as thus you obserue his Ordure so you must also obserue his Vrine Of both which I haue written sufficiently in my former Bookes As these quallities of feeding and emptying so you shall note his quallities in Rest and Watching that is in his lying down and standing vp what howres and time hee obserueth for either and how long he perseuereth in them and if at any time you find any suddaine or grosse alteration then be assured of some sicknesse approaching And thus of any other particular quallitie in your Horse which you shall obserue in his health for it is impossible to nominate all if you find them suddainly to surprise it is doubtlesse that there is some sicknesse following As you thus obserue the Complection quallities of the Horse so you must obserue his naturall customes and conditions and how in his liuelihood and best health he standeth affected for to name them I cannot because they proceed most from hidden inclinations or else accidentall apprehensions which by continuance of time grow to naturall habits And any of these when they shall surcease or faile are true progoastications of distemperature and sicknesse Many other signes of sicknesse there are as the not casting of the Coate in due time Hyde-bound continuall dislike and leannesse where there is good feeding beside many other But they are so vulgar and commonly knowne that I need not rehearse them and these signes already written are sufficient for knowledge The curing of any heart sicknesse or head sicknesse or any ordinarie inward sicknesse I Will now descend to the cure of these inward sicknesses and although euery seuerall sicknesse haue a seuerall cure as I haue shewed at large in my Bookes yet I will draw all here into one hidden but certaine and most infallible approued Method which I haue neuer found prosperous and fortunate Whensoeuer either by the signes before rehearsed or other accident or knowledge you shall find your Horse grieuously payned with inward sicknesse the first thing you doe you shall open his Neck-veine and receiue some of the first blood into a Pewter porrenger which if you set it in cold water it will presently discouer the foulnesse and putrefaction so then you shall let the Horse bleed well till the blood change neither must you be nice or tender in this action because you must vnderstand that all inward sicknesses in Horses draw their effects from the putrefaction of the blood only And this is the reason It is certaine that the Horse of all other Creatures hath no Gall or naturall Vessell into which to receiue the skummy and putrefied matter which ariseth fom the corrupt and collericke blood but it is either auoyded in excrements humours or moderate exercise and sweates or else by immoderate exercise and violent labour By too much repletion and fulnesse by vnwholsome food and euill dyet or by some other naturall defect this chollericke corruption increasing and ouerflowing it presently and in an instant ouer-spreads the whole body hauing its course through euerie veine and so discoloureth the skin and makes all the outward partes yellow especially the Eyes and inside of the Lips also mixing with the better blood and confounding the strength and vertue thereof it brings a generall faintnesse ouer all the body and in the end suffocating the heart of force there must follow sodaine and certaine mortallitie and hence proceedeth those sodaine deathes of Horses for which our weake Farriers can giue but an idle and foolish account But to returne to my purpose after you haue taken away good store of blood and as you imagine all or at least most part of that which is corrupt you shall then set him vp in the Stable tying his head to the emptic Racke gently and at lyberty neither so high that he shall be compelled to rest his Head vpon the Bridle nor yet so low that hee may thrust his Head into the Maunger and thus ye shall let him and at least two howres Now if the sicknesse be not very contagious and dangerous you shall not administer any potion vnto him that day because the veine being opened and all the humors powers and faculties of the body disturbed it will bee a double vexation to the spirits to haue the working of the Potion also therefore in this case the sicknesse not being violent you may forbeare further administration and onely after the Horse hath fasted as before said you shall giue him such food as he will eate whether it bee Hay Bread or Corne and alwayes prouided that it be strong sauorie sweet dry and cleane drest as for the quantitie it matters not for a small pittance will maintaine life and humor is now to the Horse as food besides emptines is no great displeasure At high Noone you shall giue him a sweete Mash of Malt and Water made in this manner Take halfe a pecke of good Malt well ground and put it into a payle by it selfe then take a gallon of faire cleere Water and set it on the fire then when it is come to the heighth that it is ready to boyle put as much of it to the Malt as will moyst and couer the Malt all ouer and stirre them exceedingly well together crushing the Malt with a flat Rudder as much as you can euer and anon tasting it with your finger till it bee as sweet as any Honey and then couer it ouer with Cloathes as close as you can and so let it stand and stoone for two or three howres at the least then the howre being come in which the Horse is to receiue it vncouer the Mash and stirre it well about but finding it too hot then put to it some cleere cold Water that may temper and allay it but in any wife not so much as may take away any part of the sweetnesse and in this tempering with your hand crush and squeeze the Malt as much as you can then the Mash being luke warme giue it the Horse to drink and if he will eat of the Malt let him take thereof at his pleasure This is the best manner of making an ordinarie Mash or Horse-Caudle for of that nature and quallitie it is and to that purpose that a Caudle is administred to a Man is this giuen to a Horse for you must vnderstand that in these contagious diseases nothing is more pesâ—ilent than cold Water and especially when exercise cannot be vsed The ruder Farriers and Horse-Groomes doe make the Mash another way putting the Malt to the Water at the first and so boyling them both together but this is vnwholsome and naught and that euerie good House-wife can witnesse for this long boyling ouer-scaldes the Malt takes away the strength and sweetnesse and giues an harsh and vnsauorie taste which is offensiue to the Horses nature If your Horse be coy and refuse to take the Mash as many are partly for want of vse and custome and partly through weaknesse of stomacke then you shall straine the Water from
the Malt exceeding hard and so giue it him with an Horne to drinke then take the Graines which you haue so strained and put them in the Manger before the Horse on which whether he feed or no it matters not for if he but smell and snuffell his nose vpon them it is sufficient and the fume thereof is wonderous wholsome for his head After you haue thus giuen him his Mash you shall see that he be very warmely cloathed as namely a good woollen Body-Cloath to come round about his heart a large Cloath or two to come ouer it and to be well wispt round about with soft thicke and large wispes for the little hard and neat wispes though they are comly to the eye yet are they vnwholsome for the body for their hardnesse and smalnesse makes an impression into the Horses sides and causeth him forbeare to lye downe when Nature and rest requireth it The Horse being thus warmely cloathed as aforesaid and with a very warme Brest-cloath before his breast for that is an especiall part to keepe warme you shall then cause one or two to rub all his foure Legs from his Knees Cambrels downward with very hard wispes and to rub them so hard as may be and whilst his limbes are thus in rubbing you shall take a course rubber or two made of new harden or hempen Cloth and warming one after another ouer a pan of Coales with them rub the Horse exceeding much in the nape of the Necke or the Polle iust betweene his Eares and on the Temples of the Head for there is nothing more wholesome than these frictions and chafings for they dissolue humours reuiue all naturall heat bring a cheerfull nimblenesse into the â—limbes and purge the head of all grosse cold and tough matter cleansing and purifying the Brayne by which the members and other faculties are fortified and the whole Body reduced backe to its first strength and abillitie As soone as you haue ended this action of rubbing you may then let the Horse take his rest for two or three howres and onely leaue a locke or two of sweete Hay in his Racke and no more for the least quantitie of any things too much soone cloyeth a sicke Horse In the Euening you shall come to the Horse againe and hauing rubbed all his limbes and head as was before shewed you shall then perfume his head in this manner Take of the best and purest Oliâ—anum an ounce then as much Storax and as much Beniamin and bruise all them together I doe not meane bruise them to small powder but onely breake them into small lumpes and mixe them well together so that taking them vp betweene your fingers you may not take vp one ingredient alone but some of all Then take a Chafing-dish and if it be possible a Chafing-dish after the manner of the perfuming Chafingdish which is wide below where the fire is and narrow at the top where the smoake auoydeth and in this Chafingdish put well kindled Wood cole or small Charcoale then take some of the aforesad perfume and lay it vpon the Coales but in any wise so as it may not flame but smoake then hold the Chafingdish vnder the Horses nose and let the smoake goe vp into his Nostrils and thus perfume him well for the space of a quarter of an howre or halfe an howre at the most Now it may be the Horse may seeme coy to receiue this at the first because it is strange vnto him but doe you continue the action and cherish him for be you well assured after he hath once receiued the smell into the head hee will be as greedy to haue it as you are willing to giue it for there is nothing that delighteth an Horse more or more reioyceth his spirits than sweet sauors and odoriferous smells of which this perfume is one of the cheefest The effect which this perfume worketh is that it purgeth the Brayne of all filthy and corrupt matter and as you shall find by experience in the working it dissolues tough matter into water and brings it away in such abundance that it is sometimes ready to extinguish the fire as it falleth It is the greatest comforter of the Braine that can be and from thence sendeth such cheerefullnesse to the heart that it reioyceth the whole body There are diuers other perfumes which weake Farriers vse in this case as namely wet Hay or rotten Litter and putting a burning Coale therein giue the smoake to the Horse But this is a stinking sauor and no perfume and although it make the Horse snoare and neese and so you may imagin it auoydeth fowle matter yet it is nothing so but it offendeth both his Brayne and stomacke and by the noysomenesse of the smell dulleth and weakeneth the spirits and rather ingendereth infection than any way abateth infirmitie for from rottennesse there can but rottennesse proceed Next there is the Perfume of Brimstone either simple of it selfe and put vpon the fire or else compound with another body as Butter Oyle or the like and so thrust vp into the Horses nostrils This I must needes confesse is a sharpe Perfume and euacuateth much foule matter and dissolueth the thickest matter into thin water But yet you must know that there is in this Sulphure or Brimstone a certaine earthy and poysonous quallity which not onely doth offend the vitall parts but is also most malignant and iniurious both to the eyes of Man and Beast so that like Margery Goodcowe if it haue one vertue yet two vices attend it Then there are the Perfumes of the Stalkes of Onions Garlicke Leekes Mustard-seed and the like or the Perfume of the Fruits themselues either burnt or boyld Buâ— these are also great enemies to the eyes of an Horse so that I can by no meanes allow them especially foâ— this reason becase that generally all these inward sicknesses in Horseâ— doe most of all afflict the head anâ— eyes to which these things are enemies Also there is the Perfume oâ— Wheat Peniroyall Sage boyld tilâ— the Wheat burst and so put it into aâ— Bagge fastened about the Horseâ— nose This I must confesse is the best of many yet it is much toâ— weake for a strong infirmitie and the Penirâ—yall hath a bitternesse that is offensiue As these so I could nominate diuerse others but none so excellent as the first of all prescribed and therefore to it I referre you After your Horse hath been welâ— perfumed as beforesaid you shall let him rest for a quarter of an howre and then giue him such food as he wil eat either Bread or Oates of which how little soeuer he eateth it skils not for it is to be intended that his stomacke is now at the weakest After he is fed you shall tosse vp his Litter for you must know that he must stand vpon Litter Night and Day and then if need be giue him more Litter and but a locke or handfull of Hay that you may be
Markhams FAITHFVLL FARRIER Wherein the depth of his Skill is layd open in all those principall and approued Secrets of Horsemanship which the Author neuer published but hath kept in his Brest and hath beene the Glory of his Practise Printed at London by T. C. for Michael Sparke dwelling in Greene Arbor and are to be sold by RICH ROYSTON at his shop in Iuie Lane 16â—0 To the Reader or Buyer of this Booke IT is a true saying Tempus omnia terminat So I Gentle Reader hauing gained experience all my life to these present dayes wherein I am ready to creepe into the earth willing now at the important request of my best Friends haue yeelded myselfe to lay the Glorie of my Skill in Horsemanship open to the World And hauing kept secret in the Cabinet of my Brest these Secrets by which I haue gained from many a Noble person many a fayre pound I now bestow it vpon thee for the value of Foure Pence It may bee some will account mee a Foole in print for disclosing my Secrets but I euer regarded the life of a worthy Horse before the Word of a Foole. For bee thou Noble or what else this here I doe is for thy Good If you take pleasure either in an Horse to Hunt or for the Warre or for the Race or for to Draw or a Hackney come hither buy see and welcome Take my opinion and thou shalt finde in this my honest Faithfull Farryer a Shoppe of Skill for thee to view Let this bee thy Doctor and thy Druggist Let this be thy Instructer and Director I hope that no good minded Farryer will be greeued with me because I giue insight to the Master of the Horse For if thy House were on fire why shouldest thou run to fetch thy Neighbours Water to quench it when thine owne is neerer at hand So if the Horses Owner know by this Booke how to saue the life of his Horse why should he either ride or run to the Farryer But it may bee euerie Owner of an Horse will not buy a Booke It matters not if but euery Farryer haue one and but that one in a Towne I doubt not but with making vse of that one many a Man shall saue the life of his Beast Come therefore and reade these Secrets which cost me Paines Studie Practise and Labour All which hath cost mee Trouble for thy Ease This shall bee thy Pleasure which hath beene my Toyle It shall bee thy Profit which hath beene my Trouble And this shall bee thy Faithfull Farryer and Inctructer For what Creature canst thou name more necessarie than the Horse and what more helpefull at a time of need For were wee without Horse in what a strait should wee bee in hee being our best Seruant both in Warre and Peace and of that inestimable value that hee makes a Man proud of his seruice Now if an Horse be such a profitable Seruant for Man let vs then respect the meanes that God hath giuen vs for his Cure For here is a Schoole of Skill for thy knowledge First How to make choyse of a good Horse Secondly what Countrey Horse is the most fit for thy vse Either for seruice in Martiall or Warlike imployment or for Swiftnesse or for Long trauell or for Draught or for Coach or for Cart or for Packe or any other Burthen This shalt thou find here in as ample manner as if thou wert an old Master in Smithfield And this shall bee my Glorie euen as long as I liue that I haue liued to leaue this my last and best Worke to the World and to them which will not liue to see it buried in Obliuion But mee thinkes I here some Momus say That the old Captaine was vnaduised to put this in print which hee euer kept as a rare Secret and it is true Veritas odium parit But I reply Tempus omnia terminat And though I had promised to my selfe neuer to haue published this worke yet being so continually importuned to print it I was forced to yeeld though I had promised the contrarie And let this excuse mee to those Noble persons whose bountie I haue felt that for them I was the willinger to publish it in print while I liued fearing that after my death my then Fatherlesse Child might get a new name But now I leaue this being begot in my old age to all Noble Worthy Gentlemen and when they looke not after him to the Faithfull Farryer to be cherished and to be knowne by the name of Captaine GERVAS MARKHAMS last and best Labours The Contents of this BOOKE OBseruations in the electing of Horses and what Countrey Horse is for what vse Folio 1 The occasions of inward Sicknesses and Accidents which happen vpon those occasions 4 The signes of inward Sicknesses 7 The curing of any Heart sicknesse or Head sicknesse or any ordinarie inward sicknesse 21 To cure any violent Sicknesse if the Horse be at the very poynt and doore of death 41 The preuenting of all inward Sicknesses 50 Two sorts of Bals to cure any violent Cold or Glaunders to preuent Heart sicknesse to purge away all molten Grease to recouer a lost Stomacke and to keepe the Heart from fainting with exercise and to make a leane Horse fat suddenly 55 Another way how to fatten an Horse suddainly 60 How to keepe an Horse or Iade from tyring 62 Another Receipt against tyring or for any sore or dangerous Cold. 64 Another Receipt for any extraordinary Cold dry Cough or Pursicknesse in an Horse which the weake Farriers call Broken-winded 66 An excellent Scowring after any sore Heate or for any fat Horse after his exercise 74 For any dangerous Bots Mawwormes or poysoned Red Wormes 78 For Gourded or foule sweld Legges or other parts by reason of melting the Grease or other Accident 80 To hoale or dry vp any old Vlcer or cankerous Sore 84 To cure the running Frush or any Impostumation in the soale of the Foot to dry vp Scratches Paines and the like cankerous Sores 86 For any sore Eye of Horse or Beast 88 For a Backe-sinew strayne or any other Strayne 90 For any old Strayne or lamenesse in loynts Synewes c. 91 For any griefe payne numbnesse weaknesse or swelling in loynts and commeth of a cold cause 92 For any desperate and incurable straine in the Shoulder or other hidden parts for any Fistula Polle-euill or other Impostumation or swelling 93 For Foundering Frettizing or any Imperfection in the Feet or Hoofes of an Horse 96 For hurts vpon the Crownets of the Hoofes as Ouerreach Stub or Pricqe c. 99 How to helpe Surbating or sorenesse in the Feet 101 For any Bony excression arysing vpon any member of an Horse as Splint Spanen Curbe Ringbone c. 102 Obseruations in giuing of Fire or vsing of Corosines which heale all sorts of Farcies Cankers Fislulas Leprosies Maungees Scabs c. 103 How to defend a horse from flyes 104 How to make a white Starre
you may candy all manner oâ— Roots Flowers or any thing else Now if you find any difficultie either in the making or the procuring of these Midicines before shewed or that the Infirmitie not being great or dangerous you thinke a Medicine of lesse force and easier to compasse will accomplish it Then you shall take of the Sirrup of Coltsfoot an ounce of the fine Powder of Elicampane of Aniseeds and of Licoras of each halfe an ounce of browne Sugar Candy an ounce deuided into two parts then with as much sweet Butter as will suffice worke all the former Powders and one part or halfe of the Sugar Candy and all the Sirrup into a stiffe Paste then diuide it into two or three Bals and role them into a round forme or the fashion of an Egge and after role them all ouer in the other halfe or part of the Sugar Candy and then giue this whole quantitie at one time to the Horse in the manner of a Pill and giue them in the morning fasting then ride the Horse halfe an houre after the giuing and let him fast two howres at the least after he commeth in and let him be warme cloathed and stopt and his Limbes and Body well rubbed especially his Head Let him by no meanes drinke any cold Water but so as he may haue exercise after it and let his exercise be moderate and not violent let his Hay be a little sprinkled with Water his Oates with Beere or Ale as for bread it is of it selfe moyst enough and let all his meat generally be well dusted sifted or chipped for nothing is more offenciue then foulenesse and drynesse nor more comfortable then cleannesse prouided that your Corne be not greene and vnsweet in the Mow or Reeke your Bread new nor your Hay vnsweete or rotten Thus you shall doe not for one morning or two but for diuerse till you find amendment neither shall you spare any trauell or occasion but haue medicine about you vse it in your iournying for this doth not take away anything to weaken Nature but addes to the force thereof and makes the Body a great deale more able An excellent Scowring after any sore Heate or for any Horse after his exercise TAke a quart of good Sacke and set it on the fire in a Bason or open Skillet and when it is warme take an ounce of the clearest Rosen and bruise it exceeding small then by degrees little after a little put it into the Sacke and stirre it fast about for feare of clotting and when the Sacke and it is incorporated then take it from the fire and put thereto halfe a pint of the best Sallet Oyle and in the cooling stirr them all well together then lastly take an ounce of the browne Sugar Candy beaten to Powder and put it in also and being lukewarme giue it to the Horse in the height of his heat as soone as you come home from exercise then rub hard cloath warme and let him fast at least two howres after but yet depart not your selfe or some deputie for you out of the Stable but stay and keepe the Horse stirring and waking partly by extraordinarie noyse and clamour and partly by action about him or making him moue vp and downe as he standeth for there is nothing more hurtfull to the Horse or the working of the Medicine then sleepe stilnesse and rest and nothing better or more auailable to the working of the Medicine then action or motion for they make the spirits worke and stirre vp those humours which should be remoued when rest keepes the spirits dull and the humours so inclosed and reserued that Nature hath nothing to worke vpon Whensoeuer you giue any scowring be sure that day to giue no cold water after it for it is binding and knitteth and detayneth that foulnes which the Scowring should take away Thus you see how to giue a Scowring in the proper and due time But if now either through Errour Ignorance or Imagination that your Horse is so cleane that he needeth no Scowring as I know many of opinion that Scowrings are idle vnnecessarie things and not to be vsed at all yet your Horse hauing his Grease molten and no course taken for the auoyding therof you find he droopeth and languisheth as of force the â—horse must doe and experience daily shewes it vs. For the opinion that Scowrings are vnprofitable is friuolous and idle In this case vpon the first apprehension of the euill you shall giue the Horse a sweet Mash in the Euening which is in the same nature and of the same quallitie that a Preparatiue is before a Purgation Then the next morning very early mount his back and â—n some conuenient peece of ground giue your Horse a gentle heat I doe not meane that you shal run him furiously or violently but to gallop him gently neither to heat him through the extremitie of sudden and sharpe labour but to warme him kindly through the continuance of moderate exercise Nor would I haue you to melt his Grease anew but only to loosen and stirre vp that which was before molten Your exercise being finished doe not alight from his back suddenly but rub him as you sit on his backe and so bring him home then presently hauing the Scowring ready as soone as you are alighted giue it him lukewarme then rub him dry cloathe and stop him very warme and then in all other things doâ— as hath beene before declared For any dangerous Bots Maw wormes or poysoned Red Wormes TAke as much precipitate which is Mercury Calsoynd as will gently lye vpon a Siluer Twopence and lay it in a peece of sweete Butter almost as big as an Hens Egge in the manner of a Pill and then in the morning fasting the Horse hauing stood all night on the Mussell or at the emptie Rack if it be possible or otherwise if the extremity of the disease compell you at any other time draw forth the Horses Tongue and make him swallow downe the Pill then chafe him a little vp and downe and after set him vp warme making him fast full two howres after and it will kill all manner of Wormes whatsoeuer Yet in the administration hereof you must be wondrous circumspect and carefull for in the Precipitate there is a strong poysonous quality so that by no meanes there must be taken more then is prescribed except with good caution Againe if you mixe the Precipitate with a little sweet Butter as much as an Hazell Nut before you lap it vp in the great lumpe of Butter it well not be worse but better and it will allay much of the euill qualitie But this I leaue to your owne discretion assuring you that there is not any thing comparable to this for this infirmitie For Gourded or foule sweld Legges or other parts by reason of melting the Grease or other Accident FIrst with a Fleame pricke the parts that are swelled then take a pint of Wine lees an ounce of
Pepper beaten and searst to a fine dust and there with couer the wet Cloath all ouer verie thicke and so fold it about the grieued part then take a dry Rouller and roule it about the wet and so let the Horse rest And thus doe once a day at the last till you finde amendment For any desperate and incureable straine in the Shoulder or other hidden parts for any Fistula pole-euill or other Impostumation or Swelling TAke a large earthen Vessell of a gallon two or three almost fill it with the Hearbe Arsesmart and Brookelime equall in quantity and equally mixt then put to them as much of the oldest and strongest Vrine that can be got as will couer the Hearbes all ouer and fill the Vessell full then couer the pot close with a stone board or such like thing and so let it stand for this can neuer be too old Now when you haue occasion to vse it for any griefe afore-said you shall take an earthen Pipkin and put there into both of the Vrine and the Hearbes so much as shall be conuenient for the greefe and you shall boyle it well vpon the fire Then if it be for a shoulder straine you shall take an old Boot and cut off the Foot so that you may draw it ouer the Horses foot and aboute his knee almost to the elbow of his shoulder keeping the neather part of the Boote as close and strayte about his Legge as may be but the vpper part which couereth all the shoulders must be wide and spacious Into this Boote thrust all your mixture as hot as the Horse can suffer it and lay it fast and close about the shoulders especially before and behinde then drawing vp the vpper part of the Boot so fasten it to the Mayne of the Horse that it may by no meanes slip down but keepe constant and firme And thus you must doe once or twice a day till the greefe depart As for the effect thereof you shall find it for this is the violentest of all Midcines so that if there be any foule matter that must come forth this will in an instant bring it to an head ripen breake and heale it if there be no such thing then in as short a time it will driue away the offending humors take away the swelling and giue present ease Yet would I haue you to vse this but in extremitie because for the time the torment is almost insuffe rable and indeed for nothing but an Horse to endure Now if it be for a Fistula or any such like Impostumation or Swelling then you may spare the Boote and only lay on the Medicine in the maner of a Pultus and it will be altogether sufficient For Foundering Frettizing or any Imperfection in the Feet or Hoofes of an Horse FIrst pare thinne open the heeles wide and Shoo large strong and hollow then take a good quantitie of Cowes Dung halfe so much Grease or Kiching-fee a like quantitie of Tarre and a like quantitie of Soot boyle all these verie well together and then boyling-hot as may be see you stop your Horses Feet therewith dayly and it will not only take away all anguish but also strengthen the Hoofes aud make them to endure any labour But when you Iourney or trauell the Horse as exercise auayleth much for this Cure then put in the aforesaid Stopping cold the first night after his labour adde vnto it the white of an Egge or two for that will take away the heat and beating of the former dayes labour and will keepe the Fâ—ush strong and dry But in time of rest let it be boyling hot as aforesaid Now if the Hoofe be naturally brickle or by accident broken or by the former infirmitie dryed vp and straytned Then to inlarge it to make it tough and to make it to grow swiftly take of Pigges grease or of Hogges grease of Turpentine and of Mastick of each a like quantitie and halfe so much Lard as of all the rest melt all but the Turpentine on the fire and being melted take it from the fire and then put in the Turpentine stirring it about incorporate all very well together then put it into a Gally-pot and when it is cold be sure you couer it close With thâ— Salue twice or thrice a day annoynt the crownets of the Horses Hoofes close by the Hayre at the setting on of the Hoofe and it will make it shoot fast and grow tough and large For hurts vpon the Crownets of the Hoofes as Ouerreach Stub or prickes c. FIrst take of Sope and Salt of each a like quantitie and mixe them together like a Paste Then hauing cut out the ouerreach or hurt and layd it playne first wash it with Vrine and Salt or Beere and Salt and with a Cloath dry it then bind on the mixt Sope and Salt not renewing it in 24 houres and thus doe if the wound be great for three or foure dayes together then hauing drawne out all the venome as this Salue will quickly doe then take a spoonfull or two of Traine-Oyle and as much Ceruse which we call white Lead and mixe it together to a thicke Salue then spred that vpon the Sore morning and Euening till it be whole which will be effected suddenly for nothing doth dry vp sooner nor is more kindly and naturall for the breeding of a new Hoofe then this as you shall find by experience Ho to helpe Surbating or â—â—renesse in the Feet WHen you finde your Horse to be surbated presently clap into each of his fore-feet two new layd Egges and crush them therein thâ—n vpon the top of them lay good store of Cow-dung thus stop him and in foure howres he will recouer For any Bony excression arysing vpon any member of an Horse as Splint Spauen Curbe Ringbone c. TAke the Root of Elicampane well cleansed and lap it in a paper and rost it as you would rost a Warden in hot embers then as hot as the Horse can suffer it for you must not scald after you haue rubd and chaft the excression clap this thereunto and bind it on hard and in once or twice dressing it wil consume the excression Also if morning and euening you rub the excression with the Oyle of Origanum it will consume away the hardnesse Obseruations in giuing of Fire or vsing of Corosiues which heale all sorts of Farcies Cankers Fistulays Leprosies Maungees Scabs c. THere are two wayes to giue Fire the one Actuall and the other Potentiall the first is done by Instrument or hot iron the other by medicine either Corosiue Putrefactiue or Causticke The Actuall fire stoppeth corruption of members and stanâ—heth blood prouided the Sinews Cords and Ligaments be not toucht The best Instruments to cauterize or seare with are of Gold or Siluer the second best are of Copper and the worst but most vsuall are of Iron The Potentiall fires are medecins Corosiue Putrâ—factiue or Caustick Corosiues are simple or compound the simple Corosiues are Roch-Allome burnt or vnburnt Red Coral Mercury sublimed c. The compound are Vnguentum Apostolorum Vnguentum Aegyptiacum and Vnguentum Coraceum with others Medecines Putrefactiue are your Arsenicke Resalgar Chrysocollo and Aconitum Medecines which are Causticke are strong Lye Lime Vitriol Aqâ—a fortis and the like Corosiues ore weaker then Putrefactiues and Putrefactiues are weaker then Causticks Corosiues worke in the soft flesh Puttefactiues in the hard and Causticks breake the sound Skin Thus you see the vse of these things you may apply them at your pleasure for these cure all sorts of Farcies Cankers Fistulaes Leprosies Maungees Scabbes and sucâ— like poysonous Infections How to defend a Horâ—â—e from Flyes THis is a noysome offence in the Summer time therefore when you find the trouble thereof take Arsesmart and streep it in running water make it exceeding strong of the Hearbe and therewith sprinkell and wash the Horse all ouer and no Fly will touch him a second time The Iuy or Rue or Hearbe of Grace will doe the like How to make a white Starre or white Spot in an Horses face or in any other part TAke two or three Apples the sowrest you can get and rost them at a quicke fire then being in the heighth of their heat take one of them in a Cloath or other defence and hauing cut off the Skin clap the hot Apple to the Horses Forehead and hold it hard thereto till the heat be asswaged then try if the Hayre will come off which if it will not then take another hot Apple and doe as before then when the Hayre is come off as broad as you would haue it take another hot Apple and clap it to the scalded skin holding it hard to till all the skin blister and come off as well as the Hayre then anoynt the sore place twice or thrice a day with Honey and the next Hayre which commeth will be white How to keepe your woollen Horse-Cloathes Brest Cloathes Rubbers and the like from Moathâ—â— WHen you turne your horse or Horses to Grasse take al your Woollen Cloathes of what kind soeuer and first wash them cleane and dry them then hang them in the Sunne dust them and brush them then lay them on some Fleakes or other open things a pretie distance from the ground and spread all open then take the hoofs of Horse or Cattle and chopping them in peeces burne them vnder the Woollen things so as the smoke may come to them in euerie part then being thorowly smoked fold them vp handsomly and betweene euerie fold strow the powder of Wallnut-tree Lâ—aues well dryed and so lay them vp in a Chest and you shall neuer care for the offence of Moathes which is veriâ— vnholsome for the Horse and breeds in him a dislike Others vse to rub their Cloathes on the wrong sides all ouer with the tops and tender parts of Wormewood and it hath the like effect Thus you may also preserue any Arras Tapistree or other hangings and any Linnen or Woollen Garments whatsoeuer FINIS