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A06911	The complete farriar, or The kings high-way to horsmanship Experimentally unfolding 1. The dyeting and governing of the running horse. 2. How to order, feed, and keep any horse for war, pleasure, hunting, or travell. 3. How to know the age of any horse. Lastly, certaine rare and approved secrets for the cure of the worst infirmities in horses. By G. Markam.; Discource of horsmanshippe. Abridgments	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1639 (1639)	STC 17341; ESTC S121248	46,187	190

horse it is a present remedy Also to dissolve the ball in his ordinary water being made milke warme it worketh the like effect and fatneth exceedingly To give one of these balls before travell it prevents tyering to give it in the height of travel it re●t●●●eth wearinesse and to give it after it saves an horse from all su●fens and inward sicknesse And thu● you shall spend this third ●o●night CHAP. V. An approved cure for the Botts and all manner of wormes of what nature soever TAke a quart of new milke and as much clarified honey as wil make it extraordinary sweet then being luke-warm give it the horse early in the morning he having fasted all the night before which done bridle him up and let him stand tyed to the emptie racke for more then two houres then take halfe a pinte of white-wine and dissolve into it a good spoonfull or more of black soape then the horse having stood two houres as aforesaid give it him to drinke then ride and chafe him a little and let him fast other two houres and the wormes will avoyd in great abundance CHAP. VI. Another most excellent receipt for the Botts or any wormes which is most easie most safe and mo●● certaine TAke the soft downy hair which growes in the ear of an horse and which you clip away when you coule him and the little short ●●● which growes on the top of his forehead underneath his ●oretop and having a pretty quantity of them mixe them well with a pottle of sweet oats and so give the● to the horse and there is not any thing will kill wormes more ●●●●redly CHAP. VII An excellent purgation when a Horse is dangerously sicke of his grease or of costivenesse TAke a pinte of old white wine and set it on the fire then dissolve into it a lump halfe as much as an Hens-egge of castle-soape and stirre them well together then take it off and put into it two good spoonfulls of hemp-seed beaten and an ounce and an halfe of sugar-candie beaten to powder and brew all well together then having warmed the horse to stirre up his grease and other foule humours give him this to drinke and walke him up and downe a little after it to make the potion worke then set him up warme after a little stirring up down in his stall if he grow sickish give him liberty to lye downe After two or three houres fasting give him a sweet mash then feed as at other times CHAP. VIII For laxativenesse or extreame loosenesse TAke a quart of red-wine and set it on the fire then put into it ●● ounce and an halfe of Bolearmonie in powder and two ounces and an halfe of the Conserve of sloes then stirre and ●●●● them well together after take it from the fire and put to it a spoonfull or two of the powder of Cinamon and brewing all well together give it the horse Let him fast two houres after it and let him eat no washt meat Hay is wholsome so is bread and oats if they bee well mixt with beanes or wheat but not otherwise CHAP. IX An infallible helpe for the stone or paine of urine by winde causing sicknesse MAke a strong ●ecoction that is to say boyle your first quantity of water to an halfe part 3-times over of keene onions clean ●ill'd and chopt and parcelie then take a quart thereof and put ●o it a great spoonfull of London●reackle as much of the powder of egge-shells and give it the horse to drinke and thus doe divers mornings if the in fir mitie be great otherwise when you see the horse offended CHAP. X. An approved medicine to cure and breake any old festered cold and to drie up a foule running glaunders TAke a pinte of verjuyce and put to it so much strong mustard ●●●●● with wine vineger ●● will make the verjuyce strong and keene thereof then take an ounce and more of roach-allome and beate it to powder then when you give this to the horse as y●● fill your horne so with a knife or spoone put some of the allome into the horne and so give it the horse part at the mouth and part at both his nostrills but especially at the nostrill which runneth most then ride and chafe him a little after it then set up warme at noone give him a warme mash and at all times give no cold water but when hee may have exercise after it And thus drench the horse three daies together and it will be sufficient CHAP. XI Another for a violent cold TAke of white wine vinegar halfe a pinte and as much sallet-oyle brew them well together and then put to it an ounce and a halfe of sugar-candie in powder and so give it the horse and stir him a little after it This is exceeding good but it will occasion sicknesse for a small time CHAP. XII An excellent Cordiall powder for any ordinary cold and to prepare an Horse before travell to refresh him in travell and to preserve him from mischiefe after travell TAke of English liquorice and of elicampaneroots of each one ounce of sugar-candy an ounce and an halfe beate them to fine powder and searce them keepe the powder in a boxe and when you have occasion to use it if it be for a cold then give it in sweet wine or strong ale but if in ale then take a quart and so give it both before travell at your haire in travell and in your Inne or at home immediately after travell CHAP. XIII An excellent scowring when other scowrings will not worke TAke of sweet butter a quarter of a pound half so much Castle-soape beate them well together then ad to them two spoonfulls of hempseed bruised of Anniseed a spoonfull bruised of sugar-candie an ounce of Rozzen bruise halfe a spoonfull worke all these into a paste and give it the horse in the manner of pills immediately after his heate or when you have warmed him and stirred up the grease and foulenesse within him CHAP. XIIII An admirable water for any sore eye or to cleare any dimme sight at moone-eies and the like TAke the stone Lap●●● laminarius and 〈◊〉 red hot in the fire th●● quench it in a pinte 〈◊〉 white wine and thus doe 〈◊〉 times together then adde 〈◊〉 the quantity of wine half so much of the juyce of housleeke and with this water bathe the eie twice or thrice a day and it is excellent against any imperfection therein CHAP. XV. Another water for any sore eye no lesse precious then the former TAke a pinte of Snow-water and dissolve into it 3 or foure drams of white Vitrioll and with it wash the Horses eyes three or foure times a day and the effect is great CHAP. XVI For any extreme blow or bruiseon the eye for any pearle pinne web or unnaturall filme or foulenesse TAke of womans 〈…〉 if it can be got o● f●● want of it new 〈◊〉 from the Cow 〈…〉 three spoonfulls and halfe 〈◊〉 much

him fasting two hours after the receipt of his scowring and waking and stirring three or four for rest is hurtfull to the medicine and motion a benefit After your Horse hath fasted upon the bridle full two houres or more then you shall take an handful of wheat ears being your Pollard wheate that is without Annes or rough beards and comming to the Horse first handle the roots of his eares then put your hands under his cloathes against his heart upon his flanks and on the nether part of his thighes and if you finde any nesh sweat to arise or any coldnesse of sweat or if you see his bodie beate or his breath move fast then forbeare to give him any thing for it is a pregnant signe that there is much foulnesse stirred up on which the medicine working with a conquering qualitie the Horse is brought to a little heart-sicknesse therefore in this case you shall onely take off his bridle and put on his collar then tosse up his litter that he may lye down and so absent your selfe having made the stable darke and still for two houres more which is the utmost end of that sicknesse But if you finde no such offence then you shall pr●ffer him the eares of wheat by three or foure together and if he ●●●e this handfull then give him another After he hath eaten the wh●●● ears you shal then give him a little bundle of Hay such as hath been before declared and draw his bridle rubbing his head well An houre or better after he hath had his Hay you shall sift him quart of Oats and to them you shall put two or three handfulls of Spelted beanes which you shall cause to be Reed and drest so clean as is possible from all manner of hulls dust and filth whatsoever so as there may be nothing but the clean spelted Beanes themselves to these Oats and Beans you shall break two or three shives of bread cleane chipt and give all unto the Horse and so leave him to his rest for neare three houres or thereabout At evening before you dresse the Horse give the like quantity of Oats spelt-beans and bread and when hee hath eaten them then bridle him up and dresse him as before declared and after hee is drest then cloath him up ●on you shall neither saddle him nor ride him foorth for you shall understand that this evening after his heate the horse being inwardly foule and the scowring yet working in his bodie he may not receive any water at all After the Horse is drest and hath stood an houre and an halfe upon his bridle you shall then take three pintes of cleane sifted Oats and wash them in strong Ale or Beere and so give them to the Horse for this will inwardly coole and refresh him as if hee had drunke water After he hath eaten this washe meat and rested upon it a little space you shall then at his feeding times which have been spoken of before with Oats and spelt beans or Oats and bread or all together or each severall and simple of it selfe excepting Beanes as you shall find the stomack of the horse best adicted to receive it feed him that night in plentifull manner and leave a knob of Hay in the Rack when you go to bed The next day very early as may be first feed then dresse after cloath and saddle then ayre him abroad and water him as hath been before shewed after bring him home and feed him with oats spelt beans and bread as was last of all declared onely very little Hay and keep your heating daies and the preparation the day before in such wise as hath been also formerly declared without any omission or addition Thus you shall spend the second fortnight in which your Horse having received four heats soundly given unto him and four scowrings there is no doubt but his body will bee drawne inwardly cleane you shall then the third fortnight order him according to those rules which hereafter follow CHAP. IX The third Fortnights keeping The second Bread THis third fortnight you shall make his bread finer then it was formerly as thus You shall take two pecks of cleane Beanes and two pecks of fine wheate grinde them on the black stones searse them through a fine raunge and knead it up with Barm and great store of lightning working it in all points and baking it in the same sort as was shewed you in the former bread With this Bread having the crust cut cleane away and being old as before shewed with cleane sifted Oats and with clean drest spelt-beanes you shall feed your Horse this fortnight as you did the fortnight before you shall observe his dressings agreeings and howers of feeding as in the former fortnight also you shall observe his heating dayes and the day before his heat as in the former fortnight onely with these differences First you shall not give his heats so violently as before but with a little more pleasure that is to say if the first heate bee of force and violence the second heat shall be of pleasure and ease and indeed none at all to overstrain the horse or to make his body sore Next you shall not after his heat when hee commeth home give him any more of the former scowring but instead thereof you shall instantly upon the end of your heat after the horse is a little cooled and clothed up and in the same place where you rub him by drawing his head up aloft as you sit in the saddle or raising it up otherwise give him a ball somewhat bigger then a French walnut hull and all of that which is mentioned in the fourth Chapter of the booke of cures and goeth by this Title And thus you shall spend the third Fortnight CHAP. VIII The fourth and last Fortnights keeping HAving thus spent the three first Fortnights you shall the fourth and last Fortnight make your Horses Bread much fine● then either of the former as thus The last Bread Take three pecks of fine wheat and but one peck of cleane Beans grinde them together on the black stones and boult them through the finest boulter you can get then knead it up with very sweet Ale Barme and new strong Ale and the Barme beaten together and also the whites of at least twenty eggs but in any wise no water at all but instead therof some small quantity of new milke then work it up and labour it with all painfulnesse that may be as was shewed in the first batch then bake it and order it as was declared in the other With this Bread having the crust cut cleane away and with Oats well sunned beaten and rubb'd over with your hands then new winnowed sifted and most finely drest that there may bee neither light ones nor foule ones nor any false grain amongst them and with the purest spelted Beans that can be tryed out feed your Horse at his ordinary feeding times in such wise as you did in the fortnight last

two daies then the third day open the hose at the top but stirre not the poultus onely take molten hogsgrease hot as the Horse can suffer it and with a spoone lade it unto the poultus on every side till it will receive no more for this wil renew the strength of the poultus then close up the top of the hose and so let the horse stand other 2. daies or 3. then you may open the leg and rub it downe and if strong occasion you may apply another new poultus if not your cure is wrought Now if besides the swelling of his legs your horse hath ulcers and chaps as scratches paines mules or the like then you shall first apply the former poultus in al respects as aforesayd then after five or six daies application when you take the poultus away you shall take a quart of old urine and put to it an handful of salt as m●ch Allome halfe an ounce of whi●● copporice and boyle all well t● gether then with this water very hot wash the sores once or twice a day and after a little drying ●noint them with the ointment called Aegyptiacum and is made o●wi● neger 8 ounces of honey 12 ounces of verdigrease two ounce● of Allome one ounce and an halfe boyled to that height till it come to a red salve And it will both kill the malignant humours and also heale and dry up the sores CHAP. XXVII For gourdings swellings and paine in the joynts MAke a very strong brine of water and salt and to a quart thereof put two or three handfulls of Rew and boyle it till the hearb be soft then with this water very hot bathe the grieved part well Then take a flat bagge filled with salt and he ated hot at the fire and lap it about the griefe also then roule it up and thus doe once or twice a day and it is a good cure CHAP. XXVIII Another approved cure for the scratches or any disease of that nature as Mallander sellander c. TAke of hogsgrease and blacke-soape of ●●●● eight ounces of 〈…〉 stone of lime of ●●Spand●● powder of each three ounces ●●● of soote as much as will suffic● to bring the rest to a salve boyle the hogsgrease and soap together and bring the other hard simples to a fine powder and so mixe all together and make a blacke oyntment with this anoynt the so●● once a day after they are clea●●ed and made raw CHAP. XXIX For any splente spaven curbe ●ing-bone or any hard knot or ex●rescion FIrst having taken viewe of the excrescion clip away the haire as far as the excrescion go●th and a little thought more then ●ake a peece of Allomd-leather ●ade as bigge just as the place you ●ave bared and fitted to the same ●roportion then take a little shoo●akers waxe and spread it round ●bout the very edge or verge of ●he same leaving all the inward or ●iddle part empty and not toucht with the waxe according to this ●igure O Then take of the hearb Spear-grasse which hath the ver●ue to raise blisters and bruising it in a morter lay some thereof upon the leather in the voyd and emptie place which ought to containe the just quantity of the kne● or excression and binde it fa● thereon suffering it to lie if i●● in the spring or summer time whe● the hearbe hath its full strength and vertue about halfe a 〈…〉 if it bee in the winter 〈◊〉 hearb hath lesse vertue 〈◊〉 if to renew the strength of t●● hearb you ad to it a drop or t● of the oyle of Origanum and ● it lie halfe a day fully And ●● sure to tye up the horses head tw● or three houres for feare of ●●ting it away When you have taken off t●● plaster anoynt the place wi● Trayn-oyle warme and you sh● finde no excression CHAP. XXX Another cure for splent spaven c. and to drie up windgalls or swellings FIrst hea●e the Sarrance with an hot pressing Iron then vent it in severall places with your ●leame then take a spoonfull of ●alt halfe a spoonfull of Nerve●yle a penny waight of verdi●rease and the white of an egge ●eate all to a salve and dipping ●ax hurds therein apply it to the ●riefe and it helpeth CHAP. XXXI An approved cure for the swift cut or any hewing on the leg and 〈◊〉 heale any wound TAke a pinte of 〈…〉 wine and put 〈…〉 or three 〈…〉 honey and stirre the● well together then boy 〈◊〉 till they come to the body of an oyntment then take it from the fire and put to it halfe so 〈◊〉 turpentine as there was honey and stirre all well together then ●tra● it and with this salve 〈…〉 hot anoynt the sores twice or thrice a day and it is a most speedy healer CHAP. XXXII To heal saddle bruises hard swellings and all sorts of Impostumations FInst ●ipen it with rotten Litter or wet Hay then when it is soft open it to let out the corruption then fill the hollownesse with the powder of Rozen and lay a plaster of shooemakers waxe over it and thus doe once in twenty foure houres till it be whole If it be slow in skinning or drying up take a spoonfull or two of thick creame and mix it with soot till it be a salve and anoynt it therwith and it will drie and skinne presently CHAP. XXXIII For any maunge scab or ●●pr●sie wheresoever FIrst let blood then take a quart of old urine o●●ineger and breake 〈◊〉 it a quarter of a pound or better of the best Tobacco then set it on a fire of embers where it may simmer and not boyle and so let it stew all an whole night then with this water wash the infected places wheresoever they be and it is a certaine remedy CHAP. XXXIIII For the foulest and most desperate Farcie that may be TAke hearb of grace and the hearbe Cley-Cleys which is a weed growing by the water-side having a great broad round leafe and is green on the upper side and white on the nether of each of them take an equall quantity beat them in a morter and strain them then to a pinte of this juyce put halfe a pinte of the juyce of housleek and half a pinte of Aquavitae and two good spoonfulls of pepper beaten and finely searc't of this liquor take a pinte and give it the horse to drink then with round plediants of flax dipt in the same stop both his eares then with the strained bruisings of all the hearbs rub the sores and stop the holes if there bee any hollownesse doe thus twice at the least and oftner if you finde occasion CHAP. XXXV For any founder f●eltize su●●ait or any imperfection in the feet FIrst pare thin open the heels wide and take good st●r● of blood from the toes then 〈◊〉 on a shooe somewhat hollow after take of the best frankincen●e and rouling it in a little fine cotten wooll or bumbast with an hot Iron melt it into the foot betwin the shooe and the toe till the o●●fice where the blood was taken be filled up then take halfe a pound of hogsgrease and melt it on the fire then mix it with wheat 〈◊〉 till it be as thick as a poultus then boyling it hot as is possible stop up the horse foot there with then cover it with a peece of an ould shooe and splent it up and so let the horse stand for three or foure dayes then if occasion serve you may renew it otherwise the cure is wrought CHAP. XXXVI To make hoofes grow quickly and to be tough and strong TAke of Allome beaten and of the juyce of garlick of each seven ounces of hearbe of grace three handfulls of old hogsgrease two pound of Asses dung or for want of it Cow dung an handfull mingle them and boyle them all well together then with this both stop the horses feeet and anoynt the crownets of the hoofes the medicine being hot and the effect is great CHAP. XXXVII A generall salve for any s●re or swelling prick cloynige or treade TAke Turpentine blacksoape hogsgrease green Treate and Pitch of each like quantity mix and boyle them all well together and apply it warme to the griefe either plaster wise or tent wise The best of Secrets CHAP. XXXVIII For decayed rotten or over strained lungs which wee call broken-winded or for any old drie cough of long continuance TAke halfe a pinte of the water of Colts-foot and put unto it ten drops or at the utmost not above a dram of Balsamum sulphuris and give it the horse in the morning fasting then ride him a little gently after it bee sure to keepe warme and give no cold water without exercise Do thus every other morning till you find amendment CHAP. XXXIX How to make Balsamum sulphuris TAke an ounce of the oyl of Turpentine and an ounce of the flower of brimstone and put them into a violl then set it on a fire of embers or hot ashes and th●●e let it stew till the brimstone be dissolved and incorporate with the oyl and become a red unguent Of this take a full dramme at the least CHAP. XL. Another of Saint Anthonies cures for any straine or swelling TAke Commin-seede and bruise it grosse and boyle it with the oyle of camomile then adde to it so much yellow waxe as will bring it to the bodie of a Cer●ot or gentle plaster and spread it on either cloth or leather and very hot apply it to the griefe and renew it not above once in two or three dayes It is a wonderfull soveraigne for any straine in a man also CHAP. XLI An approved cure for the swiftcut or any hewing on the legs TAke a pinte of white-wine and put to it two or three spoonfulls of honey and boylethem till they bee well incorporated together then straine it and with this water some what hot bathe the sores twice or thrice a day and it is a most speedy heale● FINIS The three estates of Horses bodies Times for matching Particular estates of Bodies Matching of a foule Horse Of dro●● sing