or with some sword hatchet Bill or other edge-toole or that you should enforce him to doe more than what nature or strength were well able to compasse or leading him upon plaine ground he might wrinch any member or sway his back or breake his leg either by the stroke or stripe of some other horse or otherwise accidentally or should by misfortune fall downe some steepe precipice whereby he may breake or dislocate some limb or member all these disasters we usually doe call Accidentall and all such things of this nature Hippiat Which be the elements which doe give life and nutriment unto man and all other living creatures Hippos They are foure in number that is to say Fire Ayre Water and Earth whose natures if you shall please I will discusse elsewhere Hippiat No I pray let us have them both now and elsewhere their natures conditions and qualities Hippos The nature of Fire is to be hot and dry Ayre to be hot and moyst Water to be cold and moyst and Earth to be cold and dry Hippiat Doe you know the twelve Signes of the Zodiacke and how they doe govern the body of man and of all creatures Hippos Yes I doe know them all perfectly and thus are they called Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Vrgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces These doe all governe the twelve Months of the yeare and are placed above the Zodiack Hippiat Doe you know the names of the Planets and their numbers Hippos That I doe very well and they bee seven in number to wit Saturne Iupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercury and Luna Hippiat What parts doe the twelve Signes before mentioned governe Hâ—ppos Aries governeth the Head Taurus the Neck Gemini the Shoulders and Armes Cancer the Stomack and Breast Leo the Heart Virgo the Belly anâ— Guts Libra the Reines and Buttocks Scorpio the Privy parts Sagittarius the Thighs Capricornus the Knees Aquarius the Legs and Pisces the Feete Hippiat In what dayes is it best for a horse to be let bloud Hippos If there be no extraordinary cause as in case of desperate sicknes or so then Ianuary the third and the fifteene Februâ—ry the fourth and nineth March the seventeene and eighteene Aprill the tenth and sixteene May the first thirteene Iune fifteene and twenty But for Iuly and August by reason that the Canicular-dayes be then predominate bloud-letting is not so good but only in urgent case of necessity In September the eleventh and twenty eight October the eight and twenty three November the fift and sixteene December the fourteene and twenty six And these daies doe wee hold to be the very best unlesse dangerous or sudaine sicknesse doe cause us to alter the same for in cases of necessity no daies are to be regarded or observed For Qui retinente vita et non sit mortis imago Si semper fuerit vivens morietur et infra Hippiat What medicine would you apply to a Horse who may have any of the foure Maladyes Hippos I would give him of the foure Cordiall waters which I would make of Buglas Savin Succary Aquavitae Endife and the like Hippiat How would you make a comfortable drinke Hippos I would make it of certaine Cordialls to wit of Sugar Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs Saffron Licoris Annyseeds all these in fine powder adding thereto white wine and all these infused in a cleane earthen pot and hereof would I make a drinke Hippiat Whereof would you make an operative drinke Hippos I would take white Wine Sallet-oyle Aloes Rubarb Agarick Duke or Duck-powder Hony Cordial-powder and of all these things would I put such a quantity as I should thinke requisite and according to the strength and corpulency of the Horse Hippiat Whereof would you make a laxative Clister Hippos Into a laxative Clister I will put either of Pellitory Melelote or Cammamile but Pellitory is the best and of this would I make a Decoction and to this Decoction would I put Sallet Oyle Hony Aloes and Verjuice of the Crab. Hippiat What be the natures of your principall Drugs Hippiat Agarick purgeth the Braine Allos the Breast and body Rubarb purgeth the evill water and it openeth the Liver and helpeth obstructions and oppilations Aristolochia-Rotunda mollifieth the Breast Liver and Lungs and Bacchalauri or Bay-berries doe mortifie the peccant Humours which doe ingender in the Breast or Entrayles nere about the Heart and Saffron if it be discreetly given doth marveylously comfort and enlighten the Heart CHAP. II. Of the causes of Sicknesse in generall and the causes of Health and long Life Hippiat NOw that we have proceeded thus farre in a discussion of the Office of the Ferrier Let us approach yet nearer to intreate of the Cures and that we may goe on Pedetentim and Gradatim Let us first discusse the causes of Maladies and therefore I demand of you What are the true Causes of the sicknesse of the Horse Hippos Sir that man which hath a desire to become an Expert Ferrier must apply himselfe to understand the true nature of two things viz. of Generation and of Corruption in which I could never find the least discord in the Primary nature of Horses albeit compounded of the contrary nature of the foure Elements But I will proceed in Anatomizing unto you the verity hereof more particularly whereby you may the better understand my meaning Hippophyl But friend Hipposerus in my judgement you begin to assume too high a pitch for ordinary Feâ—riers who are in a manner all or the greater number un-lettered persons and therefore will never be able to understand what Generation and Corruption meaneth for these are termes taken from the grounds of Philosophy and therefore above their Genius or Sphere Hippos Sir there be many things necessary to bee duly knowne and as diligently to be observed in him that desireth to be a perfect and able Ferrier which whosoever shall be defective in he may well be an Empyreticall-Hors-Leach but skilfull Ferrier or Marshall he shall never be And for that you please to say that I sore too high because I began my discourse with the termes of Generation and Corruption if you had not interrupted me I should have explicated my selfe so cleerely as that a very reasonable judgement might easily have apprehended me for I hold it not a thing fitting to pussell mens Braines either with Chimeras which they are not able to understand or with over-long and tedious discourses of things meerly impertinent but if you shall be pleased to heare me with patience I will touch upon this subject to wit What are the causes of Sicknesse in generall as also of Health and long Life and that Laconica brevitate and so leave the rest to your judgement and practise especially considering what other Authours my Masters have so learnedly and no lesse sufficiently intreated in this very Art To begin therefore and but to say what I said before with the causes of sicknesse and death of Horses in generall in
curd knobs and knots causing them to be dissolved And as for the water which she is to drinke for some time after her foling let it be either sweet Mashes or white water a moneth after her foling give her a Mash putting thereinto the powder of Brimstone or Savin or the like which will be a great preservation of the Colt then if she be moderately laboured either at Plough or Harrow if she will draw as well the Mare as Colt will prosper the better provided she be kept from raw meat while she remaineth in the Stable by which meanes she will the sooner recover strength lust and courage and have store of good milke which will cause the Colt to thrive the better and to grow to be of the greater bone which above all things is a matter of greatest consequence And that you suffer not the Colt to sucke the Mare when she commeth from worke untill she be throughly cold lest thereby you surfet the Colt Thus much I have thought fit to handle of this subject and albeit I have laboured herein to attaine to brevity neverthelesse the premisses well considered I shall not greatly offend in prolixity howsoever this my manner of breeding being different from the old received customes will not I doe assure me passe voyd of censure But as touching old customes thus much I doe averre that as they are in many cases of that force as no law is able to abrogate so on the contrary part many of them are so absurd and ridiculous as nothing can be more for what saith the civill Law Those things which by event or successe of time are found to be pernicious or hurtfull even these things ought to be repealed yea albeit they were at the first found profitable Which ground holdeth good in nothing so much as in old customes for of their absurdities I am able to produce instances not a few howsoever with many It is one of Hercules greatest labours to beat many a man from his old customes be they never so bad albeit Custome is a meere tyrant and his soveraignty most insufferable as a grave Author very well observeth CHAP. III. How to make and order your Stable HAving thus waded into this mystery of breeding I hold it a thing very behoovefull to be handled how your Stable ought to be accommodated First therefore your Stable should be scituate where the ayre is wholesome pure and good and the ground dry the structure would be either of free Stone or Bricke but Bricke is best most wholesome and warmest besides this benefit Brick hath which Stone hath not of being very dry for Stone will weep and sweat drops of water against raine and misty weather which begetteth damps and causeth rhumes in Horses Your Stable ought not to have any unsavory Gutter Channell or Sinke neare to it no Iakes Hogsties or Hen-roust whereby to annoy it It would be also seeled over head and have strong doores with lockes bolts and barres unto it The Racke would not be made too high or too low but placed in an indifferent proportion and so artificially set that neither the dust or hay-seeds may fall into his Mane or upon his necke and face The Manger would be set at an indifferent height made deep and of one entire piece as well for strength as for conveniency to be kept sweet and cleane Let the flore be pitched with Flint and not planked The windowes would be made with handsome shuts and casements and well glazed as well to keep out cold and wind as also when there may be cause to let in the coole and fresh ayre Againe take heed there be no lome wall or plaister so neare as that the Horse may reach thereto with bis mouth for upon that he will gnaw which may doe him much prejudice and be the cause of much dangerous sicknesse for Lome and Lime are suffocating things they will infect and putrifie the bloud endanger the Lounges and be no friend to his winde neither suffer any dung to lye neare him Furthermore there would be made a faire Loft wherein to lay Hay and convenient lodging chambers for your Groomes whose nearenesse together with their care and vigilancy might prevent many dangers and inconveniences which may accrue unto your Horses by night Also let a neat Saddle-house be contrived with Bings for Provender and in it Presses wherein to lay up the Saddles Bridles and all other furniture appertaining to Horfes and an Aqua-duct wherewith to bring water to the Stable And lastly other Stals would be erected remote wherein upon occasion to sever the sicke from the sound Many other accoutrements there are belonging to a perfect Stable as partitions with boards posts and barres with pins driven into every post whereon to hang Bridles and the like shelves also fastned to the wall serving for many uses to place necessaries upon c. which being known to all men will be needlesse for me here to repeate But you may peradventure startle at paving rather then planking your flore preferring planks as warmer and much better then flint or a pitched flore can be as also for that it is a new thing little practised and seldome heard But give me leave I pray a little to inform your understanding in this one point by which means your judgement may fortune to be much bettered First therefore whereas novelty may be objected I shall most easily assoile that point even from the selfe-same ground in the civill Law which I inserted in the conclusion of the precedent chapter viz. That things found to be prejudiciall ought to be inhibited although they might be thought needfull and good in foreknown times For that paving of Stables is better then planking them Paving Stabâ— much bâ— then plaâ—ing I have reasons not a few wherewith to satisfie a reasonable man First it is much more durable and lasting supposing the flore to be pitched by an expert workman Secondly it is lesse charge by much and therefore in that point the better Thirdly for a Horse to stand continually upon a pitched flore it emboldneth his feet and treading the more Fourthly it is the most excellent thing that may be for Colts who are unshod for it hardneth their hooves so as by custome they will be as bold to goe upon stones rocky and hard wayes as Horses that are shod neither will a pitched flore suffer the hoofe to goe abroad in manner of an Oyster besides the use thereof will make their hooves more tough durable and hollow insomuch as when they shall come to be shod and to have exercise they will carry their shooes much longer better and with more ease then otherwise if they had been used to a planked flore The inconvenience of a planked flore Now on the contrary part which concerneth the planked flore that I say cannot in reason be so good by many degrees First it is more slippery out of which reason a mettled horse may soone
shaking joynts his feare advances His thicke-curl'd Mane on his right shoulder dances His back-bone broad and strong the hollow ground Trampled beneath his hard round hoofe doth sound Such was that Horse which Spartan Pollux tam'd Fierce Cyllarus and Mars his Horses fam'd By th' old Greek Poets or those two that drew Achilles Chariot such a shape and hew At his wives comming flying Saturne tooke And all high Pelion with shrill neighings shooke Yet when disease or age have brought to nought This Horses spirit let him at home be wrought Nor spare his base old age A horse grown old Though he in vaine attempt it oft is cold To venery and when he 's brought to try Like that great strengthlesse fire in stubble dry In vaine he rages therefore first 't is good To marke his age his courage and his brood With other arts how sad a horse will be When overcome how proud of victory Dost thou not see when through the field in speed Two racing Chariots from the Lists are fled The young mens hearts all rise as forth they start And feare with joy confounded strikes each heart They give their Horse the raynes and lash them on Their hurried wheeles enflaming as they run Now low they goe now rise as they would flye Through th' empty ayre and mount up to the sky No resting no delay a sandy cloud Darkens the ayre they on through shoutings loud Of standers by all sweat and fom'd doe flye So great 's their love of praise and victory First Ericthonius Chariots did invent And by foure Horses drawn in triumph went The Peletronian Lapithes first found The use of backing Horses taught them bound And run the Ring taught Riders t'exercise In martiall ranks both equall Mysteries The Masters of both these have equall need To finde out Horse of courage and good speed Though ne're so nobly born though oft in game They won the prize and for their Country claime Epire or fam'd Mycenae or else tooke Their birth at first from Neptunes trident stroke These things observ'd at Covering time they care To make their Stallion strongly fat and faire The father of their brood for him they mow Choice grasse sweet streames and corne to him allow Lest he should faile his pleasant worke to doe And th'young ones starvelings from his hunger grow But they of purpose keepe the females light And leane and when they have an appetite To venery let them not drinke nor eate And course them oft and tye them in the heate When in full Barnes the ripe corne crowded lyes As empty chaffe before the west winde flyes And this they doe least too much ranknesse make The breeding soyle and fatted furrowes take Too dull a sense but that they should draw in Seed with desire and lodge it safe within But if thy minde thou more to warre doe give Or through Iove's wood would'st racing Chariots drive And swiftly passe by Pisa's river side Thy first taske is to make thy Horse abide To see the souldiers armes heare their loud voyces The trumpets sound and rattling Chariots noyses And oft within the stable let him heare The clashing whip he 'le more and more appeare To be delighted with his Masters praise And when he strokes his necke his courage raise When first he 's wean'd from sucking let him heare These things and trembling be compel'd to weare Soft haulters oft about his head but when His life hath seene foure Summers teach him then To run the Ring in order high to beate The ground and both wayes skilfully corvet As if he toyl'd then let him with his speed Challenge the wind and from all curbing freed Scoure o're the champion fields so swift that there The sands no print of his light foot doe beare So when the Scythian gusts and North-west wind From their cold quarter fiercely blow and bind The dry clouds up all o're the waving field Corne bowes with equall blasts woods tops doe yeeld A murmuring noyse long waves roule on the shore Forth flyes the wind sweeps lands and waters o're Thy Horse thus ordred to the races end All bloudy fom'd victoriously will tend Or else his tamed necke will better bow To draw the Belgian Chariot let him grow Full fed when 〈◊〉 he is broken well nor feare His growth so fed before he 's broke he 'le beare Too great a stomacke patiently to feele The lashing whip or chew the curbing steele But no one care doth more their strength improve Then still to keep them from veneriall love c. See how the Horses joynts all tremble when A Mare 's knowne sent he through the ayre doe feele No stripes no strength of men no bit of steele No Rockes nor Dikes or Rivers in his way Which roule whole mountaines can his fury stay c. But strangest far Is those Mare 's furious love which Venus sent When they their Master Glaucus peece-meal rent Love makes them mount o're lofty Gargarus And swim the streame of swift Ascanius And when Love's flam◠their greedy marrow burnes Most in the Spring for heat then most returnes To th' bones upon high rockes they take their places And to the westerne wind all turne their faces Sucke in the blasts and wondrous to be said Grow great with fole without the horses ayd Then o're the Rockes and Valleyes all they run Not to the North nor to the rising sun Nor Caurus quarter nor the South whence rise Blacke showers which darken and disturbe the skies Hence flowes thicke poyson from the groynes of these Which Shepheards truely call Hippomanes Hippomanes which oft bad Step-dames use And charming words and banefull hearbs infuse But time irreparable flyes away c. Du-Bartus that famous French Poet doth likewise in his Treatise of the Handy-crafts excellently describe the colour shape and properties of a good horse in the fourth part of the first day of the second weeke which beginneth thus Cain as they say with his deep feare disturbed Then first of all th' undaunted Courser curbed That whilst about anothers feet he run With lusty speed he might his deaths-man shun Among a hundred brave light lusty Horses With curious eye marking their curious forces He chooseth one for his industrious proofe With round high hollow smooth brown jetty hoofe With pasterns short upright but yet in meane Dry sinnowy shanks strong fleshless◠knees and leane With Hart-like legges broad breast and large behind With body large smooth flanks and double chin'd A crested neck bow'd like a halfe-bent bow Whereon a long thin curled Mane doth flow A firm-full raile touching the lowly ground With dock betweene two faire fat buttocks round A pricked eare that rests as little space As his light foot A leane bare bony face Thin joule his head yet of a middle size Full lively flaming sprightly rowling eyes Great foming mouth hot fuming nostrils wide Of chesnut hayre his forehead starrifi'd Two milky feet a feather on his breast Whom seven yeares old at the next
to our English phrase Trusty Bayard The French Italians and Germans doe very far commend and prefer three sorts of colours in Horses to wit the Browne-Bay the Chest-nut and the Cole-Black but they doe evermore preferre the Browne-Bay to the first place Master Blundevile and Master Markham doe both accord in the choyce of the Colours of the Horse and they never doe faile in preferring the Browne-Bay to the first place What shall I need speake any more of Colours I will now proceed to their Markes wherein albeit in most things all in a manner do agree yet only in some few points there is some small difference All generally assent in the white starre and white foote if the blaze be not too broad or the foote too high white above the Pastern for then it is called hosed or Buskened some commend the shimme Of the mâ— of a Horsâ— or rase downe the Face if it bee not much broader than a three-penny silke Ribben but then it must come to end just between the Nosthrils and not be more on the one side of the Face than on the other This indeede is of all true Horse-men esteemed a most beautifull good Marke and well becometh a good Horse Some would have the foote being white to be on the farre foote behinde and some again on the neare foote before I have heard some highly commend the Horse to have two white feete a crosse to wit the far-foote behind and the neere foot before like as had a Horse of the old Lord Sandes being a Courser which he brought out of Italy with so much charge labour and perill of his life as his Lordship did sundry times report unto me which was of a darke Bay and his two feete a crosse white howsoever I have known some Horsemen dislike of the same Markes yet I could never heare the reasons of their dislike A Knight of my acquaintance would highly commend the Horse who had a white foote which was bespeckled with blacke motly spots affirming that a Horse so marked did betoken good mettle great valour and a heroick spirit for he would alwaies call such a Horse Equus generosus a Horse of a brave spirit and this hee would report was taught him by old Sir Henry Lea that famous Horse-man and no lesse excellent Breeder of whom this Knight bought many delicate Colts some of which were thus marked All good Horsemen doe attest that the Horse with much white upon his face raw nosed sheath yard tuell hooves white skin white and legs hosed wal-eyed is generally weake faint of a cowardly condition tender and washy of flesh subject to rebellion restifenes to starting stumbling evill-sighted subject to tire dangerous to his Keeper for biting and striking and in a word of a most base and evill condition For the countenance is the true Index of the minde And a lewd looke prognosticateth a lewd condition And againe a deformed countenance doth delineate a wicked and deformed disposition and manners Feather â—den to 〈◊〉 good mâ— in a Hoâ—â— It is holden for a good Marke in a Horse to have many Feathers about his body as upon his forehead so it be scituated above the eyes and the higher it stands the better also upon the middle of the Necke neere to the Crest under the Neck in the middle of the Throple upon the Brest and upon both the Flanks and upon both Buttocks which for Horses to have Feathers in these and such like places is most commendable Now as touching the perfect and true shape of a Horse wherein we have more contrariety of opinions than are either in the Colour or Marks whereof I have given you a tast already Neverthelesse I will demonstrate how farre commonly all doe meete in the shape of a well timbred Horse The perfect shape of a Horse First therefore it is required that the hoofe be blacke smooth dry large round and hollow the Pasterns straight and upright Fetlocks short the legges straight and flat called also lath-legged the knees bony leane and round the necke long high-rear'd and great towards the Breast the Breast large and round the Eares small sharpe long and upright the Forehead leane and large the Eyes great full and black the Browes well filled and shooting outwards the Iawes wide slender and leane the Nosthrills wide and open the Mouth great the Head long and leane like to a Sheepe the Mane thin and large the Withers sharp and pointed the Back short even plaine and double chined the Sides and Ribbes deepe large and bearing out like the cover of a Trunke and close shut at the huckle-bone the Belly long and great but hid under the ribs the Flanks full yet gaunt the Rump round plaine and broad with a large space betwixt the Buttocks the Thighs long and large with wel-fashioned bones and those fleshy the Hams dry and streight the Trunchion small long well set on well couched the Trayne long not too thick and falling to the ground the Yard and Stones small and lastly the Horse to be well risen before And to conclude the perfect shape of a Horse according as a famous Horseman hath described is in a few words thus Viz. A broad Forehead a great Eye a leane Head thin slender leane wide Iawes a long high-rear'd Neck high-rear'd Withers a broad deepe Chest and Body upright Pasterns and a narrow Hoofe And this is the common allowed and approved shape of a perfect Horse so as if any of these things be deficient in him he cannot be said to be a Horse of a perfect Shape Wherefore I conclude that if a Horse of a good Colour well Marked and rightly Shaped and right also by Syre and Mare it will be seldome seene that he should prove ill unlesse his Nature be alienated and marred either in the Backing and Riding or else that he be otherwise wronged and most shamefully abused by the means of a hare-brain negligent or inconsiderate Rider or Groome But I may in this point bee taxed to hold a Paradox for some may object unto me that many times Horses who are of the best Colours best Marks and truest Shapes doe neverthelesse prove arrant jades restiffe stubborn ill natured subject to tyring and the like I answere I acknowledge all this to be most true for I have knowne Horses who upon their first view have beene in extrinsecall shew so hopefull as that they have promised what a man could expect from them which notwithstanding when they have come to the test they have beene a scandall to their sex but this is not a thing frequent for in every one of these who have thus miscarryed you shall have twenty who will prove right and answerable to your minde I have also knowne Horses which wanting these good attributes and who have beene as different from those we call good even as Chalk is from Cheese who have proved very good Horses howbeit I will not counsell you to breed upon such
for him to fill his belly nor the season warme enough and let the day wherein you turne him forth be a warme Sunshine day and about the houre of ten for Horses pampered in warme stables and kept close will be subject to take cold if a discreet order and course be not taken with them Secondly let him be taken up from grasse about the feast of Saint Bartholomew which is upon the 24. day of August or soon after for then the season doth begin to let fall cold dewes which betideth no good but much harme to your horse and then beginneth the heart of grasse to faile so as the grasse which then he seedeth upon breedeth no good nutriment but grosse flegmaticke and cold humours which putrifieth and corrupteth the bloud Let your horse I say be taken up about the day before mentioned but with all the quietnes may be for feare of heating him by reason his grease he gat at grasse is tender so as every little motion will dissolve the same whereby the bloud may be inflamed and so the Horse be brought into eminent perill at least of sicknesse if not of death A day or two after you have him in the Stable or sooner let him be shod and let bloud and drencht as before is shewed you for this preventeth Yellowes Stavers and such like diseases which the Gaule and Spleen occasioneth which the heart and strength of grasse through the ranknes of the bloud doth ingender in his body Then purg and cleanse him both outwardly and inwardly like as you are taught in lib. 2. chapter 2. Thirdly search your Horses mouth both then and at other times often for feare of Barbes Bigs Blisters and Cankers and such like maladies which are very incident to breed in the mouths of Horses which by the colour of the spots of his Gums Tongue and Mouth you may perceive and so the better and more easily both prevent and cure all such diseases as are inherent to those parts Fourthly rub and wash sometimes your Horses mouth and tongue with vineger or Verjuce mingled with bay salt but Verjuce is the better and let some passe downe his throat for it is both wholesome and good Fiftly observe your Horses Eyes and Countenance which if you doe find them to be heavy drowsie and dull then be you confident all is not well within him Then take bloud from him and give him the drinke of Diapente or Diatesseron and hee shall doe well againe Sixtly observe well his standing and his going if you doe perceive him to felter with any of his feet be it never so little or else which foote soever he doth favour let the Groome presently take up that foot and examine it if he can feele any place warmer than other let him now assure himself something is amisse there take off the Shoo and search the foot carefully to see whether gravell or naile be any cause thereof but if you doe find all well there search the heele and frush if you find not any thing there search higher for some swelling that may be in the pastern-joynt in the legge or backe sinew and when he hath found the fault and cause of his complaint let him presently informe the Ferrier who is to apply his remedies and by this meanes he shall discharge his duty as well becometh him Seaventhly observe also if he put forth his foote more than usually hee was wont to doe then assure your selfe the griefe lyeth either in the knee or shoulder if it be so presently advertise the Ferrier who knoweth what is best to be done with him Eightly when you are to take your journey with him water him in the House and give him his break-fast of good cleane Oates sweet and wel-sifted then bridle him and tie him up to the Rack then curry dresse and saddle him but draw not the girts too streight till you come to take his back then presently cast his cloath over him least he take cold and when you come to take his back draw his girts streight and so on God's name begin your journey but for a mile two or more goe faire and softly for if you heat him too soone he will not digest his meate but crudityes will arise in his stomacke which you shall perceive by his scouring purging as he travaileth whereby you may either founder him in his body or else cause a Calientura burning Fever or some other worse infirmity to seize him and as you doe travell him when you are come some foure or five miles from home a light from him and walke him sometimes standing still to see if you may provoke him to stale for it is very wholesome and good which you may also doe well to attempt when you dismount and walke him down any hill and some three miles before you come to your journies end Ride him into some River or other watering place unto his belly but no deeper in any wise and then let him drinke yet not so much at the first as he desireth but by degrees first taking up his head to cause him to wash his mouth whereby to free it frō filth fome Then let him drinke halfe his draught and lastly so much as in reason he will Then observe upon what pace you brought him to the water with the same pace and neither softlier nor faster Ride him a mile or better by which time he will have warmed the water in his belly without taking cold or harme This watering him thus will very much refresh him cause him to forget his wearisomenesse and when he shall come to eate it will be with very good appetite which otherwise he would not have done A mile at least before you come to your journies end slack your pace and begin to go more softly to the end he may not be too hot when he shal be set up have him without delay into the Stable warme well littered up to the belly but take heed you suffer him not to be either walked or washed for these two things are very pernitious and most dangerous for him and the cause of more sicknesse sorances and death to Horses then of all other things besides So soone as you have brought him into the Stable the first thing you doe off with your Coate and tie him up to the empty Rack then litter him up to the belly ungird him take off his Saddle rub his back with speed and put his cloath upon him and upon that his Saddle againe and gird him with his Sursingle then make cleane his stirrops stirrop-leathers and Girts and rubbe him downe both Legges Belly Body Breast Head Face and Neck and so stuffe him up with cleane dry straw and let him stand so upon the Bit an houre evermore looking upon him least he sweat a new which if you shall perceive then to alay it take away some of the straw wherewith he is stuffed and hee will coole againe if you finde him in good temper unbridle
passe the first three tell mee what is Handy-worke Hyppos Handy-worke is to heat the Iron well to Sodder well to Forge well to turne a Shoo well to make and point a Nayle well to pare the hoof well to Cauterize well to let bloud well to be light and well-handed bold and hardy in dressing of a Horse well of such Accidents as may happen unto him Hyppiat What are the principall members of the Creature Hyppos They be three viz. the Liver the Heart and the Braine and if the Creature be offended in any of these three especially the Braine which is in the top of the head then I say he will dy Hyppophyl I alwayes tooke the principall members of any living creature to be foure Hyppiat Therein Sir you were mistaken for any of these former three being hurt there is evermore present death especially the Heart and the Braine but if any other member besides these three be hurt yet may your Horse live and doe well againe But which Member I pray you Sir do you hold to be one of the foure principall Members Hyppophyl The Stones or Gignitors Hyppiat How doe you assoyle this Objection Hypposerus Hyppos Most easily Sir that the Gignitors cannot bee any one of the principall Members reason teacheth us for you cannot so much as touch any of these three but you doe either kill the Creature outright or else desperately endanger him Now supposing the Stones may fortune to receive hurt or domage yet if I bee in despaire of healing or curing them I can neverthelesse cut or take them cleane away from the body or cause theÌ„ to fall away by other good means or by medicine without perill of his life he will only thereby loose his naturall heat whereby hee will bee disenabled from having any disposition to Coity or power of Procreation Hyppiat What is that which goeth from the Head of the Horse and diffuseth it selfe through-out all the other Members Hyppos They are two Sinnewes or Tendents which are white and have a Ligature beginning at the very end of the Nose and extend themselves along the Neck and along the Back and maketh their extent to the foure Legges and taketh their Ligaments in the fore Feet Hyppophyl I was in good hope Hypposerus you would likewise have spoken of the number of the Sinnewes and where every one is seated for it is a thing very materiall and I doe the rather desire it for that I am not as yet perfect in that point Hyppiat That was but forgotten both by my selfe and him Sir wherefore Hypposerus make answere to the Gentlemans demand Hyppos I shall doe it most gladly wherefore as touching the Sinnewes we say The number of the sinews that there are in every Horse twenty nine or thirty great and small First the two great Sinnewes which I named before which have their first origin from the end of the Nose Item two branches which are maine Sinnewes that proceed from the Brain and runneth downe the Cheekes to the Teeth Item there are from the Shoulders to the first joynt of the Armes or fore-Legges downewards two great Sinnewes Item from the Knees to the Pasterns are foure great Sinnewes with the same number in the hinder part Item in the fore-part of the Breast and about it as well within as without are ten Sinnewes some greater and some smaller Item from the Raines of the Back to the Stones are foure great Sinnewes Lastly one great maine Sinnew whith runneth along to the end of the Tayle So as the full number of the Sinnewes are twenty nine or thirty which are to be discerned Hyppiat What is that which we doe commonly call principall or vitall Bloud Hyppos Those be Veines which are vessells of quick or running Bloud which men doe call Vitall Bloud Hyppiat What is that which men doe call Vitall Bloud Hyppos It is that which when the Creature sleepeth his bloud is in continuall agitation and never ceaseth Hyppiat How many Veines hath a Horse in his whole body Hyppos To speake properly a Horse hath but only one Veine which is that which we call the Median or Lives Veine which is in the Liver being the true Fountaine Source and great Tunne from whence the Canes Conduite-pipes and little Veines as the smaller Rivers doe separate themselves which doe run thorough all the parts and members of the whole body Hyppiat What call you Separation Hyppos Separation is of two kinds viz. ascendant and descendant those which do ascend to the Head and body are called Veines Ascendant and those which doe run low or to the Legges and lower members are called Hollow or Descendant Veines Hyppophyl I did ever thinke and beleeve till now that a Horse had more Veines than one how then cometh it to passe that we open Veines in so many severall parts of the body being so different Veines the one from the other Hyppiat I answere you Sir if you bee pleased to examine your paper there you shall find how that Hypposerus told you that a Horse hath but only one Veine and it is a most infallible verity for that all those other Canes which you call Veines are but the very same with that One which evermore standeth full of Bloud up to the top conveyed into him which said great Veine is annexed unto the Liver which Veine doth resemble a great Tunne or Cestern which conveyeth the Bloud into all the lesser Veines by which meanes they continually remaine full having no vacancy or want Like as a Cestern V. G. râ—ceiveth its water from a Pump and so conveyeth and bestoweth it into and among the smaller Pipes ofttimes storeth with plenty of water a whole Village or Towne or at least a whole Family Hyppophyl I understand you well but now friend Hypposerus tell me I pray you in how many Veines may a man take Bloud from a Horse in case of necessity Hyppos In many parts to wit In the Neck in the weeping-Veines The numbâ— of ths veinâ— under the Eares and in six other places of and about the Head as in the Palate-Veines in the Tongue in the Flank-Veines in the Breast and Spur-Veines in the foure members to wit the Legges Thighes Pasterns and Feet also in sundry other places according as necessity shall require it and in places which may the better kill the Malady or Disease of the said Horse Hyppophyl But yet I was in good hope you would have delivered the reasons for which you doe open any Veine as also which they be in particular Hyppos The Veines which we doe usually open are First The particâ—lar veines the two Temple-Veines which easeth the paines in thâ— Head coming of Colds Rheumes Feavers Yellows and Stavers drowsinâ—sse Frenzy the Sleeâ—â—-â—vill Falling evill or any griefe in or about the Eyes or Braine Secondly we opâ—n the two Eye or weeping veins being most soveraigâ—e for suâ—h diseases whereunto the Eyes are subjâ—ct as watery or weeping Eyes Bloud shotten Pâ—n and wâ—hhe h w
some of these hearbs to the places or limbs greived and keep them on with a thumb-band of Hay wet in the said decoction and every day about noone anoynt the said visited member with Petroleum and Nervall and Oyle of Spike mixed together and keep him warme give him good meat and mashes or white water not only during the time of his cure but a good time after and let his ayrings be temperate and his exercise moderate and take heed of washing him after labour for that probably was the cause of his Convulsion ✚ Another Take strong white Wine vineger and Patch-grease alias Peece-grease of each like much melt them upon a gentle fire then with Wheat-flowre make it into a Poultesse and apply it to the grieved member good and warme renewing it morning and evening but before you doe administer this charge by holding a barre of iron or a chafing dish of coales neere let him be annoynted with Petroleum Nervall and Patch-grease and oyle of Spike of each like much very well and after binde on the charge all over the grieved place dresse him thus morning and evening and give him moderate exercise and ayrings and let him have Mashes and white water to drinke and keep him warm This is very good ✚ Another First rake him then give him the Clister prescribed in booke 2. chap. 11. § 8. Clister 4. then let two men on either side of the horse one rub him well with soft cloaths all his body and limbs over especially the diseased limb then cloath him up warme and let him stand upon the trench foure or five hours to the end the Clister may work the more kindly after give him meat and white water and so feed him for that day But I must tell you that so soon as you have given him this Clister and before his friction give him this drink whereby to cleanse his body viz. Take of white wine one pinte Aloes halfe an ounce Agarick half an ounce all beaten very small and infused in the Wine putting thereto of the purest clarified Hogs-grease one spoonfull or for want thereof and which is much better of sweet Butter sixe ounces and give him this bloud warme The next day prepare in a readinesse this unguent Take of strong Ale two quarts and of black Sope two pound boyle them together till they look black like Tarre and herewith annoynt rub and chafe him all over that the unguent may sinke in that done cloath him up and stuffe him warme that he may sweat well but stuffe head necke and brest well let him sweat thus two hours then coole him by degrees taking now a little from him then a little till he be brought to a good temper againe then keep him so and about one of the clock at afternoon give him a warm Mash or white water and then some Hay and an houre after that Provender Let not this drink be given him above once during his whole Cure but his Clisters Sweats and Frictions till he be well yet the Clisters not every day neither and let his drinke be white water wherein Mallowes have been boyled unlesse sometimes you give him wherewith to comfort him a sweet Mash but if he will not drink his white water boyled with Mallowes then let him have it without and let his food be that which is sweet and very good This did I never try but two severall Ferriers who lived more then 100 miles distant the one from the other gave me this Receit verbatim without scarse altring one word and they both protested unto me they have cured sundry Horses which have been forely perplexed with this disease Hippoph What meane you by moderate and temperate ayering of a Horse Hippos I doe meane by moderate ayering Ayering that he be not forth in ayering too long and by temperate ayering that a sicke Horse if there be cause why he should be ayered it be not done too late in the evening nor too early in the morning for that such kinde of ayerings will take too much from a Horse that is feeble or sick but in such cases let him be walked to his ayerings in a warme evening an houre before sunne-set at least and in a morning an houre after the sunne is up especially if the winde be not too high or blow too cold and that the sunne shine warme for by ayering before sunne rising and after sunne set like as is to be used with Running and Hunting Horses will make a fat strong Horse both so poor and leane as not to have a Crow of flesh on his back as the proverb is and so feeble as not to be able to arise being layed and therefore give not such kinde of ayerings to a Horse that is infirme but those which I do tearme the temperate ayerings will greatly comfort the spirits of your Horse give him a very good appetite to his meat and encrease his flesh and good liking whereas the late ayerings will be as I said before very noxious to sicke diseased or leane Horses § 17. C. Hippoph HOw doe you helpe a Horse that groweth costive or belly-bound Hippos The nature of this disease is such as that the Horse that is therewith troubled cannot discharge himselfe but with great paine and trouble his ordure comming from him both very dry and hard Horses that are kept too much to hard dry and hot meats are most incident to this malady sometimes it commeth by eating too much Provender especially Beanes Pease Tares or Wheat which albeit these graines be more hearty then any other yet they siccicate and dry up the moysture because they beget more heate and costivenesse in the body then other graines doe yea and winde too and bad humours causing obstructions and sometimes this costivenesse commeth to a Horse by reason he hath been kept to too spare a dyet as is usually seen in Horses in dyet for this hot and dry food doth suck up like to a spunge the flegmaticke moysture of the body giving way thereby that choller is become the more predominant so that the meat he eateth cannot be so well digested This is a disease very perilous and the origine of many maladies and it is easily knowne by its symptomes And you may cure him after this manner viz. Take the decoction of Mallowes one quart Costivenesse or Belly-bound Sallet oyle halfe a pinte or fresh Butter halfe a pound Benedicte laxative one ounce give him this bloud-warme clister-wise and then clap his tayle to his tuell and so cause him to keep it halfe an houre at least being walked up and downe then set him up warme and it will worke whereby he will empty himselfe and in due time give him a sweet Mash and after Hay and so keep him to Mashes or white water two or three â—ayes but withall faile not to rake him before you administer your Clister ✚ This is a most excellent Receit which you shall finde in lib. 2. chap. 6. § 7.
and Sallet Oyle of each one pint then take wax foure ounces and Beane Flower twelve Spoonefuls and so boyle it and after straine it and bring it to an Vnguent and therewith anoynt the Tumors and swelled parts which being done apply this Plaister to the places Another Take Darnell and red Docks of each two handfuls bruise them and then boyle them in wine and Salet Oyle of each one pint and Beane Flower foure Spoonefuls and put thereto of Asses or Oxes dung so much as will suffice when it is boyled to a pultis apply it Playster-wise and use this every day once till it be well ✚ This is also very good Another Take Linseed and pound it in a Morter and of Fenugrick in powder of each foure ounces Pitch and Rosin of each three ounces Damaske Rose leaves dryed two ounces Pitch of Greece six ounces boyle all these together and when you are ready to take it from the fire adde thereto of Turpentine two ounces Honey six ounces and Sallet Oyle so much as will suffice and thus applying this Salve Plaister wise to the place it will mollifie any hard substance ✚ This I have often tryed and have found it to bee very good §. 7. D. Hippoph BVt Hipposerus is there any cure for a sick Horse whose infirmity is so desperate and he so farre spent as to bee generally judged to be almost at the poynt of death Hippos Truely Sir both my Master and my selfe have done such cures upon Horses which have beene so desperately sick as you speak of insomuch as the beholders have pronounced sentence of death upon them and the owners would have beene well content to have beene satisfied and well appayed with their skinnes and shooes and I will shew you what our cure is First open the neck veine and let him bleed well then two houres after his bleeding Take of Diatesseron halfe an ounce and give it him bloud warme in Muskadine a pint Desperate sicknesse or Sack for want thereof or else if these be not on the suddaine to be gotten then take good Ale or Beere with the like quantity of Diatesseron then having given it walke him halfe an houre if he be able in the warme Sunne or if there be not Sunne-shine then in some warme Stable or Barne then set him up warme cloathed and littered and let him be rubbed all over as Head Pole Neck and Legges and especially twixt the Eares for that greatly easeth the payne in the head by reason it dissolveth and disperseth the humors at noone unbridle him and offer him a little sweet Hay sprinkled with water which if he shall refuse to eate as t is likely he will then offer him so much bread as the quantity of a penny loafe and let him eate it all if he will but if he do refuse to eate thereof also then give him one gallon of the strongest Ale-wort you can get of the first runnings so soon as it is mashed but let it not be over-hot and before barme be put unto it give him this I say bloud warm but if that cannot be gotten then provide him in a readinesse against the same houre a sweet Mash which when he hath taken fume his head with Olibanum Storax and Benjamin and then let him be rubbed againe as before and see him warme kept as is usuall for sicke Horses in physicke and thus doe for three dayes together in all poynts bloud-letting excepted for that must be once onely unlesse extraordinary cause doe require the same and assure your selfe your Horse will mend daily and recover his health and strength in short time and at three dayes end give him no more Mashes but in their stead let him have white water onely if by meanes of this sicknesse he hath any Pustils or inflamations risen under his chaule then clip away the hayre and apply such things thereunto as may ripen them and bring them to a head and after breake them with Shoomakers waxe or other such like good things and so let them runne and heale at pleasure Also if you doe finde your Horse to be costive by meanes of his sicknesse as commonly horses will be after Physicke then first rake him and finding his doung to be hot dry and hard give him the suppository of a candle shewed you in chap. 18. § 27. Suppos 1. of this second Booke And this is the best Suppository can be given him in a case of this nature ✚ But if contrariwise you finde him to have a strong and violent laxe or scowring upon him whereby he purgeth overmuch and so continueth then be you assured that hee hath something in his body wherewith nature is offended which you must labour to remove and for remedy thereof Take of new milke one quart and put to it of Beane flower two spoonfuls and as much of the powder of Bolearmonack searsed boyle these untill the milke thicken and so bloud warme give it your Horse and in a morning or two fasting with a horne and it will stay his loosenesse ✚ but if this doe it not then shall you Take of red Wine one pinte or Tinto the like quantity and put into it of Bursa-Pastoris one handfull and of Tanners Bark in fine powder half a handful the outside being first taken away then boyle it till the hearb do begin to be soft then straine it and put thereto of Cinamon powdred two spoonfuls and so give it him bloud warme one or two mornings and this will infallibly stay his fluxe and if you cannot get Diapente or Diatesseron then give him this drinke Take of Dragon-water one pinte London Treacle one ounce warme it till the Treacle be dissolved and so give it him bloud warm give him this drinke three mornings together and for his drink otherwise let him have sweet Mashes three mornings onely and after till he be well recovered let him have no cold water by any meanes but onely white water and through Gods assistance he will be soone restored to his former health ✚ These things I have often practised to good purpose § 8. D. Hippophyl VVHat is to be done to a Horse that droopeth pineth or languisheth Hippos This disease commeth by a cold taken or by some unnaturall surfet by reason of over-hard riding or by being washed after an extreame heate the fignes to know it is he will feed but with no appetite neither will the meate he eateth disgest well with him for give him Oates and you shall finde many of them come forth whole in his ordure besides he will be lanke in the belly and flankes and his flesh will fall away The cure for such a malady is first to Drooping Take bloud from him as well in the necke as spurre veines for that the bloud is most corrupt and naught the next day rake him and administer unto him the Clister prescribed you in lib. 2. chap. 6. and § 7. Clist 3. C. the next day after he hath taken his Clister
many horses of colds and Glanders Another very good Take of Bay berries one ounce of Licoris two drams of brown Sugar-candy Nutmegs and Ginger of each a penniworth of Garlick a halfe penny worth let all these be beaten and mixed then take of Chamberlye that is four dayes old one quart and boyle it by it selfe to a pinte and put to it of sweet Butter a halfe penny worth and with it the residue of the ingredients and so give it him bloud warm c. ✚ Another most soveraign receit for the Glanders and whereof I have had very great experience First cleere his head by pricking him in the mouth and rub the place with salt whereby to cause it to bleed the more then take two long feathers of a Goose wing well annoynted with oyle de Bay thrust it up and down his nostrils which will open and purge his head also perfume his head with the stalks of Garlick broken into small pieces with a Tunnell or with a thick cloth cast over his head the better to receive the smoake into his nostrils and do this morning and evening keeping him to a spare dyet and moderate exercise whereby the better to cleanse his head and stomack and to empty him by which meanes the brain will be the better quieted To perfume him also with Frankincense Storax and Benjamin of each like much well mixed together is very soveraign but two or three dayes after let him bloud in the neck after this let him be walked a-abroad or gently ridden if the horse be of sufficient strength to get him breath then administer unto him this drink Take of Muskadine one pinte of London Treacle an ounce and a halfe sweet Butter three ounces give him this bloud warm take then tryed Hogs grease and rub and chafe him under the chaule very well therewith and leave him annoynted thick therewith then make him this Poultesse Take of Mallowes two handfuls of Worm-wood Smalage and Rue all small shred and stamped of each one handfull of Wheat Bran and of tryed Hogs grease of each one quart boyle all these together continually stirring them untill the Hogs grease be almost consumed and binde it under his chaule so hot as he can well suffer the same and keep his head especially his poll very warm leaving onely ayre for his mouth and nose and light for his eyes Then perfume him with Frankincense and keep him warm in the Stable and so let him rest with this Poultesse four and twenty hours The next morning give him early of the best new Ale one quart with Anniseeds and Licoris made together into very fine powder one spoonfull and a good piece of sweet Butter give him this with a horn bloud warm then put into either nostrill a long Goose feather well dipped in oyle de Bay and fresh Butter well mixed together then remove the Poultesse and if you doe finde that the kernels and inflamations too ripe open them and let forth the matter and taint the orifice with Turpentine and Hogs grease molten together then warm some of the Poultesse you left but not so hot as before and lay it to the place and let it so remaine untill the next day his head being still kept warm let his manger meat be old cleane Oats well sifted and moystened in new Ale and Muskadine if he will eat them so if not then Ale alone and let his Rack meat be Wheat Straw well threshed and let his drink be white water for ten dayes after and then let him not have afterward any cold water but with exercise and let him sometimes in stead of white water a sweet Mash keeping him to a spare dyet and let him be every day ayered either by riding or walking if he be able to be brought out of the Stable but then evermore keep him warm after it and let him either by exercise in moderate riding or in his cloaths in the Stable sweat a little every day once and after let him be rubbed dry neither let him sweat in his cloaths Put also into his provender the roots of Elecampane white Lillies and Polipodium of the Oake newly gathered made cleane and chopped very small to the quantity of two spoonfuls every time and give him no Provender but when he is very hungry and faile not to continue this course of physick and dyet by the space of ten or twelve dayes together and when these dayes be ended give him this purging drink Glanders a purging drink Take of white wine one quart or where Wine may not easily be acquired then the like quantity of good new Ale Aloes an ounce and a halfe made into fine powder of Agarick halfe an ounce the powder of Elecampane two spoonfuls of life honey three spoonfuls brew all these well together and give it him bloud warm and keep him warm sixe dayes after let him bloud in the necke and if the bloud be good then take not above a quart at most from him but if it be naught take then a pottle from him after this order him both in feeding and exercise very moderately and by this meanes you shall recover him and bring him to his pristine health again ✚ Another receit for the Glanders very pretious which I have often tryed Take life honey as much as will suffice and mingle it with his Oates rubbing the Oates and honey together betwixt your hands so as the honey may be very well mixed with the Oates let him eate his Oats thus mingled with the honey untill such time as he be perfectly cured which will be when you shall perceive him wholly to have left running at the nose ✚ I had this cure from one of the ablest Ferriers I ever knew in England and I have cured many horses therewith Another Take of Sallet oyle and white Wine Vineger of each three spoonfuls beat them well together and put it into one of his nostrils three mornings together and so likewise convey into his other nostrill the like quantity of oyle and Vineger three mornings together remembring that evermore when you doe administer this medicine you do presently put up into the same nostrill a long Goose feather dipped first in oyle de Bay stirring the feather up and down in his nostrill which will cause him to sneeze and snuffe forth the viscous corruption which remaineth in his head Keep him all the time warm and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water ✚ Of this I have oft times made tryall and it is speciall good as well for Glanders as for any cold if the horse runne at the nose Another right good Take of Diapente and clarified honey of each one ounce and with good Sack one pint give it him bloud warm being first well brewed together drench him herewith eight mornings together and so soon as you have given him this drink inject into his nostrils this receit following Take the powder of Aristolochia-rotunda as much as will suffice and
so knots and pustils do engender in the Liver which breedeth either a Dropsie a Feltricke or a rot The signes how to know this infirmity are these After his journeyes his hayre will stare his legges swell and burn and when you shall presse the places swoln with your finger upon taking your finger away there will remaine a pit or dint hee will forbeare his meat very much and when he doth eate it will be without any stomacke or appetite he will pant much lift and beat in the flanks many times he will swell under the belly neither will he cast his coat in seasonable time when other Horses that be sound do and he will be so faint of body as that he will become lunt and utterly to have lost his mettle These and such like be the symptomes of this malady Now come I to the cure Let him first bleed well under the taile then Take of Mares-milke two quarts if the same may be had if not Rot. the like quantity of the milke of a red Cow then take a lump of Arement then take a young horse of or about the age of foure yeares and of colour blacke if it may be if not then of some other colour run and chafe him about that he may sweate much then with a spoone or with some other such like instrument rake the sweate from his head necke breast backe sides ribbes buttocks legges and in a word from each part or member of the said horse and get off the sweat so much as you can possibly and so put your Arement and your sweat into the milke which all being well mixed give him this by equall portions three mornings together till he hath taken it all and let him drinke none other drinke after it in sixe or seven houres but immediately after his drink let him be led forth into some pasture where other horses be the better to cause him to neese stale dung and empty himselfe for it is very wholesome for him so to doe before he either eate or drink Having thus done set him up warm and well littered and if the season do serve give him of the green blades of Rye if not give him Barly steeped in milk three dayes but renewed every day once Then after every of these drinks if you feele him cold in the pasterne joynts or that he trippeth or stumbleth as you leade him in your hand meddle no further with him for that he is past cure otherwise for nine dayes together after morning and evening give him white water onely unlesse now and then a sweet Mash and sometimes give him milke with his white water if the Horse be not above nine years old and so you may cure him but if he be elder this may prolong his life whereby he may do the more service This I never did experience but a Noble Knight and a very friend told me that he hath thus recovered sundry Horses which have beene visited with this disease CHAP. XVIII §. 1. S. Hippophilus WHat good Salves have you wherewith to heale up sores and wounds Hippos Sir I have many according as I have before shewed you but yet I will give you many more the greatest number of which I have tryed and I am able to commend them unto you for very good and those not Salves Salve onely but Vnguents Powders and Waters which be most soveraign Take of Perosen and of hard Rosin of each one pound of Frankincense Virgin-Wax or for want thereof new Waxe and Sheeps suet of each halfe a pound of old tryed Hogs grease one pound and a quarter boyle the Gummes and Waxe in white Wine halfe a pint and then put unto it your Sheeps tallow and Hogs grease and when all is well molten and incorporated straine it and whilst it is yet hot put in of Venice Turpentine one ounce and so work all well together and when it is cold poure in the liquor from the salve which put up into a cleane galley pot or other cleane vessell for your use ✚ This is a most soveraign Treate or Salve wherewith to heale any wound that is not come to an Vlcer and so dry it up Another most excellent powder Powder Take unslaked Lime the dry dust of Tanners Oken Bark and old shooe soles burned to a cole of each like much make these into fine powder and mixe them well and keep it in a cleane boxe or glasse for your use ✚ This powder healeth the buds or knots of the Farcin after they be broken and it skinneth them and if they be first washed with the juyce of Vervine and strong Vineger mingled together and then this powder being cast upon them will I say heale and skin them It also healeth and skinneth all other sores Another Oyntment Take tryed Hogs grease halfe a pound Verdigrece in fine powder one penny worth boyle these upon the fire two or three walms then take it off and put unto it of Venice Turpentine halfe an ounce and stirre it well together till it be cold ✚ This Vnguent will heale any wound or sore in a Horse Another Oyntment Take of Roch-Allum a good quantity and burn it and as much bay Salt and burn that also make both these together into fine powder then take of common Honey and of sweet Butter of each like much as will suffice incorporate the Allum and Salt with the Honey and Butter by melting them over a gentle fire and with a taint or plaister apply it ✚ And this cureth any foule sore This I have often tryed Another Take of faire water Water one pinte and put into it of green Coperas and of bay Salt of each the quantity of a good hasle nut both made into very fine powder let these boyle a little upon the fire With this wash any sore before you do apply your Salves Vnguents or Powders ✚ This is a right good water Another Take of common Honey two ounces Roch-Allum Verdigrece and Vineger of each one ounce make your Allum and Verdigrece into very fine powder then take of Sublimate finely powdred two ounces boyle all these a walme or two on the fire this laid on a Spatula plaister-wise once a day or if the wounds be deep with a taint cureth both speedily and soundly but before you dresse him with this Salve let the Sore be well washed and injected with the water last above mentioned made of faire water Coperas and bay Salt ✚ This is a most approved cure and good beyond all peradventure for it cureth not onely sores and wounds in any part in the body of the Horse but in the foot which way soever it may happen and it cleanseth any wound from dead or proud flesh Another Take the buds or tendrest tops of the leaves of Elder one handfull and first shred and after pound them very well till you bring them to a perfect Salve Salve and apply this to the sore binding a cloth
of Salendine and wash the hurt-tongue therewith nine dayes together and it will cure it albeit it be halfe cut in sunder for the iuyce of Salendine well conglutinat and sodder the tongue together being cut or wounded ✚ This also is very good §. 2. T. Hippoph HOw doe you helpe a Horse that hath an Itch in his Tayle Taile an itch Hippos This commeth of ranknesse of bloud and therefore it is requisite that first he be let bloud in the Tayle and that hee bleed well After Take Buck-lye and with a Ragge or Hurds in the Lye wash the place infected every day often or as many times as it shal be dry and continue thus doing foure or five dayes and this will cure it ✚ This is very good Another But if the hayre do fall away with the Mainge or Itch then slit the skin from within two inches of the Tuell to the fourth ioynt and with your Cornet take out a certaine bone or gristle which the French do call Bariuole then fill up the clift with Salt made into fine powder and with a hot iron burne the tayle in sundry places and wash it with Buck-lye as before But your Lye must bee made very strong This cure I never practised but I once saw a Marishall of Paris dresse and so cured a Horse in this manner of this malady of whom I had the cure § 3. T. Hippoph HOw doe you make your Vnguentum Theriacum Hippos This Vnguentum Theriacum Theriacum Vnguentum is most soveraigne for any Ach in any of the Ioynts it is also speciall good for Horses that doe fall lame if the griefe be in the Hip Stifling-place legs shoulders Pasternes or any other part of the legges a back-sinew-sprain only excepted And thus I do make it Take of Nervell of Oyle of Pamphilion and of black-Sope of each two ounces and of tryed-hogs-grease halfe a pound melt all these upon a gentle fire and being molten put into it of ordinary Treacle two penny-worth then take it from the fire then with a Splatter or Spoone keepe it by continuall stirring till it be through cold then will it be of a dun-colour keep this in a gally-pot for your use And when you shall have occasion to use the same anoynt the grieved place therewith rubbing and chafing it in very well and let one hold a barre of hot iron neere as you do anoynt the griefe And thus is it made ✚ This is most excellent to raise the veine from the sinew at what time you are to take up the veine I have tryed it saepè et saepiùs §. 4. T. Hippoph HOw doe you destroy a Tetter Hippos This Malady or Sorance the French doe call Vervolant the Flying Worme which is a Tetter or Ring-worme Tetter or Ring-worme and the cure is this Take the rootes of Elicampane and the rootes of the red-Dock of each like much slice them thinne and put them into vrine three quarts with Bay-salt two handfuls let it boyle untill one quart bee consumed then take it off and with a clout fastned to a stick wash the Sorance very hot Vse this foure or five mornings together and it will kill it ✚ This is very good §. 5. T. Hippoph VVHat is to be done to a horse that tyreth in travell and falleth sicke Hippos For a Horse to tire upon the way the causes are many First for that he is travelled when he shall be too young Secondly in that he is lately taken from grasse whilst he is yet foule and foggy before he be well ensaimed thirdly in that he hath beene long kept and pampered in the Stable without giving him breath or moderate exercise Fourthly by being travelled beyond his strength in longer journeyes and deeper waies then he was well able to performe Fiftly it might be through the covetousnesse or carelesnesse of his rider in not feeding or seeing him fed so well as was fitting Sixtly and lastly by reason the Horse might have some secret infirmity whereof his master might be ignorant Wherefore if your Horse may happen in his travell to tire or faint have patience with him and do not force him beyond what he may be able to performe either by spurring or beating him like as many cholericke and passionate people doe usually but get to some house or Inne so soone as conveniently you may when first you see him begin to sinke or to faint under you set him presently up warme clothed and well littered that he take no cold and let his Keeper or the Ostler of the Inne rubbe and chafe him all over with fresh dry straw but especially let him rub him against the hayre and let him have no meat till two houres or more after you have given him this drinke Take of the best sweet Sack one pinte but if that cannot be had Tyring in travell then take the same quantity of White or Claret Wine and put therto of Cinamon Ginger Nutmegs Graines Cloves Anniseeds and Fennell-seds of each one ounce all made into fine powder then take red Sage Rosemary-tops Mints Camomill and wilde Thyme of each like much so that in all they amount to halfe a handfull chop the hearbs very small and then put all these Hearbs and Spices into the Wine and then boyle them a pretty while then take it from the fire and straine it hard and unbit your horse and give him this drink bloud warme this done Bit him up againe and with a switch stir him up and down as he standeth in his place tyed to the Rack then coole him and two houres after his drink give him first some Hay and halfe an houre after that give him either a sweet Mash or white water and after feed him at your pleasure but be you considerate in giving him his Provender by little at once and often and howsoever feed him well and thus ordering him by morning he will be well recovered and able to travell againe ✚ This is an excellent drink and of great vertue for any Horse that tyreth or falleth sick upon the way It is also very requisite that with a Syringe you do inject of this drinke into his nostrils Another If you doe feare that your horse may tire in his journey for prevention carry with you a boxe of powder of dryed Elecampane roots and let the powder be also searced and when you do come unto your Inne let him not be walked but set up warme in the Stable clothed and littered his legs body head and necke be by the Groome or Ostler well rubbed but chiefly his Poll betwixt his eares Then take of strong Ale one quart or of sweet Sack one pinte which is much better and put into it of your Elecampane halfe an ounce brew them well together and give it him with a horne then bridle him and tie him to the Racke but not too high so as he may put down his nose and let him stand so an houre then unbridle him and give