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A48393	The Gentleman's new jockey, or, Farrier's approved guide containing the exactest rules and methods for breeding and managing horses, &c. ... especially what relates to racing or running, coursing, travel, war, &c., with directions for heats, dieting, dressing ... ; to which is added a second part, containing many rare and new secrets, never before made publick ... ; illustrated with sundry curious and necessary cutts.	G. L.; L. G.	1687 (1687)	Wing L20; ESTC R43331	130,238	249

bathe therewith the Legs or Thighs from above the Knee and from the Cambrels downwards or for want of these Neats-foot Oyl after which chafe it in with your hands and in often so doing in all places where you see occasion you will wonderfully restore his Limbs rendring them supple and plyable There are many things to be observed from the Sweating of a Horse especially from that which proceeeds without External force occasioned by hard labour or the like for then is the Horse faint foul fed or wanteth Exercise to evaporate the abundance of watery humours which he hath contracted And especially this is to be noted when his Sweat is white and frothy like a Lather of Soap but in case of Heats and other considerable labour to create Sweat if it appear black and pearly like clear water then is the Horse in a good plight o● habit of Body especially if he be lively and brisk not in the least afflicted with any shaking or trembling for that infers the Sweat forced out by some Internal disorder rather than naturally evaporated And now seeing the Causes of Sickness are very material to be known that is from whence they arise that so the Skill in Curing may be the greater and the Remedies to be applied more powerfull and certain in their Operation as also the causes of health and long life Take for your better Experiment what you find in the subsequent Chapter CHAP. XVI Of the Elementary parts of a Horse's Body and of the Agreement of the Humours therewith A discourse of Corruption and Generation in which is set forth all things of that kind relating to Goodness or Badness Health or Sickness c. CErtain it is that no Man can truly pretend to Experience of this kind unless he duly weigh the Nature of Generation and Corruption for on them as on the Collumns of this Art stand what is material of this kind These two being ever consonant in the main though one Horse's body may differ in Constitution from the other for these being the Suparlative of Elementary subsistance or matter fail not to operate in their turns or as Nature disposes them in their places and degrees and therefore it will be highly convenient to discover them in their Parts and Particles As for the Body of a Horse it differs not in Elementary composition from that of a Man for of all the Elements it consists viz. Fire Air Earth and Water which are indeed the Generatives and Consumers of all Mortal things and beings And although these Elements are different in themselves yet are frequently agreeable in the Composition for the Fire though hot and dry in it self yet compounded with the other Elements in a Mortal frame or bodily composition diffuses a gentle heat to nourish and support life Though the Air is hot and moist but more participating of the latter yet does it temperate the heat of the former and gives a kind respiration and gentle breathing to refresh and exhilerate each Part and Particle The Earth though it is in it self gross and ponderous yet in this composition is it rarified and by its substantial matter composes the frame wherein the rest of the Elements cohabit and being cold and dry serves to temperate the hot and moist The Water though cold and moist in it self serves in this case to moisten and render plyable the Sublunar works of Nature and enabling them to subsist And of these four Mothers of Creation participate more immediately the four humours of which the Bodies of Animal and Rational Creatures are composed as Choler Blood Melancholy and Phlegm the first of Fire the second of Air the third of Earth and the fourth to Water And as these more or less operate so according to their qualities is the Body moved and exposed to heat cold moisture or dryness and consequently to the effects they produce for these have their principal Dominion in the Seats of Life and from thence extend their power and force to every part and member As thus Phlegm possesses the Brain Choler and Blood the Liver and Heart and Melancholy the Spleen which is the Recepticle and Conveyancer of the Excrements of the Liver all of them having distinctly and conjunctly their proper office assigned As thus the Blood is the principal nourisher of the natural frame Phlegm or Moisture renders the Members flexible and complyant in motion and use Choler causeth digestion by its Operative heat and Melancholy disposes to an Appetite and attracteth the grosser parts of Nutrimental Elements and occasioneth the disburthening of Nature It is generally agreed on by the Learned That every Organical-body is supported by four principal instrumental Members and these are held to be the Brain Heart Liver and Genitors these performing their particular offices and functions Por as the Sinews are supported by the Brain the seat of Animal Spirits the Arteries from the Heart or seat of Vital Spirits the Veins which are natural parts from the Liver so the Seminal Vessels are supported by the Genital Parts or Instruments of Generation and these conjoyntly operating are the Elementary Substitutes as participating of their Nature and consequently the Materials of Generation Thus having briefly discoursed of the Elementary parts of the Bodies of Creatures I now proceed from the four Humours Elements and Instrumental Members to the Natural faculties which in this case are the next things to be considered which are Eating Retaining Concocting and Expelling and though all the Humours are Instrumental in promoting these yet principally Nature serves her self but of only one to work upon and that is a wheyish kind of Blood generated in the Liver or attracted thereby from the purest part of such nutriment as has been concocted in the stomach and from thence conveying it self to the Liver and through the great Vein conveying nutriment into all its branches and consequently into all the parts of the Body by dispersing the Rarified blood into every part which by the help of the other Humours supports the frame of Nature As for the watery part of nourishment and that of the grosser substance the one is carried into the Bladder and the other passing into the Bowels are in the end cast out of the Body to make room for more of the like nature But moreover there are two Veins that conduct part of the purest and rarified matter into the Seminal Vessels where by the operation and contractions of the Generative parts it is refined by a gentle heat to a more spirituous quality and so in the end becomes Seed which according to the goodness or badness mixed in the Womb proves effectual or ineffectual for note that if the thin and subtil Blood be wanting to support the Seed and enliven it with heat it frequently fails in performing its office and the Horse becomes frigid and uncapable of performance and is often subject to moist diseases as the Glaunders often proceeding from the Liver and Lungs when they are infected with

fasting and beware he catch not cold For the Yard of a Horse falling a Remedy This happens to a Horse when he is grown feeble either by over-labouring or bad feeding which cause a bad resolution in the Muscles and Tendons so that they refuse their office of support And in this case Take a gallon of Water boil in it two handfulls of Bay-salt half a pound of Carrot-seed a good handfull of Mugwort and the like quantity of Bay-leaves then strain out the Liquid part and add a quart of Old Mallago and give him this to drink hot rubbing his Yard with Vinegar wherein Nettle-seed and Burdock-seeds have been concocted To prevent the Mattering of the Yard This happens to Horses of a hot constitution especially after covering And first appears by the swelling of the end of the Yard and his being thereby rendred uncapable of drawing it into his Sheath when soon after you will perceive much filthy Matter issue from thence At what time dissolve half a pound of Allom in a pint of White-wine and with a Syringe inject it warm into the Yard whereby the Yard will not only be scowred and cooled but the humours be driven back and dispersed Of the Diseases incident mostly to Mares and known by the name of the Pestilent-consumption This distemper happens to a Mare when she is near her Foaling-time by reason of a Flegmatick humour that contracts about the Matrix occasioned by gross feeding and is known by her dullness pining and desire to be Laid and the like To redress which Take a pint of Aquavitae half an ounce of Tobacco and a sprig or two of Spurg-lawrel boil them together and then straining out the Liquid part give it her fasting and it will oblige her to cast out the Mass of Phlegm or at least the Cause that disturbs her But by reason she will be somewhat sickish when she has cast Give her half a pint of Salad-oyl and the like quantity of Canary and keep her in a warm Stable with Mashes and good dry Meat a day or two How a Mare that is subject to cast her Foal ought to be used In this case there is more than one Cause to be taken notice of which subjects a Mare to cast her Foal untimely sometimes dead and sometimes alive as hard Wintering unwholsome Lodging over-riding suddain strains or unhappy blows on the back leaping hedges or the like together with too much fatness or subjection to gross humours many times to the endangering of their lives Therefore when you perceive her near her time bring her into a warm Stable and Take an ounce of Diapente an ounce of Sarsaparilla three grains of Musk and a peny-worth of Fennel-seeds infuse them in a pint of Muscadel and give them a heating over a gentle fire and suffer the Mare to drink the Liquid part fasting then dip your hand in the Oyl of Myrrh and thrust it into her Shape and give her wholsome Diet and good Litter or this may be done with success at the time of her Foaling especially if you perceive difficulty therein and it will be much available in rendering her an easie delivery How to oblige a Mare to cast her Foal Now on the contrary if you imagine the Foal your Mare goes with is not worth your rearing or that she has taken Horse contrary to your desire Then boil a good quantity of Savin in two quarts of new Milk adding an ounce of Ruburb and a small quantity of Wood-ashes and when they are sufficiently boiled strain out the Liquid part and give it the Mare to drink very hot and then give her a considerable heat and in so doing two or three Mornings the business will be effected But consider withall that you look well to your Mare least you lose both for she must for a week afterward be kept in the Stable and that very warm and with Mashes of sweet Malt-bran and Barley every other Morning Of the several Feavers in a Horse and how to Cure them c. There are divers Feavers that frequently possess the Body of a Horse and that at different times as the Quotidian Tertian and Quartan and these are occasioned by gross humours contracted in the blood that inflame and disorder the frame and happen according to the circulation of the Blood or domination of Humours As for the first of these it is ever the most violent but never lasteth long and most frequently it cometh in the Spring when the Blood begins to enc●ease especially to Colts and young Horses The signs that fore-run this are the watering of the Eyes and a redness as if they were blood-shotten short pantings hot breath a loathing or leaving of Provender stiffness in the Joynts and unwillingness to labour And if it so happen that it befall him at eight of the clock the one day you may expect it at four the next day and the reason that is given is the ebbing and flowing of the blood and its circulation To rid him of this troublesome companion give him as soon as you perceive it to begin a warm Mash and keep him in motion though in the Stable for the space of an hour or more then rub him exceeding well and Take two quarts of Ale a good handfull of Wormwood an ounce of Long-Pepper Venice-Treacle two ounces and of Grains an ounce add to these an ounce of the Flower of Brimstone and as much Rue dried and rubbed into Powder heat it hot and give him it at twice about the space of two hours difference between each other The Tertian Feaver is much the same in quality and condition with what I have named and the Symtomps the same though it somewhat more than the other participates of the Ague for it at first takes him with a kind of a shaking Wherefore when you observe its approach Take of Stone-crop an Herb so called two handfulls bruise it and strain the Juyce into two quarts of Ale drop into it then an ounce of the Oyl of Myrrh and an ounce of Ginger beaten into Powder make them hot and give them the Horse to drink sweetned with Sugar-candy and then Rack him a round pace in wholsome Air but do not sweat him that he thereby may be endangered by contracting a cold observing to let him drink no cold water till such time as you find the Fit entirely gone and that he has setled his Body by eating two quarts of the best dried Oat●s As for the Quartan Feaver it is much of the nature of the two former only it alters the day and often continues longer for if a speedy remedy be not had it frequently continues at divers times for the space of half a year or longer And if this happen in the Fall of the Leaf it will be necessary to let Blood which done give your Horse what is hereafter directed Take Oyl of Bays an ounce Coltsfoot the Herb a good handfull Knot-grass roots or Scurvey-grass roots the like quantity Lavender flowers