drink any cold water but either a sweet Mash or white water for there is not any thing more noxious then to give a horse in this case cold water and let his travell be moderate and with great discretion and he will both hold out his journey and get strength and flesh also in his travell ✚ And this I have often tryed both upon my own horses and others in whose company I have travelled as well in England as in parts abroad CHAP. XX. § 1. V. Hippoph HOw doe you prescribe a Vomit to a Horse Hippos Of this I have spoken a little already where I did remit you to this place We doe usually give vomits unto horses newly taken up from grasse by reason they are thereby full of very grosse and phlegmaticke humours which doe abound in the stomacke and head which if they be not fetched from the horse in its due time will be a meanes to impaire greatly the health of the horse which must oft times be necessarily expulsed by vomit and you shall have a receit of a vomit which I had in France from a speciall Ferrier there who as I have before touched hath in my presence administred to sundry horses which did worke very kindely upon them and I my selfe have administred the same to sundry Horses here in England to very great profit unto them The receit is this Take two of the greatest roots of Polipodium you can get from the Oke wash and scrape them very cleane and tye it to his Snaffle Vomiting Trench or Bit then let it be steeped in the oyle of Spike a whole night and in the morning fasting put on his bridle with the said roots and ride him with it in his mouth an houre or better faire and softly and if he be troubled with any rhumaticke or phlegmaticke humour or with any cold or other filthy matter which may any way pester clogge or annoy his stomacke this thing will force him to vent them at his mouth and nose and it wil cause him to cough and neeze whereby he will send forth a great abundance of filth and evill slimy stuffe from off his stomacke and head as that in short time he will become very cleane in his body for this will both refine his bloud and exhaust all his watry humours in such sort as by temperate ordering him and doing as I have here prescribed you you may be confident to keep him a long sound perfect and serviceable horse And this is not to be applied onely to a horse newly taken from grasse but to any other horse that hath taken a cold or to any ketty foule foggy or pursive horse whatsoever ✚ This may seeme strange here amongst us but let any man make tryall and he shall finde it to be most admirable § 2. V. Hippoph VVHat is to be given to a Horse that hath a violent Cough Hippos If this great and very violent Cough Violent Cough proceed from a cold as commonly all Coughs doe then give him first Wheat Bran prepared as sundry times before is prescribed you and take bloud from the necke veine then with his Oates give him this powder following viz. Take of Comen Fenugrick Sileris-Montani alias Sisileos Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two ounces Quick-Brimstone sixe ounces make all these into fine powder and of this powder give him every night with his Oates one spoonfull But because this powder disperseth the corrupt grosse and phlegmaticke humours which are predominant in the body of the horse which doe occasion the said violent Cough so soone as you shall perceive that with this powder he hath purged sufficiently use it then no longer but faile not to continue his white water but before you give him his water take a sticke about the bignesse of your thumb at least and well-nigh a foot long and wrap a fine ragge about it foure or five times steeped before hand in oyle de Bay and so put it into his mouth like as you would doe a Snaffle and with straps made fast to the ends of the sticke fastned then over his Poll like as Smiths use to doe when they burne horses for the Lampas and let him drinke with it in his mouth that done let him stand with it in his mouth one houre after at the least to the end he may lick and suck up the said oyle upon the ragge or cloth and when you doe give him his Oates mixe them with this powder following viz. Take of Fennell-seeds foure ounces of Fenugrick two ounces of Cardamom one ounce beat all together but grosly otherwise hee will blow it away as he eateth his Oates and keep him warme as before is advised you ✚ This is very good for I have often used it § 3. V. Hippoph FOr
Verdegreece of each one pound beat them all into fine powder and put them into the water and boyle them all together and when it is boyled as much as will suffice which will soon be done let it stand to settle a while then poure the cleare into a glasse being first cold enough and so keep it for your use But the powder which remaineth in the bottome you may dry and keep in a boxe by it selfe for it will heale and dry up any sore or ulcer This water being injected with a syringe of wood or pewter will cure any fistula whatsoever if it may come to the bottome thereof ✚ Of this water I have had great experience But you must understand that these severall waters will onely kill the cankerous humour of the fistula and therefore after the malice thereof is quelled you must heale up the sorance with the green oyntment prescribed you in lib. 2 chap. 10. § 4. G. or else with some carnifying salve or unguent Another Search the depth thereof with your Probe as before is taught you but be certaine you finde the bottome then if the bottome be where you may boldly make incision do it and that so wide as that you may thrust in your finger to feele whether any bone or gristle be perished or whether there be any spungy loose dead or proud flesh therein which must first be gotten forth either by incision or by corrosive then take of common honey foure ounces and of Verdigreece one ounce made into fine powder boyle these together keeping it alwaies boyling and stirring it till it look red then with a taint of Hurds taint it to the bottome and make it so fast that it get not forth and renew the taint every day once till it have done mattering making the taint every day shorter then other and sprinckle upon it a little slaked Lime But if you cannot come to taint it to the bottome of the fistula then take strong Lye Honey Roch-Allum white Mercury of each as much as will suffice and boyle them together and inject it to the very bottome of the fistula and it will kill it ✚ But if the fistula be in the head then Take the juyce of Houseleeke and dip a locke of blacke Wooll into it and put the same into his eares and so stitch them up renewing it every day till it be whole This cure hath been highly recommended unto me but I never had opportunity to make proofe thereof Another Take Roman Vitreall Roch-Allum and Rose-water of each two ounces boyle all these on a quicke fire till they come to be as hard as a stone then beat it to fine powder and when you dresse the sore make a taint which being dipped in unguentum Aegyptiacum rowle then in this powder and so convey the end of your taint down to the very bottome of the fistula This is the best way also to cure a poll-evill and this powder being laid upon an old sore will both heale and dry it up ✚ This I onely made twice proofe of the first time to a fistula and the second time to a poll-evill both which cures I perfected But now you would gladly know how to ripen and breake a fistula wherefore Take Brooke-lime Mallowes Assmart of each like much boyle them in old Chamberlye till the hearbs be very soft and apply these hearbs to the swelling neither doe you renew it in two or three dayes and then it will both ripen and breake any impostume ✚ This I have often used and found very good And let this suffice for this malady §. 19. F. Hippoph NOw let us come to the Feete how doe you cure the Fetlock being hurt Hippos If this sorance commeth by any wound by the biting of a Dogge or by being cast in a Halter then the best way to cure the same is Take unslaked lime and the yelke of an Egge of each like much Fetlock hurt beat them together to a salve or unguent then mixe therewith the juyce of one head of Garlick and a little soot and with this annoint the sore till it be almost whole then to skinne the same Take Sallet oyle and oyle of Roses of each one ounce of Turpentine three ounces and of new waxe one ounce melt them altogether and adde to it a fourth part of the powder Verdegrease and herewith annoynting the sore in few dayes it will heale it and skin it up very soundly ✚ This is a very well approved Receipt But if your horse have gotten a sore foot by meanes of any cannell-nayle or bruise by treading upon a stone which after rankleth inwardly or by other accident then first rayle the skinne with your Cornet and lay upon sorance Wheate-flower and Bores-grease well incorporate together and dresse him therewith twice a day for two daies together and at the second dayes end Take the powder of Quick lime Sope and Tallow and mixe them well together for three dayes or more apply it to the place dressing it also twice a day then wash the wound with hot Vineger and put upon it Caprinell till it be whole This I nevâ—r tryed Froathy oâ— weeping hoofe But if the hoofe doe weepe or froath by sending forth thinne watry or froathy stuffe then open the toppe thereof with your Cornet so as the wound may become hollow round about the extreamities thereof so farre forth as that you may come to the Master Keine to breake it in sunder which done let it bleed at pleasure what it will and when the Veine hath stanched fill up the wound with Salt finely powdred then take Hurds and steepe them in Vineger and so stop the wound therewith and bind thereto a cloath to keepe the same from falling away and it will cure it ✚ But if the sole be hoofe and in danger to fall away draw it round twixt the sole and the hoofe with your drawing Iron and so take out the soâ—e quite and then suffer his foot to bleed well then apply to it this Plaister Take the whites of Egges and beate them a little and so laying them upon Hurds apply it to the foot and bind it on that it fall not off and let it remaine on so by the space of two dayes which ended open it and wash the foote with strong Vineger warmed and then fill the sole with the powder of Salt and Tartar mixed together and so bind it up with Hurds steeped in strong Vineger and thus dresse it till it be whole These two Receipts were taught me by a famous Ferrier of Paris in France but I never had occasion to make use of it howbeit I esteeme them to be very good But if your horse be foundred in the feet and that he hath not bin foundred above foure daies then with this ensuing Receipt you may easily set him upright and make him sound againe in foure dayes more The Cure is this Foundring in the feet First let him bloud in the Neck Breast