cold water but eyther a sweet mash or white water This scowring I once did see made and given by a Iocky to a strong lusty able hunting Horse which he had in agitation for a hunting match but it wrought so violently and made him so extreame sick for more then twenty foure houres after the taking thereof as that I never durst be so hardy as to put the same in ure neverthelesse the Creature did very well recover againe and wonne his match §. 14. D. Hippoph HOw may a man come to know what are the diseases of the Liver Hippos Assuredly Sir the diseases of the Liver are many but yet the true and certaine grounds how to discover them is beyond every Ferriers skill to compasse neverthelesse that there be many and those severall and distinct Infirmities in the Liver no man needes make doubt for if the Liver be eyther too hot or too dry too moist or too cold may easily be diseased which must needs occurre to the Horse eyther by intemperate riding or labour or by evill foode or by meanes of evill and corrupt humors which do gather to the place or by the overflowing of the Gall or when Choler is predominate it being cheifly ingendred through heat like as cold begetteth Flegme which causeth the sicknesse and ill disposition of the Liver together with its payne and anguish whence proceede inflamations and Impostumations stoppings obstructions knobs yea and very pernicious Vlcers every of which do cause the generall Consumption and disease thereof If the disease of the Liver do proceed from any hot cause it is more easie to bee discovered then if it came from any cold cause for that it doth discover it selfe by these apparant signes viz. He will bee leane and fall away of his flesh hee will loath his meate and that which he eateth doth him little or no good for want of ready digestion his ordure wil be very offensive his thirst great and he will be verv much subject to a loosenesse whereas on the other side if the disease ariseth from any cold cause you cannot discerne it bv any of these signes for that he will be in very good liking state of body eate his meat with a good appetite his excrements will have no evill savour when he dischargeth himselfe he will drinke orderly and temperately neither will he be loose or costive wherefore if it come of any cold cause we must then endeavour to finde out its symptomes Now if a Horse be diseased in his liver the infirmity must I say proceed from an inflamation and impostumation or from an ulcer If it come from a cold cause it cannot be an inflamation nor an impostumation for that these two doe both come from a hot cause as all the learned doe know full well and therefore of necessity it must be an ulcer which proceedeth from a cold cause and the signes to know it is continuall coldnesse of his body his hayre will stare and he will be subject to great feeblenesse faintnesse and debility of body and the reason is for that the exulcerated matter doth diffuse throughout the whole body its evill vapours which corrupteth and very much offendeth the heart in such wise whereby to occasion and hasten the death of the poore beast if in time the malady be not discovered and skilfully and by Art cured I have intreated sufficiently upon this subject to wit of the nature of this infirmity and the signes how to know the same And therefore I thinke it time we doe goe to the Cure Disease of the Liver So soone as you have discovered this disease first let him bloud on both sides the necke the first day and the next day let him bloud in both the spurre veynes then give him this drink viz. Take Isope Cowes-lip-leaves Liver-wort Lung-wort alias Molin or Molet-leaves Harts-tongue of each a handfull then take Gentiana Aristolochia rotunda Fenugrick Enulacampana dried and long-Pepper of each like much so as when they be pounded and searsed you may have of each a spoonfull chop the hearbs and then mingle them with this powder and put to it of life honey one spoonfull then boyle all these ingredients in a quart of strong Ale untill a moyety be consumed and straine it well and so give it him bloud warme and keep him warm and having made him fast three or foure houres after this drinke give him Barly boyled but if he shall refuse to eate thereof by reason the drinke hath made him dry and thirsty then give him a warme Mash and after the boyled Barly againe but let him not have this drink but the day after he hath been let bloud in the spurre veynes give him this drinke three times but let him alwayes rest three dayes betwixt every drench and give him white water for fifteen dayes after his last drinke and let him every day be well rubbed and this will cure him ✚ I have often made tryall of this cure and I have found it to be very good and it is also singular for the lungs but if you doe suspect the liver to be wasted then give him this drinke viz. Take of strong wort either of Ale or Beere and give it him to drinke in a morning having fasted all night from meate and drinke and three houres after he hath drunke his Wort give him Oates baked in the Oven and doe thus for three or foure dayes together or longer as you shall see cause and he will be sound againe ✚ But if you doe suspect his liver not to be very sound then Take a good root or two of Polipodium of the Oake made very cleane and of Liverwort alias Mullet one handfull cut them very small then take of Rubarb scraped or grated into fine powder sixe penny weight and three or foure dayes in a moneth give it him in his provender early in the morning two or three houres before hee drinketh and let his drinke be white water during his cure and once in sixe moneths make tryall of his bloud by opening a veyne whether it be pure or corrupt so as you take it from him accordingly that is the greater quantity if the same be bad and the lesse if it be good and administer helpe as cause shall require it ✚ This is also a most soveraigne receit § 15. D. Hippoph YOu have formerly delivered me many good Receits for colds but yet would I gladly have something which should be good for a Horse that runneth at the nose Hippos Very well Sir I will therefore give you that which shall be very good and which I have often my selfe proved First then if you shall finde your Horse to have taken a cold and therewith he runneth at the nose whereby he may be in danger of a Glanders let him bleed at the necke veine well then Take of Assefetida the quantity of a hasle nut Cold or running at the nose and dissolve it in a saucer full of white Wine vineger
and above all this the Colt will by his running abroad with the Mare become so salvage and wilde as that if any infirmity should happen to seize upon it it s own unrulinesse will be so great that the cure may thereby become the more difficile for to speake truely infinite have been and daily are the numbers of Colts yea and those many times rightly bred which have miscarried and perished in this nature I doe therefore conclude and as a friend to my Country averre that the ablest way to breed up the best and most serviceable Horses is as I have before inculcated after this methode and none other and therefore I am bold to advise all noble Gentlemen who are lovers of good Horses and of this mystery to make triall and to put these my rudiments in execution and he will never I doe well assure me hereafter either alter or swerve from them for of this kinde of breeding I have had more then forty yeares good experience during which time I intimated these my grounds to a Knight an intimate friend of mine who was a great lover of good Horses and as great a Breeder as a lover of them and very well versed in Horse-man-ship who hearing my reasons and throughly digesting them approved of them so well as that he fell to follow these my instructions and esteeming them sufficient would never be brought from them after he affirming no way comparable to this for he found by plaine demonstration that whereas in former times in breeding as commonly he did ten or twelve Colts yearly when they came to Backing Riding and proofe of those ten or twelve he thought himselfe well appayed and his labour and cost well bestowed if two or three at the most proved right and to his minde whereas ever after in ten Colts thus bred and reared up hardly any one missed which proved not right and to his good liking and this manner of breeding made him more in love with this mystery then ever before reason dictating it so well unto him For most certain it is when the Stallion and Mare are both right and have all their true attributes and the time season and manner of breeding with all circumstances thereunto belonging punctually and in every point duly observed it will be a hard matter for the Colt to prove ill but if otherwise then marvell not if the Colt answer not your expectation according to the Greeke Adage which saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iade Sire Iade Colt Wherefore if upon tryall it shall appeare to you that you have hitherto been to seek of the true grounds and of the originall causes why you have not bred so many good Horses as you have desired doe not then wonder that The cause of your errour and of so great a mischiefe hath stolne upon and deceived you for the great decay of good Horses together with those infinite errors in breeding and Horse-man-ship that increase that is being in so vile a manner of base Iades have so swarmed in this kingdome as that a lamentable case to be related of one rightly bred we now adayes have a thousand Iades to the great dishonour disprofit and weakning both of King and Country And what is the reason I shall in a word tell you It is impossible for a man to bring his work to its wished perfection who never knew the true grounds of his principles CHAP. IV. Of the Marks Colours and Shapes of Horses THe next thing befitting our subject is to speake albeit briefly of the Colours Marks and perfect Shapes of Horses Wherein I will first deliver other mens opinions and lastly mine owne Some there be who hold that Colours Marks and Shapes are little materiall to make up a perfect Horse which I will not contradict for my meaning is not to traduce or controule any man but this I will say that if a good horse have these properties adherent to his goodnesse then is he questionlesse in much better esteem for if beauty be added to his other inward vertues then is he like to the Nightingale in the beginning of Aprill heard and hearkened unto more praise-worthy and better prized For a horse who if he be good and serviceable well metled bold and hardy of a gentle condition of a round and comely trot and pace lightly and well borne obedient mouthed sure on foot tough strong and easie will I say not such a horse be well esteemed But if together with these good properties there shall be added good colour true marks and perfect shape which causeth him to appeare most beautifull to all beholders will not these endowments set him the better forth and cause him to be the better esteemed of every man desired and much more money offered for him nay shall not you whose the horse is be come unto be sued unto have letters sent you from sundry friends and will not your selfe prize him at a higher rate than otherwise you would have done yes assuredly and hereof I make no question True it is and I must confesse no lesse that a horse may be very good and performe his function very well who hath neither good colour true marks or perfect shape neverthelesse these extrinsecall vertues are more frequently to be found and better observed to be in good horses in whom are colour markes and shape than in horses which are otherwise Wherefore because these things are termed exteriour vertues and therefore takes its object from the eye onely I will conjoyne them altogether in this my discourse and shew you what hath been and is the opinion of both ancient and moderne Writers Virgil in his Georgickes handling most accurately sundry points of husbandry among other things in his third book of Georgicks describeth the horse as well his breeding and his severall sorts of imployments as his colour shape and markes yea and that in most exquisite manner And thus he beginneth Let the Males goe Without restraint to venery and so By timely breeds preserve a perfect kind Their first age best all wretched mortals finde After diseases and old age doe come Labour and death's inexorable doome There still will be whose bodies with thy will Thou would'st wish chang'd Therefore repaire them still And lest thy kinde quite lost thou finde too late Prevent the losse and yearely pâ—opagate And such a choice you must in Horses make By him whom you for Stallion meane to take As hope of all the race elect with care Even from a tender Fole such Colts as are Of generous race straight when at first they 'r fol'd Walke proudly their soft joynts scarce knit and bold Dare leade the way into the rivers enter And dare themselves on unknowne seas to venture Not frighted with vaine noyses lofty neck'd Short headed slender belly'd and broâ—d back'd Broad and full brested let his colour be Browne-bay or gray white proves not commonly Nor flesh-colour when warres alarums sound His nostrils gather and breath fire no ground Can hold his
or with some sword hatchet Bill or other edge-toole or that you should enforce him to doe more than what nature or strength were well able to compasse or leading him upon plaine ground he might wrinch any member or sway his back or breake his leg either by the stroke or stripe of some other horse or otherwise accidentally or should by misfortune fall downe some steepe precipice whereby he may breake or dislocate some limb or member all these disasters we usually doe call Accidentall and all such things of this nature Hippiat Which be the elements which doe give life and nutriment unto man and all other living creatures Hippos They are foure in number that is to say Fire Ayre Water and Earth whose natures if you shall please I will discusse elsewhere Hippiat No I pray let us have them both now and elsewhere their natures conditions and qualities Hippos The nature of Fire is to be hot and dry Ayre to be hot and moyst Water to be cold and moyst and Earth to be cold and dry Hippiat Doe you know the twelve Signes of the Zodiacke and how they doe govern the body of man and of all creatures Hippos Yes I doe know them all perfectly and thus are they called Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Vrgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces These doe all governe the twelve Months of the yeare and are placed above the Zodiack Hippiat Doe you know the names of the Planets and their numbers Hippos That I doe very well and they bee seven in number to wit Saturne Iupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercury and Luna Hippiat What parts doe the twelve Signes before mentioned governe Hâ—ppos Aries governeth the Head Taurus the Neck Gemini the Shoulders and Armes Cancer the Stomack and Breast Leo the Heart Virgo the Belly anâ— Guts Libra the Reines and Buttocks Scorpio the Privy parts Sagittarius the Thighs Capricornus the Knees Aquarius the Legs and Pisces the Feete Hippiat In what dayes is it best for a horse to be let bloud Hippos If there be no extraordinary cause as in case of desperate sicknes or so then Ianuary the third and the fifteene Februâ—ry the fourth and nineth March the seventeene and eighteene Aprill the tenth and sixteene May the first thirteene Iune fifteene and twenty But for Iuly and August by reason that the Canicular-dayes be then predominate bloud-letting is not so good but only in urgent case of necessity In September the eleventh and twenty eight October the eight and twenty three November the fift and sixteene December the fourteene and twenty six And these daies doe wee hold to be the very best unlesse dangerous or sudaine sicknesse doe cause us to alter the same for in cases of necessity no daies are to be regarded or observed For Qui retinente vita et non sit mortis imago Si semper fuerit vivens morietur et infra Hippiat What medicine would you apply to a Horse who may have any of the foure Maladyes Hippos I would give him of the foure Cordiall waters which I would make of Buglas Savin Succary Aquavitae Endife and the like Hippiat How would you make a comfortable drinke Hippos I would make it of certaine Cordialls to wit of Sugar Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs Saffron Licoris Annyseeds all these in fine powder adding thereto white wine and all these infused in a cleane earthen pot and hereof would I make a drinke Hippiat Whereof would you make an operative drinke Hippos I would take white Wine Sallet-oyle Aloes Rubarb Agarick Duke or Duck-powder Hony Cordial-powder and of all these things would I put such a quantity as I should thinke requisite and according to the strength and corpulency of the Horse Hippiat Whereof would you make a laxative Clister Hippos Into a laxative Clister I will put either of Pellitory Melelote or Cammamile but Pellitory is the best and of this would I make a Decoction and to this Decoction would I put Sallet Oyle Hony Aloes and Verjuice of the Crab. Hippiat What be the natures of your principall Drugs Hippiat Agarick purgeth the Braine Allos the Breast and body Rubarb purgeth the evill water and it openeth the Liver and helpeth obstructions and oppilations Aristolochia-Rotunda mollifieth the Breast Liver and Lungs and Bacchalauri or Bay-berries doe mortifie the peccant Humours which doe ingender in the Breast or Entrayles nere about the Heart and Saffron if it be discreetly given doth marveylously comfort and enlighten the Heart CHAP. II. Of the causes of Sicknesse in generall and the causes of Health and long Life Hippiat NOw that we have proceeded thus farre in a discussion of the Office of the Ferrier Let us approach yet nearer to intreate of the Cures and that we may goe on Pedetentim and Gradatim Let us first discusse the causes of Maladies and therefore I demand of you What are the true Causes of the sicknesse of the Horse Hippos Sir that man which hath a desire to become an Expert Ferrier must apply himselfe to understand the true nature of two things viz. of Generation and of Corruption in which I could never find the least discord in the Primary nature of Horses albeit compounded of the contrary nature of the foure Elements But I will proceed in Anatomizing unto you the verity hereof more particularly whereby you may the better understand my meaning Hippophyl But friend Hipposerus in my judgement you begin to assume too high a pitch for ordinary Feâ—riers who are in a manner all or the greater number un-lettered persons and therefore will never be able to understand what Generation and Corruption meaneth for these are termes taken from the grounds of Philosophy and therefore above their Genius or Sphere Hippos Sir there be many things necessary to bee duly knowne and as diligently to be observed in him that desireth to be a perfect and able Ferrier which whosoever shall be defective in he may well be an Empyreticall-Hors-Leach but skilfull Ferrier or Marshall he shall never be And for that you please to say that I sore too high because I began my discourse with the termes of Generation and Corruption if you had not interrupted me I should have explicated my selfe so cleerely as that a very reasonable judgement might easily have apprehended me for I hold it not a thing fitting to pussell mens Braines either with Chimeras which they are not able to understand or with over-long and tedious discourses of things meerly impertinent but if you shall be pleased to heare me with patience I will touch upon this subject to wit What are the causes of Sicknesse in generall as also of Health and long Life and that Laconica brevitate and so leave the rest to your judgement and practise especially considering what other Authours my Masters have so learnedly and no lesse sufficiently intreated in this very Art To begin therefore and but to say what I said before with the causes of sicknesse and death of Horses in generall in
them in particular Hyppos I will Sir These twelve causes of long life doe come to a horse either inwardly or outwardly which howsoever they must be holpen either by Art by Industry or else by judgement and discretion Wherefore you must know that whatsoever is naturall must necessarily proceed from good temperature 1 What thâ— do hinder nature dâ—gestion aâ— nutrimenâ— and proportionate mixture of the foure qualities of the body so as the just and adequate proportions of temperate mixture are the true causes of long life by reason that all mixtures of superfluities are against these three things viz. Nature good digestion and sound Nutriment For heat and nutriment are then well proportioned when neither the moisture with its too great quantity is predominant whereby it devoureth the heat nor when over-much heat too suddenly consumeth and destroyeth the moysture howbeit there must be a necessity that the heat must have a kinde of regality and dominion over the moisture otherwise it will never be able to nourish the body as it ought The second cause of long life 2 Moderatâ—on in eatiâ—â— is the moderation of their naturall appetite of eating it being availeable either in excesse to kill and destroy or in moderation to save whereby the horse shall daily repaire the decay of his humidity by supply of moderate nourishment and never over-whelme or suppresse his heat with too great abundance of moisture nor mixe his Humidum Radicale with too much superfluous impurities for extreames are evermore perilous and ill as well in excesse as in defect For as too much eating bee the meate never so good and wholesome hindreth good digestion and ingendreth Crudities together with an evill habit of the Stomack so likewise too spare a diet doth as much weaken and decay nature by reason that the heat which thereby will arise in the stomacke will first over-charge and afterward conquer the Radicall moysture both which are friends to sicknesse and death 3 Moderate labour The third cause of long life is moderate labour a matter very much effectuall to digestion and therfore to long life dilating and spreading nutriment into every member of the body for over-much rest breedeth in the body superabundance of bad humours which cooleth the body for want of which moderate exercise it is as it were cast into a sleep and in a manner through lumpishnesse besotted and benummed from whence doth spring another mischiefe equivalent to the former to wit a collection of excrementall superfluities occasioned through lazinesse and idlenesse by reason that the horse for want of moderate Exercise is not able to digest his received nutriment by which meanes many maladies are ingendred in his body proceeding from corruption in the bloud crudities in the stomack and the like because he hath in his body as a man may properly say a very sink or standing-pool of unnaturall humours And therfore I give all men this caveat viz. to be very carefull they do not put their horses to over-much labour and travell untill such time as they have well digested their meat for that by their immoderate exercise they over-clog their stomack and so they cannot have a true concoction their stomacks being full and their bodies cloyed and over-much stuffed with raw and cruded humours which through violent exercise are dispersed first into all the Veins corrupting the bloud and from thence into al the parts of the body which ingendreth so many noysome infirmities within the bodie and so many lothsome sorances without the body as will not easily be cured and therfore it doth greatly behove a man that his horse if hee love him and desire to keep him long his exercise be neither too intemperate nor too little but ordred with judgment and discretion 4 Moderate sleepe The fourth cause of long life is moderate use of sleeping waking for these are the mayntenance of health and long life if they be had with moderation and both are very noxius otherwise beyond measure For inordinate watching is a mayn enemy to health for it wasteth and consumeth the vitall spirits and it decayeth the Humidum Radicale causeth maceration and sterility it is an impediment to the operation of the Brain and sense it begetteth siccitie in the Brain and aridity in the Marrow and worketh the like evill effects in the Liver and Lungs On the otherside immoderate sleepe hindreth health quencheth the natural heat and consumeth the moysture in the Body for sleep is but a vapour ascending from the Stomacke to the Braine What mâ—ner of thâ— sleepe is which stupifieth the Brain for a season and during that time it maketh the body senslesse and the sooner it being provoked by over-much feeding stuffing and filling of the belly and therfore it greatly standeth a man upon that he hath a vigilant care to his horse his sleep that it be moderately taken for as I said out now as too much sleepe is noxious so also too little is as prejudiciall The fifth cause of health 5 Moderaâ— in spendâ— upon Mâ— and health and long life is that great care be had in keeping your horse from excesse in spending himself upon Mares for that is Death's Harbinger by reason it doth after a most violent manner consume the spirits debilitateth the stomack dryeth up the brain and Marrow and therfore the reason why a Gelding if he be kept free from surfets is longer lived than the Stoned-horse so likewise the reason why a Mule being a mixed creature howbeit a Monster in nature is longer lived than either of them for that his justing howsoever without fruit in that kind is but once only in the whole course of his life and therfore I could wish that one Horse be not suffred to cover above three Mares at the most through out the whole yâ—er and that from the yeers of his comming to sixe untill he hath attained twelve and no longer for when a horse hath once seene twelve yeers of his age nature will then begin to decay wherby he shall not be able to beget Colts which can prove so good and serviceable as those hee begat in his yong yeeres For besides hard and toylsome labour this act of coity with Mares doth more weaken and dull him for you cannot be ignorant of the old Proverb which saith Omne animal post coitum triste The sixt cause of long life is moderate riding in long journies 6 Moderaâ— journey 〈◊〉 for by intemperate driving his heat from the inward into the outward parts of the body is the cause that the fire of choler will be enkindled which will be so vehement as that it must needs prove an infinite horrour unto nature so inflaming the bloud that if the Horse at the same instant be not very empty and clean in his body the bloud and humours being mixed together will be through the violence therof dispersed into all and every part and member of the body and then a sudden cold taken
in both the weeping veins And when I do not perfume him I take the longest feather of a Goose and moysten it well in Oyle de bay which I put up into his Nosthrills and this doth both open and purge his head abundantly and then keeping his Poule warm together with moderate dyet for three or foure daies after I then take bloud from the Neck-veine and give him all the time of his Cure either good Mashes or white-water and undoubtedly he will doe well But sometimes if I find his head-ach cometh of cold taken wherein he may bee enclining to an Ague or Feaver I then besides drawing bloud do both apply Acopum to his Nose like as I said for Oyle de-Bay and also give him thereof to drinke as I have formerly prescribed If he be Feaverish take a pint of Muskadine the yolke of five new-laid Egges and a head of Garlick picked pilled and brused Pepper Cinamon and Nutmegges and somuch as well I can take up upon a Tester or six-penny peece these all made into very fine powder give him to drinke bloud warme three daies together and let him fast six houres after ✚ §. 4. A. Hippoph HOw doe you make Aegiptiacum Hippos Wee have two sorts of them the first we doe call Black-Aegyptiacum the second Red both Corrosives for their natures be to corrode and eate away al manner of dead prowd rotten and naughty flesh out of any old Sore or Vlcer and they do also cleanse and prepare a Sore make it apt to be healed with carnifying or healing Salves The first is thus made Take course English Hony two pound Verdegrease Diers-Gals and Green Coperas of each four ounces Aegypticum Let all these be made into powder and mixed together and so put into an earthen pot and set upon the fire keeping it with continuall stirring but so soone as it beginneth to boyl take it from the fire let it cool for by suffering it long to boyle it will become red which will not be so good This black Aegiptiacum besides what I have said before of it's vertues is also very good to dissolve the hooves of the Horse if they bee too dry or hard so as it will cause the corruption if any be in the Foote to ascend above at the Cronet where the haire is and also to restore and repaire the hoofe of the horse when the Sole is taken out and in this nature you must use this Vnguent but onely at the third dressing after you have taken out the sole ✚ Now the second Aegiptiacum is made thus Take course Hony two pounds Verdegrease foure ounces Aegyptiâ—cum green-Coperas two ounces beate the Verdegrease and the Coperas very small to powder then put it into an earthen put and put unto it a little Vineger and so boyle it very well till it become red and keepe it for your use ✚ Another §. 5. A. Hippophil What is your best cure for a Horse that is Accloyed Hippos Sir this Malady so called by the French is the same we call prick't with a Naile in the Shooing and it is easily cured if the Ferrier be skilfull and that it be also taken in time And thus wee worke viz. First take out the sole and cut the hoofe round about the place pricked that no corruption be remaining behind Accloy fil it up againe with hurds steeped in whites of Egges dresse him thus three dayes together then heale the sore up with salt made into fine powder mingled with Vineger or else with Diers Galls or with Mirtle or Lentils and annoint the outside of the hoofe with black Aegiptiacum ✚ Another Take a litle cotten or bumbast and steepe it in browne Sugarcandy molten and apply it with a hot Iron to the place And if the foot be bruised with the shoo or that the femall horn be hurt or bruised then cleanse and prepare the place first and then apply unto it a quick or live Spider with a hot Iron and so tack on the shoo and let him not come into any wet till he be fully cured ✚ Another Take Salet Oyle Turpentine and Rosinpitch all molten together put it very hot into the hole where hee is pricked and so stop the hole with Hurdes ✚ §. 6. A. Hippophyl WHat Receipts have you for all inward diseases Hippos The Spaniards have one Medicine with which they Cure all Diseases and albeit I say they doe cure all diseases with this one Receipt yet my meaning is that looke whatsoever the infirmity be they administer none other thing but that one whether it cure or kill and this they call a Cataplasme of which they make no small account which they give as Pills Take wheate meale twelve pound Annisseeds foure ounces in fine powder All diseases a Cataplasme Brimstone in powder three ounces Fennugrick in powder three ounces et sem Comin in powder three ounces Honey two pound good Sallet-Oyle one pound et sem of good Sack as much or so much as will suffice to make it into a Cataplasme or Paste This Cataplasme say the Spaniards or Medicine is all of it to be put into a stone pot well nealed and so boyled untill it be thick so as when it is cold it may bee made up into Pills or Balls whilst it is in boyling it must be kept with continuall stirring otherwise it will burne too and being thus made into pills give him of them every morning fasting for foure or five dayes together or longer if you shall see cause for that say they it is most soveraigne against many Maladyes It killeth all sorts of wormes within the body of the horse it also helpeth the diseases of the Lungs and inward parts and it is generally good for any inward cause and an excellent locall plaister to be applied outwardly It is the Spaniards principall Physick for their Iennets and Barbaryes I have made tryall thereof sundry times and I doe find it to be most usefull in all cold Causes and truly it is most Cordiall for it doth bring a leane and poor Horse into flesh and good state in a little time ✚ A second Receipt I also have which cureth all inward Diseases which I had of a Rurall Smith who was cryed Vp for a famous Ferrier all the Countrey about All diseas a Cataplâ—me So I having heard so great a report of his skill addressed my selfe unto him when I had conferred with him putting him hard to it in the matter of his Art he at last ingenuously confessed unto me that he had but this one only drinke which gat him all his knowledge and credit which with much pressure I wrested from him under condition that I should never make him knowne wherein I have precisely kept my word And the Cure and Drinke is this viz. Take wheate meale six pound or as much as will bring the Ingredients into a stiffe paste Anniseeds two ounces Comin two ounces wild or bastard Saffron one
if your horse be poore bare leane Fat horse and feeble so that his stomack be good to meate I will give you a Receit which if you doe duly observe my rules justly as I shall deliver them you shall get him up into flesh in twelve or foureteene dayes First therefore take bloud from him if you do find it grosse or Flâ—gmatick for otherwise he cannot possibly mend then insteade of Oates in the morning you shall give him Wheate branne Bran prepared prepared after this manner Set over the fire a cleane Kettle and fill it almost full with faire water and so soone as it boyleth put in your Wheate branne and so let it boyle a quarter of an houre at the least then take it off and let it stand to coole and about foure or five in the morning give him of this branne so hot as he can eate it then for his drinke give him of the same water and at night give him Oates and white water and let him be kept covered and littered warme but if it bee Summer let not the Stable be too hot but temperate and at night give him with his Oates also the quantity of what you may coâ—vey into an Egge-shell of this powder following with which you must continue him the space of eight dayes or according as you shall see cause You must understand that this branne thus prepared is the only thing which dryeth up his naughty grosse and corrupt humours and doth the better prepare the body to assume lust courage strength and flesh together with the helpe of the powder which is this Take of Commin Fenugrick Sileris-Montani Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two ounce Quick-Brimstone six ounce Fat a leanâ— horse make all these into powder of this powder give him every night the quantity of an Eg-shell full with his Oates as I have before prescribed but he must first be watred with white water which so soone as hee hath drunke let his whole body be rubbed then cloathed littered which being done then give him a small sheafe of wheat straw sweet good and well threshed into his Racke and let him eate thereof by the space of an houre which done give him Oates mixed with his powder which when he hath eaten give him Hay at your pleasure remembring to keep him warm but so as with moderation and let him be also well rubbed especially against the hayre and by this doing in short time you shall perceive him to mend exceedingly but you must put also into his Oates together with its former powder of Nettle-seed two handfuls every time for that is the thing which principally will cause him to battle It will also greatly availe to his amendment if he be ayered every morning and evening an houre after sunne rising and an houre before sunne set if the weather be warme and the sunne doe shine ✚ And this I doe assure you is the most exquisite course can be taken whereby to sâ—t up a leane Horse and to make a poor Horse fat in little time and with small charge §. 5. F. Hippoph VVHat helpe have you for the falling of the Fundament Hippos This malady commeth to a Horse sometimes by cold sometimes through weakenesse and meere poverty and sometimes by meanes of a laxativenesse and fluxe of bloud when straining to expell the Horse is not able and by that meanes the fundament commeth out the cure is Falling of the fundament Take white-Salt made into very fine powder strew a little upon the gut then take a piece of Lard and first having boyled Mallow-leaves till they be soft take of these leaves and beat them well with the Lard and when it is sufficiently beaten make it up like to a suppository and apply it to the place every day once till it be whole ✚ This I have often tryed §. 6. F. Hippoph I Should be very glad to know what you can say of Feavers Hippos Sir as touching feavers in Horses I say that they be as subject to them as man is as also that these feavers are of severall natures which cannot be denied which may most easily be distinguished and knowne if you please diligently to observe A feaver commeth many times either by intemperate riding or travell or else through bad and unwholesome dyet and all feavers for the most part have their sourse from these effects if you adde thereunto evill ayre §. 7. F. Hippoph VVHy Hipposerus how doe you define a Feaver Hippos I define it thus A Feaver is an unnaturall and intemperate heat which beginneth at the heart dilateth it self through all the arteries and veynes of the whole body of the Horse hindring all his naturall motions howsoever some Ferriers are pleased to make of them more sorts then I will question their physicall and learned distinctions for I could never conclude them but in a few as quotidian tertian quartan and pestilent and yet all these be of one nature albeit some more malignant then others be onely a Hectique feaver is of a different nature from the former and so also a pestilent feaver may be Now as touching feavers which come in the Spring Summer Autumne or Winter I cannot see why they should be feavers different in nature from these other for there are not any of these but may come to a Horse in any of these seasons §. 8. F. Hippoph FRom whence doe Feavers proceed then Hippos First Sir you must understand that Feavers are of two sorts that is to say Ordinary and Accidentall the ordinary feavers are those that come of surfets over-riding and labour unwholesome meat as moyst raw mouldy and musty bread corne provender and hay of what nature sort or condition soever but your feavers Accidentall come of some terâ—ible stroke or deep wound bringing therewith insufferable paine dolour and griefe to the poor beast again your ordinary Feavers come oft times by the extreame violent scorching of the Sunne but most commonly in the canicular dayes as when your Horse is abroad at grasse where is either want of water or having such as is neither good or wholesome or else where is want of housing shelter to goe into or shady trees to be under and such kinde of Agues doe prove for the most part either Hectike or Pestilent feavers for by that meanes his bloud becommeth inflamed whereby the humour of choller is predominate Now Sir if you be pleased to observe strictly and carefully you shall also finde that feavers doe come many times also from a quite contrary cause as from cold taken upon hard riding or great labour and by having at such times cold water given him to drink or by washing or walking having sweat much or by being out too late in the gripse or shutting in of the evening or upon day breaking especially neere or among fenny moorish or marish grounds by reason that naughty vapours do arise from such kinde of places Feavers also do accrew to Horses when upon hard
enjoying thy wished desires and therefore I have given thee instructions how to make thy choice of such a man whereby thou shalt not be wronged in thy expectation nor thy Horse marred in his first making and handling Neither have I taken upon me to teach him his Art for that were a thing very impertinent but those documents which I have set thee downe must serve onely to shew thee how thou shouldest soone finde whether the Rider may be for thy turne or not The third thing which thou art to take to thy consideration is the good or harme that may come unto thee by the choice thou makest of thy Groome or Keeper who may either through his ignorance or inconsideration soone make him unfit both for thy owne use or any mans else out of which reason I have depainted thee a Groom in his lively colours and if his conditions and qualities shall be otherwise than what I have delineated assure thy selfe thou dost runne a manifest hazard of marring that Horse thou didst hope should have been to thy hearts desire And forasmuch as it is a matter very much praise-worthy to be a Master of good Horses to have them made perfect and ready to have such Riders Keepers and Groomes as be very perite in their faculties yet if thy Stable be not every way sitting and correspondent much disprofit and inconvenience may therby soone redound to thy Horse I have therefore prescribed thee the meanes how thou mayest have a perfect and good Stable with all commodities and accoutrements thereunto belonging and therefore if thou wilt be pleased to make use of these my rudiments and punctually observe these my grounds and principles assure thy selfe thou wilt in short time aspire to that which will be thy honour and renown And to the end thou mayest the more perfectly and easily understand the full drift and summe of this my first Booke I will here give unto thee an Epitome of it in a few lines which may doe thee much pleasure in the perusall thereof In the Introduction I shew thee how needfull a creature the Horse is beyond all others and what admirable things Horses in former times have perpetrated and done whereof I produce thee instances of the famous acts of sundry brave and generous Horses whose love to their Masters have been so great great as hardly to be credited if ancient Histories and Annals of good integrity had not engraven them in the memory of never-dying posterity We reade of Bucephalus what he did for the good life and safety of his Master of the Horse of Dionysius with what undaunted courage he comported himselfe in battell for the reliefe and succour of his Lord it is recorded also of the Horse of Antiochus what ill successe befell Centurettus who when he had slaine Antiochus would needs backe the Horse of his slaine Master It is also noted what inly love Nicomedes his Horse bare to his Lord and Master when after his death of meere griefe famished himselfe We reade of Aethon the Horse of Pallas who was evidently observed and seen to weep at the funerall of his Master Silius makes report of two famous Horses called Pelorus and Ciraeus the one eminent for his prowesse and hardinesse in warre and the other for his unparalelled swiftnesse Moreover we may reade how that this poore creature hath so well merited of man as that many have erected Monuments and Sepulchers celebrated Exequies builded and founded munificent Cities set up Pyramidies made Epitaphs erected goodly Statues instituted Playes and Games and all these in honour of the Horse besides many other remarkable things right worthy of note In the way of Breeding I do intimate unto thee the manner how the season when the place where together with the colours marks and shapes as well of thy Stalions as of thy Race or Stud Mares and from what defects they must be free what Signes are best wherein to cover what course to take with them that they may conceive what exercise is fittest for them as well when they be with Fole as after foling how to cherish thy Mares when their Colts shall runne by them and how to breed up thy Colts till they come to handling backing and riding with other circumstances very necessary to be known and thus much briefly for the first Book The second Booke consisteth chiefly of the manner how thou mayest cure all such diseases and maladies both intrinsecall and extrinsecall whereunto either the life of the Horse or any of his limbs or members may be any way endamaged or in danger This I have handled by way of familiar Dialogue which I hold to be best for avoyding of prolix and over-tedious discourses by reason it will very much help the memory of the Reader and keep his minde the better attent upon the state of the Question or subject in hand and by that meanes I may my selfe be the better able also to explicate and deliver my meaning much more cleerely In which Dialogue I have introduced as prolocutors three persons onely viz. First Hippophilus a Gentleman one who is the true lover of the Horse Secondly Hippiatrus the Ferrier or Marishall one most expert in Horse-leech craft And thirdly Hipposerus his Servant or Iourney-man sometimes his apprentice bred up by him from whom Hipposerus hath had his education and knowledge in this Art these be all the Dramatis personae to this Scene Wherefore in the first Chapter I doe endeavour to illustrate unto thee the true Office of the Ferrier wherein I do produce an exact examen of his function In the second Chapter I do inculcate as well the causes of health as of sicknesse wherein I make an abridgement of all those things which all learned Physitians and Chirurgions both antient and modern do from the grounds and principles of profound Philosophy finde to govern and beare rule in the body of the Horse without which he can have no flesh bones sinewes bloud or life it selfe wherewith to make up the entire structure of an orginall body and such are first the Elements secondly the Humours thirdly the naturall faculties fourthly the instrumentall members fifthly the spirits animall sixtly the spirits vitall seventhly the naturall parts and so of the residue And having sufficiently discussed all these things in due order and method I do then shew thee what meanes we have to preserve the Horse from all inward diseases which I doe finde to be foure in number viz. By Purge by Sweat by Phlebotomy and by Vomit and then I do proceed to inculcate unto thee the causes of health and long life which I do make to be in number twelve which if thou do well observe they will redound to thy great utility and profit In the third Chapter I do demonstrate certaine things most befitting a Ferrier to know and understand well before he shall take upon him to administer in the handling whereof I do begin first with the foure Elements anatomizing unto thee
organ of the body by which meanes they are preserved and enabled to perform their naturall and proper function And as touching the cods if the liver be not well stored nay full of pure and perfect bloud neither is the creature able to concoct and digest its meat nor can the cods be hot so as if there be in those parts a defect of heat the seed of the beast cannot be perfectly concocted by which meanes the Horse becommeth frigid and impotent and without any power at all of Procreation And this is as much as need be said of this subject wherein if I have any way erred or not delivered my self so cleerly whereby to be understood as I desire the blame must light upon the great desire I promised to brevity howsoever I have endeavoured what in me lyeth to dilate and explicate my self at full Now will I begin to shew to you what meanes we have to preserve horses from all inward diseases which consisteth of four wayes viz. by Purging Sweating Flebothomy or Bloud-letting and Vomit As touching the first which is Purging it is twofold to wit Cleansing and purging Of outward Purging outward and inward This outward purging is by cleansing the outward parts which must be done immediately at what time you take up your horse from grasse which would be about Saint Bartholomewes day for then the heart of grasse doth begin to decline and therfore after that day the grasse he then feedeth upon breedeth no good but bad and corrupt bloud and so consequently sundry sorts of maladies and infirmities in his body besides the ayre beginneth then to grow sharpe which is also very dangerous yea and most contagious for him and if you suffer him to runne after that time his haire will grow long and rough so as he will not have for that winter any slicke or glittering coat Of this outward cleansing or purging your horse you shall finde taught you in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 6. and the manner how and when it would be done viz in a warme day in the Sunne at what time every part and member of him would be soped washed dryed and cleansed from all manner of sweat scurfe dust dirt and filth yea and that all his whole body over especially his Maine Tayle and Cods who being thus cleansed and made dry again and his yard drawne cleansed and annointed with tryed hogs grease let his eares his Maine just so farre as the top of the head-stall will cover and no more and under the Chaule be handsomely trimmed then pull away by the roots all the smelling haires about and under his mouth and nose and the long stubborn hayres under and about his eyes which done cut away about a handfull of the lower part of his tayle even and decently then cause the Ferrier to shooe him up but let him be carefull to pare him neatly and to open the Heeles and Frush Then cloath him up warme and stopped with small wispes this done annoint all his hoofe with the oyntment having first washed them cleane and made them dry againe prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 11. § 9. Then let his feet be picked cleane and stoppe him with Oxe-doung Cleansing and purging inwardly Now as touching his inward purging this ought to be done evermore before you put him to any labour or exercise and first let him be raked by causing some one who hath a small hand and arme to annoynt them first with a little sweet Butter or Oyle de Bay but some doe use Sope which I doe hold too sharp and so putting his hand into his fundament let him bring forth all his doung and while he is in so doing let him try to feele for Bots or wormes which may sticke fast unto the great Gut and the place where the doung lyeth which if he finde let him pluck them away gently and by degrees and so bring them all out this done give him the Clister mentioned in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 8. Clist c. 4. and so soone as the horse hath received it Clister-wise then presently clap his tayle close to his Tewell and so cause him to keep it so long as you can and this would be done three or foure dayes before the Full or Change of the Moone The next day after give him his first drink inserted lib. 2. cap. 16. § 14. Drinke 1. Drinke 2. purg 4. the next day following give him his second drink shewed you in liq 2. cap. 16. § 14. Purg. 5. and so follow such directions shewed you in those Rules The next day following you have thus given him his two drinks let him bloud Let bloud if you shall finde the bloud to be very bad take the more from him if reasonable good take the lesse but if very good then draw your cord and so do but give the veyne vent and no more then afterwards keep him with warm Mashes as is taught you else-where The next day after bloud letting sweat Sweat him like as is prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 18. § 28. S. And if you doe discover any cold in him by any symptomes then give him the vomit Vomit prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 20. § 1. V. And to prevent any Obstructions in the liver or lungs or his heart any way oppressed or otherwise to preserve the blood pure and from corrupting all which inconveniencies may be a ready meanes to bring your horse to his end give him in his Provender Powderâ— be put iâ— his proâ—der such powders and other Simples which you shall find in sundry places of this Treatise for this will refine his blood and preserve his liver from infection and keep him in perfect health Thus far Sir I have declared unto you what I understand of the Cause of Sicknesse in generall It remaineth now for me to inculcate what are the causes of health and long life which to be briefe are twelve in number viz The first is Nature good digestion 12. Canâ— of healtâ— long life and good Nutriment the second is moderation in feeding and dyet the third is moderate labour the fourth is moderate use of sleeping and waking the fifth is moderate spending upon Mares the sixth is moderate journeyes the seventh is wholesome ayre the eight is not to be exercised too soone after grasse the ninth is to be kept from raw and greene meats the tenth is not to be suffered to eate or drinke being hot the eleventh is not to be either washed or walked at the end of his dayes journeyes the twelfth is to give him with his Provender such powders and simples as are prescribed you in all those Chapters which are by me mentioned Hippiat You have spoken well Hipposerus but I would have you shew me how long life is acquired by these causes which as yet you have not done for you have but onely delivered them in generall heads and termes Wherfore I would gladly know what you can say of
you call your Arman What other vertues hath it more than what you have already delivered Hippos Truely Sir I have shewed you before in a manner all its vertues and to recite them again I say it is most soveraign for Horses that have taken a cold or have inflamations or Pustils under their Chaule or thereby are troubled with the Quinsye or Squinansye These maladies this Confection will help if it be given good and thick with a horne for having the Quinsye in the throat if in giving this Arman it provoketh him not to cough then take some of the confection upon the end of a Buls-Pizell and put it a pretty way down his throat by which meanes he strayning to cough may breake the impost humation in his throat whereby the Horse may be in the lesse danger of his life and causing the Matterative stuffe to vent out the Horse will be in short time perfectly cured Hippoph Are there any other kindes of Arman besides this Hippos Onely one more Sir which also the French have brought amongst us which is not altogether so operative as the former and this it is Arman 2 viz. Take hony one pound and warm it a little upon the fire then take half a pinte of Vineger a little Wheate flower and one penny-worth of Pepper in fine powder mixe all these and administer it bloud warme as aforesaid Hippophil With what manner of vineger doe you usually make up your medicines Hippos When we speake in generall termes of vineger to be put into any medicines to be given either for inward or outward diseases we alwayes intend it must the strongest and best white wine vineger Vineger but if it be of any other kinde of vineger or verjuyce we then do give it in the Receit its proper name Hippophyl As touching hony wherewith you make up your medicines what manner of honey must it be Hippos That should be made of life-honey onely Honey and of none other unlesse common honey or course-honey be in the Receit particularly named as it many times is Hippophyl Let us now goe on to somewhat else what hold you good for the head-ach in a horse § 3. A. Hippos VVE administer according to the nature of the Disease for that the pains in the head are severall and distinct diseases and therefore have severall cures Hippoph Which be those severall maladies and how may a man know and distinguish them each from other Hippos A judicious and cautelous observation is it whereby we doe know and distinguish all sorts of maladies for the Horse being a dumb creature without reason and speech Ach in th◠head is not able like as man can to tell you where his paine lyeth and therefore it must be the eye and judgement of the Ferrier to be able to observe his true symptomes whereby he may goe right to accomplish the cure otherwise he must of necessity faile Wherefore as the diseases of the head are of severall natures every of which doe beget his paine even so are the medicines which we apply as different Now these paines in the head doe proceed from the braine or from the panicles by which meanes they doe properly breed Megrims the Night-Mare Glanders Rhumes Cathars Apoplexies Convulsions Palsies Frenzies the Takings Sleeping-evill Madnesse and the like all which commonly doe proceed from the substance of the braine or from the panicles for that from the cels and ventricles through which the spirits animall doe give feeling and moving to all the parts and members of the body the diseases before mentioned doe engender Hippophyl From what grounds hath this head-ach its source or Organ Hippos The grounds and causes are many Sir some being inward and some outward as by meanes of some cholericke humour which may be predominant by which meanes it doth oft times breed in the panicles or else of some heat taken through violent labour and sometimes by some blow given him in the Poule or other place of the head and some doe hold it cometh of some evill savour which I also doe allow of sometimes it cometh of Crudityes and raw digestions from the Stomack by reason there is so great a sympathy betwixt the Stomack and the Braine whereby they doe continually participate as well of their good dispositions in health as of their domages in the least of their infirmities and sufferings Hippoph But many there be who do hold stifly that a Horse hath no Braines at all but only a kind of windy liquid substance not unlike unto a kind of jelly Hippos That opinion is most erronious for a horse hath a most perfect brain Braines like as hath any other living Creature albeit indeede not in so great a proportion as other Animals have For naturall reason doth dictate that if a Horse had not his Braine it were impossible for him to have semblable diseases in the Head which both Man and all other living things have who are I say likewise subject to such Maladies which could not proceed from any other Causes but only from those before premised Neither were it possible for a Horse to endure so great labour and toyle or to undergoe so great and so many waies such extreame violences as daily he doth if Nature had not endowed him with his organal parts correspōdent to his strength ablenesse and activity of body neyther could he have any memory at all but appeare a Lump of flesh and bones without motion But not to verberate the Ayre I affirme that a Horse hath his Braines in as compleate measure albeit as I have but now touched not in so great a quantity as other beasts have but in as ample solid and sufficient manner as any other living creature together with the skinne which Artists doe call Pannicles which doth adhere to the bones conducted by the Cells or Conducts by which the Vitall Spirits doe give some feeling sense motion to the body from whence proceeds the causes of diseases and sicknesse And for your better satisfaction if you please I may be present when at any time your Huntsman is to cut up a horse for your Hounds I will let you see most plainely both the Braine and the Pannicles Hippoph How shall a man come to know when a Horse hath any pain in his Head Hippos The Symtomes are most evident if you eye him well for his eyes will swell and become watry and ofttimes Matterative he will hang downe his head as if he were sleepy he will pricke his eares upright forsake his meate and his sight will be dim Hippoph What cure have you for the Head-ach Hippos Some use to perfume his head with the stalkes of Garlick and Frankinsence two or three severall times which will bring much liquid stuffe forth of his Nose which indeed is very good and I doe practise it sometimes as occasion is offred but then withall after I have perfumed him I use to let him bloud in the Palate vein
Balsome lay on the said Charge ✚ Hippophyl But let us looke backe againe to the Eyes What say you to Bloud-shotten Eyes For a Bone or Dry-Spaven or Curbe First take up the veine that feedeth it whether Spaven or Curb as well below as above then give it fire then charge the place with pitch made hoat clap flax upon it then foure daies after you must dulcifie the sorance with the Oyle Pampileon and fresh Butter molten together upon a gentle fire and when the scarre shal be falne away you must applie unto it a kind of stuffe which is called Blauco or white made I think of Iessoe and so continue it untill it be whole ✚ This is very good § 12. B. Hippos I Say Sir that Bloud-shotten Eyes may easily be holpen if a right Cure be taken and the Ferrier perite for as touching Eyes they are a tender Member soonest hurt and offended of any part about the body of any living Creature and therefore there ought the greater care to be taken in the Cure thereof and take this by the way for a point of good Counsell and for a good Rule that in administring to the Eyes you be very carefull that your Medicine bee not too old but often made and renewed for by using old made Medicines either their Vertues do passe away whereby the Member dressed receives no good or else by being too old the Medicines may most easily putrifie and corrupt and so by that meanes do much more harme than good to the Member you hoped to cure insomuch as if you be not very cautelous in making and compounding your Receipts for the Eyes aright you may most easily endeavouring to cure one Eye not faile in putting out both All diseases in the Eyes come only of two Causes viz. First either inward or outward Secondly by meanes of some Blow Stripe Prick Cut Bruise or some such like accident The Inward Causes do either proceed from evill Humours which do make their resort to the Eyes Bloud-shoten Eyes or else by the meanes of some cold taken which breaketh forth at the Eyes into some great Flux or else by meanes of some hot sharp or salt Humours which doe make their resort to the Eyes all which doe and will engender Bloud-shotten weeping or watery Eyes and these doe proceed from Inward causes Now these Maladies which have their source from outward Causes are as I have before mentioned eyther by a Blow Stripe Prick bruise or the like which will cause paine and anguish and such like inconveniencies whereby the Member being distempered through heat burning glowing c. will weepe and send forth much moisture which will produce not only Bloud-shotten and Weeping-Eyes but also if Art and Care be not added in time convenient Dimnesse of Sight Filmes Pearles Pin and web Dragons Serpentines and such numberlesse Sorances yea and â—irect Blindnesse it selfe without speciall providence and care used by way of prevention Wherefore for Maladies of this Nature I will prescribe you a few Receits which shal be very good and approved First therefore whereas the common cure in practise among our ordinary Ferriers and Smiths is to draw bloud as well from the Temple-veines as for the Neck veins my Counsell is which experience is taught mee by my Master here and it hath not a little profited and pleasured me to be very cautelous how you draw bloud from weake and enfeebled Eyes as bloud-shotten and Rhumatique-eyes must bee unlesse in cases of extreme necessity for by so doing I have known Horses in like cases which before they had bloud taken from them were able to see a little but after bloud-letting they have become so blind as a Beetle nor were they ever able no Art wanting to see more so as they after became very notable strong able Millhorses First therefore I aver that insteed of opening a veine I counsell you to lay unto the Temple-veines a Charge whereby to stay and hinder that Flux of noxious Humours which were the cause of this Malady and let this Charge bee made thus Bloud-shotten Eyes a Charge Take Pitch Rosin Mastick of each like much melt all these together and either apply it upon a Plaister made of Leather cut round or of Velvet of that color or as nere to the colour of the horse as may bee or else lay it good and warme to the Temple-veines with a cloth fastned to a sticke and before it be cold clap Flockes of the same colour to the place and let it so remaine on till of it selfe it fall away Then dresse the grieved Eyes with these ensuing things Take the white of a new-layed Egge Hony Selandine and red-Fennell of each so much as will suffice stamp them all well together and so bind it unto the grieved Eye ✚ But if you do find that the sight waxeth thick and that you observe dimnesse of sight in him through his weeping Take then Lapis Calaminaris and put it into the fire making it red-hot which infuse or quench in a pint of white Wine which done let the stone be made red-hot and quenched in the same Wine the second time and so in like manner the third time and after the third quenching when it is through cold dry it and beat it into fine powder and put the powder thereof into a glasse Viall and put thereto your white Wine wherein your Stone was quenched and after it hath stood and infused one whole night at the least put one drop of the cleerest of the Wine into the eye of the horse and so into the other eye also twise a day till you have staied the Rhume quite cleered his Eyes ✚ Another Take the Iuyce of Selendine Red-Fennell Vervine and Rue of each a like quantity viz. one Branch or Sprigge of eyther stamp them together and straine it through a cleane fine linnen ragge into a little cleere running water then put into it as much grated Ginger and Bay-salt finely powdred of each so much as will lie upon a two penny piece putting all these into a glasse-viall let it stand to settle and when you doe see it as cleere as it will be drop a drop of this water into either eye morning and evening bloud-warme c. ✚ Another Take also Ale-hoofe which is indeed your true ground-Ivy and stampe it well in a stone morter and if it be too dry put thereinto a little white Rose water or the water of Eye-bright distilled then straine it into a glasse and annoynt wash bathe and taint if need be the sorance therewith and in short time it will cure the eyes perfectly ✚ The residue of Receits I reserve to their due places § 13. B. Hippoph VVHat good cure have you for a bloud-running itch Hippos This sorance commeth to a Horse commonly by meanes of some extreame heate giuen him in the body through over-violent exercise whereby the bloud is enflamed Bloud-râ—ning itch some whereof getteth betwixt the skin and the
flesh which running too and fro being salt and billions it there doth itch and smart provoking the Horse many times to rub scrub and bite himselfe Which disease if it be let run long will come to be an Elephantique leprosie or at least a terrible mainge by which meanes he will soone infect all the Horses which are in the Stable where he standeth for it is a contagious malady and loathsome The best way to cure this itch before it proceed further is Take Chamberly newly made two quarts Bay-salt a handfull unslaked Lime a handfull Enule-campana root dryed and finely powdred a handfull but if not dryed then green cut into thin slices Hens dung a handfull boyle all these together a while then with a sticke with a clout fastened to it wash the Horse all over so hot as he may well suffer the same use this three or foure mornings together and it will cure him keeping him to a spare dyet and giving him white water ✚ § 14. B. Hippophyl VVHat is good to prevent Blowing and Pursivenesse in a Horse Hippos You must first understand Sir the true nature of this griefe as also how he came by it whereby you may the more easily know how to cure the same for that there be sundry wayes and meanes whereby a Horse may come to be breathlesse and short of winde and every one of them may be a severall disease and so require a distinct remedy But if you meane a shortnesse of winde onely then know that many Horses are naturally thicke winded as being cook-thrâ—pled narrow Chawled c. Blowing 〈◊〉 Pursiveneâ— Also shortnesse of winde may come unto him accidentally as when being fat and over-laden with flesh or by being too rank of bloud or by too much glut and foulenesse in the body then is he subject to shortnesse of breath and pursivenesse so as upon any motion or exercise he will sweat pant blow and heave at the flanks and this commeth upon him by immoderate riding eating drinking and rest And such like exercise causeth the panch of the Horse if he be put to any sudden motion or exercise to be so hard and strutted out as that he must so straine his longs the bellowes of the body as to cause a dislocation in them by meanes whereof they cannot execute their office or function as they ought and if care and remedy be not speedily had he will in short time be past all recovery and then hee is brought to that disease which the vulgar doe call broken-winded wherefore to prevent it administer unto him this ensuing Cure Let all the hay he eateth nor let him eate all he desireth for such Horses are commonly great feeders be sprinckled and moystened with water which will asswage his excesse of drinking and very much coole his bloud which cannot but be inflamed Then give him every morning for foure or five dayes together two egges steeped twenty foure houres in the strongest white wine vineger you can get give him I say these two egges and then the vineger after then ride him softly an houre after which done set him up warme and three houres after give him hay sprinckled with water and at night when you do give him his Oats wet them in Beere or good Ale and let his drinke be white water ✚ Doe this ten dayes together so that about the beginning of May and about Michaelmas he may be in breath and so keep him to spare dyet but with discretion ✚ This medicine will both purge him and scowre from him much flegme and filth as well at nose as mouth and he will be both sounder and in better health a long time after provided he be also kept to moderate exercise And if after you have thus drenched and dyeted him you doe not perceive his blowing and lifting at the ribbes and flanks to cease then be you confident your Horse is past all cure onely still moysten his meat as before is inculcated and he will hold out the longer ✚ Another Receit I have for the same malady which if he be not past all cure will infallibly doe him much good which is this viz. Take wheate meale the powder of Lung-wort alias Mullet Gentiana Anniseeds Comin-seeds of each three drammes make them into fine powder and make paste with them with honey and fresh butter of each like quantity so much as will suffice and put to it the yolkes of two new laid egges make this paste into pils and every morning fasting give him three or foure of these pils rowled up in the powder of Enulacampana and the powder of Licoris of each like much These pils preserve the winde of the Horse mervailously and keeps him alwaies in breath and therefore good they be often used ✚ Of these two Receits I have had great experience and a third I was taught whereof I had not oft made triall yet with that little experience I have had of it I doe find it to be right good being as followeth Take the Excrements of a sucking child and put unto it a pint of white wine let it boyle till the one halfe be consumed and so give it him blood-warme This will cause him to forsake his blowing for 15. dayes so as when hee beginneth againe to blow give him the same medicine againe and so keep him with this from time to time so oft as you shall have cause and by this meanes you shall have his wind good ✚ But then you must beware you put not into the wine too large a proportion of the Excrements for it will make him to be very sick and peradventure endanger him for howsoever when at any time you doe administer it it will make him very sick Remember also to sprinkle his meat and to give him white water § 15. B. Hyppoph VVHat is your opinion of Botts Trunchions and Wormes their severall sorts and how doe you kill them Hyppos The generall Opinion is that there are but two sorts of these kind of creeping Creatures to wit Botts and Wormes for they hold that trunchions and bots are both one and the same thing but they are much mistaken for bots are of a different shape and colour from trunchions and of different natures Bots for bots doe breed and reside in the great gut adjoyning to the fundament but trunchions doe breed and make their abode in the maw onely and if they be suffered to remaine any time within the body of the Horse they will make their way through the aforesaid great gut and the trunchions through the maw both which vermine doe bring death to the Horse Now I doe averre that there is a third sort Three sâ— of vermâ— which dâ— engendeâ— the body the Hoâ—â— which have none other denomination than plaine wormes unlesse you will adde the word maw-wormes and so stile them maw-wormes which name indeed is most proper to them by reason that they select for their resting place the maw onely from which they
the Halter catcheth into the Pasterne Ioynt which he feeling falleth to striving whereby he casteth himselfe downe and by meanes of the hardnesse of the Cord he is gauled even to the very bone and many times if he be not opportunely rescued the Halter doth strangle him and he found starck dead But if the Horse do escape with life he will be neverthelesse terrible gauled which will soone rankle and swell unlesse cure be presently administred The signe whereby to know it is apparant enough I will give you only two Receipts for this sorance whereof the first shal be this viz. Take the leafe of the hearb called Saubsucus Cast in a Halter stamp it and strayn it and take only the juyce thereof and apply the said juyce to the sorance by washing it therewith after take a linnen cloth white and cleane and make it into three or foure folds steeping the cloath in the said juyce and bind it on to the place grieved but in Winter when the said Leafe is not to be had you must take the second rinde thereof and do therewith as before but then note that before you wash and apply the saide juyce to the wound you must first wash the sorance with warme Water and then apply your said juyce and he shal be perfectly cured in short time This I never yet experienced by reason I could never yet meete with the Hearb This second I have often tryed and I have found it to bee infallible viz. Make a Rowle of fat Wooll and steepe the same in Vineger and Sheepes Suet so much as will suffice boyled together till it commeth to bee very thick and let the Rowle bee full as long or rather somewhat longer then the place gauled apply this to the sorance Plaister-wise and bind upon it a cleane Linnen cloth changing it twise a day and in short time it wil be whole This is right good ✚ § 2. C. Hippoph VVHat Cure have you for a Canker Hippos This is a very loathsome Sorance which if it be suffred to run long will so fester and corrupt the place where it hapneth that it will violently eate even to the bone if it fall upon the Tongue it will eate the very roote in sunder if in the Nose it will eate the very Gristle through You may easily know this Sorance for that the places wil be very raw and bleed often and many times you shall perceive a white Scurfe to grow upon the place grieved For it is a most Cankerous Vlcer which ofttimes is engendred of a fretting humour It commeth two waies that is eyther of naughty and corrupt bloud procured by meanes of unwholesome meate or by some Bilious Humour which came to the Horse by an extreame cold not long before taken which will cause his bteath to stinke loathsomely Canker I will deliver unto you sundry cures for this sorance which my selfe have experimented and have found them to be very good Take white Wine halfe a pint Roch Alome the quantity of a Wall-nut Bay-salt halfe a Spoonefull English Honey one Spoonefull Red-Sage Rue Ribwort Honey-Suckle Leaves Yarrow Plantine Bramble-leaves of each like much but of every one a little boyle all these in the white Wine so much as will suffice till a quarter be consumed and then first inject of this Water into the sorance or else if the Canker be in the Mouth wash the place with a clout fastned to a sticks end and so dresse him therewith twice a day or oftner if you shall see cause till it be whole ✚ Another Take greene Coperas and Alome of each one pound white Coperas foure drammes boyle these in a pottle of running Water untill almost the one moiety bee consumed then take it from the fire and put into it of Honey half a pound then holding up his Head with a Drenching Staffe but yet not too high with a Pewter or Elder Sering or Squirt inject it into his Nose if the Canker be there bloud warme which done give presently his head liberty whereby hee may snuffle and blow forth the corruption and faile not to inject him thus three or foure times one after the other at every dressing and do thus Morning and Evening till it bee whole which will not be long ✚ But if it be only a sore Mouth and that it come to be a Canker then Take of the strongest white Wine Vineger and make it thick with powdred Alome and so wash the sorance therewith two or three dayes together for this will kill and destroy the Vlcer then heale up the Sorance thus viz. Take of faire Water a quart Alome and Honey of each foure ounces Maudeline leaves red Sage and Columbine leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in the Water till halfe bee consumed and every day twice that is Morning and Evening wash his Mouth therwith bloud-warme and it will heale him ✚ Another First make this strong Alome Water viz. Take Alome halfe a pound Hony halfe a pint red Sage and Wood-bind-leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in faire water till halfe bee consumed with this Water and Hearbs wash and rub the Sores till they become red and raw then take white Wine Vineger halfe a pint Alome powdred two ounces Ginger powdred halfe an ounce and of life Honey halfe a pint mix all these well together and therewith annoynt the sore Morning and Evening and it will cure him ✚ All these Receipts I have made tryall of and have found them to be right good Another Take the juyce of the Root Asphodill seven ounces Quick-lime Arsnick of each two ounces beat and incorporate all these together and put them into a new pot close stopped and let it boyle till it come to ashes these ashes you shall apply to the Sorance twice a day but the sore must be first washed with strong Vineger as before is taught §. 3. C. Hippoph HOw cure you that Horse who hath cast his Hoofe Hippos This is a troublesome Sorance yet with care it may be cured it commeth either by meanes of some Foundring or by an Accloy Prick Stub Graveling Quitterbone or other hurt within the Foote which breaking out above round about the Cronet and in time the Hoofe breaking it falleth from the Foote I neede relate no Signes whereby to know the same The Cure is thus Take Aquafortis the strongest you can get Casting the hoofe and first with a Rape or Drawing Iron file or draw away the old hoofe somewhat neere then touch the hoofe so prepared with your Aquafortis three or foure severall dressings and no more This done annoynt the Foote with the Vnguent we doe commonly make for Horses Feete viz. Take Hogs-grease three pound Pach-grease two pound Venice-Turpentine one pound new Wax halfe a pound Sallet-Oyle one pound Melt and mix all these upon the fire and herewith chafe rub and annoint the Coffin of the Hoofe up to the very top and this will bring a new hoofe ✚
take from him all noxious and offensive humours it will carry away all spungy matter it will allay the biliousnesse and sharpnesse of humours it will cleanse old Vlcers it will refresh and comfort the Vitall parts c. But if you doe finde that by giving too great a quantity your Horse purgeth and scowreth longer and more violently than you would have had him to have done or for feare it should stir up in him upon the suddaine more bad humours than you may easily know how to allay then give him this Clyster viz. Take the aforesaid Decoction one pint 3 Clister Restringenâ— adding thereto as much of Cowes milke as it commeth warme from her and put also thereto the yolkes of three new-layed Egges well beaten and well mixed with the said liquour and so give it your Horse bloud warme This is called a Clyster Restringent for this is only to be applyed to a Horse that is very Laxative or that doth empty himselfe too much which is occasioned oft times through overmuch debility and want of strength or when nature is very much offended you may apply this so oft as need shall require ✚ Another 4 Clister for fat Horse Take Mallowes three handfuls marsh mallow roots cleansed and bruised and Violet leaves of each two handfuls Flaxe seed three spoonfuls so many of the cloves of white Lilly roots as you may easily hold in your hand boyle all these in faire water from a gallon to a wine quart then straine it and put thereto of Sene one ounce which must be infused or steeped in the liquor three houres standing upon the hot embers then put thereto of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and being bloud warme administer it Clyster-wise causing him to keep it at least halfe an houre or longer if you may and the best time to give this is three or foure dayes before the Full and change of the Moon howsoever it may be given to very good profit as occasion may profer it selfe at any other time ✚ This Clister is to be given to a Ketty or fat Horse which otherwise cannot be kept cleane for it purgeth glut abundantly and it is also principally to be given to a Horse that is newly taken from grasse Another 5 A Clister for melancholy Take of Whey a quâ—â—t of Anniseeds in fine powder two penniworth of the leaves of Mallowes one handfull boyle these till the Mallowes be soft then straine it then put to it of sweet Butter foure ounces which when the butter is molten administer it bloud-warm ✚ This purgeth melancholy it causeth a good appetite which before was wanting it refresheth the spirits dulled and occasioneth good digestion if the Horse be kept warm and well tended Another 6 Clister in case of desperate sickâ—esse Take of the oyle of Dill of the oyle of Camomile of the oyle of Violets of Cassia of each halfe an ounce and of browne sugar candy in powder three ounces then take of Mallow-leaves halfe a handfull boyle the Mallowes first to a Decoction in faire water then straine it and put to the broth all the forenamed ingredients administer this bloud-warme Clyster wise This is a most soveraigne Clister to be given in case of desperate sicknesse it helpeth all Feavers it is good against the Pestilence and all languishing diseases most excellent against Surfets either by Provender or otherwise and it will occasion great strength in short time if it be rightly made and carefully given ✚ Another 7 Clister for the Pestilence Take the pulpe of Colliquintida halfe an ounce I meane the seeds and skin taken away of Dragantium three quarters of an ounce of Centuary and of Wormwood of each halfe a handfull of Castoreum a quarter of an ounce boyle all these in three quarts of water to a quart then straine it and dissolve into the broth of Gerologundinum three ounces and of white salt three drams of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and bloud warme administer it Clister-wise ✚ This I have often proved and doe finde it to be most excellent for the Pestilence and to helpe all Feavers Another 8 Clisters Lenitive Take the decoction of Mallowes and put to it either of fresh Butter foure ounces or of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and give it him Clister-wise ✚ This is the gentlest Clister of any before prescribed for it is both a Lenitive and a great cooler of the body and doth infinitely ease paine It is the best thing can be given to a Horse that is taken or against Convulsions or Cramps and most singular against Costivenesse proceeding from any sicknesse or surfet by Provender foundring in the body c. Another 9 Clister for the Collick Take salt water or new made brine 2 pints dissolve therein a pretty quantity of Sope and so bloud-warm administer it Clister-wise This I never did experience howsoever I have been oft perswaded by many able Ferriers who have averred it to be the most excellent that may be had for the Collick or any sicknesse or gripings in the guts or belly And let this suffice for Clisters onely by way of advise I counsell you that before you administer any Clister you first rake him that you put in the Pipe being first annoynted with sweet Butter or oyle Olive gently and by degrees and that you also draw it forth very treatably that you make him keep it at least halfe an houre that you doe administer it but bloud warme at most that you squeeze and presse between your hands the bladder strongly and lastly that you let him not drink any cold water in a day or two after but let it be either a sweet Mash or else white water §. 9. C. Hyppoph VVHat is good to be applyed to a Horse that is cloyed prickt or hath other hurt in the hoofe Hippos You must first with your Butter Drawing iron or Paring knife lay the wound bare as may be then Take waxe Hogs grease and Turpentine of each one ounce Cloyed Verdigrease two ounces boyle these upon a gentle fire your waxe and Hogs grease being first put in and molten then put in your Turpentine and lastly your Verdigrease in fine powder and being indifferently warme dip Tow or Hurds into the oyntment and so lay it to the Sore then stop and splent it up and dresse him twice a day and this will make him whole and sound in short time ✚ But of this more in its due place § 10. C. Hippophylus VVHat say you to a Horse whose Cods and Stones are swelled Hippos This infirmity proceedeth from sundry causes as sometimes by being bitten with a Dog or with another Horse or by being stung with some venemous or evill creature The French do call it Enflure de Coullon's Cods swelled It commeth also by meanes of some evill humours and corrupt bloud which doe fall down to the cods sometimes after sicknesse and sometimes of ranknesse of bloud and seed for want of a Mare If
it come by ranknesse of seed or of bloud then let him have a Mare and cover her two or three dayes together and halfe an houre after ride him into the water above the cods or stones against the streame and he will doe well ✚ But if this disease come by other causes then Take the Lees of Claret Wine and Comen-seed made into fine powder and a little Wheat or Beane flower boyle these together to an unguent and so warme as he may well endure it annoint the cods therewith which done draw forth his yard and wash it and his sheeth also with white wine vineger and three or foure houres after ride him into the water above the cods and let him also stand in the water some short time and sometimes ride him against the streame doe this every day till the swelling be asswaged ✚ This is a very good Cure Another Take the roots of wild Cucumbers and white salt so much as will suffice boyle these in faire water to an oyntment and annoynt the cods therewith warme and then apply this oyntment Take Goats grease or for default thereof Deeres suet the white of an Egge and Sallet oyle boyle these over a gentle fire and herewith annoynt the cods but this must be applyed after he hath been ridden into the water and dry againe doe this every day once till he be well ✚ This I have often tryed and have found it to be right good Another First annoynt and bathe the cods in the juyce of Hemlock and when it is dryed then Take Pigeons dung and new Milke and boyle it till it be as thick like to a Poultesse and therewith annoint the cods every day once Another First let him bloud in both the spur or flanck veines Then take oyle of Roses and vineger of each a pinte and of Bolearmonack in fine powder two ounces make all these into one body and being luke-warme annoynt the cods therewith and the next day ride him into the water up to the cods against the streame then bring him into the stable and when he is through dry annoynt him againe thus continuing to do till he be well But if the cods be swolne by meanes of any hurt bite or stroke then apply to them this following charge A charge for swelled cods Take Bolearmonack in powder vineger and the whites of Egges as much as will suffice well beaten and wrought together and annoynt him therewith daily till it be abated and if it impostumate where you finde it to be soft open it either with a hot iron or with your incision knife if it breake not of it selfe and so heale it up with the oyntment taught you in lib 2. cap. 10. § 4. and it will soone be whole ✚ This is very soveraigne §. 11. C. Hippoph VVHat say you to the Collick Hippos It is Sir a disease which commeth of winde and therefore we generally call it the winde collicke the French call this disease the Tranchaisons Collicke it causeth great gripings and extreame paine in the belly of the Horse so as he will oft times lye down and tumble he will also strike at his belly with his hinder feet and stamp with his fore-feet and the paine will be so great as to cause him to forsake his meat these signes I have often observed in Horses perplexed with this malady and albeit I have sundry Receits for it and all or the most of them by me tryed and approved good yet one of Master Blundeviles and Master Markhams I hold inferiour to none of mine for I have often tryed it and this is it Take a quart of Muskadine or of sweet Sack of Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each halfe an ounce Sugar two ounces make all these into fine powder and give it him bloud warme then annoynt his flankes with oyle de Bay but I often use to annoynt them with the oyntment of Acopum I finding it to be much better then bridle him up and trot him out a good round trot or gallop him softly sometimes the space of an houre untill he doe dung but if he will not then rake him or else put an Onyon pilled and jagged into his fundament then for three or foure dayes let his drinke be either sweet Mashes or white water and keep him warme and he will doe well againe ✚ Another Keep him fasting over night and in the morning give him this drinke Take of white Wine a quart Fenugrick foure ounces Bay-berries and Pepper of each foure ounces Graines and Ginger of each one ounce Water-Cresses two handfuls Sage one handfull Sengrene one pound Mints a handfull stampe the hearbs and pound the spices and put them into the wine and let it boyle a little then straine it and put to it of life Honey two spoonfuls and so give it him bloud-warme ✚ This I have also found to be very good notwithstanding if he be a stoned Horse the best cure for him is to have a Mare especially if he be so troubled with the collicke so as that he cannot pisse besides it helpeth and preventeth sundry sorts of sicknesses and diseases and strengtheneth nature ✚ Another Take of white Wine one pinte and three or foure Cantharides and make them into very fine powder and give this to the Horse well brewed in wine bloud-warme This I never tryed for that these flyes being a strong corasive have deterred me howsoever I have been often invited thereunto by many good Ferriers who have averred unto me that they have often used it and have found it to be right good Another Take Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each one ounce all made into fine powder and well mixed then put it into a quart of Muskadine and let it boyle a while then take it off and put to it of Honey one spoonfull give it him bloud-warme which done cloath him up and litter him and so let him stand upon his trench foure houres then give him meat and an houre after a sweet Mash or white water This was taught me by a Noble Knight who said he had often used it But if your Horse hath the collicke and stone then Take of white wine one pinte of Burr-seeds eight ounces Collicke and Stone made into fine powder of Parsley-seed two ounces in powder also of Isope unset Leekes and Water-Cresses of each halfe a handfull of black Sope halfe an ounce stamp all the hearbs in a morter and straine them with the Wine then put to that liquor your Burre and Parsley seeds and so give it him bloud-warme this will breake the stone and bring it from him with much ease and cure his Collicke ✚ This I have often administred § 12. C. Hippophyl VVHat Disease is that which is called the Colt Evill Hyppos It is a disease in the yard sheath and cods of a Horse or Gelding and it commeth to Horses by meanes of heat and ranknesse of seed and to a Gelding by weaknesse and coldnesse of seed to the Horse through
each the quantity of three Wallnuts halfe as much Hony browne Sugar-candy in fine powder halfe an ounce mixe these with a quantity of powdred Brimstone so much as will suffice and sew them into a fine linnen cloth and ty it to his Bit or Snaffle and so ride or journey him moderately till all be dissolved into his body then bring him into the stable and cloth and litter him warme and three houres after give Hay and after a warme Mash use him thus three mornings together and longer if you shall see cause ✚ Another Take bloud from him if you have ground for the same otherwise not Bran prepared then insteed of giving him Oates you shall give him bran boyled in water after this manner viz. Set a Kettle over the fire almost full of water when it beginneth to boyle put in your bran and let it boyle a full quarter of an houre at least then take it off and let it stand till it bee almost cold and about foure or five a clocke in the morning give him this Bran so hot as he can eate it then for his drinke give him the same water and at night give him Oates and white water and let him be covered and littered warme if it be in Summer let not the Stable be too hot for that will take away his stomacke and make him faint and sweat too much and at night give him the quantity of what you can put into an Egge-shell among his Oates of this powder following to which you must keep him for eight dayes together or longer if you shall see cause You must understand that the boyled Branne is that which dryeth up all his grosse and corrupt humours which was the cause of his cold Now the powder is this viz. Take of Comen-seed Fenugrick Silleris-Montani alias Sisileos Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two ounces Quick Brimstone sixe ounces make all these into fine powder and let them be well mixed this must be given with his Oates as is before inculcated but he must first be watered and then presently let him be well rubbed body necke pole legges breast and belly and cloathed and littered warme and an houre before you give him his Oates put into his Rack a little sweet wheat straw and so I say let him eate thereof the space of one houre or better and then give him his Oates mixed with this powder which having eaten give him Hay at your pleasure and thus doing in short time you shall perceive his Cold to be quite gone and the sooner if he shall be moderately ayered an houre after Sun-rising and an houre before Sun-set if the Sunne doe shine Now if this Cold bring with it a violent cough as is often seen then give him the aforesaid Wheat Branne boyled together with the said powder with his Oates but then not above three or foure dayes for that the said powder disperseth the corrupt and grosse humours that are in the body which doe occasion the said cough and when you doe perceive that he hath purged sufficiently keep him notwithstanding to his white water but an houre before you doe water him Take a sticke of the bignesse of your thumb or better of well nigh a foot long and wrap a linnen clout about it four or five times first dipped in oyle de Bay and put it into his mouth and with some piece of leather thong or other small cord fasten it to either end of the sticke and so fasten it over his eares like the Headstall of a Bridle like as Smiths use to do when they burn a Horse for the Lampas and let him drinke with this sticke in his mouth which done let him stand with it thus in his mouth an houre after at the least to the end he may licke and sucke up the said oyle and when he is to eate his Oates put among them this other powder following viz. Take Fennell seed four ounces Fenugrick two ounces Cardimums one ounce pound these grosly otherwise he will blow them away in eating his Oates and with his Oates put every night of this powder one spoonefull and keep him warme and so use him as before is prescribed ✚ Another Take Ivy-berries and dry them and make them into powder and so give it to your Horse in Ale or Beere This I never tryed and this is onely for a cough Another for a cough Take of salt one pinte of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte oyle of Anniseeds one ounce browne sugar Candy in powder three ounces give this with your horne to your Horse three mornings together and it will rid him of his cough and heale any putrifaction in his lungs or any other inward parts whatsoever This also I never tryed but it was highly commended to me Another Receit for a cough which I have found to be very good Take two new laid Egges and open the crownes and get forth some of the white and then put into these Egges so much of the powder of Brimstone as you can take up upon a shilling into either Egge give him this every morning for some time or till you see the cough to goe from him Another Take three new laid egs and put them into a pinte pot then put so much of the best and strongest white wine vineger into the pot as will very well cover the Egges and let them lye in the Vineger 24 houres at least then beat the Vineger and Egges together shels and all and so give it your Horse cold and then ride or walke him an houre and against his comming in have this drinke in a readinesse and give it him viz. Take Isope Anniseeds Licoris Graines Long Pepper Gentiana Elecampane dried of each three drams make all the spices into fine powder and stamp the Isope well and so put all into good Sack one pinte and of good Ale also one pinte and of Honey one spoonfull and so boyle it and give it your Horse bloud-warme and set him up and cloth him and litter him warme causing him to fast three houres after it and give him no cold water but sweet Mashes or white water and this will cure him for it is an approved good receit ✚ Another very good Take Wheate meale Anniseeds Licoris Polipodium of the Oake dryed Elecampane dryed make all these into powder and mixe them well Take two spoonfuls of this powder with a head of Garlicke pilled and bruized mixe all these well together and with your Wheate meale and honey as much as will suffice make pils thereof to the bignesse of a great Walnut and give your Horse every morning three or foure of these Pils and so soone as he hath taken them give him two new laid Egges with their shels X Another Take of life hony three spoonfuls of the best and whitest refined loafe sugar one spoonfull and an halfe made into fine powder dryed Elecampane root made also into fine powder one spoonfull and of Amber-greece two graines mixe all these
very well together and put it into an Egge-shell and give him hereof at night late and in the morning fasting and so let him fast for three houres after and be the cough never so violent it will both stay and cure the same X This is right good for I have had very great proofe thereof Another Take Benjamin and Brimstone made into very fine powder of each halfe an ounce give this your Horse with one pinte of Muskadine putting into it two new laid Egges shels and all broken and well beaten together let it be given three mornings together This was commended unto me for a speciall good Receit but I never did make tryall thereof Another Take Nettle-seeds Anniseeds Reysins of the sunne stoned Elecampane in fine powder of each halfe an ounce make all the spices and seeds into very fine powder and cut the Reysins very small and so boyle all these in Muskadine or Sacke a quart with three spoonefuls of life Honey then straine it and give it him three mornings together bloud-warme This I never proved Another Take of Rue one handfull chop or stampe it very small and put to it a penny worth of Anniseeds in very fine powder make it up into Pils with sweet Butter and so give it your Horse X This I have found to be most soveraigne for a Horse that hath a cold whether newly or formerly taken either wet or dry cough it is also most excellent for a Horse that hath been over-ridden or any way wronged by labour Now if his cough be so violent as that it may endanger his winde then Take Calamint Gentiana Comin-seed Licoris Elecampane of each two drams make all these into fine powder and confect them with life Honey and Butter mingled together and molten and when it is cold make it up into Pils then rowle them in the powder of Anniseeds and give him of these Pils three or foure every morning for two or three mornings together fasting and after keep him warm and let his drinke be Mashes or White-water ✚ But if hee hath a Cough of the Lungs give him these Pills Take the Rootes of Mallowes newly gathered Elecampane Rootes newly also gathered of each one handfull slice them thin and boyle them in faire water with Barly two handfuls till the roots be soft then straine forth the liquor and put into it a penny dish of sweet Butter of life Honey three spoonfuls and as much Beane meale as will make all into a paste then make it into Pils and rowle them up in the powder of Anniseeds and give him three or foure of them every morning fasting for three or foure mornings together keepe him temperately warme and during the time he taketh these Pils let his drinke be either sweet Mashes or white water and every day about mid day give him boyled Barly or Brewers graines ✚ Another for a Horse that hath his winde broken Take the leaves of Mullet alias Mullen alias Horse-Lungwort and dry them and make them into fine powder and then make them up in Bals or Pils with ordinary Hony so much as will suffice let these Pils be made of the bignesse of an Egge and give him of them three at a time fourteen or fifteen dayes together or longer if you shall see cause and let him not drink any cold water during the time and for a while after the giving of his Pils and let his exercise be very moderate and his Hay sprinkled with water and his Oates wet with good Ale or Beere and in short time he will be well and sound againe ✚ This is a most approved good Receit with which I have done cures held impossible to have been effected Another Take Comen halfe an ounce Anniseeds and Licoris of each two ounces dryed roots of Elecampane three ounces make them into fine powder and then boyle them in a pottle of Ale or Beere to a quart then straine it and give the liquor to your Horse in a morning fasting bloud-warme and ride him moderately upon it two or three houres then set him up warme and use him ut supra This I never tryed but he that gave it me did highly commend the same unto me Thus have I given you many Receits for a cold and such diseases which are thereof dependant whereof many are to my knowledge right good and by my selfe experimented with which I have done cures which have been held very strange and beyond expectation Hippoph Truely Hipposerus as touching these maladies something there is in them wherein I doe earnestly desire to be yet better informed and first I would gladly know what be the diversities of the diseases which doe proceed from Colds and how wee may come to know one malady from another Hippos Sir in answer hereunto you must understand that from a cold taken doth issue many infirmities if the said cold be not speedily prevented as namely first Coughs as well wet as dry Catars Murs Rhumes Pose Ratlings in the head Kernels and inflamations under the Chaule with Bunches Knots Pustils c. It causeth also Hide bound Feavers Head-aches Frenzy Sleeping-Evill weeping-Eyes Canker in the Nose Strangles Quinsey to have Gourded or swolne legges It will cause the hayre to stare it will in time cause the mourning of the Chine if there be such a disease shortnesse of breath pursivenesse purtisick broken winde also if there be such a disease Frelised broken and rotten lungs glanders incurable if it be not in time prevented griefe and paine in the breast Antecor it will also cause the evill habit of the stomacke dropsie loathing of meat foundring both in the body and feet tyrednesse putrifaction and inflamations in the bloud it will also cause many diseases and inflamations in the liver together with the siccity and aridity thereof obstructions opilations costivenesse and stoppings both in the body and pores a consumption in the liver the overflowing of the gall the unnaturall working of the spleene the Yellowes Stavers the Collick and gripings belly bound laxe and bloudy-fluxe All these and many more diseases and maladies doe depend upon this one onely infirmity we call the cold and therefore how needfull a thing it is for a man who is the true-lover of his Horse to be carefull what in him lyeth both to keep his Horse from cold taking as also to know how to cure the same so soone as it shall appeare in performance whereof no small diligence and art is required §. 14. C. Hippoph YOu make question whether or not there bee such a disease which is so commonly called the Mourning of the Chine why is there not such a disease Hippos No truely there is no such disease for that which is called the mourning of the Chine is none other thing than a plain and rank Glanders which very few of our English Ferriers doe know how to cure which hath its first source and origen from a cold which being let run long commeth to be a Glanders which in
and Sallet Oyle of each one pint then take wax foure ounces and Beane Flower twelve Spoonefuls and so boyle it and after straine it and bring it to an Vnguent and therewith anoynt the Tumors and swelled parts which being done apply this Plaister to the places Another Take Darnell and red Docks of each two handfuls bruise them and then boyle them in wine and Salet Oyle of each one pint and Beane Flower foure Spoonefuls and put thereto of Asses or Oxes dung so much as will suffice when it is boyled to a pultis apply it Playster-wise and use this every day once till it be well ✚ This is also very good Another Take Linseed and pound it in a Morter and of Fenugrick in powder of each foure ounces Pitch and Rosin of each three ounces Damaske Rose leaves dryed two ounces Pitch of Greece six ounces boyle all these together and when you are ready to take it from the fire adde thereto of Turpentine two ounces Honey six ounces and Sallet Oyle so much as will suffice and thus applying this Salve Plaister wise to the place it will mollifie any hard substance ✚ This I have often tryed and have found it to bee very good §. 7. D. Hippoph BVt Hipposerus is there any cure for a sick Horse whose infirmity is so desperate and he so farre spent as to bee generally judged to be almost at the poynt of death Hippos Truely Sir both my Master and my selfe have done such cures upon Horses which have beene so desperately sick as you speak of insomuch as the beholders have pronounced sentence of death upon them and the owners would have beene well content to have beene satisfied and well appayed with their skinnes and shooes and I will shew you what our cure is First open the neck veine and let him bleed well then two houres after his bleeding Take of Diatesseron halfe an ounce and give it him bloud warme in Muskadine a pint Desperate sicknesse or Sack for want thereof or else if these be not on the suddaine to be gotten then take good Ale or Beere with the like quantity of Diatesseron then having given it walke him halfe an houre if he be able in the warme Sunne or if there be not Sunne-shine then in some warme Stable or Barne then set him up warme cloathed and littered and let him be rubbed all over as Head Pole Neck and Legges and especially twixt the Eares for that greatly easeth the payne in the head by reason it dissolveth and disperseth the humors at noone unbridle him and offer him a little sweet Hay sprinkled with water which if he shall refuse to eate as t is likely he will then offer him so much bread as the quantity of a penny loafe and let him eate it all if he will but if he do refuse to eate thereof also then give him one gallon of the strongest Ale-wort you can get of the first runnings so soon as it is mashed but let it not be over-hot and before barme be put unto it give him this I say bloud warm but if that cannot be gotten then provide him in a readinesse against the same houre a sweet Mash which when he hath taken fume his head with Olibanum Storax and Benjamin and then let him be rubbed againe as before and see him warme kept as is usuall for sicke Horses in physicke and thus doe for three dayes together in all poynts bloud-letting excepted for that must be once onely unlesse extraordinary cause doe require the same and assure your selfe your Horse will mend daily and recover his health and strength in short time and at three dayes end give him no more Mashes but in their stead let him have white water onely if by meanes of this sicknesse he hath any Pustils or inflamations risen under his chaule then clip away the hayre and apply such things thereunto as may ripen them and bring them to a head and after breake them with Shoomakers waxe or other such like good things and so let them runne and heale at pleasure Also if you doe finde your Horse to be costive by meanes of his sicknesse as commonly horses will be after Physicke then first rake him and finding his doung to be hot dry and hard give him the suppository of a candle shewed you in chap. 18. § 27. Suppos 1. of this second Booke And this is the best Suppository can be given him in a case of this nature ✚ But if contrariwise you finde him to have a strong and violent laxe or scowring upon him whereby he purgeth overmuch and so continueth then be you assured that hee hath something in his body wherewith nature is offended which you must labour to remove and for remedy thereof Take of new milke one quart and put to it of Beane flower two spoonfuls and as much of the powder of Bolearmonack searsed boyle these untill the milke thicken and so bloud warme give it your Horse and in a morning or two fasting with a horne and it will stay his loosenesse ✚ but if this doe it not then shall you Take of red Wine one pinte or Tinto the like quantity and put into it of Bursa-Pastoris one handfull and of Tanners Bark in fine powder half a handful the outside being first taken away then boyle it till the hearb do begin to be soft then straine it and put thereto of Cinamon powdred two spoonfuls and so give it him bloud warme one or two mornings and this will infallibly stay his fluxe and if you cannot get Diapente or Diatesseron then give him this drinke Take of Dragon-water one pinte London Treacle one ounce warme it till the Treacle be dissolved and so give it him bloud warm give him this drinke three mornings together and for his drink otherwise let him have sweet Mashes three mornings onely and after till he be well recovered let him have no cold water by any meanes but onely white water and through Gods assistance he will be soone restored to his former health ✚ These things I have often practised to good purpose § 8. D. Hippophyl VVHat is to be done to a Horse that droopeth pineth or languisheth Hippos This disease commeth by a cold taken or by some unnaturall surfet by reason of over-hard riding or by being washed after an extreame heate the fignes to know it is he will feed but with no appetite neither will the meate he eateth disgest well with him for give him Oates and you shall finde many of them come forth whole in his ordure besides he will be lanke in the belly and flankes and his flesh will fall away The cure for such a malady is first to Drooping Take bloud from him as well in the necke as spurre veines for that the bloud is most corrupt and naught the next day rake him and administer unto him the Clister prescribed you in lib. 2. chap. 6. and § 7. Clist 3. C. the next day after he hath taken his Clister
then take Lint or fine Hurds and dip it into the medicine and so stop it into the eares of the Horse and with a needle and threed stitch up his eares so as the medicine get not forth the next day take the dry mosse which groweth upon an old pale of a Parke or other pale or upon the limbs of an old Oke one handfull or better chop it small and boyle it in a pottle of new milke together with a green root of Elecampane cut into thin and small slices and so let it boyle till halfe the milke be consumed then straine it and presse it throughly and before it be cold put into the milke a good piece of sweet Butter and of ordinary Treacle so much as will suffice and so give it him bloud warme ✚ This is also good for the head-ach Frenzy Stavers Pose Cold Cough wet or dry shortnesse of breath rotten lungs Glaunders mourning of the Chine Laxe Loosenesse Bloudy-fluxe of the like diseases §. 16. D. Hippoph WHat may a man apply to a Horse to cause him to draw up his yard Hippos This is a disease which commeth of weakenesse in the backe Draw his yard or kidneyes either through over-riding or some leap or strain or by meanes of a cold and sometimes it commeth by a terrible stripe given him upon the loynes against the kidneyes or upon the yard it selfe or by wearinesse or tyrednesse the signes to know it is by the unseemely hanging of the member and the cure is thus First wash and bathe all the yard and sheath with white Wine made warme and after that annoynt it with oyle of Roses and life honey mingled together and so put up the yard into the sheath and with a soft boulster of Canvas keep it from falling downe and dresse him thus every day once till hee we well and let his backe and fillets be kept warme and annoynted with Acopum or if you have not Acopum then apply this charge unto his backe and fillets Take Bolearmonacke the whites of Egges Wheate meale Sanguis Draconis Venis Turpentine and strong white Wine vineger of each of these as much as will suffice mixe them well and charge his backe therewith his sheath and his stones and he shall be well Another Take the ashes of Ashen wood the whitest finest and best burned and searse them one pound or red-clay dryed and made into fine powder halfe a pound Bolearmonacke halfe an ounce powdred boyle all these in as much Verjuyce of the crab as will make it liquid like pap and with it annoynt his yard sheath and stones morning and evening and he shall be presently cured ✚ This is speciall good §. 17. D. Hippoph VVHat is good to draw a thorne stub iron splinter naile or what else out of the flesh of the horse Hippos If the stub thorne or whatsoever else it be that is gotten into the flesh be so deep as that you cannot come to it to plucke it forth with your fingers or plyers then lay to the place a good quantity of blacke sope Draw a thorne and so let it lye all night and in the morning it will make it to appeare so as you may come to take hold of it with your Instrument but if it be gotten into the flesh so deep as that the sope cannot doe it then must you open the flesh by the way of incision so deep till you may come to take hold thereof with your Instrument and so plucke it forth which done heale up the wound with the oyntment taught you in lib. 2. cap. 10. § 4. G. and so heale it up but be you certaine that you doe heale it from the bottome lest it breake out againe ✚ This is the most certaine way for this cure that I doe know §. 18. D. Hippoph VVHat good drinke is to be given whereby to preserve the lungs Hippos If you have no great occasion to feare your horses lungs then you may administer to him in his Provender onely such powders as you shall finde prescribed you already in lib. 2. cap. 2. § 43. but if you have just cause to suspect that his lungs may be rotten fretized or broken then to heale or make them sound againe or at least to give him great ease for you may know it by these signes Drinke to preserve lungs viz. his flankes will beat when he cougheth which he will often do but principally when you give him riding or exercise and the slower they beat the older and more dangerous the disease is he will also draw his winde short he will grone oft but most in lying downe and rising up and be very fearefull and loth to cough The cure is Take Tartar made of white Wine Lees which you may have of the Apothecaries or if you please you may make it your selfe for it is none other thing then the thickest of the Lees of white Wine well dryed and made into powder Take I say of this one ounce and a halfe of Isope and of Colts foot of each halfe a handfull of Hore-hound one handfull of Elecampane in fine powder Anniseeds and Licoris of each one ounce of browne sugar candy foure ounces boyle all these together in good Ale one quart and when it is halfe boyled put into it of Isope water and of Colts-foot water both twice distilled to take off their crudities of each one pinte and so boyle all againe together and then straine it and give it your Horse bloud warme ✚ If your Horse have been exercised being foule or having been in dyet then he hath been over-much used to Clisters Drinkes Rakings Purgations Sweats Vomits and the like give him this drinke then and you shall finde it to be most soveraign for him and the cleaner he is within the better is its operation and will worke more kindely in his body and at what times you are to Tilt Hunt Travell or exercise him give him but one pinte of this drinke in the morning fasting before his going forth for it will so helpe his breath whereby through moderate exercise he will be much the better able to goe through with his worke then otherwise he could have done ✚ And this drinke I have often proved Also if you doe finde him to be either diseased or sicke in his lungs or that they be any way fretized then give him this drinke Take of tryed Hogges-grease two ounces and of Diapente three spoonfuls put these into a quart of water wherein Barly hath been boyled till it burst and warme it in the fire till the Hog-grease be dissolved and so bloud warme give it your sicke Horse and three houres after give him of the Barley warme to eate and either sweet mashes or white water to drinke ✚ This was taught mee by an Italian Rider in Paris and I have often made use thereof and have found it to be speciall good howbeit for the time it will cause him to bee very sick but have no feare for it
Beere untill the Time do begin to waxe tender and soft then strain it and put to it of browne Sugar-Candy in powder two penny-worth Anniseeds in fine powder one penny-worth and two penny-worth of ordinary Triacle when all these are well dissolved over the fire give it your horse bloud warme but you must remember that you doe let him bloud before you doe give him this drinke in the Neck and Mouth ✚ This I have often tryed and found it right good Another â—ake of strong Ale one quart and of Wormewood halfe a handfull long-Pepper Graynes and the powder of dryed Rue of each one ounce London Triacle two ounces boyle them to a third part then take it off and strayne it that done put into it of browne-sugar-Candy in powder halfe an ounce and so give it him bloud warme ✚ This at twice giving will certainely cure his Feaver Another Take Stone-Crop of the iuice thereof foure Spoonefull put this iuice into strong-Ale one quart and so give it your horse then let him be walked if the winde be not too cold and sharpe an houre then set him up and cover him so as he may sweate an houre then coole him by degrees and let him drinke no cold water by any meanes let his provender bee good old dry and well sifted Oates but against the fit commeth whether the Feaver be Quotidian Tertian or Quartan let him be kept fasting for the longer hee is fasting and more empty upon his sick dayes the sooner will his Feaver leave him ✚ This is a well approved receipt and let this suffice for ordinary Feavers provided that when his fits be gone from him and that he appeareth more lightsome and well it will be very good and wholesome for him if you cause him to bee had abroad and walked warme covered and so ayred in due time in the warme Sun and that will greatly comfort him and revive his spirits §. 11. F. Hippoph VVHat say you now to the Feaver Hectique Hippos I say Sir it is a most dangerous and mortall Feaver and so malignant as that if a skilfull Ferrier bee not with him in time it is certaine death and first it beginneth with a Consumption in the flesh it proceedeth of a hot humour ingendred first in the stomacke which too much Physicke hath occasioned and by taking away of too much bloud from him in his youth without necessity wherefore it is a thing most perillous to take bloud from young horses upon very slight cause not to be over ready with Physick but only in case of great necessity The signes to know this Feaver from any other are to looke into his mouth and to draw forth his tongue and you shall finde both his mouth and tongue raw and mervailous hot and having little appetite to meate his flesh will consume and waste and seene loose if you strike him with your hand upon the buttocks the flesh thereof will quiver and quake and he will be continually subject to quaking and shaking all his whole body over besides he will be very much inclined to sweate as hee standeth in the stable The cure is First to make this lotion for his mouth Take of running water or Well water two quarts and put thereto of Sage of Yarrow of Ribwort of Plantane of Bramble-leaves Feaver Hectique and of Hony-suckle-leaves of each one handfull with common Hony one spoonefull boyle all these to the consumption of one moyety and a little before you take it from the fire put to it the quantity of a wal-nut of Alume and two spoonefull of Vineger when that is dissolved take it off and drayne the water from the hearbs or else slightly strayn it which water you shall keepe for your use and when you would wash his mouth therewith fasten to a stick a ragge and so wash his mouth and tongue twice or thrice a day and this will make his mouth well againe or else if you do wash his mouth with the surrop of Mulberries it is very wholesome and good ✚ After give him this drinke Take of Aloes one ounce powdred of Garlick halfe an ounce Anniseeeds and Licoris of each halfe an ounce make first your Aloes Anniseeds and Licoris into fine powder and after bruise your Garlick a little putting thereto of brown Sugar-Candy three ounce in powder and adde thereto of white Wine one pint warme this and so give it your horse then let him bee ridden a little and so set him up warme and let him bee set upon the Trench three houres before and three houres after and then eyther give him sweete Hay or greene Corne or the leaves of Sallowes and towards night give him a sweete Mâ—sh and give him this drinke every other day for three mornings continuing him with Mashes or white water and let his Oates bee very well sifted and in short time he will doe well againe ✚ With this receipt I have cured sundry horses but then forget not to wash his mouth dayly with the aforesaid lotion But if in all these severall Feavers you do find him eyther to be costiue or very hot in his body then you may do well to administer that Clyster prescribed you in lib. 2. chap. 6. § 2. Clyster 2. letter C. §. 12. F. Hippoph VVHat say you now 〈◊〉 Feaver Pestilent Hippos It is a disease most contagious for it is so malignant as that it will infect so many horses as be in the stable wher he standeth and it proceedeth from one of these two causes viz. eyther from an infectious ayre or from the corruption of the bloud inflamed by meanes of intemperate riding and exercise The signes are these the horse will hang downe his head in the Manger as if hee slept his eyes will water very much and Inflamations will arise at the roots of the Eares as if he had the Vives The best cure I ever knew was this with which I have cured many Horses visited with a Pestilent Feaver Feaver Pestilent first let him bleed well in the Neck veine reserving the bloud in a cleane basin which when it is cold will be very bad and ill coloured then wash his mouth with the lotion specified in the precedent § secondly apply to the Temples this Playster Take of Camamile of Goates-milke of the Iuyce of Sage of Sallet-oyle of white Wine-vineger of each foure spoonfull of red-rose-leaves dryed one handfull which must be eyther of a red-rose cake or otherwise red-rose leaves dryed beat them all in a Morter till they become of one body and so thick as that you may spread it playster-wise upon a linnen cloath then strew upon the Plaister two or three Nut-megges made into fine powder then make it good and hot putting the backside of the Plaister into a Pewter dish over a chaffing dish â—nd coales and so administer it warme to the Horse and for his drinke let it bee such water wherein have bin boyled violet leaves Mallowes and Sorrell but if the fit
which descending from the stomacke goe down into the guts and there torment him and sometimes it commeth by reason of Wormes Bots or Truncheons which doe engender in the stomacke or guts of the Horse which do feed and gnaw upon the paunch and guts putting him to mickle pain and perplexity The signes are he will forsake his meat lye down oft and tumble and when he standeth he will eft soones strike at his belly with his hinder legs he will also stampe with his fore-feet and turn his head towards his belly and looke upon it and he will many times sweat at the flankes and seldome any where else and if the malady be of winde then shall you perceive his belly to swell especially towards the flanks the cure is Fret Take of good Ale two quarts of Fenugrick foure ounces of Bay-berries seven ounces of long Pepper foure ounces of Ginger one one ounce Water-Cresses two handfuls Sage and Nettles of each one handfull beat to powder the Spices and chop the hearbs small and boyle them in the Ale till one moyity be consumed then straine it and so give it him bloud warme and then cover and litter him warme and let him stand upon the Trench sixe houres after But yet so soone as he hath his drinke rope up all his legges to the body not suffering him to lye down and cover him so as that he may sweat for one houre onely and then coole him by degrees and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water and he being thus ordered two or three dayes he will be well ✚ This I have often used Another Take the entrals of a great Chicken casting away the gizzard rowle them up in bay-Salt and the powder of Brimstone and so give it him down his throat then presently let him be gently ridden or walked till he doth dung and at night give him a Mash or white water and he is cured This is also very good But if you have cause to suspect that he hath the Bots then rake him and in his raking search for Bots which if you doe finde any sticking upon the great gut pluck them all or so many as you can finde away whereby you may be confident that the Bots is cause of his griefe wherefore apply such remedies and medicines which I have formerly prescribed you for Bots Truncheons and Wormes in lib. 2. cap. 5. § 15. where you shall finde such receits as will cure him ✚ But if you doe perceive this griefe of his commeth of winde then make use of such receits which you shall finde by me before inculcated for the Collicke in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 11. lit C. where be very good remedies for this Malady CHAP. 10. §. 1. G. Hippophylus WHat is best to be done to cure a galled backe Hippos There be so many wayes which doth occasion it as that it would be an endlesse labour to deliver every particular thereof But because you doe motion the galled backe onely I will first speake something thereof A galled backe commeth commonly either with the Saddle the Pannell Pack-Saddle or Male-pillion which through evill stopping or defect of stopping may very easily gall the Horse so also may the fault be in the tree which may be so badly made so as that let the Saddler be never so sufficient skilfull or carefull yet shall it both gall and hurt him so also may the tree of the Saddle be either broken or crackt if it at any time happen be you then confident that it can never be so amended or repaired but that doe what you can it shall hurt the back of the Horse and these be the most frequent and ordinary wayes whereby to gall the back of your horse howbeit I passe over Male-pillions Cloake-bags Port-mantues Trusses and the like The signes to know a galled back are easie for either the backe will be apparantly swelled or the hayre fretted off the skinne either broken or raw or the backe either inflamed or impostumated every of which is easily to be determined by the eye or if his backe be wrung with the Saddle and yet not come to be visible to the eye yet may you come to the knowledge therof if taking off the Saddle stroking your hand all along the back you shall perceive him either to shake his head or to winch with his tayle to rouze or shake to stamp or strike with his feet to offer to bite or the like whereby you may come to know it and very easily to finde out the place grieved Now if the back be swelled and before it be impostumated so soon as you shall take off the Saddle and finde the same clap upon the swelling a little of his wet litter and so set on the Saddle againe and let him remain with his Saddle on all night and in the morning the swelling will be abated and the place it selfe become whole and sound again Now if the hayre be but galled off so that it doth not impostumate annoynt the place but with a little Butter and Salt melted together and in twice dressing the place will be whole but if the backe be so galled as that it is become raw then the cure is thus viz. Take three parts of sheepes-dunge newly made Gaelled 〈◊〉 and one part of Rie or Wheate flower and dry the flower and then mixe it well with the sheepes-dung kneading it as into paste and making it into the fashion of a Cake and after bake it a little and apply the powder thereof warme unto the place ✚ This will heale him very well But I may very well spare the labour in reciting any more receipts for this matter considering I have sufficiently already handled them in lib. 2. chap. 5. § 1. letter B. §. 2. G. Hippoph VVHat say you to a Galde that commeth by the Shackell Hippos Tâ—aâ— kind of Gallings being so frequent as to be knowne to every one both in the manner how it commeth and in the signes how to know them needeth not much disscussion neverthelesse I will give you an experiment or two of mine owne and so leave it to its more proper place Take new milke three quarts Plantane one handfull Galled wiâ— the Shackâ— boyle these together till one part of the milke be consumed then take of Allum six ounces and of white sugar-Candy one ounce beat them both to fine powder and so put it to the milke and adde also unto it of white Wine-Vineger six spoonfuls then boyle it a little till there do come upon the top a tough curd then strayne it and keep the whay A whay casting away the curd and with this whay first made warme bathe and wash the sore the hayre being first clipped close away and having thus washed the sorance and wiped it dry then apply your greene oyntment mentioned in the fourth § of this Chapter but in case where the Galde is not yet broken yet likely to breake there you shall
eate good sweet Hay and Bran in stead of Oates aad let his drinke be only white Water ✚ This is a most excellent Receipt § 5. I. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Ioynt that hath in it any Ach Numnesse Weakenesse or Swellings which commeth of a cold cause Hippos This commeth sometimes of a Streyne and sometimes of a Cold taken after a great and violent riding or labour The signes are apparent and the Cure is Take Acopum and mixing it with sweete Sack all to rub and chafe the Ioynt greived Joint gâ—ved therewith And if it come of cold it will at foure or five times thus doing cure it ✚ This is singular good Another Take Aqua-vitae and warme it upon the fire and therewith bathe and rub the greived Member therewith very well and hold a hot bar of iron before it to cause it to sinke in the better take then a rag and wet it in the same Aqua-vitae and lastly take Pepper finely powdred and searced anâ— strew it good and thick upon the said wet rag and so bind it to the place greived take then a dry Rowler of linnen and swathe the place therewith and so let them remaine and thus do every day once and in short time it will recover him ✚ Of this I have made often tryall §. 6. I. Hippoph VVHat is good to encrease the Hoofe of a Horse Hippos I have given you sundry good Receipts before but I will adde one more which the most Famous Marishall of all Paris gave me which he recommended unto me for tresbonne but I never had yet a good occasion to make tryall thereof The receipt is this Take of the Oyle of Hempe-seed of Waxe of Venice Turpentine Increasâ— Hoofe Rosin Pitch Bay-seeds dryed and powdred of each halfe a pound Roch Allume two ounces mixe all these together and let them boyl softly upon a gentle fire then straine it through a hayre-cloath and keepe it for your use With this annoynt every day the hoofes of your Horse and this will cause them to grow very much This is probably a good Receipt CHAP. 12. §. 1. L. Hippophylus HOw doe you cure the Lampas Hipposerus Hippos This is a Malady that every common Smith can easily cure by putting into the Mouth of the Horse a good big Bat of wood where unto two long peeces of the Head-stall of an old bridle is nayled at either end which will cause him to keepe open his Mouth and then holding up his Lip with your left hand burne away the ranke flesh with a hot Iron made of purpose and after rubbing the place with Salt and giving him Bran for Oats three or foure daies at the most he will bee whole ✚ This disease is a Swelling proceeding from ranknesse of bloud which groweth in the Mouth adioyning to the fore teeth which said Swelling is an impediment to his feeding it is apparant enough to be seene and therefore needs no further remonstrance ✚ Neverthelesse I will shew you how the Marishals in France do use to cure the Lampas from whom I had the Cure and wherewith I my selfe have cured many horses Take a rosted Onion and very hot put it upon a clout or upon hurds and with it rub the Lampas Lampas very hard and do this two or three times a day till it be whole ✚ But many times they burne away the Lampas like as do our Smithes with an iron instrument which they do call a Bistory which is the very same that our Smithes use here in England § 2. L. Hippoph HOw do you stop a Lax or Loosenesse when it commeth to be violent Hippos Very easily Sir but I had thought I had handled that point sufficiently before in letter F. where you made your demand touching the Flux in a Horse notwithstanding I will give you other very good Receipts by me almost forgotten To illustrate the manner of it's comming Laxe to stop and the signes how to know the same I hold unfitting for this place by reason I have sufficiently already performed it Take of Allome one penny-worth powdred Bole-Armoniack poudred one ounce put these into Milke one quart continually stirring it till the Milke doth become all of a Curd give him this with a horne and it will stay his Laxe bee it never so violent ✚ This I have used Another Take Beane flower and Bole-Armoniack in fine powder of each foure ounces put them into red Wine one quart and give him this with a horne bloud warme Let his drinke be white water only insteed of Wheate-bran put in Bean-flower and that for three or foure daies after then let him bloud in the Temple veines and give him warme Mashs made of ground Malt and Beane-flower and having drunke up the Wort let him eate up the residue but if this doe not stay him within two daies then put in each Nosthrill Sallet-oyle and that will do it ✚ This is speciall good §. 3. L. Hippoph VVHat meanes have you to raise a leane Horse and to cause him in short time to hecome very fat Hippos I have shewd you this before but yet I will give you Rereipt which you yet have not Take Elecampane dryed Comin Turmerick Anniseeds Leanâ— to maâ— of each two ounces Grunsell halfe a handfull boyle all these very well with three heads of Garlick picked a little bruised in strong Ale foure quarts then straine it well and give unto your Horse of this drinke one quart in a morning fasting bloud warme and then ride him upon it till he do begin to be warme but not to sweate and thus do for foure mornings together and within some short time after turne him to grasse if the time of the yeare be seasonable and he will feed wonderfully and fatten sodainely but if the time of the yeare doe not serve for grasse then shall you keep him in the Stable and besides his former drinke you shall give him in his Oates this powder viz. Take the powder of Elecampane dry and of Comin both pulverized and searced of each like much mix them wel together and every time you give your Horse this Provender take of this powder half an ounce and strew it by little and little among his Provender for feare of offending him till he hath eaten up all cleane and doe thus but foureteene daies together and you shall perceive your Horse to thrive mend and prosper after a strange manner provided that you do give him seasonable ayring moderate exercise and Mashes or white water ✚ This is marvelous good §. 4. L. Hippoph VVHat is to bee done to a Horse whose Legges doe swell Hippos If this Swelling be only in his fore Legges and not behind then it is a signe that this his Swelling came by over-violent labour when the Horse was very fat especially inwardly by reason that the grease that was molten fell downe into his fore-Legges which if it had staid in his Body must of necessity have engendred either an Anticor
salve and then put it up into a cleane gally-pot and so keep it and first making the places raw annoynt them with these Vnguents and it will kill any mainge in the body mayne or tayle ✚ This is very good Another very good Take of Tarre a gallon of tryed Hogs grease and Bolearmoniack of each two pound of Pepper one pound beat the Pepper and Bole-armoniacke to very fine powder and then mixe all the ingredients together making them into one body then first scrape the sorance so as you doe raise the scurfe and dry crusty stuffe but not to make it raw or to bleed much and then annoint all the places infected rubbing and chafing it in very well as if it be in winter let one hold a barre of hot iron neer to the places as you annoint and chafe it in but if in Summer the sunne will do it much better as he runneth at grasse and thus dresse him every three dayes so long as the unguent lasteth and he will be cured ✚ This is an approved cure Another To perform this cure the best way is to give the fire to the place after this manner the iron being hot first draw it along either side of the chinke then draw it upon the top of the chink then draw three strakes if need so require overthwart and in short time the hoofe will grow again so as the chink will be closed and remain sound and whole And over and above you may exercise him that very next day after you have thus given him the fire provided his exercise be not upon hard but upon soft or sandy ground X This is a very able cure taught me by a singular Marishall of Bruxels and I have practised the same upon sundry good horses here in England §. 3. M. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure a sore Mouth Hippos This is a disease that sometimes comes by much corrupt bloud and sometimes by cold for this malady most commonly beginneth in the palat of the mouth which will cause it to look red and be enflamed and from the palat it will fall into his chaps whereby he will not be able to shut them as if he had there a convulsion The cure is if it be but yet in the palate then let him bloud there and let him bleed well then Take of life Honey four ounces Mouth s◠Chibbals or young Onions halfe a handfull and tosted Cheese as much as will suffice boyle these in faire water very well and bloud warm wash the palat tongue and all other places in and about the mouth well with this liquor four or five times and he will do well ✚ This is very good Another After you have let forth the corrupt bloud then take Verjuyce of the Crab and Bay-Salt as much as will suffice and warm it upon the fire and bloud warm with a rag wash well every part of the mouth and tongue twice or thrice a day till it be well ✚ This is also very good but if it be come into his chaps which you may easily know by observing his wide yawning and gaping whereby his chaps will be so fallen as that he will not be able to bring them together to shut close againe wherefore so soon as you doe perceive him in that posture Take Verjuyce of the Crab onely and make it warm and then fastening a rag upon a stick wash his mouth very well therewith the Verjuyce being bloud warme and then with your hand help him to close up his mouth and doing thus two or three times he will be perfectly cured ✚ these be speciall good receits §. 4. M. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure the Mellet Mellet in the heeles Hippos I have shewed you that cure before lib. 2. cap. 4. § 9. lit A. But yet I will give you one receit more Take of Honey one pinte and of Sope three ounces and of white Wine Vineger five or sixe spoonfuls and as much Allum as an Egge and of Beane flower two spoonfuls mixe all these together and apply it to the sorance so farre as the mellet goeth and let it lye on five dayes and then take it away that done wash the legge foot and sorance with warme beefe broth and so keep his legges roped up well moystened in the beefe broth two or three dayes after and he wil be well ✚ This I have often used and it is a most rare cure §. 5. M. Hippoph VVHat is best to mollifie humours Mollifie humours Hippos This I have also formerly handled yet take with you this onely one receit more Take of Rosin three ounces of fresh Butter five ounces of new Waxe one ounce melt all these upon the fire and so bring them to an Vnguent and herewith annoynt the humours foure or five dayes together and this will mollifie them very well ✚ This is most pretious for this cause § 6. M. Hippoph VVHat shall a man doe to a Horse that is morfounded Morfounded Hippos Morfounding is but the French word signifying melting of grease or foundring in the body whereof I have before sufficiently intreated neverthelesse I will give you for this malady two singular receits the one I had of an Italian rider in Brussels and the other of a French Marishall in Avinion a man esteemed most famous and of both those receits I have made often use and I have perfected them for most rare cures That which the Italian taught me is this first open the necke veyne and draw away the inflamed and corrupt bloud then take of white Wine one pinte Sallet oyle halfe a pinte of Rhubarb and of Aloes of each two drams of Senae halfe an ounce of Agarick three drams Bay berries halfe an ounce Saffaron two drams Duck or Duke powder and of cordiall powder of each two drams make what is to be powdred into very fine powder and mixe them well together adding thereunto of life Honey foure ounces all which being made warme upon the fire and well brewed together give it your horse bloud warme but you must withall understand that the same day you shall administer this drink unto him he do stand fasting upon the Trench three or foure houres before and as many after neither must you the same day give him any Oates and let his drink be either a sweet Mash or white water and keep him warm and with white water five or sixe dayes after and then give him Oates but in tthe interim in stead of Oates let him have either bread made for him of purpose or else Bran prepared and when you do give him Oates put in amongst them Fenugrick bruised X This is I do assure you a most excellent receit with which I saved the life and brought to perfect sanity a horse of price which was visited with this infirmity the second receit which I had of the Marishall of Avinion is this viz so soon as you doe perceive or suspect him to be morfounded Take of Salt one
him Hay and an houre or better after that give him either a sweet Mash or white water and then Provender sufficient but with discretion and by degrees and so also in the morning give him both Oates and Bread whether he will eate best feeding him by little and little so long as he will eate and in the morning when you are ready to take his backe give him the same drinke againe and you shall finde him to travell with spirit and mettle and if you tye a branch of Penny-royall upon his Bit it will greatly comfort him But yet for all that which hath been said if he happen to tire then Take Arsmart and rub his bare backe where the Saddle resteth and lay also some of the leaves upon his backe under the Saddle and so clap on the Saddle and this will cause him the better to hold out ✚ This is good Another Take the best Spanish Tobacco you can get shred it small and dry it and make it into fine powder and mixe therewith the powder of Cockle shels of the like quantity which must be searced and put this powder into a glasse keeping it close stopped and so keep it to your use And when you are to use it take of this powder and mixe therewith of the oyle of Dill and of the oyle of Cloves such a quantity as will make this powder into a stiffe paste and so make it into pils every Pill the bignesse of a Walnut which must be dried in the shade these Pils must be made in the Canicular or Dog dayes onely then keep them close stopped in some glasse or gally pot that no ayre can get into it and when you have cause to use any of them give him one of them at what time you shall perceive your horse to faint or tire or that you do perceive him to have taken a cold or surfet which may very well be the cause of his debility give him I say one of these Pils when you do come unto your Inne But if hee hath taken a cold or surfet then give him a Pill in the morning fasting and let him be well rubbed clothed warme and well littered and suffer him not to drink any cold water but either a sweet Mash or white water for there is not any thing more noxious then to give a horse in this case cold water and let his travell be moderate and with great discretion and he will both hold out his journey and get strength and flesh also in his travell ✚ And this I have often tryed both upon my own horses and others in whose company I have travelled as well in England as in parts abroad CHAP. XX. § 1. V. Hippoph HOw doe you prescribe a Vomit to a Horse Hippos Of this I have spoken a little already where I did remit you to this place We doe usually give vomits unto horses newly taken up from grasse by reason they are thereby full of very grosse and phlegmaticke humours which doe abound in the stomacke and head which if they be not fetched from the horse in its due time will be a meanes to impaire greatly the health of the horse which must oft times be necessarily expulsed by vomit and you shall have a receit of a vomit which I had in France from a speciall Ferrier there who as I have before touched hath in my presence administred to sundry horses which did worke very kindely upon them and I my selfe have administred the same to sundry Horses here in England to very great profit unto them The receit is this Take two of the greatest roots of Polipodium you can get from the Oke wash and scrape them very cleane and tye it to his Snaffle Vomiting Trench or Bit then let it be steeped in the oyle of Spike a whole night and in the morning fasting put on his bridle with the said roots and ride him with it in his mouth an houre or better faire and softly and if he be troubled with any rhumaticke or phlegmaticke humour or with any cold or other filthy matter which may any way pester clogge or annoy his stomacke this thing will force him to vent them at his mouth and nose and it wil cause him to cough and neeze whereby he will send forth a great abundance of filth and evill slimy stuffe from off his stomacke and head as that in short time he will become very cleane in his body for this will both refine his bloud and exhaust all his watry humours in such sort as by temperate ordering him and doing as I have here prescribed you you may be confident to keep him a long sound perfect and serviceable horse And this is not to be applied onely to a horse newly taken from grasse but to any other horse that hath taken a cold or to any ketty foule foggy or pursive horse whatsoever ✚ This may seeme strange here amongst us but let any man make tryall and he shall finde it to be most admirable § 2. V. Hippoph VVHat is to be given to a Horse that hath a violent Cough Hippos If this great and very violent Cough Violent Cough proceed from a cold as commonly all Coughs doe then give him first Wheat Bran prepared as sundry times before is prescribed you and take bloud from the necke veine then with his Oates give him this powder following viz. Take of Comen Fenugrick Sileris-Montani alias Sisileos Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two ounces Quick-Brimstone sixe ounces make all these into fine powder and of this powder give him every night with his Oates one spoonfull But because this powder disperseth the corrupt grosse and phlegmaticke humours which are predominant in the body of the horse which doe occasion the said violent Cough so soone as you shall perceive that with this powder he hath purged sufficiently use it then no longer but faile not to continue his white water but before you give him his water take a sticke about the bignesse of your thumb at least and well-nigh a foot long and wrap a fine ragge about it foure or five times steeped before hand in oyle de Bay and so put it into his mouth like as you would doe a Snaffle and with straps made fast to the ends of the sticke fastned then over his Poll like as Smiths use to doe when they burne horses for the Lampas and let him drinke with it in his mouth that done let him stand with it in his mouth one houre after at the least to the end he may lick and suck up the said oyle upon the ragge or cloth and when you doe give him his Oates mixe them with this powder following viz. Take of Fennell-seeds foure ounces of Fenugrick two ounces of Cardamom one ounce beat all together but grosly otherwise hee will blow it away as he eateth his Oates and keep him warme as before is advised you ✚ This is very good for I have often used it § 3. V. Hippoph FOr