soft hard dank or dry and on that mannage both before and at the Race if the course will afford it to your best advantage Having coursed your Horse sufficiently bring him under some Hay or Corn Rick Hedg Pit or dry-ditch and there having taken off the sweat with your glazing knife and rubbed him pretty well put on his cloaths and on his back clap his Saddle fast girded then without permitting him to stand longer still gently gallop him till he grows cool now and then rubbing his head and such parts of his body as you can reach without alighting and so continuing sometimes Racking other times Galloping till you come to the Stable door and there observing him to be cool intice him to empty which done lead him in and tying his head up to the Rack having this scouring or purging potion in a readiness give it him in the form and manner following The Receipt how to make the first scouring c. THe Ingredients must be an ounce six grains of clarified Roach Allom a pint of Cannary into which put the Allom when beaten into fine powder add to them three ounces of Olive Oyl the best you can get brewing and beating them together with an ounce and an half of brown Sugar Candy pulverized all which though roughly mixed set upon a gentle fire till they are pretty hot then letting them stand till they are bloodwarm give them your Horse upon his return from his first heat by pouring it down his throat with a drenching-horn his head being drawn close to the Rack and this will infallibly bring away the Molten-grease and such other bad humours or obstructions as remain in his body Rules to be observed in ordering your Horse after his taking the aforesaid Potion THe scouring Potion taken rub him well especially his legs his cloth being taken off and proving dry with a curry-comb all over the body after which follow with your brush and then dust him well and let all his body again be rubbed over with dry cloaths then putting his cloaths on again truss him on either side with warm wisps and cast over him a loose blanket after which give him nothing more for the space of two hours all which time you must watch him and as near as you can keep him in continual motion it being dangerous to permit him to stand still or sleep upon the reception of this potion and besides it will not so well operate upon the crude gross humours unless the Horse be still moving At the end of two hours or if you see occasion somewhat more give him a handful of Wheat ears such as are not bearded if you find upon your handling him on his Fillets near his Heart under his Ears c. that no new sweat arises but that he is in good temper but if the contrary then forbear to give him ought for then the foulness appearing by the swift beating of the heart the new sweat and other symptoms are mightily stirred up it is convenient they should operate without the least molestation though your Horse thereupon appear to be sick and faint to ease which you may take off his Bridle toss up his Litter and leave him to take his rest for the space of two hours or thereabout at the end of which his sickness will vanish The wheat ears eaten by five or six at a time give him a knop of Hay rubbing him again especially his head about an hour after mix a quarter of Oats a pint of spelt-beans and three shivers of the aforesaid bread well chipped and small crumbled and give them to him letting him rest after the eating them for the space of three hours The three hours expired visit him again and before you dress him give him a like quantity of Oats Beans and Bread and then dressing well put on his cloathes and ride him not far neither suffer him to drink but about an hour and a half afterwards wash three pints of Oats in Ale or Beer and give them to him to cool him which will be a great means to repel the inward heat and feeding at his usual times plentifully and leaving a knop of Hay in his Rack you may suffer him to rest till morning when rising early you must dress him at all points and ride him forth to water giving him a gentle breathing and upon his return to the Stable give him Oats and spelt Beans well sifted together with the Bread to the quantity of two quarts permitting him to have but little Hay Thus having ordered him diligently observe the three other heating days upon each of which after he has performed his heat still improving his speed and readiness give him the aforesaid scouring potion which will infallibly carry away the foulness and gross humours rendering your Horse pleasant and lightsome and thus having laid down rules and instructions for the first and second Fortnight I shall proceed to the third Dyet for the third Fortnight how it must be made c. MIngle together half a bushel of the best Wheat and a like quantity of Beans grind them as small as may be and dress the meal finer than the former even as fine as possible and make it into Dough with sweet yest and rising kneading it so well that a knot or kop may not be found in it and bake it throughly cooling it the Loaves proportionable to those before mentioned with the bottoms upward and at three days old chip it that is cut away the crust and so with a like quantity of Oats Beans and of the said Bread as formerly has been prescribed feed your Horse and as you did in the precedent fortnight so in this let your measures in every respect be one and the same barring these following exceptions First his heats must be more moderate for fear of too much straining him and the bettter to let him take pleasure therein Secondly Omit the scouring not giving him any more after his heats lest his body by this time freed from the gross humours being too much opened by the operation of the purgation contract cold and watery humours but having moderately heated him bring him home cooling by gentle racking and having caused him to empty himself bring him into the Stable tie him to the Rack give him a Cordial ball about the bigness of a French Walnut or Tennis ball if he can swallow it The receipt to make them is as followeth To make Cordial balls c. TAke Anniseed Fenegreekseed Carthumusseed Cuminseed Coltsfoot and Elecampane-roots of each two ounces bruised siersed The husks and gross part being separated from the rest add to them two ounces of Brimstone-flower an ounce of the Juice of Liquorish put into half a pint of White-wine then take an ounce of the Chimical Oyl of Anniseed Sugar Syrrup and Salad Oyl of each half a pint these ingredients thus prepared mix with them so much Wheat-flower as will mould them into a past and make them up into
whole Lice are occasioned by poverty dropping of Trees or the like and known by the Horses rubbing his Ears neck and other parts c. To kill them wash him over with the decoction of Henbane in Cow-piss or with Tobacco stalks and Copras boyled in water or man's Urine To keep your Horse from being annoyed with Flies anoint him with Oyl of Bays water wherein Rue has been sodden or Linseed Oyl and no Flie will settle on him Red-Water Over-reach Salender and stinking Breath their respective causes and cures REd-water is an infectious water which proceeds from most wounds occasioned by the ill humours that flow from divers parts of the body and greatly hinder the cure To extract which or disperse the humour rub him well all over his body but especially his belly and giving him to drink water wherein has been boyled the roots of Emanuel or All-good a Herb so called and Mustard seed of each a pound to three Gallons of water Over-reach cometh by a slip or strain or by the Horses running beyond his strength and the cure is the same with the upper and nether Attaint which Receipt you may find in the foregoing part of this book being directed thereto by the Table Stinking breath is occasioned by the putrefaction of the Lungs and is soon discovered by those that have their smelling to remedy which take Colts foot Fennel Anniseeds and Fennegreek of each a handful boyl them in Beer or Ale to the quantity of three pints and straining them give him the liquor hot as he can drink it and in so using him ten or twelve days if the Lungs be not too much perished with the corruption which proceeds by raw humours descending upon them through foul feeding or unwholesom air the cure will be effected As for the consumption of the Liver caused by some inbred distemper there is no certain cure yet to preserve and perhaps restore it give your Horse in a pint of Mallagoe half a pint of Pigs blood both as warm as may be and so do three days successively feeding him in the mean time with black Oats and giving him to drink new wort and the night before he receives the Medicine permit him to eat nothing or for want of this take an ounce of the powder of Agrimony a handful of Red rose leaves and of Saccarum Diarchadon Disantelon Abbatis and Licorish of each half an ounce boyl them in two quarts of Malmsey and give him a pint to drink four mornings successively suffering him to eat Mashes and the like during the said days Ring bone Rottenness and Rheumes their cause and cure THe Ring bone comes divers ways especially two the one is hereditary from the Mare or Stallion the other by a bruise c. and is a vicious humour which causeth gristly flesh upon the Coronet till at length fastening to the bone it becomes hard as a bone making the leg to swell and the flesh higher in that place than any other to kill or take away which take unslacked Lime burn it well and beating it into powder lay it upon the bone to the quantity of two ounces binding it about with a linnen cloath and immediately put your Horse into the water then the Lime slacking will burn the core and kill it so that in a short time it will diminish Rottenness is a putrefaction of the Lungs and Liver the which if far gone admits no cure but if not so take what I have before prescribed for the Lungs and Liver using them after the same manner A direction to which you will find in the Table the which use also for the Rot that causes swelling like the Dropsie Rheums falling upon the Jaw c. come by cold which so infeeble the Gums that they shrink away leaving the teeth loose staring out long and uneven greatly hindering the Horse from eating To cure which give your Horse Conserve of Elecampain roots two ounces in a pint of Mallagoe very warm adding thereto two new-laid Eggs beaten well half an ounce of Anniseeds and a Nutmeg grated small give it him warm four Mornings and afterward wash his mouth with Sage Allum and Sugarcandy dissolved in Vinegar The Yellows and Falling of the Yard and Sway-back their cause and cure THe Yellows is properly the Yellow Jaundice most commonly accompanyed with the black though of different natures for the Yellow is moist and the Black dry the former proceeding from the over flowing of the Gall and the latter from the Spleen being the most dangerous the former is known by the yellowness of the Horses Lips Eyes c. and the Black by a black duskish colour striving to master the Yellow the which when it has done it mostly proves Mortal To cure them take the juice of Celendine four ounces Turmerick and Pepper bruised into powder of each an ounce the iuice of Burdock roots two ounces bruised Anniseeds and Liquorish powder of each half an ounce mix them together and having set a quart of Beer over the fire when it is boyling hot put them into it adding six peny-weight of Saffron half an ounce of London Treacle and two ounces of Butter and give him half of it in the morning fasting and the other half in the evening and so continue to do four days successively The falling of the Yard happens through cold or defect in the Horse through the weakness of that Member the Sinews or Muscles strained and lastly through weariness after great journies To prevent which wash his Yard with Whitewine anoint it with Oyl of Roses and Hony and so putting it into his sheath bolster it up and in so doing once or twice he will afterwards recover strength to keep it up The Sway Back which is both undecent and a great weakness in the Horse is caused divers ways sometimes by heavy burthens other times by over straining or suddenly turning round as also naturally and is known by the rigling of the hinder parts by his frequent swaying backward or sideways and trouble in rising when he is laid To cure which take the Oyl of Pine Aples two ounces three ounces of Olibanum four ounces of Rozin of Pitch a like quantity of Bolearmonick an ounce and of Sanguis Draconis half the quantity all which being by fire incorporated spread them plaisterwise and lay them on the place grieved and by twice renewing it the grief will be at an end Quitterbone and quick-scab their cause and cure THe Quitterbone a Sorrance so called is a hard swelling upon the Cornet between the quarter and the heel commonly found on the inside of the foot occasioned by the long continuance of Gravel in the Shoo a bruise upon the hoof Stub prick of a nail or the like which for want of timely care fester and break out above the hoof and sometimes it has its original from evil humours descending into the foot c. To cure it take away the hair open the sorrance and tent it with Hogs lard and
Verdigrease well tempered after which into the Orifice pour Deers suet extream hot plaistering it up with Pitch and Bees-wax which will in twenty four hours if not too firmly grounded make the bone rise or at most by a double application then with your nippers take it out and heal it up with a Salve made of Bees wax Turpentine Redwine the juice of green Tobacco or if that be not to be gotten the decoction of drie in a quarter of a pint of Aqua vitae and half an ounce of Birthworth Roots beaten or ground to powder The Quick scab is a Sorrance that will greatly injure the Horse if not taken in time by putrefying and corrupting the blood and flesh and breaking out much like unto the Mange caused by surfeit got by unseasonable and excessive riding or labour still running from one place to another not long continuing in one place but moves as the humour carries it To cure it take away the hair scrape off the scab and anointing it with ointment of Tobacco let it rest for a time and if it dye not at two or three anointings take the decoction of Mallows two quarts Copperas Verdigrease and Allum of each an ounce Turpentine and quick silver well killed two ounces of each and having washed the Sorrance with the decoction anoint it with the following simple made into an oyntment by the help of fire the which continuing to do six or seven days once a day and keeping him warm the Sorrance will vanish The Haw in the Eye its cause and cure THis grievance very troublesome to a Horse is a Gristle growing between the under Lid of the Eye and the ball of the sight and will spread over the Eye if not timely remedied The cause of it is flegmatick humours descending from the Brain it is known by the much watering of the Eye and the Horses frequent winking to remedy it if you can conveniently come at it take it off with a sharp knife blunt pointed lest the Horse by starting put out his Eye but if it lye low then blow into his Eye powder of burnt Roach-allum and it will in seven or eight times using eat it off THus Reader having laid down the particulars of the most material distempers Griefs and Sorrances incident to the generous Beast of whom I am treating I shall proceed to accommodate you with general Receipts for inward sickness making of Salves Vrguents Glisters Cordial powders and Balls c. Excellent Receipts for any inward sickness that afflicts a Horse Receipt 1. TAke of Fennegreek Liquorish powder Turmerick Long pepper Anniseed Cummin seed and Parsnip seed of each half an ounce Cellendine Hyssop Thime Rosemary Rue Southernwood and Pelamontine of each two ounces boyl them together in a quart of Ale adding thereto a dram of Saffron an ounce of London Treacle and two ounces of fresh butter and having well-boyled them strain out the liquor and give it him milk-warm riding him a mile or two after it and suffering him to fast three hours and this do three or four mornings especially in case of Fever Cold Yellows or Anticor Receipt 2. Take Anniseed Cumminseeds of each two ounces Fenegreek an ounce Brimstone-flower an ounce and a half Bastard Saffron two drams boyl them in two quarts of Whitewine a pint of Olive Oyl twelve ounces of Hony and as much Wheat flower as will make them into a past after they are well boyled being all smalled make the past into balls as big as Geese Eggs and when you see occasion dissolving one of them in a Gallon of warm water give it him to drink and by so doing it will not only remedy divers inward sicknesses but also preserve health and exhilarate the spirits Receipt 3. Take round Aristolochia Ginger Gentian Anniseeds Bayberry and great Trisora of each an ounce all beaten to powder Whitewine or for want of it Ale or Beer a quart eight ounces of Olive Oyl and two Drams of Saffron put them together and boyl them well over a gentle fire which done strain them and give the liquid part to the Horse as hot as he can suffer it riding him gently for half an hour after and when he has fasted three hours give him a Mash and by so doing three mornings it will cure most inward sicknesses and prevent such as come through infectious Airs c. Receipt 4. Take a handful of wheat flower an ounce or better of Anniseeds six ounce of Hony two of the juice of Housleek and one of Salt niter and two ounces of Olive Oyl give them him to drink boyled in Milk or if the distemper be in the bowels or back parts you may give it him Glister-wise Salves useful for all manner of Sorrances how to make them TO make the Green Ointment greatly useful for Farriers take refined Rofin an ounce the like quantity of Bees-wax melt them and add half a pound of Hogs lard and an ounce or more of Hony incorporate them well and when they are throughly dissolved add more half a pound of Turpentine and an ounce of Verdigrease when they are well melted and of a perfect green take them off strain them and keep the Ointment well stopped in an Earthen pot for your use This Ointment is good in all sores and grievances so that its praise cannot be sufficiently expressed Another excellent Oyntment for wounds or other Sorrances TAke Oyl of Cammomil Oyl of Earth-worms and Linseed Oyl of each a quarter of a pint Bolearmoniack and Deers suet of each six ounces Pitch and Bees-wax of each two ounces and half an ounce of Olibanum incorporate them by melting and having strained them keep the Oyntment for your use use it in case of Strains Pricks Crown-scab Wounds Bruises or the like and it will answer your expectation Another excellent Oyntment TAke Myrrh an ounce Storax half an ounce of soft red wax two ounces Olive Oyl half a pint and Verdigrease an ounce boyl them together with four ounces of Hogs-grease till they become an Ointment An excellent Salve for any Wrench Strain or weakness in the Limbs TAke two ounces of Galbanum Pitch and Turpentine of each half a pound Bees wax a quarter of a pound Oyl of Cammomil and Bays of each an ounce Mastick three ounces and two ounces of Bolearmoniack set them all over the fire in an earthen pot and incorporate them well then spread them upon Leather or Cloath and having anointed the place grieved with Oyl of Bays apply them plaisterwise An excellent Salve for Old or New sores how to make it TAke Elder-buds or the inner Rind four ounces Storax an ounce two ounces of Wax three drams of Myrrh an ounce of Hogs lard and two ounces of Rosin incorporate them with fire and strain them keeping the Salve for your use and apply it in case of any wound Galled back Gravel prick with a nail Thorn Spur-gall or Fistula and indeed to any Sorrance if you use it with the ointment
the scab till it bleed then take seven or eight sprigs of dryed Rosemary the like quantity of red Sage a handful of Bay-leaves and the like quantity of Pellitory of the wall adding to them half a pound of Allum powder then boyling them in Canary and Ale to the quantity of two quarts a fourth part of the former only with the liquid part wash the Sorrance Morning Noon and Evening and it will effect the cure How to know when a Horse is pricked and how to cure it THis Sorrance often comes by the negligence of the Farrier by not well pointing the nails well clenching them or driving weak nails that are apt to start aside and sometimes by stubs needles or rusty Iron getting into the foot in travailing to know which observe the Horses halting or pinch his hoof round with pinsers and when you come at the place grieved he will shrink in his foot or if you throw cold water upon the Hoof that part where the foot is grieved will be the soonest dry the which when you perceive take off the shoo and having discovered the cause of the grief draw it forth and opening the hole take Allum Salt and Copperas boyl them in Chamberly then washing therewith the grieved place tent it with Hogs Grease Verdigrease and Turpentine and putting on the shoo again stop his foot well with Cow-dung and by so doing five or six times the cure will be perfected Quinsie or Squinsie its cause and cure THis dangerous distemper both to Horses or Kine is occasioned by cold Phlegmatick humours settling in the neck and throat or many times through excess of blood and not timely bleeding To cure it after you have bled him if the swelling in his throat abate not lay a Poultiss of Mallows Chammomile Groundsil and Harts Tongue under his Chaule well beaten and fryed with Hogs-lard the which having once opened the passage of his throat take White Dogs-turd Roach-Allum and Hony and dissolving them in Milk give him them hot in a drenching horn and two or three hours after give him a horn full of the juice of Cinque foil or Cudweed in which Hyssop and Figs have been boiled and after it a pint of sweet wine the which by repeating three times a day for four or five days together will restore him to his feeding and health Rupture Vncording or Burstenness their cause and cure THese distempers differ but in name being in nature all one known when the Film Rim or Chaul sustaining the Horses Intrals break by excessive straining leaping or other accident insomuch that his Bowels fall into his Cod or Flank and is by many held incurable and indeed for the most part is so yet often by this method Bursten Horses have been cured viz. bring your Horse into a Barn and having gently thrown him upon soft straw by drawing his four legs together with Cords then by throwing them over a beam raise him from the ground with his back downwards and with butter and water or Deers suet well warmed supple his Stones taking them up between your fingers and by degrees dividing them from the Guts putting the Guts in their proper places and having so done tye the stones as near to the belly of Horse as as may be with a linnen string or soft list but so that the string of the Stones may not be bruised then let him down gently and putting him into a warm Stable take Vallerian Rupture-wort the husks of Hazelnuts Cross-wort Cranesbill Cyprus and Elme leaves or Bark Chammock roots beaten to powder and Corn-flag of each a handful bruise and mix them well and give it him to drink in Ale well boyled morning noon and night and suffer him not to eat over much for the space of thirteen days at the end of which take out one or both his Stones if he be bursten on both sides and not too old and by carefully sewing up the Cod and healing it with Oyl of Bays and now and then throwing cold water on it the Rim will knit and the Guts be retained in their due place rendering the Horse firm and fit for moderate labour The Stone in Horses it 's cause and cure THis grief much afflicting Horses comes by sundry means as by bad humours that stop the passage of the Bladder by excessive labour or over much riding foul matter descending upon the Kidnies when purged from the Liver and Spleen vitiating the neck of the Bladder causes hard knops to settle there which make him piss with pain and many times by holding his urine too long when heated by travail it condensates the humours it fiâ—st created into hardness which by the operation of the kidnies in time becomes little Stones or Gravel and may be perceived by his often striving in vain to avoid his urine but cannot at least not freely but in great pain to dissolve and make him avoid which take the Roots of Nettles Parsly Sperage and Dodder of each three ounces bray them well and boyl them in two quarts of Whitewine till a third part be consumed then taking them off the fire put thereto Goats-lard Salt and Olive Oyl of each three ounces strain it and give him a pint of the liquor each morning as hot as is convenient for six or seven mornings together and it will bring away the Gravel c. For want of the aforesaid Medicine take Radish-roots slice them as also Onions and Parsly-leaves of all three to the weight of sixteen ounces an ounce of London Treacle and the like quantity of Eggshells burnt to powder and boyling them in a gallon of spring water till a third part be consumed give it the Horse to drink seven or eight mornings successively or at any other time if the infirmity be grievous The falling out of the Mares Womb or Horses Fundament the cause and how to prevent them THe Womb of a Mare is subject to many defects as Barrenness Falling out Abortion c. mostly caused through intemperateness creating too much moisture and cold or too much fevorish humour or heat and the former of these causes it is that makes the Horses Fundament to fall out something relating to which I have already laid down but for the better and more speedy cure and prevention Take Leeks Bolearmonick Nitrum and Oyl of Cammomil boyl them in a pint of white-wine and a quart of Ale and give it Glister-wise administring it to either of them after the Womb or Fundament is well put up and for several days after give them water wherein Fennegreek Seeds have been boyled permiting him or her to stand warm and dry Wind-Galls what they are and how to cure them THese sorrances are Bladders fill'd with salt watery humours gellied and thick growing mostly upon the Fetlock joynt on each side being troublesome and painful especially in hot weather and the ways hard they proceed from the effects of hard labour overheatings and unseasonable coolings which cause the humours to descend into
following viz. Take a pound of Hogs-grease an ounce of Verdigrease half an ounce of Venice Turpentine and the juice of Mallows all boyled into an ointment An excellent Salve for curing of any wound whether by Sword Fire Gun-shot or any other accident TAke two ounces of Roach-allum Whitewine-vinegar two spoonfuls Verdegrease powder an ounce two ounces of Sublimate finely pulverised and with fire bring them to a Salve and when occasion requires lay it plaisterwise to the wound having first washed it with water wherein Copperas and Bay-salt have been dissolved it is also excellent at eating away dead flesh c. An excellent Salve for Wounds Vlcers Bruises or Strains how to make it TAke Perosin and other Rosin of each a pound Bees-wax Frankincense and Sheeps suet of each six ounces Hogs-grease twenty ounces boyl the Gums and Wax in half a pint of Whitewine then put to it your Hogs lard and Sheeps-suet adding an ounce of fine Turpentine and mix well all the ingredients keep the Salve for your use Glisters convenient to be used upon divers occasions IF your Horse be Costive and is greatly pained in his dunging take the fat of Beef broth a pound of English Hony four ounces of white Salt half a spoonful having made them thin by fire force them into his body pretty warm holding afterward his Tail close to his Tuel to keep it in till it work which will be half an hour first then trot him up and down the Stable and give him a warm Mash and it will not only make him Laxative but bring away much foul matter contracted in the bowels or for want of the aforesaid materials boyl two handfuls of Mallows in a pottle of spring-water adding thereto after it is strained half a pint of Olive Oyl or for want of it half a pound of Butter and it will have the same effects If your Horse be inwardly desperate sick Take Oyl of Cammomil Dill Violets and Cassia of each half an ounce powder of Brown Sugar-candy three ounces Marsh-mallow leaves half a handful boyl them in running water and having strained out the liquid part give it him warm glister-wise using him as abovesaid If your Horse be afflicted with the Pestilence or Fever take of the seeds of Coloquintida half an ounce three quarters of an ounce of Dragantium of Centaury and Wormwood each a handful and a quarter of an ounce of Castorum boyl them in three quarts of water or small beer adding three ounces of Gerologundinum half a pint of Olive Oyl and half a spoonful of Salt strain it and use it Glisterwise If your Horse be afflicted with the Colick or any pain in his bowels take salt-water or new brine a quart boyl in it a handful of Cammomil or Groundsil dissolving into it a quarter of a pound of Castle sope and having strained out the liquid part administer it as the former in case of giving Glisters observe to anoint the pipe with butter or Oyl Rake him well before you adminster it let him keep it at least half an hour and suffer him to drink no cold water that day nor the next but let his drink be warm water and his meat be Mashes or fine Provinder and observe to give the Glister fasting Cordial Powders and Cordial balls Receipts to make them and their use TO make an excellent Cordial powder for the Consumption of the Lights and Liver or any internal wasting distemper take Cinamon and Loaf-sugar of each an ounce two ounces of Bolearmoniack dry them well and reduce them to a powder giving it to the Horse in a pint of Mallagoe To make an excellent Cordial powder or Electuary for a Horse that is sick weak or out of case take syrup of Lemons syrup of Roses and syrup of Violets of each half an ounce an ounce of London Treacle and two ounces of the powder of Elecampain roots mingle them together and put them in a Stove till the syrups become exceeding thick and as it were a hard Electuary the which as occasion requires give him dissolved in warm Ale about an ounce in a Pint. To make Cordial balls to cure any violent Cold Glaunders Heart sickness recover lost Appetite prevent fainting under moderate labour bring away Molten grease or Fatten your Horse take Carthamus seed Anniseed Fennegreek seeds Cummin seeds the Roots of Elecampain and Colts-foot of each two ounces of Brimstone flower and Chymical Oyl of Anniseeds each two ounces and an ounce of the juice of Licorish half a pint of Whitewine and a like quantity of syrup of Sugar or Molossus Olive Oyl and Hony of each a quarter of a pint and having boyled them over the fire add as much wheat flower as will stiffen them into a past and making it up into balls as big as pullets Eggs give him four of them in a morning fasting suffering him to drink immediately after a quart of warm Ale Purgations Perfumes Baths Suppositories Charges Drenches and Causticks what they are how to make and use them upon sundry occasions IF you would gently purge your Horse give him three ounces of Turnesole in a quart of warm water or for want of that Feltwort Baldmony Aloes or Sea Housleek If you would purge out Cholerick humours boyl S. Peters wort the seeds of Tutsan or Park-leaves of each a handful boyl them in a quart of small Ale and give it him warm If he be troubled with watry humours give him Dodder that grows upon Savory and Hedge-Hyssop of each a handful boyled in a quart of water Scammony or purging Blindweed are great purgers insomuch that unless they are mixed with Aloes they often prove hurtful to the body of the Horse If you would purge your Horse violently give him three ounces of Coloquintida in a pint of Canary but it is not safe to use this purge unless in dangerous distempers Black-hellebore Hogs Fennel or either of the Polipodiums purge Phlegm and Choler an ounce of Aloes made up in Butter and given the Horse purges away Melancholy But if your Horse be very sick take an ounce of Hony half a pint of Olive Oyl Hempseed Fennegreek seed Cassia of each an ounce boyl them in a pint of Canary and give it him warm If you would have your Horse vomit up any filthy thing which he has received or bring away the gross Phlegmatick humours take the largest roots of Polipodium of the Oak steep them in Oyl of Spike and fasten them to the Horses nose with a muzel where letting them rest all night next morning you will find your Horse sickish then taking away the Roots trot him about and if foul humours afflict him he will vomit extreamly Baths their use and how to make them A Bath used for Horses is no other than his being bathed with the concoction of divers simples exceeding hot to disperse the humours setled in any one place to dry up humours or refresh a Horse after Travail c. And of these in their
order To disperse evil humours take smallage Ox-ey of each two handfuls bruise them in a Mortar and put to them mans urine and Oyl of Turpentine boil them and as hot as the Horse can indure it rubbing the place exceeding hard and afterward cloath him warm If your Horse be troubled with Gourdy-gouty legs coming either by Farcins or scratches use this Bath Take a quart of Chamberly put into it a handful of Baysalt a quarter of a pound of sope a handful of Soot and Misletoe chopped small with all which well boyled bath the place grieved and in so doing divers times the swellings will vanish and the Farcins be prevented If your Horse be subject to tire or stiffe and out of order with hard travailing make a bath of Mallows Sage Mint and Rose-cakes putting a good handful of each into a Gallon of water boyling the water till it is near consumed then adding half a pint of Olive Oyl and half a pound of Butter with the liquid part bath his legs and keep him walking for half and hour These and such like are the natures and uses of baths Perfumes for purging the Head how to make and use them IF your Horse be troubled either with the Glaunders Colds Pozes Catarrhs or any the like distemper in the head take Olibanum Storax Benjamine and Frankincense of each half an ounce bruise and mix them well then taking a Chafingdish of coles sprinkle it upon them and having a funnel ready cover the Chafing-dish therewith that so the smoke coming out of the little end may ascend into the Horses head and it will comfort the brain purge away filth and break the cold or for want of these burn the roots of black Hellebore and Turpentine or Burgundy-pitch or Ducks feathers dried Pimpernel and Rosemary and by so doing the effects will manifest their virtues Suppositories what they are their use and how to make them A Suppository so called is no other than a preparative for a Glister by opening the Horses body and rendering him capable to receive it in such a case take a large Candle of five or six in the pound cut off both ends anoint it with Oyl and having raked the Horse thrust it into his Fundament and there suffering it to rest trot him and it will greatly loosen his belly If your Horse has taken a surfeit take six ounces of Hony an ounce of Salt-niter and the like quantity of Anniseeds making them into a stiff past with wheat flower then make a ball as big as a half-penny loaf and thrust it into his Fundament keeping it in by binding down his Tail to the Girt If you intend to purge Phlegm put a round piece of Castle Sope in his Fundament if Choler take a handful of Savin and a like quantity of Staves-acre bruise them and put them into a like quantity of Hony and boyl them till they may be made into a ball then use it as the former If melancholy take a large Red Onion and peeling it put it into his Fundament If for Phlegm make a suppository of Hony and Oat flower and in thus ordering your Horse be sure he be fasting and that he drink no cold water that day That he be kept warm and well looked to Charges what they are their use and how to make them CHarges are no other than Plaisters or Poultesses laid to the place grieved and because I have already largely treated about the like I shall now insist on but two which may be used upon any occasion viz. Take two pounds of Wheat flower half a pint of Whitewine a pound of Hony half a pound of Bolearmoniack beaten into powder boyl them on a fire adding half a pound of black Pitch the like quantity of Turpentine the seeds of Cummin Sanguis Draconis and Fennegreek of each an ounce Bayberries and Oyl of Bays of each an ounce boyl them to a Salve and use it in case of any wrench shoulderslip Hipslip dislocated bone stretched sinews scratches swelling tumour or the like there being no better any where to be found The second Charge make thus take of the Oyl of Bays a quarter of a pound of Cantharides Orpin and Euphorbum of each two ounces and having made the latter three into powder mingle them with the former and spreading it after it has been well boiled plaisterwise lay it to the place grieved it is excellent in case of fractured or dislocated bones joynt slips or strains weeping wounds to dry up humours and also for any swelling of the Back strain or sinews and indeed it may be applied with success to any Grief or Sorrance Most excellent Drenches to cure all inward diseases as Feavers of all sorts Plague infection c. HAving let your Horse blood especially in case of Fevers of all forts which are Tertian Quartan Quotidian Hectick and Autumnal Fevers coming by Pestilential air Accidental Fever or general Plague known by Trembling Panting Sweating Dull countenance Short-breath Faintness decay of stomach Costiveness and the like give him this drink viz. Take the Roots of Cellendine as also the leaves a good handful a like quantity of Rue Balm and Wormwood Powder of Diapente half an ounce a pound of Fresh Butter wash the herbs bruise them and put them into a quart or three pints of Ale then having boyled them strain the liquid part and give it the Horse to drink three mornings successively Secondly To the same purpose take three or four new laid Eggs beat their yolks with as many spoonfulls of Brandy put thereto an ounce of Diapente and a like quantity of Hony adding half a pint of Canary and give it your Horse when the Fever or Ague is just coming on him Thirdly Take Elecampain Roots reduced into powder an ounce Liquorish Anniseed and Cuminseed a like quantity Bay berries Longpepper and Fennegreek of each a quarter of an ounce beat them together adding half a pint of Olive Oyl or for want of it half a pound of sweet butter set them over a fire in a pint of Canary or Ale and give him the liquid part in a Drenching horn Fourthly Take Red Sage Mint and Diatessaron of each two ounces boyl them in a quart of Beer sweeten them with two ounces of Sugarcandy and give them the Horse and thus observing in all hot distempers to administer cooling things and in cooling distempers hot things your expectations will be answered if you do not apply them unseasonably Causticks and Corrosives what they are and how to be applyed A Caustick is no other than a burning by application making a wound where none was before in which case Lime Oyl of Vitriol Aqua fortis c. are applyed how to mannage which upon divers occasions I have before recited Corrosives are in the same manner applyed but of less force only used in eating away dead or spungy flesh hard knobs Bony Excrescences or the like they are used likewise in case of Farcines Leprosie Mange and the
Posts Trees and Bushes so that if it be not timely heeded it will turn to the Mange and by that means insect such Horses as accompany him To prevent which and cure the former let him blood in the neck vein and rub him all over with a hard brush or hard wisps then take Staves-acre Elecampain roots Chickweed and leaves of Brambles of each a handful boyl them in Cow piss and add to them the powders of Sublimate-Mercury dryed Briony and Red dock roots Arsnick Resalgar with which wash him all over but especially in the place you perceive him to rub most or for want of these take Hogs-grease Mans-Urine Tobacco leaves or stalks Brimstone Verdigrease Train-Oyl and Allum with which well concocted anoint the body of your Horse The Botts or Worms what they are and how to kill them THese Insects breeding in the body of a Horse are of three sorts distinguished by the names of Botts Truncheons and Mawworms the first for the most part breeding in the great guts near the Fundament the second in the Maw out of which if they be not speedily killed they will eat their passage to the destruction of the Horse the third and last called Maw-worms or plain worms breed in the guts as the first The Botts are small worms with little tails and great heads The Truncheons are thick and short and have hard heads The Mawworms are long and slender of a reddish colourm any of them being as long as a mans finger and these worms are generated from raw gross and Phlegmatick humours occasioned by foul feeding To know whether your Horse be troubled with them or not you must observe whether he kick at his belly with his feet when he stands still turns his head towards his tail looking upon his body Groans Wallows Frisks his tail often or forsakes his meat all which are signs of worms in his body To cure which take a quart of New-milk four ounces of hony which being made warm give it him fasting in the morning and suffer him to fast after it two hours then dissolve an ounce of black sope in a pint of beer and give it him and an hour after ride him hard and the worms will either come away alive or dye in his body or for want of these take Savin stamped to the quantity of a handful and put it in a quart of Beer or a quart of Brine and it will destroy them Of bunches Warts Knots and Wens Cramp or Inflammation and their cure THese grievances come divers ways as by foul feeding Eating unwholsome meat Hard riding too much labour Bruises or the like which putrefie the blood and cause it to turn into evil humours To cure which take the powder of Diapente mix it with Linseed or Olve Oyl and making it into an Oyntment apply it to the place grieved especially for the Cramp or Inflammation Again take Whitewine Oyl and Tarr of each a considerable quantity mingle them together and apply them hot and apply them plaisterwise to the Knots and Warts especially if on the joynts and the cure in six or seven days will be effected Again take Mustardseed Bay-salt and Hogs-grease mix them together adding to them half a pint of Wine Vinegar and it will sink the Wens or Bunches Again take Figgs the roots of Fern and Rochet mingle them with Hogs grease and Vinegar and apply them plaisterwise for any of the aforesaid Sorrances or lastly take an ounce of Galbanum two ounces of Pitch Lime an ounce Bitumen three quarters of an ounce Wax the like quantity all which being well mixed and heated over a fire apply them to the Sorrance plaisterwise A Remedy for the Windeolick or Stone TAke of Whitewine a quart four ounces of Fenegreek of Bayberies and Pepper four ounces of Ginger an ounce Water Cresses a handful and the like quantity of Red-Sage one pound of Sene-green and a handful of Mint all which being well bruised and mixed together boyl them and afterwards straining them add two ounces of Hony and give the liquor to your Horse to drink or for want of these things take Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each of them an ounce beaten or ground into fine powder and putting them into a quart of Cannary suffer it to boyl a while upon a gentle fire then adding to it one spoonful of Hony give it the Horse bloodwarm Cloathing him up and storing him with clean Litter in which having stood or layn the space of four hours give him a knop of Hay and after the fifth hour a Mash or a good draught of white water Of bloodshot Eyes and other diseases or impediments of the sight their cause and cure THis prejudice of sight happens as likewise all other distempers of the Eyes through two causes viz either internal or external the internal cause proceeds from cold rhumes or fiery salt humours that fall upon the sight and the external cause from a blow hurt by Lightening fire or the like To cure which take these directions To clear and take away the bloodshot or setling of blood in the Eyes taketh juice of Sowthistle by some called our Ladys thistle and spirit it into his eyes once or twice a day for divers days together if your Horse be dimsighted or have a thin Film over his eyes take the juice of Cabbage or Colewortstalks boyl it with a small quantity of hony and spirt it into his eyes and in so doing six or seven times it will consume the Film and clear the sight nay take away the Canker in the Eye if it be not too far gone To take away the Pin and Web in the Eye spirt into it the juice of Celendine the which is likewise exceeding good to clear the sight as likewise doth the juice of ordinary Centaury if your Horse be troubled with Moon Eyes put into them Alehoof or ground Ivy juice and it will restore him to a perfect sight If your Horse be troubled with salt fiery humours or Rhumes in his Eyes wash them with the juice of Houseleek and by so doing often it will allay the heat and drive back the Rhume the juices of Germander and Eyebright consume the Pin and Web in the Eyes and greatly restore the sight Alehoof Daisie flowers and Snap-dragons being bruised and strained with a little Rose-water and fine Sugar dissolved in the juice cure all manner of Itching Smarting Inflammation Spots Webs and the like restoring the sight when almost lost The juice of Tree Ivy leaves after they have been sufficiently steeped in water easeth presently and in process of time takes away all smarting and pain of the eyes The juice of Endive clears the sight and so does the distilled water of Groundsel and the juice of Melliot with many other Herbs in general but for brevities sake waving them I shall now come to the particulars more narrowly observing the cures for most of all the Eye distempers To preserve the sight a good expedient TAke Maiden-hair Enface Endive
four or five figgs pared and cut small then suffering it to be luke-warm give it him in a Drenching horn And this medicine you may likewise give him for the Stavers Frenzy Bloody-flux Consumption of the Lungs Shortness of Breath Glaunders or any cold or cough wet or dry and for want of milk you may boyl them in new ALE but milk is better give it him every Morning fasting for a week together Another excellent remedy to the same effect TAke Brimstone flower an ounce sweet butter two ounces temper them together very well then with them anoint the butt ends of two Goose wings and thrust them up his nostrils fastening them in with packthred bound over his pole and thereupon riding him gently he will snort and avoid an extraordinary quantity of matter and filth that offends his head but after you have taken them out be sure you keep him warm in your Stable and feed him with warm Mashes burning under his nose in a chafingdish a little Storax thus you may do to a Horse that is designed for Racing or Hunting when you dare not give him any purgation or internal Drench by reason of the days near approach For a Cold newly taken a most excellent remedy MAke a little hole in the crown of a new-laid Hen-egg at which extract the white and yolk filling the concavity with fresh butter and Tarr of each a like quantity causing your Horse morning and evening to swallow it in the shell by drawing forth his Tongue giving him after it some warm Ale wherein Rosemary has been boyled and in so doing three days successively the cold will vanish for if this cure it not then is it of long continuance To cure which take the following medicine For a long taken Cold Cough Shortness of Breath or Pursiveness an excellent remedy HAving dryed Elecampain roots beat them into powder to the quantity of two ounces adding to them an ounce of Anniseeds bruised and the like weight of Liquorish and Sugarcandy pulverized when putting to them half a quartern of the Syrup of Colts-feet temper them with three or four ounces of fresh butter making the ingredients up into balls and give him three of them as big as Pigeons Eggs fasting riding him afterwards for half an hour letting him come warm into the stable and cloathing him well giving him Oats washed in hot Ale and no cold water for four hours after or for want of this you may give him conserve of Elecampain roots thus made viz. Take the roots and candy them with sugar keeping them from all moisture and so having done take an ounce thereof and add to it being broken small two ounces of Syrup of Colts-foot and as much fine sugar as will make it into a conserve then dissolving it in a pint of new Mallago give it warm to your Horse ordering him after it as aforesaid If your Horse be troubled with a stopping in his head voiding thereby filthy matter take this following advice HAving mingled Coltsfoot with Auripigmentum both of which pulverized not exceeding four drams take as much Turpentine as will make them into paste which done lay them on a Chafingdish of coles in small pieces covering them with a Tunnel and by putting the small end into the nostrils of your Horse suffer the smoak to ascend holding his head to it and in so doing five or six times the congealed matter will dissolve and come away For the Glaunders an excellent Remedy TAke the leaves of a Box-tree green bruise them and add an ounce of Liquorish powder the like quantity of Anniseeds bruised steep them well in Beer or Ale to the quantity of a pint and a half then take four ounces of Treacle and four ounces of Olive Oyl the which all mixed and well heated give him the whole dose in a Drenching-horn and thereupon ride him moderately and at his return put on his cloaths give him a warm Mash and keep the Stable close and in so doing three mornings together the Horse will be rendered well as at first Costiveness the cause and cure THis grievance happeneth when a Horse without great pain cannot void his dung proceeding sometimes from excess of Provender at other times from too much feeding upon dry meat which dryeth up the moisture of his body as Beans Tares Pease and such like not but that they are wholsome and convenient but that by excessive feeding on them the Horses body is over heated which drying his Excrements shuts up the Office of nature and sometimes this grievance happens by tedious fasting and the Horse being dyeted for Hunting or Racing to remedy which take a piece of Castle sope to the weight of two ounces dissolve it in Whitewine on the fire after which having bruised an ounce of Hempseed put it into the liquor sweetning it with an ounce of Brown Sugarcandy and give it him as hot as he can indure it after which walk him up and down for the space of an hour and then bringing him into the stable if you find him sick let him lie down and pour down his throat a pint of warm milk feeding him as at other times and his bowels will be loosened and his Excrements come away Another to help and cure this grievance BOyl a handful of Mallows in running water to the quantity of a quart to which add half a pint of Olive Oyl and half a pound of Butter an ounce of Benedicta Laxativa and making thereof a Glister force it warm up his Fundament holding his Tail close to it to keep it in for the space of half an hour then giving him a sweet Mash leave it to work of it self Of the Cramp or Convulsion in the Nerves or sinews of a Horse its cause and cure THis Malady proceeds from the sinew cut some wound in the Horse or too suddain cooling after an extraordinary heat too much straining or excessive purging and is known by the forcible contraction of the Sinews Veins and Muscles insomuch that the whole strength of man is not many times capable of bending the joynt this grief seizes and by his being lame and well in a moment There is also another Malady proceeding from cold loss of blood windiness in the veins or numbness of the sinews differing from the first in pace only as having its seat and operation in the Back Reins and neck of a Horse known by the distortion or wryness of his neck hollowness of his eyes dryness and clamminess of his mouth rising of his back in the middle and the like To cure which take Primrose leaves Chamomile Cowslip leaves Crowfeet Mallows Fennel and Rosemary leaves with the stalks of Pimpernel steeped and boyled in spring-water for a considerable space then once or twice a day bath him with the liquor hot all over and apply the herbs to the grieved places binding them on with Hay-bands or woollen cloaths anointing them first with Oyl of spike mixed with Petrolium and Nerve Oyl The Camery or Frounce
stretch at his length as also to strain in making Urine without any effect and at other times to bite the Rack-staves or what ever is within his reach to remedy which take two ounces of Garlick four ounces of Acrement a handful of Rue and Tormentile bruise them well and put them into three pints of Whitewine then blood your Horse in the Tail and dividing the liquor boyled and strained give him it in equal proportions six mornings successively and it will effect the cure The defect in Horses Lungs the cause and cure MOst diseases of the Lungs proceed from excessive heats or their contraries occasioned by hard riding or evil looking to and if the descending humours so contracted are not timely removed they cause the Lungs to putrefie and rot to know which distemper observe his Flanks and Ribs for if they rise slowly and beat heavily then are the humours contracted by cold and must be speedily removed 't is also to be known by his short drawing of his breath and slow cough as likewise by filthy matter that will upon his lying down and rising up issue out of his mouth and nostrils then to remove the humours take Horse lungwort by some called Mullet a good handful Fennegreek seed two ounces of Madder made into powder an ounce then having shred and bruised the Herbs boyl them in new Ale or Beer and give it the Horse grieved in a Drenching horn for ten or twelve days each morning fasting feeding him afterward with Mashes and giving him warm water with Wheat-bran scattered in it and when you give him his dose at the same time anoint his Breast and Ribs with the Oyl extracted from a Snake and in so doing he will be restored to health The Lethargy or Sleeping evil its cause and cure THis distemper proceeds from Phlegmatick humours which settle about the Brain and so numb it that it causes the Horse to be greatly desirous of sleep even standing or travailing to redress which let him blood in the neck vein and pallate of the mouth and taking a gallon of Spring-water boyl therein Camomile Wheat-bran Mother-wort and put thereto a considerable quantity of Salt and Vinegar which done add to it two ounces of Parsly seed and as much Fennel seed then boyling them well give the water clean strained to your Horse to drink anointing afterward the Pallate of his mouth with Hony and Mustard and by striking or making a noise keep him for twelve hours space from sleeping Moorfoundred what it is and how to cure it THis distemper according to the French is no other than a foundering in the Horses body by the melting of the grease occasioned by excessive heats or not due cooling after travail To cure which having well raked his tail gut with your hand dipped in Olive Oyl give him a Clister made of Camomile Mallows Agarick and Baum all boyled in new milk and well strained Then take a quart of the best Malago and setting it on the fire put into it Cinnamon Liquorish and Anniseeds of each an ounce and three ounces of Hony and give it him as warm as he can receive it then ride him forth a racking pace for an hour or more suffering him to fast after it two or three hours then sift him a pint of Beans and a quart of Oats after which let him have a knop of Hay sprinkled with warm water giving him every other day a Mash of Malt and water and four days after his taking the aforesaid dose let him blood and keep him exceeding warm and you will perceive the grease to come away in greater or lesser quantities proportionable to what is in the Horses body Mattering of the Yard how to cure it as also to prevent shedding of the Seed FOr the first take Roach-allum an ounce Whitewine Vinegar a pint and having dissolved the Allum in the Vinegar and made it lukewarm with a syringe force it into his Yard four or five times a day for three or four days together and it will cure the Rawness and bring away the cause of the grievance For the last take the herb Aramanthus the juice of Bistwort and Plantaine as also that of Comfery red wine and Hogs dung and boyl them together in Verjuice sweeten the liquid part with Sugarcandy or Mollossus and having given it him to drink ride him into cold water up to the belly and suffer him there to stand for an hour To cure the Melancholy in a Horse commonly called the Stagger or the Stavers an excellent Receipt THe Horse troubled with the aforesaid distemper must as soon as by his giddiness and heavy eyedness you perceive it be let blood and then take Hazel-nuts Butter and Salt of altogether to the quanty of a pound weight and having broken the Nut-shells put the kernels into the butter and salt when they are hot over the fire and add thereto half an ounce of Assa fetida and half a quartern of wine-vinegar into which well mixed put small raggs spunges or fine flax and with them so dipped stop his ears sewing them up to prevent his shaking them out and in twenty four hours the distemper will vanish For want of the former ingredients take bitter Almonds two ounces of Oxes Gall two drams the Roots of Black Helebore vulgarly called Bearsfoot an ounce dryed and pulverised the Grains of Castorum two drams Vinegar a quarter of a pint Varnish a spoonful and boyling them together put them into the Horses Ears stopping them close or for want of the aforesaid thing use Garlick bruised in Aqua-vitae Imposthumes their cause and cure IMposthumes are divers though in quality they little differ being for the most part generated of evil blood and gross humours the which at first cause swellings and if not then prevented turn to running and loathsome sores many times they are occasioned by unfortunate blows and sometimes by hurt received from strait Halters and Harness or taking cold the symptoms by which they may be discovered are by the much running of the Horses Ears and Eyes the heat in his Ears and Temples his unwillingness to be handled thereabouts and dullness and must if they be far gone be brought to a head and broke before they can be cured to perform which take the roots of Mallows and White Lillies of each three ounces bruise them well and mixing them with Hogs-grease and Linseed Meal boyl them well and upon Flax or Leather apply them plaisterwise to the place grieved and it will both ripen and break it Now there are hot and cold Imposthumes the cold one will not break so soon as the hot therefore when you find it is come to a head which you may perceive by its throbbing open it with a sharp hot Iron and let out the corruption To cure either hot or cold Imposthume when broken or opened take Dragons blood Gum Arabick Bees-wax Mastick Greek-pitch Turpentine and Frankincense of each an ounce melt them and plaister-wise apply them to the