To draw or break a Boyl or Vlcerous Sore c. ibid. An excellent Poultis to asswage any Pain or superate Tumour P. 146 A Poultis to break any Infectious Sore ibid. To disperse the Flux or Oppression of Blood in any part ibid. For an Imposthume or sudden Swelling in any part of the Body P. 147. In case of the Palsey in the head c. ibid. To heal and contract any Wound ibid. An inward Balm to destroy Worms and heal Internaâ— Bruises P. 148 An excellent Balm in case of any Sprain Internal Bruise Swelling Blasting old Sore or Gun-shot ibid. An excellent Balm to be given a Horse inward in case of a Consumption ibid. An excellent Red Water to cure Vlcers P. 149 An excellent Water to allay any Internal heat or feaverish Indispondency ibid. In case a Horse be troubled with the Stone an excellent Water ibid. For any disease in the Eyes c. P. 150 An excellent Purgation for Gravel in the Bladder or Kidnies ibid. For the Vlceration of the Yard an excellent Water ibid An excellent Powder for the falling-sickness or falling-eviâ— in a Horse P. 151 A Powder for the Ague which frequently happens especially to young Horses ibid. To purge Choler and Phlegm an excellent Powder ibid. An excellent Bath to allay any Swelling or such-like disorder especially diseases in the Legs occasioned by the descending of evil humours c. P. 152 A Bath to soften and mollifie the Skin ibid. To stanch Blood in any Vein or Artery ibid. An excellent Medicament to provoke a Horse to Vomit as also to purge his Belly P. 153 An excellent Purge good on sundry occasions ibid. or a Joynt-sickness ibid. For an Internal Vlcer ibid. An excellent Electuary for a dangerous Cough or ratling Cold. P. 154 CHAP. XXIII THE Symptoms of Diseases Sorrances Distempers Grievances or the like in general and particular how to foresee them and prevent them as also to know when they happen c. P. 155 CHAP. XXIV DIrections for making and preparing Oyntments Oyls Salves Waters Purgations Poultises Charges Supplements Pills Powders c. singular good in case of any Distemper or Sorrance c. P. 159 â—n Oyntment to search any Wound or Vlcerated Sore or any thing of the like nature ibid. â—n Oyntment excellent good in case of Botches Boils Scabs or the like Sorrances P. 160 〈◊〉 skin any Wound an excellent Oyntment ibid. 〈◊〉 mollifie and asswage any Swelling an excellent Oyntment ibid. An excellent Oyntment to cool and allay any Inflamation ibid. An excellent Oyntment or rather Balsom to be inwardâ— given a Horse for Obstructions Bruises and otheâ— Ailments and Grievances P. 16â— To make a green Oyntment proved by Experience morâ— effectual than what has formerly been published ibid. An excellent Remedy for the Staggers or any Pain thaâ— suddenly takes a Horse sometimes to the loss of hâ— life ibid. An excellent Salve for any Wound P. 16â— An approved Salve to draw any stub thorn or splinter 〈◊〉 Bone or Wood out of the flesh ibid. To fill a Wound Vlcer or the like with good flesh an excellent Plaster P. 16â— A Salve to draw Corruption from the bottom of aâ— Wound or to draw a Swelling or any such grievance to a head ibid. To ripen a Tumour or asswage any Swelling not abounâ—ing with extraordinary humours ibid. An excellent Poultis for a Tumour or Swelling ibid. A Charge to ease a pain in the Back or for any Sprain P. 16â— To mollifie any Chap or rough Sore ibid. For the Eyes of a Horse afflicted by any means an approved Water to cure or ease them ibid. A Water to Wash the Mouth in case of any Sorrance 〈◊〉 defect P. 16â— A Pill good for any Internal disorder c. ibid. A Supplement exceeding good for any strain or grief 〈◊〉 the Sinews c. ibid. A Vomit for a Horse that has a Queesy stomach there 〈◊〉 to render him a good Appetite ibid. To purge Melancholy P. 16â— To purge Phlegm ibid. CHAP. XXV CLysters how to make them and on what occasion they ought to be applied in order to their effectual working and bringing away bad humours P. 167 〈◊〉 case of any Pestilential disease occasioned by a cholerick or firey humour ibid. For any Internal distemper proceeding from Melancholy P. 168 For any distemper Internal occasioned by sanguine corrupt Blood or waâ—ry Humours by means of bad concoction or obstruction c. ibid. For Sickness in general an approved Clyster ibid. â—n case of Restringency or hard Binding P. 169 CHAP. XXVI Cordials Cordial-Powders Drinks and Drenches Purgations and Suppositories wonderfully conducing to the health and strength of a horse P. 170 Diapente an excellent Powder in case of any cold or Pestilential diseases ibid. An excellent Cordial-Ball to be given in case of any Internal distemper and especially to prevent the Consumption or wasting of any part c. ibid. An excellent Drench to cure any Internal distemper proceeding from any of the four Humours of the Body c. especially such as are Pestilential P. 171 â—uppositories and their Vse ibid. CHAP. XXVII PErfumes Baths and Purgations what they are and to what end they serve with the Manner how and under what Considerations they ought to be applied Page 173 Directions for Purging according to the estate and condition of Your House Page 174 CHAP. XXVIII COsticks Corrosives and Rowelling what they are for what causes and in what manner to be applied Page 176 Rowelling what it is and how to be performed Page 177 THE CONTENTS OF THE Second PART CHAP. I. THE Manner of Breaking a Horse the best way and perfecting him in his Paces c. and preserving him from danger c. Page 181 CHAP. II. HOW the Jockies made Old horses look young A lean horse artificially and naturally how fatned by Jockies A Remedy for Restiffness Neighing and the vice of Lying down in the Water The Art of making Stars Snips Blazes setting on false Ears Tails Manes c. Page 189 A Horse subject to lye down in the Water how to remedy it Page 190 A Tired or Restiff Horse to remedy Page 191 To prevent the Troublesomeness of a Horse's Neighing which may prove disadvantageous to the Master especially in time of War. ibid. If a Horse be dull and will not feel the Spur without much wounding c. Page p. 192 To make a lean Horse artificially far or to seem so to the Buyer ibid. To make a lean horse really fat the best and cheapest way Page 193 To make the hair of a Horse that stands rough and staring smooth and sleek 194 To make Hair come where it is thin or to take it away where it is thick ibid. Stars Blazes Snips what they are and how to make them for Ornament or Disguise in any part of the Horse where they may be conveniently scituate 195 To make a Black Star in a white horse 196 To make a Blaze-Royal 198 The loss of Ears how to supply 190
necessary to be observed in the Election and Choice of gooâ— Breeders how and at what time c. a Marâ— ought to be Covered how ordered being with Foal and after Foaling With many other things of the like nature Page 〈◊〉 CHAP. II. HOw to Manage a good Colt to bring him to be 〈◊〉 excellent Horse and what is to be observed in thâ—â— timely knowledge of what he will be when come to Mâ—turity with the season of Weaning Cutting and 〈◊〉 c. p. â—â— CHAP. III. WHen and how to Break a Colt and render him tame and gentle with the Art of Management on that occasion And many other things necessary and requisite to be known p. 8 CHAP. IV. THe Art of Dressing in General and may serve upon all occasions for bringing a Horse to perfection and render a Groom or Horse-keeper acceptable to Persons of Quality c. p. 10 CHAP. V. HOw to render any tollerable good Horse an excellent Racer And how Running-Horses ought to be managed in Diet Physick and Exercise in order to their being capable of Running a Match with success c. p. 12 CHAP. VI. A Continuation of what is to be done to the Running or Race-horse relating to his Election Dressing Feeding and other Vsage c. p. 14 CHAP. VII HEats what they are and how to be managed to the best advantage in Racing and â—all other Recreatory undertakings p. 17 CHAP. VIII How to make the Bread of the first Make and what ought to be observed in the distribution thereof With many other things p. 19 CHAP. IX OTher things to be taken notice of in regard to the Running-Horse in the second Fortnights Dyet and Ordering p. 22 CHAP. X. THe Running-horse's third and fourth Fortnight and what is to be observed therein as to Diet Vsage and bringing the Horse to the Weighing-Post p. 23 CHAP. XI WHat the Rider ought to be and what by him is to be considered in order to Backing and good Management as also the Office and Duty of a Groom c. p. 26 CHAP. XII INfallible Rules for Buying a good Horse and how so well by sundry marks and tokens to distinguish good from bad as well in case of soundness as diseases as thereby to prevent being imposed on or cheated c. p. 30. CHAP. XIII EXact and Infallible Rules to know the Age of a Horse by the perfections or imperfections of his Teeth in alâ— their particular and general Marks as also by the Tail when the Mark is out of the Mouth c. p. 39 CHAP. XIV HOw exactly to know the state or condition of a Horse's Body relating to Fatness or Leanness Health or Sickness with many other things worthy of note p. 34 CHAP. XV. OBservations to be taken as to the state of a Horse's Body from the Privy-parts Limbs Feeding and many other Matters and Discourses worthy to be taken notice of by the Curious c. p. 47 CHAP. XVI OF the Elementary parts of a Horse's Body and of the Agreement of the Humours therewith A discourse of Corruption and Generation in which is set forth all things of that kind relating to Goodness or Badness Health or Sickness c. p. 49 CHAP. XVII HOw a Horse ought to be used in general and particular as to his Physick Diet and Looking to for the preservation of him even to old Age. p. 53 CHAP. XVIII AN exact Description of the Veins of a Horse how scituate in the Body as also of Blood-letting and how and upon what account of Sickness or other defect the Veins are to be opened for the prevention of death or danger p. 58 CHAP. XIX A Discourse of the Sinews and their Scituation together with their Vse and Office and what farther in that kind is to be observed as to the state of a horse's Body c. with the Description of the Bones c. p. 61 CHAP. XX. OF Blood-letting in general and how to know by sundry signs and tokens the state of a horse's Body when and where it is convenient to let him Blood for the preventing of sickness or recovery of health p. 64 CHAP. XXI A Description of Diseases Grievances or Sorrances incident to Horse's c. to foresee them by sundry signs and tekens and know whence they arise with the ways and methods of Preventing Redressing and Curing them by Approved Rules and Remedies according to the Practice of the best Farriers in all Ages c. p. 68 CHAP. XXII EXcellent Receipts for the Cure of Diseases c. in Horses or Mares according to the best Experience of skilfull Practitioners Many of which were never before made publick p. 70 The Glaunders from what it proceeds and how to Cure it p. 71 The Quinzey in a Horse c. what it is and how to Cure it ibid. A Horse's Bleeding at the Nose how to stay or prevent it p. 72 For Pains in the Teeth or Jaws ibid. The Canker in the Nose what it is and the Remedy p. 73 A Remedy for the Collick Belly-ach or Belly-binding ibid. The Lasks or Bloody-flux and its Remedy ibid. The Botts what they are and their Cure. p. 74 For the Shoulder-strain a good remedy ibid. Broken-wind what it is and to remedy it if not past Cure. p. 75 A Horse burnt by a Mare how to Cure. p. 76 For a dry Cough cold Pursiveness broken Wind or shortness of Breath an excellent Remedy ibid. To restore decayed and putrefied Lungs p. 77 A dry Consumption its Remedy c. ibid. The Breast-pain from whence it proceeds and how to Cure it p. 78 Heart-sickness or the Antecor whence it proceeds and how to remedy it p. 79 Foundering in the Body or Surfeiting how occasioned together with the Remedy ibid. The greedy Worm or hungry Evil what it is and how to be remedied or prevented p. 80 Yellow and Black Jaundice in a Horse the Cause and Cure c. p. 81 Constiveness from whence it proceeds amd its Remedy p. 82 The Cramp or Convulsion in the Nerves or Sinews how occasioned together with the Remedy c. p. 83 The Mourning of the Chine its Cause and the means to Cure it ibid. Irenzy or Madness its Original with the means to remedy it according to the Experienced way p. 84 The falling-Evil its Cause and Remedy p. 85 The sleeping-Evil what it is and the vvay to remedy it ibid. The Horse-Pestilence and its Cure. p. 86 For Chest-foundering the Remedy ibid. For an Obstruction in the Bladder or Windiness in the Bovvels c. p. 87 The Pole-Evil hovv to knovv and cure ibid. The Fistula hovv to discover and cure p. 88 Hard Kernels under the Throat hovv to remove p. 89 For the Navel-gall the Remedy ibid. For a Blovv Bruise or the like misfortune that causes a Svvelling or Tumour the Remedy ibid. The Scratches their Remedy p. 90 For Foot-foundering a Remedy ibid. For a Canker in the Head a Remedy p. 91 For the Mangey or dry Scurvey a Cure. p.
Another cause there is of the like nature that depends upon the moderateness of sleeping and waking for too much waking is an enemy to health by spending the vital spirits that should support and maintain life and a decaying that moisture that should refresh the several parts of the body causing thereby Leanness and Barrenness a dulling of the Brain and a defect in the Lungs and Liver whose offices it weakens by decaying the vigor in the performance and contrary to this excessive sleeping dozes the brain hinders digestion and obstructs nature in the performance of her offices contracting noxious vapours and a foulness of the stomach Another thing to be considered is that your Horse be not admitted to spend himself too much upon Mares because such immoderate exercise weakens the Brain Back and Eyes wastes the Vital Spirits and often shortens the days of many a brave Horse and therefore if you would have your Horse last long let him not cover above three or four Mares in a year at the most or if your conveniency will not at all times admit you to keep him from them then Geld him whilst young for it is ever observed that a Gelding lives longer naturally than a Stoned-horse and a Mule than them both because he is not subject to generation Wholsome Air above all things is to be chosen for that rarifies the blood helps digestion and comforteth the Vital spirits when-as gross Air or evil scents not only make the Horse loath his Provender but corrupt the Blood and subject the whole body to diseases Travelling after Grass too soon without purging and cleansing the Horse's body cause the bad humours to incorporate or by spreading themselves to afflict each part with pains and disorders reducing the Horse to a dullness of temper and disposition and so raw meats engender raw flegmatick humours afflicting the Stomach and Brain occasioning the Glaunders Coughs Catarrhs Stavers Yellows Anticors and Morfoundring not only disable the Horse but if neglected become incurable but by death Another cause there is and that not to be lightly regarded which is not to suffer your Horse to eat or drink when hot and to stand thereon for by so doing the Blood will corrupt and putrifie occasioning Surfeits Feavers Obstructions and many the like Maladies and Grievances frequently occasioning death But as soon as you bring him home in that condition put him into a warm Stable without washing Rub or cause him to be well rubbed down Cloath him well and let him have a sufficient quantity of warm Litter to stand on and if he be subject to eat it put on his Muzzle and so let him stand an hour or more till his grease be sufficiently cooled and you 'l find him in a fit condition to give him his Provender And lastly that he may be well breathed and sound winded thereby being enabled to hold out as occasion shall require you may at seasonable times mix with his Provender the Powder of these following Seeds and Drugs c. viz. Cummin and Anniseeds Powder of Licoris and Ellecampane-Roots Farberries Brimstone Flower and the Roots of white Lillies Hysop Horehound Savin Coltsfoot the Seeds of Marshmallows Rue and Polipodium of the Oak and any of the like quality that will occasion good Wind and prevent Infections purifie the Blood and help the Liver in the performance of its office that is to rarifie the nutriment by a good digestion but you must not mix over-much at a time especially when you first begin it least he take disgust at the scent or taste and so reject his Provender but increase the quantity by degrees not giving him any above twice a week and then let it be Morning and Evening CHAP. XVIII An exact Description of the Veins of a Horse how scituate in the Body as also of Blood-letting and how and upon what account of Sickness or other defect they are to be opened for the prevention of death or danger HAving thus far discoursed in Generals and Partiticulars of what relates to a good Horse or Mare of any sort or kind that thereby the Reader might instruct himself I shall proceed to what yet remains material to be known especially to Farriers and such who undertake the Cure of Horses which is to give an account of the several parts of the Body so as they may be distinguished as occasion shall require but especially of such parts as shall be found most usefull on immergent matters and the Veins being the pipes or conduits that carry off Blood and consequently nutriment to all parts of the Body I think it highly convenient to say something in the first place of them From the Liver note there ariseth one large Vein which like a conduit supplies the rest of the branches which are many in number and spread themselves throughout the Body like little Rivolets or streams And of these two material ones are found in the Palate of the Mouth above the first and third Barrs which ought to be opened by a discreet Farrier when the Horse is afflicted with any Malignant pain or disease in the Head or Stomach Two more there are that descending which from the lower part of the Eyes descend to the Nostrils and are best opened when the Eyes are afflicted with any distemper or grievance Two others there are above his Eyes which are called Temple-Veins because they run cross the Temples and these are generally opened for cold diseases in the Head. Two great ones there are likewise that run along the Wind-pipe by the sides of it from the uppermost Joynt of his Chaps to the Breast commonly called Neck-Veins and these are opened for sundry diseases being the most usual Veins that are opened There are two other Veins that arise from between the fore-legs and are called Breast-Veins because they end on the top of the Breast and these are opened in case of Surfeits Feavers or Heart-sickness Two others there are which ascend from the fore-legs but rise not so high as those before mentioned and these rest upon the foremost bough of the fore-leg and are generally called Plat-Veins and are opened in case of Foundering or any other grief or grievance in the Legs or Limbs Other two there are that pass from the Elbow of the fore-shoulder down along the inside of the fore-legs being known by the name of Shank-Veins which are generally opened in case of Splents Spavins Mallenders or Sallenders c. Then are there four Veins which run along the Fetlocks of the Horse known by the name of Shackle-Veins and these although they are small are yet important ones and by bleeding cure the stiffness of the Joynts and prevent Foundering Then are there four more about the Corronets in his Hoofs called Corronet-Veins and are opened for the Ring-bone and Surbating In the Hoof are four more which circle his Toes called Toe-Veins and are opened for fretting and foundering Two great Veins there are that descending from his Stones pass along the inside
let a Horse Blood too often decays Nature and much weakens the Horse when on the other side too long to defer it gives corrupt Blood an opportunity to create Diseases that infect and afflict him if it be done for healths sake without any sign of apparent danger then is twice in a year sufficient The times best approved of for this office are the end of December and the beginning of May. Now some are of opinion that there is no need of letting a Stone-horse Blood if he be used to cover Mares unless some disease be apparent and the reason they give is that his spending does exhaust his Blood sufficiently But such a reason is very weak considering the Blood of which the Seed is made by the working and operation of the Genital Parts is the most spirited and and pure of all other and that which ought to be taken away by Blood-letting is commonly the most gross and offensive so that it will never turn to Seed but corrupt by continuing in the Body and create Diseases and therefore ought it to be drawn off that the Veins being emptied may fill with better Blood nay Blood-letting is coveted naturally by some Horses for the Horses of Poland often let themselves blood by often rubbing against a sharp Post or Rock And so does the River Horse in Niius from whose Example 't is held that Phlebotomy or Blood-letting came in use Others there are that will not have Geldings let Blood and the reason they give is that his Body through the loss of his Genitors being infeebled wants the Blood to support and corroborate it and that it consumes faster in him than in a Stone-horse But this bears no weight for the Blood will increase according to the constitution of the Horse and his feeding and according to the heat or coldness of the Country the Horse is bred in the less or more Blood is found in him The next Material matter to be regarded is the exact time when it ought to be performed and most hold it best in the Morning when the Horse is fasting an hour after he wakes or rouses up And then again have regard to the Moon it being in the encrease if possible but by no means in the Sign where the Vein is scituate that you open least thereby your Horse be weakned for then the Vital spirits will issue with the blood And another regard is to be had to his Age for if he be very old you must not bleed him unless upon some emergent occasion but suffer his Blood to nourish him that his Flesh may not wain or decrease And in all these cases you must have regard to a Horse's constitution for some are more capable of losing three pound of Blood than others are two or one or in case of a Disease according as more or less is required as the Blood is more or less infected and in such a case no time nor season is to be regarded but as necessity requires for many times Blood-letting in such cases is a means to save the Horse as deferring of it is to the destroying of him And in these or the like cases it ought to be known in what Diseases it is requisite and that it may in the general be discovered by these Signs Viz. If the Horse's Eyes look red and his Veins rise and swell beyond the ordinary bounds then is he oppressed with too much Blood or at least that which is not good If you perceive by his Itching scrubbing himself and uneasiness that there is a salt firey humour contracted in the Veins then let him Blood which is more immediately known by the extraordinary itching of the Mane and Tail by rubbing of which the Hair frequently sheds and the Skin peels off If his Urin be red and high-coloured and his Dung very hot black and hard If on his Back there appear little Bubles or Inflamations red and angry or if his Meat be not well digested then they denote the Horse to abound with Blood and stand in need of having it drawn off to a degree that his health may be preserved or restored If the Whites of his Eyes are tainted with yellowness or the like happen to his upper or neither Lip it is requisite to bleed him for upon the happening of any of these Signs the Blood is disordered super-abundant or corrupted and some fatal sickness is threatned To prevent or at least mittigate which there is no better way than bleeding And in the manner of letting Blood when you have corded your Horse conveniently that the Veins may appear full and fair you may strike your Fleam in the Neck-Veins four Inches on this side the setting-on of the Head but the other Veins being small you must open them with a Lancet for fear of cutting them through and so consequently injure the Nerves that support them And thus much for Blood-letting and the Signs of Bleeding c. From which I shall proceed to what relates to Cures of all kinds whether Internal Diseases or External Sorrances after the best and easiest manner and method according to the approved Rules and Directions of the ablest Farriers and Horsleeches that are and have been rendred famous for their Skill not only in this but in divers other Nations and withall let you plainly understand the cause of the most Chronical diseases as well as the means to Cure them rendring the method and manner easie to the Practitioner and advantageous to those that trade in Horses and keep them for their profit or pleasure But before I absolutely enter upon them there are a few things necessary to be considered and especially five Viz. 1. To inform ones self to what grief or distemper a Horse is inclinable 2. The cause from whence it proceeds whether External or Internal 3. The tokens and symptoms by which the distemper is known 4. By what means the Causes accrue that create the distemper 5. How to apply Remedies fitting to the distempers and disorders And these are so absolutely necessary that without such knowledge a perfect cure cannot be wrought by any Farrier And now as for the Diseases and Grievances incident to a Horse they are not a few those that reckon the least consent to sixty of different natures and to be plain there are many more which may be called dependants on these or indeed some of them no less dangerous But submitting to the Judgment of the Learned I now come to another Material Point which relates mostly to the Chyrurgical part or Methods to be taken and known in the curing Sorrances c. which indeed are the most difficult and then I shall proceed in order CHAP. XXI A Description of Diseases Grievances or Sorrances incident to Horses c. to foresee them by sundry signs and tokens and know whence they arise with the ways and methods of Preventing Redressing and Curing them by Approved Rules and Remedies according to the Practice of the best Farriers in all Ages
c. MAny are the terms and names given to Grievances and Sorrances and these frequently take their denomination from the place of their scituation relating to the parts of the Body and chiefly arise or proceed from the evil state or habit of the Body and defect of the Members especially when there happens a loosning and division of the Unity or a Dissonance in the temperature and so we say when any division or loosning happen in the Bone it is a Fracture if it happen in the Veins it is a Rupture and in the Flesh a Wound or Ulcer in the Sinews it is termed the Cramp or Convulsion and in the Skin an Excoriation And now observe that in Cauterizing or Burning which may be done two manner of ways viz. with hot Oyls or Water or with a hot Iron as also in making Incision or the like that they ever be done with caution above or beneath the Vein or Sinew and never upon them least by the discommodity that may arise the Horse be rather damaged than furthered And again observe never to apply to Veins or Sinews any extraordinary Corrosives and these we reckon so are Arsnick Sublimate-Mercury Resalgar Oyl of Vitriol Tartar c. In case of Cauterizing ever observe rather to Launce with a hot Iron than a cold one and rather cauterize than cut because by the heat the humours are driven back which would otherwise render the Sore or Grief of long continuance and by the product of a Sore in the Original you may know the constitution of a Horse for if he be sanguine a whitish watery Excressence will flow of an indifferent thickness if Cholerick a thin salt one inclining to greenish if Flegmatick a kind of a gellied-water and if Melancholick then a gross blackish moisture attended by a dry Scab or Scurf In case of Swelling or Tumors it will be necessary with heed to mark the place they begin in as also their progress and ending that so the part of the body afflicted with bad humours may have Applications sutable to remove them Now if it so happen that the Swellings or Tumors be not upon any master Vein or Sinew or too near the Vital parts then may Repercussive Medicines be used but if so then those that are mollifying to raise it gently by degrees that so being ripened it may break of it self or if necessity require it be Lanced that the Corruption passing away such things may be applied that with a Lenitive softness may heal the grief In case the swelling be hard it is generally Corrosive and must have such Medicaments applied but if soft those of a more supple nature will prevail though many happen to be of a long continuance And now to know whether a Swelling has been of a long continuance press it with your finger and if the dint continue after you have taken your finger away then is it old and of a long standing but if the flesh suddainly return then is it newly taken If a Swelling or Sore be broken and moderately matter then it signifies a good constitution and that it mends apace but if the Putrefaction greatly encrease then it denotes a mass of bad humours there contracted which must by degrees be brought away and many times in this or the like cases is Cauterizing actually or potentially used that is with hot Irons or with Liquids c. of which I have before spoken above or beneath the Sore to divert or keep back the humour And now to that which relates to Cures c CHAP. XXII Excellent Receipts for the Cure of Diseases c. in Horses or Mares according to the best Experience of skilfull Practitioners Many of which were never before made publick AS the Causes of Sickness are many so are the Cures or Medicines wherewith they are redressed and the Signs that fore-run and attend them which I have given in Generals and Particulars Yet seeing something of this kind may remain untouched I shall take them in the way as I proceed Now of Sicknesses there are two kinds one that possesseth the whole body as Convulsions Feavers Pestilence and such-like general disorders and contagions infecting the Blood and others but a part of the Body as Vertigoes Head-ach Yellows and the like yet both many times prove equally dangerous and destructive The Glaunders from what it proceeds and how to Cure it The Glaunders is a distemper often gotten by over-riding and suddain cooling upon heats eating too much raw food at unseasonable times or continuing in wet moorish ground proceeding from a flegmatick constitution And this you may perceive before it take too firm a possession by a white matter issuing from the Horse's Nostrils and his unseasonable snorting And this Disease having its seat properly in the Head Take of the green Leaves of a Box-tree an ounce of Anniseeds and the like quantity of Licorish-powder steep them in Ale or new Milk to the quantity of a quart adding Treacle four ounces and the like quantity of Olive-oyl heat them well over a gentle fire and with a horn give the Horse the liquid part to drink in the Morning fasting as hot as may be well endured then give him a moderate Course and bringing him home let him have a warm Mash Cloath him up and leave him in a warm Stable for the space of two hours before you feed him The Quinzey in a Horse c. what it is and how to Cure it The Quinzey is a distemper occasioned by flegmatick humours setling in the Neck or Throat so that the passage of the breath is in a manner stopped and the beast obliged to breathe with a more than ordinary pain and labour To remove them then and redress the grievance after having bled him in the Neck-vein Take Marshmallows Groundsel Cammomoil and Harts-Tongue bray them with a like quantity of Smallage and fry them with Hogs-grease so being very hot apply them to the place which ought to be under the Chaul and they will mollifie the swelling and by degrees remove the obstruction of the passage Then take Roach-Allum Honey and white Dogs-turd dissolve them with brown Sugar-candy in a quart of Milk give it him hot and so continue to do for a week together Morning and Evening renewing likewise the Poltis once a day A Horse's Bleeding at the Nose how to stay or prevent it This happens especially amongst young Horses through the abundance of Blood that through the free passage of the large Veins ascends into the Head and passing to the thin Veins within the Nostrils either by its violent motion forces them or by its corrosive quality eats them in sunder or it may accidentially happen by a stroak or violent straining To remedy which Take the Juyce of Nettles mixed with Loaf-sugar and squirt it up the Horse's Nostrils using at convenient times to burn under his Nose Storax Frankincense or Linnen dipped in Aquavitae in a Chafing-dish the fume of which will oblige the Blood to retreat