asunder let his feete be bounde and let the sayde holder set both his knees on the corde nigh vnto his legges and so cut him gently and annoynt his flankes with some freshe greace then rubbe his raines with colde water mixt with salt and he shall doe well Against hide bound in Oxe or Cowe TAke a penniewoorth of good treacle a penniewoorth of long pepper as muche of graines beate them into a fine powder and mixe them with the treakle then take a handful of horehound chopt smal with the powder of lycoras thē mixe altogether and boyle them in a pynt of good veriuyce and so warme it and giue on morninges vnto your beastes and this will helpe Another take and stampe the leaues of flouredeluce then straine it with good ale and so giue it warme A medicine for all manner of griefes in cattell TAke a pennieworth of treakle a handful of hempe seed a portion of yuie leaues and of ealder leaues of fetherfew as much as a tenniceball of lome and so muche bay salte Put thereto of chamberlye and a little soote then stirre these all well together and make it warme and so giue to eache beast thrée good spoonefull thereof and last before they goe from your hand ye shall giue to ech beast a little tarre some doe giue them in drinke the dried floures of woorme wood mixt with some salt Thus they vse their sheepe and other cattell against all diseases it is commended to asswage any paine in cattell or to driue away any hurtfull disease in thē either head or bodie Against any beast bitten or venomed IF any beast bee venomed or bitten in any outwarde place as the legges vdderne or pappes or many other outward place ye shall take a rotten egge and mixe it with foote and some bay salt then beate them wel together and plaister or annoynt the venoumed place with a cloute a stricke and it will helpe Wel proued A proued drinke for a beast oxe or cow that hath the rotte in his body or do not like TAke a handfull of sage another of mercurie another of tansie and halfe so much of carduus benedictus choppe them all small together and then séeth them in a quarte of ale with a pint of veriuice and some licoris séeth it till the halfe be wasted Then take it of the fire and put therein a quantitie of the powder of long pepper and powder of baies and a péece of butter and being luke warme so giue it with a dish to the beast but first plucke forth his tongue and so youre it into his mouth in holding still vp his head till al be giuen then rub his mouth aboue and tongue with some bay salt and rub his backe with salte likewise and hee shall do wel but let him not eate or drink the night before this drink is giuen nor let him not eate nor drinke of three houres after this drinke is giuen Signes when a beast oft belcheth THe cause when a beast doth belch or breake wind oft vpward is a sign of crudity or raw humors in his stomach vndigested with a noise in his guttes no stomach or tast shrinking finewes his eies heauy not chewing his quide nor licke him with his tongue These remedies are take ix pintes of warme water boile a little therein xxx branches or stalkes of colewoorts with some vinegar so giue it to the beast and all that day let him receiue nothing but the same Some do keepe him in the stall and not to pasture abroad till he haue taken the buds or braunches of lentiscus wild oliue trées foure pound mixt and beat with a pound of hony putting thereto iiii pints of water then set it a night in the aire then with a horne put it downe his throat and a-about one houre after giue him to eate iiii pound of orobe orobe or steped tine tares giue him no drinke vse this three daies till the grease be taken away If this helpe him not his belly is inflamed and great paine in his entrailes and guts that he scautly may feed but grone and complaine nor tarry long in a place but ly downe often wagging his taile and his head This is a present remedy Bind his tayle next his rumpe and giue him a quart of strong wine or ale with a quantitie of oyle and then druie him a thousand or fiue hundred paces If then the paine depart not pare all about the hornes of his feete and annoint your handes and so rake him and so chafe him after If it profit not giue him drie figges of a wild figge tree with ix times so much warme water If this yet helpe not take ii pound of the leaues of wild myntes mixt with iii. quarts of warme water and so giue it him with a horne and let him bloud vnder the taile after well bléeding stop it with the barke of some trée then make him run till his tongue hang out but before yee let him bloud giue him this medicine take iii. ounces of beaten garlicke mixt with a pint of wine or strong ale or somwhat more and on this drinke chafe him and make him runne Some do take ii ounces of salt with x. onions and mixe all with some sod hony and so they put it into his belly so they chafe and make him run after and he shall do well To helpe cattell that be sicke and will not eate in pasture TAke horehound camamile betony cinkefoile and peniryall and agrimonie of each a like bruse them and boyle them in a quart of good ale till the halfe with a brused stick of licoras then straine and put to iii. peniwoorth of good treacle sturre it wel together and giue it fasting and walk your beastes a good while after and they shall doo well Often proued To know if oxe or cow be sound or whole of body YE shall gripe or pinch him with your hand on the backe or wythers behind the fore shoulder if he be sound he wil not shrinke but if he be not sound he will then shrinke with his backe and be ready to fall Oft proued Against the bloud in beastes SOme cattell are troubled with the bloud in their backes which will make him to go as he drew his head aside or after him the cure Ye shall slit the length of two iointes vnder his tayle and so let him bléede well if hee do bleed to much ye shal knit his taile next the bodie and then bind vnto it salt and nettles brused and it will do well If an oxe pisse bloud Against pissing of bloud ye shall keepe him from water 24. houres and they giue him a dish fullof the curdes of rennet in a quart of milke and let him not drinke of iiii houres after Against the sickenes of the lunges THe sicknes of the lunges is perceiued by rysing vp and shaking of the dewloppe Ye shall helpe him by fettering after this sorte Take bearefoote and beaten garlicke and wrap
him forth to some place to make him swim Then do nourish him well after for a time and hee shall doo well If your horse is troubled with choller his belly wil swell and wil be hot nor he cannot then vent beneath and then ye must rake him with your hand and clense the naturall conduits which are stopt and take forth his dung and ye shall giue him sauin stauesaker and salt boild and mixt together in putting to a little honie and minister it in at his tuel like a glister or suppositorie which will moue and purge forth al the choller Some do beat iii. ownces of mirre with iii. pintes of wine and giues it with a horne and to chafe and rub his tuell with tarre and olde grease Other do wash his belly with falte water of the sea or water and salte As for other purgations they do commonly giue in powders and pilles which must be giuen with good discretion according to ech disease his medicine Which ye shal vnderstand more thereof at large in M. Blundeuils booke for horses howe and when to purge them therefore I here passe it ouer Against the bots or wormes in the guts when the horse is troubled therewith the signes are he will oft wallow and lye downe for paine and rise sodainly againe Also hee will bow his head towards his side or bellie and stampe with his feete and friske with his taile often the next remedy is put your hand into his tuell and drawe forth his dung and wash his belly with sea water or strong salted water and caste in his throate three ownces of the rootes of capers beaten with halfe so much vinegar and that will kill all wormes and bottes Some take hot embers and put it in running water then strayne it and giue it warme with a horne and walks him after halfe an houre and tyes him vp with the bridle and others take fenegreke and baies licoras and turmericke of ech a halfepeny worth of anniseséeds a penyworth with a quantitie of brimstone in powder beat all these smal together and put them in a quart of ale and giue it fasting warme and walke and vse him as before kéepe him warme al that day after or a pint of milke with a sponful of sope Some giue sauin chopt among prouender or a ry shelfe or the fine powder of brimstone in warme milke some other do let them bloud fasting in the ruffe of his mouth and that is the best for a mare that is with fole and to let her bloud often and to giue her a little prouender after for if ye should giue her stronger thinges it were dangerous for the colt except it were strong and nigh her time some do giue them mans dung hot and annoints the bridle therewith and chafes him thereon and maluesy also is good fasting for the cough newly taken they take lentile pease clean made dride and beat to powder and put thereof in warme water and so giuen a pint Use him thus thrée daies and giue him grasse and tender branches of hearbes For an old cough they heale with vi ounces of the iuice of léekes mixt with a pound of oyle oliue and so giue it with a horne and giue him grasse to eat after and to annoint his griefe with vinegar oyle mixt together If it helpe not then chafe him sometimes with sal niter allum mixt together with a fether of ech 〈◊〉 like with some vinegar If there be pushes or blisters on his body ye shal frote them so hard in the sunne that they bléed they mixe of the roote of iuie with so much brimstone of tar and allum put al together and therewith heale it For the cough some say take a hedgehog cast him into an ouen dry him to powder and alway mixe of that powder with his prouender which wil helpe at length any cough Or to take a handful of boxe leaues smal chopt and mixe it with a peck of ground malt and séeth it in a gallō or two of faire water and let the horse drinke thereof milke warme and giue him white water for two or three daies after or a handfull of groundsell small shred with the powder of licoras and anniseséedes of ech a quantity and so giue it warme in a quart of ale then ride him softly after and keepe him warme for two or thrée daies after To heale al sores or other chasinges on horses in any part of his body they do vse to wash them with warme water and then to rub and chafe them with grease and salt melted together so long till the matter ripe and issue out such sores oftimes do kill horses if there be not in the beginning some remedy found Some do annoynt them with oyle of Cedar or of Lentyles or with nettle séedes mixt with sallet oyle or the oyle of a whale or the dropping of salte tunny and chiefely the grease of a seale fish But if the sores be old ye must haue stronger thinges as to boyle of betony hearbe and brimstone powder of ellebory of pitch with as much old grease and with this they do heale all old sores in racing them first with a sharpe yron and then to wash them with pisse and so to annoint And sometime if it bee festred to cutte it to the quicke and then to drawe it with medicines as shall be made with tarre and oyle or such like which will clenes and fill agayne the place and when the haire shal be full againe and closed full with haire then it shall be good to chafe the place with soote of a cawdrone and butter and to heale a nauelgall or sore backe take soote of a chimney and yest mixt together and plaister it therwith which wil heale without any other thing in shifting it once a daye For rising of the skinne or raysing thereof Take two great onyons and boyle them in water with hounds tongue hearb then being hot take a pound of salt and mixe it with strong vinegar putting therein the yeolke of an egge then mixe all together and rub the place therewith and ye shall see the experience And for his backe that is chopt and swolne ye shall first wash him with pisse hot then annoint him with fresh butter and lay theron a little hay wet in cold water and so clap your saddle thereon and let him rest so al that night or annoint it with butter then put on the wette hay and your saddle Some clap these to hot horse dung then the saddle but take the groundes of ale or beere and boyle it wel with mallowes and clap it hot but if the skinne be through chaft so that it do water and is very moist yee shall haue ready in a bagge filde with the powder of bryer leaues finely beaten and put a little of that thereon and it will drie it by the morning ond it will heale it also without other thing Also for
those cold herbes it may mittigate the heate of y◠potion The cure is hard if it haue gone-long then shall yee take of these herbes following that is of Venus or mayden haire of flouredeluce of ash buds and leaues of lycoras of cardamomum of pepper of byting almōds of burrach of ech 2. drams of nettle seeds of aristolochy of ech 2. drams of lycor as half a dram of pitch of Coloquintida 2. drams moūting in al to the quantity of two poūd let this portion be giuē vnto him 3. times or more if he wyl and ye may put vnto it the water that lycoras haue byn sodde in Then if this disease doe yet remayne ye shall heale him with this medicyne except it haue long growne this wil heale him Notwithstanding there may be diuers remedyes giuen to helpe for a tune as by drinkes in helping his guts also in slitting his nostryls to take wynd which perhaps may be a helpe to continue long and to giue him a litle boyled wheat for thrée dayes space But first ye shal let him drink of y◠water where in al these herbs haue layn a night before thē giue it a boile and let him drinke it milk warm in taking out al the herbs cleane with a strayner as of paunces longwoorte maidenhayre y◠crops of nettles Carduus benedictus herb fluellin the roots of dragons bruised the roots of elecāpane bruised of water hemp of peniryall of light wort herb Angelica of ech of these a good hādful or so many as ye may haue of thē bruise lay thē al night in 2. or 3. gallons of water giue it a boyle in the morning and let him drinke thereof mylke warme so much as he wil. Then giue him of the wheat boiled vse him thus fiue or sixe daies keep him in a close and coole place after let him haue grasse this will helpe him if there be any recouery this is good also for any dry cough Also it shal be good to giue hym water sod with lycoras and mirt with some wine and let y◠be his only drinke for nine or ten dayes after Thus much for the brokē wynded horse The glāders is an yl disease taken by a heat a sodain cold and appeareth at his nostrils to haue kyrnels vnder hys iowles which wil payne him sore to eate and at length wil run at his nostryls The remedy is take heat horse doung pisse and clap it vnder to his iawes and so perhaps it maye go away againe If not the remedye is seeth a handfull of pylde garlicke in mylk and put a peece of butter therto and some ale then stirre altogether and giue it him fasting and ryde him softly a while after and then set hym vp and keepe him warme the space of nine dayes if yee can and giue him warme water and he shall do wel Another take an ounce and a halfe of the powder of elecampanie and put it in a quart of ale and giue it him warme and vse him as before Another put 2. or 3. roasted and peeled onyons into hot seething milk with a quātity of beatē garlick and put it into the mylke then stirre it wel but first put into the milke a little oatmeale and then the other and make it not thick and put in too or thrée spoonful of hony and stir it altogether and giue it blood warme and kéepe him fasting al the night before after this drinke walke him awhile and set him vp warm and giue him meate The mourning of the chine is a sorenes doubtful to cure and is taken by sore trauel and then a sodaine colde which disease is vncurable For as a French man saith To heale the moruning of chine Is hard to find any medicine It wil appeare at his nose like the Oake water blacke or as it were soote and water mixed together more blacker than the glaunders If ye wil knowe further herein reade Maister Blundefield his book of horses there yée shal see it written at large The strangurion is a griefe easte to heale it cōmeth by chafing a hot sweat then hee taketh colde wherin he wil be very sick whervpon wil arise swellings in diuers places about his head with kyrnels on both sides his necke within néere stopping his wind seantly able to swallow his meate and holding his head outright which is manifest y◠the inflāmation is within the throat somtime therwith the throat is swoln so the he hardly taketh his breath neither cā eate nor drink Which cōmeth of cold humors frg the head The cure Let him blood on the neck vayn if his age wil permit then make a ryping plaister of mallows linséed rue smalledge ground yuy boyle al these together put to oyle of bay with a quantity of Dia althea then take it frō the fire therwith make your playster lay it to let him drink warm water mixt with meale or lay a plaister of bran stéeped in wine vnto his throat to rype it when it is rype launce it so tent it and kéepe him warme and annoynt often that place of his neck with butter til he be whole The haw in the eie of a horse is a litle whit hard gristle in the inner corner of the eye it wil grow and couer half his eye it commeth by a grosse matter from the head if it be not cut out in tyme it wil at length haue out his eys and some horse hauing one wil soone haue another The cure Ye shal take vp his eye lydde with a stéele néedle as is aforesayd wash or spurt in some drinke after The Frounce is a disease soon cured and they are smal pymples or wartes in the middes of the pallet of his mouth aboue and they are soft and they will let him to eate his meate and they come by eating of frozen grasse or by drawing frozen dust with the grasse in their mouthes The remedy is they doe but cut them or burne them and then washe them with wine and salt or ale and salt and so they will goe away A splint is the least sorenesse that is and alway doeth continue Many seemes to mend it and they payre it it is as wel on the outside of the legges as on the inside sometimes they wil be as bigge as your fingers which comes by trauelling too young or by too heauie burdens or by sodayne starting and strayning his sine wes The cure Some do heale it by rubbing it with a hazel stick made crosse with nicks therwith rubs the splint al ouer crosse And others do shaue of al the haire with a stick cut checkerwise then layes tarre theron and rubbes therewith twise a day all on the splint til it be cleane gone Some do say to burne is the best but if he be not wel healed he may halt continually after Also some doe clippe or shaue the
and let him so lie and so he shal be constrained through hunger and thirst to leaue his wearie slothfulnesse which doe seldome happe Also yee shall not yoke together two beastes of vnequall strength and stature for the weaker shal stil haue the worse Againe those beastes are best to labour that passe on the way without feare of shadowes dogges waters or any other thing they sée or heare and those beastes also that eate much and slow in chewing for they digest better and doe keepe their force vertue without waxing leane or feeble more than those which are hastie féeders Also this is counted a great faulte in some kéepers of oxen which will haue his oxe rather fat than leane wherefore to labour the body of a trauailing oxe or other ought to be in a meane or good state rather than fatte hauing his muskels or nerfes strongly made not charged with fatte which will but gréeue them to labour when they are so Thus I will leaue off their gouernment and speake hereafter of diseases as if an oxe haue water in his belly ye shal giue him the iuice of hempe leaues mixt with water to drinke or the leaues of Elder stampt with ale or béere doe purge by seege or the roote sodde in olde wine or ale and giuen is good to voyde water out of the maw and bellie The remedies for certaine diseases in oxen kine and other caâ—tell IT shal be smal profitto the husbandman to giue his beast meate and knowe not howe to belye and kéepe them in health and strength Therefore our auncients did vse to giue them quarterly of Lupin peason with the seedes of Cypres by euen portion beaten together and then stéeped all one night in water and set in the open aire which did vse them so to kéepe them safe from sicknesse Also oft times cattell wil haue a sicknesse which will make them desire to vomite and caught with pouertie the which ye shall helpe by throwing into his throate fasting a raw henne egge shell all whole Then on the morrow take bruised Ramsons with the stalkes and mixe it with wine or ale and giue it or of common garlike put into his eares This is not one thing alone to helpe them but there is diuerse others as to mixe salt with their meate And some do giue them of mugwoort with oyle or wine to drinke Others doe giue them the rootes of léekes beaten with wine or the séedes of firre trée or frankincense trée and also the séedes of sauin or rewe to make them drinke it with wine or ale and some doe giue them the herbe called in English white Colleuer in Latine Drostis mixed with bitter fitches So 〈…〉 do giue them a little of a serpents skinne beaten with wine They doe vse also to beate wilde time or sauorie in swéete wine and so giues it which is counted very good for them Likewise the sea Onion called Squilla in Latine to be cut smal and soaked in water and giuen to swallowe it All these or euery of them when they are ministred ought to be giuen and ministred thrée daies together a pint or more at once to a beast which wil purge their belly and take away the diseases and also doth renewe them vnto strength and health againe And among all medicines the lees of oliues to be giuen is a singular good medicine mixt with asmuch water as lees Wherefore it shal not be ill to accustome your cattle thus yee shal first sprinckle therewith gently their meate and then put a little thereof into their water and at length yée maie mixe in their water a more portion thereof and so giue it vnto them and likewise among their meate so thus ye may vse to keepe the continually in health as they did vse them in time past The causes of pestilence in Cattell THe causes of pestilence one thing is the chafing of cattel wherefore yée must not chafe your cattel muche in labour specially in the sommer for that doth besides bring vnto them the fluxe of the belly or els an ague Also ye shal neither let hogges or hennes to enter into their stawles for their doung being mixt with your cattelles meate wil bréed a pestilence at length and kil them And specially the douÌ„g of hogges doth bréede a murren among cattel the sooner in eating thereof if remedie be not soone had they wil grow to a murren and die thereof The remedies are thése yée must by and by change their laier and to deuide them into manie partes and farre of from thence And also to separate the whole from the sicke for one beast infected will poison all the rest in short time Nowe when ye haue changed them into other partes ye must put them where no other beastes do féede with them to the end they doe not infect others therein and to ouercome this pestilent euill is to giue them medicines therefore thus yée must vse them Ye shall take of wilde carret called in Latine Daucus or wilde Parsenepe or of groundstll or of Angelica rootes or the roote of the sea holly named Eringion in Latin with fennell seede and sprinckle it with sodde wine and fine wheaten meale with hot water mixe them so together and giue your sicke cattell drinke thereof then soone after yee shall make a drinke of Cacia mirre and Franckincense in like portion mixt with as much blood of the sea Tortu if ye can then put all together in a quart of old wine and then squirt it into their nostrilles Yee must minister this medicine thrée daies together euerie daie a thirde part Wee haue saith he found also a méete short medicine and a good which is the roote called in Latine Consiligo in French Pomele or Patedelion in English I take it to be blacke Elleborie which is verie good for al cattel Which roote ought to be taken after this manner Ye must di 〈…〉 e him out of the earth with your left hand before the sunne doe rise for as they say he is so taken and thereby he hath the more vertue which ye must vse in this sort First yee must bore thorow a circle of holes with an awle or a bodkin of brasse or latin in the flappe or broadest part of the beasts eare But first chip awaie the haire on both sides therof and then bore your holes so done then when ye see the bloud issue forth like a rounde circle ye shall then put into the saide holes of the foresaide roote cut in small peeces And when it is within the flesh holes that beast shall incontinently recouer and were fresh and lustie againe and shall not fall into the daunger of the saide venemous disease For the roote will draw foorth al the venome at the saide holes in his eare Whereby that part of the care will rotte and fall awaie and by the losse thereof the beast shall escape and be saued Cornelius Celsus his counsell is this ye
quarte or more of water with eyght pounde of lentyle pease smally beaten and mixt altogether and so giuen to the beast with a horne Another take the iuice thereof with sallet oyle or the smal rootes thereof beaten with barley meale and so giuen and make him to swallow it Another take the rootes of leekes cleane washed and then beaten with pure wheate and so giuen fasting This doth heale any olde cough Another take of wilde tares out of their huskes then beate them with as much of husked barley and make him for to swallowe it Another Isope also stamped with ale or beere and giuen is good likewise and to giue him no other drink for the space of eight daies but mugwoort boyled in water and so giuen Another take fiue leaues of Asarabacca and stampe it and then strayne it with wine or good ale and so giue it with a horne to the beast Another mixe the powder of light woort which growes among stones or on Okes like a dried turfe nigh the grounde with ale or beere and giue it warme and it wil helpe Also take butter new ale stampt garlicke with dragon water and so giue it the beast warm Wel proued Impostumes in beastes to helpe IF any beast be troubled with an impostume or suche lyke sore the best shal bee to open the place with an yron and when it is cut then shal ye crush foorth al the yll humour and matter therein Then stirre and washe it cleane with the warme vrine of an Oxe So done then vse such thinges as doth cleanse and heale And take Cherpi so called in French mixt with tarre and oyle oliue plaister wise close the sore therwith If ye caÌ„not within wash the sore clean ye shal melt of the tallowe of an Oxe or goate and so powre it into the wound let it run down al about the bottome therof Some sores after they haue applied this medicine they wil gather a fiery heate and a distilling of humor which wil discend vnto that place Therfore to auoyde the same ye shal wash it with old vrine of men and then to annoint it with tarre and old greace mixt Against the impostumation of byles they doe vse to kill them by laying to of leuen mixed with the sea onyon Squilla and some vinegar and they also doe open the sore and washe it with his owne pisse made warme then they tent it with lynt dipped in tarre and in the ende yee shall heale it with tentes dipped in moulten tallowe either of Oxe or goate To heale the closhe or founder in the feete of Cattell THE closhe or foundering in the feete of cattell is taken by some colde after a great heate or by some vehement trauaile which haue stirred the blood so that it goeth downe to the feet like the founder of a horse When this do happen in cattel it wil sodaine visite the hoofe of the beast and yee shall feele it hoat and payneth the beast so that hee will not suffer you for to crushe the place But when the bloud resteth in the legges aboue the hoofe yee shall but chafe him often and rubbe him harde to make the bloud retyre agayne If that profite not yee must launce his feete gentlie rounde on the edge of his hoofes with smal rases not deepe But if the bloud bee gone downe into the hoofe yee must open then a little with a sharpe knife in the middes vnder both the clawes Then laye a tent thereto of lynt mixt with salt nettles and vinegar and make him a buskin of broome if yee can for that is more holesome and let not his feete come in anie water till hée bee whole but keepe him drie in the stall And looke also that the bloud doe issue when ye doe cut him for if then he doe not bleede it will growe to some putrifaction and so to impostumation and then it wil bee long in healing Therefore yee must open and cleanse it wel and bind thereto clothes stâ—eped in vinegar salt and oyle and in the ende take of olde greace and Deere suet melted together in like portion and heale it therewith If the bloud doe fal to the outmost partes of the clees yee must then pare the endes thereof to the quicke and so let them bleede But see that yee open the clees in the middes of the endes so that no impostumation be there and they wil doe wel For sinewes stiffe and shrinking IF an Oxe or other beast doe closh or hault thorow the stifnesse of the sinewes and nerfes ye shal chafe his legges knees and hammes with salt and oile mixt til they be wel If the sinewes be stiffe about the knees ye must then bathe him with hoate vinegar or with mistleto sodde in running water or with millet which is a graine like tares and lyne seed and in al issues ye must scarifie and race the greened place and then to put thereon of fresh butter washed in water and vinegar and in the end annoynt it with salt butter mixed with Goates suet Also to boyle southernwood in sallet oyle or neats feete oile and so doe annoynt therewith Another the iuice of priuet mixt with oyle therwith annoynt Another mustard seed boyld in oile annoint the sinewes therwith Another take of barlie meale sallet oile rue salt coriaÌ„der staÌ„p al these together so plaistred on wil comfort both sinewes nerfes Another take water the cabbage or colewortts haue byn sodde in to bathe therwith is very good Another take lyneseede and barley meale and mixe them wel together and then playstred to is good to molifie and make soft all hardnes of the sinewes nerfes and iointes Another take the rootes of Saturian stampe them and mixe them with shéepes milke and then plaistred wil supple the sinewes pretily Also horehound beaten with oyle and vinegar and then plaistred to doth the like supple the sinews and nerfes Some do say take yarrow and barrow hogges grease and beate them well together and then laid too will knit sinewes together being cut asonder Against the swelling of the knees of cattell IF the knees of Oxe or Cow or other beast be swolne yee shall first bath him in white vinegar Then take vinegar lineseed and millet and sprinckle it with honyed water so mixe them and bind that to his knees or els take a spunge kept in water that mistleto is sod in and laye that vnto his knee If there be any inflamation of humor ye shall then lay too leuain and barly meale stéept in warme wine or in honied water boild to ripe it and when it is ripe ye shall launce it with a razor and then hele it with lint salte and oyle as afore is sayd Cornelius Celsus saith the rootes of flowerdeluce or the sée onyon squilla with salte or the iuce of knotgres put into the wound will heale it Also all diseases comenly in the body without wound being new are healed by rubbings
it in butter then cut his dewlop ii inches beneath the sticking place then open it round with your finger or with a sticke on both sides beneath then put in your stuffe ye shal cut your dewlop 4. fingers aboue the bottome therof Then must yee tye a strong threede vnto your stuffe to plucke it vp and down as ye shall sée cause in euery third day and it will rot the sooner If the humour do not rot then change your stuffe and put in newe And he shall do well Against the pantase in a beast IF Oxe or other beast haue the pantase hee will shake much and quiuer in the flankes and pant The cure Ye shall giue him some runnet soote and chamberlye mixt together Against swelling by eating the tine worme YE shall giue him wine salt and treacle For a stroke in eye laye thereunto the iuice of sma 〈…〉 h fennel and the white of an egge The garget or swelling in a beast comes sometimes on the bone of the eyelid which wil be like a botch or bile The cure Cut the skinne round about the eye and againe about that cut another skinne betwixt that and his lippes if it come to his lippes it is vncurable The cure Take wine and salte sod together and wash the place euening and morning till the swelling go away Then scrape of all the scales and filth then annoint the place with narueil andhony boild together and that will both heale and skin it A practise against the murren in cattell TAke the rootes of Angelica the sea thistle mixt with fennell séede take of new wine of wheate flower boile them and so giue it sprinckle the beast also with hot water and he shall recouer When horse bullocke or other beast is sicke Then take bearefoot hearbe for a bullocke they put it in his dewlop for a horse in his breast for swine or shéep through the eare wherein ye shall make a hole with a lattin bodkin and the said roote of bearefoot put through the hole of the eare and to make a perfume take powder of brimstone vnslet lyme garlicke wilde margerum and coriander laid on coales so they may receiue the fume thereof which will heale them Ye shall alwaies haue ready for your cattel fenegreke one pound licoras halfe a pound of graines one pound of turmericke halfe a pound of bay beries a quarter of a pound of long pepper one pound of treacle of Iene one pound of anniseseedes one pound of cummin halfe a pound of madder halfe a pound of orpemint halfe a pound which groweth in many woods Against belching or euill liking in cattell Take pelitor of Spaine hearbe grace fethersue sage horehound of ech like of bay salt three pintes of strong new ale to the value of the rest let all boile together three or foure walmes then strain it and giue to ech beast a good part thereof a mornings fasting warme and then let them not drinke till the after noone If it helpe not he will grone and remoue from place to place Then shall yee binde his taile close or nye the rumpe and giue him a quart of wine mixt with a pint of good sallet oyle Then driue him apace a mile and halfe Then rake him annointing your handes with oyle or grease Wherein some let him bloud vnder the taile nie the rumpe There is a disease in beastes which some husbandes call the tayle To helpe it yee shall feele softly the softest place vnder his tayle and make a slitte theron two inches long open it and laye thereto saite and garlicke stampe and binde it fast thereto with a cloth and it will helpe it For the collicke in the belly of beastes is soone put away in beholding a goose or ducke on the water swimming Against the laske in beastes ye shall helpe him in giuing him the powder of sloes with cold veriuice or water Against the bloudy flixe The cure some do not vse to let them drinke in thrée daies and thrée nightes and then they giue him the stones of grapes and raisons beat in powder two pound with a quart of sower wine fasting so vse theÌ„ If theÌ„ they mend not they vse to burn their forhead through the skin to the bone and cut their eares wash the wounde with oxe pisse till it be whole The cuts are to be heald with oile and pitch het and plaistered If calues haue a laske take swéet milke and put râ—nnet therein so that the calfe maye well drinke thereof luke warme and it will staye it el 〈…〉 e leaues be ill If a bullocke haue the cough ye shall giue him a pint of harly meale with the yelke of an egge and raisings boilde with a pint of white wine then straine it and giue it fasting to the beast Also take graines in powder and mixe it with flower and fride beanes and meale of tares sturre all together and giue it like a mash to the beast Against an old cough take ii pound of Isope steept in iii. pints of water then brused and mixt with flower and so make him to swallow it and after poure the water that the Isope was steept and sod in into his throat If calues haue the cough ye shal beat centory to powder and so giue it with ale If they haue the agâ—â— ye shal perceiue it by the watering of their eies and heauines in their head which they wil hang down And also driueling at their mouth their vaines beating with a great heat ouer all their bodies The cure Let them fast a day and a night the nexte day be times let them bloud vnder the tayle Then within one houre after to giue to them xxx cole woort leaues and stalkes sod with oile water and salt To heale the kibes ye shall cut them forth as nye as yee can and let them bléede wel Then take verdigrease and the yelke of a new laid egge wel beaten and stampt so bind it to the griefe and it will helpe and heale it Ye shall bath them with stale beere or old sod with iuie leaues and so make it with the combs of hony and dride camemile mixt together If oxe or bullockes feet he néere worne ye shall wash theÌ„ with warme oxe pisse then burne a few small brushes and when the flame is done ye shal let the beast stand and walk on the embers a prety while then annoint his hornes with tar and oile mixt with hogs grease In so doing they wil neuer lightly halt after Yf ye wash their féet and then their pasturns and also rub betwéene their clées with swines grease it will auoyde scabbes and such Also scabbes and such lyke is healed and gotten awaye in rubbing and chasing them with stampt garlicke If any vaine be ent and so bléed lay his own dung thereon or els clap to brused nettels and salt and it will stop A common medicine for all diseases in cattell Take the root of the
be lowzy Sheepe also are of lesse stoutnes of nature and wit then other foure footed beasts The thunder feareth sheepe greatly specially if one be alone If thunder happen in the euening or night it is daungerous to make yowes to cast their lambes or if any be alone Therefore it shall bee a good remedy to bring them all into one flocke Acornes are ill for sheepe and make yowes to cast their lambs Some shepheards say to shere sheepe not afore midsomer is good to make them haue a long staple for in hotte weather the wooll of sheepes backes doth grow most In folding of sheepe the opinion of some husbands holde that the pisse of shéepe doth heat helpe and comfort the land as much or rather more then doth their dung therefore some do will their seruants or shepheards to raise all the shéepe in the fold before they let thē forth in winter once euery night and to go about the sides of the fold with a dogge for commonly when as shéepe do sée anie dogge come nie them they will then dung and pisse and when they haue so done ye may let them out of the fold and this order is very good for your lands Against the rot if you feare your shéepe in wet times ye shal put them into a house thrée daies and thrée nights without meat or drinke then giue to euery hundreth one bushel of bran mixt with so much salt laid in troffes hunger will make them to eate it then driue them to the water and let them drinke their fill Then let them be chast with a curre a good space after and put them then into what ground yee will for one quarter and they shall take no hurt then must you take them vp the next quarter and serue them so again Thus must ye vse them iiii times in the yeare in doubtfull times if ye will saue your shéepe from the rot Some shepheards do vse when they feare the rot to take them vp and to giue ech shéepe hee suspecteth a little milke mixt with salt and to set water by them and to kéepe them so for certain daies which is thought a good way to preserue them if they be taken in time Some shepheards do giue his shéep the iuice of elder mixt with honied water or milke giuen warme a little which wil purge water forth of their bodies or iii. drams of the iuice of spurge in a pint of honied water to giue a quantitie thereof Also plantaine sod in water mixt with some milke and giuen do purge water betwixt the flesh and the skinne Thus much concerning the rot and water in shéepe Also if sheepe be chast or driuen a iourney if then they will drinke salte water it is a signe they are sound and wil do wel A good medicine for the stagger in lambs or young sheepe TAke of long pepper of licoras of annises 〈…〉 des of hempséeds and of honie of each a peniworth Then beate all these together then put thereto a pottell full of new milke and sturre the honie and it with the rest all together and thereof giue each lambe or sheepe two sponefuls or somewhat more thereof milke warme And this will saue them for that yeare This must bee giuen in the beginning of May. To helpe sheepe that haue the poxe YE shall pricke the vayne vnder the tayle nigh the rumpe and let them bleede and likewise pricke the vaine vnder the right eye and let them bleed Then take strong vinegar as ye can get and put to so much salte as ye maie make it like a brine and milke warme giue euerye sheepe three good sponefuls thereof Use this twise or thrise betweene two or three daies and it wil helpe But as soone as you shall sée any sheepe infected put him from the rest and then giue him this drinke aforesaid The poxe will commonly begin vnder the brisket and so on the rumpe and then it will meete in short time and so perish For the itch or scabbe in sheepe YE shal boile the hearbe bearefoot in water with the roots of camelion noir which is the great thistle that hath milke and wash the scabby places therewith warme and it will helpe them often proued Cutting or gelding lambs THe age of cutting and gelding of young lambs as some shepheards say is best in the wane of the moone the signe and the houre being good young lambs from three dayes olde till nine dayes olde for then they are young and tender and maye easily be gelt Yet some other do hold it is better cutting of lambs when they are more stronger as of three weekes olde or more But then is more danger in cutting them For if they be then ranke of bloud as some will be more then other some then the bloud often will fall into the codde raines and belly and there it will lye and cause the lambs soone after they are cut to die Therefore put the fine powder of rozen into his codde and that will drie vp the quarie bloud Therefore some do choose out those lambs that bee lustie and fayre and cuts their eares or lets them bloud the daye before Some shuts them in a house the night before without meat and then to cut them Also a good sure way is this ye shall cause one to hold the lambe betwixt his legs or on his lappe and turne the lambe on his backe in holding his foure feete vp right together But if ye shall see blacke spots in his 〈…〉 ankes then cut him not for he will die for he is rank of bloud Then let the cutter take and holde the tippe of the codde in his left hand and with a sharpe knife cutte the top thereof an inch long cleane away Then with his thumbes and his two formost fingers on both handes slippe softely downe the codde ouer the stones to his belly and then with his teeth holeyng the left stone whole in his mouth drawe it softlye forth so longe as the string is So done then drawe foorth the other in like maner Then spytte in the codde ano annoint his flankes on both sides of the codde with fresh grease and so let him or them go But if ye draw the stones rashly as some will not holding downe his cod with their hands as afore said and suffers the lambe to struggle whereby it may soone breake the string of a vaine in drawing the stones which will then gather to lumps of bloud in his belly and codde and thereof die within two or thrée houres after And when ye haue cut them lette them not lye but sturre them vp and downe after for two or three houres For the lambes to rest sodainely after cutting is not good nor yet to bee put forth sodainely in colde windes or wet weather Thus much for the cutting gelding of lambs For a sheepe that hath lost her quide IF a sheep haue lost her quide notwithstanding sheep will eate all the day and cast it
Sommer but chiefly by pouertie in Winter also they say if a cleane bore doe brimme a meazell sow he shal become meazell so like wise a cleane sow being brimde with a mexell Bore she shall likewise become meazel and all those piggs The best time to kil a mezel bore or hog is after the changes of the moone For then the curnils wil shew smallest Also they do feede hogges in some part of this Realme very fatte onely with figge dust of Dates which will feede them in shorte space some doe mixe it with warme water some with whay and some doe seeth it with water and make it thicke like a groute and in other places husbandes doe fatte their hogs whereas scant of feeding is with pease and they reserue in leasing their corne after haruest all the charse darnell and cockell which they seeth in water and make it thicke so feede them therewith Thus yee maie make in 14. daies good bakō of two ynches and more thick of fat Also there is to be noted as some good husbandes saie if ye doe fatte your hogges in a closure abroade without housing it wil be long eare they waxe fatte for when a raine doth come it doeth greatly annoye them and hinder their fatting for if a hogge lye not drie and warme and also quiet he will not bee fatte in a long season Therefore when yee doe intende for to fatte hogges put not past two or three at once together in the stye for when yee put many together one fighteth with another both at meate and in lying which wil hinder their fatting And also to keepe them as darke in the stie as ye can For whē a hog may sée abrode he wil remēber lōg for pasture and is desirous to séeke for wormes and rootes which wil also hinder their feding Thus much here for the feeding ordering or fatting hogs in the sties A good waie to fatte hogges after the maner of Duchland YE shall put your hogges into the house and keepe them hungry at the first Then take the rootes of turnepes boyle them in whay if yee can If not in water and boile therewith of barley and giue them the rootes a fewe at once with sodde barley among And when your hogges are vsed to them they will eate them as fast as other meate and they wil be assoone fatte with them as anie other graine To helpe the garget in a hogge THe garget is a disease commonly among hogs and as some husbandes doe saie it commeth of ranknes of blood and they commonly haue it in winter as wel as in sommer The best remedy is as aforesaide but some doe counsell it best to slit him two ynches long on both sides of his iawes and then open the skinne a litle on both sides the cuttes and then all to rubbe it with bay salt within vnder the skinne and he will doe well againe If then the flies be busie ye shall lay a little of tarre all ouer thereon and he shal doe well All some husbandes do teache to saue hogs from the saide garget they vse to let them blood at Michaelmas and in Aprill on the baine vnder the vpper lippe For that is the chosen place to helpe hogs if they droupe or wax sick To preserue hogges and saue them from being meazell YE shal mixe with their wash or whay in the moneth of Iune Of chamberlye and madder and so giue thereof vnto your hogges and vse it nowe and then once or twice a wéeke it wil preserue them all that Sommer from being mezel which cause I haue shewed afore If a hogge be bitten of a mad dogge YE shall take of strong chamberlie and mixe it with bay salt soote of the chimney and put therein an addle egg or two then beate them with a sticke altogether and make it boyle a little then rub the place that is bit as hoate as yee maie wel suffer for scalding with a sticke a cloute tide on the end therof Use this twise or thrise and he shal do well And this will helpe likewise for other beasts that are bit with any mad dogs The whole footed hogs THere is also a kinde of hogs in diuers places which hath whole clawes not clouen as other hogs be Which kinde is commonly very large of body bigger commonly than other hogs and the husbandman saith they are more fruitfuller than the hogs with clouen féete wil not lightly be mezeld Therfore they are in many places much desired of rather than the other sort There is of them about Winsor Brimming of Sowes IT is not so good as some hogheards saie for any bore to brim or couer a sow in the night time as in the day for they wil not be so large pigs nor yet like so well as those which are gotten in the day The cause of some Rammish pigs YE shal note if that ye put and stall a bore in any stie if ye put in young pigs into the same sty soone after all those pigs wil taste rammish like a Bore pigge to be eaten To kill Magots IF Magots doe bréede in the eares of hogs after the byting of dogs or by any other occasiō of their bodies or likewise any other beast ye shall take but honye and put it in that place and al the magots there wil dye or els auoyde incontinent if they liue Well proued Another for the same IF magots bréede in the eare of a hog or other beast or in any hollow place vnder the skinne ye shal take the iuice of hemlocke and poure it into the hole and they wil die or auoyde and a rotten egge mixed with the saide iuice wil do the like or the egge alone beaten and powred in and the egg addle is good for the ranckline or venom of some dogs tooth after he hath bitten a beast to annoint with the said egge The stagger or staring disease HOgs wil haue a disease called the stare or Stagger he will réele and fall with his hinder legs oft and wil put his head sometimes ouer his trough in eating his meate if he haue not soone helpe he wil pine and die thereof The remedie ye shall sée a harde knobbe in the roofe of his mouth like a blister cut it and let it bleed then take the powder of lome and salt and rubbe it therewith then giue him a little pisse and so he wil amend To shew some order for the taking of Moules FOrsomuch as I haue heeretofore shewed the order and gouernement of hogs I wil not here let passe but somewhat I wil shew of the taking of moules which is a beast that annoyeth the grounds of husbandmen very muche and hauing the property to dig and cast within the grounde as the other hogs on the grounde thereby they may be called a kind of hogs which may be eaten also These kind be so hurtful to groundes that they will in short space deface and spoyle any
if there be not speedy remedy he dieth which remedie is ye must pricke the vayne vnder his tongue as is afore mentioned and he shall do well Against the venomed tongue of a beast and also his bodie THe tongue of an oxe or bullocke sometimes shall be swolne and venomed by eating of some venemous grasse or such like and then he wil commonly gape eate no meate but stand holding downe his head and mourne The remedy is ye shal bruise a white onyon and mixe it with a little good vinegre then giue it him and make him to swallowe it downe But first rubbe his mouth and tongue with all wel and then giue it him So done ye shal pashe a whole egge into his mouth shell and all and make him so to swallow it downe and then he wil recouer and doe well againe Sometimes a beast wil be swolne all his bodie by eating some euill thing and venemous among their grasse as the â—eld spider frogges snailes eftes or colde hearbes as poppie dwale hemlocke and such which wil make them swel The remedies are Take of the iuice of plantaine with the iuyce of wilde carrets by euen portion and giue the beast therof with a little vinegar Also the iuyce of inugwort mixt with ale or béere and giue it Likewise the iuyce of cleuers or goose grease stampt and straind and giuen is a special remedy against venom of the field spider and others also Againe the garden tanzy stampt and straind and giuen with wine Also the séed of the great Cowthistle dried and made into powder and giuen with wine or the roote therof boilde in wine and giuen Likewise the leaues of annisestedes boild in water and giuen Againe the séede of rocket beaten and giuen wish ale or a handfull of betony leaues stampt and straind with ale and beere and giuen Likewise doth garlicke beeing stamped together with Ale or Déere and giuen with ale Any of these are good alone to be giuen to a beast when he is swolne by eating of any venemous thing And if ye do take of some hearbes 2. parts together it wil then be the stronger and take more effect but my counsel is vse them with discretion euen as yée shall see cause Against the swelling in a beast by eating of a Tyne worme IF anie Oxe or other beast haue eaten anie tineworme which is a small redde worme rounde and ful of legges much like a hogge lowse Which worme in Sommer wil be créeping among the grasse If anie beast haue eaten such it wil poyson hym and he wil sodainly swel thereof so that within foure twenty houres if he be not remedied he wil die therof One remedy is ye shal take a quantity of stale put there in a quantity of falfe 〈…〉 e them well together and so giue it him and so soone as ye can chafe him after till he do stowar for when they do stowar they lightly shall do well Another Take a good handful of hearbe Robart which smels like a foxe Choppe it small and bruse it well and then mixe it with good ale or béere and so giue it your beast Another Take of the earth of Ant hils and mixe it with vineger and so giue it to your beast Those are all good against the foresaid venom of the tine worme Against Costiuenes in cattell THere is also another kind of swelling in oxen and kine both through costinenes which is when they are so hard bound in their bodies through heate that they cannot dung which will cause them to swell The remedy is to chafe and driue him well vp and downe a good space if then he do not dung ye must then annoint your hand with oyle or grease then rake him and take forth his dung Some do giue him of the 〈…〉 in drinke and so doth well Yet others do but rake him and he doth well also Against the worme in a beastes taile THere wil bréede in the tayle of cattel a certaine worme like to a eating canker which will bréede in the ende of his taile which wil cause the beast to become leane and of il liking Which place yee shal féele to be somewhat soft and a little aboue that place on the inside of his taile ye shal slitte the skinne with a sharpe knife two ynches long downe-right so done then take a quantitie of 〈…〉 uised garlike and safe mixt together and then hinde it fast to that place and let it so remaine till it doe fall away of it selfe and so the beast shal recouer and be well againe For an Oxe or Cow hauing the feuer OXen and kyne both wil sometime haue the Feuer or Ague which is gotten by some colde or other sicknesse The signes are when his eies waxe hollowe and are dropping his heade lumpishe and heauie his mouth foaming and lathering and drawing long his breath with payne and sometimes he will sigh So when yet shall see suche tokens yée maie iudge it to be the feuer The remedie ye shall then kéepe him a daie and a night without meate or drinke Then on the next morning fasting yée shal draw a little blood vnder his tayle Then about one houre after yee shall giue him thirtie small trunchions of Colewoortes sodde in salet oyle and salt fishe water or bryne and make him to swallowe it thus yee must vse him for fiue morninges together fasting and yee shall cast before him the tender braunches of lentile pease or the tender croppes of the Oliue trées or suche or else the tender buddes of the Uine and yée must rubbe or cleanse his lippes and thrise a daie yee must giue him colde water for to drinke and so yee shal keepe him in the stal till hée bée whole and sounde Also the feuer is gotten of labouring oxeÌ„ by great trauel in hoate times and when he hath that ye shal see him hang downe his head his eyes wil inflame and bounce and his bodie wil be hotte out of al order which yee shall feele by touching his skinne Wherefore they vse to let him bloud on the vaine of his forehead or on the vayne of his eare and then they giue him of greene hearbs as lettice and such other cold hearbes and they bathe also his body with white wine and so they giue him colde water to drinke and so he wil amend Against the Cough in Cattell CAttel sometimes wil haue the cough by taking of cold or by greate trauell or by eating some euil thing If the cough in an Oxe be newly taken he may bee wel and soone remedied thereof by a drinke made of water mixt with barley meale Sometimes they vse to giue vnto the beast of stitchwoort smally chopt with husked beanes bruised altogether and so giuen They take also of lentile pease out of their huskes and then bruise them smal and mixe them with thrée pyntes of warme water and giue it with a horne They heale also an old cough with two pound of Isope stéeped in a
and chafings of the flesh and skinne but if they bée olde ye must then cut or burne and to heale them in melting butter or goates suet and powred thereon To heale scabbes or galles in cattell IF your cattell be scabby ye shal take of garlicke and bruse it and therewith rub and chafe all the sores Also against scabbe or gall They take garlicke sauory brimstone powder vinegar and gall nuts beaten with the iuyce of callamint neppe or horehound mixt with soote of the chimney and so annoint therewith And if it grow to some vicer or great sore then to vse and rubbe the place with brused mallowes mixt with white wine and bind thereof to the place Also the great burre leaues beaten with oyle and layde too all these afore mentioned are good And for the galling of the necke with the yoake and if it swell but one side ye shall let him bloud in the eare of that side But if he be chaft in the midst of the necke then let him bloud in both his eares and laye thereto a playster made with the marrow of an oxe mixt with the suet a buck and then melte it all together with some oile and tarre and therewith yee shall heale it And it will do verye well Also if an oxe be gald and brused on his necke a sufficient medicine is this Yee shall first drawe bloud at one of his eares If not Take of the hear be called in latin Auia in french Aus oiseauls beat it with salte and so lay it too aus if it do then aswage the chyne of his necke looke then on which side he hangeth or leaneth his head and let him bloud on the contrarie side hee leaneth on the eare But before ye do this ye shall beat his eare well with a twigge and ye shall see it swell and ryse on the vayne Then launce the sayde vayne and let him bléede well thereat and on the next morning drawe some more bloud thereon and so let him not trauaile of two dayes after On the thirde daye yee maye trauaile hym a lyttle and so by lyttle and lyttle yee maye vse him to his taske and former iourney But if hee be of neyther side galde and yet his necke swolne in the middest thereof Then yée must let him bloud on both his eares and if ye let him not bloud within two dayes after the disease haue taken his necke it will so inflame that the nerfes and sinewes will waxe stiffe and then it will growe to a sore of ingendred bloud for which I haue found a singular good medicine that is yee shall take tarre and the marow in an Oxe bone with the suet of a bucke with olde oyle oliue of ech a like portion Then boyle al together and so vse for to annoynt him when he leaueth his yoake But first ye shall alwaies wash him with the water where he commonly drinketh of and then let it dyre and then annoint him with the said medicine But if all his necke be so inflamed that hee cannot beare his yoake the next remedye is to let him rest and vse to wash his necke with colde water and so rubbe and chafe it with the fome of siluer or litarge Celsus willeth to put on the rest of his necke that is so inflamed the afore said hearbe called Auia For a beast being hide bound THere is a disease in beastes called in Latin Coriago in English hide bound which doth sore torment and grieue a beast This griefe happeneth to a labouring Oxe when he hath béene sore traueiled in labour or sore traueling in traueiling in rayny weather and thereby come to bee hide bound through pouertie Wherefore ye must take héed whē they returne from labor being sore chaft of body and short of breath Some do vse therefore to sprinckle them with wine do cast a péece of the fat of a beast downe his throat but if he haue this disease alreadie it shall be good to séeth bay leaues in ale and to bath him therewith as hote as hee can suffer And sodainely thereupon for to chafe and rubbe hym wyth oyle and wyne mixt together and to plucke and drawe his skinne on both his sides and loose it from his ribbes and it is good to be done in a hote sunny daye that it maye drye and sinke therein Another Some do put too the lées of oliues wyne and grease and annoynt therewith which medycyne they doo vse after they haue done rubbing and chafyng the beast Also if a beast like not and hys skynne doo cleaue to his bones yee shall bathe hym all ouer wyth wyne and oyle olyue myxt together Some do take mallowes boyld in wyne or ale or worte mixt with oile and so bath him therewith Also some do séeth whot graines in ale and so bath and rub him therewith once a day for 3. or 4. daies together and to giue him the water of boylde barly For the itch in cattell TThe itch oft times in cattell may come for lacke of good dressing Also it may be taken of his fellows and it may come by ill water and choler in the vaines If a beast haue an itch ye shal wash and chafe him with his own vrin made warme and mixt with olde salte butter or ye shall annoynt him with oyle rosin and white wine melted together Some do wash it with pisse salte and the iuyce of marigoldes mixt all together Use this and it wil helpe Against the lunges of cattel infected IF the lights or lunges of a beast be infected which is a greuous disease For thereby he will waxe leane and pine away and at length he dries so in his bodie by a common cough whereby at the length it will kill him if he haue no remedie The remedies are ye shall pearce one of his eares with a little bodkin as is afore said for the murren or pestilence and being so perst ye shall put into the saide holes the burnt roote of some hazel tree Then take a quantitie of the iuyce of léekes with so much sallet oyle and mixe it with a pint and halfe of wine and giue it him fasting vse this 9. mornings together and he shal do well Also if the sicknes of the lightes be not sore they do giue him but the iuyce of léekes mixt with swéete wine and they put of the burnt root of hazel into his eare as afore said But ye shall vnderstand if the beast haue continued long therewith he wil then stand much and eate but little and therefore he wil waxe hollow and thinne of bodie and some times he wil cough 20. times in one houre Then he is sore taken and farre gone therewith and very few do recouer if he be not looked vnto Wherefore the best way is yee shall deuide your cattell asunder so many as he hath companied with and then let them bloud a little as aforesaid Also there be many men that can setter them which is to cut the dewlappe before on
in all pointes it wil purge both choller and flegme as wel as the other elder and as some do iudge it is good to be giuen cattel in the time of plague or morren among beasts Likewise ye may take of spurge which giueth like milke take a good handful thereof stampe it and then straine it with a pint or more of water and vinegar in like portion and so giue it this will purge both choller and flegme Also xx or xxx of the séedes therof sed in honied water mixt with a little salt then bruse them and so giue it which doth purge more stronger Another Ye may take a good handful of Centory of the tops leaues and flowers boile it in a quart of ale or béere til a quarter be wasted then straine it and giue it warme this ye may minister at al times if the signe do serue and it will gently purge both choller and flegme but chiefely choller keepe him in the house if it be cold vi houres after Another Ye shall take a handful of the rootes of polypodium which is the ferne that groweth on the oke choppe it smal then bruse it and mixe it with a quart of honied water and so giue it warme In summer ye may take likewise a good handful of the branches and vse it as the other afore said this doth purge both choller and flegme but chiefelye flegme Another Ye shal take a good handful of the crops of broome being gréene then bruse it and put vnto it a pint or more of honied water or strong ale and let it rest so al night then on the morrow straine it and giue it warme If ye wil make it more stronger ye may put into it two drams of the séed made into powder and then it wil work more stronger Another Take of Sene of Alexandria with a peniworth of anniseséedes then boile them in a quart or more of ale till a quarter thereof be wasted then straine it and so giue it warme this doth purge very gētly Also the sene romana y◠is here growing in diuers gardens as at Lambeth house take iii. drams of the séed made into powder with the powder of anniseséede thē mixt with a pint of strong ale so giuen warme and this wil purge more stronger Another Take vi drams of the roote of flourdeluce made into powder and mixe it with a pinte or more of honied water and so giue it warme The more proportion ye giue of al these aforesaid the stronger they will be to worke Wherefore ye must vse them with discretion and as ye shall sée cause for ye may aswell giue too much as to little and as y◠best is when ye do giue them any drinke to purge to kéepe them in winter warme after a day and a night and so they shall do wel God willing The best signes to giue them drinke is Scorpio and pisces To make a stawle or frame to giue your cattell drinkes when ye shall see any cause COlumella saith it shal be very necessarie of good husbands to make a staule or frame to giue your beasts drinke in when ye shal see néed Which ye shall make like vnto those that the ferrours or smithes do vse for shooing of their vngracious horses Which fashion ye shal make thus ye shall first pitch your 4. corner postes fast in the ground and then planke it in the bottome then shall ye planke the sides with foure strong barres of a side well and fast made to the foure corner postes which postes must be at least vii foot hye then crosse those bars on the out sides with iii. crosse barres and let the entrance be foure foote wide so that the beast maye easily enter in and there set with vi bar res behinde So when the beast is in he cannot retyre nor returne on neither side thereof nor yet stirre backward nor forward Also ye must haue two barres before and a strong crosse barre thereon and as they tye their horses with their halters so must ye tye vp their hornes that ye maye giue them drinke more easier thus being tyed his head fast vnto the barre within his feete shall not then straine without the stall but rest within on the plankes And to order him that hee shall not ascende with his bodie yee muste bynde his body downe to the barres to make that yee shall not stirre no waye to hurt him but shall bee at commaundement to receyue the medicine and this order yee may vse for all your great cattel and thereby to kéepe them in health from time to time How to fat an Oxe STephanus saith ye may fat an oxe soon with fetches pease boiled barley or beanes husked and bruised and yee may also fat an oxe wel with hay but not to giue him as ye giue vnto a horse if ye giue him in sommer of the tender braunches of trées it wil refresh him if yee giue an oxe onely akornes it will make him scabbie except the akornes bee dried and mixed with branne or suche like Also an Oxe that ye intend to make fat and so to bargain and sel ye may labour him in faire times once or twice a weeke in gentle groundes and to labour him now and then a little for exercise it wil make him haue a better stomake to his meat and let him eate nothing but barley and hay and sometimes a little herbes or vine branches or other tender branches that he loueth so shal he be in good order Also to fat an oxe yee shal giue him ground beanes dried barley or Elme leaues but specially goyng in the sonne doth make him like well to wash him twise or thrise a wéeke with warme water Also colewoortes to boyle with branne doeth make them haue soluble bellies and it doth nourish as much as doth barley Likewise chaffe mixed with ground beanes is good sometimes your oxen are lesse subiect to diseases thē your horse yet to preserue and kéepe them in health our elders did vse to purge them euery quarter three daies together one with lupin pease another with the graine of Cipres beatē in like quantitie stéeped al one night before in a pint or a pint and a halfe of water and so giuen Others do giue other thinges according to the vse of the countrie Againe if any Oxe doe waxe weake and feeble in labour they do vse to giue him once a moneth of fetches beaten and steeped in water and mixt with beaten branne and to keep an oxe from being weary they doe vse now and then to rub his hornes with turpentine mixt with oyle oliue But see that ye touch no other part of his head but his hornes for if yee so doe it wil at length hurt his sight Also there will be sometimes arising come ouer the heart of an Oxe shewing thereby as though he woulde vomite to helpe the same yee shall rubbe and chafe his mouzell and mouth with brused garlicke or els with
do increase by wette and pouertie and some thinke it doth increase of some venomed humour or by some pricke or bruse or such like It is not grieuous vnto the beast but vnseemely The remedies are they do helpe the running or broade Tetter by searing it rounde about with a hote yron and then to laye Tarre thereon Some doo but laye Tarre onelye thereon and for the long tetter that hangeth downe like a cluster of grapes or bunch They do seare it of with a hot yron and then do tarre it thereon and so it goeth awaye Also they say when the beast doth waxe fat and lusty by grasse it will so weare away by little and little againe for they haue it commonly in winter and not in sommer Another for the same YE shall mixe orpement with tarre and put therto of gray sope al in like quantity and do heat it and then annoint therewith so often as ye shall see cause and this will heale it If the tetters hang long some do knit them about with haire and by such meanes they will so consume and fall away Against faintnes in labouring oxen THose oxen that are laboured all the winter at plough towarde the spring they will waxe faint and poore and full of lice and with small labour they will lye downe Therefore to keepe them still in good plight and lustye ye shall giue them before their watering to euerye Oxe a good handful of barly in the straw and then after let them drink which will alwaies kéepe them lusty and strong And also kembe your oxen with a horse combe or carde it wil delight them the more being fat oxen Yet some will say a fatting oxe must not be touched or rubbed on the backe For a cow lacking milke hauing new calued WHen ye haue a cow that hath newely calued and lacking milke through pouertie to cause her milke to increase yee shall boyle of anniseséedes in good ale or wine then straine it and giue it milke warme Another take a handful of the leaues of the hedge vine called Briony then baile it in ale or wine and straine it and so giue it her Another also the leaues of colewoorts boiled in water or to giue her them raw wil do the like and it is also good against the weathering of a Cowe Another yee shall giue her of sodde barley and Fennel séede sodde together let her eate the same or greene Fennell chopt and mixed with sodde barley and so giuen Also the herbe Nigilromana stampt and strained with ale or wine and so giuen thrée or foure mornings All these are very good approued to increase milke in a Cow To helpe the loue THe loue is a disease which breedes in the clawes of a Beast and comes as some husbands sayes by treading in the doung of Christian folke which burnes them so betwixt their clawes that it will make them to halt To cure ye shall take a roapes end and rubbe and chafe him betwixt the clawes therewith so that ye make it bleede Then annoint it with some tarre and fresh greace and it wil heale soone againe Against goring of a beast IF any beast be gored yee shal take of rosen fresh greace and waxe eche alike then boile them altogether in a pot of earth and then keepe it and when as yee shal haue anie neede to occupie thereof make a tent of linnen or flaxe well annoynted with the saide ointment and so put it downe to the bottome of the wounde and so vse the same and it will soone heale him or powre in the wounde boyling butter For the necke of an Oxe that is swolne TO heale the necke of any Oxe y◠is swolne with yoke or other waies ye shall take tallow and melt it in a potte and as hot as yée may suffer powre it on the swolne place vse this once a day and it will heale him in shorte space without other thing For a spraine or stroke AGainst a spraine or stroke ye shall take of butter black sope and hemlocke herbe with a quantitie of bay salt then bayle them altogether and al to bathe the spraine or stroke therewith as hot as ye may well suffer and it will helpe If it be in the legges yee shall put vnto the thinges aforesaide the grounds of beere or ale and washe it therewith and then wrappe it about with a haire rope dipped in chamberlye and hee shall doe wel To helpe the shoulder bone of anie beast out of ioynt IF the shoulder bone of any beast be out of ioynt yee shall well perceyue it by feeling if lye downe and inwarde towardes his body so that yee may easily put your two fingers betwixt those bones and also hee will still trippe on the same foote To helpe the same ye shall first cast him bynde his other three legges together then make one to drawe foorth that legge straight then put one of your handes on the poynt of his shoulder where the bone went out and put your other hand on the inside next his bodye and thrust vp the bone that is fallen out into his right place agayne iust to the other bone if yee shal see then it be not come home iust and close yee must thrust vp your fist betwixt the sayde shoulder and his body and put it vp more close or else with some trunchion of wood and therewith put it vp more closer Then beeing right and put vp straight and close together ye shal make two woddē pricks of one length and make two holes crosse vnder the skinne iust ouer the middes of the sayde ioynt an ynche and a halfe asunder from both sides of the saide ioynt and put your two prickes crosse there vnder the skinne Then take of whippe corde or strong packthréed and wrap it vnder the saide endes of your prickes rounde and therewith drawe vp the skinne on a lumpe together so done fasten your thréed and let it so remaine till it fall away of it selfe and hee shall doe well agayne if it bee an Oxe yee maye labour him agayne within two dayes after And if the flye bee then buste yee maye annoynt the place with some tarre For the necke being out of ioynt IF the necke of anye beast bee out of ioynt hee will still holde and bowe his head on the contrary side that the bone is out to helpe the same First ye shall feele the bone if ye can that is out so done then ye shall make one to hold streight his head with a halter and let another set his hand on the place where the bone went out and then do you on the other side thrust in the ioynt that is out into his place againe And so lette the beastes heade bee tied to a surcingle to bende on the same side that the bone went out and so let his head be kept for the space of nine daies after till the fleshe haue growne and is fast setled on the ioynt againe For anie other ioynt of a
it therein and so heale-it Another some doe after they haue washed and shauen it race the place with a sharpeknife and they take halfe a dramme of cantaradice with an ounce of Euphorbium made in powder with as much oyle of Bay and mixe them altogether and to lay therof to the sore the space of 2. daies in shifting it eche day once Then after two dayes annoynt it euery daye with freshe Butter to make the haire come againe Some doe fire him on both sides without tainting and so takes vp the maister vayne and so annoynt it with butter nine dayes after vnto the fiered place doe begin to scall and then boyle of sage and of nettles of eyther a handfull with foure handful of mallowes in water and then put too a little butter and there with bathe him euery day once for three or foure daye still the burning be whole let him not wette his feete in this time The wette or soft Spanin groweth likewise on both sides of the hough behynde and is a softe swelling and some do cal it a thorow Spauin and commōly it is greater on the outside than on the inside This will bee alwayes soft and is more easier to be cured and cures it as the harde spauin The curbe is an il sorenes appearing on the great sinew behind vnder the hough or camerell place somewhat beneath the spauin it will swell on the sinewe and after a little labour he will halte thereon and then the more labour the greater griefe And this is gotten by bearing some heauy burthen when as he is young Or by some wrynch or some great straine and that place will shewe bigger then the other The cure is is ill if it remaine long But take a pint of the lyes of wine with two handfull of wheaten flower with a handfull of cummin then mixe them all together ouer the coales and being warme plaister wise laye it to the griefe in changing it for the space of three or foure daies once a day till the swelling do go awaye and then draw it with a hot yron all ouer and then plaister it with pitch and rozen melted together and so clappe it to warme Some lay flockes it on of the horse colour and so plaister it to Let it remaine till it fall of it selfe awaye and keepe his féete drye for nine dayes or more after And he shal do well The paines is an il sorenes and soone healed it bréedeth in the pasturne vnder his fetherlock and will grow to a scabbe full of scalding and fretting water which cometh for lacke of rubbing and cleane keeping in that place after his trauaile and laboure by some durty sand remayning in that place which breedeth a scabbe Therefore looke to your horses that hath long haire in that place for they will soonest haue it The cure Some do wash it with beere and fresh buttes good and warme And first they clyppe awaye all the haire sauing the fetterlocke Then they take hony turpentine and hogges grease in like quantitie in mixing them together with a little Bolarmeniac and two yelkes of egges with so much wheate flower as will thicken it and then plaister wise lay it to and lappe it thereon with some other cloth to keepe it fast and shift it once a daye till it leaue watering Then washe it with pisse till it be dride vp Another Take and chafe his legges with a haye rope till they bléed or waxe rawe Then take a little sharpe mustard beane flower and fresh grease with a little fenigrick mixe all together in a dish and make thereof a salue and therewith annoint his griefes And when that place is drye take hony and the white of an egge and fresh butter temper it together and annoint the saide place therewith Let him stand drie not laboured nor lead to water till hee bée whole Another If they be greene and newe yee shall take but béefe broth and therewith wash him and then annoint it with sope vse this iiii or v. daies and he shal do wel Another Plunge his féete in scalding water twise or thrise and bath the sore with hot scalding water then haue ready a hard rosted egge cleaue it in the midst and clap it to as hot as ye can and let it lye bound all night Use this once or twise and ye may ride him on the next day The scratches is a long scuruines right behind the legge from the fetherlocke vppe to the knée or hough The haire will stare ye may easily perceiue it if ye take vp his legge and shed the haire and ye shall see it scuruie all vnder The cure wash it with mens vrine warme then take black sope mustard and vinegar of ech a like quantitie and mixe therwith of an oxe gall then sturre them well together and chafe and rubbe the place therewith and bind therto a cloth so vse it once a daye till it be whole Then annoint it with neats foot oyle to supple the the sinewes againe Another Take the finest haye ye can and burne it to ashes vpon a faire boord then mixe it with neats foote oyle and make a salue thereof then all to rubbe the sores vntill they bléed almost and then annoint them with the said salue and rope his legges and kéepe them drie in the stable and keepe him so iii. or iiii daies and he shall do wel Another Take turpentine hony and hogs grease with two or thrée yelkes of egges with some powder of bolarmeniac and beane flower mixe all well together in shedding the haire annoint therewith all ouer well to the bottome Use this till he be whole and let him come in no wet This sorenes comes also for lacke of rubbing and kéeping cleane after his trauell The King bone is also an ill sorenesse it will appeare aboue the fore part of the hoofes and some will be round aboue the ioynt the haire will stare and rise on a bunch and there will resort a thicke and a slimy matter it cometh by some blow of some other horse treading or by striking one legge against another in proces of time it will become hard like vnto a bone and it will make him to trippe and halte and yee shall sée it higher then the hoofe if it grow in any other part of the legges then it is calde a knobbe and no ring-bone The cure wash it well with warme water and shaue that place the haire cleane of and race it with a sharpe razor and make it to bléede Then take an ounce of euphorbyum halfe an ounce of cantaradice and beat them in fine powder and take oile of baies an ounce If the griefe bee but smally growne take the halfe of each and boile them all together in sturring it well And with a fether laie it boyling hote on on the sore and stir him not for halfe an houre then let him be in the stable and vse him thus nine daies in ordering him as ye doo for
his féete with branne and hogges grease boylde together and laid to hotte and so with the same couer all his hoofe al ouer and bind it fast on with a cloth in shifting it once a daye till it be whole and giue him warme water and also let him stand warme and drie likewise till he be whole and sound Against the blindnes in horses some horses wil waxe sodainely blind which is gotten diuers waies Hee maye become blinde of a straine or by great labour in carrying a great burthen He may waxe blinde by some stroke in the eye but taken betimes there is remedies The cure If the sight be gone and the ball of the eye sounde yee shall take a quantitie of maye butter with a quantitie of rosemarie and a little yellow rozen with a quantitie of Selandine then stampe all together and frye them with the may butter Then straine it and kéepe it in a close boxe for it is a iewell for the eyes that are sore to haue it alwayes readye And this is good also for all cuttes being neuer so euill and is good for the pinne and the webb in a mans eye Against wéeping eies wash or spurt it with warme white wine twise or thrise a day also seth the white of an egge in water and mixe it with cummin and lay it to all a night or more as ye shall see cause Also ground iuie beaten and mixt with waxe and plaistred to or wormewood sod in wine and bath it oft therewith And when his eye is striken with whip or such like Ye shall open his eye liddes with two nippers of woode made for to hold fast the eye liddes like a paire of barnicles for the horse nose and then to holde them open and with a quill blowe in some beaten salt or sandeuer Yee shall blow in the iuice of the rootes of selandine into his eye or the iuice of the rotes of rue cald of some hearbe grace Also make an hoale in an egge and put forth all that is within it and fill it with pepper and put it in some potte of earth that nothing come vnto it and put it in some potte of earth that nothing come vnto it and put it in a burning ouen till it be white hote Then take it forth and beate that pepper to pouder and blow thereof into the horse eye Another proued Take a peble or pauing stone as the Romanes vsed to paue with and beate it vnto a fine pouder and bolt it thorow a fine cloth and blow of that pouder into the horse eye twise a day till it be whole If ye will make it stronger put the pouder in a new wodden dish and cleanse out all the greatest with your finger and take the finest and that will heale any pin or webbe in horse or man If bloud appeare in the eye ye shall take the white of an egge beate it and lay it to with tow Another The tops of haw thornes boiled in white wine and laide to For a hurt or striken eye ye shall take a small loafe of bread and pull out all the crumme and fill the loafe full of burning coales vntill it be well burnt within Then take of that crust and put it in white wine and put it on the eye Use this often Then take sope water and cold water mixt and wash the eye browes therewith If it go not awaye open the vayne of the head that leades to the. If his eye be rubbed or chaft ye shall let bloud of the eye vaine and wash his eye with colde sope water and put a small splenter on his eye and he will do well And to helpe the red eyes yee shall laye a plaister of red ointment or red lead Or take the iuice of plantaine stampt and mixt with white wine and laid to For sore eies stampe strong nettles and straine that with beere and thereof spurt it into the horse eye twise or thrise together Then put of the powder of sandeuer finelye made into his eye Or blowe thereof into his eye And see that your horse take no wynde or colde of his eye vntill hee bee whole againe If yee must ride him soone after put a cloth afore his eye of woollen It were good to let him bloud on the vayne vnder the eye and then twise dressing will suffice A fistula is an ill sorenes to heale and often times breedeth through gallings and chafing sores which for lacke of looking to betime it groweth to a fistula The cure First search it well with an instrument of lead that maye bowe each waye to the bottome of the wound then finding once the bottome If yee can cutte it out rounde to the bootome with a razor and take it out and feele with your finger if there bee anye fleshe amisse grystle or bone perished If there bee yee must cutte it out Then mixe the powder of verdigrease and honye together and boyle them till that it looke redde and sturre it still for burning to And being luke warme dippe a tent of flaxe therein and tent him therewith and laye a boulster of flaxe thereuppon If that will not abide laye on a plaister of pitch and sowe it fast crosse thereon with a packe threede or other such lyke which yee maye so tye it that yee maye remoue and open it at all times and see that yee chaunge your tent once a daye tyll it leaue mattering and alwaies make your tent lesse and lesse till it bee helde vppe and in the ende sprinkle a little vnslekt lyme thereon to close it vppe But if this will not heale to the bottome to drye vp the matter ye must poure in some stronger water and so vse it twyse a daye till it bee whole Another Take two quartes of white wine vinegar of camphere halfe an ounce of mercurie precipitate halfe an ounce of gréene treacle iii. ounces of red sage a handfull of yarrow and ribwoort of each a handfull of hony halfe a pint of bores grease halfe a pint boile al these together til a quart be wasted and with this ye shal wash and clense the wound Then to heale the same ye shall take oile of roses virgine waxe rozen of each a quantitie of turpentine triuenian v. ounces the gum of iuy of deare suet boile these together and dresse the wound first but with the water vntil it gather to a white matter and then dresse it with your salue til it be whole And for a fistula in the head some do saye Take the iuice of hâ—usléeke and dippe therein a locke of wooll and put it in his eare and binde it fast Use this once a day and ye shall sée experiences Another After ye haue cut out all the rotten flesh bath it well with the groundes of ale made warme and then wipe the bloud cleane awaye Then take butter rozen and frankencense a little and boyle them all together and boyling hotte poure it into the wound vse him
thus once a day and this wil heale it also If there be any inflamation behind the eares or that it grow to any inpostumation in that place ye shall boyle the rootes of mallowes in water till they waxe tender thē bruse them and straine out the water cleane and warme giue it vnto the horse The lampas is a light sorenes to heale it cometh by the aboundance of bloud and is afore in the ruffe of the mouth they will swell and bee so sore that hee cannot eate his meate The cure is Take a hooked knife made very sharpe and made very hot and therwith cut the swoln places in two partes crosse against the téeth but if they bee but smally swolne then cut but the third ranke from the téeth and so let them bleed well then rub it with a little salt and let him go If a horse do pisse bloud it cometh by some sore straine or ouer laden by some heauie burthen or else being too fatte or some vains broken The cure ye shall let him bloud and boyle that bloud with wheat and with powder of dride barke of the pomgarnets then strayne it and giue it hym to drinke three or foure mornings and let hym not trauell thereupon And some do but let him bloud in the pallet or ruffe of the mouth Also others do giue him of husked beanes boilde with the huskes of acornes beat small and mixt therewith Use this as ye shall see cause If a horse haue receiued any venome in his haye or any venemous beast haue bitten him ye shall perceiue by his eyes his head and his bodie will swell and much shake The remedy is to runne him till he sweate then straight waye drawe bloud in the pallet of his mouth and so much as he bleedeth let him swallow it downe hotte If he bite of adder or snake yee shall take a liue cocke and cleane him in the middest and all hotte clappe it to the wound Some take but a pigin and open her and clappe it to and thereupon giue him drinke made with a pinte of strong wine and some salte Or take the roote and leaues and fruit of brionie burnt to ashes and giue vnto the horse a good sponefull thereof in a pint of good wyne Also if the horse haue eaten in his meate anye henne or chicking dung it will cause him to haue the bloudye fluxe or the trenches which is small wormes or a crowling in his bellye or guttes Therefore kéepe poultry out of your stables if ye loue your horses Also puddle or dunghill water is vnholsome for a horse to drynke of Or where geese or ducks do vse For it will corrupt their bloud and breede a plague Therefore if ye can let them drinke litle thereof And against the hen dung and drinking such water yee shall vse to giue them quarterly of the hearbe Angelica and of Smallage made in pouder And giue anounce thereof in a pint of good wine mixt with a litle honyed water Then walke him till his bellyswage or till he make his dung And when soeuer a horse is in danger of the pestilence called Phibula they are preserued by the seperating asunder from that place Which disease commeth diuers waies as by heate and ouermuch labour by hunger And being hote to drinke colde water Or suddaine chafing after long rest which things breede the pestilence It is a disease hard to know but when one dyeth there will soone follow another Then the best is to seperate them And to make them a drinke of bayberies myrre aristolochia and gentian with the shauing of iuorie of each alike made in pouder and giue to each horse a spoonfull thereof in a pinte of wine or ale Use this as yee shall sée cause Or yee may giue them of Triacle in wine or ground iuy in his water and meate The yellowes is an euil sorenes in a horse and it is a kinde of the iaundise gotten by colde His body and eyes will shew yelaow And also his skinne will be yealow In a young horse it is soone had by taking of colde after a heate Or it may come by stopping of the bladder or gall or his liuer enflamed And likewise a horse getteth the blacke iaundise if blacke choller abound in his bodie And then he will not lye but stand The cure Ye shall minister vnto him a glister and rake him and let him bloud on both sides of the necke and of the nose Some doe take saffron and turmericke and mixe them with milke and giues it warme But first let him bloud on the nose or in the roofe of the mouth And then put of the iuice of selandine into his eare and binde it fast and in twelue howers after then ride him a litle and then keepe him warme for two or three dayes after and let him haue white water warme and this disease doth often bréede the staggers The Staggers is an ill sorenes to heale It will make the horse to hold downe his head And also hee will reele to and fro and forsake his meate and this procéedeth of the yellowes and of a corrupt humour in the brayne His sight will bee dimme and hee will bee heauie in going The cure They do let him bloud in the temple vayne and also cut the skinne on the fore toppe and with a bucks horne doth raise it vppe towardes the head three fingers or more deepe Then to melt turpentine and hogges grease together and dippe a tent of flaxe therein and tent it therewith and vse this once a daye till it be whole and make the like issue on his poll behinde and giue him warme mashe and walke him softly once a day Another Ye shall put a sponefull of the iuyce of selandine into one of his eares and so bind it fast and so let him remaine and he shall mend Another Put a little of white salte into his eare and then put in after a sponefull or two of fayre water and then knit fast his eare that hee cannot cast it out This is a vsed medicine for this disease and a most certaine helpe If anye horse chaunce to bee gorde with a stake or otherwise yee shall take and cast him and open the wounde as much as yee maye Then take fresh butter and boyle it ouer the fyer and boylyng hot poure thereof into the wounde and make it runne to the bottome of the wounde if yee can and let him so lye that it maye go to the bottome And then lette him rest till the next morning and vse him so once a day till hee bée whole For this will heale him without anye other thing To cast a horse or other beast yee shall binde firste his head with a strong halter vnto some post or tree then Englishe saffron alike Some of these or so manye as yee shall thinke good made in fine powder and mixed with ale and giuen warme in vsing as afore is mentioned Coltes are oft payned
first let him blood on both temple vaines of the eyes on both sides The mault woorme is an il sorenesse on the foote aboue the hoofe which wil breake out in knobs and bunches with a watry humour The cure If it be in sommer take blacke snailes and burre rootes then beate them togither and laie it thereto And if it be winter take scrapings of a pannes bottome or cawdron and put thereto a handful of the greene or inner pils of elder and beat them togither then laie of that to and it wil heale it For the cratches wash it wel first with warme pisse of men then dry it with a cloth and clip away al the haires on the scabbes then rub and chafe it al ouer and make his féete fast and rub it al ouer with tarre and butter boyled scalding hotte with a clout tide on a stickes ende and bathe it wel therewith Use this til it bee whole once or twise a day Against the inflaming of the coddes boyle grunsel in wine and vinegar and so bathe him therewith or els ryde him into a riuer Against pricking in the foote to the quicke so that he doe halt The remedie bruise a handfull of red Nettles then take black Sope and vinegre of each a spoonefull and thrise so much of Boores grease or els of salt Bakon Then beate them all well togither and stop the sore therewith and it wil not then rot no further but heale though ye labour him there on Against a loose hoofe take thrée spoonefuls of Tarre and a quarter of a pound of Rosin Of Tansey Rew Sothernwood Mynt of each halfe a handfull beate them altogither and put halfe a pound of Butter therto with a peny weight of virgine Waxe and frie it thicke altogither and plaister it on a linnen cloth to the hoofe vii or viii daies and it will be fast againe If any cart Horse or other fall to be blinde and may not well sée ye shal doe no more but rubbe two dry tiles togither and take the finest pouder thereof the finer the better and blow thereof with a quil into his eies vse him so twise or thrise and this will helpe Oft prooued The stonde in the foote or pastorne is caught when a Horse stumbleth or falleth or to steppe his foote awry in a hole and so wrench it therwith and stonied in the pastorne The remedie séethe a quart of brine til the fome rise and then straine it and put therto a handfull of tansey asmuch of mallowes with a sawcer full of hony and a quarter of a pound of shéepes tallow stir them all wel on the fire til the hearbes be wel sod and all hot lay it to the ioynt and sow a cloth all ouer and it wil be whole in thrée daies The camery is a sicknes gotten by eating of moist hay that cats and other vermin haue pist on wherby his mouth wil be so sore that he cannot eate The remedie let him blood on two great vaines vnder the toong and then wash it with salt and vinegar and giue him new bread to eate but let it not be hotte and he shal doe wel The trenches are smal woormes with sharpe endes somewhat longer then bottes and bréedes in the guttes by eating mouldie bread or hay or mustie corne The remedy take therfore a quart of cold woort and giue it him to drink but let him stād meatles all a night before after his drink giue him no meate two houres after and he shal doe well For a Horse backe that is swolne take hony and tallow euen portions and boyle them togither Then plaister it on a linnen cloth and laie it on the sore place and let it so sticke on til it be whole and it wil heale it Also another to assinage a swelling is take the vrine of men and boyle haie therein and beeing wel boyled clap the haye on the griefe and kéep it warm and it wil help If a Horse back be swolne and chafte with the saddle and no skin broke wet a litle hay in cold water and clap it on and set the saddle thereon again by and by while he is hote and it wil be wel and the skin wil fall downe againe If a Mare colt bee spaide within nine daies after it is folde shée wil prooue as some haue tride faire gaunt and wel to trauel and labour and also to iourney As for the gelding of Coltes I haue spoken sufficient afore in the booke for ridder bease therefore I wil here let it passe He that wil vnderstand more heereof let him resort vnto those places aforesaid and there shal he perceiue more thereof In the beginning of this disease it shal be necessarie to let him blood on the brisket vaines and pastorne vaines and to féede him with sundry chaunge of meats and in any wise to kéepe him warme clothed and stabled and let him drinke nothing but warme mashes of ground malt giuing him these medecines folowing Take of Wormewood Pensedanum and Centory of each like quantitie sée the them in wine then straine them and powre thereof often times into his right nosthril and ye shal sée a strange experience to cure him In some places husband men doe vse for want of haye to giue them in the winter oftentimes chaffe Of all kindes of chaffe the wheate chaffe is the best and most hartiest but all other chaffe mixt togither as rie wheate barley oates and pease being wel cleansed and giuen with dride beanes or pease is good But before ye mixe your beanes or pease therewith yee must sift out all the dust cleane from your chaffe Or els it wil bréede in your horse the stopping of the reines and bladder and also the cough il blood to increase Of stabling a Horse from grasse WHen ye take him vp from grasse in winter ye shal stable him on a dry day and sée that he be dry taken vp into the house For if he be wet taken vp as some horse maisters saie it wil make him scabby and bréede him ful of lice Also if your horse be stil fedde and standing in the stable without now and then riding or stirde once or twise a wéeke abroad a mile or two if he be not thus vsed he wll wax purcie and be in danger of perishing his wind Therefore to vse to ride him a litle it shal be best once a wéeke at least To pluck forth of the foote stub thorne or yron ye shal take the rootes of réedes mix it with hony or take snailes cald slughes without shels and stamp these al togither with some butter then fry them in a pan so lay that to the place and it wil draw foorth any thing afore said and when it is drawne out ye shal laie theron the white of an egge on tow the space of xii houres after Then take woormewood marieram pimpernel cainomile dride
vnder the toong the two vaines of both sides of the necke which to be launst a handful from the head And likewise on the shalke vaines Also the two great vains on the sides and the two branched vaines that leadeth from the coddes And againe the two vaines vnder his taile these are the chiefe and common places which do serue for to let blood against most diseases And this I thinke here shal be sufficient for letting of blood Against the Glanders THere comes oftentimes vnto yoong horse of foure or fiue yéeres old by catching cold after his labour a kinde of glanders and it wil on a sodeine raise aswelling vnder his iawes and on his iawe bone which swelling at the first wil beverie harde without great heate and there wil remaine and bréede to some other sore if ye helpe it not The cure Ye shall take hogges grease and make it verie hot and so all hot ye shal rub and chafe the sore and hard place therewith twise or thrise a day vse it and that will mollifie it and at length it wil so breake and runne and so heale againe To heale the mangie on a Horse YE shal take of lampe oyle the fine pouder of brimstone of blacke sope of tarre of barrow hogges grease and the soote of a chimney of each a like And then mix them all wel togither and boyle them togither and then annoint the place therewith as hotte as he may suffer it and vse this and it wil helpe Against the mourning of the Chine TAke a pecke or halfe of oates and boyle them in running water til halfe the licour be consumed and then put them into a bagge and laie them all hotte vpon the nauel place on his back and there let it lye thirtie houres and so dresse him therewith thrée or foure times and ye shal sée experience For a Horse that is hide bound WHen a horse is hide bound yée shall perceiue it by plucking vp his skinne on his sides If his skinne bee lose hee is not hide bounde but if it sticke close to his sides or ribbes so that ye can scant take hold thereof then hee is hide bounde which is commonly gotten in winter by lying wet and hauing small store of meate which maketh him verie faint The remedies are yee shall let him bloud a litle and then giue him warme mafhes morning and euening And white water which is water and mault Mixt togither or branne And giue him also sodde wheat mixt with branne or sodde barley Use this as yée shall sée cause and he shal doe wel To plump or puffe vp a leane Horse in short time THe best meanes to puffe vp a leane horse is to sée the barley in water till it be soft like firmitie and thicke withall or to sée the wheate likewise And giue him thereof alwaies before his watering not after for then it wil do him no good For this the husband man saith all dry prouender or corne after watering to be giuen and all sod corne afore watering specially barley and wheate being sod Against anie galling or fretting through the skin of a Horse IF your horse chaunce to bee fretted with halter or other corde cleane through the skin yée shall take but vinegar and sope and heate them wel togither and stirre it with a sticke or cloth and then all to rubbe and wash the said fretting or galling therewith vse this twise or thrise a day and it wil dry it vp within two or thrée daies and it will heale againe For this is the husband mens common medicine and wel prooued If there be galling on the necke ye shall stamp the leaues of bryony called the hedge vine and mixe it with wine and plaister it too and it wil helpe How to take out the haw in the Horse eye THe haw breadth comonly as cunning horse Leches say by rankenesse of blood and grosse fleame which by heates doeth bréede vnto a harde white gristle in the forecorner of the horse eye which wil at lengh make him to lose his sight if it be not soone remedied The cure The surest and best way to take foorth the hawe and not perishing the horse eye is this First for the more safetie tramell his legges on the one side Then put a paire of barnacles on his nose and another on his farthest eare and so let one holde them fast Then the maister doeth put a néedle with a double thread through the toppe of his eare on the same side the haw is And then from thence hée putteth the néedle through the edge of his eye lidde on the midst thereof and so drawe vp the lidde towardes the said eare and then fastens the thread and cuttes it off Then knits his thread againe and saies to his man hold fast for feare of starting of the horseê the néedle head may put out his eye Therefore to woorke sure is best Then the maister waites when the horse turnes his eye and when the said haw is most séene then hee catches holde thereof with his fore finger and thombe and pluckes it foorth a litle and puts his néedle through the outer end of the gristle and so drawes it farther out by the threades ende and then wrappes the rest of the said thread about his litle finger of the same hande he puttes out the inner side of the gristle which is towardes the horse eye and with a verie sharpe knife hee cuttes crosse the gristle and easeth finely away the skinne and fatte thereof on the saide haw And also rounde about it which is calde the washe of the eye for if that bee cutte away the horse will bee bleare eide Therefore yée must leaue all the skinne and fat about the saide gristle and take away but the tippe or out ende thereof with the saide gristle or haw which the threade hath holde of but take not too much holde with your néedle and thread Then beeing taken foorth cut off your thread that holdes his eye lid and picke out the ends thereof out of his eye lidde and eare else they wil afterwarde trouble him and also plucke away al the long hayres about his eyes Then soone after as the horse eye doe gather to some blood and matter yee shall take your mouth ful of béere ale or wine and open his eye and spirt therein once or twise togither and with the side of your hand strike downe the blood and matter out of his eye Use him thus thrée or foure times vntil his eye wax cleare and so it is done ye may giue him what meate yée wil after For the Trenches and long Wormes TO kill the trench worme or long wormes ye shall take the pouder of worme séede finely searst two spoonefulles and put it in a pinte of malmeste and mix it well togither and let it stand to soake all a night and giue it your horse in the morning and kéepe him without meat and drinke foure houres after and he shall doe well Toong of
pare hollow his féete nigh to the quick then race him with a crooked launcet from the heels to the toe in 2. or 3 places raise the hoofe on both sides of your races let him bleed wel then clap two or three harde egges as hotte as yee can and as these doe coole take new and lay hot horse doung thereon and about his hoofe and so he shal soone recouer and be well againe as before To know the age of a horse YE must féele of his bridle téeth aboue at a yéere olde he wil shout forth a tooth at two yéeres two teeth at three yeeres foure teeth at fiue yeeres fiue teeth aboue A mare that hath bridle teeth aboue shee will bring few coltes or none and when his vaine tooth is with an edge towarde the fore téeth he is eight yéeres A drinke to comfort a horse YE shal boile in ale great raisons the stones taken forth of licoras and Anniséeds in like quantitie of cummin and sallet oyle straine it and giue it with a horne or take also of turmericke fenegreke Anniseeds lycoras and sallet oyle let your powders be searst very fine mixe them all milke warme and so giue it with a horne To heale an impostumed wounde TAke and hollow two or thrée great enyons and put therin a cursie of bay salt and a litle hole saffron and so rost them vnder the embars and plaister wise laie them al hoate on the wounds If ye would haue the skin of make a playster of Cow doung sodde in milke and clappe it too for 24. houres which wil take away the skinne putrified But the other will heale al wonndes alone by it selfe The Horse tongue hurt with the bridle YE shall boyle in water of woodbind leaues of black brier leaues of primrose leaues knotgrasse with some hony sod then put to a litle allum once or twice a daye to make it luke warme and wash his tongue therewith with a clowte tied on a stickes ende and this will soone heale it againe For a Horse that doth tire on the way TAke slyse a péece of freshe béefe and lap it about his bit and fasten it with a threed and then bridle him ride him and he will not lightly tyre To helpe a horses mouth venoumed called of some the Camery THe Camery is a disease in the tongue and lips of a horse which hath eaten some venomed grasse or haie that dogs or cattes haue pissed on which wil make his tongue to haue like cliftes and scabbes and his vpper lippe vnder to be full of blacke whealkes or pimples which will let him to eate hardly anie meate The cure is ye shall take out his tongue and pricke the vaines vnder the end in sixe or eight places so vnder his vpper lip and let him bléed wel then al to rub it with salt then the next day wash it with some Uinegar and rubbe it againe with salt and he shal do wel againe and giue him warme drinke a day or two after Duoth Sharpe To helpe the bagges in the mouth of a horse THe bagges or geakes is an easie sorenesse to heale which is hard gristles being on the insides of a horses mouth in the weakes of his lippes or mouth which will often goe betweene his téeth and trouble him that he cannot eate nor chew wel his meate The remedy Yee shal take foorth his tongue and put a rowling pin of wood vnder so hold it out on the contrary side then shal ye with the point of the sheares clip an ynch long of that inner gristle cleane away theÌ„ turne his tongue and doe the other side of his mouth likewise and then rub them wel with salt and let him goe and they will shrinke awaie and the horse shal do well againe A proued medicine to kil mangie on a horse TAke a pound of blacke sope a pottle of mustard foure peniworth of brimstone made in fine powder thrée penieworth of quicksiluer wel killed with fresh greace two peniworth of verdegreaceÌ„ a quarter or lesse of a pint of greace stirre all these together in a vessel till the greace and other thinges be molten with labour and without fire and therewith annoint the mangie sore but first let him blood then after two daies washe it with the water that young broom or At semanacke herbe hath béene well sodde in and smally chopt and mixt with a little powder of soote and lette those séeth wel together and this wil help him with once annointing and twise washing To ripe an impostume in anie outward part SEeth mallow rootes and lillie rootes in water bruise theÌ„ and mixe them with porkes greace and put to of linséede meale and plaister wife laie it to against the impostume of a cold cause seeth white mints in wine and oile or ale and butter so laie it too This wil destroy and wast a hard impostume Also for a cold impostume stampe cuckospit with old greace and so plaister it on this wil waste it also Againe against a hotte impostume stampe liuerwort and mixe it with the grounds of ale it wil help or bruised with mallowes at the beginning mixt with hogs greace and all hot laide to will ripe an impostume or the grouÌ„ds of ale or béere boiled with mallowes bath it therwith hot and plaisterwise laie it on the swelled place and it wil disperse and waste it awaie in 2. or 3. daies Also bawme stamped and mixt with hogges greace so plaistred wil ripe disperse anie cold impostumatioÌ„ Against a hot rising or swelling bruise of lettise seed or Popie séede and mixe it with oile of ree roses so plaister it on which wil helpe if it be taken betimes Thus much for swollen places and impostumes For a horse that is pricked in a ioynt among sinewes TAke of rosen pitch turpentine and Sanguis draconis then melt these together and clap it somwhat warme on the place or ioynt then take of floxe and put vpon it for that will cleane too and defend it and this wil rype it and cause it to runne if any thing wil d ee it for there is not founde a better waie to helpe a swolne ioynt Against stiffenesse of sinewes and ioyntes SEeth blacke sope a pound in a quart of strong ale till it waxe thicke like tarre then reserue it and when ye shall sée cause vse to annoint the sinewes ioynts therwith and it wil supple them and bring them againe although they be shrunke This is as wel for man as for beast For a horse that hath a canker in his mouth or throate A Horse that hath a canker or is venomed in his throate and mouth he cannot swallow his meate but it wil lie in his iawes on both â—es his mouth and oft when hee haue chewed haie he wil put it out againe and his breath wil sauor very strongly before meat and hauing this griefe he wil neuer prosper but pyne away
meanely neither too fast nor yet too slow hauing an exercise and not to let them rest or lye And when yee haue brought them to the appointed place yee must then parte them into many troopes or bandes and so let them bee looked euer vnto and beeing so parted they are then in more safetie then euer they were before when they were togither because the strength and the infection of the contagious and pestilent ayre is not so great in a small troupe of cattell as in a great And also it is more easie to heale a smal nomber then a great therefore ye must doe this which I haue commanded to the end that ye doe not repent the more when as they fall all sicke togither Or if there be any one which hath it then doe as afore said Also shéepe are more tormented with the scabbe then all other cattell which commonly commeth as the Poet Virgil saith When sheepe are greatly beaten with raine Then frost and cold encreaseth their paine Whereby the scabbe will then encrease Which ye may kill with tarre and fresh grease Or when they begin to haue the itch yee shal annoint him with goose grease and tar mixt well togither with the tender crops of broome in may stampt and boild with goose grease put vnto your tar in like porcion Then make but two sheads on both sides his back bone from his head to the taile and anoint with the foresaid grease and ye shall néede no more nointing if they be well vsed after and kept from scratches Also after ye haue shorne them if ye doe not remedie them with the remedy and medicine aforesaid which is to wash them with sea or salt water or in a salt riuer and then shéere and rub them as aforesaid which is good against the scratches with briers and thornes which wil otherwise grow to scabbes Or if thou puttest them in a stable where horse haue béen or lacking of meate whereby they become leane which leannes doth cause them to haue the itche and scab The which assoone as it hath taken them they neuer cease to scratch bite or rub the itching places either with his mouth féete or hornes or to rub against a trée or other thing which lice may cause also If thou seest any one doe this then take him and open and shed his wool and ye shall sée there vnder the skin red and scratched or bitten with his mouth therfore it must be sodeinly remedied to the end that al the rest be not infected with the same For amongst all other cattel shéep are most therwith tormented for the same there be many medicines the which we shall hereafter speake of Not that yee can or may vse all because that euery countrey cannot haue all but such as yee may haue shall suffice First the composition that I haue afore expressed shall serue very well for the most part Also if ye caâ—e the lees of wine of oliues the iuice of tares or pulce sod mixt with as much white ellsbory beaten which is 〈◊〉 pouder Also the gréene iuyce of hemblocke to anoint is good to kill the itch if it bee not in séede Some doe take it in the spring and beates it and then straineth it into a potte of earth And vnto xviii quartes of the said 〈◊〉 yee they put in halfe a bushell of salt and then to couer the pot close and setteth it in some doonghill a whole yeare there to be seasoned And when it is drawne out they take thereof and warmeth it and therewith rubbes the scabby shéepe or any place of their skinne so troubled but they rubbe the place before with some rough thing or rugged stone for to make it bléede Also the lees of oliues is good if it bee boyled vntill the halfe bee consumed and then to annoint therewith Likewise doth the piffe of men wherein is quenched of hotte burning tilestones some do boyle it on the fire vntil the first part be consumed in mixing it with so much of the iuyce of gréene henbane with twoo youndes of the pouder of tiles or of cinamond also of tarre and beaten salt and so mingled togither Likewise it shal be good to vse of brimstone beaten fine with as much tarre in stirring it altogither ouer a small fire and because tarre is verie costly for poore men they make a salue of broome which is ye shal take a great quantitie of the croppes of broome with the leaues and blossomes let them be chopt small and then sod in xviii gallons of running water till it waxe as thick like a gelley then take two poundes of molten shéepes suet with a pottel of old stale and so much of brine put all into the pan with the broome and stir it wel togither Then straine it and kéep it in what vessell yee will and so when yee clippe your shéepe make it luke warme and with some soft thing wash your shéep therwith and at all times ye may vse this in sheading the wool and anoint therewith warme which wil both heale the scabbe and kil tikes and shal not be hurtful to the wooll and those which haue sufficient meate wil not lightly scabbe after Others doe take of ellecampant rootes and stampes them then boiles them in running water and washes therewith Some doe take oyle oliue and the pouder of brimstone and so annoints therewith But against maggettes the pouder of brimstone and tar mixt togither ouer a soft fire To annoint also for hurts there is no better medecine As Virgil in his Georgiques sheweth and saith If any beast be hurt Or rutby subtiltis With any yron or with staffe Upon the griefe shal sée For vnderneath the skin The euil is often hiâ— Where plaisters doeth not molliffe And skin not opened If it be not cut they cut it and melts of wax and grease togither and heales it therewith which grease is also good against the scab mixing therewith brimstone pouder Also if any shéepe haue the feuer or red water it is good to let them blood in the claw of the foote or betwixt the two clawes for that helpeth verie much and Virgil saith For to helpe the feuer open the vaine Beneath in the foote and he shal mend againe Some shéepheards let them blood vnder the eye and on the eares Others lets him blood on the vain vnder the taile and then bindes of hearbe grace vnto it beaten with a litle salt and to giue the iuyce of camamile with ale or wine is good Shéep are also tormented in the féete or claw two maner of wayes one is by filth the other by the worme which bréedes therein And if the worme doe waxe big it wil wax so sore that the shéepe cannot wel goe but halt This worme bréeds commonly before iust betwéene the two foreclawes the head therof is like a tuft of haires growing togither and wil stick out afore there is no shéep but hath a shew
the spring it cometh with a swelling in the belly and foming at the mouth and sodainly the shéepe will fall downe in the way The remedy is Take a quantitie of rue and another of rosemarie and boyle them in milke or in new ale for that is the better and when it is a little boilde then stampe it and then straine it and so giue it milke warme vnto the shéepe but before yee giue it pricke him vnder the tongue and make it bléede if ye can and he shal do wel There is also oftentimes a giddines in sheepe which doth take them in their heads as shepheards do iudge if it bee the bladder ye shall find it soft vnder your finger and there ye must cut it as is afore said or the worme vnder the horne which is likewise afore declared For any other paine or giddines these are special good Take the iuice of iuie leaues and put thereof into his eare and bind it fast for casting out Or the iuice of cackcospit in like case warme Or the iuice of hegtaper cald foxe gloue put it into the eare The iuice of wilde time stampt with ale straind and giuen Or the iuice of sowbred calde in latin panis porcinus distild in at the nose into the head doth purge both the head and the braine of the shéepe Against water in the body or belly ye shall stampe and straine of two peny grasse giue it with wine boild Against any water in the head boyle purcelin in honted water straind and so giuen All these aforesaid are good against water in any part of the body Also they saye when the téeth of sheepe waxelong and euen it is a signe of age in them For the worme in the guts SOme shéep wil haue a long worme in his guts and also â—lambs of a quarter old which bréedeth of some raw humor the signes are he wil forsake his meat sit most coÌ„monly bowing his head to his belly he wil often grone his belly wil swel shortly wil die theron if he be not holpe The remedy take a quantitie of the iuice of horehound with some léeke blades albrused so giue it Or to giue him the powder of wormeséed in some maluesie Also the powder of sauin finely beaten and giuen in wine or ale Shéep sometimes wil be lowsie and haue lice like hog lice which breed sometimes by much wet sometimes by hunger and pouerty and sometimes they may haue lice in lying among hogs and then ye shal sée them rubbing scratching with their hornes and so wil teare their wooll in many places The remedy take quicksiluer kilde in oile oliue or spettle therwith annoint your sheep or the pouder of white ellebory and mixe it with sallet oile and therwith annoint Or boile it in vinegar and wash the shéep therewith Or take the powder of stauesaker and mixe it with oile oliue annoint therwith Or ye may take fresh grease sope tar melt together therwith annoint Al these afore said are good against shéep that are lowsie There is sometime on the end of the yowed tets a certaine smal mote or scab with a black head hanging vnto it a hard mattry string like flegme which is within the tet and it wil slop her milke that of some yow the lambe can draw no milke Wherefore the shepheard must sée to al such things in tamming time or els some lambs are like to starue Some shepheards say that a horned ram is il to get lambs for the yowes are at lamming time in more danger of deliuerance because the lambs haue long stubbed hornes before they are lambd wherby in the lambing time they put the yowes in more danger therfore the net ram is counted more better Some shéep wil haue a water bladder vnder their chin which ye shall féele to be soft which wil breed in moist times of winter by féeding on moist places shepheards haue no other common remedy but to launce it a little and then to tar it There be some lambs their pesill is clouen I can learne no remedy but kéepe it cleane til he be big and annoint it with tar and then to kil him for he wil die at the length How for to know the age of a shéep she being of one shere she wil haue two broad téethafore at the second shere shee will haue iiii broad teeth afore at the third shere she will haue vi broad téeth afore and at the fourth shere shee will haue viii broad teeth afore and thus ye may know the age of all sheepe by their teeth Sheep are cald ouis in latin which word cometh of sacrificing in the old time The sheep is a beast good profitable for many coÌ„modities for the vse of a man as commoÌ„ly is known among all men in this countrie and others If the rams be put vnto the yowes when the winde is in the north the yowes will bring males and if the winde be in the south if the yowes he then couered they will bee female lambs Also such a colour as the vaine is vnder the rammes tongue of such colour shal the lambe be when he is lambde and when old sheepe are moued to generation in vnordinate times shepheards say it is a good signe And if young sheep be so moued they say it is a taken of some generall pestileÌ„ce among them that yeare following Also Aristotle saith shéepe do commonly conceiue in drinking-water and therefore some shepheards do giue them salt and do force them to take it which doth cause them to conceiue the rather and salt will kéepe them longer safe and sound without sickenes They do also giue them in haruest Cucurbitas and such hearbes with salt which will increase much milke in their vdderns If your sheepe be made to fast three daies and then giue them meat they will soone after waxe fat in sommer cold water coming out of the north springes is good for them to drinke and in haruest warme water coming out of the south shall be good for them and then to eate in the later part of the day or night is also good for sheepe And those sheepe which are driuen and trauell farre do soone waxe leane and shepheards wil perceiue those that will best endure out the next winter folowing for some sheepe are so feeble they are not able to shake of the I se from their backes and some will suffer none thereon but still shake it off The sheepe which be nourished in watry places their flesh is not so holesome as others nourished in drye groundes and those foure footed beasts nourished in moysts groundes with long tailes may worse awaye with winter then those with broad tailes Also sheepe with smal and thin short wooll on their tailes may worst away with winter shepheards say the wooll of a sheepe that is wirried with the wolfe or eate thereof it is infected and the cloth made of that wooll wil
shall sée cause A bathe for Swine that haue the swine pockes THe swine pockes in hogs is an ill sore for it will runne abroad and is a scabbe verie grieuous They come to hogs sometimes by pouertie sometimes by lise in the skin and when hogs haue them they wil neuer prosper so long as they haue them And one wil infect another of them The remedies Some do vse to giue them the pouder of brimstone with stale A bathe to wash them is this Take yarrow plaintaine primrose leaues bryar leaues olde oken leaues of a yeare of water bittonis of each two handfuls boile them in two gallons of runnning water till they are all tender and then all to wash your hogs or pigs therewith and vse this once or more and it will drye them vp for it is but a corrupt water being betweene the flesh and the skinne and so growes to a scabbe How to spaye a Sowe YE shall first lay her vpon some forme or boarde then binde her mouth close with some corde then lay her on her right side so that her left side be vpwarde and then take your launcet and stréepe away the haire two inches long thrée fingers from the hinder legge and likewise from the edge of her flanke then with the point of your launcet cut a flope her bellie through the skinne two inches long and a halfe so that you may put in your fore finger towards her backe and there you shall feele two curnels as bigge as acornes on both sides the birth and with the toppe of your finger hooke or draw the one to the slitte then cut the string with your knife and so take forth the other likewise If then yee can not easily finde them ye shall with your finger draw softly forth some of the smal trailes so ye shal finde them and then cut them off and put in the trayles with your finger againe then strike away the bloud and stitch vp the slit againe with a strong threede but beware her guts and then annoint thereon with tarre and so let her goe And they doe vse to geld young Boares in holding them betwixt their knées the Boares rump vpward and resting vpon his fore féet and then puts out the right stone and cuts it crosse ouer the stone on the midst and so pushes it forth and cuts of the string at the right end and so doe likewise with the left stone and then anoint them with tarre thereon and let him goe and they shall doe well The manner of spaying of Coltes Sheepe and Sowes whereof I will briefly speake somewhat more YE shall vnderstande that Mare coltes are commonly spayed within nine dayes after they are folde if they be older it is not so good for they say in spaying it will bee the harder to reach with his finger and to doe that thing wel for in taking forth the birth if it perish the colt wil die soone after Also in spaying a yeawe is daungerous if yee hurt the bagge of birth or perishe any part of her tallow shee is like to die soone after The spaying of a Sow is not so daungerous as the other but maie eastlie be done in taking good heede Also in the spaying of these cattell when ye haue cut the flanke toward the hinder ribbes two fingers long slopewise yee shall put and feels with your forefinger on both sides the bagge or birth certaine knots like kyrnels or clusters like grapes which doe cleaue to both the sids of the bag or birth vnder the raines or rumpe which yee shall touche them with your forefinger and laye them downe softly to the wounde and so plucke them out and cut it off and cast it away which is but a small string they hang by Thus shall ye doe in likewise to the other side of the bagge or birth when they be out cut of the string and it is done If ye perish the bagge or birth she wil soone die after what beast so euer it be Ye shal note also in the stitching vp the wound if ye stitch the guts withall she wil die soone after as I haue seene except she be soone ript and stitched againe which is done by rash spayers of beasts in stitching the guttes and the skin together and so the beastes wil pine away and die within few daies after Thus much here I haue seene and learned for the spaying of these cattel Also the nature and ordering of Hogges ASow will haue pigges at a yeere old and she wil cōtinue good sixe yeres when she is with pig ye shall put the bore from her for he wil hurt the pigs in her belly and make her to cast them The bore wil brim at sixe moneths old at eight moneths and after three or feure yeeres yee may gelde him A Sowe shoulde not bring vp aboue sixe or eight pigs to bring vp more it wil make her soone faile A Sow great with pig ought to haue sties by themselues For if a sow do eate her pigs it is no wonder for swine can least away with hunger for they are hoate beasts a sow should not goe abroade in nine or ten daies after her farrowing the wrinckled tailes of hogs is signe of sound hogs Also after ye cut or geld giue them no drinke and but a little meate In spaying looke that the skin be sound iust and close vp and then annoint it with a little fresh greace or fresh butter note also if ye plucke bristles on the backe of a hog if there be blood in the endes thereof he is not then in health If a hogge bée sicke of a feuer he wil hang his head on the one side and sodaine staie be giddy and fal Mark which side he holdes his head then cut his contrary eare and lette him bleede Likewise two ynches from the rumpe let him blood vnder the tayle but first with a small wande beate his tayle and then he will bleede the better Which blood yee shal stop with the barke of willow bounde about it so keepe him in the stie a day or two after and giue him warm water mixed with Barley flower When a Hogge is not well giue him Polypody or Oake ferne rootes boyled in beere or ale for that wil purge him of flegme and some choler which cōmonly swine are most troubled withal Against sicknes of the lungs put the roote of Fetterwoort through their eares it wil help them against the mezell Some husbands say if yee nayle plates of ledde in the bottome within their troughes it wil preserue and keepe them from being meazell Also the common medicine is allum brimstone red oaker and Bay beries of eche like and put thereto a handful of hare foote beaten altogether with some madder and put al into a bagge and cast it into their water or wash which they drinke and so renew it twise a yere Moreouer some husbands hold opinion that the mezelry to hogs comes not only thorow heate in