Cure is to make him to bleed well in the Palate of the Mouth and also to scarifie the rank Gums that the blood may come out then rub them soundly with Vinegar and Salt A Remedy for the Rifts and Corruption in the Palate of the Mouth Take sharp Vinegar and Salt and wash the same and then anoint it with Honey For the Lampas and Bladders in the Mouth as we have said every Smith can cure it A certain Remedy for the Camey in the Mouth This distemper proceeds from the eating of filthy Hay that Cats Dogs and other Vermine have pissed upon which will cause the Horses mouth to be clammy and furred so that he will not eat The Cure is to let him blood in two great Veins under the Tongue and to wash his mouth with Vinegar and Salt and to give him new Bread that is not hot A Remedy for the Heat in the Mouth Turn up the upper Lip and jag it with a Lancet that it may bleed and wash it with Vinegar and Salt A Remedy for a Cold in the Head The cause proceeds from some heat or standing too much still or from having some Air piercing his head when he is hot or by some humours congealed after long rest and full feeding and through the want of exercise to expel the same The signs are a continual distilling Rheum waterish Eyes or his short drawing of breath at the Nostrils when the caves and passages of the breath are ill stopt The Cure is put upon his head a double hood and every morning ride him when he is fasting take two Goose-feathers dipt in Oyl of Bay and thrust them up into his Nostrils through the ends whereof with a Needle put two threds to fasten the same to the head-stall so as that the feathers may not fall out and to the Snaffle and Bit that he is rid with fasten a Root or two of Polypodium of the Oak which hath been steeped all night in Spike Oyl and every time you ride him anoint the same with the same Oyl and when he cometh home put on his head the double Hood and perfume him hot with Frankincense casting a cloth over his head Use him thus nine days together and give him warm water or good Mashes during the said nine days for all Rheums of continuance are very dangerous and many times remediless leaving behind them a worse disease then themselves An excellent Remedy for the Canker in the Mouth Wash the Mouth with strong Vinegar made thick with the powder of Allum two or three days together to destroy the exulcerate matter then take a quart of fair water of Allum four ounces of Honey four or five spoonfuls of Maudlin-leaves of Sage-leaves and Columbine-leaves of each a handful boil all these together till half be consumed and then every time being warmed wash the same two or three days and it will heal it Of the Lousie There are Horses that will be lousie this distemper of theirs proceeds from too much leanness cold and ill keeping it is most commonly amongst young Horses We shall not insist upon the Remedy of it as it is so familiarly practised by every Smith Of the Repairing of a broken Hoof that it may grow Take of Garlick-heads seven ounces of Herb Grace three handfuls of Allum beaten and sifted of Barrows Grease that is old two pound mingle all these with Asses Dung boil them together and anoint the Hoof therewith A certain Remedy for the Fretting of the Guts Take in the morning a quart of good Ale four ounces of Fenugreek seven ounces of Bay-berries as much long Pepper an ounce of Ginger two ounces of Watercresses an handful of Sage another of Mints beat them together in Ale then strain it and give it him blood-warm rope all his Legs and tye him so that he lye not down put him into a sweat keep him hot give him no cold water for three days after feed him with dry Beans and Oats and the Horse will recover Of pulling out of Shivers or Throns and of Swelling The Cure is to pull them out if they may be seen but if there be such a Swelling that they cannot be seen then take Wormwood Paretory Bearsfoot Hogs-grease and Honey boil them together and being hot make a Plaister It is an excellent Remedy for any Swelling so also is Wine-lees Wheat-flour and Cummin boiled together and when it is at a head lance it Of the Strangullion It is an easie disease to cure but the Horse will be sore sick with it it proceedeth from a chafing heat that will make him sweat and afterwards it will rise and swell in divers parts of his body as big as a mans fist It will break of it self if it be kept warm Of Blindness A Horse will be blind with too much labour This distemper if it be young and taken betimes is best cured by giving of him ease Of the Foaling of the Yard with the Remedy The Cure is to wash the same with warm white Wine and anoint it with Oyl of Roses and Honey mingled together then put it up with a Cod-piece of Truss keep it up still and dress him every day once till he be whole Of the Millets without Remedy This distemper appeareth in the Fetlocks behind it causeth the hair to shed three or four inches in length and a quarter of an inch in bredth like as if it were bare It is seldom or never cured but a Horse may live being purged with ordinary Purges for a long time with this distemper An excellent Remedy for the String hault or any old Strain or Lameness in the sinewy Joynts Take Boars Grease Bole Armoniack black Sope and Nerve-Oyl of each a like quantity boil them all together and then apply it hot to the Grief rubbing and chafing it and also heating it very well either with a hot Brick Brick-bat or hot Fire-shovel Thus do once every day until the pain be gone The String hault is a distemper which maketh the Horse to twitch up his Leg it proceeds for the most part from a cold it seldom appears outwardly A Remedy approved for the Hide-bound by some improperly called the Affreyde The cause thereof is a sudden cold after a great heat when the Pores are open the cold entreth and maketh an attraction of the Sinews so as that the Horse seemeth to go or travel with great grief his skin being as it were starched shrunk and clinging to his Ribs The Cure is to let him blood in both the Flank-veins being next the girding place and the Flanks then take a quart of white Wine and put thereinto three ounces of Sallet-Oyl and of Cummin one ounce of Aniseeds two ounces Liquoris two ounces beaten into a powder and give it him warm then let him be rubbed half an hour together cover all his Back with a Sack throughly soakt in a Tub of water and the water wrung out of it and upon that cast many cloaths and gird them fast unto him
hot Iron draw two streaks on each side then in the midst of the first line lance them with a Lancelet or Razor taking hold of the Kernels with a pair of Pinsers so as that you may cut the Kernels out without hurting the Vein then fill the hole full of Salt Another Cure for the same Take Agrimony Honey and Violet-leaves stamp them together and slit the Sinew under the Ear and lay a Plaister thereunto for two or three days Of the Mourning Chine with the Remedy THe cause hereof is great heat and afterwards taking of cold it first beginneth with a Rheum which proceedeth to the Inflammation of the Liver and the Lungs by the continual distilling upon them then to the Glanders which is the Impostumation thereof and lastly to an Exulceration which abruptly and untruly is called the Mourning of the Chine The signs to know this disease are these 1. The continual distilling of Rheum in the Head 2. The continual Knobs between the Jaws 3. The keeping of the hair without casting 4. A continual running of a thick stinking matter at the Nose like Oâ—k-water 5. The fastning and growing of a Knob as big as a Walnut to the inside of one of the Jaws which if so commit the Horses Carcass to the Crows for he is past all help The Cure for such a Horse if he be not past Cure For the first which is the Rheum the Cure is what I have mentioned for the Cold in the Head For the second Cure I refer you to that of the Glanders For the third let him blood till you see that he have fine and pure blood and give him good Mashes For the fourth for the running of his Nose you may add some ordinary purging Drinks that are used for the purging of the Head For the fifth if you find no amendment but a knob grown to his Jaw then you must give him a Purge with Pills and if these means will not help him though he were the best Horse in the world he is remediless Of the Broken Wind with the Remedy THe cause of this dangerous disease hath been but guessed at not truly discovered by any as not being well understood therefore accounted of most Horse-men incurable I do intend to use my best endeavours to unfold and explain it to which purpose I will divide the same into three kinds every one of which may be truly termed a Broken Wind because the breath being drawn very short and thick contrary to the original Institution or Creation the which is long cold and quiet for so every Creature is by Nature but when any accident of violence of the body is used in any of them to a distemper the signs thereof will quickly be visible and then every mans experience telleth him evidently that he panteth and fetcheth breath very short and thick I therefore will begin with the Cause thereof the which rightly understood the Effects cannot be hid Now the causes why a Horse draws his breath very short are these as sickness great fulness violent exercise but the reason of the cause is for that the Heart being the only hottest part of the body from whence the Arteries and Veins do carry the heat thereof to every part of the body and therefore it is truly said to be the Chariot of Life when the same by sickness or violence of exercise is choaked or as it were smothered with too great heat then do the Lights being the Bellows to draw breath according to that Office that Nature ordained them unto presently labour with all violence to draw it and cool and comfort the Heart and so consequently all the members and parts of the body to fill all the empty corners with Air which naturally and in predominant qualities is moist and when they have drawn sufficient breath the driness and heat by the moistness of the Air is quenched which being so then doth the Creature draw breath leisurely and coldly and not before but so long as the Heart is oppressed by the violent heat of sickness or by great fulness or violent exercise the Caves Pipes and passages for the breath are almost stopped and choaked up then do the Lungs labour extream thick to preserve the life of the Creature which is the Heart and therefore it is said to be the first thing that liveth and the last that dyeth So that all things which hinder and stop the passages of the breath breaking the natural course thereof are the only causes of a Broken Wind. So likewise the Cure of the Broken Wind must be by removing of the stoppings of the Air and then the Lungs will perfectly perform their Office and the Creature will be freed from the disease The differences of Broken Winds both in cause and effect are divers and yet may be termed Broken namely the shortness of breath the Pursick and Broken-winded 1. As touching the shortness of breath it may proceed from some gross and tough humours cleaving to the hollow places of the Lungs stopping the Wind-pipes so that the Horse cannot easily draw his breath and the sign thereof is his coughing often daily and vehemently without voiding at the Nose or the Mouth 2. It may come by hasty running after drinking or upon a full stomach or dissolution of humours descending into his Throat or Lungs by reason of some violent heat dissolving the same And the signs thereof are continually panting sending the same forth very hot at his Nose in a wheasing manner his Flanks beating so thick that he cannot fetch breath but by holding his Neck right-out and straight and this may be truly called a Broken Wind. The Cure is to take a close earthen Pot and put thereinto three pints of strong Wine-vinegar and some new-laid Eggs with the shells unbroken and four Garlick-heads clean peeled and bruised then cover the Pot close and set it in some warm Dunghil and there let it stand a whole night and the next morning take out the Eggs but break them not then strain the Garlick and Vinegar through a clean cloth put thereunto a quarter of Honey half a quarter of Sugar-candy two ounces of Liquorish two ounces of Aniseeds beaten into a fine powder The Horse having fasted all night in the morning open his mouth and put out his Tongue and put one Egg into his Throat and then let go his Tongue so that he may swallow it down then pour after it a Horn of the said Drink being luke-warm and so all the Eggs in that manner and all the Drink being spent bridle him and stop him and cloath him very warm and let him stand four hours then unbit him and if it be in Winter give him Wheat-straw but no Hay and if in the Summer time give him Grass and for some days together Mashes to drink with some Sallet-Oyl or Hogs grease in them and the Horse will do well and in few days be fit for Exercise Of the Gravelling of the Horse with the Remedy IT is
Preservatives when the Pestilence rageth amongst Sheep If it please God that all your Cattel are sick first you must change your pasture and your watering places and drive your Cattel further off into other pastures If the Pestilence or Murrain rush violently on them with great heats you must have them to coverts shades and cold places If it proceed from cold you must have them into open places against the Sun you must drive them very softly keeping them in a kind of gentle exercise yet not to let them rest and lye too much And when that you have brought them to the appointed place you must part them into many Troops and Bands and there let them be carefully lookt to A Remedy for the short Breath and Pursie You must cut their Ears and change their pasture also slit their Nostrils Some hold it necessary to give them Aniseeds Liquoris and Sugar-candy all finely beaten together and mixed with old Grease or of the powder of Juniper-berries administred to them with the Juyce of Angelica with a Horn in Wine or Water is excellently good To help the Wethering of a Sheep Stamp the Leaves of Mallows with strong Ale and give it to the Ew and she shall do well the Juyce of Mugwort will do the like A Remedy for the turning Disease in the Sheep This distemper causes them to hold their heads on one side if she hold her head on the right side you must strike off the Horn on the left side for under the Horn there is a Worm which you must anoint with Tar then bind a cloth on it and the Sheep will recover For the Jaundice The stale Urine of men is accounted the best Remedy A Remedy for the Water in the Belly of a Sheep You must cut a hole in the Belly of the Sheep put in a feather and let out the water and stitch it up again A Remedy for the Water-bladder under the Chin. If you feel it you shall find it soft there is no other way but to lance it a little and then to tar it A Remedy for the Lung-sick or Pursiness Stamp Lungwort and strain it with a little Honey-water and give them of the Juyce of Carduus Benedictus called by some Sow-Thistle mixt with warm Ale and it will by Gods Blessing cure them To cure the Glanders or Snivel If this disease continue upon the Sheep two days the best way will be either to separate him from the rest or to kill him Some use for the Remedy to take a stick and therewith to take out all they can get out and so to make the sheep clean when any occasion is upon which he will somewhat recover Others give them the Juyce of Bettony with honyed water and the Herb called Bucks-beard which groweth higher then that which in Latine is called Piâ—nomenon This Herb stamped and given with Wine is marvellous good against cold or â—legm in any parts of their bodies To cure the Itch or Scab in Sheep Anoint with Goose-grease and Tar mixed together with the tender Crops of Broom in May stamp and boil them with Goose-grease put Tar to them with a like proportion then make two shends on both sides of his Back-bone from his head to his tayl and anoint with the aforesaid Grease and you shall need no more anointing There is a scabbiness also amongst Lambs being half a year old towards Winter or the next Fall of the Leaf the Shepherds say the cause is for that the Rams at that time are scabby that get them and that then all the Lambs shall be scabby at the next Fall To heal this distemper you must grease them with Tar mixt with fresh Grease or Neats-foot Oyl or Goose-grease There is another scabbiness which happens sometimes on the Mousel of the sheep and that proceeds from the place where there is great plenty of Furs and Gorse they by the eating of the tops and flowers thereof do prick their Lips and Mousels from whence come scabs which you must heal by anointing them with fresh Butter There is another scab which they have which comes through the negligence of the Shepherds when they suffer them to feed on the Grass covered with Dew To remedy this take Salt and Hysop a little quantity beaten together and therewith fret and chafe the Palate of the Mouth the Tongue and all over the Mousel and they will be cured An excellent Remedy for the Giddiness in Sheep This distemper proceeds from a Bladder in their heads you shall find it soft under your finger and there you must cut it For any other pains or Giddiness of the head these following Remedies are special good Take the Juyce of Ivy-leaves and put thereof into his Ear and bind or close it so that it may not be cast out or the Juyce of wild Thyme stamped with Ale strained and given him Approved Remedies for the Haw in the Eye and other Distempers of the Eyes Drop into the Eye Juyce of Chamomil or Crows-foot Herb stampt and laid to Against any hot cause or pain of the Eyes to let the Juyce of Dragon Herb or the Juyce of Lettice lye to it plaister-wise For a cold cause take the Juyce of Clary mixed with Honey and drop it in Also the Juyce of Pimpernel put into the Eyes and laid to will break and kill every Haw or other Impostumes in the Eyes Of a stop in the Teats There is sometimes on Ews Teats a certain small Mote or Scab with a black head hanging unto it a hard watry string like flegm which is within the Teat which will stop her Milk Therefore the Shepherd must have a preventive Cure in lambing time How to set and see over the Sheepfold THe best time to set over the Sheepfold is in May. Let it be set upon Rye-ground if the Husbandman or Shepherd have any and to flit it every morning or night and in the morning when he cometh to the Fold let him not take out the sheep presently but raise them up by degrees and afterwards let them stand still a good while that they may dung and piss And let him go amongst them to see whether any of them have the Mathes or be scabbed and let him see and peruse them three or four times upon the one side as often as upon the other side And when that the Kells are gone beside the Ground then may they be let out of the Fold and then let him drive them to the soundest place of the Field But he that hath a fallow Field separate to himself let him occupy and possess no Fold for folding of sheep maketh them scabbed and breedeth Mathes and when a storm of ill weather comes they cannot flye nor go away which must very much abate them of their flesh But let that Husbandman that hath several fallow Fields drive twenty thirty or forty stakes according to the number of his sheep upon his fallow where he would set his Fold and that more especially