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
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
them in particular Hyppos I will Sir These twelve causes of long life doe come to a horse either inwardly or outwardly which howsoever they must be holpen either by Art by Industry or else by judgement and discretion Wherefore you must know that whatsoever is naturall must necessarily proceed from good temperature 1 What thâ— do hinder nature dâ—gestion aâ— nutrimenâ— and proportionate mixture of the foure qualities of the body so as the just and adequate proportions of temperate mixture are the true causes of long life by reason that all mixtures of superfluities are against these three things viz. Nature good digestion and sound Nutriment For heat and nutriment are then well proportioned when neither the moisture with its too great quantity is predominant whereby it devoureth the heat nor when over-much heat too suddenly consumeth and destroyeth the moysture howbeit there must be a necessity that the heat must have a kinde of regality and dominion over the moisture otherwise it will never be able to nourish the body as it ought The second cause of long life 2 Moderatâ—on in eatiâ—â— is the moderation of their naturall appetite of eating it being availeable either in excesse to kill and destroy or in moderation to save whereby the horse shall daily repaire the decay of his humidity by supply of moderate nourishment and never over-whelme or suppresse his heat with too great abundance of moisture nor mixe his Humidum Radicale with too much superfluous impurities for extreames are evermore perilous and ill as well in excesse as in defect For as too much eating bee the meate never so good and wholesome hindreth good digestion and ingendreth Crudities together with an evill habit of the Stomack so likewise too spare a diet doth as much weaken and decay nature by reason that the heat which thereby will arise in the stomacke will first over-charge and afterward conquer the Radicall moysture both which are friends to sicknesse and death 3 Moderate labour The third cause of long life is moderate labour a matter very much effectuall to digestion and therfore to long life dilating and spreading nutriment into every member of the body for over-much rest breedeth in the body superabundance of bad humours which cooleth the body for want of which moderate exercise it is as it were cast into a sleep and in a manner through lumpishnesse besotted and benummed from whence doth spring another mischiefe equivalent to the former to wit a collection of excrementall superfluities occasioned through lazinesse and idlenesse by reason that the horse for want of moderate Exercise is not able to digest his received nutriment by which meanes many maladies are ingendred in his body proceeding from corruption in the bloud crudities in the stomack and the like because he hath in his body as a man may properly say a very sink or standing-pool of unnaturall humours And therfore I give all men this caveat viz. to be very carefull they do not put their horses to over-much labour and travell untill such time as they have well digested their meat for that by their immoderate exercise they over-clog their stomack and so they cannot have a true concoction their stomacks being full and their bodies cloyed and over-much stuffed with raw and cruded humours which through violent exercise are dispersed first into all the Veins corrupting the bloud and from thence into al the parts of the body which ingendreth so many noysome infirmities within the bodie and so many lothsome sorances without the body as will not easily be cured and therfore it doth greatly behove a man that his horse if hee love him and desire to keep him long his exercise be neither too intemperate nor too little but ordred with judgment and discretion 4 Moderate sleepe The fourth cause of long life is moderate use of sleeping waking for these are the mayntenance of health and long life if they be had with moderation and both are very noxius otherwise beyond measure For inordinate watching is a mayn enemy to health for it wasteth and consumeth the vitall spirits and it decayeth the Humidum Radicale causeth maceration and sterility it is an impediment to the operation of the Brain and sense it begetteth siccitie in the Brain and aridity in the Marrow and worketh the like evill effects in the Liver and Lungs On the otherside immoderate sleepe hindreth health quencheth the natural heat and consumeth the moysture in the Body for sleep is but a vapour ascending from the Stomacke to the Braine What mâ—ner of thâ— sleepe is which stupifieth the Brain for a season and during that time it maketh the body senslesse and the sooner it being provoked by over-much feeding stuffing and filling of the belly and therfore it greatly standeth a man upon that he hath a vigilant care to his horse his sleep that it be moderately taken for as I said out now as too much sleepe is noxious so also too little is as prejudiciall The fifth cause of health 5 Moderaâ— in spendâ— upon Mâ— and health and long life is that great care be had in keeping your horse from excesse in spending himself upon Mares for that is Death's Harbinger by reason it doth after a most violent manner consume the spirits debilitateth the stomack dryeth up the brain and Marrow and therfore the reason why a Gelding if he be kept free from surfets is longer lived than the Stoned-horse so likewise the reason why a Mule being a mixed creature howbeit a Monster in nature is longer lived than either of them for that his justing howsoever without fruit in that kind is but once only in the whole course of his life and therfore I could wish that one Horse be not suffred to cover above three Mares at the most through out the whole yâ—er and that from the yeers of his comming to sixe untill he hath attained twelve and no longer for when a horse hath once seene twelve yeers of his age nature will then begin to decay wherby he shall not be able to beget Colts which can prove so good and serviceable as those hee begat in his yong yeeres For besides hard and toylsome labour this act of coity with Mares doth more weaken and dull him for you cannot be ignorant of the old Proverb which saith Omne animal post coitum triste The sixt cause of long life is moderate riding in long journies 6 Moderaâ— journey 〈◊〉 for by intemperate driving his heat from the inward into the outward parts of the body is the cause that the fire of choler will be enkindled which will be so vehement as that it must needs prove an infinite horrour unto nature so inflaming the bloud that if the Horse at the same instant be not very empty and clean in his body the bloud and humours being mixed together will be through the violence therof dispersed into all and every part and member of the body and then a sudden cold taken
upon it which rarely faileth doth instantly putrifie and corrupt the bloud and congealeth it to the unavoydable perill of the life of the Horse especially if after this intemperate riding he be either suffered to drinke or ridden into the water as many of your surly and lazy Grooms are accustomed to do My counsell therfore is that when you have any long journey in hand let his travell be moderate inhibit walking washing or giving him cold water but so soon as you shall dismount him let his Keeper have him into the Stable well littered and throughly rubbed through all the pâ—rts of his body till hee be thorow dry let him be clothed and stopped up warm and at a reasonable time let him have white water 7 Wholesoâ— ayre The seventh cause of health and long life is wholsome ayre and soyle clean keeping painfull and good dressing the Stable kept neat sweet and warm his food old sweet clean and dry well fifted and shaken and freed from dust and filth his litter sweet and dry and all wet and old litter removed from under his feet and manger and let all evill savours be removed from about the Stable 8 Not to travell too soone after grasse The eight cause of health and long life is not to suffer your Horse to be travelled or exercised too soon after you have taken him from grasse untill such time as he be thorowly purged and cleansed from his superfluous and bad humours which hee gat by being at grasse in time of his rest and full feeding which certainly are not a few but hereof I have sufficiently spoken before in this very Chapter and therfore I passe it over 9 Not to eate raw or green meate The ninth cause of health and long life is not to suffer him to eate any raw or green meate whilst he shall be kept in the Stable for that such diet doth beget many bad and humours oppugnant to nature as Feavers Surfets Yellowes Stavers Anticors Morfounding and the like all which will debilitate Nature and endanger the breeding of many desperate diseases to the perill as well of the Horses life as health if extraordinary care be not had by way of prevention in very good time by the diligence of an Expert Ferrier 10 Not to eate whilst he is heat The tenth cause of health and long life is by keeping your Horse from meate and drinke whilst hee is hot for that doth weaken the heart and spirits it is an enemy to the Appetite and digestion engendreth Oppilations and Obstructions corrupteth and putrifieth the bloud breedeth Feavers and many other maladies and is very often the occasion of suddaine death 11 Not to bee walked or washed The eleventh cause of health and long life is to bee very precise that you doe not permit your Horse to be walked or washed after labour or travell if in his travell he hath been heat but presently after you dismount him let him be led into the Stable well littered warm clothed painefully rubbed and dried but hereof I have spoken sufficiently in the sixt cause and else where 12 To mix certain powders with his provender The twelfth and last cause of health and long life is to use sometimes to put and mix with his provender certaine powders viz. the powder of Anniseeds and of Licoris or of Fenugrick Tumerick Bay-berries or Brimstone white-Lilly roots small chopped Enula-campane roots if green and newly gathered otherwise dried and beaten to fine powder or the roots of Polipodium of the Oke or its powder Savin Marsh-Mallowes Rue Isope Hore-hound or Colts-foote these either small chopped if you give them green or else dried and given in powder which Simples will keepe him sound and in perfect health for their vertues are to purifie the bloud prevent Obstructions open and resolve the Liver coole the Bloud and perserve the whole structure of the Body in excellent health Thus have I as succinctly as I have beene able declared the reasons of sicknesse in general together with the true causes of health long life the contrarietyes whereof will engender in your Horse infirmities and death for the sensitive Bodies as well of all other creatures as of Horses are often upon the least cause given disgusted brought out of ioynt and temper by reason of the assidual warfare of the never-ceasing-iarring Elements that it not a little importeth a Masters care to looke very narrowly into the state of his body For put case that time and experience doe approve the contrariety of the before named inherent qualityes of Heat Cold Drynes and Moisture the formall causes of all intrinsecall diseases the continuance and unperceivable lingring in them together with the true cause of their suddaine and untimely death Yet is there meanes as easily to be found as well for the prevention of all ensuing sicknesse if we will but apply our care and diligence before it approacheth as for the able curing of them when they are come and palpably perceived according to the opinion of famous Galen who saith He that preventeth the cause of sicknesse preventeth the sicknesse it selfe for Take away the cause and the effect followeth not Hippoph You have spoken well Hipposerus upon this subject but yet your last Article is not without difficulty in that you do advise to administer certaine powders and other simples unto a horse in his provender which should conserve him in health and prevent all inward diseases in him I cannot certainly but approve very much hereof in that they be most soveraigne in such cases you speake of but the manner of administring them is the thing I much stand upon knowing right well that these simples or the greater part of them are of strong and offensive scents and smels and others are as farre disgustfull and unpleasant to his taste whereby he may very easily be induced by disliking those powders and simples to loath and utterly forsake his provender Hyppos Sir you object well neverthelesse give me leave to tell you that in cases of this nature Vse we say makes perfectnesse True it is that horses will have an aversion from these kinde of drugs and simples but what then have you no feare for rather than he will not eate his Provender at all hunger will in time bring him to it yea as well those powders as his provender provided you doe not offend him by putting in too great a quantity at once but by degrees and that by a little at a time till custome hath made him perfect and most certaine it is that some horses are so coy dainty and choice feeders as that you can hardly provoke them to eate any provender at all whereas others there be who are so great feeders as that they will make no bones to devoure what meat soever you shall lay before them for it is very homely viands which a good stomacke will refuse neverthelesse if you shal finde that your horse cannot be brought to
Feaver or a Surfet to the great perill of his life The signes are knowne by the swelling Lâ—gs swelled and therefore to annoynt them with Acopum were very good But the best cure is first to take up the thigh veines then with your Fleame to prick the places most swelled and hottest in sundry places especially be low to the end that the corrupt bloud may issue forth then Take of white Wine-lees one pint of Comin bruised one ounce boyle then together to a pultis with Wheate flower three handfuls then with a cloth apply it to the place good and warme renewing it every day once if in two or three daies it doth draw it to a head as it is very probable it will do then lanch it and heale it up either with Shooe-makers waxe laid on upon a Playster of leather or also with a salve made of the yolke of an Egge Whete flower and common honey well wrought together to a salve which you must also apply Plaister-wise ✚ But if it do not come to a head and yet the swelling continue then Take of Pitch and of Virgin-wax of each three ounces Rosin half a pound of the iuyce of Isop and of Galbanum of each half an ounce and of Mirrah-secondary half a pound of Bdellium-Arabicum Populeon and of the drops of Storax of each halfe an ounce and of Deeres-suet halfe a pound boyle all these together in an earthen Pot and when it is cold take of Bitumen halfe a pound Bole-Armoniack and of Costus of each one ounce and halfe make all these into fine powder and then incorporate them well with the other and so boyle them all over againe very well that done poure this whole mixture or Medicine into cold water and so make it up into rowles like a salve for Playsters and when you are to use it spread thereof upon Playsters of Leather which must bee so large as to cover the Legges full so far as the swellings are which if any thing can do it this will asswage the swelling and give very much strength and comfort the Sinewes and Nerves neyther is this Playster to be removed so long as it will remaine on ✚ This I have applyed to many Horses very much annoyed with swolne-Legges and brought them to their former smallnesse when as Ferriers have spent much time upon the Cure and given it over at last But if the Swelling do fall into the hinder-Legs or into all foure-Legs together being but a bad Sorance causing them to burne and swell exceedingly and the hayre to stare the cause whereof coming as I have before said from immoderate Riding heat and labour whereby the grease melting falleth downe into the Legges by reason the Horse cannot voyd it in his Excrements or else being over-hot he is washed or negligently set up without sufficient store of litter and rubbing so as the taking cold the bloud with the grease setleth in the Legges and there congealeth and so causeth them to swell This sorance also commeth by having his feet beaten especially in the Summer with being ridden and galloped upon hard ground which first occasioneth wind-gals and those also causeth the legs to swell which truely is the worst kinde of swelling of all other by reason that lamenesse doth immediately follow it unlesse great Art and diligence be speedily applyed for prevention thereof Wherefore the signes being so apparant needs no remonstrance and therefore I will passe on to the Cure which is thus Take Populeum Nervell Hogs grease of each one ounce Legs â—led incorporate them very well together cold and annoynt the sorance therwith morning and evening foure dayes together and at foure dayes end take of Claret Wine lees one quart boyle it upon the fire with so much Bran as will bring it to a Poultesse apply this to the place grieved plaister-wise with a cloth good and hot for foure or five daies more renewing it every day once and in short time he will be sound again ✚ This is a most excellent receit which I have often experimented Another The swelling of the legges may be easily cured if in the beginning they be often times in the day laved and bathed in cold water unlesse the malady come of too great a surfet wherefore if this of cold water will not doe it then Take of common honey one pound Turpentine common Gum meale of Linseed meale of Fenugrick of each foure ounces Bay berries made into very fine powder and seraced three ounces mixe and boyle all these together well and when you take it from the fire put unto it of white Wine one pinte and then boyle it over againe till it doe become thicke spreade this upon a cloath reasonable hot and wrap it about the members swelled and doe not renew it above once in a weeke and it will cure them ✚ This is a certaine and most approved Cure Another If you take up the veines and make them to bleed below and not above and then rope up the legges with thumbands of soft Hay wet in cold water and then cast more water upon them in short time he will be sound and well againe ✚ This is also very good § 5. L. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure the Leprosie Hippos This is a moyst mainge very infectious which commeth by meanes of great surfets taken by over-riding which is very easie to be seen and known and therefore needs no further description The cure therefore is first let him bleed well in the necke then scrape away the scurfe with an old Curry-combe Oyster-shell Hayre-cloth or some such like thing till the sorance doe looke raw and that it be ready to bleed then annoynt the raw places with this oyntment Leprosâ— elephaâ— malady Take Arsnick or Resalgar and tryed Hogs grease the Arsnick or Resalgar being first beaten unto very fine powder incorporate these well together to make them into a perfect oyntment then tye up the head of your Horse so high to the Rack as that he may not be able to bite rub or lick himselfe and so annoynt the places therewith and cause the oyntment to sinke the better in by himselfe and so annoynt the places therewith and cause the oyntment to sinke the better in by holding a hot bar of iron neere to the place as you annoint him and let him stand so tyed three houres and then wash away the Vnguent with the strongest Chamber-lye you can get and wash him so throughly that you may be assured you leave none of the oyntment upon the Horse and then untye him and give him meat and thus dresse him once every day till the sores be quite dryed up ✚ This is also good for Scratches and Kibed-heeles §. 6. L. Hippoph VVHat is good to kill Lice in a Horse Hippos Lice commonly commeth to a horse when he is very poore especially when he runneth abroad in the Winter time in some Wood Coppice or places where are many high trees for that the
be in danger to be lamed or spoyled by some sudden slip whereof I have had often experience which a pitched Stable is not so subject unto Secondly the planks often times shrinking the Horse especially if he be a stirrier who is accustomed to curvet in the Stable may easily breake a plank and his foot getting into a hole or between the planks the horse plunging and striving may easily breake his legge before he shall be able to get it forth whereof I have more than once been oculatus testis Thirdly when you put forth your horses to run at grasse all or the most part of Summer during which time the scorching heats wil so siccicate and dry the planks which will cause them to warp and the pinnes which holdeth them down to the joyces will rot and so the planks give way especially when horses who not being handled in some moneths before becomming wild rammage and unruly are newly brought into the Stable who feeling the planks to move yeeld and give way under them will fall from starting thereat to slinging leaping bounding and plunging till they have dislocated the planks and thereby have endangered both themselves the residue of their fellowes and those who might come to their help and succour which is a thing very frequent in a flore of this nature Fourthly whereas you may imagine that a planked flore is warmer then a paved or pitched I doe know the contrary for your pitched flore hath no vaults or channels under them like as hath your planked wherewith to convey the water which passeth from the horses hy which meanes the horse lyeth over a moyst and dampish place and vault and besides that the evill savour of the horse-pisse will be evermore in their nose which is most unwholesome noysome and many times the cause of much infirmity neither can it in reason be so warme as is the pitched flore for that the chinkes and awger-holes bored through the planks which must alwaies be kept open to let forth the urine doth give way to the cold wind which continually ascendeth up to the horse as well lying as standing cannot but doe him much dammage I doe therefore affirme that if your Groome have a care to litter his horse well so as he may lye soft and warme which is a prime property appertaining to his office your horse will then prosper and like much better upon a pitched flore then he can upon a planked provided your flore be laid even not higher before than behind more then so much that may make the water to avoyd to his hinder feet where there ought to be a small gutter to cause it to passe away for in raising your flore so much I doe abstract from the ancient ill custome by reason that a horse standeth higher before then he doth behind his hinder legges will swell and so he becommeth lame besides it giveth him a taint in the backe and kidneyes and to conclude his long standing in this uneasie manner begetteth in the poor beast much pain and griefe and this occasioneth unto him which would not otherwise be the putting forth of Windgals Pains Scratches and such like noysome sorances Another thing may peradventure be thought strange which I have handled in the former chapter where I intreat of breeding Of the timâ— of foling in that I would have the time of the Mares foling to be either in December or Ianuary this being in the very depth of winter as well when the season is commonly coldest and when little or no grasse is to be had so as of necessity the Mare must be housed and fed with hard meat whereby her milke will be in so small a proportion as either to endanger the starving of the Colt or else at leastwise keep him so poor and feeble as not to be able to grow thrive or prosper to any purpose To satisfie this scruple I say from long experience that the winter season for a Mare to fole in beyond all peradventure is the very best as well for the Mare as the Colt supposing she be kept in a warme house and as for her milke she will have great plenty and that much better and more nourishing than that milke which the Colt shall sucke from his damme at grasse so as thereby the Colt shall be more lusty strong healthy greater of bone and stature The Colt better noâ—rished in tâ—â— Stable thâ— at grasse 〈◊〉 winter better able to endure hardinesse better knit cleaner limbed more neatly joynted and hooved and keep his flesh better than that Colt that is foled in May Iune or any the hotter moneths and my reason is that albeit grasse causeth greater plenitude of milke which I deny not yet is not the same so good and nourishing for the milke which the Cost sucketh at grasse is very thin and watry and albeit winter food begetteth not so great a quantity of milke yet the same will be thicker more substantiall and of greater nutriment the Mare being very well fed which will feed the Colt very fat and make him more lusty and strong as I have said then if the Mare the whole Summer and Winter through and in all the extremity of the heats and colds had been kept abroad Moreover the Colt besides the milke he draweth from the Mare will also feed with her upon Hay Oates Bran and such like food which will do him much pleasure But some againe will say that their teeth are so tender as that they will not be able to chew and eate such kinde of hard meates I answer they are very much mistaken for not onely my selfe alone but sundry others have with me been eye-witnesses of the contrary therefore this needs no further solution And wheras it hath been objected unto me that that Colt which is foled in May or Solstice in that season the Mare will have store of milke thus much I doe ingenuously confesse but then what manner of milke will it be None other then such as shall be marvellous thin and watrish as I said before which abundance will also faile even when the Colt hath most need thereof that is when the Colt beginneth to come up to some strength and at what time he should receive most nutriment to wit when the winter commeth on whose Snows Frosts cold raines and Flouds will not a little nip and pinch the Colt and enfeeble the Mare in such terrible and desperate manner that she will want her former plenty of food warme and dry lodging and other necessary reliefe and sustentation and so in like manner her abundance of milke at what time her poore Colt should depend upon the enfeebled Mare who is not able to supply its own need by meanes whereof it must necessarily fall out that she must bring both her selfe and her Colt to extreame poverty not being able to sustaine her own life much lesse her Colts and her own and so become feeble before winter be halfe spent and over
some againe are called Leaprosies or the Elephantique mallady by reason that Elephants are much troubled therewith and every disease is known by its proper symptomes Hyppiat What be the signes whereby to know the humid or moyst disease Hyppos The humid or moyst malady is properly called the Glanders which oft times proceeds from the liver and lights when they be infected with putrefaction and rottennesse or when they breed inflamed lumps knots or kernels under the Chaule which all do come of cold taken by immoderate riding and labour and want of care afterwards which begetteth evill humours in the body which when they shall begin to breake from the horse by his running and purging at the nose whereof other horses will have a desire to licke and therby they doe become infected Hippiat Many horses there be which doe runne at the nose who have not the Glanders Hippos 'T is very true but this disease of the Glanders may be known by its knots kernels and pustils which arise under the Iaw You may also know it by the colour of the corruption which the horse venteth for if that mattrative stuffe be green and of a strong and offensive savour or if it be white and stinketh as also viscous and slimy then be you confident it is the Glanders but if he shall cast forth corruption at his nose which is white and that by bits and gobbets which doth not stinke or have any evill savour or smell then it is not the Glanders but some distemperature which commeth of a cold lately taken which is easily cured if it be not let runne too long for there is great danger in delay Hippiat What be the arid or dry diseases Hippos They are an alteration of the body which we doe commonly call Surfets and Pursivenesse which is occasioned oft by riding of a horse beyond his strength or breath especially presently after water or by putting him to too much labour or too violent running and strayning or by washing him when he is very hot Hippiat How commeth a horse to have the Tranchaisons or Gripings Hippos By suffering him to drink when he is too hot or by over-riding him they also come of bad winde which ingenders in him and not by suffering him to stale in his riding in convenient time and of evill humours Hippiat What signes have you of the scab or mainge Hippos We may with good reason say that this disease we call the scab mainge or itch in a horse proceedeth of too great abundance of ill bloud which when it is once inflamed by over-hard riding causeth its leprosie to come forth upon the skin which commeth to be an itch running over the whole body beginning betwixt the flesh and the skin insomuch as it will cause the haire to fall away from whence ordinarily doth proceed a dry scurfe or scab which is very contagious Hippiat How commeth the Farcin to the creature Hippos No way so soone as by a bad Stable whither Swine and Poultrey doe resort for their doung is most pernitious also by evill dressing which may be a great cause and by too much ranknesse of bloud and by some wound hurt or blow with a staffe especially if the staffe have knags or knots upon it sometimes by enter firing and hewing and lastly by spur-galling Hippiat Which be the foure maladies which doe most appeare when a horse sheweth by his action that hee is in danger of death by the said diseases Hippos That hapneth often by too much ventosity or by eating too much raw meat or to have drunk being very hot it commeth also of the coldnesse of urine or having ridden him too hard too long together not giving him leave to pisse Hippoph I pray Hipposerus give me leave to demand of you what you would doe in such a case by your best endeavours to save the life of the poor beâ—st Hippos In a case of this nature I would first take bloud from him if I found just cause for it and then should I administer a laxative clister which should be both comforting and yet operative which is inserted in lib. 2. chap 6. § 8. clis 2. Or else I would give him a drink of good operation which you shall finde in lib. 2. chap. 7. § 8. clis 6. either of which or both are most soveraigne in this case But if I shall finde that the malice of the mallady doth not continue in the body but falleth down into the foure legs as usually it will do then doe I use to open the veins in those places and in the neck also or in any other part I shall judge shall be most necessary and of his bloud I will make a restrictive charge adding thereunto Wheate-meale Bole Sanguis-Draconis Egges the strongest white-wine Vineger and such like which I will more at large expresse in the place of Cures this I say will I apply to all the foure legs and over and against the kidneys the breast throat feet and the like places then would I cup the bottome of the soles I will also apply to the foure legges Garters which I will tye hard above the knees and hammes and so govern my selfe in performing the Cure according to the strength vertue and greatnesse of the horse and as my judgement shall dictate unto me Hippiat By how many wayes may evill come to a horse Hippos Two wayes viz. by nature and by accident against nature as of those diseases which fall down into the legges and feet of the horse from whence doe come Scratches Splents Squibs Mallenders c. with other kindes of humours and accidents as well in the body of the creature as in the members and salvo aliorum judicio these things appeare unto me to comprehend in them the aforesaid accidents which doe happen to the horse even as soon by nature many times as by accident or against nature Hippoph Hipposerus I doe not well understand this point you say that these things may happen as well by nature as against nature which are to my understanding a plaine contradiction I pray explicate yet your selfe more fully Hippos Those things which are against nature I told you are by by accident but when I say that certain diseases may as well come unto him by nature as by accident yea even in the selfe-same disease my meaning is that if the Stallion be troubled with the same disease at what time the Mare who is the damme of this Colt is covered I say that then the Colt himselfe shall be capable of the same malady As if the Stallion or the Mare parents to the same Colt have for example a Spaven I say that the Colt will naturally have a Spaven and thus I have explicated my selfe and assoyled your demand Hippiat But what call you accident or against nature Hyppos As thus verbi gratia if walking your horse in your hand in the fields or else-where and that he happen to be strucken with some cudgell leaver or heavy bastinado
or with some sword hatchet Bill or other edge-toole or that you should enforce him to doe more than what nature or strength were well able to compasse or leading him upon plaine ground he might wrinch any member or sway his back or breake his leg either by the stroke or stripe of some other horse or otherwise accidentally or should by misfortune fall downe some steepe precipice whereby he may breake or dislocate some limb or member all these disasters we usually doe call Accidentall and all such things of this nature Hippiat Which be the elements which doe give life and nutriment unto man and all other living creatures Hippos They are foure in number that is to say Fire Ayre Water and Earth whose natures if you shall please I will discusse elsewhere Hippiat No I pray let us have them both now and elsewhere their natures conditions and qualities Hippos The nature of Fire is to be hot and dry Ayre to be hot and moyst Water to be cold and moyst and Earth to be cold and dry Hippiat Doe you know the twelve Signes of the Zodiacke and how they doe govern the body of man and of all creatures Hippos Yes I doe know them all perfectly and thus are they called Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Vrgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces These doe all governe the twelve Months of the yeare and are placed above the Zodiack Hippiat Doe you know the names of the Planets and their numbers Hippos That I doe very well and they bee seven in number to wit Saturne Iupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercury and Luna Hippiat What parts doe the twelve Signes before mentioned governe Hâ—ppos Aries governeth the Head Taurus the Neck Gemini the Shoulders and Armes Cancer the Stomack and Breast Leo the Heart Virgo the Belly anâ— Guts Libra the Reines and Buttocks Scorpio the Privy parts Sagittarius the Thighs Capricornus the Knees Aquarius the Legs and Pisces the Feete Hippiat In what dayes is it best for a horse to be let bloud Hippos If there be no extraordinary cause as in case of desperate sicknes or so then Ianuary the third and the fifteene Februâ—ry the fourth and nineth March the seventeene and eighteene Aprill the tenth and sixteene May the first thirteene Iune fifteene and twenty But for Iuly and August by reason that the Canicular-dayes be then predominate bloud-letting is not so good but only in urgent case of necessity In September the eleventh and twenty eight October the eight and twenty three November the fift and sixteene December the fourteene and twenty six And these daies doe wee hold to be the very best unlesse dangerous or sudaine sicknesse doe cause us to alter the same for in cases of necessity no daies are to be regarded or observed For Qui retinente vita et non sit mortis imago Si semper fuerit vivens morietur et infra Hippiat What medicine would you apply to a Horse who may have any of the foure Maladyes Hippos I would give him of the foure Cordiall waters which I would make of Buglas Savin Succary Aquavitae Endife and the like Hippiat How would you make a comfortable drinke Hippos I would make it of certaine Cordialls to wit of Sugar Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs Saffron Licoris Annyseeds all these in fine powder adding thereto white wine and all these infused in a cleane earthen pot and hereof would I make a drinke Hippiat Whereof would you make an operative drinke Hippos I would take white Wine Sallet-oyle Aloes Rubarb Agarick Duke or Duck-powder Hony Cordial-powder and of all these things would I put such a quantity as I should thinke requisite and according to the strength and corpulency of the Horse Hippiat Whereof would you make a laxative Clister Hippos Into a laxative Clister I will put either of Pellitory Melelote or Cammamile but Pellitory is the best and of this would I make a Decoction and to this Decoction would I put Sallet Oyle Hony Aloes and Verjuice of the Crab. Hippiat What be the natures of your principall Drugs Hippiat Agarick purgeth the Braine Allos the Breast and body Rubarb purgeth the evill water and it openeth the Liver and helpeth obstructions and oppilations Aristolochia-Rotunda mollifieth the Breast Liver and Lungs and Bacchalauri or Bay-berries doe mortifie the peccant Humours which doe ingender in the Breast or Entrayles nere about the Heart and Saffron if it be discreetly given doth marveylously comfort and enlighten the Heart CHAP. II. Of the causes of Sicknesse in generall and the causes of Health and long Life Hippiat NOw that we have proceeded thus farre in a discussion of the Office of the Ferrier Let us approach yet nearer to intreate of the Cures and that we may goe on Pedetentim and Gradatim Let us first discusse the causes of Maladies and therefore I demand of you What are the true Causes of the sicknesse of the Horse Hippos Sir that man which hath a desire to become an Expert Ferrier must apply himselfe to understand the true nature of two things viz. of Generation and of Corruption in which I could never find the least discord in the Primary nature of Horses albeit compounded of the contrary nature of the foure Elements But I will proceed in Anatomizing unto you the verity hereof more particularly whereby you may the better understand my meaning Hippophyl But friend Hipposerus in my judgement you begin to assume too high a pitch for ordinary Feâ—riers who are in a manner all or the greater number un-lettered persons and therefore will never be able to understand what Generation and Corruption meaneth for these are termes taken from the grounds of Philosophy and therefore above their Genius or Sphere Hippos Sir there be many things necessary to bee duly knowne and as diligently to be observed in him that desireth to be a perfect and able Ferrier which whosoever shall be defective in he may well be an Empyreticall-Hors-Leach but skilfull Ferrier or Marshall he shall never be And for that you please to say that I sore too high because I began my discourse with the termes of Generation and Corruption if you had not interrupted me I should have explicated my selfe so cleerely as that a very reasonable judgement might easily have apprehended me for I hold it not a thing fitting to pussell mens Braines either with Chimeras which they are not able to understand or with over-long and tedious discourses of things meerly impertinent but if you shall be pleased to heare me with patience I will touch upon this subject to wit What are the causes of Sicknesse in generall as also of Health and long Life and that Laconica brevitate and so leave the rest to your judgement and practise especially considering what other Authours my Masters have so learnedly and no lesse sufficiently intreated in this very Art To begin therefore and but to say what I said before with the causes of sicknesse and death of Horses in generall in
use taught mee by Bath 4 a Gentleman who was well versed in Horse-leech-craft And his Receipt is this viz. Take Savine and the Barke and Leaves of the Bay-tree Pelletory Rosemary Sage Rue of each three ounces boyle these in a Gallon of white Wine untill halfe be consumed herewith bathe your Horse as before is shewed and whether the Griefe be visible or not use it and you will finde it an approved Medicine After this manner hath the Gentleman delivered me this Receit which he protested to me to be most soveraigne which I can neither commend nor dispraise by reason I never yet had experience thereof And thus much of Baths now let us passe to other matters §. 4. B. Hippoph I Pray you Hipposerus can you shew me what is good to cause a Horse in the Stable to Belly well Hippos That can I sir for many horses by being kept long in the stable especially yong horses wil seldome have good bellyes for their bellies will shrinke up towards their Flankes and they become as great as Running Horses use to be when they are dieted for a Course which doth betoken great Costivenes in them which proceedeth of much unnaturall heat in the body and such Horses never thrive or like well for they be naturally tender and wash or flew of their flesh and therefore such a Horse I could wish you not to keepe but to put away so soone as may be For if he come once to hard labour you cannot possibly keepe him sound but be often sicke and unhealthy The best cure which I have Belly gaunt was taught me by a French Marshall who told me that every horse hath about his Cods two small strings which extend from his Cods to the bottome of his Belly to wit of each side one which said strings you must breake with your finger a thing very easie to be done by those that have practised it and when you have broken them you must annoynt that place every day with fresh Butter and Vnguentum Populeon mixed together this done in short time he will come to Belly well This I never my selfe tryed but he that taught it me did much practise it and hee brake many of those strings of sundry horses in my sight §. 5. B. Hippoph WHat meanes have you to helpe the payne in the Belly of a Horse Hyppos This disease is that we call the Collick which the Italians do call Colon Belly paine from whence our English Ferriers derive the word Collick the French call it Tranchaisons which is a paine or griping in the Belly comming sometimes of cold and wind and sometimes of grosse Humours which ly in the small Guts sometimes by reason of abundance of Billions or sharp Humours and sometimes by inflamations in the Body caused by feeding upon raw and bad meates which occasioneth Crudities But of this we shall have cause to speak more in its proper place of the Collick Only thus much that whereas paines and Gripings in the Belly do proceed ofttimes from the Liver and the working of the Spleene which is most ventoâ—ous But I thinke it not amisse to give you one Receipt wherewith to cure any Gripings or paynes which may at any time proceed eyther from the Liver Spleene or Milt Neither have you any Signes whereby to know this disease but only the same for the Collick And the cure is this Take Isope Cowslips Liver-wort Lung-wort of each like much so as all when they be together they doe not exceed halfe a handfull Then take Gentiana Aristolochia Rotunda Fennugrick Enula-Campana dried long-Pepper of each halfe a spoonfull and one spoonefull of Honey chop the hearbs small and make the other simples into fine powder and boyle them in a quart of Ale or Muskadine which is much better and give it him bloud warme and ride him an houre after then set him up warme and foure or five houres after give him boyled barley and for three or foure dayes let his drinke be either Mashes or white water ✚ With this I have done many good cures § 6. B. Hippoph VVHat is good to heale the tongue of a Horse which is hurt with the Bit or Haulter Hippos If the tongue of your Horse be hurt or cut with his Bit or Haulter or by any other accident or mishap Bit wherâ— with the tongue hâ—â— the best way to cure and heale it is Take Mell-Rosarum and annoynt it therewith with a linnen rag fastened to the end of a sticke let the Sore be so annoynted three or foure times a day and let him alwayes after dressing stand upon the Trench one houre and in short time it will be whole With this I have cured many Horses some of which have had their tongues cut more then halfe through X. Another Cure I have which a Frenchman taught me which is as followeth Take red honey the marrow of powdred porke quick-lime and pepper all made into fine powder of each like much boyle all these together still stirring it till it come to an Oyntment with which annoynt the sore twice every day till it be whole With this Receit I have cured sundry good Horses and I do know it to be very good ✚ §. 7. B. Hippop HOw may a man stanch the bleeding at the nose or when a veine is cut or a wound given whereby a Horse is in danger to bleed to death Hippos We have many wayes wherewith to stanch bleeding Bleeding stanch as well at the nose as elsewhere As thus Take the tender tops of Isop and stamp them to mash and put them up into his nose or lay and binde it to the wound or veine cut or broken and he will be suddenly stanched ✚ Another Take Bursa-Pastoris bruized and apply it to the place and this is very good Another Take the powder of the stone called Emachile and blow it up into the nose or lay it to the veine or wound and the bloud will be stanched Another Take his own bloud dry it and make it into fine powder and apply it as is aforesaid is very good ✚ Another Take the tops of the angriest and youngest red nettles and stampe them very well and laid to the place will stanch bleeding ✚ Another Take Hogges dung and apply it as is aforesaid is very good ✚ Take also Bumbast-cotten woollen cloath silke felt all these burned or the hearb called Clownes-all-heale will doe the like ✚ Al of these I have often tryed and doe finde them right good § 8. B. Hippoph VVHat is good against blindenesse Hippos Blindenesse Blindenesse may come many wayes and therefore if it be that which commeth of filmes or thicknesse in the eyes which of all other kindes of this nature is easiest to be cured I will remit them to their proper places But for filmes onely I will give you one or two Receits But first it were fit you should understand how this disease commeth to a Horse If he be subject to have a
this is to be thus administred if the farcin be onely in the foreparts but if the disease be as well in the hinder-parts as in the fore-parts then hang also the like quantity of Arsnick made up in a cloth like as was the former and hang that also upon his tayle and the more you ride work or travell and exercise him the better it will be for his disease to qualifie and rid the same and the more spare his dyet be the sooner is he cured provided you keep him warm in the stable and for some time you must give him white water This cure I did never try but it was taught me by a great Marishall of Paris one who had the repute of a very honest man and a most skilfull Ferrier who protested unto me that he had perfectly cured many Horses with this receit Another Take white Bran prepared like as you shall finde prescribed you lib. 2. cap. 2. § 4. F. how to make fat a Horse and give it him a day before he is to be dressed and let him eate it so hot as well he may continue him to this dyet three mornings together then let him bleede well in the necke-veyne but give him no Hay that day he bleedeth but sweet wheat straw onely neither let him either eate or drink in four houres after and then let his drink be white water And two dayes after his bleeding you shall begin to give him again his wheat bran prepared as before which shall continue for sixe dayes together during which time you shall give him every evening with his Oats this powder and these roots following viz. Take of Comin of Linseed of Fenugrick Sileris Montani of each two ounces quick Brimstone foure ounces let all these be powdred and mixe them well and give it at one time with his Oates so much as you may put into an egge shell the meat being first taken out let him be thus used daily by the space of sixe dayes Those dayes being ended Take the root of Salerick the root of Tassus-Barbatus the root of Valerion and the root of Lappaizon of each like much chop them all very small as hearbs to the pot which being thus well mixed give them to the Horse without Oates if he will eate them if not then otherwise in Pils and when you give him the roots do not give him the aforesaid powder and so continue him with these roots sixe dayes together which sixe dayes ended cause him to be bloudied againe on the other side of the necke but then let him not bleed so much as before and order him as before after the first bleeding nor shall you give him either powder or roots but let him be still kept warm and have his ordinary allowance of meate as well of Hay as of Oats and then for sixe dayes after every evening after he hath drunke white water give him one evening of this powder with his Oates and the next evening of these rootes and if you finde not the Farcin to dry up to your minde continue then this powder and these roots for sixe dayes more and those dayes being past give him good Hay and good Oates and not any longer the powder or the rootes and thus following these directions punctually your Horse shall be perfectly cured and be brought into good state and health again neither shall the relicks of the farcin remaine in any part of his body and if there be any knots remaining they shall breake purge cleanse heale and dry up the maine cause being taken and purged away Of this my selfe had never tryall by reason that many of the ingredients were not easily to be had Another Take blacke Elebore and adde to the hearb some of its juyce put unto it old Boares-grease and boyle it untill the juyce be quite boyled into it whereby to bring it to a perfect unguent with which you shall annoynt and rub the knots or buttons of the farcin but before you doe apply this unguent let the hayre be shaven or clipped away from and about the knots ✚ With this receit I have cured onely one Horse Another Take five or sixe handfuls of four-leaved Plantane with the roots of Bay salt one handfull and so much Comin as you may well take up with your thumb and two fingers beate the Comin to fine powder and then stamp the Plantane and Salt well together with the Comin and after they be well incorporate let it steepe and infuse 24 houâ—es then straine and wring it hard and give the liquor thereof to your Horse in a morning fasting but you must take bloud from him the day before and he must stand upon the Trench sixe hours before you give him the said drinke and you must also put into his eares the juyce of Rue and then stitch up his eares and so let them remaine 24 hours but if the malady shall continue which I think it will not doe then must you let him bloud againe and give him the aforesaid drink This I never tryed but he that taught me this did assure me that there is no kinde of farcin but this receit will cure Another Albeit that all these receits be very good for the farcin yet are not all Horses cured with one and the same medicine and most certain it is that the most infallible way to cure the farcin is to give him the fire in the practise not onely of this cure but of many others also which are to be administred inwardly it is greatly behoofefull that the Ferrier be mindfull to observe the strength age quality and ability of the Horse to which he is to administer and accordingly to mixe and apply his ingredients Another First let him bloud on both sides the necke and spurre-veynes and let him bleed a good quantity then take Hemlocke Cinque-foyle or five leaved grasse and Rue of each like much stamp them and strain them and put the juyce thereof into his eares and then stitch them up 24 houres and it is a certain cure ✚ For with this I have cured sundry Horses Another First let him bleed well at the necke veyne then take Trifora-Magna and Aloes Platice of each two ounces and as much Barly bran mixe all these and dissolve it in oyle-olive one pinte and put thereto of white wine one pinte and then divide it into two parts or moyities and so give it two mornings together to your Horse fasting with a Horne that is to say either morning the one moyity this done take as much black sope as a Walnut halfe as much Arsnick in fine powder and work them into one body to a salve then with the poynt of a knife slit or open all the hard knots or pustils and so put into every of them the quantity of two Barly cornes of this salve which will eate forth the cores and kill the poysonous humours then where you see the wounds and places red and faire heale them up by annoynting them with
for the residue I do remit you to its proper place when and where I will give you store of good Receipts and therfore I leave it for the present § 26. F. Hippoph VVHat is good to stay a Flux Hippos This commeth of cold taken sometimes by reason nature is offended with some cholerick humour proceeding from the Liver or Gall into the Guts it commeth eftsoones when a horse drinketh too much presently after the eating a great quantity of Provender for by that meanes the water comming to the Provender causeth the Provender to swell whereby crudities are bred in the stomack and so conveyed down into the Guts which occasioneth his Flux also it commeth by travelling too soone after provender it not being well digested before and it will come also to a Horse by drinking cold water when he is very hot and after the water not being presently warmed in his belly is the cause of a Lax or Flux It will also come by eating of a Feather Hen-dung Spider some venemous worme or other troublesome creature and therefore my counsell is not to stop a Flux too hastily unlesse you do finde that your horse do purge too too violently and then be you well assured that nature is not a little offended for it will bring him in short time to great weaknesse and debility of body give him therefore first the Clyster Laxative Flux which you have taught you in lib. 2. chap. 6 § 8. Clyster 21. letter C. and that will carry away from him all that may any way offend him and a day after give him tâ—â—â— drink Beane flower and Bole-Armoniack powdred of each three ounces mix them with red Wine or Tinte one quart give it him bloud warme and after keep him warme in the stable and let him have Hay and Oates by a little at a time and that often and eyther sweete Mashes or white water ✚ This is very good Another Take of red Wine one quart and Bay-salt one handfull and brew them well together and with a horne give it him and this will stay his scowring ✚ This is also an approved Cure Another Take of wood Ashes finely searsed and of Bole-Armoniack made into very fine powder of each like much put them into the water that he is to drinke and let him drinke thereof morning and evening and this will stay his Flux ✚ But if it be a violent scowring proceeding from the eating of a Feather or some other naughty thing so as this will not stay it then Take the entrals of a Pullet or great Chicken all but the Gizard and mixe with them of Spike-nard one ounce and make him swallow it and this will infallibly stay his scowring yea if it be a bloudy Flux ✚ This is speciall good § 27. F. Hippoph VVHat good Receipt have you to Mundifie cleanse and heale foule and old Sores Hippos I had thought Sir you would not have fallen upon this till it had come to its proper place when and where we should have the particular matters of Sores by themselves together with their cures but sithence you are pleased to touch them in this place I will give you one Receit which cannot easily be paralleld Take of green Coperas and of Salt-Peter of each halfe a pound Foule an old sores â— mundifie bay Salt and Salt-Gemma of each three ounces Arsnick one ounce put all these finely powdred into a stillitory glasse the pot or bottome thereof well nealed and put also thereunto of the strongest white Wine Vineger one pinte set the pot on the fire and put on the head closing it with Cute of Hermes and being thus placed in the furnace make under it a strong fire by the space of five or sixe hours and with your Receptory take the first water that commeth for that is the very strongest and best and after an houre the fire will be out of the warer then stop up the glasse very close and so keep the water for your use The next water is also good but not so strong as the first but reserve it also by it selfe as you do the first And when you are to wash any sores therewith be very carefull that you lay none of this water upon either sinewes or veynes for that it will burn them in sunder but where Vlcers and fouler old sores be in the fleshy parts this water will work wonders if wounds be washed with it and you carefull in the application thereof ✚ Of this I have had great experience Another I have taught me by an expert Marishall of France but by reason of the extreame violence thereof I never durst use it which is called the spirit of Tinne which will also mundifie all sorts of old sores and the French Marishals do use it much And this is the Receit viz. Take Mercury one ounce Spirit of Tinne and put into an old cleane pewter pottinger and fill up the pottinger with Plantane water and with your finger stirre the Mercury about the pottinger till it be quite dissolved and then the water will become white then let it stand an hour in the pottinger then poure forth the water into a cleane glasse-viall and then you shall see in the bottome of your pottenger the Tinne runne liquid like unto Quick-silver or life as if it were melted for that is your spirit of Tinne and thus is it made § 28. F. Hippoph WHat is to be administred to a Horse that forsaketh his meate Hippos There be many causes that may make a Horse to forsake his meate and yet not be sicke at all and so also by occasion of sicknesse that either comming upon him or else which hath already seized him And first a Horse may forsake his meate and forbeare to eate for some time no whit sicke as when he shall eyther linger after Mares or after grasse being weary of dry meate againe he may forbeare his meate and yet not be sicke by meanes of some accident or inconvenience bred in him or befalne unto him as by having the Lampes Barbs Giggs Blisters bloudy-rifts tongue hurt paine in the teeth or some such like infirmity in or about his mouth these may be causes that may induce him to forbeare to eate and yet the creature not sicke but otherwise healthy and hungry and faine would feed but eyther cannot or dare not Also a Horse may forsake his meate being through the inconsideratenesse of his keeper cloyed whereby he doth loath his meat sometimes through over-ayerings morning and evening sometimes againe by suffering him to eate being very hot after great swearing upon immoderate riding and toyle or after water or washing being also very hot These and many more may be the causes why a Horse may forsake his meat and yet not be sicke And he may also forsake his meat by reason of sicknesse ensuing as upon Colds Rhumes and Catarres newly taken and beginning to be felt upon him so also he may forsake his meat by reason
of sicknesse which hath already seized him as in cases of Glanders Feavers Morfounding Consumption Dropsie and the like whereby it is made most apparant that he feedeth not because he is already sicke As touching the first poynt if you doe perceive him to forsake his meate and that you cannot easily finde the reason thereof then the first thing you doe search his mouth lips and tongue and if you finde any thing there amisse let it be presently amended but if you cannot finde any thing there amisse then examine his keeper and if you may perceive that it came through his default or negligence either by the cloying him with Provender or otherwise according as I have heretofore touched then give him a few branches of Savin and let him be ayered abroad keeping him upon the Trench fasting to procure him a stomack and then feed him by degrees and that by a little at once so he will fall to his meat againe with good appetite feed heartily and doe well againe ✚ But if you doe finde that his forsaking of meat commeth by meanes of any sicknesse which hath already seized him then give him this drink viz. Forsaking meat Take of white Wine one quart Polipodium of Oake a red Cole-wort-leafe Hore-hound Mints she-Holly Iuniper-berries Ginger Parsley-seeds Fennell-seeds of each three ounces beate into fine powder what is to be powdred and chop and stamp the hearbs small and so put all into the Wine and boyle them a pretty while then strain it and give it your horse bloud warme then leap his back and trot him softly upon faire ground an houre but not to sweat by any means then so soon as he commeth into the stable cloath and litter him warm and wash his mouth with water and salt and set him upon the Trench and put over his nostrils a fine linnen ragge steeped in sowre leven infused first in the best and strongest white Wine Vineger and the juyce of Sorrell and let him stand so three houres at the least then unbit him and bring him meat but by little at once for feare of cloying his weake stomacke neither let him have any Mashes or cold water but white water onely untill such time as he hath found his stomack againe ✚ This I have often made tryall of and have found it to be right good Another Take Rue and Pepper of each like much stamp them together to a thick salve then take a good lump thereof and put it up a good way into his mouth and let him champ and chew it a good while and so soon as you doe suffer him to open his mouth he will put it out and fall to feeding heartily ✚ This is not inferiour to the former Another Take the leaves of Briony and give him them to eate and it will bring him to a good stomack suddenly This was taught me by a very good Ferrier who avowed it to me to be speciall good but I never made triall thereof § 29. F. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a running Frush Hippos This is a naughty sorance which I have heard rurall Smiths to call the Frog by reason that it breedeth in that spungy part of the heele which they call the Frog This sorance comes sometimes when the Smith inconsiderately as he pareth that part doth goe to the quicke whereby it bleedeth which after becommeth sore and commeth to the running Frush for that the horse being travelled whilst it is raw and so the gravell getting into it doth cause the place to rankle and impostumate and it will come in short time to be a running sore which will so stinke as not well to be endured sometimes again it commeth by reason of evill humours which do fall down into the legges and makes its way out at the Frush it being the softest and tendrest part of all the foot And sometimes it commeth by a bruise which the horse may easily take by treading upon some stone which inwardly corrupting putrifieth and so is engendred a running Frush The signes to know it is the horse will goe lame either upon hard or durty wayes whereby the gravell doth get in and fret and paine him at the quick and you shall perceive that when he resteth the Frush will weep sending forth watery stuffe from the Frush The way to cure it is Take stale Chamberlye Frush ruâ—ning and boyle it with a good quantity of Allum and keep it in a glasse close stopped by it selfe for your use Then take of red Nettles two handfuls the strongest and keenest dry them that they may be made into fine powder then look what quantity of this powder you have adde also unto it the like quantity of Pepper made also into very fine powder and mixe them very well together and keep it either in some dry bladder or boxe for your use also and when you have occasion to use this water and powder for this sorance first take off the shooe and open the Frush so that you may come unto the very bottome then wash the sorance very cleane and well with this water made warme then put on the shooe again but first let it be hollowed that it hurt not the Frush and let the heeles of the shooe be wide enough then the sorance being thus cleane washed and purged from all gravell and mattrative stuffe and the shooe set on as aforesaid fill the wound full with this powder and stop it with Hurds and splent it that the Hurds may keep in the powder and that nothing get to the sore and thus wash and renew the powder to the place grieved every day once and in a weeke or little more it will be perfectly sound and whole againe provided you suffer not any dung to come to the griefe and that he tread not in any wet during the time of the Cure neither should he goe forth of the Stable ✚ And thus have I cured many horses of this malady Another Take of Soot and bay-Salt of each one handfull and pound them very well together having opened and washed the sorance as before is shewed and put unto your Soot and Salt the whites of three new laid Egges and so temper and beat all well together till you bring it to one entire body then dip some hurds therein and so stop not onely the place it selfe being opened and made raw but all the sole besides and so stop up the Frush splenting it in such sort whereby the medicine may be kept in and thus let him be dressed once a day and ordered as before is premonished and he soone will be whole and sound ✚ This I have often proved and cured many sorances of this nature §. 30. F. Hippoph VVHat is best to cure a Fret Hippos This disease you call the Fret is onely gripings and pain in the belly which commeth of sundry causes The French doe call it Tranchaisons which doe signifie gripings it is the plaine Collicke caused of winde sometimes of bilious and sharp humours
to it of Sallet-oyle and Harts-horne made into powder of each two or three spoonfuls boyle this to a thick salve continually stirring it in the boyling and apply it to the hooves Plaister-wise dayly dressing them till they bee whole This I never made tryall off howbeit it was commended to me to be a speciall good Receipt Another very good to make a brittle or pomized hoofe tough Take fresh Butter one pound Hoofe bâ—tle to mâ— tough Wax and Turpentine of each halfe a pound melt first the Waxe then put to it your Butter and when that is molten put in your Turpentine and so stirring them well together reserve it to your use and when you do use it apply it thus Make a Buskin of leather so as it may be buckled or tyed above or upon the pasterne joynt and then lay on so much of the medicine as will cover the hoofe all over very thicke and then put on the Buskin and fasten it to his legge or pasterne and let him stand so night and day till you have occasion to ride or exercise him dressing him thus once a day and the longer you use this medicine the better will be his hoofe Hoofe to grow ✚ I have often made tryall of this receit and I have found it to be very good But if your horse hath his hoofe broken and that you have a desire it should grow then Take Garlicke pilled seven ounces Rue three handfuls Allum powdred and searsed seven ounces old Bores grease two pound beat all these together with Asses dung one handfull and then boyle it and so reserve it and annoynt his hoofes therwith and they will grow very fast ✚ This is very good If he be hurt by being cast in his halter Halâ—er cast then Take of Waxe and Turpentine of each one ounce melt them together in a pot take then of Verdigrece and Hogs grease of each one ounce and incorporate them well together raw viz. without boyling the Verdigrece being first made into very fine powder and put into another pot by it selfe then when you have occasion to use it whereby to dresse a sore take first of that you made of Turpentine and Waxe two parts and then of that other which was not boyled made of Verdigrece and Hogs grease a third part and mixing them well together in the palme of your hand annoynt the sorance therewith thus doting every day once or twice it will be whole remembring to clip away the hayre first from about the place And this is a most excellent receit ✚ I have often proved it §. 10. H. Hippoph WHat may a man best apply to the Hough of a Horse that is swelled as if hee were in danger to breed a Bloud or Bogg-Spaven Hippos This commeth sometimes to yong horses when they be too hard ridden and journeyed in their youth which is the cause they swell in that place by reason the bloud falling downe there setleth which if it be not speedily removed will assuredly beget a wet Spaven The cure is annoynt the place swolne foure or five dayes together with naturall Balsome and after represse the humours with this charge having first given fire to the place lightly Hough swelled Take oyle of Roses two ounces Bolearmoniack in powder one ounce Wheat flower halfe an ounce and the white of an Egge beat and incorporate all these together and after you have ended to annoynt the place swelled with Balsome charge every day for foure or five dayes after the place herewith and he will be well ✚ This is very good §. 11. H. Hippoph VVHat is good to dry up humours Hippos This kinde of drying up of humours is but onely to restraine them for working too much upon wounds whereby the better to cure them The way therefore is this First bath the sorance well with hot molten fresh Butter and then strew upon it the powder of Rosin for a day or two Hun dry 〈◊〉 then take of the thickest Creame and of Soot of each as much as will suffice and worke them to a thick paste and so apply it to the sorance plaister-wise and it will both dry up the humour which possesseth it and heale up and skin the sore in a short space ✚ This I have often used and it is right good § 12. H. Hippoph VVHat is best to cure the hurt in the Shoulder or other member Hippos There are many things good for a malady of this nature and when I come to treat of Spraines Sores and Wounds I shall deliver them unto you and therefore I will now refer them to its proper place onely I will give you one for the present Take oyle de Bay Dialthea fresh Butter oyle of Turpentine Hurâ—der of each two ounces boyle and mixe them well together and when they be well incorporate annoynt the place grieved therewith so hot as the Horse can well suffer it without scalding and let him be thus annoynted twice or thrice a day and give the Horse moderate exercise by walking him a foot pace gently up and down And this is a certaine and an approved remedy This I never tryed but a great Ferrier who is cryed up for famous taught it me and wished me to make use thereof § 13. H. Hippoph VVHat doe you hold good wherewith to cure old Hurts Hippos The onely best way to cure and dry up old hurts and sores is this Take old shooes and burn them to coles Hurtâ— to cuâ— and then beat them to fine powder then adde to it unslaked Lime and ordinary Honey as much as will suffice to bring it to a stiffe paste which done knead them all together unto a paste and so make it into a Cake and then lay it upon a fire pan and so let it be well baked which done make it into fine powder and every day once put of this powder into the wound and it will heale it up nothing sooner ✚ This I have often used and it is very good and herewith we do conclude this Chapter CHAP. XII § 1. I. Hippoph WHat is good to helpe any imperfection in the feet Hippos First pare the feet very thin open the heeles and make the shooes wide large and hollow if the imperfection come by foundring then Imperfection in the feet Take a good quantity of Oxe or Cow dung Tarre and Hogs grease of each halfe as much and of Soot the like quantity as of either Tarre or Hogs grease boyle all these very well together and herewith stop the horse feet very hot and continue thus to do daily and it will not onely take away any anguish but also strengthen the hoofes and make them so perfect as that they will be able to endure labour but when you trauell your horse for exercise is very good for him let him be stopped herewith hot but if cold adde then thereto the whites of Egges as much as will suffice for that will coole his feet very well and
and so let it boyle one houre then take it from the fire strain it very dry and put unto the liquor of honey one pint and of Sugar-Candy in powder sixe ounces then put the liquor into a clean earthen Pot or bottle keeping it close stopped and thereof give your horse bloud warme foure mornings together the quantity of an Ale pint at a time and let him eate the Barly if he will howsoever put it not away but heat some of it every day and being hot put it into a bagge and therewith perfume his head ✚ This is very good for I have often used it Another First you must keep him to a very space Dyet and inure him five or sixe daies to eate his Oates steeped in Chamber-ly and after that Take of Bayberries Fennell Cummin Smallege Fenugreak Fearne-roots dryed and Lycoris foure ounces in the whole or of each halfe an ounce according to the bignes age strength or Corpulency of the Horse make all these into powder then take one part of the powder and put unto it of fresh or sweet Butter halfe a pound and of new Milke halfe a pint and so give it your horse bloud warm the next day do the like with the other halfe of the powder and the third day let him not forth of the Stable give it him so long as he shall be in Physicke for his drinke let it be white water made of Barly meale but not with Wheate bran and let him stand upon the Trench at least two houres before his drench and two houres after then after that give him that which followeth Take of fresh Butter halfe a pound of good Agarick night-shade and Cassia of each one ounce make all these into Pils being first powdered searced and well mixed and administer them to your Horse then give him of white Wine halfe a pint whereby the better to cause him to swallow Pils the fift day let him rest and keepe him alwaies warme covered and well littered and if you do percive him to bee loose in his body and that hee hath purged well let him rest three or foure daies quiet without doing any thing unto him but if he hath not purged after one daies rest only then give him this drinke Take Mithridate Diacartami Senae of each two ounces and of good white Wine one pint mixe and brew all these together and so give it him to drinke and let him rest three daies giving him every one of these three dayes about noone of fresh Butter onely halfe a pound made into the manner of Pils these three dayes being ended you must administer unto him as followeth and continue it weekely till he be perfectly cured Take of Agarick Alloes and of Diacartami of each one ounce of Saffaron Mirrh halfe an ounce make all these into fine powder and so make them into Pils with fresh Butter foure ounces and give it to your Horse and then presently after give him of white Wine one pint to wash down the Pils ✚ This is a most excellent cure and by me often practised Another Take of white Wine one pint of Sallet-oyle three quarts of Alloes Lycoris of each one ounce of Colloquintida of Agarick Mirrh of each halfe an ounce of Aristolochia-rotunda three drams of Night-shade one ounce of Bay-berries three drammes make all these into fine powder then take of Venice Turpentine two drams of mel rosarum three ounces mix all these together and make it bloud warme and so give it your Horse to drinke with a horne but give him no Oates in fifeteene daies and let his drinke be white water it will not bee good to give him much Hay but Wheate flower which should not be much beaten or threshed and instead of his Oates give him Wheate bran or Barly meale and keepe him warme six dayes after let him bloud in the Neck ✚ Let him have this drink twice to wit after the first drinke let him rest one day and then drench him againe as you did before Another First give him this purgation Take of fresh Butter halfe a pound of Sene and of Agarick of each halfe an ounce made into fine powder of Alloes and of loafe Sugar both powdred of each one ounce of Cordiall powder halfe an ounce make all these into fine powder then Take common-hony foure ounces mix and beat all these together and so make them into Pils and give them to your Horse but before you do administer these Pils he must stand upon the Trench two houres and so likewise two houres after that day give him no Oates and let his drinke be white water and for your other directions you may give him his allowance of Oates all the other daies but you must then wet them either in strong Ale or good Beere and you may travell or give him exercise but with moderation all those other daies and three times every day you shall give him three or foure handfuls of Wheate bran prepared as before is shewed you in lib. 2. Chap. 9. § 4. F. and thus continue him to this dyet at your pleasure ✚ I have made tryall of this cure and I doe know it to bee right good for in a month or six weekes I have brought a Gaunt and Pursive Horse to have a belly as round fresh as cleer as that of a sucking Colt nor is this cure very chargable or costly you must give him Wheate straw insteed of Hay only in the night you may give him Hay provided it be sprinkled with water §. 12. P. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Horse that is Prickt Hippos This Sorance hath many names It is called Accloyed Cloyd Retraite Prick't c. All which names wee for the most part do fetch from the French and all is but only plaine Prick't which occurreth to the horse eyther through the unskilfulnes or negligence of the Ferrier in the driving of his Nayles or in the weak-nesse of the Nayles of their evill pointing or if a Nayle should fortune to breake in the quick and not be immediatly drawne fâ—rth it will in short time fester in the flesh and soone after impostunate and so in time beget a fowle Sore which may aske much Art to Cure The signes be that he will complaine when he treadeth upon stony or hard ground specially which so soone as you perceive you have then iust cause to suspect him to bee Prick't if hee were lately shod wherefore the better to make tryall your way must be to search the foote whereof he complaineth and you shall no sooner put your Pinsors to the place but that he will presently shrinke in his foote by reason that the nipping of the Pinsons doth paine him in the quick or if you do but cast water upon the foote whereon he halteth in short time you shall perceive the hoofe to be sooner dry against the nayle or place which grieveth him before any other part of the hoofe Again if you shall with your hammer
or be unruly This done take pitch which you must have molten in a pot in a readinesse and with a clout upon a stick annoint the stifling three or foure inches broad at the least and ten inches long and presently before the pitch can coole have a strong piece of new Canvas cut fit for the purpose which being made very warme by a fire clap it upon the place so neatly that the bone cannot goe forth againe This plaister must not lye towards the flanke and foot longst-wayes but crosse-wayes upon the joynt as it were about the thigh otherwise it cannot hold in the bone Having thus done anoint the plaister on the out-side all over with the said molten pitch and whilst it is warm clap flocks of the horses colour all over upon the out-side of the Canvas and let the plaister remaine on untill it fall away of it selfe and after that you may apply such good Vnguents as you may thinke to be most expedient for the malady But if the bone be not out then put in a French Rowell a little beneath the stifling-place and let the Rowell remain in fifteen dayes turning it once every day and at fifteen dayes end take it forth and heale up the orifice like as before you have been taught ✚ This is speciall good §. 25. S. Hippoph VVHat remedy may be had for a Horse that is troubled with the Stone Hippos This is a very troublesome disease and it commeth of grosse and bad humours gotten principally by violent exercise and intemperate riding and it commeth from the Liver and Spleen which falling down into the kidneyes and bladder settleth there whereby there groweth in the mouth of the conduct certaine inflamed hard knots which stoppeth his urine whereby he is not able to pisse but with great difficulty by reason the sinewes and the pores about the necke of the bladder are benummed which taketh away the sense and feeling of the bladder And sometimes this infirmity commeth by reason that in his travell the horse is kept so long in agitation as not to suffer him to stale and pisse for the water being made hot by exercise doth conglutinate and becommeth viscous and thick so as it cannot passe away from him as nature requireth it should do whereby there is made too great a retention of the Vrine by meanes of the obstructions he hath in his kidneyes which engendreth gravell sometimes red and sometimes grey which falling down into the conducts ingendreth phlegmaticke and grosse humours which occasioneth conglutination and so becommeth to be the stone waxing so hard and thereby stopping the current of his water so as he will not be able to pisse or stale And you may come easily to know it by reason that he can neither draw his yard nor pisse but with great paine and difficulty in his sheath and that many times drop by drop The cure is take Saxafrage Nettle-roots Parsley-roots Stone Fennell-roots Sperage-roots and of Dodder of each one handfull bruise all these things and boyle them on a gentle fire with white Wine untill a third part be consumed then put unto it of Salt one handfull of Sallet oyle and of the Lard of a Goat of each three ounces Honey halfe a pound when all this is boyled straine it and wring it very hard and of this give your Horse one pinte every morning fasting made bloud warme and if in the boyling or by standing it happen to become thicke dissolve it again with white Wine and after the first boyling it must be but onely warmed And give to him this drinke every morning so long as it will last ✚ This is very good for I have often tryed it Another as good as the former Take of strong Ale one quart and put it into a pottle pot then take so many of the reddest Radish roots cleane washed and sliced into small pieces as will fill up the pot then stop up the pot so close as that the ayre cannot get in and let it remaine foure and twenty hours then straine the roots from the Ale very hard into some other clean pot and so give it him in a morning fasting with a horne then ride him a while upon it and so set him up warme covered and well littered and in a little while you shall see him pisse give him this drink sundry mornings together and during this cure let him have but onely white water to drink ✚ This is speciall good §. 26. S. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a String-hault String-hault Hippos This is a malady which for the most part the best mettled horses be many times troubled with it commeth meerly of cold as by taking cold suddenly after hard riding especially when by being washed for the bloud and sinewes being by that meanes stupified and benummed is the cause of the disease by reason the sense and feeling of the member is taken from him you may easily know it by the manner of the unsightly lifting and sudden snatching up of his legge much higher then the other and it commonly commeth into the hinder legge rather then into the fore-legge The cure is first to take up the veine in the thigh and after to anoint all the legge and the thigh from the body down unto the very foot a long time together one holding a red hot Barre of iron neere to the place and let him be anointed with this oyntment Take of the oyle of Petroleum of the oyle of Wormes of the oyle of Nervall of Patch or Piece grease of the oyle of Spike of each one ounce of London Treacle two ounces and of Hogs grease one pound melt all these upon the fire and then take it off and keep it with continuall stirring til it be thorough cold and with this anoint the visited member every day once and then wispe him up with a soft thumb band of Hay from the pasterne to the top of the hoofe and thus do for ten dayes together rubbing and chafing in the ointment very well a long time together holding as before I have advised a hot barre of iron neere to it to cause this Vnguent the better to sinke into the sinewes nerves and joynts But after you have done anointing him you must keep him warme and well littered and let the thumb band be daily made lesser and lesser and shorter and shorter till you perceive him to handle both legges alike and your Horse to be recovered but you must not ride him that he may sweat much in a moneth after and so soon as warme weather commeth turne him to grasse into some dry pasture where is water and take him up againe about Bartholomew Tide or before the cold commeth and whilst he doth remaine in the Stable keep him warm and so he will be free of his String-hault and be a sound horse againe To anoynt him also with Acopum is very good ✚ Thus I have recovered sundry horses of this malady § 27. S. Hippoph VVHat is the
which descending from the stomacke goe down into the guts and there torment him and sometimes it commeth by reason of Wormes Bots or Truncheons which doe engender in the stomacke or guts of the Horse which do feed and gnaw upon the paunch and guts putting him to mickle pain and perplexity The signes are he will forsake his meat lye down oft and tumble and when he standeth he will eft soones strike at his belly with his hinder legs he will also stampe with his fore-feet and turn his head towards his belly and looke upon it and he will many times sweat at the flankes and seldome any where else and if the malady be of winde then shall you perceive his belly to swell especially towards the flanks the cure is Fret Take of good Ale two quarts of Fenugrick foure ounces of Bay-berries seven ounces of long Pepper foure ounces of Ginger one one ounce Water-Cresses two handfuls Sage and Nettles of each one handfull beat to powder the Spices and chop the hearbs small and boyle them in the Ale till one moyity be consumed then straine it and so give it him bloud warme and then cover and litter him warme and let him stand upon the Trench sixe houres after But yet so soone as he hath his drinke rope up all his legges to the body not suffering him to lye down and cover him so as that he may sweat for one houre onely and then coole him by degrees and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water and he being thus ordered two or three dayes he will be well ✚ This I have often used Another Take the entrals of a great Chicken casting away the gizzard rowle them up in bay-Salt and the powder of Brimstone and so give it him down his throat then presently let him be gently ridden or walked till he doth dung and at night give him a Mash or white water and he is cured This is also very good But if you have cause to suspect that he hath the Bots then rake him and in his raking search for Bots which if you doe finde any sticking upon the great gut pluck them all or so many as you can finde away whereby you may be confident that the Bots is cause of his griefe wherefore apply such remedies and medicines which I have formerly prescribed you for Bots Truncheons and Wormes in lib. 2. cap. 5. § 15. where you shall finde such receits as will cure him ✚ But if you doe perceive this griefe of his commeth of winde then make use of such receits which you shall finde by me before inculcated for the Collicke in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 11. lit C. where be very good remedies for this Malady CHAP. 10. §. 1. G. Hippophylus WHat is best to be done to cure a galled backe Hippos There be so many wayes which doth occasion it as that it would be an endlesse labour to deliver every particular thereof But because you doe motion the galled backe onely I will first speake something thereof A galled backe commeth commonly either with the Saddle the Pannell Pack-Saddle or Male-pillion which through evill stopping or defect of stopping may very easily gall the Horse so also may the fault be in the tree which may be so badly made so as that let the Saddler be never so sufficient skilfull or carefull yet shall it both gall and hurt him so also may the tree of the Saddle be either broken or crackt if it at any time happen be you then confident that it can never be so amended or repaired but that doe what you can it shall hurt the back of the Horse and these be the most frequent and ordinary wayes whereby to gall the back of your horse howbeit I passe over Male-pillions Cloake-bags Port-mantues Trusses and the like The signes to know a galled back are easie for either the backe will be apparantly swelled or the hayre fretted off the skinne either broken or raw or the backe either inflamed or impostumated every of which is easily to be determined by the eye or if his backe be wrung with the Saddle and yet not come to be visible to the eye yet may you come to the knowledge therof if taking off the Saddle stroking your hand all along the back you shall perceive him either to shake his head or to winch with his tayle to rouze or shake to stamp or strike with his feet to offer to bite or the like whereby you may come to know it and very easily to finde out the place grieved Now if the back be swelled and before it be impostumated so soon as you shall take off the Saddle and finde the same clap upon the swelling a little of his wet litter and so set on the Saddle againe and let him remain with his Saddle on all night and in the morning the swelling will be abated and the place it selfe become whole and sound again Now if the hayre be but galled off so that it doth not impostumate annoynt the place but with a little Butter and Salt melted together and in twice dressing the place will be whole but if the backe be so galled as that it is become raw then the cure is thus viz. Take three parts of sheepes-dunge newly made Gaelled 〈◊〉 and one part of Rie or Wheate flower and dry the flower and then mixe it well with the sheepes-dung kneading it as into paste and making it into the fashion of a Cake and after bake it a little and apply the powder thereof warme unto the place ✚ This will heale him very well But I may very well spare the labour in reciting any more receipts for this matter considering I have sufficiently already handled them in lib. 2. chap. 5. § 1. letter B. §. 2. G. Hippoph VVHat say you to a Galde that commeth by the Shackell Hippos Tâ—aâ— kind of Gallings being so frequent as to be knowne to every one both in the manner how it commeth and in the signes how to know them needeth not much disscussion neverthelesse I will give you an experiment or two of mine owne and so leave it to its more proper place Take new milke three quarts Plantane one handfull Galled wiâ— the Shackâ— boyle these together till one part of the milke be consumed then take of Allum six ounces and of white sugar-Candy one ounce beat them both to fine powder and so put it to the milke and adde also unto it of white Wine-Vineger six spoonfuls then boyle it a little till there do come upon the top a tough curd then strayne it and keep the whay A whay casting away the curd and with this whay first made warme bathe and wash the sore the hayre being first clipped close away and having thus washed the sorance and wiped it dry then apply your greene oyntment mentioned in the fourth § of this Chapter but in case where the Galde is not yet broken yet likely to breake there you shall