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 Lunâ—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 uncâ—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
to say of a fair brown Bay dabled or not dabled a Dable Grey a Black full of Silver Hair or a fair Roan red or black And these Horses are of Nature most excellent most temperate strongest gentlest and most healthful though they may have any disease as the other hath yet are they naturally inclined to no disease But what infirmity soever falleth unto them is meerly accidental and not through any overflow of natural distemperature All Medicines must be compounded for them according to the Nature of the Sickness and the time of their Languishment for if the Sickness be young and new bred then are they able to receive any well Composed Receipt but if it be old and the inward Powers and Faculties feebled then you must be careful to help Nature by adding to every Medicine of what Nature soever some Simple of Comfort that as ill Humors be clensed so Strength may still be repaired and maintained And thus much for Complexions Twelve Causes of Health and long Life 1. The First is Nature good Digestion and good Nourishment 2. The second is Moderation in Feeding and Diet. 3. The third is Moderate Labour 4. The fourth is moderate Use of Sleeping and Waking 5. The fifth is moderate spending upon Mares 6. The sixth is moderate Journeys 7. The seventh is wholesom Air. 8. The Eighth is not to be exercised too soon after Grass 9. The Ninth is to be kept from raw and green Meats 10. The tenth is not to be suffered to eat or drink being hot 11. The eleventh is not to be neither washed nor walked at the end of his Journey 12. The twelfth is to give him with his Provender such Powders and Simples as are Prescribed you in all those Chapters which are by me mentioned but more particularly in Page 2. And though he dislikes them at first yet by mixing a little and a little at a time they will become natural to him Dangerous Sicness how it cometh First all Sickness cometh either by Heats in over-violent exercise as when the Horse hath his Grease moulten the Heart over-charged the vital Blood forced from the inward Parts and the large Pores and Orisices of the Heart are so obstructed and stopped that the Spirits cannot return back to their proper places so as the Organs of the Body cannot rejoyce but by this means the Body must of necessity languish founder and mortifie Secondly dangerous Sickness cometh also by Colds as by indiscreet and negligent keeping as well before as after long and violent exercise and then is the Head perplexed the Eyes dulled and pained the Roots of the Tongue inflamed and fwelled the Lungs with Rheums tickled and offended occasioning strong and laborious Coughing and the Nostrils often Distilling and pouring â—orth filthy and corrupt matter Thirdly dangerous Sickness cometh also by Surfeit of Food either by eating too much or too little of what is good or also of what is not wholesom so as the first killeth or at least debilitateth the Stomach oppresseth the Heart and sâ—ndeth up those evil Fumes into the Head by which are engendred the Stavers Frenzies and other mortal Diseases The second putriâ—ies the Blood and converts all its Nutriment into corruption from whence proceeds the Yellows Farcins Feavers Mainges and other such like Pestilent Leprous and Lothsom Diseases which suffocating the Heart and clogging the Stomach dilates and spreads it self universally over the whole Body leaving no Member free and confoundeth every Faculty and Member thereof Fourthly and lastly dangerous Sickness come also by Accidents as when a Horse receiveth some deep or perillous wound or Hurt either in his Body or elsewhere in some vital or dangerous part by means whereof Nature is so far offended as that incontinently a general Sickness seizeth upon him which if not prevented Death immediately ensueth Signes to Know these dangerous Sicknesses If his Sickness proceed from the first which are Heat then are the Signes these viz. The Heaviness of his Countenance Swellings of his Limbs especially of his hinder-Legs Scouring and Loosness of his Body in the beginning of his Sickness short and hot Breath a Loathing and forsaking of his Meat If from the second viz. Cold then the Signes are A dejected Countenance Dulness or Sleepiness of the Eyes Pustels or hard Knots under the Caul yea and many times insâ—amed Kernels and Swellings so high as to the very Roots of the Ears a rotten moist inward and hollow Cough he many times Chewing betwixt his Teeth some loose filthy and phlegmatick matter immediately after his Coughing which in some Cases is not an evil Sign by reason that thereby the Cold rotteth and goeth away Whereas on the contrary side for a Horse to Cough clear and dry doth demonstrate a dry Cough which hath long time lurked in his Body which is difficult to Cure which will so discover it self at last that his Belly will shrink up and when he drinketh Water will come forth of his Nose and his Eyes will be either watery or mattery and run continually through pain he hath in his Head procured by means of his Cold and his Hair will be rough and staring c. If from the Third which is Surfeit then the Signes of his Sickness are these A dulness of the Head Eyes and Countenance and that so violent that he will not be able to lift up his Head from the Manager A dull and dead Eye and sunk into his Head his Ears prickt upright and the Tops of them cold as also his upper Lips and his Sheath his Pace reeling and staggering and if he be too far gone he will be Mad which you may know by his biting the Rack and Manger or any Body that shall come nigh him and sometimes biting of himself and beating his Head against the wall c. But if the Malady be not got into the Brain then you shall find by the yellowness of his Eyes Lips and Tongue that it is turned to the Yellows which will so infect his Blood all over that if not prevented suddenly he will soon come to the Dogs Accidental The sourth and last Ground of his Sickness is if it proceed from Accidental means the Signes then are a perplexed and troubled Body sweating at the Roots of his Eares Flanks behind the Shoulders against the Heart sometimes trembling all over his Body and sometimes glowing and burning in his Vital Parts as in the Temples of his Head against his Heart on the inside of his fore-Legs and on the inside of his hinder-Legs his Mouth will be dry and hot his Tongue will be subject to be inflamed and furied he will have a Loathing against meat and a great drought to thirst and drink cold Water and to keep his Mouth in the same when he hath done drinking To Cure Sickness before it comes and to prevent it when it comes First when you finde it come to let him Blood and for three Mornings together to give him the drink of Diapente and
better Remedy to be given to a Mare or Cow that is Foaling or Calving to expedite it and to comfort them after it then two drams of the Powder given in white-Wine or Ale The price of it the Ounce is 0. s 6 d. Cassiâ— Lignea is somewhat more Oyly then C nnamon and is much of the virtue of that only this is Loâ—sening whereas the other is binding The price of it the pound is 1 s. 6 d. Pomgranate-Rinds or Pill cools and binds and is therefore very good to stay Fluxes or Scourings It helps also Digestion and strengthens the Stomach the price the pound is 1 s. 0 d. Tamarisk Bâ—rk is good to strengthen weak and feeble Joynts infused in Ale and gives and the burnt Ashes of it made into an Ointment and applied to the Place grieved the price of it the pound is 1 s. 0 d. WOODS Lignum vitae is a great Drier up of evil Humors causeth Sweat resists Putrefaction and is good for the Pockiest Farcy that is as also for all manner of Scabs Ulcers and Leprosie give him inwardly in the Nature of a Diet-drink not exceeding a quart of it at a time the price of it the pound is 0 s. 2 d. Saffafras is a very large and fair Tree growing in Florida and smells very much like unto Fennel It is hot and dry in the second degree and is also a great Drier up of evil Humors the Decoction of it or some of the Chips with Lignum vitae boilâ—d in a Horses Drink that is given for the Fâ—rcâ— is a great Furtherer of the Cure It is very good also to open Obstructions and Stoppings in the Stomach and is a great Strengthner of the Breast if it be weakned through Cold the price of it the pound is 0 s. 6 d. Sanders white the pound is 3 s. 6 d. Sanders yellow the pound is 2 s. 4 d. Sanders read the pound is 0 s. 6 d. They are all cold and dry in the second and third degree They stop Destuctions from any part of the Body helping Inflammations and cools the Heat of Feavers the yellow is accounted the best but the Red is good enough to use for Horses See more of the virtues of them in the Table of Simples FLOWERS Staechas or Stoechados is hot and binding and opens stoppings in the Bowels and is a very great strengthner of the whole Body They are not much unlike in Shape and Sent unto Lavender the price of them the pound are 1 s. 6 d. Belaufi is a Red Flower and is very Binding and is often given with very good success to stop Scourings and bloody Fluxes the price the Pound is 2 s. 0 d. Clove-Gilliflowers strengthens the Heart Liver and Stomach Provokes Lust and Resists Pestience the Gardens do afford them you Saffâ—on see the virtues of it in the Table of Simples the price the Pound is 30 s. 0 d. Metholet is good for the Reins the price the Pound is 0 s. 10 d FRUITS Bay-berries see the Virtues of them in the Table of Simples the price the pound are 0 s. 4 d. Juniper-berries see the vertues of them in the Table of Simpses the price of them the pound are 0 s. 4 d. Gauls see also the vertues of them in the Table of Simples the price of the best the Pound are 0 s. 8 d. Raisins of the Sun helps the Inflammations of the Breast and Liver they help Coughs and Consumptions and cleanse and Loosen the Belly The price of them are very well known by every good Housewife Nutmegs strengthens the Brain Stomach Liver and Body They ease Pain in the Head and stop Lasks or Loosness the price the Ounce are 0 s. 5 d. Mace is a great Comforter of the Heart and Spirits the price the Ounce is 0 s. 10 d Cubebs is a kind of Pepper that comes out of the Indies its hot and dry in the third degree They expel Wind and cleanse the Stomach from tough and vitious Humours and provoke Lust The price the pound are 1 s. 0 d. Tamarinds are cold and dry in the second degree They cool the Blood Liver and Stomach and purge Choler and are also good for the Yellows The price the pound are 0 s. 9 d. Mirtle-berries are dry in the third degree they Loosen evil Humors the Price the Pound are 1 s. 2 d. Long Pepper is hot and dry in the fourth degree see the Vertues of all the sorts of them in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 0 s. 8 d. SEEDS Angelica-seeds see the virtues of it in the Table of Simples the price the pound are 0 s. 9 d. Broom-seeds see the virtue of them in the Table of Simples the price the pound are 0 s. 9 d. Grains of Paradice see the virtues of them also in the Table of Simples the price the pound are 0 s. 7 d. Anniseeds see also the virtues of them in the Table of Simples the price the pound are 0 s. 7 d. Burdock-seeds bruised and given in white-Wine or Ale causeth a Horse to stail freely that could not stail before the price the pound are 0 s. 4 d. Fennel-seeds are good for the same purpose They cause also Milk in Mares the price the pound are 0 s. 10 d. Cardamum-seeds heat and kill Wormes cleanse the Reins and cause a Horse also to stale The common price of them is 3 s. 6 d. but now they are worth 6 s. 6 d. Staves-Acre see the virtues of it in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 1 s. 0 d. Cummin-seeds heat and dry They stop Blood expel Wind ease Pain and helpeth the Biting of venomous Beasts And being outwardly applied in Plaisters are of a discussing Nature the price of them the pound are 0 s. 6 d. Fennegreek-seeds are also of a discussing Nature they ease Inflammations both internal and external they are also very good for Colds given him amongst his Provender or boiled amongst his Oates keeping his Body solvable the price of them the pound are 0 s. 4 d. The price of them in powder is 0 s. 6 d. Linseed hath the same virtue as the Fennegreek the price the pound is 0 s. 3 d. Common Nettle-seeds provoke Lust and is a great Fattener of a Horse given him amongst his Provender the price of them the pound is 0 s. 8 d. Paâ—sley-seed see the virtues of them in the Table of Simples the price the pound is 0 s. 4 d. Peony-seeds helpeth the Wilde Mare Convulsions and Falling Sickness the price the pound are 1 s. 0 d. Plantine-seeds are good for the Plague and Pestilence the price the pound are 0 s. 9 d. Saxafrage-seeds see the virtues of them in the Table of Simples the price the pound are 1 s. 4 d. Poppey-seeds white and black provoke Sleep the price of them the pound are 1 s. 6 d. Puâ—slain-seeds see the Table of Simples for the virtues of them the price the pound are 1 s. 4 d. Lupines are a kind of
Kernels of the Nut is somewhat moist the leaves are good for hot swellings and the Water that is found in the hollow places of it will Cure Man or Bâ—ast of any Scurf Scab or running Tetters anointed therewith Blites are of a cold and moist Temperature and are good to stay Fluxes of Blood Bilberries called by some VVhorts and Whortle-berries are cold even in the latter end of the second degree and dry also and are of a binding quality there is two sorts of them a black and a red the black are good for hot Agues and to cool the heat of the Liver and Stomach and do bind the Belly the red are more binding and stay any Fluxes of Blood whatsoever used outwardly or taken inwardly Byfoil or Tway-blade are often used for Wounds both green and old and to Conglutinate and Knit Ruptures Bitumen is the fatness of the Earth swimming above the water which cast upon the Shore condensates and becomes hard and resembles dry pitch it discusses mollifies glutinates and defends from Inflammation It takes away gross humors in all parts of the Body and cures the Weakness of the Sinews Palsey and diseases of the Arteries from a cold cause Birch-tree the Juice of the leaves is good to wash a sore Mouth or Throat and is good to break the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder Birds-foot all the kinds of them are of a drying quality and therefore very good to be used in Wounds drinks and to be applied outwardly for the same purpose but the paler Flowered Birds-foot is good to break the Stone in the Back and Kidneys and helpeth the Rupture taken inwardly Bishops-weed is hot and dry in the third degree of a bitter taste and something sharp withal it provokes Lust causeth Urine is good for the Wind and for the biting of venomous Beasts Bistort or Snakeweed is cold and dry in the third degree the leaves and roots are excellent good to resist Poison or Plague and is good for all manner of Fluxes of blood whatsoever and stayeth a Lask is good for the Yellows Ruptures or Burstness and staling of blood One blade is a very Cordial Herb and will cause sweat and is sovereign against the Plague by expelling the Poison and is an excellent VVound-herb for green and old wounds and Sinews cut The Bramble or black Bush the flowers and leaves of the unripe fruit do very much bind and dry and is good for all kind of Fluxes the buds leaves and branches of it while they are green are of good use in Ulcers and putrid Sores the Root is good against the Stone in the Reins or Kidneys the leaves of them are good for sore Mouths and Throats or Quinsey the powder of the dried leaves strewed on Cankers do wonderfully heal them Burrage and Bugloss is in a mean betwixt hot and cold the leaves and roots are good against Pestilential Feavers Poison of venomous Beasts Yellows Itch Tettars Wormes Weakness Corruption Cough sore Mouth or Throat Blew-bottle is naturally cold dry and binding the powder of the dried leaves is good taken inwardly is good for broken Veins and given with Plantine water expelleth Poison or the Plague the Juice of it is good to soddâ—r green wounds together and is good to heal Sores in the Mouth And the Juice of the leaves dropped into the Eyes taketh away the Inflammation of them Braâ—k-ursine Bears-breech and Acanthus is betwixt hot and cold being somewhat moist with a mollifying and digesting quality as are these of the Mallow and are good to put in Glisters to Loosen the Belly the Decoction taken inwardly is good for the bloody Flux and Burstness and is good for Hectick Feavers Or applied made up in a Poultess unite broken bones and strengthens the Joynts that have been put out and is an excellent Remedy for burnings by Fire White Bâ—iony is hot and dry in all parts in the third degree both the white and the black are furious Martial Plants and purge the Belly with great violence and therefore you are to Correct it and then it is very good for all manner of Griefs in the Head as also for the Joynts and Sinews Cramps and Convulsions Dropsey provoketh Urine and is good for the Stone Brook-lyme or VVater-Pimpernel is a hot and biting Martial Plant and is of the same Nature as Water-Cresses and are good to cleanse the blood provokes Urine and breaks the Stone Butchers broom is hot in the second and dry in the first and is of a cleansing Nature it openeth Obstructions provoketh Urine expelleth Gravel and the Stone and is good for the Strangury Yellows and pain in the Head Bâ—oom and Broom-rape the Twigs Flowers and feed of it are hot and dry in the second degree they are of a thin Essence and are of force to cleanse and open and especially the feed which is drier and not so full of superfluous moisture it is good for the Dropsey Cleanser of the Reins Kidneys and Bladder from the Gravel and Stone Bucks-horn Plantine is of a drying and binding quality it is good against Poison Stone in the Reins and Kidneys stoppeth a Lask and is good for a bloody Urine and bloody Flux Bucks-horn is called Harts-horn Herb-Ivy Wort-cresses or Swines cresses their vertues are the same with Bucks-horn Plantine Bugle is of a mean Temperature and is good taken inwardly to dissolve Congealed Blood that is occasioned by Bruises or Falls and is effectual in all VVound-drinks it is good for Fistulaes Gangrenes the leaves of it being bruised and applied to them Burnet is a drier and a binder yet it is meanly cool it is a most precious Herb little inferiour to Bitony it stancheth bleeding as well inwardly as outwardly and is good to stay the Lask and bloody Flux It is good for all old Ulcers or Running Cankers and moist Sores to be used either by Juice or Decoction of the Herb or Root the seed is also good for the same Purposes aforesaid The Butter-bur or Petasitis is hot and dry in the second degree and of thin parts the Roots is good against the Plague and Pestilential Feavers by provoking Sweat the Powder of the Root given in VVine is good to resist the force of Poison It is good for VVheezing and difficulty of Breathing kills flat and broad Worms Bran is hot and dry and dissolveth very much Burâ—-deck is dry and wasting the root is something hot the leaves are cooling and moderately drying and is good for old Ulcers and Sores the Juice of the leaves or roots is good against the biting of any venomous Beast the seed of it is most excellent to provoke Urine being beaten to Powder and drank in white-Wine or Ale and remedieth the pains in the Bladder It is good for Burnings Cankers Buâ—â— reâ—ds are cold and dry of Complexion Vipers bugloss all the kinds of them are cold and dry of Complexion Sea Bind-weed is hot and dry in the second degree Beares-â—oot or black Hellebore is hotter in taste then
â—mpostumes being laid to with Barley Meal and applied with Salt helpeth the biting of a mad Dog it is good in all manner of breakings out of the skin and is good against Poison Nep or Cat Mint hath the same faculties with the other Horse-Mint is hot and dry it dissolveth Wind in the Stomach helpeth the Cholick and short-windedness it is good against the biting of venomous Beasts the Farcy taken inwardly and squirted up the Nostrils purgeth the Head of evil humors Misletoe the Leaves and Berries are hot and dry and of subtil parts the Bird-lime doth mollisie hard Knobs Tumors and Impostumes ripeneth and discusseth them and being mixed with equal parts of Rosin and Wax heals old Ulcers and Sores Missletoe bruised and the Juice put into the Eares healeth the Impostumes in them in a few days The Missletoe of the Oak being given inwardly Cures the Falling Sickness or hung about his Neck Money-wort or Herb Two-pence it is moderately cold it stays Lasks and bloody Fluxes Bleedings inwardly or outwardly and is good for all Wounds inward or outward Moon-wort is cold and drying more then Adders Tongue and is good for all manner of Wounds both inward and outward it stayeth all inward Bleeding as Veins broken bloody Fluxes and the like it consolidateth all Fractures and Disâ—ocations it is good for Ruptures it is reported that it will unlock Locks and unshooe Horses that tread upon it Tree-Moss is cold and binding and is the more binding according to the nature of the Tree it grows upon that of the Oak is the most binding and is good to stay Fluxes and inward Bleedings Moss boiled in Milk with the powder of Anniseeds Elecampane and Licoris is a most excellent Medicine for a Cold or Cough Mechoachan-Root is hot and dry in the second degree and purgeth filthy humors It is very safe and is good for inveterate Coughs Cholick Dolour and the Farcin Ground-Moss is dry and astringent without any heat or cold It breaketh the Stone and driveth it forth by Urine being boiled in white-Wine and given and being boiled in Water and applied easeth all Inflammations and pains coming of a hot cause Mother-wort is hot and dry in the second degree by reason of the cleansing and binding quality It is a very great Comforter of the Heart provoketh Urine cleanseth the Chest from cold Phlegm and killeth the Wormes in the Belly it warmes and dries up the cold humors in the Body and helps the Cramp and Convulsions of the Sinews Mouse-ear is hot and dry of a binding quality it is good for the Yellows it is good for the Stone and pains in the Bowels and is a very good Herb for inward or outward Wounds it is good for the Dropsey and stayeth the Fluxes of Blood both outward and inward the Juice of it is good to stay the spreading of all fretting Cankers and Ulcers whatsoever Mugg-wort is hot and dry in the second degree and somewhat binding it expels the dead Foal it breaks the Stone and is good for stoppage of Urine the Root made up with Hogs-Grease to an Ointment taketh away Wens and hard Knobs The Mâ—lbeerry-Tree the Mulberry is of different parts the ripe Berries by reason of their slippery moisture doth cleanse and open the Body the unripe fruit is cold and dry in the second degree the Bark but chiefly the Root is hot and dry in the third degree the unripe fruit being binding is good to stop Lasks and bloody Fluxes the Bark of the Root killeth the broad Wormes in the Belly the Juice made of the Berries is good for Inflammations and Sores in the Mouth or Throat Mullein doth dry the Leaves are of a digesting and cleansing quality the Root is good against Lasks and Fluxes of the Belly it is good for Burstness Cramps and Convulsions for old Coughs the Decoction of the Root in red Wine or in Water wherein Steel hath been quenched doth stop the bloody Flux it opens the Obstructions of the Bladder and Reins the powder of the dried Flowers is good for the pain of the Cholick the Decoction of the Roots and Leaves are good to dissolve Tumors Inflammations or Swellings the Seed bruised in Wine draweth forth thornes and splinters Common Mustard-seed doth heat and make thin and is a Loosner of the Belly it also draweth forth and is hot and dry in the fourth degree it cleanseth the Blood strengthens a weak Stomach and heats it if cold and is very good for the Head it draweth forth splinters and bones out of the Flesh provokes Urine resisteth Poison it is good applied outwardly to fetch out cold or any other pain of the Body or Joynts and is good for all Scurfs or wilde Scabs Hedge Mustard is good for Diseases of the Chest and Lungs and for Coughs shortness of Breath Yel ows and is used commonly in Glisters the seed is good against poison or venom Millet is cold in the first degree and dry in the third and is of a thin substance the Meal of it mixed with Tar and applied to the biting of any venomous Beast is good to take out the venom The Myrtle Tree consists of contrary substances a cold Earthliness it hath a subtil heat and drieth the Leaves Fruit and Juice doth bind outwardly applied and inwardly taken stayeth all Issues of Blood Mâ—stâ—ck is good to draw forth splints and nails out of the Flesh it bindeth and strengthneth weak parts and is good for old or new strains and inwardly taken strengthens the Stomach and is good to stop the Distillation upon the Lungs Mâ—lva is cold and moist it stoppeth softneth and mitigateth pain Malva visâ—us is very dry it softneth loosneth and mitigateth Mace is dry in the third degree without heat and only bindeth it is a comforter of the Heart and Spirits Maâ—na is of equal temper hot and dry it openeth mollifyeth and incarnateth Mariaton or Martiaton is a hot Unguent against all cold humors it helpeth the grief of the Sinews purgeth cold watery matters and ripeneth Tumors Marrow of what kinde soever is cold and moist and mollifieth Ulcers Now the best Marrow is that of a Hart or old Stag the next that of a Calf the next that of a Sheep and the last that of a Goat Myrrhe is a sovereign Gum it is hot and dry in the second degree it conglutinateth bindeth and cleanseth Wounds it is good against all colds it killeth Wormes and helpeth Pursiness for though it doth cleanse much yet it doth not exasperate the Arteries also it doth incarnate it helps all diseases of the Lungs the cholick stops Fluxes Morcosita or Marcasita is hot and dry it comforteth bindeth and melteth humors The fruit of the Myrtle-tree is dry in the third degree it doth bind good and loosen evil humors N. Narlwort or VVhitlow-grass is good for Imposthumes in the Joynts Neepe or Cat-mint is good for the Head ach coming of cold causes all Catarrhs Rheumes It is good for windiness of the Stomach
and Belly Colds Coughs and shortness of Breath the Juice given inwardly is good for Bruises the Decoction of it is good to bathe Scabs with Nettles are of temperature dry a little hot scarce in the first degree they are of thin and subtil parts the â—eed provoketh Urine and expelleth Graâ—el and Stone out of the Reins and Bladder It is good against the biting of venomous Beasts biting of mad Dogs the Juice of them is good to cleanfe Sores Fistulaes and Wounds and such as are freâ—ting corroding and eating Scabs and Manginess it is good for to strengthen those Places that are out of Joynt and is good for Aches and Defluctions of humours upon the Sinews The seed of them is a most excellent thing to fatten a Horse being strowed amongst his Provender Common Night-shade is wholly used to cool hot Inflammations either inwardly or outwardly and is no way dangerous to use as the other Night-shades are It is good to wash a sore Mouth with as also all corroding and fretting Ulcers and Fistulaes A Cloth wet in the Juice and applied to any swelling taketh it away have a care you take not the deadly Night-shade for this if you know it not you may let them both alone The Roots of Narcissus or Daffadill are hot and dry in the second degree and are of such wonderful oualities in drying that they glew together great Wounds either in the Flesh Veins Sinews or Tendous They have also a certain cleansing and attractive Faculty It taketh away the aches and pains in the Joynts and stamped with Hogs-Grease and Leaven bringeth to maturation hard Impostumes and stamped with Darnel-meal and Honey draweth forth thornes and scabs out of any part of the body the Juice of the Root drunk is good for the Cough and Cholick Neesing-root or Neesing-wort is hot and dry in the third degree and hath been taken for a wilde kind of Pellitory of the Wall Navel-wort or Penny-wort of the Wall is of a moist substance somewhat cold and of a certain obscure binding quality It cooleth repelleth and driveth back scoureth consumeth and wasteth away Nutmeg is hot and dry in the second degree and somewhat astringent it breaketh Wind and is good for all cold Diseases of the Body Nutshells burnt are hot and dry and do skin and stop the Flux of Matter Nasturiuâ—â— is hot and dry in the fourth degree it burneth draweth melteth and killeth Wormes Nitrum is of the same Nature as Salt-Peter is and it mundifieth exceedingly O. The Leaves and Bark of the Oak and Acorn-Cups do bind and dry in the third degree being somewhat cold withal the powder of the Bark or Cups stayeth all manner of Fluxes and Lasks and stayeth the Mattering of the Yard the Acorns procure Urine expel Poison the distilled water of the Oaken Buds are good taken inwardly or outwardly applied to asswage Inflammations and stop all manner of Fluxes It is good in Pestilent and hot Feavers it cooleth the heat of the Liver breaketh the Stone of the Kidney the Water found in old hollow Oaks is good to anoint â—oul Scabs Oats are naturally dry they do dry bind cleanse and comfort all the inward parts and is the only Simple that agrees with the Composition of a Horses Body and therefore the Oyl of them is the only absolute and perfect Medicine that can be Administred for any inward Sickness You are taught how to make it in my first Part. Oaken Apples are hot and piercing and much of the Nature of Galls One berry-Herb True-love or Herb-Paris is very cold whereby it represseth the rage and force of poison both the Berries and powder of the Herb. One-blade half a dram of the Powder of the Roots is a Sovereign Remedy against the Plague and is a very good Wound-herb Orâ—his which is called Dogs-Stones they are hot and moist of operation and provoke lust very much and kill Wormes Onions are hot and dry in the fourth degree and do attenuate and make thin they help the biting of a mad Dog and other venomous creatures used with Honey and Rue they kill Wormes the Juice of them is good for Burnings and Scâ—ldings Orpins are cold and dry and of subtil parts and is seldom used inwardly but is used outwardly to cool all hear or inflammations upon any hurt or wound and is good for Scaldings and Burnings the Juice of it and Sallet-Oyl being beaten together and anoiâ—â—ed therewith And the Juice of it mixed with Honey and given down his Throat you shall find it a better and sooner Curâ— then a Dogs-turd Orpimentâ— is a kind of Metal of which the Artificial is called Arsnick is hot in the third degree and dry in the second it Bindeth Corrodeth Burneth and Fretteth and is a Corrosive Opium is cold and dry in the fourth degree and is a Liquor made with Poppy dried and mixed with Saffron and doth astonish and provoke Sleep Olâ—banum is hot and dry in the second degree and warmeth bindeth closeth and incarnateth Wounds Oyl of Olives or Sâ—llet-Oyl is of a very temperate Nature and changeth its quality according to the Nature of the Simples mixed with it it is a Cleanâ—er of the Body by a gentle way of Purging from Molten-Grease and expelleth Poison Opoponax is a Gum that is hot in the third and dry in the second degree It purgeth thick Phlegm from the remote parts of the Body viz. Brain Joynts Feet Nerves and Breast and strengthens all those parts if they be weak It helps also old rotten Coughs Gouts swellings of the Spleen Strangury difficulty of Pissing You may give six drams of it Corrected with Mastick and dissolved in Vineger P. Parsley is hot and dry but the Seed is more hot and dry which is hot in the second degree and dry almost in the third the Root is of moderate heat it provoketh Urine and breaketh Wind in the Stomach and Bowels and Loosneth the Body by opening the Obstructions of the Liver it breaketh the Stone expelleth Poison and is good for the Yellows Parsley-Piâ—rt or Parsley Break stâ—ne is hot and dry and of a cutting quality it provokes Urine and break the Stone and helps the Strangury Parsnip-â—oots are moderately hot and more dry then moist it procures Lust though windy provoketh Urine but the wilde Parsnip hath a more cutting attenuating cleansing and opening quality and is of more use in Physick it helpeth the biting of venomous Creatures or dissolveth Wind in the Stomach and Bowels the Seed is of more use then the Root the Countrey-People call them Madneps Cow-Parsnips the Seed of them are of a cutting quality and is good for a Cough short Windedness Falling Sickness Yellows the Root scraped upon a Fistula taketh away the hard skin growing thereon the Seed given cleanseth the Belly from tough Phlegm Pellitory of Spain is very hot and burning and is the best Purger of the Head that is from pains the Powder of it being blown up his Nostrils Pellitory of the Wall cleanseth
and bindeth it is good for an old and dry Cough short Windedness Stone Gravel Wormes and is put into Glisters to mitigate the pains coming by Wind it is good for the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen it is good for a sore Throat it asswageth hot Swellings Impostumes Burnings and Scaldings by Fire or Water or all other hot Tumors or Inflammations it cleanseth foul rotten Ulcers and Scabs Penny-royal both the sorts of it are of a drying Faculty and of subtil Parts it maketh thin tough Phlegm and warmeth any cold place where it is applied it expelleth the dead Foal and Secundine it helpeth the biting of venomous Creatures it cleanseth soul Ulcers it is good for Cramps Convulsions of the Sinews the Cough Dropsey and Yellows Pâ—ony Male and Female doth gently bind with a kind of sweetness it is a little hot but it is dry and of subtil parts it is good for the Falling-Sickness the Root being hung about the Neck and some of the Juice of it given inwardly and is good for the Night-Mare Pepper-wort or Dittander is good for old pains and griefs in Joynts and for Scabs Perwincle is hot in the second degree and somewhat dry and binding it is good to stop Fluxes of Blood and all manner of Bleeding inwardly and outwardly St. Peters-wort is of temperature hot and dry and is of the same Nature as St. Johns-wort but somewhat weaker it purgeth Cholerick Humours helpeth old Pains and Griefs and Burnings by Fire Pimpernel both the sorts of them are of a drying Faculty without biting and somewhat of adrawing Faculty in so much that it will draw forth splints out of the Flesh and purgeth the Head put into the Nostrils they are a great Cleanser of Ulcers and a Sodderer up of Wounds it is good for the Plague and all Venom taken by Venomous Beasts and Mad Dogs it opens the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen provoketh Urine expelleth the Stone and Gravel the Juice of it cleareth the Sight Ground-Pine or Chamâ—pitys is good for the Strangury and all Diseases of the Liver and Spleen and gently openeth the Body casteth out the dead Foal It is good for all Pains in the Joynts Dropsey Yellows Poison Falling Sickness to cleanse foul Ulcers and to sodder up the Lips of green Wounds Water Plantine is cold and dry of Temperature is good against Burnings or Scauldings and is good to stay Fluxes of Blood Rib-wort Plantine is cold and dry in the second degree as are the other Plantines the Vertues are referred to the kinds of Plantine Land Plantine is of a mixt Temperature for it hath in it a certain waterish colour with a little harshness and coldness and is therefore cold and dry in the second degree the Juice of it is good for all pains in the Bowels and stayeth the Distillation Rheum in the Head and is good for all manner of Fluxes of Blood inwardly taken or outwardly applied it is good for shortness of Breath and Consumption of the Lungs the Seed is good for the Dropsey Falling Sickness Yellows Stoppings of the Liver the distilled water of it is good to cool the hot Inflammation of the Eyes and taketh away the Pin and Web It is good for all manner of Burnings and Scauldings is good for â—ore Mouths and is good for all Ulcers and Cankders it is good for all manner of Scabs Tettars and running Sores and is a very good Wound-Herb either inwardly taken or outwardly applied Polipody of the Oak Polipody of Fern Indian Polipody are dry without biting it purgeth Choler and Phlegm and is good for the Cholick it is good against a Cough shortness of Breath and distillations of thin Rheums upon the Lungs Poppies of all sorts are cold it is a great causer of Sleep it stayeth the Flux of the Belly the Leaves or Heads made with a little Vineger and brought to a Poultess with Barley-meal and Hogs-grease cooleth Inflammations and St. Anthonies Fire Prim or Privet the Leaves and Roots of it are binding and is good to wash sore Mouths to cool Inflammations and to dry up Fluxes and is good for Ulcers in the Mouth and Throat and all Swellings and Impostumes and is good against all Fluxes of the Belly and Stomach and bloody Flux Pepper is hot in the third degree All the sorts of them heateth provoketh Urine digesteth draweth disperseth and cleanseth the dimness of the Sight and is good to be put into Medicaments for the Eyes It is an Expeller of Poison and is good for all diseases of the Breast and Lungs helps Wind is good for the Cholick Pitch is drawn from the Pine-tree by the force of Fire and is the last Running and Tarr is the first which is the thinner it is hot and dry and Tarr more hot and stone Pitch more drying it conglutiuateth and gathereth together Petrolium is a certain Oyl made of Salt Peter and Bitumen and is hot and dry in the second degree healeth Wounds and comforteth weak Members Philonium of which there are two kinds Philonium Romanum and Philonium Persicum and are excellent Positions and most comfortable in the loss of Blood Pomegranat is cold and dry provoketh Urine and is good for the Stomach the Rind Seed or Flowers of them beaten to powder and given stop the Lask and all Issues of Blood Pomecitron the Rind of it is good against all Poisons Q. Queen of the Medows Medow-sweet or Mead-sweet is cold dry and binding and is good for all manner of inward or outward Bleedings It helps the Cholick stayeth the Flux of the Belly healeth old Ulcers Cankers and Fistulaes the distilled water of it is good for the Inflammation of the Eyes R. Radish Horse-Radish and Garden-Radish are hot in the third degree and dry in the second they drive forth the Gravel and Stone out of the Bladder by Urine Horse-Radish is hot and dry in the third degree and hath a drying and cleansing quality It killeth Wormes and being bruised and laid to old Griefs taketh them away and is a Provoker of Urine and likewise good for the Dropsey Rag-wort is called St. James-wort or Stagger-wort is hot and dry in the second degree It cleanseth disgesteth and discusseth The Juice of it is good for Ulcers in the Mouth or Throat for hard Swellings Imposthumations and Quinsey it is good to stay Catarrhs thin Rheums and Distillations from the Head into the Eyes Nose or Lungs the Juice is good to heal all green Wounds and to cleanse and heal all filthy Ulcers in any part of the Body it is good for all Pains and Aches in any part of the Body likewise Rattle-Grass there is two sorts of it the red and they yellow the Red is good to heal up Fistulaes and hollow Ulcers and stay the Flux of Humors to them and other Fluxes of Blood being boiled in red Wine and given The yellow Rattle-grass is good for a Cough and dimness of Sight the Seed being put therein Rest-harrow or Câ—ammoack is
hot in the third degree it cutteth and maketh thin it provoketh Urine and driveth forth the Stone which the Bark of the Root doth very powerfully It is good to open the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and is good for a Rupture The wilde Rochet is hot and dry in the third degree it provoketh Urine exceedingly expelleth Poison killeth Wormes and other noisom creatures that breed in the Body Wintâ—r-Rochet or Cresses is hot and dry in the second degree the Seed of them provoketh Urine helpeth the Strangury and expels Gravel and the Stone It is a good Wound-herb inwardly given or outwardly applied It cleanseth and healeth foul Ulcers and Sores by the drying quality they have Roses of all sorts the leaves and the flowers of them consist of divers parts as binding yet moist and watery they come very near to a mean temperature the white and the red are very binding and those that are not full blown do cool and bind more then those that are blown they being dried and bâ—aten to Powder stayeth the Lask and Pissing of Blood the Red strengthens the Heart and Stomach asswage inflammations the Mattering of the Yard and Fluxes of the Belly the Beards of them are binding and cooling Rosa Sâ—lis or Sun-dew the water of it distilled helps a salt Rheum distilling from the Lungs Wheesing shortness of Breath the Cough and to heal Ulcers in the Lungs comforteth the Heart Rosemary is hot and dry in the second degree and of a binding quality and is good against all Fluxe of Blood and cold diseases of the Head and Stomach It is good for the Lethargy and Falling Sickness It opens the Obstructions of the Liver and is good for Windedness of the Belly It is good for dim Eyes Yellows Cough Consumption Rubarb the best which is the Indian hath two contrary Natures for if you either cut scrape or grate it then it is a Loosner for it dissolveth and openeth the Liver and expelleth the Obstructions thereof It expulseth all bad humors in and about the Heart Liver and Spleen It cleanseth the Body and sendeth away the peccant humors among the Excrements and all such things as may annoy or offend the Entrails But if you shall pound and beat it in a Mortar or otherwise the Spirit thereof being a subtil Body will Transâ—e and flie away whereby the Operation thereof will be to bind and no way profitable Garden Patience or Monkâ— Rhubarb is a kind of dock bearing the Name of Rhubarb for the purging quality therein It purgeth Choler and Phlegm the Seed binds the Belly and stayeth any Lask or bloody Flux the distilled water of it is good to â—â—eanse and heal soul Ulcers and to allay the â—nflammation of them Bastard Rhubarb hath all the Properties of the Monks Rhubarb but more effectually for inward and outward Diseases It Cureth the Yellows the Seed boiled in Wine helpeth the Farcin the Stone provoketh Urine helpeth the dimness of the Sight It is a Cleanser and Cooler of the Blood The Properties of the English Rhubarb is the same with the other but much more effectual and hath all the Properties of the Indian Rhubarb except the force of Purging wherein it hath but half the strength it purgeth the Body from choler and phlegm it cleanseth the Stomach Liver and Blood opening Obstructions Curing the Yellows Dropsey cleanseth the Reins being taken with Venice Turpentine Medow Rue bruised is good for old Sores It is a Loosner of the Body It is good for the Yellows and Plague Garden Rue is hot and dry in the latter end of the third degree and the Wilde in the â—ourth it is of thin parts it consumeth Wind and disgesteth gross and tough Hamors provoketh Urine is good against Poison the Plague the pains and gripings of the Belly It is good for the Cough Wind-cholick Wormes Dropsey stops Bleeding It is good for the Farcin Scabs Tettars and Ring-wormes Rupture-wort is dry closeth up and fastneth It is good for the Ruptures Fluxes Mattering of the yard Strangury stopping of Urine Stone and Gravel It is good for all Griping Pains in the Stomach and Belly Obstructions of the Liver Yellows Wormes Wounds It stayeth the defluctions of Rheums from the Head and drieth up the moisture of Fistulaes and Ulcers Reeds are hot and dry in the second degree and are Drawers out of splints and thornes out of the Flesh Rye is hotter then Wheat and is more forcible in wasting and consuming away It ripeneth Imposthumes Boyles and other Swellings All the Rozins are hot and dry the Rozin of the Cedar-tree is the hotter the Rozin of the Pitch-tree is not so sharp and biting and therefore not so hot the Rozin of the Firr-tree is in a mean between both the liquid Rozin of the Pine is moister The Rozins which are put in Plaisters which is our common Rozin stoppeth softneth cleaâ—seth draweth and purgeth wounds and is good against cold Causes Risigallo is a Composition of old Sulphur or Orpiment and unslackt Lime and is a most strong Corrosive S. Saffron is binding it is hot in the second and dry in the first degree It strengthens the Heart is good for the Consumption of the Lungs and shortness of Breath it is an excellent thing in Epidemical diseases as the Plague and is good for the Yellows Garden Sage is hot and dry in the beginning of the third degree or in the latter end of the second It is good for the Head and Brain strengthens the Sinews restoreth Health It is good for a Cough biting of Serpents expelleth Wind drieth the Dropsey and is a Cleanser of the Blood It is good to put into a Water to wash a sore Mouth withal and is good for old Cankers and Sores Wood-Sage is hot and dry yet less then the common Sage being hot and dry in the second degree It disgesteth and discusseth Swellings and Knots in the flesh It is good for Ulcers Sores Burstness green Wounds and provoketh Urine Solomons Seal is binding the Roots of it is good in Wounds and Hurts to cleanse them and to dry and restrain Fluxes of Humors and bloody Flux and Lask It is good for Ruptures and Burstness taken inwardly or outwardly applied and is good for inward and outward bruises Sanicle is bitter and hath a certain binding quality so that it cleanseth and strengthneth and is hot and dry in the second degree and in some Authors hot in the third It is a most excellent VVound-herb either outwardly applied or inwardly given and is good for Ulcers and Impostumes in any part of the Body It is good to stop a Lask and all Fluxes of Blood either inwardly or outwardly It is good for the Ulceration of the Kidneys and pains of the Bowels and Ruptures It is good in binding restraining heating drying and healing as Comfrey Bugle Self-heal or any other of the Consounds or Vulnerary Herbs whatsoever Sarasens Consound or Sarasens Wound-wort is dry in the third degree with some manifest heat
It is a good Wound-herb and is good for the Obstructions of the Liver and Gall Yellows Dropsey for all Ulcers of the Reins or other inward Wounds and Bruises and for Ulcers in the Mouth and Throat and pains in the Stomach Sawce alone vide Jack in the Hedge VVinter Savory and Summer-Savory is very good for the Cholick the Summer-kind is the best it expelleth Wind in the Stomach and Bowels it provoketh Urine it cutteth tough Phlegm in the Chest and Lungs the Juice dropped into the Eyes cleareth the Sight if it proceed of thin cold humors distilling from the Brain and being used in a Poultess is good for old Aches and Pains in the Hips and Joynts coming of cold Savin is hot and dry in the third degree of subtil parts It cleanseth old Ulcers being dried and mixed with Honey It is good to break Carbuncles Plague-Sores Farcin Wormes Scabs Itch and Running Sores Cankers Tettars Ring Wormes it kills the quick Foal and expels the dead Common Saxafrage the Root and seed thereof is of a warm and hot Composition it cleanseth the Reins and Bladder and dissolveth the Stone and expels the Gravel by Urine helps the Strangury cleanseth the Stomach and Lungs from phlegm Bâ—rnet Saxafrage the Seed Leaves and Roots of the great and small are hot and dry in the third degree and of thin and subtil parts they have the same Properties as Parsley hath in provoking Urine and easeth the pains of the Cholick breaks and avoids the Stone by Urine and is good against Venom and is good for Cramps and Convulsions the Juice of it dipped into Wounds drieth up the moisture of them Scabius three sorts there are of it though there be many others yet these be most Familiar and the Vertues of these and the rest are much alike it is hot and dry in the latter end of the second degree or near hand in the third and of thin and subtil parts It is good for Coughs short Windedness and all other Diseases of the Breast and Lungs ripening and digesting cold phlegm and other tough Humors it ripeneth also all inward Ulcers and Impostumes it is good for running and spreading Scabs Tetters and Ring-wormes English Sâ—urvey-Grass is evidently hot and dry very like in taste and quality to the Garden-Cresses it openeth and cleanseth the Blood the Liver and Spleen it openeth Obstructions and Evacuateth cold clammy and Phlegmatick Humors both from the Liver and Spleen the Juice of it is good for soul Sores in the Mouth Self-â—eal is of the temperature of Bugle moderately hot dry and something binding It is a most excellent Herb for inward and outward Wounds or Bruises in any part of the Body it stayeth the Flux of Blood in any Wound and cleanseth soul Ulcers and Sores The Service-Tree the Berries are cold and binding it is good to stay bleedings of Wounds Lasks and Fluxes of Blood Shepherds Parse is cold dry and very much binding it help all Fluxes of Blood either caused by inward or outward Wounds and also Flux of the Belly and bloody Flux or Pissing of Blood is good for the Yellows and being made into a Poultess helps Inflammations and St. Anthonies Fire an Ointment being made thereof is good for all Wounds in the Head Smallege is hotter drier and much more Medicinable then Parsley it openeth the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen cleanseth the Blood provokes Urine helps the Yellows Agues the Juice is good for sore Mouths and Throats cleanseth all the foul Ulcers and Cankders being washed therewith The Seed is good to expel Wind kill Wormes the Roots are effectual to all the Purposes aforesaid and is stronger then the Herb. Sope-wort or Bruise-wort is hot and dry and a little Scouring the Juice is good to heal up green Wounds it provokes Urine expels the Gravel and Stone and is good for the Dropsey The Sorrels are moderately cold dry and binding the common Sorrel is good to cool hot Diseases Inflammations or heat of Blood for it puriâ—ieth it it killeth VVormes and is a Cordial to the Heart which the Seed doth more effectually being more drying and binding and therefore stayeth the humors of the bloody Flux and Flux of the Stomach It is good to resist Poison expelleth the Gravel and Stone helpeth the Yellows The Juice of it with Vineger killeth the Itch Scabs Tettars Ring wormes and the like VVood-Sorrel is cold and dry like Sorrel and serves for all the Purposes that the other Sorrels do and is more effectual in hindring the Putresaction of Blood and Ulcers in the Mouth and Body and cooleth Heats Inflammations and Pestilential Feavers or other contagious Sickness Sow-Thistles are of a mixt temperature for they consist of a waterish substance cold and binding the Milk of them is good for short windedness and causeth the Stone and Gravel to be avoided by Urine it helpeth the Strangury it causeth Milk in Cattel Southern-VVood is hot and dry in the third degree the Seed is an Antidote against all deadly Poison and is good to kill VVormes it is good to draw forth thornes out of the Flesh the Ashes of it drieth up old Ulcers that are without Inflammation Spignel provokes Urine helpeth the Strangury and all Joynt Aches the powder of the Root with Honey breaketh tough Phlegm and drieth up the phlegm that fasteneth upon the Lungs the Roots are good against the biting and stinging of venomous Beasts Spleen-worts are of thin parts and are in a mean temper it is good for the Spleen helpeth the Strangury wasteth the Stone in the Bladder and is good for the Yellows Straw-berry leaves do cool and dry with a binding quality they are good for all hot inflammations and swellings applied outwardly and being inwardly given after they have been boiled in Vineger doth cool the Liver and Blood and asswage all inflammations in the Reins provoketh Urine and allayeth the heat and sharpness thereof stayeth the bloody Flux The Juice of the leaves are good to make a Lotion for a sore Mouth or Ulcerstherein Succory and Endive are cold and dry in the second degree and withal somewhat binding they cleanse phlegmatick and waterish humors out of the Stomach opens the Obstructions of the Liver Gall and Spleen is good for the Yellows heat of the Reins Urine and Dropsey the water or the Juice of the bruised leaves applied outwardly allay swellings inflammations and St. Anthonies Fire and to wash Pestilential sores Wilde Succory agrees in nature and temperature with the Garden Succory and as it is more bitter so it doth more strengthen the Stomach and Liver Stone-crop Prick Madum or small Housleek grows upon the ground with divers branches with thick and whitish green leaves it is cold in quality and somewhat binding and therefore very good to stay defluctions that flow from the Eyes it stops Bleeding both inward and outward helps Cankers and all fretting Sores and Ulcers it abates the heat of Choler expels Poison resisteth Pestilent Feavers and is good for
is the least of all Weights M. A handful P. A Pugil p. A. part A. Of each alike Note that Twenty Graines Make A Scruple Three Scruples Make A Dram Eight Drams Make An Ounce Twelve Ounces Make A pound FINIS A TABLE Alphabetically set down shewing where the Diseases of a Horse do Grow either inward or outward in any Part of his Body and how you may Know them and what were the Causes that Bred them The Pages Direct You to their Cuâ—es which are found only in the Second Part. A. ACcloyed or Cloyed is no other then Prickt with a Nail in the Shooing vide Prickt page 396 Arristes vide Rat-tails 377 St. Anthonies Fire is a vehement burning disease in the Flesh and is of the Nature of Noli me tangere or Wilde Fire and is named of some The Singles of an horse which is very hard and difficult to Cure 233 and 234 Anticor or Heart-sickness is caused many times by too much seeding without exercise and sometimes by hard and immoderate Riding and careless looking after him afterwards which makes the Blood of this useful Creature a Horse so corrupted and inflamed that unless it find some way to vent it self forth it soon puts a Period and End to his Life This Disease hath its Seat and Residence near the Heart and is known by a Swelling in the middle of his Breast against the Heart from whence it derives its Name 234 Attaint upper is a Swelling of the Master or Back-Sâ—new of the Fore-legs near the Pastorn-Joynt and cometh ordinarily by an Over-reach 235 Attaint Nether is the same with the other coming sometimes by a Wrench and sometimes by a strain All the difference of them is whereas the other is upon the Foot-lock Joynts this is under it and is usually upon the Heel or Frush and is not always visible to the Eye but it may be felt by the heat and burning of it and by its softness which will arise by a Swelling like a Bladder or Blister wherein will be corrupt and vitious matter like to Jelly which will make him complain very much ib. Anbury is a kind of Wenâ— or spungy Wart growing upon any part of a horses Body 279 Apoplexie vide Palsey Ach or Numbness in the Joynts cometh by Cold taken by hard and violent exercise or labour 232 Avives Vives or Fiveâ— see Vives B. Bloody Flux vide Flux bloody 310 Back-swayed vide Swaying in the back Barbes are a common Disease and few horses are without them they are known by two Paps under his Tongue which seldom prove hurtful to him till they be inflamed with corrupt blood proceeding from vitious humours which wilâ— make them raw and grow beyond their usual length and cause them to become very painful to him which will hinder his feeding You must clip them away with the Scissers 301 Blood-spaven is a soft Swelling which groweth through the Hough and is commonly full of blood and is biggest upon the inside and being fed by the Master-Vein makes it greater then the swelling on the outside It runneth down the inside of the Hough down the Leg to the Pastorn This Disease is occasioned from the corruption of the Blood taken by hard Riding when the Horse is young and tender which by overmuch heating makes it so thin and flexible that the humour falling downwards resideth in the Hough which makes the Joynts stiff and causeth him to go with great pain and difficulty This Disease not growing hard makes it more easie to Cure then the Bone-spaven 260 Bone-spaven is a great Crust as hard as a bone if it be let run too long it sticketh or rather groweth on the inside of the Hough under the Joynt near to the great Vein which maketh him to Halt very much it cometh at first like a tender Gristle which by degrees cometh to this hardness It is bred several Ways either by immoderate Riding or hard labour which dissolves the Blood into thin humours and falleth down and maketh its residence in the Hough which causeth the place to swell and so becometh a hard Bone which occasions this name of Bone-spaven it cometh also hereditary from the Sire or Dam which are troubled with the same dâ—sease 261 Blood-running Itch cometh by the Inflammation of the Blood being over-heat by hard Riding or other sore labour It getteth between the skin and the flesh and maketh a Horse to rub scrub and bite himself which if let alone too long will come to a grievous Mange and is very infectious to any Horse that shall be nigh him What cureth the Mange cureth this disease 369 Bots and Wormes in general are of three sorts viz. Bots Trunchions and Maw-wormes Bots are usually found in the great Gut near the Fundament Trunchions are found in the Maw and if they continue there too long they will eat their Passage through which will certainly bring death if not killed The third sort are called plain Wormes which remain in a Horses Body which are of an evil effect also Bots are a small worm with great heads and small tails breeding in the great Gut adjoyning to the Fundament which may be taken away by your hands by picking them away from the Gut where they stick Trunchions are short and thick and have black and hard heads and must be removed by Medicine Maw-wormes are of a reddish colour somewhat long and slender much like unto Earth-wormes about the length of a Mans Finger which also must be taken away by Medicine They proceed all from one cause which is raw gross and phlegmatick matter engendred from foul feeding which causeth all these three sorts of evil creatures to breed The Signes to know when he is troubled with them is He will stamp with his feet kick at his Belly turn his Head towards his tail forsake his meat He will groan tumble wallow and also frisk his tail to and fro 303 Bunches Knots Warts and Wens come somtime by eating of foul meat by bruises by hard riding and sore labor wherby the blood becomes so putrified and foul that it turns into evil humors which occasions these kind of sorrances 278 Blood-shotten Eyes or all diseases of the Eyes come of two causes viz. either inward or outward The inward Causes proceed from evil Humors that resort and flow to the Eyes or by some stroke or blow that is given him thereon 290 to 291 Bleeding at Nose cometh commonly among young horses proceeding from great store of blood or by means that the Vein ending in that place is either opened broken or fretted It is opened many times by reason that the Blood aboundeth too much or that it is too fine or too subtil and so pierceth through the Veins Or it may be broken by some violent strain cut or blow Or it may be fretted or gnawn asunder by sharpness of the blood or by some other evil humours contained therein 306 Botch in the Groyn cometh by reason that a horse being full of humours and