other receipt for the mourning of the Chine he intituleth thus A most rare and approved Medicine to cure any high running Glanders called the mourning of the Chine held of all men incurable This disease to my knowledge there is not any Smith or Ferrier in this Kingdome can tell how to cure for it comes not to the extreamity till the Horse hath runne at the Nose a yeare or more and have at the roots of his tongue a hard lung gathered which will not be dissolved Now for mine owne part it is well known that I have cured many with this Medicine only Perfume Take of Agri-pigmentum and of Tussilaginis beaten into fine powder of each foure drammes then beating them with fine Turpentine bring them into a paste then make of it little cakes or trotches as broad as a groat and dry them This done lay about two or three of them on a Chafing-dish of coles and cover them with a Funnell so that the smoake may come out onely at the end thereof and so without any losse ascend up into the Horses head through his nostrils then ride the Horse till he begin to sweate this doe once every morning before water till the running be stopped which will be in very short space considering the greatnesse of this disease These be Master Markhams two great cures which by reason hee hath so great Eecomions of their vertues and also what great cures he hath wrought and perfected with them I thinke it not amisse to insert them in this place Thus I have delivered unto you a great number of Receipts for this one disease many of which I have tried and have found them very good some I could never have meanes or occasion to prove and therefore I must expect prompt opportunities in the interim I do remit them to my brethren to practise But I will now conclude this Chapter with one only Receipt more which I do esteeme my Master-peece for this Malady having had much experience thereof nor did it ever faile mee upon often tryall made This cure is called The black drinke for the Glanders The Cure First prepare his body with branne prepared and after with a Clyster and your Goose-feathers as before hath bin taught you This done The black drinke for the glanders Take new made Chamberly and of the best and strongest white-Wine-Vineger of each halfe a pint then take of Mustardseede two or three spoonfuls and make Mustard thereof with Vineger and let it be very well ground that done put your Vineger and Chamberly to the Mustard and so stirre them well together Then take of Tarre and bay Salt of each like much so much as will suffice incorporate them well together and convey so much thereof as three Egges-shels will hold the meate first taken forth and having first prepared these things let the Horse be taken forth of the stable being kept that night to a very spare dyet and ride him first till he begin to sweate then give him the three Egges-shels filled with the said Tarre and Salt and so soone as hee hath taken that give him with a horne the fore-named-drinke made of Chamberly Vineger and Mustard all at the mouth excepting only two small or halfe hornefuls which let be conveyed into his Nosthrils which so soone as he hath taken let him bee ridden againe so much as before you did then bring him into the Stable cloath him up warme and litter him well and so let him stand upon the Trench untill three or foure of the clocke then unbit him and give him a warme Mash and order him in all things as is usuall for Horses in Physick Give him this Medicine or drinke every other or third day three or foure times and it is an infallible cure ✚ This cure I gat from a Noble Knight who had done many great Cures therewith who was very precise in teaching it and since I came to know thereof I have perfected many great Cures therwith upon horses far spent with the Glanders insomuch as if it be rightly and carefully administred it will cure the rankest Glanders that is And with this Cure I conclude this Chapter CHAP. 11. §. 1. H. Hippophylus WEll Hipposerus sithence we have finished this Chapter let us goe to the next and tell me what meanes have you to helpe the falling away of the hayre from the Mayne and Tayle of a Horse Hippos Sir this disease commeth sometimes by a heat which the horse hath taken which hath engendred a dry Mainge in the mayne and tayle which is the occasion of the shedding of the hayre from those parts and sometimes it commeth by a surfet causing evill humours to resort to those parts which is the cause of the falling away of the hayre I have also known a Horse to shed the hayre both of mayne and tayle after hee hath beene violently and dangerously visited with the Stavers The signes are evident And the Cure is First take bloud from the necke veine if it be onely in the mayne Hayre fr◠the May◠and Tayl◠falling a◠but if in both mayne and tayle and then after you have opened the necke veyne and taken from thence a reasonable quantity of bloud then slit the skin of the inward part of the taile next to the tuell from the buttocks to the fourth joynt and there with your Cornet you shall finde a hard gristle which the French Marishals do call Barivole raise it up with your Cornet and take it forth that done fill up the clift with salt finely beaten and then with a hot iron steep it in Buck-lye burn the tayle in sundry places and then annoynt the places so burned with Hogs grease till it be whole ✚ This cure I gat in France among the Marishals there whom I saw cure sundry Horses of this malady and I my selfe have cured four or five after the same method If it be both in the mayne tayl and that you be feareful to experiment this cure by reason you never saw the manner of it then search both mayne and tayle well with your finger as aforesaid and annoynt the places with this unguent Take Quick-silver and tryed Hogs grease the Quick-silver being first mortified with fasting spittle incorporate them very well together till the Hogs grease be of a perfect Ash-colour and annoynt the sorance therewith every day once holding a hot bar of iron neer to cause the oyntment to sinke in and in three or four dayes thus dressing him he will be well ✚ This is a very good receit and I have often used it § 2. H. Hippoph BVt then what is good to cause the hayre to grow againe Hiposp Take the dung of a Goat newly made ordinary Honey Hayre to grow Allum and the bloud of a Hog the Allum being first made into fine powder boyle all these together and rub and annoynt the places therewith every day and it will cause the hayre to come again apace ✚ This is
Feaver or a Surfet to the great perill of his life The signes are knowne by the swelling Lâ—gs swelled and therefore to annoynt them with Acopum were very good But the best cure is first to take up the thigh veines then with your Fleame to prick the places most swelled and hottest in sundry places especially be low to the end that the corrupt bloud may issue forth then Take of white Wine-lees one pint of Comin bruised one ounce boyle then together to a pultis with Wheate flower three handfuls then with a cloth apply it to the place good and warme renewing it every day once if in two or three daies it doth draw it to a head as it is very probable it will do then lanch it and heale it up either with Shooe-makers waxe laid on upon a Playster of leather or also with a salve made of the yolke of an Egge Whete flower and common honey well wrought together to a salve which you must also apply Plaister-wise ✚ But if it do not come to a head and yet the swelling continue then Take of Pitch and of Virgin-wax of each three ounces Rosin half a pound of the iuyce of Isop and of Galbanum of each half an ounce and of Mirrah-secondary half a pound of Bdellium-Arabicum Populeon and of the drops of Storax of each halfe an ounce and of Deeres-suet halfe a pound boyle all these together in an earthen Pot and when it is cold take of Bitumen halfe a pound Bole-Armoniack and of Costus of each one ounce and halfe make all these into fine powder and then incorporate them well with the other and so boyle them all over againe very well that done poure this whole mixture or Medicine into cold water and so make it up into rowles like a salve for Playsters and when you are to use it spread thereof upon Playsters of Leather which must bee so large as to cover the Legges full so far as the swellings are which if any thing can do it this will asswage the swelling and give very much strength and comfort the Sinewes and Nerves neyther is this Playster to be removed so long as it will remaine on ✚ This I have applyed to many Horses very much annoyed with swolne-Legges and brought them to their former smallnesse when as Ferriers have spent much time upon the Cure and given it over at last But if the Swelling do fall into the hinder-Legs or into all foure-Legs together being but a bad Sorance causing them to burne and swell exceedingly and the hayre to stare the cause whereof coming as I have before said from immoderate Riding heat and labour whereby the grease melting falleth downe into the Legges by reason the Horse cannot voyd it in his Excrements or else being over-hot he is washed or negligently set up without sufficient store of litter and rubbing so as the taking cold the bloud with the grease setleth in the Legges and there congealeth and so causeth them to swell This sorance also commeth by having his feet beaten especially in the Summer with being ridden and galloped upon hard ground which first occasioneth wind-gals and those also causeth the legs to swell which truely is the worst kinde of swelling of all other by reason that lamenesse doth immediately follow it unlesse great Art and diligence be speedily applyed for prevention thereof Wherefore the signes being so apparant needs no remonstrance and therefore I will passe on to the Cure which is thus Take Populeum Nervell Hogs grease of each one ounce Legs â—led incorporate them very well together cold and annoynt the sorance therwith morning and evening foure dayes together and at foure dayes end take of Claret Wine lees one quart boyle it upon the fire with so much Bran as will bring it to a Poultesse apply this to the place grieved plaister-wise with a cloth good and hot for foure or five daies more renewing it every day once and in short time he will be sound again ✚ This is a most excellent receit which I have often experimented Another The swelling of the legges may be easily cured if in the beginning they be often times in the day laved and bathed in cold water unlesse the malady come of too great a surfet wherefore if this of cold water will not doe it then Take of common honey one pound Turpentine common Gum meale of Linseed meale of Fenugrick of each foure ounces Bay berries made into very fine powder and seraced three ounces mixe and boyle all these together well and when you take it from the fire put unto it of white Wine one pinte and then boyle it over againe till it doe become thicke spreade this upon a cloath reasonable hot and wrap it about the members swelled and doe not renew it above once in a weeke and it will cure them ✚ This is a certaine and most approved Cure Another If you take up the veines and make them to bleed below and not above and then rope up the legges with thumbands of soft Hay wet in cold water and then cast more water upon them in short time he will be sound and well againe ✚ This is also very good § 5. L. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure the Leprosie Hippos This is a moyst mainge very infectious which commeth by meanes of great surfets taken by over-riding which is very easie to be seen and known and therefore needs no further description The cure therefore is first let him bleed well in the necke then scrape away the scurfe with an old Curry-combe Oyster-shell Hayre-cloth or some such like thing till the sorance doe looke raw and that it be ready to bleed then annoynt the raw places with this oyntment Leprosâ— elephaâ— malady Take Arsnick or Resalgar and tryed Hogs grease the Arsnick or Resalgar being first beaten unto very fine powder incorporate these well together to make them into a perfect oyntment then tye up the head of your Horse so high to the Rack as that he may not be able to bite rub or lick himselfe and so annoynt the places therewith and cause the oyntment to sinke the better in by himselfe and so annoynt the places therewith and cause the oyntment to sinke the better in by holding a hot bar of iron neere to the place as you annoint him and let him stand so tyed three houres and then wash away the Vnguent with the strongest Chamber-lye you can get and wash him so throughly that you may be assured you leave none of the oyntment upon the Horse and then untye him and give him meat and thus dresse him once every day till the sores be quite dryed up ✚ This is also good for Scratches and Kibed-heeles §. 6. L. Hippoph VVHat is good to kill Lice in a Horse Hippos Lice commonly commeth to a horse when he is very poore especially when he runneth abroad in the Winter time in some Wood Coppice or places where are many high trees for that the
Edward Noble Worcester that branch Sprung from great Iohn of Gaunt and Royall Blanch. Of thee our de la Gray was wont to say To see thee on thy Horse of menage play Was solid pleasure for the Excellence That fed the eye went further than the sense And I beleeve it since the Active part That shines in precepts of thy skilfull Art And comes to us from speculations taught Through â—ong Experience and with labour wrought In these thy choyce Phylippicks makes this Land Blest in the faire production of thy hand Our skilfull Markham and old Blundevill Or whosoe're hath toucht this marshall Quill Receives by thee more light than was his owne Or was by th' Ancients or by Modernes knowâ— G. F. To my well-deserving Friend Thomas de Gray upon his exact piece of Horsemanship and Ferriery IF I who love a Horse next to my life Should now be mute in the commending strife Of this thy Horsemanship my de la Gray I might henceforth be banisht all the play At Bansteed Winchester and Salsbury And sit me downe under this Horse and dye Nay I will write before thy Booke and fill The vacant roome of some deserving quill And wish in all my sport to be as sore As when thou work'st upon a desperate Cure Wolferstone Vpon Monsieur de Gray his most elaborate piece of Horsemanship and Ferriery THis Book 's inform'd with a high Genius this Above the malice of detraction is Nor needs a friends Encomium blaze it forth It 's proper vertue vindicates it's worth Yet since by th' Authors happy care and paine I understood how first to use the reyne And menage sonipes I could not chuse But vent this gratefull rapture of my Muse How that by it he amply doth impart The essence of the Horseman's Ferriers Art So that the Horse shall to perfection grow And no disease his courage brave o'rethrow Now I will leave Pegasus aiery courses And sue to mount one uf his well-train'd Horses Ed. R. To the Authour of the Expert Ferrier HEer 's Mirrour eak Modell of true Honour Fame wait's on Thy name Thou wait'st upon Her By Cavall'ry the Golden Fleece th' ast wonne Therein Thou art a Non pâ—reill That One. Whose Fame shall dye Thine It shall remaine The age presag'd by Ovid's sublime straine I. H. D. M. To my ever honoured Friend Tho. de Gray upon his select Peece of Horsemanship and Ferriery SAge h'ast Thou made our Later age Thou art the Phoenix of our Time Certes Thy rare Peece I presage Hath wonne the Fleece it 's so sublime My younger Pen cannot but waite on Thee Whose Name shall ever bee most deere to mee Francis Hawkins THE EXPERT FERRIER CHAP. I. THE INTRODUCTION IF we will but take to our serious consideration how many great obligations we have to admire the infinite goodnesse of Almighty God in creating such a marvellous number of creatures meerely for the use and service of man whereof no one of them can be wanting and that amongst them all we have none more usefull or which can be lesse spared then the Horse no dumb creature more generous nor any that commeth so neere unto the pleasure of man none can serve him better in time of peace and warre none better for manuring and tilling the earth and to cause it to produce its fruits none more usefull for bringing in the fruits of the earth none more behoofefull to beare and carry him his long and tedious journeyes in heat and cold through thick and thin by night and day none better to carry him from danger and to land his master at the port of safety then the Horse and for his pastimes and recreations no creature to be compared to this neither is there any creature created by the great Creator of all things which doth so perfectly understand and connive with the nature and minde of man or that beareth a more inly love to man as doth this poore creature the Horse for upon all occasions he sweateth he trudgeth he toyleth he drudgeth he moyleth he laboureth pro viribus with great alacrity and cheerefulnesse so long as his vitall spirits last to give comfort and content to him that feedeth and cherisheth him yea and that I say with such joy and alacrity as if like to a reasonable creature he found himselfe obliged thereto in the bond of all sincere duty and gratitude For should I speake rather like a Philosopher then a Christian I could not but agnize nature to be admirable in all her works wherein man doth owe unto her infinite and those very great thanks in that she hath accommodated and plentifully furnished him with all things needfull for his use as also in that she hath propagated amongst all other the Horse the most usefull for the service of man and who best acknowledgeth his Master And that this may be the better anatomized I will shew you what I finde recorded by authenticall Authors of the excellency of this praise-worthy creature The so much-renowned Bucephalus who carried his Master through so many conquered kingdomes serves for an example to all ensuing ages who would not suffer any man but great Alexander to backe him who seemed to be proud at what time he carried so glorious and victorious a charge and it is also written of him that being wounded at the siege and sacking of Thebes he carried him couragiously through the troops and throngs of all the combatants with incredible valour and courage nothing at all esteeming or prizing the losse of his bloud being most desirous and no lesse willing to do his master all faithfull service to the utmost of his power and to the effusion of the last drop of his bloud labouring to purchase unto himselfe by his not to be parallelled valour and his resolute perseverance a victorious advantage over the enemy What never-dying high renown the horse of Caesar got I hold little inferiour to that of Bucephalus Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily in a great and well fought battell was himselfe so hard put to it that he was constrained to forsake his horse neverthelesse the poore beast made his way through the throngs of the enemy who all bloudy and miery as he was gat him to a randevous his Stable Centaurettus of Galatia having in battaile flaine Antiochus he in a bravado mounted his horse who soone found by good experience albeit no whit to his advantage that the said horse retained a resentment of the death of his slaine Master for the horse so soone as he felt this his new Lord upon his back never gave ouer flinging yarking plunging and bownding commanding the Bit with his teeth launching out sometimes this way sometimes that way with so great impetuosity and fury that at length he cast his rash rider to the earth and then fell to him with his heeles redoubling his strokes in so thick and violent a manner not giving over till he had slain him out-right whereby he gave him little cause
which is Milke white Yellow-dunne Sanded or Pie bald Of the flegmatique complectioâ— these take more from the Element of Water than from any of the other three and these we say are of a Flegmatique Complexion and they are naturally slow dull heavy and nesh or wash of their flesh and they be most enclined to Poses Rhumes paines in the head Stavers Yellowes and the like and these Horses can undergoe good strong Medicines if there be cause to administer such provided these Medicines be not made of Ingredients that be not over cold The Horse whose colour is Mouse-Dunne Chest-nut Browne or of a soote-colour or Iron Grey Of the melancholy complection these are commonly of a Melancholy Complexion participating more of the Earth then of any of the other Elements by which meanes they are of Nature dull heavy dogged restife faint-hearted c. and therefore most enclined to Inflamations in the Spleene Siccity and Aridity in the Liver to the Dropsey Frenzy and the like these Horses are better able to endure stronger Medicines than any of the former provided those Medicines bee not siccatrizing or drying but such as are both cold and moyst The Horse whose colour is cole-Blacke without any white at all a deepe Iron-Grey a Bright-Sorrell or the like such coloured Horses we say be of a Cholericke Complexion Of the cholericke complection and they partake more of the Element of Fire than of any other of the three former for that they are by nature Fiery hot too free and hare-brained and therefore cannot bee very strong of constitution wherefore the Ferrier must be very carefull he doe not administer any strong Medicine to such a Horse at any time for so he may soone destroy him Hippophyl But yet Hipposerus I would bee glad to know of what Complexion that Horse is in whom all the foure Complexions doe joyntly meete as namely in that Horse that is either of a Browne-Bay or a Dapple-Bay Dapple-Grey a Black full of silver haires a Black-Rone a Red-Rone or the like Hyppos Sir Of the fourâ— complectionâ— meâ—ting in one horse which is the best and most perfect as I cannot give you more elements than these foure before named so I am not able to give you more than foure complections but yet that one horse may participate of them all is a thing possible enough and this is the very best complection of all other yea and the most perfect for horses in whom the foure complections doe meet cannot but be the best and most able of all other yea and the best for shape for colour and for mettle the soundest and most healthy for howsoever they may accidentally fall into infirmities neverthelesse they are not naturally inclinable to any and therefore when a Ferrier shall at any time have occasion to administer unto them he must be very circumspect the physicke be punctually administred according to the nature of the disease and he must examine both the cause and time of his first languishing as whether it be a sicknesse newly taken or long before whether it proceeded of a Surfet Hard-riding Evill-dyet c. by which meanes he may administer his physicke whether Pils Potions or Clisters the more securely for medicines given upon a first sicknesse and before the horse be farre spent and weakened through the distemper of the malady may be compounded the stronger and will work to more effect but after a long sicknesse when as the spirits both vitall and animall are enfeebled the elements are in open rebellion each one against the other and the humours in a confused distemper then I say must the physicall medicine be so tempered and ordered so as that nature must be assisted but no way further perplexed or troubled whereby the evill humours must be sent away the body cleansed and acquited of the causes of its distemper and then it will not be long before the poore creature may recover strength and sanity and so repaire daily the decay of his former state of health Hippophyl How doe you hold the causes of sicknesse Hippos The causes of sicknesse defined If you meane the causes of sicknesse simply you must understand that all Maladies and Sicknesse of what nature soever they be are affects and evill dispositions as learned Physitians doe call them unnaturall which doe proceed and are as it were the Precursors which do most violently hale and pull sicknesse after them and thus in a word doe they define the causes of sicknesse and not otherwise Hippoph How many sorts of causes be there Hippos Two causes of sicknesse Onely two degrees viz. Intrinsecall and Extrinsecall the Intrinsecall are those which are ingendred within the body and therefore cannot be made visible to the eye but are made known by their symptomes the second are Extrinsecall and therefore are more easily discovered and known by outward object wherefore they need no further discourse Hippoph How doe you define sicknesse as it is in its owne nature Hippoph Sicknesse defined Aegritudo or Infirmitas is none other thing than that which is contrary to nature For all intrinsecall infirmities most commonly possesse and seize upon the whole body and those are most frequently Feavers Pestilence Convulsions c. Other infirmities again do attach but only certain members or parts of the body as colds which do perplex the head Surfets which doe annoy the stomack and Splents Spavens Pearls and Hawes in the eyes and the like extrinsecall sorances but more sorts of infirmities and maladies I never knew every severall of which may most easily and palpably be discovered as well by their inward as outward signes Hippophyl What is your opinion as touching the administring of Drinks Potions and Clisters to a sicke horse to wit whether it be better to apply them very warme or but indifferently Hippos How to apply inward medicine Sir even in this very point is a speciall heed and care fit to be had and taken for by giving Medicines or Clisters too warme a Ferrier may easily undoe all and utterly destroy the horse he would labour to cure yea with as great facility as if he gave him in the place of a wholesome cordiall a formall poyson for you must understand that a horse of all other living creatures can worse indure to receive inwardly hot things by reason that he is inwardly so extreamely hot by nature and therefore whatsoever thing is to be administred to him ought not to be more than bloud warme at most by any meanes for that nothing can be more noxious to him than the endangering the scalding of his stomacke and intrayles besides let his drinks and inward medicines be given him in the most leisurely manner you are able for feare of suffocating him neither suffer any man as I have seene many use to doe to pinch his gulleâ— or wind-pipe whereby he is provoked to cough most violently for it is a thing most dangerous both to his winde
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
evill savours of his breath for this powder healeth all his inward parts that be putrified from whence his bad breath taketh its origen ✚ This is very good and approved and a better remedy you shall finde none § 17. S. Hippoph VVHat is the best way to cure or take off a Splent Hippos This is to be done many waies but because we are come to treat of this cure I hold it not amisse to make you understand what a splent is by what meanes it commeth how to know it and which way to cure the same and to take it cleane away A splent is in the beginning a very gristle howbeit if it be long let alone it will come to be a hard bone or excresion and then it will not be so easily cured It commeth to a Horse by meanes of too hard travell and sore riding whilst he is very yong or by bearing in his youth too heavy burthens by both which meanes the grease being molten falleth down into his legges and so breedeth this sorance you shall have it bigger or lesser according as the cause of its comming was it taketh its residence for the most part upon the inside of the shanke about the middle thereof but sometimes again higher even adjoyning to the knee which if it be there then it is more difficile to cure It will many times cause the Horse to hault but howsoever it will make him oft to stumble and to trip and many times to fall in his travell Sometimes it commeth to a horse hereditarily like as doth the spaven and other sorances and maladies as if either the Stalion or Mare be visited therewith as I have formerly intimated The signes how to know it are most facile viz. either by the sight or feeling for that you may both see and feele its swelling Now to the cure for which I shall give you very many receits First wash the place with warme water and shave away the hayre then with your incision knife slit a hole cleane through the skin more then the length of a Barly corne and then convey into the said hole so much Arsnicke as the fourth part of a hasle Nut which must be bound on with a boulster and rowler of linnen and made fast with a needle and threed and so let remaine untouched three whole daies and nights in which time the Arsnicke will eate and corrode cleane away the splent Splent then to kill the fire anoint the place having first taken off the rowler and boulster and washed cleane the sorance with sweet or fresh Butter molten eight or ten dayes after and it will be whole ✚ With this I have done very many cures of this kinde Another First anoynt the place with ordinary soft washing Sope then tye a red woollen cloth about the legge just upon the splent that done heat a Brick glowing hot and lay it upon the cloth against the place where the splent is and hold it so close unto it a pretty space then so soone as you doe take that away have another as hot in a readinesse and clap that too also doing as before and so a third or so many as shall be needfull till you doe finde that the splent is dissolved and taken away which commonly will be in applying two or three hot Bricks ✚ With this I have taken off very many splents Another First wash and shave away the hayre then knock rubbe and pricke it with your bloud staffe and fleame and after you have so done rub and knock it again then Take Vervine and Salt of each one handfull pound them together to an Vnguent and apply it to the place and binde it up with a rowler stitched on fast with a needle and threed and so let it remaine foure and twenty houres and then unbinde it and it is cured without any more to doe ✚ This is very good Another Wash and shave as before and rub and knock as before also then with your incision knife lay open the place a little then knocke and rubbe againe with a little Salt then apply unto it this oyntment which the French do tearme a Retoyre Take of oyle de Bay foure ounces Cantharides Euforbium and Orpin of each one ounce all these being made into fine power let them be well incorporate into the said oyle and wrought to an Vnguent lay of this to the splent and bind it up with a Bowlster and Rowler and sew it up fast and let him stand so by the space of three houres upon the Trench so tyed up as that he bite not off the rowler and Medicine â—at three houres end unrowle the place and put unto it againe the said Retore or Oyntment being made warme and let the Horse stand trameled foure dayes and at foure daies end send him to the water a foote pace where every day he must be ridden up and downe to the belly If you doe love the horse and have a desire to have him perfectly cured let him not bee ridden more then a foote pace to the water in a moneth after for indangering the growing of it againe for nothing can bee more soveraigne for him then rest ✚ This Retore is a speciall good thing for this Malady and I have often used it and it did never faile me I had this in France of a famous Marishall who cured many horses therewith in my presence Another After you have washed and shaven knocked rubbed and laid it open as before is taught you take a head of Garlicke picked and pilled three or foure drops of the best white Wine Vineger a penny weight of greene Coppras all well beaten together apply it to the splent and then bind and stich it up and let it lye on foure and twenty houres then open it and if the splent be not taken quite away make more of the same Medicine and administer it againe binding it up as before and after other foure and twenty houres take of the medicine and then you shall need do nothing more unto him but only what you are prescribed in the precedent cure This I did never try Another First burne away the haire with a hot tyle then shave it close with your Rasor that done have in a readinesse a peece of Leather the breadth of the Sorance and bind it hard upon it and let it so remaine by the space of an houre then take him off and leade to the water without doing any more unto him and hee is cured This cure I never tryed Another Take Mustard seed and beat it and let it steepe a little in fayre water and after make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the place and three dayes after take it away but have a care your horse come not unto it with his teeth the hayre also being shaven away before you do apply your Plaister and this will cure him This also I never proved Another First wash and shave away the hayre then take of the tender tops of Wormewood
bloud being most wholesome for him and whilst he is thus bleeding thrust an iron Bodkin through the gristle of his nose skin and all then Take Assafetida the quantity of a hasle nut and dissolve it into a sawcer full of white Wine Vineger then take Lint or fine Flax and dip it into the liquor and so stop both your Horse eares therewith and so stitch them up and at the end of foure and twenty houres unstitch them and he is cured ✚ This is very good Another First let him bloud in both the weeping veynes and in the mouth then Take of bitter Almonds one ounce and a halfe of the gall of an Oxe two drams of black Ellebore made into fine powder a halfe penny worth of Graynes Castoreum Vineger and of Varnish of each five drams boyle all these together untill the Vineger be all consumed then straine it and put it into his eares and do as before ✚ This is very good Another Bloudy him as before then with your incision knife make a slit down his forehead an inch long and better and with your cornet loosen the skin round about but most toward the foretop then put into the place the root of a red great Dock cut thin and let it remaine there fourteen or fifteen dayes and once in two dayes at furmost crush out the mattrative stuffe and then take forth the Dock roots and heale up the place with your healing Salve and give him during these fourteen dayes white water onely and he will doe well ✚ This I assure you is very good Another Bloudy c. Then take Aqua-vitae and Garlicke of each so much as will suffice stamp them together and convey it into his eares doing vt supra ✚ This is singular good Another Let him bleede well in the neck and mouth for the abundance of bad bloud is the cause of this disease then with your Incision knife slit the forehead of the Horse and with your Cronet raise the skin especially upwards put in three or foure cloves of Garlick pilled put upon it a little lint or fine Flax to keepe away the Wind for that is dangerous and then give the Orifice a stitch to keep in the Medicine the better Then Take the seeds of Cresses of Poppy of Smallage of Parsly of Dill I say the seeds only of these hearbs and take also pepper and Saffaron of each two drammes make them all into fine powder and put unto them of Barley water two quarts as it commeth boyling from the fire and let it infuse therein three houres and then straine it and give him one quart thereof if it may be in the morning fasting bloud-warme and walke him up and downe an houre and better and then set him up warme and give him Hay sprinkled with water and the next day give him the other quart fasting and then doe as before neither let him drinke any cold water in foure or five daies after but only white water unlesse sometimes a sweet Mash And thus doing he will be cured X. This is a most excellent Receipt and I have often used it §. 21. S. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you for a Horse that hath Swelled-Legges Hippos This Malady of swelled or Gourdy-Legs commeth eft-soones by long standing in the Stable when as the upper parts of the plancks at his fore-feete are much higher then that at the hinder feete as I have before observed in lib. 1. cap. 4. for by that meanes the Horse not standing even and therefore not at his case the bloud setleth in the hinder-Legges which causeth them to swell Sometimes they doe come by reason the Horse being hard ridden was brought into the Stable too hot and carelesly set up who taking cold the bloud grease and humours do fall downe into the Legges and so cause them to swell Sometimes it commeth by over-riding whereby the Horse hath his bloud stirred and his grease melted which falleth down and resteth in the hinder-Legges causing them to swell Sometimes by being ridden and gallopping upon hard waies in the Heates and by that meanes the bloud and grease falleth downe into his Legges congealeth there whereby they do become gowty and gourdy And sometimes gourdy-Legges cometh by sicknes and surfets taken which after remedy had yet the faeces or dregges thereof still remayning in the body of the horse falleth downe and causeth the legges to swell as I have frequently seene And these be the primme causes and reasons which we have observed for this Malady Swelled-Legges The signes your eie doth demonstrate and you may without teaching point to it with your finger and therefore we may say nothing thereof Wherefore now we will to the cure If the swelling come by ordinary meanes then take up the Thigh-veines and then you neede doe no more for that alone will cure him and after open the heele-veines and lay a Retoyre to the Legges or else give him the fire which will siccicate dry up the bad humours which must be given gently and lightly neither would I have you give him the fire unlesse you might thinke or find it in your iudgement to be very requisite But my meaning is not that this remedy of the fire bee applyed but only to an old griefe otherwise not at all ✚ This is good But if besides his swelled-Legges they also be stiffe comming to him after much labour and travell therefore Take of Violet-leaves Primrose-leaves and Strawberry-leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in new-Milke till they become very soft and then take it from the fire and put to it of the oyle of Nervall of Petroleum and of Pamphilion of each one ounce and so stirre all together untill it becometh bloud-warme and therewith chafe rub and anoint the Legges Nerves Sinewes and Ioynts holding a hot barre of Iron neere to the place to cause the Vnguent to sinke the better in Anoint him thus with this Vnguent five or sixe daies together and it will helpe him ✚ This I have often used Another Take Traine-oyle and warme it upon the fire and therewith bathe his legges morning and evening and in short time he will be well ✚ This is very good also to ride your Horse into the water morning and evening up to the belly doth take away the swelling of his legges X. This is mervelous good § 22. S. Hippoph VVHat is good to asswage the swelling of the Cods in a Horse Hippos This Malady commeth many waies to wit by violent riding heats when there was not sufficient care had of him but was neglected in the setting up also it commeth by washing walking and cold taken after immoderate labour and sometimes by feeding to intemperately upon Provender and sometimes by feeding upon unwholesome meate The signes to know it are his stomacke may be peradventure good to his meate but yet it will do him little good for he will be alwaies meagre and leane his hayre will stare neither will he cast his
of Salendine and wash the hurt-tongue therewith nine dayes together and it will cure it albeit it be halfe cut in sunder for the iuyce of Salendine well conglutinat and sodder the tongue together being cut or wounded ✚ This also is very good §. 2. T. Hippoph HOw doe you helpe a Horse that hath an Itch in his Tayle Taile an itch Hippos This commeth of ranknesse of bloud and therefore it is requisite that first he be let bloud in the Tayle and that hee bleed well After Take Buck-lye and with a Ragge or Hurds in the Lye wash the place infected every day often or as many times as it shal be dry and continue thus doing foure or five dayes and this will cure it ✚ This is very good Another But if the hayre do fall away with the Mainge or Itch then slit the skin from within two inches of the Tuell to the fourth ioynt and with your Cornet take out a certaine bone or gristle which the French do call Bariuole then fill up the clift with Salt made into fine powder and with a hot iron burne the tayle in sundry places and wash it with Buck-lye as before But your Lye must bee made very strong This cure I never practised but I once saw a Marishall of Paris dresse and so cured a Horse in this manner of this malady of whom I had the cure § 3. T. Hippoph HOw doe you make your Vnguentum Theriacum Hippos This Vnguentum Theriacum Theriacum Vnguentum is most soveraigne for any Ach in any of the Ioynts it is also speciall good for Horses that doe fall lame if the griefe be in the Hip Stifling-place legs shoulders Pasternes or any other part of the legges a back-sinew-sprain only excepted And thus I do make it Take of Nervell of Oyle of Pamphilion and of black-Sope of each two ounces and of tryed-hogs-grease halfe a pound melt all these upon a gentle fire and being molten put into it of ordinary Treacle two penny-worth then take it from the fire then with a Splatter or Spoone keepe it by continuall stirring till it be through cold then will it be of a dun-colour keep this in a gally-pot for your use And when you shall have occasion to use the same anoynt the grieved place therewith rubbing and chafing it in very well and let one hold a barre of hot iron neere as you do anoynt the griefe And thus is it made ✚ This is most excellent to raise the veine from the sinew at what time you are to take up the veine I have tryed it saepè et saepiùs §. 4. T. Hippoph HOw doe you destroy a Tetter Hippos This Malady or Sorance the French doe call Vervolant the Flying Worme which is a Tetter or Ring-worme Tetter or Ring-worme and the cure is this Take the rootes of Elicampane and the rootes of the red-Dock of each like much slice them thinne and put them into vrine three quarts with Bay-salt two handfuls let it boyle untill one quart bee consumed then take it off and with a clout fastned to a stick wash the Sorance very hot Vse this foure or five mornings together and it will kill it ✚ This is very good §. 5. T. Hippoph VVHat is to be done to a horse that tyreth in travell and falleth sicke Hippos For a Horse to tire upon the way the causes are many First for that he is travelled when he shall be too young Secondly in that he is lately taken from grasse whilst he is yet foule and foggy before he be well ensaimed thirdly in that he hath beene long kept and pampered in the Stable without giving him breath or moderate exercise Fourthly by being travelled beyond his strength in longer journeyes and deeper waies then he was well able to performe Fiftly it might be through the covetousnesse or carelesnesse of his rider in not feeding or seeing him fed so well as was fitting Sixtly and lastly by reason the Horse might have some secret infirmity whereof his master might be ignorant Wherefore if your Horse may happen in his travell to tire or faint have patience with him and do not force him beyond what he may be able to performe either by spurring or beating him like as many cholericke and passionate people doe usually but get to some house or Inne so soone as conveniently you may when first you see him begin to sinke or to faint under you set him presently up warme clothed and well littered that he take no cold and let his Keeper or the Ostler of the Inne rubbe and chafe him all over with fresh dry straw but especially let him rub him against the hayre and let him have no meat till two houres or more after you have given him this drinke Take of the best sweet Sack one pinte but if that cannot be had Tyring in travell then take the same quantity of White or Claret Wine and put therto of Cinamon Ginger Nutmegs Graines Cloves Anniseeds and Fennell-seds of each one ounce all made into fine powder then take red Sage Rosemary-tops Mints Camomill and wilde Thyme of each like much so that in all they amount to halfe a handfull chop the hearbs very small and then put all these Hearbs and Spices into the Wine and then boyle them a pretty while then take it from the fire and straine it hard and unbit your horse and give him this drink bloud warme this done Bit him up againe and with a switch stir him up and down as he standeth in his place tyed to the Rack then coole him and two houres after his drink give him first some Hay and halfe an houre after that give him either a sweet Mash or white water and after feed him at your pleasure but be you considerate in giving him his Provender by little at once and often and howsoever feed him well and thus ordering him by morning he will be well recovered and able to travell againe ✚ This is an excellent drink and of great vertue for any Horse that tyreth or falleth sick upon the way It is also very requisite that with a Syringe you do inject of this drinke into his nostrils Another If you doe feare that your horse may tire in his journey for prevention carry with you a boxe of powder of dryed Elecampane roots and let the powder be also searced and when you do come unto your Inne let him not be walked but set up warme in the Stable clothed and littered his legs body head and necke be by the Groome or Ostler well rubbed but chiefly his Poll betwixt his eares Then take of strong Ale one quart or of sweet Sack one pinte which is much better and put into it of your Elecampane halfe an ounce brew them well together and give it him with a horne then bridle him and tie him to the Racke but not too high so as he may put down his nose and let him stand so an houre then unbridle him and give