the Halter catcheth into the Pasterne Ioynt which he feeling falleth to striving whereby he casteth himselfe downe and by meanes of the hardnesse of the Cord he is gauled even to the very bone and many times if he be not opportunely rescued the Halter doth strangle him and he found starck dead But if the Horse do escape with life he will be neverthelesse terrible gauled which will soone rankle and swell unlesse cure be presently administred The signe whereby to know it is apparant enough I will give you only two Receipts for this sorance whereof the first shal be this viz. Take the leafe of the hearb called Saubsucus Cast in a Halter stamp it and strayn it and take only the juyce thereof and apply the said juyce to the sorance by washing it therewith after take a linnen cloth white and cleane and make it into three or foure folds steeping the cloath in the said juyce and bind it on to the place grieved but in Winter when the said Leafe is not to be had you must take the second rinde thereof and do therewith as before but then note that before you wash and apply the saide juyce to the wound you must first wash the sorance with warme Water and then apply your said juyce and he shal be perfectly cured in short time This I never yet experienced by reason I could never yet meete with the Hearb This second I have often tryed and I have found it to bee infallible viz. Make a Rowle of fat Wooll and steepe the same in Vineger and Sheepes Suet so much as will suffice boyled together till it commeth to bee very thick and let the Rowle bee full as long or rather somewhat longer then the place gauled apply this to the sorance Plaister-wise and bind upon it a cleane Linnen cloth changing it twise a day and in short time it wil be whole This is right good ✚ § 2. C. Hippoph VVHat Cure have you for a Canker Hippos This is a very loathsome Sorance which if it be suffred to run long will so fester and corrupt the place where it hapneth that it will violently eate even to the bone if it fall upon the Tongue it will eate the very roote in sunder if in the Nose it will eate the very Gristle through You may easily know this Sorance for that the places wil be very raw and bleed often and many times you shall perceive a white Scurfe to grow upon the place grieved For it is a most Cankerous Vlcer which ofttimes is engendred of a fretting humour It commeth two waies that is eyther of naughty and corrupt bloud procured by meanes of unwholesome meate or by some Bilious Humour which came to the Horse by an extreame cold not long before taken which will cause his bteath to stinke loathsomely Canker I will deliver unto you sundry cures for this sorance which my selfe have experimented and have found them to be very good Take white Wine halfe a pint Roch Alome the quantity of a Wall-nut Bay-salt halfe a Spoonefull English Honey one Spoonefull Red-Sage Rue Ribwort Honey-Suckle Leaves Yarrow Plantine Bramble-leaves of each like much but of every one a little boyle all these in the white Wine so much as will suffice till a quarter be consumed and then first inject of this Water into the sorance or else if the Canker be in the Mouth wash the place with a clout fastned to a sticks end and so dresse him therewith twice a day or oftner if you shall see cause till it be whole ✚ Another Take greene Coperas and Alome of each one pound white Coperas foure drammes boyle these in a pottle of running Water untill almost the one moiety bee consumed then take it from the fire and put into it of Honey half a pound then holding up his Head with a Drenching Staffe but yet not too high with a Pewter or Elder Sering or Squirt inject it into his Nose if the Canker be there bloud warme which done give presently his head liberty whereby hee may snuffle and blow forth the corruption and faile not to inject him thus three or foure times one after the other at every dressing and do thus Morning and Evening till it bee whole which will not be long ✚ But if it be only a sore Mouth and that it come to be a Canker then Take of the strongest white Wine Vineger and make it thick with powdred Alome and so wash the sorance therewith two or three dayes together for this will kill and destroy the Vlcer then heale up the Sorance thus viz. Take of faire Water a quart Alome and Honey of each foure ounces Maudeline leaves red Sage and Columbine leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in the Water till halfe bee consumed and every day twice that is Morning and Evening wash his Mouth therwith bloud-warme and it will heale him ✚ Another First make this strong Alome Water viz. Take Alome halfe a pound Hony halfe a pint red Sage and Wood-bind-leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in faire water till halfe bee consumed with this Water and Hearbs wash and rub the Sores till they become red and raw then take white Wine Vineger halfe a pint Alome powdred two ounces Ginger powdred halfe an ounce and of life Honey halfe a pint mix all these well together and therewith annoynt the sore Morning and Evening and it will cure him ✚ All these Receipts I have made tryall of and have found them to be right good Another Take the juyce of the Root Asphodill seven ounces Quick-lime Arsnick of each two ounces beat and incorporate all these together and put them into a new pot close stopped and let it boyle till it come to ashes these ashes you shall apply to the Sorance twice a day but the sore must be first washed with strong Vineger as before is taught §. 3. C. Hippoph HOw cure you that Horse who hath cast his Hoofe Hippos This is a troublesome Sorance yet with care it may be cured it commeth either by meanes of some Foundring or by an Accloy Prick Stub Graveling Quitterbone or other hurt within the Foote which breaking out above round about the Cronet and in time the Hoofe breaking it falleth from the Foote I neede relate no Signes whereby to know the same The Cure is thus Take Aquafortis the strongest you can get Casting the hoofe and first with a Rape or Drawing Iron file or draw away the old hoofe somewhat neere then touch the hoofe so prepared with your Aquafortis three or foure severall dressings and no more This done annoynt the Foote with the Vnguent we doe commonly make for Horses Feete viz. Take Hogs-grease three pound Pach-grease two pound Venice-Turpentine one pound new Wax halfe a pound Sallet-Oyle one pound Melt and mix all these upon the fire and herewith chafe rub and annoint the Coffin of the Hoofe up to the very top and this will bring a new hoofe ✚
take from him all noxious and offensive humours it will carry away all spungy matter it will allay the biliousnesse and sharpnesse of humours it will cleanse old Vlcers it will refresh and comfort the Vitall parts c. But if you doe finde that by giving too great a quantity your Horse purgeth and scowreth longer and more violently than you would have had him to have done or for feare it should stir up in him upon the suddaine more bad humours than you may easily know how to allay then give him this Clyster viz. Take the aforesaid Decoction one pint 3 Clister Restringenâ— adding thereto as much of Cowes milke as it commeth warme from her and put also thereto the yolkes of three new-layed Egges well beaten and well mixed with the said liquour and so give it your Horse bloud warme This is called a Clyster Restringent for this is only to be applyed to a Horse that is very Laxative or that doth empty himselfe too much which is occasioned oft times through overmuch debility and want of strength or when nature is very much offended you may apply this so oft as need shall require ✚ Another 4 Clister for fat Horse Take Mallowes three handfuls marsh mallow roots cleansed and bruised and Violet leaves of each two handfuls Flaxe seed three spoonfuls so many of the cloves of white Lilly roots as you may easily hold in your hand boyle all these in faire water from a gallon to a wine quart then straine it and put thereto of Sene one ounce which must be infused or steeped in the liquor three houres standing upon the hot embers then put thereto of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and being bloud warme administer it Clyster-wise causing him to keep it at least halfe an houre or longer if you may and the best time to give this is three or foure dayes before the Full and change of the Moon howsoever it may be given to very good profit as occasion may profer it selfe at any other time ✚ This Clister is to be given to a Ketty or fat Horse which otherwise cannot be kept cleane for it purgeth glut abundantly and it is also principally to be given to a Horse that is newly taken from grasse Another 5 A Clister for melancholy Take of Whey a quâ—â—t of Anniseeds in fine powder two penniworth of the leaves of Mallowes one handfull boyle these till the Mallowes be soft then straine it then put to it of sweet Butter foure ounces which when the butter is molten administer it bloud-warm ✚ This purgeth melancholy it causeth a good appetite which before was wanting it refresheth the spirits dulled and occasioneth good digestion if the Horse be kept warm and well tended Another 6 Clister in case of desperate sickâ—esse Take of the oyle of Dill of the oyle of Camomile of the oyle of Violets of Cassia of each halfe an ounce and of browne sugar candy in powder three ounces then take of Mallow-leaves halfe a handfull boyle the Mallowes first to a Decoction in faire water then straine it and put to the broth all the forenamed ingredients administer this bloud-warme Clyster wise This is a most soveraigne Clister to be given in case of desperate sicknesse it helpeth all Feavers it is good against the Pestilence and all languishing diseases most excellent against Surfets either by Provender or otherwise and it will occasion great strength in short time if it be rightly made and carefully given ✚ Another 7 Clister for the Pestilence Take the pulpe of Colliquintida halfe an ounce I meane the seeds and skin taken away of Dragantium three quarters of an ounce of Centuary and of Wormwood of each halfe a handfull of Castoreum a quarter of an ounce boyle all these in three quarts of water to a quart then straine it and dissolve into the broth of Gerologundinum three ounces and of white salt three drams of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and bloud warme administer it Clister-wise ✚ This I have often proved and doe finde it to be most excellent for the Pestilence and to helpe all Feavers Another 8 Clisters Lenitive Take the decoction of Mallowes and put to it either of fresh Butter foure ounces or of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and give it him Clister-wise ✚ This is the gentlest Clister of any before prescribed for it is both a Lenitive and a great cooler of the body and doth infinitely ease paine It is the best thing can be given to a Horse that is taken or against Convulsions or Cramps and most singular against Costivenesse proceeding from any sicknesse or surfet by Provender foundring in the body c. Another 9 Clister for the Collick Take salt water or new made brine 2 pints dissolve therein a pretty quantity of Sope and so bloud-warm administer it Clister-wise This I never did experience howsoever I have been oft perswaded by many able Ferriers who have averred it to be the most excellent that may be had for the Collick or any sicknesse or gripings in the guts or belly And let this suffice for Clisters onely by way of advise I counsell you that before you administer any Clister you first rake him that you put in the Pipe being first annoynted with sweet Butter or oyle Olive gently and by degrees and that you also draw it forth very treatably that you make him keep it at least halfe an houre that you doe administer it but bloud warme at most that you squeeze and presse between your hands the bladder strongly and lastly that you let him not drink any cold water in a day or two after but let it be either a sweet Mash or else white water §. 9. C. Hyppoph VVHat is good to be applyed to a Horse that is cloyed prickt or hath other hurt in the hoofe Hippos You must first with your Butter Drawing iron or Paring knife lay the wound bare as may be then Take waxe Hogs grease and Turpentine of each one ounce Cloyed Verdigrease two ounces boyle these upon a gentle fire your waxe and Hogs grease being first put in and molten then put in your Turpentine and lastly your Verdigrease in fine powder and being indifferently warme dip Tow or Hurds into the oyntment and so lay it to the Sore then stop and splent it up and dresse him twice a day and this will make him whole and sound in short time ✚ But of this more in its due place § 10. C. Hippophylus VVHat say you to a Horse whose Cods and Stones are swelled Hippos This infirmity proceedeth from sundry causes as sometimes by being bitten with a Dog or with another Horse or by being stung with some venemous or evill creature The French do call it Enflure de Coullon's Cods swelled It commeth also by meanes of some evill humours and corrupt bloud which doe fall down to the cods sometimes after sicknesse and sometimes of ranknesse of bloud and seed for want of a Mare If
it come by ranknesse of seed or of bloud then let him have a Mare and cover her two or three dayes together and halfe an houre after ride him into the water above the cods or stones against the streame and he will doe well ✚ But if this disease come by other causes then Take the Lees of Claret Wine and Comen-seed made into fine powder and a little Wheat or Beane flower boyle these together to an unguent and so warme as he may well endure it annoint the cods therewith which done draw forth his yard and wash it and his sheeth also with white wine vineger and three or foure houres after ride him into the water above the cods and let him also stand in the water some short time and sometimes ride him against the streame doe this every day till the swelling be asswaged ✚ This is a very good Cure Another Take the roots of wild Cucumbers and white salt so much as will suffice boyle these in faire water to an oyntment and annoynt the cods therewith warme and then apply this oyntment Take Goats grease or for default thereof Deeres suet the white of an Egge and Sallet oyle boyle these over a gentle fire and herewith annoynt the cods but this must be applyed after he hath been ridden into the water and dry againe doe this every day once till he be well ✚ This I have often tryed and have found it to be right good Another First annoynt and bathe the cods in the juyce of Hemlock and when it is dryed then Take Pigeons dung and new Milke and boyle it till it be as thick like to a Poultesse and therewith annoint the cods every day once Another First let him bloud in both the spur or flanck veines Then take oyle of Roses and vineger of each a pinte and of Bolearmonack in fine powder two ounces make all these into one body and being luke-warme annoynt the cods therewith and the next day ride him into the water up to the cods against the streame then bring him into the stable and when he is through dry annoynt him againe thus continuing to do till he be well But if the cods be swolne by meanes of any hurt bite or stroke then apply to them this following charge A charge for swelled cods Take Bolearmonack in powder vineger and the whites of Egges as much as will suffice well beaten and wrought together and annoynt him therewith daily till it be abated and if it impostumate where you finde it to be soft open it either with a hot iron or with your incision knife if it breake not of it selfe and so heale it up with the oyntment taught you in lib 2. cap. 10. § 4. and it will soone be whole ✚ This is very soveraigne §. 11. C. Hippoph VVHat say you to the Collick Hippos It is Sir a disease which commeth of winde and therefore we generally call it the winde collicke the French call this disease the Tranchaisons Collicke it causeth great gripings and extreame paine in the belly of the Horse so as he will oft times lye down and tumble he will also strike at his belly with his hinder feet and stamp with his fore-feet and the paine will be so great as to cause him to forsake his meat these signes I have often observed in Horses perplexed with this malady and albeit I have sundry Receits for it and all or the most of them by me tryed and approved good yet one of Master Blundeviles and Master Markhams I hold inferiour to none of mine for I have often tryed it and this is it Take a quart of Muskadine or of sweet Sack of Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each halfe an ounce Sugar two ounces make all these into fine powder and give it him bloud warme then annoynt his flankes with oyle de Bay but I often use to annoynt them with the oyntment of Acopum I finding it to be much better then bridle him up and trot him out a good round trot or gallop him softly sometimes the space of an houre untill he doe dung but if he will not then rake him or else put an Onyon pilled and jagged into his fundament then for three or foure dayes let his drinke be either sweet Mashes or white water and keep him warme and he will doe well againe ✚ Another Keep him fasting over night and in the morning give him this drinke Take of white Wine a quart Fenugrick foure ounces Bay-berries and Pepper of each foure ounces Graines and Ginger of each one ounce Water-Cresses two handfuls Sage one handfull Sengrene one pound Mints a handfull stampe the hearbs and pound the spices and put them into the wine and let it boyle a little then straine it and put to it of life Honey two spoonfuls and so give it him bloud-warme ✚ This I have also found to be very good notwithstanding if he be a stoned Horse the best cure for him is to have a Mare especially if he be so troubled with the collicke so as that he cannot pisse besides it helpeth and preventeth sundry sorts of sicknesses and diseases and strengtheneth nature ✚ Another Take of white Wine one pinte and three or foure Cantharides and make them into very fine powder and give this to the Horse well brewed in wine bloud-warme This I never tryed for that these flyes being a strong corasive have deterred me howsoever I have been often invited thereunto by many good Ferriers who have averred unto me that they have often used it and have found it to be right good Another Take Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each one ounce all made into fine powder and well mixed then put it into a quart of Muskadine and let it boyle a while then take it off and put to it of Honey one spoonfull give it him bloud-warme which done cloath him up and litter him and so let him stand upon his trench foure houres then give him meat and an houre after a sweet Mash or white water This was taught me by a Noble Knight who said he had often used it But if your Horse hath the collicke and stone then Take of white wine one pinte of Burr-seeds eight ounces Collicke and Stone made into fine powder of Parsley-seed two ounces in powder also of Isope unset Leekes and Water-Cresses of each halfe a handfull of black Sope halfe an ounce stamp all the hearbs in a morter and straine them with the Wine then put to that liquor your Burre and Parsley seeds and so give it him bloud-warme this will breake the stone and bring it from him with much ease and cure his Collicke ✚ This I have often administred § 12. C. Hippophyl VVHat Disease is that which is called the Colt Evill Hyppos It is a disease in the yard sheath and cods of a Horse or Gelding and it commeth to Horses by meanes of heat and ranknesse of seed and to a Gelding by weaknesse and coldnesse of seed to the Horse through
too great abundance of seed which causeth a stopping in the pipe or conduct of the yard Colt-Evill and to a gelding for want of heat and strength to send it forth whereby the yard and sheath swelleth very much The best way to cure a Horse is to give him a Mare whereby he sendeth forth his seed freely and then two or three houres after swimme him or else ride him up to the flankes to and fro a pretty while against the streame This disease is knowne by the swelling of the yard and sheath I have cured many Horses and Geldings with this ensuing Receit First swimme him but specially against the streame foure or five dayes together then apply this Plaister Take Beane-meale and Mallowes of each one handfull Hogs grease halfe a pound chop the Mallowes small then put to the Hogs grease and so boyle it with a pinte of white Wine and when it is boyled put it into a cloath and wrap his cods therein and so order it as that it may gather like a purse and make it fast so as it may neither fall off nor hurt him dresse him herewith every day till he be well ✚ I have had great experience of this Receit but if you be desirous to have variety then looke over Master Blundevile and Master Markham who are well stored § 13. C. Hippoph WHat is best to be given for a cold Hippos There are so many and so good as that I am to seeke almost to know how to begin they be of so many and sundry sorts of them Cold. for some are for colds newly taken some for old colds some for colds that bringeth the Glanders c. Wherefore for colds newly taken at first you must understand Sir that a cold newly taken a thing not to be prevented by reason it oft times commeth by meanes and wayes unknowne you must observe first that if your Horse be propense to many bad humours whereof some Horses are more than others you must first then labour to expell them by purging his head then search betwixt his jawes and if there you do finde any small kernels then be you assured he hath a new-taken cold but if he have great kernels then was not the cold so lately taken as you might have imagined also if he doe rattle in the head it is a signe his cold is newly taken or if he doe voyd any thinne matter forth of his nose or eyes or if he hold his head into the manger or if when he drinketh the water commeth out of his nostrils or that he cougheth oft and sometimes perhaps cheweth mattrative stuffe betwixt his teeth c. These and many others be certaine signes of a Pose Catarre and newly taken cold wherein is no danger if it be taken in time otherwise it will come to a worse matter I will now give you sundry good Receits most of which I have often tryed and found to be right good First I hold moderate exercise and seasonable ayering to be marvellous good without further applying of medicines but if you finde that he is much stopped in the head then Take a small quantity of fresh or sweet Butter and of brimstone made into fine powder work them together til they be one entire body of a deep yellow gold colour then take two long wing Goose-feathers and annoynt them herewith to the very quils on either siâ—â— which done rowle them in more of the powder of Brimstone and so put them up into either nostrill one and at the but end of the quils put a strong packthred which must be fastned over his pole like to the headstall of a Bridle and then leap his back and ride him moderately up and down an houre or longer and this will provoke him to snort and snuffle forth of his nose and head much of the congealed filth which is in his head then tye him to the Racke for an houre after and this will purge his head very cleane then draw forth the feathers and he will doe well keeping him warme and giving him Mashes or white water every day for foure or five dayes after This Receit was taught me for more than 30 yeares since by a famous Marishall of France which since I found in Master Markhams Master-piece but I hold it one of the best things can be prescribed for this Malady ✚ Another very short but as good Take of Time one handfull boyle it in a quart of strong Ale till it come to a pinte then straine it and adde thereunto of ordinary Treacle two spoonfuls and give it him bloud-warme ✚ Another An excellent drinke to be given to a Horse for a new-taken cold provided he be young that is not above five yeares old Take of French Barly halfe a pound put it into a posnet and put thereto of faire water one quart and set it upon the fire and let it boyle a little then take it off and draine the water from the Barly and cast away the water then adde the second time the like quantity of water and boyle it as much as you did the first t me and then draine it from the water cast away the water again then adde once againe the like quantity of a quart of water as you did twice before and boyle that also so long a time as you did the two former waters draine this also from the Barly but cast it not away but keep it and then adde to the water of Anniseeds and Licoris of each halfe an ounce make them into very fine powder and searce them and put the said powder into the boyled water and adde to it of white sugar-candy foure ounces then set it upon the fire in a cleane skillet and so boyle it up untill a third part be consumed then take it off and straine it and give it your Horse bloud-warme drench him thus three mornings together and it will ripen his cold and cause it to come away This is very good ✚ Another Take of white wine vineger the best and strongest five spoonfuls and put to it of oyle de Bay one spoonfull warme it upon the fire stirring it well this must be made and given in the morning but when you doe administer it you must first put your drenching horn into faire water that is good and hot to keep the medicine from sticking to the horne then taking it forth out of the hot water before the horne can be cold and whilst it is yet moyst with the water put the one halfe of your medicine into the same and so as speedily as may be convey it into one of his nostrils and after the other moity into his other nostrill this done ride him for halfe an houre moderately then set him up and cloath and litter him warme and let him stand upon the trench three or foure houres before you give him any meat and after doe as is accustomed to be done to sicke Horses in Physicke ✚ This I doe approve
to be equivalent to either of the two former Another Tâ—ke water and salt so much as will suffice brew them well together it then being made bloud-warme give it him and doe after as is usuall ✚ This for a new taken cold I have often used and I doe finde it to be singular good to be given to a young Horse Another Take of oyle de Bay of Anniseeds and of Licoris of each one halfe penny worth and of browne sugar-candy a penny worth make all these into fine powder and being well mixed sew it up into a fine linnen rag and so fasten it unto the Bit or Snaffle of the Horse and so ride a journey and travell him and in short space he will be cured if it be a new-taken cold onely ✚ This I have also proved and I doe finde it good for it will cure both cold and cough if it be rightly applyed to wit with riding and exercise Another Take of white Wine one pinte Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte Rubarb and Aloes and Saffron of each two drams Nutmeg Sene Agarick Bay-berries Duke or Dutch powder and of Cordiall powder of each halfe an ounce mixe all these together and then adde to it of Honey foure ounces warme them well in a Pipkin and give it him to drinke bloud-warme but let him stand upon the trench at least three houres before and three houres after neither let him for all that day eate any Oates but in its stead let him have Wheate-bran and let his drinke be that day either a warme Mash or white water and no cold water but this white water for foure or five daies after and put into his Provender for some time Fennugrick made into grosse powder ✚ This is a most soveraigne drinke to be given for a cold But if you do finde that his head is very much oppressed with a Pose or Catar then give him this drinke twice a day viz. Take Fenugrick one ounce and boyle it in a good quantity of water till it burst then mixe with the decoction thereof wheate meale as much as will suffice and give it him to drink Another Take a quart of the best Ale and warme it upon the fire and put into it so much Tobacco made into fine powder as you can take up upon a shilling at twice and as much dryed Rosemary in fine powder as you may take up upon a shilling at once give him this to drink bloud-warme in a morning fasting This drinke is called Potio-Necotiana but I did never make tryall thereof for that I once saw it given by a Ferrier to a sicke Horse which so wrought with him as that with all his Lenitives and Cordials the Ferrier had much labour to save the life of the poore Horse this potion was so violent which notwithstanding drove the Horse into a most dangerous Calentura But the next is better Take a Hens egge and make a hole in the top thereof no bigger than that you may get forth the white and yolke Then take Tarre and sweet Butter of each like much as much as will suffice incorporate these well together into one body and so convey it into the egge shell and give it your Horse three or foure mornings together and either journey him gently or else ride him three or foure houres after it which done bring him into the Stable and cloath him up warme and litter him well and let him be well rubbed and so keep him upon the trench two houres after and then give him Hay and an houre after give him either a warme Mash or white water and this will help a cold newly taken ✚ This will not make him sicke for I have often made tryall of it Another as good as this Take the long white mosse that groweth upon an old dry Parke pale one handfull chop it small and put it into a pottle of good Ale or Beere till one halfe be consumed then take it off and straine and presse it hard and put into the liquor of Anniseeds and Licoris of each halfe a spoonfull and a piece of sweet Butter and so give it him three mornings together fasting and it will cure him X Another if he hath taken a cold or poze in the head Take a quart of Muskadine or sweet Sacke of Nutmegs Pepper Cominseed Graines Bay-berries of each three drams all made into fine powder boyle these a waume or two then take it off and put into it a piece of sweet Butter and give it your Horse three mornings together bloud-warme let him all those three dayes be kept warme neither let him drinke any cold water but either a sweet Mash or white water yea and that three or four dayes after and during these three dayes let him fast three houres after the receit of his said medicine Also three dayes after when you perceive the cold to begin to breake from him and to rot cause him to sneeze by blowing into either nostrils either the powder of Tobacco or of Pepper or of Elebore X Another which will cure a longer-taken cold yea though it be accompanyed with a dry cough and shortnesse of breath or pursivenesse which I had of Master Markham and I have often made tryall thereof and it hath done cures which have been held impossible to have been effected Take of the conserve of Elecampane three quarters of an ounce and dissolve it in a pinte and a halfe of sweet Sacke and so give it your Horse with a horne in a morning fasting and ride him gently a little after and thus doe sundry times untill you doe finde the infirmity to decrease Hippoph But Hipposerus this Conserve of Elecampane I doe suppose is hard to come by for surely every Countrey Apothecary hath it not how then may a Man make this Confection you so much commend Hippos Sir this Conserve I make my selfe and I will give you the receipt hereof You must understand that there bee two kinds thereof the one is called particularly a Preserve and the other an absolutâ— Conserve The first is Simple the other Compound both very soveraigne for this Infirmity but the Conserve is evermore to bee esteemed the better and I do counsell you never to be without either of them for they will keep the whole yeere through if they be reserved close stopped Wherefore as touching the first which is the Simple you must preserve it like as you doe all other greene rootes and so keepe them in a Gally pot or Glasse in a good quantity of its owne Sirop till you have occasion to use the same and when you are to use it let it bee beaten well in a Morter together with its Sirop and refined Sugar made first into very fine powder Now your Compound or Conserve is thus made First let your roots of Elecampâ—ne be neatly Candied and made very dry and hard and get the best and youngest Rootes can be had which must be kept also in a Gally pot or Glasse close stopped
then other and at length he grew to be so much enfeebled by continuall languishing as that being downe he was not able to rise but with helpe in fine shortly after the Nagge died then for my better experience I would needs have him opened which being done a sounder body in a Horse could not be seene but I discovered the cause of the disease and death of this Nagge in his skinne for it being taken from him you might most evidently see the Fat which did ly next unto his belly brisket ribs and sides to be so caked and hard as that it not being dissolved the Nagge could never after enjoy himselfe which caused him to wast and dwindle of his flesh and languishing dy which so soone as I espied I presently told the Gentleman the owner of the Nag that the Ambler had given him that Infirmity the Nagge being then very fat and after in his heate put him into the water which the owner examining found to bee most true as well from the report of honest neighbours who lived adjacent to the Ambler as after some small pressure from the ingenuous confession of the very Ambler himselfe And this I think fit to bring you for an instance to the end you may be the more carefull in avoyding the like inconvenience and be the better able to judge of a Malady of this nature But now as touching the best cure for a Consumption of the flesh albeit there be many yet I can recommend but only this one which both Master Blundevile and Master Markham have recorded which is this viz. Consumption of the flesh Take a Sheepshead with the wooll on cleave it wash it very cleane and boyle it in a gallon of faire water untill the flesh come from the bones then strayne the liquor from the flesh and put into the broath of refined loafe-Sugar halfe a pound of Cinamon conserve of Roses conserve of Barberies conserve of Cherries of each three ounces and give your Horse of this broath a quart every morning fasting bloud warme use this till foure or more Sheepsheads be spent and after every of these drinks let him be walked abroad if the weather be warme and not windy otherwise walke him in some barne or warme place and let him fast two or three houres after let him not drinke any cold water in fifteene daies after at the least but let his drink be eyther sweet mashes or white water and for his Diet let that be what himselfe best liketh and that given by little at once and often and by this meanes he may recover both Flesh and strength againe in reasonable time ✚ Neverthelesse when he hath gotten Flesh depart with him so soone as may be least upon any hard travell he happen to relaps as is most probable he may With this Receipt I have recovered three Horses whereof one was a Horse of a high price Hippoph But tell me I pray you were it amisse for this disease to take bloud from him before you drench him Hippos Yea that it were Sir very much amisse for so to do were certaine death for in cases of Consumptions you must take no bloud at all but rather labour to cherish the bloud he hath for his debility and feeblenesse wil be such as that he consuming so much in his Flesh you must rather endeavour to procure his strength then any way to hinder the same which the losse of bloud may most easily do Neither must you be too busie in administring unto him Purges but Cordialls as Diapente Diatesseron Duke powder Cordiall powder and such like restoratives also by giving him good meat as good strengthning bread and hartning well made and of purpose for him if he will eate bread sometimes boyled Barley and Oates also boyled Beanes and such like hearty meat as will restore him and to give him sometimes about midday a quart of strong Ale or Beere is very good and will greatly comfort him And thus keeping him warme feeding him and ordering him well you may in time recover him againe ✚ And this is the best Counsell I can give you for this Infirmity §. 16. C. Hippoph Now what say you to a Convulsion How doe you cure that Hippos A Crampe and Convulsion is one and the same Malady which is a violent contracting or drawing together of the Sinewes and Veines and Muskles as well through the whole Body as in any one member of the same yet doth it not alwaies apprehend or seâ—ze the whole body but takes one member or other as sometimes it laieth hold upon the Eye sometimes upon the Tongue the Iawes Lips Legs c. which albeit it commeth by severall meanes yet principally it comes eyther through cold in the body or else for want of bloud or lastly by over much purging The signes to know this disease are most easie for that horse that is therewith troubled will have that member for the time the fit is upon it so stiffe that a man with the utmost of his strength is not able to stirre the same by reason that the Sinewes and Muskles wil be so much contracted as not possibly to bring the limb to its pristine state but only by rubbing and chafing the limbe or member with warme cloths and after the fit is over it were very requisite to sweate him in the Stable in his cloaths for two or three houres together and if the Malady bee in the lower parts as in the Legges Convulsiâ— then let that member which is taken be wisped up with thumb-bands of Hay made wet first and after when the member is thus wisped to cast thereon cold water and after this his sweating let his whole body but especially the member taken be annoynted with the oyntment of Acopum before mentioned in the second booke cap. 14 § 1. A. and to give him some of it inwardly with sweet Sack or Muskadine and thus have I recovered sundry horses perplexed with this disease giving him two or three drinks after of Diapente then to keepe him warme and to continue him for some time with sweet mashes or white water but when you come to give him cold water againe let it be with exercise and ayrings after Sun rising and before Sunne set the Sunne shining and when there is no wind or other cold nipping weather But if you have not of this Acopum in a readinesse then apply this bathe or oyntment to the greived place or member viz. Take Pinpernell a good armefull Primrose leaves Camomile Crow-foot Mallowes Fennell Rosemary of each six handfuls fine up-land Hay cut made about Midsomer when the strength and heart of grasse is at the best a good quantity put all these into a Lead or Chalderon and fill up the Chalderon with faire water and so let it steepe eight and forty houres then boyle it untill the hearbs be soft and bathe the the greived member therewith foure daies together morning and evening warmed which done apply
then take Lint or fine Hurds and dip it into the medicine and so stop it into the eares of the Horse and with a needle and threed stitch up his eares so as the medicine get not forth the next day take the dry mosse which groweth upon an old pale of a Parke or other pale or upon the limbs of an old Oke one handfull or better chop it small and boyle it in a pottle of new milke together with a green root of Elecampane cut into thin and small slices and so let it boyle till halfe the milke be consumed then straine it and presse it throughly and before it be cold put into the milke a good piece of sweet Butter and of ordinary Treacle so much as will suffice and so give it him bloud warme ✚ This is also good for the head-ach Frenzy Stavers Pose Cold Cough wet or dry shortnesse of breath rotten lungs Glaunders mourning of the Chine Laxe Loosenesse Bloudy-fluxe of the like diseases §. 16. D. Hippoph WHat may a man apply to a Horse to cause him to draw up his yard Hippos This is a disease which commeth of weakenesse in the backe Draw his yard or kidneyes either through over-riding or some leap or strain or by meanes of a cold and sometimes it commeth by a terrible stripe given him upon the loynes against the kidneyes or upon the yard it selfe or by wearinesse or tyrednesse the signes to know it is by the unseemely hanging of the member and the cure is thus First wash and bathe all the yard and sheath with white Wine made warme and after that annoynt it with oyle of Roses and life honey mingled together and so put up the yard into the sheath and with a soft boulster of Canvas keep it from falling downe and dresse him thus every day once till hee we well and let his backe and fillets be kept warme and annoynted with Acopum or if you have not Acopum then apply this charge unto his backe and fillets Take Bolearmonacke the whites of Egges Wheate meale Sanguis Draconis Venis Turpentine and strong white Wine vineger of each of these as much as will suffice mixe them well and charge his backe therewith his sheath and his stones and he shall be well Another Take the ashes of Ashen wood the whitest finest and best burned and searse them one pound or red-clay dryed and made into fine powder halfe a pound Bolearmonacke halfe an ounce powdred boyle all these in as much Verjuyce of the crab as will make it liquid like pap and with it annoynt his yard sheath and stones morning and evening and he shall be presently cured ✚ This is speciall good §. 17. D. Hippoph VVHat is good to draw a thorne stub iron splinter naile or what else out of the flesh of the horse Hippos If the stub thorne or whatsoever else it be that is gotten into the flesh be so deep as that you cannot come to it to plucke it forth with your fingers or plyers then lay to the place a good quantity of blacke sope Draw a thorne and so let it lye all night and in the morning it will make it to appeare so as you may come to take hold of it with your Instrument but if it be gotten into the flesh so deep as that the sope cannot doe it then must you open the flesh by the way of incision so deep till you may come to take hold thereof with your Instrument and so plucke it forth which done heale up the wound with the oyntment taught you in lib. 2. cap. 10. § 4. G. and so heale it up but be you certaine that you doe heale it from the bottome lest it breake out againe ✚ This is the most certaine way for this cure that I doe know §. 18. D. Hippoph VVHat good drinke is to be given whereby to preserve the lungs Hippos If you have no great occasion to feare your horses lungs then you may administer to him in his Provender onely such powders as you shall finde prescribed you already in lib. 2. cap. 2. § 43. but if you have just cause to suspect that his lungs may be rotten fretized or broken then to heale or make them sound againe or at least to give him great ease for you may know it by these signes Drinke to preserve lungs viz. his flankes will beat when he cougheth which he will often do but principally when you give him riding or exercise and the slower they beat the older and more dangerous the disease is he will also draw his winde short he will grone oft but most in lying downe and rising up and be very fearefull and loth to cough The cure is Take Tartar made of white Wine Lees which you may have of the Apothecaries or if you please you may make it your selfe for it is none other thing then the thickest of the Lees of white Wine well dryed and made into powder Take I say of this one ounce and a halfe of Isope and of Colts foot of each halfe a handfull of Hore-hound one handfull of Elecampane in fine powder Anniseeds and Licoris of each one ounce of browne sugar candy foure ounces boyle all these together in good Ale one quart and when it is halfe boyled put into it of Isope water and of Colts-foot water both twice distilled to take off their crudities of each one pinte and so boyle all againe together and then straine it and give it your Horse bloud warme ✚ If your Horse have been exercised being foule or having been in dyet then he hath been over-much used to Clisters Drinkes Rakings Purgations Sweats Vomits and the like give him this drinke then and you shall finde it to be most soveraign for him and the cleaner he is within the better is its operation and will worke more kindely in his body and at what times you are to Tilt Hunt Travell or exercise him give him but one pinte of this drinke in the morning fasting before his going forth for it will so helpe his breath whereby through moderate exercise he will be much the better able to goe through with his worke then otherwise he could have done ✚ And this drinke I have often proved Also if you doe finde him to be either diseased or sicke in his lungs or that they be any way fretized then give him this drinke Take of tryed Hogges-grease two ounces and of Diapente three spoonfuls put these into a quart of water wherein Barly hath been boyled till it burst and warme it in the fire till the Hog-grease be dissolved and so bloud warme give it your sicke Horse and three houres after give him of the Barley warme to eate and either sweet mashes or white water to drinke ✚ This was taught mee by an Italian Rider in Paris and I have often made use thereof and have found it to be speciall good howbeit for the time it will cause him to bee very sick but have no feare for it
therewith and after annoynt the coffin of the hoofes good and thicke with the same receit And this is the best mollifier can be had in a cure of this nature ✚ I have often used it § 16. F. Hippoph WHat remedy have you for the Figge in the foot of a Horse Hippos This disease is so called by reason of that naughty flesh which groweth upon the frush or heele which is in likenesse and shape of a figge from whence this malady and sorance taketh its denomination and the French also give it the very same Epitheton viz. la Figne which signifieth a figge It commeth by means of some hurt which the Horse hath formerly received in his foot which was not well healed by some nail stub thorn bone or stone oft times by some over-reach upon the heele or frush It is apparant to the eye and therefore needs no other remonstrance The cure is Cut away the hoofe so as there may be a convenient space betwixt the sole and the hoofe Figge in tâ— foot to the end the figge may the more easily be cured then put to the sorance a piece of spunge which you must binde close upon the figge which will eate it off to the very root then heale up the sore with the green oyntment taught you in lib. 2 chap. 10. § 4. G. ✚ This I have found good Another Cut away the figge close either with your incision knife or else burne it off with a hot iron which is the better way and so lay unto it for two dayes after tryed Hogs grease to take away the fire Take then the tops of the most angry yong nettles you can finde pound them very small and so lay them upon a linnen cloth just the bignesse of the figge then take the powder of Verdegreece and strew it upon the chopped nettles which must be done before you lay it to the sorance and so binde it upon the sorance renewing it every day once till the hoofe have covered the sore ✚ This I doe know to be a most certain cure for it never did faile me § 17. F. Hippoph BVt now what say you to a Fistula how doe you cure that Hippos A Fistula is a hollow ulcer which maketh its way crooked proceeding oft times from naughty and malignant humours sometimes it is ingendred from some wound which hath not bin well healed sometimes it commeth by meanes of a stripe which having been so strongly laid on that it hath bruised the flesh to the bone whereby it hath putrified inwardly and either brake forth of it selfe or was opened by the Ferrier and thus it commeth to be a Fistula sometimes it commeth by a wrench or pinch with a Collar in drawing or by being wrung by the tree of a bad saddle and sometimes it ingendreth of its own accord by the meanes of peccant and bilious humours which hath long lyen lurking in the body of the Horse The signes how to know it are so manifest as that it needeth not an Ecce The way how to cure it is to search to the bottome either with a probe of lead or else with some other thing which will bend and yeeld which way soever the concavity of the sorance leadeth it and when you have found the bottome thereof let it be opened downwards if it may possibly be done to the end the corruption may the better issue from the place then taint it for two or three dayes with tryed Hogs-grease thereby to cause the hole to be the wider and then inject this water following Take of Sublimate and of Precipiâ—at of each so much as will lye upon a three pence of Alume and of white Coperas of each three ounces burn all these in an earthen pot but first rub the bottom with a little oyle that it may not burn there this done burne them all together then take of faire cleare water two quarts boyle this water first by it selfe and scum it in the boyling then take it from the fire and put in as much of this powder as will lye upon a shilling at twice and thus it is made But if you be desirous to make this water of more strength and efficacy take then faire water and Coltrough or Smiths water of each like much and of white Wine Vineger a third part and with the ashes of Ashen wood make lye of them with the water and Vineger and so make your water with this powder and lye and the former ingredients according as before is taught you Inject this water with a Syringe into the sorance and in short time it will both kill the fistula Fistula and heale it up ✚ This is a most approved and infallible cure Another Take of the best honey one pinte of Verdigreece one ounce make it into fine powder and so boyle them together upon a soft fire three quarters of an houre that done strain it into a gally pot and so keep it for your use ✚ This is a most pretious unguent wherewith to taint a fistula or poll evill for it goeth down to the bottome it eateth away all dead and evill flesh whereby to cause that the carnifying flesh may heale the better ✚ This I have often tryed I have also another Aegiptiacum which I make thus Take honey one pinte white Wine Vineger halfe a pinte Allum three ounces and Verdigreece finely powdered one ounce and a halfe boyle all these together till it be thicke this is a good Aegyptiacum But if you desire to make it yet stronger then put to these ingredients of Mercury sublimate in fine powder one ounce and of Arsnick three scruples powdred also and so boyle them with the former ingredients This last will kill any fistula or old ulcer whatsoever being dressed therewith but the other which is made onely of Vineger Allum and Verdigreece may be applyed to a fistula in the mouth without prejudice to the Horse ✚ Of both these I have made often tryall §. 18. F. Hippoph HAve you not some good water beside wherewith to wash a Fistula or old sore Hippos I can give you a most excellent water which is this Take white Wine Vineger four pints Fistula water of Camphire and of Mercury-Precipitate of each halfe an ounce greene Treacle three ounces red Sage Yarrow and Rib wort of each one handfull of Honey and of Hogs-grease of each halfe a pound boyle all these together untill the one halfe be consumed and then strain it and so wash and cleanse the wound with the liquor X This is speciall good Another no whit inferiour to the former Take of Coltrough water four quarts first boyle it by it selfe a good while and scumme it so long as any scumme doth arise then straine it through a fine cloth into a cleane pot and throw away the grounds which will be black and naught then wash the Postnet cleane wherein it was boyled and put in your water againe Then take of white Coperas of Allum and of
other diseases but first to rake him then to administer to him this Clister Take of Mallowes three handfuls and boyle them in faire water tvvo quarts to one quart then straine it and put to it of fresh or svveet butter sixe ounces and of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and so administer it to him Clister-wise bloud warm that done vvalk him up and dovvn in the vvarm sunne or in some vvarm house untill he doe begin to empty himselfe then keep him fasting three or four hours keeping him vvarm and to a stomacke for three or foure dayes but let him have but that one Clister onely and let all his Hay be sprinckled with water and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water which when he hath drunk give him the Malt or Bran to eate and let his Provender be very little for fourteen dayes after especially if his disease came through glut of Provender Neverthelesse the day after his Clister give him this cordiall drinke Take of Muskadine one quart of Sugar two ounces of life honey foure ounces of Cinamon halfe an ounce Licoris and Anniseeds of each one spoonfull all these made into fine powder put them into the Muskadine and warme them on the fire till they be dissolved and then give it him bloud warme then walke him in the Sunne or warm house an houre then set him upon the trench warm cloathed and littered and so let him stand three houres fasting unlesse sometimes you put a little Armen into his mouth then give him Hay sprinckled with water and after an houre a sweet Mash or white water and then a few Oates well sifted and dusted and this by a little at once remembring to take bloud from the necke veyne the same morning you give him this drinke and that a little before he taketh it and pricke him also in the mouth and the next day after this drink perfume his head with Storax Benjamin and Frankincense and so order him according as you in your discretion shall think to be most meet onely remember to ayre him every day abroad if there be no winde for winde is hurtfull to him and thus doing you may recover him and make him a sound Horse againe ✚ This is singular good Another First give him this Clister take the flowers of Melelote Anniseeds and Licoris Linseeds Silleris-Montani of each halfe an ounce Polipodium of the Oake two ounces and a halfe Agnus-Castus one handfull the hearb Mercury Mallowes Pellitory of the Well Branca-ursina of each three handfuls make a decoction of al these lettiog it boyle to a quart then put to it of red waxe one ounce and a halfe of Cassia newly drawn three ounces of Diafennicon two ounces of Benedicta one ounce of oyle of nuts as much as will suffice and of all these make your Clister according to Art which you shall give to your horse so soon as you doe suppose or suspect him to droope and after this Clister hath done working give him the drink prescribed in lib. 2. chap. 9. § 10. F. which is very proper and good provided that you doe administer it so soon as you doe perceive your horse to be foundred in the body and withall adding to the drinke the juyce of three great Onions well beaten and strained into the white Wine and that he be dressed ayered ridden and ordered as is fitting and usuall for horses in physicke ✚ Of this I have made tryall and doe finde it to be good Another Take a head of Garlicke of Pepper of Ginger and of Graines of each two penny worth make all these into fine powder and put them into strong Ale one quart and so give it him to drink bloud-warm give him this drink two or three mornings and order him as is before prescribed And when you doe finde that he hath gotten strength let him bloud in the necke and spurre-veynes ✚ This is very good All cordiall drinkes are good for this infirmity §. 23. F. Hippoph VVHat is your best cure for a false Quarter Hippos A false Quarter is a very evill sorance it is a rift cracke or chinke which is most commonly upon the inside of the hoofe yet sometimes though rarely it happeneth upon the out side it is occasioned sometimes by evill shooing by evill paring and sometimes by gravelling or a prick with a nayle or stub neverthelesse which way soever it commeth it will cause the Horse to halt and watrish bloud will many times issue out of the rift or chinke the signes are needlesse to recite they be so manifest the onely way to cure this malady and sorance is first to take off the shooe and to cut away so much of the shooe on that side where the griefe is as that the shooe being immediately set on again the chinke may be wholy uncovered False quarter then open the chink to the quick with your drawing yron and then fill up the rift with a rowle of hurds dipped in this unguent Take Turpentine Waxe and Sheepes-suet of each like much melt them together and your rowle of hurds being dipped therein stop the rift therewith renewing it once a day till it be whole and thus the rift or chinke being with this oyntment closed in the top draw the place betwixt the hoofe and the hayre with a hot yron overthwart that place which will cause the hoofe to grow and shoot all vvhole dovvnvvards and vvhen your Horse goeth upright and sound again let him not be ridden vvith any other shooe untill the hoofe be throughout hardened neither let him be ridden upon any hard ground till his hoofe is become very sound and perfect ✚ Another For a false Quarter and to cause the hoofe to grow First prepare a flat piece of wood making it an inch broad at the least and so slender as that it will bend like to a hoop which must be also so long as that it may come well nigh twice about the cronet of the hoofe then when you are to bring it about the hoofe have in a readinesse a piece of filliting which must be long enough which you must cut into two pieces then having brought the hoope about the cronet with one piece of the filliting binde fast the top of the hoope which fastning must be behinde against the heele and bound very straight and hard and then the filliting so bound must be twisted three or foure times and so brought about upon the hoope and the ends made fast before upon the hoop then take the other piece of filliting and few it upon the top of the first filliting which you bound about the hoofe and then let it be sewed as well upon the one side of the hoofe as the other so fast sewed on as that it cannot get off Now you must understand that before you doe binde the foot of the Horse with the wooden hoop and filliting you must prepare the sorance of the said false quarter by drawing the place with yowr drawing
mixe with it White or Claret Wine in such a proportion as may make it liquid and inject or squirt it into his nose ✚ Or else Take the juyce of Selendine mingled with faire water and inject that into his nose ✚ Or else Take Roch-Allum and Salt dissolved in white Wine and inject that up into his nose ✚ Either of all these are very good to cause him to cast such naughty corruption forth of his nose and head that doth much oppresse him which lotions are to be administred evermore after the aforesaid drink ✚ Another also very good drink Take Tanners Owes new made and new milk of each one pint Sallet oyle halfe a pint one head of Garlick pilled and bruised a little Turmerick in fine powder boyle all these together as much as will suffice then take it off and put in your Sallet oyle and so give it him bloud warm give him this drink three times in fifteen dayes that is to say once every five dayes and every time you do administer it unto him convey halfe a hornfull into each nostrill and let him stand upon the Trench 3. hours after warm clothed and littered and then give him a sweet Mash and such meat as is dry sweet and wholesome but during the time of his cure let his drink be white water ✚ This is very good Another very good Take of faire water two quarts of Comin made into fine powder and searsed two ounces and of the inward rinde of Elder six handfuls boyle this to a moyety then take it off and when it is halfe cold straine it and put into the liquor halfe a pint of Sallet-oyle and give him thereof at his mouth three hornefuls and at eyther nosthrill halfe a hornefull then leape his backe and ride him moderately till he be warme so set him up warme cloathed and littered and three or foure houres after give him a warme Mashe but let him eate some Hay first ✚ This I can averre to be very good both for Glanders and cold Another Take Oyle-de-Bay and sweet Butter of each halfe a pound Rose-mary shred very well and small halfe a handfull Garlick one pound beate the Garlicke unpilled in a stone Morter with a woodden Pestell very well then put to it your Oyle Butter and Rose-mary and so make it into one body then with Wheate-flower so much as will suffice make it up into pils and give him three or foure of these every day for ten daies together and order him ut supra Of this I did never make tryall but it was recommended unto me for a speciall good Receipt Another Take Cloves long-Pepper Browne-Sugar-Candy and London Treacle of each two ounces beat the Sugar-Candy and spices to very fine powder and put to them your Treacle and after adde to these Ingredients of good Sacke or Muskadine one pint and first warme it upon the fire and when it is almost cold enough to bee given him put to it of Sallet-oyle three penny-worth and so bloud-warme give it him and in the giving convey into eyther Nosthrill halfe a hornefull of this drinke and then order him ut supra Another Take of new-milke one quart warme from the Cowe two heads of Garlick pilled and bruised boyle these together keeping them with continuall stirring then take it off and let it coole and a little before it be cold enough to give him put to it of life-hony two spoonfuls and of Sallet-oyle halfe a pint give it him bloud-warme reserving for eyther Nosthrill halfe a hornefull then order him ut supra These latter cures I never made tryall off but I think them to be very good Another Take Isope sweet Margerome Lavander-Cotton the roots and crops of Elecampane of each one handfull chop and shred all these together very small and boyle them in good Ale or Beere so much as will suffice then straine it and when the liquor is almost cold breake into it two new-laid Egges and stirre all well together and so give it him bloud-warme give him this drinke three times that is every third day This hath beene recommended unto me for a very good Receipt whereby to cure not onely the Glanders but the mourning of the Chine but I never made use thereof But now sithence I am come almost to the end of my Receipts for this Infirmity I will give you two Receipts the one for the Glanders the other for the mourning of the chine which are Master Markhams which hee stileth thus Two most certaine and newly found out Medicines which will without faile cure any Glanders though our Ferriers hold it impossible The cure If your Horse his cold be come to the worst Glanders which is a continuall running at the nose and hath so runne by the space of divers moneths so that the Ferriers can do no good then shall you take better then two handfuls of the white cankerous Mosse which groweth upon an old Oaken pale and boyle it in Milke two quarts till one part bee almost consumed then straine it and squeeze the mosse well which done give it your Horse luke-warme to drink Then take two Geese-Feathers and take sweet Butter as a bigge Wall-nut and with the powder of Brimstone finely beaten and searsed worke them together with your knife or splatter till the Butter be brought to a high gold colour then take two cleane feathers the longest in all the Goose-wing and first at the quilles ends with a needle fasten two long threds then with your salve annoynt the feathers all over which done in the dry powder of Brimstone rowle them over and over then putting the feathers ends formost open the Horse Nosthrils and thrust them up into his head then take the threds which are at the quils ends and fasten them on the top of the Horses head which done ride him abroad for an houre or two ayring him in this manner morning and evening and when you bring him into the Stable after hee hath stood tyed up a pretty season unty the threds and draw out the feathers and wiping them very dry lay them up till you have next occasion to use them and keep his body warme This disease you must understand commeth not suddainely but growes out of long processe of time so likewise the cure must not be expected to be done in a moment but with much leasure therefore you must continue your Medicine as your leasure will serve eyther every day or at the least thrice a weeke if it bee for foure or five moneths together and bee sure it will in the end yeeld your desire Now the second and well assured and certaine Medicine is to take Elecampane-roots and boyle them in milke till they bee soft that you may bring them to pap then with a home give them to the horse together with the milke luke-warme being no more then will make the rootes liquid then having annointed your Goose-feathers put them into his Nosthrils and ride him forth as before is shewed The
doe say that the Italians use to take a spunge well dipped in strong wine vineger and bound to the Sore renewing it twice a day till the kernels doe rot then they open the neather most part of the softnesse and so let the corruption forth and then fill the hole with salt finely brayed and the next day they wash away the filth with warme water and the next day after they annoynt the Sore with Honey and Fich flower mingled together till it be whole This Cure I never made tryall of but it seemeth to me to be a very good and probable Cure Another for the Avives Take Tarre tryed Hogges grease Bay-salt and Frankinsence powdred of each so much as will suffice melt these on the fire all together then with a clout fastened to the end of a sticke boyling hot scald the places 4 or 5 mornings one after another untill the enflamed places doe become soft and ripe Then with your incision knife slit the skin and let forth the corruption then to heale up the sorances take tryed Hogges grease and Verdigrease made into fine powder melt them upon a gentle fire but suffer it not to boyle more then a waume or two at the most then take it off and put to it of ordinary Turpentine as much as will suffice and so stirre all together untill it be cold And herewith annoint the sorances daily till they be whole ✚ This is very good Master Markham in his Master piece hath a Cure for the Avives which he intituleth A most rare and certaine approved Medicine which will cure the Vives without either burning melting rotting or any such like violent exercise But as yet I did never experiment the same The cure is this Take a penniworth of pepper beaten to fine powder Swines grease a spoonefull the juyce of Rue a handfull and of Vineger two spoonfuls mixe all well together and convey it equally into both the eares of the Horse and so tye or stitch them up then shake his eares that the medicine may sinke downewards which done you shall let him bloud in the neck-veyne and in the temple-veine And this saith he is an infallible cure § 12. A. Hippoph VVHat disease is that which we doe call the Arraistes Hippos Arraistes is also a French Epitheton which is a disease we doe commonly call the Rat-tayles engendring in the heeles of a Horse not much unlike to the Scraches but that it is much more venimous and malignant It commeth of too much rest and the Keepers want of care in the not rubbing and dressing him as also by reason that the Horse standeth continually in the Stable his fore-feet being higher than his hinder-feet for by reason of his great rest and pampering the bloud corrupting in his body falles down into his hinder-legges and breedeth this disease which now we doe call the Arraistes Arraistes or Rat-Tayles Rat-tayle◠The best Cure for this Malady is first to let the Horse be ridden till he be warme whereby the veines will swell and the better appeare Let him bloud in the fetlocke veins on both sides making him to bleed well and the next day after wash the sores with warme water and then clip away all the hayre from about the Sores then annoynt the grieved places with this Oyntment viz. Take greene Coperas and Verdegreace of each two ounces and of common honey foure ounces beat your Coperas and Verde-greace very small and so worke them with your honey to a perfect unguent and herewith annoint the Sores daily till they be whole ✚ And thus we doe conclude this Chapter CHAP. V. § 1. B. Hippoph VVHat is your best way to breake and heale the backe of a Horse that is swolne Hippos We have many wayes to cure a Malady of this nature if the place be swelled and yet not ripe enough to be opened then apply that remedy which you shall finde taught you hereafter to resolve or ripen the same and when it is ripe put your incision knife unto it or a hot iron and so open it in the lowest part so as the putrifaction may the more easily passeaway then every morning inject this Lotion with a Seringe which is thus to be made viz. Backe swelled Take Honey-suckle leaves Plantine Ribwort Yarrow Bursa-Pastoris Knot-grasse and Cumphrey of each halfe a handfull boyle these in a quantity of running water till a moity be consumed then straine the herbs from the water casting away the hearbs and then set the water upon the fire again and so soon as it beginneth to boyle againe put into the said water hony of Roses one ounce Allum and Alkenet of each two drams stirre all these well together and let it boyle till these latter ingredients be well dissolved then take it from the fire and when it is cold put it into a cleane glasse keeping it close stopped for your use Vse this water every day five or sixe dayes together and it will cure any Sorance in the backe or other part of the body provided that to skin the sore you apply a rag made wet in the said water ✚ Another Receit I have wherewith I have cured many galled backs and other sorances which is as followeth Take water and salt and boyle them well together and first wash the sore place therewith Then take Pepper made into very fine powder and strew it upon the sore it will heale it in very short time ✚ A third I have much more soveraigne than the two former which cureth not onely all galled backs but any other wound whatsoever Take Rosin and common Pitch of each sixe ounces Masticke and Incense of each one ounce Turpentine Galbanum Bolearmonacke of each three ounces melt dissolve and incorporate all these together upon a gentle fire and as they doe begin to coole make them up into rolles and when you would use this Salve spread it upon a cloath or leather somewhat thin but if you be to use it without either cloath or leather to any outward part that is not yet broken then lay it on much thicker than you use to doe plaister-wise and whilst it is warme clap flocks of the same colour upon it This Emplastrum as it cureth any swelling gall wound sore or hurt so it ripeneth breaketh and healeth all impostumations biles and pustils It is also a most excellent defensative plaister for the staying and drying up of all evill humours and also very soveraign for asswaging of swellings ✚ Another Receit I have taught me by a worthy Knight but I never made use thereof Take the leaves of Asmart and wash them and lay them all over the place and albeit you ride him every day yet will he heale very fast But if he doe remaine in the Stable without exercise if you put the water of the leaves upon the place it will heale him speedily Another Receit I have which was taught me by a French Marishall howbeit I made no tryall thereof but he
fresh Butter molten and made hot and then strew upon them the powder of Bolearmonack ✚ This is a most approved good receit and by my selfe often practised Another Take the juyce of Rue and of Aqua-vitae of each one spoonfull and a halfe beat them well together and by equall portions convey it into both his eares then stitch them up for 24 houres space and he is infallibly cured ✚ This is an excellent cure and by me often used Another First wash all the places that be raw or swelled with Chamberly or white Wine Vineger warmed take then of Salt one handfull of white Wine Vineger one pottle of Allum dissolved in the Vineger one ounce of Verde-grease and greene Copperas both made into fine powder of each one pound melt all these upon the fire and every day wash the sores and places swelled therewith warme twice a day morning and evening This I never did experience but it was commended unto me by a worthy Knight who averred unto me that he had cured therewith very many horses of the Farcin Hee also saide that hee hath cured some with this receipt following viz. Take Tarre Tallow and Horse-dunge of each so much as will suffice incorporate all these upon the fire and annoynt him therwith hot Another Take Hempeseed one pound and bruise it well then take Rue and salt of each one handfull of the leaves of Mallowes two handfuls boyle all these in faire water two quarts unto a moyety then straine it and give it your horse bloud warme give him of this two mornings but not two mornings together but let him stay one morning betwixt then take a good quantity of Chamberly and Hem-lock so much as will suffice and boyle them well and wash the sores till they be quite whole and dryed up ✚ This is a very good receipt Another Take the hearb with the root called Digitalis in English sope-glove alias Fox-glove a good quantity binde it up into a fine linnen ragge and if the Farcin be in the forepart of the horse hang it upon the maine but if in the hinder part then hang it upon the taile and this will cure him This I never did experience But now I will give you for a close the best and most certaine cure for this disease that I ever yet knew and with which I have perfected more rare cures of this nature then of all the residue before inculcated And thus it is Another Take of Rue the leaves and tender tops only without any the least stalkes a good handfull first chop them small and then stampe them in a Morter to a very oyntment when they are so well pownded put thereunto of the purest white tryed Hogs-grease one spoonfull and so worke them together to a perfit salve or unguent that done stop into eyther Eare this whole quantity by equall portions and put a little wooll upon the Medicine to cause it to keep in the better and so stitch up his Eares and let him remaine in the Stable so foure and twenty houres at the least and then unstitch his Eares and take forth the wool and eyther put him forth to grasse or else if he be to be wrought work him for the more his labour is and the more spare his diet is the sooner he is cured ✚ This I commned to you for the best and most certaine cure that I could ever meete with for with this receipt only I assure you on my credit I have cured more then 100. horses many of which were by other Ferriers holden for incurable sentenced to be food for Hounds The French do also call the disease Mal de ver §. 2. F. Hippoph I Have heard of another kinde of Farcin called the water-Farcin Hippos Truely Sir in answere to this I by observation of this disease do find that there is but onely one kind albeit I will not deny Wet Farcin but that some one may be more malignant then another according to the constitution of the Horse who is visited therewith by reason that choler may be in that horse more predominant then in an other horse of any of the other humours for then it commeth forth more dry but if the horse be naturally Rheumatick then may it appeare more watry and moyst and so of the residue but still it is but one and the same infirmity for more sorts I could never find But touching this watry Farcin as you are pleased to terme the same the French giveth this name viz. la Louppe which is in English the Woulfe and they gave me the reason why they do so call it to wit because it festreth the flesh eating and corroding therein inwardly and it beginneth most commonly in the feet rather then in any other member of the horse And for this disease a famous French Marishall of Paris gave me this ensuing cure but I never yet made tryall thereof viz. First wash the place and shave away the hayre and search the place well with your finger and let forth the corruption but be sure you search it to the very bottome Take then Horse-dung or Goose-dung Wine Salt and Vinegar of each so much as will suffice and make thereof a salve and so Playster-wise apply it to the sorance binding it on and the third day open it and dresse it up againe as before and do this every third day till it bee whole but bee sure you doe every time you dresse him examine the very bottome This he assured me to bee a very perfect Cute §. 3. F. Hippoph VVHat is that disease is called the Flankes and how is it cured Hippos This is when a horse hath gotten a wrinch crick stroke or other grief in his backe which is called of the French Ferriers Flankes the cure is this Flankes First shave away the hayre from the place grieved then lay on this charge Take Bol-Armonack Cumfry alias Consolida-Major Galbanum Sol-Armoniack Sanguis Draconis his owne bloud Burgundy Pitch Mastick Olibanum of each like much so much as will suffice stampe and beat all these together with Wheate meale Vinegar and the whites of Egges so much as will suffice and so make it into a charge and therewith charge the place grieved then clap upon the top all along the Chine and Backe of the Horse a sheeps-skin comming hot from the sheep and change it every day and at three or foure dayes end hee will bee well but let the charge lye upon the place untill such time as it doe fall away of it selfe and keepe him warme §. 4. F. Hippophyl HOw may a man bring in few dayes his Horse to be fat or at least in good liking supposing him to be sound Hippos Sir over much riding and exercise will bring the fattest Horse that ever trode upon the Earth to become poore bare and leane and so will too early and too late ayerings bad dyet evill keeping lingring after Mares and spending upon them lingring after grasse and the like But
Beere untill the Time do begin to waxe tender and soft then strain it and put to it of browne Sugar-Candy in powder two penny-worth Anniseeds in fine powder one penny-worth and two penny-worth of ordinary Triacle when all these are well dissolved over the fire give it your horse bloud warme but you must remember that you doe let him bloud before you doe give him this drinke in the Neck and Mouth ✚ This I have often tryed and found it right good Another â—ake of strong Ale one quart and of Wormewood halfe a handfull long-Pepper Graynes and the powder of dryed Rue of each one ounce London Triacle two ounces boyle them to a third part then take it off and strayne it that done put into it of browne-sugar-Candy in powder halfe an ounce and so give it him bloud warme ✚ This at twice giving will certainely cure his Feaver Another Take Stone-Crop of the iuice thereof foure Spoonefull put this iuice into strong-Ale one quart and so give it your horse then let him be walked if the winde be not too cold and sharpe an houre then set him up and cover him so as he may sweate an houre then coole him by degrees and let him drinke no cold water by any meanes let his provender bee good old dry and well sifted Oates but against the fit commeth whether the Feaver be Quotidian Tertian or Quartan let him be kept fasting for the longer hee is fasting and more empty upon his sick dayes the sooner will his Feaver leave him ✚ This is a well approved receipt and let this suffice for ordinary Feavers provided that when his fits be gone from him and that he appeareth more lightsome and well it will be very good and wholesome for him if you cause him to bee had abroad and walked warme covered and so ayred in due time in the warme Sun and that will greatly comfort him and revive his spirits §. 11. F. Hippoph VVHat say you now to the Feaver Hectique Hippos I say Sir it is a most dangerous and mortall Feaver and so malignant as that if a skilfull Ferrier bee not with him in time it is certaine death and first it beginneth with a Consumption in the flesh it proceedeth of a hot humour ingendred first in the stomacke which too much Physicke hath occasioned and by taking away of too much bloud from him in his youth without necessity wherefore it is a thing most perillous to take bloud from young horses upon very slight cause not to be over ready with Physick but only in case of great necessity The signes to know this Feaver from any other are to looke into his mouth and to draw forth his tongue and you shall finde both his mouth and tongue raw and mervailous hot and having little appetite to meate his flesh will consume and waste and seene loose if you strike him with your hand upon the buttocks the flesh thereof will quiver and quake and he will be continually subject to quaking and shaking all his whole body over besides he will be very much inclined to sweate as hee standeth in the stable The cure is First to make this lotion for his mouth Take of running water or Well water two quarts and put thereto of Sage of Yarrow of Ribwort of Plantane of Bramble-leaves Feaver Hectique and of Hony-suckle-leaves of each one handfull with common Hony one spoonefull boyle all these to the consumption of one moyety and a little before you take it from the fire put to it the quantity of a wal-nut of Alume and two spoonefull of Vineger when that is dissolved take it off and drayne the water from the hearbs or else slightly strayn it which water you shall keepe for your use and when you would wash his mouth therewith fasten to a stick a ragge and so wash his mouth and tongue twice or thrice a day and this will make his mouth well againe or else if you do wash his mouth with the surrop of Mulberries it is very wholesome and good ✚ After give him this drinke Take of Aloes one ounce powdred of Garlick halfe an ounce Anniseeeds and Licoris of each halfe an ounce make first your Aloes Anniseeds and Licoris into fine powder and after bruise your Garlick a little putting thereto of brown Sugar-Candy three ounce in powder and adde thereto of white Wine one pint warme this and so give it your horse then let him bee ridden a little and so set him up warme and let him bee set upon the Trench three houres before and three houres after and then eyther give him sweete Hay or greene Corne or the leaves of Sallowes and towards night give him a sweete Mâ—sh and give him this drinke every other day for three mornings continuing him with Mashes or white water and let his Oates bee very well sifted and in short time he will doe well againe ✚ With this receipt I have cured sundry horses but then forget not to wash his mouth dayly with the aforesaid lotion But if in all these severall Feavers you do find him eyther to be costiue or very hot in his body then you may do well to administer that Clyster prescribed you in lib. 2. chap. 6. § 2. Clyster 2. letter C. §. 12. F. Hippoph VVHat say you now 〈◊〉 Feaver Pestilent Hippos It is a disease most contagious for it is so malignant as that it will infect so many horses as be in the stable wher he standeth and it proceedeth from one of these two causes viz. eyther from an infectious ayre or from the corruption of the bloud inflamed by meanes of intemperate riding and exercise The signes are these the horse will hang downe his head in the Manger as if hee slept his eyes will water very much and Inflamations will arise at the roots of the Eares as if he had the Vives The best cure I ever knew was this with which I have cured many Horses visited with a Pestilent Feaver Feaver Pestilent first let him bleed well in the Neck veine reserving the bloud in a cleane basin which when it is cold will be very bad and ill coloured then wash his mouth with the lotion specified in the precedent § secondly apply to the Temples this Playster Take of Camamile of Goates-milke of the Iuyce of Sage of Sallet-oyle of white Wine-vineger of each foure spoonfull of red-rose-leaves dryed one handfull which must be eyther of a red-rose cake or otherwise red-rose leaves dryed beat them all in a Morter till they become of one body and so thick as that you may spread it playster-wise upon a linnen cloath then strew upon the Plaister two or three Nut-megges made into fine powder then make it good and hot putting the backside of the Plaister into a Pewter dish over a chaffing dish â—nd coales and so administer it warme to the Horse and for his drinke let it bee such water wherein have bin boyled violet leaves Mallowes and Sorrell but if the fit
only apply the medicine taught you in lib 2. chap. 16. § 10. L. for the Poll-evill ✚ This whay is also good to cure the bloudy Riftes Bladders Canker in the mouth Barbs Pappes and all Feavers and Maladies in the Mouth Another Take life-hony seven spoonfuls and Verde-grease halfe an ounce and boyle them till the hony bee halfe consumed and that it is become red then put it into some cleane pot and annoynt the sorance therewith made warme twice every day and when you have thus annoynted it cast upon the place Hurds cut very short to keep on the oyntment and this will in short time heale it up very sound ✚ This is most soveraign for any shackle-galde which commeth eyther by lock cord or shackle but if your Horse be desperately galled in any part of his body as by the girt or otherwise then Take of Verjuyce of the Crab two quarts of greene Copperas two penny-worth and boyle them together to one pint and a halfe and wash the sorance therewith very well and after fill up the hole if any be with the powder of red-leade and so let it remaine three dayes untoucht then wash it as before and fill it with your red ointment againe and thus in two or three times dressing it will heale up bee the galling never so dangerous ✚ This have I often used §. 3. G. Hippoph VVHat is best to bee done to a Horse that is Gravelled Hippos This malady commeth when a horse in his travell hath gotten gravell betwixt the sole and the hoofe which setleth at the quicke and there fretteth and festreth you shall soone know it by his halting and complayning upon the same foot which so soone as you do perceive take up the foote and you shall feele it warmâ—t in that place then in any other part of the foote and if you make tryall with your Pinsors Gravelling you shall perceive him to shrinke and to yeeld when you nip him against that place Take off the shooe and with your drawing iron draw the place till you come unto the quick picke forth all the gravell and crush forth the matter and bloud cleane then wash the sore cleane with your Copperas water taught you in the next ensuing Paragraph then poure upon the sore sheeps-Tallow and Bay-salt molten together of each so much as will suffice and let it bee poured into the wound scalding hot then stop up the hole with hurds and set on the shooe againe and at two or three times dressing it will be whole but till he be through well do not travell him neyther let his foote come into any wet ✚ This is a certaine cure Another Search and draw the place as before and get forth all the gravell then stop the place with Hogs-grease and Turpentine molten together pouring it into the wound scalding hot and stop it up with hurds and tack on the shooe and keepe his foote from wet and hee will soone bee whole This is also very good Another Be you certaine that you have gotten forth all the gravell and corruption then Take Virgin-waxe one ounce Rosin and Deeres-suet of each two ounces Bores-grease halfe an ounce and of Sea-greene alias House-leeke one head incorporate all these together in a Morter then melt them over a very gentle fire and so apply it hot to the sorance and stop it up with hurds and tack on the shooe and in few dressings it will cure it ✚ This is a speciall good cure § 4. G. Hippoph HOw doe you make your greene oyntment you doe so much commend Hippos Sir this Vnguent which I doe so much commend unto you is the most rare and soveraigne thing that I ever yet saw or knew for the cure of any sores whether old or greene Vlcers Fistulas Poll euills or what else for where this oyntment commeth no proud or dead flesh will grow no flies will adventure neere the place where this oyntment is laid and for a Horse or Mare-Filly that is cut gelt or spla annnoynt but the place and they will neyther swell or fester whereby the creature is the further of from danger for this Vnguent doth not only heale soundly and well but speedily also provided you lay nothing upon the wound or sorance where the oyntment is administred as neyther hurds lint plaisters or the like unlesse you may have occasion to Taint a wound which is extraordinary deepe neither that for any long time or too often and besides the seldomer the wound is dressed as once a day or once in two daies it will heale the better and faster especially if it be brought into good forwardnesse of healing And together with this Vnguent you may do well to wash the sorance with the water I call the Copperas water which by reason it is alwaies first to be used I will set it downe first and the Greene-oyntment shall assume the second place Take faire water two quarts and put it into a cleane Postnet and put thereto of greene Copperas halfe a pound Copperas â—ter and of salt one handfull and of ordinary Honey one spoonefull and a branch or two of Rosemary boyle all these till one halfe of the water bee consumed and a little before you take it from the fire put to it the quantity of a Doves egge of Alume then take it from the fire and when it is cold put the water into a glasse and stop it up close and keepe it for your use and when you are to dresse any sore first wash it cleane with this water and if the wound be deepe iniect it with a seringe ✚ This water of it selfe will cure any reasonable sore or wound but the greene oyntment being applyed after it is washed will heale any old Vlcer or Fistula whatsoever if they come to the bottome of them and for greene wounds they have not their fellow the Greene-oyntment is thus made Take a cleane Skillet or Postnet Greene-oyâ—ment and first put into it of Rosin the quantity of a wall-nut which being molten put to it the like quantity of wax and when that is also molten put to them of tryed-Hogs-grease halfe a pound and so soone as that is molten put into the rest of common English Hony one spoonfull when all these are molten and well stirred together then put in of ordinary Turpentine halfe a pound and so soone as it is dissolved take it from the fire and put into the Skillet of Verdegrease made into very fine powder one ounce and so stirre it well al together but be carefull it runne not over for that the Verde-grease will cause it to arise then set it againe upon the fire till it do beginne a little to simper then take it off for if you suffer it to boyle it will turne red and lose its vertue of healing and become a Corasive then straine it through a cloth into some earthen Pot or Pipken and keepe it for your use laying something upon the mouth of the
Feaver or a Surfet to the great perill of his life The signes are knowne by the swelling Lâ—gs swelled and therefore to annoynt them with Acopum were very good But the best cure is first to take up the thigh veines then with your Fleame to prick the places most swelled and hottest in sundry places especially be low to the end that the corrupt bloud may issue forth then Take of white Wine-lees one pint of Comin bruised one ounce boyle then together to a pultis with Wheate flower three handfuls then with a cloth apply it to the place good and warme renewing it every day once if in two or three daies it doth draw it to a head as it is very probable it will do then lanch it and heale it up either with Shooe-makers waxe laid on upon a Playster of leather or also with a salve made of the yolke of an Egge Whete flower and common honey well wrought together to a salve which you must also apply Plaister-wise ✚ But if it do not come to a head and yet the swelling continue then Take of Pitch and of Virgin-wax of each three ounces Rosin half a pound of the iuyce of Isop and of Galbanum of each half an ounce and of Mirrah-secondary half a pound of Bdellium-Arabicum Populeon and of the drops of Storax of each halfe an ounce and of Deeres-suet halfe a pound boyle all these together in an earthen Pot and when it is cold take of Bitumen halfe a pound Bole-Armoniack and of Costus of each one ounce and halfe make all these into fine powder and then incorporate them well with the other and so boyle them all over againe very well that done poure this whole mixture or Medicine into cold water and so make it up into rowles like a salve for Playsters and when you are to use it spread thereof upon Playsters of Leather which must bee so large as to cover the Legges full so far as the swellings are which if any thing can do it this will asswage the swelling and give very much strength and comfort the Sinewes and Nerves neyther is this Playster to be removed so long as it will remaine on ✚ This I have applyed to many Horses very much annoyed with swolne-Legges and brought them to their former smallnesse when as Ferriers have spent much time upon the Cure and given it over at last But if the Swelling do fall into the hinder-Legs or into all foure-Legs together being but a bad Sorance causing them to burne and swell exceedingly and the hayre to stare the cause whereof coming as I have before said from immoderate Riding heat and labour whereby the grease melting falleth downe into the Legges by reason the Horse cannot voyd it in his Excrements or else being over-hot he is washed or negligently set up without sufficient store of litter and rubbing so as the taking cold the bloud with the grease setleth in the Legges and there congealeth and so causeth them to swell This sorance also commeth by having his feet beaten especially in the Summer with being ridden and galloped upon hard ground which first occasioneth wind-gals and those also causeth the legs to swell which truely is the worst kinde of swelling of all other by reason that lamenesse doth immediately follow it unlesse great Art and diligence be speedily applyed for prevention thereof Wherefore the signes being so apparant needs no remonstrance and therefore I will passe on to the Cure which is thus Take Populeum Nervell Hogs grease of each one ounce Legs â—led incorporate them very well together cold and annoynt the sorance therwith morning and evening foure dayes together and at foure dayes end take of Claret Wine lees one quart boyle it upon the fire with so much Bran as will bring it to a Poultesse apply this to the place grieved plaister-wise with a cloth good and hot for foure or five daies more renewing it every day once and in short time he will be sound again ✚ This is a most excellent receit which I have often experimented Another The swelling of the legges may be easily cured if in the beginning they be often times in the day laved and bathed in cold water unlesse the malady come of too great a surfet wherefore if this of cold water will not doe it then Take of common honey one pound Turpentine common Gum meale of Linseed meale of Fenugrick of each foure ounces Bay berries made into very fine powder and seraced three ounces mixe and boyle all these together well and when you take it from the fire put unto it of white Wine one pinte and then boyle it over againe till it doe become thicke spreade this upon a cloath reasonable hot and wrap it about the members swelled and doe not renew it above once in a weeke and it will cure them ✚ This is a certaine and most approved Cure Another If you take up the veines and make them to bleed below and not above and then rope up the legges with thumbands of soft Hay wet in cold water and then cast more water upon them in short time he will be sound and well againe ✚ This is also very good § 5. L. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure the Leprosie Hippos This is a moyst mainge very infectious which commeth by meanes of great surfets taken by over-riding which is very easie to be seen and known and therefore needs no further description The cure therefore is first let him bleed well in the necke then scrape away the scurfe with an old Curry-combe Oyster-shell Hayre-cloth or some such like thing till the sorance doe looke raw and that it be ready to bleed then annoynt the raw places with this oyntment Leprosâ— elephaâ— malady Take Arsnick or Resalgar and tryed Hogs grease the Arsnick or Resalgar being first beaten unto very fine powder incorporate these well together to make them into a perfect oyntment then tye up the head of your Horse so high to the Rack as that he may not be able to bite rub or lick himselfe and so annoynt the places therewith and cause the oyntment to sinke the better in by himselfe and so annoynt the places therewith and cause the oyntment to sinke the better in by holding a hot bar of iron neere to the place as you annoint him and let him stand so tyed three houres and then wash away the Vnguent with the strongest Chamber-lye you can get and wash him so throughly that you may be assured you leave none of the oyntment upon the Horse and then untye him and give him meat and thus dresse him once every day till the sores be quite dryed up ✚ This is also good for Scratches and Kibed-heeles §. 6. L. Hippoph VVHat is good to kill Lice in a Horse Hippos Lice commonly commeth to a horse when he is very poore especially when he runneth abroad in the Winter time in some Wood Coppice or places where are many high trees for that the
salve and then put it up into a cleane gally-pot and so keep it and first making the places raw annoynt them with these Vnguents and it will kill any mainge in the body mayne or tayle ✚ This is very good Another very good Take of Tarre a gallon of tryed Hogs grease and Bolearmoniack of each two pound of Pepper one pound beat the Pepper and Bole-armoniacke to very fine powder and then mixe all the ingredients together making them into one body then first scrape the sorance so as you doe raise the scurfe and dry crusty stuffe but not to make it raw or to bleed much and then annoint all the places infected rubbing and chafing it in very well as if it be in winter let one hold a barre of hot iron neer to the places as you annoint and chafe it in but if in Summer the sunne will do it much better as he runneth at grasse and thus dresse him every three dayes so long as the unguent lasteth and he will be cured ✚ This is an approved cure Another To perform this cure the best way is to give the fire to the place after this manner the iron being hot first draw it along either side of the chinke then draw it upon the top of the chink then draw three strakes if need so require overthwart and in short time the hoofe will grow again so as the chink will be closed and remain sound and whole And over and above you may exercise him that very next day after you have thus given him the fire provided his exercise be not upon hard but upon soft or sandy ground X This is a very able cure taught me by a singular Marishall of Bruxels and I have practised the same upon sundry good horses here in England §. 3. M. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure a sore Mouth Hippos This is a disease that sometimes comes by much corrupt bloud and sometimes by cold for this malady most commonly beginneth in the palat of the mouth which will cause it to look red and be enflamed and from the palat it will fall into his chaps whereby he will not be able to shut them as if he had there a convulsion The cure is if it be but yet in the palate then let him bloud there and let him bleed well then Take of life Honey four ounces Mouth s◠Chibbals or young Onions halfe a handfull and tosted Cheese as much as will suffice boyle these in faire water very well and bloud warm wash the palat tongue and all other places in and about the mouth well with this liquor four or five times and he will do well ✚ This is very good Another After you have let forth the corrupt bloud then take Verjuyce of the Crab and Bay-Salt as much as will suffice and warm it upon the fire and bloud warm with a rag wash well every part of the mouth and tongue twice or thrice a day till it be well ✚ This is also very good but if it be come into his chaps which you may easily know by observing his wide yawning and gaping whereby his chaps will be so fallen as that he will not be able to bring them together to shut close againe wherefore so soon as you doe perceive him in that posture Take Verjuyce of the Crab onely and make it warm and then fastening a rag upon a stick wash his mouth very well therewith the Verjuyce being bloud warme and then with your hand help him to close up his mouth and doing thus two or three times he will be perfectly cured ✚ these be speciall good receits §. 4. M. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure the Mellet Mellet in the heeles Hippos I have shewed you that cure before lib. 2. cap. 4. § 9. lit A. But yet I will give you one receit more Take of Honey one pinte and of Sope three ounces and of white Wine Vineger five or sixe spoonfuls and as much Allum as an Egge and of Beane flower two spoonfuls mixe all these together and apply it to the sorance so farre as the mellet goeth and let it lye on five dayes and then take it away that done wash the legge foot and sorance with warme beefe broth and so keep his legges roped up well moystened in the beefe broth two or three dayes after and he wil be well ✚ This I have often used and it is a most rare cure §. 5. M. Hippoph VVHat is best to mollifie humours Mollifie humours Hippos This I have also formerly handled yet take with you this onely one receit more Take of Rosin three ounces of fresh Butter five ounces of new Waxe one ounce melt all these upon the fire and so bring them to an Vnguent and herewith annoynt the humours foure or five dayes together and this will mollifie them very well ✚ This is most pretious for this cause § 6. M. Hippoph VVHat shall a man doe to a Horse that is morfounded Morfounded Hippos Morfounding is but the French word signifying melting of grease or foundring in the body whereof I have before sufficiently intreated neverthelesse I will give you for this malady two singular receits the one I had of an Italian rider in Brussels and the other of a French Marishall in Avinion a man esteemed most famous and of both those receits I have made often use and I have perfected them for most rare cures That which the Italian taught me is this first open the necke veyne and draw away the inflamed and corrupt bloud then take of white Wine one pinte Sallet oyle halfe a pinte of Rhubarb and of Aloes of each two drams of Senae halfe an ounce of Agarick three drams Bay berries halfe an ounce Saffaron two drams Duck or Duke powder and of cordiall powder of each two drams make what is to be powdred into very fine powder and mixe them well together adding thereunto of life Honey foure ounces all which being made warme upon the fire and well brewed together give it your horse bloud warme but you must withall understand that the same day you shall administer this drink unto him he do stand fasting upon the Trench three or foure houres before and as many after neither must you the same day give him any Oates and let his drink be either a sweet Mash or white water and keep him warm and with white water five or sixe dayes after and then give him Oates but in tthe interim in stead of Oates let him have either bread made for him of purpose or else Bran prepared and when you do give him Oates put in amongst them Fenugrick bruised X This is I do assure you a most excellent receit with which I saved the life and brought to perfect sanity a horse of price which was visited with this infirmity the second receit which I had of the Marishall of Avinion is this viz so soon as you doe perceive or suspect him to be morfounded Take of Salt one
a little Hay sprinkled with water and eight or nine houres after the taking of his Pill which will be about three of the clocke give him white Water to drinke and let him eate of the Branne then at night when you are to go to bed put a muzell upon his mouth und let him remaine so all night fasting and let him be warme covered and the next morning unmusell him and give him Hay sprinkled with water to eate and continue to let his drinke bee white Water only the third day give him another of these Pils after which you may begin to give him Oates but a little at once but then the dayes he do not take his Pils you must remember ever more an houre after you give him his white Water to give him of Agarick and of Rubarb in powder of each one ounce which he must take in fresh or sweet Butter made up like to a Pill This Purgation may be given to any Horse but especially to that Horse you shall feare is in danger to become eyther pursive of Glandery and if perhaps the Malady to have beene longer upon him give him then of Antimony thirty graines drams more or lesse according to the strength and age of the horse and also according to the nature and quality of the disease and if after the application of this medicine your horse will not feed as it may be very probably you may cherish him with milke mingled with the yolkes of Egges and Sugar well beaten and brewed together ✚ This I applyed to a horse of more then twelve yeares old who in seven dayes eate not one bit of any thing but onely the said Milke Egges and Sugar and yet in fourteen dayes after I cured him and made him perfectly healthy and sound §. 8. P. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you for a horse that pisseth bloud Hippos This disease comes sometimes being troubled with the stone like as we have it often times among men sometimes it comes to a horse that being very fat is put to more then his strength is well able to performe like as I once saw a very proper Gelding a young Gentleman being upon his back in hunting who comming to a great leap and the horse being ridden off from his winde his Rider inconsiderately forcing him to take that leap which the Gelding with much difficulty tooke but withall fell and was not able to arise but with the help of men and comming home the same night he pissed bloud whereof he dyed four dayes after maugre the endeavours of three very able Ferriers and being opened they found two veynes broken neere to the kidneys and much blacke bloud found in the place This malady may also come by bearing too great a weight as also when a horse is too hard ridden he will pisse water like to bloud your eye sheweth you the disease and therefore it needs no further remonstrance The cure is Take of Ambrosio Sanguinario alias Bloud-wort and Bursa Pastoris Pissing of bloud of each three ounces stamp them well and boyle them in faire water very well and so give the liquor thereof being strained to the horse bloud warme ✚ Give him this five mornings together and it will help him Another Take Barly and boyle it in the juyce of Gumfolly and give him the Barly to eate and the liquor to drink and this will cure him ✚ This is also very good Another First cleanse his yard from all filth and his sheath also with broken Beer and Butter then let him bloud in the necke and mouth then take the juyce of Leeks or green Onyons to wit the water wherein they have been steeped twelve or sixteen hours at the least the vessell wherein they be steeped being kept close stopped Take of this liquor and of white Wine of each one pinte and stir and jumble them together till they become slimy then give it him to drink and do this sixe or seven mornings together and it will stay his fluxe of bloud and bring his urine to its naturall and ordinary colour ✚ This is a very good medicine and I have often tryed it Another no whit inferiour to the former Take Beane flower finely sifted and adde unto it the Suet of a Stagge as much as will suffice and give it him three mornings together warme with a horn with a sufficient quantity of red Wine and during that time let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white watâ—r made with Beane meale ✚ This is an approved good receit §. 9. P. Hippoph VVHat good receit have you for a horse that hath taken a surfet by Provender Hippos This comes commonly to such horses as are insatiable feeders and therefore it is requisite that they be dyeted especially if they have too much rest and too little exercise for such horses if they can either breake or steale to a Bing of Provender and drink presently after will undoubtedly surfet upon them for drinking after Oates Pease or Beanes doth cause the Provender to swell in their belly and stomacke and so clogge the stomacke as that crudities will arise and so cause him to be very sicke yea and perhaps to no little danger that you shall see him to stand with his four legges asunder the one farre from the other and he will scowâ—e and cast forth of his fundament corn which will goe forth as whole and entire as he did greedily swallow them without chewing or grinding them The cure is first open a veyne in the necke to keep the bloud from inflaming then draw his yard and wash it with broken Beere and Butter then anoynt it with soft grease and put into the pipe of his yard a small piece of a clove of Garlick whereby to provoke him to stale then rack him and give him the Clister prescribed in lib. 2. cap. 6. Sect. 8. Clister 8. C. and it is called a Clister lenative then keep him warm and to a spare dyet for four or five dayes after and let his drink be white water during that time ✚ with this receit I have cured many a horse but one horse amongst the rest of very great price who otherwise had infallibly dyed § 10. P. Hippoph HOw doe you cure the Poll-evill Hippos This mallady we do tearm the Poll-evill because it breedeth in the top of the Poll behinde the eares of the horse but let it assume what name it shall yet it is none other thing then a Fistula in graine that is a formall Fistula which doth begin like all other Fistulaes with a great inflamation and imposthume in the nape of the necke sometimes it comes by meanes of his unruly striving the halter being new and therefore hard which doth so pinch and gall him that the harm thereof by reason that the flesh is bruised doth fester and inflame and from thence is ingendred this most lothsome sorance and sometimes it comes againe of bilious and evill humours which do make their approach to that place
so knots and pustils do engender in the Liver which breedeth either a Dropsie a Feltricke or a rot The signes how to know this infirmity are these After his journeyes his hayre will stare his legges swell and burn and when you shall presse the places swoln with your finger upon taking your finger away there will remaine a pit or dint hee will forbeare his meat very much and when he doth eate it will be without any stomacke or appetite he will pant much lift and beat in the flanks many times he will swell under the belly neither will he cast his coat in seasonable time when other Horses that be sound do and he will be so faint of body as that he will become lunt and utterly to have lost his mettle These and such like be the symptomes of this malady Now come I to the cure Let him first bleed well under the taile then Take of Mares-milke two quarts if the same may be had if not Rot. the like quantity of the milke of a red Cow then take a lump of Arement then take a young horse of or about the age of foure yeares and of colour blacke if it may be if not then of some other colour run and chafe him about that he may sweate much then with a spoone or with some other such like instrument rake the sweate from his head necke breast backe sides ribbes buttocks legges and in a word from each part or member of the said horse and get off the sweat so much as you can possibly and so put your Arement and your sweat into the milke which all being well mixed give him this by equall portions three mornings together till he hath taken it all and let him drinke none other drinke after it in sixe or seven houres but immediately after his drink let him be led forth into some pasture where other horses be the better to cause him to neese stale dung and empty himselfe for it is very wholesome for him so to doe before he either eate or drink Having thus done set him up warm and well littered and if the season do serve give him of the green blades of Rye if not give him Barly steeped in milk three dayes but renewed every day once Then after every of these drinks if you feele him cold in the pasterne joynts or that he trippeth or stumbleth as you leade him in your hand meddle no further with him for that he is past cure otherwise for nine dayes together after morning and evening give him white water onely unlesse now and then a sweet Mash and sometimes give him milke with his white water if the Horse be not above nine years old and so you may cure him but if he be elder this may prolong his life whereby he may do the more service This I never did experience but a Noble Knight and a very friend told me that he hath thus recovered sundry Horses which have beene visited with this disease CHAP. XVIII §. 1. S. Hippophilus WHat good Salves have you wherewith to heale up sores and wounds Hippos Sir I have many according as I have before shewed you but yet I will give you many more the greatest number of which I have tryed and I am able to commend them unto you for very good and those not Salves Salve onely but Vnguents Powders and Waters which be most soveraign Take of Perosen and of hard Rosin of each one pound of Frankincense Virgin-Wax or for want thereof new Waxe and Sheeps suet of each halfe a pound of old tryed Hogs grease one pound and a quarter boyle the Gummes and Waxe in white Wine halfe a pint and then put unto it your Sheeps tallow and Hogs grease and when all is well molten and incorporated straine it and whilst it is yet hot put in of Venice Turpentine one ounce and so work all well together and when it is cold poure in the liquor from the salve which put up into a cleane galley pot or other cleane vessell for your use ✚ This is a most soveraign Treate or Salve wherewith to heale any wound that is not come to an Vlcer and so dry it up Another most excellent powder Powder Take unslaked Lime the dry dust of Tanners Oken Bark and old shooe soles burned to a cole of each like much make these into fine powder and mixe them well and keep it in a cleane boxe or glasse for your use ✚ This powder healeth the buds or knots of the Farcin after they be broken and it skinneth them and if they be first washed with the juyce of Vervine and strong Vineger mingled together and then this powder being cast upon them will I say heale and skin them It also healeth and skinneth all other sores Another Oyntment Take tryed Hogs grease halfe a pound Verdigrece in fine powder one penny worth boyle these upon the fire two or three walms then take it off and put unto it of Venice Turpentine halfe an ounce and stirre it well together till it be cold ✚ This Vnguent will heale any wound or sore in a Horse Another Oyntment Take of Roch-Allum a good quantity and burn it and as much bay Salt and burn that also make both these together into fine powder then take of common Honey and of sweet Butter of each like much as will suffice incorporate the Allum and Salt with the Honey and Butter by melting them over a gentle fire and with a taint or plaister apply it ✚ And this cureth any foule sore This I have often tryed Another Take of faire water Water one pinte and put into it of green Coperas and of bay Salt of each the quantity of a good hasle nut both made into very fine powder let these boyle a little upon the fire With this wash any sore before you do apply your Salves Vnguents or Powders ✚ This is a right good water Another Take of common Honey two ounces Roch-Allum Verdigrece and Vineger of each one ounce make your Allum and Verdigrece into very fine powder then take of Sublimate finely powdred two ounces boyle all these a walme or two on the fire this laid on a Spatula plaister-wise once a day or if the wounds be deep with a taint cureth both speedily and soundly but before you dresse him with this Salve let the Sore be well washed and injected with the water last above mentioned made of faire water Coperas and bay Salt ✚ This is a most approved cure and good beyond all peradventure for it cureth not onely sores and wounds in any part in the body of the Horse but in the foot which way soever it may happen and it cleanseth any wound from dead or proud flesh Another Take the buds or tendrest tops of the leaves of Elder one handfull and first shred and after pound them very well till you bring them to a perfect Salve Salve and apply this to the sore binding a cloth
which you shall find upon the ground which many do report to be the falling of a Star in the night where it shooteth of each like much incorporate these well together and anoynt the sore twice every day therewith but if you cannot get of this Ielly then adde to the former ingredients a little Arsenick pulverised and in ten or twelve daies this will heale him X. This also is very good Another Take the tender tops of Elder buds and the berries of the bramble while they be red and before they be rip of each one handfull boil them in Wort two quarts and put unto it of Allome the quantity of an Egge and therewith wash and bathe the Sorance good and hot twice every day and this water will cure him X. This is also very good Another Take of Hemlocke a good quantity shread it very small then take of Creame one quart and boyle it with the Hemlock till the Creame do turne into an oyle which done take it from the fire and straine it into a cleane galley pot and keepe it for your use with this anoint the Sorance and it will soone heale it of this I never had tryall Another Take Brimstone and make it into fine powder and mix with it of sweet Butter so much as will suffice to bring it to an Vnguent which will be of the colour of Gold herewith anoint the sores and it will cure them This I never tryed Another Take unslaked Lime Salt and Soot of each like much all made into very fine powder boyle this in the strongest white Wine Vineger you can get so much as will suffice till it become as thicke as a Pultis then soften it with tryed Hogs-grease and so worke it to an Vnguent and herewith anoint the places greived till they be perfectly cured ✚ This is very good but to prevent all sorts of Scratches Kibes Rat-tayles c. take up the Thigh-veynes and your Horse shall never have any of these Maladies or if he have them yet by so doing they will of themselves be cured ✚ This I have oft experienced § 7. S. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Sit-fast Hippos This Malady the French do call Mal de la Corn it is an hard knob which hath beene formerly a Saddle-gald but by reason that the Owner of the Horse was unwilling to spare his worke till it was fully cured it is converted into a Sit-fast Sit-fast which is oftimes troublesome to the Horse by reason it is growne to a dry knob so hard as a horne The cure is Take the greene outward leaves of a Cabbadge and stamp them with old Boares-grease or tryed Hogs-grease and worke them to an Oyntment and then mount his Back and then set the Saddle to the end that the Oyntment may the better enter or sinke into his Backe and in a few daies it will Cure him ✚ This is a very good cure §. 8. S. Hippoph THere be yet certaine Scabbes which doe grow upon Horse-heeles which Ferriers doe deny to be the Scratches but they will have it to bee a disease wholy different How doe you cure them Hippos Sir men may say what they shall please but I doe assure you these are also plaine Scratches But yet I will give a few Receipts for them Scabs and Scratches Take of Salet-oyle three ounces Red-wax-gummed one ounce common Hony two ounces mixe and melt all these together and make them into an Vuguent with which you must oft anoint the Sores and this will cure them ✚ I have often used it Another Take ordinary Turpentine two ounces new Wax oyle de Bay Quick-Brimstone of each three ounces common Hony one ounce Allome and Zacacon of each halfe an ounce mixe melt and incorporate all those well together and every evening anoint the places grieved therewith having first cleansed the Sorances as before is taught you This I did never try but I hold it to be very good Another Take the strongest white-Wine-Vineger Mustard and Soote of each so much as will suffice and mix them well them adde to them the yolkes of two Egges and of Hogs-grease one ounce Rape-oyle and new Wax of each two ounces quick-Brimstone in fine powder halfe an ounce melt all these and make it into an Vnguent and therewith anoint the grieved Sorances ✚ This I have often tryed and I know it to be very good § 9. S. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Horse that can neither Stale or Dunge Hippos This accident oftimes hapneth to a Horse that is suddenly travelled being newly taken from Grasse or that hath beene long time kept and pampered in the Stable without any execise at all for as those who be too hard Riders do soone surfet their Horses so likewise do these terribly wrong their Horses who be too indulgent and tender of them and therefore the golden meane is evermore the best The signes to know this Malady is plaine for that his paine will bee so great as that it will cause him oft to lye downe and tumble as if he had the Bots. I will give you one onely Receipt which a famous French Marishall gave me with which I cured one Horse for that I had never occasion to practise it upon any since but I do hold it to be most soveraigne in a case of this nature Take the root of Male-Brake or Fearne and put a piece thereof upon his tongue and it will cause him both to stale and dung Stale or dung and so he will be cured The male of Fearne is to be knowne by the root from the female for if you take a Fearne-root and cut it in two pieces you shall see the perfect figure of an Eagle and thereby you may know it to be the male which is for your turne And the female root will beare other effigies different from the male which wanteth its vertue to perfect this cure ✚ This I say I have once tryed § 10. S. Hippoph VVHat is to be done to a Horse that falleth sicke in his iourney or travell Sicke in travell Hippos This also hapneth as the former doth but yet oftner and sooner especially if he be very fat and pursive and wanting breath as also if he be travelled being fat and heavy the Sunne shining and scorching much for such a horse is in danger either to tire or to fall desperately sicke which may also endanger his life as I have frequently knowne The cure must be Take Muskadine or sweet Sacke one pinte Aqua vitae a quarter of a pinte of London Treacle two ounces and of the best Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte warme all these upon the fire and brew it well and give him one hornfull thereof then take his tongue in your hand and put down his throat a new laid Egge breaking it with your fingers as you put it forth of your hand then give him a second horne full and then another Egge and after all the residue of the drinke and
coate at usuall times like as other Horses doe he will loose his mettle and become very lunt and his eyes will run with water and matter and his stones will swell in a word he will be out of ioynt that is out of good temper throughout every part and member of his Body Other causes there bee of this Malady whereof I have intreated before in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 9. let C. to which place I do referre you neverthelesse I will give you a Receipt or two which I have often used and doe know them to be right good Swelled cods Take Turmerick and long-Pepper of each a penny-worth Anniseeds and Fenugrick of each a halfe penny-worth sweet Butter so much as will suffice boyle all these being first powdred in Ale three pints till one pint be consumed and then take it from the fire and straine it and dissolve into it in London Treacle one ounce and so well brewed give it your Horse bloud-warme let him have this drinke sundry times and let otherwise his drinke be white water and sometimes a sweete Mash till he be well ✚ This is very good Another Take of the best Tarre two spoonefuls life-honey one spoonefull black-sope the quantity of a Nutmegge Diapente one ounce and of Bay-salt two spoonefuls mix all these well together and convey it into two or three Egges-shels the tops being so opened as that you may but get forth the meate then fill up the shels with this Medicine and so put them downe his throate in a morning fasting and give him presently after it two or three hornefuls of Ale or Beere to send downe the Medicine the better but the surplusage of what remaineth of the Medicine let it be spred upon the roofe of his mouth doe thus every morning for eight dayes together and when he hath taken his Medicine let him be ridden gently an houre or two and then set him up warme cloathed and littered and set him upon the Trench three houres and let his drinke bee white water and sometimes a sweet Mash both then and for sometime after ✚ This is also very good § 23. S. Hippoph HOw doe you take off a Spongy-Wart Hippos A Spongy-Wart Spongy-wart is that very thing which our Ferriers cal an Anberry which is kind of wen which swelleth somtimes to a great bignesse sometimes againe it will bee but small but then commonly they are many and do grow into clusters this commeth by meanes of peccant humours caused of bad bloud and that horse that is inclined to Warts will seldome be ever free of them for take them off in one place and he will put forth more in other parts of his body but to breed of eyther Horse or Mare inclined to them I will diswade you for most commonly hee will put them forth about the eyes yea and oft-times so neere to the eye it selfe as to endanger the sight thereof They be easily knowne by reason they be so apparently seene and therefore need no further description The cure is It were good first to purge him and to take bloud from that Master-veine which you doe finde doth most feed them as well to divert as to stop the malice of that bad humour which doth occasion the malady If the Wart or Anberry be farre enough extant from the skin then tye two of his strongest hayres taken from his tayle hard about the sorance so fast as you possibly can and so as that it may not loosen and in few dayes it will fret and eate it cleane off which done strew upon it the powder of Verdegrece to kill it at the root and after heale it up againe with your green salve But if you cannot come to tye it either with hayre or threed then either with your incision knife cut it away close to the skin or else burn off with an hot iron and then first kill the fire with Turpentine and Hogs grease molten together and after heale it up as before is prescribed you ✚ This is very good § 23. S. Hippoph VVHat is good to be applyed to a Horse that is Surbated Hippos Two wayes a horse doth surbate the first is when a horse is newly backt and weighed upon his first shooing and when the owner of the horse will not have patience with him but will presently journey him upon hard and stony wayes his hoofes and feet being yet but tender to what they will be afterwards and so the horse must needs surbate The second way is when a horse hath of himselfe bad feet and is also either ill shod or else his shooes be very thinne worne or that they be too narrow or too short and that he be ridden upon bad hard stony and rough wayes in such like cases your horse will surbate you shall finde it by the handling of his feet especially the next day after a long journey by reason he will not stand still long upon his feet without hitching them up and removing them for that they will be so sore as that he will not know how or where to place them and you shall also perceive him to be surbated by reason that after a journey he will lye much standing being painefull unto him and in his lying you shall see him covet to lye and stretch himself all along upon one side and if you feele the coffins of his hoofes you shall finde them to burne very hot and his hoofes to be very dry The cure is very facile Take two new laid Egges Surbated feet and after you have well picked his fore-feet breake them raw into the soles and then stop them up with Oxe or Cow dung and he will be well by the next morning ✚ This is an approved good cure § 24. S. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Horse that is stifled Hippos This mischiefe commeth accidentally to wit either by a straine in leaping or by a slip in travell or by the stroke of some other horse and thus the bone is either out of its place or else the joynt is very much strained or hurt The signes to know it is if the bone be out you may see it plainely for besides his halting the bone dislocated will so stick out as that the horse can do no more then touch the ground with his toe til it be put in again and the way to put it in is thus First tye down his head to the Manger then take a cord and fasten it to the pasterne of the stifled Stifled legge and draw his legge forwards and so the bone will come right by helping it with your hand which being in your care then must be to keep it in with your hand and then tye the other end of the cord to the Rack so as he may not put back his legge to dislocate the bone any more for an houre or two after till it be setled and dressed Wherefore let his Keeper stand by him all the time lest the horse should lye down
of Horse-dung newly made by a Horse that goeth to grasse and putting it to the other Ingredients worke it to a Salve and apply it plaister-wise to the place good hot renewing it twice every day for so long time as you shall think to be convenient Now Master Blundevile and Master Markham doe both agree in the Cure of an Attaint which is thus First wash and bath the place with warme Water and shave the haire so farre as the swelling goeth then scarrifie the sore place with the point of a Razor that the bloud may issue forth Then take Cantharides and Euforbium of each halfe an ounce powdered and mingle them together with a quarterne of Sope and with a shy spread some of the Oyntment over all the sore suffering him to rest in the place where you dressed him for one halfe houre after and then you may take him into the Stable there letting him stand without Litter and so tyed that hee may not touch the sore with his Mouth and then the next day use him in the same manner againe then the third day annoint the place with fresh Butter continuing so to doe by the space of nine dayes and at nine daies end make him this bath Take Mallowes three handfulls a Rose-Cake and Sage of each a handfull boyle them together in a sufficient quantity of faire water and when the Mallowes are become soft put in halfe a pound of Butter and halfe a pint of Sallet Oyle and then being somewhat warme wash and bath the sore place therewith every day once till it be whole This Medicine I confesse I never tryed but I think it very good Master Blundevile hath only this but Master Markham hath sundry others some of which I will relate to the end the Ferrier may make his choyce Another Take Dialthea Agrippa and Oyle and mixing these together lay it to the swelling Another Take also Frankinsence Rosin Tarre Euforbium Turpentine Fennugrick of each a quarter of an ounce of Sewet one ounce of Oyle one ounce of Wax three ounces three quarters of an ounce of Myrrh mix and melt all these together and plaister-wise lay it to the place till it be whole Another Take also Sanguis-Draconis three quarters of an ounce Bole-Armonack one ounce Oyle as much Mastick three ounces Suet as much and as much Swines grease melt and mix all these together and lay it to the swelling and it will take it away Another Cure I found in an old Manuscript with which I have cured many horses which have been much swelled which is this viz. Take Turpentine of Venice one ounce and Aqua-vitae three Spoonfulls beat them together in a Bladder or some other convenient Vessell untill they come to a perfect salve then annoynt the sore very well therewith and heat it in with a hot Brick or a hot Iron and thus doing foure or five times it will set him upright ✚ This I have often tryed and it is very good §. 10. A. Hippoph VVHat is that which you call a Nether Attaint Hippos It is also an Over-reach sometimes and sometimes againe it cometh by a Wrench sometimes by a Strayne sometimes by treading upon a sharp stone or stub and sometimes it cometh by a blow and it is called properly a Neather Attaint Attaâ—â—â— Neathâ—â— by reason it being commonly upon the fore-legge like as is the other it is neverthelesse placed lower than the other is for whereas the other is above the Fet-lock Ioynt this is under it for it is commonly upon the Heele or Frush nor is it oftimes visible to the eye howsoever it may be felt as well by the heat and glowing which will be upon the heele as also by the softnesse for there will be a Bladder or blister of viscous corrupt matter like to Ielly which will grow in the place and besides it will make the Horse to complaine and it wil be also somewhat swelled I have cured sundry Horses which have had this Malady and they have done well again The cure is thus Take a peece of Filliting and bind it above the Pastern-joynt a little good and hard which will cause the blister or swelling the better to appeare more visible to the eye make incision with your Incision-knife and crush out all the corrupt Ielly and congealed matter Then heale it up by washing the sore with Coperas water declared in lib. 2. cap. 10. § 4. and after annoynt it with the Greene Oyntment mentioned in capite et § Ibid. and so in short time it will bee whole and sound againe ✚ This is a very hard Cure for your ordinary Country Smiths to take in hand to performe if they bee not well acquainted with the nature of this Malady Master Blundevile and Master Markham have both this manner of Cure only they differ from me in the healing Salve § 11. A. Hippoph VVHat Cure have you for the Avives Hippos This terme Avives we have also gotten from the French which our Ferriers doe call the Viues It is a disease which growes under the Eares and secundum vulgus Aviues it is called the Fives or Vives from the Eares it creepeth downe towards the Throate which when they begin to enflame will swell and not only paine the Horse very much but also prove mortall by stopping his Wind they will kill him out right if it be not in time cured and I my selfe have seene and knowne Horses dy of this malady It proceedeth most commonly of Ranknesse of Bloud in the cure care must be taken that you doe not touch the Graynes or Kernells with your fingers The Avives or Vives are certaine flat Kernells much like Bunches of Grapes which grow in a cluster close knotted together in the place the most certaine cure is to cut the Skin longest-wayes and to lay the Kernells or Graines open and then with an Instrument made like to a paire of Pliers to pinch forth the Graynes then to apply unto the place eyther a linnen-cloth or a few hurds steeped well in whites of Egges well beaten and so bound on and renewing it dayly it will cure it but you must heale up the Skin with the Greene-Oyntment before spoken of in Cap. § Ib. ✚ But the common cure is to draw downe the sore with a hot Iron just in the midst so farre as the swelling goeth and then under the roote of the Eare draw two other strokes of the fashion of an arrowes head then open the skin and with a small payre of plyers pull out the kernels and so cut them off but have a care of the veine that done fill the place with Bay-salt made into fine powder and after heale up the sore with the aforesaid Oyntment ✚ This have I also practised and performed the Cure but with greater difficulty than the former by reason of the Fire which I put to the place and therefore I doe hold my former Cure the better safer and speedier ✚ Master Blundevile and Master Markham
commended it to be tres-bonne which is this viz. Take three parts of sheeps-dung and one part of wheate or Rye-flower and dry the flower and then knead them together and bake it a little and apply it bloud warme to the place § 2. B. Hippoph IS there a disease in a horse called the Barbes Hippos Yea Sir there is such a disease and it groweth in the mouth vnder the tongue naturally for every Horse hath them Barbes neverthelesse there is no harme in them untill they doe become inflamed and then they will swell with corrupt bloud proceeding from naughty humours and become raw and so trouble and pain the Horse so as he cannot feed without much griefe for it commeth by meanes of evill humours and inflamed bloud I never heard of more Cures than two for this malady which is to take hold of his tongue and on either side under it of the jaw you shall see two teats or paps clip them away close and then wash the place with a little water and salt and they are cured The other Cure Take a paire of Sizers and clip them away from under the tongue and let them bleed then prick him in the palate of the mouth with your Fleame that he may bleed the better then wash the places with white wine vineger Bolearmonacke and Bay-salt of each as much as will suffice and for three or four dayes after let him see that no hay-dust sticke upon the places so clipped and he will soon be well againe §. 3. B. Hippoph VVHat good Receit have you to dissolve and dry up all ill humours in the body Hippos The best thing that I could ever know Bath for Humours to dry them up is a certain Bath which I make wherewith I bath him and I doe finde it to be right good which I make thus viz. Take Sage and Rosemary of each a handfull of the barke of the root of Beech three pound and of the barks of young Elmes Oakes and Ashe of each a handfull of Nep Penny-Royall and of Chest-nuts the rindes being taken away of each a handfull three or foure white Onions cleane pilled and cut into small pieces of slices red wine three pottles strong white wine vineger two pottles boyle all these together and cause your Horse to be walked a quarter of an houre before a good pace that he may be onely warme then let him be presently bathed with this Bath good and hot and then set him up warme and let his drinke be either sweet Mashes or white water bath him thus three dayes together and feed him with such meat as is sweet and wholesome and let him not be ridden into any water in eight or tenne dayes after and this will dissolve and dry up all his bad humours ✚ This I learned of an Italian Rider in Bruxels whom I saw practise it very often whilst I was there and rode with him And since I have my selfe administred it to many good Horses here in England with which I have done very much good Hippoph Now that we speake of Bathes I would gladly know what are their vertues Hippos Bathes have been much more in use in former times than now they are howbeit I and my Master doe use them often and we doe finde great profit by them for they are fomentations which be the most comfortable things of any to the joynts and limbs of a Horse Bathes dissolve all ill humours and gives heat and warmth unto all the members that are benummed with cold or for want of bloud it comforteth and strengtheneth them and it giveth very great ease to the pained sinewes Besides it asswageth swellings in or about any outward parts of the body for legges swelled stiffe or benummed or for any other joynt pained or grieved Bath for st ffe legges or for any string hault crampe or convulsion I commonly use a bath which doth in short time cure all such like Maladies And my bath is this Bath 1 Take Muskadine and Sallet oyle of each a pinte Bay-leaves and Rosemary of each two handfuls let them boyle halfe an houre and when you are to bathe your Horse therewith rubbe and chafe the grieved place with a wispe or hayre-cloath a pretty while then put the foot into some broad bowle or payle whereby to preserve the liquor and hearbs and lave and bathe him thus a quarter of an hour which ended binde upon the place a piece of Sheeps or Lambs skin with the woolly side to the legge and let him stand so four and twenty houres apply this five or sixe times and it will be a perfect Cure ✚ Another bath I have which is most soveraign to cure all gourdy gowty and swoln legges which commeth either by farcin scratches or the like wherewith I have cured very many Horses And thus it is made Bath 2 Take the grounds of a Beere battell with the Barme Smallage Featherfew Winter-savory Cumâ—ry Mallowes Rue Set-well Penny-Royall Wormewood Arch-angell of each a good handfull and of the leaves and Berryes of Missletow three or foure good handfuls Sheepes Tallow one pound tryed Hogges-grease halfe a pound three or foure handfuls of Rie or Wheat Branne boyle all these together untill all the hearbes and Missletow become soft but be sure you have liquour enough and a little before you take it from the fire put into it some Hay With this bathe his Legges first one then the other putting still that Legge which you are to bathe into a broad Bowle or Payle as is afore shewed and when you have bathed that Legge sufficiently then take of the hay in the Bath and making a Thum-band thereof rowle it about the Leg above the uppermost or middle Ioynt and put off the hearbes betwixt his Legge and the Thum-band and so use the other Legge or Legs which are swelled and need bathing Which done powre of the liquour remaining upon the thum-bands and thus let him bee bathed herewith every day once for so many dayes together as you shall thinke requisite and it will bring downe the swelling quite and make him sound ✚ Another Bath I have no lesse excellent wherewith I have done many rarecures viz. Take Smallage Oxe-Eye and Sheepes Sewet of each like much Bath 3 to a good quantity Chop them small together and after stamp them in a stone Morter then boyle them with mans Vrine and bathe the grieved parts herewith warme doing as before with a Bowle or Payle then with Thum-bands of soft Hay made first wet in cold water rope up the member as well above as below the griefe Vse this as oft as you shall see cause out if the griefe happen in travell then by bathing him thus over-night and roping him up he wil be able to travell again the next morning without complaining ✚ This I doe assure you is a most excellent Bath and it cureth any Lamenesse which cometh eyther by stroke strayne or other Accident One other Bath I have whereof I never made
to the eye The best way to cure it is first to shave away the haire on both sides the swelling so farre forth as the swelling goeth then take up the thigh veine and let it bleed well which done tye the veine above the orefice and let the veine bleed from below what it will whereby the bloud which was assembled about the spaven place which caused the former swelling is by this meanes sent away then with your fleame or incision knife make two incisions in the lower part of the swelling and after prick two or three holes in each side of the hough where the Spaven is that the medicine may take the better effect and when the bloud and water hath vented away so much as it will doe bind round about it plaister-wise the whites of Egges and Bolearmonack very well beaten together either upon hurds or linnen cloath and make it fast about the hough so keep on the plaister The next day take it off and wash and bathe the sorance with this bath viz. Bath for Bloud-Spaven Take Mâ—llowes and the tops of nettles and boyle them in water till they be soft and therewith bath him Then take Mallow-roots Brancha Vrsina Oyle Waxe and white Wine so much as wil suffice and boyle them binde this warme to the sorance round about the hough and sew a cloath about it and so let it remaine three dayes more and every morning stroke it downewards with both your hands gently to the end the bloudy humour may issue forth The fourth day bathe and wash it very cleane with the former Bath That done Take Carana and stone Pitch of each one ounce and of Brimstone a quarter of an ounce made into very fine powder melt these together on the fire and when it is almost ready to be taken off put into it of Venice Turpentine halfe an ounce and make a plaister thereof spreading it upon leather and apply it to the place warme round about the hough and so let it remaine untill it doe fall away of its own accord or if it doe come off sooner than you might thinke fitting then make another plaister of the like ingredients and apply it as before ✚ This is the best cure that I could ever know for this malady with which I have cured many Bloud-Spavens ✚ Another for a Bloud-Spaven When the swelling doth appeare upon the inward part of the hough take up the thigh veine and let it bleed from the nether part of the leg till it will bleed no longer and after give fire to the Spaven both longst-wayes and crosse-wayes and then apply a restringent charge to the place and thus it will be cured This I never tryed but positively speaking I hold it to be a very good Cure § 11. B. Hippoph HOw doe you cure the dry or Bone-Spaven Hippos This malady is not easily cured but with great difficulty and danger it is a great hard crust yea as hard as a bone if it be let runne sticking or indeed growing to the bone much closer than the barke of an Oake to the body and it is upon the inside of the hough under the joynt neere to the great veine of which I spake of before in the Cure of the bloud-spaven by which meanes the Horse that hath such a Spaven cannot chuse but hault This bone-spaven Bone-Spaven commeth two wayes the first through hard riding or other kinde of intemperate labour whereby the bloud dissolving falleth downe and maketh its residence in the hough which doth in short time become dry and hard as any bone from whence the sorance taketh its denomination Secondly the Horse may have this malady by inheritance or kinde either from the Sire or Damme as I have before specified in the second Chapter of the first Booke where I doe intreate of Breeding The Signe to know it is evident enough viz. by your Eye and hand for it is both visible and palpable enough and as easie to bee seene and felt as the Legge it selfe The best way to cure it is first by taking up the thigh-veine which caused it and fed and nourished it and let him bleed will and so put him into the Stable and doe no more to him for that day the next day shave away the haire from off the Spaven and rub it hard with a Rowling-pin having first annoynted the place with Petroleum and chafed it well in with your hand or some other round and smooth stick morning and evening for foure daies together and at the fourth dayes end slit downe the skin with your Incision-knife the full length of the Spaven but bee very carefull you do not touch the great Artery or Veine both which do ly very neere for if you do never so little hurt the great Artery you utterly maime the horse past all recovery having thus done lay to the place the Hearb called Flamula bruised and bind it on that it fall not off for two dayes more then for three daies after Take Cantharides Euforbium incorporate them well together being before beaten into fine powder with black Sope and Bay salt and lay this to the place and thus dresse it every Morning this will lay the Bone and Crust bare After take Fearne-roots Hounds-tongu and Bore-grease incorporate all these together and lay it to the place untill you perceive the Crust to be loose and to bee wasted assay now and then to loosen the same with your Cornet or other Instrument and if you can with conveniency take it off quite doe so Which done heale up the wound with your greene oyntment prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 10. § 4. you may also apply to the Sorance after the aforesaid Corasives a Plaister of strong Aegiptiacum till it hath fretted off the flesh upon the Crust so bare as possibly may be and so you may the better attempt the taking away of the said Crust or by rubbing it with a Rowling-pin or a Hasell-stick annointed with Petroleum till the Crust be converted into a mattrative substance or other thinner kind of corruption which may very easily be drawne away And thus have I cured the Bone-Spaven severall times Which disease I cannot easily commend to be cured by any but those who have before hand seene some other skilfull Ferrier to do it before him and the Method he useth in the working by reason that the Cure is so extreamely difficile and over-dangerous ✚ But when at any time you doe perceive a swelling begin to be in the Spaven-place of your horse whereby you may suspect it may prove a Spaven for prevention whereof Take Naturall Balsome and having first shaven away the haire annoint the place with the said Balsome for two or three daies and after you shall represse the Humours with this Charge Take Oyle of Roses three ounces Bole-Armonack one ounce wheat flowre halfe an ounce and the white of one Egge make all these into one body and every day having first annointed it with
flesh which running too and fro being salt and billions it there doth itch and smart provoking the Horse many times to rub scrub and bite himselfe Which disease if it be let run long will come to be an Elephantique leprosie or at least a terrible mainge by which meanes he will soone infect all the Horses which are in the Stable where he standeth for it is a contagious malady and loathsome The best way to cure this itch before it proceed further is Take Chamberly newly made two quarts Bay-salt a handfull unslaked Lime a handfull Enule-campana root dryed and finely powdred a handfull but if not dryed then green cut into thin slices Hens dung a handfull boyle all these together a while then with a sticke with a clout fastened to it wash the Horse all over so hot as he may well suffer the same use this three or foure mornings together and it will cure him keeping him to a spare dyet and giving him white water ✚ § 14. B. Hippophyl VVHat is good to prevent Blowing and Pursivenesse in a Horse Hippos You must first understand Sir the true nature of this griefe as also how he came by it whereby you may the more easily know how to cure the same for that there be sundry wayes and meanes whereby a Horse may come to be breathlesse and short of winde and every one of them may be a severall disease and so require a distinct remedy But if you meane a shortnesse of winde onely then know that many Horses are naturally thicke winded as being cook-thrâ—pled narrow Chawled c. Blowing 〈◊〉 Pursiveneâ— Also shortnesse of winde may come unto him accidentally as when being fat and over-laden with flesh or by being too rank of bloud or by too much glut and foulenesse in the body then is he subject to shortnesse of breath and pursivenesse so as upon any motion or exercise he will sweat pant blow and heave at the flanks and this commeth upon him by immoderate riding eating drinking and rest And such like exercise causeth the panch of the Horse if he be put to any sudden motion or exercise to be so hard and strutted out as that he must so straine his longs the bellowes of the body as to cause a dislocation in them by meanes whereof they cannot execute their office or function as they ought and if care and remedy be not speedily had he will in short time be past all recovery and then hee is brought to that disease which the vulgar doe call broken-winded wherefore to prevent it administer unto him this ensuing Cure Let all the hay he eateth nor let him eate all he desireth for such Horses are commonly great feeders be sprinckled and moystened with water which will asswage his excesse of drinking and very much coole his bloud which cannot but be inflamed Then give him every morning for foure or five dayes together two egges steeped twenty foure houres in the strongest white wine vineger you can get give him I say these two egges and then the vineger after then ride him softly an houre after which done set him up warme and three houres after give him hay sprinckled with water and at night when you do give him his Oats wet them in Beere or good Ale and let his drinke be white water ✚ Doe this ten dayes together so that about the beginning of May and about Michaelmas he may be in breath and so keep him to spare dyet but with discretion ✚ This medicine will both purge him and scowre from him much flegme and filth as well at nose as mouth and he will be both sounder and in better health a long time after provided he be also kept to moderate exercise And if after you have thus drenched and dyeted him you doe not perceive his blowing and lifting at the ribbes and flanks to cease then be you confident your Horse is past all cure onely still moysten his meat as before is inculcated and he will hold out the longer ✚ Another Receit I have for the same malady which if he be not past all cure will infallibly doe him much good which is this viz. Take wheate meale the powder of Lung-wort alias Mullet Gentiana Anniseeds Comin-seeds of each three drammes make them into fine powder and make paste with them with honey and fresh butter of each like quantity so much as will suffice and put to it the yolkes of two new laid egges make this paste into pils and every morning fasting give him three or foure of these pils rowled up in the powder of Enulacampana and the powder of Licoris of each like much These pils preserve the winde of the Horse mervailously and keeps him alwaies in breath and therefore good they be often used ✚ Of these two Receits I have had great experience and a third I was taught whereof I had not oft made triall yet with that little experience I have had of it I doe find it to be right good being as followeth Take the Excrements of a sucking child and put unto it a pint of white wine let it boyle till the one halfe be consumed and so give it him blood-warme This will cause him to forsake his blowing for 15. dayes so as when hee beginneth againe to blow give him the same medicine againe and so keep him with this from time to time so oft as you shall have cause and by this meanes you shall have his wind good ✚ But then you must beware you put not into the wine too large a proportion of the Excrements for it will make him to be very sick and peradventure endanger him for howsoever when at any time you doe administer it it will make him very sick Remember also to sprinkle his meat and to give him white water § 15. B. Hyppoph VVHat is your opinion of Botts Trunchions and Wormes their severall sorts and how doe you kill them Hyppos The generall Opinion is that there are but two sorts of these kind of creeping Creatures to wit Botts and Wormes for they hold that trunchions and bots are both one and the same thing but they are much mistaken for bots are of a different shape and colour from trunchions and of different natures Bots for bots doe breed and reside in the great gut adjoyning to the fundament but trunchions doe breed and make their abode in the maw onely and if they be suffered to remaine any time within the body of the Horse they will make their way through the aforesaid great gut and the trunchions through the maw both which vermine doe bring death to the Horse Now I doe averre that there is a third sort Three sâ— of vermâ— which dâ— engendeâ— the body the Hoâ—â— which have none other denomination than plaine wormes unlesse you will adde the word maw-wormes and so stile them maw-wormes which name indeed is most proper to them by reason that they select for their resting place the maw onely from which they
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
when at any time they are to administer Physicke to a Horse whether Purgative or otherwise if the Horse be not at the time soluble in body that after bloud-letting the next day he give a Clyster and then may he be the bolder to administer what he shall thinke most requisite lest otherwise by giving medicine without further preparation he stirre and provoke the peccant humours which by reason they cannot finde present way forth being hindred by oppilations in the guts through costivenesse and ventosity and other impediments do attempt to make their passage by a contrary way which cannot be done but with great hazard to the life of the poore beast Hippoph But of what ingredients doe you make your Clysters Hipposerus Hippos We doe usually make our Clysters of Decoctions of Drugs of Oyles and sometimes we adde salt Hippoph What is a Decoction Hippos A decoction is a broth made of certain herbs as Mallows A decoction what it is Marsh-Mallowes Palletory Camomile and sometimes of white Lilly roots and other such like things which we do boyle in water to a third part and sometimes we use in stead of hearbs and water to take the fat of beefe broath or the broath of a Sheeps head Milke Whay and some such kinde of liquor Hippoph What quantity of Broth or Decoction doe you usually put in whereof to make your Clyster Hippos That we doe administer according to the age strength greatnesse and corpulency of the Horse for if he be a Horse of a strong and able body of large growth and stature fat and lusty we use to put into his Clyster of the decoction three pintes but if he be of a small growth weake sicke feeble or leane then we doe put in but a quart of the same at most of oyle we use to put in halfe a pinte of salt two or three drams at most and sometimes we put in Verjuyce sometimes Honey as we shall finde cause drugs we use as Sene Cassia Agarick Anniseeds oyle of Dill oyle of Camomile oyle of Violets Sugar-candy c. Hippoph What quantity of drugs is needfull for one Clyster Hippos You ought not to exceed the quantity of three ounces in one Clyster at most neither must you exceed of butter foure ounces and you must be very carefull your Clyster be not administred more than bloud-warme Hippoph What time is fit for a Horse to keepe or retaine his Clyster Hippos When you give it him let him be somewhat empty but before he doe receive it let him be raked and then having administred it let him keep it at least halfe an houre to the end it may work in his belly and so do him the more good and to cause him the better to keep the same let his Keeper so soone as the Horse hath received it hold his tayle close to his tuell for halfe an houres space or more for the longer he keepeth it the more effectuall it will be unto him the best instrument wherinto give it to a Horse is a Clister-pipe made of purpose which ought to be 12 inches in the shanke which must also be put home and when the Clyster is assumed let the giver draw away the pipe by degrees and not all at once Hippoph I pray set me downe some good Receits of Clysters Hippos That shall I Sir most willingly the first Clyster that I ever gave was to a small Nag of a Gentlemans which being very costive in his body and refusing his meat did droop languish and pine away insomuch as the owner fearing his Horses life repaired unto me for counsell when I had well considered the nature of his infirmity together with its symptomes I held it most requisite to administer a Clyster 1 Clister which I did and it was this viz. Take the fat of beefe broth one pinte and an halfe of good English honey halfe a pinte adding thereto of white salt two drams mixe all these well and so administer it bloud warme Clyster-wise and so soone as he hath taken it clap his tayle close to his tuell by the space of halfe an houre together at least and if then it doe not worke as I am confident it will then let one take his backe and ride him up and down a reasonable round trot some times but not so as to cause him to sweat for halfe an houre more and set him up warme cloathed and littered and so let him stand upon his trench foure or five houres during which time he will purge kindely then unbit him and give him sweet hay and an houre after he hath eaten give him white water nor let him drink any cold water in a day or two after And this you shall finde to be the best remedy for this malady ✚ This I have administred saepe et saepius and have done great good therewith for the nature of this Clyster is to open and loosen the Body to bring away with it all offensive Humours to remoove Obstructions engendred in the Body by meanes of excessive heat it cleanseth the Guts and slicketh away all slimy substance which is residing in the Guts Hippophyl Why but Hiposerus I observe a contradiction in you as touching the quantity of your Decoction for where as you did before affirme that you use to put into your Clysters at the most but three pints and at the least but a quart you say that you did administer to this Horse but a pint and halfe only which is under quantity of what you did before prescribe Hippos Sir in answere hereunto you must understand that in cases of this nature Physick ought with judgement to be administred and the reason why I put into the Clyster of this broath so little was for that the horse was growne very weake poore and low of his flesh and in good yeeres was besides a very small Nag fetched out of Scotland from the mountaines of Galeway or Galwin and therefore if I should have made his Clyster so strong and have added so great a quantity of Decoction to him as I might peradventure have put to a Clyster for a great large fat healthy or corpulent Horse I might have repented it and therefore I made it as I told you whereby it wrought most kindly did him that good which I hoped desired But passing from this now let us proceed to intreate yet farther of Clysters and of their severall kinds Another Take Pellitory two handfulls 2 Clister Laxative or for want thereof Melelote two handfulls or if that may not be had then Camomile two handfulls but Pellitory is the best if it may be had boyle it to a Decoction and then adde to it of Sallet-oyle and of Veriuice of the Crab of each halfe a pint of Honey foure ounces of Cassia two ounces mixe all these well together and so apply it bloud-warme Clyster-wise ✚ This we do call a Clycter Laxative for this will open the Body and Guts of the Horse very well it will
in a dry and warme place where they may not give againe and when you would use them take so much as will suffice and beat it in a Morter with the Sirop of Colts soote and the powder of refined Sugar still working it till you have brought it to be a perfect Conserve and so given to your horse in good sweet Sacke or Muskadine The first of these two to wit the Simple is of most excellent use for it helpeth any ordinary cold or stopping it comforteth the Lunges enlargeth his Winde purgeth the Head from all filthy matter and dissolveth many other obstructions as well in the Body and Head But the Compound or Conserve worketh better effects in the Body of the Horse especially if the Malady be old and dangerous or if there be any taint in the Lunges Liver or inward parts This Conserve in time by frequent use thereof will cure all dry Coughs which are held to be incurable it helpeth the heaving of the Belly and Flankes it causeth the Horse to take his Wind kindly and temperately and freeth him of his dry Cough which before did greatly annoy him but if you have not these conserves take this other Receipt little inferiour to the former for these Maladies Take of the sirop of Colts-foote one ounce of Elecampane rootes dryed Anniseeds and Licoris of each halfe an ounce all made into fine powder browne Sugar Candy powdred one ounce which must be divided into two parts then take sweete Butter so much as will suffice and so make this into three Pills good and stiffe which done rowle them in the other moyty of your powdred Sugar Candy and so give them your Horse fasting then ride him gently for halfe an houre and after set him up warme and let him fast three houres after causing him to be well rubbed let him drinke no cold water unlesse it be with exercise and let his Hay be sprinkled with water and his Oats wet in strong Ale or else with Beere ✚ Another very good Take the cankerous Mosse of an old Pale or of the lymbes of an old Oake two handfulls chop and shred it small and boyle it in a pottle of new Milke and with it a roote of Alecompane let these boile together till halfe be consumed then straine it and presse the Mosse and Roote very well which done put to it of sweete Butter the quantity of a Ducke-Egge and so give it him in a morning fasting bloud warme and ride him moderately an houre after then set him up cloath him and litter him warme and order him as is accustomed with Horses in Physicke Let him have this drink three mornings together and it will cure both his Cold and Cough wet or dry or his Poze if he have it But if you find your Horse to be stopped in the Head and that he voydeth filth and stinking matter out from his Nose then shall you every morning administer this fume Take of Auripigmentum and of Colts-foote made into powder of each two drammes then with Venice Turpentine worke them into a stiffe paste and make them into small Cakes the breadth of a sixpence and dry them a little and then put fire into a Chafing-dish with coales and so put one of these Cakes upon the coales covered with a Tunnell and so fume him and this not only during his Physicke but at other times after and let his drink be either sweet mashes or white water ✚ Another if your Horse hath a new taken cold then give him this Caudle which I have often used and do find it to be very good Take the yolkes of foure new layd Egges and beate them well together and dissolve them with a quart of good Ale then take three good Nutmegs with a little Anniseeds Licoras made all into fine powder and as much Pepper in fine powder as you can take up upon a sixpence put these into the Ale with a peece of sweet Butter so much as will suffice and two spoonefulls of ordinary Treacle and of browne Sugar Candy foure ounces warme all these upon the fire till the Treacle and Butter be molten then give it him bloud warme foure or five mornings together and this is an infallible cure ✚ Another very good Take a pottle of sweet Wort three heads of Garlick pilled of ordinary Honey halfe a pound boyle these till one moiety bee consumed and give it your Horse three mornings together Then for three mornings together after give him these Pills Take Boxe leaves and Harts-tongue of each so much as will suffice stamp them well together and with sweet Butter make it into Pills and so every morning give him three of these Pils ✚ But if he hath a cold which breaketh and runneth from him then must you be carefull to keepe his Head and Pole warme by putting on a double Hood and every Morning fasting ride him with two long Goose-feathers put up into either Nostrill well dipped before hand in Oyle de Bay and with a strong Packthread from the ends of the quils fastned over his head like a Headstall of a Bridle so as the feathers may not get forth and fasten also to his Bit or Snaffle one Rooteor two of Polipodium having beene all night before laine steeped in the oyle of Spike and every time you ride him annoint the Bit thus before hand prepared with the said Oyle and when he commeth home put upon his pole his double hood and rub him against the hayre all over especially his Neck and Pole for friction in this case is most soveraigne then whilst he is yet warme perfume his Nose with Frankinsence Storax and Beniamin of each like much do this nine daies together and let his drinke be white water for all Rhumes having had time to worke their malice will become dangerous yea and many times curelesse ✚ Now if your Horse hath taken an extreame cold then Take Cloves Nutmegges Ginger Galls or the fruit of the Oake and Cardimums of each like quantity so much as will suffice and of Fennell-seeds more than any one of the other Ingredients make them into fine powder and searce them then put two Spoonefulls of this powder to a quart of Sack or muskadine and straine these into two penny-worth of English Saffron and the yelkes of two new laid Egges well beaten together give this to your horse bloud warme fasting and let him have none other drinke than white water for three or foure daies after and let his Hay be sprinkled with water and every day at noone give him the blades of reed or the leaves of Sallows to eate out of your hand for they be very good for him and cooling for his body do this divers mornings together and it will not only cleanse his Cold but also open his Pipes and set his wind at liberty But if your horse have an inward cold which lyeth lurking in his Lunges or Stomacke then give him this Medicine Take Oyle de Bay and good Tar of
each the quantity of three Wallnuts halfe as much Hony browne Sugar-candy in fine powder halfe an ounce mixe these with a quantity of powdred Brimstone so much as will suffice and sew them into a fine linnen cloth and ty it to his Bit or Snaffle and so ride or journey him moderately till all be dissolved into his body then bring him into the stable and cloth and litter him warme and three houres after give Hay and after a warme Mash use him thus three mornings together and longer if you shall see cause ✚ Another Take bloud from him if you have ground for the same otherwise not Bran prepared then insteed of giving him Oates you shall give him bran boyled in water after this manner viz. Set a Kettle over the fire almost full of water when it beginneth to boyle put in your bran and let it boyle a full quarter of an houre at least then take it off and let it stand till it bee almost cold and about foure or five a clocke in the morning give him this Bran so hot as he can eate it then for his drinke give him the same water and at night give him Oates and white water and let him be covered and littered warme if it be in Summer let not the Stable be too hot for that will take away his stomacke and make him faint and sweat too much and at night give him the quantity of what you can put into an Egge-shell among his Oates of this powder following to which you must keep him for eight dayes together or longer if you shall see cause You must understand that the boyled Branne is that which dryeth up all his grosse and corrupt humours which was the cause of his cold Now the powder is this viz. Take of Comen-seed Fenugrick Silleris-Montani alias Sisileos Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two ounces Quick Brimstone sixe ounces make all these into fine powder and let them be well mixed this must be given with his Oates as is before inculcated but he must first be watered and then presently let him be well rubbed body necke pole legges breast and belly and cloathed and littered warme and an houre before you give him his Oates put into his Rack a little sweet wheat straw and so I say let him eate thereof the space of one houre or better and then give him his Oates mixed with this powder which having eaten give him Hay at your pleasure and thus doing in short time you shall perceive his Cold to be quite gone and the sooner if he shall be moderately ayered an houre after Sun-rising and an houre before Sun-set if the Sunne doe shine Now if this Cold bring with it a violent cough as is often seen then give him the aforesaid Wheat Branne boyled together with the said powder with his Oates but then not above three or foure dayes for that the said powder disperseth the corrupt and grosse humours that are in the body which doe occasion the said cough and when you doe perceive that he hath purged sufficiently keep him notwithstanding to his white water but an houre before you doe water him Take a sticke of the bignesse of your thumb or better of well nigh a foot long and wrap a linnen clout about it four or five times first dipped in oyle de Bay and put it into his mouth and with some piece of leather thong or other small cord fasten it to either end of the sticke and so fasten it over his eares like the Headstall of a Bridle like as Smiths use to do when they burn a Horse for the Lampas and let him drinke with this sticke in his mouth which done let him stand with it thus in his mouth an houre after at the least to the end he may licke and sucke up the said oyle and when he is to eate his Oates put among them this other powder following viz. Take Fennell seed four ounces Fenugrick two ounces Cardimums one ounce pound these grosly otherwise he will blow them away in eating his Oates and with his Oates put every night of this powder one spoonefull and keep him warme and so use him as before is prescribed ✚ Another Take Ivy-berries and dry them and make them into powder and so give it to your Horse in Ale or Beere This I never tryed and this is onely for a cough Another for a cough Take of salt one pinte of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte oyle of Anniseeds one ounce browne sugar Candy in powder three ounces give this with your horne to your Horse three mornings together and it will rid him of his cough and heale any putrifaction in his lungs or any other inward parts whatsoever This also I never tryed but it was highly commended to me Another Receit for a cough which I have found to be very good Take two new laid Egges and open the crownes and get forth some of the white and then put into these Egges so much of the powder of Brimstone as you can take up upon a shilling into either Egge give him this every morning for some time or till you see the cough to goe from him Another Take three new laid egs and put them into a pinte pot then put so much of the best and strongest white wine vineger into the pot as will very well cover the Egges and let them lye in the Vineger 24 houres at least then beat the Vineger and Egges together shels and all and so give it your Horse cold and then ride or walke him an houre and against his comming in have this drinke in a readinesse and give it him viz. Take Isope Anniseeds Licoris Graines Long Pepper Gentiana Elecampane dried of each three drams make all the spices into fine powder and stamp the Isope well and so put all into good Sack one pinte and of good Ale also one pinte and of Honey one spoonfull and so boyle it and give it your Horse bloud-warme and set him up and cloth him and litter him warme causing him to fast three houres after it and give him no cold water but sweet Mashes or white water and this will cure him for it is an approved good receit ✚ Another very good Take Wheate meale Anniseeds Licoris Polipodium of the Oake dryed Elecampane dryed make all these into powder and mixe them well Take two spoonfuls of this powder with a head of Garlicke pilled and bruized mixe all these well together and with your Wheate meale and honey as much as will suffice make pils thereof to the bignesse of a great Walnut and give your Horse every morning three or foure of these Pils and so soone as he hath taken them give him two new laid Egges with their shels X Another Take of life hony three spoonfuls of the best and whitest refined loafe sugar one spoonfull and an halfe made into fine powder dryed Elecampane root made also into fine powder one spoonfull and of Amber-greece two graines mixe all these
very well together and put it into an Egge-shell and give him hereof at night late and in the morning fasting and so let him fast for three houres after and be the cough never so violent it will both stay and cure the same X This is right good for I have had very great proofe thereof Another Take Benjamin and Brimstone made into very fine powder of each halfe an ounce give this your Horse with one pinte of Muskadine putting into it two new laid Egges shels and all broken and well beaten together let it be given three mornings together This was commended unto me for a speciall good Receit but I never did make tryall thereof Another Take Nettle-seeds Anniseeds Reysins of the sunne stoned Elecampane in fine powder of each halfe an ounce make all the spices and seeds into very fine powder and cut the Reysins very small and so boyle all these in Muskadine or Sacke a quart with three spoonefuls of life Honey then straine it and give it him three mornings together bloud-warme This I never proved Another Take of Rue one handfull chop or stampe it very small and put to it a penny worth of Anniseeds in very fine powder make it up into Pils with sweet Butter and so give it your Horse X This I have found to be most soveraigne for a Horse that hath a cold whether newly or formerly taken either wet or dry cough it is also most excellent for a Horse that hath been over-ridden or any way wronged by labour Now if his cough be so violent as that it may endanger his winde then Take Calamint Gentiana Comin-seed Licoris Elecampane of each two drams make all these into fine powder and confect them with life Honey and Butter mingled together and molten and when it is cold make it up into Pils then rowle them in the powder of Anniseeds and give him of these Pils three or foure every morning for two or three mornings together fasting and after keep him warm and let his drinke be Mashes or White-water ✚ But if hee hath a Cough of the Lungs give him these Pills Take the Rootes of Mallowes newly gathered Elecampane Rootes newly also gathered of each one handfull slice them thin and boyle them in faire water with Barly two handfuls till the roots be soft then straine forth the liquor and put into it a penny dish of sweet Butter of life Honey three spoonfuls and as much Beane meale as will make all into a paste then make it into Pils and rowle them up in the powder of Anniseeds and give him three or foure of them every morning fasting for three or foure mornings together keepe him temperately warme and during the time he taketh these Pils let his drinke be either sweet Mashes or white water and every day about mid day give him boyled Barly or Brewers graines ✚ Another for a Horse that hath his winde broken Take the leaves of Mullet alias Mullen alias Horse-Lungwort and dry them and make them into fine powder and then make them up in Bals or Pils with ordinary Hony so much as will suffice let these Pils be made of the bignesse of an Egge and give him of them three at a time fourteen or fifteen dayes together or longer if you shall see cause and let him not drink any cold water during the time and for a while after the giving of his Pils and let his exercise be very moderate and his Hay sprinkled with water and his Oates wet with good Ale or Beere and in short time he will be well and sound againe ✚ This is a most approved good Receit with which I have done cures held impossible to have been effected Another Take Comen halfe an ounce Anniseeds and Licoris of each two ounces dryed roots of Elecampane three ounces make them into fine powder and then boyle them in a pottle of Ale or Beere to a quart then straine it and give the liquor to your Horse in a morning fasting bloud-warme and ride him moderately upon it two or three houres then set him up warme and use him ut supra This I never tryed but he that gave it me did highly commend the same unto me Thus have I given you many Receits for a cold and such diseases which are thereof dependant whereof many are to my knowledge right good and by my selfe experimented with which I have done cures which have been held very strange and beyond expectation Hippoph Truely Hipposerus as touching these maladies something there is in them wherein I doe earnestly desire to be yet better informed and first I would gladly know what be the diversities of the diseases which doe proceed from Colds and how wee may come to know one malady from another Hippos Sir in answer hereunto you must understand that from a cold taken doth issue many infirmities if the said cold be not speedily prevented as namely first Coughs as well wet as dry Catars Murs Rhumes Pose Ratlings in the head Kernels and inflamations under the Chaule with Bunches Knots Pustils c. It causeth also Hide bound Feavers Head-aches Frenzy Sleeping-Evill weeping-Eyes Canker in the Nose Strangles Quinsey to have Gourded or swolne legges It will cause the hayre to stare it will in time cause the mourning of the Chine if there be such a disease shortnesse of breath pursivenesse purtisick broken winde also if there be such a disease Frelised broken and rotten lungs glanders incurable if it be not in time prevented griefe and paine in the breast Antecor it will also cause the evill habit of the stomacke dropsie loathing of meat foundring both in the body and feet tyrednesse putrifaction and inflamations in the bloud it will also cause many diseases and inflamations in the liver together with the siccity and aridity thereof obstructions opilations costivenesse and stoppings both in the body and pores a consumption in the liver the overflowing of the gall the unnaturall working of the spleene the Yellowes Stavers the Collick and gripings belly bound laxe and bloudy-fluxe All these and many more diseases and maladies doe depend upon this one onely infirmity we call the cold and therefore how needfull a thing it is for a man who is the true-lover of his Horse to be carefull what in him lyeth both to keep his Horse from cold taking as also to know how to cure the same so soone as it shall appeare in performance whereof no small diligence and art is required §. 14. C. Hippoph YOu make question whether or not there bee such a disease which is so commonly called the Mourning of the Chine why is there not such a disease Hippos No truely there is no such disease for that which is called the mourning of the Chine is none other thing than a plain and rank Glanders which very few of our English Ferriers doe know how to cure which hath its first source and origen from a cold which being let run long commeth to be a Glanders which in
the humour to dissolve and so to depart the sooner and the better and for two or three dayes give him fasting a quart of good Ale and of Diapente two spoonfuls which must be immediately before his trotting forth after his dressing and so set him up warme and give him white water ✚ And thus have I cured many Horses of the Feltrick § 10. D. Hippoph VVHat is good to take dead flesh out of a sore Hippos We use sundry sorts of corrosives wherwith to cleanse foule wounds and to eate away dead proud and naughty flesh out of sores to the end they may heale and carnifie the better and more kindely but yet omitting all sorts of powders and other corrosives to corrode and eate away dead flesh I will teach you a most precious Vnguent which will take off any dead proud spungy or bad flesh in the foote or any other part of the Body be the wound never so deep or ulcerated and it will not only take away all proud dead and naughty flesh but it will also clense and heale up the same very soundly in short space And this Vnguent is thus made and compounded Take of common Hony two ounces Roach-alume Verde-grease and Vinegar of each one ounce sublimat two drammes Dead flesh let all bee made into fine powder and boyle it a few waumes keeping it still stirring and then take it from the fire and keep it in a gally pot stopped for your use Apply this Vnguent upon lint or fine hurds to the Sorance once a day and it cureth speedily and soundly but then observe that every day before you dresse the sore you cleanse wash inject into the wound the water taught you in the next § which I will shew you for a Puncture or deepe wound ✚ And this is an approved cure and beyond all peradventure §. 11. D. Hippoph VVEll shew mee then what is good for a Puncture or deepe wound Hippos If it be in the foote or any other part of the Body if you can come well unto it or if it be an Impostumation unbroken scald it first with the medicine of red-Tarre Hogs-grease Bay-salt and greene Copporas described in lib. 2. cap. 16. § 10. for the Poll. evill then wash the wound with this water Take red-Sage Plantane Ribwort Yarrow Bramble-leaves Deepe wounds Rosemary Isope and Honey-suckle-leaves of each one half a handfull boyle them in white Wine one pint and as much of Smithes or coletrough-coletrough-water then adde thereunto in the boyling of common Honey one Spoonefull and as much Alume as a wall-nut and a bright black peece of Sea-cole the bignesse of an Egge unbroken then let this boyle till the one moiety bee consumed then strayne it hard and wash the Sorance therewith and if the wound bee deepe inject of this water with a siring or squirt every day when you dresse him and by thus doing you shall cleanse the wound take away all dead and bad flesh and heale up the wound both soundly and speedily ✚ This is a most approved Receipt §. 12. D. Hippoph VVHat is best to be applyed to a desperate Straine Hippos If it bee so desperate an old Straine as that it be holden incurable if it lyeth in the Shoulder or other hidden and fleshy part of the Body or that the Horse have a Fistula Poll-evill or other inflamation or swelling then use but this one Medicine and it will cure the same viz. Desperate straine Take a large earthen vessell or crock of one two or three gallons or more and fill it almost to the top with Asmart and Brookelime of each like much and mix them well then fill it up to the top with old chamber-lye as can be gotten so that all the herbs be quite covered and more then stop it close with a board or some such like thing and so keep it for your use for it never can bee too old now when you have occasion to use this Medicine for any griefe aforesaid then take an earthen Pipkin and put thereinto aswell of the liquor as of the hearbs so much as shall suffice for your present use and boyle it well upon the fire Then if it be for a strayne in the shoulder you shall take an old boote and cut of the foote so as you may draw it over the Horse-foote and bring it up above the knee almost to the Elbow of the Shoulder keeping the neather part of the boote as close and straight to the legge as may be but the upper part which is to cover the shoulder must be wide and spatious then into this boote thrust all this mixture so hot as the Horse can suffer it and lay it fast and close about the shoulder especially before and behind then drawing up the upper part of the boote so fasten it to the Mane and about his Neck as that it may not by any meanes slip downe but keep constant and firme and thus you must apply this Medicine to the place till the griefe depart this is the most violent of all medicines and fit for no creature but a horse to endure yet in short time it will bring forth whatsoever evill matter lyeth in the Ioints and if you have occasion to apply this to a Fistula Poll evill or any Impostumation or swelling then may you spare the boote and only lay on the medicine in manner of a Pultis and it will be sufficient ✚ This is a very approved Receipt § 13. D. Hippoph VVHat meanes have you to dissolve Grease or Glut in a fat or ketty Horse after a strong heate or violent exercise Hippos For a thing of this nature I have seene this scowring administred viz. Dissolve grease Take of sweet Sack one quart and set it upon the fire eyther in a Basin or open Skillet and when it is scalding hot put into it of Rosin one ounce made into very fine powder then by degrees a little after a little convey it into the Sacke continually stirring it as you put it in for feare of clotting and when the Sack and it is very well incorporate take it from the fire and put into it of Sallet oyle halfe a pint and so stirre them well together and as it cooleth put also into it of browne Sugar-candy made into fine powder one ounce and when it is only bloud warme give it to your Horse so soone as hee commeth from his exercise and then being set up let him bee well rubbed and cloathed warme and well littered and let him fast three houres after it and let the Groome remaine continually with him during these three houres till you do give him meate yea and an houre after neyther let your horse all that time stand still long nor sleepe but be kept stirring and mooving for that the medicine will by that meanes worke the more kindly and when you shall give this or any other scowring be you sure that neyther the same day nor the next you give him any
if your horse be poore bare leane Fat horse and feeble so that his stomack be good to meate I will give you a Receit which if you doe duly observe my rules justly as I shall deliver them you shall get him up into flesh in twelve or foureteene dayes First therefore take bloud from him if you do find it grosse or Flâ—gmatick for otherwise he cannot possibly mend then insteade of Oates in the morning you shall give him Wheate branne Bran prepared prepared after this manner Set over the fire a cleane Kettle and fill it almost full with faire water and so soone as it boyleth put in your Wheate branne and so let it boyle a quarter of an houre at the least then take it off and let it stand to coole and about foure or five in the morning give him of this branne so hot as he can eate it then for his drinke give him of the same water and at night give him Oates and white water and let him be kept covered and littered warme but if it bee Summer let not the Stable be too hot but temperate and at night give him with his Oates also the quantity of what you may coâ—vey into an Egge-shell of this powder following with which you must continue him the space of eight dayes or according as you shall see cause You must understand that this branne thus prepared is the only thing which dryeth up his naughty grosse and corrupt humours and doth the better prepare the body to assume lust courage strength and flesh together with the helpe of the powder which is this Take of Commin Fenugrick Sileris-Montani Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two ounce Quick-Brimstone six ounce Fat a leanâ— horse make all these into powder of this powder give him every night the quantity of an Eg-shell full with his Oates as I have before prescribed but he must first be watred with white water which so soone as hee hath drunke let his whole body be rubbed then cloathed littered which being done then give him a small sheafe of wheat straw sweet good and well threshed into his Racke and let him eate thereof by the space of an houre which done give him Oates mixed with his powder which when he hath eaten give him Hay at your pleasure remembring to keep him warm but so as with moderation and let him be also well rubbed especially against the hayre and by this doing in short time you shall perceive him to mend exceedingly but you must put also into his Oates together with its former powder of Nettle-seed two handfuls every time for that is the thing which principally will cause him to battle It will also greatly availe to his amendment if he be ayered every morning and evening an houre after sunne rising and an houre before sunne set if the weather be warme and the sunne doe shine ✚ And this I doe assure you is the most exquisite course can be taken whereby to sâ—t up a leane Horse and to make a poor Horse fat in little time and with small charge §. 5. F. Hippoph VVHat helpe have you for the falling of the Fundament Hippos This malady commeth to a Horse sometimes by cold sometimes through weakenesse and meere poverty and sometimes by meanes of a laxativenesse and fluxe of bloud when straining to expell the Horse is not able and by that meanes the fundament commeth out the cure is Falling of the fundament Take white-Salt made into very fine powder strew a little upon the gut then take a piece of Lard and first having boyled Mallow-leaves till they be soft take of these leaves and beat them well with the Lard and when it is sufficiently beaten make it up like to a suppository and apply it to the place every day once till it be whole ✚ This I have often tryed §. 6. F. Hippoph I Should be very glad to know what you can say of Feavers Hippos Sir as touching feavers in Horses I say that they be as subject to them as man is as also that these feavers are of severall natures which cannot be denied which may most easily be distinguished and knowne if you please diligently to observe A feaver commeth many times either by intemperate riding or travell or else through bad and unwholesome dyet and all feavers for the most part have their sourse from these effects if you adde thereunto evill ayre §. 7. F. Hippoph VVHy Hipposerus how doe you define a Feaver Hippos I define it thus A Feaver is an unnaturall and intemperate heat which beginneth at the heart dilateth it self through all the arteries and veynes of the whole body of the Horse hindring all his naturall motions howsoever some Ferriers are pleased to make of them more sorts then I will question their physicall and learned distinctions for I could never conclude them but in a few as quotidian tertian quartan and pestilent and yet all these be of one nature albeit some more malignant then others be onely a Hectique feaver is of a different nature from the former and so also a pestilent feaver may be Now as touching feavers which come in the Spring Summer Autumne or Winter I cannot see why they should be feavers different in nature from these other for there are not any of these but may come to a Horse in any of these seasons §. 8. F. Hippoph FRom whence doe Feavers proceed then Hippos First Sir you must understand that Feavers are of two sorts that is to say Ordinary and Accidentall the ordinary feavers are those that come of surfets over-riding and labour unwholesome meat as moyst raw mouldy and musty bread corne provender and hay of what nature sort or condition soever but your feavers Accidentall come of some terâ—ible stroke or deep wound bringing therewith insufferable paine dolour and griefe to the poor beast again your ordinary Feavers come oft times by the extreame violent scorching of the Sunne but most commonly in the canicular dayes as when your Horse is abroad at grasse where is either want of water or having such as is neither good or wholesome or else where is want of housing shelter to goe into or shady trees to be under and such kinde of Agues doe prove for the most part either Hectike or Pestilent feavers for by that meanes his bloud becommeth inflamed whereby the humour of choller is predominate Now Sir if you be pleased to observe strictly and carefully you shall also finde that feavers doe come many times also from a quite contrary cause as from cold taken upon hard riding or great labour and by having at such times cold water given him to drink or by washing or walking having sweat much or by being out too late in the gripse or shutting in of the evening or upon day breaking especially neere or among fenny moorish or marish grounds by reason that naughty vapours do arise from such kinde of places Feavers also do accrew to Horses when upon hard
for the residue I do remit you to its proper place when and where I will give you store of good Receipts and therfore I leave it for the present § 26. F. Hippoph VVHat is good to stay a Flux Hippos This commeth of cold taken sometimes by reason nature is offended with some cholerick humour proceeding from the Liver or Gall into the Guts it commeth eftsoones when a horse drinketh too much presently after the eating a great quantity of Provender for by that meanes the water comming to the Provender causeth the Provender to swell whereby crudities are bred in the stomack and so conveyed down into the Guts which occasioneth his Flux also it commeth by travelling too soone after provender it not being well digested before and it will come also to a Horse by drinking cold water when he is very hot and after the water not being presently warmed in his belly is the cause of a Lax or Flux It will also come by eating of a Feather Hen-dung Spider some venemous worme or other troublesome creature and therefore my counsell is not to stop a Flux too hastily unlesse you do finde that your horse do purge too too violently and then be you well assured that nature is not a little offended for it will bring him in short time to great weaknesse and debility of body give him therefore first the Clyster Laxative Flux which you have taught you in lib. 2. chap. 6 § 8. Clyster 21. letter C. and that will carry away from him all that may any way offend him and a day after give him tâ—â—â— drink Beane flower and Bole-Armoniack powdred of each three ounces mix them with red Wine or Tinte one quart give it him bloud warme and after keep him warme in the stable and let him have Hay and Oates by a little at a time and that often and eyther sweete Mashes or white water ✚ This is very good Another Take of red Wine one quart and Bay-salt one handfull and brew them well together and with a horne give it him and this will stay his scowring ✚ This is also an approved Cure Another Take of wood Ashes finely searsed and of Bole-Armoniack made into very fine powder of each like much put them into the water that he is to drinke and let him drinke thereof morning and evening and this will stay his Flux ✚ But if it be a violent scowring proceeding from the eating of a Feather or some other naughty thing so as this will not stay it then Take the entrals of a Pullet or great Chicken all but the Gizard and mixe with them of Spike-nard one ounce and make him swallow it and this will infallibly stay his scowring yea if it be a bloudy Flux ✚ This is speciall good § 27. F. Hippoph VVHat good Receipt have you to Mundifie cleanse and heale foule and old Sores Hippos I had thought Sir you would not have fallen upon this till it had come to its proper place when and where we should have the particular matters of Sores by themselves together with their cures but sithence you are pleased to touch them in this place I will give you one Receit which cannot easily be paralleld Take of green Coperas and of Salt-Peter of each halfe a pound Foule an old sores â— mundifie bay Salt and Salt-Gemma of each three ounces Arsnick one ounce put all these finely powdred into a stillitory glasse the pot or bottome thereof well nealed and put also thereunto of the strongest white Wine Vineger one pinte set the pot on the fire and put on the head closing it with Cute of Hermes and being thus placed in the furnace make under it a strong fire by the space of five or sixe hours and with your Receptory take the first water that commeth for that is the very strongest and best and after an houre the fire will be out of the warer then stop up the glasse very close and so keep the water for your use The next water is also good but not so strong as the first but reserve it also by it selfe as you do the first And when you are to wash any sores therewith be very carefull that you lay none of this water upon either sinewes or veynes for that it will burn them in sunder but where Vlcers and fouler old sores be in the fleshy parts this water will work wonders if wounds be washed with it and you carefull in the application thereof ✚ Of this I have had great experience Another I have taught me by an expert Marishall of France but by reason of the extreame violence thereof I never durst use it which is called the spirit of Tinne which will also mundifie all sorts of old sores and the French Marishals do use it much And this is the Receit viz. Take Mercury one ounce Spirit of Tinne and put into an old cleane pewter pottinger and fill up the pottinger with Plantane water and with your finger stirre the Mercury about the pottinger till it be quite dissolved and then the water will become white then let it stand an hour in the pottinger then poure forth the water into a cleane glasse-viall and then you shall see in the bottome of your pottenger the Tinne runne liquid like unto Quick-silver or life as if it were melted for that is your spirit of Tinne and thus is it made § 28. F. Hippoph WHat is to be administred to a Horse that forsaketh his meate Hippos There be many causes that may make a Horse to forsake his meate and yet not be sicke at all and so also by occasion of sicknesse that either comming upon him or else which hath already seized him And first a Horse may forsake his meate and forbeare to eate for some time no whit sicke as when he shall eyther linger after Mares or after grasse being weary of dry meate againe he may forbeare his meate and yet not be sicke by meanes of some accident or inconvenience bred in him or befalne unto him as by having the Lampes Barbs Giggs Blisters bloudy-rifts tongue hurt paine in the teeth or some such like infirmity in or about his mouth these may be causes that may induce him to forbeare to eate and yet the creature not sicke but otherwise healthy and hungry and faine would feed but eyther cannot or dare not Also a Horse may forsake his meate being through the inconsideratenesse of his keeper cloyed whereby he doth loath his meat sometimes through over-ayerings morning and evening sometimes againe by suffering him to eate being very hot after great swearing upon immoderate riding and toyle or after water or washing being also very hot These and many more may be the causes why a Horse may forsake his meat and yet not be sicke And he may also forsake his meat by reason of sicknesse ensuing as upon Colds Rhumes and Catarres newly taken and beginning to be felt upon him so also he may forsake his meat by reason
speciall good Hippoph What is good for the Head-ach Hippos First let him bloud in the mouth and rub it with Salt to cause it to bleed the more then take two long feathers of a Goose wing well annoynted in oyle de Bay thrust them up and down his nostrils whereby to open and purge his head and then perfume his head with the stalks of Garlick broken into small pieces as is before shewed keeping him to a spare dyet and moderate exercise the better to cleanse his head and stomack and to empty himselfe by meanes whereof the head and braine will be the better quieted Head-ach It were very good also to perfume him with Frankincense Storax and Benjamin grosly beaten and well mixed of each like much as will suffice but two or three dayes after let him bloud and give him white water for eight dayes after during which time you may do well to give him sometimes a sweet Mash ✚ This is very good § 3. H. Hippoph VVHat is good to helpe the heels that be scabbed Hippos You shall many times have small dry Scabs upon your Horse heeles which will not be greatly noxious to him therupon the best cure for his Keeper daily to annoynt them throughly with the oyntment made of Elbow grease But if there be any running humour issuing from the heeles of the Horse Heeles scabbed then let him stand every day morning and evening up to the belly in water till the scabs do dontract then make a convenient Cautherize neer to the joynts as well crosse as thwart wise then heale it up as you use to do kibed heeles ✚ This is very good § 4. H. Hippoph WHat is good for heels that be kibed Hippos This disease the French do call Iavarrs which is a kinde of Scratches and the cure is to Cautherize the middle of the swelling along both long and crosse-wise that done Heeles kibed take Oxe dung reeking hot mixe it upon the fire with Sallet oyle and apply it to the sorance once and no more then do afterwards as is prescribed you in a cure for a Splent in lib. 2. cap. 18. § 17. S. This I never tryed §. 5. H. Hippoph WHat cure have you for heels that are troubled with the Mellet Hippos This sorance we call the mellet is a dry scab that groweth upon the heele sometimes on the one and sometimes on the other heele sometimes it commeth of corrupt bloud sometimes of a blow given by the toe with the hinder foot for the mellet growes commonly upon the heele of the fore-foot and sometimes for want of good rubbing and dressing after travell it will also have a dry chop without any moysture at all The signes to know it is easie to wit it will soon be felt with your hand Heele Mellet To cure it I have before shewed you in § precedenti But yet I will give you one receit more for the same cure whereof I have made often tryall and it is very good Take of ordinary Honey halfe a pinte black Sope a quarter of a pound mixe these together and put thereto four or five spoonfuls of Vineger and as much Allum finely beaten as a Hens egge unburned and of Rye-flowre two spoonfuls mixe and incorporate all these well together and having first clipped or shaven away the hayre apply this medicine plaister-wise to the sorance just so farre as the sorance goeth and let it so remain five dayes and then take it away and wash all the legge foot and sorance with powdred beefe broth after rope up his legs with thumbands of soft Hay wet and he wil be sound But then you must understand that when at any time you do dresse the sorance you do not faile to take off the dry scab or whatever crusty thing shall be upon or about the place and by washing and cleansing the sore that you do make it marvellous clean ✚ This is a very good receit §. 6. H Hippoph VVHat is good to helpe a Horse that is Hide-bound Hippos This malady is when the skin of the horse doth cleave to the flesh as you cannot with your hand pull up the skin from the ribs sometimes it commeth through extreame poverty and maceration and sometimes through the indiscretion of the Groome for want of good tending sometimes of a surfet taken by over-riding and violent heats given him and then washed or negligently suffered to stand long in the cold or in the raine and sometimes again it commeth of corrupt cholericke bloud siccicating the flesh which wanting its naturall course causeth the skin to shrink and cling together and to cleave to the bones and flesh it also maketh him sick and to have a gaunt belly shrunk up to his flankes and his hayre will stare and his legges will swell and by these signes you may know the disease it is so conspicuous It causeth also siccity and aridity in the liver and lungs causing great torment throughout all the whole body and his dung will be very hard and dry and of a naughty savour for his body will be very costive and if he have not help in reasonable time if death it selfe ensue not yet will at the last other desperate maladies attach him whereof the least will be the mainge which will not easily or suddenly be cured The cure is to let him bloud either on both sides the necke or on both the spur-veines then cloth and litter him warm and do no more unto him that day more then to give him good meat and white water for cold water he must not drink till he be throughly well againe The next day give him this drink Hide-bound Take of white wine one pinte of Sallet oyle one pound of Venice Turpentine one ounce of Methridate of loafe Sugar and of Cassia prepared of each two ounces of the milk of sweet Almonds halfe a pinte and of Verjuyce of the Crab one penny worth mixe all these well together and warming it upon the fire give it to the sick horse let him have this drink sixe or seven mornings together alwayes having a speciall care to the strength of the Horse as well in this as in all other your cures ✚ This is a cure I have used very often and haue found it to be speciall good Another singular good receit First annoynt his body all over with Acopum and Sacke warmed together or else with this Bath Take faire water Mallowes Smalage Rosemary and Bay leaves boyle all these in the water till they shall become soft and so bath his whole body therewith warm and when you have dryed him again annoint him with this unguent Take of Hogs grease tryed one pound Camomile Mallowes Grunsell Smallage of each one handfull chop the hearbs very small and boyle them with the Hogs grease a good while with a soft fire then strain it and wring forth the oyle that commeth of the hearbs and with this Vnguent annoynt his body all over for it will
both supple and loosen his skin the next day give him this drink Take of Muskadine and of strong Ale of each one pinte Grunsell Rue Smalage Rosemary and Betony of each like much all together amounting to a handfull Then take Gum-Dragamant one ounce two heads of Garlick pilled and bruised let all these boyle in the Muskadine and Ale to the consummation of one pint then put to it of sweet Butter a penny worth and when it is molten take it from the fire and straine it very hard and so give it him bloud warm Let this drink be divided into three parts whereof give him one part the first morning the other second parts the second and third mornings following for you must understand that when I said that this drink must be boyled to the consummation of one pinte my meaning is that it must boyle till one part be consumed and not otherwise and in the interim you must keep your Horse very warm and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water and four dayes after he hath been thrice thus drenched give him this other drink Take Anniseeds Licoris Fennel-seeds Bay-berries Elecampane dryed Fenugrick Turmerick of each like much all made into very fine powder and searsed let two spoonfuls of this powder being well mixed be infused in good Ale one quart with Sallet oyle two spoonfuls give him this drink four mornings together wherein you are to observe that the first time you are to administer this drink to your horse you are to put into the Ale two spoonfuls of this powder and the other three mornings but one spoonfull keep him warme and order him as is behoovefull for a sicke Horse that is in physicke and he is certainely cured ✚ This is a speciall good Receit Another Let him bloud in both the flanke veines then take of good white Wine one quart and put thereto of Sallet oyle three ounces of Comin one dram Anniseeds and Licoris of each two ounces make all these into very fine powder and searse them and give it him bloud warm then set him up and let him be throughly rubbed against the hayre and along the back and ribs and nape of the necke halfe an houre together then cover all his backe with a Sacke made throughly well soaked in a tub of water and when it hath drained a while lay it upon him and upon that two housing clothes at the least and gird them close unto him well wipsed which will bring him into a sweat which truely will be the prime cause whereby to restore him to his pristine sanity but let him not sweat above one houre at most and coole him by degrees taking away the Sack first and keep him to sweet Mashes or white water during the time of his physicke and longer let him be thus drenched sweated and ordered seven dayes together and give him in stead of his Oates Barly boyled and dry Beanes bruised in a Mill and good old sweet Hay well shaken and dusted and sometimes green Mault from off the floore and after eight dayes let him bloud in both the brest veines but take not above a pinte of bloud from him in all and that day you bloudy him give him of good Sacke one pinte and put to it of Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte and of London Treacle one ounce warm this upon the fire and brew them well together and so administer it bloud warm then leap his backe and ride him till he sweat then set him up warm clothed and littered and at night give him a sweet Mash putting into it the powder of Brimstone two spoonfuls and he will be well again ✚ This is very good Another Take Hogs grease two drams and of the juyce of Dragon-wort one ounce of Incense halfe a dram of Sirrop of Roses three ounces dissolve all these in Tison one pinte and a halfe set it upon the fire till all be dissolved and so give it him bloud warme and exercise him moderately upon it till he do begin to sweat then set him up warme and let him fast three houres after and this will scowre from him all his infection loosen his skin and procure a good appetite to meat provided you take bloud from him the day before and if as well in this receit as in all the former you doe give your Horse a suppository the day before you drench him you will much better and sooner perfect your cure especially if you finde him costive otherwise a gentle Clister will not be amisse ✚ This is a well approved cure and I have often used it § 7. H. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Horse that is Hip-shot Hippos Sir this commeth sundry wayes that is to say either by a stroke with another Horse or by a wrench by which meanes the bone may be slipped out and then it must be put in again or by a straine which may cause him to halt or by meanes of some thorne which he may get by leaping or running among bushes which must first be gotten out otherwise the place will fester and he goe lame The cure is first let him bloud in the thigh veine on that side whereon the griefe is then charge him with the charge we call a honey-charge prescribed you in the next § and so put upon the other foot a Pattent-shooe and let him not lye down in ten dayes if that the bone have been out after bathe the place well with that bath which is already taught you in lib. 2. cap. 5. lit B. and the receit beginneth thus take Smalage Oxe-eye and Sheeps suet c. and put into the Bath some of the said honey charge and if this doe not cure him as it is most probable it will then apply to the place this Ceroene as the French doe terme it which is a Searcloth very hot and this Ceroene is thus made Take of blacke Pitch halfe a pound of Masticke two ounces of Galbanum four ounces of fat Pitch and of Turpentine of each halfe a pound melt these in a pot together and when it is halfe cold charge the place up to the hanch and so overthwart the reynes of the backe and if he be not cured at the end of eight or tenne dayes more with this Ceroene or Searcloth then take it off and apply to the place grieved this unguent Take of oyle de Bay Althea tryed Hogs grease of each halfe a pound incorporate all these together to an unguent and therewith annoint rub and chafe the place grieved and he shall doe well ✚ This is a very good receit and I have made great use thereof §. 8. H. Hippoph HOw doe you make this Honey-Charge Hipposerus Hippos I will shew you Sir Take of Wheat meale two pound and put a little Wine to it as much as will suffice put it into a kettle as if you were to make a Poultesse when it is wel mixed adde to it of Bolearmoniack in fine powder half a pound of
dropping of the trees falling upon the Horse together with his poverty doth cause them to engender and albeit they may be at first but a few yet will they in short time multiply abundantly sometimes also a Horse will catch them by standing neer to another horse that be lowsie and so long as he be visited with them he can never prosper but remaine very meager and leane You may easily know when he is annoyed with this kinde of vermine for that he will often scrub and rub himselfe against Wals Posts and Doores with his mouth and hinder feet The way to destroy them is Lice Take Staves-Acre and boyle it in running water and wash him all over with that water warme and it will kill them ✚ Another Take Quick-silver two ounces and first kill it with fasting Spittle and when it is throughly mortified take Hogs grease tryed and so work them together till it become of an Ash-colour and annoynt him therewith and it will in twice or thrice dressing kill them all ✚ Another Take Tobacco as much as will suffice and shred it very small and put it into small Beere and put to it of Allum powdred as much as will suffice and when the Allum is dissolved wash him therewith and it will kill them X All these I have often tryed and have found them to be very good §. 7. L. Hippoph HOw doe you make your powder of Lime and Honey Lime 〈◊〉 Honeâ— with which you doe heale and dry up Sores Hippos Take of English Honey and of quick-lime newly taken from the Kill unslaked of each like much as will suffice beat your Lime into fine powder and with your Honey and your Lime knead it to a paste and when it is throughly wrought make it into a thin Cake then lay it upon a cleane fire-pan and set it upon the fire and so let it bake and as it is baking take the soles of two old shooes and cast them into the fire and let them burn untill they have done flaming and that they do come to be fire coale then take them forth and when the Cake is baked sufficiently and cold beat the Cake together with the burnt shooes soles to very fine powder and so keep this powder in a bladder or dry boxe for your use X This will heale and dry up any wound or old sore and I have often and long used this powder § 8. L. Hippoph VVHat disease is that we call the Low-worme Hippos This is that disease which I cannot distinguish from Saint Anthonies fire or the Shingles for that it hath the selfe same symptomes and this I have cured This is a Worme that breedeth in the back betwixt the skin and the bone and runneth along the breast to the braine and when it commeth to touch the pannicle of the braine it maketh the Horse starke mad You shall first discover it by these signes viz. presently after a long and tedious journey the Horse will be sick and forsake his meat and stand out of length with his feet bending down his backe and he will often make offer to pisse but cannot and if he doe yet will it be but very little at a time and that in the sheath and in time he will fall mad gnaw the Wals Rack-staves and Manger and bite and strike at every man that commeth within his reach or danger and these be the most pregnant and apparant signes and this disease doth deceive many a good Ferrier For albeit that this infirmity may be many times among horses yet Ferriers being ignorant thereof by mistaking it meerely for the Stavers and applying remedies onely for that cure doe thereby lose many a good horse through their misprision But now to come unto the Cure it selfe I will give you two receits the former of which I learned of a Farmer in Buffolke who was cryed up for a very expert man in this faculty as indeed he was and hath perfected in my presence many a great cure Then thus Take of Acrement a quarter of a pound Loe-â—â— sixe heads of Garlicke cleane pilled of Rue and Turmentile that beareth the yellow flower of each one pound stamp all these in a stone morter and put to it so much white Wine as that when it is strained there may be of the juyce and Wine two quarts when you have of this liquor in a readinesse let your horse bloud under the tayle a good quantity then stanch him and dividing this pottle of liquor into sixe parts give it him sixe mornings together that is to say every morning one part or portion till he hath taken it all and by that time he will he perfectly cured ✚ The second receit was taught me in France by a famous Marishall of Burbon who hath cured very many horses of the selfe same malady but in a quite contrary way For whereas the first Cure was wrought by medicine this second is perfected by giving of fire Take an iron with a Button at one end and make it red hot then burn him therwith upon the top of his forehead and a little under his foretop and another in the fore-top and foure other in the necke cleane through upon the crest whereof two of the holes must be upon the one side of the crest and two on the other side and to take away and kill the fire put into every hole Vnguentum Rosarum and then let him bloud in the necke veine and he is cured ✚ This is also an approved Cure The French do call this malady ver-coquin and the Italians doe name Vermiforme but they both have but one manner of Cure for the fame This Ver-coquin or Low-worme is a living worm which breedeth upon the back bone running along the necke and so by degrees commeth to the head of the horse where with its hard beake it first pierceth the panicle and then worketh it selfe to the very brain of the creature where it lyeth biting gnawing and feeding causeth the horse to become enraged and to dye mad if otherwise he be not cured in time and therefore the French Marishals doe affirme that the prime remedy wherewith to kill and destroy this Worme is by fire and they hold that it cannot be destroyed any other way §. 9. L. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you to helpe the disease of the Lungs Hippos This disease of the Lungs is a malady which is first engendred of cold taken and let runne till the horse be either frettized or putrified in the lungs at what time they become inflâ—med and to come at last to rottennesse and corruption the means how to come to the knowledge of this infirmity is that by carefull observance you may perceive his flankes to beat and his ribbes to work but most chiefly when he cougheth and then the more slowly they doe beat and heave the more old and dangerous is the disease he will also draw his breath at his nose short and yet weakely and he will grone often
ounce stampe all these things together till you have made them to be of one body and plaister-wise apply it to the Malender renewing it once a day for three daies And this will kill the humour that feedeth it which once done annoynt the place with the oyle of Roses and that will cause the Crust to fall away then wash it once every day with Chamber-ly and strew upon it the powder of Oyster-shels and it is made whole and sound againe ✚ This I dare promise to be a very good Receipt § 2. M. Hippoph VVEll what saey you now to the Mainge Hippos This of all other is the worst vildest and most filthy and it will cause the Horse to be ever more rubbing scrubbing and scratching It is a formall Leprosie and the French doe call it the Elephantick Malady by reason that Elephants are very much subject thereunto The hayre will stare and in many places pill and fall away and a lothsome Scurfe will be upon the places touched therewith and he will infect all other horses which reside in the same stable with him Wherefore so soone as the Malady may be espyed let him be seperated from his fellowes whether in the Stable or abroad at Grasse This disease commeth of corrupt and melancholy bloud by meanes of it's over-heating and sometimes by feeding upon naughty and unwholesome meate It is so easie to be discovered as that it needs no other description then what hath beene already shewed and I will give you many good Receipts for this Malady Mainge Take Spurge Selendine Brimstone all in fine powder of each three ounces Hogge-grease tryed new-Wax Sheeps-suet quick-Silver well mortified with fasting-spitle of each two ounces melt and incorporate all these together and so bring them to an oyntment then first wash and make raw the places infected with stale Vrine and greene Copperas boyled together the infected places being scraped and made raw with a Curry-combe or some such like thing and then annoynt him with this Vnguent but first of all you must take bloud from the Neck-veine the day before you dresse him with this Vnguent ✚ This is one of the best Recepts for a Mainge that I have and with it I have done very many rare Cures Take the rootes of Elecampane newly gathered and the rootes of red Dockes of each like much slice and cut them thin and put unto unto them of Chamber-ly three quarts and of Bay-salt one handfull boyle these till one quart be comsumed then take it off and with a rag fastned to the end of a stick wash the places infected very hot you having first made the places raw with an old Curry-combe Oyster-shell c. Vse this foure or five mornings together then some three mornings after annoynt the places greived with this Oyntment Take quick-Silver one ounce let it bee well mortified in fasting spittle and mix with it so much Hogs-grease as a Hens Eg or better then take powder of Brimstone so much as will suffice and incorporate all these very well together and annoynt all the Maingy places therewith till they bee perfectly whole ✚ This is very good Another Take of the Oyle of Pilchards and of Chamber-ly of each one quart Guinny powder and the powder of Brimstone of each three ounces white Wine-Vinegar one pint boyle all these together till they bee thicke make the places raw and annoynt them therewith three times in nine dayes that is to say every three daies once and this will cure him ✚ This is very good but you must not forget evermore for this Malady to take store af bloud from your Horse a day or two before you do administer any thing unto him for untill such time as the Melancholy corrupt-bloud be first let out he will not easily be cured Another for a Mainge Itch or Running Scab c. Take as much Auripigmentum finely powdred and mixed with Hogges-grease as will bring it to be yellowish but not too yellow a colour annoynt the places infected therewith and it will kill it in three or foure dressings This Vuguent will take away both the Scab and hayre together but have you no feare for it will not be long ere new hayre will come in it's place ✚ With this receipt I have cured very many horses who have not beene a little over-run with this disease Another The first day let him bloud on the left side of the Neck then two daies after open the other Veine and three daies after that let him bloud on both the Spurre-Veines and lastly two daies after that under the Tayle and let him bleed in every of these Veines then scarrifie all the places and wash them with new Brine made very salt that done annoynt the places with this Vuguent Take of quick-Silver one ounce tryed Hogs-grease one pound Brimstone made into fine powder foure ounces Rape-oyle one pint First kill the quick-silver with fasting-spittle and then incorporate them together throughly with all the other Ingredients and having annoynted all the raw places with this Oyntment cause it the better to sinke in by holding a barre of hot iron neere to the places and then touch him no more in three daies after and evermore when you dresse him forget not first to rub and scarrifie the places infected till they do begin to bleed but if all this will not avayle then burne the rankest places of the Mainge with an iron having a button on the end thereof but then take heed you enter not the flesh but beare your hand light upon the skin only and let each hole be well-nigh a span from the other ✚ This I have often used Another Take of Chamber-ly foure quarts Bay-salt foure handfuls boyle them well together and wash the Horse therewith so hot as hee can well suffer it and when he is well washed take Neats-foote oyle and put it into water and beate them well together and therewith annoynt the raw places and in foure or five times thus doing he will be well This seemes to a good cure but I do not remember that I ever did use it Another Take Mother of Salt-Peter the best strongest and wash the sores therewith so hot as the Horse is able to suffer it and in three or foure times dressing it will cure him This I never tryed but the party that taught it me averred that it would not only kill any Mainge but all Scratches Paines Rats-tayles c. Another Take Sopers-lees and first make the Maingy places raw and after wash them with the said Sopers-leâ—s and in once or twice dressing he will be well ✚ This was taught me by the most able Ferrier I do now know living in England and I have often used it and I have done with it very many great Cures It cureth the Mainge both in Horses and Dogges provided they get not to it with their mouth and teeth Another Take Hogges-grease halfe a pound Oyle de Bay one ounce and halfe Crude-Mercury and
white Elebore of each one ounce incorporate these well together and first make the places raw then annoynt them with the said Oyntment ✚ This is very good for I have often tryed it Another Take of Hempe-seed and of Mutton-suet of each one pound bray the Hempe-seed merveylous well in a Morter then take of old Bores-grease one pound Verdegrease Quick-silver Elebore Gunpowder Tartar of each foure drams of Brimstone three ounces make all into very fine powder that is to be powdred and mix them well making them into one body and then dissolve them upon a gentle fiâ—e keeping them alwaaies stirring till it be enough and sufficiently dissolved and when it is cold put it into a cleane Pot and keep it for your Vse and when you have occasion to make use thereof first scarrify the places and then annoyt them holding a hot Barre of iron neere and in three or foure times thus dressing he will be well ✚ This is a most soveraigne receipt for this malady for I have had great proofe thereof Another whereby to cure the Mainge in the Maine or Tayle Make Ashes of the hearb called Abscinthus so much as will suffice quick-lime Soot of each so much as will suffice mingle all these together and with warm water make a Ly thereof with which you shall wash the Maine and Tayle in the places infected this Ly will not only cure this Malady but also cause the hayre to grow againe very fast This was taught me by a very good Marishall of France but I cold never make use thereof by reason the hearbe Abscinthus was hard to get here Another Take a little Brimstone Masculine-Frankinsence Niter of Tartar of the Bark of Ashen-trees Vitreall Verdegrece Black-Helebore Aristolochia Rotunda of each as much as will suffice powder all your simples and mixe them well together with the yolks of Egges and Sallet oyle of each as much as will suffice and so boyle it and annoynt the place well therewith warm This seems to be good but I never tryed it Another for the tayle Take Mulberries which be not ripe with the bark of the roots of the Mulberry tree and Barly of each as much as will suffice boyle all these in faire water and wash the places grieved therewith and if the sorance do open of it selfe then take Sanguis Draconis the juyce of Leeks Salt Pitch Sallet oyle and old Bores grease of each as much as will suffice and make thereof a salve and apply it plaister wise but this I never tryed Another Take of Orpin one pound Brimstone and Euforbium of each one ounce Cantharides twenty five make all these into fine powder and with Hogs grease make it into an Vnguent and apply it to the sorance rubbing it in all along the places visited and foure or five dayes after to the end the corruption may the more easily passe away annoint him againe with Hogs grease onely and when the scurfe is falne off wash the necke of the horse with Buck-lye made bloud-warme and he will doe well ✚ This is a very good receit Another You must first scrape the leprous places till they do bleed then take of Vineger one pinte white Elebore Cantharides Euforbium of each one ounce make all these into fine powder and boyle them all well together and apply it very hot to the place grieved then when the scurfe or crust is fallen away wash the sorance with Buck-lye mixed with black Sope and it will be well ✚ This is a speciall good receit Another Take of the oyle of Hempseed halfe a pinte Brimstone in fine powder one ounce Gunpowder finely pulverized and Quick-silver of each halfe an ounce and a little Vineger then beat them all together a long time and so apply it cold to the place and as you do annoynt him let one stand by with a hot bar of iron wherby to cause it the better to sinke in and this will cure him in few times dressing but suffer the crust to fall away of its own accord ✚ This is a most pretious receit Another Take of Vineger one pinte and a halfe Euforbium halfe an ounce made into fine powder boyle them well together and boyling hot wash the sorance therewith and it will heale it neither need you to clip away the hayre unlesse you please ✚ This I have often used Another Take of black or blew Slat and make it into fine powder and mingle it with fresh Butter of each like much mixe them well together to a perfect Vnguent and annoynt the place therewith and it will cure him but this I never tryed Another Take of the hearb called in French Ouraige one handfull boyle it in Vineger two quarts then take of green Coperas halfe a pound and of Salt two handfuls rub the place therewith so hot as he may well suffer it and in few times dressing him thus it will cure him This I had of a French Marishall but because I could never finde the hearb Ouraige I did never make tryall thereof Another Take of white Wine Vineger halfe a pinte Cantharides in fine powder one ounce boyle them together and boyling hot apply it to the sorance and your Horse will sooner be cured ✚ This I have often tryed and it is very good Thus I have delivered you many receits for this one malady which we call the mainge most of them I have tryed and can promise them to be speciall good whereof many will not onely cure the mainge in the body it selfe but in the mayne and tayle also if you please to make use of them Another most excellent receit for the mainge Take Lithurgie of gold two pound beat it to very fine powder and searce it through a fine searcer and put it into a glasse which will hold a potttle then put thereto of the strongest and best white Wine Vineger that can be gotten three pintes or better and for foure and twenty hours after shake it together ever and anone but the first time it must be beaten or shaken a good time together to wit a quarter of an houre at the least without intermission and then let it settle and so keep it in the same glasse close stopped for your use Now when you would use the medicine you must make it into a salve after this manner Take of the oyle of Roses two ounces and of the cleerest of the said Vineger in the glasse which must not have any of the Lithurgie in it two ounces also beat these together with a wodden splatter untill you have brought it into a thick salve Take then of Quick-silver the weight of a shilling and first mortifie it very well in a little of the sirrup of Damaske Roses the quantity of sixe or eight drops and about three or four drops of the spirit or oyle of Turpentine with the sirrup and oyle mingle and work these things well untill the Quick-silver be very well mortified then mixe it well with the former
and lay unto it black-Sope upon the Hurds and when the scurfe falleth off dresse it with black Aegiptiacum untill such time as it hath produced a circle of a new horne and keepe the Hoofe alwaies supple with Vnguentum-rosarun and the greife will heale up and weare away in short time This is very good §. 3. O. Hippoph HOw doe you make Oyle of Oates and what is it vertue Hippos To deale ingeniously with you neither my Master nor my selfe did ever know the nature of this Oyle or how to make it untill such time as wee met with Master Markhams Master-Peece from whence since we have made very good use thereof and doe finde it to be a most singular receit I will give it you iust as we have it from him Take of Milke eight quarts and warming it upon the fire put thereunto of burnt Allome foure ounces which will cause it to run into a Curd like to a Posset take of the Curd and cast it away and straine the Whey through a course cloth into a cleane vessell then take of Oates a quarter of a Peck dry and cleane husked that were never dryed and put them into the Whey and so set the Whey upon the fire and let them boyle untill the Oats doe burst and be soft then take them off and put them into a Cullender so that the Whey may go gently from them without any pressing for you must keep the Oats as moist as may be this done put the Oates into a frying-Panne and set them over the fire stirring them continually till you see the vapour or smoke of them not to ascend upwards But as it were to run about the Pan then suddenly take them off and putting them into a Presse presse them most exceedingly and looke what comes from them is only their Oyle which you must reserve in a close glasse and so stop it well Now there are others more artificiall and curious waies whereby to distill and extract this Oyle yet this above them all is both the easiest surest and least troublesome way and the very best for every meane capacitie ✚ This Oyle of Oates is of all medicines whatsoever the most excellent and soveraigne for the Body of the Horse as being abstracted from the most naturall wholesome and best nourishing food which doth belong to the sustentation and lively-hood of the Horse this Oyle being given by foure or five spoonfuls in sweet Wine one pint or strong Ale one quart and some of the Whey poured into his nosthrils doth cure the Glanders before all other Medicines It is also given in the same manner the best of all Purgations for it purgeth away all those venemous and Peccant-humors that feedeth the most incurable Farcin whatsoever and for my owne part at what time I can conveniently come by this oyle of Oates I will never use any other Oyle or vnctious matter in any medicine whatsoever to be administred inwardly but this only I having found by good experience that it is the most Soveraigne of all simples of that kind and thus I have shewed you what Master Markhams opinion which is the same both with my Master and my Selfe is both of this Oyle and it's vertues and so I remit you to the use and practice thereof ✚ CHAP. XVI §. 1. P. Hippophilus WHat is that Receipt which I have often-times heard so highly commended among Ferriers called Pastons and to what use doth it serve Hippos This thing which is called Pastons is none other then a plaine Plaister only some of of our verball Ferriers have gotten hold of the French word Paston which doth signifie a Playster and that they deliver and vent among ignorant people whereby to cry themselves vp for learned and skilfull Doctors in Horse-leech-craft now forasmuch as maladies and diseases are of sundry sorts and different natures so ought the Pastons Plaisters and Medicines bee discrepant each from other but since you were pleased to understand the true nature of this word Paston I have in a word delivered the same unto you and now I will give you the Receipt of one of the Pastons which will bee well worth your acceptance It being the most soveraigne remedy of any that ever I could come to know which is as good to dissolve and take away evill humors which shall at any time fall downe into the Legges of your Horse as any other Medicine you can use And this it is Take of common Hony one pound of Turpentine halfe a pound of Mastick in fine powder two ounces of Frankincense and Bole-armoniack both made into fine powder of each four ounces of Sanguis Draconis three ounces of new laid Egges sixe of the strongest white Wine Vineger one pinte of the flower of Rice seven ounces mixe all these together and hereof make a plaister and lap the legges of the horse from the feet to the upper joynts and do this but foure or five times and you shall see it will performe a most strange and rare cure ✚ § 2. P. Hippoph VVHat is good to helpe a strain in the pâ—sterne joynt Hippos If it be onely a straine in or upon the pasterne joynt Pastern joynt strâ—ned and not upon the backe sinew Take then of Chamber-lye one quart and boyle it untill the scum doe arise then straine it and put unto it of Tansey and of Mallowes of each one handfull and of ordinary Honey two spoonfuls and of Sheeps tallow foure ounces chop the hearbs small and then mingle all these ingredients together and so boyle them untill the hearbs be well sodden and so apply the medicine to the place with a linnen cloth bound up and stitched close with a needle and threed that it may not remove renewing this plaister every day once for three or foure dayes and he will be sound and goe upright againe ✚ This is speciall good Another Take of Brine one quart and boyle it till it ariseth and then strain it and put to it of Tansey and Mallowes of each one handfull of Honey two spoonfuls and of Sheeps tallow foure ounces chop all these together and then pound them well and set them upon the fire and so boyle them as much as will suffice apply this warme to the place with a cloth plaister-wise sewing it fast on and so let it remaine five dayes and if this doe not cure him then wash the place with warme water and shave away the hayre and scarifie the joynt and then apply the medicine of Cantharides and Euforbium c. as you are shewed in the cure for an upper attaint in lib. 2. cap. 4 § 9. lit A. and so he will be cured this is very good § 3. P. Hippoph I Would gladly Hipposerus learne a good pill for the Glanders Pill for 〈◊〉 Glanderâ— Hippos I have delivered you mâ—â—y already but since you are pleased to renew this cure again I will give you two pils which shall be of most singular vertue which shall cure any violent
phlegmaticke humours do distill out of the head into the winde-pipe and so fall upon the lungs where they doe rest and there congeale hindring the drawing of his breath it comes also by Colds Glanders and the like the signes are so apparant as that they need no discription onely this inconvenience besides many more it bringeth with it as to be heavy sad and dull in travell be marvellous subject to sweats and be ready to fall down if he be but a little strained A right skilfull Ferrier not long since told me of a strange cure in this kinde which a Gentlemans Groome relatd to him of a Gelding which the Groome had in his said keeping who was so pursive or as we plainely say broken-winded as that he became almost unusefull and his cure was after this manner he suffered his Gelding to eate what he would as well his fill viz. of good Hay as of Provender but debarred him of all drink for the space of two or three dayes together then leaping his backe he rode him upon a foot pace to the water at which time he suffered him to drink his fill then comming forth of the water he clapt spurres suddenly to him and ran him with a loose hand upon the top of his speed so long untill for want of breath he fell with him and for some time lay as if he were dead but recovering breath he arose and being well recovered of his winde he rode him into the water the second time where he also drank and being come out of the water he did as before and so being againe ridden from off his wind he fell like as at first having thus the second time recovered breath hee gave him water the third time and then rode him as formerly but now this third time being fallen when he began to get breath again he coughed most vehemently at what time through the violence of his coughing the Gelding cast forth of his mouth and that out of his wind pipe a hard lumpe of congealed Flegmatick stuffe of a good bignes which by this meanes brought up the Gelding was ever after freed from the malady and made sound and from that houre had the use of his winde as ably and as well as ever before and this was the story which one of the ablest Ferriers I do know in England delivered unto me as he affirmed and I do beleeve him for that I do know him to be a right honest man from the mouth of the Groome who with many vehement asseverations affirmed the thing to be most true neverthelesse albeit I do Mathematically beleeve that the Groome delivered this history to the Ferrier I must say with the French man Ie croy en Dieu But leaving this famous Groome to his rare cure let us proceed to cures that are more probable and now of such cures as I have met with for this disease You shall participate Take of new Milke one pint and of Sallet oyle halfe a pint give him this bloud warme which done put downe his throate two new laid Egges Puâ—sivenes or shortnes of breath do thus three or foure mornings together and then you shall perceive amendment but for his Hay let it be spinkled with water and his Oates well wet in good Ale or Beere and let his drinke bee altogether white water ✚ This is very good Another Keepe your horse three or foure daies to a spare Diet before you do administer to him then give him this drinke Take Fenugreecke three ounces of Bay-berries one ounce and a halfe of the inner rind of Elder halfe a pound the whites of six new laid Egges of browne-Sugar-Candy water-Cressets Prim-rose leaves if they may bee had red Mints red Fennell white or Hawethorne leaves of each one pound bray all these together in a Morter the Spices before beaten by themselves and when they be well powdred put to the Ingredients Ale one quart and so boyle it and after straine it and so give the liquor thereof to your Horse to drinke bloud warme and set him upon the Trench and let him fast six houres after then give him meat and an houre after that give him a warme Mash or white Water and let him be kept to a strickt Dyet and let his drinke be Mashes or white Water nine daies together after and his Hay sprinkled with Water and his Provender wet in Ale or Beere and thus you may cure him ✚ With this medicine I have don very great cures Another Take the guts of a Hedge-hogge and hang them in an Oven till they be dry then make them into powder then take three or foure spoonefuls of the powder and put it into sweet Wine Ale or Beere and so give it him to drinke and the residue of the powder mix with the powder of Anniseeds and Lycoris and with sweet Butter make it into Pils and give him two or three of the Pils presently after his drench and keepe him fasting three or foure houres after then you may give him Hay first sprinkled with water and after Provender or Bread wet or moistned in good Ale or Beere putting also thereunto of this powder and if you have not enough of this powder to serve then Take of Comin Lycoris Centaury and Anniseedes of each like much make these into fine powder and give him thereof two spoonfuls with his provender and put also into his Mashes and bread of the powder of Fennell-seede mixed with the powder of brimston this is very good for this malady for I have seen a horse for a month together to eate no other Provender but what hath been mixed with this powder and also his Mashes and white water so made and compounded and I have also brought him to drinke new Milke mingled with the powder of Brimstone by meanes whereof he hath been the sooner recovered and made perfectly sound X. and this is very good Another First let him bloud then take of sweet Wine one pint and of the juyce of Hore-hound halfe a pound of the Oyle of Frankincense halfe an ounce of the powder of Anniseed Lycoris and browne-Sugar-Candy of each halfe an ounce let all these be made into fine powder incorporated well together and give it him once or twice in the weeke for a while and ride him not at all that day you drench him but keepe him warme clothed and well littered and let him stand upon the Trench foure houres after fasting then give him meat and three houres after a sweet Mash Putting thereinto of the powder of Lycoris and Anni-seeds of this I never made tryall but it hath beene highly commended unto me for right good Another Take of Barley two gallons steepe it in water two dayes and shift the water every day then take it cleane from the water wherein it was last steeped and boyle it in three gallons of faire cleere water till it burst putting thereto of Anniseeds and Lycoris and of Raisins of the Sunne stoned of each one pound
head and let him be thus perfumed a quarter of an houre together ✚ Another Perfume 2 Take Brimstone made into fine powder and mixe with it fresh Butter and Sallet oyle as much as will suffice let him not take this with fire like as he did the former but let it be conveyed into his nose with a linnen clowt rowled up in the fashion of a great Taynt and this will bring forth much bad matter ✚ Another Perfume 3 Take Penny-royall Sage and Wheate of each as much as will suffice and boyle them in faire water till the Wheat do burst put the Wheat and Hearbs being first drayned from the water so hot as it commeth from the fire and so fasten the bag unto the head of the horse whereby he may receiue the fume up into his head And thus you may perfume him at pleasure and as you shall see cause ✚ The residue of perfumes and the manner how to apply them you shall finde among my Cures and therefore it will be superfluous for me to intreat any further of them §. 14. P. Hippoph VVHat is the best manner of administring Purgations to a Horse Hippos As touching Purgations I have spoken before very largely as well for inward purging as for outward and therefore what I shall say more is in effect but one and the same thing neverthelesse for your further satisfaction I will briefly deliver unto you what can be said of Purgations Five wayes we have whereby to purge a horse viz. by Pils Potions Clisters Suppositories and Grasse Pils for the most part do purge and cleanse the head and braine by drawing the peccant humours down into the body and so sending them forth with the excrements Potions do free the stomack belly and guts from such naughty humours which Glanders Colds and Surfets have engendred in the body Clisters are of sundry and those of different natures some to ease and appâ—ase griefes some to allay the biliousnesse and sharpnesse of evill humours some to binde and some to loosen and some to heale as in case of Vlcers and old Sores within the body principally and those do also cleanse the guts refresh the inward parts and spirits vitall and prepare the body before hand for the receiving of purging pils or potions Suppositories help the diseases in the guts being of nature and condition more gentle then Clisters are and may be applyed when Clisters cannot It therefore remaineth that the skill of the Ferrier be such as to be able judiciously to understand the severall natures of every of these things to know how to make choice of his ingredients and simples aptly to understand how to compound them punctually and artificially to discern rightly before he do administer what be the humours and maladies wherewith the creature is annoyed and visited as whether V. G. it be Choler Melancholy Flegme or Rhume as also in what part of the body the humour offensive is most predominant and what simples will purge or remove those evill humours for it is requisite he be able to know right well and ad unguem the nature and property of every one of them in particular by reason that some are much more asperous and violent then others be yea many simples are strong poysons if they be not well prepared and corrected and yet their qualities well weighed and compounded by true Art and great good judgement will work wonderfull effects Those simples which be strong are Colloquintida Scamony Elebore c. the more gentle are Manna Cassia Whey Prunes c. But those that be of the meane or indifferent working are Rubarb Agarick Aloes Sene c. and this I am bold to intimate unto you to the end you may the better understand their natures vertues and qualities and come to know the more securely how to work when occasion shall be offered The fift and last way of purging is by grasse especially if the horse be surfetted and hath been over-toyled the Winter before for this must be done in the Summer time when grasse is in its best heart but that grasse which will scoure and purge most is a new mown meadow for that will rake his guts very well nor will he in such a place gather flesh I do therefore counsell you not to suffer him to remain in such grounds above fourteen or fifteen dayes and then take him forth and put him into some other pasture where the grasse hath not been touched with the Sithe for then he will belly well and in short time recover much flesh and become fat and lusty This manner of scowring will cause him to empty himselfe well to purge and send away all his bad humours and surfets ease his limbs marvellously well do his legges and feet very much good refine his corrupt bloud and make him agill and full of spirit To mow green Rye before it be eared is also most wholesome for it scowreth cleanseth and cooleth the body very much so doth the leaves of Sallowes and of the Elme but as touching the administring of Scowrings and Purgations in the Stable you must understand that some skilfull Ferriers who have been far travelled in this Mystery have very diligently and studiously set you down many very good rudiments and instructions wherewith to worke with all security whose observations I do advise you punctually to observe as first the seasons of the yeere are to be pondred V. G. in winter if his body be to be purged it must be first prepared by Phlebothomy or Bloud-letting together with artificiall dyet therefore you shall administer eyther Suppository Clyster Potion or Pill c. You must keep him a day or two from hay straw or such like hard-meats of digestion for that those things will be a great impediment to the working of physicke or medicine and he must also be kept for a time from meate because emptinesse is a great helpe to physicall operation otherwise it may happen as it doth oftentimes that more danger then good may accrew to the Horse Wherefore two or three dayes before you do intend to purge him let his meate be eyther Wheate or Rye-bran prepared like as before is taught you and give him also either good bread made of purpose with Beanes Pease and some Rye in it or else Oates well sifted which must be dry and sweet and let his drinke be white water onely and that morning you intend to give him a purge let him befasting from either meate or drinke but about six or seven a clock in the morning give him this or some other purge which I have already taught you or shall hereafter which must be correspondent unto the malady for which you are to purge him for one Purgation will not sort to every infirmity but this purge is most profitable for the causes which I shall presently deliver unto you And this it is viz. Purgation 1 Take of white Wine one pint or of strong new Ale one quart so much of the powder
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
corrupt the bloud and consequently the flesh and at the last breaketh forth into this malady which we call the Quick-scab Quick sâ— And the reason why we do give it this name is for that it runneth from one member of the horse to the other sometimes it will be in the neck and at other times in the breast of the horse now in the maine and then in the tayle c. The cure is First shâ—ve oâ— clip away the hayre from that place visited so close as may be and take off the scurfe and scabs with some old Curry-Comb Oyster-shell or some such like thing Then Take faire cold water with a linnen cloth wash and bathe the places very well and lay the linnen cloth well wet upon the place and so touch it no more in ten dayes and if in that time the quick-scab do not heale then dresse it as before and so a third time or a fourth or so oft as necessity requireth till it be throughly healed But remember that the day before you thus dresse the sorance after this manner you take to a reasonable quantity of bloud from the neck-vein ✚ This is an approved cure Another as good as the former First let him bloud and then shave or clip away the hayre close as in the former cure Then take Mallowes and Marsh-Mallowes of each like much and boyle them in faire water as much as will suffice till the hearbs be soft and with the hearbs and decoction bathe and wash the sorance two or three dayes together warme then take of common Honey one pinte Coperas Allum of glasse and Verdigrece all made into fine powder of each four ounces Turpentine and Quick-silver mortified of each two ounces boyle all these together with the Honey unto an Vnguent and herewith dresse him every day till he be whole ✚ This I say is very good § 2. Q. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Quitter-bone Hippos This commeth to a horse by some hurt he hath taken in the foot either by a pricke with a nayle in shooing or by graveling or by a stub or the like when it was not so well healed that it impostumated and so brake out above the cronet which bred the malady or else being neglected it brake out above the hoofe before it was perceived It is bred also sometimes by a hurt upon the hoofe by a blow or by striking one foot upon the other and sometimes it commeth by evill humours which fall down into that place and it groweth most usually upon the in-side of the foot where when it beginneth it causeth a hard round swelling upon the cronet of the hoofe betwixt the heele and the quarter of the long talent it begetteth an Vlcer at what time it doth beginne to impostumate and it breaketh out above the Cronet like as I said before The signes I have already given you for the place will be swelled the bignesse of a hasle nut and the horse will hault right down The cure is so soon as it is espied to open it above if it doe begin to be soft then Take Auripigmentum made into fine powder and infuse it in the strongest white Wine Vineger can be gotten forty eight houres and then apply it to the sore and it will so eat about the Quitter-bone Quitter-bone as that you may pluck it away with your finger or pliers which so soon as the bone or gristle is taken forth you may heale up the wound with your Coperas water and green oyntment prescribed in lib. 2. cap. 10. § 4. G. till it be whole but he must not come into any wet during the time of the cure ✚ This is very good Another First cut the hoofe to the quicke then Take a Snake the greatest you can get and cut off his head and taile and flea it and so boyle it in water till the flesh come from the bone and then you may bring the flesh to be a very oyntment put of this into the sorance down to the bottome and this will kill the Quitter-bone and dry up and heale it but you must not suffer him to come into any wet dirt or gravell during the time you have him in cure ✚ With this medicine I cured one horse onely for that I had no cause to use it to any other since Another Take of Arsenick the quantity of a small beane make it into powder and put it into the hole of the Sorance conveying it downe unto the bottome with your instrument and then stop the mouth of the wound with Hurds and binde it on with a cloth and a rowler that the Horse may not bit it away and so let it remaine foure and twenty houres then open it and if you shall perceive the wound to looke blacke within it is a token that the Arsenick did its office in well working then to allay the fire and to restore the flesh that is thereby become mortified taynt the hole with Turpentine and Hogs-grease molten together Then take Pitch Rosin and Waxe of each like much and of Turpentine as much as of all the other three and melt them and so make a Plaister of Leather with which you must cover the top of the Sorance but first be sure to convey the aforesaid taint to the bottome and then lay on your Plaister and thus dresse him dayly till you have gotten forth the Core or sharpe Gristle if the Arsenick have not eaten it out before for if the Gristle be in the bottome of the wound and uncovered you may raise it with your Fingers or Instrument and so pluck it quite away for till that be out the Sorance will not heale that done heale it up with your green oyntment or else with this Vnguent Take of common-Hony and of Verdegrece in fine powder of each so much as will suffice boyle this till it bee red and therewith Taint the wound till it be whole keeping evermore the mouth of the wound open least it heale up above before it be well healed at the bottome neyther let your Horse come into any wet or go forth of the Stable untill he be throughly cured ✚ Thus I have cured many Quitter-bones Another Cut the place to the quick then take Virgin-wax Pitch of Greece Galbanum Mastick Sagapenum Olibanum and Sallet-oyle of each one ounce and of Deere or Sheeps-suet halfe a pound melt these upon a soft fire and incorporate them well together and therewith Taint and dresse the same till it be whole ✚ This is also very good CHAP. XVIII §. 1. R. Hippophilus WHat is good to cure the Red-water Hippos This Red-water is that which issueth out of old incurable Vlcers and Sores which when you shall see it to come forth of any wound then be you assured that it is very hardly or seldome cured till that Water be gotten away for it is a signe that the wound is poysoned with the said Red-water nor could I ever finde any cure for the Red water
Red waeter but only one which a Marishall of France taught me which is this viz. Take of the root of the hearb called Emanuell alias Bonus-Henricus or good King-Henry or All-good boyle the Rootes thereof in water and give it him drench-wise with a horne bloud-warme and this will take away the Red-water and you may then cure the wound with your other Salves or Vnguents This I had never cause to make tryall off in England but I have beene an Eye witnesse to two or three cures in this kinde which the Marishall of whom I had the Receipt did very sufficiently perfect The French calleth this Malady La Eu Rouse § 2. R. Hippoph HOw doe you make a Restringent charge Hippos This Restringent charge Restringent charge is to be applyed to broken bones or to bones dislocated or out of joynt being first set as also take moist humours from weeping wounds and so dry up bad humours which do preoccupate the body I will commend unto you one onely receit which shall be speciall good Take of oyle de Bay four ounces Orpin Cantharides and Euphorbium of each two ounces make all these into fine powder and mixe them with your oyle de Bay very well and therewith Charge the place greived ✚ This is also very good to Charge the swelling of a Back-sinew spraine § 3. R. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Ring-bone Hippos A Ring-bone commeth two waies to wit eyther by Nature or by Accident by Nature when as either the Stallion or Mare have it from whom the Colt is ingendred whereby he taketh it as hereditary from them and therefore as I have formerly admonished I will disswade you from breeding upon any such Horse or Mare that either had or have this malady It commeth also accidentally by some knock or blow given either by some other Horse or by his Keeper or other person and sometimes by some evill humour which through over-heats do fall down into the legges and maketh its residence upon the top of the cronet It beginneth first with a slimy humour which in time groweth to a hard gristle you shall know it for that there will be a swelling round about the cronet of the hoofe adjoyning unto the lower part of the pasterne and the hayre will stare and be bristly and it will cause the Horse to hault The cure is first wash the plaâ—â— and shave away the hayre then Take quick or unslaked Lime newly taken from the Kill Ring-â— which must be well burned the best burned you may know by its lightnesse make your lime into fine powder and lay it upon the place swelled all along of a good thicknesse and binde upon it a linnen cloth made fast about the foot and so put the horse into the water and let him stand in the water a pretty while then take him forth and unbinde the foot and he is infallibly cured for the burning of the Lime doth kill the Ring-bone even unto the very root thereof ✚ With this receit I have cured not so few as a hundred horses at the least but when you are thus to dresse your horse let him be brought close to the water whereinto he is to be ridden that so soon as you have applyed your Lime unto the sorance you may presently put him into the water Another First shave away the hayre as before is advised then scarifie the place Take then Cantharides halfe an ounce Euphorbium and oyle de Bay of each one ounce your Cantharides and Euphorbium must be made into fine powder and then boyled with your oyle de Bay stirring it continually that it run not over then with two or three feathers lay it boyling-hot upon the sorance good and thick let him be dressed in the same place where usually he standeth in the Stable and let him have no litter neer him but tye up his head so as he may not reach the medicine with his mouth but when the hayre do begin to grow again give the fire to the sorance to wit three or four straight lines right downwards drawing the swelling quite crosse and let the edge of the iron be no thicker then the back of an ordinary knife neither must you burn him any deeper then that the skin may look yellow that done apply to the place this charge Take of Pitch and Rosin of each like much let them be molten together and whilst it is hot apply it to the place all along from the one end of the swelling to the other before it be cold clap Flocks upon it and about three dayes after lay on more of the said charge and new Flocks again upon that charge and so let it remain untill the Flokcs and charge fall off of its own accord ✚ This is also very good Another First wash and shave and scarrifie as before then Excretion to cure Take gray-Sope and Arsnick pulverized of each the quantity of a Wall-nut which being very well mixed spread it upon the sorance so far as the Ring-bone goeth and having thus spread it apply upon it a few Hurds and binde a cleane linnen cloth upon it to keep it on neither let it be removed in four and twenty hours then take it away and stir not the asker or scab but onely annoint it with fresh Butter till it doe fall away of it selfe and so heale it up with some healing salve whereof I have given you plenty ✚ This I have tryed and have found to be very good This medicine will cure a bone-Spaven Splint Curb or any other bony excretion §. 4. R. Hippoph HAve you any way to recover and make sound a Horse that is rotten Hippos Truely Sir for any man to promise that were great precipitation onely thus far he may wade therein as to give ease and help to a horse that hath the rot for it is one thing for a Horse to be rotten and another thing for him to have the rot For a horse to be rotten is to have his inward parts wasted and consumed or at least so rotten as never possibly to be recovered to wit his Liver Lights c. But for a horse to have the disease called the rot I doe finde the same to be either a formall aropsie or else a disease so allied neerly thereunto as not to be distinguished easily as we say a Sheep is rotten when his Liver is become foule and tainted neverthelesse men doe eate the carkas and doe averre it to be good meat wherefore the Sheep is not rotten but hath the disease called the rot This malady commeth oft times to horses unhandled to wit in their youth whilst they be yet Colts which be bred and do feed in Fenny-Marsh and wet grounds and sometimes it commeth to them after they have bin backed and ridden when they haue too hard and violent riding being yet but young whereby the bloud is first enflamed and after putrified and corrupted begetting obstructions in the Liver and those do cause putrefaction and
occasion the Scratches It is therefore requisite that the Groome doe clip away the long shag haire from about the pasternes if he have any and fetlocks as also from the inside of his legs unto the bending of the knee by meanes whereof he may the better keep the legges of his horse from this disease sometimes it also comes from the corruption of the bloud after great heats and surfets taken sometimes againe for that the horse hath been bred in marrish fenny and watery grounds sometimes it is ingendered from melancholy humours â—hich doe fall down to the legges and sometimes by standing continually upon his owne dung which will through the heat and steame thereof breed the Scratches without other help and sometimes again the Scratches will fall down into the heeles of the horse and there make its way forth after a desperate sicknesse taken by a surfet and lastly it comes by reason the grease of the horse had been moulten by over-riding or labour whereby the grease falleth down and resteth in the pasterne and fetlocks and so causeth the Scratches to be ingendered It beginneth first with a dry scab and after it sendeth forth fretting watrish and matterative stuffe which will stinke and be most noysome and his pasternes and fetlocke ioynts will be full of chaps and chinkes sometimes all along sometimes right down and sometimes overthwart and the places will swell and the cracks or chinkes will cause the legs to be very gourdy and to run with much noysome and offensive matter and the horse will be many times so lame as not to be well able at first setting forth to goe but with much trouble and no lesse paine and by these very signes you shall know this malady neither shall you want store of receits wherewith to cure it the French doe call this disease grappes grapes and Iavars and Arraistes as also such other like tearmes and epithetons all which as before is touched makes but onely one and the same disease the first thing which is to be done towards the cure is to bathe and wash the places all about and then either to shave or clip away the hayre very close otherwise you can hardly make a perfect cure thereof then Take the spawne of Toads Scratches which in the beginning of March you shall finde in pooles ponds ditches and standing water and first draine the water from the said spawn and then distill it and keep the water in a glasse close stopped to serve you for the whole yeare and herewith wash and bathe the places every day warm and in short space it will cure them this I have often used Another Take Honey and Pepper made into very fine powder of each as much as will suffice and boyle them together and anoint the sorance therewith and they will soon heale and dry up this I did never try but a famous Ferrier of France taught it me Another Take Lime and Salt and make them both into fine powder which being well mixed apply it to the places grieved good and thick then take Hurds and cut them very small and clap them upon it and so binde up the place with a linnen cloth that it doth not remove and so let it remaine two whole dayes and nights and this will cause the sorance to purge and after heale it up very kindely This I did never try Another Take Verdigrece and the fat of Bacon and pound them to a formall Salve and so plaisterwise apply it to the sore and it will heale up the scratches in short time This is very good Another Take old Bores grease and common Honey of each as much as will suffice and worke it to an Vnguent anoynt the sorance therewith four or five dayes and no longer and it will cure the Scratches ✚ This is very good Another Take Verdigrece in fine powder Gals Brimstone and Bolearmoniack of each one ounce make all into fine powder and mixe them with Bores grease as much as will suffice and so bring it to an Vnguent and anoint the sorance therewith and this will both heale and dry them up ✚ This I have often tryed Another First cauterize five strakes on either side and your iron must be somewhat broad and you must go but only one crosse-wise and after heale it up as it is usuall in Cures in your Cures of Cauterize this I never did practise Another Take Pepper Garlick Cole-wort-leaves and old Boares-grease of each so much as will suffice pound them together to an Vnguent and herewith anoint the Sorance and in few daies it will ripen the Scratches and kill the mallice of the disease and heale it up X. of this Receipt I have made often use and it is good you must not faile alwaies before you dresse any horse that hath the Scratches first to wash and bathe the place well with warme water and then to shaw or clip away the haire very close also every time you are to dresse any horse of this malady wash the place with Chamberly and greene Copperas boyled together and after dresse him up with your other Salves Vnguent c. Another Take Hogs-grease and strong Mustard and anoint the Sorance therewith and in short time he will be whole ✚ This is very good Another Take first of white-Wine-Vineger one pint and put unto it of the strongest Tobacco in the Rowle you can get one ounce open the leaves and shread the Tobacco small and boile it untill the Vineger do begin to consume then take it from the fire and strain it wringing it hard then take white-Wine one pint of Roach Allome the quantity of a Walnut of Bay-salt and of common Honey of each one Spoonefull red Sage Rue Hony-suckle-leaves Yarrow Plantaine Rib-wort Bramble-leaves of each like much halfe a handfull in the whole boile all these in the Wine till one quart be consumed then straine this water also and mix them both together and set it upon the fire till it begin to boile then take it off and when it is through cold put it up into a glasse and so keep it close stopped that no ayre come unto it and when you would use it for the Scratches wash the Sorance and then put upon it the powder of burnt Allome and this will cure the Scratches ✚ This I have often tryed and it is singular good Another Take Verdegrease and make it into fine powder and then take common hony and worke them together to an Vnguent and therewith anoynt the sorance and in short time it will infallibly cure him ✚ With this Receipt I have cured very many Horses Another Take tryed Hogs-grease and Gun-powder of each so much as will suffice first beat your Gun-powder to very fine powder and incorporate them very well together and anoynt the places greived once a day therewith and it will soone cure the Scratches ✚ This is a speciall good receipt Another Take Trayne oyle white-lead made into very fine powder and the Ielly
skin it in short time ✚ This is good for I have often tryed it Another for a sinew grieved Sinew grieved If the sinew be so farre grieved whereby to cause the horse to complaine and to hault Take then of Mallowes a good quantity and boyle them in faire water untill they shall become tender then draine the water from the hearbs and so stamp them to mash and apply them to the member grieved hot over night and the next morning he will be upright againe but then he must haue eight or ten daies rest at the least after But if it be a sinew spraine then clip away the hayre close or shave it then Take of the oyle of Sulphur and of the oyle of Turpentine of each one ounce take first the one halfe thereof being well mixed and chafe and rub it into the sinew well and so let him be tyed up to the Rack that he may not come unto it with his mouth for that it will greatly perplexe him for four or five hours after his dressing and the next day anoint him as you did the day before he wil be cured but the place will be raw and therefore heale him up with sweet Butter or Hogs grease and when the place healeth the skin will peele and yet the hayre will come again but he must either runne at grasse or else be kept in the Stable without any exercise at all by the space of a moneth at least If the sinew be cut Sinew cut then Take new Waxe and Gumme-Arabick of each two ounces of the marrow of an Oxe or Cow four ounces of the oyle of Roses three ounces melt and incorporate all these on the fire and so keep it for your use and when you are to use it warme it and so apply it either unguent wise or taint wise or plaister wise according as you shall see cause and it will cure any sorance of this nature ✚ This I have often tryed Another If your Horse have a sinew sprained Sinew sprain by an over-reach stroke or otherwise weakened the better to strengthen the same Take tryed Hogs grease Horse grease May or fresh Butter Sallet oyle of each sixe ounces take also of the oyntment called Agrippa two drams or new Waxe two ounces and a halfe and of Camphier a third part to all the rest melt them all together upon the fire and so work it to an unguent and good and warme anoint the swelled or grieved part therewith morning and evening and what remaineth of this medicine let it be reserved in a galley pot for other times for it will keep a whole yeare ✚ This is very good Another if it be a sinew spraine onely then Take Goats Kids or Deeres suet and Rosin of each one pound Fig dust halfe a pound Verdigrece in fine powder halfe a pound melt and mixe all these well and therewith anoint the sinew grieved every day and chafe it into the sinew by holding a hot bar of iron neer it This will both comfort and strengthen the sinew but I did never make tryall thereof §. 15. S. Hippoph BVt Hipposerus is it needfull that by applying your Vnguents you doe evermore worke them in with a hot bar of iron Hippos Truely Sir those that are for Straines Aches Mainges Farcins and such like maladies and sorances the further they doe sinke into the skinne and flesh the sooner and better will the cure be performed and therefore albeit I do not alwaies put you in minde of the hot bar of iron in every of my receits yet it is needfull to be used But to proceed with another receit for a sinew spraine Sinew sprain Take ordinary Sope and Aqua vitae of each as much as will suffice boyle them and in the boyling keep it by continuall stirring then take it off and so hot as he can well suffer it bathe and chafe in the oyntment and he will be sound again This was commended unto me for most soveraigne but I never made tryall thereof Another for a straine taken in travell Take so muâ—h of the best gray Sope as will serve to anoint the sinew strained but before you do anoint him having caused his legge to be cleansed from dirt sand or gravell and made dry again anoint him therewith and then swathe the leg with a thumband of Hay and so let him stand all night and the next morning he will be sound again so that you may securely travell him againe without feare ✚ This I have often used and it is very good Another if it be a straine newly taken Straine newly taken Take then of the strongest white Wine Vineger you can get one pinte and May or fresh Butter halfe an ounce then put to it of Wheat bran as much as will suffice which by boyling will bring it to a Poultesse and apply it so hot as he can suffer it doe this morning and evening untill the swelling be asswaged ✚ This is very good Another but if it be an old taken straine then Take Mallowes and Chickweed of each like much boyle them either in the grounds of Ale or Beere or else in old Chamberlye and apply it to the place ✚ This is a speciall good cure Another for an old straine which is thought to be incurable insomuch as the sinew being swelled is become very hard and knotty St aine old Take Patch-grease alias Peere or Peece-grease as much as will suffice melt it upon the fire and anoint the straine therewith very hot and chafe and heat it very well then rope the place as before is shewed you but before you rope him up wrap a rowler of linnen upon the place and do thus daily and it will dissolve the hardnesse and make him sound again ✚ This is most excellent Another for a spraine of the same nature Take Nervall Bolearmoniack Bores grease black Sope of each like much melt them together but first pulverize your Bolearmoniack and anoint the sorance herewith chafing and heating in very well continue thus to do twice a day till it be well ✚ This is also very soveraign § 16. S. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Horse that hath a stinking Breath Stinking breath Hippos This commeth by means of corrupted and infected lungs the signs how to know it is by the smell onely the cure is Take Cinamon Cloves Galingall Comine and Coriander seeds of each three ounces Fenugrick eight ounces make all these into fine powder and searce and mixe them well with Wheat flowre two pound and put thereto so much white Wine as will bring it to a stiffe paste and make a cake thereof and bake it in an Oven till it be as dry and as hard as bisket and when it is cold beat it to fine powder and give him every morning an houre at least before his water of this powder four spoonfuls in white Wine or strong Ale of each one pinte This will take away all the corrupt and
taken in the foot as by being hot foundred prickt stubd graveld or the like or by some sinew spraine or some hurt or wrench in the shoulder or by some pinch in the withers and it commeth also by over-riding and then negligently set up which causeth him to goe stiffe and then the cure must be done with bathes and unguents wherby to stretch supple mollifie and to comfort the stiffe members for remedy and ease whereof I have given you very many good receits before prescribed you as well of bathes as of unguents But yet I will give you one more which I have often made use of and have done much good therewith for stiffe legges Stiffe legge viz. Take of Hogs grease one pound of fresh Butter Altheae and of oyle de Bay of each halfe a pound mixe and incorporate all these well together and therewith anoynt rub and chafe the legges and sinewes of the horse every third day three times a day and let his shooes be made wide enough especially at the heeles and let him be pared thin the sinewes being well suppled it is needfull he be also cut of the cords which will prevent his stumbling the better Stumbling commeth also by meanes of carrying heavy burthens and when the rider is a man of an extraordinary weight especially if the Horse be young ✚ This is a very good cure §. 19. S. Hippoph VVHat is to be given to a Horse that cannot Stale or Pisse Stale or pisse Hippos This infirmity commeth either of the collicke or by meanes of too much hard riding the cure is Take Grummell seed Saxafrage-seed and the roots of each halfe an ounce make them into fine powder boyle them a walme or two in white Wine one quart and give it him warme ✚ This is very good Another Take the tops of green Broom and burne a good quantity of them so as you may have so many of the ashes as will come to be a pretty handfull searce them and put them into white Wine a pinte and after it hath infused an houre give him the Wine but not the ashes ✚ This is very good Another Take black buds of the Ashen tree and burn them then take the ashes cleansed and as before is shewed you of the Broome ashes and administer it to the Horse just as you did the other X This is a most approved cure § 20. S. Hippoph VVHat good cure have you for the Stavers Hippos This disease is secundum vulgus called the Staggers Of melancholy but the true name thereof is the Stavers it is a dizzinesse in the head neerly allyed unto the frenzy when it seazeth the braine It is ingendred sometimes of corrupt bloud and heavy and bad humours which do intoxicate and oppresse the braine It is a disease incident to almost every horse yea and that most dangerous if it be not soone espied Sometimes it commeth by feeding and grazing at what time the Horse is hard ridden that he be hot and sweateth for by his feeding and holding down his head so low as to graze upon the ground the peccant humours doe fall down to the head and there settle and in short time seazeth the braine which bringeth this mortall disease Sometimes it commeth by what was occasioned by hard and over-violent riding whereby the whole body became distempered and the bloud inflamed and putrified and sometimes it commeth by eating over-much Corrupt bloud for thereby is the stomack so overcharged with meat as not to be able to digest and convert it all as it ought into good bloud and nutriment and therefore must necessarily breed evill humours which attaching the head and braine it is in conclusion the cause of this disease The symptomes whereby to discover it is in that his sight will faile him and he will hardly be able to see a white Wall he will slaver at the mouth and his eyes will be swelled and runne with much water and other filth and his gate will be reeling and staggeâ—ing he will oft lye down and beat his head against the planks floore and walles and when he is laid his body will quiver and shake and he will forsake his meat and these be most certaine signes which I have ever observed to be in horses oppressed and exercised with this infirmity But now to come to the cure I will give you first a cure which a French Marishal taught me which by reason it sounded to be so much improbable I would never make tryall thereof but such as it is you shall have it Fasten unto the end of a stick a linnen ragge and anoint it well with Barbary Sope and put it up into his nose gently and by degrees and so draw it out again as treatably Another If you do perceive your horse in his travell to fall sicke suddenly of the Stavers Stavers and that you be in such a place where for the present you can get no help then thrust up the greater end of your riding rod into either nostrill good and hard causing him thereby to bleed well and this will preserve him for the time till you come where you may meet with better remedy then take a piece of Wheaten leaven bay Salt Rue Aqua vitae and strong white Wine Vineger of each as much as will suffice bray all these in a stone morter very well then put this medicine into two thin fine linnen clothes or rags by equall portions and then moisten it well in the liquor and so convey those clouts into either of his eares one and then stitch them up close that he get not the medicine forth but that the substance thereof may be diffused into his head and let the medicine remaine so foure and twenty hours then take forth the rags and this will make him a sound and whole horse ✚ But before you apply this medicine to his eares run him through the gristle of the nose with a long iron Bodkin and the next day after let him bloud in the neck and mouth and then giue him this drink which will keep off the Yellowes for comming too fast upon him then take Turmerick Mirrha Ivory or Harts-horne of each one ounce of Saffaron one penny worth pound all these by themselves to very fine powder then take Seladine a good handfull stamp it and straine it and put the juyce thereof to the other ingredients then put unto it of Muskadine or sweet Sack one pinte or for want thereof of strong Ale one quart adding unto it of London Treacle one ounce set these upon the fire and let it boyle one walme or two and in the taking off put unto it of sweet Butter the quantity of an Egge and so having well brewed the same give it him bloud warme and for three or foure dayes give him either sweet Mashes or white water ✚ This is very good Another First take bloud from him in the necke and mouth and let him chew and swallow down his own
bloud being most wholesome for him and whilst he is thus bleeding thrust an iron Bodkin through the gristle of his nose skin and all then Take Assafetida the quantity of a hasle nut and dissolve it into a sawcer full of white Wine Vineger then take Lint or fine Flax and dip it into the liquor and so stop both your Horse eares therewith and so stitch them up and at the end of foure and twenty houres unstitch them and he is cured ✚ This is very good Another First let him bloud in both the weeping veynes and in the mouth then Take of bitter Almonds one ounce and a halfe of the gall of an Oxe two drams of black Ellebore made into fine powder a halfe penny worth of Graynes Castoreum Vineger and of Varnish of each five drams boyle all these together untill the Vineger be all consumed then straine it and put it into his eares and do as before ✚ This is very good Another Bloudy him as before then with your incision knife make a slit down his forehead an inch long and better and with your cornet loosen the skin round about but most toward the foretop then put into the place the root of a red great Dock cut thin and let it remaine there fourteen or fifteen dayes and once in two dayes at furmost crush out the mattrative stuffe and then take forth the Dock roots and heale up the place with your healing Salve and give him during these fourteen dayes white water onely and he will doe well ✚ This I assure you is very good Another Bloudy c. Then take Aqua-vitae and Garlicke of each so much as will suffice stamp them together and convey it into his eares doing vt supra ✚ This is singular good Another Let him bleede well in the neck and mouth for the abundance of bad bloud is the cause of this disease then with your Incision knife slit the forehead of the Horse and with your Cronet raise the skin especially upwards put in three or foure cloves of Garlick pilled put upon it a little lint or fine Flax to keepe away the Wind for that is dangerous and then give the Orifice a stitch to keep in the Medicine the better Then Take the seeds of Cresses of Poppy of Smallage of Parsly of Dill I say the seeds only of these hearbs and take also pepper and Saffaron of each two drammes make them all into fine powder and put unto them of Barley water two quarts as it commeth boyling from the fire and let it infuse therein three houres and then straine it and give him one quart thereof if it may be in the morning fasting bloud-warme and walke him up and downe an houre and better and then set him up warme and give him Hay sprinkled with water and the next day give him the other quart fasting and then doe as before neither let him drinke any cold water in foure or five daies after but only white water unlesse sometimes a sweet Mash And thus doing he will be cured X. This is a most excellent Receipt and I have often used it §. 21. S. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you for a Horse that hath Swelled-Legges Hippos This Malady of swelled or Gourdy-Legs commeth eft-soones by long standing in the Stable when as the upper parts of the plancks at his fore-feete are much higher then that at the hinder feete as I have before observed in lib. 1. cap. 4. for by that meanes the Horse not standing even and therefore not at his case the bloud setleth in the hinder-Legges which causeth them to swell Sometimes they doe come by reason the Horse being hard ridden was brought into the Stable too hot and carelesly set up who taking cold the bloud grease and humours do fall downe into the Legges and so cause them to swell Sometimes it commeth by over-riding whereby the Horse hath his bloud stirred and his grease melted which falleth down and resteth in the hinder-Legges causing them to swell Sometimes by being ridden and gallopping upon hard waies in the Heates and by that meanes the bloud and grease falleth downe into his Legges congealeth there whereby they do become gowty and gourdy And sometimes gourdy-Legges cometh by sicknes and surfets taken which after remedy had yet the faeces or dregges thereof still remayning in the body of the horse falleth downe and causeth the legges to swell as I have frequently seene And these be the primme causes and reasons which we have observed for this Malady Swelled-Legges The signes your eie doth demonstrate and you may without teaching point to it with your finger and therefore we may say nothing thereof Wherefore now we will to the cure If the swelling come by ordinary meanes then take up the Thigh-veines and then you neede doe no more for that alone will cure him and after open the heele-veines and lay a Retoyre to the Legges or else give him the fire which will siccicate dry up the bad humours which must be given gently and lightly neither would I have you give him the fire unlesse you might thinke or find it in your iudgement to be very requisite But my meaning is not that this remedy of the fire bee applyed but only to an old griefe otherwise not at all ✚ This is good But if besides his swelled-Legges they also be stiffe comming to him after much labour and travell therefore Take of Violet-leaves Primrose-leaves and Strawberry-leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in new-Milke till they become very soft and then take it from the fire and put to it of the oyle of Nervall of Petroleum and of Pamphilion of each one ounce and so stirre all together untill it becometh bloud-warme and therewith chafe rub and anoint the Legges Nerves Sinewes and Ioynts holding a hot barre of Iron neere to the place to cause the Vnguent to sinke the better in Anoint him thus with this Vnguent five or sixe daies together and it will helpe him ✚ This I have often used Another Take Traine-oyle and warme it upon the fire and therewith bathe his legges morning and evening and in short time he will be well ✚ This is very good also to ride your Horse into the water morning and evening up to the belly doth take away the swelling of his legges X. This is mervelous good § 22. S. Hippoph VVHat is good to asswage the swelling of the Cods in a Horse Hippos This Malady commeth many waies to wit by violent riding heats when there was not sufficient care had of him but was neglected in the setting up also it commeth by washing walking and cold taken after immoderate labour and sometimes by feeding to intemperately upon Provender and sometimes by feeding upon unwholesome meate The signes to know it are his stomacke may be peradventure good to his meate but yet it will do him little good for he will be alwaies meagre and leane his hayre will stare neither will he cast his
mouth to be of a thick and duskish colour and not so cleere and sanguine as before when he was not visited with any such infirmity both which are so mortall especially the latter as that if very great care be not taken whereby to pry into its symptomes the Horse may fall downe upon a sudden as I have often seen and known even as he travelleth and dye or else he appearing to be sound and healthy and to eate his meat like as he was accustomed over night when you left him comming again unto him in the morning you may finde him dead stiffe and cold And the origen of this malady commeth principally of unkindely and unnaturall heats given him by most violent and intemperate riding whereby the Liver becommeth inflamed the Liver the Bloud Gall and the Spleen which causeth choller to have soveraignty and dominion over the other humours and so engendreth this perilous disease which seldome bringeth a lingring or languishing death but that which endeth him suddenly and therefore it is most requisite that the greater eye and care be had unto it The best symptomes how to know it is thus Your Horse will be dry in his body mouth and nostrils being marvellous hot through the abundance of choller that reigneth in him and he will be very gaunt in his belly towards the flanks he will be also very faint and not onely sweat upon every the least motion but also as he standeth in the Stable his eyes the insides of his lips mouth and tongue will be yellow as Saffron and he will seldome lye down and being layd he will sometimes grone The cure First let him bloud in the neck and mouth and let him bleed well then give him this drink Take of Turmerick and long Pepper of each one penniworth Yellowes Anniseeds and Licoris in fine powder and searced of each halfe a spoonfull Selendine the leaves and roots one handfull chop stamp and straine the Selendine and so put all these together into strong Ale one quart warm this upon the fire and in the warming adde unto it of London Treacle one ounce and of sweet Butter the quantity of an Egge and give it him bloud warm and after keep him warme and give him white water and he will do well ✚ This is very good Another First bloudy him as before and then Take Turmerick Myrrah Ivory or Harts-horn of each halfe an ounce Saffron one penny worth make all these into fine powder and searce them and put unto it of the juyce of Selendine a good quantity put all these into Muskadine one pinte Sack or Ale and let it boile upon the fire a walm or two then put unto it of sweet Butter as much as will suffice and of London Treacle one ounce and so give it him bloud warm but let him first be raked This is very good Another First bloudy him as before then Take of white wine one quart of Saffron two drams and of Turmerick halfe an ounce and a good quantity of the juyce of Selendine give him this bloud warm and keep him warm and give him white water ✚ This is very good Another First let him bloud as you are prescribed before Then Take of sweete Wine one pinte of stronge Ale and Beere one quart and put unto it of the iuyce of Salendine six spoonefuls and of the iuyce of Rue two spoonefuls and let all these boyle upon the fire a little then straine into it of English Saffaron halfe an ounce and put into it of life hony three ounces and so give it him bloud-warme then leap his backe and so ride or else walke him a foot-pace a quarter of an houre then set him up warme letting him to fast three houres after and after give him meat and a sweete Mash or white-water ✚ This is very good Another Bloudy him as before Then Take of the best life hony halfe a pound of Saffaron made into fine powder and of the powder of Fenugrick of each so much as will suffice incorporate these with your Hony to a stiffe paste and so make thereof three Pils and dipping them into Salet-oyle give them to your Horse which after he hath taken ride or walke him gently an houre then set him up warme and order him as before ✚ This is a particular good Pill Another First let him bloud as before Then Take of white-Wine one quart or Ale to the same quantity and put therein of Saffaron one ounce and Turmerick one ounce both made into fine powder with the iuyce of Salendine so much as will suffice and give him this bloud-warme and order him as before ✚ This is also very good §. 2. Y. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for the mattering of the Yard Hippos This disease commeth commonly in Covering time by overmuch spending upon Mares for that the heat of the Mares the Horse his own heate and Coity doth burne the Horse giving him the running of the reines as we may truly terme it And the signes to know it is you shall perceive the end of the Yard to be swelled when he pisseth you may observe him to do it with much paine and you may also see at other times the Yard to drop with yellow matter The cure Give him first a purge prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 16. § 14. let P. it is the first purgation which will ease his pain in pissing then the next day Take Roch-Allome one ounce and white-Wine one pinte boyle them till the Allome be dissolved then bloud-warme iniect this Lotion with a Syringe putting it up into his Yard so far as may be foure or five times a day till he be well ✚ This is a perfect cure nor shall you need any other FINIS Imprimatur THOMAS VVYKES A Table of the Contents The First Booke The Contents of all the Chapters contained in the first Book THE Introduction Chap. 1. page 1 Of the best manner of breeding Chap. 2. page 4 How to make and order your Stable Chap. 3. page 10 Of the marks colours and shapes of Horses Chap. 4. page 15 Of the office of the Groome and Rider Chap. 5. page 25 The Second Booke The Contents of all the Chapters contained in the second Booke OF what poynts consisteth the office of the Ferrier handled Dialogue-wise as also a formall examine of the Ferrier chap. 1. p. 34 Of the causes of sicknesse in generall and the causes of health and long life chap. 2. page 46 Of such things which are of necessity to be known by every expert Ferrier before he doe adventure to administer chap. 3. page 55 The manner of handling the particular cures chap. 4. page 64 The Index Chap. 4. A. ACopum and its vertues page 66 Arman 1. page 67 Arman 2. page 68 Ach in the head page 69 Aegyptiacum 1. page 71 Aegyptiacum 2. ibid. Accloy page 72 All diseases a Cataplasme 1 ibid. All diseases a Cataplasme 2. page 73 All diseases 3. ibid. S. Anthonies fire
ordered will be sped and conceive unlesse she be a Mare of great sterility which supposed she is not to be kept for a race or breeding Mare Moreover if you be desirous to have your Mare to conceive a Horse-colt rather then a Filly observe then this lesson I shall here give you and you shall finde it an infallible rule which will never misse viz. At what time you would have your Mare to be covered Let it be done when one of the first five masculine Signes do raign which are either Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer or Leo but if she shall be covered when any of the Feminine or watery Signes are predominant as Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius or Pisces then be you confident it will be a Filly For this have I often tryed and found it seldome or never to faile me especially if the wind be either West or North but West is best at the time of her covering and you will finde this my rule to be most infallible for experience hath taught it me And I have attained unto more knowledge by experience then I was ever able to aspire unto either by reading and study or by hearing what others have dictated taught or told mee For we have a maxime Experience is the best and ablest mistresse and moderatrix Now for the manner of the covering of your Mares let her be brought into some place abroad and there fastned to some strong post then bring out to her some stoned Iade first to dally with her and he will provoke her to an aptitude and desire of coity which done let the Stallion be led forth towards her betwixt two or more lusty strong men who may be able to master him if he should prove unruly and let him leap her and let this be done in a morning betimes fasting which done another man standing by with a paile of cold water ready in his hand in the very time when the Horse is dismounting let him cast the cold water upon her shape which by reason of the coldnesse the strength of the caster and the suddennesse thereof will cause her to shrinke in and trusse up her body and it will be the meanes to make her retaine the seed in the matrix otherwise the womb would not peradventure so soone enclose it but for some time after howsoever the womb would draw together but not so suddenly whereby upon the Mares motion there might be some danger of dissolving Take then away the Stallion and let the Mare be put into some remote place alone from sight and hearing of other Horses and Mares but let her neither eate nor drinke in foure hours after neither let her have any water at all till night and then give her either a sweet Mash or white water After she hath been thus Covered you shall know whether or not she hath either conceived or lost or cast her seed by many evident symptomes which will appeare to your eye for if she retaineth a good stomacke to her meat and so continueth if she doe not neigh at hearing or sight of other horses if she do not pisse oft times in the day casteth not her eye about gazing continually at every noise she heareth pricketh not up her eares and that in three or foure daies after her Covering her belly seemeth to be more gaunt her hayre more slicke and close to her skin shewing of a brighter colour and she seemeth to fall away and become leane if I say any of these Symptomes doe appeare in her then is it an evident signe she hath kept her seed and conceiveth but if the contrary appeare in her then hath she lost it and engendreth not But as for offering her the Horse againe ten dayes after together with such like circumstances I hold them impertinent for this place being so frequently knowne and practised and therefore my labour may well be spared But for her keeping and ordring after her Covering let her not drinke that she desireth but continue her with the same dyet which formerly she had before her covering for three weeks or a month after lest the seed might fortune to be impaired before the Colt be sufficiently formed in the womb and let her be kept sweet and cleane as may be and that without any labour or exercise during that three weeks or moneth after which terme you may if you please inure her to moderate labour wherein have a speciall care of foure things first that she be not at any time gallopped or run off from her wind secondly that she be not put to carry heavy burthens thirdly that she be neither laboured or travelled in extreame heat And lastly that her exercise be not such which may provoke her to sweat violently for every of these things will cause her to miscarry Shee being thus with fole shee must bee kept in the house untill mid-May at least and then let first her shooes be taken off her feet pared well the Frush and heeles opened and plates after the manner of running shooes but not to come home to the heeles set on let her run in the driest ground you have yet not so short of grasse but that she may at her ease fill her belly at least once a day and about the latter end of September if not before let her be very carefully taken into the house but so quietly that you shall not endanger the hurting of her belly either by the rushing of other Horses and Mares against her or through her unruly leaping or inconsiderate brushing against posts dores or the like Let her be kept thus in the house to the time of her foling and long after and let her dyet be as before is prescribed And when the time of her foling approacheth let her keeper attend carefully upon her putting her into a house convenient for her unhaltred and untied lest in foling the colt receive domage by reason that Mares doe commonly cast their foles standing wherefore let not the roome whereinto you put her be too streight but very warme for warmth is a great comfort as well to Mares with fole as in foling and let good store of straw be layed that the Fole may fall from the Mare the softer and be in lesse danger of harm and let her I say be watched for feare the Fole come not right and so soone as she hath foled and licked it dry let her keeper presently milke and stroake her and that before the Colt doe sucke her which will both cause her to give down her milke making the same to multiply and also keep the Vdder that the milke doe not clod which if it should doe the Mare might happily in short time become dry whereof if there be any perill I then advise you to draw as much milke from her as you can and boyle it with the leaves of Lavender or Spike and so bathe her Vdder therwith warme continuing so daily to doe untill by this meanes you have broken the
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