a Splint Take of the Oyl of Vitriol and dip a stick or feather into the Glass and touch the place with it and it will eat it away If you find it eat too much you may stop it by bathing it with cold water Or if you boyl some green Copperas in water and wash the sore with it it will not only cleanse the Sore from any piece of the remaining Splint but soon heal it up likewise To take away a Splint and leave no Scar behind Take a red Hazel stick about the bigness of your Thumb about a quarter of a yard long and after you have beaten and knockt the Splint very well with it then take and cut one end of it very smooth and stick a Needle into the pith of it leaving so much of the point of it out as will prick through the Skin pricking it full of holes then take some of the Oyl of Peter and rub all over it and bath it in with a hot Fire-shovel and do thus four or five days together and it will cure it Another First wash the place with warm water and shave away the hair then slit a Hole in the skin more then the length of a Barley-corn and then convey into the Hole so much Arsnick in the fourth part of a Hazel-Nut and bound on with a Bolster and Rowler of Linnen and made fast with a Needle and Thread and so let it remain for three whole days and Nights in which time the Arsnick wâ—â—l eat and corrode clean away the Splint then to kill the Fire anoint the place with sweet fresh Butter eight or ten days after being first molten and it will be whole Another Take the Root of Elecampane well washed and cleansed and lap it in a brown Paper wet it and roast it in the hot Embers as you do a Warden then after you have rubbed and chaâ—ed the Excression bind it fast on but not so hot as to scauld away the hair this will consume it away in two or three dressings or if you anoint the Splint with the Oyl of Origanum Morning and Evening it will take it away but not presently Observation You must stay the falling down of new humours to the place troubled by binding Plaisters as Pitch Rozin Mastick red Lead Oyl Bole-armonâ—ack and such like then to draw forth matter which is gathered with drawing Simples as VVax Turpentine and such like And lastly to dry up the Relicks with drying powders as Honey and Lime Oyster-shells Soot and such like and also you must know that all Splints Spavens or Knobs must either be taken away at the beginning or after the full of the Moon Another Receipt to take off a Splint which though it seem difficult yet de Grey declares that he hath taken off more then 100 Splinâ—s Take two Heads of Garlick and peel them and cut them small and do neither stamp nor bruise them then take the like quantity of Salt and mix with them and divide them into two equal parts and put them into two fine Linnen Clouts and bind them upon the ends of two sticks about a foot in length of the fashion of two short wooden foyls but not so long being not above twelve inches a piece Take then your Blood-stick and rub knock and beat the splint therewith very well to soften it then prick it through the skin with your Blood-staff and Fleam then take of the Oyl of Nuts one pint and put it into a small Pipkin and set it upon the Fire with a Chasing-dish of Coals and make it boiling hot and when it is ready to boyl put in your short sticks or â—oyles which hath the Garlick and Salt fastned unto them and first with the foyl and then with the other I mean by turnes apply them hot to the Splint and between whiles rub and stroak the Splint downwards with your Thumb whereby to bring forth the Blood till having with the foyls very well mollified the said Splint you may the more easily crush forth the Blood whereof the Splint is engendred and formed and thus it is cured only you must remember to anoint the place two or three times after with sweet or fresh Butter Things good in general for a Curb Oyl of Vitriol Arsnick Verdegrease an Elecampane Root roasted and laid to it an Onyon roasted with unslackt Lime and laid to it Mercury Turpentine Nerval green Gopperas Tartar c. Particular Receipts to Cure a Curb First shave away the hair then bind the Hough strait above the Joynt then with a small stick beat rub and Chaâ—e the Curb like as you do in the Cure of a Splint then pierce the skin with your Fleam in two or three places and so with your Thumb thrust forth and crush out the corrupt Blood and after convey so deep as you can get into every hole the bigness of two Barley cornes of Arsnick and so bind up the place and let it remain for the space of twenty four houres then open the place and anoint it every day with fresh Butter till it be whole Oyl of Vitriol used as you do to take away a Splint will take off a Curb also Note that whatsoever Cureth the Splint or Spaven Cureth the Curb also Another Receipt Take white-Wine Lees one Pint a Porringer-full of Wheat Floure of Cummin in fine powder half an Ounce mix all these well together and being made warm upon the Fire charge the place therewith renewing it once for three or four days together and when the swelling is almost gone draw it with your hot Iron and charge the Burning with Pitch and Rosin molten together which must be applied warm to the end the Charge may stick on the better then presently clap on Flox and let it remain until it fall away of it self and let it come in no wet or water for the space of fourteen days Another Take a Bar of Iron heat it red hot and hold it near to the place till it become warm then with your Fleam prick six or seven holes through the skin and anoint the Sorrance with Nerval then take a spoonful of salt and a penny weight of Verdegrease in â—ine powder with the white of an Egg incorporate them well together and wet some Flax in this Medicine and bind it to the place renewing it every day once and in a short time he will be perfectly â—uâ—ed Or to â—alcinate Tartar and dissolve it in water and congeal it like Salt and mingle it with Soap like an Ointment and dress it therewith and this will in fourty houres heal any Mules Pains and Scratches whatsoever Things good for the Mules vide Scratches Things good for the Pains vide Scratches Things good for Kib'd Heels vide Scratches Things good for Crepances and Rats-tails vide Scratches What Cures the Scratches Cures all these Diseases Things good in general for the Scratches These things boiled in Hogs Grease and Train-Oyl viz. Tarr white Lead Bolâ—armoniack Verdegrease green
by uncertainty the other loseth the labour Another makes it of Canvass and that galls A third makes it of strong Lists and that hath all the faults of both the former for the softness will not let it lie close and the gentleness makes it stretch out of all compass or break upon every stumble And as these so there are a World of other useless Tramels for you must understand that touching the true Tramel the Side-Ropes must be firm without yielding an hair The Hose must be soft lie close and not move from his first place and the Back-band must be flat no matter how light and so defended from the Fillets that it may not gall And this Tramel must be thus made and of these Substances First for the Side-Ropes they must be made of the best finest and strongest Pack-thread such as your Turky-thread and turned by the Roper into a delicate strong Cord yet at the utmost not above the bigness of a small Jack-line with a Noose at each end so strong as is possible to be made neither must these Side-Ropes be twined too hard but gentle and with a yielding condition for that will bring on the Motion more easie and keep the Tramel from breaking now these Side-Ropes must be just thirty six Inches in length and so equal one with another that no difference may be espied For the Horse which must be placed in the small of the Fore-leg and the small of the hinder-Leg above the Feet lock they must be made of fine Girt-Web which is soft and pliant and loyned with double Cotton Over the Girt-Web must be fastened strong Tabbs of white Neats Leather well Tallowed and suited to an even length and stamped with holes of equal distance which shall pass through the Nooses of the Side Ropes and be made longer or shorter at pleasure with very strong Buckles These Hose the Girt would be four Inches in length and the Tabbs ten The Back-band being of no other use but to bear up the Side Ropes would if you Tramel all the fore-Legs be made of fine Girt Web and â—oyned with Cotton but if you Tramel but one side then an ordinary Tape will serve being sure that it carries the side-Ropes in an even Line without either Rising or falling for if it rise it shortens the side-Rope and if it falls it endangers tangling Thus you see what the true Tramel is and how to be made touching the use it thus followeth The true Vse of the true Tramel When you have brought your Horse into an even smooth Path without Rubs or roughness you shall there loose the near fore-Leg and the near hinder-Leg then put to them the side-Rope and see that he stand at that just proportion which Nature her self hath formed him without either straining or enlarging his Members and in that even and just length stay the side-Rope by a small Tape fastened up to the Saddle Then with your hand on the Bridle straining his Head put him gently forward and if need be have the help of a by-stander to put him forward also and so force him to Amble up and down the Road with all the Gentleness you can suffering him to take his own leisure that thereby he may come to an understanding of his restraint and your Will for the Performance of the Motion and though he snapper or stumble or peradventure fall now and then yet it matters not do you only stay his Head give him leave to Rise and with all gentleness put him forward again till finding his own fault and understanding the Motion he will become perfect and Amble in your Hand to your contentment And that this may be done with more ease and less amazement to the Horse it is not amiss at his first Trameling that you give your Side-Ropes more length then ordinary both that the Twitches may be less sudden and Motion coming more gently the Horse may sooner apprehend it But as soon as he comes to any perfectness then instantly put the Side-Ropes to their true length For an Inch too long is a Foot too slow in the Pace and an Inch too short causeth Rouling a Twitching up of the Legs and indeed a kind of plain Halting When to alter the Tramel When the Horse will thus Amble in your Hand perfectly being Tramelled on one side you shall then change them to the other side and make him Amble in your hand as you did before And thus you shall do changing from one side to another till with this half Tramel he will Run and Amble in your hand without snappering or stumbling both readily and swiftly when this is attained unto which cannot be above two or three houres labour if there be any tractableness you may then put on the whole Tramel and the broad flat back Band Trameling both sides equally and so Run him in your hand at the utmost length of the Bridle up and down the Road divers times then pause cherish and to it again and thus apply him till you have brought him to that Perfection that he will Amble swiftly truly and readily when where and how you please then put him upon uneven and uncertain ways as up-hill and down-hill where there are clots and roughness and where there is hollowness and false treading When to Mount his Back Now when he is perfect in your Hand upon all these you may then adventure to Mount his Back which if you please you may first do by a Boy or Groom making the Horse Amble under him whilest you stay his Head to prevent danger or to see how he striketh Then after Mount your self and with all gentleness and lenity encreasing his Pace more and more till you come to the height of Perfection And thus as you did before in your Hand so do now on his Back first with the whole Tramel then with the half and changing the Tramel oft first from one side then to another then altering Grounds till you finde that exquisiteness which you desire and this must be done by daily exercise and labour as twice thrice sometimes oftner in the day When to Journey When you have obtained your Wish in the Perfection of his stroke the nimbleness of his Limbs and the good carriage of his Head and Body you may then take away the Tramel altogether and exercise him without it But this ExerciseI would have upon the High-way and not Horse-courser like in a private smooth Road for that affords but a cousening Pace which is left upon every small weariness therefore take the High-way forward for three four or five miles in a Morning more or less as you finde his aptness and ability Now if in this journeying either through weariness ignorance or peevishness you finde in him a willingness to forsake his Pace then ever carrying in your Pocket the half Tramel alight and put them on and so exercise him in them and now and then give him ease bring him home in his true Pace This Exercise
will be more stronger and hardier of Nature After the Change It is not good for Mares to be Covered after the Change for those Colts will be tender and nice The Wain Mark the VVain in that time the Mare was Covered the same time of the Moon she will Foal Burning If your Mare hath been Covered and the Colt Knit within her if another Horse covers her he burns her Of Spaying a Mare-Colt If a Mare-Colt be Spayed nine days after it is Foaled she will prove as some say Fair Gallant and well Of Gelding of Colts Horses will be better shaped and in less danger of Gelding if they be Gelt at nine or fifteen days old if the Stones appear or so soon as you find them fall down into the God VVhat time a Mare is to take Horse If your Mare be Covered of St. Lucies day which is the thirteenth of December then she will Foal about St. Thomas's day the same Moneth in the year following How long time a Mare goes During the time of her going with Foal from the day of her Covering unto the day of her Foaling is commonly twelve Months and ten dayes unless it be a young Mare upon her first Colt which may come sooner How to Order her before she is Covered You are to take her into the House about six weeks before she is Covered and feed her well with good Hay and Oats well sifted to the end she may have Strength and Seed to perform the Office of Generation But if you would have her certainly conceive then take Blood from both sides of her Neck and let her bleed nigh a quart of either Vein which you must do five or six days before you have her Covered If you desire to have a Horse-Colt of your Mare then let her be Covered when one of the first Masculine Signes do reign which are either Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer or Leo. But if she be Covered when any of the Feminine Signes be Predominate as Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagitaâ—ius Capricornus Aquarius or Pisces then be confident it will be a Mare for it is so certain that it seldom or never fails especially if the VVind be either VVest or North but VVest is best The Manner of Covering her You are to bring her out into some broad Place and Tie her to a Post then bring out some Stone Jade to dally with her to provoke her to Appetite then let the Stallion be led out by two men and let him leap her and let him do it in the Morning Fasting and when the Horse is dismounting throw a pale full of cold water upon her Shape which by reason of the coldness will make her shrink in and truss up her Body and will make her retain her Seed the better then take away the Stallion and let her be put out of the Hearing of the Horse and let her neither eat nor drink in four or five houres after and give her a Maâ—â— and white water If she stands to her Covering you may know it by this if she keeps a good Stomach and does not Neigh at the sight of a Horse or if she does not Piss often or open and shut her Shape often or that if her Belly four days after her Covering be more gant and her Hair more slick and close to her skin c. How many Mares for one Horse If you Cover abroad one Horse will serve twelve Mares if you expect no other service from him but if you keep him in the Stable where he hath extraordinary keeping he will serve fifteen How to Order a Mare after Covering to her Foaling Keep her with the same Diet as before Covering for three weeks or a Month after lest the Seed be empaired before it be formed in the VVomb and let her be kept sweet and clean without any Exercise during three weeks or a Month and to keep her in the House till mid May and not to turn her out before mid May and with her Feet well pared and a thin pair of Shooes upon them and take her in again the latter end of September if not before and keep her to the end of her Foaling and let her be loose in the Stable with good store of straw with her that so the Foal may fall the softer for a Mare does usually Foal standing How to help her if she cannot Foal If she cannot Foal hold her Nostrils so that she cannot take her wind or if that will not do take the quantity of a VVallnut of Madder and dissolve it in a Pint of old Ale and being warm give it the Mare if both fail take the help of some understanding Farrier If she cannot avoid her Secundine then boyl two or three Handfuls of Fennel in Running water and take half a Pint of it with as much Sack or for want thereof a Pint of strong Beer or Ale with a fourth part of Sallet Oyl mix them together and give it her Luke-warm into her Nostrils and hold them close for a good space or for want thereof give her good green Wheat or Rye but Rye is the best and they are as effectual Let her not eat her clean for that is very unwholesom and will dry up her Milk To Order her after Foaling VVhen she hath Foaled and licked her Foal Milk and stroak her before the Colt doth suck which will both cause her to bring down her Milk but make it to multiply and keep it that it doth not clod which may cause her to become dry which if there be cause boyl as much Milk as you can get from her with the Leaves of Lavender or Spike and bath the Udder with it warm till it be broken and the Knobs and Knots dissolved Let her water after Foaling be white water which is Bran put into her water and give her sweet Mashes and a Month after her Foaling give her a Mash and put into it some Brimstone or Savin which will be a great preservation to the Colt And then if she be moderately laboured at Plough or Harrow the Mare and Colt will be the better provided she be kept from Raw Meats while she remaineth in the Stable = which will both increase her Milk and cause her Colt to thrive the better And that you suffer not the Colt to suck when she is hot lest thereby you Surfeit the Colt How long Foals are to run with their Dams Let them run with their Dams a full year at least but if they be choice Foals then two years for the loss of the use of the Mare will be no loss in comparison of the benefit you will receive by the Foal but if you want Accommodations VVean at seven Months but be sure to keep them well for what they lose the first year they will hardly gain in three following And at the VVeaning give them Savin and Butter for divers Mornings together or else the Worm and Gargil will hazard to destroy them besides have an eye to the
follows nimbly with his hinder and neither cuteth under his Knee which is called the swift cut nor crosseth nor claps one Foot on another and ever leadeth with his far fore-Foot and not with the near he is said ever to Gallop comely and most true and he is the fittest for speed or any swift Employment If he Gallop round and raise his fore-Feet he is then said to Gallop strongly but not swiftly and is fittest for the great Saddle the Wars and strong Encounters If he Gallop slow yet sure he will serve for the High-way but if he labour his Feet confusedly and Gallop painfully then is he good for no Galloping Service besides it shews some hidden Lameness His Stature Lastly touching his Stature it must be referred to the end for which you buy ever observing that the biggest and strongest are fittest for strong occasions and great Burthens strong Draughts and double Carriage the middle Size for Pleasure and general Emploiments and the least for Ease Street-Walks and Summer-Hackney The particular Rule Now touching the particular Rule of Election it is contained in the discovery of natural deformities accidental outward Sorrances or inward hidden Mischiefs which are so many and so infinite that it is a World of Work to explain them yet for satisfaction sake I will in as methodical manner as I can shew what you are to observe in this occasion How to stand to View When a Horse is brought unto you to buy being satisfied for his Breed his Pace Colour and Stature then see him stand naked before you and placing your self before his Face take a strict View of his Countenance and the chearfulness thereof for it is an excellent Glass wherein to behold his Goodness and best Perfections As thus His Ears If his Ears be small thin sharp short pricked and moving or if they be long yet well set on and well carried it is a Mark of Beauty Goodness and Mettle but if they be thick laved or lolling wide set and unmoving then are they signs of dulness doggedness and evil Nature His Face If his Face be lean his Forehead swelling outward the Mark or Feather in his Face set high as above his Eyes or at the top of his Eyes if he have a white Star or white Ratch of an indifferent Size and even placed or a white Snip on his Nose or Lip all are Marks of Beauty and Goodness But if his Face be Fat Cloudy or Skouling his Forehead flat as a Trencher which we call Mare-faced for the Mark in his Forehead stand low as under his Eyes If his Star or Ratch stand awry or in an evil posture or instead of a Snip his Nose be raw and un-hairy or his Face generally bald all are signs of deformity His Eyes If his Eyes be round big black shining starting or staring from his Head if the black of the Eye fill the Pit or outward Circumference so that in the moving none or very little of the White appeareth all are signes of Beauty Goodness and Material but if his Eyes be uneven and of a wrinkled proportion if they be little which we call Pig-Eyed both are uncomely signes of Weakness if they be red and fiery take heed of Moon-Eyes which is next door to Blindness if white and walled it shews a weak Sight and unnecessary starting or finding of Buggards if with white Specks take heed of the Pearl Pin and Web if they water or shew bloody it shews bruises and if any Matter they shew old over-Riding festered Rheums or violent strains If they look dead or dull or are hollow or much sunk take heed of Blindness at the best The Best is of an old decrepit Generation if the Black fill not the Pit but the white is always appearing or if in moving the White and Black be seen in equal quantity it is a sign of weakness and a dogged disposition His Cheeks and Chaps If in handling his Cheeks or Chaps you find the Bones lean and thin the space wide between them the Thropple or Wind-Pipe big as you can Gripe and the void place without Knots or Kernels and generally the Jaws so great that the Neck seemeth to couch within them they are excellent Signes of great Wind Courage and Soundness of Head and Body But if the Chaps be sat and thick the space between them closed up with gross Substance and the Thropple little all are Signes of short Wind and much inward foulness If the void place be full of Knots and Kernels take heed of the Strangle or Glaunders at the best the Horse is not without a foul Cold. If his Jaws be so streight that his Neck swelleth above them if it be no more then natural it is only an uncomely Sign of short Wind and Pursiness or Grossness but if the Swelling be long and close by his Chaps like a Whet-stone then take heed of the Vives or some other unnatural Impostume His Nostrils and Muzzle If his Nostrils be open dry wide and large so as upon any straining the inward redness is discovered and if his Muzzle be small his Mouth deep and his Lips equally Meeting then all are good Signes of Wind Health and Courage But if his Nostrils be streight his Wind is little if his Muzzel is gross his Spirit iâ— dull if his Mouth be shallow he will never carry a Bit well and if his upper Lip will not reach his nether old Age or Infirmity hath Marked him for Carrion If his Nose be moist and dropping if it be clear water it is a Cold if soul Matter then beware of Glaunders if both Nostrils run it is hurtful but if one then most dangerous His Teeth Touching his Teeth and their Vertues they are set down in a particular Chapter onely remember you never buy an Horse that wanteth any for as good lose all almost as one His Breast From his Head look down to his Breast and see that it be broad out-swelling and Adorned with many Features for that shews strength and durance The little Breast is uncomely and shews weakness the narrow Breast is apt to stumble fall and enterfere before the Breast that is hidden Inward and wanteth the Beauty and division of many Feathers shews a weak Armed Heart and a Breast that is unwilling and unfit for any violent toyl or strong labour His Fore-Thighs Next look down from his Elbow to his Knees and see that those Fore-Things be rush-grown well horned within Sinewed Fleshy and out-swelling for they are good signs of strength the contrary shews weakness and are unnatural His Knees Then look on his Knees and see that they carry a Proportion be lean Sinewy and close Knit for they are good and comely but if one be bigger and rounder then another the Horse hath received Mischief if they be gross the Horse is Gouty if they have Scars or Hair-broken it is a true mark of a stumbling Jade and a perpetual Faller His Legs From his Knees look down to his Legs to
near to their standing selling price as can be possibly for Goods that do Rise and Fall yet notwithstanding this I am perswaded to believe they yet get four pence out of every shillings worth of Goods they generally sell c. THE SECOND PART OF THE EXPERIENC'D FARRIER SHEWING I. The Nature Temperature and Vertue of most Simples for the Cure of all inward and outward Diseases never yet Printed in this Nature before II. You have things in general set down one after another for the Cure of all diseases which you may use as your discretion serves III. You have severally particular Receipts for the Cure of all Diseases IV. Where you find the Hand Pointing you shall finde such Receipts that were never before Printed V. You have the Gathering Drying and Preserving of Simples and their Juices VI. You have the way of making and keeping of all necessary Compounds VII You have hot Medicaments appropriate to the Parts of the Body VIII You have cold Medicaments appropriate to the Parts of the Body IX You have the Properties of Purging Medicaments X. You have the Properties of altering Medicaments XI You have a Table of all the Diseases of a Horse either inwardly or outwardly set down Alphabetically where they do grow in any part of a Horses Body and how you may know them and what was the cause that bred them XII And lastly you have in the Margent of these said Diseases the Page quoted where to find the proper Cure for every of these Diseases with many other things contained in this Book not here inserted The Second Impression much Enlarged and Amended by A. O. LONDON Printed for Richard Northco Adjoyning to St. Peters Alley in Cornhâ—ll And at the Anchor and Marriner near London-Bridge 1680. Purging Simples Rubarb Cassia Tamarinds Myrobalans Aloes Seeny or Senna Mechoachan Root Agarick Pollypody Carthamus Bastard or Spanish Saffron Dwarfs Elder Ensula or Devils Milk Hermodactils Jallop Turbich Scamony Hellebore or Bears foot Colloquintida Spurge-Olive Spurge-Flax Lawrel Soldanella Turn-sole c. Binding-Simples Look for them in the Table at the latter End of the Book Foreign Simples that are Heating Ginger Zedory or Set-wall Galangel Acorus or Water-Flag Calamus Aromaticus or the Ariomatical Reed Costus Cinnamon Nutmegs Mace Pepper Cloves Cardamums Cubebs Kermes Sanders Sassafras China-Root Guiaccum or Lignum vitae Sarsaparilla Aloes wood c. Home-bred Heating Simples Pellitory of Spain Mustard Common and Treacle Mustard Rocket Nettles Flower-de-luce or Orrice Elecampane Cyprus Angelica Lovage Hartwort Gentian Turmentil Paeony Madder Rest-harrow Sea-holly Common-Grass Liquoris Sow-bread Radish-roots Anemone or Wind-Flower Wall-Flowers Tyme Marjorem Penny-Royal Polium Basil Origanum Mint Calamint Wormwood Mug-wort Balm Horehound Bitony Speedwell Ditany Sage Clary French Lavender Scordium Rue Gromel Saxifrage Aristolochia or Birth-wort Asarabaca Burnet Germander Ground-pine Feather-few St. Johns-wort Hysop Cranes-bill Doronicum or Leopards-bane Cardus Benedictus Motherwort black Chameleon Thistle Valerian Fumitory Eye-bright Centory Rhaphonticum Coriander Wood-bine Broom Ashen-Keys Misletoe of the Oak poplar Cummin-seeds c. Cooling Simples Mandrake Night-shade Winter-Cherries Henbane Poppey Housleek Purslain Dogs-Tongue Plantine Knot-Grass Comfrey Sorrel Agrimony Sower-dock Primrose Cabbage or Garden Coleworts Flea-bane Colts-foot Hops Bistort Strawberry Bush Cinquefoil Goose-grass or Cleavers Scabius Cats-foot Melilots Fennegreek Red Cicers Lupins Sumack Myrtle Yarrow Tamarisk Before you enter upon the Use of these Simples unless you know them very well Look into the Table of Simples to see the Nature of them for some of them are very pernicious unless corrected by Art THE Nature Temperature and Vertue of most Simples set down Alphabetically As also some Drugs Liquors Seeds Rozins and Juices c. A. AGaricum or Agarick is a kind of Mushrom or Toad-stool It is hot in the first and dry in the second degree It expelleth Humors purgeth all phlegm and choler and is good for the Liver and Kidneys correct it with the powder of Liquoris Agripa is an Ointment that is good against all Humors Amoniacum is hot in the third degree and dry in the second it loosneth and dissolveth Humours Allom commonly called Roch-Allom is hot and dry in the third degree it is a drier up of Humors and is good for fore Mouths and old Cankers and Fistulaes and killeth the Wormes taken inwardly Alloes is hot and that in the first and second degree but dry in the third it is extream bitter yet without biting it is the most Natural Purger of Man and Beast that is for it strengthens the Heart and revives the Spirits it is also of an Emplastick and Clammy quality and somtimes binding being externally applied Sweet Almonds when they be dry be moderately hot but the bitter ones are hot and dry in the second degree there is in both of them a certain Fat and Oyly substance which is drawn out of them by pressing of them They provoke Urine and is very good for the Lungs and Liver Anniseed are hot and dry in the third degree saith Galen but others that they are hot in the second degree and much less then dry in the second degree they are good to expel Wind provoke Urine stir up Lust and is a great cleanser of the Breast from phlegmatick Humors Aâ—â—stolochia which we call Birth-wort or Harts-wort is hot and cleanseth but if it be Rotunda then it is so much the stronger being hot and dry in the fourth degree and draweth and purgeth thin Water and Phlegm and is good to open the Lungs and is good against all manner of Poison whatsoever or the Biting of any venomous Beast Armoniack both draweth cooleth and softneth Arsnick of both kinds is hot in the third and dry in the first degree it bindeth and eateth away proud and naughty Flesh and is a very strong Corrosive Assafoetida or Devils-Bit is a stinking Gum that is hot in the third and dry in the fourth degree it cleanseth evil Humors it is good for the Yellows and Staggers in a Horse a little piece of it being dissolved in Brandy and put it into his Eares Asphaltum is Pitch that is mixt with Bitumen it is hot and dry and omforteth any swelling Asponteo is hot in the first and dry in the second it cleanseth and draweth and is good to comfort the Stomach Ashes are hot and dry in the fourth degree and cleanseth mightily Asâ—rabacca is hot and dry with a purging quality yet not without a certain kind of binding the Roots are hot and dry more then the leaves they procure Urine The black Alier Tree the inner Bark of it is of a purging and drying quality it purgeth thick phlegmatick Humours and also Cholerick downwards and also by vomiting which must be used with care Of Aller or Alder Tree the leaves and bark of it are cold and dry and Astringent and is used against hot Swellings and Inâ—lammations especially of the Almonds and Kernels of the Throat the bark of it is used amongst poor Countrey Dyars
a Cloth into some convenient thing and put to it so much of black or white Wooll as it will well drink up and fill each Ear full of it putting a piece of dty Wooll upon it to keep it in the better Then sowe them up as you have Directions before and do not unstitch them in twenty four houres If you open his Head in the usual place under his fore-top and put into it about the length of an Inch of the inner Rind of Elder and let it remain there about the same time the Cure will be the sooner Expedited Another Medicine to put into his Eares to Cure it when it is in his Head After you have let Blood bruise so much of Housleek and Hemlock as will contain two spoonfuls of the Juice of each of them and add to them two spoonfuls of Sallet-Oyl and fill each Ear full of it leaving so much room as you may put Flox or Wooll upon it to keep it in the better When you have so done stitch up his Eares as in the former Receipt and at twenty four houres end take out the stuff If you like best the former way of soaking up the Juice with the Wooll better then this you may use that A Drink to Cure the most malignant Farcy that is Before you Give him this Drink here under-written let him be kept very sparing of Meat all night and the next Morning Blooded on both sides the Neck very well 'T is this Take the inner Rind of the Barberry Tree Herb-grace Sage Wormwood Fennel Lungwort of each half a Handful chopped small Anniseeds Turbich Turmerick and of Aristolochia rotunda about two Ounces of all of them beaten to powder boyl the Herbs pretty well in two quarts of small Beer to one quart then strain it forth and put in your Powders to it and when it is cold enough to take give it him How to Order him before and after you have Given it him 1. Before you give it him let him fast four houres and after it as much when you have given it him Air him well by Riding him after it 2. Let him drink but once a day and let it be white Water which is a handful or two of Wheat-Bran stirred in amongst his water made first luke-warm 3. Let him be kept in the House with very dry Meat during his Cure 4. Exercise is very good in this Distemper and the more you use him to it the better you will find him 5. 'T is good also in order to his Cure once or twice a day to Flounce him backward and forward in some clear River or Pond up to the Midsides which will cleanse his Body and take away the Filth and Venom of the Disease 6. This often washing him in cold water will wash off the poisoned Medicines if he hath been poisoned with any and also abate very much the Malignancy of the Disease 7. Let him rest three or four days after his first Drink and then give him another and Order him in every thing as you did before 8. If you find him after this second Drink that he is not perfectly Cured you may give him the third and this will certainly Cure him 9. When you give him his first Drink if you please you may Blood him with the end of your Cornet in the Furrow on the top of his Mouth The Vertues of this Malignant Drink for the Farcy are these It will cause him to vomit up much Filth and run at the Nose very nauseous and stinking stuff and yellowish Water It is a great Sweetner and Purifyer of the Blood as also a great Drier up of all evil and malignant Humours that are seated and rooted in the Body If the Heads of the Buds appear red and loose lay upon them a little burnt Allom mixed with a little Butter or Hogs-grease and you shall quickly find them to fall off A Receipt for the Câ—re of the Water Farcy This is the usual and common Way for the Cure of it viz. To take a long and small Iron Rod and bend it backward at one end about the length of a Fleam then heat it red hot in the Fire and strike the swelled places under his Belly and chaps full of Holes and let and squeeze out the grey and Oyly water that you find pent up in the Skin and wash the places to keep them from wrankling and to take out the Fire with Chamberly and Salt and some powder of Bolearmoniack mixt amongst it as hot as he can weâ—l endure it for three or four times and he is Cured Things good in general to Cure the Running or rotten Frush To take off the Shoo and pare away all the corrupt places and make them raw then put it on again being widened then take Soot and Salt bruise them well together in a Dish and mix therewith the Whites of three Eggs and dip Tow therein and stop all the Foot with it renewing it seven days together or to wash it with Urine three or four times a day or take a quart of urine and boyl in it a quarter of a pound of Allom with some green Copperas and strain it out and keep it for your use and after you have washed the Sore with it strow on it the powder of green Nettles Fryed and Pepper and it will dry it up When you dip Tow in any thing you must splint it in that it may not fall off and during the Cure to let him come into no wet and at the seven days end leave stopping him and ride him abroad and bring him in very clean into the Stable for dirty setting up breeds this infirmity c. Things good in general for the Over-flowing of the Gall which is a yellowness of the Skin and a Costiveness of the Body Saffron boiled in Milk is good or Ale Saffron and Anniseeds mixt together or Cellandine Roots chopt bruised and boiled in Beer or for want of Cellandine Rue and give it him luke-warm c. Things good for Gangrenes inward or outward The Leaves Fruit or Roots of Briony but it is a great Purger which must be Corrected the Leaves of Bugle bruised and applied or the Juice of it to wash the place the Meal of Darnel is good to stay them Cankers or any other eating and fretting Sores Water-Cresses Mallows Elder-leaves Brook-lime mouldy Hay and Bran boiled in the dregs of strong Beer and laid to very hot is good to stay its spreading if any thing will do it Nettles bruised and laid to them is good so is the decoction of the Leaves or Bark of the Tamarisk-Tree and the place Bathed therewith VVhat the Spleen iâ— It is a long flat narrow and spungy substance of a pale fleshy colour joyning with the Liver and Gall it is the Receptacle of Melancholy and the dregs of the Blood and it is as subject to Infirmity as any inward part whatsoever as to Inflammations Obstructions Knobs and Swellings it is through
beaten into fine powder mixed with a new laid Egg and given him in half a Pint of Malmsey and separate him from other Horses for this Disease is infectious Things good in General to Preserve the Liver and to open the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Amara dulcis Alheal Agrimony openeth and cleanseth the Liver water-Agrimony openeth the Obstructions of the Liver and mollifieth hardness of the Spleen Alexander or wild Parsley Angelica Asarabica the decoction of Avens the Bark or the Root of the Bay-Tree openeth the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and other inward Diseases the Juice of the white Beet openeth them Wood-bittony Butchers broom or Knee-holly the leaves of Calamint Centaury Columbines Dandelion Liver-wort the leaves or Bark of the Maple-Tree Pimpernel Ground-pine or Chamepitys Agaricum Almonds Fumitory Chamomel Wormwood Licoras Anniseeds Smallage Parsley Spikenard Gentian Succory Endive and Lupine all these are very comfortable for the Liver and are to be Seethed in Water that he drinketh Alloes dissolved Ireos stamped â—avoury Lungwort or Oyl and Wine mixt together but the best of all is a Wolfes Liver dried and beaten to powder and given him in Beer or strowed amongst his Provender or Parsley and Harts-horn or Fennel and Parsley-roots scraped or boiled in Water and given him with Licoras and Sorrel or â—ollipodium of the Oak beaten to powder and strowed amongst his Provender or take Hysop Cowslip-leaves Silver-wort or Lung-wort alias Mullen Harts-horn of each a handful then take Gentian Aristolochia rotunda Fennegreek Enula compana dried and long Pepper of each alike and when they are all powdred and searced take a spoonful of all of them chop the Herbs and mingle them with this powder and put a spoonful of live Honey to it and boyl all of them in strong Ale till half of them be consumed and give it him Blood-warm Groundsel preserveth it greatly Of the Infirmities in General of the Hoofs as false Quarters loose Hoofs casting of the Hoofs Hoof-bound Hoof-running Hoof-brittle Hoof-hurt Hoof-soft Hoof-hard and generally to Preserve Hoofs False Quarters To take off the Shooe and to take away so much of the Hoof on that side the Sorrance is that when the Shooe is set on again the Chink may be wholly uncovered then open the Chink to the Quick with your Drawing-Iron and fill up your Rift with a Rowl of Hurds dipt in this Ointment Take Turpentine Wax and Sheeps Sewet of each alike melted together and dip your Hurds therein and stop the Rift therewith renewing it once a day till it be whole and thus the Rift being closed on the top with this Ointment draweth the place betwixt the Hoof and the Hair with a hot Iron overthwart that place which will make it grow and shoot downwards and Ride him with no other Shoo till his Foot be hardned and become â—ound What is good to Cure a loose Hoof. If the Hoof be loose let it be of what cause soever you are first to open it in the sole of the Foot so as the Humour may have free passage downwards and put a restrictive Charge about it as you have some in my First Part then to heal it up with Turpentine and Hogs-Grease melted together Or take three spoonfuls of Tarr and a quarter of a pound of Rosin and half a Handful of Tansie and half a Handful of Rue and half a Handful of red Mints and half Handful of Southernwood brayed altogether in a Mortar and add to it half a pound of Butter and a Penniworth of Virgins Wax and melt them on the Fire till it come to be a thick Salve then spread it upon a Cloth and lay it to it seven days together till it be whole Or to anoint it with Burgundy-pitch and it will fasten it Or take Bittony Rosemary Rue Bolearmoniack and Frankincense boiled together and laid over it oâ— to take Tar Brimstone in fine powder Wheat-Bran and the Urine of a Man-Child boyled all to a Poultess and apply it hot to the Hoof and it will fasten it or to stop it with the Brains of a Pig or to stop it with Flax dipt in the Whites of Eggs or wash it with Vineger and â—ill it with Tartar and Salt and then anoint it with Olibanum Mastick and Pitch of Greece of each alike and a little Sanguis Draconis new Wax and Sheeps Suet and melt it together and anoint it with it and if the new Hoof come cut away the old Of Casting the Hoof. Take Aqua fortis the strongest you can get and first with a Rape or Drawing-Iron File or draw away the old Hoof somewhat near then touch the Hoof so prepared with your Aqua fortis three or four several dressings and no more then anoint the Foot with the Unguent for Horses Feet viz. take Hogs-Grease three pounds Patch Grease two pounds Venice-Turpentine one pound new Wax half a pound Sallet Oyl one pound melt and mix all these upon the Fire and anoint the Coffin of the Hoof up to the top and this will bring a new Hoof. Another Take Turpentine half a pound Tar half a Pint new Wax half a pound Sallet Oyl one Pint melt all these except the Turpentine together till they be well mixed and a little before you take it from the Fire put in your Turpentine and stir it till it be cold but before hand make him a Buskin of Leather with a thick Sole made fit for his Hoof but wide enough that it may be Tied about his Pastern and dress his Hoof with this Medicine laying Tow or Hurds upon it and so put on the said Buskin and fasten it to the Pastern Joynt or a little above but so as the Buskin do not trouble the Foot renewing the Medicine every day till it be whole and is good likewise for a Hoof-bound Horse and as the Hoof beginneth to come and if you find it grow harder and thicker in one place then another or crumbleth or groweth out of fashion take your Rape and File it into good fashion again and when you finde it so well that you may turn him out put him into some moist Pasture or Medow which will cause the Hoof to become tough Of the Hoof-bound First pluck off the Shooes and shoo him up again with Half-Moon and Lunet-shooes then ease with your drawing Iron or Rape the quarters of the Hoofs on both sides of the Feet from the Cronet down to the end or bottom of the Hoofs so deep till you perceive as it were a dew to come forth and if you make two Rases it will be the better and enlarge the Hoofs the more that done anoint the Hoofs next to the hair about the Cronet with this Ointment Take of Turpentine one pound of Wax and of Sheep or Deers Sewet of each half a pound of Tarr and of Sallet Oyl of each half a Pint melt all but the Turpentine together and when you are ready to take it up put in your Turpentine and stir it
put on the Saddle again and let it so remain all Night and this presently helpeth any Swelling in the Withers or any other part of the Back as also any Swellings by Spur-Galls But if the Skin be broken or ulcerated then take sweet Butter Bay salt and the powder of Frankincense of each as much as will suffice boyl all these together and with a Clout fastned upon a stick dip it into it scalding hot and scald it two or three times but if it be full of corruption then make incision on both sides beneath that the Matterative stuff may the more easily void away downwards and heal it up with your powder of Lyme and Honey or to anoint it well with the Oyl of Turpentine and it will either asswage or break the Swelling and if it be broke squeeze forth the corruption and drop some of the said Oyl into it Morning and Evening and it will both cleanse and heal it but if the Skin be only Galled off take Cream and Soot well mixt together and lay upon the Sore and it will heal it presently if the Wound be not very deep Things good in General for Swelled Cods If it come of Rankness of Seed or of Blood then let him have a Mare and let him Cover her two or three days together and half an Hour after Ride him into the Water above the Cods or Stones against the stream and he will do well But if it come of other Causes take the Lees of Claret-Wine or for want of that the Dregs of strong Beer and Cummin-seed made into fine powder and a little Wheat and Bean-Flower boyl them altogether to an Ointment and anoint his Cods warm therewith then draw forth his Yard and wash that and his Sheath also with white-Wine Vineger and three or four Houres after Ride him into the Water above the Cods and let him stand in the Water some short time and to Ride him against the stream do this every day till the Swelling be asswaged or take the Roots of wilde Cucumbers and white Salt boyl them in fair Water to an Ointment and anoint his Cods with it warm and then apply this Ointment Take Goats-Grease or Deers Sewet the White of an Egg and Sallet Oyl boyl them gently and anoint his Cods therewith but this must be after he hath been ridden into the Water and dry again A Charge for Swelled Cods Or take Bolearmoniack beaten into fine Powder Vineger and the Whites of Eggs well beaten together and anoint him therewith daily till it be abated and if it Impost humate where you find it to be soft open it with a hot Iron or with your Incision Knife if it break not of it self and heal it up with your green Ointment taught you as aforesaid Another for any Bite or Bruise on his Cods which cause them to Swell very much To remedy this Accident Wash and Bathe them very well with warm Whey Morning and Evening for three or four days together and anoint them after it with the Oyl or Ointment of Populeon till you finde the Swelling abated keeping his Cods warm with a Linnen Bag made in the nature of a Purse and drawn easily over them If you find that the Swelling is abated you may then apply the Common Charge of Soap and Brandy to it very hot which will Knit the Strings of his Cods together again But if you find that they are so torn that you question his Cure then the best way in my opinion is to Geld him A most Excellent Bath which is not only good for Swelled or bruised Cods but for all manner of Bruises in any Part of the Body from Head to Foot Take two quarts of the strongest Ale you can get Then set it over the Fire in a large Skillet or Pipkin and put to it two good Handfuls of the Rind of the black Berry Bush and let it Simper away till it come to a quart then strain it forth and keep it for your use How you are to use it Bathe the grieved part Night and Morning with it very hot and heated very well in by the Fire then dip a Linnen Cloth in the same and bind it up hot When you have done peel off the Bark towards the Root when you gather it for that is the best This is a very great Strengthner of any weak Member by either Bruise Strain or Pain Things good in General for Bursting or Ruptures in Horses Though I hold it incurable yet I shall give you those things that worketh much good though no absolute Cure These things are great Knitters and are to be taken inwardly Valerian Rupture-wort Cross-wort Cranes-bill the powder of the Roots of Chammack the Leaves and Nuts of the Cypres Elm leaves or the Bark thereof Corn-Flag any of these things given inwardly with the outward means used maketh the Cure the more effectual The outward means is this Bring the Horse into a place where there is a Beam overthwart and strow it thick with straw then put on four strong Pasterns with four Rings on his Feet and fasten one end of a long Rope to one of those Rings with the loose End of the Rope and so draw all his fore-Feet together and he will fall then cast the Rope over the Beam and hoist him up so that he may lie flat on his Back with his Legs upwards without strugling then Bathe his Stones well with warm Water and Butter molten together and the Stones being somewhat warm and well mollified raise them up from the Body with both your Hands being closed by the Fingers close together and holding the Stones in your Hands in such manner work down the Gut into the Body of the Horse by stroaking it downwards continually with your two Thumbs until you perceive that that side of the Stone to be so small as the other and so having returned the Gut to the right place take a List of two Fingers broad thoroughly anointed with fresh Butter and Tie his Stones both together with the same so nigh the Body as may be yet not over-hard but so as you may put your Finger between that done take the Horse quietly down and lead him gently into the Stable and keep him warm and let him not be stirred for the space of three Weeks but forget not the next day after you have placed his Gut in his true place to unloosen the List and to take it away and as well at that time as every day once or twice after to cast a dish or two of cold Water up upon his Cods and that will make him to shrink up his Stones and thereby to restrain the Gut from falling down and at the three Weeks end to make the Cure so much the surer take away the Stone on that side he is bursten so he shall hardly be bursten on that side again and during the Cure let him not eat much nor drink much and let his Drink be always warm A
particular Receipt for the Rupture Take common Pitch Sanguis draconis Powder of Bolearmoniack Mastick and Frankincense of each an Ounce and make a Plaister thereof and lay it upon his Loyns and upon the Rupture and let it remain there till it fall off of it self and it will Cure him Conditionally you give him some strengthning things inwardly which you may find variety of if you look for General Things good for Ruptures Particular Receipts for the Botch in the Groin of a Horse which is a hard Swelling there which will cause his Legs to swell especially from the Cambrels or Hoofs upwards The Cure is to Ripen it with this Plaister Take of Wheat-Floure of Turpentine and of Honey of each a like quantity stirring it together to make a stiff Plaister and with a Cloth lay it on the Sore renewing it once every day till it break or wax soft and then Lance it so as the matter may run downwards then Taint it with Turpentine and Hogs-grease molten together renewing it every day once until it be perfectly whole Another for the Botch in the Groin or any Imposâ—humation As soon as you can perceive the Swelling to appear lay upon it a Plaister of Shoomakers Wax spread upon Allum-Leather and let it lie until the sore grow soft then open it with a Lancet or let it break of it self when the Filth is come out wash the Sore very well with strong Allum water then Taint it with the Ointment called Aegyptiacum till it be whole A Receipt to Cure the Mellet which is a dry Scab that groweth upon the Heel of the fore-Feet Take of ordinary Honey half a Pint black Soap a quarter of a pound mix them together then put thereto four or five spoonfuls of Vineger and as much Allum finely beaten and imburned as a Hens Egg and of Rye Flower two spoonfuls mix them very well together and having clipped away the Hair apply it to it Plaister-wise so far as the Sorrance goeth and let it so remain for five days then take it away and wash all the Leg Foot and Sorrance with powdred Beef-broth and after Rope up his Legs with Thumb bands of soft Hay wet in the same Liquor and he will be sound you are to remember that whensoever you are to dress the Sorrance you take off the dry Scab or whatever crusty thing shall be upon the place and to wash it very clean A Receipt for the Hough-bonney To Ripen it either with rotten Litter or Hay boiled in old Urine or else with a Plaister of Wine Lees and Wheat-Flour boiled together to ripen the Swelling and bring it to Putrefaction or else to drive the Swelling away but if it come to a Head to Lance it in the lowest part of the softness with a thin hot Iron to let out the matter then to Taint it with Turpentine Deers Sewet and Wax of each alike molten together laying a Plaister of the same Salve over it to hold in the Taint until it be perfectly well Things good in General for the Cure of the Fig in a Horses Foot Cut away the Hoof so as there may be a convenient space betwixt the Sole and the Hoof to the end the Fig may the more easily be Cured then put to the Sorrance a piece of a Spunge which you are to bind close upon it which will eat it off to the very Root and heal it up with your green Ointment in my First Part Or to cut it away close with your Incision Knife or else to burn it off with a hot Iron which is the better way then for two days after lay tried Hogs-grease to it to take away the Fire take then the Tops of the most angriest Nettles you can find pound them very small and so lay them upon a Linnen Cloth just the bigness of the Fig then take the powder of Verdegrease and strew it upon the chopped Nettles which must be done before you lay it to the Sorrance and so bind it upon the Sorrance renewing it every day once till the Hoof have recovered the Sore To Cure Blisters Fret them in the Sun till they bleed then take the Roots of Ivy and stamping them in a Mortar mix them with as much Tar Brimstone and Allum till they come to a Salve and dress it therewith and it will heal it Things good in General for Knots in the Joynts Hardness Crampâ— or any Inflammations The powder of Diapente beaten with Linseed Oyl or Sallet Oyl to an Ointment and applied once a day to the Grief is good for the Cramp or Inflammation or Wine Oyl and Tar mingled together as it is boiled is good or Mustard Hogs grease and Bay-salt mixed together with Vineger and applied is good or take a Plaister of Figs and the roots of Fern and Rochet mingled with Hogs-grease and Wine-Vineger or take dry Pitch Pitch of Greece of each one part of Galbanum and Lime of each four parts of Bitumen two parts of Wax three parts melt them altogether and anoint the place therewith very hot and it will take away the Grief A particular Receipt to Cure a Knot that is moving in the Place where it grows If you find in any part of your Horses Body a Knot or Kernel that feels soft and slips up and down in the Skin when you handle it Take your Incision-Knife and slit the Skin right over against it so wide that you may pinch the Knot out to cut it off When you have so done to stanch the Bleeding of it Sear the inside of it with a hot Iron and stop the Wound either with the powder of Bolearmoniack or Hares Wooll The next day unstop it and wash the Wound clean with a Linnen Rag Tied upon a stick dipped in Verjuice or white-Wine Vineger Then dry up the moisture that you shall find therein with a Linnen Rag also and heal it up with your green Ointment in the First Part or what other healing Salve you think best fit for the purpose Observation In all Wounds that you have in Cure be sure you cleanse and wash them very well before you apply any healing Medicine to them Another to take away the Knots under the Chaul occasioned by Heats and Colds Brandy and Soap dissolved together over the Fire and Chafed in very well hot with your Han I heated in afterwards by holding a hot Fire-shovel before it will either sink or break them Or Butter or Hogs-grease used after the same manner is very good Observations upon Dressing of them Before you anoint them Sear away the Hair with a Candle and in a Fortnights time or little more they will remove conditionally you give him some inward Medicine for a Cold. How to Cure Wounds made with the Shot of Gun-powder Search first if the Bullet be in the Wound if it be take it out with an Instrument made for that purpose but if you cannot get it out you must have patience for Nature it self will wear it out of