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A51971	The perfect horseman, or, The experienced secrets of Mr. Markham's fifty years practice shewing how a man may come to be a general horseman, by the knowledge of these seven offices, viz. the breeder, feeder, ambler, rider, keeper, buyer, farrier / and now published by Lancelot Thetford, practitioner in the same art for the space of forty years.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.; Thetford, Lancelot.	1656 (1656)	Wing M671; ESTC R20972	71,548	192

away infection and kils worms Gale ● A Drink to open an Horses body and cleanse it Take a quart of new milk Sallet-oyl hony each half a pint an ounce of London treacle and the yolks of six eggs beat all together and then put to it licoras sugar-candy anise-seeds all in powder of each an ounce and infuse all together so give it the horse ride him after it set up warm and let him fast above an an hour The true manner of making those cordial Bal● which cure any violent cold or Glanders which prevent heart-sickness which purge away all molten grease which recover a lost stomack which keep the heart from fainting with exercise and make a lean horse fat suddenly Take Aniseeds Cominseeds Fenegreekseeds Carthumus seeds Elicampane roots and Colts foot each two ounces beaten and searced to a fine dust two ounces of the flower of Brimston then take an ounce of the juice of Licoras and dissolve it on the fire in half a pint of white wine which done take an ounce of Chymicall oyl of Aniseeds then of sallet oyl hony and the Syrop of Sugar or for want of it Molosses of each half a pint then mix all this with the former powders and with as much fine wheat flower as will bind and knit them all together work them into stiff paste and make thereof Balls somwhat bigger then French Walnuts ●ull and all and so keep them in a close Gallipot for they will last all the year Yet I do not mean that you shall keep them in the pot in balls for so because they cannot lye close the air may get in and do hurt as also the strength of the oyls will sweat outward and weaken the substance therefore knead the whole lump of paste into the Gallipot and make the Balls as you have occasion to use them Now for the use of these Balls because they are cordiall and have divers excellent vertues you shall understand that if you use them to prevent sickness then you shall take a Ball and aniont it all over with sweet Butter and give it the horse in the morning in the manner of a Pill then ride him a little after it if you please otherwise you may chuse and feed and water him abroad or at home according to your usual custome And thus do 3 or 4 mornings together If you use them to cure either cold or glanders then use them in the same manner for a week together If you use them to fatten an horse then give them for a fortnight together But if you use them in the nature of a scouring to take away molten grease foulness then instantly after his heat and in his heat Again if you find your horse at any time hath taken a little cold as you shall perceive by his inward ratling if then you take one of these Balls and dissolve it in a pint of sack and so give it the horse it is a present remedy Also to dissolve the Ball in his ordinary water being made luke warm it worketh the life effect and fatneth exceedingly To give one of these Balls before travell it prevents tyring to give it in the height of travel it refresheth the weariness and to give it after travel it saves an horse from all surfeit and inward sickness For the Bots or any Worms Take a quart of new milk and as much hony ●● will make it extraordinary sweet then ●eing luke-warm give it the horse early he ●aving fasted all the night before then bridle ●im up and let him stand tied to the empty ●ack for two hours then take halfe a pint ●●white wine and dissolve into it a good ●poonfull or more of black soap and being ●●ll mixt together give it him to drink ●en ride and chafe him a little and let him ●●t another hour and the Worms will a●oid Another for Worms more ready more easie Take the soft Down-hairs that grow in the ●rs of an horse and which you clip away ●hen you coule him and the little short tuft ●hich grows on the top of the Fore-head ●derneath his fore-top and having a pretty ●antity mix them with a pottle of oats and ●●●e them to the horse and it helpeth A Purgation when an horse is sick of grease or costiveness Take a pint of old white Wine and o● the fire dissolve into it a lump as much a● an Henns Egge of Castle-sope and sti● them together then take it off and put in to it two good spoonfulls of Hempseed beaten an ounce of sugar-candy in powder and brew all together then having wa●med the horse to stirre up his grease another foul humors give him this to drink and walk him up and down a little after ● to make the potion work then set u● warm and after a little stirring him in h● stall if he grow sickish give him liberty t● lye down then after two hours fasting giv● him a sweet Mash then feed as at othe● times For Laxativeness or extream Loosness Take a quart of red Wine and on the fire put into it an ounce and an halfe ● Bolarmonie in powder and two ounces a● an half of the conserve of Sloes mix th●● together after take it from the fire a● put to it a spoonfull or two of the powd● of Cynamon brew all together and give it the horse but let him fast two hours after it and let him eat no washed meat Hay is wholsome so is Bread and Oats if they be well mixt with Beans or Wheat but not otherwise For the stone or pain of urine by winde causing sickness Make a strong decoction that is to say boyle your first quantity of water to an halfe part three times over of keen onions clean peeled and parsley then take a quart thereof and put to it a good spoonefull of London Treacle and as much of the powder of Egge-shels and give it the horse And thus do divers mornings if the infirmity be great otherwise when you see the horse offended For an Horse that staleth blood Take knot-grasse Shephards purse Blood-wort of the hedge Polypodium of the wall Comphrey Garden Blood-wort of each an handfull shread them fine and put them into a quart of Beer Ale or milk and put to them a little salt a little soot and leaven mix all to gether and give it the horse to drink For a growing cold Take the juyce of Licoras London Treacle Aniseeds Turmereack Fenegreek and long pepper of each an ounce the hard Simples in powder then of Suger-candy two ounces and with as much English hony as will suffice incorporate all together and make thereof Balls as bigge as a good pullets egge and give the horse two or three in the morning fasting After he hath taken the Balls give him two new laid eggs then rid ehim and at noon give him a Mash keep warm and do this twice or thrice For a more violent cold causing rotting in the head Take the bigge Elecampane root slice it and boyl

well and thus do once a day and in nine days the cure hath been effected A sudden cure for a knock or brnise on the sinews Take a live cat wild or tame and cut off her head and tail then cleave her down the chine and clap her hot b●wels and all to the bruise and remove it not for two days For a strain newly done to help it in 24 hours Take the grounds of Ale or Beer a quart as much parsley chopt gross as you can gripe boyl them till the herb be soft then put to it a quarter of a pound of sweet butter and when it is molten take it from the fire and put into it a pint of Wine vinegar and if it be too thin thicken it with Wheat bran then lay it upon hurds and poultess-wise as hot as the horse can suffer it and remove it once in twelve hours and give the horse moderate exercise Markhams own Balme which hath never failed him for any strain in the shoulder or other parts hid or apparent or for any wind-gall or swelling Take ten ounces of Peice-grease and melt it on the fire then take it off and put into it four ounces of the oyle of Spike one ounce of the oyle of Origanum an ounce and a halfe of the oyle of Exceter and three ounces of the oyle of St. Johns wort stirre them well together then put it up into a Gallipot With this Oyntment or indeed pretious Balm hot anoint the grieved part and rub and chafe it in very much holding an hot Bar of Iron before it and thus anoint it once in two days but rub and chafe it in twice or rhrice a day and give the horse moderate exercise For Sinews that are extended overstrained and so weakned that the member is useless Take of Cantharides Euforbium and Mercury of each like quantity and of oyle de Bay double as much as of all the rest bring the hard Simples to powder and beat all to a salve apply this to the griefe being desperate and though it make a sore it will give strength and straightness to the sinews For the sore you may cure it either with Populeon fresh Butter or Deers grease warm Another of the same nature but more gentle Take Turpentine two ounces Verdigrease three ounces Hoggs grease six ounces boyl them till the Verdigrease be desolved then take Rosin Bees wax of each two ounces mix all together then apply it to the place grieved hot A charge for a new strain or grief proceeding from heat Take the whites of six Eggs and beat them with a pint of vinegar the oyle of Roses and Myrtles of each an ounce Bolearmony four ounces as much Sanguis Dracones and with as much Bean flower or Wheat flower but Bean is the best as will thicken it bring it to a salve and spreading it one hurds lap it about the grieved part and renew it not till it be dry For Aches Cramps and hid paines Take Deers Suet or for want of it sweet Butter half a pound of Aquavitae a Gill of Saffron half a dram Pepper beaten and searc'd three drams Garlick bruised three heads mix all together and let them stew on the fire and not boyl till it come to a salve With this very warme chafe the grief then anoint a brown paper therewith and very hot apply to the place also and roll it up Do this morning and evening For swelled or garded leggs whether by Grease or other accident If your horses leggs be swelled onely because the grease is fallen into them there is no other outward ulcer neither will the bathing with cold fountain water and other ordinary helps asswage them then take a pottle of wine lees or else the grownds of strong Ale or Beer and boile it with a pound of hogs grease then with as much wheat bran as will thicken it make thereof a Pultiss then having made the horse an hose of wollen cloath fill it with this pultiss as hot as the horse can suffer it then close up the hose and let it abide two days the third day open the hose at the top but stir not the pultiss onely take molten Hoggs grease very hot and put it to the pultiss whilst it will receive any for that wil renew the strength thereof then close the hose and let him stand either two days or three Then you may open the legg and rub it down and if you find strong occasion you may apply another if not the cure is wrought Now if besides the swelling your horse have ulcers chaps and soars then apply the pultiss as before shewed and after a weeks application take a quart of old urine and put to it half an handful of salt as much Allume and half an ounce of white Copperas boyl them together and with it wash the sore once or twice a day Then after a little drying anoint them with the oyntment called Aegiptiacum and is made of vinegar eight ounces of hony twelv ounces of verdigreas two ounces of Allum an ounce and an halfe and boyled to the height till it come to a red salve and it will both kill the malignant humors and heal and dry up the soars For sweld leggs whether by grease goutiness wind or travell First bathe them well with the Pickle or Brine which comes from Olives being made hot then take a pint of Train oyl as much nerve oyl and as much oyl de Bay a quarter of a pound of Allum half a pint of Sallet oyl half a pound of Hogs grease put all these to a pottle of old urine and with an handfull or two of Mallows Oatmeal bruised and Bran boyl them to a pultiss and very hot apply it to the grief Do thus once in two days For gardings in joynts Make a very strong Brine of Water and Salt and to a pottie thereof put two or three handfull of Rew and boyl it till the herb be soft then with this water very hot bathe the grieved part Then take a flat bagg fild with Salt and heated hot at the fire and lap it about the grief also And thus do once or twice a day For Scratches at the first appearance Take Hogs grease and black sope of each eight ounces Brimstone Lime Gunpowder each three ounces and soot as much as will suffice to bring the rest to a salve boyl the Hogs grease and ●●pe together and bring the other to a fine powder and mix all together and make a black oyntment with this anoint the soars once a day after they are cleansed and made raw For Scratches of long continuance Take hony Verdigrease Brimstone bruised small green Copperas and Bay salt of each like quantity boyl these with a double quantity of Hogs grease and put to it a big root of Elicampan bruised in red wine vinegar apply this to the sores very hot after you have cut a way the hair and made the sores raw as also suppled them by bathing them

with new milk from the Cow For Scratches held incurable First let him blood in the shackle veins the spur veins and the ●ore toe veins onely letting it be three days between the bleeding of the one Toe and the other then with an hair-cloth rub the sores til they be raw and bleed then take a quart of old urine and a quart of strong brine and put to them halfe a pound of Allum and boyl it to a quart With this hot wash the sores wel then take the sperm of Froggs in March and put it into an earthen pot and in a week it will look like oyl then take both the oyl and the round things which you shal see in the sperm and spreading it on a cloath bind it to the soars and do this divers times For any Splent Spaven Curb Ringbone or Excression First clip away the hair as far as the excression goeth and a little more then take a piece of Allumd Leather made as big as the place you have bared and fitted to the ●ame proportion then take a little Shooe-makers Wax and spread it round about the very edge or verge of the same leaving all the inward part empty and not touched with the Wax Then take the herb Speargrass or Spearwort which hath the vertue to raise blisters and bruising it lay some thereof upon the Leather in the empty place and bind it fast thereon suffering it so to lye 〈◊〉 if it be in the Spring or Summer time when the herb hath its full strength near half a day but if it be in winter then it is not a miss to renew the strength of the herb if you add to it a drop or two of the oyl of Origanum and let it lie half a day fully and be sure to tie up the horses head for fear of biting it away When you take away the herb rub the place well and anoynt it with Train-oyl warm or else lay on a Diminium plaister Another for a foul Splint Take Nerve oyl one ounce Cantharides the weight of sixpence and as much of the oyle of Vipers boyl them lightly then with this anoint the Splint cross the hair and heat it in with a hot Iron then tie up the horses head to the Rack for 24 hours then squeeze out the corruption and do this twice o● thrice For a Splint and to dry up windgalls First heat the Sorrance with an hot pressing Iron then vent it in severall places with your Fleam then take a spoonfull of salt half a spoonfull of nerve oyl a peny weight of verdigrease and the white of an egg beat all to a salve and dipping flax hurds therein apply it to the grief For Pains M●les and Rats-tails First take away all the scabs and make the sore raw then with strong mustard made with wine vinegar anoint them all over and do this every night The next morning take half a pound of green Copperas and boyl it in a pottle of running water with an handfull of sage and so much hyssop a quarter of a pound of Allume and as much strong mustard and with this bath the sore twice or thrice a day For Malander or Selander Take the oyl of bay an ounce half so much sugar and a good quantity of the oyl o● froth which cometh from green broom stalks being laid in the fire mix it wel and with this anoynt the soars and it kills and dryes them up For the Swift-cut and to heal all wounds Take a pint of white Wine and put to it two or three spoonfulls of honey and stirr them and boyl them to a salve then take it from the fire and put to it halfe so much Turpentine as there was honey and stirre all together With this salve somwhat hot anoint the soars twice or thrice a day and it is a most speedy healer For any Maunge or Scab in a clean fed Horse First let blood then take a quart of old Urine or Vinegar and break into it a quarter of a pound of good Tobacco then set it on a fire of embers and not boyl and so let it stew all night with this water wash the infected places whether it be in the Mane or otherwise and it helpeth For any Maungie or universall Leprosie in a foul surfeited Horse First let blood in the neck-vein and take a way good store then curry off all the scurf and take verdjuce and vinegar a pint cow-piss a pint train oyle a pint old urine a pint put to them an handful of wild Tansie an handful of Bay salt a quarter of a pound of brimstone as much Alome two ounces of verdigrease and four ounces of Bolarmonie boyl all well together With this very hot wash the horse well and if you put to it the quantity of a pint of blood you take away it is not amiss do this twice or thrice For a Canker foul Ulcer Leprosie and to make hair grow Take a quart of Tar and on the fire put to it half a pound of Bores grease an ounce of Copperat a quarter of a pound of Saltpeter two ounces of wax a quart of honey a quarter of a pound of Rozme two ounces of verdigrease a quart of Lynseed oyl and seeth them till half be consumed then strain it keep it in a close pot Then when you will use it take of it warm and apply it to the soar it doth both heal draw and make hair grow For a Fistula or Pol-evill Take Euforbium with Mastick mix them together then seeth them well with French Sope and make a tent and put it into the Fistula and it will consume the evill moisture For a foul Farcy Take Tar and fresh Hogs grease of each half a pound Hemlock an handfull Arsesmart three handfull and as many Nettles boyl these in a pottle of old Urine and apply it very hot to the swelling but touch it not with your hand for it is too sharp Lastly take a pint of white wine vinegar a quarter of an ounce of verdigrease and a little bundle of Hyssop beat them in a mortar and boyl it to an half pint then with Balls of flax put it luke-warm into both his ears and stich the tips together then tye his head up to the Rack for two hours Do thus twice For a most desperate Farcy Take the herb called Clay-clayes which is a weed growing by the water side having a great broad round leaf and is green on the upper side and white on the neather Rew of each a like quantity beat them and strain them then to a pint of that juice put of Housleek a handful half a pint of Aquavitae and two good spoonfull of pepper beaten and fearc'd Of this liquor take a pint and give it the horse to drink then with round balls of flax dipt in the same stop up both his ears then with the strained bruisings of all the herbs rub the soars and stop the holes if there be any hollowness do thus

in turning short he favour his foot if griping his withers he complain if he halt more when he is ridden then led the offence is on the top of the shoulder If standing in the stable thrust forth his foot and favour it then search his foot and if in that be found no prick no dry founder no surbat then it is in the mid part of the shoulder or the coffin joynt If halting he bow down his head to the ground and step short and thick then it is in the forepart of the shoulder at the breast If in handling his elbow hard he twitch up his foot suddenly from the ground the offence is there If on his shank bones in their severall places be splents excressions windgalls or Maleanders and they sore they will occasion halting as any other outward Sorrance upon any other member Heat on the Crownet shews pain in the Coffin joynt In halting before to trip on the Toe shews pain in the heel to favour the Toe shews payn in the Toe to halt more on uneven ground then one the even shews pain in the feet and in going from you and comming to you may be discerned whether the outward or inward quarter but to clear all doubts the Pincers will shew any pain in the foot whatsoever If your horse halt behind and in halting go sidelong and not in an even line the grief is in the hip and yet but new or in the Fillets and may be new or old If it be old in the hip the hip will fall and then no cure If in halting he tread onely on his hinder Toe and no offence in the foot then the pain is in the stiffell If in halting he bend not his hough or ham and no outward Sorrance yet the pain is there If he halt through any offence in his leg from the ham to the pastern outward Sorrance or swelling will shew it and so likewise for the other parts below it For soar Eyes dim Eyes and Moon eyes Take Lapis Calaminaris halfe an ounce and heat it red hot and quenchin it a quarter of a pint of Plantane water or white wine do this eight or nine times then beat it to powder and put it to the water then add half a dram of Aloes and a scruple of Camphire in powder and let them dissolve drop this into the eye Another for eyes of like nature Take a pint of snow water and dissolve into it three or four drams of white Vitrioll and with it wash the horses eyes three or four times a day and it helpeth For a white Film or Skin over the Eye Take the root of the black Sallow and burn it to ashes then put to it a like quantity of Sugar and grated Ginger finely searc'd blow this into the eye morning and evening For any sorenses in the eyes as Pearl Pin or Web or Bruise Take a new laid egge and rost it very hard then cleave it in sunder longwise and take out the yelk then fill the empty holes with white vitriole finely beaten and close the egge again then rost it the second time till the vitriole be molten Lastly beat the egge shell and all in a mortar and strain it and with that moisture dress the eye If in stead of the vitriole you fill the holes with Myrrh finely searc'd and hang the egge up that it may drop and with that moisture dress the eye it is every way as good onely it is a little stronger For foul eyes sore eyes or sight almost lost There be some that for this great offence in the eye put in two fine small rowels long-wise in the temples of the head just behind the eyes But for mine own part I not much fancy it because I fear it breeds more evil humor then it brings away besides soreness and disgrace therefore in this cure my practise is thus Take Tacchamahaca Mastick Rosin and Pitch of each like quantity and being molten with flax of the colour of the horse lay it as a defensive on each side his temples as big as a twenty shillings piece then underneath his eyes upon the cheek bone with a round Iron burn three or four holes and anoint them with sweet butter then take a handfull of Seladine and wash it clean in white wine but let it touch no water then bruise it and strain it and to the quantity of juyce put the third part of womans milk and a pretty quantity of white Sugarcandy searc'd thorow a piece of Lawn and with a feather quill or otherwise drop it into the sore ey morning and evening Thus do for the worst of sore eys but if the offence be not extream then you may forbear both the defensitive the burning and the rowels and onely use the medicine The Master Medicine for a back sinew-strain or any strain shrinking or numbness of sinews Take a fat sucking Mastive whelp fley it and howell it then stop the body as full as it can hold with gray snails and black snails then rost it at a reasonable fire when it begins to warm bast it with six ounces of the oyl of Spike made yellow with Saffron and six ounces of the oyle of Wax then save the droppings and what moysture soever falls from it whilst any drop will fall and keep it in a Gallipot With this anoint the strain and work it invery hot holding a bar of Iron before it and thus do both morning and evening till a mendment Another in nature of a charge for a back sinnew-strain Take five quarts of Ale and a quarter of a peck of Glovers specks and boyl them till it come to a quart then apply it hot to the grief and remove it not for five or six days For a strain in any yart new or old Take of sheeps suet a pound of sheeps dung two handfull chopt hay an handfull Wheat bran a pint sweet Sope a quarter of a pound boyl all these in a quart of strong Beer and a quart of the grounds of strong Ale till it come to a thick pultiss then take it from the fire and col it with halfe a pint of wine vinegar and a quarter of a pint of Aquavitae then apply this very hot to the grief and give him moderate exercise For a strain or sinew-bruise Take Comin-seeds and bruise it gross then boyl it with the oyle of Camomile and put to it so much yellow Wax'as will bring it to Cerrot and spread it on either Cloth or Leather and hot apply it to the grief For old strains or cold cramps Take Aquavitae Oyl de Bay Oyl of Swallow● Bolearmonie Boars grease black Sope of each half a pound boyl them till the Aquavitae be incorporate then take of Camomile Rue red Sage and Misseldine of each an handful dry them and bring them to powder then mix it with the oyntment and bring all to a gentle salve With this anoynt the grief and hold an hot barre of Iron before it chafing it in

tolerable at any time is that which is made of double Canvas with a round bottom and a square lattice window of small tape before both his nostrils down to the very bottom of the muzzell and upward more then a handfull this must also have a loop and a string to fasten it about the horses head At nine a clock at night come to the Stable and after by ceremonies done give him a quart of oats clean sifted and when they are eaten put on his Muzzell toss up his litter and so leave him The next day early in the morning come to the horse if he be standing but if he be laid do not disturb him and whilst he is lying take a quart of oats clean sifted and rubbed between your hands and wash them i● strong Ale and give them to the horse when they are eaten bridle him up and dress him then saddle as before shewed being ready to depart give him a new laid Egg or two then wash his mouth after it with a little Beer or Ale and so lead away at the doo● urge him to empty then mount and ra●● him gently to the course ever and anon making him smell another horses dung When you are come within a mile o● thereabout of the starting-post alight and take off his body-cloath and Breast-cloath and girt on the saddle again then sending away your Groom both with those Cloaths and other dry Cloaths to rub with let him stay at the la●t end of the course till you come then your self rack your horse gently up to the ●tarting post and beyond making him smell to that post as you should also do to the first post which we call the weighing post that he may take notice of the beginning and ending of the course There start your horse roundly and sharply at neer a three quarters speed and according to his strength of body ability of wind and cheerfulness of spirit run him the whole course through But by no means do any thing in extremity or above his wind but when you find him a little yeild then give him a little ease so that all he doth may be done with pleasure and not with anguish For this manner of training will make him take delight in his labour and so increase it The contrary will breed discomfort and make exercise irksome Also during the time you thus course him you shall note upon what ground he runneth best and whether up the hill or down the hill whether on the smooth or on the rough on the wet or on the dry or on the levill or the earth somewhat rising and according as you find his nature so maintain him for your own advantage When you have finished the heats and a little slightly gallopt him up and down to rate his wind and cheer his spirits you shall then the Groom being ready ride into some warm place as under the covert of some hedge wall bushes or trees into some hollow dry ditch pit or other defence from the air and there light and first with a glassing-knife or as some call it a scraping knife made either of some broken sword blade some old broken Sythe or for war of them of a thin piece of old hard o●ke● wood and fashioned like a long broad knife with a sharp edge and using this with both your hands scrape off all the sweat from your horse in every part buttocks excepted till you find there will no more arise eve● and anon moving him up and down The● with dry cloathes rub him all over painfully buttocks excepted then take of the saddle and having glassed his back and rub'd it neer dry put on his Body-cloth and Breast-cloath and set on the saddle again and girt it then mount and gallop him gently forth again a little pace eve● and anon rubbing his head neck and body as you sit then walk him about the field to cool him and when you find he driet● apace then rack him homeward sometime racking and sometimes galloping but by no means bring him to the Stable till you find him throughly dry When you are come to the Stable dore ●intice him to empty then set him up and tie him to the Rack and as having prepared it before give him this scouring made in this manner The first Scouring Take a pint of the Syrope of Roses or a pint of strong honyed water and dissolve into it of Cassia Agarick and Myrrhe of each half an ounce and symbolize and jumble them together in a Vyall glass Then being muld and made warm at the fire and the horse newly come from his heat as before shewed give him this scouring for it is a strong one and avoydeth all manner of molten grease and foulness Ordering of the Horse after his scouring As soon as you have given him this scouring presently let your Groom fal to rubbing his legs and do your self take off his saddle and cloathes and finding his body dry run slightly over it with your Curry comb after with the French Brush and lastly rub him all over with dry cloathes especially his head nape of the neck and about his heart then cloath him up warm as at other times and wisp him round with great warm wisps and if you throw over him a loose blanket it will not be amiss in these extraordinary times especially if the season be cold The horse must fast full two hours afte● the receit of the scouring but yet depart no● out of the Stable but keep the horse waking for rest hinder the medicine and mot o● makes it work After he hath fastned on the bridle two hours then you shall take a handfull of wheat ears being your Polland wheat that is without Awnes and coming to the Horse first handle the roots of his ears then put your hands under his cloathes against his heart upon his flanks and on the neather part of his thighs and if you find any new sweat arise or any coldness of sweat or if you see his body beat or his breath move fast then forbear to give him any thing for it shews there is much soulness stirred up on which the medicine working with a conquering quality the horse is brought to a little sickness therefore in this case you shall onely take off his bridle put on his Coller toss up his litter and absent your self having made the stable dark and still for other two hours which is the utmost end of that sickness But if you find no such offence then give him the ears of wheat by three or four together and if he eat this handfull give him another After he hath eaten the wheat ears give him a little knob of hay clean dusted and draw his bridle rubbing his head well An hour after his hay sist him a quart of oats and to them put two or three handfull of spelted beans which you shall cause to be reed and drest so clean as is possible from all manner of hulls dust and filth whatsoever