the true knowledge whereof consisteth their preservation I doe hold it a thing most needfull that we doe perfectly know that thing which wee doe cal Generation and Corruption which all Physitians and Philosophers have so much discussed both in their Schooles and Writings and how the body of the Horse like also to that of Man is compounded of the foure Elements viz. Fire Aire VVater and Earth Of the foâ— Elements Fire Ayâ—â— Water anâ— Earth The natures of these four Elements are different for Fire is hot and dry but it participates most of Heat Ayre is hot and moyst but chiefly moyst Water is moyst and cold but most cold Earth is cold and dry but most dry Fire and Ayre are both light Elements and VVater and Earth both heavy Four Humours also there are Of the foâ— Humours Bloud Phlâ—gme Choler 〈◊〉 Melanchoâ—â— which be as it were four Children to these four Elements and these are Bloud Phlegme Choler and Melancholy These foure Humours are attendant upon the four former Elements without which a naturall body cannot be made for Bloud naturally if it be perfect is hot and moyst but taketh most from heat and therfore is subordinate to Ayre Phlegme is cold and moyst but the principall quality thereof is coldnesse and therefore hath reference to VVater Choler is hot and dry but his chiefest nature is heate and therfore is governed by the Element of Fire Melancholy is cold and dry but his chiefest condition is drynesse and therefore subjects it selfe unto the element of earth Now the fountaine of the bloud is the Liver which dispersing it selfe by the helpe of the veines into all the parts of the body nourisheth and preserveth the same Flgme preoccupateth the braine being a cold and spungy substance and the seat of the sensible soule Choller inhabiteth the Liver which being hot and dry maketh a pleasing harmony with the bloud Melancholy resideth in the spleene which is the receptacle and discharge of the excrements of the Liver From whence we may collect that it hath its proper use and end as for demonstration Bloud principally nourisheth the body Flegme occasioneth motion of the joynts and members Choler exciteth and provoketh the body to avoyd it's excrements and lastly Melancholy disposeth the body to an appetite Whereupon all the learned Philosophers doe with one unanimous assent agree in this that in every naturall body there are foure principall instrumentall members The instrumentall members The braine the heart the liver and the stones or gignitors from which all the parts of an organicall body is said to be framed and these are the braine the heart the liver and the stones or gignitors and each one of these doe performe its true function to all the particular members of the body for the sinewes doe receive their sustentation from the braine and these are called animall spirits the arteries from the heart which are vitall spirits the veines from the liver which are naturall parts and the seed-vessels from the stones or gignitors as the place of generation Now forasmuch as I have shewed you the foure elements with their true natures the foure humours with their qualities and the foure instrumentall members with their true conditions It now remaineth that we intreat briefly of the foure naturall faculties which is in every body together with their true attributes The foure naturall faculties To eate to retaine to concoct and to expell The first faculty is to eate the second to retaine the third to concoct and the fourth to expell And to answer to these foure faculties you must understand that there are residing in the body the afore-named humours that is to say Bloud Flegme Choler and Melancholy whereof nature maketh use of the service of but one of these onely to work upon which is an excrement which we doe justly call whey or wheyish-bloud whose engendring is wrought in the liver and so conveieth it selfe into the veines at what time the foure humours doe take from the body that forme and substance it ought to assume and of this very liquor doth nature serve it selfe to resolve the meat and so to operate that the same may passe through the straight caves conducts pores and passages carrying nourishment to all the parts of the body You must therefore understand that the veines are the receptacles for the bloud which is mixed with the vitall spirits so as the said veines have their source or origin from the liver whereby their office is to exhaust from the liver unto the veines the said wheish substance and to inject part thereof through the passages into the bladder and from thence againe forth of the body by which meanes the body is freed from offence and from sustaining domage whereof two of the veines conduct part of the said whey from the liver unto the coddes and so to the seed-vessels where it remaineth with some small quantity of the purest bloud by which meanes the operation of the stones whose quality are hot and dry doe thereby effect a most perfect seed Which two veines nature who is the most exquisite Artist and Quae nihil habet vitii hath planted one in the reines on the right side which endeth in the right cod and another semblable in the left both which take their issue from either of the coddes accordingly besides nature hath bestowed upon the right cod much heat and drynesse so hath she also given unto the left as great a quantity of cold and moysture the right cod by meanes of its heate engendring the male and the left by reason of its cold engendring the female and so likewise is it as well of the female as of the male of every creature But now to come to the heart which is formed with the liver and braine and maintained with the purest bloud which is so excessively hot as whilst the creature liveth if you put but your finger into its hollow part it is impossible to continue it there long without burning or scalding the same from whence it must necessarily ensue that the liver being the fountaine of all the bloud must of necessity have great and abundance of pure bloud wherwith to support and maintaine the structure of the whole body and the vitall spirit of any creature is none other thing than a corporeall fume or vapour to speake properly very pure and subtile begun in the heart by the operation of the naturall heat spread by the arteries and veines to refresh and comfort the whole body which agitative or subtile Spirit proceeding from the heart and vitall spirits being a continuall motion by reason that motion and agitation is the true life therof which continually remaineth in all living creatures But the heart which may be truely and rightly stiled the fountaine of life and heat nature hath assigned it its proper place which is to be scituate in the center that is the middle part of the body from whence proceedeth life and heat into each
take these things with his provender you may then sometimes administer of these powders and other simples with good Ale or Beer giving it him as you give drinks and it will suffice howbeit it will doe him more good to be given in his provender Hippiat What is the best thing to be given to a horse to preserve the liver from infecting and to refine the bloud Hyppos I have knowne many things administred in this case but the very best is Liver to preserve to take the root of Polipodium of the Oke to wash it and to make it very cleane then cut or chop it very small then take Liver-wort one handfull small chopped also and so much Rubarb as the weight of a tester either cut very small or grated give him this in his provender three or four mornings together fasting and give him no meat in three houres after and let his drinke be white water for that day and give him this monethly and once in halfe a yeare make tryall of his bloud to see how pure or foule it is and administer accordingly Hippoph I pray you Hipposerus what is the true nature of Rubarb whether is it purgative or binding Hippos Truely Sir Rubarb hath two contrary natures for if you either scrape grate or cut it then is it a loosener for it dissolveth and openeth the liver and expelleth the obstructions thereof it expulseth all bad humours in and about the heart liver and spleene it clenseth the body and sendeth away the peccant humours among the excrements and all such things as may annoy or offend the intrayles but if you shall pound or beat Rubarb in a Morter or otherwise the spirit thereof being a subtile body will Transire and fly away whereby the operation thereof will be to bind and be no way profitable Hippoph Let this suffice for the present I have detained you too long from your particular affaires it now growes late and therefore I will take leave till our next meeting which God willing shall be to morrow at the same houre at what time I shall not faile you for that I desire a finall end of this businesse wherefore for this present I will take leave recommending you both to God CHAP. III. Of such things which are of necessity to be knowne by every expert Ferrier before he doth adventure to administer Hippophyl HItherto Hippiatrus we have proceeded orderly and your servant Hipposerus hath discoursed very accurately pithily Neverthelesse some things there be which yet he hath not put home enough whereby I have not received that full satisfaction I desire Hyppiat Sir Sithence we are met here againe to discusse such things whereof you desire to informe your selfe my will is to have you fully and substantially satisfied if it may be in every point which might concerne this our subject wherfore I entreat you to propose your doubts and looke in what Hipposerus may faile my selfe shall endevour to supply to the utmost of our best skill Hippophyl Sir I thanke you but withall one favour I must begge of you and that is that for that my memory may peradventure faile me it being none of the best if as things occurre to my thoughts I should aske any question out of season and order yet you will not take it ill that I should interrupt him or you in your discourses Hippiat No truely Sir will I not and therefore begin to make your demand and Hipposerus shall give you answer Hyppoph I thank you then thus As touching the composition of the body of the horse more I grant might have been spoken in words but not more to purpose for a man to runne into divisions and subdivisions were but to beget confusion in the unlearned Reader such are your ordinary Smiths for the most part for whose instruction I doe principally undergoe these paines and to send him away worse satisfied in his judgement than before Whereas a plaine and succinct methode doth more edifie and instruct him than the other can doe I therefore demand of you Hypposerus that forasmuch as you have spoken well of the foure Elements to wit Fire Ayre Water and Earth yet have you not demonstrated their natures or where they are placed For true it is my selfe and all men do perfectly know that these foure elements are not these foure materiall and visible elements which we daily behold and make use of as things most usefull for us towards the sustentation of our livelihood being creatures without which we cannot live but I would gladly have you shew what their true natures be being things incorporate and therefore concealed from our eyes I would also know in what parts they doe raign and have their identity or being Hippos Sir as touching the natures of these foure Elements I have sufficiently made appeare unto you in Capitulo praecedenti poenè in initio but as touching the second part of your demand I say that these foure elements which be in nature so dissonant and distinct one from the other as that nothing can be more no white can be more opposite to blacke neverthelesse that you may know these Elements I thus averre The nature of the 4. Elements The Fire is highest being neare neighbour or adjoyning to the Moone and therefore naturally hot Ayre is placed next unto it and therefore naturally light The Water is annexed to the Ayre and therefore naturally moyst And the earth is scituate next to the Water but lowest and out of that reason naturally heavy As touching their vertues all the learned doe hold 1 Fire that Fire by meanes of its heat exciteth matter to Generation and occasioneth warmth in every living body and it doth ripen things raw and undigested in such excellent and subtle wise as that the Ayre which is of a more grosse nature may the better enter into the body making a commixture with the Fire whereby also it moderateth the heat of the Fire the coldnesse of the Water and the drynesse of the Earth so as distemper may the lesse oppresse the Body 2 Ayre The Aire by reason of its moystnes maketh the matter apt to receive its naturall shape and through the instinct of the Fire its naturall heat causing the mixt Bodies as well subtle as penetrable as well Light and moving whereby they bee neither too grosse nor too heavy and withall the Ayre cooleth and abateth the extremity of the burning heat of the Heart 3 Water Liver c As touching the third Element which is Water its nature is that through the coldnes thereof it congealeth conglutinateth and bindeth in mixt Bodies both the parts and members together to wit Sinewes Bones Flesh so as the Water by meanes of its coldnes doth temper and asswage the violent heat of the Fire and the condensity of the Ayre 4 Earth collecting those things together which they otherwise would have dissevered And as touching the Element of Earth its nature is by meanes of its drynesse
and Siccity in mixt Bodyes so to harden and fasten them together as that having once assumed their Shaps it causeth them to retein and keep them which otherwise by the force of the other Elements would be so lax and loose as not to be able to hold together wherein I could produce many familiar instances which for brevities sake I am enforced to omit But the opinion of the best Physitians is that when any naturall Body dyeth the substance thereof returneth back againe to those Elements from whence they came Thus you may plainely see that Fire is naturally hot and therefore separateth Ayre moyst and therefore giveth Shape Water cold and therefore bindeth and Earth dry and therefore naturally hardneth and keepeth its impression Wherefore in any Malady in a Horse observe but this one Rule viz. that when at any time an Inflamation shall arise in the Body be you confident it proceeds of Fire and therefore you must administer if you will performe a right Cure things contrary to that Element to wit what may be agreeable to Ayre and Water whereby to moysten coole and allay the rage of the heat If it be a Flux of Bloud or the like proceeding from the abundance of moysture which takes its origin from the Element of Ayre then must you apply Medicines which may connive with the Eâ—rth whose drynesse may harden such moysture If it proceed of Cold Rhumes or the like whereby the infirmity hath its source from the Element of Water you must then administer Medicines cohering with the Element of Fire and Ayre which may be able through its heat and moysture to expell all cold and grosse humours And lastly if the griefe be Maingenesse or the like which cometh from the Earth which be dry and arid infectious diseases then must your applications be had from the Element of Fire whose nature is to dissolve all siccative humours Wherefore I say againe that heat being too predominant is asswaged by the meanes of moystnesse and coldnesse too great moystnesse by heat and drynesse over-much coldnesse by heat and drynes and too great a proportion of drynesse by heat alone Hippophyl But then tell me I pray you bee there no other Elements or beginnings in Living Bodies more then these foure before named Hippos No Sir not any other which have their beginnings but there are two other which the Learned doe terme proper Elements viz. the Ingendring of Seed and Menstruall Bloud but these I say doe assume their essence from the other foure Elements whereby they become a Body wâ—ich otherwise they could not and therefore are subordinate to them and they take their place after them Hippophil Having spoken sufficiently of the Natures and Qualities of these foure Elements What say you to the Humours Hippos I say that the Humours are also foure in number The 4. first Qualities which Physitians doe stile the first Qualities according as I have formerly intimated and these foure are Bloud Phlegme Choler and Melancholy Bloud being sweet in tast Phlegme neither sweet bitter nor sowre and therefore of no tast or if of any like to that of good Oyle rather sweet then otherwise Choler is bitter in tast and Melancholy is sowre in tast So as by these tasts you may distinguish them and these Humours have reference or neere affinity unto the foure Elements for like as I have before agnized Bloud is of the nature of the Ayre Phlegme of the Water Choler of the Fire and Melancholy of the Earth and these Humours have their particular abode and residence in the body absolute and peculiar to themselves as Bloud hath his abiding in and about the Heart Phlegme in the Braine Choler in the Liver and Melancholy in the Spleene whereby we may the better come to know what Complexion raigneth in every Horse as also how he is naturally qualified and disposed for the Horse that is of a Sanguine Complexion is commonly a Bright Bay who is of disposition joviall wanton or merry agile and of motion temperate neither too fiery nor too dull or melancholy Your Milke-white is of Complexion Phlegmatique whose property commonly is to bee lunt heavy and slow your Bright-Sorrell hath commonly reference to Choler and he is naturally for the most part fiery hot and ever-free-mettled but yet of no great strength Your Mouse-Dunne and such like rusty and sut-colours are commonly of a Melancholy Complexion and they be ordinarily cowardly faint-hearted subject to starting flothfull restife stubborne disobedient revengefull c. but if these Complexions be rightly symbolized and doe all meete in one and the same Horse according to each ones proper nature they doe performe their functions as they ought in a perfect harmony whereby the Horse remaineth sound and healthy but if there be discord or disagreement in the Elements and Humours there must bee the like in the Complexions and then doth the poore horse suffer for it to the danger both of Life and Health Hyppophyl I ever understood that there are certaine Spirits which doe remaine in the body of every Horse doe you know them Hipposerus Hippos Yes I doe and they be said to bee two in number viz. The Spirit Animal Spirit Animal and the Spirit Vitall the Spirit Animal hath its residence in the Braine by which meanes it giveth motion feeling and power to the Horse through the ayd of the Sinewes and the Spirit Vitall Spirit Vitall makes abode in the Heart which is the only cause of the excessive heat thereof which disperseth the Bloud into every part and member of the Body For the Heart and the Braine are in equality absolutely different the Heart being most violently hot as I have before shewed and the Braine is as extreamely cold and so hereof needs not any more be spoken in this place Hippophyl But may not a man conjecture to what infirmities or diseases Horses may probably be subject by their Complections Hyppos Yis Sir very easily yea and that with so great advantage and profit to the Cure if the Ferrier be expert and skilfull in the making and applying of his Medicines The disease known by the Complexion as that nothing can be more For example the horse that is of colour either bright-Bay or dark Bay with a pleasant and cheerfull countenance or if he bee a white Flea-bitten white-Lyard or Black with a white-starre or race downe the face or white-foot if he be of eyther of these colours we hold him to bee of a Sanguine Complection and in Horses of this Complecâ—â—on the Element of Aire is most predominant Of the Sanguine Complexion and they be commonly of nature affable well-metled active and of good strength but the Maladies whereunto they are most usually incident are Leaprosies glanders Consumptions and the like yet these Horses are frequently of so able Constitutions as that they have vigour enough to endure good and strong Medicines provided these Medicines be not too hot but cooling The Horse
curd knobs and knots causing them to be dissolved And as for the water which she is to drinke for some time after her foling let it be either sweet Mashes or white water a moneth after her foling give her a Mash putting thereinto the powder of Brimstone or Savin or the like which will be a great preservation of the Colt then if she be moderately laboured either at Plough or Harrow if she will draw as well the Mare as Colt will prosper the better provided she be kept from raw meat while she remaineth in the Stable by which meanes she will the sooner recover strength lust and courage and have store of good milke which will cause the Colt to thrive the better and to grow to be of the greater bone which above all things is a matter of greatest consequence And that you suffer not the Colt to sucke the Mare when she commeth from worke untill she be throughly cold lest thereby you surfet the Colt Thus much I have thought fit to handle of this subject and albeit I have laboured herein to attaine to brevity neverthelesse the premisses well considered I shall not greatly offend in prolixity howsoever this my manner of breeding being different from the old received customes will not I doe assure me passe voyd of censure But as touching old customes thus much I doe averre that as they are in many cases of that force as no law is able to abrogate so on the contrary part many of them are so absurd and ridiculous as nothing can be more for what saith the civill Law Those things which by event or successe of time are found to be pernicious or hurtfull even these things ought to be repealed yea albeit they were at the first found profitable Which ground holdeth good in nothing so much as in old customes for of their absurdities I am able to produce instances not a few howsoever with many It is one of Hercules greatest labours to beat many a man from his old customes be they never so bad albeit Custome is a meere tyrant and his soveraignty most insufferable as a grave Author very well observeth CHAP. III. How to make and order your Stable HAving thus waded into this mystery of breeding I hold it a thing very behoovefull to be handled how your Stable ought to be accommodated First therefore your Stable should be scituate where the ayre is wholesome pure and good and the ground dry the structure would be either of free Stone or Bricke but Bricke is best most wholesome and warmest besides this benefit Brick hath which Stone hath not of being very dry for Stone will weep and sweat drops of water against raine and misty weather which begetteth damps and causeth rhumes in Horses Your Stable ought not to have any unsavory Gutter Channell or Sinke neare to it no Iakes Hogsties or Hen-roust whereby to annoy it It would be also seeled over head and have strong doores with lockes bolts and barres unto it The Racke would not be made too high or too low but placed in an indifferent proportion and so artificially set that neither the dust or hay-seeds may fall into his Mane or upon his necke and face The Manger would be set at an indifferent height made deep and of one entire piece as well for strength as for conveniency to be kept sweet and cleane Let the flore be pitched with Flint and not planked The windowes would be made with handsome shuts and casements and well glazed as well to keep out cold and wind as also when there may be cause to let in the coole and fresh ayre Againe take heed there be no lome wall or plaister so neare as that the Horse may reach thereto with bis mouth for upon that he will gnaw which may doe him much prejudice and be the cause of much dangerous sicknesse for Lome and Lime are suffocating things they will infect and putrifie the bloud endanger the Lounges and be no friend to his winde neither suffer any dung to lye neare him Furthermore there would be made a faire Loft wherein to lay Hay and convenient lodging chambers for your Groomes whose nearenesse together with their care and vigilancy might prevent many dangers and inconveniences which may accrue unto your Horses by night Also let a neat Saddle-house be contrived with Bings for Provender and in it Presses wherein to lay up the Saddles Bridles and all other furniture appertaining to Horfes and an Aqua-duct wherewith to bring water to the Stable And lastly other Stals would be erected remote wherein upon occasion to sever the sicke from the sound Many other accoutrements there are belonging to a perfect Stable as partitions with boards posts and barres with pins driven into every post whereon to hang Bridles and the like shelves also fastned to the wall serving for many uses to place necessaries upon c. which being known to all men will be needlesse for me here to repeate But you may peradventure startle at paving rather then planking your flore preferring planks as warmer and much better then flint or a pitched flore can be as also for that it is a new thing little practised and seldome heard But give me leave I pray a little to inform your understanding in this one point by which means your judgement may fortune to be much bettered First therefore whereas novelty may be objected I shall most easily assoile that point even from the selfe-same ground in the civill Law which I inserted in the conclusion of the precedent chapter viz. That things found to be prejudiciall ought to be inhibited although they might be thought needfull and good in foreknown times For that paving of Stables is better then planking them Paving Stabâ— much bâ— then plaâ—ing I have reasons not a few wherewith to satisfie a reasonable man First it is much more durable and lasting supposing the flore to be pitched by an expert workman Secondly it is lesse charge by much and therefore in that point the better Thirdly for a Horse to stand continually upon a pitched flore it emboldneth his feet and treading the more Fourthly it is the most excellent thing that may be for Colts who are unshod for it hardneth their hooves so as by custome they will be as bold to goe upon stones rocky and hard wayes as Horses that are shod neither will a pitched flore suffer the hoofe to goe abroad in manner of an Oyster besides the use thereof will make their hooves more tough durable and hollow insomuch as when they shall come to be shod and to have exercise they will carry their shooes much longer better and with more ease then otherwise if they had been used to a planked flore The inconvenience of a planked flore Now on the contrary part which concerneth the planked flore that I say cannot in reason be so good by many degrees First it is more slippery out of which reason a mettled horse may soone
or with some sword hatchet Bill or other edge-toole or that you should enforce him to doe more than what nature or strength were well able to compasse or leading him upon plaine ground he might wrinch any member or sway his back or breake his leg either by the stroke or stripe of some other horse or otherwise accidentally or should by misfortune fall downe some steepe precipice whereby he may breake or dislocate some limb or member all these disasters we usually doe call Accidentall and all such things of this nature Hippiat Which be the elements which doe give life and nutriment unto man and all other living creatures Hippos They are foure in number that is to say Fire Ayre Water and Earth whose natures if you shall please I will discusse elsewhere Hippiat No I pray let us have them both now and elsewhere their natures conditions and qualities Hippos The nature of Fire is to be hot and dry Ayre to be hot and moyst Water to be cold and moyst and Earth to be cold and dry Hippiat Doe you know the twelve Signes of the Zodiacke and how they doe govern the body of man and of all creatures Hippos Yes I doe know them all perfectly and thus are they called Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Vrgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces These doe all governe the twelve Months of the yeare and are placed above the Zodiack Hippiat Doe you know the names of the Planets and their numbers Hippos That I doe very well and they bee seven in number to wit Saturne Iupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercury and Luna Hippiat What parts doe the twelve Signes before mentioned governe Hâ—ppos Aries governeth the Head Taurus the Neck Gemini the Shoulders and Armes Cancer the Stomack and Breast Leo the Heart Virgo the Belly anâ— Guts Libra the Reines and Buttocks Scorpio the Privy parts Sagittarius the Thighs Capricornus the Knees Aquarius the Legs and Pisces the Feete Hippiat In what dayes is it best for a horse to be let bloud Hippos If there be no extraordinary cause as in case of desperate sicknes or so then Ianuary the third and the fifteene Februâ—ry the fourth and nineth March the seventeene and eighteene Aprill the tenth and sixteene May the first thirteene Iune fifteene and twenty But for Iuly and August by reason that the Canicular-dayes be then predominate bloud-letting is not so good but only in urgent case of necessity In September the eleventh and twenty eight October the eight and twenty three November the fift and sixteene December the fourteene and twenty six And these daies doe wee hold to be the very best unlesse dangerous or sudaine sicknesse doe cause us to alter the same for in cases of necessity no daies are to be regarded or observed For Qui retinente vita et non sit mortis imago Si semper fuerit vivens morietur et infra Hippiat What medicine would you apply to a Horse who may have any of the foure Maladyes Hippos I would give him of the foure Cordiall waters which I would make of Buglas Savin Succary Aquavitae Endife and the like Hippiat How would you make a comfortable drinke Hippos I would make it of certaine Cordialls to wit of Sugar Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs Saffron Licoris Annyseeds all these in fine powder adding thereto white wine and all these infused in a cleane earthen pot and hereof would I make a drinke Hippiat Whereof would you make an operative drinke Hippos I would take white Wine Sallet-oyle Aloes Rubarb Agarick Duke or Duck-powder Hony Cordial-powder and of all these things would I put such a quantity as I should thinke requisite and according to the strength and corpulency of the Horse Hippiat Whereof would you make a laxative Clister Hippos Into a laxative Clister I will put either of Pellitory Melelote or Cammamile but Pellitory is the best and of this would I make a Decoction and to this Decoction would I put Sallet Oyle Hony Aloes and Verjuice of the Crab. Hippiat What be the natures of your principall Drugs Hippiat Agarick purgeth the Braine Allos the Breast and body Rubarb purgeth the evill water and it openeth the Liver and helpeth obstructions and oppilations Aristolochia-Rotunda mollifieth the Breast Liver and Lungs and Bacchalauri or Bay-berries doe mortifie the peccant Humours which doe ingender in the Breast or Entrayles nere about the Heart and Saffron if it be discreetly given doth marveylously comfort and enlighten the Heart CHAP. II. Of the causes of Sicknesse in generall and the causes of Health and long Life Hippiat NOw that we have proceeded thus farre in a discussion of the Office of the Ferrier Let us approach yet nearer to intreate of the Cures and that we may goe on Pedetentim and Gradatim Let us first discusse the causes of Maladies and therefore I demand of you What are the true Causes of the sicknesse of the Horse Hippos Sir that man which hath a desire to become an Expert Ferrier must apply himselfe to understand the true nature of two things viz. of Generation and of Corruption in which I could never find the least discord in the Primary nature of Horses albeit compounded of the contrary nature of the foure Elements But I will proceed in Anatomizing unto you the verity hereof more particularly whereby you may the better understand my meaning Hippophyl But friend Hipposerus in my judgement you begin to assume too high a pitch for ordinary Feâ—riers who are in a manner all or the greater number un-lettered persons and therefore will never be able to understand what Generation and Corruption meaneth for these are termes taken from the grounds of Philosophy and therefore above their Genius or Sphere Hippos Sir there be many things necessary to bee duly knowne and as diligently to be observed in him that desireth to be a perfect and able Ferrier which whosoever shall be defective in he may well be an Empyreticall-Hors-Leach but skilfull Ferrier or Marshall he shall never be And for that you please to say that I sore too high because I began my discourse with the termes of Generation and Corruption if you had not interrupted me I should have explicated my selfe so cleerely as that a very reasonable judgement might easily have apprehended me for I hold it not a thing fitting to pussell mens Braines either with Chimeras which they are not able to understand or with over-long and tedious discourses of things meerly impertinent but if you shall be pleased to heare me with patience I will touch upon this subject to wit What are the causes of Sicknesse in generall as also of Health and long Life and that Laconica brevitate and so leave the rest to your judgement and practise especially considering what other Authours my Masters have so learnedly and no lesse sufficiently intreated in this very Art To begin therefore and but to say what I said before with the causes of sicknesse and death of Horses in generall in
shall find them to come away in his Dounge and the most of them to be living for no Medicine but those two only of Precipitate and Sublimate before remembred in which is so great perill can kill them ✚ This Receipt before any other I have made most use of I find it to be the very best and most infallible of them all and this will hardly leave one Bot Trunchion or Worme in all his Body I forbeare to report unto you what quantity of these Vermine a Horse hath voyded at a time for I love not to relate Wonders Another Receipt I will deliver you howbeit not equivalent to the former which is this viz. Take the tender tops of greene broome and of Saven of each halfe a handfull chop them very small and work them up into Pils with fresh or sweet Butter and having kept the Horse over night fasting give to him three of these Pills in the Morning early then set him upon the Trench and let him fast two houres after but give him no Water till night and that white Water ✚ This also have I experienced and have found it to be very good for it hath caused the Horse to voyd many of these bad Cattle I will conclude with this viz. Take a quart of Milke warme from the Cow and put to it of Honey halfe a pint and give it him the first day the next day take Rue and Rosemary of each halfe a handfull stamp them well together then let it infuse together with the powder of Brimstone and Soute so much as will suffice foure houres in Wort or Ale a quart then straine it and give it him bloud warme then let him bee walked or gently ridden an houre or two and so set him up warme and give him Hay an houre before you give him any drinke which let bee white Water and you must not give him Hay in foure or six houres after you have given him his foresaid drinke And you must withall remember that in all Medicines as well for this kind of Malady as for any other his drinke must be either a sweet Mash or else white Water ✚ This also is a very good Receipt and I have had good experience of it and it hath evermore wrought well ✚ §. 16. B. Hippoph WHat helpe have you for a Brittle Hoofe Hyppos This cometh two waies to wit by nature or by accident it cometh naturally when the Stallion who begat him or the Mare which did Fole him was subject to the same infirmity and therefore I doe advise all men to forbeare Breeding with such a Stallion or Mare for all their Colts will bee in danger to partake thereof Brittle hoof If it come Accidentally then must it fall out to come either by some Surfet that fell downe into the Feet which caused a siccity in the Hoofes or else in that he had beene formerly Foundred or heat in the Feete and not well cured I need not shew the Signes whereby to know this Malady being it is most apparant As touching the Cure I will give you but only one Receipt for the present by reason I shall have occasion to handle it more largely when we come to intreate of the Hoofes And the Cure is this viz. Take a Rape or a Drawing Iron and with eyther of these make the Coffin of the Hoofe fine and thin in all such places as you shall see cause and pare the Soles very thinne also then apply to the Feete as well Soles as Coffins this ensuing Charge Take Ry-bran or for default thereof Wheate-bran Oxen or Cowes-dunge of these so much as will suffice then take Sheepes-Suet and Hogs-grease tryed Tarre and Turpentine of each halfe a pound mince the Sheepes Suet very small and melt it on the fire then put to your Hogs-grease and when these be molten put in your Oxe or Cow-dung stirring them well together then by degrees put in your Bran continnually stirring them and lastly your Tarre and Turpentine and when you have kneaded al these so well together as that they are become one body and like to paste take them from the fire and so keepe them for your use and being only warme stop his Soles therewith but tack on his Shooes first but for his Coffins make Bagges of course cloath and first covering all his Coffins good and thick fasten those bagges over his hoofes to his Pasterns but take heed they be not too hard tyed yet so as they may stay on dresse him thus every day once for fifteene or twenty dayes together and let him not in all that time touch any Water with his Feete and his Hoofes will become firme and tough againe After if you turne him forth into moyst ground it will be the better if the season will permit it You must during the time of his cure give him continually white Water ✚ This cure I have often tryed and it is very good ✚ §. 17. B. Hippoph VVHat doe you hold good to be applyed to the Heeles and Feete of a Horse that is bruised and beaten with travell Hippos Sir I will give you only one Receipt for this cure which I have often used and it is so truly a good one as that it 's equall can hardly be found And thus it is Take of the tender tops of the most angry Bruised heeles 〈◊〉 feete and stinging Nettles you can get one handfull stamp them very well in a Morter and when they be throughly beaten put unto them of Turpentine and tryed Hogs-grease so much as will suffice to bring it to a formall Vnguent Apply this to the Feete and Heeles of your Horse in bags or cloutes and let this bee done the very next morning after you come where you may rest him renew this every day once and in short time he wil be sound and well againe ✚ § 18. B. Hippoph VVHat is good to allay burning with Shot Gun-powder or Wilde-fire Hippos For this malady I use evermore to take varnish and to put it into faire water and to beat the water and varnish very well together then I powre away the water from the varnish and so with a feather I annoynt the place burned Burning with shot and in few times dressing it will kill the fire which done I heale the sorance with carnifying and healing salves ✚ This is very good But I will now give you two or three other unguents which are most precious against all sorts of burnings which is this Take Hogges grease as much as will suffice set it upon the fire and let it boyle well and as the skimme ariseth take it away with a feather or such like thing untill no more will arise that done and that it hath boyled enough then put it forth into an earthen vessell and set it forth into the open ayre foure or five nights after which time you must wash it in a great quantity of cleere running or fountaine water to the end it may be free from
some of these hearbs to the places or limbs greived and keep them on with a thumb-band of Hay wet in the said decoction and every day about noone anoynt the said visited member with Petroleum and Nervall and Oyle of Spike mixed together and keep him warme give him good meat and mashes or white water not only during the time of his cure but a good time after and let his ayrings be temperate and his exercise moderate and take heed of washing him after labour for that probably was the cause of his Convulsion ✚ Another Take strong white Wine vineger and Patch-grease alias Peece-grease of each like much melt them upon a gentle fire then with Wheat-flowre make it into a Poultesse and apply it to the grieved member good and warme renewing it morning and evening but before you doe administer this charge by holding a barre of iron or a chafing dish of coales neere let him be annoynted with Petroleum Nervall and Patch-grease and oyle of Spike of each like much very well and after binde on the charge all over the grieved place dresse him thus morning and evening and give him moderate exercise and ayrings and let him have Mashes and white water to drinke and keep him warm This is very good ✚ Another First rake him then give him the Clister prescribed in booke 2. chap. 11. § 8. Clister 4. then let two men on either side of the horse one rub him well with soft cloaths all his body and limbs over especially the diseased limb then cloath him up warme and let him stand upon the trench foure or five hours to the end the Clister may work the more kindly after give him meat and white water and so feed him for that day But I must tell you that so soon as you have given him this Clister and before his friction give him this drink whereby to cleanse his body viz. Take of white wine one pinte Aloes halfe an ounce Agarick half an ounce all beaten very small and infused in the Wine putting thereto of the purest clarified Hogs-grease one spoonfull or for want thereof and which is much better of sweet Butter sixe ounces and give him this bloud warme The next day prepare in a readinesse this unguent Take of strong Ale two quarts and of black Sope two pound boyle them together till they look black like Tarre and herewith annoynt rub and chafe him all over that the unguent may sinke in that done cloath him up and stuffe him warme that he may sweat well but stuffe head necke and brest well let him sweat thus two hours then coole him by degrees taking now a little from him then a little till he be brought to a good temper againe then keep him so and about one of the clock at afternoon give him a warm Mash or white water and then some Hay and an houre after that Provender Let not this drink be given him above once during his whole Cure but his Clisters Sweats and Frictions till he be well yet the Clisters not every day neither and let his drinke be white water wherein Mallowes have been boyled unlesse sometimes you give him wherewith to comfort him a sweet Mash but if he will not drink his white water boyled with Mallowes then let him have it without and let his food be that which is sweet and very good This did I never try but two severall Ferriers who lived more then 100 miles distant the one from the other gave me this Receit verbatim without scarse altring one word and they both protested unto me they have cured sundry Horses which have been forely perplexed with this disease Hippoph What meane you by moderate and temperate ayering of a Horse Hippos I doe meane by moderate ayering Ayering that he be not forth in ayering too long and by temperate ayering that a sicke Horse if there be cause why he should be ayered it be not done too late in the evening nor too early in the morning for that such kinde of ayerings will take too much from a Horse that is feeble or sick but in such cases let him be walked to his ayerings in a warme evening an houre before sunne-set at least and in a morning an houre after the sunne is up especially if the winde be not too high or blow too cold and that the sunne shine warme for by ayering before sunne rising and after sunne set like as is to be used with Running and Hunting Horses will make a fat strong Horse both so poor and leane as not to have a Crow of flesh on his back as the proverb is and so feeble as not to be able to arise being layed and therefore give not such kinde of ayerings to a Horse that is infirme but those which I do tearme the temperate ayerings will greatly comfort the spirits of your Horse give him a very good appetite to his meat and encrease his flesh and good liking whereas the late ayerings will be as I said before very noxious to sicke diseased or leane Horses § 17. C. Hippoph HOw doe you helpe a Horse that groweth costive or belly-bound Hippos The nature of this disease is such as that the Horse that is therewith troubled cannot discharge himselfe but with great paine and trouble his ordure comming from him both very dry and hard Horses that are kept too much to hard dry and hot meats are most incident to this malady sometimes it commeth by eating too much Provender especially Beanes Pease Tares or Wheat which albeit these graines be more hearty then any other yet they siccicate and dry up the moysture because they beget more heate and costivenesse in the body then other graines doe yea and winde too and bad humours causing obstructions and sometimes this costivenesse commeth to a Horse by reason he hath been kept to too spare a dyet as is usually seen in Horses in dyet for this hot and dry food doth suck up like to a spunge the flegmaticke moysture of the body giving way thereby that choller is become the more predominant so that the meat he eateth cannot be so well digested This is a disease very perilous and the origine of many maladies and it is easily knowne by its symptomes And you may cure him after this manner viz. Take the decoction of Mallowes one quart Costivenesse or Belly-bound Sallet oyle halfe a pinte or fresh Butter halfe a pound Benedicte laxative one ounce give him this bloud-warme clister-wise and then clap his tayle to his tuell and so cause him to keep it halfe an houre at least being walked up and downe then set him up warme and it will worke whereby he will empty himselfe and in due time give him a sweet Mash and after Hay and so keep him to Mashes or white water two or three â—ayes but withall faile not to rake him before you administer your Clister ✚ This is a most excellent Receit which you shall finde in lib. 2. chap. 6. § 7.
in the Eye this every Smith can take away neverthelesse whereas all other Ferriers that ever I saw worke upon this disease do use to take it away from the out-side of the Eye I doe take it away from that part which lyeth next of all to the eye and I doe finde my way to be much better and a safer way as well whereby to preserve the sight of the eye as also the wash and so soone as I have cut out the Haw I doe use to wash the eye with white Wine and the juyce of selendine mingled together of each a like much for this healeth the sorance and keepeth the eye from rankling Now I have oft times seene the French Marishals take up the wash of the eye with a Spanish needle threeded with a double brown threed and to pluck forth the Haw so farre as he well can then with a payre of sizers to clip off the Haw so close as he can but I cannot commend this manner of curing the Haw for by that meanes he cutteth away the wash of the eye which indeed is the beauty of the eye whereby the Horse becommeth bleare-eyed which is in him a very great eye-sore he being thereby very much disfigured ✚ But if your Horse have gotten a canker in his eye then Eye a Canker Take Ale-hoofe which is indeed your true ground Ivy and stamp it well in a morter and if it be very dry then moysten it with a little white Rose-water or the water of Eye-bright distilled as much as will suffice and so straine it into a cleane glasse and therewith wash bathe annoynt and taint the sorance therewith and in short time it will cure it ✚ This is very good to cure a Canker a Pin and Web bloud shotten eyes or any such griefe in or about the eyes and I have often made use of this medicine Another much better Take of stone Coperas a thing knowne to few and therefore very hard to get but in the stead thereof you may use ordinary white Coperas make it into fine powder as much as will suffice for I must leave the quantity to your owne discretion and put it into a small Pipkin and put thereto so much very faire cleare running or Well water as will fill up the Pipkin to the very top then set the Pipkin upon a few coales and cause the water to boyle but so treatibly as it may but onely simper and as the scum doth arise take it away with a feather continuing so to doe till the scum doe leave to arise any more and when you have sufficiently well boyled it take it off and let it stand till it be through cold then poure away the cleare from the bottome which must be cast away and the cleare kept in a glasse viall very close stopped and bound up for your use which being thus carefully kept the water will remaine in its perfection long yea a whole yeare together or longer This water cureth almost all diseases in the eyes as Filmes Pearles weeping eyes Pin and Web Dragons Cataracts dimnesse of sight Blindenesse Rheumaâ—icke watry stroake blow or stripe of or in the eye and so consequently in many other cases of the like nature ✚ And of this water I have had great experience Another Take Sal-Armoniack Lapis-Tulia prepared Sagina called in Latine Panicum-Indicum and of Ginger of each halfe an ounce and of white sugar-candy two ounces powder all these and searse them and being well mixed put this powder into a cleane and dry boxe very close stopped and so keep it that no ayre come to it for your use and when you have occasion to use of this powder take a little thereof and mixe with it of the juyce of ground Ivy alias Ale-hoofe as much as will suffice and so twice a day convey thereof into his eye with a feather till it be throughly whole ✚ This is a principall good receit I will give you another speciall good receit which will cure all manner of sore eyes Take the leaves and roots of Vervine ordinary honey and Roman Vitrioll of each like much beat bruise and mixe these together and put it into a stillitory glasse and distill it by Balnea-Maria with a gentle fire and the water you take into your Receptacle put into a viall glasse and keepe it very close stopped that no ayre get into it and when you are to use of the same water poure of it a little into a silver spoone and mixe with it of the fat of a Henne or Capon a small quantity and therewith annoynt the sore eye twice a day and it will cure the same perfectly ✚ I will give you another receit which will take the filme from off the eye albeit there be a very great and thicke skin growne Take the gall of a Hare and life honey of each like much put them together into a spoon and hold the spoone over the fire till the medicine be bloud warme and with a feather convey part of this medicine into the eye of the Horse and thus dresse him morning and evening and in short time it will take it quite away so as the eye will become as bright and cleare againe as ever it was before ✚ This receit I doe hold no whit inferiour to any of the former for I have often made use thereof But if your Horse have gotten a stripe in the eye then let him bloud in the necke and in the weeping veyne on the same side where the stripe is then Take white Rose-water and the white of a new laid egge beat them very well together then wash and bathe the eye well therwith and lay round about it with your splatter this charge restringent Take Masticke Bolearmonacke Sanguis Draconis the white of a new laid egge and white wine vineger of the strongest Eye a charge beat first the hard simples to very fine powder and then searse them and they must be beaten severally then mixe them all together with the white of the egge and the vineger so well wrought as that the medicine come to a thicke oyntment and with this charge the sorance round about the eye and this will keepe off the humour and when that you finde that the eye doth begin to amend then wash and bathe the eye twice or thrice a day or oftner with cold fountaine or Well water so fresh as it is taken or drawne out of the Well or Fountaine and if after you shall perceive that there doth grow a filme or skin over the eye then take it away by blowing or putting the powder of Camphire or Sol Armoniacum or white sugar-Candy in fine powder according as I have before prescribed you ✚ This is a most soveraigne receit Also if your Horse in his eye have gotten a stripe Take of fresh Butter wherein never came salt the quantity of a Walnut and put it into his eare on that side where the stripe is and it will helpe him
eate good sweet Hay and Bran in stead of Oates aad let his drinke be only white Water ✚ This is a most excellent Receipt § 5. I. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Ioynt that hath in it any Ach Numnesse Weakenesse or Swellings which commeth of a cold cause Hippos This commeth sometimes of a Streyne and sometimes of a Cold taken after a great and violent riding or labour The signes are apparent and the Cure is Take Acopum and mixing it with sweete Sack all to rub and chafe the Ioynt greived Joint gâ—ved therewith And if it come of cold it will at foure or five times thus doing cure it ✚ This is singular good Another Take Aqua-vitae and warme it upon the fire and therewith bathe and rub the greived Member therewith very well and hold a hot bar of iron before it to cause it to sinke in the better take then a rag and wet it in the same Aqua-vitae and lastly take Pepper finely powdred and searced anâ— strew it good and thick upon the said wet rag and so bind it to the place greived take then a dry Rowler of linnen and swathe the place therewith and so let them remaine and thus do every day once and in short time it will recover him ✚ Of this I have made often tryall §. 6. I. Hippoph VVHat is good to encrease the Hoofe of a Horse Hippos I have given you sundry good Receipts before but I will adde one more which the most Famous Marishall of all Paris gave me which he recommended unto me for tresbonne but I never had yet a good occasion to make tryall thereof The receipt is this Take of the Oyle of Hempe-seed of Waxe of Venice Turpentine Increasâ— Hoofe Rosin Pitch Bay-seeds dryed and powdred of each halfe a pound Roch Allume two ounces mixe all these together and let them boyl softly upon a gentle fire then straine it through a hayre-cloath and keepe it for your use With this annoynt every day the hoofes of your Horse and this will cause them to grow very much This is probably a good Receipt CHAP. 12. §. 1. L. Hippophylus HOw doe you cure the Lampas Hipposerus Hippos This is a Malady that every common Smith can easily cure by putting into the Mouth of the Horse a good big Bat of wood where unto two long peeces of the Head-stall of an old bridle is nayled at either end which will cause him to keepe open his Mouth and then holding up his Lip with your left hand burne away the ranke flesh with a hot Iron made of purpose and after rubbing the place with Salt and giving him Bran for Oats three or foure daies at the most he will bee whole ✚ This disease is a Swelling proceeding from ranknesse of bloud which groweth in the Mouth adioyning to the fore teeth which said Swelling is an impediment to his feeding it is apparant enough to be seene and therefore needs no further remonstrance ✚ Neverthelesse I will shew you how the Marishals in France do use to cure the Lampas from whom I had the Cure and wherewith I my selfe have cured many horses Take a rosted Onion and very hot put it upon a clout or upon hurds and with it rub the Lampas Lampas very hard and do this two or three times a day till it be whole ✚ But many times they burne away the Lampas like as do our Smithes with an iron instrument which they do call a Bistory which is the very same that our Smithes use here in England § 2. L. Hippoph HOw do you stop a Lax or Loosenesse when it commeth to be violent Hippos Very easily Sir but I had thought I had handled that point sufficiently before in letter F. where you made your demand touching the Flux in a Horse notwithstanding I will give you other very good Receipts by me almost forgotten To illustrate the manner of it's comming Laxe to stop and the signes how to know the same I hold unfitting for this place by reason I have sufficiently already performed it Take of Allome one penny-worth powdred Bole-Armoniack poudred one ounce put these into Milke one quart continually stirring it till the Milke doth become all of a Curd give him this with a horne and it will stay his Laxe bee it never so violent ✚ This I have used Another Take Beane flower and Bole-Armoniack in fine powder of each foure ounces put them into red Wine one quart and give him this with a horne bloud warme Let his drinke be white water only insteed of Wheate-bran put in Bean-flower and that for three or foure daies after then let him bloud in the Temple veines and give him warme Mashs made of ground Malt and Beane-flower and having drunke up the Wort let him eate up the residue but if this doe not stay him within two daies then put in each Nosthrill Sallet-oyle and that will do it ✚ This is speciall good §. 3. L. Hippoph VVHat meanes have you to raise a leane Horse and to cause him in short time to hecome very fat Hippos I have shewd you this before but yet I will give you Rereipt which you yet have not Take Elecampane dryed Comin Turmerick Anniseeds Leanâ— to maâ— of each two ounces Grunsell halfe a handfull boyle all these very well with three heads of Garlick picked a little bruised in strong Ale foure quarts then straine it well and give unto your Horse of this drinke one quart in a morning fasting bloud warme and then ride him upon it till he do begin to be warme but not to sweate and thus do for foure mornings together and within some short time after turne him to grasse if the time of the yeare be seasonable and he will feed wonderfully and fatten sodainely but if the time of the yeare doe not serve for grasse then shall you keep him in the Stable and besides his former drinke you shall give him in his Oates this powder viz. Take the powder of Elecampane dry and of Comin both pulverized and searced of each like much mix them wel together and every time you give your Horse this Provender take of this powder half an ounce and strew it by little and little among his Provender for feare of offending him till he hath eaten up all cleane and doe thus but foureteene daies together and you shall perceive your Horse to thrive mend and prosper after a strange manner provided that you do give him seasonable ayring moderate exercise and Mashes or white water ✚ This is marvelous good §. 4. L. Hippoph VVHat is to bee done to a Horse whose Legges doe swell Hippos If this Swelling be only in his fore Legges and not behind then it is a signe that this his Swelling came by over-violent labour when the Horse was very fat especially inwardly by reason that the grease that was molten fell downe into his fore-Legges which if it had staid in his Body must of necessity have engendred either an Anticor
of Mechoacan of the best and choycest as you may take up upon a shilling at foure times give him this drinke warm with a horne then Trot him but a matter of a Mile gently upon good ground and so set him up warme and let him stand upon the Trench till one of the clock then give him a warme Mash This will purge and fetch away his filth and slime and carry away his peccant humours which Surfets have engended halfe an houre after hee hath had his Mash give him Bread or else a few Oats mingled with wheat bran and that little and oft for feare of cloying his stomacke and at night give him white water and so give him bread and hay sprinkled with water for all night ✚ This is an excellent Purge Another Purgation 2 If it be in the spring prepare him as before then for three or foure daies together give him greene Rye so much as he will eate and after feed him with Bread or else Oates and Bran like as you are told before but insteed of Hay continue him those nights with greene Rye by reason his teeth will be on edge ✚ This cooleth his body and cleareth it from all Flegmatique and Rhumatique humours as for his bloud-letting let that bee according as your judgement shall dictate unto you and you may use this so long as you may see cause ✚ If you doe perceive your Horse to bee sicke Surfetted full of colds or otherwise ill disposed whether in Summer or in Winter after you have opened a Veine give him this Purge Take of Alloes Siccatrina made into fine powder two ounces Purgation 3 and make it up into pils with fresh or sweete Butter and give it to your Horse over night he having beene kept fasting the whole day before and prepared also with the Dyet before prescribed and after he hath taken those pils give him either a sweet Mash or white water the next morning early for that will cause his pils to work the more kindly that day and so let him fast till night during which time he will purge freely then at night he having stood upon the Trench all day give him white water and after Oates and Branne and then give him Hay sprinkled with water for all night neverthelesse he may not the first day purge by reason that some horses are of so strong a Constitution as that Physicke will not easily or soddenly worke but then bee you confident it will the next day you must therefore be carefull how you do order him After his purging keep him still warm clothed and well littered take him from the Trench and put on his Coller-halter give him sweet Mash or white water and after feed him well but by discretion both with Hay Oates and Bran and keepe him to white water two or three dayes after or longer if you shall so please and when you give him cold water let it bee with exercise ✚ This I have often tryed Another If your horse bee newly taken from Grasse and that you hold it needful his body be cleansed to free him of his many bad humous which eyther his Grasse or former Surfets might bring Then first Rake him and administer unto him the Clyster prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 8. letter C. Clyster 4. and the next day after give him this drinke Take of the strongest Ale-wort one quart of ordinary Honey a Purgation 4 quarter of a pint of London Treacle two ounces mixe and brew all together well and so give it him bloud-warme this done keepe him upon the Trench warme clothed and well littered sixe houres after and let his drinke be a sweet Mash or white water and let his Racke meate be sweet Wheate-straw Oates and Branne X. This both purgeth and comforteth Another which must bee given the next day Take of white-Wine one pint and put thereto of Sene one ounce Purgation 5 which must be infused all night in the Wine the next morning betimes straine it and put into it of the best and choycest Alloes one ounce made into fine powder and Agarick halfe an ounce of Licoris powdred one spoonfull warme this a little upon the fire and mix and brew it well together and so give it your Horse bloud-warme then walke or ride him gently a quarter of an houre and so set him up warm clothed and littered nor let any cold ayre come unto him neither let him eate or drink in six hours after and at night give him a sweet Mash or white water and let his Rack-meat be sweet Wheat straw and Oates with Bran. ✚ The next day if the signe be good open a veine in the necke and prick him in the mouth and if the bloud be bad take from him two quarts but if good then not fully one quart keep him warm and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water and put into his drink either the powder of Brimstone or of Fenugrick of Turmerick or of Elecampane one or more together according as he will be brought to like and take them which being well mixed put thereof into his drink one spoonfull at once ✚ These are very soveraign purgative receits whereby to coole the body purge choler and other peccant humours and to purifie and refine the bloud but besides this is not onely good for horses newly taken from grasse but for other sick surfetted and diseased Horses Another Purgation 6 Take of Gentian two ounces slice it into very small slices then boyle it in Beer one quart till it come to one pinte and give it him bloud warm but it will make him very sick for a short time but have no feare for the potion will do him much good let him fast upon it four or five hours at least then give him a warm Mash or white water and the next day give him this receit Take of Life-Honey or for default thereof ordinary Honey and mingle it with his Oates that he is to eate which must be mixed by rubbing the Oates and Honey betwixt your hands so that the Honey may be very well mixed let him eate his Oates thus mingled untill you do finde him to be quite cured which will be when he hath quite done running at the nose ✚ This is one of the best and most certain cordials that I know neither have I made use of any so much as of this for the time I have known the same for this disperseth all flegme and choler it also purgeth the head and brain it purifieth the bloud it venteth the evill humours it causeth good digestion and freeth a Horse from Glanders Colds Catars Rhumes Running at the nose and the like CHAP. XVII § 1. Q. Hippoph WHat cure have you for the quick or running Scab Hippos This is a noysome disease and infectious a very formall mainge and meer neighbour to the leprosie or Elephantique disease It commeth by surfet taken by over-riding when the bloud is over-hot it doth putrifie and