for all cholerick Horses though they be fierce and fiery are but of small strength If your Horse be coloured either Bright-bay or Dark-bay neither scouling countenance maughy mouthed or white flanked or a white Fleabitten white Lyard like silver or black with a white Star white Rash or white foot then is he Sanguin and the diseases to which he is most subject are the Glaunders Consumption of the Liver Leprosie or such other distempers as are caused by infection As for the Horses of a Snguin complection they are for the most part of a strong constitution and will indure strong medicines without impairing their strength if the medicines be not compounded of extraordinary hot ingredients to over-heat the blood If your Horses colour be Milk-white Py-bald Yellow Dun Kite-colour or any the like colours in mixture then is he Phlegmatick being slow by nature and apt to lose his flesh subject to cold Rheums Head-ach Cough Staggers and indeed all distempers proceeding from cold or watery distillations and therefore must have hot medicines that is simples of a hot and strong working nature that may operate upon the Mass of Phlegm which generates the distempers If your Horse be of a Dark-bay colour having long white hairs like Goats hairs on his legs Russet Chesnut Ash-coloured Gray or Mouse-dun then does Melancholy abound in him and the distempers he is most subject to are the inflammation of the Spleen Dropsie Frenzy and such like dull and Melancholy distempers and therefore require cold and moist medicines those of a dry or hot quality being altogether hurtful and unprofitable Their strength is greater than it appears to be and for the most part they are fit for servile labours and thus much of the four Elementary humours now there are divers Horses mixed with all the aforesaid colours or some three or four of them in such a case note that those Horses have those humours most predominant of which their colour is mostly according to what has been said and so consequently ought the medicines to be prepared with regard to the nature of the sickness for if it has continued long and the Horse be infeebled thereby then you must not give him over strong potions but if he be young and lusty not having languished under the force of the distemper then any well composed sutable medicine will not be amiss but as to medicines in particular I shall speak at large hereafter Things to be observed to keep a Horse in health and make him long continue so IF you would have your Horse continue in health and live long twelve things are to be observed 1. Let him moderately feed 2. See that he have good nourishment and be of a quick and clean digesture 3. Let him labour moderately 4. If he be not too much subject to sleep 5. If he be not permitted often to leap Mares 6. That in all journeys moderation be used not Travailing too far without resting or baiting 7. That he be kept in wholsome Air. 8. Not to exercise him too soon after Grass 9. That he be kept from raw green meats 10. Not to suffer him to eat or drink after exercise or a journey before he is throughly col'd 12. With his Provender give him wholsome simples for the most part dry the nature of which being such as is good against such distempers as your Horse by his complexion may be or is inclinable to as Anniseeds Fennel-seed Fennegreek Bay-berries Brimstone Alum Hempseed Elecampain or the Roots of Polipodium of the Oke Savin Rue Hyssop Colts foot Hore-hound Marsh-mallows and the like if you have them not dry you may by chopping them small give him them green but if dry for so they are best crush them to powder and sprinkle them amongst his Oats or Beans or amongst Hay cut short and they so taken will prevent obstructions by purifying the blood thereby rendering the whole body in sound and perfect health Of Sickness Dangerous to Horses and its Original THe main cause of most Internal distempers in Horses proceeds either from over violent heats in exercise as when the Horse hath his grease molten or the heart over charged with vitiated blood so that the Pores or passages are so stopped that the Vital spirits dispersed throughout the body cannot return turn to their center nor the heart be exhilerated for want of an intercourse with the Liver These obstructions I say excluding the Vital Spirits the Organs of the body cannot rejoyce which occasions mortal sickness Another cause there is which proceedeth from cold occasioned through the negligence of the keeper in not regarding him before and after a journey or exercise as he ought which once taken troubles his head with pains and dullness making him look heavy and dull eyed the root of the Tongue being often inflamed and swelled The Lungs tickled and offended with Rheums causing strong and tedious Coughs which greatly indispose and offend him whiles noisome filth proceeds from his nostrils c. A third cause there is cometh by unseasonable eating or over eating which frequently begets a surfeit especially if he eat unwholsome food If he eat to excess it many times proves mortal by reason it creates unwholesome vapours noisome fumes and the like which ascending from the stomach to the brain poyson and infect it or if the Horse escape with life yet seldom misses to have Stavers or Frenzy if the food he has eaten be unwholsome raw or out of season then it breeds diseases by producing corrupt vitiated blood or infectious watery humours from which proceed the Yellows Farcines Feavers Manginess and the like which infecting the heart stopping the free passage of the stomach and dispersing throughout the body leaves no member free from affliction A fourth cause there is which we may call accidental which is when a Horse taketh in poyson with his food or receiveth a wound or extraordinary bruise which inflames the blood and makes each part become hot and feaverish the which by degrees turns to many evil distempers that end but with the life of the Horse therefore on this occasion there is nothing more necessary than to apply pertinent medicines in time ere the malady has taken root How to discern by divers symptoms any mortal sickness in a Horse HAving laid down the original causes of most mortal sicknesses I shall now proceed to let you understand how they may be known by the sundry symptoms that forerun or attend them according to the opinion of the most expert practitioners in this Art If the sickness be occasioned through immoderate heats or journeying then it is signified by the heavyness of his countenance swelling of his legs and other limbs but his hinder legs especially by the loosness and scouring of his body at the beginning of the sickness short and hot breath and a loathing or forsaking his meat If the sickness proceeds from cold then it is known by a down-cast Countenance Drowsiness and desire of sleep Pustils or hard
reception Exercise to be observed upon the Reception of Physick IF you are desirous the Physick should work then as soon as your Horse has received it course him about moderately not exceeding a Pace or Trot or if he be weakened by any distemper then walk him gently under some warm hedge for the space of a Mile then bringing him into the Stable rub him down with dry cloaths and cloathing him warm let him stand the time aforesaid before you give him any meat all the while you or your Groom observing his postures and how the Physick operates by which you may discern what his distemper is and whether it afflicts him more or less What is to be observed in raking your Horse who cannot dung without pain WHen your Horse is troubled with any obstruction in the Fundament you with your hand must often draw away the dung which he through its hardness or his weakness cannot otherwise avoid without great pain the which when you do you must anoint your hand with Oyle of Olives or Neats-foot Oyle which will greatly allay the heat and for the future render him more capable of casting his dung or if to make him laxative in such a case you give him a Glister anoint the quill or pipe with Olive Oyle or Hogs Lard What further is to be observed in Phlebotomy or blood-letting IT is to be observed that you ought to take a due proportion of blood from the Horse according to his age strength or the quality of the distemper If he be a strong Horse full grown take from him four times the quantity from him as you take from a Colt of a year old but if he be an old Horse and weak of constitution twice the quantity If he have a Pleurisie or any violent distemper occasioned by rankness of blood then you may let him blood if you see the distemper threaten his life three days together but not suffer him to bleed excessively at one time The causes for which Horses ought to bleed are either to preserve health by diminishing the superfluity of blood that burns or heats the veins to divert sickness or chear the vital spirits by giving the blood a free and uncontrouled passage after which you must moderately chafe or walk him to make the blood fill those veins or branches that were emptied and to make him bleed the freer suffer him to drink warm water before you open the Vein If he bleed not freely it is a sign that he is pursie fat or the blood stagnated then to oblige him thereto put your finger in his mouth tickle him and cause him to move his Jaws thereby to press the vein to a more facil evacuation and having bled sufficiently take part of the blood mingled with salt and pour it down his throat with a Drenching-horn and with the other part bathe his body whilst it is warm which is excellent in a consumption moist cough or weakness of the Limbs How to know when it is necessary to bleed your Horse IF your Horse be rank of blood his eyes will be red his veins strut prick and itch especially in his Tail and Main so that he will be often rubbing himself his Hair shedding at unseasonable times the roots of his Ears pill and the place where his headstal is fastened become bare his Urine will be of a high and reddish colour his Dung black and hard or little bumps red and fiery appearing on his back faulter at his meat if the whites of his eyes be yellow or the inside of either lip of the same colour then is it apparent that he is over charged with blood or that his blood is watery and full of evil humours Observations on outward sorrances a description of them and how they are to be ordered THese grievances called Sorrances have in their particulars divers names according to their being placed in the body but in general are taken two manner of ways viz. either an evil state and composition of the body which is to be discerned by the number quality or sight of the members evilly affected diseased or otherwise it is a loosening or division of any unity the which is thus in general divided and chancing diversly have divers particular names according as is aforesaid to the parts of the body in which they happen for if such a loosning or division happen in the bone then it is properly termed a Fracture if in the fleshy part a wound or Ulcer in the Veins if it happen then 't is called a Rupture If in the sinews the Cramp or Convulsion if in the skin excoriation Now the things chiefly to be observed in curing Sorrances are these First Observe that in burning or cauterizing with a hot Iron or with Oyle or making an incision with a knife that it be neither upon a vein or sinew but somewhat higher or lower or on one side Secondly Observe that you never apply to any joynt or sinewey part violent corrosives as Resalgar Arsnick sublimate Mercury Oyl of Vitriol or the like Thirdly That in cauterizing you rather lance with a hot Iron than with a cold and that 't is better to cauterize than to cut Fourthly observe if the Horse be Sanguin his blood produceth a white thick matter but if Colerick a waterish salt and thin matter though in quantity small If Phlegmatick great store of watery gelly as it were but if Melanchly dry Scabs only Fifthly observe as I have before hinted never to bleed your Horse but upon the days prescribed and not then for fansie sake but in case of some distemper that requires it or to prevent a sickness imminent by reason of bad or boiling blood which afflicts the Veins Sixthly Observe in all Imposthumes or swelling Sores called Tumors diligently to note the place where the grief began its increase state and dangerous consequence as likewise its declination and ending Seventhly Take notice that if in the beginning of every swelling Imposthume you cannot eradicate it use Repercussive medicines if it be not too near the vitals or some other principal part of the body if it be you must forbear the use of such Medicines or applications lest thereby you indanger the Horses life but rather use softening and suppling medicines till such time as the Imposthume Tumor or swelling be ripe and then with a Lancet let out the corruption and by degrees dry it up with cleansing and healing medicines Eighthly All soft or hard swellings ought to have different applications according to the part of the body where they happen or the cause from which they proceed as for hard swellings they are for the most part corrosive and the soft unless well regarded of long continuance Now to know whether a swelling has been of long standing especially in the legs press it with your finger and suddainly taking it away if you perceive the flesh immediately to fill the dint then the swelling is newly taken but if it stand hollow then is the swelling
which in the Farriers is a great defect for he ought to be very wary in burning the flesh with hot Oyls or other applications too near the bone or any sinew sometimes also this Malady happens through the gauling and fretting of a fetlock To cure it upon the top of the excretion make a slit a quarter of an inch then raising with your cornet the skin from the flesh hollow it round about the place grieved into which hollowness thrust Lint dipped in the Oyl of Origanum and upon it lay a plaister of Paracelsus suffering it to continue till it rot and nature cast out both the Lint and Core or opening it if you lay roasted Elecampain roots to it it will take away the grievance Kibed heals the cause and cure THis Sorrance is known by a Scab breeding somewhat above the under joynt overthwart the Fettlock and is divers ways occasioned as by your Horses running in cold ground after a hard journey immoderate labour or neglect of the Keeper in not cleansing his feet and legs of the dirt contracted in the joynts which causeth the legs to sweell especially in winter when the ways are deep To cure this take the tender tops of Elder buds Blackberry bush-buds ere they bloom boyl them in the wort of new Ale adding thereto the whites of two new laid Eggs and half an ounce of Allum with which wash the place grieved morning and evening If this should fail take tryed Hogs-grease two ounces the like quantity of Gunpowder and mixing them well together daily anoint the place grieved for the space of six days and it will effect the cure if you be careful to keep your Horses feet and legs from Rain or other wet Kernels under the Chaul the cause and cure THis grievance incident to Horses is occasioned by heats and colds mostly taken by the neglect of those that have the Horse in charge the which if not timely prevented turns to the Glaunders To cure it give your Horse a convenient scouring the dose being made of Alloes fresh butter and the powder of Agarick giving him at once a ball thereof as big as a Pigeons Egg and afterward trot or amble him a mile or two and then bringing him to his Stable cloath him and keep him warm permitting him to fast two or three hours at the expiration of which give him a knop of Hay or if you can procure it a Mash of Malt very warm Lasks Looseness or open flux of a Horses Body the cause and cure THis distemper incident to Horses frequently rendering them weak and infirm is mostly occasioned by cold unseasonably taken though some times by Cholerick humours descending upon the Liver or the overflowing of the Gall which penetrates the Bowels by insensible ways at other times by drinking excess of cold water upon a full stomach which generates evil humours or by drinking cold water when hot or travailing too hard eating Hens dung or with the Provender licking up Feathers Spiders or any nauseous thing To cure which take flower of Garden Beans three ounces three ounces of Bolearmoniack and a quart of Stale-Beer to which add a quarter of a pint of red wine making them pretty hot and mixing them well give the Horse grieved to the quantity of a pint morning and evening for six days successively If the Lasks be violent use this medicine viz. of Allum and Bolearmoniack pulverized each an ounce put them into a quart of new-milk brewing it to and fro till it be sufficiently curdled and then making it blood-warm give it him to drink If the scouring be violent take the intralls of a Pullet omitting nothing but the Gizard dipping them when smalled by shreading in Oyl of Spicknard and so thrust them down your Horses throat by degrees and it will not only stay the scouring but the bloody flux notwithstanding if the bloody-flux be predominant take Saffron one ounce two of Myrrh three of Southernwood one of Parsly three of Rue two of Spittlewort and Hyssop one of Cassa and adding to them a quart of wine Vinegar and half a pound of the powder of Chalk bruise them well and then boyl them till they come to a thickness sufficient to be made into little cakes which cakes give your Horse dissolved in Whitewine or Stale-Beer well warmed morning and evening and in a day or two it will cause the Efflux of blood to stay and ease the pain in the bowels or bladder which is occasioned for want of staling Leprosie its cause and cure THis Loathsome distemper is known by a running Scab or Manginess spreading all over the body occasioned by Melancholy humours corrupt blood so made by excessive heats surfeits or unwholsome Provender and this grievance for the most part is first seen about the neck which becomes raw thereby and unseemly being altogether infectious insomuch that it is extreamly catching To cure this distemper take an ounce of Allum eight ounces of green Copperas an ounce of cut Tobacco free from stalks and boyl them well in a quart of spring water till the water is near half consumed and then as warm as the Horse can suffer it supple with the remaining part of the liquor the place grieved having first rubbed off the scabs and so do twice a day letting the Horse stand at the Rack a considerable time after If the Leprosie be inclinable to Mangie which it mostly is if occasioned by a surfeit then let your Horse blood and having rubbed off the Scabs or scurfe put together two ounces of Verdigrease and eight of Vinegar a pint of Cows Stale and a like quantity of Train Oyl and having bruised a handful of wild Tansie put it amongst the liquids adding moreover four ounces of Brimstone flower the like quantity of Roach-allum and of Bolearmoniack boiling together all the ingredients and putting amongst them about a pint of the Horses blood wash the place grieved with the liquor as hot as he can indure it and afterwards cloath him warm and in so doing six or seven times the cure will be perfected unless the infection has reached his internals the which if it has you must give him Diapente drink which will render him more liable to be cured The cause and cure of the distemper in a Horse called the Low-worm and the symptoms by which it may be known THis distemper is by many taken for St. Anthonies fire or the Shingles but indeed is caused by a worm in the back of the Horse bred between the flesh and the back bone often running along the neck till it tainteth the Brain at what time the Horse frequently falls mad which many Farriers mistaking for the staggers apply frequently the wrong medicine even to the destruction of the Horse The symptoms by which it may be distinguished are these viz. After a long journy the Horse will refuse his meat be troubled with sickness and suddain pains in his back which will cause him to shrink it up and again to
stretch at his length as also to strain in making Urine without any effect and at other times to bite the Rack-staves or what ever is within his reach to remedy which take two ounces of Garlick four ounces of Acrement a handful of Rue and Tormentile bruise them well and put them into three pints of Whitewine then blood your Horse in the Tail and dividing the liquor boyled and strained give him it in equal proportions six mornings successively and it will effect the cure The defect in Horses Lungs the cause and cure MOst diseases of the Lungs proceed from excessive heats or their contraries occasioned by hard riding or evil looking to and if the descending humours so contracted are not timely removed they cause the Lungs to putrefie and rot to know which distemper observe his Flanks and Ribs for if they rise slowly and beat heavily then are the humours contracted by cold and must be speedily removed 't is also to be known by his short drawing of his breath and slow cough as likewise by filthy matter that will upon his lying down and rising up issue out of his mouth and nostrils then to remove the humours take Horse lungwort by some called Mullet a good handful Fennegreek seed two ounces of Madder made into powder an ounce then having shred and bruised the Herbs boyl them in new Ale or Beer and give it the Horse grieved in a Drenching horn for ten or twelve days each morning fasting feeding him afterward with Mashes and giving him warm water with Wheat-bran scattered in it and when you give him his dose at the same time anoint his Breast and Ribs with the Oyl extracted from a Snake and in so doing he will be restored to health The Lethargy or Sleeping evil its cause and cure THis distemper proceeds from Phlegmatick humours which settle about the Brain and so numb it that it causes the Horse to be greatly desirous of sleep even standing or travailing to redress which let him blood in the neck vein and pallate of the mouth and taking a gallon of Spring-water boyl therein Camomile Wheat-bran Mother-wort and put thereto a considerable quantity of Salt and Vinegar which done add to it two ounces of Parsly seed and as much Fennel seed then boyling them well give the water clean strained to your Horse to drink anointing afterward the Pallate of his mouth with Hony and Mustard and by striking or making a noise keep him for twelve hours space from sleeping Moorfoundred what it is and how to cure it THis distemper according to the French is no other than a foundering in the Horses body by the melting of the grease occasioned by excessive heats or not due cooling after travail To cure which having well raked his tail gut with your hand dipped in Olive Oyl give him a Clister made of Camomile Mallows Agarick and Baum all boyled in new milk and well strained Then take a quart of the best Malago and setting it on the fire put into it Cinnamon Liquorish and Anniseeds of each an ounce and three ounces of Hony and give it him as warm as he can receive it then ride him forth a racking pace for an hour or more suffering him to fast after it two or three hours then sift him a pint of Beans and a quart of Oats after which let him have a knop of Hay sprinkled with warm water giving him every other day a Mash of Malt and water and four days after his taking the aforesaid dose let him blood and keep him exceeding warm and you will perceive the grease to come away in greater or lesser quantities proportionable to what is in the Horses body Mattering of the Yard how to cure it as also to prevent shedding of the Seed FOr the first take Roach-allum an ounce Whitewine Vinegar a pint and having dissolved the Allum in the Vinegar and made it lukewarm with a syringe force it into his Yard four or five times a day for three or four days together and it will cure the Rawness and bring away the cause of the grievance For the last take the herb Aramanthus the juice of Bistwort and Plantaine as also that of Comfery red wine and Hogs dung and boyl them together in Verjuice sweeten the liquid part with Sugarcandy or Mollossus and having given it him to drink ride him into cold water up to the belly and suffer him there to stand for an hour To cure the Melancholy in a Horse commonly called the Stagger or the Stavers an excellent Receipt THe Horse troubled with the aforesaid distemper must as soon as by his giddiness and heavy eyedness you perceive it be let blood and then take Hazel-nuts Butter and Salt of altogether to the quanty of a pound weight and having broken the Nut-shells put the kernels into the butter and salt when they are hot over the fire and add thereto half an ounce of Assa fetida and half a quartern of wine-vinegar into which well mixed put small raggs spunges or fine flax and with them so dipped stop his ears sewing them up to prevent his shaking them out and in twenty four hours the distemper will vanish For want of the former ingredients take bitter Almonds two ounces of Oxes Gall two drams the Roots of Black Helebore vulgarly called Bearsfoot an ounce dryed and pulverised the Grains of Castorum two drams Vinegar a quarter of a pint Varnish a spoonful and boyling them together put them into the Horses Ears stopping them close or for want of the aforesaid thing use Garlick bruised in Aqua-vitae Imposthumes their cause and cure IMposthumes are divers though in quality they little differ being for the most part generated of evil blood and gross humours the which at first cause swellings and if not then prevented turn to running and loathsome sores many times they are occasioned by unfortunate blows and sometimes by hurt received from strait Halters and Harness or taking cold the symptoms by which they may be discovered are by the much running of the Horses Ears and Eyes the heat in his Ears and Temples his unwillingness to be handled thereabouts and dullness and must if they be far gone be brought to a head and broke before they can be cured to perform which take the roots of Mallows and White Lillies of each three ounces bruise them well and mixing them with Hogs-grease and Linseed Meal boyl them well and upon Flax or Leather apply them plaisterwise to the place grieved and it will both ripen and break it Now there are hot and cold Imposthumes the cold one will not break so soon as the hot therefore when you find it is come to a head which you may perceive by its throbbing open it with a sharp hot Iron and let out the corruption To cure either hot or cold Imposthume when broken or opened take Dragons blood Gum Arabick Bees-wax Mastick Greek-pitch Turpentine and Frankincense of each an ounce melt them and plaister-wise apply them to the
grievance or for want of them take dryed Southernwood the yolks of new-laid Eggs and Barly-meal which well tempered and applied plaister-wise to the grievance will cause the filth to come away and cure the sore The Mallender what it is and how to cure it THis Sorrance is a hard dry scab full of Rifts and Chaps and long staring hairs growing upon the inward part of the foreleg where if it be not looked to in time it will canker and corrupt the flesh and blood making the Horse go exceeding lame It comes divers ways proceeding some times from corrupt humours and over-heated blood at other times 't is occasioned by the negligence of the Keeper in suffering the dirt long to continue on the Horses legs c. To cure the Mallender take half an ounce of Gunpowder two ounces of Hogs-lard a soft rowed Pickled herring four ounces of common sope and an ounce of Roach allum beaten to powder all which being bruised heated and tempered that it may be applyed plaisterwise lay them upon the sore after you have washed it with Urin and clipped away the hairs and by every day renewing it for three or four days the cure will be effected especially if you anoint it between whiles with the Oyl of Turpentine The Mange in Horses its cause and cure THis Sorrance is a like loathsome and dangerous and may be known before its breaking out by the extraordinary desire the Horse has to rub against every thing he meets to allay his Itch the hair falling away in many places and undecently staring the skins scurfiness c. The cause frequently arises from hard riding cold and heats excessive labour bad humours and corruption of blood To cure it take Mother of Salt-Peter and adding thereto wine Vinegar and Oyl of Turpentine wash the place grieved binding upon it afterwards bruised Chamomil and Hogs grease For want of the abovesaid Medicament take Sope Lees and steeping in them Tobacco-stalks wash the Sorrance after the scabs are rubbed off and keep your Horse as much as may be from rubbing himself against any hard thing The Mourning of the Chine what it is together with its cause and cure THis grievance is a kind of Glaunders caused by either excessive heat standing wet or travailing in deep and dirty ways which if not in time taken notice of reverts its bad humours upon the Liver and Lungs whereby they are frequently so putrefied that the Horse dies suddainly The cure is first to let your Horse blood and then to take Sallad-oyl Whitewine Vinegar of each three ounces the juice of Sallendine and the powder of Elecampain Roots of each an ounce and put them into his nostrils holding his head to the Rack and thrusting into them at the same time a Feather dipped in Oyl of Bays to make him sneese after which give him an ounce of Rubarb beaten to powder in a pint of Canary very hot and so cloathing him exceeding warm let him lie or stand as he best liketh and in so serving him five or six times it will bring away the nauseous humours by which the disease will decrease and the Horse in time recover his perfect health Madness and Frenzy in Horses from whence it proceeds and how to cure it THis distemper happens to Horses divers ways as first when through the evil operation of the veins crude blood stays in the head and by an insensible way enters the Panicle of the Brain which is known by the Horses heaviness the dulness of his Eyes and his want of Appetite his often turning round and staggering secondly when the blood is vitiated so far that it by its fiery humour has pierced the film of the Brain and inflamed it which puts him out of all patience insomuch that he goes quite mad beating his head against the Manger Post or whatever stands in his way biting and stamping kicking and flinging with many the like extravagancies Thirdly when the blood in the stomach is by overmuch heat stagnated and corrupted and turning upon the heart infecteth it Fourthly and lastly the cause of madness proceedeth from the bloods being generally infected insomuch that at once the Heart Brain and Pannicles are afflicted which is the worst of all and commonly proves mortal To cure these grievances let your Horse blood in all his four legs to draw down the blood that occasions it and when he has bled sufficiently take the roots of wild Cucumbers or for defect of them the roots and leaves of Rue or Herbegrace Mint and black Helebore of each a handful with a like quantity of the herb and root of Virgo-pastoris all which being well bruised and boyled in beer give it him warm and so continue to do for three or four days if the madness cease not Mans dung or Hens dung in whitewine is good in this case and has been often given with success The Malt-long or Malt-worm what it is and how to cure it THis Sorrance commonly happens above the Hoof of the Horse almost in the nature of a Crownscab appearing in divers little Knops and Bunches both Cankerous and venomous which knops if not prevented will run into branches voiding salt watery humour causing great lameness and spoiling the Hoof. To cure which take if you can get them black Snails and Burdock roots beat them together and lay them to the sore renewing the plaister every morning for five or six days but if no Snails can be got take the Soot or scrapings of a Pot or Kettle the inner rinde of Elder Garlick Pepper and Hony all which bruised and well tempered lay plaisterwise and it will cure the Sorrance being received as aforesaid The Night-Mare what it is and how to cure and remove it THis distemper by some is held for Hag-riding though indeed it proceeds from Melancholy blood which pressing to the heart dulls and benumbs the Vital spirits and thereby causes nature extreamly to labour under it till it be expelled and driven thence insomuch that at divers times the Horse so afflicted will be in a foaming sweat not being capable of rest To cure or prevent which take half a pint of Olive Oyl four ounces of common salt and half a pint of Spruce Beer boyl them together adding afterward three ounces of Brown Sugarcandy and give it him as warm as is convenient for two three or four Mornings successively if you find he is so long afflicted with the oppression of crude blood Planet struck what it is and how to cure or prevent it THis distemper incident to Horses is known by a suddain defect of the Horses members insomuch that he often falleth down or standeth stiff almost without any appearance of life or motion it is caused divers ways sometimes by excessive congealing of Phlegm about the Brain at other times by cold Melancholy blood which instead of nourishing the Brain numbs and sickens it likewise happens by evil digestion which instead of blood fills the veins with raw watery humours and sometimes by
its cause and cure p. 191 The Camery or Frounce what it is together with its cause and cure p. 192 Of Casting the cause and cure c. p. 193 Crest fallen what it is and how to cure it ibid. Crick in the Neck its cause and remedy p. 194 Of the Canker in the Eye its cause and cure p. 195 Of the Dropsie in a Horse whence it proceeds and how to cure it p. 196 Chops Rifs and Clifts in the Palate of the mouth how they are caused and how to cure them p. 197. The Bony Excretion its cause and cure p. 198 Kibed heals the cause and cure p. 199 Kernels under the Chaul the cause and cure p. 200 Lasks Looseness or open flux of a Horses Body the cause and cure p. 201 Leprosie its cause and cure p. 203 The cause and cure of the distemper in a Horse called the Low-worm and the symptoms by which it may be known p. 204 The defect in Horses Lungs the cause and cure p. 205 The Lethargy or Sleeping evil its cause and cure p. 207 Moorfoundred what it is and how to cure it ibid. Mattering of the Yard how to cure it as also to prevent shedding of the Seed p. 208 To cure the Melancholy in a Horse commonly called the Stagger or the Stavers an excellent Receipt p. 209 Imposthumes their cause and cure p. 210 The Mallender what it is and how to cure it p. 212 The Mange in Horses its cause and cure p. 213 The Mourning of the Chine what it is together with its cause and cure p. 214 Madness and Frenzy in Horses from whence it proceeds and how to cure it p. 215 The Malt-long or Malt-worm what it is and how to cure it p. 216 The Night-Mare what it is and how to cure and remove it p. 217 Planet struck what it is and how to cure or prevent it p. 218 Pissing Blood its cause and cure p. 219 The Palsie or Apoplexie its cause and cure p. 220 Restilence Murrain or Gargat in a Horse what they are the symptoms whereby they are known and how to cure them p. 221 Pursiveness its cause and cure p. 223 The Pains a Sorrance so called what it is its cause and cure p. 224 How to know when a Horse is pricked and how to cure it p. 225 Quinsie or Squinsie its cause and cure p. 226 Rupture Vncording or Burstenness their cause and cure p. 227 The Stone in Horses it 's cause and cure p. 228 The falling out of the Mares Womb or Horses Fundament the cause and how to prevent them p. 230 Wind-Galls what they are and how to cure them p. 231 Wolfe-teeth what they are and of other Teeth troublesome to Horses ibid. The Wart or spungy excretion and Wenn their cause and cure p. 232 Strangury or Strangullion it 's cause and cure p. 233 Shoulder pinched what it is it 's cause and cure p. 234 Shoulder wrench or strain Shoulder splaiting or torn and shoulder Pight their cause and cures p. 235 Navel Gall the Sorrance so called its cause and cure and of Lice Flies c. p. 237 Red-Water Over-reach Salender and stinking Breath their respective causes and cures p. 238 Ring bone Rottenness and Rheumes their cause and cure p. 240 The Yellows and Falling of the Yard and Sway-back their cause and cure p. 241 Quitterbone and quick-scab their cause and cure p. 243 The Haw in the Eye its cause and cure p. 245 Excellent Receipts for any inward sickness that afflicts a Horse p. 246 Salves useful for all manner of Sorrances how to make them p. 248 Another Excellent Oyntment for wounds or other Sorrances ibid. Another excellent Oyntment p. 249 An excellent Salve for any Wrench Strain or weakness in the Limbs ibid. An excellent Salve for Old or New sores how to make it p. 250 An excellent Salve for curing of any wound whether by Sword Fire Gun-shot or any other accident ibid. An excellent Salve for Wounds Vlcers Bruises or Strains how to make it p. 251 Glisters convenient to be used upon divers occasions ibid. Cordial Powders and Cordial balls Receipts to make them and their use p. 253 Purgations Perfumes Baths Suppositories Charges Drenches and Causticks what they are how to make and use them upon sundry occasions p. 255 Baths their use and how to make them p. 256 Perfumes for purging the Head how to make and use them p. 258 Suppositories what they are their use and how to make them ibid. Charges what they are their use and how to make them p. 260 Most excellent Drenches to cure all inward diseases as Feavers of all sorts Plague infection c. p. 261 Causticks and Corrosives what they are and how to be applyed p. 263 Hot Simples what they are p. 264 Cold Simples what they are p. 265 Hoofs how many sorts there are their perfections and imperfections p. 266 The perfect Hoof on the forefeet how to pare shooe c. p. 268 Of the Brittle and Rugged Hoof Long Hoof Crooked Hoof Flat Hoof Broad Frushes and narrow Heels what they are and how to be used p. 270 Paring and Shooing the hinder feet false quarter and interfering of divers sorts of shooes c. p. 274 Roweling what it is and the Benefit that accrues thereby p. 276 THe Jockey in his proper Colours The Intreagues Artifices Over-reaching deceits and cheats of those Dealers in Horse-flesh known by the name of Jockies p 278 The Jockies device to cheat the Buyer with a blind or lame Horse p. 279 The Jockies art in putting of a dull old Jade and by what means he makes him appear mettlesome and young p. 285 The Jockeys Art in managing a Restiff Horse suddainly making a lean Horse fat and reclaiming a Horse that has got the vice of lying down in the Water c. p. 286 The Jockies craft in making Horses seemingly lame or dangerously sick and the cheats he puts upon the unwary with false Eyes false Ears false Manes Tails c. p. 291 The Jockies art in making of Stars Snips Blazes c. A Treatise of Cattle Their Ordering Cure c. p. 298 Diseases and Sorrances incident to this kind of Cattle and their Cure and first of Scabs Itch Mange eating sores in the Neck Aposthumes Boils Vlcers Head-Ach Rheum and Hidebound on the Legs Ribs c. p. 303 Diseases incident to the Eyes of this sort of Cattle and direction in order to the Cure p. 306 Cures for any distemper in the Lungs or there-from proceeding as Cough Cold Consumption difficulty of breathing c. as also for Agues Fevers Sickness occasioned through swallowing a Horse-leech or venomous Grub pains of the Belly and Wind-colick p. 308 Loosness Bloody-Flux pains in the Loins pains of the Reins or Brawns Inflammation and pissing blood their respective Cures 311 A Treatise of Sheep How to chuse your Ram and Ewe for breed when the Ewe ought to be covered and how ordered during her pregnancy and upon her Yeaning
take a hank or skien of black thread in a pair of Tonges when lighting it at the lower end to prevent its flaming too fast make it dampish with Whitewine Vinegar holding the burning thread under his Nostrils so that he may conveniently receive the smoak into them and it will infallibly stay the efflux of blood New Horsedung tempered with whitewine Vinegar and chalk beaten small and applyed to the nostrils will stench the bleeding as likewise bleeding at any other place occasioned by a wound or so and in case you have not the aforesaid things in a readiness burning of silk the of juice Corianderseed Hogs dung a new cut Turf juice of Sage or Hysop the young shoots of green Hawthorn bruised or the blood of a Horse dryed and beaten to powder blown up the nostrils or laid upon the wound are all good to stay bleeding as likewise are the juices of Parsly Periwinkle the Coame of a Smiths forge laid to the wound or mixed with Vinegar spirted up the nostrils the herb called Shepherds Pouch distilled into a water and given him to drink fasting in the morning the which water stayeth internal bleeding whether gotten by a bruise or coming naturally Divers other things there are that are excellent against bleeding as the powder of the stone Emachile blown up into the nostrils or applyed to any broken vein or wound The roots of Rubarb dryed and pulverised the powder blown into the nostrils of the Horse and lastly Bettany bruised with Baysalt and mixed with Vinegar put into the nostrils cause the veins to cease from further efflux Of the Botch in the Groyne and how to cure it THis Sorrance proceedeth from humours ingendered by hard labour which assembling in the Groyne occasion the Botch as likewise in divers other parts and places of the Horses body known by the swelling of the hinder thighs Cambrils and knots in the flesh the which if upon feeling they prove round and hard will come to a head and become troublesome to the Horse Therefore to cure them you must take Turpentine Hony and Wheat-flower of each a pound and with them make a stiff plaister renewing it daily till the sorrance either break or become soft abounding with corruption if it do not break lance it that so the matter may avoid then take a linnen ragg and having dipped it in Turpentine and Hogs-grease molten taint it with the said ragg and so renew it daily till the poysonous matter is quite voided Then heal it up with Bees-wax and Occicrocium melted and laid plaisterwise anointing it with oyntment of Tobacco A second remedy for the Botch in the Groine or imposthumation THe swelling perceived according to the aforesaid symptoms take a piece of Allomed Leather and spread thereon a ball of Shoomakers wax applying it plaisterwise to the grievance till it break or grow soft if it break not you must lance it and extract the corruption washing it daily with water wherein a considerable quantity of Roach Allum has been dissolved and dipping a ragg in Egyptiacum an oyntment so called suffer it so to continue till it become whole Of Blisters and their cure BListers are risings between the flesh and the skin occasioned by watery hot humours or from any Burn Scald or chafing to take them away rub them in a Sun-shiny day till they break or bleed after which take the roots of Ivy bruise them well and mix them with Tarr Allum and Brimstone boyl them together and spread them plaisterwise upon the grieved place and it will cure it The Canker its cause and cure THis is a loathsome and dangerous Sorrance proceeding from corrupt blood or vitious humours caused by unwholesome or immoderate feeding and many times by Salt and fiery humours coming of extraordinary cold rendering the Horses breath unsavory This Canker fretteth and gnaweth the flesh still incroaching so that if it happen on the Tongue as sometimes it doth it will eat it in sunder If upon the nose it will eat through the Gristle 'T is known by the rawness and often bleeding of the place where it happens and sometimes by a white scurse growing over it The cure take as followeth For the Canker in the Mouth or Nose take the quantity of a walnut of Roach-allum the like quantity of Bay Salt a spoonful of English Hony Rue red Sage Bramble leaves and Ribwort of each half a handful boyl them in whitewine so much as will suffice till a quarter is consumed then strain and press them well and with the liquid part wash the mouth or place grieved in whatsoever part of the body with a clout fastened to a stick c. doing so twice a day or oftener if time will permit and it will both stay and kill the Canker Of Clefts and Cracks in the Heels and their cure THese Sorrances are occasioned divers ways as by excessive riding extraordinary labour heats surfeits or the like as also through the indiscretion of the keeper by washing him when he is hot or suffering him to cool suddainly which corrupting the blood obliges the gross humours to descend and settle in the heels causing them to be chopped broken and become raw mattery and extreamly offensive to the Horse especially if he travail upon rough ground or in wet ways To cure which cut away the hair rub off the scabs with Chamber-ly as likewise the blood that follows and keeping him dry take flower of Brimstone mixt with sweet butter and anoint the place grieved therewith once or twice a day binding his feet close to keep out the air or dust If this should fail to effect the cure as past doubt it will not then take Soot Salt and unsleckedlime of each a handful boyl them in Whitewine Vinegar till they become thick then add to them Hogs-lard and work them into an Oyntment and anoint his Sorrance therewith untill it s healed which will be in a short time effected The cause of the swelling in the Cods and Stones with directions to asswage the same THese swellings are sometimes occasioned by the stinging of venemous insects other times by bruises received by fighting with other Horses overstraining corruption of blood setling too much plenty of Seed or after sickness surfeiting by cold and the like To cure which take Oyl of Turpentine Marsh-mallows Groundsil and Cammomile stamping the three latter small and boyling the juice thereof with the former and with it as warm as he can well indure it anoint his Cods morning and evening and the swelling will abate The Cord a grievance so called what it is and how to remedy it THis cord is a sinew in the forelegs which ascendeth from the sheckle vein to the gristle in the nose between the lip a beans length in breadth or two strings like threads fastned above the knee and passing through the body to the nostrils subjecting to stumble and pitch upon his nose which amongst young Horses is frequent This grievance may be known by the stiff going
too much fasting by heat or coldness of the breath you may know from which of the two it proceeds then to prevent or cure it take 14 15 or 16 single Pyony seeds or more if your Horse be of a strong constitution bruise them together with a Clove or two of Garlick three or four sprigs of Rue and an ounce of Hemp-seed all which boyl in sharp Whitewine or Verjuice and having strained them well give him the liquid part to drink four mornings successively keeping him thereupon exceeding warm and it will answer the ends for which it was given Pissing Blood its cause and cure THe cause of Pissing blood often proceeds from excessive labour in Travail or bearing more than he is conveniently able by a stone fretting upon the Kidneys by a Vein breaking near the Bladder or travailing him in cold weather or foul ways immediately after he is taken from Grass before he is throughly cleansed by scouring or the humours worked naturally away To take away any of these causes whereby the effects may cease take the roots of knot grass one handful Polipodium of the wall and Comfry of each a handful Wild and Garden Bloodwort and Shepherds Purse of each a handful all which bruised well and the juice strained into Stale Beer the liquid body making three pints boyl it adding afterwards Wood-soot and Spanish Salt of each two ounces and then as warm as he can receive it give it your Horse at three times three following Mornings and let him fast after it two hours or for want of this medicine take the Apples of wild-bryer as many as will weigh two ounces bruise them and put them into a quart of Beer adding an ounce of Irsh-slate beat into powder then making the beer hot strain it and give it him very warm when he is fasting and by so doing a week together the blood will no more issue at his Yard let the cause be what it will if you refrain to let him blood The Palsie or Apoplexie its cause and cure THis distemper is caused by the Horses feeding in unseasonable weather in wet Morish or Marshy Ground where through the unwholsomeness of the Air and foul feeding Crude humours are ingendered which causing raw digestion the Brain is thereby afflicted and at other times it happens through some wound or stroke in the Temples or upon the Pole and of these Palsies or Apoplexies there are two sorts the one general which is incurable or at least very hard to be cured and is known when it afflicts all the limbs The other is particular to some one part and mostly in the neck or Pole which makes him carry his neck a wry going side-ways indenting and crooking his legs and at other times running backward hitting his head frequently against Posts or Walls yet greedy of meat and drink upon the appearing of which symptoms let him blood in the Neck and Temple veins on that side that the bend of his neck is outward bathing his neck and back with Oyl of Petrolium well warmed binding the former immediately thereupon with a wet Hay-band from his ears to his breast Then take Opopanax two ounces Gentian Storax Manna and Succory of each three ounces Myrrh one Scruple and of long Pepper three Drams dry them so that they may be beaten into a powder and putting an ounce thereof into a pint of warm Malago Muscadel or Canary give it him to drink fasting till all the powder is spent and it will perfect the cure of the particular palsie and if not cure yet at least give much relief to the general distemper Pestilence Murraine or Garget in a Horse what they are the symptoms whereby they are known and how to cure them THese three distempers though different in name yet in nature differ but little being dangerous and infectious coming divers ways as by excessive unseasonable riding by Pasturing in Fenny damp unwholsome ground through noisome and infectious air when newly taken out of pleasant and serene air or the like and are known by the Horses swelling under the Tongue and roots of the Ears the heat and noisomness of his breath swelling under the Chaule and in the Cheeks causing him to decline feeding hanging down his head his eyes yellowish a Boyl appearing in his Groine and Lastly known by the unseemly hanging of his Stones upon observing of which symptoms or any of them separate him from your other cattle for the contagion is catching and having brought him into a warm place take Rue Saffron Walnut leaves if you can get them or in their stead Balm Juniper berries and Garlick of each a like quantity Bistwort Snakeweed Angelica and Bay-berries of each an ounce the roots of Elecampain beaten into powder half an ounce to which add an ounce of Salt-peter and boyling them well in three pints of Mallago strain the liquid part and give him a pint at a time very warm for three mornings successively If the aforesaid ingredients cannot be so soon got as necessity requires take Southernwood London-Treacle and Bolearmoniack of each two ounces Cuckow-pintle roots beaten to powder and Gunpowder of each half an ounce Aquavitae half a pint and Ale a quart boyl them together and give him the liquid part at twice and if the distemper abate not give him the same medicine oftner Pursiveness its cause and cure THis disorder in a Horse is known by his shortness of breath panting straining and breathing as it were in pain occasioned frequently by the length and straitness of the windpipe which gives not sufficient vent to the Lungs sometimes by flegmatick humours or too much fatness by hard riding upon a full stomach unseasonable drinking c. and if not well regarded in time is prone to turn to the Glaunders or dulness in travail continually sweating upon the least motion and the like to Remedy which take Bay berries Oyl of Frankincense Fern roots Nightshade Anniseed Liquorish and Sugarcandy of each an ounce bruise and mix them well then put them into a pint of French-wine and add thereto four ounces of Olive Oyl and having boyled them well give the liquid part to the Horse at three times suffering him to stand in the Stable a day and a night after each potion and observe that he take them fasting For want of the aforesaid medicine take Fennegreek and Elecampain roots Brimstone and English hony of each an ounce adding thereto an ounce of Bolearmoniack and give them your Horse boyled in White-wine six or eight mornings each dose being a pint which at every giving must be fresh made as aforesaid The Pains a Sorrance so called what it is its cause and cure THis Sorrance is an ulcerous scab full of fretting watery humours commonly appearing in the Pasterns between the Fetlock and the Heel chiefly occasioned for want of careful looking to in not rubbing down after a dirty journy and is known before the scab breaks out by the swelling of the legs To cure it rub off
the hollow joynts and ingender the Sorrances aforesaid To cure which take Perosin Tachamahacha and Mastick of each a quarter of an ounce Stone-pitch Brimstone and Turpentine of each half an ounce melt them together and spreading them plaisterwise upon Sheeps leather apply them to the place grieved and in five or six renewings the cure will be effected Wolfe-teeth what they are and of other Teeth troublesome to Horses THe Teeth so called in a Horse are two small ones growing in the upper Jaw by the Grinders paining the Horse and hindering his feeding to avoid which there is no way but punching them out and putting Salt in the places where they stood The tooth-ach or pain in the Teeth cometh by cold or hot humours falling into the jaw To cure which wash the Horses mouth with Chalk and strong vinegar laying to the Temples at the same time Rosin and Mastick If the Teeth be loose Lance the Gums and with Sage Elecampain roots and Salt boyled in running water wash the mouth of the Horse once every six hours and in so doing for a week together the teeth will become fast and firm The Wart or spungy excretion and Wenn their cause and cure THe first of these for the most part grows near the eye and is caused by a Phlegmatick humour setling there indangering the eye if not timely taken away to do which let it bleed and strow powder of Verdigriese upon it that failing cut it away or eat it off by tying a hair round it and heal it up after the root is taken away by applying Verdigriese powder with Greentreat The second Sorrance is a hard Tumour in the flesh greater or lesser as the humour feeds it by which it is ingendered it mostly proceeding from the effects of some stroke or bruise being mattery and corrupt towards the root to sink which bath it with Sope lees applying a plaister of Rye meal and Linseed-oyl and new-laid Eggs the Hair being clearly cut away Strangury or Strangullion it 's cause and cure THis distemper is caused by sharp and evil humours descending upon the Bladder which entring make raw the neck thereof often ulcerating it which causes the Horse to strain often for urine without any effect to the purpose yet such drops as fall come forth with great pain which is known by his whisking about his Tail and stamping To cure which use the same Medicine prescribed for the Stone Shoulder pinched what it is it 's cause and cure THis disadvantage to the Horse happens by over early labouring or straining the Horse or carrying great burthens and is known by the narrowness of the Horses shoulders or breast where the flesh seems continually to consume insomuch that the fore part of the shoulder blade will stick out further than the flesh leaving the Brisket hollow c. To remedy which with a sharp knife make a slit an inch long on both sides under the shoulder bone and raising the skin blow with a quill first one shoulder then another suffering the wind to gather into it even to the Withers still raising it and smoothing it with your hand striking the wind equally into every place the which when filled beat with a switch still loosening the skin with a flat instrument of Iron then Roweling the slits with two round Rowels made of the upper leather of a shoo having a hole in the middle for the water and matter to issue forth and then anoint his shoulders with Hogs-grease and Oyl of Turpentine by which means the skin giving way the shoulders will bear out in their due proportion Shoulder wrench or strain Shoulder splaiting or tornn and shoulder Pight their cause and cures THe first of these is a wrench that cometh divers ways as by travailing on uneven ground strain or slip in running c. The second cometh by an extraordinary slip that breaks some sinew or ligament parting in a manner the shoulder from the breast rendering the Horse exceeding lame The third is when the point or pitch of the shoulder is dislocated known by the sticking of the sharp bone and is got by some fall or extraordinary wrench To cure all which keep the Horses so grieved in a Stable without the least molesting them then putting them on Pastern shooes take of Dialthea one pound the like quantity of Olive Oyl Fresh Butter and Oyl of Bays of each half a pound the which melted and made into an Ointment anoint therewith the grieved part suppleing it with your hands for three or four days morning noon and night at the end of which if the shoulder swell as past doubt it will prick it with a Lancet or Phlegm or hot Iron continuing to anoint it with the ointment prescribed but if the swelling come to a Tumour that is gather a head Launce it in the place where it gathers anoint it with Green ointment to which the Table will direct you If your Horse be shoulder pight swim him in a River or other deep water and with his striving the bone will return to its place or if it be excessive frosty weather sling him upon a Beam by putting soft Girths or bands under his belly and so by strength pull it into its right place then letting him down gently suffer him to stand on soft straw to rest a while When the shoulder is brought right take two wooden pins of Ash or Elme each five inches long anoint them with Hogs-lard or Deers suit and slitting the skin about an inch above the point of the shoulder blade in four places thrust the Pins in crosswise gathering up as much of the skin as is possible then take strong Packthread or Whipcord and fastening one end to the uppermost part of the cross for both the ends of the pins which ought to be flat must appear without the skin twist it round as hard as is convenient at what time anoint it Hogs-lard and with Oyl of Cammomil suffer him to rest in a warm Stable giving him comfortable meats permitting him to lye down or stand awry as little as possible at the end of which time if the bone keep its right place you may turn him out to Grass always remembering every other day to anoint the place with what is before specified till the pins are worked out by nature yet in the interim you may work him in drawing matters but not in carrying heavy burthens Navel Gall the Sosrance so called its cause and cure and of Lice Flies c. THis Sorrance is no other than a Pinch with the Saddle right against the navel to cure which take Oyl of Bays Fox grease or Hogs grease of each an ounce adding a handful of Earth-worms and a like quantity of Salt boyl them all in a pint of Whitewine then adding two ounces of Olive Oyl boyl them again after straining the liquid part till it become an ointment and anointing therewith the Sorrance laying over it lint or flocks it will in a short time render it
whole Lice are occasioned by poverty dropping of Trees or the like and known by the Horses rubbing his Ears neck and other parts c. To kill them wash him over with the decoction of Henbane in Cow-piss or with Tobacco stalks and Copras boyled in water or man's Urine To keep your Horse from being annoyed with Flies anoint him with Oyl of Bays water wherein Rue has been sodden or Linseed Oyl and no Flie will settle on him Red-Water Over-reach Salender and stinking Breath their respective causes and cures REd-water is an infectious water which proceeds from most wounds occasioned by the ill humours that flow from divers parts of the body and greatly hinder the cure To extract which or disperse the humour rub him well all over his body but especially his belly and giving him to drink water wherein has been boyled the roots of Emanuel or All-good a Herb so called and Mustard seed of each a pound to three Gallons of water Over-reach cometh by a slip or strain or by the Horses running beyond his strength and the cure is the same with the upper and nether Attaint which Receipt you may find in the foregoing part of this book being directed thereto by the Table Stinking breath is occasioned by the putrefaction of the Lungs and is soon discovered by those that have their smelling to remedy which take Colts foot Fennel Anniseeds and Fennegreek of each a handful boyl them in Beer or Ale to the quantity of three pints and straining them give him the liquor hot as he can drink it and in so using him ten or twelve days if the Lungs be not too much perished with the corruption which proceeds by raw humours descending upon them through foul feeding or unwholesom air the cure will be effected As for the consumption of the Liver caused by some inbred distemper there is no certain cure yet to preserve and perhaps restore it give your Horse in a pint of Mallagoe half a pint of Pigs blood both as warm as may be and so do three days successively feeding him in the mean time with black Oats and giving him to drink new wort and the night before he receives the Medicine permit him to eat nothing or for want of this take an ounce of the powder of Agrimony a handful of Red rose leaves and of Saccarum Diarchadon Disantelon Abbatis and Licorish of each half an ounce boyl them in two quarts of Malmsey and give him a pint to drink four mornings successively suffering him to eat Mashes and the like during the said days Ring bone Rottenness and Rheumes their cause and cure THe Ring bone comes divers ways especially two the one is hereditary from the Mare or Stallion the other by a bruise c. and is a vicious humour which causeth gristly flesh upon the Coronet till at length fastening to the bone it becomes hard as a bone making the leg to swell and the flesh higher in that place than any other to kill or take away which take unslacked Lime burn it well and beating it into powder lay it upon the bone to the quantity of two ounces binding it about with a linnen cloath and immediately put your Horse into the water then the Lime slacking will burn the core and kill it so that in a short time it will diminish Rottenness is a putrefaction of the Lungs and Liver the which if far gone admits no cure but if not so take what I have before prescribed for the Lungs and Liver using them after the same manner A direction to which you will find in the Table the which use also for the Rot that causes swelling like the Dropsie Rheums falling upon the Jaw c. come by cold which so infeeble the Gums that they shrink away leaving the teeth loose staring out long and uneven greatly hindering the Horse from eating To cure which give your Horse Conserve of Elecampain roots two ounces in a pint of Mallagoe very warm adding thereto two new-laid Eggs beaten well half an ounce of Anniseeds and a Nutmeg grated small give it him warm four Mornings and afterward wash his mouth with Sage Allum and Sugarcandy dissolved in Vinegar The Yellows and Falling of the Yard and Sway-back their cause and cure THe Yellows is properly the Yellow Jaundice most commonly accompanyed with the black though of different natures for the Yellow is moist and the Black dry the former proceeding from the over flowing of the Gall and the latter from the Spleen being the most dangerous the former is known by the yellowness of the Horses Lips Eyes c. and the Black by a black duskish colour striving to master the Yellow the which when it has done it mostly proves Mortal To cure them take the juice of Celendine four ounces Turmerick and Pepper bruised into powder of each an ounce the iuice of Burdock roots two ounces bruised Anniseeds and Liquorish powder of each half an ounce mix them together and having set a quart of Beer over the fire when it is boyling hot put them into it adding six peny-weight of Saffron half an ounce of London Treacle and two ounces of Butter and give him half of it in the morning fasting and the other half in the evening and so continue to do four days successively The falling of the Yard happens through cold or defect in the Horse through the weakness of that Member the Sinews or Muscles strained and lastly through weariness after great journies To prevent which wash his Yard with Whitewine anoint it with Oyl of Roses and Hony and so putting it into his sheath bolster it up and in so doing once or twice he will afterwards recover strength to keep it up The Sway Back which is both undecent and a great weakness in the Horse is caused divers ways sometimes by heavy burthens other times by over straining or suddenly turning round as also naturally and is known by the rigling of the hinder parts by his frequent swaying backward or sideways and trouble in rising when he is laid To cure which take the Oyl of Pine Aples two ounces three ounces of Olibanum four ounces of Rozin of Pitch a like quantity of Bolearmonick an ounce and of Sanguis Draconis half the quantity all which being by fire incorporated spread them plaisterwise and lay them on the place grieved and by twice renewing it the grief will be at an end Quitterbone and quick-scab their cause and cure THe Quitterbone a Sorrance so called is a hard swelling upon the Cornet between the quarter and the heel commonly found on the inside of the foot occasioned by the long continuance of Gravel in the Shoo a bruise upon the hoof Stub prick of a nail or the like which for want of timely care fester and break out above the hoof and sometimes it has its original from evil humours descending into the foot c. To cure it take away the hair open the sorrance and tent it with Hogs lard and