and if the grievance be either in his knee or shoulder then ' its doubtfull to be incurable unlesse it come by a stroke or a fall yee may use softning oyntments but they will doe no great good Some will feare them where they thinke the disease to be which is contrary to nature for that the disease commeth of drinesse But if it happen in the shoulder by reason of some stroke or fall or bruising otherwise then make a bathe for it on this manner following Take of Ribwort some call it ribgrasse 5. or 6. handfull of Bay-leaves Peny-riall Hysope Crowfoot Oke-leaves and red Fenel of every one a handful boile all these hearbs in faire water a good space and twice in a day wash the malady with a pint of this water made hot for the space of five or six dayes together and afterward anoint and rub well into it this subsequent unction which is made in manner as here is set downe ten handfull of the leaves of Pelitory Bay-leaves and oke-leaves of either five handfull of Sage-leaves foure handfull stamp all these hearbs very small boile them then a good space and with a soft fire in a gallon of butter and a quart of neat-oyle then straine all thorow a canvas bag or cloth and keepe it then as ye can conveniently either in a box or whatsoever and if ye have of this oyntment in store yee need never to use Oyle de bay Nerve-oyle nor any other that can bee named And if a horse foot bee hurt with a stub or pricked with a naile in shooing then search it well with thy instrument for that purpose then put a little tallow or rather Turpentine in the hole cover it with his owne dung and set on a shoo but so as ye may take it off againe at your pleasure to dresse the foot as need shall require And if a horse halt through tendernesse of his hoofe or breaking away thereof thus hee may be holpen and his hoofe made to grow againe Take 2. ounces of Roson as much of sheepes tallow halfe an ounce of frankensence and halfe an ounce of virgin wax halfe an ounce of swines greace or more or lesse of every one as yee shall thinke good melt them altogether and keepe it for thine use and when thou shalt use any thereof heat it or turpentine and swines greace boild together is very good for this purpose the salve must bee rubbed on his foot under and above especially at the top of his hoofe under the haire these are excellent remedies for this matter For Windgales Every man knowes of what fashion they bee and they are commonly on good horses leggs rather than on bad ones and worse to sight then otherwise but to cure them yee shall take a quantitie of vinegar a pottle or as you please if so much then must ye have thereto two pound of armement halfe a pound of galles and halfe a pound of moleine leaves stampe them or bray them small and temper them altogether with the vineger put all in an earthen pot stop it well and close and with the same liquor wash the windgales every day five or six times for the space of three or foure daies together that done lap his legge above and beneath the gales then chafe or rub them with your hand which will make them rise full that yee may see them the better then strike your fleame into them as deep as ye dare for piercing the sinewes thrust the matter well out of them with your finger and have ready a hot Iron blunt at the point and therwith seare the holes which yee make and every day after wash them with the liquor aforesaid and it will soon be whole For the Stranglion Take the barke of an Elme tree which growes upon some water banke if you can get such take away the outside thereof as Tanners clense their barke chop it into smal pieces put it then into an earthen pot with well-water let it stand so 2. or 3. daies in which time much of the water will be sunke into the barke fill up the pot then again with water there will be two parts of barke and the third part water or rather 3. parts barke and the fourth water boile these well together the space of halfe an houre which done set it from the fire and let it coole then straine it thorow a cloth and looke how much liquor remaines put thereto so much of swines greace heat them then a little on the fire that they may be well blended and every day powre a gille of this same into his nose-thriles till a gallon of liquor be spent when yee doe it cause your horse head to bee holden up or take 8. or 10 handfuls of walwort stamp it very smal then menge it with butter cleane clarified you must have a pottle of butter put all in a vessell or pot and let it stand so the space of 6 or 7. dayes then set it on a softe fier and boile it putting therein a pint or a quart of wine and let it boyle the space of a quarter of an hower then streeme it through a canvas bagg or cloath and every day put some of this licour into his nose-thriles till all be spent Or make 10. or 12. balles of May butter and Radish rootes well stamped together and make him swallow 2 or three of those balles every day and if ye wet them a little in honie they shall be the better cause his head to be holden or tied up that they may goe downe his throate Costifenes how it may be engendred and to helpe its It may come with eating overmuch drie meates or for want of water in convenient times or of cold taken after travell The horse that is so will forbeare his meate he will thrust out his head and hang it far from him and his bellie will be stiffe and hard To helpe him hereof take the rootes of Walwort or rather the out side or rinds of the rootes and of the rinds of the midle pith of Elder of each of these a handfull boile them in three pints of water till one pint be wasted then strein it thorow a cloath make his head be bound or holden up and power the Liquor into him milke warme then cover him very warme with cloathes and within an hower or two he will donge and so after that more and more Or stampe onions and butter together and make pellits thereof so long as a mans finger put three or foure of them in at the horse fundament then walke him or ride him forth the space of an houre or two after this wil helpe him without faile If a horse may not pisse well Take the roote of gladine that beares the yeolow flower of walwort crops of egremony of chervel of each a handful boile thē in water streine it thorow a cloath give him a quart therof at once milke warme ride him in the fields a good trot the space of
THE HONEST AND PLAINE DEALING FARIER OR A PRESENT REMEDY FOR curing diseases and hurts in Horses Gathered and written as well for the good â—f any that will practise it as for my self there being nothing contained therein but what is of my owne experience and practise By THOMAS GRYMES LONDON Printed by Wilâ— Loutes for Andrew Kâ—â—â—be dwelling by St Margarets hill in long Southwâ—cks 1636. A GOOD AND necessary Booke for curing diseases and hurtes in Horses gathered and written for the good of any that will practise there being nothing contained therein but what is of my owne experience and practice and whereof I have had good proffe And first for diseases in the head of a Horse HEADACHE which sometime commeth of collerick humours bred in the braine or of some extreme heate or by some stroke or such like the signe of all such infirmities The Horse will bee heavie hang downe his head and his eyes will be swolne dim and waterish Remedies for the same Squise the iuyce of ground-Ivie into his nose thriles it is good or burn the blades of Garlick and Frankensence in a Chafindish and hold the horse nose over it that the smoke may goe into the same this will purge his head marveilously and doe this so often as yee shall thinke needfull or let him blood in the pallate of his mouth if the signe be not there or neesing powder and pepper brayed together and blowne into his nose with a quill is also very good For watering of a Horses eyes Which may come to a young Horse by eating over-dry and hard meats The remedies Let him blood on his temple vaine or on the vaine under his eye or on the necke which aswageth the humours of the whole body and if it have continued long then wash it with the iuyce of planteine but if it come of a stroke then make a cake or a ball of pimpernell and swines dung dry it in an oven â—ill it will bee powder and put of that powder in the horse eye for â—he hawe or as it is commonly â—alled the hoakes I need not write very man almost can cure the same For a Peable in a Horse eye Take Tuty a Pothecary hath it bray it and blow it into he â—horse eye this Tâ—ty 〈…〉 stone and if you cannot have it then take white copperous and use it in the same manner For the Lampas Sometimes I use to draw out the Lampas with a crochet or crooked Iron made red hot that it doth not bleed after and then with a lanceâ— lets it bleed and to heale the sore againe take a little honie a little peper temper them with a quantitie of vinegar boyle them together a little space on the fire and therewith annoint the sore three or four dayes together or to let him blood with a fleame or a knifes point on both sides of his mouth but beware lest yee cut the veine which comes right downe the pallate of his mouth for so hee may bleed to death and if ye feare he shall bleed too much give him a little malte to eate very small ground There is a malady in a Horse mouth that will hinder him to eate his meate There bee little small or round swellings in the mouth and lips of a horse which will make him let his meate fall out of his mouth as though hee had the Lampas clip them away with a paire of Cissers and rub the places with a little salt A malady in a Horse belly much like the botts I call it Tronches ye may know the evill by these tokens he will ye downe often and offer to welter or tumble hee will offer to gnaw and bite at his sides he will strike ahis belly with his hinder feete and his sides will flacke and beate sore and in a short time it will pierce thorow his maw then hee shall bee in great danger to die but to helpe him at the first Take out the guts of a young Pullet make your horse head bee holden up and put them into his throte while they bee warme and make him swallow them downe doe thus three mornings together and let him neither eate nor drinke after for the space of foure or five houres Or take a peck of Rie steepe it in water a day and a night then take it forth and lay it on a dry earthen floore as much as yee can from the winde and let it come or burgion there as malt then dry it in an oven or on a Kilne and when it is dry give thereof to your horse two handfulls for his first meale in a morning and thus doe five or sixe mornings one after another Helpes for the sinewes if they bee either pricked or cut asunder If a sinew be pricked take these hot things meat oyle swines grace honie of each alike putting thereto powder of Vares make a plaister of all together and lay it to the sinew dresse it so every day till it be whole and if the flesh be piersed or cut thâ—â— boyle beane meale and barly meâ—â—e in wine with a quantity of honie till it be plaister thick and lay that on the sore Another yet for the same which takes away all aking of sinewes brused or pricked Take crops of walwort mallow leaves of each two handfull of lily roots a handfull stampe them well altogether and boyle them on the fire in a quantity of hony till they bee thick like a plaister and lay to the sore twice on the day reasonable hot But if a sinew be cut overtwart so as it is not likely to grow together againe then take groundwormes the greater the better stamp them with a little hony then warme it a little in a pan and with a cloth bind it to the cutting every day or every second day once till it be whole and let not the sinews that are pricked or cut be wet with any thing but the medicines if yee can avoid it Of the enchafing of a Horse neck or other place of him which may come by heat of blood after great travell which by rubbing against a wall or a tree will cause scabs rise in his neck among the haire sometime on the saddle place to helpe this Take unquenched Lime a quantity such like of beanes ashes or of beane straw then take old pisse set it on the fire till it boyle and skime it cleane and while it is hot put into it your lime and ashes mingle them well together let them stand so till the next day then take the cleare into another vessell and every day once wash the malady with a quantity thereof made hot When an horse halteth to know whether the harme be in the shoulder knee or in his foot and to helpe him If the harme bee in his foot hee will forbeare to tread straight but even upon the point of his foot and he will beare it farre from him and make semblance as though hee would fall often he will make like signes
halfe an houre set him up in the stable cover him warme a while after he will stale cause him to be rubbed well under the bellie with a wispe especially about the Share within a day after let him blood on the great vaine of his thigh For to helpe the Ring-bone Take eysel armement a quantitie of verdgrece boile them in a little swines greece rub this well and often in the disease Or take an ounce of vertigrece and an ounce of frankensence a quantitie of bores grece make a plaister and lay it on the ring-bone but if you launce the skinne a little it is better not deepe for feare of hurting sinewes For the Malanders Rub them with honie take a shive of cheese tost it well at the fier and bind it to the soare as hot as ye thinke he is able to endure it Or rub them with a wispe or a hard cloath till the blood come annoint them then with a little fat bacon then lay on powder of Brimstone and hold a hot iron to it so neare as conveniently you can to make it cleave on that done have a plaister readie to tie about the sore compounded of a quantitie of garlike henes donge the gall of a swine if ye can get it and musterd and new this plaster as ye see it to be needfull For craches or as some call them scratches Clip away the haire as neare as ye can then stampe hens donge and goose donge together with a quantitie of May butter make it hot and so lap it on the sore or mingle lime honie and salt together lay them hot on the disease For the Paines and how to cure them Take a sponefull or two of honie a quantitie of soote of a chimnie a handfull of nettles in winter the rootes stampe them altogether make plaisters thereof and lay them hot on the sore do so every day or binde unto it copost of a man immediately as he hath left it at the stoole Or take a sponefull of utrament powdered 2 yolkes of eges 2 whole leekes or more or lesse of these as neede requireth stampe thē altogether with a quantitie of swins grese honie lay them to the malady when ye se it begin to heale anoint it with sheepes tallow For a disease called chawdpisse which is hot pisse a burning or scalding heat of his water which when he staleth will be red almost like blood To helpe him make him drinke every day for the space of 4 or 6 dayes a gallon of whey in a darke place and if he be loath to take it let him be kept from other water or liquor till he be very desirous of drinke Or take 6 handfulls of pentafilon some cal it five leased grasse wash it cleane stamp it small put it in a pot with a pottle of well water cover it close and let it stand so a day and a night the next day set it on the fier make it boyle till the one halfe or more be wasted then streine it thorow a cloath and either let him drinke this liquor or power it into him with a horne three or foure mornings and it will helpe him How to heale a Curbe First clip the heare cleane away then garse the place with a rasour or sharpe knife but not too deepe for feare of cutting the sinewes and cut it even downe the leg then stroke the blood out with your hand or with a small rod that don rub it every day with a little sope salt or annoint it with honie wormewood and swines grece mingled and do this twise on a day For the Glanders Take 3 or 4 penny worth of oyle debaie asmuch of popilion three halfe pennie worth of oyle olive or more or lesse of all these as neede is boile them altogether a while on the fier and therewith annoint the soare Or take Leckes and sheepe snet boile them together and make meanes to binde them to the soare with a cloth For a Tanite Shave the haire away with a raisour till blood spring out take then a cocke or other pullet cleave him right by the backe not cleane thorough into two peeces and while he is warme binde him to the horse leg guts and all let him remaine so two dayes and two nights and when ye take him away wash the place with warme water and when the leg is drye then lay on it a plaister made of bacō wheate flower and let that lye on two dayes or winde his leg with asmal corde and it will make the veine rise full under his fetlocke Let him blood there strike not your sleame too deepe for hurting the sinewes and when it hath bled well binde unto it the white of an egg For the Botts Take asmuch blacke sope as a walnut or as a good crabe a sponefull of the powder of sencreke a sponefull of the blacke ermnies a quantiti of brimstone and a little salt mingle all these in ale and give him to drinke and thereupon ride him forth a quarter of an hower and let him not drinke after till night or nor till next morning if ye give him this medicine late on the day For a horse that is broken winded Let him blood in the nose with an awle if the signe be not ther then take a penny worth of long peper asmuch of graines of Mace as much of round peper asmuch mingle all these in a pint of red wine and so much of old ale give him this to drinke foure mornings let him have nooe other drinke till mid day then give him a gallon of water lewe warme and a handfull or two of ground Malte pu◠therein wrap his legs those dayes up to his bodie and cover him warme and maost his hay with water for these foure dayes If a Horse be gawled or hurt on his backe with a Saddle Wash the soare well with old pisse then strow upon on it brayed rosen and when you see it begin to heale make a plaister with honie flower and an egge lay that upon it or the powder of honie and lime burned together will cure that or any other sore A good remedy for the scab Wash the horse with old pisse or Lie then take a quantitie of quicke-silver Brimstone spanish soape vertigrece and swines grece boyle altogether and rub them all over his bodie rub hard and chafe the salve into his skin If a horse be hurt or brused so as he pisseth blood Seeth Barlie in the Iuse of Comfrey give him the barlie to eate and the Iuse to drinke For a horse that is surbayte Take virgin wax Rosen pich and sheepes tallow boyle them and make plasters and them about the foote or feete that are surbaite To take dead flesh out of a wound or any sore Put compost or excrementes of a man into an earthen pot dry it in a hot oven till it will powder lay thereof in the sore then mingle an eg with salt and lay that on