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A00291	The English farrier, or, Countrey-mans treasure Shewing approved remedies to cure all diseases, hurts, maimes, maladies, and griefes in horses: and how to know the severall diseases that breed in them; with a description of every veine; how, and when to let them blood, according to the nature of their diseases. With directions to know the severall ages of them. Faithfully set forth according to art and approved experiment, for the benefit of gentlemen, farmers, inholders, husbandmen, and generall for all.; Verie perfect discourse, and order how to know the age of a horse, and the diseases that breede in him, with the remedies to cure the same	L. W. C.	1639 (1639)	STC 10410; ESTC S109988	27,722	64

into his Nose with a quill and some powder of Ellabar Snéesing powder mixed together with some pepper then take a pint of malmesie the whites and yolkes of fiue new layd Egges one head of Garlike bruised small pepper Cinamon and Nutmegs beaten fine and a quantity of sweet butter mingle them together and giue it him to drinke three dayes after but let him not drinke in foure houres after For the wanders Take halfe a bushell of Barly and set on the fire in a panne and put t●…reto running water and euer as the water wasteth put in more so that the Barly be couered with water and let it seeth till the Barley be broken then take a little Poke or Sacke and put the Barley therein and lay the same on the Horse ridge on length from the Maine to the Cropper all hot and let it lye till it be cold and there let it lye a nigh● and a day and put the Horse into a greene Yard some xxiiii houres and there he will wallow and then take him in and he will be whole For the Yellowes You shall know them by the white of his Eye which will be yellow or else by his tongue which will haue yellow veines or put vp his vpper Lippe and you shall sée veines yellow Take two races of Turmericke and ob of Saffron and put to it a pint of strong Beere or Ale and warme it blood-warme and giue it him Another for the same Take Turmericke a cloue and di and di a dozen thaines of Saffron one or two Cloues and sixe spoonefuls of vineger or vergis and put each in Eare three spoonfuls and stop his eares with blacke wooll and then tye them fast seven or eight dayes Another for the same Take long Pepper graines turmericke and Licoris beaten in powder put them into strong Beere and giue it him to drinke For the paines or Crotches which commeth by heat and sudden cold upon it The paines appeare aboue the Hoofe you shall know them by the Haire standing right vp you must take vp the shackle veine on both sides then take the soft Row of a red Herring and Mustard and blacke Sope and boile these in vineger and make a P●aster and lay it to the sore There is no Veine betweene the Posterne and the Hoofe but the Shanke Veine and the Veine which serueth for the Crotches must bee taken vp on the inside and the outside Wash it first with warme Vrine then drie it with a Cloth and c●ippe away a●l the hayres o● the scabby place then rubbe and chafe it all ouer and make fast his feete and rubbe the p●ace grieued with Butter and tarre boyling together vpon a Clout tied on a stickes end and ba●…e it well therewith vse this once or twice a day till it be whole Butter and honney molten together is good to annoynt an Horse for paines or Crotches An●ther for the same T●ke a pound of Hogges greace i. d. worth of verdigreace ii oz of mustard di a pound of oyle de bay a quarter of a pound of Naruell di a pound of Honey di a pound of English Waxe i. oz. of Arsenicke ii oz of Red Lead halfe a pint of 〈◊〉 boyle all these together and make an Oyntment of it C●ippe the Horses legge bare and lay this medicin to it very hot For Courded legges or scratches Take vp the sheines beneath the knee and let him blood as much as you thinke good then knit the Veine aboue and beneath and annoynt the legges with this oyle following Another for thesame Take Frankinsence and Rosen and fresh greace and boyle them together and straine it and keepe it to your vse A Drinke to raise a Horse or for a Horse that is sicke Take two penny-worth of Pepper two penny worth of Saffron two penny-worth of Annis-seedes two penny worth of turmericke a penny-worth of long Pepper two penny-worth of treacle a penny-worth of Licoris a good quantity of penny reyall and Archangell Giue him these with the yolkes of Egges in milke to drinke And for Neate Cattell giue these to drinke For a Scurfet Horse Take a quart of Beere or Ale two penny-worth of Sallet oyle and as much Dragon water a penny-worth of treacie make them warme vpon the coales and put into it a penny-worth of Horse Spices and giue it him For a Hide-bound Horse This commeth by ouermuch working ill dyering and naughty dressing take Fen-creeke turmericke Annis seedes Bayes Licoris and Cummin beate all these together and giue him one spoonefull of all these in Ale or Beere blood warme this is also good for the cough this will also keepe him from it If you use to giue if him before the disease commeth Another for the same Take away some blood with the Flem then giue him some warme meashes morning and euening and giue him Malt sodden in water together or branne and water or some wheat sodden with Barly in water and it will helpe him For the hoofe-bound You shall raise the hoofe aboue from the toppe to the soale in foure or fiue places that the Water may come out Some doe raise it round with a sharpe knife and along downeward and then rubbe it well with Salt once or twice For a loose Hoofe Take Tarre thrée spoonefull of Rosen a quarter of a pound of Tansie Rue of red Mints of Sothernwood of each halfe a handfull beate all them together namorter and put there to halfe a pound of butter i d. worth of Virgins wax then fry them altogether and binde it to the Hoofe for eight dayes and it will eure him For a brittle hoofe If your Horse haue a brittle Hoofe it is because it is too hot or too dry and doth stand a day in the Stable unstopped Take Oxe-doung and temper it with Vineger and binde it warme all ouer vnto the Féete and vnder the soales of the Féete on the next day use him so againe so use it for a wéeke together and it will helpe him vse to stoppe his Féete with Oxe or Cow doung or his owne and let him stand so a moneth Or take the fat of Bacon and temper it with Turpentine and annoynt his Féete therewith which is very good A Medicine for the Cough or morning in the chine Kéepe your Horsemeatlesse ouer night then take a a pint and a halfe of milke thrée hēads of Garlike p●lled and stamped boyle them to the halfe giue it to your Horse and some at his nose then runne a quarter of a mile then rest him and after that runne him thrée times more euery time resting him then put him into a stable and keepe him very warme giue him no water till ofternoone then giue him good Mesh and so vse him with Meshes three dayes and giue him no water but alwayes warme for three dayes Another for the same Take Hornehound Licoris and Annis seeds in powder make Balles thereof with fresh Butter and giue it your Horse Another for the same Take

way The shooe then standing straight and iust driue in the rest of all the nayles to the number of eight that is to say foure on the on side and foure on another so as the points of the nayles may séeme to stand in the out side the hooue euen and iust one by another as it were in a Cyrenler line and not out of order like the teeth of a saw whereof one is bent one way and clinch them so as the clinches may be hidd●n in the hooue which by cutting the Hooue with the point of a knyfe a little beneath the appearing of the nayle you may easely doe That done with a ●ape pare the hooue round so as the edge of the shooe may be séene round about Chap. 14. Of paring and shooing the hinder feet FOr the paring of the hinder féete is cleane contrary to the forféete for the weakest part of the hinder foote is the toe and therefore in paring the hinder foote the toe must be alwayes more spared than the héeles Then make the shooe fitte for the hooue in such forte as is before said sauing that it would be always strongest towards the toe and it must be pierced nigher the héele than the toe because as I haue said before that the toe is alwayes the weakest part of the hinder foot Also let the out side of the hinder shooe be made with a Calkin not ouer high but let the other sponge be agréeable vnto the Calkin that is to say as high in a manner as the Calkin which Calkin is to keepe the horse from flyding But then it may not be sharpe pointed but rather flatte and handsomely turned vpward Chap. 15. How to keepe the hoove of a horse moist in the stable and the receit of the oyntment AS Horses hoous do many times take harme through the necligence or vnskilfulnesse of the Ferrer in euill paring or shooing the same euen so they take no lesse harme many times through the necligence of the kéeper for lack of stopping and kéeping the foreféete moyst for the hinder féete most commonly are kept to moyst by meanes that the doung and stale is suffered to lye continually at their héeles But the forféete stand continually dry whereby the horse becommeth brittle hooued yea and many times hoouebound which a good keeper will not suffer but be mindfull to sto● them often either with horse doung or Cow doung yea and also to wash them cleane without with water and then to anoynt them with some good supplying oyntment as this here following prescribeth Take of Turpentine of sheeps sewet of each halfe a pound of vnwroght wax halfe a quarterne and of Sallet oyle halfe a pint Boyle all these together in a potte sturring them continually vntill they be throughly mingled together Then take it from the fyre and let it coole and being cold preserue it in the same pot or else in some other to the intent that you may haue it ready euery second day to annoynt all the coffins of the Horses Hooues round about but first wash their hooues faire and cleane and suffer no durt to remaine vpon them then being dryed with a cloth annoynte them The siixt Chapter Approved remedies for the curing of all kindes of diseases hurts maimes or malidies or griefes in Horses For the Galling of a Horse-backe TAke Butter vineger and Bay-salt and melt them together and lay on the horse backe warme then strow vpon it sut or the poulder of a clay wall Another for the same Take ob of turmericke bruise it a handfull of Bay-salt and a handfull of Sut with two handfuls of Oatemeale mingle it with Vrine and make it into a Cake as well as you can and then vpon a hot harth bake it till it be burnt blacke then beate it into poulder and when you haue washed your horsebacke with Lee very hot or Chamber Lee then strow on the poulder and when the poulder is almast gone dresse it as aforesaid If it bee festred take Yeest Honey the white of an Egge and sut mingle them together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the dead flesh then straw on Verdigreace and renew it once a day Another for the same Take a pottle of Vergis two penny worth of gréene Copris and boile it to a pint and a halfe wash and search the hole therewith and fill the hole with Red Lead 〈◊〉 so let it remaine thrée dayes vntouched then wash it with the same and fill it againe with Red Lead and so euery other day wash it with that Water not made so strong of the Copris and lay thereon Red Lead this will heale it though it be galled to the body To heale any canker or sore in a horse Take of the strongest Beere a pint put it into a quarter of a pound of Allum and halfe a hand full of Sage Seethe it to the one halfe then take out the Sage leaues this will heale any Canker or Sore in a horse To heale any cut in a Horse Take a quarter of a pound of fresh Butter of tarre and blacke Sope halfe so much of each and a little turpentine boyle them altogether but the Sope and as soone as you take it from the fire put in the Sope and then use it For a horse wrung in the wales Take Butter and salt and boile them together till they are blacke then powre it on hot then take vp a flake of Horse doung that is hot and loy it on the sore backe and so dresse him till he be whole For fretting on the belly which commeth with galling of the foregirt This commeth with the fore Girt and it stoppeth the blood which is in the principall veines called the plate Veines which doe runne length wayes take Oyle of Bayes and Oyle of Balme two ounces of Pitch two ounces of tarre one ounce of Rosen mingle them altogether and annoynt the fore bowels then take Flaxe and lay vpon it and seare it with a hot Iron but take héed it be not too hot for feare of burning For Thistulaes When you first perceiue it to swell then scald it with Honey and shéepes suet but scald it very much this will keepe it from bréeding Then take and slit it in the ueather end of the sore and put as much Mercury Sublimatum as a Pease abate it with Sallet Oyle laying it on with a feather after that take verdigreace foure penny worth Vitriall ob Lead thrée penny worth beate these together and euery day wash the wound with Copris water made with Copris and Elder leaues in Summer and with the inner gréene barke in Winter after washing take the powder and put it on the sore and after it droppe on a little Oyle Another for the same Take the outtermost gréene shels of Walnuts and put them in a tubbe strowing thrée or foure handfull of Bay-salt upon them some on the bottome some on the middle and some on the top and so kéepe them all the yeare and when

wheat flowre Annis seeds and Licoris being stamped in a morter Fiue or sixe cloues of garlike being bruised mixe all these together and make a Praister of them and rowle them in balles as big as a Walnut then pull out his tongue and cast the balles downe his throate three or foure of them at a time and giue him two new layd Egges after them shels and all For the Glaunders Take swines greace cleane clarified and as much oyle of bay as a Walnut giue it him to drinke with faire water luke warme Another for the same Take of Ellecampana Annis seeds and Licoris of each i.d. worth boyle them in three pints of strong Ale or Beere vnto two pints or lesse then put into it a quarter of a pint of Sallet oyle and giue it him to drinke blood warme Then take Enfordium in a Quill and blow it up into his nose and within three dayes after take mustard Vineger and Butter and boyle them together put thereto halfe an ounce of Pepper and giue it him to drinke Use the one Medicine one weeke and the other another and ride to worke him easile Another fer the same Take a quantite of Annis seeds Kicoris and Ellecampana roots ●ong pepper and Garlike of each a like with three Egges and some butter a quantity of malmesie and some strong Ale mixt together and make it warme and so giue it him and keepe him warme Another for the same Seeth a handfull of pilled Earlike in Milke and put a peece of Butter thereto and some Ale and stirre them all together and giue it him fasting and ride him softly a while after and then set him vp but keepe him warme nine dayes after For the strangies Cut him betwéene the Iawes and take out the Kernels and wash the place every day with béere and butter and stoppe it vp as long as you can and giue him new milke and Garlike to drinke and the iuyce of the leaues of Birch withall or in winter the barke of Birch also smother him with the fume of Masticke or Frankinsence For the Farsey Take blacke Sope Arsenicke vnstaked Lime verdigreace and Red Lead worke these together and lay them to the sore Another for the same Take thrée ounce of Quicksiluer and put it into a bladder with two spoonefulls of the iuyce of Orange or Lemmons and shake them together to coole the Quicksiluer then take halfe a pound of fresh Hogges grea●e and of Vergis and ounce put all these in a Tréede dish and worke them well together then anoynt the Knots with this Oyntment till they rot then let them out with a sharpe Knife and anoynt them still and put into his eare the iuyce of Rag-wéed and they will dry vp Probatum A drinke for the Farsey Let him blood in the necke of both sides foure fingers from the head and giue him this drinke Take a Gallon of faire water and put therein a good handfull of Rue and a spoone full of Hempséeds and bruise them into a morter altogether and seeth it till the halfe be consumed and when it is cold giue it him to drinke For the Farsey Take blacke Sope Mustard made of sharpe Wine or Vineger and Red Lead mixe all these together and anoynt the veines all along rubbe it euer with an hot Iron made of purpose but very thicke rubbe the Medicine much in with the Iron being red hot To destroy the Farsey Take the iuyce of hemlocke a good quantity and bray them together and put into the eares pricke the knots and put in salt and giue him drinke with swéet Wort Fennell and Treacle For a Horse foote that is wronged in the foote locke Séeth a quart of brine till the foame rise then straine it and put thereto an handful of Tansie as much of mallows a saucerful of hony a quarter of a pound of shéeps Tallow stir all these on the fire til the Hearbs are well sodden and all hot lay it to the Ioynt then lay a cloth ouer it and it will be whole in three dayes For a wrench in the foot-locke Take Pompilion naruile black sope of each alike heate them hot on the fire and then a noynt him therwith For a horse that is Stiffed or hipped Take a pound of Bolearmoniacke on quarter of red wine vineger six egs beaten shels and all two penny-worth of English honey as much Venice Turpentine one quart of flowre one good handfull of bay-salt and put all these in a pot and kéepe it close all night and the next day applay some of it to the hurt dressing it once a day for nine dayes together For a horse that is foundred Take verdigreace Turpentine and sallet-oyle two or thrée spoonefuls of Hogs greace and bées wax one ozboile a together and so dip flax or towin it and stuffe his féete there with and let him blood in the toes Another for the same Plucke off his shooes and pare hollow his Féet nigh to the quicke then race him with a crooked Launce from the héele to the toe in two or thrée places on both sides of the Hoofe and let him bléed well then clap two or thrée hard Egges to it as hard as hee may suffer it and as they coole lay on more and then lay hot horse dung vpon them and about his féete and hee will soone recover if you giue him rest For a horse that is foundred in his feet Take tarre neats-foot oyle and the yolkes of egs i.d. worth of verdigreace and some Wheat bran and boils these together and bind them vnder his foote very hot If he foundred in his body Take ob of Garlike ii d. worth of pouder of Pepper-ii d. worth of powder ginger .ii. d. worth of graines brut sed and put into a bottle of stale ale the best you can get and giue it him to drinke and litter him to the belly and lay-clothes on him as many as he can beare and let him blood on the sides For blindnesse Take two dry tile stones and rubbe them together and blow the powder of it with a quill into his eyes thrée or foure times For the webbe in the eye Take the lean of a gammon of bacon and dry it therof make powder and vse the powder and it will cure it For the pearle in the eye Take the iuice of ground-iuy the iuice of salandine and womans Milke and put it into the eyes and it wil also cure him For the Maw in the eyes Make a plaister of the iuyce of ground-iuie and of Iuie-berries stamped in a Morter beaten with wine or water and plaisterwise lay it one the eye or eyes evening and morning Another for the same Some take a Néedle and a double thréed and thrust the needle through the filme of the eye wherein the Crush groweth which pull out laying it on your fingers end and holding the Needle and thréed straight and so cut away the hard matter a penny bredth but beware you cut