mouth to be of a thick and duskish colour and not so cleere and sanguine as before when he was not visited with any such infirmity both which are so mortall especially the latter as that if very great care be not taken whereby to pry into its symptomes the Horse may fall downe upon a sudden as I have often seen and known even as he travelleth and dye or else he appearing to be sound and healthy and to eate his meat like as he was accustomed over night when you left him comming again unto him in the morning you may finde him dead stiffe and cold And the origen of this malady commeth principally of unkindely and unnaturall heats given him by most violent and intemperate riding whereby the Liver becommeth inflamed the Liver the Bloud Gall and the Spleen which causeth choller to have soveraignty and dominion over the other humours and so engendreth this perilous disease which seldome bringeth a lingring or languishing death but that which endeth him suddenly and therefore it is most requisite that the greater eye and care be had unto it The best symptomes how to know it is thus Your Horse will be dry in his body mouth and nostrils being marvellous hot through the abundance of choller that reigneth in him and he will be very gaunt in his belly towards the flanks he will be also very faint and not onely sweat upon every the least motion but also as he standeth in the Stable his eyes the insides of his lips mouth and tongue will be yellow as Saffron and he will seldome lye down and being layd he will sometimes grone The cure First let him bloud in the neck and mouth and let him bleed well then give him this drink Take of Turmerick and long Pepper of each one penniworth Yellowes Anniseeds and Licoris in fine powder and searced of each halfe a spoonfull Selendine the leaves and roots one handfull chop stamp and straine the Selendine and so put all these together into strong Ale one quart warm this upon the fire and in the warming adde unto it of London Treacle one ounce and of sweet Butter the quantity of an Egge and give it him bloud warm and after keep him warme and give him white water and he will do well ✚ This is very good Another First bloudy him as before and then Take Turmerick Myrrah Ivory or Harts-horn of each halfe an ounce Saffron one penny worth make all these into fine powder and searce them and put unto it of the juyce of Selendine a good quantity put all these into Muskadine one pinte Sack or Ale and let it boile upon the fire a walm or two then put unto it of sweet Butter as much as will suffice and of London Treacle one ounce and so give it him bloud warm but let him first be raked This is very good Another First bloudy him as before then Take of white wine one quart of Saffron two drams and of Turmerick halfe an ounce and a good quantity of the juyce of Selendine give him this bloud warm and keep him warm and give him white water ✚ This is very good Another First let him bloud as you are prescribed before Then Take of sweete Wine one pinte of stronge Ale and Beere one quart and put unto it of the iuyce of Salendine six spoonefuls and of the iuyce of Rue two spoonefuls and let all these boyle upon the fire a little then straine into it of English Saffaron halfe an ounce and put into it of life hony three ounces and so give it him bloud-warme then leap his backe and so ride or else walke him a foot-pace a quarter of an houre then set him up warme letting him to fast three houres after and after give him meat and a sweete Mash or white-water ✚ This is very good Another Bloudy him as before Then Take of the best life hony halfe a pound of Saffaron made into fine powder and of the powder of Fenugrick of each so much as will suffice incorporate these with your Hony to a stiffe paste and so make thereof three Pils and dipping them into Salet-oyle give them to your Horse which after he hath taken ride or walke him gently an houre then set him up warme and order him as before ✚ This is a particular good Pill Another First let him bloud as before Then Take of white-Wine one quart or Ale to the same quantity and put therein of Saffaron one ounce and Turmerick one ounce both made into fine powder with the iuyce of Salendine so much as will suffice and give him this bloud-warme and order him as before ✚ This is also very good §. 2. Y. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for the mattering of the Yard Hippos This disease commeth commonly in Covering time by overmuch spending upon Mares for that the heat of the Mares the Horse his own heate and Coity doth burne the Horse giving him the running of the reines as we may truly terme it And the signes to know it is you shall perceive the end of the Yard to be swelled when he pisseth you may observe him to do it with much paine and you may also see at other times the Yard to drop with yellow matter The cure Give him first a purge prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 16. § 14. let P. it is the first purgation which will ease his pain in pissing then the next day Take Roch-Allome one ounce and white-Wine one pinte boyle them till the Allome be dissolved then bloud-warme iniect this Lotion with a Syringe putting it up into his Yard so far as may be foure or five times a day till he be well ✚ This is a perfect cure nor shall you need any other FINIS Imprimatur THOMAS VVYKES A Table of the Contents The First Booke The Contents of all the Chapters contained in the first Book THE Introduction Chap. 1. page 1 Of the best manner of breeding Chap. 2. page 4 How to make and order your Stable Chap. 3. page 10 Of the marks colours and shapes of Horses Chap. 4. page 15 Of the office of the Groome and Rider Chap. 5. page 25 The Second Booke The Contents of all the Chapters contained in the second Booke OF what poynts consisteth the office of the Ferrier handled Dialogue-wise as also a formall examine of the Ferrier chap. 1. p. 34 Of the causes of sicknesse in generall and the causes of health and long life chap. 2. page 46 Of such things which are of necessity to be known by every expert Ferrier before he doe adventure to administer chap. 3. page 55 The manner of handling the particular cures chap. 4. page 64 The Index Chap. 4. A. ACopum and its vertues page 66 Arman 1. page 67 Arman 2. page 68 Ach in the head page 69 Aegyptiacum 1. page 71 Aegyptiacum 2. ibid. Accloy page 72 All diseases a Cataplasme 1 ibid. All diseases a Cataplasme 2. page 73 All diseases 3. ibid. S. Anthonies fire
is right good for this Malady Another Take Muskadine or sweet Sack one pint life-honey thâ—â—e Spoonfuls Myhrre Saffaron Cascia and Cinamon of each like much make all these into fine powder and mixe two Spoonefuls of this powder with your Muskadine and Hony and give it him warme with a Horne give him this drinke fifteene daies together continuing to give him mashes and white water and this is a most certaine Cure ✚ But if you do find that his Lungs be rotten and impostumated then Take of the juyce of Purslaine halfe a pint and mix therwith of the Oyle of Roses so much as will suffice and put thereto a little Tragantum steeped before in Goates Ewes or Cowes milke and give him thereof to drinke seven mornings together but this drinke will but only ripen and breake the Impostume which you shall know to be done by his exceeding stincking breath then shall you give him in fine powder Cassia three ounces and seaven Raisins of the Sunne stoned boyle these in Muskadine one pint and bloud warme give it him and it will heale up his Lungs againe ✚ This is very good §. 19. D. Hippoph IS there no good thing to be given to a Horse wherewith to prevent diseases all the whole yeare Hippos As touching the prevention of all diseases I have spoken before I thinke sufficiently but yet I will teach you one thing for that you are desirous to learne and learning is no burthen which may bee worthy your notice for I will keepe no secret from you Sithence it is my Masters pleasure I should dilate the utmost of my skill and Art First therefore the spring of the yeare comming on a time when new bloud beginneth to come and that ere long grasse wil be able to take heart whereby the better to give nutriment to a Horse The first day of April open a veine in the Neck to see the better how the bloud is if good take the lesse if bad then the more then from that day untill the first of May give him this which I shall prescribe you and let him have it every day without fayle Morning and Evening during the whole month of April from the first day to the last which is before his turning out to grasse or soyling which should be about the middle of May and let him have the same also all the whole month of October like as you must do in April after you have taken him from grasse about Bartholmewtide and do as you before have bin taught in all poynts That which I prescribe is this Take a Bushell of old Rie sweet and cleane well purged Diseases 〈◊〉 prevent or sifted from dust stones lome feathers cobwebs or any such like filth and put it into a cleane iron pot dry and without water I meane such an iron pot in which usually flesh meat is boyled for such a like vessell is best for this our purpose it taketh least harme and is much more wholesome then Brasse Copper or any other mettall set this pot thus dry and without water over the fire and put into it your Bushell of Rie for a lesse quantity you cannot well have and as it beginneth to wax hot keepe the Rie with continuall stirring even from the bottome without any intermission untill you have so parched the Rie that it becommeth black and hard which to be so will aske good heat and no lesse labour to stirre it up and downe in the pot when you do find that the Rie is sufficiently parched which you shall know by its blacknesse drynesse and hardnes take it from the fire and put it into some other cleane and dry vessell which so soon as it is cold let the vessell be kept close stopped and so kept for your use Now when you are to use of this Rie take two or three good handfuls of it and let it bee beaten to fine powder and given to your Horse mingled with his Provender at every watring morning and evening or other times when you usually give him Oates doe this these two entire months of April and October for that all men doe hold that in these two months the bloud turneth and altereth as wee alter his diet from hard and dry meate to grasse and so likewise from grasse to dry meate for this Rie thus parched and ordred doth refine the Bloud coole the Liver and purgeth the Spleene so as the whol structure of the body is thereby the better eased and freed from all such bad and unnaturall humors which would otherwise make the body inclinable to sundry Maladies and diseases which this Rie preventeth and therefore if you bee willing to keepe your Horse sound and free from diseases order him in these two months according as I have prescribed you and you shal be secure ✚ This I have oft made use of and it is good §. 20. D. Hippoph HAve you any comfortable drinke to administer to a Horse that is very sicke Hippos I have heretofore shewed you divers but yet I will give you one more Take of good white Wine one pinte of white Sugar Candy Drink comfortable and of Cinamon of each one ounce of Cloves halfe an ounce Saffron three drammes of Sugar refined three ounces make all these into fine powder then take Mithridate two ounces Honey of Roses foure ounces mixe all these well together and put it to the Wine and make it bloud warme over the fire and so give it him and now and then as he standeth upon the trench let him chew upon the end of a Buls pizell some Arman let him be cloathed and littered warm and remaine fasting upon the trench three houres and after give him a sweet Mash or white water and after order him as is usuall for a sicke horse ✚ This is one of the best preservative drinkes that I know and I have had great proofe thereof §. 21. D. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you for a dislocated joynt Hippos Let it be first put into its right place then in the binding up apply this plaister Dislocated joynt Take Wheate Bran and Hogs-grease of each as much as will suffice make them into one body and make thereof a Plaister of Hurds and so apply it to the place and after binde and swathe it up and the joynt and member will be well againe having rest §. 22. D. Hippoph WHat disease is that is called Tranchaisons Hippos This tearme we have from the French which is onely a paine or griping in the belly caused partly of winde and partly of cold and eftsoones of both and our English tearme is the Chollicke which is a most grievous paine ingendring many infirmities as I have before declared in its due place notwithstanding because you have given me the French tearme I will give you two or three French Receits for the same disease albeit I did never experiment any of them yet I doe hold them to be good Disease of Tranchaisons or the chollicke Take of
doe hold him violently then Take of London Triacle three ounces and dissolve it in Muskadine one pint and squeeze into it the iuyce of two or three good Lemons and so administer it with a horne and this will presently put the fit from him for the presâ—nt The nature of this Feaver is so malignant and so contagiously hot as that it will furre the mouth exceedingly and cause ulcers and sores to breed in the mouth and throat wherefore you shall doe the more carefully if every day you doe look into his mouth and if you can perceive it to be furred and clammy then faile you not to wash his mouth and tongue either with the syrope of Mulberries or the lotion water taught you in the precedent Section and if through his too great heat you doe finde your horses body to be costive then shall you administer this Clister Take of new milke and of sallet oyle of each halfe a pinte and of the decoction of Mallowes and of Violets of each one pinte adding thereto of Sene one ounce and of Century halfe an ounce administer this clister bloud warme and by thus ordering your Horse you will infallibly cure him of his feaver pestilent for I my selfe have cured many and I never failed in any one ✚ Provided you do give him during the time of his physicke continually morning and evening either sweet Mashes or white water and be also dieted and ordered as is fitting for a Horse that is in physicke §. 13. F. Hippoph VVHat disease is that which of some is called the Flying-Worme Hippos This malady is the same which the French Marishals doe call ver-volant which we in England doe call a Tetter or Ring worm Ver volaâ—â— and by reason it runneth up and down the body upon the skinne it is called by the name of the Flying-worme It commeth by a heat in the bloud whereby is ingendred a billious shâ—rp or hot humour which breedeth to a Tetter or Ring-worme but most commonly it seazeth the rumpe of the horse running down all along the joynts till it get into the tayle where I have known it to remain so long untill such time as it came to be a Canker but yet sometimes again it will seaze some fleshy part of the body of a horse and so torment him through its continuall itching as that the horse will with frequent rubbing himselfe against posts pales trees and walles c. as also with his teeth if he can come to the place bring away the hayre yea the skin and flesh also And this disease many ignorant Ferries have taken to be nought else but the louse of a Hog which to kill or destroy they onely apply a little sope But I have often known it to prove another thing viz. a formall Ring-worme or Tetter it is easily known by the falling away of the hayre by reason of the horses continuall scrubbing when it is in the fleshy part but if it get into the joynt betwixt the top of the rump and the tayle then you shall know it by a kinde of scab which you may with your finger feele and if you scrape or pick it away then will issue forth by little and little a kinde of thin water which being let long to run will in time runne down into his tayle from joynt to joynt and there become a Canker as I said before wherefore to prevent this inconvenience if the Tetter be in the joynt then Flying worme or Tâ—tter Take of Precipitat two drams and put it into a small viall glasse with faire water much more then will cover the powder keeping it close stopped and with this water wash the place every day once and it will infallibly cure it And alwayes so soone as you have dressed the sorance with this water and stopped it up again close then shake it together and so let it remaine untill its next dressing which ought to be twice a day But if the Tetter or Ring-worm be in any fleshy part it is killed by bathing the sorance with the juyce of Sothern-wood Maudlin and Ruâ— of each like much stamped together and strained and so let the place be washed and bathed therewith every day once or twice till it be whole ✚ I have thus cured many Tetters § 14. F. Hippoph VVHat is good to keep a Horse that he be not tormented with Flyes Hippos These Flyes are a vermine which are more bold then welcome to a Horse for what by their buzzing their biting and stinging they do infinitely annoy and afflict the poore beast causing him many times to falter in his travell and lose his pace and most commonly through his nodding and other evill postures and gestures provoked by these flyes they cause him so to fret as to loose his rain and comely carriage of hiâ— body whereby he hath bin much undervalued besides in his travell these Flyes doe so cause him to fret and fume that he both overtoyleth himselfe in his way causing him to sweat so much as that he losing his mettle hath many times thereby inflamed his bloud and brought upon himself sicknesse together with a cistemperature throughout his whole body So likewise being at grasse at what time the flye is too busie they do provoke him to run and to scope about by which meanes he being many times very full it causeth crudities and raw digestions to arise in his stomacke which breedeth surfets or other maladies wherefore for prevention thereof Take the leaves of Gourdes Pumpions or wilde or garden Cowcumbers stamp them and strain them and with the juyce thereof wash your horse all over and the flyes will not come nigh him ✚ Of this I have made often tryall Another Take an Apple of Colliquintida and slice or shred it into small pieces and boyle it in â—yle de Bay and so annoynt your horse therwith and the flyes will not approach him ✚ This is also good Another Take Mallowes stamp and strain them and with the juyce thereof wash your horse and it will keep away the flyes ✚ This is an approved good thing also Another Take Verdegreece made into very fine powder and boyle it in Vineger and wash him therewith being carefull that none get into his eyes or eares ✚ This is the best and will last longest § 15. F. Hippoph WHat is good to mollifie the foot of a Horse Hippos If your horse hath bin foundred and that after being cured his soles and hoofes doe waxe dry and hard they be either shrunk or in perill of shrinking then first take off his shoes and let him be pared somewhat close but not too neere which done with Bee-waxe molten annoynt the soles with the said molten waxe with a Goose-feather and so set on his shooes againe then three daies after Take tryed Hogs-grease and Tarre of each four ounces Feet to mollifie of fat Pitch and of Turpentine of each two ounces melt and mixe all these together and first stop his feet
it will comfort the Frush very much but if the hoofe be naturally brittle and by foundring become dry and streightned then to enlarge the same and to make it the more tough and to grow the better also Take of Hogs grease Turpentine and Masticke of each like much and halfe so much Lard as of either of them melt all these but the Turpentine on the fire and when it is well dissolved take it off and then put in your Turpentine stirring it well till it be throughly incorporate then keep it in a stone pot by it selfe and when it is through cold be sure to stop the pot very close and so reserve it for your use With this Salve annoynt the coffines but especially the Cronets every day twice at the least and it will cause the hoofe to grow very much and become tough and sound ✚ This I have often used and it is very good § 2. I. Hippoph VVHat is good to ripen an Impostumation Hippos To ripen any swelling which doth impostumate you shall know by the heat for if you lay you hand theron it will be hot and burne wherefore to prepare and make it ready to be opened Impostumation to ripen Take Mallow roots and white Lilly roots of each like much bruise them and put to them Hogs grease and Linseed meale of each so much as will suffice and boyle them till they be soft and so plaister-wise apply it to the griefe ✚ § 3. I. Hippoph VVHat is good for any inward sicknesse in a Horse Hippos I have shewed you that sufficiently before in lib. 2. cap. 3. § 6. A. where I give you three excellent receits together neverthelesse if you doe finde that your horse doe not thrive but droop and impaire I will here give you one receit more which I doe know to be most singular and will doe him much good and whereof I have had very long and great good experience First therfore if you do see cause take bloud from him but not otherwise and if he be subject to costivenesse then administer unto him either a Clister or a Suppository and the day following give him this drinke Take Aristolochia Rotunda Bay berries Gentiam Anniseeds Inward sicknessâ— Ginger and of Trifora-Magna of each one ounce beat all the simples to very fine powder and mixe them well together then take of white Wine one quart or of Sacke the like proportion which is better then put of this powder and of your Trifora-Magna one spoonfull into the Wine Salet oyle halfe a pinte and of Mithridate two drams warm these upon the fire and so administer it bloud warme and let him be exercised as well before as after his drinke but not so farre as to sweat by any meanes neither let him drinke any cold water in foure or five dayes after but either warm Mashes or else white water ✚ This is most soveraigne for any inward sicknesse droopings forsaking of meat Feavers Colds Coughs or the like § 3. I. Hippoph YOu speake hereof administring a Suppository but what Suppository were best to be given in a case of this nature Hippos I will shew you Sir if your Horse be so ficke whereby you feare to give him any strong medicine and that he be costive withall then give him this Suppository following Take of Honey sixe ounces of Salâ—niter one ounce and a halfe Inward sicknessâ— Supposiâ— of Wheat flower and of Anniseeds in fine powder of each one ounce boyle all these to a hard thicknesse and then make it into Suppositories and first annoynt your hand with Sallet oyle or sweet Butter and the Suppository also which he is to take and so convey it into his fundament a pretty way and after tye his tayle betwixt his legges as I have elsewhere shewed you or else hold it close to his body with your hand by the space of a quarter of an houre at the least till it be throughly dissolved and this will cause him to purge kindly and it will very much coole and loosen his guts then you may be the more bold to administer what Drinkes Cordials or other things which you may thinke most requisite for his recovery ✚ §. 4. I. Hippoph VVHat is good to ripen inflamations Pustils and Kernels which doe grow under the chaule of the Horse Hippos This commeth to a horse that hath either Cold or Glanders which must be dissolved otherwise the Horse can never be cured Jnflamations wherefore take Wheat Bran two handfuls and so much Wine Ale or Beere as one quart with which to thicken it put to it of Hogs grease halfe a pound boyle these together till the liquor be quite consumed and so apply it to the place so hot as the horse may well suffer it renewing it every day once till it do of it selfe breake or be so soft to be opened then let forth the corruption and taint it with a taint of flaxe dipped in this Salve Take of Turpentine and of Hogs grease of each like much and of Rosin and Waxe a much greater quantity melt all these together and with the said taynt dipped in this medicine put it into the wound renewing it every day once till it be whole ✚ This is an approved receit But if it be an inflamation impostumating in any other part of the body take then the grounds of a Beere-Barrell foure quarts of Smalage Penny-royall Winter-Savory Cumfrey Rue and of the leaves and berries of the Missell-tow of each two handfuls chop all these very small and put them to the said grounds and put to it of Sheeps or Deere Suet tryed one pound and three or foure handfuls of Rye or Wheat Bran so much indeed as will serve to boyle this to a Poultesse and when it is boyled as much as will suffice apply it to the place and if the swelling be very much impostumated it will breake it or at the least so soften it that it may be opened if it be hard at what time you put your Poultesse thereunto it will send it backe again without more to doe ✚ This I have very much experimented and have found it to be right good But if he be troubled with the Strangles and that he is very much inflamed under the chaule then cure them thus take Basilicon old Bores grease and Dialthea of each foure ounces of oyle de Bay one ounce incorporate all these well together and first clipping away the hayre from under the chaule annoynt the swelling and inflamed place therewith very well this done binde upon it a piece of Sheeps skin with the Wooll next to the inflamation that the warmth thereof may the better helpe to ripen the Pustils which being ripened open them and let forth the corruption that done taynt it first for three or foure dayes with Basilicon onely but after heale up the sorance with your blacke Aegyptiacum taught you in lib. 2. chap. 4. § 4. A. and during the time of this cure let him
doe say that the Italians use to take a spunge well dipped in strong wine vineger and bound to the Sore renewing it twice a day till the kernels doe rot then they open the neather most part of the softnesse and so let the corruption forth and then fill the hole with salt finely brayed and the next day they wash away the filth with warme water and the next day after they annoynt the Sore with Honey and Fich flower mingled together till it be whole This Cure I never made tryall of but it seemeth to me to be a very good and probable Cure Another for the Avives Take Tarre tryed Hogges grease Bay-salt and Frankinsence powdred of each so much as will suffice melt these on the fire all together then with a clout fastened to the end of a sticke boyling hot scald the places 4 or 5 mornings one after another untill the enflamed places doe become soft and ripe Then with your incision knife slit the skin and let forth the corruption then to heale up the sorances take tryed Hogges grease and Verdigrease made into fine powder melt them upon a gentle fire but suffer it not to boyle more then a waume or two at the most then take it off and put to it of ordinary Turpentine as much as will suffice and so stirre all together untill it be cold And herewith annoint the sorances daily till they be whole ✚ This is very good Master Markham in his Master piece hath a Cure for the Avives which he intituleth A most rare and certaine approved Medicine which will cure the Vives without either burning melting rotting or any such like violent exercise But as yet I did never experiment the same The cure is this Take a penniworth of pepper beaten to fine powder Swines grease a spoonefull the juyce of Rue a handfull and of Vineger two spoonfuls mixe all well together and convey it equally into both the eares of the Horse and so tye or stitch them up then shake his eares that the medicine may sinke downewards which done you shall let him bloud in the neck-veyne and in the temple-veine And this saith he is an infallible cure § 12. A. Hippoph VVHat disease is that which we doe call the Arraistes Hippos Arraistes is also a French Epitheton which is a disease we doe commonly call the Rat-tayles engendring in the heeles of a Horse not much unlike to the Scraches but that it is much more venimous and malignant It commeth of too much rest and the Keepers want of care in the not rubbing and dressing him as also by reason that the Horse standeth continually in the Stable his fore-feet being higher than his hinder-feet for by reason of his great rest and pampering the bloud corrupting in his body falles down into his hinder-legges and breedeth this disease which now we doe call the Arraistes Arraistes or Rat-Tayles Rat-tayle◠The best Cure for this Malady is first to let the Horse be ridden till he be warme whereby the veines will swell and the better appeare Let him bloud in the fetlocke veins on both sides making him to bleed well and the next day after wash the sores with warme water and then clip away all the hayre from about the Sores then annoynt the grieved places with this Oyntment viz. Take greene Coperas and Verdegreace of each two ounces and of common honey foure ounces beat your Coperas and Verde-greace very small and so worke them with your honey to a perfect unguent and herewith annoint the Sores daily till they be whole ✚ And thus we doe conclude this Chapter CHAP. V. § 1. B. Hippoph VVHat is your best way to breake and heale the backe of a Horse that is swolne Hippos We have many wayes to cure a Malady of this nature if the place be swelled and yet not ripe enough to be opened then apply that remedy which you shall finde taught you hereafter to resolve or ripen the same and when it is ripe put your incision knife unto it or a hot iron and so open it in the lowest part so as the putrifaction may the more easily passeaway then every morning inject this Lotion with a Seringe which is thus to be made viz. Backe swelled Take Honey-suckle leaves Plantine Ribwort Yarrow Bursa-Pastoris Knot-grasse and Cumphrey of each halfe a handfull boyle these in a quantity of running water till a moity be consumed then straine the herbs from the water casting away the hearbs and then set the water upon the fire again and so soon as it beginneth to boyle againe put into the said water hony of Roses one ounce Allum and Alkenet of each two drams stirre all these well together and let it boyle till these latter ingredients be well dissolved then take it from the fire and when it is cold put it into a cleane glasse keeping it close stopped for your use Vse this water every day five or sixe dayes together and it will cure any Sorance in the backe or other part of the body provided that to skin the sore you apply a rag made wet in the said water ✚ Another Receit I have wherewith I have cured many galled backs and other sorances which is as followeth Take water and salt and boyle them well together and first wash the sore place therewith Then take Pepper made into very fine powder and strew it upon the sore it will heale it in very short time ✚ A third I have much more soveraigne than the two former which cureth not onely all galled backs but any other wound whatsoever Take Rosin and common Pitch of each sixe ounces Masticke and Incense of each one ounce Turpentine Galbanum Bolearmonacke of each three ounces melt dissolve and incorporate all these together upon a gentle fire and as they doe begin to coole make them up into rolles and when you would use this Salve spread it upon a cloath or leather somewhat thin but if you be to use it without either cloath or leather to any outward part that is not yet broken then lay it on much thicker than you use to doe plaister-wise and whilst it is warme clap flocks of the same colour upon it This Emplastrum as it cureth any swelling gall wound sore or hurt so it ripeneth breaketh and healeth all impostumations biles and pustils It is also a most excellent defensative plaister for the staying and drying up of all evill humours and also very soveraign for asswaging of swellings ✚ Another Receit I have taught me by a worthy Knight but I never made use thereof Take the leaves of Asmart and wash them and lay them all over the place and albeit you ride him every day yet will he heale very fast But if he doe remaine in the Stable without exercise if you put the water of the leaves upon the place it will heale him speedily Another Receit I have which was taught me by a French Marishall howbeit I made no tryall thereof but he
the Halter catcheth into the Pasterne Ioynt which he feeling falleth to striving whereby he casteth himselfe downe and by meanes of the hardnesse of the Cord he is gauled even to the very bone and many times if he be not opportunely rescued the Halter doth strangle him and he found starck dead But if the Horse do escape with life he will be neverthelesse terrible gauled which will soone rankle and swell unlesse cure be presently administred The signe whereby to know it is apparant enough I will give you only two Receipts for this sorance whereof the first shal be this viz. Take the leafe of the hearb called Saubsucus Cast in a Halter stamp it and strayn it and take only the juyce thereof and apply the said juyce to the sorance by washing it therewith after take a linnen cloth white and cleane and make it into three or foure folds steeping the cloath in the said juyce and bind it on to the place grieved but in Winter when the said Leafe is not to be had you must take the second rinde thereof and do therewith as before but then note that before you wash and apply the saide juyce to the wound you must first wash the sorance with warme Water and then apply your said juyce and he shal be perfectly cured in short time This I never yet experienced by reason I could never yet meete with the Hearb This second I have often tryed and I have found it to bee infallible viz. Make a Rowle of fat Wooll and steepe the same in Vineger and Sheepes Suet so much as will suffice boyled together till it commeth to bee very thick and let the Rowle bee full as long or rather somewhat longer then the place gauled apply this to the sorance Plaister-wise and bind upon it a cleane Linnen cloth changing it twise a day and in short time it wil be whole This is right good ✚ § 2. C. Hippoph VVHat Cure have you for a Canker Hippos This is a very loathsome Sorance which if it be suffred to run long will so fester and corrupt the place where it hapneth that it will violently eate even to the bone if it fall upon the Tongue it will eate the very roote in sunder if in the Nose it will eate the very Gristle through You may easily know this Sorance for that the places wil be very raw and bleed often and many times you shall perceive a white Scurfe to grow upon the place grieved For it is a most Cankerous Vlcer which ofttimes is engendred of a fretting humour It commeth two waies that is eyther of naughty and corrupt bloud procured by meanes of unwholesome meate or by some Bilious Humour which came to the Horse by an extreame cold not long before taken which will cause his bteath to stinke loathsomely Canker I will deliver unto you sundry cures for this sorance which my selfe have experimented and have found them to be very good Take white Wine halfe a pint Roch Alome the quantity of a Wall-nut Bay-salt halfe a Spoonefull English Honey one Spoonefull Red-Sage Rue Ribwort Honey-Suckle Leaves Yarrow Plantine Bramble-leaves of each like much but of every one a little boyle all these in the white Wine so much as will suffice till a quarter be consumed and then first inject of this Water into the sorance or else if the Canker be in the Mouth wash the place with a clout fastned to a sticks end and so dresse him therewith twice a day or oftner if you shall see cause till it be whole ✚ Another Take greene Coperas and Alome of each one pound white Coperas foure drammes boyle these in a pottle of running Water untill almost the one moiety bee consumed then take it from the fire and put into it of Honey half a pound then holding up his Head with a Drenching Staffe but yet not too high with a Pewter or Elder Sering or Squirt inject it into his Nose if the Canker be there bloud warme which done give presently his head liberty whereby hee may snuffle and blow forth the corruption and faile not to inject him thus three or foure times one after the other at every dressing and do thus Morning and Evening till it bee whole which will not be long ✚ But if it be only a sore Mouth and that it come to be a Canker then Take of the strongest white Wine Vineger and make it thick with powdred Alome and so wash the sorance therewith two or three dayes together for this will kill and destroy the Vlcer then heale up the Sorance thus viz. Take of faire Water a quart Alome and Honey of each foure ounces Maudeline leaves red Sage and Columbine leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in the Water till halfe bee consumed and every day twice that is Morning and Evening wash his Mouth therwith bloud-warme and it will heale him ✚ Another First make this strong Alome Water viz. Take Alome halfe a pound Hony halfe a pint red Sage and Wood-bind-leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in faire water till halfe bee consumed with this Water and Hearbs wash and rub the Sores till they become red and raw then take white Wine Vineger halfe a pint Alome powdred two ounces Ginger powdred halfe an ounce and of life Honey halfe a pint mix all these well together and therewith annoynt the sore Morning and Evening and it will cure him ✚ All these Receipts I have made tryall of and have found them to be right good Another Take the juyce of the Root Asphodill seven ounces Quick-lime Arsnick of each two ounces beat and incorporate all these together and put them into a new pot close stopped and let it boyle till it come to ashes these ashes you shall apply to the Sorance twice a day but the sore must be first washed with strong Vineger as before is taught §. 3. C. Hippoph HOw cure you that Horse who hath cast his Hoofe Hippos This is a troublesome Sorance yet with care it may be cured it commeth either by meanes of some Foundring or by an Accloy Prick Stub Graveling Quitterbone or other hurt within the Foote which breaking out above round about the Cronet and in time the Hoofe breaking it falleth from the Foote I neede relate no Signes whereby to know the same The Cure is thus Take Aquafortis the strongest you can get Casting the hoofe and first with a Rape or Drawing Iron file or draw away the old hoofe somewhat neere then touch the hoofe so prepared with your Aquafortis three or foure severall dressings and no more This done annoynt the Foote with the Vnguent we doe commonly make for Horses Feete viz. Take Hogs-grease three pound Pach-grease two pound Venice-Turpentine one pound new Wax halfe a pound Sallet-Oyle one pound Melt and mix all these upon the fire and herewith chafe rub and annoint the Coffin of the Hoofe up to the very top and this will bring a new hoofe ✚
it come by ranknesse of seed or of bloud then let him have a Mare and cover her two or three dayes together and halfe an houre after ride him into the water above the cods or stones against the streame and he will doe well ✚ But if this disease come by other causes then Take the Lees of Claret Wine and Comen-seed made into fine powder and a little Wheat or Beane flower boyle these together to an unguent and so warme as he may well endure it annoint the cods therewith which done draw forth his yard and wash it and his sheeth also with white wine vineger and three or foure houres after ride him into the water above the cods and let him also stand in the water some short time and sometimes ride him against the streame doe this every day till the swelling be asswaged ✚ This is a very good Cure Another Take the roots of wild Cucumbers and white salt so much as will suffice boyle these in faire water to an oyntment and annoynt the cods therewith warme and then apply this oyntment Take Goats grease or for default thereof Deeres suet the white of an Egge and Sallet oyle boyle these over a gentle fire and herewith annoynt the cods but this must be applyed after he hath been ridden into the water and dry againe doe this every day once till he be well ✚ This I have often tryed and have found it to be right good Another First annoynt and bathe the cods in the juyce of Hemlock and when it is dryed then Take Pigeons dung and new Milke and boyle it till it be as thick like to a Poultesse and therewith annoint the cods every day once Another First let him bloud in both the spur or flanck veines Then take oyle of Roses and vineger of each a pinte and of Bolearmonack in fine powder two ounces make all these into one body and being luke-warme annoynt the cods therewith and the next day ride him into the water up to the cods against the streame then bring him into the stable and when he is through dry annoynt him againe thus continuing to do till he be well But if the cods be swolne by meanes of any hurt bite or stroke then apply to them this following charge A charge for swelled cods Take Bolearmonack in powder vineger and the whites of Egges as much as will suffice well beaten and wrought together and annoynt him therewith daily till it be abated and if it impostumate where you finde it to be soft open it either with a hot iron or with your incision knife if it breake not of it selfe and so heale it up with the oyntment taught you in lib 2. cap. 10. § 4. and it will soone be whole ✚ This is very soveraigne §. 11. C. Hippoph VVHat say you to the Collick Hippos It is Sir a disease which commeth of winde and therefore we generally call it the winde collicke the French call this disease the Tranchaisons Collicke it causeth great gripings and extreame paine in the belly of the Horse so as he will oft times lye down and tumble he will also strike at his belly with his hinder feet and stamp with his fore-feet and the paine will be so great as to cause him to forsake his meat these signes I have often observed in Horses perplexed with this malady and albeit I have sundry Receits for it and all or the most of them by me tryed and approved good yet one of Master Blundeviles and Master Markhams I hold inferiour to none of mine for I have often tryed it and this is it Take a quart of Muskadine or of sweet Sack of Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each halfe an ounce Sugar two ounces make all these into fine powder and give it him bloud warme then annoynt his flankes with oyle de Bay but I often use to annoynt them with the oyntment of Acopum I finding it to be much better then bridle him up and trot him out a good round trot or gallop him softly sometimes the space of an houre untill he doe dung but if he will not then rake him or else put an Onyon pilled and jagged into his fundament then for three or foure dayes let his drinke be either sweet Mashes or white water and keep him warme and he will doe well againe ✚ Another Keep him fasting over night and in the morning give him this drinke Take of white Wine a quart Fenugrick foure ounces Bay-berries and Pepper of each foure ounces Graines and Ginger of each one ounce Water-Cresses two handfuls Sage one handfull Sengrene one pound Mints a handfull stampe the hearbs and pound the spices and put them into the wine and let it boyle a little then straine it and put to it of life Honey two spoonfuls and so give it him bloud-warme ✚ This I have also found to be very good notwithstanding if he be a stoned Horse the best cure for him is to have a Mare especially if he be so troubled with the collicke so as that he cannot pisse besides it helpeth and preventeth sundry sorts of sicknesses and diseases and strengtheneth nature ✚ Another Take of white Wine one pinte and three or foure Cantharides and make them into very fine powder and give this to the Horse well brewed in wine bloud-warme This I never tryed for that these flyes being a strong corasive have deterred me howsoever I have been often invited thereunto by many good Ferriers who have averred unto me that they have often used it and have found it to be right good Another Take Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each one ounce all made into fine powder and well mixed then put it into a quart of Muskadine and let it boyle a while then take it off and put to it of Honey one spoonfull give it him bloud-warme which done cloath him up and litter him and so let him stand upon his trench foure houres then give him meat and an houre after a sweet Mash or white water This was taught me by a Noble Knight who said he had often used it But if your Horse hath the collicke and stone then Take of white wine one pinte of Burr-seeds eight ounces Collicke and Stone made into fine powder of Parsley-seed two ounces in powder also of Isope unset Leekes and Water-Cresses of each halfe a handfull of black Sope halfe an ounce stamp all the hearbs in a morter and straine them with the Wine then put to that liquor your Burre and Parsley seeds and so give it him bloud-warme this will breake the stone and bring it from him with much ease and cure his Collicke ✚ This I have often administred § 12. C. Hippophyl VVHat Disease is that which is called the Colt Evill Hyppos It is a disease in the yard sheath and cods of a Horse or Gelding and it commeth to Horses by meanes of heat and ranknesse of seed and to a Gelding by weaknesse and coldnesse of seed to the Horse through
to be equivalent to either of the two former Another Tâ—ke water and salt so much as will suffice brew them well together it then being made bloud-warme give it him and doe after as is usuall ✚ This for a new taken cold I have often used and I doe finde it to be singular good to be given to a young Horse Another Take of oyle de Bay of Anniseeds and of Licoris of each one halfe penny worth and of browne sugar-candy a penny worth make all these into fine powder and being well mixed sew it up into a fine linnen rag and so fasten it unto the Bit or Snaffle of the Horse and so ride a journey and travell him and in short space he will be cured if it be a new-taken cold onely ✚ This I have also proved and I doe finde it good for it will cure both cold and cough if it be rightly applyed to wit with riding and exercise Another Take of white Wine one pinte Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte Rubarb and Aloes and Saffron of each two drams Nutmeg Sene Agarick Bay-berries Duke or Dutch powder and of Cordiall powder of each halfe an ounce mixe all these together and then adde to it of Honey foure ounces warme them well in a Pipkin and give it him to drinke bloud-warme but let him stand upon the trench at least three houres before and three houres after neither let him for all that day eate any Oates but in its stead let him have Wheate-bran and let his drinke be that day either a warme Mash or white water and no cold water but this white water for foure or five daies after and put into his Provender for some time Fennugrick made into grosse powder ✚ This is a most soveraigne drinke to be given for a cold But if you do finde that his head is very much oppressed with a Pose or Catar then give him this drinke twice a day viz. Take Fenugrick one ounce and boyle it in a good quantity of water till it burst then mixe with the decoction thereof wheate meale as much as will suffice and give it him to drink Another Take a quart of the best Ale and warme it upon the fire and put into it so much Tobacco made into fine powder as you can take up upon a shilling at twice and as much dryed Rosemary in fine powder as you may take up upon a shilling at once give him this to drink bloud-warme in a morning fasting This drinke is called Potio-Necotiana but I did never make tryall thereof for that I once saw it given by a Ferrier to a sicke Horse which so wrought with him as that with all his Lenitives and Cordials the Ferrier had much labour to save the life of the poore Horse this potion was so violent which notwithstanding drove the Horse into a most dangerous Calentura But the next is better Take a Hens egge and make a hole in the top thereof no bigger than that you may get forth the white and yolke Then take Tarre and sweet Butter of each like much as much as will suffice incorporate these well together into one body and so convey it into the egge shell and give it your Horse three or foure mornings together and either journey him gently or else ride him three or foure houres after it which done bring him into the Stable and cloath him up warme and litter him well and let him be well rubbed and so keep him upon the trench two houres after and then give him Hay and an houre after give him either a warme Mash or white water and this will help a cold newly taken ✚ This will not make him sicke for I have often made tryall of it Another as good as this Take the long white mosse that groweth upon an old dry Parke pale one handfull chop it small and put it into a pottle of good Ale or Beere till one halfe be consumed then take it off and straine and presse it hard and put into the liquor of Anniseeds and Licoris of each halfe a spoonfull and a piece of sweet Butter and so give it him three mornings together fasting and it will cure him X Another if he hath taken a cold or poze in the head Take a quart of Muskadine or sweet Sacke of Nutmegs Pepper Cominseed Graines Bay-berries of each three drams all made into fine powder boyle these a waume or two then take it off and put into it a piece of sweet Butter and give it your Horse three mornings together bloud-warme let him all those three dayes be kept warme neither let him drinke any cold water but either a sweet Mash or white water yea and that three or four dayes after and during these three dayes let him fast three houres after the receit of his said medicine Also three dayes after when you perceive the cold to begin to breake from him and to rot cause him to sneeze by blowing into either nostrils either the powder of Tobacco or of Pepper or of Elebore X Another which will cure a longer-taken cold yea though it be accompanyed with a dry cough and shortnesse of breath or pursivenesse which I had of Master Markham and I have often made tryall thereof and it hath done cures which have been held impossible to have been effected Take of the conserve of Elecampane three quarters of an ounce and dissolve it in a pinte and a halfe of sweet Sacke and so give it your Horse with a horne in a morning fasting and ride him gently a little after and thus doe sundry times untill you doe finde the infirmity to decrease Hippoph But Hipposerus this Conserve of Elecampane I doe suppose is hard to come by for surely every Countrey Apothecary hath it not how then may a Man make this Confection you so much commend Hippos Sir this Conserve I make my selfe and I will give you the receipt hereof You must understand that there bee two kinds thereof the one is called particularly a Preserve and the other an absolutâ— Conserve The first is Simple the other Compound both very soveraigne for this Infirmity but the Conserve is evermore to bee esteemed the better and I do counsell you never to be without either of them for they will keep the whole yeere through if they be reserved close stopped Wherefore as touching the first which is the Simple you must preserve it like as you doe all other greene rootes and so keepe them in a Gally pot or Glasse in a good quantity of its owne Sirop till you have occasion to use the same and when you are to use it let it bee beaten well in a Morter together with its Sirop and refined Sugar made first into very fine powder Now your Compound or Conserve is thus made First let your roots of Elecampâ—ne be neatly Candied and made very dry and hard and get the best and youngest Rootes can be had which must be kept also in a Gally pot or Glasse close stopped
can neither swallow it downe into his Body nor cast it up at his Mouth The cure is Put the cord of your Drenching Staffe into his teeth Eate a feâ—ther and hold his head up on high then take of Verjuyce of the crab one pint and two new laid Egges and beate them together shels and all with the Verjuice and so give it him with a Horne and so soone as hee hath swallowed the same give him a few small branches of Savine and this will carry away the feather into his stomacke ✚ This I have very ofttentimes done and made him well againe § 3. E. Hippoph BVt then what Cure have you for a Horse that hath eaten a Spider which I take to be much more perillous to the life of the Horse Hippos The signes to know this is like to that of the Taint but only that he will swell much more and this may befall him rather in Winter then in Summer for which give him this drinke Take Vrine of a Man newly made one quart of Rue Bittony Eate a Spider Scabious Pimpernell Dragons of each a like much but in such a quantity as in the whole all will amount but only to one handfull chop these hearbs together small and let them boyle together in the Vrine a little adding thereto of Bay-salt and Sallet-oyle of each one Spoonefull and so give it him bloud warme ✚ Now if it be in Winter Take of Vrine one quart Arement one lumpe Aristolochia rotunda Mithridate of each one dramme English Saffaron one scruple Sallet-oyle one Spoonefull Bezar-stone three graines let these bee set on the fire and given him bloud warme if it be in Summer turne him to grasse and if need be rake him and then convey into his Tuell a ball of fresh Butter But if it be in Winter let him be also raked and give him of the blades of Greene Rie to a good quantity and for his Provender let it be for two or three meales of scalded bran and Hempseed and let his drinke for three or foure dayes bee white water ✚ These are all approved medicines §. 4. E. Hippophyl VVHat is good for a blow on the Eye whereby aswell to save the Eye as to asswage the swelling thereof Hippos This needes no study as well to find out the meanes how it commeth as the signes how to know it for both are apparant enough there only remayneth to treate of the Cure Shave off the hayre from off and about the place swelled having first well bathed it in warme water then Eye a stroak Take the tenderst tops of wormwood Pellitory and Branca-Vrsina of each halfe a handfull chop the hearbs very small and then beate them to an oyntment with old Boares-grease so much as will suffice then put to it of life hony and Wheate flower of each one Spoonefull and of Lynseed-oyle three Spoonefull boyle these over the fire very well keeping it with continuall stirring and when it is sufficiently well boyled straine it into a gally pot and keepe it stopped and as occasion is offered anoynt the place swelled herewith ✚ §. 5. E. Hippoph VVHat remedy is to bee had for the Eye that is charged with a Filme Pinne and Webbe or with Dragons c Hippos These diseases in the Eye do come sometimes by meanes of some payne in the head which causeth a Rheume to fall into the Eyes and sometimes by meanes of Rheumes themselves which causing the Eyes to water do ingender these diseases and sometimes againe it is occasioned by meanes of a strip or hay-dust or some hame which may be gotten into the Eye I need not deliver you the signes whereby to know them they are visible to your sight The cure therefore is thus Eye Filme Pin and web Dragons Take Camfire or Sol Armoniacum or for want of eyther of these white-Sugar-Candy any of these three being made into very fine powder and blowne into the Eye three times a day are most soveraigne to cure these diseases in the Eyes of a Horse but Sol Armoniacum is the very best of them all ✚ But if a Filme or Pearle without a Pin and Web do grow in the Eye then take up both the two weeping-veines first which are under the Eyes and then give a Cauterize to eyther place viz. to open the skinne all along to the very Eyes and put in to each of them a quill cut in the middle then oft-times cleanse them and comfort the places Cauterized or roweled with unguentum-Populeum and wash the Eyes every day three times with Eye-bright water mingled with the juyce of Smallage and about fifteene dayes after take away the quils and after wash the Eyes with cold Fountaine-water Another But if it be a Pin and Web then Take Cuttle bone Tartar Salt-Gemme of each like much Pin anâ— make them all into pure fine powder and with a quill blow of this fine powder well mixed into his Eye two or three times a day or oftner ✚ This have I tryed and have found it to be speciall good But if be a Pearle that the horse hath in his Eye then Take the angriest tops of red-Nettles and stamp them well Pearlâ— Filme and put them into a fine cleane linnen Rag then dip the Nettles as they be in the Rag into Beere but yet very slightly and so wring forth the juyce of the said Nettles into some cleane thing which done put to it a little salt so much as will suffice made first into fine powder and when the salt is dissolved convey one drop of the medicine into the grieved Eye morning and evening and this will take away the Pearle and the Eye will become as cleare as the other ✚ This I have often tryed and found it to do rare cures in this kinde Now for a Pin and web any of these ensuing will cure it Take the sword of a Gammon of Bacon and dry it Pin anâ— and make it into powder blow thereof into the grieved Eye ✚ This is good Another Take the juyce of ground-Ivy alias Ale-hoofe Selendine life-hony and womans milke of each of these so much as will suffice mixe all these well and put it into the Eye of the Horse ✚ Another Take the powder of the bottome of a Brasse pot the outermost black being first taken off the next powder let it be blown into the Eye of the Horse and it will helpe him Another Take the powder of burnt Alume or of a black-flint or the powder of Ginger eyther of these made into fine powder and blowne into the Eye of the Horse will helpe a Pinne and webbe Another Take â—â—lt Arment and make it into very fine powder and put thereto of life-honey and fresh butter of each so much as will suffice incorporate all these well together and so convey of this medicine into the Eye of the Horse and this will cure a Pin and web ✚ But if there be a Hawe Hawe
of sicknesse which hath already seized him as in cases of Glanders Feavers Morfounding Consumption Dropsie and the like whereby it is made most apparant that he feedeth not because he is already sicke As touching the first poynt if you doe perceive him to forsake his meate and that you cannot easily finde the reason thereof then the first thing you doe search his mouth lips and tongue and if you finde any thing there amisse let it be presently amended but if you cannot finde any thing there amisse then examine his keeper and if you may perceive that it came through his default or negligence either by the cloying him with Provender or otherwise according as I have heretofore touched then give him a few branches of Savin and let him be ayered abroad keeping him upon the Trench fasting to procure him a stomack and then feed him by degrees and that by a little at once so he will fall to his meat againe with good appetite feed heartily and doe well againe ✚ But if you doe finde that his forsaking of meat commeth by meanes of any sicknesse which hath already seized him then give him this drink viz. Forsaking meat Take of white Wine one quart Polipodium of Oake a red Cole-wort-leafe Hore-hound Mints she-Holly Iuniper-berries Ginger Parsley-seeds Fennell-seeds of each three ounces beate into fine powder what is to be powdred and chop and stamp the hearbs small and so put all into the Wine and boyle them a pretty while then strain it and give it your horse bloud warme then leap his back and trot him softly upon faire ground an houre but not to sweat by any means then so soon as he commeth into the stable cloath and litter him warm and wash his mouth with water and salt and set him upon the Trench and put over his nostrils a fine linnen ragge steeped in sowre leven infused first in the best and strongest white Wine Vineger and the juyce of Sorrell and let him stand so three houres at the least then unbit him and bring him meat but by little at once for feare of cloying his weake stomacke neither let him have any Mashes or cold water but white water onely untill such time as he hath found his stomack againe ✚ This I have often made tryall of and have found it to be right good Another Take Rue and Pepper of each like much stamp them together to a thick salve then take a good lump thereof and put it up a good way into his mouth and let him champ and chew it a good while and so soon as you doe suffer him to open his mouth he will put it out and fall to feeding heartily ✚ This is not inferiour to the former Another Take the leaves of Briony and give him them to eate and it will bring him to a good stomack suddenly This was taught me by a very good Ferrier who avowed it to me to be speciall good but I never made triall thereof § 29. F. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a running Frush Hippos This is a naughty sorance which I have heard rurall Smiths to call the Frog by reason that it breedeth in that spungy part of the heele which they call the Frog This sorance comes sometimes when the Smith inconsiderately as he pareth that part doth goe to the quicke whereby it bleedeth which after becommeth sore and commeth to the running Frush for that the horse being travelled whilst it is raw and so the gravell getting into it doth cause the place to rankle and impostumate and it will come in short time to be a running sore which will so stinke as not well to be endured sometimes again it commeth by reason of evill humours which do fall down into the legges and makes its way out at the Frush it being the softest and tendrest part of all the foot And sometimes it commeth by a bruise which the horse may easily take by treading upon some stone which inwardly corrupting putrifieth and so is engendred a running Frush The signes to know it is the horse will goe lame either upon hard or durty wayes whereby the gravell doth get in and fret and paine him at the quick and you shall perceive that when he resteth the Frush will weep sending forth watery stuffe from the Frush The way to cure it is Take stale Chamberlye Frush ruâ—ning and boyle it with a good quantity of Allum and keep it in a glasse close stopped by it selfe for your use Then take of red Nettles two handfuls the strongest and keenest dry them that they may be made into fine powder then look what quantity of this powder you have adde also unto it the like quantity of Pepper made also into very fine powder and mixe them very well together and keep it either in some dry bladder or boxe for your use also and when you have occasion to use this water and powder for this sorance first take off the shooe and open the Frush so that you may come unto the very bottome then wash the sorance very cleane and well with this water made warme then put on the shooe again but first let it be hollowed that it hurt not the Frush and let the heeles of the shooe be wide enough then the sorance being thus cleane washed and purged from all gravell and mattrative stuffe and the shooe set on as aforesaid fill the wound full with this powder and stop it with Hurds and splent it that the Hurds may keep in the powder and that nothing get to the sore and thus wash and renew the powder to the place grieved every day once and in a weeke or little more it will be perfectly sound and whole againe provided you suffer not any dung to come to the griefe and that he tread not in any wet during the time of the Cure neither should he goe forth of the Stable ✚ And thus have I cured many horses of this malady Another Take of Soot and bay-Salt of each one handfull and pound them very well together having opened and washed the sorance as before is shewed and put unto your Soot and Salt the whites of three new laid Egges and so temper and beat all well together till you bring it to one entire body then dip some hurds therein and so stop not onely the place it selfe being opened and made raw but all the sole besides and so stop up the Frush splenting it in such sort whereby the medicine may be kept in and thus let him be dressed once a day and ordered as before is premonished and he soone will be whole and sound ✚ This I have often proved and cured many sorances of this nature §. 30. F. Hippoph VVHat is best to cure a Fret Hippos This disease you call the Fret is onely gripings and pain in the belly which commeth of sundry causes The French doe call it Tranchaisons which doe signifie gripings it is the plaine Collicke caused of winde sometimes of bilious and sharp humours
white Elebore of each one ounce incorporate these well together and first make the places raw then annoynt them with the said Oyntment ✚ This is very good for I have often tryed it Another Take of Hempe-seed and of Mutton-suet of each one pound bray the Hempe-seed merveylous well in a Morter then take of old Bores-grease one pound Verdegrease Quick-silver Elebore Gunpowder Tartar of each foure drams of Brimstone three ounces make all into very fine powder that is to be powdred and mix them well making them into one body and then dissolve them upon a gentle fiâ—e keeping them alwaaies stirring till it be enough and sufficiently dissolved and when it is cold put it into a cleane Pot and keep it for your Vse and when you have occasion to make use thereof first scarrify the places and then annoyt them holding a hot Barre of iron neere and in three or foure times thus dressing he will be well ✚ This is a most soveraigne receipt for this malady for I have had great proofe thereof Another whereby to cure the Mainge in the Maine or Tayle Make Ashes of the hearb called Abscinthus so much as will suffice quick-lime Soot of each so much as will suffice mingle all these together and with warm water make a Ly thereof with which you shall wash the Maine and Tayle in the places infected this Ly will not only cure this Malady but also cause the hayre to grow againe very fast This was taught me by a very good Marishall of France but I cold never make use thereof by reason the hearbe Abscinthus was hard to get here Another Take a little Brimstone Masculine-Frankinsence Niter of Tartar of the Bark of Ashen-trees Vitreall Verdegrece Black-Helebore Aristolochia Rotunda of each as much as will suffice powder all your simples and mixe them well together with the yolks of Egges and Sallet oyle of each as much as will suffice and so boyle it and annoynt the place well therewith warm This seems to be good but I never tryed it Another for the tayle Take Mulberries which be not ripe with the bark of the roots of the Mulberry tree and Barly of each as much as will suffice boyle all these in faire water and wash the places grieved therewith and if the sorance do open of it selfe then take Sanguis Draconis the juyce of Leeks Salt Pitch Sallet oyle and old Bores grease of each as much as will suffice and make thereof a salve and apply it plaister wise but this I never tryed Another Take of Orpin one pound Brimstone and Euforbium of each one ounce Cantharides twenty five make all these into fine powder and with Hogs grease make it into an Vnguent and apply it to the sorance rubbing it in all along the places visited and foure or five dayes after to the end the corruption may the more easily passe away annoint him againe with Hogs grease onely and when the scurfe is falne off wash the necke of the horse with Buck-lye made bloud-warme and he will doe well ✚ This is a very good receit Another You must first scrape the leprous places till they do bleed then take of Vineger one pinte white Elebore Cantharides Euforbium of each one ounce make all these into fine powder and boyle them all well together and apply it very hot to the place grieved then when the scurfe or crust is fallen away wash the sorance with Buck-lye mixed with black Sope and it will be well ✚ This is a speciall good receit Another Take of the oyle of Hempseed halfe a pinte Brimstone in fine powder one ounce Gunpowder finely pulverized and Quick-silver of each halfe an ounce and a little Vineger then beat them all together a long time and so apply it cold to the place and as you do annoynt him let one stand by with a hot bar of iron wherby to cause it the better to sinke in and this will cure him in few times dressing but suffer the crust to fall away of its own accord ✚ This is a most pretious receit Another Take of Vineger one pinte and a halfe Euforbium halfe an ounce made into fine powder boyle them well together and boyling hot wash the sorance therewith and it will heale it neither need you to clip away the hayre unlesse you please ✚ This I have often used Another Take of black or blew Slat and make it into fine powder and mingle it with fresh Butter of each like much mixe them well together to a perfect Vnguent and annoynt the place therewith and it will cure him but this I never tryed Another Take of the hearb called in French Ouraige one handfull boyle it in Vineger two quarts then take of green Coperas halfe a pound and of Salt two handfuls rub the place therewith so hot as he may well suffer it and in few times dressing him thus it will cure him This I had of a French Marishall but because I could never finde the hearb Ouraige I did never make tryall thereof Another Take of white Wine Vineger halfe a pinte Cantharides in fine powder one ounce boyle them together and boyling hot apply it to the sorance and your Horse will sooner be cured ✚ This I have often tryed and it is very good Thus I have delivered you many receits for this one malady which we call the mainge most of them I have tryed and can promise them to be speciall good whereof many will not onely cure the mainge in the body it selfe but in the mayne and tayle also if you please to make use of them Another most excellent receit for the mainge Take Lithurgie of gold two pound beat it to very fine powder and searce it through a fine searcer and put it into a glasse which will hold a potttle then put thereto of the strongest and best white Wine Vineger that can be gotten three pintes or better and for foure and twenty hours after shake it together ever and anone but the first time it must be beaten or shaken a good time together to wit a quarter of an houre at the least without intermission and then let it settle and so keep it in the same glasse close stopped for your use Now when you would use the medicine you must make it into a salve after this manner Take of the oyle of Roses two ounces and of the cleerest of the said Vineger in the glasse which must not have any of the Lithurgie in it two ounces also beat these together with a wodden splatter untill you have brought it into a thick salve Take then of Quick-silver the weight of a shilling and first mortifie it very well in a little of the sirrup of Damaske Roses the quantity of sixe or eight drops and about three or four drops of the spirit or oyle of Turpentine with the sirrup and oyle mingle and work these things well untill the Quick-silver be very well mortified then mixe it well with the former
a little Hay sprinkled with water and eight or nine houres after the taking of his Pill which will be about three of the clocke give him white Water to drinke and let him eate of the Branne then at night when you are to go to bed put a muzell upon his mouth und let him remaine so all night fasting and let him be warme covered and the next morning unmusell him and give him Hay sprinkled with water to eate and continue to let his drinke bee white Water only the third day give him another of these Pils after which you may begin to give him Oates but a little at once but then the dayes he do not take his Pils you must remember ever more an houre after you give him his white Water to give him of Agarick and of Rubarb in powder of each one ounce which he must take in fresh or sweet Butter made up like to a Pill This Purgation may be given to any Horse but especially to that Horse you shall feare is in danger to become eyther pursive of Glandery and if perhaps the Malady to have beene longer upon him give him then of Antimony thirty graines drams more or lesse according to the strength and age of the horse and also according to the nature and quality of the disease and if after the application of this medicine your horse will not feed as it may be very probably you may cherish him with milke mingled with the yolkes of Egges and Sugar well beaten and brewed together ✚ This I applyed to a horse of more then twelve yeares old who in seven dayes eate not one bit of any thing but onely the said Milke Egges and Sugar and yet in fourteen dayes after I cured him and made him perfectly healthy and sound §. 8. P. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you for a horse that pisseth bloud Hippos This disease comes sometimes being troubled with the stone like as we have it often times among men sometimes it comes to a horse that being very fat is put to more then his strength is well able to performe like as I once saw a very proper Gelding a young Gentleman being upon his back in hunting who comming to a great leap and the horse being ridden off from his winde his Rider inconsiderately forcing him to take that leap which the Gelding with much difficulty tooke but withall fell and was not able to arise but with the help of men and comming home the same night he pissed bloud whereof he dyed four dayes after maugre the endeavours of three very able Ferriers and being opened they found two veynes broken neere to the kidneys and much blacke bloud found in the place This malady may also come by bearing too great a weight as also when a horse is too hard ridden he will pisse water like to bloud your eye sheweth you the disease and therefore it needs no further remonstrance The cure is Take of Ambrosio Sanguinario alias Bloud-wort and Bursa Pastoris Pissing of bloud of each three ounces stamp them well and boyle them in faire water very well and so give the liquor thereof being strained to the horse bloud warme ✚ Give him this five mornings together and it will help him Another Take Barly and boyle it in the juyce of Gumfolly and give him the Barly to eate and the liquor to drink and this will cure him ✚ This is also very good Another First cleanse his yard from all filth and his sheath also with broken Beer and Butter then let him bloud in the necke and mouth then take the juyce of Leeks or green Onyons to wit the water wherein they have been steeped twelve or sixteen hours at the least the vessell wherein they be steeped being kept close stopped Take of this liquor and of white Wine of each one pinte and stir and jumble them together till they become slimy then give it him to drink and do this sixe or seven mornings together and it will stay his fluxe of bloud and bring his urine to its naturall and ordinary colour ✚ This is a very good medicine and I have often tryed it Another no whit inferiour to the former Take Beane flower finely sifted and adde unto it the Suet of a Stagge as much as will suffice and give it him three mornings together warme with a horn with a sufficient quantity of red Wine and during that time let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white watâ—r made with Beane meale ✚ This is an approved good receit §. 9. P. Hippoph VVHat good receit have you for a horse that hath taken a surfet by Provender Hippos This comes commonly to such horses as are insatiable feeders and therefore it is requisite that they be dyeted especially if they have too much rest and too little exercise for such horses if they can either breake or steale to a Bing of Provender and drink presently after will undoubtedly surfet upon them for drinking after Oates Pease or Beanes doth cause the Provender to swell in their belly and stomacke and so clogge the stomacke as that crudities will arise and so cause him to be very sicke yea and perhaps to no little danger that you shall see him to stand with his four legges asunder the one farre from the other and he will scowâ—e and cast forth of his fundament corn which will goe forth as whole and entire as he did greedily swallow them without chewing or grinding them The cure is first open a veyne in the necke to keep the bloud from inflaming then draw his yard and wash it with broken Beere and Butter then anoynt it with soft grease and put into the pipe of his yard a small piece of a clove of Garlick whereby to provoke him to stale then rack him and give him the Clister prescribed in lib. 2. cap. 6. Sect. 8. Clister 8. C. and it is called a Clister lenative then keep him warm and to a spare dyet for four or five dayes after and let his drink be white water during that time ✚ with this receit I have cured many a horse but one horse amongst the rest of very great price who otherwise had infallibly dyed § 10. P. Hippoph HOw doe you cure the Poll-evill Hippos This mallady we do tearm the Poll-evill because it breedeth in the top of the Poll behinde the eares of the horse but let it assume what name it shall yet it is none other thing then a Fistula in graine that is a formall Fistula which doth begin like all other Fistulaes with a great inflamation and imposthume in the nape of the necke sometimes it comes by meanes of his unruly striving the halter being new and therefore hard which doth so pinch and gall him that the harm thereof by reason that the flesh is bruised doth fester and inflame and from thence is ingendred this most lothsome sorance and sometimes it comes againe of bilious and evill humours which do make their approach to that place
and so let it boyle one houre then take it from the fire strain it very dry and put unto the liquor of honey one pint and of Sugar-Candy in powder sixe ounces then put the liquor into a clean earthen Pot or bottle keeping it close stopped and thereof give your horse bloud warme foure mornings together the quantity of an Ale pint at a time and let him eate the Barly if he will howsoever put it not away but heat some of it every day and being hot put it into a bagge and therewith perfume his head ✚ This is very good for I have often used it Another First you must keep him to a very space Dyet and inure him five or sixe daies to eate his Oates steeped in Chamber-ly and after that Take of Bayberries Fennell Cummin Smallege Fenugreak Fearne-roots dryed and Lycoris foure ounces in the whole or of each halfe an ounce according to the bignes age strength or Corpulency of the Horse make all these into powder then take one part of the powder and put unto it of fresh or sweet Butter halfe a pound and of new Milke halfe a pint and so give it your horse bloud warm the next day do the like with the other halfe of the powder and the third day let him not forth of the Stable give it him so long as he shall be in Physicke for his drinke let it be white water made of Barly meale but not with Wheate bran and let him stand upon the Trench at least two houres before his drench and two houres after then after that give him that which followeth Take of fresh Butter halfe a pound of good Agarick night-shade and Cassia of each one ounce make all these into Pils being first powdered searced and well mixed and administer them to your Horse then give him of white Wine halfe a pint whereby the better to cause him to swallow Pils the fift day let him rest and keepe him alwaies warme covered and well littered and if you do percive him to bee loose in his body and that hee hath purged well let him rest three or foure daies quiet without doing any thing unto him but if he hath not purged after one daies rest only then give him this drinke Take Mithridate Diacartami Senae of each two ounces and of good white Wine one pint mixe and brew all these together and so give it him to drinke and let him rest three daies giving him every one of these three dayes about noone of fresh Butter onely halfe a pound made into the manner of Pils these three dayes being ended you must administer unto him as followeth and continue it weekely till he be perfectly cured Take of Agarick Alloes and of Diacartami of each one ounce of Saffaron Mirrh halfe an ounce make all these into fine powder and so make them into Pils with fresh Butter foure ounces and give it to your Horse and then presently after give him of white Wine one pint to wash down the Pils ✚ This is a most excellent cure and by me often practised Another Take of white Wine one pint of Sallet-oyle three quarts of Alloes Lycoris of each one ounce of Colloquintida of Agarick Mirrh of each halfe an ounce of Aristolochia-rotunda three drams of Night-shade one ounce of Bay-berries three drammes make all these into fine powder then take of Venice Turpentine two drams of mel rosarum three ounces mix all these together and make it bloud warme and so give it your Horse to drinke with a horne but give him no Oates in fifeteene daies and let his drinke be white water it will not bee good to give him much Hay but Wheate flower which should not be much beaten or threshed and instead of his Oates give him Wheate bran or Barly meale and keepe him warme six dayes after let him bloud in the Neck ✚ Let him have this drink twice to wit after the first drinke let him rest one day and then drench him againe as you did before Another First give him this purgation Take of fresh Butter halfe a pound of Sene and of Agarick of each halfe an ounce made into fine powder of Alloes and of loafe Sugar both powdred of each one ounce of Cordiall powder halfe an ounce make all these into fine powder then Take common-hony foure ounces mix and beat all these together and so make them into Pils and give them to your Horse but before you do administer these Pils he must stand upon the Trench two houres and so likewise two houres after that day give him no Oates and let his drinke be white water and for your other directions you may give him his allowance of Oates all the other daies but you must then wet them either in strong Ale or good Beere and you may travell or give him exercise but with moderation all those other daies and three times every day you shall give him three or foure handfuls of Wheate bran prepared as before is shewed you in lib. 2. Chap. 9. § 4. F. and thus continue him to this dyet at your pleasure ✚ I have made tryall of this cure and I doe know it to bee right good for in a month or six weekes I have brought a Gaunt and Pursive Horse to have a belly as round fresh as cleer as that of a sucking Colt nor is this cure very chargable or costly you must give him Wheate straw insteed of Hay only in the night you may give him Hay provided it be sprinkled with water §. 12. P. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Horse that is Prickt Hippos This Sorance hath many names It is called Accloyed Cloyd Retraite Prick't c. All which names wee for the most part do fetch from the French and all is but only plaine Prick't which occurreth to the horse eyther through the unskilfulnes or negligence of the Ferrier in the driving of his Nayles or in the weak-nesse of the Nayles of their evill pointing or if a Nayle should fortune to breake in the quick and not be immediatly drawne fâ—rth it will in short time fester in the flesh and soone after impostunate and so in time beget a fowle Sore which may aske much Art to Cure The signes be that he will complaine when he treadeth upon stony or hard ground specially which so soone as you perceive you have then iust cause to suspect him to bee Prick't if hee were lately shod wherefore the better to make tryall your way must be to search the foote whereof he complaineth and you shall no sooner put your Pinsors to the place but that he will presently shrinke in his foote by reason that the nipping of the Pinsons doth paine him in the quick or if you do but cast water upon the foote whereon he halteth in short time you shall perceive the hoofe to be sooner dry against the nayle or place which grieveth him before any other part of the hoofe Again if you shall with your hammer