thereof to drink every morning and let him not work all the time Likewise you must make a Plaister to lay upon the back on the Loins of a Thousand-knot an herb so called Bolus and the Blood of the sick Beast with strong Vinegar or course Claret mixt therewith XXXVIII Jaundise In the Jaundise this following potion is a special Remedy Take Tares and the seed of Ladies-mark one pound Let it boil together with Hops and good Honey a sufficient quantity well stirred and mingled together for a potion Give him of this to drink for eight daies together every day half a pint XXXIX Stoppage of Vrine In case the horse cannot make water which appears by the swelling of the Bladder and round about the Yard then you must give him to drink a Pottage made of these following Ingredients Take one pint of White-wine The White of ten Eggs mixt with Pushed Garlick a convenient quantity Or the Juice of red Cabbage or Coleworts mingled with White-wine In the mean time you are to withhold from him all Oats and Barley and to feed him with Hay only and such herbs as are convenient according to the season of the year if you can get them Farther it will be good to put into the sheat through which the Piss passeth a remedy or Physick made of Honey that is boiled with Sugar or a living Fly Louse or Wood-louse or a little piece of Frankincense and to lay upon the 〈…〉 and reins Oil mingled with Wine or to annoint the Yard with pounded Wormwood boiled in Vinegar and also to pour a pail of cold water upon his Stones These means are good when the Piss has burnt the aforesaid parts XL. Difficulty in making Water Against difficulty in making of water it is an approved Remedy to take five or nine Spanish-Flyes that are whole wraping them up in a Linnen Cloth which you must bind fast on the thighs of the horse and happen what will you must let it lye thereupon a long while for that promotes the Urin but you must have a care that you do not give it to the horse to drink when it is beaten to powder nor in Clysters It is good also to rub his Stones with a Decoction of an herb called Cresses or Nose-smart Pellitory of the wall and Garlick XLI Strangury Against the Strangury or difficulty in making water look before Sect. 39. of the inability of making water XLII Wolf or over growing of the Flesh Against the She-wolf the growing and over-growing of the Flesh which grows under the belly of the horse you are to cut the place and to prick it with a Lancet and next to anoint it in the morning and at night with an ointment of white Mallows Dialthea XLIII Rupture prevented Against Bursteness or Rupture Farriers say that there is not any better remedy than this following Take Ashes of Vine-branches or Olives seven ounces Oil of Olives Honey The Juice of Plantain of each three ounces Fresh Butter Rhue of each one ounce Onion bruised or pounded with white Wine or Decoction of Cicero a convenient quantity mingled Which will serve to give the horse at three divers times on three several daies together XLIV Rupture cured If the horse is burst or broken by being over-laden and too much burdened then lay upon his Loins a Plaister which is made of these following Ingredients Take Pitch Powder of Bolus Sanguis Draconis Mastick fine Frankincense of each an ounce for a Plaister You must lay the plaister hot upon the sore part and let it lie thereupon until it falleth it self when you touch it for then the horse is well again XLV Biting of the Spider-mouse The Spider-mouse Mus Francus oftentimes by his biting kills an horse It is a Creature as big in body as a mouse of Colour like a little weasel of a long back and of a short tail it takes especially hold of the Stones and makes four small wounds Thus to cure the venemous biting you must immediately pour into the nostrils of the horse bruised or pounded laurell or Bay-leaf with water and lay upon the biting or wounded place pounded cumin and garlick but if it swelleth then you must foment the piace with pickle or with a Decoction of Myrrh and spread thereupon powder of burnt barley or shells of Pomgranat Look also in the 23 chapter of the Ox or Cow XLVI Swoln Codds Against the swelling of the Cods make a Poltis of strong white wine vinegar and Salt anoint there-with the Stones twice a day XLVII Warts in the feet Against the hard Knobs or Warts on the feet by much going lay thereupon green Cabbage or Coleworts with old grease or suet of hoggs and mount on the horse ride him gently and the physick will penetrate and heal the part affected LXVIII Chaps in the Feet The Chaps in the feet are cured by burning the same with a round hot iron at the ends for this burning hinders the Chap from growing bigger Next you must anoint them with Bacon washed in divers waters or with Oil of Bay-berries mixt with Vinegar Mastick Frankincense and the yoalk of an Egg. XLIX Of old Swellings Against hard and old Swellings make an Ointment of these things following Take Rosin and Wax of each a pound Ammoniack and black Pitch of each half a pound Galbanum two ounces of common Oil a sufficient quantity which being mingled altogether make it to a Searcloth and lay it on the part grieved L. Bruised Back When the horse is hurt on the back by the Saddle or otherwise open it first and lay thereupon for three daies together tow or Flax dipped in the white of Eggs but if the pace is swoln and hardned then you may cure it with Colewort Pellitory Wormwood Bear-foot or Southernwood bruised and boiled together with fresh or unsalted Grease and laid upon the wounded place LI. Galled-Back Against a Galled Back Take two Onions boil them in water for a Decoction This you are to put as hot as the horse can suffer it upon the sore part and all the swelling will go away in one night Or otherwise Take beaten Salt mingled with Vinegar and yoalks of Eggs and therewith anoint it or wash the place with white Wine Vinegar and lay thereupon fine Lime mingled with Honey continuing these remedies so long till the flesh is grown again and the bones are covered therewith again that the hair may grow again bruise burnt shells of Hasle-nuts and mingle them with Oil and anoint the place therewith LII Biting of Flyes To preserve horses in hot weather from the biting of the Flyes you must rub their hair with the juice of Courd-blisters LIII To drive away the Flyes You may also drive away the Flyes from the ulceration if you lay thereupon Pitch and Oil or Grease mingled and melted together and spread thereupon Pease-flower LIV. Stiffness in the Joints When a horse hath either strained or stiffened his joynts he may be cured with the same remedy
that no Dung remain therein and every evening fresh Straw put in He must also take care if his Horses grow thin or lean to make them fat again with Beans boiled in Water and Oats mingled with them or Beans boyled with Barley Panick and mixed with Bean-flower or Meal and a little Salt He ought also to sleep in the stable in order to prevent the danger of their sickness breaking loose biting or kicking one another He must be very careful of putting his Light in the Stable that no ill accident of Fire or damage may happen thereby He ought also to be careful in keeping and putting all his Materials in a readiness till the next morning that when he goes to Plough and puts out his Horses nothing may be wanting If he hath any Mares he must place them by themselves or put them in another Plough or Cart. In case any of his Horses fall sick or be any waies hurt or wounded then he must separate him from the other Horses and let him stand by himself In case a Horse hath any Disease the best diligence ought to be used and that with speed according to the degrees of the Distemper and if he will not endure to be rid or will not pass in or through any way or passage then you must hang a little stone in his Ear but if that will not help then blind fold him or put fire under his Tail or something that may prick him and if he will not endure that then you must hang on his head a stone with a hole in it when you have mounted him and when he begins to stand up an end strike him with a little Rod or Whip upon the fore-leggs and in case he lyes down then hinder him with blows and threatnings and if he be head-strong make a small piece of Line fast to his Stones which must be so long as to come between the fore-leggs in the hand of the Rider to be held by him to pull and jerk when the Horse is not willing to go forwards for by these means he may be broke off his head-strong tricks and be made constantly to keep his way If it be a Gelding then strike him upon the Buttocks with a long stick which is drawn out of the fire and burnt on the end or strike him with a rod or Swtich between the Ears In case the Horse be difficult to shooe and hard and troublesome to keep in the stable then put in one or in both his Ears a round Stone and shut the Ears with both hands and by this means he will become as tame as a Lamb. It is also the duty of the Carter too carefully to rule his Stone-horses and Mares that no mischance may befal them And though it is frequent to drive Horses at some particular times into green Meadows and pure Marsh-ground yet the Marsh-ground makes their hoofs and sight to grow tender and causes them to get water in their feet Therefore I should think it would be better to let them feed upon the Mountains which are continually moist and not alwaies dry and such as are not woody places and are clear from stumps of Trees Upon which ground there grows rather fine and sweet than long course and hard grass But although the Mare be not so stout and merry as the Stone-horse nevertheless she doth exceed him in running and holds it longer and is not so chargeable to keep as the Stone-horse For she doth not eat any good Hay being for the most part contented with the Meadows that are good enough for her all the year long 'T is true that in the Winter when the Snow lyes upon the ground and when much Rain falls you are obliged to put her into the Stable and give her good Hay and you must observe in Summer-time to keep her well provided with good Grass and clear Waters but never upon Mountains which are too rough and sharp for her First Because she hath but bad feeding there Secondly Because those that are big with Foal ought not to climb up the Mountains by reason they cannot go up without great labour nor come down again without danger of aborting or mischieving themselves You ought not to permit the Mare to be covered by the Stone-horse but every second year if you would keep a good generation and this not at any other time but about the middle of March that the Mare may in the same season of the year in which she was covered feed her Colt with fine and young Grass after May. For at the end of eleven or twelve months the Colt is brought forth Besides then their Milk encreases the faster which occasions the bringing of the better Colts and such as prove according to your desire When the Stone-horse stays so long before he covers the Mare he is much stronger and full of mature and not thin running seed Besides he then covers the Mare with greater desire and so engenders greater stouter and stronger Colts To know when a Mare desires to be covered You must know that the Mare is hot and desires to be covered when she hath not any whitish slime upon her nature and when her nature is more swollen than it uses to be and then she is more hot than ordinary and eats not so much as before And then you may set the Stone-Horse by her twice a day to wit in the evening and in the morning before you water her and this no longer then 10 days which being past in case she desires the Stone-Horse no more as being full then set her alone and lead the Stone-Horse away that he may not hinder her from conceiving her by his hot and fiery humours Age of a Stone-horse that covers a Mare and of a Mare when she ought to be covered The Stone-Horse which is to cover the Mare ought to be above three years old and is fit for it till his twentieth year Though the Mare may be covered when she is two years old and she may in her third year bring up her Colt and feed it well But after she is ten years old she is not so serviceable in that kind for such Horses as are broughr sorth by a cold Mare are not couragious but dull and heavy The Stone-horse ought to be well fed towards the time that he is to cover the Mare against which time you must make him fat with barley Fitches and pease that he may the better satisfie the Mare For the more merry and stronger he is in covering the Mare the stronger Colts he will engender If he is not stout nor merry then rub the nature of the Mare with a new and clean sponge and rub the Mouth of the Stone-horse therewith In case the Mare will not suffer the Stone-horse then bruise a Sea-Onion and rub her nature therewith and that will heat her Colts of such Colour as you fancy If you will have the Colt of such Colour as you fancy
which is mentioned before in the healing or curing of Faintness Sect. 25. LV. Broken Loins Against broken Loins and straining of the same see what hath been said in reference to the cure of the bloody Flux Sect. 37. LVI Swelling of the Flank When the horse is sick his Rump and whole body being swoln by eating of bad Oats or Hay you must make him this potion Take the innermost stomach-skins of three Chickens let them be well dried in an Oven break them to pieces and add thereto fine powder of Frankincense one ounce Pepper half an ounce Honey four spoonfuls with half a pint of luke-warm Wine mingled for a potion Let the horse drink this to mollifie his belly give him through a pipe that is somewhat thick and long a Clyster of the Decoction of the herb mercury Pellitory and other mollifying herbs adding thereunto Honey Oil Sage and Salt This done anoint the belly with Oil let the horse be rubbed behind by two men with a round staf or cudgell then mount upon him and let him trot gently a long while not only until he be rid of his Clyster but also of his dung and then he will soon recover again and be freed from his pain LVII Scabby or Mangy Against the Scab you must let him bleed out of the Limbs that are convenient for that and near the place where the evil lyes It will be necessary to purge the horse with powder of will Cucumber-roots mixt with Salt-petre and given the horse with wine through a horn this Physick being oftentimes taken purges away the bad humours for an outward Physick or Remedy take Sulphur vivum or living Brimstone Tar and Jews-Gum Asphaltum break and mingle these matters in fresh-boiled Butter with this ointment you must oftentimes let him be anointed all over the body in the greatest heat of the Sun except you will rather use this following Medicine Take Rosin-Pitch Bird lime or Cum of each four ounces Strong Vinegar about a pint mingle it well together to an ointment with Mans Urine and luke-warm water Adding thereunto Fresh or unsalted Grease and Old Oil of each three ounces make it to an ointment or a Searcloth LVIII Sinew-struck Sinew-struck is when the knees or joints be wrenched or out of joint by running in a desert place and that the horse hath set his foot wrong upon the ground and this is cured with an ointment made of these following Ingredients Take Hoggs-grease or Suet 4 ounces Fenigreek Flax-seed of each one ounce Boil this together until it is much lessened and grown thick for an ointment If you should think it to be better first to wash the horse all over or to foment him with piss and lukewarm water and then chafe him with a chafing ointment the juice of Coliander-seed adding thereto Vinegar and Tar and Wax is an excellent remedy against this evil And forget not that you chafe and smear him alwayes against the lying of the hair Besides there is another special remedy against this to wit first to curry the scabby place til it bleeds and next to wash it with a Lye of the following Ingredients Take Ashes of Ashen-Tree 3 ounces Beans 2 ounces Lime 1 ounce not boiled but soaked to a Lye wash the place therewith After the washing you must chafe the place with an ointment made of Allom Coalts-foot Hellebore Quick-silver Brim-stone and Hogs-grease or Suet. LIX Swoln Knees Against swollen knees Take burnt Copper half a pound Bolus Synople a conv quantity Salt a little melted in a pint of strong Vinegar LX. Cleft and Wounded Knees When the Knees are cleft wounded Take common Oil. Flax-seed Burnt Rye-straw of each a sufficient quantity mingle it together to an ointment and to anoint the wound therewith in the morning and at night till it is healed LXI Overgrowing of the Knee pan Against the over-grown bone or the over-growing of the knee-pan you must first cut off the hair and lay thereupon bruised and boyled roots of white Mallows next put a plaister thereupon made of Mallow-roots Mustard-seed and Oxe-dung being altogether boyled in vinegar LXII Farcions or Leprosie of the Leggs For to cure the Leprosy of the Leggs you must first cut off the hair and then for four daies continually in the morning and at night chafe the place with Juniper-Oil In the mean time the horse must not be rid to the water before the hair is is grown again Besides it may be cured by a long and oblique burning of an hot Iron Another way to heal this evill is to take roots of white Thistle cut in small slices and being given to the horse to eat amongst his oats he will without doubt be well and recover again within a fortnight or three weeks at least This means is very easy and so much the more because the horse eats it heartily LXIII Chaps between the Joints Leggs Against the Chaps which appear between the joynts of the leggs and the claws of the feet you must cut off the hair and wash the place with wine next chafe it with an ointment made of soot of a chimney and spanish green bruized and boyled together at last adding thereto lime as much as is requisite but if the chaps be too deep then burn them LXIV String-halt The String-halt is thus healed Cut the skin after the length of the hair and according to the bigness of the wound lay a little Cloth thereupon dipped in wine and spread thereupon powder of Spanish-green until they be LXV Mallender The Mallender must after the hair is cut off be washed with a Decoction of Mallows Sheep-grease and Brimstone and then the relick or remainder to be laid thereupon when it is taken off again you must make an ointment of of this following Take Gum-Arabick Turpentine New Wax of each a like quantity mingled together a convenient quantity to an ointment LXVI Spavin Against the spavins appearing within the knee-ham you must let the great vein of the thigh swell up and to tap blood out of the same burn it in the length and breadth and heal in such manner as hereafter will be said concerning the overgrowing of the hoof of an horse LXVII Biting of a Mad Dog Against the biting of a mad Dog this is an excellent remedy At least before the 9 days Take Henbane-seed burnt and mingled with old Hogs-grease and laid upon the biting or the same being bruised mixt with old wine and and given the horse to drink Like-wise Eglantine or sweet briar root pounded small and spread over the wound or given to drink with good old wine Likewise Elder-berry or seed or Juice of Elder-leaves or of Ash-tree LXVIII Biting of a Water-Snake Against the biting of water-snakes Take a living Cock split asunder in the midst of the belly and lay it warm upon the wound And then immediately you must give the horse a potion of strong Wine yellow Lilly powder and salt or roots leaves and fruits of wild vine
burnt to ashes and apply it with good white Wine or take immediately a kind of wild Bugloss which is called Echium squeeze a pint of Juice thereout After it is aspersed with white Wine or Carduus Benedictus water in case you see that the leaves give not Juice enough then pour what you have into the mouth of the horse next take the pressings out of which the Juice is prest and put it and bind it upon and about the biting LXIX Ringbone If your horse have the Ringbone wash it with strong Vinegar then spread thereupon very fine powder of Opement Arsenicum and unquenched Lime being burnt together in a pot to ashes LXX Fistula Against a Fistula make use of the last medicine burn it and put therein a remedy of unslack'd Lime until the crust falls out LXXI Overgrowing of the Hoofs Against the overgrowing of the hoofs burn it and cut it length-ways and side-ways and put therupon a Poultess pap of fresh Cow-dung fried over the fire with Oil lay this once thereupon and order then the horse in like manner as hath been before directed for the healing of overgrowing bones Sect. 61. LXXII Figg Against the fig you must cut the horn of the foot so far till there be convenient room between the hoof and the fig then lay thereupon a sponge tie it fast untill the form of the remainder of the fig be eaten away LXXIII Founders Against the Founders or overgrowing of the hoof called by French Javard Take Old Onions Cabbage or Coleworts blister Garlick and pepper of each a convenient quantity for a plaister or Poultess and lay it thereupon LXXIV Pricking with a Nail When the horse is prickt with a nail then you must draw out the nail and cleanse and wash the Ulcer or wound and drop thereinto melted brimstone or fill it with an ointment made of the following ingredients Take Honey Oil. Grease Turpentine Wax and Salt of each a sufficient quantity being melted all together to an ointment And when it is very hot dip some cotton therein or lay upon the wounded place within in the nail of the foot leaves of Wool-blade rubbed or beaten between two stones But if the pricking of the nail is one or two days old then you must hold the foot of the horse in salted warm water bind upon the foot a plaister made of bread or crumbs of bread Hogs-grease and Salt water or small buised salt and strong vinegar or powder of gall Mastick or Myrtle next put the horse shooe on again and fill the whole hole of the foot with Hoggs grease letting it drop therein and thereupon and let it be shut up as is necessary and let the horse be shod again likewise fill the place of the nail with pitch and chafe it oftentimes with hogs-grease as before Now to keep the hoof in its strength lay upon it a plaister of boiled Mallows bruised and mingled with Honey and crums of bread put in the hole of the foot the herb Salendine and Shepherds-Purse and thereupon bind the dung of the same horse LXXV Limping or Halting In case the horse limps or halteth because the Sinews are shrunk Take Rhue Bird-lime of each a pound Copperas White-lead of each half a pound make thereof an ointment LXXVI The Wolf or Boils and Knobs of the Foot Against the Shee-wolf or Boils or Knobs on the foot you must open them when you see they are full of matter and then lay upon the Sore or Ulcer a plaister of Goose-dung Wine White-wine Vinegar and Salt having great care that there do not remain any bad matter in the bottom LXXVII Scabbiness Scurviness or Kibe-heels Against the Scabbiness or Scurviness which is called Scratches on the heel take off the skin and chafe the place with an ointment of the following Ingredients Take Vinegar Rhenish Turpentine New Wax Rhue of each boil it together to an ointment LXXVIII Over-stepping In case the horse steping over with his hinder feet hurts his forefeet then you must cut off the hair of the wounded place rub it with Salt and bind thereupon a plate of Lead afterwards take it off and wash the place with Wine The Country mans directory shewing the severall places in the body of an Ox or Cow where the severall diseases vsually happen A TABLE of several DISEASES incident to the OXE or COW With relation to the Printed Cut or Portraiture of an Oxe in the 65 Page of this BOOK 1. DIseases in the Horn or Wearied Horns 2. Scaled Horns 3. Split Horns 4. Broken Horns 5. Hairs standing upright 6. Lice or Tickets 7. Scab Itch or Mange 8. Eating Sore in the Neck 9. Aposthumes 10. Boils or Mattering Vlcers 11. Hide-bound on the Legs 12. Hide-bound on the Ribs 13. Bewitched 14. Head-ach or Pain in the Head 15. Humour or Rheum 16. Swollen Eyes 17. Weeping Eyes 18. Running Eyes 19. Sharp Tears 20. Mattering Eyes 21. Dark Eyes 22. Nail of the Eyes 23. Spots or Webs in the Eyes 24. White on the Eye 25. Wart upon the Eye-lids 26. Falling of the Pallate or Swollen Pallate 27. Cleft or Split Tongue 28. Knobs under the Tongue 29. Carnils under the Tongue 30. Swelling in the Throat 31. To prevent Imposthumes in the Neck 32. The Neck Bruised 33. The Neck deprived of Skin 34. The Neck deprived of Hair 35. Hardened Neck 36. Swollen Neck 37. Shoulder out of Joynt 38. Crumpled or Shrunken Shoulder 39. Disease in the Lungs 40. The same 41. Cough 42. Difficult Taking of Breath 43. Slow or Lasie 44. Weariness 45. Ague 46. Beating of the Heart 47. Stomach lost 48. Horse-leech Swallowed down 49. Swallowing of Grubs 50. Dublone 51. Pain of the Belly 52. Griping in the Guts Cholick 53. Obstruction or Opilation 54. Loosness and Bloody Flux 55. Spoiled Arse-Guts 56. Pain of the Loins 57. Pain of the Reins Inflamation 58. Inflamation of Muscles 59. Pissing of Blood 60. Vnableness of making Water 61. Stone of the Bladder 62. Stone of the Yard 63. Hardned Yard 64. Swollen Cods 65. Limping or Lame 66. Leg out of Joynt or Wrinched 67. Broken Leg. 68. Biting of Serpents 69. Stinging of the Hornet 70. Kibe on the Heel 71. Swollen Foot 72. Crumped Foot 73. Foot out of Joynt or Wrinchâ—… Foot 74. Wounded Foot 75. Wounded Claw 76. Broken Claw 77. Loose Claw 78. Claw fallen off Of the Cow and Calf TOuching the Cow and Calf it is to be noted in the first place That the Cow ought not to be suffered to come to the Bull before she is in her third year and not longer For if you let her be covered before she will not be able to grow to her full Strength and Bigness but will bring forth small and weak Calves Likewise If you let her be covered after twelve years the Calf will not be so strong nor so well made The most proper times for the Cow to be covered in are May and Hay time when the Herb is in its best force and vigour
know by his great Disquiet or want of Rest trembling over the whole Body through the great Heat in the midst of his Fore-head and about the root of his Horns and by his Ears also by his hot Mouth and his excessive Sweat by his little eating and licking and drawing of a dry Tongue by the heaviness or melancholly of the Head cunning and half-shut Eyes his Mouth very moist and full of Slabber long fetching of Breath nevertheless with great pain and often turning On the first day that you are aware of the Sickness let him fast the whole day the next day you shall let him bleed a little under his Tail five days afterwards you must nourish him with a Decoctum made of Burs Oyl and Pickle You must proffer him 〈◊〉 ways before all other green or moist Food viz. small tops of Lettice and other young Sprouts which you know will please the Beast VVash him also three times a day in the Mouth with a Sponge that is made wet in Vinegar next you shall give him three times very cold Water to drink and let him not seed in the pasture till the Ague hath left him 46. Beating of the Heart In case he is troubled with Beating of the Heart and a desire to vomit then rub him in the Mouth with Garlick or bruised Leeks and let him also swallow them down either alone or with a pint of Wine especially against the Griping in the Guts Chollick and rumbling of the Belly according as we shall shew in its due place Sect. 52. In case he has lost his Stomach you must give him raw Eggs beaten with Honey and Salt mingled with his Fodder or give him in his drink Andoren bruised small with Oyl and Wine or bruise the Leaves of Parsley ..... Sage and Rue and give him this to drink with White Wine 47. Stomach Lost For to excite him to a Stomach when he has lost his Taste by great weariness and heat rub his Tongue and the Pallate of his Mouth with Vinegar and Salt 48. Horse-leech swallowed down In case he has swallowed down an Horse-leech in drinking which hangs yet in his Throat then let him lie down and pour into his Mouth warm Oyl but if it is sunk down in his Stomach then give him some Vinegar through a Horn. 49. Venemous Grubs swallowed If the Oxen Kine or Horses feeding in the Pasture have swallowed down little Grubs which lie under the Herbs and are called by the Latins Buprestis of which they sometimes swell up burst and die then the Oxe-keeper must let them presently drink Cows-milk or a Decoctum of dry Figs or of Dates boiled in Wine and give them sharp and strong Clisters 50. Swelling and puffing up The Oxen swell and blow up when they have eaten too much Grass especially when the Dew lies thereupon then you must take a Horn which is bored through both sides annoint it with common Oyl and put it three or four fingers deep into his Fundament and next lead him backwards and forwards until he farteth leaving the Horn in his Fundament and rub his Belly with a flat piece of Wood. 51. Pain of the Belly Against Pain of the Belly give them Tracle or Mithridate to be drunk in Wine and the next day after let him blood under the Tongue and Nostrils or give him a Decoctum of Camomil and Rue pounded small letting them stand and rest at least for the space of seven or eight days or take Turpentine four Ounces mingled with a little Salt which is an excellent Remedy in this Sickness letting the Beast swallow it down in the form of a Bolus Pills or Potions 52. Cholick Against the Griping or stinging of the Guts Collick and rumbling of the Belly which is known when he sighs and stretcheth his Neck Legs or Belly or that he lieth down and rises often again and cannot stay in one place this evil is occasioned by weariness more in the Lent than in any other season in this Sickness you must let him walk being covered with a Wollen Cloth and rub him in the Mouth with Garlick or bruised Onion and let him swallow down the same either with a pint of Wine or alone some add thereunto Oyl of Mace and give him Allum and Red Cabidge being soaked in Wine with Mirrh and take away the Flesh round about the Claws of the Feet and prick him in the Tail that he bleedeth 53. Opilation or Obstruction In case he is opilated or obstructed then to open him the Belly and the hinder parts which are obstructed you must give him to drink in the morning two ounces of powdered Alloes with luke-warm Water or take Hiera two ounces Alloes one ounce mingled Or else you may as a very excellent Remedy give the sick Beast many times the remainder of Olives out of which the Oyl is press'd 54. Looseness of Bloody-Flux Against the Looseness which he gets by the eating of some Herbs or other like things which are hard to digest you must keep him at first two or three days from Grass and in the mean time lay before him the Blisters of Wild-Olive-trees Horse-tail Way-hroad or Plantain and sometimes the Berries of Night-shade in the mean time you must not give him much to drink and for the most part no drink at all keeping him some days from Eating any other thing but the Leaves of Young Orega and Pursly and let him not drink more than three Bowls of Water a day wherein young Sprouts of Laurel Leaves have been soaked But if a greater Looseness seizes upon him even to the Bloody-Flux then keep him four or five days without Meat and Drink and give him Raison-Kernels soaked in red Wine or Gall-nuts and Mirtle-berries soaked with old Cheese in thick Wine But the most excellent Remedy is to burn him in the midst of his Fore-head 55. Spoil'd Arse-gut If the Arse Gut be spoiled take three ounces of Turpentine and let it be put into his Fundament by a little Boy who has a thin and long Arm and let him be well cleansed within This you must continue five or six days Hogs-suet is also good instead of Turpentine for to annoint or to smear him therewith 56. Paia of the Loins Against the Pain of the Loins which many times troubles the Oxen make this following Pap Take Flower of Cole-worts-seed of each three handfuls bruise it together and mingle it with cold Water to a Pap and then put it upon the place where the Pain is You may also take Cypress Blisters without Stalks three handfuls and proceed therewith as before adding thereto in the bruising of it strong Vinegar or if there is any hardness by take Rosin or that which is harder Grecian Pitch Colophoniae three ounces let it melt by the heat of the Fire and when it is well hot then add thereto Barley of Meal a convenient quantity let it boil together to a Poltis and lay it well warm upon the Rump unto the Reins or
the Loins 57. Pains of the Reins Inflamation You may perceive that the Oxe has pain in his Reins when in Kacking or doing his Easement from behind he cannot set his Feet on those parts according to his will but stumbleth aside when he does not lift up his Tail but lets it hang when his Piss stinks much and all the Course is stopt and interrupted behind If he has an Inflamation and Pisses as red as Blood when it continues and increases then there is little Remedy to be had against it yet if it is but coloured a little reddish then there is some hope of recovery in this Sickness you shall let him blood out of the hinder Veins or Mother-vein which you find a long the side about the Reins For his dirnking give him the Juice of Garlick with luke-warm Water or else with his own Piss 58. Inflamation of the Brawns or Muscle Against the Inflamation of the Brawns as well inwardly as outwardly which proceed from the Rump and Loins by falling upon hard and Stony places and getting Bruises Let the Oxe which is fallen not go far from his place as soon as he is come into the Stable and wash the parts affected with cold Water next use an Ointment and Sear-cloths made of Oyl and Wax which must not be too hot The tokens of this Distemper are that the Loins the Reins grow hard outwardly the Stones lessen and go in so that you can but see them very little that he cannot well move his Thigh and that he can hardly rise when he lieth 59. Pissing of Blood The Oxe Pisseth Blood when he is over-heated or too cold or because he has eaten bad Herbs during the Summer especially when the Dew cleaves yet thereon The cure against this is that you give him neither Wanor any other Liquor but that you give him a potion made of these following Ingredients Take Sea-Oinion Hemp seed of each three ounces bruised together and add thereto Treacle one ounce being all together boiled in two pints of White Wine at last adding thereunto Saffron two ounces to a potion and this pour into the Mouth of the Oxe Or give him against Pissing of Blood the Juice of Lambs Tongue with good Oyl next take the Powder of Wild-Gourds Coloquints and Wine-stone mingled in Red Wine and the White of Eggs pouring the same into him through an Horn. And if you do not stop the Pissing of Blood then he will die thereof within four and twenty hours 60. Vnableness of Pissing In case he can hardly Piss then you shall let him Blood on the Vein of the Bladder and next give him a draught of Honey Oyl and White Wine being boiled together and this you must continue three mornings one after another 61. Stone of the Bladder If he has the Stone of the Bladder take Sea-fenicle two ounces Cloves a quarter of an ounce Pepper one ounce and a half being altogether bruised and mingled with lukewarm Water to a Potion But if the Stone when this is continued some days doth not fall out then it must be cut out 62. Stone in the Yard In case he has the Stone in the Yard then throw the Oxe down immediately hold the Yard with Tongs a little higher than where the Stone lies open the Yard on the side and take out the Stone next heal the Wound again with Turpentine washt four times in Horse-tail-water 63. Hardened Yard If the Yard be hardened then smear it twice a day with an Ointment of bruised White Mallow-roots and fresh Butter 64. Swollen Cods If his Cods are swollen by what cause soever it be then annoint them in the morning and at night with unsalted Hogs-suet or foment them with strong Vinegar in which fine Chalk and Oxen-dung have been soaked They hold it for a Natural Remedy that the Gall of a Dog healeth the Swollen Cods of an Oxe being often annointed therewith 65. Limping or Halting If he Limps and Halts because of Cold which he has suffered on the Feet then wash them with his Piss which is made warm but if it proceed from the superfluity of Blood which in the bending of the Joynts is sunk upon the Feet then you must divide or resolve it by rubbing or chafing and by drawing Blood by cupping but if upon this it will not go away you must cleave the Claw of the Foot at the end unto the Flesh and thus let it run out and bind the Joynts round about with a Leather-purse that no Matter may come thereunto until it is cured In case he limps by having strained a Vein then you must annoint his Foot with Oyl and Salt if it be occasioned by a swelling of the Knee then foment it with warm Vinegar or with a Decoctum of Barley and Flux-seed But howsoever it happens you must burn it and lay thereupon fresh Butter wash'd in Water and Vinegar and at last make an Ointment of Salt-butter and Goats suet or Grease If it comes by a Splinter or by a knock against a piece of Wood or Stone then bathe the place with warm Piss and lay thereupon Oyl old Grease and Tar melted together Nothing preserves him better from Limping than to wash his Feet with cold Water when they are disjoyonted and then to rub them with old Grease 66. Leg-out of Joynt If his Leg is out of Joynt or wrinched put it in again and when you have smeared it with Hogs-grease bind it fast with Straw 67. Broken Legs For to put it in again if broken you must draw with Cords the uttermost parts of the same on both sides perpendicularly that so the disjoynted Leg may be again put together and joyned as before this being done you must untie the Cords and bind round about it Tow of Flax that is made wet in a mixt on of the White of Eggs Bolus Armenius and Sanguis Draconis next bind it so fast that it may be joyned together again above the binding you must lay Tow of Flax made wet in Wine for to strengthen and corroborate the Sinews at last that the uppermost and undermost parts of the broken Leg may not be hardened or get any ill fashion or form as well by the binding up of the Wound as by the Chop or Cleft of the Leg you must annoint both parts with the following Ointment viz. Butter Oyl Turpentine of each one ounce mingled to an Ointment 68. Biting of Serpents In case he has been bit by an Earth-spider Serpent or by a mad Dog then smear the Wound with Scorpion-Oyl or Sope which has lain in Vinegar and wash him with a Decoctum of great Burs or with old Pickle 70. Stinging of Horse-flies or Hornets Against the stinging of Horse-flies and Wasps rub him with Lead-Ointment or Salve Cerays being soaked in Water and moisten the place where he feeds to drive away the Horse-flies with a Decoctum of Wormwood chare him with the same Decoctum but if he is stung then cleanse the place with his own
spit 70. Kibe on the Heel If he gets a Kibe on the Heel by great Cold and by having wrouâ—… in such places as are full of Snow or Frozen and sometimes after the Thawing also and because that the Joynts of the Foot have not been well wash'd over-night with Piss and bound up with Dung then the Heel gets an Ulcer and seems as it would go off and leave its place and then there follows an Inflamation which after the Ulcer very much troubles the Oxe in going forth Now you must chop small that part with little Lancets and kindle a small Fire of Fewel upon the chopt part and put thereupon a soft Rose-salve or a defensive of Water Vinegar being bound up and tied about with Straw When the Crust or the bad Flesh is fallen out then you must stew the place warm with Vinegar and Piss and lay thereupon a Pap or Plaister of Melilot or cold Hogs-suet 71. Swollen Foot If his Foot is swollen then make a Pap of Elder Blisters and Hogs grease mixt together and boiled 72. Crumpled or stiffned Foot If his Foot is crumpled or stiffned then take the Roots of white Poppeys Mallows together one pound boil them in water as much as is enough pound them and strain them through a Sive add to this Hogs-Grease half a pound and strong Wine three Bowls Let it boil again until the Grease is melted adding thereto Flax-seed four ounces well broken and pounded and let it boyl at last until the Wine is sodden away to a Pap and put the one half part of this Pap upon the Foot and let it lie thereupon for three days and then the remainder also three days together 73. Wrinched Foot If he has wrinched the Foot then boil Honey and Hogs-grease in White Wine lay this Plaister upon the Foot and let it lie thereupon for three days 74. Wounded Foot In case he has wounded his Foot by a Thorn Glass or Nail or any such other sharp thing then cut the Claw off from the Foot as near the Wound as it is possible let drop therein very hot Turpentine and Oyl and then plaister the whole Foot with Honey and fresh Grease melted together 75. Claw of the Foot wounded If the Claw of the Foot is wounded by a Stone or Iron then cut it to the deepest part of the Wound with the Cissers of a Farrier and let drop therein very hot a Salve of old Hogs-grease and Bucks-rue being melted together and put thereinto Tents of Tow of Flax. 76. Claw of the Foot scaled or broke If the Claw of his Foot is scaled or broken then take Honey Turpentine New Wax of each one ounce to a Salve and put that round about the Claw for fifteen days together which time being expired add to the former Salve these following Ingredients Take Alloe Hepaticum Honey of Roses Buck Allum of each half an ounce to an Oinment and cover with this the whole Foot after that you have fomented it with Wine with which Honey has been mingled 77. Loose Claw If the Claw of his Foot becomes loose then you must at first cure it with the aforesaid Salve against Scaled Claws Sect. 76. until it groweth something fast next you must stew the whole Foot five or six days every day three times with the following Ingredients Take Honey unquenched Lime of each seven ounces Vinegar or Wine a convenient quantity 78. Foot-claw fallen off If his Foot-claw is fallen of then make a Salve of this following Take Honey Turpentine New Wax of each one Ounce and annoint therewith the Nail of the Foot fifteen days next wash it with luke-warm Wine which has been boiled with Honey and put a Plaister thereupon made of these following things Take Alloes Allum bruised Honey of Roses of each half an ounce to a Plaister There is also one Distemper more which is incident to Oxen c. not taken notice of in the Table or Cut or Portraicture of a Cow which is called The Hip-gout take Cow-dung laid under Ashes in Cabbidge or Vine-leaves and made hot and it will drive away the pain of the Hip-gout being laid upon it in the form of a Plaister If this be roasted in Vinegar it brings the bad Sores about the Chin and Throat to Distillation and being fryed with Cammomile flowers Melilots and black Briers in a Pan it drives away the Swelling of the Privities The Country mans Guide shewing the severall places in the body of a sheepe where diseases vsually happen The TABLE 1. HEad-ach 2. Giddiness 3. Loss of Cud. 4. Diseases in the Eyes 5. Ague in Lambs 6. Ague in Sheep 7. Rheum and Catarrhe 8. Diseases of the Teeth 9. Aposthumes or Vlcers 10. Boils 11. Boils or Scabs under the Chin of Lambs 12. Pursiness or short-winded 13. Rot or Plague 14. St. Anthony's Fire 15. Scab or Itch. 16. Diseases in the Lungs 17. Cough 18. Swallowing of a Venemous Creature 19. Swelling of the Belly 20. Lame in the Clawes 21. Maggots Lice or Ticks 22. Broken or bruised Joynts Introduction I Shall not particularize the many advantages which arise trom Sheep as the Wooll Flesh Pelt Dung and many others therefore in the first place the Country-man ought to get a good Breeder and to buy Sheep for his store that may be in all particulars answerable to his Business which I need not here relate Marks of a good Yew The best Yews have generally a great Body a long Neck long Wooll oright and shining like Silk having a great Belly and covered with Wooll and having great Paps great Eyes with long Legs and a long Tail Marks of a good Ram. The best sort of Rams are high and long of Body great Belly well covered with Wooll long and thick Tail the Fore-head broad and thick with Hair the Eyes black covered round about with much Wooll great Cods broad Loins great Ears covered with Wooll the whole Fleece of one Colour well Horned the Tongue and the Pallate all White for if the Tongue or undermost part of the Tongue should be black or speckled notwithstanding his Body is all White yet the Colour of the Lambs which he produces will be Speckled Gray or Black and therefore less esteemed for profit It is better that the Ram hath Horns than not for the Ram that hath no Horns is as a Man disarmed and is not so valiant to fight nor so hot after the Yew When a Yew ought to be covered The Yew ought to be covered when she is two years old and she will bring forth good Lambs until she is seven but a Yew that is covered before she is two years old bringeth forth weak Fruit but if it happen that a Yew is with Lamb before she be two years then you ought to sell the Lamb and the most convenient time to dispose of it is in the Month of October that the Yew which bears five months may bring forth her Lamb in the Spring or Lent at which time she will find
place before the eye of the Mare or throw over the Mare a Coverture of such colour as you desire when she is covered by the Horse The Quality of a Mare to be covered The Mare which you desire may have a good generation of Colts must not be under two years old nor above ten or twelve years considering that being of a colder temper than the Horse she is also weaker she ought also to be handsome of body and pleasant to behold The rump and the back broad well fed and such an one as hath not laboured long Mares that are full not to be put to labour when she is Big she must be fed and not put to labour nor be left in the cold but in the Stable while it rains to the end she may go her full time without danger How to order a Mare that hath Cast In case the Mare casts her Colt before the time then you must pound Oak-fern and give it her to drink mingled with lukewarm water through a horn but if she hath cast well you may touch the Colt with your hand gently but a small pressure or blow will hurt bruise it As soon as she hath foaled in the Stable you must comfort her with a potion of lukewarm water mixt with Salt and Flower giving it to her in the evening and morning at least for the space of three daies Next you must give her good Hay and Grain sufficient and keep her clean with strowing that she may afterwards rest at Leisure For this Entertainment affords Flesh to the Colts and makes them strong Marks of a good Colt A good Colt Horse or Stone-horse is known by big bones a good shape a little head and so dry or lean that he hath scarce any thing but skin and bones that hath little sharp and streight Ears great swelling black and clean Eyes very large Nostrils thin and lean cheeks the mouth split alike on both sides the Neck somewhat long and arch-like thin about the head a short broad back the Main curled thick and long hanging down on the right side a broad Breast standing out before and full of Muscles great Shoulders round in the Sides double Back close tite Belly the Stones eaven and small broad and sunk or depressed members a long Tail with thick and curled Hair bigg-boned leggs which are also dry lean and not loaden with flesh but long and streight round and little knees not turn'd inwards rough and round buttocks big and long thighs full of brawns and muscles black hoof hollow round and somewhat rais'd towards the knuckles and of a small Crown In a word such an one as is joyful quick pleasant and neither vicious nor sick for such are obedient and proper for labour such as is not stubborn affrighted greedy nor lazy in eating that does not dung much nor lye down in the water Moreover that your Horse be of a Bay-colour dark-red dapple-gray or pale-colour which is the best token of a strong or stout Horse And finally to speak of the virtue and handsomeness of a Horse he ought to have the Eyes Ligaments and Limbs of an Oxe the strength and feet of a Mule the hoofs and thighs of an Ass the throat and neck of a Wolf the ears and tail of a Fox the breast and main of a woman the courage of a Lion the sight and agility of a Serpent the pace of a Cat the swiftness of a Hare the sâ—…p or tread high the trotting from the gallop easie and pleasant light 〈◊〉 running quick and nimble in leaping and docible at the hand The Age of a Horse The Country-man ought also to have skill in knowing the Age of the Horse that he may let him work according to his strength The Age of the Horse is discerned by his feet and hoofs but most especially by his Teeth The Teeth of the Horse The Horse hath commonly eight and twenty Teeth although Aristotle speaks of thirty he begins to get Teeth the first three months and at the end of the year he has above and below on each side six Teeth After thirty months two alter above and two below and within three years and an half he gets on each side four Teeth more When he is four years old the Dogg teeth fall out and in their places come other Teeth Before the sixth year the great Cheek-teeth or Eye-teeth fall out and within the sixth year others grow in their room The same sixth year he hath all his Teeth which are altogether made hollow but after that time you cannot easily discern how old the Horse is In or about the Twelfth year you may perceive a strange vnusuall blackness in the teeth and observe that the older an Horse is the longer his teeth grow except sometimes when by overhard scrawnching or biting they shorten more and more In the tenth year the Temples of the head begin to sink and grow hollow sometimes rhe Eye-brows also grow gray and then the Horse shews in his fore-head a sad and sorrowfull Countenance hangs down his head is heavy has pale Eyes and gray haire in many other places and this happens ordinarily to those of a Bay Colour and Chesnut Brown and such as come neerest to black The speckled becomes white the white turnes to dapple-gray and sometimes a brownish colour He has also many wrincles on the upper Lipp according to the number of which vsually the years of the Horses age are counted The Curing of Diseases in Horses Further it concerns the Country man to be carefull of the Health of his Horses which may live at least till Twenty years of age and do good service all the while If he findes them in good health though lean he is to give them kiln dried Wheat or twice as much bruised or pounded Barley He ought to rub them well over every day in regard it does them much more good to be often rubbed and handled then to eat much Lean-Horse Besides a lean Horse may be made fat with little Kidney-Beans boiled mingled with Oats But if the Horse be so weak that he cannot swallow it down then you must strengthen and comfort him with a good deal of the yolk of Eggs and sugar which he must swallow downe Besides which Luke-warm water mingled with salt and Flower of Barley being given to the Horse in the morning and at night is an excellent thing to make him very fatt Likewise it is very good to give the Horse fower times a day a little Panick or Rice mingled with Bean-Flower and salt that he may not vomit up again which he takes THE Country-Man's GUIDE I. Head-ach Staggers and Madness THE great Head-ach and Madness of a Horse is cured by continual rubing of Ladies-mark Semel a kind of Bread so called Lettuce-blades cut small and fresh Straw mingled with it You must also let him bleed out of the vein of the brains or the temples or of both and put him in a dark and low Stable
when the matter is run out put into the hollowness the lint or scrapings of Linnen made wet in Water Oil and Salt This Sickness must be cured immediately for if it continue long then there is not any hope of recovery XVI Squinacy Or Swelling in the Throat The Swelling in the Throat or Squinacy otherwise pain in the Throat and swelling of the Tongue requires first letting of blood on the vein under the Tongue or of the Palat and next a fomenting of the whole Mouth and Tongue with warm Water next an anointment of the Gall of a Bull or of Salt and Wine-Stone pounded in wine-Wine-Vinegar The potion you must make in manner following Take Anniseeds one ounce Old Oil two pound Red-Wine half a pint Fat Figgs of each nine Let it be all together soaked well and make a Decoction thereof into which you must put rubbed Saltpetre and Salt a convenient quantity strain it and make it a potion Which you are to pour into the Throat of the horse twice a day to wit in the morning and at night about a pint Next you must give him to eat green Barley or Barley-flower with which you must mingle Salt-petre if you let the horse bleed it must be done in the Palat of the mouth XVII Waxen Kernels Struma Choaking or Strangling The Waxen Kernel Struma or Choaking which is engendred under the throat of the horse and falls down from a cold brain you are to prick him under the throat next to cover his head with a linnen cloth and to rub often with sweet-butter the whole throat especially the place where the swellings lye XVIII Distemper of the Neck Against the Distemper of the Neck pierce the flesh in five places on both sides of the throat with an hot Iron as sharp as an Awl put into each hole an Hoggs-bristle and let the same stick therein for a whole fortnight XIX Galled Neck When the Neck or the Back is galled by the pressing of the Saddle then you ought to lay upon the wound the leaves of black Brionia XX. Crick in the Neck Against the Crick in the Neck wash the place with luke-warm Wine next lay some Tow of Flax dipt in the White of an Egg. XXI Distemper of the Lungs Against the Distemper of the Lungs take a Snake cut off the head and taile the rest cut into small pieces and roast it on a spit gather together the fat or grease that drops from the same and use it against the Distemper XXII Pursiness or Short windness The Pursie or Short-winded horse ro wit which cannot well take his breath and though he is spurred and struck he will not go on but coughs very much drawing his breath painfully Nay in eating also he doth not cease from coughing This Distemper is very hard to be cured It is true as long as the Distemper is new and occasioned by dust of a dust-raising wind or by eating any uncleanness in his forrage there is some remedy against this Distemper to wit the letting of Blood on the Shoulders and by chafing or anointing the horse on the breast and the back with the warm blood of the Beast mingled with Wine and Oil of Elephant when you have continued that five daies together then the five following daies you must let him fetch through the Nostrils Lye mingled with Oil Next give him to drink this potion which is made out of the following kinds Take Roast Mustard-seed Living Brimstone Paradise-corn of each a like convenient quantity being pounded small and boiled together in Metheglin to a Decoction Or make a thick Composition thereof and of that you must cause him every day to take as much as the bigness of a Walnut with thick Red-wine which is very good and excellent or make a potion of the following things Take Galingal Ginger Clove or July-flowers Cummin Fennil Eggs. Saffron a little mingled with Wine of all take a convenient quantity for a potion And pour it into the mouth of the horse holding his head up high that he may swallow it down the more easily without permitting him to let his head fall down at least for the space of a good half hour to the end that the potion may run through all his guts Next give him green grass or reed or willow leaves to eat to qualify the heat of the potion but the horse must in the mean time eat nothing half a day before or afterwards Next lead the horse gently backwards and forwards with the halter or mount upon him and ride him gently to the end that he may not vomit up the potion This is a means to heal a horse that is pursy and short-winded if the distemper is not too old but if it be an old evil then you may help it with brand-marks and by cutting up the nostrills for the heat of the fire will hinder this shortness of breath and cause the breath the better to enter in and to issue through the nostrills give him also often times grapes to eat and sweet wine to drink Moreover there is another excellent remedy to wit a potion made of Agaricus and Fenugreek soaked in red wine or the blood of a little dog which is not above ten dayes old the same being given the horse to drink or the root of wild Cucumbers and Gall Nuts pounded with Honey-water and making a potion thereof XXIII Cough The Cough is occasioned by many reasons sometimes it proceeds from the lungs and other parts of the body therabouts and sometimes out of other inward and most low members which have the operations there is not any thing better against this distemper then the snipping or cutting of the nostrills of the beast And in case that he doeth not mend then you ought to pour into his throat a good draught of this following potion Take Fenigreek and Flax-seed of each a measure Gum-Dragon Frankincense Myrrha Sugar The Bran of small Pease or Fitches of each an ounce being all together bruised small and sifted Lay it a soaking a whole night in warm water And the next day you must give the horse to drink thereof according as has been said this you must continue adding thereunto Oil of Roses until he is well recovered some lay five whole Eggs a mollifying for a whole night in strong Vineger and the next morning when they observe that the shell is become soft they cause the horse to swallow it down Farther you ought never to bleed the beast in any place whatsoever but you must at the same time continue to give him Gum Dragon with sweet Oil. XXIV Vlcers or Aposthumes of the Breast The Ulcers or Aposthumes of the breast cause horses to die immediately therefore as soon as the waxing Kernell of the breast swells up you must draw out the swelling without ceasing but in case a vein breaketh thereby then you are to tie both ends together with a Silk thred for the greater the swelling grows the more matter or filth it will gather
For at this time generally she desires the Bull most which you may observe when the Claws of her Feet are swollen and also by her continual Lowing If the Cow is covered about this time she will cast her Câ—… about ten Moneths afterwards aboâ—… which time the new Grass will coming forth which will renew hâ—… Milk and tend to the better nourishing of the Calf That the Cow maâ—… the better conceive you must leaâ—… her lean to the Bull though on thâ—… contrary the Bull ought at the samâ—… time to be fat and well knuckled oâ—… full of joynts The Bull also ought tâ—… be rather long than tall of red Hairâ—… broad Shoulders thick Bones small Body yet round broad Breast short Head broad Forehead black Eyes short Horns long and rough Tail In case the Cow will not admit the Bull or that the Bull desires her not you may create them an appetite by holding before their Nostrils burnt Harts-tail or by using another mixture which we shall take notice of in chap. 28. concerning the Horse During the time that the Cow is full you must keep her from leaping over Ditches and from running through Hedges or Bushes of Thorns or Bryers Besides you must keep her a while in the Cow-house before she casts with good Fodder without milking her at any time for the Milk which she then gives is not good but becomes as hard as a Stone You must take special care to give her very clear Water which she loves as much as a Horse loves muddy thick Water for you must observe by the way that â—…tis a token of a good Horse when he stirs the Water with his Fore-foot before he drinks Of the Calf NOw concerning the young Calf You must leave it by the Cow after she has cast with a good strewing of fresh Straw renewing it often for five or six days together at which time you may remove the Calf to another place and carry it to the Cow from time to time to suck But if you find that the Calf will not suck but bubbles with the Teat not being able to draw Milk you must look under the Tongue and if you find there a whitish fleshly substance growing over the Tongue much like to the Pip you must cut it off without wounding the Tongue with small well cutting Cissers and wash the place with Water and Salt and well bruised Garlick broken which always prevents the Death of the Calf without which remedy the Calf often dies of this Distemper You ought also to be very careful in driving away the Lice which trouble the Calf and hinder his growth as doth the Scabs which is occasioned thereby which may be easily discerned when the Skin wrinkles These two Distempers are cured by annointing the Calf with Butter and will wholly be prevented if you rub the Calf twice a day with a handful of Straw and do not suffer his Piss to lie under him And you must be sure to keep him with fresh Strewing keeping his Dung from him When to geld a Calf THe Calf must be gelt in the morning before he goes into the field and before he is two years old and not later for this is the best time for his growing large When the Calf is gelt you must give him Hay chopt or cut small mingled with Bread until he gets his former appetite You ought not to geld him in the extremity of hot or cold weather or in the decrease of the Moon Marks of a good Cow AS for the Cow she ought to be of a middle size viz. long of bigness broad rump black Hair or speckled or with white and black spots the Winde-pipe great and hanging down of a great Belly broad Forehead black and great Eyes the Horns not short nor thin but even and black rough Ears hollow Cheek-bone great Mouth open and dropping Nostrils hanging down Lips long thick Neck broad Shoulders with a long Tail to her Heels small short and even Claws on the Feet broad Breast great and long Teats Concerning the Oxe THe Oxe Is inclined to as many Distempers as the Horse and to preserve him from the most common Distempers the Ancients did purge him at the end of each season of the year for three days together some with Lupin and Berries of Cyprus pounded together and soaked one night under the blew Heaven in Spring-water Others with Drugs according to the custom and diversity of the Countries You may understand that he is Sick when he eats nothing although he hath much fine Fodder lying before him There is nothing better thus to cleanse the most inward parts and to purge him than to let him often eat the remainder of Olives out of which the Oyl has been prest All kind of Sicknesses Assoon then as you see the Oxe to be Sick of what sickness soever it be then you must give him the following Purge made of Sea-onion Rhamnus and Common Salt boiled in Water and make it luke-warm with the same Water But you must neither give him to eat nor to drink before this Purge hath done its oporation But to preserve him the whole year along from Sickness you must give him in the beginning of the Spring of the Summer Harvest and the Winter a potion made of Leaves of Capers and Cypess soaked in Water and let it stand one night a soaking in a pot and continue this for three mornings All sorts of Pain Against all outward pain wheresoever it be in the Body which disables the Beast from going or acting with ease you must foment the place and lay thereupon a Poltis of Cammomlie Flax-seed and the Hetb Melilot 1. Wearied Horns If the Horns of the Oxe are wearied by drawing then to comfort them is by force to make the Horn fast in its place and next annoint it as also the uppermost parts of the Head for five or six days together with an Ointment of bruised Cumin Turpentine Honey and Bolus Armenius being all together mingled and boiled Next you must wash the Horn with a Decoctum of Wine wherein a good deal of Sage and Lavender has been boiled 2. Scaled Horns Or 3. Split Horns In case the Horn is scaled then you must foment it first with Vinegar Salt and Oyl mixt together and next lay thereupon old melted Hogs Grease or Suet and new Pitch or annoit him with this on the wounded place for five or six days and then the Horn will grow soft and the Clefts will go away 4. Broken Horn. In case his Horn is broken then take Turpentine 6 Ounces Gum Arabick one Ounce boil this to an Ointment and rub with this the Horn round about for ten or twelve days together which time being expired bruise Common Bolus mingled with the White of Eggs and spread it upon the Tow or Flax and lay it upon the wounded place and let it lie thereupon for three days together Thus when the Tow begins to dry then take it off and spread in
may run out next give him some Herbs and often Hay to eat but if it is so swollen that he loses his stomach and his taste and is often sick then you must open the Vein of the Pallate and not give him any thing to eat but Garlick which is peelled bruised and soaked with Leaves or other Green until he recovereth 27. Split Tongue If the Tongue is split beneath then annoint the cleft twice a day with an Ointment of Alloes Rock-Allum and Honey of Roses being mixt together Next wash it with Wine wherein Sage and other drying Herbs are boiled 28. Knobs under the Tongue If the Oxe has a little Knob which is fleshy under the Tongue then you must cut it off and next rub the place with Salt and Garlick pounded together then wash his Mouth with Wine and with little Tongs take gently away the small Worms which begin to come under the Tongue 29. Carnils under the Tongue In case he has Carnils under his Tongue and is much swollen then open it with a fiery-hot Iron or sharp Lancet next rub it with Salt and Oyl until the bad humour is run out at last give him to eat some young Herbs 30. Swollen Almonds Against the swelling of the Throat which is occasioned by a Cold Brain cover the Head with some Coverture and rub oftentimes the whole Throat with fresh Butter 31. To prevent Imposthumes in the Neck If the Neck is swollen and you are affraid of a Swelling with Matter and Filth then open it with a red hot Iron and put into the hole the Root of Hogs-bread of Nettles renewing oftentimes the same it is very necessary in this case that you give him to drink a good Cruce full of a Decoctum of Italian ...... and let him bleed 32. Bruised Neck If the Neck is hurt swollen and hanging down then let him blood at one of his Ears but if it is in the midst of both Ears lay upon the Swelling a Plaister of melted Oxe marrow and Cocks-Grease of each half an Ounce in Oyland Tar or melted Pitch and rub the Swollen parts with the Sword of Bacon whereon there is not any Fat and is of a Barrow Hog being warmed a little continuing it five or six mornings together 33. Neck deprived of Skin If his Neck be deprived of Skin put upon it a Plaister of Oxe-marrow taken out of the Thigh-bones Rue and the Grease of a Buck and Hogs-suet of each an ounce being melted and mixt together 34. Neck deprived of Hair If his Neck is deprived of Hair and bare then annoint the place with this following Ointment take Honey six Ounces Mastick four Ounces boil them together to an Ointment 35. Hardened Neck If his Neck is hardened let him stand some days without labouring in the mean time you must annoint the hard place with an Ointment of Butter Oyl Bacon and new Wax of each an ounce being melted and mixt together 36. Swollen Neck If his Neck be Swollen then make him an Ointment of Alaud-roots that are pounded and boiled in raw Honey Bucks or Sheep-Rue Hogs-suet new Wax annoint the Neck with this three times a day in the morning at noon and at night 37. Shoulders out of Joynt If the Shoulders be disjoynted or out of Joynt then put the Bones again in their place and bind them fast with Tablets of light Wood. 38. Crumpled Shoulders If his Shoulder is crumpled then you must blood him on the hinder foot on the far side but if they are both shrunk in then you must blood him on both Legs 39. Distemper in the Lungs The Distemper in the Lungs is such a mortal Distemper as well to the Oxen as to the Kine that there is not any Remedy against it but that you wash the Manger out of which they have eaten with hot water and well-scenting Herbs before you tie the others thereunto which in the mean time must be kept in an other Stable They get this Sickness by eating bad Herbs and corrupted Hay and through great superfluity of Blood but for the most part by Horse-piss especicially when you keep the Cow-house Clowsie Therefore you should neither let Horses nor Mares come into the Cow-house but Asses may and do much good for the Breath of the Asses keeps them from Distempers in the Lungs 40. Lung-Sickness Against the Lung-sickness give him the Juice of Liquorish with sweet Wine or put into his Ears the Root of Hazle-tree 41. Cough Against the Cough let him drink a decoctum of Hysop and eat Liquorisâ—… Roots being bruised with clean Wheat Some make them drink seven days together a decoctum of .... The Cough of the Oxen must as diligently be cured as the Cough of the Horses and you must not let the same last long or grow too cold the best way is to seek remedy against in the beginning Therefore you muâ—… powre into his mouth through a Horâ—… or otherwise an half Measure of Barleâ—… Flower and an whole Egg without Shill being boiled in a Can of Wine or take Poppies bruised in warm Water with dried Bean-meal that is brokeâ—… to shales or very small pieces anâ—… Meal of Pease being all well mingle together and give them that to eat early in the morning Old Cough Against an old Cough the following Remedy is very good Take dry of fresh Hysop two hands full boyl them in common Water as much as is necessary strain it and add to it two thirds of Starch mingle it together and give it to the Beast You may also mix with it Hysop Water a Decoctum of Hysop and Mint Against the same Distemper is good also the Juice of Liquorish being well squeezed out and given the Beast with Oyl of Olives Nay the Cough will never be grown so old but it may be cured and driven away with the Roots of Liquorish well cleansed and washt given in a Decoctum with Wheaten-meal The same vertue have also the small Pease or little Fitches being given him to eat or being set before him with Honey-water when he Coughs most 42. Difficulty of fetching Breath Against difficulty of fetching Breath put through his Ear or the great Skin of his Throat the Herb called Black Hellebore or Lions Paw 43. Heavy and Lazy If he is Lazy then give him every month bruised Fitches soaked in the Water which he drinks 44. Weariness To preserve him from growing weary too soon you must rub his Horns with Turpentine and Oyl mingled together But have a care that you do not rub him with this on the Mouth or Nostrils for those parts will be offended therewith 45. Ague Against the Ague which the Beast gets in hot Weather which appears by melancholly swollen Eyes and extraordinary Heat and is perceived by the touching of the Hide you must open the Vein of the Fore-head or of the Ears and give him cool Nourishment as Lettice and other such Herbs and give him cool Water to drink Against another kind of Ague which you may
Grass sufficient to nouris her Lambs Salt Water to drink Farther you must give the Yews some few days before they be covered by the Ram Salt Water to drink and they will the better keep their Seed and the Ram shall grow the more fiery and vehement The way to have such Lambs as you please If you would have your Yews bring forth Ram-Lambs then you must put the Ram to the Yew in dry Weather and observe to drive the Yew towards the blowing of the North Wind that when they are feeding toward the North they may take Ram but if you will have Yew-Lambs then you must let them feed towards the South Wind and let them be covered To know what coloured Lambs a Yew will bring forth When the Yew is big in case her Tongue is black it s a sign that she will bring forth a black Lamb and if her Tongue be white she will bring forth a white Lamb but if the Tongue be speckled then she will bring forth a speckled Lamb. Of Sickness in Sheep The Sheep are inclined to many Distempers as Scabs or Scurveyness Cough and the Red Water which proceed from an exceeding Pain in the Head and also the Plague The three last Distempers are incurable insomuch as if any Sheep be sick with either of the said three Distempers 〈◊〉 occasions infections in the rest thereof many of them die all such scknesses are occasioned by eating of bad Herbs or by drinking of bad Water or standing Puddles or Pools in the Fields or because the places which they feed on are wet and moist by frequent Showers and bad Weather by which means they undoubtedly fall sick in six weeks time Here follows an account of all the Distempers incident to Sheep 1. The Head-ach If your Sheep are troubled with the Head-ach and Staggers which is occasioned by Surfeits the best Remedy is to take Asafettida and dissolve it in a spoonful of White Wine or bruise the Juice out of Sage and give it to the Sheep 2. Giddiness Giddiness in the Head befalls Sheep most commonly in the Dog-days insomuch as it makes them turn about and leap and in case you touch their Fore-head or Feet you will find that they burn exceedingly Against this Sickness you must let them blood in the middle of the Nose with a piece of Horn made sharp for that purpose thrust up as high as you can possible which will cause the Sheep presently to fall into a sound and immediately they will come again to themselves This being applied they will either be immediately well of this Distemper or die very speedily yet more do recover than die Some Shepherds have tried the letting of Blood in the Temples of the Head losing their Blood by little and little which hath proved very successful afterward giving them a spoonful of Brandy mixt with Mithridate 3. Loss of Cud. Take Leaven and Salt and mix them with Clay and the Piss of a lusty young Man and let him swallow it and that will recover him 4. Diseases in the Eyes Make an Eye-water of Eve Eye-bright and Horse-leech and wash their Eyes therewith or beat Wormwood with the Milk of a Yew and mix it with Rose-water 5. Ague in Lambs If a young Lamb have an Ague or other Sickness then you must give it to drink the Milk of its Dam mingled with as much water 6. Ague in Sheep When Sheep have an Ague you must blood them on the Heels between the two Claws of the Feet or on the Ear and keep them a good while from Water the best remedy for to cure them of the Ague is to boil in Spring Water and Wine the Stomach of a Ram and give the distempered Sheep the Broth to drink 7. Rheum or Catarrhe The Sheep gets Humours and Rheums in the Dog days by the great Heat of the Sun for prevention of which the Shepherd in such hot seasons ought to drive his Flock in the Fore-noon towards the West and in the Afternoon towards the East for it is a great matter that the Heads of the Sheep as they 'r feeding be turned against the Sun which in the beginning of the Dog-days is often times the cause of this Distemper 8. Diseases in the Teeth For Diseases in the Teeth let the Sheep blood in the Gum or Vein of the upper Lip and rub his Teeth with old Leaven and Sage 9. Aposthumes or Vlcers In case the Sheep hath any Mattering Aposthume or Ulcer then you must prick it with a Lance and put into the Wound Salt burnt in a Fire-shovel rubbed small and mingled with melted Pitch 10. Boils You may cure Boils with Allum Sulphur Vinegar and Brimstone mixt together or with burnt Gall-nuts being mixt with Wine and laid upon the Sore 11. Boils or Scabs under the Skin of Lambs The Lamb many times gets Scabs under the Chin by eating of Herbs when the Dew lies upon them the Remedy against which is to take Hysop and Salt of each an ounce well bruised together and with this you must annoint the Pallate of the Mouth and Tongue then wash the Boil with Vinegar and afterwards chafe it with Tar and Grease 12. Pursiness or short-winded The Rheum or Catarrhe of the Sheep as well as of the Horse sticks so fast to the Lungs that it cannot be removed with Bleeding nor with a Potion and if this Sickness continue the best Remedy is that the Sheep be kept without Food for a day or two likewise it is convenient that whatever Hay or Fodder hath been eaten among the Sheep while one that hath been sick hath been amongst them the Oughts thereof be taken clean away for such Sheep get the same sickness by eating after them that are sick Some say that for this sickness it is good to hang about the Neck of the Sheep a living Toad put in a little bag of Linnen and to let it hang nine days Others say that it is good to bruise Lock and Noble Sage together and make a Potion thereof with very strong Vinegar Others pour in their Mouths a spoonful of Brandy with Mithridate but there is but little help for this Distemper for they often die after several Medicines have been given to them because the Lungs are quite dried up with a continual Coughing There is no better Remedy against this Distemper than for to throw them upon their Backs in a stinking unclean Gutter 13. Rot or Plague Against the Plague there is no other Remedy for Beast than for Man but for to keep them from this Distemper the best way is often to give them Melilot Scitisers Wild Polly or Wild Balsom But to prevent the Rot in those Sheep that are not tainted by that Infection you must give them Salt mingled with Brimstone in a Fire-shovel which will purge them and preserve them from this Contagion 14. St. Anthony 's Fire The Fire of St. Anthony is by the Shepherd called Wild-fire very difficult to cure and there is no other
Remedy to use in this Distemper than to bathe the Sheep with She-Goats-milk but my Advice is to separate the first Sheep that hath this Distemper from the Flock that the rest be not infected 15. Scab or Itch. Against Scabbiness or Scurveyness in Sheep you must make a Salve of these following Ingredients Take Brimstone Cyprus Roots of each three ounces which you must incorporate with Camphire and White Rosin Wax a convenient quantity after that you have annointed the scabby or scurvey Sheep three nights one after another then wash it with Lie sea-Sea-water or Pickel and the Sheep will be well 16. Diseases in the Lungs If your Sheep be distempered in the Lungs you must give him Colts-foot Sage and Pursland mixed with Metheglin or a spoonful or two of Mithridate in White Wine or a head of Garlick mixt with Vinegar 17. Cough Against the Cough you must give the Sheep to drink in the morning out of a little Horn Oyl of sweet Almonds mixt with White VVine being made luke-warm also let the Sheep eat the Herb Colts-foot if the Cough come in the spring but if it be in any other season then you may give him some bruised Fenugrick with some Cummin-seed 18. Swallowing of a Venemous Creature In case the Sheep swallow down an Horse-leech or any other Venemous Creature you must pour into his Throat strong Vinegar warm'd or Oyl 19. Swelling of the Belly There is an Herb which is called a Thousand Buttons and the Herb Centory is very unwholesome for Sheep whereof if they eat the whole Belly swells up voiding a thick and stinking humour then the best Remedy is to let them blood presently under the Tail near the Buttock or on the Vein of the uppermost Lip 20. Lame in the Claws In case the Sheep becomes Lame because its Claws are grown weak by having stood too long in his own Dung and that it can't go then you must cut off the end of the Nail affected or Claw of the Foot affected and lay thereupon unslacked Lime with a Cloth leaving it but one day thereupon and the next day lay Spanish Green thereupon laying it on by turns until the Claw be healed 21. Maggots Lice or Ticks The same Remedy is good also for a Sheep that hath Maggots Lice or Ticks as for a Sheep that hath the Scab or Itch as you will find in the 15th Receipt for Sheep 22. Broken or Bruised Joynts For Broken or Bruised Joynts give the Sheep a Drink made of Bettony Mugwort and Multowes of each a spoonful of the Juice and annoint the Wound with black Sope or mix Bird-lime with Tallow and lay a hot Plaister on the Wound The Country-mans Guid containing the Direction for the Breed Ordering and Curing of all Distempers in Swine 1. HEad-ach or Sleepy-evil 2. The Pox in Swine 3. Eating of Yarro 4. Diseases in the Eyes 5. Ague or Feaver 6. Measles prevented 7. Rheum or Catarrhe 8. To prevent Vomiting 9. Measles Cured 10. Plague or Diseases in the Milt 11. Swelling in the Neck or Throat 12. Aposthumes or Swellings in the Throat 13. Imposthumes in the Body 14. Diseases in the Gall. 15. To kill Lice or Ticks 16. Thirst prevented 17. To prevent Greediness 18. For a great Cough or Cold. 19. Belly-Ach 20. Lameness in the Foot 21. Flux in Swine 22. Broken Legs or Joynts â—…e Country mans Guide shewing the severall places in the body of a Hog where diseases vsually happen Introduction HAving before treated of the more Tamer sort of Cattle I shall now likewise treat of Swine as being the most unruly and the most hurtful in his kind of any common Beast but nevertheless very much desired because it yieldeth sweet Flesh whilst they are young and for his Bacon when salted as being the most serviceable and not to omit the advantage of the Hide Bristles and Grease Therefore it is requisite in all those places where there is a great number of Swine kept that there is a Man allowed for no other Imployment then to keep the Swine and carefully to preserve them from danger that may befall them or that they may not injure the Corn-fields in which they are kept and to take care of the weaned Piggs The Husbandman must take care for such Food that is convenient for Swine as Acrons Nuts Haws and all such as the Swine usually eat 'T is good that you provide entertainment against the Hogs come out of the Field at the usual time for by so doing you shall make them return to their Owner without running astray which certainly you may do by a due providing of Meat for them at a set time Marks of a good Bore The Bore is esteemed the best that is short and broad his Mouth drawing upwards and long having a broad and thick Breast broad Shoulders short and great Thighs white of Colour and in a word the broadest and most four square and of a full Body having thick Bristles on his Back is the best Bore Marks of a good Sow The best Sows are such as are longest of Body with a hanging Belly of broad Buttocks and long Ribs of a little Head and short Legs white Hair The time of a Sow being covered Let not the Sow be covered before she is above one year old and the Bore that covereth her must be three or four years old but after the fifth year you must geld him for to feed him for Brawn or Bacon The best time to cover a Sow is from the Increase until the Full Moon after the Full Moon it is not good The best time in the year is to let the Sow take the Bore at Candlemass that the Piggs may be strong in the Harvest time The Winter Piggs are more hard to bring up and not so natural as the others that are Pigg'd in Summer A Sow may rear Eighteen Piggs if she hath so many Paps The best time to Geld Pigs and to Splay the Sow THe best time to geld is when they are a Year old and not older when the Moon is in the Decrease in the beginning of Spring or in the Fall of the Leaf when its moderate Weather in case you cut them when they are little I confess that the Bacon will be the sweeter but they will not make so large Swine therefore you may use your discretion to cut them from Four to Six Month 's or to a Year To make a Hog Fat THe Hogs that you intend to Fatten for Bacon ought always to be set up in a particular Stye and the darker the Stye is the better provided there be but so much light as to see to give them meat there needs not so much care of them as other Swine but that their Stye be made clean and that they have food at all times lying before them in their Troughs They are not to be brought from one place to another though they have no Motion and not able to move themselves Their is divers manner of Food according to the
Custom of the Countrey yet the best and most substantial Feeding is of dry Pease and Beans though its common in many inclosed Countreys to Feed a Swine exceeding full with Whay and many practise that way only giving them a Bushel of Pease or Beans to harâ—…en the Fat In some Countreys they â—…eed after other manner which for breviâ—…y sake I shall omit knowing that the Ingenious Country-man knoweth what way is best for is ends in that matter Sickness in Swine 1. THey are also subject to many Distempers and you may know that the Hog is sick when he lets hang his Ears and that he is duller and heavier than he is wont to be having little or no Stomack to his Meat but the certain way if none of these Symptoms appear is to draw out of his back a handfull of Bristles against the growth of the Hair and in case that the Root of the Bristles be white and clean then the Hog is sound and in good health but if that they are bloody or spotted then he his sick 1. Head-ach or Sleepy-Evil For the Head-ach or Sleepy-evil you shall let the Swine blood under the Tongue and give him Lettice Leaves to eat or give them Water wherein Stone Cropel is steeped 2. The Pox in Swine The Pox is cured by giving him Mithridate in Metheglin or by drinking the warm Blood of a Lamb or give him Common Oyl with Pepper 3. Eating of Yarro In case the Swine hath eaten mad Chervile Millfoile or Yarro called in Latin Cheliophilon then give him to drink a good quantity of Water wherein Wild Cowcombers are boyled leting it stand before you give it him till 't is but luke-warm and that will vomit him 4. Diseases in the Eyes Are Cured with the Juice of Bittany or Horse Leeke or the Blades of Sallendine beaten in a Morter and laid upon the Eyes mixt with Wine or the Powder of Sepia blown into the eyes or dry the Yolk of an Egg to powder and blow it into the Eyes 5. Ague or Feaver Against the Ague let the Hog blood in the Tail 6. Measles prevented The Hog is especially subject to Measles it proceeds from Gluttony and over-eating now there is three especial signs of Measles viz. If you be-behold under his tongue small black Blisters or that he cannot stand on his hinder legs or that his Bristles be bloody as aforesaid this distemper is prevented by carefulness in the feeding and that they go into the Field in the open Air. 7. Rheum or Catarrhe Rheum or Catarrhe are cured by Bons Brimstone in a Fire-shovel and letting the smoke up the Nose or rub the Swines Mouth with Garlick bruised with Salt or bruised Laurel Leaves 8. To prevent Vomiting You shall let him stand fasting set up in some obscure place one day and night that he may consume the superfluous Moisture and recover again to his former Appetite Some have prescribed Medicines but the most experienc'd thing this way is the best 9. Measles Cured Let the Hogs that are Measled oftentimes wallow in a Bath in Sea-water and for lack of Sea-water let the Owner make a Bath of Water well boiled and salted and put it into a convenient place where the Hog may wallow therein and mingle with his meat bruised Garlick and give him the Rhine of Grapes or Goosberries or give him Roles of Leaven with his Meat 10. Plague or Disease in the Milt Swine are much inclined to the Plague and swelling of the Milt which very often seizeth such unclean Bodies because they eat foul and unclean Meats The best Cure for this Malady is to give them Honey Combs and whatever proceeds from Bees 11. Swelling of the Neck Against Rheum or Swellings in the Neck the best Remedy is to let the Swine blood under the Tongue 12. Aposthume or Swelling in the Throat Against Aposthumes or Swelling of the Throat mix the fine Flower of Wheat with Salt and rub the Sore therewith 13. Imposthumes in the Body See the 12 Chap. of the Swine 14. Diseases of the Gall. The over-flowing of the Gall in many times a Disease that befalls Swine the best Remedy is to give them Saffron mixt with Metheglin or Honey and White Wine let the Swine drink half a pint 15. To kill Lice or Ticks Take Linseed Oyl and Salt mix them together and rub the Swine all over therewith and it will free him from Vermin 16. To prevent Thirst Swine are subject to a Thirst whereof some have died which most frequently happen in the Dog-days the best that you can do for them is to drive them to some sweet River where they may lie down and bathe themselves 17. A great Cough or Cold. The Cough in Swine is cured by giving them Colts-foot and Lingwort boiled in Metheglin or take half a pound of Honey and a quarter of a pound of Liquorish boil them in a gallon of Water till half be consumed and let the Swine drink it luke-warm or give the Swine Gum Dragon and sweet Oyl 18. Belly-ach The Belly-ach is cured by giving the Swine Black Pepper boiled in Meâ—…heglin or take three spoonfuls of Fennile-seed mixt with White Wine and give it the sick Swine letting him swill 19. Lameness If the Swine be Lame so that it be ulcerated then drop into Wine Turpentine and Oyl very hot or take Honey and fresh Grease and spread them on a Plaister of Leather and lay it on the Wound 21. Flux For the Flux or Looseness in Swine give them to drink Vinegar and Milk mixed together and give them to eat Gall Nuts pounded and mixed with Starch and Wine Vinegar 22. Broken Legs or Joynts To cure Broken Legs or Joynts annoint the place with Sheep-suet and bind up the Broken Legs or Joynts with Straw or annoint it with the following Ointment sweet Butter Oyl Turpentine of each an ounce mix them to an Ointment An Alphabetical TABLE of the Diseases in Horses and their Cure A AGue of a Horse 15 Head-ach 17 Aposthumes 33 Tooth-ach 23 Ague 35 B Belly-ach 38 Bloody Flux 43 Biting of the Spider Mouse 47 Bruised Back 49 Back galled 50 Biting of Flies 51 Broken Loins 51 Biting of a Mad Dog 58 Biting of a Water-snake 59 C. Colts of what Colour you will 9 Coldness or Chilness 18 Catarrhe 19 Canker 23 Cough 32 Chollick 37 Chaps in the Feet 49 Chaps between the Joynts and Legs 56 D Difference in Breeding Mares and Stone-Horses 6 Difficulty in making Water E Pain in the Eyes 21 Web in the Eyes 20 Watering Eyes 21 Pin in the Eyes 20 Wounded Eyes 22 Eye Scars 22 F Feaver 24 Faintness 34 Fundament fallen 41 Flux 42 Flies droven away 51 Fashions 46 Fistula's 60 Fidge 60 Hound-red 61 G Glanders 19 Griping of the Guts 37 H Over-heated 35 Hen Dung swallowed 37 I Jaundice 43 K Knees swollen 55 Knees wounded 55 Knees over-grown 55 Kibe Heels 63 L Lean Horse made Fat Disease in the Lungs 28 Looseness 42 Leprosie 56 Lame 63 M To manage a Horse 4 Head-strong 4 When a Mare hath a desire to go to Horse 8 Marks of a good Colt 11 Madness 11 Mad Love 18 Mangy 52 Mallender 57 N Distemper in the Neck 27 Galled Neck 28 Crick in the Neck 28 O Ordering of Horses 1 Over-heated 1 Ordering a Mare that hath a Fole 11 Obstructions 39 Opilations 39 Old Swellings 49 Over-growing of the Hooff 60 Over-stepping 64 P Want of Pallat 24 Pricked in Shooing 61 R Rheum 19 Running of the Nose 19 Rupture prevented 46 Rupture cured 47 Ring Bone 59 S Staggers 17 Swelling of the Throat 26 Squincy 26 Struma 27 Strangling 27 Stomach lost 36 Stoppage of Vrine 44 Strangury 45 Swelling of the Cods 48 Swelling of the Flanks 41 Scabby 52 Sinew-struck 53 String-halt 57 Spavin 58 Sirachis T The time that a Mare may be covered 7 8 10 V Vlcer 33 A Venemous Creature swallowed 36 U A flying Worm 22 Waxen Kernils 27 Wind short 29 Worms 41 Woolfe 46 Warts on the Feet 48 Woolfe or Boil on the Foot 63 Y The Yalloes 43 Reader I Have only given you an Alphabetical Table of the Diseases in that part which treats of Horses and the other part which treats of Cows Sheep and Hogs hath a compleat Table fore-going the particular Medicines ERRATA PAge 16 line 10. r. much feeding p. 31 l. 10 r. Aristolochia p. 92 l. 4 r. Barefoot p. 101 l. 15 r. Popes c. General ordering of Horses Over-heated The Carter ought to be skilled in making Saddles c. The Stable to be kept clean How to manage a Horse Head-strong Gelding Difference in the manner of breeding Mares and Stone-horses The Cow when to be covered The Gelding of a Calf Marks of a Cow Of the Oxe