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
what it is together with its cause and cure THis Sorrance is composed of small Warts or Pimples arising in the Palate of the Horses mouth being sore and soft and sometimes seen upon his Lip and Tongue occasioned by eating of Hay on which or amongst which any vermine have dunged or pissed by licking up any venemous Worm or herb many times by feeding upon Hay amongst which are sharp Thistles or seeds which fret and fester the tender parts of the mouth The cure is to let the Horse blood under the Tongue in the two great veins washing the place grieved with Bay salt and Roch-Alum dissolved in Vinegar or with a hot Iron you may burn them on the head if you perceive the former things cure them not presently and afterward rub them with Ale and Salt Of Casting the cause and cure c. THe cause of a Horses casting his drink out of his mouth proceeds from the effects of a cold stomach or cold contracted in the head ingendering thick phlegm or slimy humour which lapping about the root of the Tongue hinders its office as also straitning the passage of the stomach To cure which take a quart of Malmsie or Canary put into it an ounce of Cinamon bruised or beaten into powder an ounce of Cloves and the like quantity of Anniseeds and give them him at twice pretty warm anointing his Temples Breast and under his chaps with Spike Oyl Oyl of Cyprus and Oyl of Pepper mingled together smoaking his nostrils with Gum Ellumi Crest fallen what it is and how to cure it THis deformity is when the flesh whereon the Main groweth standeth not upright but declineth to the right or the left and for the most part proceedeth from evil keeping and want of convenient Provender or when by reason of internal sickness a well fleshed Horse falleth away To raise the Crest when fallen take it in your hands and setting it upright permit one that stands by to pull abroad the bottom of it upon which with a hot Iron sear the skin that hangs loose on either side then clip it away and sow the skin pulling it close with silk as near as you can to the colour of the Horse starching up the Crest on both sides with Shomakers wax spread upon stiff Leather anoint the places you have made sore with Turpentine Hony and Bees-wax tempered into an ointment or with a piece of grease but if the Crest be not extreamly fallen good keeping and looking to will cause it to rise of it self without any application Crick in the Neck its cause and remedy THe Crick in the Neck is a kind of a convulsion in the nerves hindering the Horse from turning his neck at pleasure or taking his meat from the ground but with great trouble and is occasioned by over much heating and thereon taking sudden colds or by cold humours falling into the neck from the head To remedy which take a hot Iron and pierce the skin and part of the flesh in divers places still observing not to touch any sinew and in the Orifices put Horse hair in the nature of Rowels anointing them with Hogs Lard suffering them though with daily moving to keep open the holes to remain there for the space of thirteen or fourteen days or if you think not good to serve your Horse as aforesaid then rub his neck all over with Oyl of Spike and Oyl of Peter clothing him exceeding warm and next to his neck lay Litter that smoaks with the heat of his dung and Urine Of the Canker in the Eye its cause and cure THis Sorrance is caused by corrupt and rank blood descending from the head which setling in the corner of the Eye next the nose creates a worm with a black head like a Pismire so that if you do not timely destroy it it will eat into the head of your Horse and destroy him now to know whether he be afflicted with this Malady is to observe whether his eyelid be knopped or pimpled within and without or whether his eye be full of corrupt matter the which symptoms or any of them appearing take burnt Allum and fresh butter bruising the Allum into powder and mixing it with butter put it into his eye as near as you can upon the head of the worm and by closing the eyelid hold it in tell 't is dissolved and in so doing three or four times it will kill it and render the eye sound especially if you after the opening it spirt Lime-juice and the juice of House-leek into it Of the Dropsie in a Horse whence it proceeds and how to cure it THe Dropsie is known by the swelling of the body through the abundance of water that gets between the skin and flesh when as the Buttocks and Flank will appear withered and dryed the bones plainly appearing and if you press any of the swollen part the dints will plainly appear for as much as the flesh wanting natural heat cannot immediately return to its place this distemper makes him heavy dull and evil coloured proceeding mostly from evil nourishment and want of good digestion which concocteth Melancholy and vitious humours sometimes it proceeds from the Liver where the blood by reason of failure of heat is turned into watery humours This distemper perceived let him blood and then rubbing his body well with warm cloaths to dissolve the humours congealed boyl a Gallon of Ale often scumming it put into it the tender tops and leaves of wormwood and Rue or Herbegrace of each a handful Bramble leaves Mayweed and Smallage of each a like quantity boyl the Ale till three parts is consumed then dissolve into it three ounces of London-Treacle adding thereto long Pepper beaten and Granes of each an ounce stir them well in the concoction and give it the Horse six mornings together blood-warm anoynting his body with Train or Neatsfoot Oyl and if the weather be seasonable after you have fed him a while with Mashes and white water turn him to grass and the water will fume away Chops Rifs and Clifts in the Palate of the mouth how they are caused and how to cure them THese Sorrances are occasioned by the Horses eating hard and dry Hay full of Thistles and prickly things or foul Provender full of sharp seeds which grate of and fester the tender part of the mouth To cure which take water and salt washing the rough of the Horses mouth till it bleed then with Allum and Hony indifferent warm anoint it and in so doing for a week together every morning it will cure it if in the mean while and for a considerable time after you give him soft meat as Bran Grass Mashes and soft Hay The Bony Excretion its cause and cure THis Malady is frequently caused by corrosives laid to the wounds that happen near the bone which corrosives piercing by their sharp and operating quality the bone many times to the Marrow and causes the excretion to grow upon it although the wound is cured
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
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
untouched cloath him again first by spreading a Linnen cloth over him and girding it about him upon that a warm housing cloth and over both the Woollen body-cloth which in winter must be lined with Cotten or some other warm stuff but in Summer it matters not whether it be lined or no for the Kersie will then prove sufficient This done wisp him round with soft wisps though large that so when he is disposed to rest he may lie easie From this proceed to pick his feet and having cleared them of the Gravel or dirt stop them with Cowdung and throw into his Rack a small bottle of Hay not exceeding three pound and let it be well dusted the which let him eat and stand upon the Bridle for the space of an hour and half then cleaning the Manger of dust and Hayseeds take about a quart of large white Oats commonly known by the name of Poland Oats or cut Oats these above all others being the wholesomest the rest some being unsweet breed infirmities othersome being moist breed Worms in the belly new Oats occasion swelling and Black-Oats worst of all cause ill digestion and bad humours thereby so discolouring the dung that the state of the Horses body is not thereby to be known The quantity of Oats aforesaid well dryed put into a Riddle or Sieve called a reeing sieve so big as it will permit the small and light Oats to pass through and retain the large and solid ones and by reeing them after they are throughly cleansed give them your Horse to eat in the Manger it being made clean as aforesaid If he eat them heartily and seem desirous of more you may then give him another like quantity so ordered and then permit him to stand or lie down at his pleasure till about Eleven of the Clock At which time coming to visit him rub down his Head Neck Face and Chest and give him about three pints of Oats ordered as before and then making the Stable as close and dark as you can leave him for the space of two hours for the closer the Stable is and the darker the Horse stands the better will he take his rest and digest his food Therefore many hang their Stalls round and over head with Canvas or other thick cloaths Nor is it amiss for it not only darkens the place but prevents any noisome thing from falling into their Provender as Lime Spiders dust and the like The two hours ended accost him again with the like quantity of Oats as before drest and prepared after the same manner rubbing over his Head Face Neck and Breast with a clean cloth and if he hath dunged carry it forth and cast up his Litter which done cast a knop of Hay into his Rack leave him for three hours more if in Summer but if in Winter two hours or two and a half at the expiration of which time visit him again and without giving him any meat wash his Bridle in Beer and put it on taking off his cloaths by degrees and rubbing him all over in the manner as has been formerly shewed then clapping on his Saddle bring him forth and endeavour to make him empty himself upon the old Litter and so mount his back gently Racking him for an hour or thereabout and then if possible give him his breathings along the side of some pleasant River but do not gallop him up any hill for that upon a full stomach will indanger his Wind so that observe to let his evening breathings be in smooth solid ground as you can chuse and heat him both before and after water as in the Morning letting him smell to all the old or new Horse dung you find in the way which will not only provoke him to empty but sharpen his appetite and so continuing him abroad till night approach for early and late Airings are the most proper to diminish the foulness and disperse the gross humours bring him home and having caused him to empty at the Stable door draw his Bridle cleanse the Manger and at all points dress him and rub him down as in the morning and then giving him a like quantity of Oats let him stand upon his Bridle till about nine of the Clock then visit him again when rubbing him down and tossing up his Litter give him another quart of Oats well sifted and a knop of Hay and so let him remain till the next morning at which time use him as you did the morning already specified and thus continue him without adding or diminishing ought for the first fortnight which will put him into so good a temper that in the beginning of the second fortnight his foulness being dispelled you may give him considerable heats without offence but if you perceive his fatness and foulness not to be wasted and gone use him the more moderately for the space of four or five days longer Rules to be observed in giving your Horse heats during the time of his preparation OBserve that two heats in one week are as much as are convenient for any Horse of what state or temper of body soever That one of these heats be given him upon the day he is to run the match is most requisite as thus if your match be to be performed upon a Tuesday then let Tuseday and Saturday in every week be your heating days and observe that on Tuseday you give him the greatest heat for two reasons first because 't is the day whereon he is to run for the wager and for that there are three whole days respite between and so proportion your day to this space and observation of whatever day the match is to be run unless by reason of Rainy Slabby weather for if it rains you must defer to heat him till the Rain be over and the weather clear up and in this case where you are to make a vertue of necessity you may change the hours of your heats as the weather will permit In dull dripping or damp weather when you ride abroad you must put your Horse on a warm Linnen hood with ears and the nape of the neck thickned with a lining to keep out the rain and cold damp as likewise a cloth to keep the wet from falling upon the Fillets of your Horse for nothing will more subject him to infirmity than wet in the ears upon the nape of the neck and on the Fillets The next and last observation relating to heats is that in seasonable weather every morning by day spring you have your Horse abroad but not before and especially on those days you are to give your heats Rules to be observed in the second fortnights keeping c. THe first fortnight thus over the first day of the subsequent fortnight visit your Horse early as before toss up his Litter cleanse his Stable rub him down and dress him at all points as you have been instructed With this difference that before you bridle him you shall give him somewhat upwards of a quart of
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
of a long standing proceeding from some old hurt and will not be removed without difficulty Ninthly If Sores matter moderately then it denotes they cure a pace but if the putrefaction increase more and more it often times denotes inward rottenness Tenthly Observe that Cauterizing with hot Irons always straineth things inlarged dissolveth gatherings or hardness dryeth up mosture draweth to one place dispersed humours and helpeth old griefs by causing them to ripen speedily and avoid the mattery humour they contain in cauterizing take notice also that you burn sometimes under the sore to divert the humour and sometimes above to defend and keep back the humour as for burning it is done two ways the one called Actual and the other Potential The former being done with hot Irons and the latter with hot Oyles Waters and other Causticks and Corrosives c. The five principal things to be observed by a Farrier 1. TO what diseases Horses are inclinable 2. From what cause the Internal or External grievance proceeds 3. By what means the causes do accrue that create the distemper 4. The tokens by which any distemper is to be known 5. How to apply apt remedies for the cure of any distemper Without the knowledge of which no Farrier whatever he pretends can be a Crafts-Master in the art of Farrying which indeed is one of the chiefest and most useful arts yet known Therefore according to my skill and I hope to the satisfaction of the studious in this profession I will indeavour to lay down the remaining part in the best plainest and easiest method imaginable that thereby not only the nurslings of Apollo may profit but the unlearned may draw from thence such instructions as may turn greatly to their advantage How many Diseases are incident to a Horse THe Diseases and Grievances Internal and external incident to a Horse are accounted by most to be no less than sixty and some reckon more The names of which I shall give you as also what they are how they happen and how to know and distinguish them and afterwards how to cure them Of the Sickness called the Antecor THis Antecor or heart sickness is situated near the heart and is known by a swelling in the middle of the Breast and is caused by excessive feeding without any considerable exercise to cause digestion as also by the Horses being over strained in immoderate journeying heating or coursing or after a heat by taking cold for want of diligent looking after and good dressing corrupting the blood thereby and destroying the Horse unless speedy and effectual Remedies are applyed Now to cure this distemper after the swelling appears whereby you must distinguish it from other distempers First let the Horse blood on both sides the neck taking thence a good quantity and give him diapente or the powder of five simples before mentioned in ALE or Beer adding thereto an ounce of brown Sugar-candy pulverized and half an ounce of London Treacle which will remove the infection from the heart after which to allay the swelling take Barrows-grease and Basilicon of each three ounces and having well tempered them anoint it with the said unguent rubbing it hard on with your warm hands till the swelling become soft then with a Lancet open it and having let forth the corruption anoint or wash it with Copperas-water and taint it with a taint dipped in green oyntment to make which I shall hereafter shew you Of the Attaint upper and nether what they are and how to cure them THis grievance is a swelling of the back or master sinew near the Pastern joynt and for the most part cometh by overreaching though sometimes by cold or wet standing To cure which take of Venice Turpentine one ounce and melt it well in half a quartern of Brandy which done anoint the place grieved therewith three or four times as hot as may be or else take Sanguis Draconis three quarters of an ounce of Bolearmoniack an ounce three spoonfuls of Olive Oyl three ounces of Suet and an ounce of of Mastick which being well heated and tempered together with it anoint the place grieved as with the former and this will cure the nether strain or attaint the difference between which is no other than that the one is above the Fetlock joynt and the other beneath both happning in the same place Of the Anbury what it is and how to cure it AN Anbury is a kind of Wen or spungy wart full of blood for the most part growing upon divers parts of the Horses body To take of which tye it hard with a thread or three or four strong twisted hairs till you can pull them no harder and leaving it it will of it self fall off in five or six day then kill the root with powder of Verdigrease and heal it up with suppling Oyntments but if it so happen that it be flat and you cannot tye it up then cut it away with your Incision-knife or burn it with your Cauterizing-Iron and to kill the fire or cure the wound melt Turpentine and Hogs-grease and apply them plaisterwise but if it happen to grow on any sinewy place that it cannot without impairing the sinew be cut or burnt then eat it of with Oyl of Vitriol and heal it up with supplements Of the Palsie and its Cure THe Palsie is occasioned by too much moistness afflicting the Brain as likewise a dizziness occasioned by ascending vapours from the stomach known by the Horses nodding wrying his neck and continual motion of his head dullness at one time more than another and the like to cure which let him blood in the neck and Temple veins anoint his back all over with oyl of Petrolium and with wet hay-bands swadle over his neck even from his ears to his breast and so doing for four mornings together give him every morning a pint of Muscadel mixed with three spoonfuls of powder made of these ingredients viz. three ounces of Storax two ounces of Opponax three ounces of Gentian of Manna and Succory each an ounce and a half of Myrrh one scruple and of Long-Pepper two scruples all beat together finely sierced and well mixed Of the Vives and what they are and how to cure them THese are divers flat kernels hanging like clusters of Grapes under the Ears creeping or spreading thence into the throat where they will strangle him by stopping his wind if not speedily cured they are for the most part caused by cold or pestilential Airs and differ little from the Murrain The cure is Tarr tryed Hogs-grease Baysalt Frankincense of each three ounces melted and well mixed together and every morning as hot as he can indure it applyed to the place grieved stuck on with Linnen rags and bound fast about his head and neck till the inflammation become soft and ripe at what time open it with your knife and let out the water and infectious corruption Then heal it up with an Oyntment made of Verdigrease Hogs-Lard and
Posts Trees and Bushes so that if it be not timely heeded it will turn to the Mange and by that means insect such Horses as accompany him To prevent which and cure the former let him blood in the neck vein and rub him all over with a hard brush or hard wisps then take Staves-acre Elecampain roots Chickweed and leaves of Brambles of each a handful boyl them in Cow piss and add to them the powders of Sublimate-Mercury dryed Briony and Red dock roots Arsnick Resalgar with which wash him all over but especially in the place you perceive him to rub most or for want of these take Hogs-grease Mans-Urine Tobacco leaves or stalks Brimstone Verdigrease Train-Oyl and Allum with which well concocted anoint the body of your Horse The Botts or Worms what they are and how to kill them THese Insects breeding in the body of a Horse are of three sorts distinguished by the names of Botts Truncheons and Mawworms the first for the most part breeding in the great guts near the Fundament the second in the Maw out of which if they be not speedily killed they will eat their passage to the destruction of the Horse the third and last called Maw-worms or plain worms breed in the guts as the first The Botts are small worms with little tails and great heads The Truncheons are thick and short and have hard heads The Mawworms are long and slender of a reddish colourm any of them being as long as a mans finger and these worms are generated from raw gross and Phlegmatick humours occasioned by foul feeding To know whether your Horse be troubled with them or not you must observe whether he kick at his belly with his feet when he stands still turns his head towards his tail looking upon his body Groans Wallows Frisks his tail often or forsakes his meat all which are signs of worms in his body To cure which take a quart of New-milk four ounces of hony which being made warm give it him fasting in the morning and suffer him to fast after it two hours then dissolve an ounce of black sope in a pint of beer and give it him and an hour after ride him hard and the worms will either come away alive or dye in his body or for want of these take Savin stamped to the quantity of a handful and put it in a quart of Beer or a quart of Brine and it will destroy them Of bunches Warts Knots and Wens Cramp or Inflammation and their cure THese grievances come divers ways as by foul feeding Eating unwholsome meat Hard riding too much labour Bruises or the like which putrefie the blood and cause it to turn into evil humours To cure which take the powder of Diapente mix it with Linseed or Olve Oyl and making it into an Oyntment apply it to the place grieved especially for the Cramp or Inflammation Again take Whitewine Oyl and Tarr of each a considerable quantity mingle them together and apply them hot and apply them plaisterwise to the Knots and Warts especially if on the joynts and the cure in six or seven days will be effected Again take Mustardseed Bay-salt and Hogs-grease mix them together adding to them half a pint of Wine Vinegar and it will sink the Wens or Bunches Again take Figgs the roots of Fern and Rochet mingle them with Hogs grease and Vinegar and apply them plaisterwise for any of the aforesaid Sorrances or lastly take an ounce of Galbanum two ounces of Pitch Lime an ounce Bitumen three quarters of an ounce Wax the like quantity all which being well mixed and heated over a fire apply them to the Sorrance plaisterwise A Remedy for the Windeolick or Stone TAke of Whitewine a quart four ounces of Fenegreek of Bayberies and Pepper four ounces of Ginger an ounce Water Cresses a handful and the like quantity of Red-Sage one pound of Sene-green and a handful of Mint all which being well bruised and mixed together boyl them and afterwards straining them add two ounces of Hony and give the liquor to your Horse to drink or for want of these things take Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each of them an ounce beaten or ground into fine powder and putting them into a quart of Cannary suffer it to boyl a while upon a gentle fire then adding to it one spoonful of Hony give it the Horse bloodwarm Cloathing him up and storing him with clean Litter in which having stood or layn the space of four hours give him a knop of Hay and after the fifth hour a Mash or a good draught of white water Of bloodshot Eyes and other diseases or impediments of the sight their cause and cure THis prejudice of sight happens as likewise all other distempers of the Eyes through two causes viz either internal or external the internal cause proceeds from cold rhumes or fiery salt humours that fall upon the sight and the external cause from a blow hurt by Lightening fire or the like To cure which take these directions To clear and take away the bloodshot or setling of blood in the Eyes taketh juice of Sowthistle by some called our Ladys thistle and spirit it into his eyes once or twice a day for divers days together if your Horse be dimsighted or have a thin Film over his eyes take the juice of Cabbage or Colewortstalks boyl it with a small quantity of hony and spirt it into his eyes and in so doing six or seven times it will consume the Film and clear the sight nay take away the Canker in the Eye if it be not too far gone To take away the Pin and Web in the Eye spirt into it the juice of Celendine the which is likewise exceeding good to clear the sight as likewise doth the juice of ordinary Centaury if your Horse be troubled with Moon Eyes put into them Alehoof or ground Ivy juice and it will restore him to a perfect sight If your Horse be troubled with salt fiery humours or Rhumes in his Eyes wash them with the juice of Houseleek and by so doing often it will allay the heat and drive back the Rhume the juices of Germander and Eyebright consume the Pin and Web in the Eyes and greatly restore the sight Alehoof Daisie flowers and Snap-dragons being bruised and strained with a little Rose-water and fine Sugar dissolved in the juice cure all manner of Itching Smarting Inflammation Spots Webs and the like restoring the sight when almost lost The juice of Tree Ivy leaves after they have been sufficiently steeped in water easeth presently and in process of time takes away all smarting and pain of the eyes The juice of Endive clears the sight and so does the distilled water of Groundsel and the juice of Melliot with many other Herbs in general but for brevities sake waving them I shall now come to the particulars more narrowly observing the cures for most of all the Eye distempers To preserve the sight a good expedient TAke Maiden-hair Enface Endive
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
of the Horse and stumbling without any visible Sorrance to rid him of which slit him upon the tip of the nose and with your Cornet take up the two great sinews which you shall perceive and cut them in sunder healing them up with oyntment of Earth worms or Marshmallows and he will not for the future be subject to stumble and indeed it is necessary that most young Horses be so served Another in the like case to be observed is when to prevent stumbling you slit the tip of some Horses noses between the nostrils you will find a white flat gristle which being taken up twist till you perceive him draw his hinderlegs close in a manner to his forelegs then with a sharp knife cut of the gristle and heal up the Incision with green oyntment The Colick its cause and cure THe Colick is occasioned by wind in the bowels and from thence it takes its name of Wind Colick causing terrible pains wringings and gripings which you may perceive by the Horses often striking at his belly with his hinder feet as also by his lying down tumbling beating with his feet and loathing or forsaking his meat To cure which take a quart of Whitewine four ounces of Fenegreek seed Bay berries and Pepper of each four ounces of Grains and Ginger each an ounce Water Cresses Sage Senegreen and Mint of each a handful bruise the herbs and beat the spices small in a Morter and having well boiled them in the wine strain them well and adding two spoonfuls of Hony or so much as will sweeten the liquor give it him pretty warm and so doing three mornings and evenings will expel the wind and make the pain to cease The Colt Evil its cause and cure THis distemper is as well subject to a Horse as a Gelding and to the Horse it happens through the extraordinary swelling of the Yard occasioned by too much windiness in the Sinews Arteries or pipe of the Yard which causes the Yard to swell extraordinarily or too much rankness of seed and to a Gelding for defect of natural heat to expell the seed generated to prevent which take the juice of Rhue mixed with Hony boyled in Hogs-grease with Bay leaves and powder of Fenegreek made into an oyntment and with it as warm as may be anoint the sheath If this fail twice thrice or four times using take the leaves of Bettony powder of the herb Anit and stamping them small mix with them Whitewine and anoint or lay them plaister-wise to the place grieved having first washed it clean with Vinegar made warm over a gentle fire as likewise his Cods and Yard and soon after ride him into deep water moving him to and fro to remove the heat of the Genitals till the swelling is abated or if you cannot get these things then put him to a Mare and afterward bathe his Cods and Yard with juice of Housleek Senegreen or the water wherein Rhue holm has been boyled but if through the hardness of the swelling the making water prove impossible or exceeding difficult give him a Drench made of new Ale and Black Sope and wash his Cods with butter and Vinegar made warm or the juice of Hemlock making a plaister of Bean flower and Bolearmoniack tempered with Vinegar or for want of them with wine lees stamped Housleek and Bran and apply it to his Cods and Sheath Consumptions in a Horse the cause and cure OF Consumptions there are two kinds the one a dry kind of a Malady and the other a Consumption of the Flesh the former being occasioned by violent heats and colds with excess of vitious corroding humours descending from the head and falling upon the Lungs known at first by a thin matter flowing from the nose which by degrees becomes gross and thick the which if not prevented will cause a leanness and decay of flesh making his belly become gaunt and clung as if he was famished forbidding the hair to fall off in due season and obliging him to continue a husking wheesing cough being a distemper difficult to cure if not taken in time The latter is a more particular Consumption and wasting of the flesh caused either by violent heats or immoderate labour watering your Horse when he is hot or negligence in the keeper in letting him stand after a journey wet and dirty To cure which take Horehound Wood-bettony Juniper berries Leeks Frankincense Bay-berries Brank-ursin Chian Dandelion of each a like quantity bruise them well and boyl them in a quart of Cannary till a fourth part be consumed then strain and press them well adding to the liquid decoction half a pint of Oyl Olive and pour it down his throat with a Drenching-horn for six days morning and evening or if the season permit you may give him a scouring and put him to grass and before you put him forth give him this Mash made of the broth of a Sheepshead boyled wooll and all and in it half a pound of clarified hony or for want of it Loaf-Sugar Cinamon Conserve of Roses Barberries and conserved Cherries of each an ounce and although he be abroad yet visiting him once a day give him this drink and afterward chase him to and fro for the space of half an hour but not too hard and give him water to drink wherein some Wheatflower or fine Bran has been scattered and if you perceive he mend not upon this then taking him up again give him often change of wholesome meats Mashes and warm waters and as you see occasion Cordial powder or Cordial balls and in a short time unless the distemper have too much consumed him he will return to his pristine strength and vigor The Cold or Poze in a Horses Head its cause and cure THis infirmity proceeds from gross humours and cold distillations according to the proportion of cold taken or moisture of the Brain if the cold be great upon search you will find great kernels under his chaule about the root of his Tongue but if new taken and small then little kernels 'T is a sign likewise that his cold is of no long continuance if he rattle in the head his eyes and nose venting thin mattery humours This cold may be likewise perceived by his holding down his head in the Manger his water when he drinks running out at the nose or between his teeth he chews slimy or nauseous stuff but if you perceive him void foul stinking and thick matter out of his nostrils and cough strongly then signifies it that the cold if not turned is turning to the Glaunders or consumption of the Lungs To cure it either new or old then take these directions Take Moss growing upon a fell'd Oak to the quantity of a handful root of Elecampanum green and sliced and a stick of green Liquorish boyl them in three pints of red Cows milk till the liquor be reduced to a pint and a half to which add a quarter of a pound of sweet butter an ounce of Treacle and
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
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 scab till it bleed then take seven or eight sprigs of dryed Rosemary the like quantity of red Sage a handful of Bay-leaves and the like quantity of Pellitory of the wall adding to them half a pound of Allum powder then boyling them in Canary and Ale to the quantity of two quarts a fourth part of the former only with the liquid part wash the Sorrance Morning Noon and Evening and it will effect the cure How to know when a Horse is pricked and how to cure it THis Sorrance often comes by the negligence of the Farrier by not well pointing the nails well clenching them or driving weak nails that are apt to start aside and sometimes by stubs needles or rusty Iron getting into the foot in travailing to know which observe the Horses halting or pinch his hoof round with pinsers and when you come at the place grieved he will shrink in his foot or if you throw cold water upon the Hoof that part where the foot is grieved will be the soonest dry the which when you perceive take off the shoo and having discovered the cause of the grief draw it forth and opening the hole take Allum Salt and Copperas boyl them in Chamberly then washing therewith the grieved place tent it with Hogs Grease Verdigrease and Turpentine and putting on the shoo again stop his foot well with Cow-dung and by so doing five or six times the cure will be perfected Quinsie or Squinsie its cause and cure THis dangerous distemper both to Horses or Kine is occasioned by cold Phlegmatick humours settling in the neck and throat or many times through excess of blood and not timely bleeding To cure it after you have bled him if the swelling in his throat abate not lay a Poultiss of Mallows Chammomile Groundsil and Harts Tongue under his Chaule well beaten and fryed with Hogs-lard the which having once opened the passage of his throat take White Dogs-turd Roach-Allum and Hony and dissolving them in Milk give him them hot in a drenching horn and two or three hours after give him a horn full of the juice of Cinque foil or Cudweed in which Hyssop and Figs have been boiled and after it a pint of sweet wine the which by repeating three times a day for four or five days together will restore him to his feeding and health Rupture Vncording or Burstenness their cause and cure THese distempers differ but in name being in nature all one known when the Film Rim or Chaul sustaining the Horses Intrals break by excessive straining leaping or other accident insomuch that his Bowels fall into his Cod or Flank and is by many held incurable and indeed for the most part is so yet often by this method Bursten Horses have been cured viz. bring your Horse into a Barn and having gently thrown him upon soft straw by drawing his four legs together with Cords then by throwing them over a beam raise him from the ground with his back downwards and with butter and water or Deers suet well warmed supple his Stones taking them up between your fingers and by degrees dividing them from the Guts putting the Guts in their proper places and having so done tye the stones as near to the belly of Horse as as may be with a linnen string or soft list but so that the string of the Stones may not be bruised then let him down gently and putting him into a warm Stable take Vallerian Rupture-wort the husks of Hazelnuts Cross-wort Cranesbill Cyprus and Elme leaves or Bark Chammock roots beaten to powder and Corn-flag of each a handful bruise and mix them well and give it him to drink in Ale well boyled morning noon and night and suffer him not to eat over much for the space of thirteen days at the end of which take out one or both his Stones if he be bursten on both sides and not too old and by carefully sewing up the Cod and healing it with Oyl of Bays and now and then throwing cold water on it the Rim will knit and the Guts be retained in their due place rendering the Horse firm and fit for moderate labour The Stone in Horses it 's cause and cure THis grief much afflicting Horses comes by sundry means as by bad humours that stop the passage of the Bladder by excessive labour or over much riding foul matter descending upon the Kidnies when purged from the Liver and Spleen vitiating the neck of the Bladder causes hard knops to settle there which make him piss with pain and many times by holding his urine too long when heated by travail it condensates the humours it fiâ—st created into hardness which by the operation of the kidnies in time becomes little Stones or Gravel and may be perceived by his often striving in vain to avoid his urine but cannot at least not freely but in great pain to dissolve and make him avoid which take the Roots of Nettles Parsly Sperage and Dodder of each three ounces bray them well and boyl them in two quarts of Whitewine till a third part be consumed then taking them off the fire put thereto Goats-lard Salt and Olive Oyl of each three ounces strain it and give him a pint of the liquor each morning as hot as is convenient for six or seven mornings together and it will bring away the Gravel c. For want of the aforesaid Medicine take Radish-roots slice them as also Onions and Parsly-leaves of all three to the weight of sixteen ounces an ounce of London Treacle and the like quantity of Eggshells burnt to powder and boyling them in a gallon of spring water till a third part be consumed give it the Horse to drink seven or eight mornings successively or at any other time if the infirmity be grievous The falling out of the Mares Womb or Horses Fundament the cause and how to prevent them THe Womb of a Mare is subject to many defects as Barrenness Falling out Abortion c. mostly caused through intemperateness creating too much moisture and cold or too much fevorish humour or heat and the former of these causes it is that makes the Horses Fundament to fall out something relating to which I have already laid down but for the better and more speedy cure and prevention Take Leeks Bolearmonick Nitrum and Oyl of Cammomil boyl them in a pint of white-wine and a quart of Ale and give it Glister-wise administring it to either of them after the Womb or Fundament is well put up and for several days after give them water wherein Fennegreek Seeds have been boyled permiting him or her to stand warm and dry Wind-Galls what they are and how to cure them THese sorrances are Bladders fill'd with salt watery humours gellied and thick growing mostly upon the Fetlock joynt on each side being troublesome and painful especially in hot weather and the ways hard they proceed from the effects of hard labour overheatings and unseasonable coolings which cause the humours to descend into
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
Verdigrease well tempered after which into the Orifice pour Deers suet extream hot plaistering it up with Pitch and Bees-wax which will in twenty four hours if not too firmly grounded make the bone rise or at most by a double application then with your nippers take it out and heal it up with a Salve made of Bees wax Turpentine Redwine the juice of green Tobacco or if that be not to be gotten the decoction of drie in a quarter of a pint of Aqua vitae and half an ounce of Birthworth Roots beaten or ground to powder The Quick scab is a Sorrance that will greatly injure the Horse if not taken in time by putrefying and corrupting the blood and flesh and breaking out much like unto the Mange caused by surfeit got by unseasonable and excessive riding or labour still running from one place to another not long continuing in one place but moves as the humour carries it To cure it take away the hair scrape off the scab and anointing it with ointment of Tobacco let it rest for a time and if it dye not at two or three anointings take the decoction of Mallows two quarts Copperas Verdigrease and Allum of each an ounce Turpentine and quick silver well killed two ounces of each and having washed the Sorrance with the decoction anoint it with the following simple made into an oyntment by the help of fire the which continuing to do six or seven days once a day and keeping him warm the Sorrance will vanish The Haw in the Eye its cause and cure THis grievance very troublesome to a Horse is a Gristle growing between the under Lid of the Eye and the ball of the sight and will spread over the Eye if not timely remedied The cause of it is flegmatick humours descending from the Brain it is known by the much watering of the Eye and the Horses frequent winking to remedy it if you can conveniently come at it take it off with a sharp knife blunt pointed lest the Horse by starting put out his Eye but if it lye low then blow into his Eye powder of burnt Roach-allum and it will in seven or eight times using eat it off THus Reader having laid down the particulars of the most material distempers Griefs and Sorrances incident to the generous Beast of whom I am treating I shall proceed to accommodate you with general Receipts for inward sickness making of Salves Vrguents Glisters Cordial powders and Balls c. Excellent Receipts for any inward sickness that afflicts a Horse Receipt 1. TAke of Fennegreek Liquorish powder Turmerick Long pepper Anniseed Cummin seed and Parsnip seed of each half an ounce Cellendine Hyssop Thime Rosemary Rue Southernwood and Pelamontine of each two ounces boyl them together in a quart of Ale adding thereto a dram of Saffron an ounce of London Treacle and two ounces of fresh butter and having well-boyled them strain out the liquor and give it him milk-warm riding him a mile or two after it and suffering him to fast three hours and this do three or four mornings especially in case of Fever Cold Yellows or Anticor Receipt 2. Take Anniseed Cumminseeds of each two ounces Fenegreek an ounce Brimstone-flower an ounce and a half Bastard Saffron two drams boyl them in two quarts of Whitewine a pint of Olive Oyl twelve ounces of Hony and as much Wheat flower as will make them into a past after they are well boyled being all smalled make the past into balls as big as Geese Eggs and when you see occasion dissolving one of them in a Gallon of warm water give it him to drink and by so doing it will not only remedy divers inward sicknesses but also preserve health and exhilarate the spirits Receipt 3. Take round Aristolochia Ginger Gentian Anniseeds Bayberry and great Trisora of each an ounce all beaten to powder Whitewine or for want of it Ale or Beer a quart eight ounces of Olive Oyl and two Drams of Saffron put them together and boyl them well over a gentle fire which done strain them and give the liquid part to the Horse as hot as he can suffer it riding him gently for half an hour after and when he has fasted three hours give him a Mash and by so doing three mornings it will cure most inward sicknesses and prevent such as come through infectious Airs c. Receipt 4. Take a handful of wheat flower an ounce or better of Anniseeds six ounce of Hony two of the juice of Housleek and one of Salt niter and two ounces of Olive Oyl give them him to drink boyled in Milk or if the distemper be in the bowels or back parts you may give it him Glister-wise Salves useful for all manner of Sorrances how to make them TO make the Green Ointment greatly useful for Farriers take refined Rofin an ounce the like quantity of Bees-wax melt them and add half a pound of Hogs lard and an ounce or more of Hony incorporate them well and when they are throughly dissolved add more half a pound of Turpentine and an ounce of Verdigrease when they are well melted and of a perfect green take them off strain them and keep the Ointment well stopped in an Earthen pot for your use This Ointment is good in all sores and grievances so that its praise cannot be sufficiently expressed Another excellent Oyntment for wounds or other Sorrances TAke Oyl of Cammomil Oyl of Earth-worms and Linseed Oyl of each a quarter of a pint Bolearmoniack and Deers suet of each six ounces Pitch and Bees-wax of each two ounces and half an ounce of Olibanum incorporate them by melting and having strained them keep the Oyntment for your use use it in case of Strains Pricks Crown-scab Wounds Bruises or the like and it will answer your expectation Another excellent Oyntment TAke Myrrh an ounce Storax half an ounce of soft red wax two ounces Olive Oyl half a pint and Verdigrease an ounce boyl them together with four ounces of Hogs-grease till they become an Ointment An excellent Salve for any Wrench Strain or weakness in the Limbs TAke two ounces of Galbanum Pitch and Turpentine of each half a pound Bees wax a quarter of a pound Oyl of Cammomil and Bays of each an ounce Mastick three ounces and two ounces of Bolearmoniack set them all over the fire in an earthen pot and incorporate them well then spread them upon Leather or Cloath and having anointed the place grieved with Oyl of Bays apply them plaisterwise An excellent Salve for Old or New sores how to make it TAke Elder-buds or the inner Rind four ounces Storax an ounce two ounces of Wax three drams of Myrrh an ounce of Hogs lard and two ounces of Rosin incorporate them with fire and strain them keeping the Salve for your use and apply it in case of any wound Galled back Gravel prick with a nail Thorn Spur-gall or Fistula and indeed to any Sorrance if you use it with the ointment