of Horse-dung newly made by a Horse that goeth to grasse and putting it to the other Ingredients worke it to a Salve and apply it plaister-wise to the place good hot renewing it twice every day for so long time as you shall think to be convenient Now Master Blundevile and Master Markham doe both agree in the Cure of an Attaint which is thus First wash and bath the place with warme Water and shave the haire so farre as the swelling goeth then scarrifie the sore place with the point of a Razor that the bloud may issue forth Then take Cantharides and Euforbium of each halfe an ounce powdered and mingle them together with a quarterne of Sope and with a shy spread some of the Oyntment over all the sore suffering him to rest in the place where you dressed him for one halfe houre after and then you may take him into the Stable there letting him stand without Litter and so tyed that hee may not touch the sore with his Mouth and then the next day use him in the same manner againe then the third day annoint the place with fresh Butter continuing so to doe by the space of nine dayes and at nine daies end make him this bath Take Mallowes three handfulls a Rose-Cake and Sage of each a handfull boyle them together in a sufficient quantity of faire water and when the Mallowes are become soft put in halfe a pound of Butter and halfe a pint of Sallet Oyle and then being somewhat warme wash and bath the sore place therewith every day once till it be whole This Medicine I confesse I never tryed but I think it very good Master Blundevile hath only this but Master Markham hath sundry others some of which I will relate to the end the Ferrier may make his choyce Another Take Dialthea Agrippa and Oyle and mixing these together lay it to the swelling Another Take also Frankinsence Rosin Tarre Euforbium Turpentine Fennugrick of each a quarter of an ounce of Sewet one ounce of Oyle one ounce of Wax three ounces three quarters of an ounce of Myrrh mix and melt all these together and plaister-wise lay it to the place till it be whole Another Take also Sanguis-Draconis three quarters of an ounce Bole-Armonack one ounce Oyle as much Mastick three ounces Suet as much and as much Swines grease melt and mix all these together and lay it to the swelling and it will take it away Another Cure I found in an old Manuscript with which I have cured many horses which have been much swelled which is this viz. Take Turpentine of Venice one ounce and Aqua-vitae three Spoonfulls beat them together in a Bladder or some other convenient Vessell untill they come to a perfect salve then annoynt the sore very well therewith and heat it in with a hot Brick or a hot Iron and thus doing foure or five times it will set him upright ✚ This I have often tryed and it is very good §. 10. A. Hippoph VVHat is that which you call a Nether Attaint Hippos It is also an Over-reach sometimes and sometimes againe it cometh by a Wrench sometimes by a Strayne sometimes by treading upon a sharp stone or stub and sometimes it cometh by a blow and it is called properly a Neather Attaint Attaâ—â—â— Neathâ—â— by reason it being commonly upon the fore-legge like as is the other it is neverthelesse placed lower than the other is for whereas the other is above the Fet-lock Ioynt this is under it for it is commonly upon the Heele or Frush nor is it oftimes visible to the eye howsoever it may be felt as well by the heat and glowing which will be upon the heele as also by the softnesse for there will be a Bladder or blister of viscous corrupt matter like to Ielly which will grow in the place and besides it will make the Horse to complaine and it wil be also somewhat swelled I have cured sundry Horses which have had this Malady and they have done well again The cure is thus Take a peece of Filliting and bind it above the Pastern-joynt a little good and hard which will cause the blister or swelling the better to appeare more visible to the eye make incision with your Incision-knife and crush out all the corrupt Ielly and congealed matter Then heale it up by washing the sore with Coperas water declared in lib. 2. cap. 10. § 4. and after annoynt it with the Greene Oyntment mentioned in capite et § Ibid. and so in short time it will bee whole and sound againe ✚ This is a very hard Cure for your ordinary Country Smiths to take in hand to performe if they bee not well acquainted with the nature of this Malady Master Blundevile and Master Markham have both this manner of Cure only they differ from me in the healing Salve § 11. A. Hippoph VVHat Cure have you for the Avives Hippos This terme Avives we have also gotten from the French which our Ferriers doe call the Viues It is a disease which growes under the Eares and secundum vulgus Aviues it is called the Fives or Vives from the Eares it creepeth downe towards the Throate which when they begin to enflame will swell and not only paine the Horse very much but also prove mortall by stopping his Wind they will kill him out right if it be not in time cured and I my selfe have seene and knowne Horses dy of this malady It proceedeth most commonly of Ranknesse of Bloud in the cure care must be taken that you doe not touch the Graynes or Kernells with your fingers The Avives or Vives are certaine flat Kernells much like Bunches of Grapes which grow in a cluster close knotted together in the place the most certaine cure is to cut the Skin longest-wayes and to lay the Kernells or Graines open and then with an Instrument made like to a paire of Pliers to pinch forth the Graynes then to apply unto the place eyther a linnen-cloth or a few hurds steeped well in whites of Egges well beaten and so bound on and renewing it dayly it will cure it but you must heale up the Skin with the Greene-Oyntment before spoken of in Cap. § Ib. ✚ But the common cure is to draw downe the sore with a hot Iron just in the midst so farre as the swelling goeth and then under the roote of the Eare draw two other strokes of the fashion of an arrowes head then open the skin and with a small payre of plyers pull out the kernels and so cut them off but have a care of the veine that done fill the place with Bay-salt made into fine powder and after heale up the sore with the aforesaid Oyntment ✚ This have I also practised and performed the Cure but with greater difficulty than the former by reason of the Fire which I put to the place and therefore I doe hold my former Cure the better safer and speedier ✚ Master Blundevile and Master Markham
enjoying thy wished desires and therefore I have given thee instructions how to make thy choice of such a man whereby thou shalt not be wronged in thy expectation nor thy Horse marred in his first making and handling Neither have I taken upon me to teach him his Art for that were a thing very impertinent but those documents which I have set thee downe must serve onely to shew thee how thou shouldest soone finde whether the Rider may be for thy turne or not The third thing which thou art to take to thy consideration is the good or harme that may come unto thee by the choice thou makest of thy Groome or Keeper who may either through his ignorance or inconsideration soone make him unfit both for thy owne use or any mans else out of which reason I have depainted thee a Groom in his lively colours and if his conditions and qualities shall be otherwise than what I have delineated assure thy selfe thou dost runne a manifest hazard of marring that Horse thou didst hope should have been to thy hearts desire And forasmuch as it is a matter very much praise-worthy to be a Master of good Horses to have them made perfect and ready to have such Riders Keepers and Groomes as be very perite in their faculties yet if thy Stable be not every way sitting and correspondent much disprofit and inconvenience may therby soone redound to thy Horse I have therefore prescribed thee the meanes how thou mayest have a perfect and good Stable with all commodities and accoutrements thereunto belonging and therefore if thou wilt be pleased to make use of these my rudiments and punctually observe these my grounds and principles assure thy selfe thou wilt in short time aspire to that which will be thy honour and renown And to the end thou mayest the more perfectly and easily understand the full drift and summe of this my first Booke I will here give unto thee an Epitome of it in a few lines which may doe thee much pleasure in the perusall thereof In the Introduction I shew thee how needfull a creature the Horse is beyond all others and what admirable things Horses in former times have perpetrated and done whereof I produce thee instances of the famous acts of sundry brave and generous Horses whose love to their Masters have been so great great as hardly to be credited if ancient Histories and Annals of good integrity had not engraven them in the memory of never-dying posterity We reade of Bucephalus what he did for the good life and safety of his Master of the Horse of Dionysius with what undaunted courage he comported himselfe in battell for the reliefe and succour of his Lord it is recorded also of the Horse of Antiochus what ill successe befell Centurettus who when he had slaine Antiochus would needs backe the Horse of his slaine Master It is also noted what inly love Nicomedes his Horse bare to his Lord and Master when after his death of meere griefe famished himselfe We reade of Aethon the Horse of Pallas who was evidently observed and seen to weep at the funerall of his Master Silius makes report of two famous Horses called Pelorus and Ciraeus the one eminent for his prowesse and hardinesse in warre and the other for his unparalelled swiftnesse Moreover we may reade how that this poore creature hath so well merited of man as that many have erected Monuments and Sepulchers celebrated Exequies builded and founded munificent Cities set up Pyramidies made Epitaphs erected goodly Statues instituted Playes and Games and all these in honour of the Horse besides many other remarkable things right worthy of note In the way of Breeding I do intimate unto thee the manner how the season when the place where together with the colours marks and shapes as well of thy Stalions as of thy Race or Stud Mares and from what defects they must be free what Signes are best wherein to cover what course to take with them that they may conceive what exercise is fittest for them as well when they be with Fole as after foling how to cherish thy Mares when their Colts shall runne by them and how to breed up thy Colts till they come to handling backing and riding with other circumstances very necessary to be known and thus much briefly for the first Book The second Booke consisteth chiefly of the manner how thou mayest cure all such diseases and maladies both intrinsecall and extrinsecall whereunto either the life of the Horse or any of his limbs or members may be any way endamaged or in danger This I have handled by way of familiar Dialogue which I hold to be best for avoyding of prolix and over-tedious discourses by reason it will very much help the memory of the Reader and keep his minde the better attent upon the state of the Question or subject in hand and by that meanes I may my selfe be the better able also to explicate and deliver my meaning much more cleerely In which Dialogue I have introduced as prolocutors three persons onely viz. First Hippophilus a Gentleman one who is the true lover of the Horse Secondly Hippiatrus the Ferrier or Marishall one most expert in Horse-leech craft And thirdly Hipposerus his Servant or Iourney-man sometimes his apprentice bred up by him from whom Hipposerus hath had his education and knowledge in this Art these be all the Dramatis personae to this Scene Wherefore in the first Chapter I doe endeavour to illustrate unto thee the true Office of the Ferrier wherein I do produce an exact examen of his function In the second Chapter I do inculcate as well the causes of health as of sicknesse wherein I make an abridgement of all those things which all learned Physitians and Chirurgions both antient and modern do from the grounds and principles of profound Philosophy finde to govern and beare rule in the body of the Horse without which he can have no flesh bones sinewes bloud or life it selfe wherewith to make up the entire structure of an orginall body and such are first the Elements secondly the Humours thirdly the naturall faculties fourthly the instrumentall members fifthly the spirits animall sixtly the spirits vitall seventhly the naturall parts and so of the residue And having sufficiently discussed all these things in due order and method I do then shew thee what meanes we have to preserve the Horse from all inward diseases which I doe finde to be foure in number viz. By Purge by Sweat by Phlebotomy and by Vomit and then I do proceed to inculcate unto thee the causes of health and long life which I do make to be in number twelve which if thou do well observe they will redound to thy great utility and profit In the third Chapter I do demonstrate certaine things most befitting a Ferrier to know and understand well before he shall take upon him to administer in the handling whereof I do begin first with the foure Elements anatomizing unto thee
Edward Noble Worcester that branch Sprung from great Iohn of Gaunt and Royall Blanch. Of thee our de la Gray was wont to say To see thee on thy Horse of menage play Was solid pleasure for the Excellence That fed the eye went further than the sense And I beleeve it since the Active part That shines in precepts of thy skilfull Art And comes to us from speculations taught Through â—ong Experience and with labour wrought In these thy choyce Phylippicks makes this Land Blest in the faire production of thy hand Our skilfull Markham and old Blundevill Or whosoe're hath toucht this marshall Quill Receives by thee more light than was his owne Or was by th' Ancients or by Modernes knowâ— G. F. To my well-deserving Friend Thomas de Gray upon his exact piece of Horsemanship and Ferriery IF I who love a Horse next to my life Should now be mute in the commending strife Of this thy Horsemanship my de la Gray I might henceforth be banisht all the play At Bansteed Winchester and Salsbury And sit me downe under this Horse and dye Nay I will write before thy Booke and fill The vacant roome of some deserving quill And wish in all my sport to be as sore As when thou work'st upon a desperate Cure Wolferstone Vpon Monsieur de Gray his most elaborate piece of Horsemanship and Ferriery THis Book 's inform'd with a high Genius this Above the malice of detraction is Nor needs a friends Encomium blaze it forth It 's proper vertue vindicates it's worth Yet since by th' Authors happy care and paine I understood how first to use the reyne And menage sonipes I could not chuse But vent this gratefull rapture of my Muse How that by it he amply doth impart The essence of the Horseman's Ferriers Art So that the Horse shall to perfection grow And no disease his courage brave o'rethrow Now I will leave Pegasus aiery courses And sue to mount one uf his well-train'd Horses Ed. R. To the Authour of the Expert Ferrier HEer 's Mirrour eak Modell of true Honour Fame wait's on Thy name Thou wait'st upon Her By Cavall'ry the Golden Fleece th' ast wonne Therein Thou art a Non pâ—reill That One. Whose Fame shall dye Thine It shall remaine The age presag'd by Ovid's sublime straine I. H. D. M. To my ever honoured Friend Tho. de Gray upon his select Peece of Horsemanship and Ferriery SAge h'ast Thou made our Later age Thou art the Phoenix of our Time Certes Thy rare Peece I presage Hath wonne the Fleece it 's so sublime My younger Pen cannot but waite on Thee Whose Name shall ever bee most deere to mee Francis Hawkins THE EXPERT FERRIER CHAP. I. THE INTRODUCTION IF we will but take to our serious consideration how many great obligations we have to admire the infinite goodnesse of Almighty God in creating such a marvellous number of creatures meerely for the use and service of man whereof no one of them can be wanting and that amongst them all we have none more usefull or which can be lesse spared then the Horse no dumb creature more generous nor any that commeth so neere unto the pleasure of man none can serve him better in time of peace and warre none better for manuring and tilling the earth and to cause it to produce its fruits none more usefull for bringing in the fruits of the earth none more behoofefull to beare and carry him his long and tedious journeyes in heat and cold through thick and thin by night and day none better to carry him from danger and to land his master at the port of safety then the Horse and for his pastimes and recreations no creature to be compared to this neither is there any creature created by the great Creator of all things which doth so perfectly understand and connive with the nature and minde of man or that beareth a more inly love to man as doth this poore creature the Horse for upon all occasions he sweateth he trudgeth he toyleth he drudgeth he moyleth he laboureth pro viribus with great alacrity and cheerefulnesse so long as his vitall spirits last to give comfort and content to him that feedeth and cherisheth him yea and that I say with such joy and alacrity as if like to a reasonable creature he found himselfe obliged thereto in the bond of all sincere duty and gratitude For should I speake rather like a Philosopher then a Christian I could not but agnize nature to be admirable in all her works wherein man doth owe unto her infinite and those very great thanks in that she hath accommodated and plentifully furnished him with all things needfull for his use as also in that she hath propagated amongst all other the Horse the most usefull for the service of man and who best acknowledgeth his Master And that this may be the better anatomized I will shew you what I finde recorded by authenticall Authors of the excellency of this praise-worthy creature The so much-renowned Bucephalus who carried his Master through so many conquered kingdomes serves for an example to all ensuing ages who would not suffer any man but great Alexander to backe him who seemed to be proud at what time he carried so glorious and victorious a charge and it is also written of him that being wounded at the siege and sacking of Thebes he carried him couragiously through the troops and throngs of all the combatants with incredible valour and courage nothing at all esteeming or prizing the losse of his bloud being most desirous and no lesse willing to do his master all faithfull service to the utmost of his power and to the effusion of the last drop of his bloud labouring to purchase unto himselfe by his not to be parallelled valour and his resolute perseverance a victorious advantage over the enemy What never-dying high renown the horse of Caesar got I hold little inferiour to that of Bucephalus Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily in a great and well fought battell was himselfe so hard put to it that he was constrained to forsake his horse neverthelesse the poore beast made his way through the throngs of the enemy who all bloudy and miery as he was gat him to a randevous his Stable Centaurettus of Galatia having in battaile flaine Antiochus he in a bravado mounted his horse who soone found by good experience albeit no whit to his advantage that the said horse retained a resentment of the death of his slaine Master for the horse so soone as he felt this his new Lord upon his back never gave ouer flinging yarking plunging and bownding commanding the Bit with his teeth launching out sometimes this way sometimes that way with so great impetuosity and fury that at length he cast his rash rider to the earth and then fell to him with his heeles redoubling his strokes in so thick and violent a manner not giving over till he had slain him out-right whereby he gave him little cause
to triumph and glory in his temerarious attempt We reade of Nicomedes King of Bithynia whose Horse so intirely loved him as that his Master was no sooner dead but the Horse presently forsooke his meat and so continued untill such time as he languishing for very griefe dyed of famine Virgil the Prince of Poets maketh honourable mention of Aethon the Horse of Pallas sonne of Evander who saith that this Aethon being present at the funerall of his master wept for sorrow as these two verses do inculcate After came Aethon bold in fight now weeping And in his teares his mournfull visage steeping Silius Italicus in his ninth Book doth highly extoll two horses to wit Pelorus and Ciraeus speaking of them in this manner Ready Pelorus was to th' hand and rayne Obedient still and of a generous straine Hearing his Masters voyce Ciraeus hies 'Fore the beholders and the winde of flies The tractablenesse and love that the Horse beareth to man have been the occasion that sundry great personages have reciprocally answered it by erecting of Statues and by building of most famous Cities to their honour and memory Alexander before mentioned founded an opulent City in honour of Bucephalus and gave it his name and celebrated his exequies The Egyptians erected most magnificent Piramides and sumptuous sepulchres to such horses as had served them well in their warres Octavius Caesar and after him Adrian the Emperour interred their Horses with great pomp and solemnities and caused famous Epitaphs to be engraven upon their monuments The Emperour Commodus did the like to his Horse Parsinus and commanded that he should be buried in the Vatican Romulus did institute Playes and Games called Equitiae in honour of Horses and caused them to be presented in the field of Mars The Ethiopians did so highly esteem of these noble creatures as that they armed their Helmets with the skins of Horses suffering their eares to remain on and they did weare their tayles upon their Crests like as now a daies men use their plumes Other nations have done the like who held Horses in no little esteem We reade of a Roman Emperour who made his Horse a Senator The ancient Astrologers have likewise attributed so much to Horses that they have placed one winged amongst the coelestiall signes The Poets hold that the Fountaine where the nine Muses used to bath themselves and to drink sprang up by the blow of the foot which Pegasus gave against the two topt hill Parnassus Neptune God of the Sea is surnamed Hippius by reason that as the Poets doe fable the first Horse that was ever seen received his origen from him or from a stone whereon Neptune had poured water There remaineth much more to be said in honour of the Horse then their hath been already delivered Wherefore omitting further Encomiums and attributes I hasten to matters of greater consequence Sithence therefore the case so standeth that this dumb creature is by Almighty God given unto man as a creature of so usefull importance what thankfulnesse then are we bound to give unto him for so great a blessing and benefit And therefore what diligence is required of us yea and what carefulnesse ought we to use in travelling to attaine to this so necessary a creature in the most exact manner we are able Nor can this possibly be acquired to our true content unlesse we doe apply our best endeavours herein for the Ancients have this Proverb All rare and excellent things are hard to compasse and therefore we ought to apply all care and industry to attain unto good Horses which can never be so well done as by breeding them for they must be the Horses that will be able best to serve us in those offices whereunto we shall intend them according as hereafter shall be most exactly illustrated CHAP. II. Of the best manner of breeding THere are so many diversities of opinions so mainly defended pro con that maketh men fearefull to bring that to publique view which long practice and experience hath brought them to know and understand to be most true and infallible Neverthelesse I presuming that the more judicious may peradventure favour my reasons and grounds allowing them at least for probable and good if they shall adventure to make triall which if they be pleased so to do I am confident they will both allow and approve of this my manner of breeding above all other wayes heretofore practised who finding it to be much better will never be brought from the same method and therefore I would not have any man to condemne me before he shall first have made triall My counsell therefore is that such generous spirits unto whom Almighty God hath extended his benigne hand would take to their consideration how needfull a thing it is for them to lay hold upon this so noble and profitable a blessing and benefit by applying their best care and diligence to breed good able and serviceable Horses which may be as easily performed and in a manner with as little cost as in breeding Iades and Baffles unusefull and unprofitable For by procuring a good and able Stud of choice Mares and by endeavouring to get select Stallions which for mettle spirit shape colour marks and the like shall be known to be rightly bred and truely generous as well I say the Mares as the Stallions and these young handsome of size indifferent that is neither too small nor too large long-legged or under-bodied but well knit limb'd and joynted it will be beyond all peradventure but that you shall have Horses fit wherewith to serve your Country upon all occasions and your own turn and your friends and acquire to your selfe no small honour and commendations both from your Prince and the weale publique And this the better to bee performed you must understand that some things are necessary to be considered First that your grounds be fit for breeding and those not to be such as be low wet fenny moorish or marish but they must be pastures upland hilly and in some places stony and rocky for grounds of this nature are very profitable for your Colts to scope run and play in it helpeth their winde it knitteth their joynts and hardeneth and maketh tough their hooves some of your grounds ought also not to be without Underwoods Bushes Fursells Broome and the like these will serve for shelter at what time the cold windes doe blow the residue of your grounds ought to have Lawnes and Plains wherein should be better grasse then the former and in these Lawnes is needfull there should be great Oakes and such like timber-trees for them whereby to shelter them from the scorching sunne in the extreame heats especially during the time of the Canicular dayes and these trees will also defend them from the buzzing and stinging Fly which otherwise would greatly annoy and afflict them you must also accommodate your grounds with partitions convenient as well for change which sometimes is most requisite as also whereby
an one who albeit hee may bring you Colts yet I dare not promise you he shall ever bring you a good Colt whereof I have oftimes made tryall as well for Horses of Mennage as for Hunters and Horses for the Course Neither need there any more be said upon this subject CHAP. V. Of the Office of the Rider and Groome HAving now bred Colts according to my instructions which you may well hope will prove to your mind and best liking neverthelesse some things there yet remaine whereof duly to consider and that is that when you have thus I say bred your Colts which you may very well hope are right your eye and judgement for Shape Colour and Markes promissing no lesse it then behooveth you to be very cautelous in the Handling Breaking Riding and wel-ording them whether you intend them for Menage Course Hunting or the Rode in any of which an especiall care would bee had to provide you of Riders Groomes and Keepers such as shall be knowne to be expert in their faculties in which principally consisteth either their direct making or marring and finall ruine For we cannot say that a Colt yet unhandled at three or foure yeares of age is or can be a perfect good Horse whilst he remaineth I say unridden unhandled and unmade untill such time as he hath been taken up into the Stable made gentle taught to leade content to be shod to be Back't Broken Ridden Wayed Mouthed and to bee briefe brought to his utmost perfection By this time you will come to bee able to know and understand his true Worth Vertue Nature Disposition and Quality his Pace his Raine or Bearing his Toughnes Strength and Affability his true worth and goodnesse and what other attributes are befitting a generous Horse What manner of man a Rider ought to be His Rider therefore must be an expert and able Horseman and his Keeper every way as sufficient otherwise what defects you shall finde in your Horse are not to be attributed to him but either to his Rider or to the Groome Wherefore your care must be that both Rider and Groome be knowne sufficient lest for want of true science your Horse may eft-soones be brought to assume such sinister conditions from which he will not be weaned in a long time after Wherefore if your Rider be known to be an able man and your Groome sufficiently skilfull you must then expect that perfection from your horse you ever hoped For my part thus much I aver that this Noble Science Noble I call it for that it is a faculty well beseeming a truely-Noble Gentleman is an art wherein I have been versed and travelled for more then forty yeares as well at home as in parts abroad in which I have most diligently consumed much time as well to the labour of my body and minde as to my no small expence and it doth not a little trouble me that in places where I come here in England I doe finde so few Horsemen considering it is an Iland which doth abound in Horses whereof no kingdome under heaven more and yet so many Braggadochies there be who will so cracke and boast of their skill in this heroicke Science and when I shall begin to discourse with them of Horsemanship they will talke so sillily and so impertinently as makes me blush to heare them insomuch as I have much trouble with my patience in forbearing to let them know their absurd folly and if I but aske them any easie question concerning this mystery they presently fall into strange and preposterous discourses venting many incredible wonders as farre from sense and as high above the Moone as the Moone is above us and they are as poor and as ignorant in the true nature and knowledge of the Art as not to be able to understand the very first grounds and principles in Horsemanship Others there be who have attained to so much superficiall speculative knowledge by reading the works of Master Blundevile Master Markham and others getting thereby some glimpse of speculation but lesse true practise wherein is as much difference as betwixt us and the Antipodes and therefore in what esteeme they either are or can be among Horsemen is most easie to be imagined Others there are who being so active and dexterous as to be able to sit a rough unridden Colt a few plunges by fast holding with both hands to the Mane and Pummell and by clinging with their legges close to the body of the horse till by striving and his violent disordered agitation he hath put himselfe from off his winde he will not sticke presently to promise to himselfe the true and entire mystery of able Horsemanship Others againe I oft meet with who by sometimes frequenting the Muze and other places where Riders use to menage who after have made no bones to cry themselves up for as good as able Horsemen as any in England Others I doe very well know who by reading have made some petty practise howsoever God knowes to very small purpose so farre forth as their diminitive skill was able to extend upon such not rightly bred Geldings and small Nags of their own wherein they have assumed unto themselves so much pretended knowledge as that they have in their disjoynted discourses not spared to taxe the famous Alexanders and other eminent Riders of this our kingdome for Novices and meere ignorant Horsemen Such I say is the vanity and arrogancy of these our dayes in which ignorance dareth to adventure to traduce knowledge and Vice lay an obloquy upon Vertue For unlesse a man doe arrive unto the depth of profound knowledge he shall be derided but lâ—ke as he either hath or hath it not he shall be â—ither commended or scorned For you shall not see one in a hundred of thâ—se pretenders of knowledge who doth not so much as understand the termes of this generous mystery and therefore I may truely say of them that Not to know the termes or principles is to be ignorant of tâ—e Art it selfe And yet I have known some of these so impudently weake as to take upon them to teach whereat I have not a little marvelled it being a generall received rule viz. It is impossible for any man to teach that which hee never learned And further a venerable Author saith He that will be his owne scholler shall be sure to have a foole to his master For â—ssuredly great folly and weakenesse is to be observed in that man who shall take upon him to be a master or teacher who never knew what it was to be a scholler But if you desire to have your Colts come to the height of perfection let then your care be to furnish your selfe of a good Rider and such an one who is well known and cryed up to be an exquisite Horseman He must not be of life dissolute or debaucht nor of nâ—ture harsh furious cholericke or hayre-braind for the least of either of these vices are unbeseeming a
or the like Thirdly we opâ—n the two Pallet veines in the Mouth and thosâ— doe Cure the Lampas and any inward sicknes within the body as the Yellowes Stavers Anticor Surfets Drowsinesse Tyrednesse or wearinesse of the body or if the Horse have any Mâ—lady in the Throat as the Strangles Quincy Kernells Pustills either within or without it many times helpeth Inflamations Glanders or the like for the eating or swallowing of his owne bloud is most wholesome and soveraigne in such cases Fourthly we doe usually open the two Neck veines which helpeth Farcins Yellowes Stavers Scabs Mainges Agues Feavers Colds Surfets Glanders or any other Mâ—lady which may be any way noxious to the inward parts of the body And it also preventeth sudden sicknes if you have any suspect therof Fiftly the opening of the two Plate or Breast Veines doe help the Anticor Sicknesse of the Heart Morfounding which is the foundring in the body by over riding whereby the Grease of the Horse is molten it also preventeth diseases in the Liver Lungs and inward parts grieved and sometimes hurts in the Shoulder which causeth lamenesse before Sixtly we use to touch the two Arme or Thigh Veines before which helpeth Foundring in the Fore-feet Mallenders splent serewe Ring-bone and such like infirmities in the Fore-feet and such other higher parts Seventhly we use to take Blood from the foure Shackle-veines before and this is very good for the Crown-scab Ring-bone and such like diseases Eighthly we use to strike the two Spur-veins which cureth the Farcin in the Sides morfounding swelling under the Belly which is a disease called the Feltrick and the like Ninthly we prick the two Toe-veines which do help Frettizing Foundring Hoof-bound beating of the Horses Feet by riding upon hard and stony wayes and the like Tenthly we open the two Thigh-veins behind and this doth help the griefes of the Kidneys Swellings in the hinder-legs Foundrings Selenders Scratches Kybes c. and it helpeth also diseases in and about the Belly as pissing of Blood pissing oft after great and extraordinary labour and the weaknesse of the Reines the Back Belly Guts or any other the inward parts the Curb Spaven and such diseases which come of ranknesse of Blood Eleventhly wee sometimes doe open the foure Shackle-veines behind and this is very good against foundrings and other paines in and about the feet Twelfthly we let bloud in the two flanke or hanch-veines and this is most profitable for all kind of feavers the stones poverty the felter-worme Thirteenthly we draw bloud froÌ„ the two tayle-veynes which cureth the mainge in the tayle falling off the haire or the itch in the tayle Scown-scab And these are for the most part all the veines which are usually opened or that my selfe have ever known or have seen my Master open which are very great meanes to help these diseases by me mentioned So as the full summe or number of veines which Ferriers use commonly to open are thirty Other veines there are which are of a smaller proportion and therefore not fit to be opened Neverthelesse some Ferriers there are who have fondly reported unto me that they have let horses bloud in many of those small veins but I could never learne for what purpose the same was done let this therfore which I have here set you down suffice for this matter Hyppophyl I have heard you Hypposerus attentively but yet I would most gladly understand one thing which is that whereas you say that the opening of these veines doth help and cure such diseases I would gladly be satisfied herein for if by the opening of these veines the horse will be cured then we may spare much labour in applying drinks purgations clisters and such other things which we usually make and give to horses Hyppos Sir I assure me you cannot be so ignorant as you speake for this opening of veines and bloud-letting doth not alwaies absolutely cure those diseases which I have named but it doth sometimes asswage the malignancy of the malady somtimes it preventeth diseases and sometimes againe it prepareth the body the better to receive such physicall drinks which doe inwardly cure them and such Salves Oyles and Vnguents which doe dry and heale up outward infirmities but that bloud letting doth absolutely cure them I say it doth not howsoever in some cases it may Hyppiat What is that which departs from the head of the horse and serveth him for his principall members Hyppos I have shewed you that already they be sinewes and nerves these sinewes which depart and proceed from the head give sense and feeling arriving in the body of the creature and so diffuse and spread themselves through all the principall members which doe descend from the head unto all the other members which make a conjunction of the bones of the legges of the body and of all the other members Of the boâ— Hyppiat How many bones hath a horse and how are they scituated in the body Hyppos There are in the body of every horse two hundred fifty and seven bones Hyppiat Name them severally Hyppos All the bones which every horse hath whereby to make up an organall body are these viz. hee hath in his head thirty nine and forty teeth the bones in his head doe comprehend the Crocks and Handles of the scull albeit they be composed of parts and parcels of certain other bones also the two flat Handles which form the Palate and the Forke or Throat hath five the chine fifty two the breast one ribbes thirty sixe the fore-legges and fore feet have forty foure and the hinder-legges and feet forty So as the whole structure of the body of a horse whereby to perfect a full building of bones consisteth of about 257. or 259. if they be rightly computed which doe represent themselves altogether at what time the perfect Anatomy of the horse is laid open Hyppiat What naturall composition hath the head of the horse Hyppos He hath eyes to see eares wherewith to heare nostrils to smell or scent a mouth and tongue to taste and eat and wherewith to nourish him Hyppiat What naturall composition hath the whole body of the horse in generall Hyppos The whole body hath its heart liver lungs spleene stones and gignitors all which are called the noble parts and that most justly for when either the one or the other of any of these parts receive hurt or domage the poor beast is in perill of his life except in the gignitors according as I have declared Hyppiat What maladies or diseases are most usually incident to the horse Hyppos Sundry diseases as namely Auynes and Gripings called in French Tranchaisons Foundrings Farcins Mainges and very many more which severally to recite would spend much time Neverthelesse I will handle briefly their natures dividing them into two sorts viz. Moyst and Dry the moyst doe proceed commonly from naughty bloud the dry commeth of heat as the Scab Mainge and such like diseases proceeding from moystnes
like to the colour of strong Beer then is it a tokeÌ„ the bloud of the horse is enflamed and that he is subject to a Feaver or to some strong Surfet but if it be red and of the colour almost of bloud then is the bloud more inflamed which came of over hard Riding which may prove very dangerous to his life But if it bee of a pale greenish colour thick and viscous then certainely his Backe is growne weake and he is in danger of a Consumption of his Seede But if it be high coloured and nebuled or mixed with small Cloudes with a kind of blacknesse therein then this doth demonstrate ensuing sicknesse and death if it be not carefully prevented But if the Nebulosity be dispersed into severall parts and not combined as it were into one Masse or Body this then argueth that the malice of the disease beginneth to depart whereby the Ferrier may have great hope of the health of the Horse And thus farre I have by diligent observation found to bee most certaine Whereby I have brought many a desperate Malady to it's wished Cure which otherwise I could not so easily have effected CHAP. IIII. The manner of handling the particular Cures Hippiat SIr I doubt not but that we have proceeded farre enough into this subject for I cannot see what can be spoken more let us now come to the particular Cures handling each one in it's proper place Hippophil With all my heart but I pray let me desire you that we may not only handle the Cures themselves but the severall Diseases to which a Horse is or may be subjâ—ct together with the causes of such diseases the signes how to know them and the meanes and manner how to cure them Hippiat All shall be done to your minde Sir Wherefore I pray proceed Hippophil I will Neverthelesse I hold the best and cleerest way wil be to handle the Cures by way of Alphabet whereby whosoever doth desire at any time to informe himselfe of any Cure hee may the more readily turne thereunto without looking over the Index or Table Hippiat I thinke not that to be amisse §. 1. A. Hippoph THen thus Tell me Hipposerus doe you know the Receipt which is called Acopum Doe you also know it's Nature Whether it is a Medicine to be taken inwardly or an Vnguent to be applyed outwardly Hippos Sir to make answere to two things in one I say first it is impossible for any man to become a perfect Ferrier Two things to bee observed in every Cure who shall not first know unto what diseases a Horse is enclinable secondly what be the causes of every disease in particular thirdly how and by what waies and meanes these diseases doe accrew fourthly the signes how to know and distinguish them and lastly the meanes and manner how to cure them Secondly as touching this your demand of Acopum and it 's true Nature I answere that I doe know it well to be a most soveraigne thing in some causes for I have occasion to make use thereof very often It is both a medicine to bee taken inwardly and an Oyntment to be applyed outwardly Master Blundevile was the first that ever brought the knowledge and Vse thereof into our Kingdome who had it from the Italians when hee lived in Naples as himselfe told me where it is very much used and he also affirmed that it was formerly in much use and high esteeme among the ancient Grecian Ferriers who gave it the name of Acopum Master Markham hath also in his Master-peece the same Receipt but he would make it his owne for he giveth it no name but stileth it in his ninetininth Chapter of his Cures Physicall thus A most famous Receipt which is both a singular Drench and a singular Oyntment And in reciting the Ingredients he maketh the quantities but the fourth part of what Master Blundevile setteth downe which is in effect one and the same thing and he relateth likewise the same Vertues thereof which Master Blundevile doth onely Master Markham saith that foure or five Spoonfulls hereof must be given with a pint of Sack or Malmesey as also that the lymbes of the Horse being bathed therewith it is good against wearinesse and tyrednesse and lastly hee saith that being given in Wine it cureth all kind of inward maladies all which particulars Master Blundevile nameth not Hippophil What is the reason that Master Markham doth set downe but aquarter of the Ingredients in the making of this famous Receipt Hippos His reason is good Sir and I will approve of his judgement therein for if any man should make so great a quantity together as Master Blundevile doth set downe in his Receipt it would not be spent whilst it were good but only by such a Ferrier as hath daily use thereof and such an one wil be hardly found for the newer and oftner such like Receipts are made the better they be and yeildeth more profit when they be administred Hippoph Is this Receipt hot or cold in operation Hippos It is hot in working otherwise it could not hold good in cases of Surfets Tyrednesse and of Convulsions and the like wherein consisteth it's chiefest vertue being administred outwardly but being administred inwardly it is not altogether so hot for then the ancient Ferriers would not have prescribed to have it taken with Sack or Muskadine both which are very hot for it helpeth all Feavers for the most part but yet I would not have it administred inwardly in so great a proportion as Master Markham adviseth for hee as I said before alloweth foure or five Spoonefulls to a pint of Sack or Muskadine unlesse it bee to bee given in very cold Causes for the Wine it selfe is very hot But both my Master and my selfe doe commonly administer two Spoonefulls at the most at a time in a pint of white Wine or with a quart of good Ale or Beere which we hold to be much better and safer and we have found it evermore to worke to our hearts desire insomuch as wee have both wrought admirable Cures therewith I doe assure you Hippohyl I pray deliver mee this Receipt just as Master Markham hath it Hippos I shall Sir most willingly but then you must understand that the quantities will be more intricate to weigh forth whereby to make it the more punctually Acopum Take Euforbium halfe an ounce Castoreum one ounce Adraces halfe a quarter of a pound Bdelium halfe an ounce and halfe a quarter Pepper one ounce Foxe grease halfe an ounce Opoponax one ounce Lacerpitium three quarters of an ounce Amoniacum halfe a quarter of a pound Pigeons dung as much Galbanum halfe an ounce Nitrum one ounce and a quarter Spuma nitri three quarters of an ounce Ladanum a quarter of a pound Perethrum and Bay-berries of each three quarters of an ounce Cardanum two ounces seed of Rue halfe a quarter of a pound Seed of Agnus Castus one ounce Parsely-seed halfe an ounce dryed
commended it to be tres-bonne which is this viz. Take three parts of sheeps-dung and one part of wheate or Rye-flower and dry the flower and then knead them together and bake it a little and apply it bloud warme to the place § 2. B. Hippoph IS there a disease in a horse called the Barbes Hippos Yea Sir there is such a disease and it groweth in the mouth vnder the tongue naturally for every Horse hath them Barbes neverthelesse there is no harme in them untill they doe become inflamed and then they will swell with corrupt bloud proceeding from naughty humours and become raw and so trouble and pain the Horse so as he cannot feed without much griefe for it commeth by meanes of evill humours and inflamed bloud I never heard of more Cures than two for this malady which is to take hold of his tongue and on either side under it of the jaw you shall see two teats or paps clip them away close and then wash the place with a little water and salt and they are cured The other Cure Take a paire of Sizers and clip them away from under the tongue and let them bleed then prick him in the palate of the mouth with your Fleame that he may bleed the better then wash the places with white wine vineger Bolearmonacke and Bay-salt of each as much as will suffice and for three or four dayes after let him see that no hay-dust sticke upon the places so clipped and he will soon be well againe §. 3. B. Hippoph VVHat good Receit have you to dissolve and dry up all ill humours in the body Hippos The best thing that I could ever know Bath for Humours to dry them up is a certain Bath which I make wherewith I bath him and I doe finde it to be right good which I make thus viz. Take Sage and Rosemary of each a handfull of the barke of the root of Beech three pound and of the barks of young Elmes Oakes and Ashe of each a handfull of Nep Penny-Royall and of Chest-nuts the rindes being taken away of each a handfull three or foure white Onions cleane pilled and cut into small pieces of slices red wine three pottles strong white wine vineger two pottles boyle all these together and cause your Horse to be walked a quarter of an houre before a good pace that he may be onely warme then let him be presently bathed with this Bath good and hot and then set him up warme and let his drinke be either sweet Mashes or white water bath him thus three dayes together and feed him with such meat as is sweet and wholesome and let him not be ridden into any water in eight or tenne dayes after and this will dissolve and dry up all his bad humours ✚ This I learned of an Italian Rider in Bruxels whom I saw practise it very often whilst I was there and rode with him And since I have my selfe administred it to many good Horses here in England with which I have done very much good Hippoph Now that we speake of Bathes I would gladly know what are their vertues Hippos Bathes have been much more in use in former times than now they are howbeit I and my Master doe use them often and we doe finde great profit by them for they are fomentations which be the most comfortable things of any to the joynts and limbs of a Horse Bathes dissolve all ill humours and gives heat and warmth unto all the members that are benummed with cold or for want of bloud it comforteth and strengtheneth them and it giveth very great ease to the pained sinewes Besides it asswageth swellings in or about any outward parts of the body for legges swelled stiffe or benummed or for any other joynt pained or grieved Bath for st ffe legges or for any string hault crampe or convulsion I commonly use a bath which doth in short time cure all such like Maladies And my bath is this Bath 1 Take Muskadine and Sallet oyle of each a pinte Bay-leaves and Rosemary of each two handfuls let them boyle halfe an houre and when you are to bathe your Horse therewith rubbe and chafe the grieved place with a wispe or hayre-cloath a pretty while then put the foot into some broad bowle or payle whereby to preserve the liquor and hearbs and lave and bathe him thus a quarter of an hour which ended binde upon the place a piece of Sheeps or Lambs skin with the woolly side to the legge and let him stand so four and twenty houres apply this five or sixe times and it will be a perfect Cure ✚ Another bath I have which is most soveraign to cure all gourdy gowty and swoln legges which commeth either by farcin scratches or the like wherewith I have cured very many Horses And thus it is made Bath 2 Take the grounds of a Beere battell with the Barme Smallage Featherfew Winter-savory Cumâ—ry Mallowes Rue Set-well Penny-Royall Wormewood Arch-angell of each a good handfull and of the leaves and Berryes of Missletow three or foure good handfuls Sheepes Tallow one pound tryed Hogges-grease halfe a pound three or foure handfuls of Rie or Wheat Branne boyle all these together untill all the hearbes and Missletow become soft but be sure you have liquour enough and a little before you take it from the fire put into it some Hay With this bathe his Legges first one then the other putting still that Legge which you are to bathe into a broad Bowle or Payle as is afore shewed and when you have bathed that Legge sufficiently then take of the hay in the Bath and making a Thum-band thereof rowle it about the Leg above the uppermost or middle Ioynt and put off the hearbes betwixt his Legge and the Thum-band and so use the other Legge or Legs which are swelled and need bathing Which done powre of the liquour remaining upon the thum-bands and thus let him bee bathed herewith every day once for so many dayes together as you shall thinke requisite and it will bring downe the swelling quite and make him sound ✚ Another Bath I have no lesse excellent wherewith I have done many rarecures viz. Take Smallage Oxe-Eye and Sheepes Sewet of each like much Bath 3 to a good quantity Chop them small together and after stamp them in a stone Morter then boyle them with mans Vrine and bathe the grieved parts herewith warme doing as before with a Bowle or Payle then with Thum-bands of soft Hay made first wet in cold water rope up the member as well above as below the griefe Vse this as oft as you shall see cause out if the griefe happen in travell then by bathing him thus over-night and roping him up he wil be able to travell again the next morning without complaining ✚ This I doe assure you is a most excellent Bath and it cureth any Lamenesse which cometh eyther by stroke strayne or other Accident One other Bath I have whereof I never made
or shave away the haire close from about the sores then wash the places with broken Beere and Butter warme and dry them againe which done apply this Plaister to the places grieved Take Sheepes-suet or Deeres-suet which is much better and being molten upon the fire let it coole till you may hold your finger therein then put to it so much Ry-bran or for want thereof Wheate-bran as will bring it to a salve lay it to the place Plaister-wise upon Hurds or Tow and binde a cleane linnen cloath over the Plaister to keepe it on and so let it remaine foure or five daies without medling with it by which time the Sores wil be throughly purged and the scurfe will easily come off then take old Bores grease well rotted and melt it upon the fire and when it is so cold as was the Sheepes or Deere-sewet put to it the yolkes of Egges so much as will suffice and a little Verdegrease in fine powder incorporate all these well together bringing them to an Vnguent with which annoy at the sores every day once untill they bee throughly and perfectly whole ✚ Another Take Oyle de Bay foure ounces Verdegrease and Litarge of Gold both in fine powder of each two drammes make all these into an unguent and annoynt the sores therwith morning and evening till they be whole In every of these Cures let your Horse come into no water ✚ Another Take Soot five ounces Verdigrease in fine powder three ounces Orpin one ounce beat all these together into fine powder and then adde thereto as much common honey as of all the residue boyle all these together well putting into it as it boyleth quick-lime as much as will suffice keeping it alwayes stirring till it be well boyled and is become thick with this oyntment annoynt the Sores twice every day untill they be sufficiently cured ✚ Another Take hot wood Ashes and Quick-lime and with common honey and white wine make it into one body to a perfect Vnguent and herewith annoint the Sores and if this malady have not been long upon the Horse this oyntment will certainly cure him but if they be old and have run long upon him then give him the fire and then dresse the Burning with the oyntment prescribed you in the former Cure Another Take a round iron and give the fire towards the extremities or ends of the chops and annoynt them every day as before and assure your selfe the clifts chops and rifts will not increase but diminish and so in short time he will be whole and sound ✚ This is speciall good §. 8. C. Hippoph I Would gladly know Hipposerus something of Clisters and their true natures Hippos As touching Clisters there be sundry kindes of Purgations and therefore to the end you shall the better understand them and their proper vertues I will first anatomize unto you the severall degrees of Purgations and by reason I have been much and that for a long time versed in this subject Of Clisters I am not ashamed to discover unto you from whence I had my first grounds and principles for every man as the Proverb is must have a beginning to wit he must be a scholler before he can be Master for as Seneca saith very well It is great temerity in any man to take upon him to be a Master who did never know what it was to have beene a Schollar My first rudiments therefore I received for Master Blundevile and after somewhat I attained unto by the help of Master Markham both very well travelled in this Art the rest I atchieved partly in my travels and partly from my particular practise and experience Now Master Markham followeth Master Blundevile in many things verbatim in the rest in substance wherein Master Markham doth more largely dilate and deliver himselfe making thereby oft times many things more cleare and apparant yet they both assent in what they say Purgation defined viz. that Purgation is defined by the learned Physicians to be the emptying and voyding of superfluous humours which doe cumber pester and disturb the body with their peccant condition affirming that such ill humours do breed much bad nutriment which the learned doe call Cacochymia which when it will not be corrected or amended either by faire meanes or by the help of nature then must it be compelled forced and driven away by Purgation Vomit Clister or Suppository And whereas Master Blundevile saith that Horses are not used to be purged by Vomit as men be I in conference with him once asked him the reason thereof he answered me for that the necke of the Horse was of that length as not to be able to purge by vomit which for the present I tooke for satisfaction I then imagining the thing not to be knowne untill such time as I travelling into remote parts where I had frequent commerce with famous Marishals and Ferriers I at length fastned upon one eminent for his faculty who upon occasion offered used to administer vomit to Horses as frequently as he did either Purgation or Clyster which thing when I well observed I demanded if a Horse could vomit and to what purpose he did administer in that kinde he answered me that a Horse could vomit and that he oft times administred for the same end and thereupon both gave me his Receit and did administer in my presence and made me an eye-witnesse to the working not in one Horse alone but in sundry others But now leaving this to its proper place I come to assoyle your demand as touching Clysters their natures and vertues Clysters secundum vulgus are called Glisters but the more learned assume the name Clyster borrowed from the latine word Clyster from whence the French hath it Clystere Now whereas all other kindes of Physick is râ—ceived in at the mouth Clysters and Suppositaries are administred per Anum whose natures for the most part are to purge the guts and to cause the Horse to voyd and to throw forth of his belly such humours as doe offend him in matter of his health to allay the shâ—rpenesse of bad humours to cleanse ulcers to asswage the griefes and paines in the belly caused by winde or otherwise and so likewise in many other cases Now Clysters are not all of one and the same nature neither are they all laxatives as many doe imagine or do serve to one and the same end for some must be made to give ease some are restringent and doe binde some do loosen and purge some are to cleanse ulcers old and long running sores and some to prepare the body the better to receive its Physicke whereby it may the better worke which otherwise cannot be administred without much perill to the life of the sicke creature So that a Clyster is I say commonly given for a Preparative or beginning to purgation And a Clyster by cleansing the guts refresheth the vitall parts and prepareth the way before Wherefore I doe admonish every Ferrier that
other receipt for the mourning of the Chine he intituleth thus A most rare and approved Medicine to cure any high running Glanders called the mourning of the Chine held of all men incurable This disease to my knowledge there is not any Smith or Ferrier in this Kingdome can tell how to cure for it comes not to the extreamity till the Horse hath runne at the Nose a yeare or more and have at the roots of his tongue a hard lung gathered which will not be dissolved Now for mine owne part it is well known that I have cured many with this Medicine only Perfume Take of Agri-pigmentum and of Tussilaginis beaten into fine powder of each foure drammes then beating them with fine Turpentine bring them into a paste then make of it little cakes or trotches as broad as a groat and dry them This done lay about two or three of them on a Chafing-dish of coles and cover them with a Funnell so that the smoake may come out onely at the end thereof and so without any losse ascend up into the Horses head through his nostrils then ride the Horse till he begin to sweate this doe once every morning before water till the running be stopped which will be in very short space considering the greatnesse of this disease These be Master Markhams two great cures which by reason hee hath so great Eecomions of their vertues and also what great cures he hath wrought and perfected with them I thinke it not amisse to insert them in this place Thus I have delivered unto you a great number of Receipts for this one disease many of which I have tried and have found them very good some I could never have meanes or occasion to prove and therefore I must expect prompt opportunities in the interim I do remit them to my brethren to practise But I will now conclude this Chapter with one only Receipt more which I do esteeme my Master-peece for this Malady having had much experience thereof nor did it ever faile mee upon often tryall made This cure is called The black drinke for the Glanders The Cure First prepare his body with branne prepared and after with a Clyster and your Goose-feathers as before hath bin taught you This done The black drinke for the glanders Take new made Chamberly and of the best and strongest white-Wine-Vineger of each halfe a pint then take of Mustardseede two or three spoonfuls and make Mustard thereof with Vineger and let it be very well ground that done put your Vineger and Chamberly to the Mustard and so stirre them well together Then take of Tarre and bay Salt of each like much so much as will suffice incorporate them well together and convey so much thereof as three Egges-shels will hold the meate first taken forth and having first prepared these things let the Horse be taken forth of the stable being kept that night to a very spare dyet and ride him first till he begin to sweate then give him the three Egges-shels filled with the said Tarre and Salt and so soone as hee hath taken that give him with a horne the fore-named-drinke made of Chamberly Vineger and Mustard all at the mouth excepting only two small or halfe hornefuls which let be conveyed into his Nosthrils which so soone as he hath taken let him bee ridden againe so much as before you did then bring him into the Stable cloath him up warme and litter him well and so let him stand upon the Trench untill three or foure of the clocke then unbit him and give him a warme Mash and order him in all things as is usuall for Horses in Physick Give him this Medicine or drinke every other or third day three or foure times and it is an infallible cure ✚ This cure I gat from a Noble Knight who had done many great Cures therewith who was very precise in teaching it and since I came to know thereof I have perfected many great Cures therwith upon horses far spent with the Glanders insomuch as if it be rightly and carefully administred it will cure the rankest Glanders that is And with this Cure I conclude this Chapter CHAP. 11. §. 1. H. Hippophylus WEll Hipposerus sithence we have finished this Chapter let us goe to the next and tell me what meanes have you to helpe the falling away of the hayre from the Mayne and Tayle of a Horse Hippos Sir this disease commeth sometimes by a heat which the horse hath taken which hath engendred a dry Mainge in the mayne and tayle which is the occasion of the shedding of the hayre from those parts and sometimes it commeth by a surfet causing evill humours to resort to those parts which is the cause of the falling away of the hayre I have also known a Horse to shed the hayre both of mayne and tayle after hee hath beene violently and dangerously visited with the Stavers The signes are evident And the Cure is First take bloud from the necke veine if it be onely in the mayne Hayre fr◠the May◠and Tayl◠falling a◠but if in both mayne and tayle and then after you have opened the necke veyne and taken from thence a reasonable quantity of bloud then slit the skin of the inward part of the taile next to the tuell from the buttocks to the fourth joynt and there with your Cornet you shall finde a hard gristle which the French Marishals do call Barivole raise it up with your Cornet and take it forth that done fill up the clift with salt finely beaten and then with a hot iron steep it in Buck-lye burn the tayle in sundry places and then annoynt the places so burned with Hogs grease till it be whole ✚ This cure I gat in France among the Marishals there whom I saw cure sundry Horses of this malady and I my selfe have cured four or five after the same method If it be both in the mayne tayl and that you be feareful to experiment this cure by reason you never saw the manner of it then search both mayne and tayle well with your finger as aforesaid and annoynt the places with this unguent Take Quick-silver and tryed Hogs grease the Quick-silver being first mortified with fasting spittle incorporate them very well together till the Hogs grease be of a perfect Ash-colour and annoynt the sorance therewith every day once holding a hot bar of iron neer to cause the oyntment to sinke in and in three or four dayes thus dressing him he will be well ✚ This is a very good receit and I have often used it § 2. H. Hippoph BVt then what is good to cause the hayre to grow againe Hiposp Take the dung of a Goat newly made ordinary Honey Hayre to grow Allum and the bloud of a Hog the Allum being first made into fine powder boyle all these together and rub and annoynt the places therewith every day and it will cause the hayre to come again apace ✚ This is