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A61139	The gentleman's compleat jockey with the perfect horseman, and experienc'd farrier. Containing, I. The nature of horses; their breeding, feeding and management in all paces, to fit them for war, racing, travel, hunting, or other recreations and advantages. II. The true method, with proper rules and directions to order, diet and physick the running-horse, to bring him to any match, or race, with success. III. The methods to buy horses, and prevent being cheated; noting the particular marks of the good and bad horses, in all their circumstances. IV. How to make blazes, stars and snips: to fatten a horse with little charge, and to make him lively and lovely. V. The whole art of a farrier, in curing all diseases, griefs and sorrances incident to horses; with their symptoms and causes. VI. The methods of shooing, blooding, roweling, purging, and prevention of diseases, and many other things, from long experience and approved practice. by A. S. gent.	A. S.; Speed, Adolphus, fl. 1652-1659.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5; ESTC R219778	132,086	185

a spoonful at ● time two or three hours before his Watering and he wil● remain a healthful and sound Horse if he be thus used ti●● he be eight years old for then the chief danger is past The Order of Curing Horses that are Diseas'd The Causes the Signs and the Cure● thereof Of the Ague or Fever in Horses THE Learned do hold Three gential Kinds First When the Vital Spirits are inflamed wherein he● is predominant more than Nature requireth Secondl● When the Humours are distemper'd by heat Thirdl● When the firm parts of the body are continually hot ● that the Ague cometh by the excessive heating of the Hors● and thereupon a sudden Cold or by fullness of bad H●mours which principally grow from foul full and ra● feeding and too much rest and for that reason it take● the Horse either hot or cold and to keep due hours to mak● him shake and tremble as a Man also we may know ho● the same appeareth from the Inflamations of the Stomac● which scaldeth and maketh the Tongue raw there a●other causes viz. by spare feeding not clean feeding a●dry feeding and for want of moderate labour The Cu● shall be when you perceive his dejected Countenance a● that he beginneth to tremble enforce him into a Heat a● give him this purging Drink Take a quart of White-Win● put therein an Ounce of Aloes small beaten Of Agar●● half an Ounce of Liquorice and Anniseeds half a Dra● and some Honey warmed a little on the Fire and th● ride him until he be hot and let him sweat moderately ● the Stable and take a special care of him wash his Tong●● with Allum water Vinegar and Sage and give him swe● Straw to eat and a Gallon of old sweet Oats at Nigh● give him a good Mash and the next Night after let him ●l●ed a quart and if his Blood be very thick dark yei ●ow let him bleed two Quarts and afterwards keep him warm from the Air for three or four days and give him warm Water to drink and a little Saliet-Oyl in it if he will drink it Another of the same Let him blood take of Garmander Four ounces of Gum-Dragon●● and of dead Roses of each an ounce Of Oyle ●live Four Ounce● put them into a quart of strong Ale and give it warm to the Horse to drink then ride him un●il he sweat and cl●ath him and keep him warm as afore●aid Of the Ague in the Head The cause of 〈◊〉 Disease proceeds either from cold or ●aking of too much heat or of a raw imperfect Digestion of the Stomach which proceeds principally also from full and foul f●●ding for betwixt the Stomach and the Brain ●s such Assinity as that they do equally communicate their ●amage● The Signs are these The hanging down of his ●ead his Eyes will swell and run with Water and he will ●orsake his Meat The Cure is to let him blood in the ●allet of his Mouth and rub it with Salt to make it bleed well then take a ●tick with a Linnen-cloath fastened to ●he end of it well anointed with the Oyl of Bay thrust it ●p and down his Nostrils thereby to open and purge his ●ead Also p●rfume him with the smoak of Garlick-stalks ●roken into small pieces Also air him with the smoak of ●rankincense belding the same in a Chafingdish under his Nostrills with a great Cloath cast over his Head and let be done Morning and Evening Keep him with spare ●yet and moderate Exercise the which will cleanse his ●●omack and make it empty then his brain will not be ●quieted Afterwards let him blood and give him good ●●●hes to drink for two days and no cold water as I ●●all write down the Causes of some Diseases that are most ●●known to the people so for those that they are so well ●●quainted with I shall only set down the Cures Of the sudden Sickness of a Horse The cause is for that the Heart which is the Charriot o● Life wherein the Soul of the Horse liveth wanting the use of the Veins and Arteries to carry the vital spirit o● heat to all the parts of the body to give the Horse feelling and ability to operation by reason of some obstructions of Humours and Cold which for want of Heat cannot be dissolved for that the nature of Cold is to bind and conglutinate together and keep them from their natura● Course proceeding from some violent Exercise and immoderate Feeding and Rest The sign is the sudden dejectment of his Countenance The Cure is to let him blood on both sides of the breast next the heart whereby the Veins and Arteries being evacuated and emptied the may begin to do that office whereunto Nature hath appointed them Let him bleed the quantity of two quarts then give him a comfortable drink to stir up the vital Spirits to actions viz. Take a quart of the best Sack and burn it with Grains Cloves and Cinnamon and a quarte● of a pound of the best Sug●r and burn it altogether with half a pint of Sallet-Oyl and Four pennyworth of the bes● Trea●le then ride him very gently till he begin to sweat and so turn him into the Stable and let him stand ●●● Meats but beware you do for him there according t● your direction and be sure you cloath him not too warin● for the Drink will throughly warm him and make hi● sweat let his drink be warm water wherein boyl Mallow● and a handful of Water-Cresses of Fennel and Parsly-seed o● each an Ounce and twice in a Morning or Evening whe● he is most fasting ride him gently a mile or two Of a Horse that cannot Piss Take a Pint of white Vinegar half a pound of Gimgree● bruise it small and wring out the Juice take a handful ● Fennel a handful of Fox-Gloves the Leaves or the Flower● two ounces of Grommel-seed and half a pint of sweet Honey stamp them well together and strain them into Vinegar le● him stand without Meat and Drink Twenty four hours Of the Pains in the Head Take a Pint of Malmsey Five new laid Eggs a head of bruised Garlick small Pepper Cinnamon and Nu●megs beaten fine give it him to drink three days together and let him fast five hours after To bring Hair again To bring Hair again take the Dung of Goats some Honey and Allum and the blood of a Hog boyl them together and being hot rub the place therewith Of the Stone and Cholick in a Horse Take a Pint of White Wine half a Pint of Burr-seed and beat them small two ounces of Purs●y-seed half a handful of Hop half a handful of new-set ●eeks and ha●● a handful of Water-Cresses half an ounce of Black-Soap and mingle them together stamp and strain them but put the Burr-seed and Parsley-seed to it after it is strained and then warm it and give it him to drink Of killing the Fire either in Burning or Shot Take Varnish or Oyl and Water beaten together and ●noint the place with

Cammomil laying over it a Plaister of Bees-wax when it has been there four days take the Led out clap the skin close and Anoint it as before and when the Hair which it will soon do grows again it will be Milk-white Red Stars on a White Horse are done in the like manner in forming your Led shaving and opening the Skin but you must use to cause the Colour Oil of Cassia Soot and Vermilion finely temper'd together and the Lead anointed with it Take out the Lead at the same days as the former and anoint the sore place with Ointment of Tobacco and Marsh-Mallows A black Star in a white Horse make as the White only the Ingredients must be Soulters Ink or Lamb-black and Oil of Tartar and in this manner you may make Feathers or Marks on any part of the Body for Beauty and Ornament tho too frequently used by some who do it by way of Disguise that a Horse ill come by may not be Discover'd And thus one Star Snip or Blaze may be taken out and one of a different Colour put in Things to be observ'd when you put your Horse to Grass Having spoken many times about dry feeding it will not be amiss for the Horse-man to know how he should be Order'd at Grass for his Health sake and to keep a comely proportion of Body for in the knowledge of this there 's much Advantage When he has stood in the House and you intend him for Grass abate or change his Cloaths putting him on daily thinner that by degrees he may be weaned from them and in the end wearing none take no notice of it or be prejudic'd with Cold or blasts of Wind abroad This done let him Blood twice or thrice there being a day or two's respit between give him heartning Meats by degrees lessen his Allowance and in the end let him for two or three days before you send him out feed on Hay alone and put not any valuable or tender Horse into wet Pastures where Foggs Damps and unwholsom Airs arise from Fens Marshes Ditches Rivers Bogs or the like However the better to fortifie him against Sickness or Lameness give him the following Drink very warm three Mornings and Evenings The Drink to be given before Grass Take Bay-berries Myrrh Gentian Aristilochia and the shavings of Ivory each an Ounce bruise them when dryed so that they may be reduc'd to Powder give him half an Ounce at a time in Muscadine Malago or for want of it sweet Wort a quart of either pretty warm Thus having fitted him for the Field put him out in a warm dry day that the cold weather may seize on him by degrees so that shutting the Pores he may be harden'd against it with little damage to himself How the Horse is to be used when taken from Grass Observe in taking him up you do it in a dry day the Horse by the Heat and Air freed from damps or wet and this is best done about Bartholomew-Tide at farthest unless the Weather be exceeding clear and warm and then he may run to the first of September but not conveniently longer and for a Week or two after taken up give him no immoderate Heats nor over-Travel him lest you melt his Grease for the Fat gotten at Grass is exceeding tender and apt to be dissolv'd by any violent Motion whereby if the Blood happen to be Inflamed it will endanger his falling into mortal Sickness A day after he is Stabled bring him forth into the Air and bleed him well cleanse his Feet and Shooe him well and give him the Drink in proportion before prescrib'd for going to Grass Other material Direstions Three days after your Horse is taken from Grass if th● Weather be fair ride him abroad and after a gentle Heat bring him home smooth down his Hairs and sleek them with Soap rubbed in the Palms of your Hands but let not any Soap get into his Eyes Nostrils or Mouth cleanse him then with some warm Water and a linnen Cloath after that dry him well with a wollen Cloath till no wet remain about him And being thus cleansed from Dust and Filth cover him as warm as is usual in cold weather and this will make him Slick and Lively and seem not to be the same Horse for his colour will be somewhat alter'd Blood-letting on what occasions it ought to be us'd Opening the Temple-Veins is proper to ease pains in the Head if caused by cold Rheums Fevers Drowsiness Clavers Distempers in the Eyes and other Maladies proceeding from afflictions of the Brain or any Swellings or Inflamations about the Head or Throat and for these you may give him some of the Blood to drink mixed with Bay-Salt Opening the weeping Veins under the Ears is very proper to prevent Blindness and cure Distempers in the Eyes Opening the Pallate Veins prevents or cures the Lampas Slavers Anticor Yellows Drowsiness Surfeit Tireing c. The Vein in the side of the Neck is proper to disburthen the Body of gross blood ease the Heart of Oppressions Anticor Faintings and the like Opening the Breast-Vein is proper for Moor-foundring occasion'd by molten Grease contracted in the body by hard Riding preventing Diseases in the Liver Lungs and other internal Parts and is convenient to be done in any Sprain or Hurt in the Shoulder to prevent Lameness Opening the Thigh Veins prevents foundring in the Fore-feet Screwzing-bone Mallender or the like excressential Infirmities To bleed on the four Shackle-Veins before is good against the Crown-scab Quitter-bone c. To open the Spur-veins is good against Moor-foundring Farcine in the Side Swelling under the belly or the like The Toe Veins being open'd help fretting-foundering Hoof-bound or any grief occasion'd by the beating the Horse's Hoof upon any hard stony way The bleeding the two Thigh Veins behind ease grief in the Kidneys swelling in the hinder Legs Swellings Scratches Pissing blood Foundring c. To open the Shoulder Veins behind prevents pain in the Feet Foundering Uneasiness c. Open the Flank Veins in case of a Fevor swelling of the Stones Poorness or the Tielt-Worm The Tail Vein open'd prevents the Mange Scab Itch and falling off of the Hair And these blood-lettings prepare a Horse or Mare the better for Physick and greatly enliven him What Season is best to let Blood in If present danger require letting blood you may wave Critical times and do it immediately otherwise observe the following days viz. The Third and Fifteenth of January The Fourth and Ninth of February The Sixth and Tenth of March. The Fifteenth and Twentieth of April The First and Thirteenth of May. The Fifteenth and Nineteenth of June ●n July and August forbear letting of blood unless on some ●urgent occasion In September bleed the Eleventh and Twenty eighth October the Eighth and Twenty third November the Fifth and Sixteenth And in December the Fourteenth Sixteenth and Twenty sixth These days by the most Skilful are held to be safer and better than

scummy and putrefied matter which ariseth from corrupt and Cholerick Blood but it is either voided in Excremental Humours or moderate Exercise and Sweats or else by immoderate Exercise and violent Labour By too much Repletion and Fulness by unwholesome Food and evil Diet or by some other natural Defect this Cholerick Corruption increasing and overflowing it presently and in an instant overspreads the whole Body having its Course through every Vein and so discoloureth the Skin and makes all the outward parts yellow especially the Eyes and inside of the Lips also mixing with the better Blood and confounding the Strength and Vertue thereof it brings a general Fairness over the Body and in the end suffocateth the Heart of force there must follow sudden and certain Mortality and hence proceeds those sudden Deaths of Horses for which our weak Farriers can give but a foolish and idle Account But to return to the purpose after you have taken away good store of Blood and as you imagine all or at least the most part of that which is corrupt then set him up in the Stable tying his Head to the Rack gently and at Liberty neither so high that he shall be compelled to rest his Head upon the Bridle nor yet so low that he may thrust hi● Head into the Manger and thus you shall let him stand at least two hours How to prepare your Horse after bleeding to receive what is necessary for remedying dangerous Sickness If the Sickness be not contacious and dangerous administer not any Potion to him that day because the Vein being opened and all the ●●m●●ous Powers and Faculties of the Body disturbed it will be a double Vexation to his Spirits to go also through the working of the Potion therefore in this case the Sickness not be●ng violent you may forbear farther Administration and only after the Horse hath ●asted you shall give him such Food a● he will eat whether it be Hay Bread or Corn and always provide that it be strong savory sweet dry and clean drest as for the Quantity it matters not for a small Pittance at that time will maintain him besides Emptiness is no great Displeasure At high Noon you shall give him a sweet Mash of Malt and Water made in this manner Take half a peck of good Malt well ground and put it into a Pale by it self then take a Gallon of fair clear Water and set it on the Fire then when it is come to the hight that it is ready to boyl put as much of it to the Malt as will moist and cover the Malt all over and stir them exceeding well together crushing the Malt with a flat Rudder as much as you can ever and anon tasting it with your Finger till it be as sweet as any Honey and then cover it over as close as you can and so let it stand and stove for two or three hours at the least then the hour being come in which the Horse is to receive it uncover the Mash and stir it about but finding it to hot then put to it some clear cold Water that may temper and allay it but in any wise not so much as may take away any part of the Sweetness and in this tempering with your hand crush and squeeze the Malt as much as you can the Mash being lukewarm give it to the Horse to drink and if he eat of the Malt let him take thereof at his Pleasure This is the best manner of making of an ordinary Mash or Horse-Caudle for it is of that nature and quality and to that purpose that a Caudle is administred to Man is this given to a Horse for you must understand that in these contagious Diseases nothing is more pestilent than cold Water and especially when that Exercise cannot be used The ruder Farriers and Horse-Grooms do make the Mash another way putting the Malt to the Water at the first and so boyling them both together but this is unwholsom and nought and that every good Ho●swife can witness for this long boiling over-scalds the Malt and takes away the Strength and Sweetness and gives a harsh and unsavory Taste which is offensive to the Horse's Nature If your Horse be coy and refuse to take the Mash as many are partly for want of Use and Custom and partly for Weakness of Stomach than you shall strain the Water from the Malt exceeding hard and so give him with a Horn to drink then take the Grains which you have so strained and put them in the Manger before the Horse on which whether he feed or no it matters not for if he but smell and snuffle his Nose upon them it is sufficient for the Fume thereof is wonderous wholesome for his Head After you have given him the Mash see that he be warmly cloathed as namely a good Woollen Body-cloath to come round about his Heart a large Cloath or two to come over it and to be wispt round about with soft thick and large Whisps for the little hard and neat Wisps though they are comely to the Eye yet they are unwholsome for the Body for Hardness and Smallness makes an Impression into the Horse's sides causeth him to forbear to lye down when Nature and Rest requireth it The Horse being thus warm cloathed you shall then cause one or two to rub all his four Legs from his Knees and Lamtrels downwards with very hard Whisps and to rub them as hard as may be and whilst his Limbs are thus in rubbing take a coarse Rubber or two made of new hardned temper Cloath and warming one after another over a pan of Coals with them rub the Horse exceedingly much in the Nape of his Neck and the Pole just betwixt his Ears and on the Temples of his Head for there is nothing that is more wholesome than these Frictions and Chasings for they dissolve Humours and revive all natural Heat being a cheerful Nimbleness to the Limbs and purge the Head of gross Cold and rough Matter cleansing and purifying the Brain by which the Members and other Faculties are fortified and the whole Body reduced back to its full Strength and Ability As soon as you have ended this Friction of rubbing you may then let the Horse take his Rest for two or three hours and only leave a Lock or two of sweet Hay in his Rack and no more for the least quantity of any thing is too much and soon cloys a sick Horse An Excellent Perfume for Inward Sickness c. In the Evenng come to your Horse again and having rubbed all his Limbs and Head as you did before then perfume his Head in this manner Take of the best and purest Olibanum an ounce as much of Benjamin and Rax and bruise them all together I do not mean bruise them to small Powder but only break them in small Lumps and mix them well together and so taking them up between your Fingers you may not take up one Ingredient alone but some of

a Feather Of a Horse that stumbleth which is called the Cords This is called the Cords The Cord is a Sinew that ●reedeth amongst the Sinews the one end cometh down ●o the shankle Vein and so up thorough the Leg goeth ●ver the inner side of the Knee and so over the Shoulder ●●d so along the Neck by the Wesant and it goeth over ●he Temples under his Eye down over the Snout betwixt ●oth the Nostrils and the Gristle there knit the length ●f an Almond take a sharp knife and cut a slit even at ●●e Top of his Nose just with the point of the Gristle ●pen the slit and you shall perceive a white string take ● up with a Boars Tooth or a Bucks Horn that is crook●d or some crooked Bodkin and twine it about the ●rait and cut it asunder you may twine it so much as that you may rear his foot from the ground and then stirch up the slit and anoint it with Butter and the Horse doubtless will be cured Of the Canker The Cure is let him blood abundantly in the Veins that be next to the Sore then take of Allum one pound of white Coperas a quartern and a good handful of Salt boyl them together in fair running water from a pottle to a quart this water being warm put part thereof into a dish and with a Clout wash the same till it begin for to bleed and let it dry then take of Black-Soap one pound and of ●uick-silver half an ounce and incorporate them till that the Quick-silver be not seen and always after you have washed the same with a slice cover the Ulcer with this Medicine till it be whole but he sure still to let the blood he about the Ulcer for many days together and when it is killed then cast upon it the powder of unslack'd Lime or of Brimstone Of the Farcin This Ulcer is not unknown to any that have enjoyed Horses and yet unknown almost to all I mean the true cause of this Disease and the Cure some say it is a corruption of Blood some an outward hurt as of pur-galling biting of Ticks Hogs-Lice or such like some say an infi●mity bred in the Breast near the Heart and in the side Vessel● and God near the Stones many evil humours congealed together which afterwards disperse themselves into the Thighs and sometimes into the Head and do send forth wa●ry humours into the Nostrils and then it is called the ●unning Farcin Indeed if the true Cause of a Disease be known the Disease it self is easily cured The Mange the Lep●●sie and this Disease of the ●arcin are most perni●ions to a Horse for oftentimes it falleth out that many Horse● infected therewith though they live and the Disease ●●●meth to be healed yet are they rendred of small or no use For my own part I conjecture the cause of this Disease grow● either from abundance of bad Blood or by a great Dis●●mper of the Blood through a violent heat changed into a sudden cold To cure this Distemper first let him blood on both sides of the Neck three quarts at least for it is most certain that the Loyns which is then the Fountain of Blood is corrupted and so sendeth the Fume into every part of the Body as to become loathsome to behold Then give him this drink Take a Gallon of fair water put into it a good handful of Rue a good spoonful of Hemp-seed and a handful of the inner Rinde of green Elder bruise them in a Morter together and seeth it till it he half consumed and being cold give it him to drink Evermore continue to let him blood in that Vein which is nearest to the sore place a great quantity as you see occasion let his Diet be thin but very clean and sweet then take this approved Medicine following which though the Disease be never so foul it will undoubtedly ●ure it Take of Herbgrace a handful Fetherfew a handful of Chick-weed of the House a handful of Kikswood a ●andful of Heart-Robert a handful keep the residue thereof in a Pipkin close cover'd in the earth stop the mouth thereof close with Herb-grace and Dock-leaves and a green Turf laid upon it no air to come in and every third day untye his Ears and dress it and so continue it till all the Facine be dead for undoubtedly at three or four dressings it will kill it wash all the Hearbs so clean that no durt nor filth be on them Boyl Chamberlye and Bay-Salt with a little Copper as and Strong-Netties to wash the Sores if need be but beware of burning them either with Fire or other Corrosives for although it may kill the Ulcer yet being dispersed it will burn and scorch the Horses skin for burning doth purse the Skin and maketh it run together so as the Horse will never after prosper I would have you get cases of Leather fasten'd to a head-stall made hollow like the shape of a Horses Ears or make them lank-eared which thing the Sadlers will help you in for many times by long binding the Ears are spoiled so as that they must be cut off After that you see the filthy Ulcer kill'd and dead yet you must know whether the Blood is still putrified and corrupted therefore you must at least let him blood but always in several places And when you see the Blood fine and pure then give him some good scouring Drink a quart of White-wine a quarter of an ounce of Rhubarb in very thin s●●ices and laid in steep all night an ounce and an half of Alloes in powder dissolved therein half an ounce of Agarick an ounce of Sena steeped in the Wine all night and Three Races of Ginger sliced and laid also in steep all night and two ounces of Syrup of Roses but the Ruburb Sena and Ginger take out of the Wine before you put in the other Simples and then make it blood warm and give it the Horse and so let him rest all that day giving him nothing but Wheat-Straw at night and the next day following a Bottle of sweet strong Wort and a quarter of a pint of Treacle and keep him warm After all this wash his Body with Bucklye and Black-Soap and after cloath him and give him a sweat and he will recover Of the Fistula This is a filthy Ulcer also bred from some Ulcer not throughly cured The Remedy is to search the depth thereof with a Quill or some o●●er Instrument of Lead for unless you find the bottom it is hard to cure and having found the bottom if it be in a place where you may cut with a Razor make a slit against the bottom so wide that you may boldly thrust in your Finger to feel if any Bone or Gristle be perished or spungy or loose Flesh which must be gotten out then boyl a quartern of Honey and an ounce of Verdegrease in Powder stiring it continually until it look red then Tent therewith and Boulster with Flax that