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A44531	The gentlemans jockey, and approved farrier instructing in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses. With an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting, and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use, as the heats and course. With divers other curiosities collected by the long practice, experience and pains of J.H. Esquire, Matthew Hodson, Mr. Holled, Mr. Willis, Mr\\ Robinson, Mr. Holden, Thomas Empson, Mr. Roper, Mr. Medcalf, and Nathaniel Shaw.; Gentleman's jocky.	Halfpenny, John, 18th cent.	1676 (1676)	Wing H283C; ESTC R216447	159,953	329

Sope and Brandy applied and well heared in with a hot Iron and four or five daies after you may ride him where you please it will take it quite down Proved CVIII For old broken Knees much swelled and hard that have been long healed up FIrst mix an ounce and a half of the Oyl of Turpentine and the like quantity of strong Beer shaking them in a Glass together then bathe it in with your hand upon the swelled Knee two or three daies after apply the charge of Crown Sope and Brandy hot and let it lye on till it come off of its own accord it will much lessen if it do not take it quite down let him stand in The Oyl of Worms is a great mollifier of a hard and bony part and hard swellings Proved CIX For a Strain in the Pastern Back or Sinews A Charge of Crown-sope and Brandy-wine applied hot and heated well in with a hot Iron is marvellous good keep him out of the Water for a week after till you see him go well This Sope and Brandy-wine is an absolute cure for a Strain newly taken or new swelling or soft swelling but if it be old done and the swelling as hard as a bone then you must first anoint it with the Oyl of Turpentine and Beer and two or three daies after apply the Charge of Sope and Brandy and it will take it quite down Proved CX How to boyl the Charge of Sope and Brandy to a Salve THis Sope and Brandy when you are to boyl them let them boyl till they come to a white Salve then lay it on hot with a flat stick alwaies when you dress a Beast this is how to boyl it and make the Charge It will make a Horse swell much but within three or four daies after it hath taken its course it will fall as flat as may be For all these lamenesses the Beast must stand in for four or five daies you need not take above a quarter of a pint of Brandy and a pennyworth of Crown-sope For a Horse that is cast in a Ditch and is much swelled and bruised aboue the Head and Body with beating of himself Let blood in this case first in those Veins where you see most cause and let him blood as discretion shall teach you and then apply the Charge of Crown-sope and Brandy-wine hot all over the swelling with a flat stick and heat it well in with a hot Iron and let him stand in the house the time of his cure and you shall find it to be a very perfect and ready cure Proved CXI For a Swelling that comes by reason of Wind or Cold getting into the Wound how to take it away whether it be in the Head or any part of the Body IF the swelling in the Head cause a thick film over the Eyes then follow the directions under written If the swelling comes by reason of Wind or Cold getting into the wound to take out the heat and rankness of the swelling you must anoint it all over with an ounce of the Oyntment of Populeon or more if the swelling be great anoint it twice a day at first and as it falls fewer times will serve in the mean time do nothing to the wound till the swelling be almost gone when the swelling is almost gone or down wash the wound with Chamberlye and Salt or Vinegar and Salt and heal it up with your healing Salves If he get a wound in his Face or Head and the Wind get in and cause it to swell when you have taken away the swelling by anointing it with this Populeon it may be you shall see your Beast to have lost his sight by reason of some thick film that hath covered his Eyes For Remedy when you have first taken down the swelling do thus Slit a little hole upon the bone of the Cheek with a sharp pointed Penknife and then put in your Cornet-horn and work up the point thereof between the skin and the flesh close up to the Eye then take a little bit of new Canvass and cut it three square and roul it up round the length of your Thumb mix some Salt and fresh Butter together and strow some Salt upon the Butter although the Butter be salt and spread it on both sides the Canvass then roul it up round and thrust it up into the hole and there let it be over it lay a little piece of Canvass with some Burgundy Pitch spread upon it to keep out the cold and wind and it will draw and drain the Eye very clean and clear this being done put a little piece of fresh Butter with a corn or two of Salt into the Eye and put in a piece of Butter into the hollow hole above the Eye anoint and rub it well in that it may drain down the Eye For a blow with a Cudgel Whip Stick or a Haw in the Eye though you think the Horses Eye would go out this course taken will remedy it in a short time Let blood in the Temple-vein for a hot Rheum and likewise when a Horses eye-sight fails with hard riding or much straining nevertheless you must strike the fleme cross the Vein and then the Rheum will stop and the Vein will knit up of it self this is a main means to stop a hot Rheum that comes down to a Horses Eye when you let a Horse blood on this Vein at any time you must cord him about the Neck and when he hath bled as much as you think good to keep the cold and wind out of the Vein you should do well to pitch and flock it For a hot Rheum hard riding or over-much straining Give this Drink fasting to clear the Stomack and cleanse the Blood and Lights viz. one ounce of Turmerick half a quarter of Aquavitae or Brandy two or three spoonfuls of Whitewine Vinegar a quart of the best Beer give it luke-warm but if there be a kind of whiteglass in his sight then it can be no cure Likewise if you have a young Horse that you think will be Moon-blind then you must take up the Temple-vein in the wane of the Moon doing with your Cornet-horn as before you were taught and put a piece of Butter in his Eye and a piece in the hole of his Eye If it be a hot Rheum his Eye will water and look red below the Eye let him come into the cold Wind as little as you can If it be a film if it be thick white blew though it hath been for half a year then do as ye were just directed in this Receipt and no otherwise Proved CXII For a hot Inflammation or soft Swelling that is new done whether broken or not broken ANoint it with the Oyl of Populeon and rub it in cold with your hand once a day or twice at the most till it be down Proved CXIII For a Bruise or Bite upon the Cods of an Horse that cause them to swell much FIrst Bath them well in warm Whey or

beer scalding hot and give it luke-warm the hotter the Beer be the sooner it will dissolve but if haste require crumble the Ball in as small as you can and give it him down with a horn he will soon be empty with pissing and scowring Proved XLIX For a Horse or Cow that maketh Red-water TAke three or four Onions one pound of lean Beef roasted on the Coals till you may beat it to powder Bolearmoniack as much as the bigness of an Egg one handful of gray Salt chop and beat them altogether and put them all into a quart of Strong-beer take Ale if you can get it and give it to the Beast and presently after it give her a dishful of Cheese-runnets of almost a pint do but this once or twice fasting and let the Beast fast two or three hours after it and it will cure Proved L. For the mad Staggers THe signs of this disease are He will foam at the mouth white and will seem dull-headed and will have at that time a blew film over his eyes and will wander much up and down be sure to let him blood on both his Neck veins within one or two daies after he complains and in the third furrow in the pallet of his mouth with the point of a Cornet-horn you may run an Awl into the gristles of his Nose something above his Nostrils the bleeding at the Mouth and the Nose will ease the pain in his head The cure is Take a handful of Rue by some called Herb-grace three Cloves of Garlick a spoonful of Salt a spoonful of Vinegar and two spoonfuls of Aqua-vitae bruise all these together well and then put the one half into one Ear and the other half into the other Ear with a little Wool after it put the Liquor in with a spoon first and then the Herbs and then the Wool and then tye or stitch with a Needle and Thread the Ears up very fast with two listing Garters then presently fume him at the Nostrils through a Funnel with the stalks and pillings of Garlick beaten in a Morter with Mastick or Frankincense mixed together of these make pellets as big as a bullet and lay them upon a Chafing-dish of fresh Coals and the smoak will go up through the Funnel into the Head and much comfort and cleanse the brain Fume his head three times a day till you see him mend at the same time beat Red-weed seed which grows in Winter-Corn by some called Poppy-seed very small and give as much of the powder at each Nostril as will lye upon a six pence in two half hornfuls of any Beer do this every morning Or thus if you cannot get Poppy-seed then give him vvhite Poppy-vv●te● vvhich you may likevvise have at the Apothecaries and give at each Nostril a spoonful and a half a teach time It will make him sleep so soundly that you may vvalk upon him from the Head to the Tail and he vvill not stir he vvill lye as if he vvere dead for a time his sleeping vvill mightily refresh him After you have given it unto him you vvill see him before he fall dovvn to buckle and salley till at last he vvill tumble dovvn Let him stand in a dark room and vvarm vvhere he may see no light let him have bursten Oats and Mashes of ground Malt let his drink be cold Water that vvhich you put in his Ears must remain there tvventy four hours and no longer Put Wool Flax Lint or a Rag after it stitching is better than a Garter for that will make the Hair come white Proved a rare Cure LI. For the Water Farcion IT will come by the Horses feeding upon low watry Ground and in Pits where the Grass grows above the Water for there he will lick the Water up as well as the Grass this kind of feeding will cause Horses sometimes to swell mightily under the Belly and Chaps To cure it cause a Smith to make an Iron like a fleam at a Nails rod end then heat it red hot and strike it easily but just through the skin in many places upon the swelling and no where else and you shall see abundance of yellow gray oily water come out pouring this being done wash it with Chamberly and Salt as hot as you can endure your hand in it wash it but three or four times and it is a certain Cure If the swelling be very big mix with the Chamberly and Salt as much Bolearmoniack as a Walnut boyl them together and wash it Proved LII For the Ives YOu may see them grow in a Roul betwixt the hinder part of his Jaw-bone and his Neck if they get the roots of his Ears there is great danger The Cure is Let blood in both the Neck veins then take two spoonfuls of Pepper as much Hogs-grease and as much Vinegar and work them up together and put them one half into one Ear and the other into the other Ear and Wool Flax Lint or Rags which you have at hand after it and stitch up his Ears close with a Needle and Thread for 24 hours and it is a certain Cure Proved In the time of the Cure let him stand in the House give it him fasting any water cold or warm any meat only let him stand in the house three or four daies after it LIII For the Wind-Colick IT comes by means of long fasting and then the Wind gets into the Bag-gut with one end and then when the Horse comes to meat he feeds so hungerly that he never chews his meat and it goes down unchewed and undigested and stops the wind in the Gut that it puts the Horse to abundance of misery It causeth the slime in the Gut to be so extreamly hot that the Horse will do nothing but tumble and wallow and covet much to lye upon his back with all four feet right up The Cure is First to prick him in the Mouth and let him bleed well then rub his Mouth well with a handful of Salt then give him this Drink Take a pint of Brine and boyl it but do not scum it and put thereto a handful of new Hens-dung and give him it luke-warm at any time when this disease happens then ride him an hour before he drink and three hours after it The Signs He will stand crimpling with all four together and lay himself down very easily and will rather look full then empty If he be cold in the Mouth no Cure if he be warm in the mouth there is hope in four or five hours to abate the pain Either present cure or present death Proved LIV. For a Film in an Horses Eye TAke a piece of the saltest Beef you can possibly get dry it in an Oven and beat it to powder take as much of Licorish-sticks dry them and beat them to fine powder and searee it through a cloth blow the powder into his Eye once a day and it will take off the film in three or four times doing If a Rheum

Milk but Whey is best let it be as hot as the Horse can endure it bath it for three or four daies together then make a Bag to put his Cods therein to keep them warm anoint his Cods with the Oyl of Populeon cold once or twice a day till you see the swelling of his Cods abate which when you see apply the Charge of Crown-sope and Brandy-wine to take down the rest of the swelling and to knit the Veins and Strings of his Cods again Lay it on hot and heat it well in three or four daies after ride him into a River if you can or Pit up to the belly and you shall see it fall in a short time If the Cods be swell'd much and it have been long done and is hard then do not meddle with it Proved CXIV To keep in your Medicine and keep out the Wind. OVer your Medicine lay a Plaister of Burgundy Pitch and it will keep in your Medicine and keep out the Wind whilst you take down the swelling with the Oyl of Populeon but Culpepper saith that the Oyntment of Populeon is better CXV Directions IF at any time a Horse come to you with swelled Legs and that hath been poysoned with other Farriers Medicines First before you apply any thing of your own to it bath his Leg or Legs with Whey as hot as he can endure it to wash off the poyson of their Medicines and to make his Legs clean Whey will not take off the hair if it be not off before it will cool gallantly it is better than Milk But if you cannot get Whey then take Milk after you have thus bathed it in warm Whey or Milk you may fall to work according to your judgment as it is in hardness or softness This Book will tell you whether you shall take it away by Drinks or Oyntments or by both Look the Receipts for a dry Surfet and the Receipt for a Pocky Farcion Horse Look the following Receipts for a dry Surfet and there you shall see the Purge of Aloes to be given inwardly and other things to be applied outwardly to the hard swelling If it be a Surfet that comes down out of the Body and falls into the Legs before or behind and breaks and runs moist watry or attery stinking filthy matter then look the following Receipts for a foul rank pocky Farcion Horse And give him the first Drink there mentioned at the beginning of the Receipt one or two of those Drinks will dry up the moist humours that fall out of his Body into his Legs Note That where the filth breaks out of the Chaps if the Crannies be very great and if you see that the filthy matter that comes out of those Crannies are like to rot the Sinews of the Legs then use the following Receipt which is for Pains and Scratches made of Hony Pepper and Garlick The Drink given inwardly this Receipt applied outwardly to the Crannies of his Legs are incomparable for the Drink at once or twice giving wil dry up the humor in his body although never so many or so violent and the Salve will heal up his Legs suddenly and to purpose This is enough to direct you especially for dry Surfets that fall out of the Body into the Legs and there settle and become very hard And likewise for surfets that fall out of his Body and break stink and run watry yellow thick and sometime thin mattry filth in the Legs if after you have made a Cure of these and see your Horse gaunt and doth not fill well then give him the Purge of Aloes to scour and cleanse him and after that your Cordial Whitewine and Honey all mentioned in the following Receipts in this Book which is for a dry Surfet And when a Horses Cods are subject to swell oft give him this Purge of Aloes that is for a dry Surfet which is when the Grease is melted and afterwards setled and dried in his Body It is good for a Horse that is gaunt and will not fill and we say is gut-foundred and his hair stands right up The Cordial of Whitewine and Honey is marvellous good to beget and continue a stomack to his meat being given after his Purge as you are fully directed in the Receipt for a Horse that is swelled in his Cods and that hath a dry Surfet and runs at the Nose I say in the following Receipts you shall there find them altogether in order CXVI For a Shoulder-strain FIrst tye up his sound Leg very sure with a List or Garter then walk or drive him upon three Legs that he may lay the weight of his Body upon the lame Leg till he begin to sweat at the Ears and Cods with pain this is because you may see the Plait-vein the plainer appear then let down his lame Leg and you shall see the Vein yet plainer than you could when his Leg was tied up If you cannot see the Vein plain enough when his Leg stands upon the ground then heat but a little Water and clap it on with your hand upon the Vein and then you shall certainly see the Vein appear a great deal bigger that you may let it blood then when you see the blood is come into the Plait-vein and that the Vein is plain enough to see and feel tie up his lame Leg again and let him blood in the Plait-vein on that side the bottom of his Chest his lame Leg is on Let him bleed a quart or two or more the greater the lameness is the more let him bleed after he hath bled about a quart upon the ground presently put into a Bowl a good handful of Salt and let him bleed a quart or more into that Salt you must stir the Salt and blood altogether all the vvhile he bleeds into the bovvl because it may not clot then set the Blood and Salt by and stop the Plait-veine vvith a piece of Lead that may nip the mouth of the Vein together again that it may not bleed You must have in a readiness an ounce or an ounce and a half of the Oyl of Turpentine and as much strong Beer put them both into a Glass Vial and shake them vvell together When you have thus shaked the Oyl and Beer together bathe it vvell in vvith your hand about his Breast and all his Shoulder over and the bottom of his Breast betvveen his Legs and half vvay dovvn to his knees bathe it and clap it vvell in vvith your hand presently after take the Blood and Salt and bathe and clap that upon the former then set him up into the Stable to meat and vvith a List or Garter tye both his Fore-legs together as close as you can a Girt or Surcingle will serve to tie his Legs The next day untie his Fore-legs take him out and walk him and if you see he go any thing well take his back and ride him gently a Mile and set him up again and tie his Fore-feet again as close