hath one Complexion as green if upon Hay then another as a little more dark If upon little Provender then inclining to yellow But to avoid both curiosity and doubt observe well the Complexion of his Dung when he is in best Health and the best feeding and as you finde it alter so judge either of his Health or Sickness as thus If his Dung be clear crisp and of a pale yellowish Complexion hanging together without separation more then as the weight breaks it in falling being neither so thin nor so thick but it will a little flat on the Ground and indeed both in Savour and Substance resembling a sound Mans Ordure then is he clean well fed and without Imperfection If it be well Coloured yet fall from him in round Knots or Pellets so it be but the first and second Dung the rest good as aforesaid it matters not for it only shews he did eat Hay lately and that will ever come away first But if all his Dung be alike then it is a Sign of foul feeding and he hath either too much Hay or eats too much Litter and too little Corn. If his Dung be in round Pellets and blackish or brown it shews inward Heat in the Body If it be Greasie it shews foulness and that Grease is Molten but cannot come away If he void Grease in gross Substance with his Dung if it be white and clear then it comes away kindly and there is no danger but if it be yellow or putrified then the Grease has long layn in his Body and Sickness will follow if not prevented If his Dung be red and hard then he hath had too strong Heats and Costiveness will follow if not prevented if it be pale and loose it shews inward coldness of Body or too much moist and corrupt feeding Signes from the Vrine Though the Urine be not altogether so Material as the Dung yet it hath some true Faces as thus Pale Colour That Urine that is of a pale yellowish Colour rather thick then thin of a strong smell and piercing condition is an healthful sound and good Urine but if it be of an high red Complexion either like Blood or inclining to Blood then hath he had either two sore Heats been over-ridden or ridden too early after Winter-Grass High Complexion If the Urine be of an high Complexion clear and transparent like old March Beer then he is inflamed in his Body and hath taken some Surfeit White like Cream If it carry a white Cream on the top it shews a weak Back or Consumption of the Seed Green A green Urine shews Consumption of the Body Bloody streaks A Urine with bloody Streaks shews an Ulcer in the Kidneys and a black thick cloudy Urine shews Death and Mortality Of Sickness in general Whensoever upon any occasion you shall find your Horse droop in Countenance to rorsake his Meat or to shew any other apparent sign of Sickness if they be not great you may forbear to let Blood because where the Blood is spent the Spirits are spent also and they are not easily recovered But if the Signes be great and dangerous then by all means let Blood instantly and for three Mornings together the Horse being Fasting give him half an Ounce of the Powder called by me Diahexaple and by the Iâ—alians Râ—gina Medicinae the Queen of Medicines brewed either in a Pint of Muskaâ—iâ—â— or 〈◊〉 or a Pint of the Syrup of Sugar being two degrees above the ordinary Molosses or for want thereof Molosses will serve the turn and where all are wanting you may take either a Pint of Dragon-water or a quart of the sweetest and strongest Alâ—wort or in extremity take a quart of strong Ale or Beer but then warm it a little before the Fire This must be given with an Horn and if he hath Ability of Body ride him in some warm place after and let him fast near two houres after the Riding At Noon give him a sweet Mash Cleath very warm and let him touch no cold water The making of the Diahexaple you may finde in the Table General Observations in the Physi king Horses Know then first that whensoever you give your Horse any inward Portion or Glister give it him no more then Milk-warm for there is nothing more Mortal to a Horse then the Scalding of his Stomach for a Horse of all living Creatures can worse endure to receive inwardly hot things Besides let his Drinks and inward Medicines be given him easily and gently leâ—t in making too much haste you suffocate him which if it do you must then let his Head loose and walk him up and down till the Passion be past Now for the Administring of Pills â—alls and such like Medicines little Advice is required if they be not made too great only if you take forth his Tongue first and then put them up into his Mouth upon the end of a stick then let go his Tongue again which when he draws it into his Mouth he must needs force the â—alls down his Throat You are to Administer your Physick â—ermore fasting unless upon urgent occasion as in case of sudden and dangerous Sickness and the longer he be kept Fasting from Meat and Drink as well before he taketh as Physick as after it will be the better for by that means his Medicine will work the more kindly in his Body for he ought to be kept from eating and drinking at least three houres before and after Purging Balls how made and given Take an ounce or an ounce and a half of Aloes Succotrina more or less according to the strength and Constitution of your Horse powder it very well and mix it with a little fresh Butter Then divide it into three equal parts and cover them all over with fresh Butter to prevent the bitter taste of the Aloes Make them about the bigness of a large Wall-nut shaped thick in the middle and sharp at both ends and given him in the Morning fasting If you think them not stiff enough with Butter alone you may mix some Bran with it and then they will be as stiff as Dough or Paste What Exercise is meet with Physick A little moderate Exercise is very necessary whereby his Physick may work the better and the sooner as to Trot him easily about or to walk him up and down under the Wind in the warm Sun about a quarter of an hour Then bring him into the Stable and Cloath him up warm and Litter him well and let his keeper be with him three or four houres observing his Postures and as occasion may require to help him with all things necessary for his use No Creature hath a moister Body then a Horse Of Mixing your Simples If your Horses Sickness be a Feaver to mix always your Simples with warm Water with Honey or with Oyl but if the Disease be Coughs Rhenms or any thing that proceedeth of cold Causes then mix them with good Ale or Wine but if he be
THE EXPERIENCED FARRIER OR Farring Compleated In TWO BOOKS PHYSICAL and CHYRURGICAL BRINGING Pleasure to the Gentleman and Profit to the Countrey-man In Which You have the Whole BODY SUM and SUBSTANCE of it in one Entire Volume in so Full and Ample Manner that there is Little or Nothing more Material to be Added Hereto For here is Contained Every Thing that Belongs to a True HORSE-MAN GROOM FARRIER or HORSE-LEACH Viz. BREEDING The Manner How The Season When The Place Where The Colours Marks and Shapes of all Stallions and Mares and what are Fit for Generation The Feeder Rider Keeper Ambler and Buyer As also the Making of several Precious Drinks Suppositories Balls Purgations Scourings Ointments Salves Powders Waters Baths Charges Perfumes And Directions how to use them for all Inward and Outward Diseases ALSO The PARING and SHOOING of all Manner of HOOFES and in what Point that Art doth Consist The Prices and Vertues of most of the Principal Drugs both Simple and Compound belonging to Farring and where you may buy them Viz. Roots Barks Woods Flowers Fruits Seeds Juices Gums Rozins Simples from Plants Animals their Parts and their Excrements Minera's Metals and Stones Together with Chymical Oyls and Spirits Electuaries Treacles Powders Waters Plaisters and Ointments c. You have Also A Large TABLE of the Virtues of most Simples Set down Alphabetically and many Hundreds more of Simples Placed one after another for the Cure of all Inward and Outward Diseases which you are to make Use of according to your Discretion With many New Receipts of Excellent Use and Value Never yet Printed before in any Author The Second EDITION much Enlarged and Amended and Two New Sheets of the Prices and Virtues of DRUGS added to the Table of DRUGS that was not in the Former Impression with a Caution to the Farrier about his Buying of them Also One Hundred and Fifty New Receipts and Thirty Directions for the Physicking of Horses with about Two Thousand New Simples and an Advertisement touching their Usefulness With many other New Additions too tedious here to Rehearse By E. R. Gent. LONDON Printed by Richard Northcott Adjoyning to St. Peters Alley in Cornhil and at the Marriner and Ancher upon New-Fish-street Hill near London-Bridge 1681. TO THE READER YOU would say That this Book tho' New is no otherwise then Old by reason that a great part thereof are Collections and therefore the less to be regarded Let me Ask you one Question Is the Honey the worse because the Bee sucks it out of many Flowers Or Is the Spiders Web the more to be valued because extracted out of her own Bowels Let not this be any Prejudice to this Book but peruse it without Partiality and with the Judgement of a Farrier And you shall then find That these Old Collections are become New not because they are New Printed but because they are New Digested and Modelized and put into a better Form and Method then ever yet before Printed For let me tell you there was never any thing in this Nature ever Printed before but there was something or other wanting to make it a Compleat Book of Farring But in this you shall find nothing wanting either to the perfecting a Cure of all Diseases of a Horse either inward or outward or to the making a Man a Compleat Horseman Besides these Old Collections you shall find a great many New Additions As first A Table of the Prices and Vertues of most of the Principal Drugs both Simple and Compound belonging to Farring as they are commonly Sold at the Druggists in London with a Caution to the Buyer of them A Table so very useful that 't is much to be wondred at that amongst so many Excellent Books of Farring as are Extant in the World there should be nothing of this kind ever before annexed to them Secondly you have a large Table of the Nature Temperature and Virtues of most Simples set down Alphabetically Thirdly you have an Account of many Hundreds more of Simples placed in order one after another for the Cure of all inward and outward Diseases with an Advertisement touching the Usefulness of them Fourthly wherever you find a Hand pointing in the Margin you shall find such Receipts as have been often made use of with very good success and which was never yet Printed before in any Author Fifthly you have the Gathering Drying and Preserving of Simples and their Juices Sixthly you have the Method of making of Syrups Decoctions Oyls Ointments Plaisters Charges Poultisses Balls c. Seventhly you have hot Medicaments appropriate to the Parts of the Body Eighthly you have Cold Medicaments appropriate to the same Use Ninthly you have the Properties of Purging Medicaments Tenthly you have the Properties of Altering Medicaments Eleventhly you have a Table of the Diseases of a Horse either inward or outward set down Alphabetically shewing you where they do grow in any part of the Body How you may know them and what were the Causes that bred them Twelfthly you have in the Table of the said Diseases the Page quoted where to find the proper Cures for every Disease Thirteenthly and lastly you have Five Infallible Cures never yet put to Press before which the Table of Diseases will direct you to viz. The Glanders Farcin Staling of Blood Scratches and making the brittlest Hoof that is so Tough that it will carry a Shoo Passing well With many other things Contained in this Book which is not here Inserted By E. R. Gent. If you desire to Know the Vsefulness of your General Simples set down in Order one after another in the First and Second Part before every Disease Look for page 229. and that will inform you Amend the Errata's before you fall to Practice The BOOKSELLER to the READER COURTEOUS READER HAving long since Printed with great Care Pains and Industry this my Experienced Farrier for the Cure of all Inward and Outward Diseases both in Horses and Mares And finding it hath been Received by all Lovers of Horses or Horsemanship with a General and Friendly Liking Emboldens me once more to Present You with a Second Impression well hoping it may find no worse Vsage from you then the former had done but be Received with the same Candour Favour and Esteem equal with that and the rather by reason that the many Errors committed in the former Edition is now carefully Corrected and Amended in this and very many Vseful Additions Added hereto that were not in the former Impression there being no less then One Hundred and Fifty New Receipts Besides the Addition of two New Sheets of the Prices and Virtues of Drugs very useful for all Farriers to know with a Caution to the Buyers of them Also about Two Thousand New Simples with their Vsefulness declared put to the End of the other General Simples for the Cure of all inward and outward Diseases which upon your Perusal you may find here and there scattered throughout the whole Work You
in Working otherwise it could not hold good in case of Surfeits Tiredness and of Convulsions and the like wherein consisteth its chief Vertues being administred outwardly but being administred inwardly it is not altogether so hot for it helpeth Feavers for the most part and I think it is most safe to give not above two spoonfuls of it in a quart of good strong Beer or Ale though Mr. Markham adviseth to give four or five spoonfuls in Sack or Muscadine which are hot things of themselves The Confection called Arman To make this Confection of Honey of Roses a pound and a half as much as will suffice of the Crumbs of the whitest Manchet made into fine powder then take of Cordial-powder of Nutmegs and of Cinnamon of each an Ounce and a half mix all these together being first made into fine powder then put it into a Gally-pot and moisten it with Rose-Vineger that it may be of a thick substance like unto Pap and so keep it for your use When you use it put some of it upon the end of a Bulls Pizel into his Mouth and let him champ thereon but if you give it for the Quinsey or Feaver give him down two Hornfulls of it and do this in the Morning fasting and let him fast two or three houres after it The Vertues of this Arman It provoketh a good Appetite to Meat and causeth good Digestion and taketh away all Annoyances that troubleth the Stomach it cooleth the inward heat in the Body it helpeth all Agues and Feavers and is most excellent against Surfeits it is good for the Quinsey in the Throat coming of Cold taken and very good against the Gripings in the Belly or Guts proceeding of Wind This Confection was brought out of France How to make the Cordial Powder which we have likewise from the French Take Cynamon and Sugar of each four Ounces and of fine Bole-Armoniack two Ounces make them into very fine powder and mix them well together and keep it for your use in a Gally-pot close stopped The Vertues of it It is good for Sick Horses that are far spent with a Consumption in the Flesh and Liver c. For it is a most Restorative Cordial comforting the Vital parts and Spirits Animal and restoreth it to Sanity Another Cordial Powder called Electuarium Theriacum by reason it hath much Treacle in it Take Syrop of Violets Syrop of Lemons Syrop of Roses of each half an Ounce adding to it an Ounce of London-Treacle which is the best of all Treacles for Horses mingle them well together and it is a most Sovereign Cordial to be Administred to Horses that are sick and weak To make the black and red Aegiptiacum which are both Corrosives For their Natures are to Corrode and eat away all manner of Deal Proud Rotten and naughty Flesh out of any old Sore or Vicer and they do also cleanse and prepare a Sore and make it apt to be healed with Carnifying or healing Sâ—lves Take two pounds of Course English Honey Verdegrease Dyers Galls and green Copperas of each four Ounces make them all into Powder and mixed together and put into an Earthen Pot and set it upon the Fire keeping it stirring but so soon as it begins to boyl take it off and let it cool for if it boyl too long it will become red which will not be so good This black Aegypâ—iacum is good to dissolve the Hooâ—s of a Horse if they be too dry or hard so as it will cause the Corruption if any be in the Foot to ascend above at the Cronet where the Hair is and also to restore the Hoof of the Horse when the Sole is taken out and in this Nature you must use this Unguent but only at the third dressing after you have taken out the Sole The Red Aegiptiacum is thus made Take course Honey two poun is Verdegrease four Ounces green Copperas two Ounces beat the Verdegrease and the Copperas very small to Powder then put it into an Earthen Pot and put unto it a little Vineger and so boyl it very well till it become red and keep it for your use General Drenches or Receip's for all inward Diseases or Sickness The Spaniards have this Receipt for all inward Diseases Take Wheat-Meal twelve pounds Anniseeds four Ounces in sine Powder Brimstone in Powder three Ounces Fennegreek in Powder three Ounces and a half Cummin in Powder three Ounces Honey two pounds good Sallet-Oyl one pound and a half of good Sack as much These are all to be put into a Pot well nealed and boyled until it be thick and when it is cold to make it up into Pâ—lls or Balls you must keep it stirring while it is a boyling otherwise it will burn to and when they are thus made into Pills give him of them four or five Mornings together fasting These killeth Wormes in a Horses Body helpeth Diseases of the Lungs and inward parts and is a very good Plaister applied outwardly It is most useful in all cold causes and it is so Cordial that it will bring a lean and poor Horse unto Flesh and good state in a little time Another Excellent Receipt for all inward Diseases Take Wheat-Meal six pounds or as much as will bring the Ingredients unto a stiâ—â— paste Anniseeds two Ounces Cummin two Ounces wild or Bastard-Saffron two drams and an half white-Wine four pintâ— Fennegreek one Ounce and two drams Brimstone one Ounce and a half Sallet-Oyl apint and two Ounces English Hony one pound and a half Make those things into powder that will beat to powder then compound them together and make it into a stiff Paste and keep it in a Gally-pot close covered for your use When you use it make a Ball thereof as big as a mans Fist and dissolve it in two Gallons of fair water till it be all Molten let him drink of this Morning and Evening so long as he please and let him have no other water to drink to the end he may be the better compelled to drink it which in the end he will do and like it very well This is good for many inward Infirmities it raiseth and battleth a Horse much better then either Grass or Provender and giveth him Life Spirit and Stomach and keepeth him in perfect Health Another Receipt for all inward Diseases Take Fennegreek Turmerick Grains Anniseeds Licoris long Pepper Cummin of each half an Ounce and of Saffron one dram and of Herbs take Celendine Rue Pelamontine Hysop Thyme and Rosemary of all of them no more then will make half a handful chopt small and boiled first in a quart of good Ale or Beer then put in your Spices finely powdred and boil them again then strain it and put to it the quantity of an Egg of sweet Butter and an Ounce of London Treacle and give it him Blood-warm and Ride him moderately after it and set him up warm and let him fast three or four houres and let his Drink be either
near to their standing selling price as can be possibly for Goods that do Rise and Fall yet notwithstanding this I am perswaded to believe they yet get four pence out of every shillings worth of Goods they generally sell c. THE SECOND PART OF THE EXPERIENC'D FARRIER SHEWING I. The Nature Temperature and Vertue of most Simples for the Cure of all inward and outward Diseases never yet Printed in this Nature before II. You have things in general set down one after another for the Cure of all diseases which you may use as your discretion serves III. You have severally particular Receipts for the Cure of all Diseases IV. Where you find the Hand Pointing you shall finde such Receipts that were never before Printed V. You have the Gathering Drying and Preserving of Simples and their Juices VI. You have the way of making and keeping of all necessary Compounds VII You have hot Medicaments appropriate to the Parts of the Body VIII You have cold Medicaments appropriate to the Parts of the Body IX You have the Properties of Purging Medicaments X. You have the Properties of altering Medicaments XI You have a Table of all the Diseases of a Horse either inwardly or outwardly set down Alphabetically where they do grow in any part of a Horses Body and how you may know them and what was the cause that bred them XII And lastly you have in the Margent of these said Diseases the Page quoted where to find the proper Cure for every of these Diseases with many other things contained in this Book not here inserted The Second Impression much Enlarged and Amended by A. O. LONDON Printed for Richard Northco Adjoyning to St. Peters Alley in Cornhâ—ll And at the Anchor and Marriner near London-Bridge 1680. Purging Simples Rubarb Cassia Tamarinds Myrobalans Aloes Seeny or Senna Mechoachan Root Agarick Pollypody Carthamus Bastard or Spanish Saffron Dwarfs Elder Ensula or Devils Milk Hermodactils Jallop Turbich Scamony Hellebore or Bears foot Colloquintida Spurge-Olive Spurge-Flax Lawrel Soldanella Turn-sole c. Binding-Simples Look for them in the Table at the latter End of the Book Foreign Simples that are Heating Ginger Zedory or Set-wall Galangel Acorus or Water-Flag Calamus Aromaticus or the Ariomatical Reed Costus Cinnamon Nutmegs Mace Pepper Cloves Cardamums Cubebs Kermes Sanders Sassafras China-Root Guiaccum or Lignum vitae Sarsaparilla Aloes wood c. Home-bred Heating Simples Pellitory of Spain Mustard Common and Treacle Mustard Rocket Nettles Flower-de-luce or Orrice Elecampane Cyprus Angelica Lovage Hartwort Gentian Turmentil Paeony Madder Rest-harrow Sea-holly Common-Grass Liquoris Sow-bread Radish-roots Anemone or Wind-Flower Wall-Flowers Tyme Marjorem Penny-Royal Polium Basil Origanum Mint Calamint Wormwood Mug-wort Balm Horehound Bitony Speedwell Ditany Sage Clary French Lavender Scordium Rue Gromel Saxifrage Aristolochia or Birth-wort Asarabaca Burnet Germander Ground-pine Feather-few St. Johns-wort Hysop Cranes-bill Doronicum or Leopards-bane Cardus Benedictus Motherwort black Chameleon Thistle Valerian Fumitory Eye-bright Centory Rhaphonticum Coriander Wood-bine Broom Ashen-Keys Misletoe of the Oak poplar Cummin-seeds c. Cooling Simples Mandrake Night-shade Winter-Cherries Henbane Poppey Housleek Purslain Dogs-Tongue Plantine Knot-Grass Comfrey Sorrel Agrimony Sower-dock Primrose Cabbage or Garden Coleworts Flea-bane Colts-foot Hops Bistort Strawberry Bush Cinquefoil Goose-grass or Cleavers Scabius Cats-foot Melilots Fennegreek Red Cicers Lupins Sumack Myrtle Yarrow Tamarisk Before you enter upon the Use of these Simples unless you know them very well Look into the Table of Simples to see the Nature of them for some of them are very pernicious unless corrected by Art THE Nature Temperature and Vertue of most Simples set down Alphabetically As also some Drugs Liquors Seeds Rozins and Juices c. A. AGaricum or Agarick is a kind of Mushrom or Toad-stool It is hot in the first and dry in the second degree It expelleth Humors purgeth all phlegm and choler and is good for the Liver and Kidneys correct it with the powder of Liquoris Agripa is an Ointment that is good against all Humors Amoniacum is hot in the third degree and dry in the second it loosneth and dissolveth Humours Allom commonly called Roch-Allom is hot and dry in the third degree it is a drier up of Humors and is good for fore Mouths and old Cankers and Fistulaes and killeth the Wormes taken inwardly Alloes is hot and that in the first and second degree but dry in the third it is extream bitter yet without biting it is the most Natural Purger of Man and Beast that is for it strengthens the Heart and revives the Spirits it is also of an Emplastick and Clammy quality and somtimes binding being externally applied Sweet Almonds when they be dry be moderately hot but the bitter ones are hot and dry in the second degree there is in both of them a certain Fat and Oyly substance which is drawn out of them by pressing of them They provoke Urine and is very good for the Lungs and Liver Anniseed are hot and dry in the third degree saith Galen but others that they are hot in the second degree and much less then dry in the second degree they are good to expel Wind provoke Urine stir up Lust and is a great cleanser of the Breast from phlegmatick Humors Aâ—â—stolochia which we call Birth-wort or Harts-wort is hot and cleanseth but if it be Rotunda then it is so much the stronger being hot and dry in the fourth degree and draweth and purgeth thin Water and Phlegm and is good to open the Lungs and is good against all manner of Poison whatsoever or the Biting of any venomous Beast Armoniack both draweth cooleth and softneth Arsnick of both kinds is hot in the third and dry in the first degree it bindeth and eateth away proud and naughty Flesh and is a very strong Corrosive Assafoetida or Devils-Bit is a stinking Gum that is hot in the third and dry in the fourth degree it cleanseth evil Humors it is good for the Yellows and Staggers in a Horse a little piece of it being dissolved in Brandy and put it into his Eares Asphaltum is Pitch that is mixt with Bitumen it is hot and dry and omforteth any swelling Asponteo is hot in the first and dry in the second it cleanseth and draweth and is good to comfort the Stomach Ashes are hot and dry in the fourth degree and cleanseth mightily Asâ—rabacca is hot and dry with a purging quality yet not without a certain kind of binding the Roots are hot and dry more then the leaves they procure Urine The black Alier Tree the inner Bark of it is of a purging and drying quality it purgeth thick phlegmatick Humours and also Cholerick downwards and also by vomiting which must be used with care Of Aller or Alder Tree the leaves and bark of it are cold and dry and Astringent and is used against hot Swellings and Inâ—lammations especially of the Almonds and Kernels of the Throat the bark of it is used amongst poor Countrey Dyars
Kernels of the Nut is somewhat moist the leaves are good for hot swellings and the Water that is found in the hollow places of it will Cure Man or Bâ—ast of any Scurf Scab or running Tetters anointed therewith Blites are of a cold and moist Temperature and are good to stay Fluxes of Blood Bilberries called by some VVhorts and Whortle-berries are cold even in the latter end of the second degree and dry also and are of a binding quality there is two sorts of them a black and a red the black are good for hot Agues and to cool the heat of the Liver and Stomach and do bind the Belly the red are more binding and stay any Fluxes of Blood whatsoever used outwardly or taken inwardly Byfoil or Tway-blade are often used for Wounds both green and old and to Conglutinate and Knit Ruptures Bitumen is the fatness of the Earth swimming above the water which cast upon the Shore condensates and becomes hard and resembles dry pitch it discusses mollifies glutinates and defends from Inflammation It takes away gross humors in all parts of the Body and cures the Weakness of the Sinews Palsey and diseases of the Arteries from a cold cause Birch-tree the Juice of the leaves is good to wash a sore Mouth or Throat and is good to break the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder Birds-foot all the kinds of them are of a drying quality and therefore very good to be used in Wounds drinks and to be applied outwardly for the same purpose but the paler Flowered Birds-foot is good to break the Stone in the Back and Kidneys and helpeth the Rupture taken inwardly Bishops-weed is hot and dry in the third degree of a bitter taste and something sharp withal it provokes Lust causeth Urine is good for the Wind and for the biting of venomous Beasts Bistort or Snakeweed is cold and dry in the third degree the leaves and roots are excellent good to resist Poison or Plague and is good for all manner of Fluxes of blood whatsoever and stayeth a Lask is good for the Yellows Ruptures or Burstness and staling of blood One blade is a very Cordial Herb and will cause sweat and is sovereign against the Plague by expelling the Poison and is an excellent VVound-herb for green and old wounds and Sinews cut The Bramble or black Bush the flowers and leaves of the unripe fruit do very much bind and dry and is good for all kind of Fluxes the buds leaves and branches of it while they are green are of good use in Ulcers and putrid Sores the Root is good against the Stone in the Reins or Kidneys the leaves of them are good for sore Mouths and Throats or Quinsey the powder of the dried leaves strewed on Cankers do wonderfully heal them Burrage and Bugloss is in a mean betwixt hot and cold the leaves and roots are good against Pestilential Feavers Poison of venomous Beasts Yellows Itch Tettars Wormes Weakness Corruption Cough sore Mouth or Throat Blew-bottle is naturally cold dry and binding the powder of the dried leaves is good taken inwardly is good for broken Veins and given with Plantine water expelleth Poison or the Plague the Juice of it is good to soddâ—r green wounds together and is good to heal Sores in the Mouth And the Juice of the leaves dropped into the Eyes taketh away the Inflammation of them Braâ—k-ursine Bears-breech and Acanthus is betwixt hot and cold being somewhat moist with a mollifying and digesting quality as are these of the Mallow and are good to put in Glisters to Loosen the Belly the Decoction taken inwardly is good for the bloody Flux and Burstness and is good for Hectick Feavers Or applied made up in a Poultess unite broken bones and strengthens the Joynts that have been put out and is an excellent Remedy for burnings by Fire White Bâ—iony is hot and dry in all parts in the third degree both the white and the black are furious Martial Plants and purge the Belly with great violence and therefore you are to Correct it and then it is very good for all manner of Griefs in the Head as also for the Joynts and Sinews Cramps and Convulsions Dropsey provoketh Urine and is good for the Stone Brook-lyme or VVater-Pimpernel is a hot and biting Martial Plant and is of the same Nature as Water-Cresses and are good to cleanse the blood provokes Urine and breaks the Stone Butchers broom is hot in the second and dry in the first and is of a cleansing Nature it openeth Obstructions provoketh Urine expelleth Gravel and the Stone and is good for the Strangury Yellows and pain in the Head Bâ—oom and Broom-rape the Twigs Flowers and feed of it are hot and dry in the second degree they are of a thin Essence and are of force to cleanse and open and especially the feed which is drier and not so full of superfluous moisture it is good for the Dropsey Cleanser of the Reins Kidneys and Bladder from the Gravel and Stone Bucks-horn Plantine is of a drying and binding quality it is good against Poison Stone in the Reins and Kidneys stoppeth a Lask and is good for a bloody Urine and bloody Flux Bucks-horn is called Harts-horn Herb-Ivy Wort-cresses or Swines cresses their vertues are the same with Bucks-horn Plantine Bugle is of a mean Temperature and is good taken inwardly to dissolve Congealed Blood that is occasioned by Bruises or Falls and is effectual in all VVound-drinks it is good for Fistulaes Gangrenes the leaves of it being bruised and applied to them Burnet is a drier and a binder yet it is meanly cool it is a most precious Herb little inferiour to Bitony it stancheth bleeding as well inwardly as outwardly and is good to stay the Lask and bloody Flux It is good for all old Ulcers or Running Cankers and moist Sores to be used either by Juice or Decoction of the Herb or Root the seed is also good for the same Purposes aforesaid The Butter-bur or Petasitis is hot and dry in the second degree and of thin parts the Roots is good against the Plague and Pestilential Feavers by provoking Sweat the Powder of the Root given in VVine is good to resist the force of Poison It is good for VVheezing and difficulty of Breathing kills flat and broad Worms Bran is hot and dry and dissolveth very much Burâ—-deck is dry and wasting the root is something hot the leaves are cooling and moderately drying and is good for old Ulcers and Sores the Juice of the leaves or roots is good against the biting of any venomous Beast the seed of it is most excellent to provoke Urine being beaten to Powder and drank in white-Wine or Ale and remedieth the pains in the Bladder It is good for Burnings Cankers Buâ—â— reâ—ds are cold and dry of Complexion Vipers bugloss all the kinds of them are cold and dry of Complexion Sea Bind-weed is hot and dry in the second degree Beares-â—oot or black Hellebore is hotter in taste then
Saffron boiled in Beer or Ale and this now and then used will keep a Horse in perfect Health Wormwood is good against Poison Quinsey biting and stinging of venomous Creatures Cholick Wormes and to keep Clothes from the Moths it helps the Spleen strengthens the Heart and heats the Stomach VVillow-Herb vide Loose-strife Wallwort or Danewort vide Dwarf-Elder Woodroff is of Temperature like unto our Ladies Bed-straw but not so strong being in a mean between heat and driness it prevaileth in Wounds as Cruciata and other vulneary Herbs doth The Leaves and Berries of the Wafering Tree are cold and dry and of a binding quality the Decoction of the Leaves is good to Seringe a sore Mouth with and is good for the Diseases of the Gums and fastneth loose Teeth VVormes do conglutinate and comforteth Sinews VVhite Lead is a great drier and shealer of Scabs and is good put into Medicines for Scratches and for Sellanders and Mallenders Y. Yarrow called also Nose-bleed Milfoyl and Thousand-leaf it cleanseth and is meanly cold but it most of all bindeth An Ointment of it Cureth wounds and is good for Inflammations It is good for the bloody Flux The Ointment is good not only for VVounds but Ulcers likewise and Fistulaes especially such as are bound with moisture The Hair being washed with the Decoction stayeth the shedding of it taken inwardly is good for the Mattering of the Yard and the Juice of it is most excellent or the decoction of it injected into the Yard with a Syringe to stop the extreme flowing of the Seed although the Issue dorh cause Inflammation and Swelling of the secret parts and though the Spermatick Matter do come down in great quantity as hath been very well proved VVater Yarrow is of a dry Faculty by reason it taketh away hot Inflammations and Swellings Z. Zuche which are called Gâ—urds are cold and moist in the second degree and allayeth all manner of Inflammations or hot Swellings Softning or dissolving Herbs are Four viz. Mallows Marsh-mallows black Violet and Bears-breech THE EXPERIENCED FARRIER The Second Part. Before you Enter upon the Drenching and Physicking of Horses Take these Directions with you I. THAT all Diseases are Cured by their Contraries and all parts of the Body are maintained by their like viz. If Heat be the Cause of the Distemper then appropriate those Medicinâ—s that are cold to it If cold then give hot If Wind be the cause of Illness then finde out in your Table of Simples proper Medicines for that Disease and use them according to Directions II. Apply not the Medicines to one part of the Body that are appropriated to another part viz. If the Brain be over-heated use not such Medicines as cool the Heart and Liver III. If you give distilled Waters for the Disease you intend to Cure Give such Water as is distilled out of the Herb proper for that Disease and sweeten it with the same quantity of Syrup as you give Water made also of the same Herb or some other proper for the Disease IV. If the Disease of the Body lie remote from the Stomach and Bowels then use Pills or Balls which is the most proper Physick for the Distemper because they are longest in digestion and therefore the most fit to carry off the Disease by degrees V. Rather be found faulty on the safer side by giving your Physick too weak then too strong VI. Consider the natural temper of your Horses Body that is afflicted and support it in that or else you weaken and destroy Nature in stead of Repairing it as the Heart is hot the Brain cold so apply your Simples accordingly 7. Those Medicines that are hot in the first degree are just of the heat and temper of the Blood and therefore most wholesom and proper for the Body VIII All Medicines that are opening and provoke Urine are best given in white-Wine or Ale for they are of an opening Nature and a great Strengthner of the Reins IX All Medicines that are given to stop any Loosness or Scouring let him fast three houres or more before he receive them X. Let your Medicines be proper to the humor offending or else you will weaken Nature not the Disease XI If the Humor offending be thin that you intend to remove then let your Medicine be gentle but if it be thick and tough then give him some cutting and opening thing the Night before to prepare his Body the better for his Purge the next day XII Have a care how you use binding Medicines when you purge tough humors XIII If your Horse be bound in his Body either Rake him with your Hand being first anointed with Sallet Oyl Hogs-Grease or sweet Butter before you pull his baked or hard dung from him or else give him a Glister before you give him a Purge XIV You must consider the strength and stature of your Horse and accordingly prepare your Medicines either stronger or weaker XV. If you give your Horse a Drench for a Cold you usually give him of these sorts of Powders viz. Fennegreek Liquoris Bay berries Anniseeds Cummin-seeds Grains of Paradice Long Pepper Elecampane Turmerick c. But be sure you exceed not above three Ounces of them in his Drench at one time XVI If you give a Horse a Scouring that is very strong and lusty you may venture to give him with safety an Ounce or more of the best Barbadoes Alloes which is the strongest sort of Aloes that is powdred and made up into Balls with fresh Butter as you have Directions afterwards XVII If you give Aloes Succotrina you may give an Ounce and an half of it because it is of a weaker Nature than the other dissolved on the Fire in half a Pint of white-Wine and brewed afterwards in a quart of strong Beer with about two Ounces of fresh Butter put into it which by reason of the Loosning and Opening quality it hath will cause the Aloes to work so much the sooner and better This Proportion is to be given only to a large and strong constitutioned Horse a less quantity will serve a smaller An Advertisement about the several sorts of Aloes and how you may know not only their Goodness but also distinguish them one from another There are four several sorts of them and differ only in Purity viz. Aloes Caballina Aloes Hepatica Aloes Barbadoes and Aloes Succotrina 1. Aloes Caballina is a yellowish sort of Aloes much of the colour of a boiled Liver and is somewhat dearer stronger and better then Aloes Hepatica This is seldom sold by it self but kept only to mix amongst the black and courser sort of Aloes to give them a good colour 2. Alâ—es Hepatica is much of the same kind with the Caballina for they come over mixt together but is of a blackish Roziny colour when Refined which is accounted the best colour 3. Aloes of Barbadoes is found out but of late years but is accounted the strongest sort of all the kinds of
Scaldings either by Shot Gun-Powder or Wilde-Fire The leaves or roots of the yellow Lilly Daffodil stamped with Honey the Juice of an Onion the Juice of the red Lilly Lettuce the Juice of Thorn-Apples boiled in Hogs-Grease to the form of an Ointment cures all manner of Burnings or Scaldings whatsoever in a very short time Water Plantine the Juice of Housleek St. Johns wort bruised the Herb Tutsan or Park leaves an Ointment made of the Juice of Cowslips and Oyl of Linseed Cureth all manner of Scaldings or Burnings whatsoever Ivy that groweth upon Walls or Trees Brank-Ursine the Juice of Elder-leaves the Decoction or the distilled Water of Archangel the Flowers and Herb of Ladies Bed straw made into an Oyl by setting it in the Sun is good the leaves of the Bur-dock bruised with the White of an Egg is a most excellent thing for all manner of Burnings by Fire the Juice of Colts-foot the Decoction of Dasies Wall-wort and Agrimony cureth inward Burnings being given inwardly the Decoction of the leaves of Brank-Ursine Particular Receipts to Allay Burning with Shot Gun-Powder or wilde Fire Take Varnish and put it into fair Water and beat them very well together then pour away the Water from the Varnish and anoint the place burned with a Feather dipt into it and in a few days dressing it will kill the Fire which done heal the Sore with your carnifying and healing Salves Another Take Hogs-Grease and set it on the Fire and take off the Filth that shall arise and when it is well boyled take it off the Fire and put it into an Earthen Pan to cool for four or five Nights together in the open Air then wash it in fair Running Water so often till it become White then melt it down again and keep it for your use and anoint the place grieved and it will Cure him Another Take fresh Butter and the Whites of Eggs as much of each as will suffice beat them well together till you bring them to a formal Ointment and anoint the places burned therewith and it will speedily take away the Fire and Cure them soundly Another Take a stone of quick Lime which must be well burned which you may know by its lightness dissolve it in fair Water and when the Water is setled strain the clearest through a fine Cloth then put into the water either the Oyl of Hemp-seed or Sallet Oyl of like quantity with the water and so beat them well together you shall have an excellent Unguent very precious for all sorts of Burnings And the Nature of these three Unguents be to leave no scars Wherefore we apply them for most sovereign Remedies as well for Man as Beast To Help a Horse that is Costive in his Body Take a Decoction of Mallowes one quart Sallet Oyl half a Pint or fresh Butter half a pound Benedicta laxativa one Ounce give him this Blood-warm Glister-wise then clap his Tail to his Tuel and hold it close and make him keep it for half an houre at the least and when it hath workt give him a sweet Mash and so keep him to Mashes and white Water for two or three days What is good to make a Horse draw up his Yard To Bathe his Yard and Sheath with white-Wine made warm then anoint it with Oyl of Roses and Live Honey mingled together and so put up the Yard into the Sheath and with a short Bolster of Canvass keep it from falling down and dress him once every day till he be well and let his Back and Fillets be kept warm and anoint him with Acopum but if you have it not apply this Charge unto his Back and Fillets Take Bole-armoniack the Whites of Eggs Wheat-Meal Sanguis draconis Venice Turpentine and strong white-Wine Vineger of each as much as you think fit mix them well together and charge his Back with it as also his Sheath and his Stones Another Take the Ashes of Ashen wood the whitest finest and best burned and searce them one pound of Red Clay dried and made into fine powder half a pound Bolearmoniack half an Ounce powdred boyl all these in as much Verjuice of the Crab as will make it liquid like Pap and with it anoint his Yard Sheath and Stones Morning and Evening and he shall be presently Cured A Receipt to Scour and Cleanse a Horses Yard that is Foul and Furred by Pissing within his Sheath Draw forth his Yard and Rub and Pick off the Filth with your Hand and cleanse it well with Butter and white-Wine Vineger melted together and squirt some of it up into his Yard with a Syringe and he will do well A Receipt to Prevent Diseases in a Horse the whole Year The first day of April open a Vein in the Neck and if it be good take the less if bad take the more then from that day until the first of May give him this which I shall prescribe and let him have it Morning and Evening during the whole Month of April from the first to the last which is before his turning out to Grass or Soyling which shall be about the middle of May and let him have the same all the whole Month of October like as you must do in April after you have taken him from Grass about Bartholomew Tide that which I prescribe is this To Prevent Diseases Take a Bushel of Old Rye sweet and clean well purged or made clean from all Filth and put it in a clean Iron Pot dry and without Water put it over the Fire and put in your Rye and keep it continually stirring to the bottom until it be so parched that it becometh black hard and dry then take it from the Fire and put it into some clean Vessel and when it is cold keep it close stopped for your use When you use it take two or three Handfuls of it and beat it into fine Powder and mingle it amongst his Provender at every Watering Morning and Evening or at other times when you give him Oates do this these two entire Months of April and October for all Men hold that in these two Months the Blood turneth and altereth as we alter his Diet from hard and dry Meat to Grass and so likewise from Grass to dry Meats for this Rye thus parched and ordered doth refine the Blood cool the Liver and purgeth the Spleen so as the whole Structure of the Body is thereby better â—ured and freed from all such bad and unnatural Humours which would otherwise make the Body inclinable to sundry Maladies and Diseases which this Rye preventeth Things good to keep a Horse from Casting forth his Drink As it proceeds from Cold in the Stomach or other Causes as Cold in the Head where the Rheum bindeth about the Roots and Kernels of the Tongue hath as it were strangled and made strait the Passages to the Stomach therefore to prevent this mischief you must give him Cordial and warm Drinks as Malmsey Cinnamon Anniseeds and Cloves well brewed
is the least of all Weights M. A handful P. A Pugil p. A. part A. Of each alike Note that Twenty Graines Make A Scruple Three Scruples Make A Dram Eight Drams Make An Ounce Twelve Ounces Make A pound FINIS A TABLE Alphabetically set down shewing where the Diseases of a Horse do Grow either inward or outward in any Part of his Body and how you may Know them and what were the Causes that Bred them The Pages Direct You to their Cuâ—es which are found only in the Second Part. A. ACcloyed or Cloyed is no other then Prickt with a Nail in the Shooing vide Prickt page 396 Arristes vide Rat-tails 377 St. Anthonies Fire is a vehement burning disease in the Flesh and is of the Nature of Noli me tangere or Wilde Fire and is named of some The Singles of an horse which is very hard and difficult to Cure 233 and 234 Anticor or Heart-sickness is caused many times by too much seeding without exercise and sometimes by hard and immoderate Riding and careless looking after him afterwards which makes the Blood of this useful Creature a Horse so corrupted and inflamed that unless it find some way to vent it self forth it soon puts a Period and End to his Life This Disease hath its Seat and Residence near the Heart and is known by a Swelling in the middle of his Breast against the Heart from whence it derives its Name 234 Attaint upper is a Swelling of the Master or Back-Sâ—new of the Fore-legs near the Pastorn-Joynt and cometh ordinarily by an Over-reach 235 Attaint Nether is the same with the other coming sometimes by a Wrench and sometimes by a strain All the difference of them is whereas the other is upon the Foot-lock Joynts this is under it and is usually upon the Heel or Frush and is not always visible to the Eye but it may be felt by the heat and burning of it and by its softness which will arise by a Swelling like a Bladder or Blister wherein will be corrupt and vitious matter like to Jelly which will make him complain very much ib. Anbury is a kind of Wenâ— or spungy Wart growing upon any part of a horses Body 279 Apoplexie vide Palsey Ach or Numbness in the Joynts cometh by Cold taken by hard and violent exercise or labour 232 Avives Vives or Fiveâ— see Vives B. Bloody Flux vide Flux bloody 310 Back-swayed vide Swaying in the back Barbes are a common Disease and few horses are without them they are known by two Paps under his Tongue which seldom prove hurtful to him till they be inflamed with corrupt blood proceeding from vitious humours which wilâ— make them raw and grow beyond their usual length and cause them to become very painful to him which will hinder his feeding You must clip them away with the Scissers 301 Blood-spaven is a soft Swelling which groweth through the Hough and is commonly full of blood and is biggest upon the inside and being fed by the Master-Vein makes it greater then the swelling on the outside It runneth down the inside of the Hough down the Leg to the Pastorn This Disease is occasioned from the corruption of the Blood taken by hard Riding when the Horse is young and tender which by overmuch heating makes it so thin and flexible that the humour falling downwards resideth in the Hough which makes the Joynts stiff and causeth him to go with great pain and difficulty This Disease not growing hard makes it more easie to Cure then the Bone-spaven 260 Bone-spaven is a great Crust as hard as a bone if it be let run too long it sticketh or rather groweth on the inside of the Hough under the Joynt near to the great Vein which maketh him to Halt very much it cometh at first like a tender Gristle which by degrees cometh to this hardness It is bred several Ways either by immoderate Riding or hard labour which dissolves the Blood into thin humours and falleth down and maketh its residence in the Hough which causeth the place to swell and so becometh a hard Bone which occasions this name of Bone-spaven it cometh also hereditary from the Sire or Dam which are troubled with the same dâ—sease 261 Blood-running Itch cometh by the Inflammation of the Blood being over-heat by hard Riding or other sore labour It getteth between the skin and the flesh and maketh a Horse to rub scrub and bite himself which if let alone too long will come to a grievous Mange and is very infectious to any Horse that shall be nigh him What cureth the Mange cureth this disease 369 Bots and Wormes in general are of three sorts viz. Bots Trunchions and Maw-wormes Bots are usually found in the great Gut near the Fundament Trunchions are found in the Maw and if they continue there too long they will eat their Passage through which will certainly bring death if not killed The third sort are called plain Wormes which remain in a Horses Body which are of an evil effect also Bots are a small worm with great heads and small tails breeding in the great Gut adjoyning to the Fundament which may be taken away by your hands by picking them away from the Gut where they stick Trunchions are short and thick and have black and hard heads and must be removed by Medicine Maw-wormes are of a reddish colour somewhat long and slender much like unto Earth-wormes about the length of a Mans Finger which also must be taken away by Medicine They proceed all from one cause which is raw gross and phlegmatick matter engendred from foul feeding which causeth all these three sorts of evil creatures to breed The Signes to know when he is troubled with them is He will stamp with his feet kick at his Belly turn his Head towards his tail forsake his meat He will groan tumble wallow and also frisk his tail to and fro 303 Bunches Knots Warts and Wens come somtime by eating of foul meat by bruises by hard riding and sore labor wherby the blood becomes so putrified and foul that it turns into evil humors which occasions these kind of sorrances 278 Blood-shotten Eyes or all diseases of the Eyes come of two causes viz. either inward or outward The inward Causes proceed from evil Humors that resort and flow to the Eyes or by some stroke or blow that is given him thereon 290 to 291 Bleeding at Nose cometh commonly among young horses proceeding from great store of blood or by means that the Vein ending in that place is either opened broken or fretted It is opened many times by reason that the Blood aboundeth too much or that it is too fine or too subtil and so pierceth through the Veins Or it may be broken by some violent strain cut or blow Or it may be fretted or gnawn asunder by sharpness of the blood or by some other evil humours contained therein 306 Botch in the Groyn cometh by reason that a horse being full of humours and
a sweet Mash or white Water This is very good against Feavers Colds and the Yellows Another Receipt for inward Sickness Take Aristolochiâ— Rotunda Bay-berries Gentian Anniseeds Ginger and of Trifora Magna of each an Ounce beat all the Simples to very fine powder and mix them well together then take of white-Wine or good Ale or Beer a quart then put into it one spoonful of all of them with half a pâ—nt of Sallet-Oyl and of Mithridate two drams warm these upon a Fire and administer it Blood-warm and Exercise him before and after his drink but not to Sweat him neither let him drink any cold Water in four or five days after but either warm Mashes or white Water This is most Sovereign for any inward Sickness Droopings forsaking of Meat Feavers Colds Coughs or the like A Suppository for inward Sickness If he be so sick that you fear to give him any strong Medicine and that Costive withal then give him this Suppository Take of Honey six Ounces of Salt-Niter one Ounce and a half of Wheat-Flower and of Anniseeds beaten into fine powder of each one Ounce boyl all these into a hard thickness and make it into Suppositories and after you have Anointed your Hand with Sallet-Oyl and the Suppository likewise convey it into his Fundament a pretty way and Tie his Tayl betwixt his Legs to his Girts or else hold it close with your hand about a quarter of an hour till it be throughly dissolved and this will purge kindly and Loosen his Guts so that you may be the more bold to Administer what Drinks Cordials or other things which you think most requisite for his recovery Other General Drâ—nâ—hes to Cure all inward Sickness in Horses which trouble the whole Body of Feavers of all sorts Plagues Infections and such like Sickness in General are of two Kinds one offending the whole Body the other a particular Member the first hidden and the second visible Of the first then which offend the whole Body are Feavers of all sorts as the Quotidian the Tertian the Quartan the Continual and the Hectick the Feavers in Autumn in Summer or in the Winter the Feaver by Surfet Feaver Pestilent Feaver Accidental or the General Plague they are all known by these Signes much trembling panting and sweating a sullen Countenance that was wont to be chearful hot Breath sainting in Labour decay in Stomach and Costiveness in the Body c. First let him Blood then give him this Drink Take of Sellendine Roots leaves and all a good handful as much Wormwood and as much Rue wash them well then bruise them in a Mortar then boyl them in a quart of Ale or Beer then strain them and add to them a pound of sweet Butter then give it the Horse to drink luke-warm or half an Ounce of the powder of Diapente given in Sack or Ale two or three Mornings together Or give him three or four Yolks of new laid Eggs beaten with seven or eight spoonfuls of Aqua vitae or Brandy This is good when he hath his shaking Fit upon him Or take four Ounces of Diapente and mix it with four Ounces of clarified Honey and keep it in a close Glass and give him half an Ounce thereof in Wine or Ale or take of Licoras an Ounce of Anniseeds Cummin-seeds and Elecampane Roots of each half an Ounce of Turmerick and Bay-berries of each a quarter of an Ounce of long Pepper and Fennegreek of each two drams beaten small and put five spoonfuls thereof into a quart of Ale warmed with a little Putter or Oyl and it is very Sovereign for any Disease coming of cold Causes Or Red Sage Mint Sellendine and Rue boyled in Beer is good Diatessaron is good simply of it self so is Diapente or Diahexaple There are several particular Receipts which I might give you for every sort of these Feavers I have Named but I think these in General may serve instead of a more particular Account only observe this Note by the way That you must in all hot causes administer cooling things and in cold Causes hot things Signes whereby you may know every sort of Feaver Signes in General to know a Feaver is by holding down of his Head he will quake and tremble and when his trembling is over he will burn and his Breath be hot he will breath fast and his Flank will beat he will reel he will forsake his Meat his Eyes will swell and be closed up and watering his Flesh will as it were fall from his Bones and his Stones will hang down he will desire to drink yet not drink much neither will he sleep but more particularly A Quotidian Feaver proceeds from hard Riding being set up too hot in the Stable without Riding Quotidian or every days Feaver is known by Blood-shotten Eyes short and hot Breathing panting loathing of his Meat and stiffness in his Limbs and his Sickness will not last above six or eight houres in a day and then he will be well again Tertian Feaver proceeds from the same Causes as the Quotidian The Tertian or every other days Feaver is known by the Signes formerly spoken of and this as the chiefest that he will be sick as on Monday and well on the Tuesday and sick on the Wednesday following Quartan Feaver proceeds from the same Causes as the Tertian doth The Quartan Feaver as some Farriers call a third days Sickness as thus If his Fit begin on the Monday he will be well on the Tuesday and Wednesday and sick again on the Thursday There is no other Sign to know it then the coming and going of the Fits Continual Feaver proceeds from Heats and Colds The Feaver continual is that which continueth without any Intermission the Signes are want of rest and falling away of the Flesh besides certain Inslammations or Swellings which will appear about his Withers and Flanks Hectick Feaver proceeds from a sick Stomach being Scalded with hot Drinks hath lost the power of Digestion The Hectick Feaver which is the worst of Feavers is known by this that he will never eat with Appetite and when you draw out his Tongue you shall find it Raw his Flesh will be Loose and Flaggy and his Body subject to trembling All these Feavers do most commonly happen to a Horse in the Spring because the new Blood is apt to be inflamed Autumn Feaver proceeds from new Blood being inflamed The Signes of an Autumn Feaver is known by the same Signes I have declared for they are the same Feavers only altering the time of the year Summer Feaver A Feaver taken in the Summer is the worst of all ordinary Feavers whatsoever especially such as are taken in the Dog-days The Signes of this Feaver are that his Arteries will beat most palpably and wheresoever he staleth you shall perceive he sheddeth his seed also Winter Feaver A Feaver in the Winter is not so dangerous as the Feaver before-mentioned yet if you do not remove it speedily it will
and laid as a Plaister dispenseth Knots and Kernels in the Flesh the Juice of Colts-foot is good for all hot swellings and inflammations Endive applied asswageth all Swellings and Tumors coming of a hot cause an Oyl made of the broad Flag Flower-deâ—luce mollifieth all manner of Tumors and Swellings in any part of the Body As also of the Matrice the Roots of stinking Gladwin boiled in Vineger or the Grounds of Beer and laid upon them consumeth them the Decoction of the leaves of the Goose-berry bush cooleth them Frankincense mingled with Honey and applied dissolveth hard swellings the fresh Herb of Groundsel made into a Poultess taketh away the heat and pains of them and used with Salt dissolveth Knots and Kernels Henbanâ— asswageth all manner of swellings in the Cods or elsewhere if they be boiled in Wine or the Grounds of Beer and applied either of themselves or by a fomentation warm True-love or one Berry hath the same Vertues Hore-hound boiled in Hogs Grease is also good for any swelling in any part of the Body St. Jâ—hâ—s wort dissolveth swellings Knotgrass cooleth all manner of hot Inflammations breaking out by heat Hedge Mustard is good for swellings in the Stones The Decoction of Rag-weed or Pellitory of the VVall is good Rye-bread or the leaves thereof ripeneth and breaketh Imposthumes and other swellings so doth Wood-Sage the leaves of Southern-wood boiled till they be soft and stamped with Barley-Meal and Barrows Grease and applied to the place grieved is good for all cold Tumours The Decoction of the Root of Scabins applied doth wonderfully help all sorts of hard or cold swellings in any part of the Body c. Simples good in General to cause Sweat given inwardly or applied outwardly Mountain Calamint given inwardly or applied outwardly being boiled in Sallet-Oyl and the Body anointed with it the Juice of Scabius given him with Treacle Camomil used in Baths provoketh it opening the Pores and mitigating the Griping pains in the Guts and Bowels the Juice of Bugloss mixed with Brandy and the Body rubbed therewith is good Master-wort or Herb-Gerrard is also good Fennel-Gyant mixed with Sallet-Oyl and the Body anointed with it An Oyl made of Asarabaca with Landanâ—m by setting it in the Sun and the Back anointed with it is good Wood-sage c. Simples and other things that are good to Expel the Heam in Beasts which is the same as the after-Birth is in Women Time Winter-succory penny Royal boiled in white-Wine and given Common Horehound boiled also in the same Wine and given Dittany given or put up in a Pessary driveth forth the dead Foal and expelleth the Secundine Angelica driveth it forth also so doth Parsley-seed Alexanders Hops Fennel Savin and bay-Berries the powder of the inside of the wrinkled skin of the Gizzard of a Hen that Lays dried and given in white-Wine is excellent c. Simples good in general to provoke or expel Wind. Alexander or House-parsley Angelica seeds Bay-berries the seeds of the wild Carriots Bishops-weed dissolveth it Caraway-seeds Cardamum seeds sweet Chervil Cummin taken inwardly or given in Glisters is good for the gnawing of the Guts and Belly Dill-seeds the Herb Devils-bit boiled in Wine Fennel-seeds Filapendula or Drop-wort Hemp seed the Berries of Holly Juniper-berries the Root of Lovage Lavender Nep or Cat-mint Nutmegs wild Parsnix or the Seeds or Roots of common parsley dissolveth it both in the Stomach and Bowels China-Roots Winter and Summer-Savoury penny-royal given him in Sack Burnet Saxaâ—rage stone-parsley the seed of smallage Time or Mother of Time Valerian c. Simples that are good in general for Cattel that are bewitched Two drams of the berries or seed of True-love or one berry beaten to powder and given him for twenty days together restoreth him Misle-toe growing upon Pear-trees and hung about the Neck is very good Amara â—ulcis gathered in its Influency is also good for it used as before Peony is good The branches of the Holly-tree is reported to defend not only from Witch-craft but Lightning also c. Simples that are Cordials and Strengthners of Nature Gentian strengthens the Stomach exceedingly and keepeth the Heart from fainting Clove Gilly-Flowers are great Strengthners both of the Brain and Heart and are very good to put into Cordials for sick and weak Horses St. Johns-wort Juniper-berries strengthens the Brain and all the Limbs of the Body Marigolds strengthens the Heart so doth Saffron and Mustard-seed Give not above two drams of Saffron at a time when you use it Mother of Time is a great strengthner of it Red Roses doth not only strengthen the Heart but Stomach and Liver and the retentive Faculty and mitigateth the pains that arise from Heat Bugloss Balm Motherwort Mace Cinnamon Cloves Anniseeds Canary c. Simples that are good in general either taken inwardly or applied outwardly for the Biting or Stinging of any venomous Beast viz. Adders Vipers Spiders Wasps Bees and Hornets c. The Decoction of Agrimony given him or the Juice of Alexander or Horse-parsley Aristolochia rotunda or Birthwort Asarabica Balm Wood-bitony the powder of the dried Leaves of the blew Bottle given in Plantine-water Comfrey Bucks-horn Plantine given him with some of the Leaves laid to the hurt place is good against the Biting of Adders the Juice of the Root of the Bur-dock given him inwardly and applied outwardly to the place bruised with Salt is also very good for them to ease the pain thereof Water-Caltrops Cantaury Campions Flower-de luce boiled in Vineger and given is good so is the Decoction of the Root of Common Elder the seed of St. Johns wort given inwardly and applied outwardly is good for them so is Sage Rocket Penny-royal Pimpernel Ground-pine Marjorem Summer-Savory taketh away the stinging of Bees or Wasps the Root of Spignel the green Herb of Tobaccho applied to the place bruifed the Leaves of the Tamarisk Tree boiled in Wine and given him is good so is Valerian and Vipers Bugloss the Flower of Barley or Wheat-meal boiled in Vineger applied to the place grieved is very good to draw forth the Venom the Juice of Mead or Trefoyl is also good for them c. A very large Account in general of what Simples are good for all sorts of Sorâ—s or Vlcers whether inward or outward of what Nature soever Agrimony Alehoof boiled with a little Honey and Verdegrease doth wonderfully cleanse them and stayeth the spreading and eating of the Cankers in them the Juice or the Water of Angelica is very good to wash them with so is Anemone or Wind-Flower and Archangel Arsmart is good for putrid Ulcers Alloes beaten to powder and strewed upon them is also good so is the Juice of Broom and Water-bitony the Water or Juice of Bistort or Snakeweed or of the Leaves Buds or Branches of the Bramble is very good to wash them with the â—uice of the Leaves of the blew Bottle helpeth all Ulcers or Sores in the Mouth Bugle Burnet wild