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water_n	boil_v	put_v	quart_n	5,161	5	12.0047	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06957	Markhams methode or epitome wherein is shewed his aprooued remedies for all diseases whatsoeuer incident to horses, oxen, kine, bulls, calues, sheep, lambs, goats, swine, dogs of all kind, conies, all sorts of poultrye, all water-foule, as geese, ducks, swans, and the like) pigeons, all singing birds, hawks of all kind; and other creatures seruice-able for the vse of man: deuided into twelue generall points or heads. By Gervase Markham. Gentleman.; Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases. Abridgments	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1616 (1616)	STC 17381; ESTC S100657	31,280	94

an ounce of the best treacle and a spoonfull of the iuyce of Garlicke then take of Myrhe of Iuory of Bay-berries of Cinamon and of Annis seedes beaten to fine pouder two good spoonefull and brew it very well with the ale then being sufficiently wel cool'd giue it the beast to drinke with a horne early in the morning fasting and chase the Beast vp and downe halfe an houre after then put him where hee may come to no meate for an houre and an halfe after and thus do two or three mornings together according to the greatnes of his sicknes But if you find his dewe-lap begin to swell then you shall with a sharp knife slit it and opening of the skinne you shall thrust into it halfe a handfull of Speare-grasse and salt chopt together and then stitch it vp againe and anoint it with butter and tarre mixt together and so put the beast to a fresh pasture but by no meanes let the grasse be too ranck for that is most dangerous All these infirmities are cured by the second medicine following The belly ake All colds in generall Dropping nostrils All costiuenes All coughes or hausts All shortnesse of breath A generall purge for Cattell The second Medicine First you shall in any wise let the beast bloud as in the former Medicine then take a quart of stronge Ale and boyle it on the fier and scume it well then take it of and disolue into it a spounfull of tarre and a spounfull of the Iuice of Garlike which done take of sugarcandy of Fenugreeke and of brimstone all being beaten to a fine pouder the quantity of three sponfull brew them well together with the Ale till it be sufficiently well cold then put to it a quarter of a pint of Sallet-oyle and so giue it the beast to drinke fasting and chase him and vse him as was before prescrybed in the former Medicine All these infirmities are cured by the third Medecine following The Sturdy The neck gald The neck bruysd The neck sweld The closh All swellings in generall in any part All impostumes All Byles All Botches The dew-boulne Catell goared All wounds what-soeuer The third Medecine First in case of the sturdy you shall open the skull vpon the forehead and take out the blader then heale the sore with the salue following but in case of deweboulne where the bleane riseth on the tongue or in the mouth there you shal first break the bleane and thrust out the filth then rub the sore with salte and earth and after apply the salue following which is this Take the greene leaues of Aristolochia of fresh grease of tallow of the ashes of an old burnt shoe of terpentine of tarre and of lyllie roots of each a like quantity beate them all in a morter till they come to a perfit salue which if it proue too lenwicke or moyst then you shall take as much yellow waxe as will stiffen it and with this salue anoynt the sore places and it is a present remedie Al these infirmities are cured by the fourth Medicine following The Barbs The Bleane The Canker in the mouth Loose teeth The tonge venomed The falling of the palate The fourth Medicine First thtust your hand into the beasts mouth and if there be any Blisters risen or the pallat falne rub the one away and put vp the other then take of woodbine leaues of Sage of Plantain and of Salt of each halfe an handfull boyle them well in a quart of running water a pint of vinegar halfe a pint of hony then with the water wash the sore places very well and it is a present remedy All these infirmities are cured by the fift Medicine following All sore eies The haw in the eie The pinne in the eie The web in the eye The fift Medicine First you shall let the horse blood in the temple veines and cut out the hawes if they offend him which euery ordinary Smith can doe then take an egge and open it in the crowne and put out halfe the white then fill it vp againe with salt and then roste it in the hot embers so long and so hard that you may beat it to a fine powder which done dissolue some of that powder in a spoonefull of the water of eiebright and a spoonefull of the iuyce of house-leeke with the same wash the beasts eye twice or thrice a day it is a present remedie All these infirmities are cured by the sixt medicine following The worme in the tayle The generall scabbe The party colour scab The Itch or scurse The byting of a mad dogge The byting with venemous beasts All lyce or tickes All prickes with thornes or stubbes To be shrewe-runne The sixt medicine You shall first make a strong lye with old vrine and the ashes of ash-wood then take a pynte of this lye and adde to it of tarre o● blacke sope of coperas of boares grease of brimston of peper of staues-aker and of plantaine of each a like quantity as much as will bring the lye to a thicke and stiiffe salue then with the same annoynt all the sore places but in case the beast be shrew runne onely and haue no other infirmity then you shall take a bramble which groweth at both ends and with the same beate all ouer the body of the beast and if you can conueniently you shall also drawe his whole body vnder a bramble which groweth at both ends as aforesayd All these infirmities are cured by the seuenth medicine following All staines whatsoeuer All sorenes in the sinewes All stifnes in the neck The goute All broken bones Al grieues in the houes The foule The seauenth medicine Take mallowes chikweede and galling-gall and boyle them in vrine butter burgundy pitch tallow and linseed oyle till they be so soft that you may beat them to a salue which done apply that salue to the grieued place very hot either as an oyntment or as a pultus and it is a present remedy as hath bene often proued The fourth poynt How to cure all the diseases in Sheep with six medicines onely The Caracter or nature of the Sheepe SHeepe are naturally of a hot disposition weake tender yet so free from gredines that they will liue of lesse foode then any other beast of their bignes they are of a most singular profit and esteeme as hauing in them not about them any thing which is not of some good vse the worst of which are their houes and yet the very treading of them vpon the ground are a good manuring and inriching of the same as for their fleeces their flesh and other intralls who knowes not the excellent goodnes thereof The Rams and Ewes are fit for generation from two yeares of age till they be ten and after that they are onely for the shambles the Ewes carrie their lambes in their bodyes a hundred and fifty dayes and no longer according to common computation Sheepe in our Iland of great Brittaine which is