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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

for all cholerick Horses though they be fierce and fiery are but of small strength If your Horse be coloured either Bright-bay or Dark-bay neither scouling countenance maughy mouthed or white flanked or a white Fleabitten white Lyard like silver or black with a white Star white Rash or white foot then is he Sanguin and the diseases to which he is most subject are the Glaunders Consumption of the Liver Leprosie or such other distempers as are caused by infection As for the Horses of a Snguin complection they are for the most part of a strong constitution and will indure strong medicines without impairing their strength if the medicines be not compounded of extraordinary hot ingredients to over-heat the blood If your Horses colour be Milk-white Py-bald Yellow Dun Kite-colour or any the like colours in mixture then is he Phlegmatick being slow by nature and apt to lose his flesh subject to cold Rheums Head-ach Cough Staggers and indeed all distempers proceeding from cold or watery distillations and therefore must have hot medicines that is simples of a hot and strong working nature that may operate upon the Mass of Phlegm which generates the distempers If your Horse be of a Dark-bay colour having long white hairs like Goats hairs on his legs Russet Chesnut Ash-coloured Gray or Mouse-dun then does Melancholy abound in him and the distempers he is most subject to are the inflammation of the Spleen Dropsie Frenzy and such like dull and Melancholy distempers and therefore require cold and moist medicines those of a dry or hot quality being altogether hurtful and unprofitable Their strength is greater than it appears to be and for the most part they are fit for servile labours and thus much of the four Elementary humours now there are divers Horses mixed with all the aforesaid colours or some three or four of them in such a case note that those Horses have those humours most predominant of which their colour is mostly according to what has been said and so consequently ought the medicines to be prepared with regard to the nature of the sickness for if it has continued long and the Horse be infeebled thereby then you must not give him over strong potions but if he be young and lusty not having languished under the force of the distemper then any well composed sutable medicine will not be amiss but as to medicines in particular I shall speak at large hereafter Things to be observed to keep a Horse in health and make him long continue so IF you would have your Horse continue in health and live long twelve things are to be observed 1. Let him moderately feed 2. See that he have good nourishment and be of a quick and clean digesture 3. Let him labour moderately 4. If he be not too much subject to sleep 5. If he be not permitted often to leap Mares 6. That in all journeys moderation be used not Travailing too far without resting or baiting 7. That he be kept in wholsome Air. 8. Not to exercise him too soon after Grass 9. That he be kept from raw green meats 10. Not to suffer him to eat or drink after exercise or a journey before he is throughly col'd 12. With his Provender give him wholsome simples for the most part dry the nature of which being such as is good against such distempers as your Horse by his complexion may be or is inclinable to as Anniseeds Fennel-seed Fennegreek Bay-berries Brimstone Alum Hempseed Elecampain or the Roots of Polipodium of the Oke Savin Rue Hyssop Colts foot Hore-hound Marsh-mallows and the like if you have them not dry you may by chopping them small give him them green but if dry for so they are best crush them to powder and sprinkle them amongst his Oats or Beans or amongst Hay cut short and they so taken will prevent obstructions by purifying the blood thereby rendering the whole body in sound and perfect health Of Sickness Dangerous to Horses and its Original THe main cause of most Internal distempers in Horses proceeds either from over violent heats in exercise as when the Horse hath his grease molten or the heart over charged with vitiated blood so that the Pores or passages are so stopped that the Vital spirits dispersed throughout the body cannot return turn to their center nor the heart be exhilerated for want of an intercourse with the Liver These obstructions I say excluding the Vital Spirits the Organs of the body cannot rejoyce which occasions mortal sickness Another cause there is which proceedeth from cold occasioned through the negligence of the keeper in not regarding him before and after a journey or exercise as he ought which once taken troubles his head with pains and dullness making him look heavy and dull eyed the root of the Tongue being often inflamed and swelled The Lungs tickled and offended with Rheums causing strong and tedious Coughs which greatly indispose and offend him whiles noisome filth proceeds from his nostrils c. A third cause there is cometh by unseasonable eating or over eating which frequently begets a surfeit especially if he eat unwholsome food If he eat to excess it many times proves mortal by reason it creates unwholesome vapours noisome fumes and the like which ascending from the stomach to the brain poyson and infect it or if the Horse escape with life yet seldom misses to have Stavers or Frenzy if the food he has eaten be unwholsome raw or out of season then it breeds diseases by producing corrupt vitiated blood or infectious watery humours from which proceed the Yellows Farcines Feavers Manginess and the like which infecting the heart stopping the free passage of the stomach and dispersing throughout the body leaves no member free from affliction A fourth cause there is which we may call accidental which is when a Horse taketh in poyson with his food or receiveth a wound or extraordinary bruise which inflames the blood and makes each part become hot and feaverish the which by degrees turns to many evil distempers that end but with the life of the Horse therefore on this occasion there is nothing more necessary than to apply pertinent medicines in time ere the malady has taken root How to discern by divers symptoms any mortal sickness in a Horse HAving laid down the original causes of most mortal sicknesses I shall now proceed to let you understand how they may be known by the sundry symptoms that forerun or attend them according to the opinion of the most expert practitioners in this Art If the sickness be occasioned through immoderate heats or journeying then it is signified by the heavyness of his countenance swelling of his legs and other limbs but his hinder legs especially by the loosness and scouring of his body at the beginning of the sickness short and hot breath and a loathing or forsaking his meat If the sickness proceeds from cold then it is known by a down-cast Countenance Drowsiness and desire of sleep Pustils or hard

grievance or for want of them take dryed Southernwood the yolks of new-laid Eggs and Barly-meal which well tempered and applied plaister-wise to the grievance will cause the filth to come away and cure the sore The Mallender what it is and how to cure it THis Sorrance is a hard dry scab full of Rifts and Chaps and long staring hairs growing upon the inward part of the foreleg where if it be not looked to in time it will canker and corrupt the flesh and blood making the Horse go exceeding lame It comes divers ways proceeding some times from corrupt humours and over-heated blood at other times 't is occasioned by the negligence of the Keeper in suffering the dirt long to continue on the Horses legs c. To cure the Mallender take half an ounce of Gunpowder two ounces of Hogs-lard a soft rowed Pickled herring four ounces of common sope and an ounce of Roach allum beaten to powder all which being bruised heated and tempered that it may be applyed plaisterwise lay them upon the sore after you have washed it with Urin and clipped away the hairs and by every day renewing it for three or four days the cure will be effected especially if you anoint it between whiles with the Oyl of Turpentine The Mange in Horses its cause and cure THis Sorrance is a like loathsome and dangerous and may be known before its breaking out by the extraordinary desire the Horse has to rub against every thing he meets to allay his Itch the hair falling away in many places and undecently staring the skins scurfiness c. The cause frequently arises from hard riding cold and heats excessive labour bad humours and corruption of blood To cure it take Mother of Salt-Peter and adding thereto wine Vinegar and Oyl of Turpentine wash the place grieved binding upon it afterwards bruised Chamomil and Hogs grease For want of the abovesaid Medicament take Sope Lees and steeping in them Tobacco-stalks wash the Sorrance after the scabs are rubbed off and keep your Horse as much as may be from rubbing himself against any hard thing The Mourning of the Chine what it is together with its cause and cure THis grievance is a kind of Glaunders caused by either excessive heat standing wet or travailing in deep and dirty ways which if not in time taken notice of reverts its bad humours upon the Liver and Lungs whereby they are frequently so putrefied that the Horse dies suddainly The cure is first to let your Horse blood and then to take Sallad-oyl Whitewine Vinegar of each three ounces the juice of Sallendine and the powder of Elecampain Roots of each an ounce and put them into his nostrils holding his head to the Rack and thrusting into them at the same time a Feather dipped in Oyl of Bays to make him sneese after which give him an ounce of Rubarb beaten to powder in a pint of Canary very hot and so cloathing him exceeding warm let him lie or stand as he best liketh and in so serving him five or six times it will bring away the nauseous humours by which the disease will decrease and the Horse in time recover his perfect health Madness and Frenzy in Horses from whence it proceeds and how to cure it THis distemper happens to Horses divers ways as first when through the evil operation of the veins crude blood stays in the head and by an insensible way enters the Panicle of the Brain which is known by the Horses heaviness the dulness of his Eyes and his want of Appetite his often turning round and staggering secondly when the blood is vitiated so far that it by its fiery humour has pierced the film of the Brain and inflamed it which puts him out of all patience insomuch that he goes quite mad beating his head against the Manger Post or whatever stands in his way biting and stamping kicking and flinging with many the like extravagancies Thirdly when the blood in the stomach is by overmuch heat stagnated and corrupted and turning upon the heart infecteth it Fourthly and lastly the cause of madness proceedeth from the bloods being generally infected insomuch that at once the Heart Brain and Pannicles are afflicted which is the worst of all and commonly proves mortal To cure these grievances let your Horse blood in all his four legs to draw down the blood that occasions it and when he has bled sufficiently take the roots of wild Cucumbers or for defect of them the roots and leaves of Rue or Herbegrace Mint and black Helebore of each a handful with a like quantity of the herb and root of Virgo-pastoris all which being well bruised and boyled in beer give it him warm and so continue to do for three or four days if the madness cease not Mans dung or Hens dung in whitewine is good in this case and has been often given with success The Malt-long or Malt-worm what it is and how to cure it THis Sorrance commonly happens above the Hoof of the Horse almost in the nature of a Crownscab appearing in divers little Knops and Bunches both Cankerous and venomous which knops if not prevented will run into branches voiding salt watery humour causing great lameness and spoiling the Hoof. To cure which take if you can get them black Snails and Burdock roots beat them together and lay them to the sore renewing the plaister every morning for five or six days but if no Snails can be got take the Soot or scrapings of a Pot or Kettle the inner rinde of Elder Garlick Pepper and Hony all which bruised and well tempered lay plaisterwise and it will cure the Sorrance being received as aforesaid The Night-Mare what it is and how to cure and remove it THis distemper by some is held for Hag-riding though indeed it proceeds from Melancholy blood which pressing to the heart dulls and benumbs the Vital spirits and thereby causes nature extreamly to labour under it till it be expelled and driven thence insomuch that at divers times the Horse so afflicted will be in a foaming sweat not being capable of rest To cure or prevent which take half a pint of Olive Oyl four ounces of common salt and half a pint of Spruce Beer boyl them together adding afterward three ounces of Brown Sugarcandy and give it him as warm as is convenient for two three or four Mornings successively if you find he is so long afflicted with the oppression of crude blood Planet struck what it is and how to cure or prevent it THis distemper incident to Horses is known by a suddain defect of the Horses members insomuch that he often falleth down or standeth stiff almost without any appearance of life or motion it is caused divers ways sometimes by excessive congealing of Phlegm about the Brain at other times by cold Melancholy blood which instead of nourishing the Brain numbs and sickens it likewise happens by evil digestion which instead of blood fills the veins with raw watery humours and sometimes by

but in no wise walk him in your hand lest the dullness of the motion conspiring with the cold diseases damp his courage and by that means subject him to divers infirmities And thus much for our Keeper Now I shall proceed to give instructions to the Feeder though indeed the Keeper and the Feeder are in a manner one and the same But since much remains in that nature in order to prepare a Horse for Racing Hunting c. I shall lay down Rules and Methods apart such as will not only if rightly observed save great charges but more speedily than what has yet been publickly known fit and prepare Horses for all Noble recreations And First for Racing or Running Horses Rules to be observed in preparing and ordering your Horse designed to Run according to the condition he is in and the temper of his body THe chief thing when you have matched your Horse or are about to match him that is requisite to be observed is the state of his body but especially whether he be Foul Fat or newly taken from Soil or Grass whether through excessive riding or other hard usage he be reduced to leanness or afflicted with any infirmitie or whether he is in a good and likely condition through kindly usage and gentle breathings and according to these observations proportion your time in order to fit and prepare your Horse to perform your desire Two months being the longest time you need desire be he in the worst of the conditions aforesaid if the following instructions be exactly observed the worst of which is his being Foul and Fat c. by reason the Grease must be brought away before he can be fit for this extraordinary exercise six weeks if he be lean for then his feeding and exercise need not be distinct in days but every day both of them put in practice as for a Horse in good case and free from infirmity I hold that a month is sufficient if he be carefully looked after to prepare him These things considered the next is to observe whether your Horse if fat by extraordinary exercise is so tender that he loses his flesh and falls away if so you must be more moderate in your exercise and tender over him but if you find him hardy and of a free spirit then you must keep him up to it and he will prove the better Again if your lean Horse be of a free temper and feeding upon all meats will get his flesh up apace and not lose it by exercise then you need not be so tender over him and the like must be observed by your Horse in the middle state always taking special notice of their Limbs that there harbour no defect for if so your labour will be greatly hazzarded if not altogether lost Having thus far proceeded I shall now lay down Rules for dieting your Horse in preparing for your match and by reason that all the three before mentioned may be said to be contained in the fat Horse I shall first begin with him The manner of the first fortnights diet for a Horse that is fat and foul or upon his being taken from soil or grass and what is necessary therein to be observed YOur fat and foul Horse made so by either standing at soil or running at grass too high feeding or the like If you have matched him or intend so to do when you have brought him into your Stable to prepare him for the Race rising early the first fortnight you must first of all having roused him if he be laid wash his Bridle in Beer or Ale tie it to the rack and cleanse the Stable of the Horses excrements and then exceedingly well dress him For the manner whereof to avoid repetition I refer you to be guided by those Rules I have laid down in the Office of the Keeper in the Chapter of this book unless what is necessary to be added as being in this case necessary though in the general way of dressing not greatly material which principally relate to your Horses cloathing For by reason the Heats in preparing your Horse for this exercise must be more and frequenter than upon any other occasion So therefore must the care be great to prevent his catching cold falling into a surfeit or the like When you have well dressed him in the morning and cleansed him from filth leaving no part about him untouched as aforesaid having a large body-cloth made of strong warm Kersie if the weather be cold or if hot Cotten or other light soft stuff will serve Fold it about his body and putting on his Saddle let his foremost girth be girded close but the other loose thrusting in large soft wisps of Straw near his heart that so the slack girth may by the help of the wisps be made strait as the other then put on a warm breast cloth so that it may cover his shoulders When having spirted about three or four sponfulls of beer into his mouth then leaving one to prepare the Stable against your return lead him forth and after a turn or two in your hand mount his back and rack him gently for the space of a mile or more upon plain and even ground till you can if possible come to some steep Hill ascending gradually up which gallop him moderately and being come to the top or so high as you think convenient Rack or walk him down again that by that means he may cool as much in descending as he heated in ascending and having after this manner pretty well exercised him it being yet early in the morning lead him or ride him a moderate pace to some pleasant River Spring or other sweet running water and suffer him to drink as much as he pleases but if he altogether refuses to drink then moderately exercise him as aforesaid but if he refuse to drink warm him by riding gently to provoke him to thirst When your Horse has drank his fill rack him gently homewards so that he may come into the Stable without a wet hair the stable being fresh littered with Wheat-Straw for Barly or Rye Straw are both nought the one causing heart burning and the other scowring by whistling and stretching your Horse upon the cast out Litter indeavour to make him void urine the which if he at first decline to do yet at last by often usage he understanding what is required of him will do it freel and by so doing preserve the stable clean and render it more healthy this done and your Horse entred the Stable keeping his head in the bridle tye it up to the Rack then with hard wisps rub down his legs with all your strength then taking off his brest-cloth rub his head neck and breast with care and diligence with a dry cloth after which take off his Saddle and hang it up rubbing the place where it sat as likewise all the other parts of his body His body cloth being taken off and when you have sufficiently rubbed him leaving no place

any person who by reason of his being lighter than your self or that gives you any advantage so that there are weights in the case to make both equal or otherwise as the agreement is then observe that he carries not those weights in his Saddle but somewhere about himself for if he carry them in the Saddle they will neither hinder him nor prejudice the Horse but be as if he did carry none and then you had as good ride with him on equal terms but if your agreement be that he shall carry them about him then is the advantage much on your side As to the ground you must likewise have special regard which you must take from your heats and breathings that is take notice whether your Horse affects high or low ground hard or soft and if you can possibly without any signal disadvantage keep him to such ground in his course These things consider and all things brought to a point when you are arrived at the starting Post uncloath your Horse rub well his legs with wisps cleanse his feet and spirt cool water into his mouth then mount your rider Then starting fair force on without controle And if your Horse be good ne'r doubt the Goal Things to be observed in running Horses as to the state of their bodies in relation to sickness and health REader I have already given you directions how to order your Horse for a Match I shall now lay down Rules and Methods whereby you may keep him in health and fit for your purpose at all times by such demonstrative tokens as you may be continually sensible of the state of his body drawn from the observations following When you come to take a view of your Horse narrowly inspect him and if you perceive him heavy and dull of countenance Loose Costive Short-breath Loathing of meat his Eyes glazed or dim his Hair staring his Hair strangely discoloured if he stagger in his pace be troubled with ratling or short Cough Dizziness in his head Yellow under his upper Lip or in his eyes If he be troubled with cold sweats often lying down and restless when he is down often looking on his body alteration in his carriage and going not casting his Coat in due season or being hidebound If I say you perceive any of these symptoms in your Horse then is it your care to inquire from what cause it arises and apply the cures which for the distempers before mentioned I shall hereafter prescribe How to know the State of a Horses body by his Dung I If your Horse dung be crisp neither too hard nor too soft of a pale colour smell strong something savouring of the ordure of a man sound and in good health then it is a sign your Horse is lusty and in health clean and well fed If it be well coloured yet if it fall from the Horse in round hard balls as near as may be of a bigness then it denotes your Horse evilly fed having too much Hay too little Corn and permitted to feed too much upon his Litter If it fall in round knops hard and of colour black or brown it denotes excess of heat in the body of your Horse if it appear greasie it denotes foulness and that in him remains Molten grease that cannot find a passage out If with his Dung he voids grease that is white and clear then it denotes that the Molten and foul grease will kindly come away but if you perceive it putrified or corrupted which you may by its yellowness then it betokens by reason of the length of its continuance in the Horses body corruption and putrefaction the which if it be not timely removed by scourings will cause dangerous distempers If his Dung appear red and hard then it betokens that the Horse has been too much put to it in his Heats and Coursing and if he be not kept warm and well dyeted Costiveness will follow If his Dung be pale and loose it betokens cold occasioned by moist feeding How to know the State of your Horses body by his Vrine IF his Urine be of a palish yellow thick and smell strong and sharp then is the Horse in health If the Urine be of ruddy complexion tending somewhat to a thick blood colour then it denotes the Horse to have been injured with excessive riding or too early ridden after his being taken up from Winter Grass If it prove of a high colour clear and as it were sparkling then it denotes an inflammation or extraordinary heat in the body occasioned by surfeit If the Urine after it has stood a while appear to have a white Cream or Scum upon it then it denotes the Horse weak in the Loyns and that his Seed is in Consumption Urine with bloody specks or streaks denotes an ulcer or some corroding distemper in the Kidnies If the Urine be black thick and of a cloudy or dusky hew then it donotes great sickness if not death to the Horse How to know the State of your Horses body by his feeding and of Lameness IF you perceive your Horse to refuse his meat and seem to loath that meat he formerly loved when you are sensible he by course must be hungry it is a sign of heart sickness occasioned by cold distillations or foulness of stomach occasioned by surfeit got by over heating which you must remove by gentle purgations many of which I shall hereafter insert and to bring him again to his stomach you must use him gently not forcing it upon him but giving it him by degrees as he pleases and to whet his appetite spirt Verjuce into his mouth and hang up by him a Spunge dipped in them or for want thereof dip a crust of bread in Vinegar and tye it up in a cloth where he may smell to it and when his stomach comes to him mingle fine and course dyet together till he be brought to eat the latter alone as occasion serveth If your Horse by standing too long idle or therwise become Lame or Restif then the best way to recover him is to heat him well upon a smooth Down or in a plain and soft field What is to be observed from the state of your Horses body IN the outward appearance of a Horse there is nothing more common than for some men to be deceived Therefore it will not be amiss if I lay down some rules worthy of observation First then there are some Horses round plump and to appearance fat and well fleshed when they are nothing so the cause of which delusion arises from their being short from Head to Tail well set large buttocked well shouldered and full sided Secondly there are some Horses that although they be in good case yet they will to the eye appear lean and their Ribs appear bare nay when they are fat foul and full of grease and gross humours and thereby many skilful Jockies have been deceived as likewise Farriers who supposing them to be in good case have neglected to apply