underneath the Tongue an Inch long for to let forth the Poyson and wash it with Vinegar for the present and within an Hour then give them three penniworth of the Powder of Fenigrick Turmerick long Pepper Liquoris-powder and Anniseeds in a quart of strong Ale or Beer Milk-warm And for to prevent this blood them well at the Spring and at the Fall and when you Blood them give to every Beast some Rhue in a pint of Ale or Beer if they be never so well Milk-warm and they will do well Approved of my self IV. For the Garget on the Tongue and Throat THis Disease somtimes cometh of Blood and sometimes of eating of poyson Grass as Dogs-bane Goose-foot Helmet flowers all these are poyson either to Beast or Swine The Cure You must first blood them in the Neck and if they be swelled under the Jawes against the Throat-Bowl then you must pull forth his Tongue and cut a Vein that lieth under the Tongue and cut the Skin two inches long under the Tongue length-way for to let forth the Blood and Water and wash the Tongue with Vinegar Salt and burnt Allom and for the out side that is swelled you must slit the Hide just against the swell'd place four Fingers broad every way and then put in a good handfull of Speargrass Salt and Butter and stitch some of the hole up again then take a lump of the blewest Clay as much as a Mustard-ball and boyle it with old Urine and the middle Green Bark of young Elder and a good handfull of Salt and let them boyle a quarter of an Hour or more and put in a little reased Bacon and boyl them all together until they be thick like Pap and then bath the Beasts Face from the Ears downwards and stroak it downwards towards the Slit as hot as you can endure the hotter the better and bath the Beast so three times a Day and when the swelling is abated them take Tar fresh Butter and Bees-wax and annoint the sore place and it will be well presently by Gods help Approved And to prevent this Disease you must do by them as I said in the former Chapter Blood them and give them some Rhue and strong Ale or Beer compounded together and give it them Milk-warme V. Another for the same TAke the blewest Clay that you can get and take Hogs Grease and a little Grunsel and boyl them in new milk until the Herbs be well boyled and put in a handful of Salt and bath the Beast as hot as you be able for to put in your Hand but first let blood in the Neck and give them three penniworth of Fenigrick Turmerick Long-Pepper Anniseeds Liquoris all in equal Portions but three Pence in all and give it them in a quart of strong Ale or Beer Milk-warm and they will mend presently by Gods help Approved of my selfe And for the preventing of it you must Blood them in the Spring and Fall and it will prevent them giving them some Rhue in strong Ale when you blood them VI. For the Garget in the Head and Throat as some do call the Murrain Long-sought THis Garget is Cousen German to the Murrain for they will swell and be puck under their Jaws like a rotten Sheep their Cheeks will be swelled up to their Eyes they will not foam at the Mouth but they run water very much and sometimes their Tongue will be swelled at the Root and yet there will be no blisters but only the Venom that cometh of an ill distemper of Stomack and so fumeth into the Head and if it be not staid it will return to the Heart and all over the Body The right name of this Disease is called the Mountain Evil among Beasts The Cure First let them Blood in the Neck Vein both sick and sound and give to every Beast to drink both sick and sound a pint of old Urine and a good quantity of Hens-dung laid in steep Eight or Ten Hours and grind for every Beast a handful of Rhue and put to the Hens-dung Urine when it is strained and give it to the Beasts both sick and sound but more to the sick and less to the sound and it will cure the sick and prevent the sound Approved And for to keep them sound if the year time be dangerous you must take Time lay it in steep in White-wine Vinegar and the Beasts own Water and a handful of Salt and blend with the Vinegar and rub their Mouth and. Tongue very well and put the rest down the Beasts Throat and it will keep their Stomach and preserve their Health but Blood both at the Spring and Fall of the Leaf and give them Rhue as aforesaid VII A special Cure for the Murrain in a Beast THis Disease cometh many severall ways first it cometh of rankness of Blood or Feeding or from the corruption of the Air or the infection of other Cattel you may find this Disease by their Carriage That is they will foam at the Mouth and blow very thick and short and their Heart and Lights will beat very sore and sometimes their Face and Chaps will swell and their Eyes will run with water The Cure First let all your Beasts Blood both Sick and Sound and give to the sick some Rhue Fetherfew Sage Hyssop Time Marjerom Marigolds Fennel Tansey Lavender and Spike of every one a small handful and boyle all the Herbs in Spring Water and boyle them from a Gallon to a quart and then strain the Herbs forth and put to for every Beast a pint of strong Ale to the Juice and put to the Juice and Ale some long Pepper and green Anniseeds Peas and Bay-salt Treacle and Liquoris-powder and Butter pound all these Spices and put them to the Juice of Herbs and give to the sick a full pint and to the sound halfe a pint and they will mend for certain Approved VIII Another excellent Cure for the Murraine in Ox Cow or Calf FIrst you must take for every Beast a quart of old Wash and a good quantity of Hens-dung and lay the Hens-dung in steep Eight or Ten Hours and then strain the Dung forth and break to every Beast Two rotten Eggs into the forenamed Juice and give to every one two penniworth of Spikenard and blend all these together and give it the Beast but first let Blood both sick and sound and seperate the sick from the sound Blood and Drench both Horses and Swine for they are both apt to take the Disease Bury the Dead Carrion deep in the Ground that the Dogs cannot pull it forth for to feed on it for they are those that carry the Desease from one place to another and be carefull where you lay the Murrain Hide of an Horse or how a man doth take off the Hide while the Beast is hot for it is infectious the safest way is to bury the Beast the Hide and all for that is the best way and by Gods help they will be
them sometimes it taketh them in the Neck and sometimes in their Legs and sometimes in both and if it do take them in their Limbs it is very hard to recover them The Cure Take Rosemary Sage Unset Hyssop Woodbine-leaves every one of these a good handful and two handfuls of Burdock leaves and boyl all these in a Gallon of spring Water till they all come to a quart and then strain forth the Herbs and melt in half a pound of Roach-Allom and put it into an earthen Pot and keep it close from the Wind and give it the Beasts in at their Nostrils by six spoonfuls at a time and no more each Nostril three spoonfuls and give it them three times a day and no more and give it them as long as the Liquor lasteth and it will help them Approved But first let them Blood in the Tail and let them bleed very well there is no question of their mending XXV For the Speed in the hinder parts THis Disease may well be called the Speed because it either mendeth or endeth in three days time it cometh of the rankness of blood and is catching among young Cattel betwixt one year old and three and none else it also cometh for want of blooding It taketh them in the hinder parts The Cure Give them Salt and Whitewine blended together and those that are well blood them in the neck Vein and those that are fick blood them in the Taile and let them bleed very well then cast them and tie their Feet and take a sharp knife and slit a hole two Inches long in the inside of the hinder Legs above the hollow of the Gambrel streight up and down for fear of cutting any Vein or Sinew and make some room with your Finger for to put in some Speargrass Salt and Butter and give them a quart of Ale and some Rhue Sage Fetherfew and Spurge ground small and put to the Ale and give to the Beasts warm but you must not drive them above twelve Hours if you do they will be past help if they be taken while they can stand they are curable by Gods help Approved XXVI For the Pantas THis Disease is called the Pantas it cometh by eating foul sowre Grass or dry harsh Grass in Summer which doth not go forth of their Maw but maketh them go with a short grunt and go but a little and stand as if they were not able to go half a Mile The Cure Take a quart of half-churned Milk with the Butter in it and take a good Garlick head or two little ones and pill them as if they were to eat and bruise them and take a penniworth of the finest Tar that you can get and a good handful of the finest Feathers that can be got without any stumps for fear of sticking in the Beasts Throat and beat all these together and if they chance to go on lumps put them all together and beat in a little Soot and give it the Beasts and they will be well in four and twenty Hours Approved XXVII A good Receipt for the biting of a Shrew-Mouse THis Shrew-Mouse for her bigness is a more Venemous Beast then any for if she biteth any Beast though it be but little it will swell abundantly The Cure When you see that your Beast is bitten and is swelled then take an Awl and prick it up and down as far as it is swelled through the Hide and no further then take the Earth where Wains and Carts do much use to go but let it be the dryest of it and blend it with Whitewine Vinegar and it will presently asswage and heal the swelling Also take the Earth of a Cart-wheel and the earth of a Swallows nest and pound them together and blend them with old Urine and make it thick like a Salve and annoint the sore place that is bitten and it will cure either Man or Beast Approved XXVIII Another good Receipt for the Shrew-Mouse THe biting of this Shrew is venomous as is said before The Cure First open the Skin and let out the venom and if it be swelled then beat Salt and Vinegar together and bathe the sore place with it and then boyl some Herbs to bath the swelled place but boyl them in old Urine bathe it round about the Sore and if it chance to break then you must take Barley and lay it on a Fire-shovel and burn it black-brown and then pound it to Powder and lay it in steep in White-wine vinegar all night and put to a little of the juice of Dill and blend them together annoint the place till it be well and that will be quickly Approved of my self XXIX Another for the Shrew-Mouses THe bite of a Shrew-Mouse is as venomous as the sting of a Wasp for if she bite either Man or Beast it will swell immediately The Cure You must take Parsley seed and boyl it with Whitewine Salade oyl Hogs grease also take some Powder of burnt Barley and blend in it and make it like a Salve and annoint the Sore till it be well This is good for to cure the biting of Hedge-hogs or the stinging of Hornets XXX For the stinging of Adders and Scorpions or the biting of a Hedge-hog or Shrew FOr the stinging and biting of these venomous creatures take the oyl of Scorpions and Vinegar with Plantane and Bole-armonick made thick like a Salve and annoint the place so grieved three times a day Also take Sanguis Draconis and a little Barly Meal and the white of Eggs beat all these together and lay them on Plaister-wise to the Sore and renewing it once in twelve Hours it will help them for this and for the the stinging of Hornets Approved XXXI For the swelling of an Oxes Cod. FOr the swelling of an Oxes Cod by any chance whatsoever you must annoint him with sweet Seam at the first three times a day and if it do not fall then take Wallearth and dissolve it in Vinegar and the Dung of an Ox and bath them with it Some holds it a naturall remedy for the dung of a Dog to cure the swelling of an Oxes Cod or Pisle if they be often rubbed with it XXXII For an Ox or Cow that hath lost their Appetite FOr the Beasts that are tired by labour and have lost their appetite you must cause them to swallow raw Eggs well beaten with Honey Vinegar and Salt Also give them Horehound made into fine Powder to drink and it will help the Appetite Also stamp the tops of Rhue Leeks Smallage and Sage and give it them to drink in Whitewine and it will help their Appetite Also for the swelling of the Pallate of the Mouth take a sharp knife and launce it and let forth the Water and Blood and rub the slit with Water and Salt and it will do well XXXIII A Remedy for the loss of the Cud. BEasts sometimes lose their Cud by chance and if so then they will mourn and sometimes by
sickness and poverty The Cure Take sowre Leaven of Rie-bread Salt and beat it in a Mortar with mans Urine and Barm and make a big Ball or two of it and put them down the Throat of the Beasts and they will do well Also take part of the Cud of another Beast and blend it with Rie-bread sowre Leaven and Salt and pound them in a Mortar and make it into Balls and give it to the Beasts and they will get their Cud again for certain XXXIV For the Lungs Growing of any Beast THe Lungs of a Beast is very often subject to sickness or stopping as will appear by their coughing and hosting and sometimes they will hang forth their Tongues a great while after their hosting that is a sign of the Lungs Growing There is no other Medicines for this Disease but these two following The Cure You must take a pint of Tanners Ooze and blend it with a pint of new Milk and an ounce of brown Sugarcandy and two penniworth of Salade Oyl and two spoonfulls of Tar and give it to the Beast warm at twice Also you must give them two Balls either of them as big as an Egg of Tar Butter Garlick and Sugarcandy blended all together and it will mend them presently Approved XXXV For to kill Worms in Ox Cow or Calf THere is nothing better to kill Worms in Cattell then pounded Savin and black Soap blended with a quart of sweet Wort and given them in a morning fasting and keep them without meat three Hours after XXXVI A good Receipt for a Beast that is Dewboulne at the Spring or in Eddige-time FOr this Dewboulne you must first let them blood in the Tail and then take a Nutmeg and grate it and take an Egg and take off the top of the shell and put out so much of the white as you may put the Nutmeg into the shell and blend them together and put it down the Beasts Throat shell and all and walk them up and down and they will mend presently This swelling most commonly cometh when the Grass is full of Water and then it is full of Wind also so that then the Beast lappeth up both Wind and Water and that causeth them to swell then stir them up and down and cause them to Purge and they will do well There is less danger in putting them to wet Eddige then there is to dry for the dry Eddige will not go through their Maws so well when it is dry and the Beasts hungry XXXVII A good way to breed Milk IF your Cow chance to have a Calf and be poor or to Calve before her time and hath not Milk for to keep her Calf you must give her good store of Mashes of Mault Milk-warm also give her every morning and evening a quart of Ale made into a Posset and take off the Curd and put in Anniseeds Cummin seeds Lettice seeds and Coriander seeds all made into Powder and blend them with the Posset and let them stand three Hours blended together and then give it the Beast for four days one after another and by often drawing of her Paps her Milk will be sure to encrease mightily in a short time XXXVIII For the Withering of a Cow FOr the Withering of a Cow take Coleworts Mallows Maidenhair Mugwort Bettany Aristolochia and boyl all these in Water and give it to the Beast Milk-warm Also take Aristolochia Mirrhe and Pepper and bruise them and give it the Beast in white Wine or strong Ale Milk-warm and it will cause her to cast forth her Latter burden or dead Calf and make her whole for certain Approved XXXIX A good Receipt for a Beast that maketh Blend-water that cometh by a strain and issueth through the Bladder THere may be several causes for the making of Blend-water First it may come by a Strain Crush or Wrench in the Back which may cause some Vein to be broken near the Kidney and so may feed the Bladder and it may come to a Cow in her Calving by a strain or it may come by change of Ground or harsh feeding as I mentioned before in the former Chapter The Cure Take a Swallows nest the Birds and all if you can get them and put them all into a Mortar and pound the Birds Nest and Feathers all together and then boyl them in fair Water and put in a good handful of Plantane leaves and seeds Blewbottle and the roots of Daffidillies also put in a little Sumack and boyl them very well then strain them and put to a little sweet Wine and give it the Beast Milk-warm fasting But first let blood in the Neck-vein for to draw the Blood back and within half an Hour give them the Drink and it will stay certainly XL. For to get a Beast a stomach when he is weary and tired WHen a Beast is tired or weary it may be through weakness and poverty of his Body it will bring some Disease or other upon him To prevent that and bring him to a Stomach take a little handfull of Salt and Whitewine Vinegar and rub his Mouth and Tongue very well and put the rest down his Throat and he will eat his Meat presently XLI For the hardness or swelling of a Bull or Oxes Pisle that is bruised by Riding FOr the swelling of a Bull or Oxes Pisle you must take Holyhawk Houseleek and a little Plantane and stamp them together with fresh Butter and annoint it twice a day and if it be sore you must cast him and wash his Sheath and Pisle with Whitewine-vinegar very well and if there be any Cancer or Holes in the Yard then you must put some burnt Allom to the Vinegar and wash it very well and he will mend in three times dressing without fail Approved XLII For Forbaiting or a swolne Foot of any Beast THis Forbaiting cometh by sore travel or work which causeth lameness and fretting of the Foot The Cure You must Boyl Honey and Hogs-grease in Whitewine untill it be thick like Pap and lay it on the Foot a good thickness and let it lie on three days before you remove it Also for a swoln Foot take half a handful of Elder-leaves a few leaves of Grunsel and a few crops of Chickweed and a little Housleek and Swines-grease and beat them altogether in a Mortar till they be like a Salve and lay it on Plaister-wise and it will take down the swelling without fail XLIII For the stenching of Blood of any Beast cut or hurt and how to make a Salve to heal it FIrst if you chance to have any Beast cut or hurt you must take Hares-wooll or Rabbets-wooll and fill the cut or slit full of it and hold it to with your your hand or else bind it fast with some string and burn the upper Leather of an old Shooe and take the Ashes of it and strew amongst the Wooll and it will stay the bleeding But let it lie on four and twenty Hours before you do take it