if your horse be poore bare leane Fat horse and feeble so that his stomack be good to meate I will give you a Receit which if you doe duly observe my rules justly as I shall deliver them you shall get him up into flesh in twelve or foureteene dayes First therefore take bloud from him if you do find it grosse or Flâ—gmatick for otherwise he cannot possibly mend then insteade of Oates in the morning you shall give him Wheate branne Bran prepared prepared after this manner Set over the fire a cleane Kettle and fill it almost full with faire water and so soone as it boyleth put in your Wheate branne and so let it boyle a quarter of an houre at the least then take it off and let it stand to coole and about foure or five in the morning give him of this branne so hot as he can eate it then for his drinke give him of the same water and at night give him Oates and white water and let him be kept covered and littered warme but if it bee Summer let not the Stable be too hot but temperate and at night give him with his Oates also the quantity of what you may coâ—vey into an Egge-shell of this powder following with which you must continue him the space of eight dayes or according as you shall see cause You must understand that this branne thus prepared is the only thing which dryeth up his naughty grosse and corrupt humours and doth the better prepare the body to assume lust courage strength and flesh together with the helpe of the powder which is this Take of Commin Fenugrick Sileris-Montani Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two ounce Quick-Brimstone six ounce Fat a leanâ— horse make all these into powder of this powder give him every night the quantity of an Eg-shell full with his Oates as I have before prescribed but he must first be watred with white water which so soone as hee hath drunke let his whole body be rubbed then cloathed littered which being done then give him a small sheafe of wheat straw sweet good and well threshed into his Racke and let him eate thereof by the space of an houre which done give him Oates mixed with his powder which when he hath eaten give him Hay at your pleasure remembring to keep him warm but so as with moderation and let him be also well rubbed especially against the hayre and by this doing in short time you shall perceive him to mend exceedingly but you must put also into his Oates together with its former powder of Nettle-seed two handfuls every time for that is the thing which principally will cause him to battle It will also greatly availe to his amendment if he be ayered every morning and evening an houre after sunne rising and an houre before sunne set if the weather be warme and the sunne doe shine ✚ And this I doe assure you is the most exquisite course can be taken whereby to sâ—t up a leane Horse and to make a poor Horse fat in little time and with small charge §. 5. F. Hippoph VVHat helpe have you for the falling of the Fundament Hippos This malady commeth to a Horse sometimes by cold sometimes through weakenesse and meere poverty and sometimes by meanes of a laxativenesse and fluxe of bloud when straining to expell the Horse is not able and by that meanes the fundament commeth out the cure is Falling of the fundament Take white-Salt made into very fine powder strew a little upon the gut then take a piece of Lard and first having boyled Mallow-leaves till they be soft take of these leaves and beat them well with the Lard and when it is sufficiently beaten make it up like to a suppository and apply it to the place every day once till it be whole ✚ This I have often tryed §. 6. F. Hippoph I Should be very glad to know what you can say of Feavers Hippos Sir as touching feavers in Horses I say that they be as subject to them as man is as also that these feavers are of severall natures which cannot be denied which may most easily be distinguished and knowne if you please diligently to observe A feaver commeth many times either by intemperate riding or travell or else through bad and unwholesome dyet and all feavers for the most part have their sourse from these effects if you adde thereunto evill ayre §. 7. F. Hippoph VVHy Hipposerus how doe you define a Feaver Hippos I define it thus A Feaver is an unnaturall and intemperate heat which beginneth at the heart dilateth it self through all the arteries and veynes of the whole body of the Horse hindring all his naturall motions howsoever some Ferriers are pleased to make of them more sorts then I will question their physicall and learned distinctions for I could never conclude them but in a few as quotidian tertian quartan and pestilent and yet all these be of one nature albeit some more malignant then others be onely a Hectique feaver is of a different nature from the former and so also a pestilent feaver may be Now as touching feavers which come in the Spring Summer Autumne or Winter I cannot see why they should be feavers different in nature from these other for there are not any of these but may come to a Horse in any of these seasons §. 8. F. Hippoph FRom whence doe Feavers proceed then Hippos First Sir you must understand that Feavers are of two sorts that is to say Ordinary and Accidentall the ordinary feavers are those that come of surfets over-riding and labour unwholesome meat as moyst raw mouldy and musty bread corne provender and hay of what nature sort or condition soever but your feavers Accidentall come of some terâ—ible stroke or deep wound bringing therewith insufferable paine dolour and griefe to the poor beast again your ordinary Feavers come oft times by the extreame violent scorching of the Sunne but most commonly in the canicular dayes as when your Horse is abroad at grasse where is either want of water or having such as is neither good or wholesome or else where is want of housing shelter to goe into or shady trees to be under and such kinde of Agues doe prove for the most part either Hectike or Pestilent feavers for by that meanes his bloud becommeth inflamed whereby the humour of choller is predominate Now Sir if you be pleased to observe strictly and carefully you shall also finde that feavers doe come many times also from a quite contrary cause as from cold taken upon hard riding or great labour and by having at such times cold water given him to drink or by washing or walking having sweat much or by being out too late in the gripse or shutting in of the evening or upon day breaking especially neere or among fenny moorish or marish grounds by reason that naughty vapours do arise from such kinde of places Feavers also do accrew to Horses when upon hard
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
this confection halfe an ounce and dissolve it in Muskadine or sweet Sacke a pinte and a halfe and so give it your Horse bloud-warme and as occasion is profered adde to it of London Treacle one ounce ✚ This Diatesseron is a confection so soveraigne being as I said before an antidote against all infectious diseases it is a present cure for all sorts of Feavers or any other desperate or dangerous sicknesse taking first bloud from the Horse if there be cause § 4. D. Hippoph IS there nothing good besides these in case of desperate and dangerous sicknesse supposing that neither Diapente or Diatesseron can be had Hippos Yea Sir if neither of these may be gotten and that you are fearefull of the life of your Horse then doe I counsell you thus Take of the best Tarre two ounces of honey one ounce Desperate and dangerous sicknes◠blacke sope two drams and bay salt a handfull incorporate all these well together then fill two egge shels the crownes onely being broken so as you may get forth the meat and fill them up againe with this medicine and put them downe his throat and walke or ride him gently up and down a quarter of an houre or more warme cloathed that done set him up warme and litter him well and let his drinke be either Mashes or white water for foure or five dayes after but let him fast three houres after his medicine and let his Hay and Provender bee sweete and good ✚ This I have often experimented §. 5. D. Hippoph I Should thinke Hipposerus that for change Bread were good to be given sometimes to a Horse I pray you what is your opinion thereof Hippos If you meane such ordinary Horse-bread which our common Bakers used to make for Horses which is now long since out of date and use I say it cannot be good for a Horse by reason it was ill made and the Materialls whereof it was compounded nourish very little nay it hurteth a Horse much more than it can do him good for it breedeth evill humours and worse bloud in his body it being made of bran and chisell for the most part with a little course Rye meale to make it stick together and so made up and kneaded with cold water and after the outside of the loaves or roules are rowled in ground or rather bruised pease which can in no case bee good or wholesome But if you have a desire to give your horse bread whereby hee may the better endure labour eyther in his travell or long journeys or in Tilting Hunting or otherwise then if you please to give him this bread which I do heere prescribe you it will give him strength of body be very much helpfull to his winde keep him from fainting in his labour and exercise be it never so sore Horse bread Take Wheate meale Oate meale and Beanes all ground very small of each one peck Anniseeds foure ounces Gentiana and Fenugrick of each one ounce Licoris two ounces let all these be finely powdred and searced and ad the whites and yelkes of twenty new layd Eggs well beaten together and put to the other ingredients and so much strong Ale as will knead it up then make your loaves like to horse-bread but not too thick and let them be well baked but not burned let not this bread bee given to your Horse too new and when you doe give it too him let it be five or six mornings together without other provender and thus you shall have him well winded lusty strong hardy and healthy whereby to be able to hold out and retaine his mettle to the last Also when he is to bee used or employed Take a thinne linen cloath and put therein of white Sugar candy one ounce and as much powder of Anniseeds sew up this to the Bit or Snaffle in a fine linnen cloath when you are to take his backe first dipped in White or Claret Wine and so let him bee exercised or travelled with this in his mouth this giveth moysture to his mouth and stomacke it expelleth inward heat and faintnesse from his body and heart and causeth him to forget his labour and travell for it doth revive his vitall spirits ✚ Another kind of bread I will give you not much unlike the former but somewhat better and a greater cooler Take Wheate-meale one peck Rie-meale Beanes and Oate meale both ground very small of each halfe a peck Anniseeds Lycoris of each one ounce and white Sugar candy foure ounces all in fine powder the yelkes and whites of twenty Egges well beaten and so much white Wine as will knead it into a past make this into great loaves bake them well and after they be two or three dayes old let him eate of this bread but chip away the outside ✚ Hippoph What is the reason you choose of these graines meale rather then flower wherewith you doe make your bread Hippos Sir I preferre Meale far before Flower by reason Flower is much more hot and binding and therefore the courser the bread is the better it is for the Horse and the more wholesome and the reason why I doe put Rie into my latter bread is because Rie is a loosener and a cooler and therefore it will make him the more soluble §. 6. D. Hippoph VVHat is good to dissolve and mollifie Tumors and hard swellings in the Legges or other parts and members of the Horse Hippos Tumors and swellings sometimes comes by heats gotten with over hard riding whereby the creature being over much heat the grease falleth downe and setling in the Legges and other parts doe grow dry and hard this breedeth Splents Spavens Curbes Ring-bones and the like Sorances which in trueth are none other things then proper Tumors besides it doth occasion other knots and swellings which are to be cured after this manner viz. Take of the roots of Mallowes or of Holliocks of each two ounces Dissolve Tumors of Linseed and of Fenugrick of each six ounces of the fat or grease of Hennes or Capons or for want thereof of Neats foote oyle a Wine quart of Waxe six ounces steepe the rootes and seedes being bruised in a pottle of white Wine when it is scalding hoat for three dayes and three nights and the fourth day boyle them in the same liquor and adde thereto when you beginne to set it upon the fire your grease and waxe putting also thereunto of Rosin three ounces then let all these boyle together a good while and at the taking it from the fire put thereinto of Venice Turpentine two ounces and so stirre them together and thus it is made fitting for your use which being well reserved will dissolve all hard swellings and Tumors the Sorances being dayly anoynted therewith ✚ This I have by much practise found to be very good Another Take white Lilly roots Hemlock Mallowes Beares-foote Scabeous Cuccoe-pits of each one handfull chop them small and infuse them for twelve daies together in white Wine
fall into any precipice wherefore great regard ought to be had how you doe at any time tamper or meddle with this so choyce a member lest in stead of endeavouring to cure one sore eye you put out both a thing often seene and knowne and therefore the medicines which you apply to the eyes ought evermore to be new made yea in a manner every day for that when once they begin to grow stale they become sharp and asper perplexing the poore beast much more then otherwise neither are they so wholesome nor so powerfull whereby to performe their office for which they were made and compounded If you have a Horse which is but weake of sight the â—esse bloud you take from him the better it will be for the continuance of his sight for by taking much bloud from a Horse weakely sighted will on a sudden cause him to become stone blinde like as by experience I have often knowne and observed But now to conclude this Paragraph because I have not yet handled one part appertaining to a sore eye viz. for an eye which by an unlucky stroke or stripe is broken and beaten out of the head of the Horse I will give you one onely receit which can never be parallelled to wit Eye broken Take Allum and first burne it in a fire-pan and after when it is burned so ☞ put it upon the hot coales and let it burne there till all the moysture be quite consumed that it becommeth as light as a feather and as white as snow and so brittle as that it will breake with every touch unlesse it be very carefully handled when it is so brittle as that it will runne to ashes with every small pressure and that the tast of Allum remaineth little in the said Allum then is it sufficiently burned then take of this powder as much as will suffice and mixe it with life-honey and stirre them well together as that you do bring it to an unguent put of this every day morning and evening into his eye with a feather and so hold your hand upon the eye a pretty while that the medicine cannot suddenly get forth and by thus doing in few dayes it will be throughly cured though the eye be utterly lost § 6. E. Hippoph VVHat is good to take away a bony excretion or a fleshy Hippos This malady of a bony excretion commeth most commonly by the meanes of causticks and burning corrosives which be laid to wounds that are neere to the bone as when the wound is either in the legge or about the pasterne for that the flesh being extreamely burned and mortified by such causticks and corrosives it doth cause an excretion to grow upon the bone which through the unskilfulnesse of the Ferrier the wound is healed up but the excretion doth remaine still upon the bone which becommeth an eye-sore unlesse it be afterwards taken off which occasioneth a new cure and over and above it enforceth oft times the Horse to hault sometimes againe an excretion commeth by the Horse being galled with a locke or fetters having beene long continued upon the same foot without changing or removing in time convenient But howsoever it commeth the cure is Take Elecampane root newly gathered and cleanse it from its earth Excretiâ—â— and wrap it up in a brown paper then wet the paper and so heale it in the hot embers and so roft it as you would doe a Warden when it is throughly well rosted that it be like to pap so hot as your Horse can suffer it for it must not scald him after you have with a sticke like as you doe a splent rubbed knocked and chafed the excretion binde this rosted root close unto the place and so let it remaine on 24 houres before you doe remove it and in two or three times thus dressing it the excretion will rot and consume to nothing and this will also take away a splent ✚ This is very good Another Take the oyle of Origanum and every morning and evening or oftner take a little upon the brawne of your thumb and rubbe the place and it will therewith in time consume and quite take it away ✚ And this will also take away a splent §. 7. E. Hippoph VVHat will cure an Impostume in the eares of a horse Hippos This disease proceeds from sundry causes as by means of some blow with some staffe or other such like thing which he receiveth about the eares or poll or else by meanes of some hurt he may get by being wrung or galled with a new or hard hempen halter specially if a knot be neer or upon the place sometimes it comes also of a cold taken in the head and sometimes againe by meanes of bad and peccant humours which residing in the head doe make its passage by the eares it is easily known by its much burning glowing and swelling and by the Horses unwillingnesse to be touched and handled about that place if it be an impostumation then thus it must be cured Take Linseed and make it into fine powder and Wheate-flower of each halfe a pint Eares impostumated ordinary honey one pint tryed Hogs-grease one pound mixe all these well and warme them upon a fire keeping them continually stirring then take of this oyntment and spread it upon a linnen cloath or upon a plaister of leather the breadth of the swelling only and apply it warme to the place and renew it once every foure and twenty houres till it eyther do breake or be so ripe as that it may be opened which must be so done downewards that the corruption may easily issue away then heale it up with this salve Take Mel-Rosatum Sallet-oyle and ordinary Turpentine of each two ounces incorporate them well together and make for the Horse a biggen or night-cap to keepe on the medicine taint the sore to the bottome dipped in this oyntment and apply also a plaister of the said stuffe upon the sore renewing it every day till it be whole and sound ✚ But if the Impostumation be broken of its own accord before you do perceave it then Take oyle of Roses Venice Turpentine and common Honey of each like much mixe them well together and so making it bloud warme upon a few embers or coales dip some black wooll in the medicine so stop up that Eare therewith which is grieved renewing it once a day till it be whole ✚ But if the Eares be only inflamed then stop of this foresaid medicine into them and it will both ease him and take away the inflamation ✚ Another Take of pepper made into fine powder dist tryed Hogges-greasse one spoonefull the Iuyce of Rue one handfull the strongest white Wine Vinegar two spoonefull beate all these very well together and if the swelling Impostumation or Inflamation be eyther in the Eares Face Head or Throte of the Horse if you take eyther black-wooll fine lint Flax or Hurds and dip it into this medicine and so stop both
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
organ of the body by which meanes they are preserved and enabled to perform their naturall and proper function And as touching the cods if the liver be not well stored nay full of pure and perfect bloud neither is the creature able to concoct and digest its meat nor can the cods be hot so as if there be in those parts a defect of heat the seed of the beast cannot be perfectly concocted by which meanes the Horse becommeth frigid and impotent and without any power at all of Procreation And this is as much as need be said of this subject wherein if I have any way erred or not delivered my self so cleerly whereby to be understood as I desire the blame must light upon the great desire I promised to brevity howsoever I have endeavoured what in me lyeth to dilate and explicate my self at full Now will I begin to shew to you what meanes we have to preserve horses from all inward diseases which consisteth of four wayes viz. by Purging Sweating Flebothomy or Bloud-letting and Vomit As touching the first which is Purging it is twofold to wit Cleansing and purging Of outward Purging outward and inward This outward purging is by cleansing the outward parts which must be done immediately at what time you take up your horse from grasse which would be about Saint Bartholomewes day for then the heart of grasse doth begin to decline and therfore after that day the grasse he then feedeth upon breedeth no good but bad and corrupt bloud and so consequently sundry sorts of maladies and infirmities in his body besides the ayre beginneth then to grow sharpe which is also very dangerous yea and most contagious for him and if you suffer him to runne after that time his haire will grow long and rough so as he will not have for that winter any slicke or glittering coat Of this outward cleansing or purging your horse you shall finde taught you in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 6. and the manner how and when it would be done viz in a warme day in the Sunne at what time every part and member of him would be soped washed dryed and cleansed from all manner of sweat scurfe dust dirt and filth yea and that all his whole body over especially his Maine Tayle and Cods who being thus cleansed and made dry again and his yard drawne cleansed and annointed with tryed hogs grease let his eares his Maine just so farre as the top of the head-stall will cover and no more and under the Chaule be handsomely trimmed then pull away by the roots all the smelling haires about and under his mouth and nose and the long stubborn hayres under and about his eyes which done cut away about a handfull of the lower part of his tayle even and decently then cause the Ferrier to shooe him up but let him be carefull to pare him neatly and to open the Heeles and Frush Then cloath him up warme and stopped with small wispes this done annoint all his hoofe with the oyntment having first washed them cleane and made them dry againe prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 11. § 9. Then let his feet be picked cleane and stoppe him with Oxe-doung Cleansing and purging inwardly Now as touching his inward purging this ought to be done evermore before you put him to any labour or exercise and first let him be raked by causing some one who hath a small hand and arme to annoynt them first with a little sweet Butter or Oyle de Bay but some doe use Sope which I doe hold too sharp and so putting his hand into his fundament let him bring forth all his doung and while he is in so doing let him try to feele for Bots or wormes which may sticke fast unto the great Gut and the place where the doung lyeth which if he finde let him pluck them away gently and by degrees and so bring them all out this done give him the Clister mentioned in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 8. Clist c. 4. and so soone as the horse hath received it Clister-wise then presently clap his tayle close to his Tewell and so cause him to keep it so long as you can and this would be done three or foure dayes before the Full or Change of the Moone The next day after give him his first drink inserted lib. 2. cap. 16. § 14. Drinke 1. Drinke 2. purg 4. the next day following give him his second drink shewed you in liq 2. cap. 16. § 14. Purg. 5. and so follow such directions shewed you in those Rules The next day following you have thus given him his two drinks let him bloud Let bloud if you shall finde the bloud to be very bad take the more from him if reasonable good take the lesse but if very good then draw your cord and so do but give the veyne vent and no more then afterwards keep him with warm Mashes as is taught you else-where The next day after bloud letting sweat Sweat him like as is prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 18. § 28. S. And if you doe discover any cold in him by any symptomes then give him the vomit Vomit prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 20. § 1. V. And to prevent any Obstructions in the liver or lungs or his heart any way oppressed or otherwise to preserve the blood pure and from corrupting all which inconveniencies may be a ready meanes to bring your horse to his end give him in his Provender Powderâ— be put iâ— his proâ—der such powders and other Simples which you shall find in sundry places of this Treatise for this will refine his blood and preserve his liver from infection and keep him in perfect health Thus far Sir I have declared unto you what I understand of the Cause of Sicknesse in generall It remaineth now for me to inculcate what are the causes of health and long life which to be briefe are twelve in number viz The first is Nature good digestion 12. Canâ— of healtâ— long life and good Nutriment the second is moderation in feeding and dyet the third is moderate labour the fourth is moderate use of sleeping and waking the fifth is moderate spending upon Mares the sixth is moderate journeyes the seventh is wholesome ayre the eight is not to be exercised too soone after grasse the ninth is to be kept from raw and greene meats the tenth is not to be suffered to eate or drinke being hot the eleventh is not to be either washed or walked at the end of his dayes journeyes the twelfth is to give him with his Provender such powders and simples as are prescribed you in all those Chapters which are by me mentioned Hippiat You have spoken well Hipposerus but I would have you shew me how long life is acquired by these causes which as yet you have not done for you have but onely delivered them in generall heads and termes Wherfore I would gladly know what you can say of
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
and Siccity in mixt Bodyes so to harden and fasten them together as that having once assumed their Shaps it causeth them to retein and keep them which otherwise by the force of the other Elements would be so lax and loose as not to be able to hold together wherein I could produce many familiar instances which for brevities sake I am enforced to omit But the opinion of the best Physitians is that when any naturall Body dyeth the substance thereof returneth back againe to those Elements from whence they came Thus you may plainely see that Fire is naturally hot and therefore separateth Ayre moyst and therefore giveth Shape Water cold and therefore bindeth and Earth dry and therefore naturally hardneth and keepeth its impression Wherefore in any Malady in a Horse observe but this one Rule viz. that when at any time an Inflamation shall arise in the Body be you confident it proceeds of Fire and therefore you must administer if you will performe a right Cure things contrary to that Element to wit what may be agreeable to Ayre and Water whereby to moysten coole and allay the rage of the heat If it be a Flux of Bloud or the like proceeding from the abundance of moysture which takes its origin from the Element of Ayre then must you apply Medicines which may connive with the Eâ—rth whose drynesse may harden such moysture If it proceed of Cold Rhumes or the like whereby the infirmity hath its source from the Element of Water you must then administer Medicines cohering with the Element of Fire and Ayre which may be able through its heat and moysture to expell all cold and grosse humours And lastly if the griefe be Maingenesse or the like which cometh from the Earth which be dry and arid infectious diseases then must your applications be had from the Element of Fire whose nature is to dissolve all siccative humours Wherefore I say againe that heat being too predominant is asswaged by the meanes of moystnesse and coldnesse too great moystnesse by heat and drynesse over-much coldnesse by heat and drynes and too great a proportion of drynesse by heat alone Hippophyl But then tell me I pray you bee there no other Elements or beginnings in Living Bodies more then these foure before named Hippos No Sir not any other which have their beginnings but there are two other which the Learned doe terme proper Elements viz. the Ingendring of Seed and Menstruall Bloud but these I say doe assume their essence from the other foure Elements whereby they become a Body wâ—ich otherwise they could not and therefore are subordinate to them and they take their place after them Hippophil Having spoken sufficiently of the Natures and Qualities of these foure Elements What say you to the Humours Hippos I say that the Humours are also foure in number The 4. first Qualities which Physitians doe stile the first Qualities according as I have formerly intimated and these foure are Bloud Phlegme Choler and Melancholy Bloud being sweet in tast Phlegme neither sweet bitter nor sowre and therefore of no tast or if of any like to that of good Oyle rather sweet then otherwise Choler is bitter in tast and Melancholy is sowre in tast So as by these tasts you may distinguish them and these Humours have reference or neere affinity unto the foure Elements for like as I have before agnized Bloud is of the nature of the Ayre Phlegme of the Water Choler of the Fire and Melancholy of the Earth and these Humours have their particular abode and residence in the body absolute and peculiar to themselves as Bloud hath his abiding in and about the Heart Phlegme in the Braine Choler in the Liver and Melancholy in the Spleene whereby we may the better come to know what Complexion raigneth in every Horse as also how he is naturally qualified and disposed for the Horse that is of a Sanguine Complexion is commonly a Bright Bay who is of disposition joviall wanton or merry agile and of motion temperate neither too fiery nor too dull or melancholy Your Milke-white is of Complexion Phlegmatique whose property commonly is to bee lunt heavy and slow your Bright-Sorrell hath commonly reference to Choler and he is naturally for the most part fiery hot and ever-free-mettled but yet of no great strength Your Mouse-Dunne and such like rusty and sut-colours are commonly of a Melancholy Complexion and they be ordinarily cowardly faint-hearted subject to starting flothfull restife stubborne disobedient revengefull c. but if these Complexions be rightly symbolized and doe all meete in one and the same Horse according to each ones proper nature they doe performe their functions as they ought in a perfect harmony whereby the Horse remaineth sound and healthy but if there be discord or disagreement in the Elements and Humours there must bee the like in the Complexions and then doth the poore horse suffer for it to the danger both of Life and Health Hyppophyl I ever understood that there are certaine Spirits which doe remaine in the body of every Horse doe you know them Hipposerus Hippos Yes I doe and they be said to bee two in number viz. The Spirit Animal Spirit Animal and the Spirit Vitall the Spirit Animal hath its residence in the Braine by which meanes it giveth motion feeling and power to the Horse through the ayd of the Sinewes and the Spirit Vitall Spirit Vitall makes abode in the Heart which is the only cause of the excessive heat thereof which disperseth the Bloud into every part and member of the Body For the Heart and the Braine are in equality absolutely different the Heart being most violently hot as I have before shewed and the Braine is as extreamely cold and so hereof needs not any more be spoken in this place Hippophyl But may not a man conjecture to what infirmities or diseases Horses may probably be subject by their Complections Hyppos Yis Sir very easily yea and that with so great advantage and profit to the Cure if the Ferrier be expert and skilfull in the making and applying of his Medicines The disease known by the Complexion as that nothing can be more For example the horse that is of colour either bright-Bay or dark Bay with a pleasant and cheerfull countenance or if he bee a white Flea-bitten white-Lyard or Black with a white-starre or race downe the face or white-foot if he be of eyther of these colours we hold him to bee of a Sanguine Complection and in Horses of this Complecâ—â—on the Element of Aire is most predominant Of the Sanguine Complexion and they be commonly of nature affable well-metled active and of good strength but the Maladies whereunto they are most usually incident are Leaprosies glanders Consumptions and the like yet these Horses are frequently of so able Constitutions as that they have vigour enough to endure good and strong Medicines provided these Medicines be not too hot but cooling The Horse
you call your Arman What other vertues hath it more than what you have already delivered Hippos Truely Sir I have shewed you before in a manner all its vertues and to recite them again I say it is most soveraign for Horses that have taken a cold or have inflamations or Pustils under their Chaule or thereby are troubled with the Quinsye or Squinansye These maladies this Confection will help if it be given good and thick with a horne for having the Quinsye in the throat if in giving this Arman it provoketh him not to cough then take some of the confection upon the end of a Buls-Pizell and put it a pretty way down his throat by which meanes he strayning to cough may breake the impost humation in his throat whereby the Horse may be in the lesse danger of his life and causing the Matterative stuffe to vent out the Horse will be in short time perfectly cured Hippoph Are there any other kindes of Arman besides this Hippos Onely one more Sir which also the French have brought amongst us which is not altogether so operative as the former and this it is Arman 2 viz. Take hony one pound and warm it a little upon the fire then take half a pinte of Vineger a little Wheate flower and one penny-worth of Pepper in fine powder mixe all these and administer it bloud warme as aforesaid Hippophil With what manner of vineger doe you usually make up your medicines Hippos When we speake in generall termes of vineger to be put into any medicines to be given either for inward or outward diseases we alwayes intend it must the strongest and best white wine vineger Vineger but if it be of any other kinde of vineger or verjuyce we then do give it in the Receit its proper name Hippophyl As touching hony wherewith you make up your medicines what manner of honey must it be Hippos That should be made of life-honey onely Honey and of none other unlesse common honey or course-honey be in the Receit particularly named as it many times is Hippophyl Let us now goe on to somewhat else what hold you good for the head-ach in a horse § 3. A. Hippos VVE administer according to the nature of the Disease for that the pains in the head are severall and distinct diseases and therefore have severall cures Hippoph Which be those severall maladies and how may a man know and distinguish them each from other Hippos A judicious and cautelous observation is it whereby we doe know and distinguish all sorts of maladies for the Horse being a dumb creature without reason and speech Ach in th◠head is not able like as man can to tell you where his paine lyeth and therefore it must be the eye and judgement of the Ferrier to be able to observe his true symptomes whereby he may goe right to accomplish the cure otherwise he must of necessity faile Wherefore as the diseases of the head are of severall natures every of which doe beget his paine even so are the medicines which we apply as different Now these paines in the head doe proceed from the braine or from the panicles by which meanes they doe properly breed Megrims the Night-Mare Glanders Rhumes Cathars Apoplexies Convulsions Palsies Frenzies the Takings Sleeping-evill Madnesse and the like all which commonly doe proceed from the substance of the braine or from the panicles for that from the cels and ventricles through which the spirits animall doe give feeling and moving to all the parts and members of the body the diseases before mentioned doe engender Hippophyl From what grounds hath this head-ach its source or Organ Hippos The grounds and causes are many Sir some being inward and some outward as by meanes of some cholericke humour which may be predominant by which meanes it doth oft times breed in the panicles or else of some heat taken through violent labour and sometimes by some blow given him in the Poule or other place of the head and some doe hold it cometh of some evill savour which I also doe allow of sometimes it cometh of Crudityes and raw digestions from the Stomack by reason there is so great a sympathy betwixt the Stomack and the Braine whereby they doe continually participate as well of their good dispositions in health as of their domages in the least of their infirmities and sufferings Hippoph But many there be who do hold stifly that a Horse hath no Braines at all but only a kind of windy liquid substance not unlike unto a kind of jelly Hippos That opinion is most erronious for a horse hath a most perfect brain Braines like as hath any other living Creature albeit indeede not in so great a proportion as other Animals have For naturall reason doth dictate that if a Horse had not his Braine it were impossible for him to have semblable diseases in the Head which both Man and all other living things have who are I say likewise subject to such Maladies which could not proceed from any other Causes but only from those before premised Neither were it possible for a Horse to endure so great labour and toyle or to undergoe so great and so many waies such extreame violences as daily he doth if Nature had not endowed him with his organal parts correspōdent to his strength ablenesse and activity of body neyther could he have any memory at all but appeare a Lump of flesh and bones without motion But not to verberate the Ayre I affirme that a Horse hath his Braines in as compleate measure albeit as I have but now touched not in so great a quantity as other beasts have but in as ample solid and sufficient manner as any other living creature together with the skinne which Artists doe call Pannicles which doth adhere to the bones conducted by the Cells or Conducts by which the Vitall Spirits doe give some feeling sense motion to the body from whence proceeds the causes of diseases and sicknesse And for your better satisfaction if you please I may be present when at any time your Huntsman is to cut up a horse for your Hounds I will let you see most plainely both the Braine and the Pannicles Hippoph How shall a man come to know when a Horse hath any pain in his Head Hippos The Symtomes are most evident if you eye him well for his eyes will swell and become watry and ofttimes Matterative he will hang downe his head as if he were sleepy he will pricke his eares upright forsake his meate and his sight will be dim Hippoph What cure have you for the Head-ach Hippos Some use to perfume his head with the stalkes of Garlick and Frankinsence two or three severall times which will bring much liquid stuffe forth of his Nose which indeed is very good and I doe practise it sometimes as occasion is offred but then withall after I have perfumed him I use to let him bloud in the Palate vein
in both the weeping veins And when I do not perfume him I take the longest feather of a Goose and moysten it well in Oyle de bay which I put up into his Nosthrills and this doth both open and purge his head abundantly and then keeping his Poule warm together with moderate dyet for three or foure daies after I then take bloud from the Neck-veine and give him all the time of his Cure either good Mashes or white-water and undoubtedly he will doe well But sometimes if I find his head-ach cometh of cold taken wherein he may bee enclining to an Ague or Feaver I then besides drawing bloud do both apply Acopum to his Nose like as I said for Oyle de-Bay and also give him thereof to drinke as I have formerly prescribed If he be Feaverish take a pint of Muskadine the yolke of five new-laid Egges and a head of Garlick picked pilled and brused Pepper Cinamon and Nutmegges and somuch as well I can take up upon a Tester or six-penny peece these all made into very fine powder give him to drinke bloud warme three daies together and let him fast six houres after ✚ §. 4. A. Hippoph HOw doe you make Aegiptiacum Hippos Wee have two sorts of them the first we doe call Black-Aegyptiacum the second Red both Corrosives for their natures be to corrode and eate away al manner of dead prowd rotten and naughty flesh out of any old Sore or Vlcer and they do also cleanse and prepare a Sore make it apt to be healed with carnifying or healing Salves The first is thus made Take course English Hony two pound Verdegrease Diers-Gals and Green Coperas of each four ounces Aegypticum Let all these be made into powder and mixed together and so put into an earthen pot and set upon the fire keeping it with continuall stirring but so soone as it beginneth to boyl take it from the fire let it cool for by suffering it long to boyle it will become red which will not be so good This black Aegiptiacum besides what I have said before of it's vertues is also very good to dissolve the hooves of the Horse if they bee too dry or hard so as it will cause the corruption if any be in the Foote to ascend above at the Cronet where the haire is and also to restore and repaire the hoofe of the horse when the Sole is taken out and in this nature you must use this Vnguent but onely at the third dressing after you have taken out the sole ✚ Now the second Aegiptiacum is made thus Take course Hony two pounds Verdegrease foure ounces Aegyptiâ—cum green-Coperas two ounces beate the Verdegrease and the Coperas very small to powder then put it into an earthen put and put unto it a little Vineger and so boyle it very well till it become red and keepe it for your use ✚ Another §. 5. A. Hippophil What is your best cure for a Horse that is Accloyed Hippos Sir this Malady so called by the French is the same we call prick't with a Naile in the Shooing and it is easily cured if the Ferrier be skilfull and that it be also taken in time And thus wee worke viz. First take out the sole and cut the hoofe round about the place pricked that no corruption be remaining behind Accloy fil it up againe with hurds steeped in whites of Egges dresse him thus three dayes together then heale the sore up with salt made into fine powder mingled with Vineger or else with Diers Galls or with Mirtle or Lentils and annoint the outside of the hoofe with black Aegiptiacum ✚ Another Take a litle cotten or bumbast and steepe it in browne Sugarcandy molten and apply it with a hot Iron to the place And if the foot be bruised with the shoo or that the femall horn be hurt or bruised then cleanse and prepare the place first and then apply unto it a quick or live Spider with a hot Iron and so tack on the shoo and let him not come into any wet till he be fully cured ✚ Another Take Salet Oyle Turpentine and Rosinpitch all molten together put it very hot into the hole where hee is pricked and so stop the hole with Hurdes ✚ §. 6. A. Hippophyl WHat Receipts have you for all inward diseases Hippos The Spaniards have one Medicine with which they Cure all Diseases and albeit I say they doe cure all diseases with this one Receipt yet my meaning is that looke whatsoever the infirmity be they administer none other thing but that one whether it cure or kill and this they call a Cataplasme of which they make no small account which they give as Pills Take wheate meale twelve pound Annisseeds foure ounces in fine powder All diseases a Cataplasme Brimstone in powder three ounces Fennugrick in powder three ounces et sem Comin in powder three ounces Honey two pound good Sallet-Oyle one pound et sem of good Sack as much or so much as will suffice to make it into a Cataplasme or Paste This Cataplasme say the Spaniards or Medicine is all of it to be put into a stone pot well nealed and so boyled untill it be thick so as when it is cold it may bee made up into Pills or Balls whilst it is in boyling it must be kept with continuall stirring otherwise it will burne too and being thus made into pills give him of them every morning fasting for foure or five dayes together or longer if you shall see cause for that say they it is most soveraigne against many Maladyes It killeth all sorts of wormes within the body of the horse it also helpeth the diseases of the Lungs and inward parts and it is generally good for any inward cause and an excellent locall plaister to be applied outwardly It is the Spaniards principall Physick for their Iennets and Barbaryes I have made tryall thereof sundry times and I doe find it to be most usefull in all cold Causes and truly it is most Cordiall for it doth bring a leane and poor Horse into flesh and good state in a little time ✚ A second Receipt I also have which cureth all inward Diseases which I had of a Rurall Smith who was cryed Vp for a famous Ferrier all the Countrey about All diseas a Cataplâ—me So I having heard so great a report of his skill addressed my selfe unto him when I had conferred with him putting him hard to it in the matter of his Art he at last ingenuously confessed unto me that he had but this one only drinke which gat him all his knowledge and credit which with much pressure I wrested from him under condition that I should never make him knowne wherein I have precisely kept my word And the Cure and Drinke is this viz. Take wheate meale six pound or as much as will bring the Ingredients into a stiffe paste Anniseeds two ounces Comin two ounces wild or bastard Saffron one
dramme half white Wine foure pints Fennugreke one ounce two drammes Brimstone one ounce half good Sallet Oyle one pint two ounces English hony one pound half powder and searce what is to bee powdred and searced then compound them together and make it into one body into a stiffe paste and so keep it in a cleane Gally-pot close covered for your use And when you have occasion to use it make a Pill or Ball thereof of the bignesse of a mans fist and so lave and dissolve it into two Gallons of faire water till it bee all molten into the water Let your Horse drinke hereof so long as you please hoth morning and evening and let him have none other water to drinke to the end he may be the better compelled to drinke of the Water which in the end he will doe and like it very well ✚ Of this cataplasme I have made often use and I doe finde it to be a soveraigne Receit for many infirmities it also preventeth much inward sicknesse it raiseth and battleth a Horse much better than either Grasse or Provender and it giveth him Life Spirit and Stomacke and keepeth him in perfect health Our ordinary Country Smiths have yet another drinke which they administer upon all inward causes and truely it doth oft times hit right especially in cold causes viz. Take Fennugrick Turmerick Graynes Anniseeds Licoris All Diseases Long-Pepper Comin of each halfe an ounce and of Saffron one dram and of hearbs take Selendine Rue Pelamontine Isop Time and Rosemary of each like much but yet no more then will make of them all but halfe a handfull First chop small these hearbs and put them into a quart of good Ale and when they have boyled a while put in your spices finely powdred and then boyle them again with a small fire then take it from the fire and straine it and put to the liquor the quantity of an egge of sweet butter and halfe an ounce of London Treacle give this to your Horse bloud warme and and ride him moderately after and then set him up warme and well littered letting him fast foure houres after and let his drink be either a sweet Mash or white water This is very good against Feavers Colds and the Yellowes ✚ § 7. A. Hippoph I Met not long since with a disease called S. Anthonies Fire I pray is there such a disease Hyppos Yes Sir there is such a disease but it so seldome comes to a Horse as that few Ferriers have had occasion to cure the same by reason very few know it and therefore marvell not in that they cannot cure the same Saint Anthonies Fire is that burneth in the flesh most extreamely and hath in it so great malice as that look what you do apply to the place unlesse you hit the cure right it will doe it no good but more harme much after the nature of a Noli me tangere or wild-fire This disease is also called by some the shingles in a Horse and like as the Disease it self is very rare and seldome known in a Horse so also is the cure as uncouth and strange For my part I will not professe my selfe to be any whit more skilfull then indeed I am this disease I never yet observed to be in any Horse I only have heard some Ferriers talke thereof but yet I never heard but of one man who was ever truely able to make a Cure thereof and this was a Knight of very good worship who taught it me he averring confidently unto me how that he had cured three severall Horses of this very malady I asked him whence this disease proceedeth and what are the symptomes whereby to know the same he answered me that he could never rightly come to be mathematically assured how it breedeth or occurreth to the Horse but by guesse onely and that himselfe thought it came from some cholericke bloud passing to his head into the braine and pannicles which causeth the Horse to become starke mad yea so truely mad as to be deprived of his memory in not knowing his Keeper or any other body else yea his fury is so great as to resist stripes to slight and contemne correction be it never so severe he will endeavour what in him lyeth to perpetrate what mischiefe he is able by biting striking and endangering whom or whatsoever thing commeth into his way and when he cannot have his minde of living creatures whereupon to wreake his malice then will he doe it partly upon dead creatures by biting and gnawing the Manger and Racke-staves and by striking the posts and barres with his heeles and partly upon himselfe by beating his head against the wall and ground S. Anthonies fire he will also forsake both his meat and sleep or naturall rest untill he dyeth if he be not in time cured which is thus Take first help enough and cast him which done take a worme which groweth in a Fullers Teasell and put this worme alive and without any hurt into a quill then slit the skin of the fore-head of the horse under the fore-top and open the same round about with your cornet making a concavity an inch round every way and better betwixt the skin and the bone which done blow the said Worme out of the quill into the place which you made hollow as aforesaid but take heed you doe not kill the Worme in stitching up the skin againe because that the Worme may not get forth and after twenty dayes the Worm will dye and in that time the Horse will be throughly cured This cure was taught me by the aforesaid Noble Knight with which he affirmed to me that he had cured 3 or 4 horses § 8. A. Hippoph VVHat say you to an Anticor Hippos Sir I say it is a disease whereunto Horses are oft times enclined and it commeth sundry wayes to wit sometimes with too much feeding without exercise sometimes of too hard and immoderate riding or other labour both which waies the bloud of the creature becommeth corrupted and inflamed which maketh its residence in and about the heart which if it should not have a way to make its vent it would quickly kill him by which meanes many good Horses dye suddenly and the cause unknowne This Disease is apparent to the eye by a swelling which will arise in the middle of the breast just against the heart from whence it taketh its name which if it be not soone prevented will ascend to the throat and then it is certaine death It commeth likewise by surfets taken by heats and colds sometimes also by Feavers which are malignant and sometimes againe by feeding upon unwholesome meats The signes to know this disease before the swelling doe appeare are these he will be sicke and grone many times when he is layed he will hang down his head and forsake his meat and then if he should desire to eate what meat he loveth best whether Hay Grasse Provender or Bread lay
it come by ranknesse of seed or of bloud then let him have a Mare and cover her two or three dayes together and halfe an houre after ride him into the water above the cods or stones against the streame and he will doe well ✚ But if this disease come by other causes then Take the Lees of Claret Wine and Comen-seed made into fine powder and a little Wheat or Beane flower boyle these together to an unguent and so warme as he may well endure it annoint the cods therewith which done draw forth his yard and wash it and his sheeth also with white wine vineger and three or foure houres after ride him into the water above the cods and let him also stand in the water some short time and sometimes ride him against the streame doe this every day till the swelling be asswaged ✚ This is a very good Cure Another Take the roots of wild Cucumbers and white salt so much as will suffice boyle these in faire water to an oyntment and annoynt the cods therewith warme and then apply this oyntment Take Goats grease or for default thereof Deeres suet the white of an Egge and Sallet oyle boyle these over a gentle fire and herewith annoynt the cods but this must be applyed after he hath been ridden into the water and dry againe doe this every day once till he be well ✚ This I have often tryed and have found it to be right good Another First annoynt and bathe the cods in the juyce of Hemlock and when it is dryed then Take Pigeons dung and new Milke and boyle it till it be as thick like to a Poultesse and therewith annoint the cods every day once Another First let him bloud in both the spur or flanck veines Then take oyle of Roses and vineger of each a pinte and of Bolearmonack in fine powder two ounces make all these into one body and being luke-warme annoynt the cods therewith and the next day ride him into the water up to the cods against the streame then bring him into the stable and when he is through dry annoynt him againe thus continuing to do till he be well But if the cods be swolne by meanes of any hurt bite or stroke then apply to them this following charge A charge for swelled cods Take Bolearmonack in powder vineger and the whites of Egges as much as will suffice well beaten and wrought together and annoynt him therewith daily till it be abated and if it impostumate where you finde it to be soft open it either with a hot iron or with your incision knife if it breake not of it selfe and so heale it up with the oyntment taught you in lib 2. cap. 10. § 4. and it will soone be whole ✚ This is very soveraigne §. 11. C. Hippoph VVHat say you to the Collick Hippos It is Sir a disease which commeth of winde and therefore we generally call it the winde collicke the French call this disease the Tranchaisons Collicke it causeth great gripings and extreame paine in the belly of the Horse so as he will oft times lye down and tumble he will also strike at his belly with his hinder feet and stamp with his fore-feet and the paine will be so great as to cause him to forsake his meat these signes I have often observed in Horses perplexed with this malady and albeit I have sundry Receits for it and all or the most of them by me tryed and approved good yet one of Master Blundeviles and Master Markhams I hold inferiour to none of mine for I have often tryed it and this is it Take a quart of Muskadine or of sweet Sack of Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each halfe an ounce Sugar two ounces make all these into fine powder and give it him bloud warme then annoynt his flankes with oyle de Bay but I often use to annoynt them with the oyntment of Acopum I finding it to be much better then bridle him up and trot him out a good round trot or gallop him softly sometimes the space of an houre untill he doe dung but if he will not then rake him or else put an Onyon pilled and jagged into his fundament then for three or foure dayes let his drinke be either sweet Mashes or white water and keep him warme and he will doe well againe ✚ Another Keep him fasting over night and in the morning give him this drinke Take of white Wine a quart Fenugrick foure ounces Bay-berries and Pepper of each foure ounces Graines and Ginger of each one ounce Water-Cresses two handfuls Sage one handfull Sengrene one pound Mints a handfull stampe the hearbs and pound the spices and put them into the wine and let it boyle a little then straine it and put to it of life Honey two spoonfuls and so give it him bloud-warme ✚ This I have also found to be very good notwithstanding if he be a stoned Horse the best cure for him is to have a Mare especially if he be so troubled with the collicke so as that he cannot pisse besides it helpeth and preventeth sundry sorts of sicknesses and diseases and strengtheneth nature ✚ Another Take of white Wine one pinte and three or foure Cantharides and make them into very fine powder and give this to the Horse well brewed in wine bloud-warme This I never tryed for that these flyes being a strong corasive have deterred me howsoever I have been often invited thereunto by many good Ferriers who have averred unto me that they have often used it and have found it to be right good Another Take Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each one ounce all made into fine powder and well mixed then put it into a quart of Muskadine and let it boyle a while then take it off and put to it of Honey one spoonfull give it him bloud-warme which done cloath him up and litter him and so let him stand upon his trench foure houres then give him meat and an houre after a sweet Mash or white water This was taught me by a Noble Knight who said he had often used it But if your Horse hath the collicke and stone then Take of white wine one pinte of Burr-seeds eight ounces Collicke and Stone made into fine powder of Parsley-seed two ounces in powder also of Isope unset Leekes and Water-Cresses of each halfe a handfull of black Sope halfe an ounce stamp all the hearbs in a morter and straine them with the Wine then put to that liquor your Burre and Parsley seeds and so give it him bloud-warme this will breake the stone and bring it from him with much ease and cure his Collicke ✚ This I have often administred § 12. C. Hippophyl VVHat Disease is that which is called the Colt Evill Hyppos It is a disease in the yard sheath and cods of a Horse or Gelding and it commeth to Horses by meanes of heat and ranknesse of seed and to a Gelding by weaknesse and coldnesse of seed to the Horse through
either prevent sicknesse before it commeth or cure the same at first appearance Hippos Sir in this case two things are principally and diligently to be considered The first is to prevent sicknesse before it shall approach whereby it shall not offend at all and the second is to take it at the first appearance and so to prevent and hinder it whereby to prevent the danger thereof As touching the first Dangerouâ— sicknesse how to prevent the best way will be three or foure dayes before you put forth your Horse to grasse to take bloud from him and the next day to give him the drinke of Diapente halfe an ounce with a pinte and a halfe of sweet Sacke which you shall finde mentioned in lib. 2. § sequent and so by degrees to abate his clothes if he have had any and it is also very good that when you doe take bloud from him you doe receive it in a bason or bowle and therewith annoint his backe loynes fillets breast and all such like places about him with the said bloud for it is most wholesome and doth comfort the body very much cleanseth the skinne and begetteth a generall rejoycing throughout all the vitall parts of the Horse But if you have no intent to put him forth to grasse and yet would prevent inward sicknesse then faile not when you have best meanes to give him rest take no bloud from him at all unlesse you may justly suspect his bloud not to be very good but give him onely a drinke of Diapente or Diatesseron for either of these are the greatest and best refiners and purifiers of the bloud of any thing can be administred and doe cause the Horse to avoyd all yellow cholerick-matter and all evill indigested humours which may any way putrifie inflame or corrupt the bloud And observe moreover that in administring of these drinks if Sacke or Muskadine be not at hand to be had that then in the place of a pinte and a halfe of either of these which is the proportion I limit to a Horse of a strong able and corpulent body but to a small or weake Horse one pinte you doe take of good Ale or Beer one quart and the same quantity of Diapente or Diatesseron formerly prescribed and if the Ale or Beere be made warme upon the fire it will be the better And thus much as touching the first poynt to wit the prevention of sicknesse before it come that it may not offend your Horse at all Now I come to the second poynt viz. To take sicknesse at its first appearance whereby to send it packing before it hath taken deep root in the body of the Horse Dangerouâ— sicknesse how to cuâ—â— so that it shall never come to danger of life or limb then thus in a few words You must be very cautelous and vigilant in observing your Horse well and to pry into him so narrowly as to discover the least symptome of sicknesse that may be able to peep out its head which so soon as you shall descry then presently if reason so require let him bloud and three severall mornings together give him the drinke of Diapente and let him be kept warme well rubbed and have Mashes or white water during that time and some dayes after which will be a very good meanes for him to remaine in perfect health strength and good estate of body But if this Diapente or Diatesseron be not to be had on a sudden then Take Selendine halfe a handfull as well the roots as the leaves well washed and picked Worm-wood and Rue of each halfe a handfull boyle all these in strong Ale or Beere from a pottle to a quart and then straine it well and put into the liquor of sweet Butter halfe a pound and of ordinary Treacle two spoonfuls and so give it him bloud warme ✚ And this is most effectuall to the ends before recited §. 2. D. Hippoph YOu speake very much of Diapente giving it very great commendations I pray how doe you make the same Hippos The receit of Diapente doth merit many more Encomiums than I am able to give it for that it is so pretious and soveraigne a powder for Horses and it is compounded of five severall simples if it be rightly made It is I say the most soveraign thing which can be given to a Horse by way of drench whereby to cure him of very many inward diseases It is good against all infectious maladies as feavers of what nature soever all sorts of Pestilences or contagious colds Coughs wet or dry Glaunders Surfets inflamations in the bloud or liver Frenzies Yellowes it purifieth refineth and purgeth the bloud from all infection and corruption it easeth the overflowing or the gall and the working of the spleene and in a word it cureth whatsoever diseases the body of the Horse may be inwardly inclined unto And it is thus made viz. Diapente Take Aristolochia-Rotunda Gentiana Baccalani Myrrha Eboraci of each alike much let these be first pounded severally and finely searsed and after weighed so as the quantities may be just and even not any one lesse or more then another and after so well mixed as may be possibly and so put into a Gally-pot pressed as hard as may be done and after so close stopped as that no ayre can get into it and thus you must make it and reserve it for your use This must be administred to a Horse in Muskadine if you drench him for a cold or Glanders If for other maladies then in sweet Sacke and the quantity must be a pinte and a halfe but if Sacke or Muskadine be not to be had then give it in strong Ale or Beere and the quantity of this powder of Diapente must be two or three spoonfuls unlesse to a small sicke or feeble Horse then the lesse quantity according as in your owne judgement and reason you shall thinke to be most requisite ✚ And thus is this so excellent powder of Diapente made and such are its vertues §. 3. D. Hippoph HOw doe you make also your Diatesseron Hippos This confection I have heard some call Horse-Mithridate and some Horse-Treacle by reason of the inward vertue thereof whereby to expell all poysonous and contagious annoyances and to drive them and all manner of sicknesse from the heart And thus it is made viz. Take first of the powder of Diapente two ounces Diatesse and put it into a cleane stone morter that is not over-great and put thereto of life or clarified honey the like quantity let the morter be made hot against the fire before you doe put in your powder or honey and then with a pestell of wood worke it till it come to a very Treacle which when you shall finde to be sufficiently compounded then take it forth and put it into a cleane gally-pot or glasse and so keep it very close stopped for your use and when you have occasion to make use of it Take of
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
Beere untill the Time do begin to waxe tender and soft then strain it and put to it of browne Sugar-Candy in powder two penny-worth Anniseeds in fine powder one penny-worth and two penny-worth of ordinary Triacle when all these are well dissolved over the fire give it your horse bloud warme but you must remember that you doe let him bloud before you doe give him this drinke in the Neck and Mouth ✚ This I have often tryed and found it right good Another â—ake of strong Ale one quart and of Wormewood halfe a handfull long-Pepper Graynes and the powder of dryed Rue of each one ounce London Triacle two ounces boyle them to a third part then take it off and strayne it that done put into it of browne-sugar-Candy in powder halfe an ounce and so give it him bloud warme ✚ This at twice giving will certainely cure his Feaver Another Take Stone-Crop of the iuice thereof foure Spoonefull put this iuice into strong-Ale one quart and so give it your horse then let him be walked if the winde be not too cold and sharpe an houre then set him up and cover him so as he may sweate an houre then coole him by degrees and let him drinke no cold water by any meanes let his provender bee good old dry and well sifted Oates but against the fit commeth whether the Feaver be Quotidian Tertian or Quartan let him be kept fasting for the longer hee is fasting and more empty upon his sick dayes the sooner will his Feaver leave him ✚ This is a well approved receipt and let this suffice for ordinary Feavers provided that when his fits be gone from him and that he appeareth more lightsome and well it will be very good and wholesome for him if you cause him to bee had abroad and walked warme covered and so ayred in due time in the warme Sun and that will greatly comfort him and revive his spirits §. 11. F. Hippoph VVHat say you now to the Feaver Hectique Hippos I say Sir it is a most dangerous and mortall Feaver and so malignant as that if a skilfull Ferrier bee not with him in time it is certaine death and first it beginneth with a Consumption in the flesh it proceedeth of a hot humour ingendred first in the stomacke which too much Physicke hath occasioned and by taking away of too much bloud from him in his youth without necessity wherefore it is a thing most perillous to take bloud from young horses upon very slight cause not to be over ready with Physick but only in case of great necessity The signes to know this Feaver from any other are to looke into his mouth and to draw forth his tongue and you shall finde both his mouth and tongue raw and mervailous hot and having little appetite to meate his flesh will consume and waste and seene loose if you strike him with your hand upon the buttocks the flesh thereof will quiver and quake and he will be continually subject to quaking and shaking all his whole body over besides he will be very much inclined to sweate as hee standeth in the stable The cure is First to make this lotion for his mouth Take of running water or Well water two quarts and put thereto of Sage of Yarrow of Ribwort of Plantane of Bramble-leaves Feaver Hectique and of Hony-suckle-leaves of each one handfull with common Hony one spoonefull boyle all these to the consumption of one moyety and a little before you take it from the fire put to it the quantity of a wal-nut of Alume and two spoonefull of Vineger when that is dissolved take it off and drayne the water from the hearbs or else slightly strayn it which water you shall keepe for your use and when you would wash his mouth therewith fasten to a stick a ragge and so wash his mouth and tongue twice or thrice a day and this will make his mouth well againe or else if you do wash his mouth with the surrop of Mulberries it is very wholesome and good ✚ After give him this drinke Take of Aloes one ounce powdred of Garlick halfe an ounce Anniseeeds and Licoris of each halfe an ounce make first your Aloes Anniseeds and Licoris into fine powder and after bruise your Garlick a little putting thereto of brown Sugar-Candy three ounce in powder and adde thereto of white Wine one pint warme this and so give it your horse then let him bee ridden a little and so set him up warme and let him bee set upon the Trench three houres before and three houres after and then eyther give him sweete Hay or greene Corne or the leaves of Sallowes and towards night give him a sweete Mâ—sh and give him this drinke every other day for three mornings continuing him with Mashes or white water and let his Oates bee very well sifted and in short time he will doe well againe ✚ With this receipt I have cured sundry horses but then forget not to wash his mouth dayly with the aforesaid lotion But if in all these severall Feavers you do find him eyther to be costiue or very hot in his body then you may do well to administer that Clyster prescribed you in lib. 2. chap. 6. § 2. Clyster 2. letter C. §. 12. F. Hippoph VVHat say you now 〈◊〉 Feaver Pestilent Hippos It is a disease most contagious for it is so malignant as that it will infect so many horses as be in the stable wher he standeth and it proceedeth from one of these two causes viz. eyther from an infectious ayre or from the corruption of the bloud inflamed by meanes of intemperate riding and exercise The signes are these the horse will hang downe his head in the Manger as if hee slept his eyes will water very much and Inflamations will arise at the roots of the Eares as if he had the Vives The best cure I ever knew was this with which I have cured many Horses visited with a Pestilent Feaver Feaver Pestilent first let him bleed well in the Neck veine reserving the bloud in a cleane basin which when it is cold will be very bad and ill coloured then wash his mouth with the lotion specified in the precedent § secondly apply to the Temples this Playster Take of Camamile of Goates-milke of the Iuyce of Sage of Sallet-oyle of white Wine-vineger of each foure spoonfull of red-rose-leaves dryed one handfull which must be eyther of a red-rose cake or otherwise red-rose leaves dryed beat them all in a Morter till they become of one body and so thick as that you may spread it playster-wise upon a linnen cloath then strew upon the Plaister two or three Nut-megges made into fine powder then make it good and hot putting the backside of the Plaister into a Pewter dish over a chaffing dish â—nd coales and so administer it warme to the Horse and for his drinke let it bee such water wherein have bin boyled violet leaves Mallowes and Sorrell but if the fit
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
malignancy of the infection from the heart and to send it forth first let him bloud in the necke and weeping veines and then give him of Diapent two sponfuls with white Wine one pinte and of London Treacle one ounce and this will recover him And for your other Horses which you may have just cause to suspect to be infected to prevent their danger give him this preparative Preâ—arative Take two Walnuts the kernels onely and the older the Nuts be the better take also two Figs and twenty leaves of Rue stamp them all well together and let every Horse have his proportion three or foure mornings together fasting being made up and given in pils and let them fast three houres after and this will both preserve and free them These things I have often used and found them to be speciall good § 5. P. Hippoph VVHat good purging pils have you Hippos I have already shewed you many in lib. 2. cap. § But yet I will give you one or two more Take fresh Butter one pound Aloes and Fenugrick of each one ounce life Honey and white refined Sugar powdred of each foure ounces Agarick halfe an ounce make all these into fine powder and being well incorporated with the Butter and Honey make pils thereof and give them to your Horse and if he be a small or weake Horse then you must give him but two parts of three but if your horse have a strong cold and a cough withall then Take of fresh Butter and of Mel-Rosarum of each foure ounces of Aloes and Sene of each one ounce Rubarb and Bay berries of each three ounces Colloquintida and Saffaron of each two drams cordiall powder one ounce Ducke or Dutch powder foure ounces make all these into fine powder and mixe them well with Mithridate two ounces and with your Butter and Mel Rosarum beat and pound them well together and so make them into pils and give them your Horse this receit will purge him very well albeit it may heat him for some time and as touching the ordering him in his dyet or otherwise let all things be done as in other physicall cures of the like nature if it be a small horse then give unto him two parts in three and proportion the pils according to the strength greatnesse and corpulency of your horse ✚ This is very good § 6. P. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure the paines in the Heeles of a Horse Hippos This is a noysome Sorance comming to a Horse either by ill humours and corrupt bloud by meanes of Surfets proceeding from great heats by intemperat ridings as I have sufficiently declared before or else through the negligence of his Groome or Keeper for want of good rubbing clensing and picking this doth grow betweene the Fetlock-ioynt and the heele in the very Pasterne which will cause the place to swell and to have chops from whence will issue a thin and stinking water and those horses which have shaggy and long hayre upon their Fet-locks are most subiect to this Malady the signes bee easily knowne by reason that the chops may be soone felt for they will cause the Legges of the horse to swell and much filthy matter will come from the place greived being of that hot nature as that it will scald the very haire from about the sorance and this will cause the horse to go very stiffe and lame at first setting forth The cure is Take of the Lees of red Wine one pint of Wheat-branne one handfull of House-leeke one head of common Hony two spoonefuls of the dust of Tanners bark Allome and tryed Hogges-grease of each one pound of Verveine halfe a handfull bray all these well in a Morter and adde unto them of the leane of of Martlemas or dryed Beefe burned and made unto fine powder halfe a pound and so work them to a kind of salve and apply it unto the Sorance so hot as the horse can suffer it But before you do apply this medicine you must draw the skin with a hot iron a little above the houghes or knees or else take up the veines which I altogether use to do then take of Tarre and of sweet Butter and of Hony of each two spoonfuls and warme them upon the fire and eyther annoynt the places seared or else the veine so taken up with this Vnguent once every day till his Oyntment be all spent and by that time your horse will be perfectly cured especially if you continue this former Emplayster daily to the sorance having first clipped and shaven away the hayre from about the place greived ✚ With this I have cured many horse Another Take of Turpentine Hogges-grease and Honey of each like much Pastons so much as will suffice a little Bole-armoniack in fine powder and yolkes of two Egges with so much Wheat-flower as will thicken all the other ingredients incorporate all these well together and so bring it to a salve and Plaister-wise apply it to the Sorance and so bind it up renewing it every day and let him not come out of the Stable or come into any wet and he will be soone cured ✚ This is also very good Another Take of tryed Hogges-grease one pound Verdegrease one penny-worth of strong Mustard two ounces Nervall foure ounces of oyle de Bay of Hony and Wax of each halfe a pound Arsenick one ounce Red-lead two ounces and of white-Wine-Vinegar halfe a pint powder your Verdegrease and then boyle all together and the hayre first clipt away which must alwaies be done in any of these Cures apply this Medicine hot to the place and renew it daily and it will not only cure the paines but all manner of scratches scabbed and kibed Heeles to wash also the Sorance with Vinegar and Gunpowder is very good to helpe the paines and scratches ✚ This I have often used §. 7. P. Hippoph DOe you not use to purge a Horse that is Pursive Short winded Hippos Yea Sir and I do it after this manner Pursivenes a pill Take of the fat of a Boare three pound mince it very small and lay it in faire Water foure and twenty houres to the end the salt if any be in it may soake out of it then Take of Agarick Pulverized two ounces of Colloquintida in powder halfe an ounce mel rosarum six ounces in corporrate all these well together and worke it to a paste which you must make into Pils the bignesse of an ordinary tennis Ball one of which you most give him at a time rowled up within the powder of Lycoris but the night before you doe administer it you must give him no Oats at all but a little Hay and wheat-Branne prepared only then the next morning about six or seven of the clocke give him one of these Pils and then cover him up warm and ride or walke him two houres space then bring him in and let him stand upon the Trench two houres more then unbridle him and give him
Red waeter but only one which a Marishall of France taught me which is this viz. Take of the root of the hearb called Emanuell alias Bonus-Henricus or good King-Henry or All-good boyle the Rootes thereof in water and give it him drench-wise with a horne bloud-warme and this will take away the Red-water and you may then cure the wound with your other Salves or Vnguents This I had never cause to make tryall off in England but I have beene an Eye witnesse to two or three cures in this kinde which the Marishall of whom I had the Receipt did very sufficiently perfect The French calleth this Malady La Eu Rouse § 2. R. Hippoph HOw doe you make a Restringent charge Hippos This Restringent charge Restringent charge is to be applyed to broken bones or to bones dislocated or out of joynt being first set as also take moist humours from weeping wounds and so dry up bad humours which do preoccupate the body I will commend unto you one onely receit which shall be speciall good Take of oyle de Bay four ounces Orpin Cantharides and Euphorbium of each two ounces make all these into fine powder and mixe them with your oyle de Bay very well and therewith Charge the place greived ✚ This is also very good to Charge the swelling of a Back-sinew spraine § 3. R. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Ring-bone Hippos A Ring-bone commeth two waies to wit eyther by Nature or by Accident by Nature when as either the Stallion or Mare have it from whom the Colt is ingendred whereby he taketh it as hereditary from them and therefore as I have formerly admonished I will disswade you from breeding upon any such Horse or Mare that either had or have this malady It commeth also accidentally by some knock or blow given either by some other Horse or by his Keeper or other person and sometimes by some evill humour which through over-heats do fall down into the legges and maketh its residence upon the top of the cronet It beginneth first with a slimy humour which in time groweth to a hard gristle you shall know it for that there will be a swelling round about the cronet of the hoofe adjoyning unto the lower part of the pasterne and the hayre will stare and be bristly and it will cause the Horse to hault The cure is first wash the plaâ—â— and shave away the hayre then Take quick or unslaked Lime newly taken from the Kill Ring-â— which must be well burned the best burned you may know by its lightnesse make your lime into fine powder and lay it upon the place swelled all along of a good thicknesse and binde upon it a linnen cloth made fast about the foot and so put the horse into the water and let him stand in the water a pretty while then take him forth and unbinde the foot and he is infallibly cured for the burning of the Lime doth kill the Ring-bone even unto the very root thereof ✚ With this receit I have cured not so few as a hundred horses at the least but when you are thus to dresse your horse let him be brought close to the water whereinto he is to be ridden that so soon as you have applyed your Lime unto the sorance you may presently put him into the water Another First shave away the hayre as before is advised then scarifie the place Take then Cantharides halfe an ounce Euphorbium and oyle de Bay of each one ounce your Cantharides and Euphorbium must be made into fine powder and then boyled with your oyle de Bay stirring it continually that it run not over then with two or three feathers lay it boyling-hot upon the sorance good and thick let him be dressed in the same place where usually he standeth in the Stable and let him have no litter neer him but tye up his head so as he may not reach the medicine with his mouth but when the hayre do begin to grow again give the fire to the sorance to wit three or four straight lines right downwards drawing the swelling quite crosse and let the edge of the iron be no thicker then the back of an ordinary knife neither must you burn him any deeper then that the skin may look yellow that done apply to the place this charge Take of Pitch and Rosin of each like much let them be molten together and whilst it is hot apply it to the place all along from the one end of the swelling to the other before it be cold clap Flocks upon it and about three dayes after lay on more of the said charge and new Flocks again upon that charge and so let it remain untill the Flokcs and charge fall off of its own accord ✚ This is also very good Another First wash and shave and scarrifie as before then Excretion to cure Take gray-Sope and Arsnick pulverized of each the quantity of a Wall-nut which being very well mixed spread it upon the sorance so far as the Ring-bone goeth and having thus spread it apply upon it a few Hurds and binde a cleane linnen cloth upon it to keep it on neither let it be removed in four and twenty hours then take it away and stir not the asker or scab but onely annoint it with fresh Butter till it doe fall away of it selfe and so heale it up with some healing salve whereof I have given you plenty ✚ This I have tryed and have found to be very good This medicine will cure a bone-Spaven Splint Curb or any other bony excretion §. 4. R. Hippoph HAve you any way to recover and make sound a Horse that is rotten Hippos Truely Sir for any man to promise that were great precipitation onely thus far he may wade therein as to give ease and help to a horse that hath the rot for it is one thing for a Horse to be rotten and another thing for him to have the rot For a horse to be rotten is to have his inward parts wasted and consumed or at least so rotten as never possibly to be recovered to wit his Liver Lights c. But for a horse to have the disease called the rot I doe finde the same to be either a formall aropsie or else a disease so allied neerly thereunto as not to be distinguished easily as we say a Sheep is rotten when his Liver is become foule and tainted neverthelesse men doe eate the carkas and doe averre it to be good meat wherefore the Sheep is not rotten but hath the disease called the rot This malady commeth oft times to horses unhandled to wit in their youth whilst they be yet Colts which be bred and do feed in Fenny-Marsh and wet grounds and sometimes it commeth to them after they have bin backed and ridden when they haue too hard and violent riding being yet but young whereby the bloud is first enflamed and after putrified and corrupted begetting obstructions in the Liver and those do cause putrefaction and
so after that a third Egge then let him bloud in the palat and rub it well with white Salt then set him upon the Trench cloath stop and litter him againe warme and let him fast an hour or two after it and then feed him by degrees both with Hay and Oates giving him either a sweet Mash or white water and he will doe well againe This drink refresheth all the spirits being over-laied through heate and labour and causeth a good appetite to meat ✚ With this drinke I have cured many sicke horses as well of mine own as of my friends which have faln away very desperately sick upon the way in travell but if I do finde that his bloud is inflamed as many times it will be I then use to open a veyne in the neck §. 11. S. Hippoph BVt what is to be given to a Horse that falleth suddenly sick Sudden sicknesse Hippos First let him bloud in both brest veines or if you have not skill sufficient to open these veynes then let him bloud in both sides the necke and let him bleed well nigh two quarts then give him this comfortable drink Take of sweet Sacke one quart and burn it with Graines Cloves and Cinamon of each like much being all beaten grosse put to it of Suger three ounces and when it is burnt adde unto it of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and of London Treacle two ounces warm all these and brew them well together and so give it to your horse bloud warme then ride him gently untill he do begin to sweate and so set him up warm clothed and littered but be sure to keep his head and heart warme neither must you stuffe and cloth him too hot for this drink will cause him to sweate sufficiently of it selfe yet litter him well keeping the Stable close and so let him fast sixe hours after against which time let him be rubbed very dry and give him to eate sweet Wheat straw and after give him either a sweet Mash or white water and boile therein of Mallowes and Water-cresses of each one handfull of Fennell-seed and of Persley-seed of each one ounce if he will drink the same After that morning and evening your horse being fasting ride him a mile or two to the end he may take the ayre which is very wholesome for him if the weather be temperate and let his meat be sweet straw old clean dry Oats and some Wheat and Pease mixed therewith give him a little at once and often untill you doe perceive his stomacke to come well unto him and let him be daily well rubbed and warm clothed to provoke him to sweat and let him be also well littered and his drink either sweet Mashes or white water and by this manner of keeping and ordering of him in short time he will recover his pristine sanity ✚ This I have often tryed and it is very good § 12. S. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Selender Hippos This disease is the very same with the Melander but the sole difference is in that the malander breedeth upon the bending of the knee or the legge before and the Selender engendreth of the bending of the hough in the legge behinde but it commeth just as doth the Malander and the cure is the very same with it but yet I will give you one good receit which will cure both first wash and shave away the hayre and rub the sorance with a wispe or hayre cloth till it be raw 〈…〉 then take the shreds of white leather untanned which Glovers doe make and boyle them in Vineger till they be soft and binde of this hot to the place but if you do not finde that by once or twice dressing taketh not away the scurfe or scab renew it daily untill it doth for by this meanes the roots of the bristly haire which groweth in and about the sorance is the onely thing that feedeth the Malander wherefore the roots of the hayre being taken off which this medicine will doe the sorance will soon be cured and to heale up the rawnesse thereof Take fresh or sweet Butter bay Salt and Frankincense both made into fine powder of each as much as will suffice and boyle them all together on the fire and with a ragge upon a sticke apply this medicine to the place scalding hot two mornings together and after heale it up and cause the hayre to come againe being daily anointed with Mallowes and sweet Butter made into an Vnguent ✚ This is a very good cure §. 13. S. Hippoph VVHat is to be given to a Horse sicke surfetted Sick or surfetted and his grease molten Hippos The onely way is first to take bloud from him if there be just cause and after to scowre his guts with this purge Take Cassia one ounce Filonio-persio or Persico and Trifora magna of each halfe an ounce sirrop of Violets two ounces dissolve these in mel Rosarum four ounces and give it him with a horne in a morning fasting and after either ride him gently or else walk him up and down an houre or better and for an houre after at the least let him stand upon the Trench then give him a sweet Mash which when he hath dispatched give him old dry Oates cleane and well sifted and after sweet Hay neither let him have any cold water in eight dayes after nor after that time but with exercise ✚ And this is a speciall good cure §. 14. S. Hippoph NOw let us come to the sinewes what say you to a sinew spraine Hippos I have already handled this point sufficiently in lib. 2. cap. 4. § 9. A. for an Attaint upper neverthelesse I will give you more receits for a sinew spraine albeit it be the same malady the first shall be for a sinew sprung Sinew sprung or when the sinew is broken and severed from the flesh as many times it falleth out then Take Tartar and the lees of Claret or red Wine of each three ounces Wheate Bran one handfull boyle these with the juyce of Smalledge two handfuls or better and when you take it from the fire put into it of Turpentine one ounce binde this to the sinew grieved so hot as he may well suffer it and using this medicine foure or fiue dayes he will be sound againe ✚ This is very good Another if the sinew or artery be broken with Corasives or other accident to cause it to soder or joyne againe Take the leaves and roots of Solomons seate and of great Cumfrey of each like much pound them small and infuse it in white Wine foure and twenty houres bathe the sorance herewith warme you having first boyled it and after you have bathed the place well binde the hearbs and roots to the place grieved dressing him every day once untill he be perfectly consolidate And if the flesh be still broken when you do finde the sinew to be knit strew theron the powder of Lime and Honey which will heale and
evill savours of his breath for this powder healeth all his inward parts that be putrified from whence his bad breath taketh its origen ✚ This is very good and approved and a better remedy you shall finde none § 17. S. Hippoph VVHat is the best way to cure or take off a Splent Hippos This is to be done many waies but because we are come to treat of this cure I hold it not amisse to make you understand what a splent is by what meanes it commeth how to know it and which way to cure the same and to take it cleane away A splent is in the beginning a very gristle howbeit if it be long let alone it will come to be a hard bone or excresion and then it will not be so easily cured It commeth to a Horse by meanes of too hard travell and sore riding whilst he is very yong or by bearing in his youth too heavy burthens by both which meanes the grease being molten falleth down into his legges and so breedeth this sorance you shall have it bigger or lesser according as the cause of its comming was it taketh its residence for the most part upon the inside of the shanke about the middle thereof but sometimes again higher even adjoyning to the knee which if it be there then it is more difficile to cure It will many times cause the Horse to hault but howsoever it will make him oft to stumble and to trip and many times to fall in his travell Sometimes it commeth to a horse hereditarily like as doth the spaven and other sorances and maladies as if either the Stalion or Mare be visited therewith as I have formerly intimated The signes how to know it are most facile viz. either by the sight or feeling for that you may both see and feele its swelling Now to the cure for which I shall give you very many receits First wash the place with warme water and shave away the hayre then with your incision knife slit a hole cleane through the skin more then the length of a Barly corne and then convey into the said hole so much Arsnicke as the fourth part of a hasle Nut which must be bound on with a boulster and rowler of linnen and made fast with a needle and threed and so let remaine untouched three whole daies and nights in which time the Arsnicke will eate and corrode cleane away the splent Splent then to kill the fire anoint the place having first taken off the rowler and boulster and washed cleane the sorance with sweet or fresh Butter molten eight or ten dayes after and it will be whole ✚ With this I have done very many cures of this kinde Another First anoynt the place with ordinary soft washing Sope then tye a red woollen cloth about the legge just upon the splent that done heat a Brick glowing hot and lay it upon the cloth against the place where the splent is and hold it so close unto it a pretty space then so soone as you doe take that away have another as hot in a readinesse and clap that too also doing as before and so a third or so many as shall be needfull till you doe finde that the splent is dissolved and taken away which commonly will be in applying two or three hot Bricks ✚ With this I have taken off very many splents Another First wash and shave away the hayre then knock rubbe and pricke it with your bloud staffe and fleame and after you have so done rub and knock it again then Take Vervine and Salt of each one handfull pound them together to an Vnguent and apply it to the place and binde it up with a rowler stitched on fast with a needle and threed and so let it remaine foure and twenty houres and then unbinde it and it is cured without any more to doe ✚ This is very good Another Wash and shave as before and rub and knock as before also then with your incision knife lay open the place a little then knocke and rubbe againe with a little Salt then apply unto it this oyntment which the French do tearme a Retoyre Take of oyle de Bay foure ounces Cantharides Euforbium and Orpin of each one ounce all these being made into fine power let them be well incorporate into the said oyle and wrought to an Vnguent lay of this to the splent and bind it up with a Bowlster and Rowler and sew it up fast and let him stand so by the space of three houres upon the Trench so tyed up as that he bite not off the rowler and Medicine â—at three houres end unrowle the place and put unto it againe the said Retore or Oyntment being made warme and let the Horse stand trameled foure dayes and at foure daies end send him to the water a foote pace where every day he must be ridden up and downe to the belly If you doe love the horse and have a desire to have him perfectly cured let him not bee ridden more then a foote pace to the water in a moneth after for indangering the growing of it againe for nothing can bee more soveraigne for him then rest ✚ This Retore is a speciall good thing for this Malady and I have often used it and it did never faile me I had this in France of a famous Marishall who cured many horses therewith in my presence Another After you have washed and shaven knocked rubbed and laid it open as before is taught you take a head of Garlicke picked and pilled three or foure drops of the best white Wine Vineger a penny weight of greene Coppras all well beaten together apply it to the splent and then bind and stich it up and let it lye on foure and twenty houres then open it and if the splent be not taken quite away make more of the same Medicine and administer it againe binding it up as before and after other foure and twenty houres take of the medicine and then you shall need do nothing more unto him but only what you are prescribed in the precedent cure This I did never try Another First burne away the haire with a hot tyle then shave it close with your Rasor that done have in a readinesse a peece of Leather the breadth of the Sorance and bind it hard upon it and let it so remaine by the space of an houre then take him off and leade to the water without doing any more unto him and hee is cured This cure I never tryed Another Take Mustard seed and beat it and let it steepe a little in fayre water and after make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the place and three dayes after take it away but have a care your horse come not unto it with his teeth the hayre also being shaven away before you do apply your Plaister and this will cure him This also I never proved Another First wash and shave away the hayre then take of the tender tops of Wormewood
taken in the foot as by being hot foundred prickt stubd graveld or the like or by some sinew spraine or some hurt or wrench in the shoulder or by some pinch in the withers and it commeth also by over-riding and then negligently set up which causeth him to goe stiffe and then the cure must be done with bathes and unguents wherby to stretch supple mollifie and to comfort the stiffe members for remedy and ease whereof I have given you very many good receits before prescribed you as well of bathes as of unguents But yet I will give you one more which I have often made use of and have done much good therewith for stiffe legges Stiffe legge viz. Take of Hogs grease one pound of fresh Butter Altheae and of oyle de Bay of each halfe a pound mixe and incorporate all these well together and therewith anoynt rub and chafe the legges and sinewes of the horse every third day three times a day and let his shooes be made wide enough especially at the heeles and let him be pared thin the sinewes being well suppled it is needfull he be also cut of the cords which will prevent his stumbling the better Stumbling commeth also by meanes of carrying heavy burthens and when the rider is a man of an extraordinary weight especially if the Horse be young ✚ This is a very good cure §. 19. S. Hippoph VVHat is to be given to a Horse that cannot Stale or Pisse Stale or pisse Hippos This infirmity commeth either of the collicke or by meanes of too much hard riding the cure is Take Grummell seed Saxafrage-seed and the roots of each halfe an ounce make them into fine powder boyle them a walme or two in white Wine one quart and give it him warme ✚ This is very good Another Take the tops of green Broom and burne a good quantity of them so as you may have so many of the ashes as will come to be a pretty handfull searce them and put them into white Wine a pinte and after it hath infused an houre give him the Wine but not the ashes ✚ This is very good Another Take black buds of the Ashen tree and burn them then take the ashes cleansed and as before is shewed you of the Broome ashes and administer it to the Horse just as you did the other X This is a most approved cure § 20. S. Hippoph VVHat good cure have you for the Stavers Hippos This disease is secundum vulgus called the Staggers Of melancholy but the true name thereof is the Stavers it is a dizzinesse in the head neerly allyed unto the frenzy when it seazeth the braine It is ingendred sometimes of corrupt bloud and heavy and bad humours which do intoxicate and oppresse the braine It is a disease incident to almost every horse yea and that most dangerous if it be not soone espied Sometimes it commeth by feeding and grazing at what time the Horse is hard ridden that he be hot and sweateth for by his feeding and holding down his head so low as to graze upon the ground the peccant humours doe fall down to the head and there settle and in short time seazeth the braine which bringeth this mortall disease Sometimes it commeth by what was occasioned by hard and over-violent riding whereby the whole body became distempered and the bloud inflamed and putrified and sometimes it commeth by eating over-much Corrupt bloud for thereby is the stomack so overcharged with meat as not to be able to digest and convert it all as it ought into good bloud and nutriment and therefore must necessarily breed evill humours which attaching the head and braine it is in conclusion the cause of this disease The symptomes whereby to discover it is in that his sight will faile him and he will hardly be able to see a white Wall he will slaver at the mouth and his eyes will be swelled and runne with much water and other filth and his gate will be reeling and staggeâ—ing he will oft lye down and beat his head against the planks floore and walles and when he is laid his body will quiver and shake and he will forsake his meat and these be most certaine signes which I have ever observed to be in horses oppressed and exercised with this infirmity But now to come to the cure I will give you first a cure which a French Marishal taught me which by reason it sounded to be so much improbable I would never make tryall thereof but such as it is you shall have it Fasten unto the end of a stick a linnen ragge and anoint it well with Barbary Sope and put it up into his nose gently and by degrees and so draw it out again as treatably Another If you do perceive your horse in his travell to fall sicke suddenly of the Stavers Stavers and that you be in such a place where for the present you can get no help then thrust up the greater end of your riding rod into either nostrill good and hard causing him thereby to bleed well and this will preserve him for the time till you come where you may meet with better remedy then take a piece of Wheaten leaven bay Salt Rue Aqua vitae and strong white Wine Vineger of each as much as will suffice bray all these in a stone morter very well then put this medicine into two thin fine linnen clothes or rags by equall portions and then moisten it well in the liquor and so convey those clouts into either of his eares one and then stitch them up close that he get not the medicine forth but that the substance thereof may be diffused into his head and let the medicine remaine so foure and twenty hours then take forth the rags and this will make him a sound and whole horse ✚ But before you apply this medicine to his eares run him through the gristle of the nose with a long iron Bodkin and the next day after let him bloud in the neck and mouth and then giue him this drink which will keep off the Yellowes for comming too fast upon him then take Turmerick Mirrha Ivory or Harts-horne of each one ounce of Saffaron one penny worth pound all these by themselves to very fine powder then take Seladine a good handfull stamp it and straine it and put the juyce thereof to the other ingredients then put unto it of Muskadine or sweet Sack one pinte or for want thereof of strong Ale one quart adding unto it of London Treacle one ounce set these upon the fire and let it boyle one walme or two and in the taking off put unto it of sweet Butter the quantity of an Egge and so having well brewed the same give it him bloud warme and for three or foure dayes give him either sweet Mashes or white water ✚ This is very good Another First take bloud from him in the necke and mouth and let him chew and swallow down his own
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
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