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A39068	The Experienced jocky, compleat horseman, or gentlemans delight containing plain and easie directions in breeding, feeding, keeping and managing horses for all occasions, as war, raccing, hunting, travel, &c. ... to which are added plain and easie directions for the breeding, feeding, managing and curing distempers in bulls, cows, calves, oxen, sheep and swine, useful and necessary for all persons who expect pleasure or profit by any of the forementioned animals, the like before not extant.		1684 (1684)	Wing E3878; ESTC R1977	136,221	359

as Waterings hot Rheumes Haws Pin and Web Pearls blood-shotten and the like The opening the Palate-veins cures or pervents the Lampass or inward sickness as Stavars Anticor Yellows Drowsiness Surfeits Tirings and many times cureth the Strangles Quinsie Swelling of the kernels Pustles Inflammation or Glaunders especially if you cause him to drink the blood mixed with a little Bay-salt The next veins opened help the Yellows Farcins Stavars Mangies Agues Feavours Surfeits Scabs Glaunders and the like and often prevent sickness in your Horse or Mare The opening the palate or breast veins prevent or help the Anticor Moore-foundering occasioned by molten grease contracted in the body by hard riding it likewise preventeth diseases in the Liver Lungs and other internal parts is convenient to be done upon any hurt or sprain in the Shoulder to prevent Lameness The opening the two thigh veins helpeth foundering in the forefeet Splint Screw-ringbone Mallender or the like infirmity To bleed the four Shackle veins before is good against the Crown-scab Quitter-bone and the like distemper incident to the feet of a Horse or Mare To bleed the Spur-veins is excellent good for the Moore-founder Farcine in the side swelling under the belly or the like The Toe-veins being opened do help Frettizing foundering Hoof-bound or any grief occasioned by the Horses beating his Hoofs upon hard stony way Bleeding the two thigh-veins behind easeth the grief of the kidnies swelling in the hinder legs Foundering Scratches pissing of Blood occasioned by overstraining or the weakness of the Reins Back or Belly and infirmity in the Guts as likewise the Curb Spavin and such other distempers or griefs as proceed from rankness or impurity of Blood To open the Shackle veins behind is exceeding good to prevent foundering or any pain the Horse is subject to have in his feet To open the Flank-veins is exceeding good in case of a Feavour Swelling in the Stones Poverty or the Felt-worm And lastly to bleed the Tail-vein often prevents the Mange Scabs Itch and falling off of the Hair So that the number of veins that are usually opened upon divers occasions are Thirty the opening of which greatly contribute to the health of the Horse or Mare not only by preventing distempers as has been before said but frequently without any other application by taking away the effects cause the grief to cease or at least prepare the body of the Horse the better to receive such effectual medicines as will work his cure and dispose outward wounds bruises and the like to such a temper that they heal without much difficulty What seasons are best to let blood in IF the Horse be in great danger you need not expect the critical times but let him blood presently but if otherwise observe these following days viz. the third and fifteenth of January The fourth and ninth of February The seventeenth and eighteenth of March. The tenth and sixteenth of April The first and thirteenth of May The fifteenth and twentieth of June In July and August forbear letting blood unless upon some urgent occasion In September bleed him on the eleventh and twenty-eighth day In October on the eight and twenty third In November on the fifth and sixteenth In December on the fourteenth and twenty sixth these days being by all the experienced Farriers holden the best for sundry regards but especially in respect to the signs which are these and thus govern viz. Aries the head Taurus the neck Gemini the shoulders Cancer the stomach Leo the heart Virgo the guts and belly Libra the reins and buttocks Scorpio the privities Sagittarius the thighs Capricorn the knees Aquarius the legs and Pisces the feet from which note that it is not at all safe to let blood in that part where the sign is predominant Of the bones of a Horse and how placed IN the body of a Horse the Bones are these viz. 40 teeth his head Bones comprehending the crooks and handles of his Scull although they are compiled of part and parcel of other Bones likewise two flat handles which from the Palate and Fork or Throat have five his breast-bone and fifty two bones in his Chine his Ribs short and long are thirty six his fore legs and fore feet are composed of 44 Bones and the hinderlegs and feet of 40 so that the whole structure of his body as to Bones is computed to consist of 157. or as some say one hundred fifty nine Of the four Humours Sympathising with the four Humours incident to all Creatures IT is not the least part of the Farriers Office to consider and well understand the nature and qualities of the four Elementary Humours that go to the composition of all creatures And first as the four Elements viz. Fire Air Water and Earth give life and Nutriment to all living creatures So the four Humours viz. Choler Blood Phlegm and Melancholy are the principal Agitators in the bodies of all Creatures and as it were compose them or at least preserve them for without either no creature can subsist Choler by reason of its heat being alluded to Fire Blood by reason of its heat and moisture to Air Phlegm by reason of its coldness and moisture to Water and Melancholy by reason of its cold and dryness to Earth as for Choler its seat is in and near the Liver which by reason of its heat and dryness accords with the blood which has its fountain in the Liver and from thence disperses it self throughout the whole body nourishing and preserving it in all parts Phlegm has its chief seat in and about the Brain that seat of life altogether affecting Cold. Melancholy occupieth the Spleen being the gross and excremental part of blood and choler descending from the Liver As for the Offices or dispositions of these humours they are four viz. Choler causeth concoction and voiding of Excrements Blood nourishes the body Phlegm gives motion to the joynts And Melancholy disposeth to appetite creating a good stomach How to know by the Colour of a Horse to which of the four aforesaid Humors he is most inclinable and how thereupon to order him for the prevention or curing such distempers as he is most subject to TO know the better to prepare your Medicines necessary to be given upon sundry occasions it is first necessary that you know which of the four aforesaid humours is most predominant in your Horse which cannot better be discerned than by his Colour or complexion note then if he be cole-black without any white a bright Sorrel or an Iron-gray unchangeable that will neither turn to a Flea-bitten White or Daple gray then is he most subject to Choler by reason of the great heat in him often incident to inflammation of the Liver Yellows and Pestilential Feavours and in that case you must to prevent these distempers give him medicines to purge Choler but let them not be of a quality too much operating lest they impair his strength to that degree that he never after recover it

c. p. 315 The Head-ache Giddiness loss of Cudd diseases in the Eyes Agues in Lambs or Sheep Rheums Catarrhs diseases in the Eyes or Teeth Boyls Aposthumes and Vlcers their respective cures p. 317 Saint Anthonies Fire Rot or Plague Diseases of the Lungs Scab or Itch Cough Swallowing Spiders or any venom and Belly swelling their respective cures p. 320 Lame Claws Maggots and Lice broken or bruised joints c. how to order p. 322 A Treatise of Swine The Marks whereby to know a good breed and how to procure it p. 323 When the Sow ought to be covered the time of Spaying and Gelding and how with little charge to make Swine fat p. 324 Sickness in Swine how to know it and the cure for Head-Ach Swine-pox and the distemper called the eating Yarrow p. 326 Diseases in the Eyes of Swine Agues Fevers Measels Rhumes and Catarrhs their respective Remedies p. 328 Plague or diseases in the Milt Imposthumes or swellings in the Throat Neck swelling their cure as also an excellent Remedy to prevent vomiting p. 329 Colds or Coughs Belly-Ach Lameness Diseases in the Gall and Flux their Cure c. p. 331 To kill Lice prevent Thirst and an excellent Receipt for an Oyntment to be used in case of fractured bones dislocated or swelled Joynts c. p. 333 THE Introduction SEeing divers have undertaken to treat about Horses c. those most excellent of Animal Creatures I have not thought it amiss from long experience to lay down as I well hope to the satisfaction of the skilful reader such perfect Rules and Methods to order and mannage Horses in all their useful capacities as have been hitherto but lightly touched by such as have made essays in the like nature for as the Horse may worthiliest challenge place as the noblest and goodliest the necessariest and trustiest Beast that we use in our service and since he serveth to so many ends notwithstanding much may have been spoken on that Subject yet it is not doubted but in that as on all other Subjects where so large a Field is given to treat something material may be omitted by those who have travailed therein that may occur to the memory and deliberate judgment of those that come after them For as all Arts are bettered by long Experience and improved by time and industry this amongst the rest worthy the Studies and Labour of the most industrious must needs admit of variety and afford new matter of discovery Therefore Reader I shall no longer trespass upon your Patience but to satisfie your expectation open the Cabinet wherein are contained such rarities as are worthy the notice of the most Experienced and Learned upon Earth and since Horses serve for sundry purposes as Pleasure Profit and War in Racing Traveling Hunting servile labour Charging in the Field and the like I shall first declare how they ought to be bred and at first chose as most fit and promising to the uses they are designed for and so proceed to each particular relating to mannagement Ordering Cure c. THE Compleat Horseman OR Gentlemans Delight The first consideration in relation to Pasture for Horses c. THe first thing to be considered in Breeding is the commodiousness of the Ground wherein the Horses Mares and Colts are to run which must in no wise be too rank of Grass nor over sparing but a firm sweet Soil situate in a wholsome Air somewhat ascending inclosed with Quicksets and spreading Trees the better to shelter your Beasts from the wind or heat of the Sun Nor let your Mares Colts or Horses continue long in one Pasture but put them into fresh Pasture and let the vicissitude be so often as occasion requires or as you find them uneasie which will appear ether by their carelesness in feeding attempting to leap the Hedges Ditches or making continually towards the Gate and looking through it or over it The Summer Pastures must be shady as aforesaid and those you intend to winter them in accommodated with a Hovel Hay-rick Barn Stable or some convenient house to shelter them from the stormy blasts especially the Colts who are by nature tender the first year Directions and Rules about the choice of Horses THe next thing to be considered is the choice of Stallions and Mares First let your Stallion have hoofs hard and sound round and hollow to keep the feet from the Ground his Legs even and straight his knees round flexible and small his Thighs large and well brawned his Breast great and broad his neck soft and broad bending Arch-wise his Main thick and for the most part falling on the right side his Head small and lean for a great head betokens a dull and heavy Jade his Mouth ever moist his Eyes great and bloody or rather fiery standing as it were out of his head which is a sign of quickness and liveliness his Ears short and standing upright his Nostrils wide his Shoulders large and straight the sides turning inwards the ridge bone over the shoulders being somewhat high his Sides deep and well knit behind his Loyns broad his Belly gaunt his Buttocks full of flesh his Tail long brisly and curled these being the tokens of a good Stallion and indeed of a good Horse for all services the contrary properties denoting badness And now I shall proceed to the description of a good Mare for breeding first observe she be not subject to diseases nor above three or four years old let her have a fair forehead lively eyes standing ears a large womb a bright colour and well metled gentle and easie to be handled for wild Mares are too apt to destroy their Colts in their bellies and when foaled will not easily brook the weaning of them How to oblige a Mare that is unwilling to take the Horse to be covered when and in what manner she ought to be covered and how afterwards to be used IF your Mare be backward to take the Horse which will appear by her biting and kicking at him then turn to her a stone Horse of small stature who by his nimble running about her and playing with her will soon wooe or oblige her to gentleness so that she will suffer her self to be covered which willingness perceived take away the said Horse and the next morning about Sunrising put to her your Stallion having been well provendered but suffered to drink little put him to her in a close fenced ground where she will in a short time permit him to cover her the which when he has twice or thrice done let her graze but keep her from water taking the Horse from her whom you must rub down and well provender till Evening at what time turn him loose to your Mare again and let him cover her as often as he pleaseth unless you perceive him too robust or furious that thereby he may su●tain injury The Mare thus covered unless she be greatly desirous of his company a third time you need not put him to her

his teeth you will observe them long exceeding yellow and that the upper teeth will hang over the under ones and though some are of opinion that his age to the thirteenth year is to be known by the wearing of his Tushes close to his chaps and the blackness of them yet according to the observations that have been made this is no certain Rule for so they frequently are the twelfth year Observations to know his age by his Mouth IF his lips and upper teeth over-hang and seem unseemly uneven unless it be occasioned by a cold surfeit or extraordinary riding it denotes the Horse to be Old Another thing in the mouth worthy of observation is to observe whether he be not too deep burnt of the Lampus and that the bars and flesh lie even and smooth for if the hole be too deep burnt Hay and Provender will stick therein to his great hindrance in feeding Age to be known by the Hoof. A Rugged and seamed Hoof crinkled and drawn as it were in heaps denotes an old Horse as also a crusty crumbling Pumice Hoof when on the contrary a smooth moist hollow and well sounding Hoof betokens a young Horse well in health and condition for Travail Age to be known by the Tail IF you by feeling the Tail close to its setting on perceive the joynt there to rise on either side or stand out to the bigness of a Hazel-nut or thereabouts then it is a sign the Horse is young not exceeding three years old but if no such knop appear but that all the joynts are plain then he is above Ten and may exceed Twelve or Thirteen Age to be known by the Eyes WHen you take a view of your Horses Eyes if you observe they be Round Full Staring and standing out and that the pits be full and even with the Temples then it denotes the Horse to be young but if the Eyes be Sunk Dim Hollow Pitted the Temples wrinkled or crooked then it denotes old age Age to be known by the Skin IF you would know whether your Horse is old or young by the skin you must take it up between your thumb and finger and suddainly letting it fall observe whether it immediately returns smooth to the place which if it does it denotes him young but if not but that it is long in falling and wrinkled then is he old Age to be known by the Hair VIewing your Horse well if you perceive any grizly hairs growing about the Eybrows the Horse being naturally of a dark colour or that the like hairs grow underneath the Main or if your Horse is naturally white and he become Mannelled with Black or Red Mannels in most parts of his body then is he an Old Horse and will not be long fit for service Age to be known by the Barrs IF the Bars of your Horses Mouth feel hard and rough and are great and deep then be assured the Horse is old but if tender shallow and soft he is young These directions well observed will prevent all deceits and render the buyer capable to lay out his mony to the best advantages though indeed there are many Artificial cheats used by Jockies that may deceive the most curious of which amongst many other curious mysteries I shall hereafter treat and now proceed to the office of the skillful Farrier Of the Office of the Farrier and what is chiefly therein to be considered HE that will be accounted an experienced able Farrier must not only be skilled in shooing and dressing but in all the parts of a Horses body thereby to know from whence proceeds the original cause of any distemper how and by what means it was generated and the more effectually to apply such remedies as may remove the distemper and work a perfect cure to do which note these following considerations First That the seat of life is in the Brain Heart and Liver from whence it operates in and disposes every member and for that end those by many are called the three principal members to which some would add a fourth viz. the Stones but that addition by the wisest practitioners has been rejected Secondly The sinews which are these two white sinews or Tendons which begin at the Nose and passing through the neck and back branch into the forelegs and end in the hinderlegs taking their ligaments in all the four feet Two sinews called the Main sinews which descend from the Brain and passing down the cheeks fasten the Jaws Three from the Shoulder to the first joynt of the Arms or fore-legs besides two other great sinews four great sinews from the knees to the Pasterns with the same number in the hinder part above as well within as without the forepart of the breast are ten sinews great and small From the Reins of the back to the Stones are four great sinews or Ligaments and another great sinew which runs to the end of the Tail To conclude a Horse has great and small sinews 29. or as some will have it 30. Thirdly As to the Veins in a Horse through which the blood circulates the whole body they are many yet seeing they all center in the Liver the seat and fountain of blood distributing it into every part divers are of opinion that a Horse has properly but one vein which is called the Median and that when ever the blood is corrupted or that vein is afflicted with wind or any infirmity it dispensing it through all the branches afflicts at once the whole body of the Horse Those branches that ascend to the head and upper parts of the body are called ascendants and those that run down into their legs and nether parts of the body descendants and through these branches whether the beast sleep or wake the blood continues its course as indeed it does in all creatures whose bulk admit a free passage Ebbing and Flowing like the Ocean by the course of the Moon Now the things herein chiefly to be considered are the Branches from whence upon sundry occasions it is most proper to take blood which indeed are many consistant to the distemper for the branch is to be opened as it either affects the blood or is seated in the body of the Horse But the Veins most convenient to be opened are these viz. in the Neck in the weeping veins under the Ears and about the head in six other places as in the Palate-veins in the Tongue in the Flank-veins in the breast and Spur-veins in the four members viz. the Legs Thighs Pasterns and Feet and indeed in most veins according as the distemper is seated by bloodletting being great as in the following chapter will appear To what end Phlebotomy or bloodletting serves THe opening the Temple vein easeth pain in the head caused by cold Rheumes Feavers Drowsiness Stavars yellows Frenzy Sleepy-evil Falling-evil or any grief afflicting the Eyes or Brain The opening of the Weeping veins is exceeding good to prevent blindness and to cure the distempers in the eyes

Posts Trees and Bushes so that if it be not timely heeded it will turn to the Mange and by that means insect such Horses as accompany him To prevent which and cure the former let him blood in the neck vein and rub him all over with a hard brush or hard wisps then take Staves-acre Elecampain roots Chickweed and leaves of Brambles of each a handful boyl them in Cow piss and add to them the powders of Sublimate-Mercury dryed Briony and Red dock roots Arsnick Resalgar with which wash him all over but especially in the place you perceive him to rub most or for want of these take Hogs-grease Mans-Urine Tobacco leaves or stalks Brimstone Verdigrease Train-Oyl and Allum with which well concocted anoint the body of your Horse The Botts or Worms what they are and how to kill them THese Insects breeding in the body of a Horse are of three sorts distinguished by the names of Botts Truncheons and Mawworms the first for the most part breeding in the great guts near the Fundament the second in the Maw out of which if they be not speedily killed they will eat their passage to the destruction of the Horse the third and last called Maw-worms or plain worms breed in the guts as the first The Botts are small worms with little tails and great heads The Truncheons are thick and short and have hard heads The Mawworms are long and slender of a reddish colourm any of them being as long as a mans finger and these worms are generated from raw gross and Phlegmatick humours occasioned by foul feeding To know whether your Horse be troubled with them or not you must observe whether he kick at his belly with his feet when he stands still turns his head towards his tail looking upon his body Groans Wallows Frisks his tail often or forsakes his meat all which are signs of worms in his body To cure which take a quart of New-milk four ounces of hony which being made warm give it him fasting in the morning and suffer him to fast after it two hours then dissolve an ounce of black sope in a pint of beer and give it him and an hour after ride him hard and the worms will either come away alive or dye in his body or for want of these take Savin stamped to the quantity of a handful and put it in a quart of Beer or a quart of Brine and it will destroy them Of bunches Warts Knots and Wens Cramp or Inflammation and their cure THese grievances come divers ways as by foul feeding Eating unwholsome meat Hard riding too much labour Bruises or the like which putrefie the blood and cause it to turn into evil humours To cure which take the powder of Diapente mix it with Linseed or Olve Oyl and making it into an Oyntment apply it to the place grieved especially for the Cramp or Inflammation Again take Whitewine Oyl and Tarr of each a considerable quantity mingle them together and apply them hot and apply them plaisterwise to the Knots and Warts especially if on the joynts and the cure in six or seven days will be effected Again take Mustardseed Bay-salt and Hogs-grease mix them together adding to them half a pint of Wine Vinegar and it will sink the Wens or Bunches Again take Figgs the roots of Fern and Rochet mingle them with Hogs grease and Vinegar and apply them plaisterwise for any of the aforesaid Sorrances or lastly take an ounce of Galbanum two ounces of Pitch Lime an ounce Bitumen three quarters of an ounce Wax the like quantity all which being well mixed and heated over a fire apply them to the Sorrance plaisterwise A Remedy for the Windeolick or Stone TAke of Whitewine a quart four ounces of Fenegreek of Bayberies and Pepper four ounces of Ginger an ounce Water Cresses a handful and the like quantity of Red-Sage one pound of Sene-green and a handful of Mint all which being well bruised and mixed together boyl them and afterwards straining them add two ounces of Hony and give the liquor to your Horse to drink or for want of these things take Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each of them an ounce beaten or ground into fine powder and putting them into a quart of Cannary suffer it to boyl a while upon a gentle fire then adding to it one spoonful of Hony give it the Horse bloodwarm Cloathing him up and storing him with clean Litter in which having stood or layn the space of four hours give him a knop of Hay and after the fifth hour a Mash or a good draught of white water Of bloodshot Eyes and other diseases or impediments of the sight their cause and cure THis prejudice of sight happens as likewise all other distempers of the Eyes through two causes viz either internal or external the internal cause proceeds from cold rhumes or fiery salt humours that fall upon the sight and the external cause from a blow hurt by Lightening fire or the like To cure which take these directions To clear and take away the bloodshot or setling of blood in the Eyes taketh juice of Sowthistle by some called our Ladys thistle and spirit it into his eyes once or twice a day for divers days together if your Horse be dimsighted or have a thin Film over his eyes take the juice of Cabbage or Colewortstalks boyl it with a small quantity of hony and spirt it into his eyes and in so doing six or seven times it will consume the Film and clear the sight nay take away the Canker in the Eye if it be not too far gone To take away the Pin and Web in the Eye spirt into it the juice of Celendine the which is likewise exceeding good to clear the sight as likewise doth the juice of ordinary Centaury if your Horse be troubled with Moon Eyes put into them Alehoof or ground Ivy juice and it will restore him to a perfect sight If your Horse be troubled with salt fiery humours or Rhumes in his Eyes wash them with the juice of Houseleek and by so doing often it will allay the heat and drive back the Rhume the juices of Germander and Eyebright consume the Pin and Web in the Eyes and greatly restore the sight Alehoof Daisie flowers and Snap-dragons being bruised and strained with a little Rose-water and fine Sugar dissolved in the juice cure all manner of Itching Smarting Inflammation Spots Webs and the like restoring the sight when almost lost The juice of Tree Ivy leaves after they have been sufficiently steeped in water easeth presently and in process of time takes away all smarting and pain of the eyes The juice of Endive clears the sight and so does the distilled water of Groundsel and the juice of Melliot with many other Herbs in general but for brevities sake waving them I shall now come to the particulars more narrowly observing the cures for most of all the Eye distempers To preserve the sight a good expedient TAke Maiden-hair Enface Endive

four or five figgs pared and cut small then suffering it to be luke-warm give it him in a Drenching horn And this medicine you may likewise give him for the Stavers Frenzy Bloody-flux Consumption of the Lungs Shortness of Breath Glaunders or any cold or cough wet or dry and for want of milk you may boyl them in new ALE but milk is better give it him every Morning fasting for a week together Another excellent remedy to the same effect TAke Brimstone flower an ounce sweet butter two ounces temper them together very well then with them anoint the butt ends of two Goose wings and thrust them up his nostrils fastening them in with packthred bound over his pole and thereupon riding him gently he will snort and avoid an extraordinary quantity of matter and filth that offends his head but after you have taken them out be sure you keep him warm in your Stable and feed him with warm Mashes burning under his nose in a chafingdish a little Storax thus you may do to a Horse that is designed for Racing or Hunting when you dare not give him any purgation or internal Drench by reason of the days near approach For a Cold newly taken a most excellent remedy MAke a little hole in the crown of a new-laid Hen-egg at which extract the white and yolk filling the concavity with fresh butter and Tarr of each a like quantity causing your Horse morning and evening to swallow it in the shell by drawing forth his Tongue giving him after it some warm Ale wherein Rosemary has been boyled and in so doing three days successively the cold will vanish for if this cure it not then is it of long continuance To cure which take the following medicine For a long taken Cold Cough Shortness of Breath or Pursiveness an excellent remedy HAving dryed Elecampain roots beat them into powder to the quantity of two ounces adding to them an ounce of Anniseeds bruised and the like weight of Liquorish and Sugarcandy pulverized when putting to them half a quartern of the Syrup of Colts-feet temper them with three or four ounces of fresh butter making the ingredients up into balls and give him three of them as big as Pigeons Eggs fasting riding him afterwards for half an hour letting him come warm into the stable and cloathing him well giving him Oats washed in hot Ale and no cold water for four hours after or for want of this you may give him conserve of Elecampain roots thus made viz. Take the roots and candy them with sugar keeping them from all moisture and so having done take an ounce thereof and add to it being broken small two ounces of Syrup of colts-Colts-foot and as much fine sugar as will make it into a conserve then dissolving it in a pint of new Mallago give it warm to your Horse ordering him after it as aforesaid If your Horse be troubled with a stopping in his head voiding thereby filthy matter take this following advice HAving mingled Coltsfoot with Auripigmentum both of which pulverized not exceeding four drams take as much Turpentine as will make them into paste which done lay them on a Chafingdish of coles in small pieces covering them with a Tunnel and by putting the small end into the nostrils of your Horse suffer the smoak to ascend holding his head to it and in so doing five or six times the congealed matter will dissolve and come away For the Glaunders an excellent Remedy TAke the leaves of a Box-tree green bruise them and add an ounce of Liquorish powder the like quantity of Anniseeds bruised steep them well in Beer or Ale to the quantity of a pint and a half then take four ounces of Treacle and four ounces of Olive Oyl the which all mixed and well heated give him the whole dose in a Drenching-horn and thereupon ride him moderately and at his return put on his cloaths give him a warm Mash and keep the Stable close and in so doing three mornings together the Horse will be rendered well as at first Costiveness the cause and cure THis grievance happeneth when a Horse without great pain cannot void his dung proceeding sometimes from excess of Provender at other times from too much feeding upon dry meat which dryeth up the moisture of his body as Beans Tares Pease and such like not but that they are wholsome and convenient but that by excessive feeding on them the Horses body is over heated which drying his Excrements shuts up the Office of nature and sometimes this grievance happens by tedious fasting and the Horse being dyeted for Hunting or Racing to remedy which take a piece of Castle sope to the weight of two ounces dissolve it in Whitewine on the fire after which having bruised an ounce of Hempseed put it into the liquor sweetning it with an ounce of Brown Sugarcandy and give it him as hot as he can indure it after which walk him up and down for the space of an hour and then bringing him into the stable if you find him sick let him lie down and pour down his throat a pint of warm milk feeding him as at other times and his bowels will be loosened and his Excrements come away Another to help and cure this grievance BOyl a handful of Mallows in running water to the quantity of a quart to which add half a pint of Olive Oyl and half a pound of Butter an ounce of Benedicta Laxativa and making thereof a Glister force it warm up his Fundament holding his Tail close to it to keep it in for the space of half an hour then giving him a sweet Mash leave it to work of it self Of the Cramp or Convulsion in the Nerves or sinews of a Horse its cause and cure THis Malady proceeds from the sinew cut some wound in the Horse or too suddain cooling after an extraordinary heat too much straining or excessive purging and is known by the forcible contraction of the Sinews Veins and Muscles insomuch that the whole strength of man is not many times capable of bending the joynt this grief seizes and by his being lame and well in a moment There is also another Malady proceeding from cold loss of blood windiness in the veins or numbness of the sinews differing from the first in pace only as having its seat and operation in the Back Reins and neck of a Horse known by the distortion or wryness of his neck hollowness of his eyes dryness and clamminess of his mouth rising of his back in the middle and the like To cure which take Primrose leaves Chamomile Cowslip leaves Crowfeet Mallows Fennel and Rosemary leaves with the stalks of Pimpernel steeped and boyled in spring-water for a considerable space then once or twice a day bath him with the liquor hot all over and apply the herbs to the grieved places binding them on with Hay-bands or woollen cloaths anointing them first with Oyl of spike mixed with Petrolium and Nerve Oyl The Camery or Frounce

things used for the most part are burnt Allum Redcoral Mercury sublim Verdigrese and Copperas of either sort and often compounds as Unguentum Apostolorum Aegyptiacum Croceum c. Another sort of this kind there is called Medicines Putrefactive applied to swelling Tumours and the like to bring them to a head as roasted Sorrel White Lilly Roots Ground Ivy Butterflowers c. Thus far Reader having proceeded I shall close up the Medicinal and Chirurgical part of Farrying in relation to Horses c. with hot and cold simples which a skilful Farrier ought either moist or dry to have always by him Hot Simples what they are ALoes Agarick Allum Aristolochia Asonteo Asarabacca Arsmart Anniseeds Arch-angel Assa fetida Angellica Alexander Alehoof Garden Bassil Balme Bayberries Wild running-Bettony Burrage Brank Ursin Briony Broom Butter-Bur Brimstone Burdock Cellendine Chervil Garden Clarge Clowns-wound-wort Coloquintida Callamus Cummin Garden Chammock Cinamon Cloves Long and round Pepper China Darnel Elecampain Fennel Gentian Garlick Germander Stinking Gladwin Golden Rod Gramel English Gallinga Ginger Glasswort Galls Grains of Paradise Hempseed Galbanum Garden Hyssop Juniper-Berries Hony Saint Johns wort Jack by the Hedg Ivy Rue-Holme Irish Ladies-smock Lavender cotten Lavender Lovage Leeks Mallows Marsh-Mallows Garden Lillies Marrygolds Sweet-Marjoram Wild Marjoram Melilote Spearmint French-dogs Mercury Masterwort Misleto Motherwort Mouse ear Mugwort Mustardseed Neesing Root Nutmeg Ragwort Restharrow Wild Wild Rocket Rosemary Garden Rue Saffron Sage Sanicle Savin Common Saxafrage Burnt Saxafrage Scabens English Scurvy-grass self-Heal Sopewort Smallage Southernwood Sea Starwort Staves-acre Garden Tansie Time Tutsan Turmerick Valerian Wood-Vervaine Diers-weed Fennegreek Scotcheneel and London Treacle Cold simples what they are GRoundsil Hawks-weed Clove-gilli-flowers Knotgrass Hawks-weed Howsleek Kidnywort Lettice Water-Lillies Common Liver-wort Liquorish Medlars Mony-wort Tree-Moss and unripe Mulberries Mace Common Night-shade Navel-wort Orpin Water and Land-plantins Pomgranet Queen of the Meadows Shepherds-purse Common and Wood-sorrels Sowthistle Succory Stone-Crop Strawberry-leaves Starwort Sphinack Wild-Tansies Sloes the Bark and Root of Black Thorn Medow Trefoile both the Vervains Hony-suckles Vineleaves Violets Viper-Bugloss the Leaves Flowers and Seeds of the Willow Vinegar Yarrow Antimonium Alcanet Garden Arach Barberry-Rind Barly Bilberries Blew-bottle Bucks-Horn Plantain Bolearmoniack Comfry Cranes-Bill Dentd'lion All the sorts of common Docks Ducks-meat and Fumitory Divers ways there are to preserve most of these simples in their primal virtue all the year but too tedious here to be inserted some of which likewise are both hot and cold and may indifferently be used in hot and cold distempers to describe them I think it altogether tedious and unnecessary for as much as most of them are vulgarly known and if any of them are not and for that cause some may pretend they know not how to find them a Herbal will give them directions and rectifie their understanding And now I shall proceed to the Shooing and Roweling things worthy to be noted by all that have any thing to do with Horses Hoofs how many sorts there are their perfections and imperfections OF Hoofs there are divers kinds some perfect and others imperfect The imperfect Hoof is when any part is lacking or if it be unseemly spreading broad and being exceeding flat that no shooe will sit compleatly upon it for such Horses for the most part are narrow heel'd on which he for the most part treads rendering himself thereby unable for Travailing subjecting him frequently to cast his shooes and subject to false quarters and this is often caused by the Horses being brought up in moist and Fenny ground To shoo which not being as yet grown to too flat the Farrier with his paring Iron must take off as much of the Toe and sides as it is possible still keeping it round but let him not touch the quarter or the heel unless it be to make the seat of the shoo plain and let that be as lightly as may be still anointing the Hoofs with Hogs-grease and Oyl of Baies and within a while they will become round thick and feasable The shoo wherewith this Hoof must be brought to perfection must be made strong with a broad webb and broad Spunges pierced from the quarters to the hard Toe but not to the Heel the holes wider without than within and the foot diligently pared as aforesaid from the Tallon nail towards the heel suffer the shoo to stand a straws breadth without the Hoof the better to save the Coffin let your nails be made of good Iron the heads square but not so broad above as below that they may not only stand above the shooe but fill the holes putting five nails on the outside and four on the inside because in this case the Horse weareth more within than without The perfect Hoof on the forefeet how to pare shooe c. IF the Hoof be perfect first pare the seat of the Shooe as even and plain as may be that the shooe sitting close may bear no more on the one side than on the other nor take more on the Toe than the Heel for the Heels must be higher than the Toes but by reason all the weight of the Horses fore part presses upon the quarters and heels of the fore feet those parts must be most regarded and as little of the Butteresses taken off as may be for the heels are naturally weaker than the toes but this is meant by the fore-feet only for the paring of the hinder-feet is quite contrary as will hereafter appear For the most exact method of shooing the perfect Hoof observe these following rules viz. Let your shooe be of Spanish Iron or other well tempered Iron the web broad fitting it to the Hoof the Spunges thick and more firm than any other part and somewhat broad that the quarters may stand somewhat beyond the Hoof to preserve the Coffin and pierce it from the quarter to the hard toe but not backwards towards the heel suffer the holes to be wider without than within that the pierced circle may be more distant from the edge of the toe than from the edge of the quarter because the Hoof is thicker forward than backwards thus having fitted the shoo take nails made of the same Iron the Heads square though not fully so broad beneath as above that the nails may fill up the holes and the shooe be kept from stirring suffering them to appear somewhat above the shooe and let the points appear in a just line not one lower than another or in and out like the teeth of a Saw and cut them off so near that when they are clinched by a little raising the Hoof with a Knife they appear to be within it but be sure ere the shooe is fastened with any more than two nails see it stand right by looking on the Frush and suffering the Horse to set his foot to the ground whilst you hold up the other with your hand and if the shooe stand but a little awry you may by striking the Hoof with