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A71265	The country-man's guide or plain directions for ordering. Curing. Breeding choice, use, and feeding. Of horses, cows, sheep, hoggs, &c. Adorn'd with sculptuers, shewing the proper places in the bodies of the said several beasts, where the said distempers do usually happen. Published for the publick good, by W.W.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1679 (1679)	Wing W3057B; ESTC R222313	44,984	169

Grass sufficient to nouris her Lambs Salt Water to drink Farther you must give the Yews some few days before they be covered by the Ram Salt Water to drink and they will the better keep their Seed and the Ram shall grow the more fiery and vehement The way to have such Lambs as you please If you would have your Yews bring forth Ram-Lambs then you must put the Ram to the Yew in dry Weather and observe to drive the Yew towards the blowing of the North Wind that when they are feeding toward the North they may take Ram but if you will have Yew-Lambs then you must let them feed towards the South Wind and let them be covered To know what coloured Lambs a Yew will bring forth When the Yew is big in case her Tongue is black it s a sign that she will bring forth a black Lamb and if her Tongue be white she will bring forth a white Lamb but if the Tongue be speckled then she will bring forth a speckled Lamb. Of Sickness in Sheep The Sheep are inclined to many Distempers as Scabs or Scurveyness Cough and the Red Water which proceed from an exceeding Pain in the Head and also the Plague The three last Distempers are incurable insomuch as if any Sheep be sick with either of the said three Distempers 〈◊〉 occasions infections in the rest thereof many of them die all such scknesses are occasioned by eating of bad Herbs or by drinking of bad Water or standing Puddles or Pools in the Fields or because the places which they feed on are wet and moist by frequent Showers and bad Weather by which means they undoubtedly fall sick in six weeks time Here follows an account of all the Distempers incident to Sheep 1. The Head-ach If your Sheep are troubled with the Head-ach and Staggers which is occasioned by Surfeits the best Remedy is to take Asafettida and dissolve it in a spoonful of White Wine or bruise the Juice out of Sage and give it to the Sheep 2. Giddiness Giddiness in the Head befalls Sheep most commonly in the Dog-days insomuch as it makes them turn about and leap and in case you touch their Fore-head or Feet you will find that they burn exceedingly Against this Sickness you must let them blood in the middle of the Nose with a piece of Horn made sharp for that purpose thrust up as high as you can possible which will cause the Sheep presently to fall into a sound and immediately they will come again to themselves This being applied they will either be immediately well of this Distemper or die very speedily yet more do recover than die Some Shepherds have tried the letting of Blood in the Temples of the Head losing their Blood by little and little which hath proved very successful afterward giving them a spoonful of Brandy mixt with Mithridate 3. Loss of Cud. Take Leaven and Salt and mix them with Clay and the Piss of a lusty young Man and let him swallow it and that will recover him 4. Diseases in the Eyes Make an Eye-water of Eve Eye-bright and Horse-leech and wash their Eyes therewith or beat Wormwood with the Milk of a Yew and mix it with Rose-water 5. Ague in Lambs If a young Lamb have an Ague or other Sickness then you must give it to drink the Milk of its Dam mingled with as much water 6. Ague in Sheep When Sheep have an Ague you must blood them on the Heels between the two Claws of the Feet or on the Ear and keep them a good while from Water the best remedy for to cure them of the Ague is to boil in Spring Water and Wine the Stomach of a Ram and give the distempered Sheep the Broth to drink 7. Rheum or Catarrhe The Sheep gets Humours and Rheums in the Dog days by the great Heat of the Sun for prevention of which the Shepherd in such hot seasons ought to drive his Flock in the Fore-noon towards the West and in the Afternoon towards the East for it is a great matter that the Heads of the Sheep as they 'r feeding be turned against the Sun which in the beginning of the dog-Dog-days is often times the cause of this Distemper 8. Diseases in the Teeth For Diseases in the Teeth let the Sheep blood in the Gum or Vein of the upper Lip and rub his Teeth with old Leaven and Sage 9. Aposthumes or Vlcers In case the Sheep hath any Mattering Aposthume or Ulcer then you must prick it with a Lance and put into the Wound Salt burnt in a Fire-shovel rubbed small and mingled with melted Pitch 10. Boils You may cure Boils with Allum Sulphur Vinegar and Brimstone mixt together or with burnt Gall-nuts being mixt with Wine and laid upon the Sore 11. Boils or Scabs under the Skin of Lambs The Lamb many times gets Scabs under the Chin by eating of Herbs when the Dew lies upon them the Remedy against which is to take Hysop and Salt of each an ounce well bruised together and with this you must annoint the Pallate of the Mouth and Tongue then wash the Boil with Vinegar and afterwards chafe it with Tar and Grease 12. Pursiness or short-winded The Rheum or Catarrhe of the Sheep as well as of the Horse sticks so fast to the Lungs that it cannot be removed with Bleeding nor with a Potion and if this Sickness continue the best Remedy is that the Sheep be kept without Food for a day or two likewise it is convenient that whatever Hay or Fodder hath been eaten among the Sheep while one that hath been sick hath been amongst them the Oughts thereof be taken clean away for such Sheep get the same sickness by eating after them that are sick Some say that for this sickness it is good to hang about the Neck of the Sheep a living Toad put in a little bag of Linnen and to let it hang nine days Others say that it is good to bruise Lock and Noble Sage together and make a Potion thereof with very strong Vinegar Others pour in their Mouths a spoonful of Brandy with Mithridate but there is but little help for this Distemper for they often die after several Medicines have been given to them because the Lungs are quite dried up with a continual Coughing There is no better Remedy against this Distemper than for to throw them upon their Backs in a stinking unclean Gutter 13. Rot or Plague Against the Plague there is no other Remedy for Beast than for Man but for to keep them from this Distemper the best way is often to give them Melilot Scitisers Wild Polly or Wild Balsom But to prevent the Rot in those Sheep that are not tainted by that Infection you must give them Salt mingled with Brimstone in a Fire-shovel which will purge them and preserve them from this Contagion 14. St. Anthony 's Fire The Fire of St. Anthony is by the Shepherd called Wild-fire very difficult to cure and there is no other

the Loins 57. Pains of the Reins Inflamation You may perceive that the Oxe has pain in his Reins when in Kacking or doing his Easement from behind he cannot set his Feet on those parts according to his will but stumbleth aside when he does not lift up his Tail but lets it hang when his Piss stinks much and all the Course is stopt and interrupted behind If he has an Inflamation and Pisses as red as Blood when it continues and increases then there is little Remedy to be had against it yet if it is but coloured a little reddish then there is some hope of recovery in this Sickness you shall let him blood out of the hinder Veins or Mother-vein which you find a long the side about the Reins For his dirnking give him the Juice of Garlick with luke-warm Water or else with his own Piss 58. Inflamation of the Brawns or Muscle Against the Inflamation of the Brawns as well inwardly as outwardly which proceed from the Rump and Loins by falling upon hard and Stony places and getting Bruises Let the Oxe which is fallen not go far from his place as soon as he is come into the Stable and wash the parts affected with cold Water next use an Ointment and Sear-cloths made of Oyl and Wax which must not be too hot The tokens of this Distemper are that the Loins the Reins grow hard outwardly the Stones lessen and go in so that you can but see them very little that he cannot well move his Thigh and that he can hardly rise when he lieth 59. Pissing of Blood The Oxe Pisseth Blood when he is over-heated or too cold or because he has eaten bad Herbs during the Summer especially when the Dew cleaves yet thereon The cure against this is that you give him neither Wanor any other Liquor but that you give him a potion made of these following Ingredients Take Sea-Oinion Hemp seed of each three ounces bruised together and add thereto Treacle one ounce being all together boiled in two pints of White Wine at last adding thereunto Saffron two ounces to a potion and this pour into the Mouth of the Oxe Or give him against Pissing of Blood the Juice of Lambs Tongue with good Oyl next take the Powder of Wild-Gourds Coloquints and Wine-stone mingled in Red Wine and the White of Eggs pouring the same into him through an Horn. And if you do not stop the Pissing of Blood then he will die thereof within four and twenty hours 60. Vnableness of Pissing In case he can hardly Piss then you shall let him Blood on the Vein of the Bladder and next give him a draught of Honey Oyl and White Wine being boiled together and this you must continue three mornings one after another 61. Stone of the Bladder If he has the Stone of the Bladder take Sea-fenicle two ounces Cloves a quarter of an ounce Pepper one ounce and a half being altogether bruised and mingled with lukewarm Water to a Potion But if the Stone when this is continued some days doth not fall out then it must be cut out 62. Stone in the Yard In case he has the Stone in the Yard then throw the Oxe down immediately hold the Yard with Tongs a little higher than where the Stone lies open the Yard on the side and take out the Stone next heal the Wound again with Turpentine washt four times in Horse-tail-water 63. Hardened Yard If the Yard be hardened then smear it twice a day with an Ointment of bruised White Mallow-roots and fresh Butter 64. Swollen Cods If his Cods are swollen by what cause soever it be then annoint them in the morning and at night with unsalted Hogs-suet or foment them with strong Vinegar in which fine Chalk and Oxen-dung have been soaked They hold it for a Natural Remedy that the Gall of a Dog healeth the Swollen Cods of an Oxe being often annointed therewith 65. Limping or Halting If he Limps and Halts because of Cold which he has suffered on the Feet then wash them with his Piss which is made warm but if it proceed from the superfluity of Blood which in the bending of the Joynts is sunk upon the Feet then you must divide or resolve it by rubbing or chafing and by drawing Blood by cupping but if upon this it will not go away you must cleave the Claw of the Foot at the end unto the Flesh and thus let it run out and bind the Joynts round about with a Leather-purse that no Matter may come thereunto until it is cured In case he limps by having strained a Vein then you must annoint his Foot with Oyl and Salt if it be occasioned by a swelling of the Knee then foment it with warm Vinegar or with a Decoctum of Barley and Flux-seed But howsoever it happens you must burn it and lay thereupon fresh Butter wash'd in Water and Vinegar and at last make an Ointment of Salt-butter and Goats suet or Grease If it comes by a Splinter or by a knock against a piece of Wood or Stone then bathe the place with warm Piss and lay thereupon Oyl old Grease and Tar melted together Nothing preserves him better from Limping than to wash his Feet with cold Water when they are disjoyonted and then to rub them with old Grease 66. Leg-out of Joynt If his Leg is out of Joynt or wrinched put it in again and when you have smeared it with Hogs-grease bind it fast with Straw 67. Broken Legs For to put it in again if broken you must draw with Cords the uttermost parts of the same on both sides perpendicularly that so the disjoynted Leg may be again put together and joyned as before this being done you must untie the Cords and bind round about it Tow of Flax that is made wet in a mixt on of the White of Eggs Bolus Armenius and Sanguis Draconis next bind it so fast that it may be joyned together again above the binding you must lay Tow of Flax made wet in Wine for to strengthen and corroborate the Sinews at last that the uppermost and undermost parts of the broken Leg may not be hardened or get any ill fashion or form as well by the binding up of the Wound as by the Chop or Cleft of the Leg you must annoint both parts with the following Ointment viz. Butter Oyl Turpentine of each one ounce mingled to an Ointment 68. Biting of Serpents In case he has been bit by an Earth-spider Serpent or by a mad Dog then smear the Wound with Scorpion-Oyl or Sope which has lain in Vinegar and wash him with a Decoctum of great Burs or with old Pickle 70. Stinging of Horse-flies or Hornets Against the stinging of Horse-flies and Wasps rub him with Lead-Ointment or Salve Cerays being soaked in Water and moisten the place where he feeds to drive away the Horse-flies with a Decoctum of Wormwood chare him with the same Decoctum but if he is stung then cleanse the place with his own