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A57242	The experienced farrier, or, Farring compleated In two books physical and chyrurgical. Bringing pleasure to the gentleman, and profit to the countrey-man. ... For here is contained every thing that belongs to a true horse-man, groom, farrier or horse-leach, viz. breeding; the manner how, the season when, ... and what are fit for generation; the feeder, rider, keeper, ambler and buyer; as also the making of several precious drinks, suppositories, balls, purgations, ... and directions how to use them for all inward and outward diseases. Also the paring and shooing of all manner of hoofes, ... The prices and vertues of most of the principal drugs, both simple and compound belonging to farring, ... also a large table of the virtues of most simples set down alphabetically, and many hundreds of simples placed one after another, for the cure of all ... diseases, ... with many new receipts of excellent use and value; never yet printed before in any author. By E.R. Gent.	E. R., Gent.	1681 (1681)	Wing R13A; ESTC R220639	427,228	473

which may be any ways noxious to the inward part of the Body And it also preventeth sudden Sickness if you do suspect it Fifthly the opening of the two Plate or Breast-Veins do help the Anticor Sickness of the Heart Morfoundring which is the Foundring in the Body by over-riding whereby the Grease of the Horse is molten it also preventeth Diseases in the Liver Lungs and inward parts grieved and sometimes Hurts in the Shoulder which causeth Lameness before Sixthly we use to touch the two Thigh-Veins before which helpeth Foundring in the fore-Feet Mallenders Splent Screw Ring-bone and such like infirmities in the fore-Foot and such other higher Parts Seventhly we use to take Blood from the four Shackle-Veins before and this is very good for the Crow-scab Ring-bone and such like Diseases Eighthly we use to strike the two Spur-Veins which Cureth the Farcin in the Sides Morfoundring swelling under the Belly which is a Disease called the Feltrick and the like Ninthly we prick the two Toe-Veins which do help Frettizing Foundering Hoof-bound beating of the Horses Feet by Riding upon hard and stony ways and the like Tenthly we open the two Thigh-Veins behind and this doth help the Grief of the Kidneys swelling in the Hinder-Legs Foundring Sellenders Scratches Kybes c. And it also helpeth Diseases in and about the Belly as Pissing of blood Pissing oft after great and extraordinary hard labour and the weakness of the Reins the Back Belly Guts or any other of the inward Parts the Curb Spaven and such Diseases which come of Rankness of Blood Eleventhly we sometimes do open the four Shackle-Veins behind and this is very good against Founderings and other pains in and about the Feet Twelfthly we let Blood in the two Flank or Hanch-Veins and this is most probable for all kind of Feavers the Stones Poverty and the Felter-worm Thirteenthly we draw Blood from the two Tail-Veins which Cureth the Mange in the Tail falling of the Hair or Itch in the Tail And these are for the most part all the Veins that are usually opened So that the full sum or number of Veins which Farriers commonly open are thirty Other Veins there are which are of a smaller proportion and therefore not fit to be opened I will not say that these Veins so opened doth Cure the Diseases absolutely but it doth sometimes asswage the Malignancy of the Malady sometimes it preventeth Diseases and sometimes again it prepareth the Body the better to receive such Physical Drinks which do inwardly Cure them and such Salves Oyls Unguents which do dry and heal up outward Infirmities c. How many Bones a Horse hath and where they are Situated All the Bones which every Horse hath whereby to make up an Organical Body are these viz. He hath in his Head thirty nine or fourty Teeth The Bones in his Head do Comprehend the Crocks and Handles of the Scull albeit they be composed of parts and parcels of other Bones also the two flat Handles which from the Pallat and the Fork or Throat hath five the Chine hath fifty two the Breast one the Ribs hath thirty six the fore-Legs and fore-Feet hath fourty four and the hinder-Legs and Feet fourty so as the whole structure of the Body of a Horse whereby to perfect a full Building of Bones consisteth of about two hundred fifty seven or two hundred fifty nine if they be rightly computed which do represent themselves altogether at what time the perfect Anatomy of a Horse is laid open Of the Elements The Elements are four and they give Life and Nutriment unto Man and all other living Creatures They are these Fire Air Water and Earth Their Nature The Nature of Fire is to be hot and dry Air to be hot and moist Water to be cold and moist and Earth to be cold and dry Signes of the Zodiack Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces These do all Govern the twelve Months of the year and are placed above the Zodiack Names of the Planets Saturn Jupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercury and Lun●a The Government of the Signes Aries governs the Head Taurus the Neck Gemini the Shoulders and Armes Cancer the Stomach and Breast Leo the Heart Virgo the Belly and Guts Libra the Reins and Buttocks Scorpio the Privy Parts Sagittarius the Thighs Capricornus the Knees Aquarius the Legs and Pisces the Feet The best time to let a Horse Blood in If there be no extraordinary cause as in Case of desperate Sickness or so then Jan. the third and fifteenth Feb. the fourth and ninth Mar. the seventeenth and eighteenth April the tenth and sixteenth May the first and thirteenth June the fifteenth and twentieth But for July and August by reason that the Canicular days be then predominant Blood-letting is not so good but only in urgent Case of Necessity In Septemb. the eleventh and twenty eighth Octob. the eighth and twenty third Novemb. the fifth and Seeds Gather Seeds and Fruits when they be fully ripe and they also last but one whole year Rind or Bark Gather the Rind or Bark of any Simple when the Herb is ripe dry them and they will last many years The Office of the Farrier What Points Consist the Office of the Farrier IT Consists in four things viz. Science Experience Knowledge and Handy Work But I shall let pass the first three and speak to Handy-Work and that is To Heat an Iron well to Turn a Shoo well to make and Point a Nail well to Pare the Hoof well to Cauterize well to let Blood well to be light and well-Handied Bold and Hardy and Dressing of a Horse well of such Accidents as may happen unto him The Principal Members of a Horse Some hold that there be four and make the Stones or Gignitors one but I say there are but three The Liver the Heart and The Brain and if he be offended in any of these he will die but if any other Member besides these be hurt he may live and therefore the Stones or Gignitors cannot be one of the Principal Members for you cannot touch any of those three but you kill him out-right or desperately endanger him Now the Stones may receive hurt and if I despair of Curing them I can cut them out without peril of his life Of the Sinews and of the number of them There are two Sinews or Tendons which are white and begin at the end of the Nose and extend themselves along the Neck and along the Back and make their extent to the four Legs and take their ligaments in the fore-Feet There are in every Horse twenty nine or thirty great and small The two great Sinews which I named before It. Two Branches which are main Sinews that proceed from the Brain and run down the Cheeks to the Teeth It. There are from the Shoulders to the first Joynt of the Armes or fore-Legs downwards two great Sinews It. From the Knees to the Pasterns are four

Rein of two Fathom or more and to the other Rings two other shorter Reins then having Saddled the Horse and put on his Bit bring him to the Post and put the Reins of the Bit over the fore-part of the Saddle Bolsters and all and Fix them at a constant streightness on the top of the Pomel so that the Horse may have a feeling both of the Bit and Curb Then if you will have him turn to the right hand take the short Rein on the left side of the Cavezan and bringing it under the fore-Bolster of the Saddle up to the Pomel and there Fix it at such a streightness that the Horse may rather look from then to the Post on the right side Then let some Groom or skilful Attendant hold the right-side Rein of the Cavezan at the Post governing the fore-parts of his Body to come about at large Then your self taking the long Rein into your hand and keeping his hinder parts inward with your Rod on his outward Shoulder and sometimes on his outward Thigh make him move about the Post keeping his inward parts as a Center and making his fore-parts move in a larger Circumference Thus you shall Exercise him a pretty space on one hand till he grow to some Perfectness then Changing the Reins of the Cavezan make him do the like to the other hand And thus apply him divers Mornings and cherishing him in his Exercise according to his deservings till you have brought him to that readiness that he will upon the moving of your Rod couch his hinder Parts in towards the Post and lapping the outward fore-leg over the inward Trot about the Post swiftly distinctly and in as strait a Compass as you can desire or is convenient for the motion of the Horse And from Trotting you may bring him to Flying and Wheeling about with that swiftness that both the fore-legs rising and moving together the hinder Parts may follow in one and the same instant When you have made him thus perfect in your hand you shall then Mount his Back and making some skilful Groom govern the long Rein and another the short by the Motion of your Hand upon the Bit and soft Rein of the Cavezan keeping the Horses Head from the Post and by the help of the Calve of your Leg laid on his Side and your Rod turned toward his outward Thigh to keep his hinder parts into the Post labour and exercise him till you have brought him to that Perfection which you desire Then take away the long Rein and only exercise him with the help of the short Rein of the Cavezan and no other After take both the Reins of the Cavezan into your hands and exercise him from the Post making him as ready in any place where you please to Ride him as he was at the Post The other streight Turn Now for the other streight Flying Turn which is to keep his Face fixt on the Post as on his Enemy and to move about only with his hinder parts you shall take the same helps of the long Rein and the short Reins of the Cavezan and govern them as before shewed only you shall not give the short Rein to the Post-ward so much liberty as before but keep his Head closer to the Post and following his hinder parts with the long Rein by the help of your Rod make him bring his hinder parts round about the Post and observe that as before he did Iap one foot over another so now he must lap the hinder Legs one over another In this Exercise exercise him as the former then after a perfectness mount his Back and labour him as before shewed Then lastly leaving the Post and all other helps only apply him in such open and free places as you shall think couvenient for upon the finishing of this Work your Horse is made compleat and can perform all things that can be required either for the Service in the Wars for the High-way or any other Galloping Pleasure How to Help an ill Rein and Cure a Run-away Jade Many Horses are so evil beholding to Nature for giving them short Necks and worse set-on Heads and so little beholding to Art to amend them which causes many a good Horse to be left Cureless of those two gross insufferable faults which are either a deformed carriage of the Head like a Pig on a Broach or else a furious Running away got by a spoiled Mouth or an evil habit The Help If it be a young Horse at his first Riding then to his Trench if an old then to his Snaffle for I speak not of the Bit but a pair of Reins half as long again as any ordinary Reins and Loops to fasten and unfasten at the Eye of the Snaffle as other Reins have Now when you see that the Horse will not yield to your Hand but the more you draw the more he thrusts out his Nose or the more violently he runs away then undo the Buttons of the Reins from the Eye of the Snaffle and draw them through the Eyes and bring them to the Buckles of the formost Girt and there button them fast then Riding the Horse in that manner labour him with the gentle Motions of your Hand coming and going by degrees and sometimes accompanied with your Spur to gather up his Body and to feel your Command and in a short time he will bring his Head where you will place it And for Running away if you draw one Rein you turn him about in despite of all Fury and if you draw both you break his Chaps or bring them to his Bosom In the end finding himself not able to Resist he will be willing to obey Another Help for unc●nstant Carriage There is another soul Error in many Horses which these Reins also Cure as this When your Horse is either so wythie cragg'd as the Northern Man calls it or so loose and unsteady Necked that which way soever you draw your Hand his Head and Neck will follow it sometimes beating against your Knees sometimes dashing against your Bosom and indeed generally so loose and uncertain that a man knows not when he hath steady hold of him A Vice wonderful incident to Running Horses especially the furious ones In this Case you shall take these long Reins and as before you drew them to the Buckles of the Girts so now Martingal-wise draw from the Eyes of the Snaffle betwixt his fore-Legs to the Girts and there fasten them Thus Ride him with a constant Hand firm and somewhat hard Correcting him both with the Spurs and Rod and somtimes with hard Twitches in his Mouth when he errs and with a few weeks labour his Head will come to a constant carriage provided that you labour him as well upon his Gallop as his Trot and leave him not till you finde him fully reclaimed The Office of the Feeder An Introduction to the Work touching the Limitation of time for Preparing the Running Horse I will not dispute the