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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02275	The honest and plaine dealing fa[r]rier or, A present remedy for curing diseases and hurts in horses Gathered and written as well for the good [o]f any that will practise it, as for my self, there being nothing contained therein but what is of my owne experience and practise. By Thomas Grymes.	Grymes, Thomas.	1636 (1636)	STC 12406; ESTC S119059	9,192	44

and if the grievance be either in his knee or shoulder then ' its doubtfull to be incurable unlesse it come by a stroke or a fall yee may use softning oyntments but they will doe no great good Some will feare them where they thinke the disease to be which is contrary to nature for that the disease commeth of drinesse But if it happen in the shoulder by reason of some stroke or fall or bruising otherwise then make a bathe for it on this manner following Take of Ribwort some call it ribgrasse 5. or 6. handfull of Bay-leaves Peny-riall Hysope Crowfoot Oke-leaves and red Fenel of every one a handful boile all these hearbs in faire water a good space and twice in a day wash the malady with a pint of this water made hot for the space of five or six dayes together and afterward anoint and rub well into it this subsequent unction which is made in manner as here is set downe ten handfull of the leaves of Pelitory Bay-leaves and oke-leaves of either five handfull of Sage-leaves foure handfull stamp all these hearbs very small boile them then a good space and with a soft fire in a gallon of butter and a quart of neat-oyle then straine all thorow a canvas bag or cloth and keepe it then as ye can conveniently either in a box or whatsoever and if ye have of this oyntment in store yee need never to use Oyle de bay Nerve-oyle nor any other that can bee named And if a horse foot bee hurt with a stub or pricked with a naile in shooing then search it well with thy instrument for that purpose then put a little tallow or rather Turpentine in the hole cover it with his owne dung and set on a shoo but so as ye may take it off againe at your pleasure to dresse the foot as need shall require And if a horse halt through tendernesse of his hoofe or breaking away thereof thus hee may be holpen and his hoofe made to grow againe Take 2. ounces of Roson as much of sheepes tallow halfe an ounce of frankensence and halfe an ounce of virgin wax halfe an ounce of swines greace or more or lesse of every one as yee shall thinke good melt them altogether and keepe it for thine use and when thou shalt use any thereof heat it or turpentine and swines greace boild together is very good for this purpose the salve must bee rubbed on his foot under and above especially at the top of his hoofe under the haire these are excellent remedies for this matter For Windgales Every man knowes of what fashion they bee and they are commonly on good horses leggs rather than on bad ones and worse to sight then otherwise but to cure them yee shall take a quantitie of vinegar a pottle or as you please if so much then must ye have thereto two pound of armement halfe a pound of galles and halfe a pound of moleine leaves stampe them or bray them small and temper them altogether with the vineger put all in an earthen pot stop it well and close and with the same liquor wash the windgales every day five or six times for the space of three or foure daies together that done lap his legge above and beneath the gales then chafe or rub them with your hand which will make them rise full that yee may see them the better then strike your fleame into them as deep as ye dare for piercing the sinewes thrust the matter well out of them with your finger and have ready a hot Iron blunt at the point and therwith seare the holes which yee make and every day after wash them with the liquor aforesaid and it will soon be whole For the Stranglion Take the barke of an Elme tree which growes upon some water banke if you can get such take away the outside thereof as Tanners clense their barke chop it into smal pieces put it then into an earthen pot with well-water let it stand so 2. or 3. daies in which time much of the water will be sunke into the barke fill up the pot then again with water there will be two parts of barke and the third part water or rather 3. parts barke and the fourth water boile these well together the space of halfe an houre which done set it from the fire and let it coole then straine it thorow a cloth and looke how much liquor remaines put thereto so much of swines greace heat them then a little on the fire that they may be well blended and every day powre a gille of this same into his nose-thriles till a gallon of liquor be spent when yee doe it cause your horse head to bee holden up or take 8. or 10 handfuls of walwort stamp it very smal then menge it with butter cleane clarified you must have a pottle of butter put all in a vessell or pot and let it stand so the space of 6 or 7. dayes then set it on a softe fier and boile it putting therein a pint or a quart of wine and let it boyle the space of a quarter of an hower then streeme it through a canvas bagg or cloath and every day put some of this licour into his nose-thriles till all be spent Or make 10. or 12. balles of May butter and Radish rootes well stamped together and make him swallow 2 or three of those balles every day and if ye wet them a little in honie they shall be the better cause his head to be holden or tied up that they may goe downe his throate Costifenes how it may be engendred and to helpe its It may come with eating overmuch drie meates or for want of water in convenient times or of cold taken after travell The horse that is so will forbeare his meate he will thrust out his head and hang it far from him and his bellie will be stiffe and hard To helpe him hereof take the rootes of Walwort or rather the out side or rinds of the rootes and of the rinds of the midle pith of Elder of each of these a handfull boile them in three pints of water till one pint be wasted then strein it thorow a cloath make his head be bound or holden up and power the Liquor into him milke warme then cover him very warme with cloathes and within an hower or two he will donge and so after that more and more Or stampe onions and butter together and make pellits thereof so long as a mans finger put three or foure of them in at the horse fundament then walke him or ride him forth the space of an houre or two after this wil helpe him without faile If a horse may not pisse well Take the roote of gladine that beares the yeolow flower of walwort crops of egremony of chervel of each a handful boile thē in water streine it thorow a cloath give him a quart therof at once milke warme ride him in the fields a good trot the space of

the sore with a cloath or flax and wash it every day with pisse or boile vertegreece and sheepes tallow together it will doe the same or honie and lime burnt together the powder thereof is good for it will both eat away the dead flesh and heale the sore but at every dressing you must wash the wound with pisse For a splint Take a great onion make it hollow put into it a quantitie of lime vertigreece and lavander seedes then rost it till it be soft launce the splint lay the same to it warme and and it will cure it If a horse yard or cods be hurt with a stroake so that they swell Take two or three handfulls of smallage or more if you list stampe it in a morter or other things wring out the Iuice into some vessell get as much red wine lies if it be possible else of other wine mingle them well together and there withall wash his yard cods three or foure times a day it is excellent for that purpose Here is an end of Cures and medicines I could and might have set downe many more medicines but these already set downe have I found best in use and they will not faile And here followes partie observations first to make a horse quicke on the spurre that is dull PEarce his skin a little on either side and with an auntler raise the skin from the flesh and put in either hole a little burnt salt which will make the places rankle keepe him so three or foure dayes that he be not riden then set a man or Lad on him that may spur him right in those places which are sore and when he comes in wash the places with pisse salt and nettle roots boyled together then annoint the places with a little honie it will heale them and make the horse grow and after this he will answer the spur better for ever To make a white place in a horse head or any where Take a tile-stone burne it and bray it to powder then take lilie rootes daysie rootes and the rootes of white bryer of every one alike much dry them and make them into powder then shave the place you would have white till the blood be redie to follow then rub it soare with all the powders blended together get two or three mold warpes boile them a great space in water and put into it when it hath boiled a good while a quantitie of honie and a quantitie of honie sokle flowers if ye can get them wash it thus 3 or 4. dayes keepe the wind from it asmuch as you can and it will grow white and so continue for ever To cause a Horse that he shall not ney Where or whensoever you would keepe your horse from neying tye but a little wollen lyst about the middest of his tongue For the yeolowes First let him blood on the necke then take one halfe penny worth of long peper asmuch of bayes asmuch anneseedes of fenecreke of graines of lichorish of every one one halfe penny worth of safron a penny worth and if you take a quantitie of goose donge and streine it and put the iuice thereof in your medicine it will be the better and two spoonefulls of the rootes of Elen a campana dried and made into powder or you may take more or lesse of all these things as the disease shall seeme to be increased or increasing This midicine should have beene written in the former part of the booke but that I had forgotten it Here is also an excellent salve to cure any wound in a horse or in a man as Iverily suppose et sic fit Take of sheeps tallow two pound of rosin three pound of that rosin which is like frankinsence halfe a pound of bees wax halfe a pound of turpentine a quarter of a pound melt all these together and when they are melten put therein an ounce of vertigrece smal powdered but if ye put in your turpentine while it is hot new taken from th● fier it is not amisse stir or mingl● them all well with a sticke the power all into a basin or panne w● or rensed with water and when 〈◊〉 is cold you may take it out in a tak● or make it into what fashion y●● will it is an excellent salve for 〈◊〉 both draweth clenseth and healeth any wound in a horse so would 〈…〉 doe in a man as I verily suppose FINIS Imprimatur Sa Baker