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
never depart where they doe eate small holes quite through the maw by meanes whereof the Horse dyeth The Bots are a kinde of little wormes with great heads and small tayles they breed and live as I said before in the great gut 1 Bots. adjoyning to the fundament and they may be taken away most easily by putting in your hand and by picking them from the gut to which they are fastened Trunchions are in shape short and thick and of a pretty bignesse 2 Trunchâ— and they have blacke and hard heads but they must be sent away by medicine Maw-wormes are long red and slender 3 Wormeâ— much like unto earth-wormes most of them of the length of a mans finger and some are longer these must also be taken away by medicine All these three sorts doe ingender in the body of the Horse by meanes of evill raw and flegmatique meates which have turned to bad digestion whereby putrified matter hath bred in the maw and from thence these three sorts of evill creatures have engendred You may very easily know when your Horse is troubled with them for he will sweat with paine stampe with his fore-feet and strike at his belly with his hinder-feet he will also turne his head towards his belly to looke upon it and forsake his meat he will also grone tumble and wallow he will also rub his tayle as if it were troubled with the itch Now how to kill these wormes is very difficile for feare of endangering the life of your Horse onely medicines must be given which must cause them to distast the maw and to feed upon such drinkes being sweet wherby he may voyd them with his dung I will here give you many Receits some of which I have very much experimented and the first is this viz. Take of Egremony one handfull chop and stamp it small and put unto it a quart of new milke with brimstone made into very fine powder halfe an ounce give this to your Horse fasting bloud-warm and keep him upon the trench fasting three houres at the least and at night give him white water ✚ Another Take the guts of a well-growne chicken all but the gizard and rowle it up warme in the powder of brimstone and bay-salt and put it downe his throat and trot him up and downe halfe an houre doing as before ✚ Another Take new milke and the powder of brimstone this doth the like ✚ Another Take Saven and Worme-wood chopped and stamped small put to it a pinte of Muskadine and give it him warme ✚ Take also a quart of brine newly made and give it him to drink ✚ Another Take as much Precipitate alias Red-Mercury calcined as will lye upon a two-penny piece of silver and convey it into a piece of sweet butter the bignesse of an egge in manner of a pill give him this in a morning fasting the Horse having stood all night in his Mussell at the empty racke unlesse extremity doe compell you for in such a case you may administer it at any other time When you are to give it him take forth his tongue and make him swallow the whole pill then ride him a while up and downe and after set him up warme causing him to fast three houres after and with this medicine you may kill all manner of Bots Trunchions and wormes of what kinde soever yet at the giving you must be wondrous circumspect and carefull for this Precipitate is a very strong poyson wherefore you must be very observant of your proportion wherein you ought not to exceed except with good caution Againe if you mixe your Precipitate before hand with a little sweet butter the quantity of a hasell-nut and then afterwards lap it up in the greater lump of butter it may be received by the Horse to his lesse danger and it will besides very much allay its evill quality But this I leave to your own discretion assuring you that there is hardly any thing comparable to this for this disease ✚ This Receit I have administred unto three Horses onely whereof the first and last I cured but the second dyed under my hands but I doe assure you not for any want of care ✚ Another Take Sublimatum so much as can be taken upon a two penny piece of silver and made up in butter will kill the Bots Bots. in a Horse if it be administred as was the former Receit This I did never try Another Take a quart of good Ale of Rue and Saven of each a quarter of a pound of Stone-Crop halfe a pound bray all these in a morter and put them to the Ale and boyle it well then straine it and give it him bloud-warme and he will voyd them Another Take of new milke a quart and a penny weight of brimstone in fine powder and twenty of the long haires of his tayle cut them very short and put it all together into the milk and give it him to drink and then throw a handfull of bay salt into his mouth and he is cured ✚ Another Take a quart of strong Wort and give it him to drinke bloud-warme and let him fast eight houres after Another Tâ—ke the first day a quart of new milke and put to it halfe a pinte of honey and give it him warme this will cause them to give over from gnawing and feeding upon the maw for a season by reason they will drinke and sucke the milke and honey for a time the next day give him this drinke Take a quart of sweet Wort or of your strongest Ale specially if it be new then take a quarter of a pound of Ferne roots of Saven halfe a pound of Stone-Crop halfe a pound stampe them all together and put to it of brimstone and of soot of each two spoonfuls both well powdred and let all these be well steeped in Wort or Ale two hours then strain it give him of this two good horn-fuls then bridle him and let him stand upon the trench sixe houres but this will not kill them the third day give him these purging pils Take of Lard one pound let it be laid in water two houres then take nothing but the pure fat thereof onely beat it well in a stone morter and put thereto of Anniseeds Licoris and Fennugrick all made into fine powder of each halfe an ounce Aloes powdred two drams and of Agaricke one ounce make all these well mixed into one body and divide them equally into sixe Pils or Bals then the Horse having fasted over night give him in the morning three of these Pils annointed first with honey then cloath him up and litter him well and keep the Stable warme and at night give him a sweet Mash and for three dayes after let him have none other drinke then white water These Bals will so purge the bad humours that breed and nourish these vermine that the Horse will be perfectly cleane and free from them of what kind soever they are and you
riding and great toyle you give your Horse cold water drawn out of a Well which being much colder then either River or Pond water doth more chill the Horse inwardly whereby he is much more distempered causing him to quake and to shake exceedingly after his drinke which occasioneth crudities and an evill habit in the stomacke which doth beget and ingender an ague or feaver wherefore after sweating and great labour I doe advise you that whatsoever is given him be first set over the fire to take away the chilnesse whereby your Horse may take the lesse damage for that feavers taken of this nature doe commonly prove pestilent feavers whose nature is to infect all his fellowes which are in the same stable or roome with him if he be not either speedily removed from his consorts or else suddenly cured and the reason hereof is most evident for that when as a Horse hath been al the whole day travelled especially in the winter and brought into the stable all hot and sweating when in short time after his bloud and pores begin to be setled and to return to his heart again and to his intrals then if you give him cold water you may instantly perceive him to fall into a formall quivering and shaking for a time which being once passed over you shall see him most palpably assume a most extreame and violent burning and peradventure after fals into a most desperate sweating whereby is most easie to be found in him a generall distemperature throughout his whole body together with a formall and dangerous feaver wherefore if the Ferrier be not the more expert it may stick closer unto him and remain longer by him then a bushell of Oats will do But a feaver which doth proceed elther from the corruption of the bloud or from the contagion of the ayre according as I have before intimated that I say is most frequent albeit not so well known to all Ferriers and I am able to affirme thus much of these kinde of feavers out of mine own long experience that they are of that extreame violence and so malignant and their poyson of that infinite force as that if through their own violence they be not able of themselves to bring the creature visited therewith to his end yet will these convert their malice into other mortall maladies and diseases which will in time prove as noxious to wit into the Yellowes Stavers Glanders Dropsie Consumption Farcin c. unto which a pestilent feaver is evermore the precursor insomuch as if the Ferrier be not very skilfull and cautelous in observing and knowing the true symptomes of these kinde of diseases he may easily in stead of labouring to effect a Cure through his misprision miscarry therein §. 9. F. Hippoph VVHat be the true symptomes or signes whereby to know a Feaver Hippos If you doe observe him well Feaveâ— to knoâ— you shall perceive him so soon as he beginneth to be feaverish and when the fit first commeth upon him to hang or hold down his head and if at first comming it beginneth with a cold fit then will he quake and tremble and when his cold fit is over then will he glow and burn throughout his whole body his breath will be very hot and he will fetch his winde thicke and his nostrils will be very open and his flankes will beat thick he will forsake his meat and reele oft times as he goeth his eyes will be swelled they will water and be matterative he will fall away and consume in his flesh his stones will hang low he will desire and offer oft to lye down and yet being laid he will rise suddenly againe he will have great desire to drinke neither will he drink much and yet you would thinke that all the water in the Thames would not be sufficient to quench his thirst for he will covet evermore to keep his mouth in the water albeit he will drinke very little and his sleepe will goe from him And these are the best most certaine and apparant symptomes that I doe know of a Feaver § 10. F. Hippoph VVHat are the best cures for these ordinary Feavers Hippos If the feaver be quotidian and daily Feaver Ordinarâ— then Take the yolkes of three new laid egges and beat them well with seven spoonfuls of the best Aqua vitae and put unto it of ordinary Treacle a spoonfull and so making it bloud warme over a few hot embers give it him and then take his backe and ride him untill hee doe begin to sweat and then bring him into the stable and cloath wispe and litter him warme so as he may sweat an houre in the stable but then coole him by degrees and let him fast three houres after but let him bloud before you drench him in the necke and mouth and give him white water or Mashes This drinke would be given him one houre before the fit commeth ✚ This is very good Another Take white Wine one pinte of Aloes one ounce made into fine powder of Agaricke halfe an ounce Anniseeds and Licoris of each one dram in fine powder and adde thereto of life-honey one spoonfull let all these be made warme upon the fire and so give him bloud warme then take his back and ride him into a good sweat and set him up cloath him litteâ— him and stop well his body head and breast and let him sweat so two houres then by degrees coole him and when he is cold let him be well rubbed and cloathed up againe warme but not to sweate any more and let him stand upon the Trench three houres after his sweating then unbit him and wash his tongue and mouth with Alume Vineger Sage and water boyled togather that done give him a little Wheate straw to eate and an houre after a gallon of sweet dry and cleane Oats well dressed and sifted but lay not all at once before him but three or foure handfuls at a time continuing thus to feed him till hee hath eaten up his whole gallon and at night give him a sweet Mash And the next morning let him bleed at the neck mouth the quantity of a quart or lâ—sse if the bloud bee good but if you doe find the bloud to be blacke thick hot inflamed yellowish frothy or otherwise evill coloured take then from him two quarts after keepe him warme and let him purge and for foure or five dayes after give him eyther warme mashes or white water ✚ This I have also knowne to bee very good Another First let him Bloud in the Neck and Mouth then Take Germander Sallet-oyle and life-Honey of each foure ounces of Gumme Draganet dry red-Roses of each one ounce put these pounded and chopped very small into good Ale a quart and warme it and so give it him then ride him till he sweate and order him as in the former cure Of this I did never make tryall Another Take of the tops of Time one handfull boyle these in a quart of
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
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-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
salt or other filth and wash it so long in sundry waters in some great bowle until it come to be very white Then melt onely this oyntment and so keep it for your use wherewith annoynt the places grieved and in short time it will cure them ✚ This I had of a famous French Marishall and I have often used it and I ever found it to be most soveraigne for all sorts of burnings But if Hogges grease may not be had then take the fat of Bacon and wash it well and it is marvellous good ✚ Another Take fresh butter and the whites of egges of each as much as will suffice beat them well together till you bring them to a formall unguent and annoint the places burned therewith and it will speedily take away the fire and cure them soundly ✚ This is also speciall good Another Take a stone of quick-lime which must be well burned that which is best burned will be lightest dissolve it in faire water and when the water is settled so as all the Lime remaineth in the bottome straine the cleerest of the water thorow a fine cleane linnen cloath then put unto this water either the oyle of Hemp-seed or of the oyle of Olive of like quantity with the water and so beating them well together you shall have an excellent unguent most precious for all sorts of burnings And the nature of these three unguents be to leave no scarres Wherefore we apply them for most soveraign remedies as well for man as beast in cases of this nature ✚ This also I have often tryed and I have found them all to be most singular § 19. B. Hippoph HOw doe you take away bunches knots warts and wens from a Horse Hippos These kindes of sorances doe come to a Horse by meanes of much ranknesse of bad bloud which is engendred of peccant humours which humours doe proceed of naughty meat Bunche◠Knots 〈◊〉 They are so apparant to the eye that any man may point at them with his finger The way to free your Horse of them is first take up such veines as you may know to feed them then shave away the hayre from about the places and for foure dayes together lay Aegiptiacum to them at foure dayes end wash and bathe the places with strong wine vineger made hot then take wine vineger one pinte green coperas and Dyers gals of each foure ounces cantharides two ounces bay salt one handfull make these into fine powder and let them boyle on the fire with the vineger a little and so wash the sorances therewith scalding hot and every third day continue thus to doe till you perceive them to dry up Let the scurfe fall away of its own accord at leisure if any more shall happen to grow forth afterwards apply the same medicine againe albeit it was formerly cured by the same thing yet I have not seen any Horse to fall into the same malady againe and during the time you have him in cure let him not come in any water but keep him in the stable warme ✚ Another cure is this First as before shave away the hayre and take up the veins which feed those sorances then sixe dayes after let him bloud in the heeles to draw away the humours downwards then wash and bathe him well with hot vineger which done take a quart of oyle of Nuts and Verdegreace powdred two ounces and a quarter of a pinte of Inke mixe all these well together and apply it cold to the places rubbing and bathing them well therewith and if the knots and warts doe not begin to dry up at the first dressing then must you begin again every fourth day untill such time as they be throughly cured ✚ Another Take course honey one pound Verdegreace in powder three ounces mixe these well together with the finest wheat flowre and so bring it to an oyntment and after you have cleansed the sorances as before is shewed you apply this oyntment to the place with a rowler if there be any warts among the knots cut them away cleane before you doe apply the said oyntment and thus doing ten or twelve dayes every other day he will be perfectly cured ✚ Another Shave away the hayre and take up the veins as aforesaid then wash and bath the place well then take mutton sewet mallowes and brimstone make a decoction hereof when you have very well bathed the sorances with the said decoction take the substance thereof and putting it between two linnen cloaths make it fast to the place over night and in the morning take it away which done apply unto the place this unguent viz. Take vineger and mutton suet the gumme of the Pine-tree new waxe and rosin of each like much melt all these together but put in your Gum last and so annoint the sorances with a feather twice every day till they be whole Of this Cure I never made tryall but it seemeth to be a good one You must not forget in every of these Cures to take up such veines which in your judgement you may finde to feed those sorances and to shave away the hayre from about them cleane Now with this other Cure I will conclude Wash and bathe the places with the decoction last before mentioned and lay the substance to the sores Take then new Waxe Turpentine and Gum Arabicke of each like much melt them to an unguent and herewith annoint the sorances during which time let him come into no water and the Poults of Mallowes c. must be every night applyed till he be whole Another Take and to conclude blew slate and brimstone of each four ounces Verdigrease one ounce made into fine powder then take fresh butter four pound melt it in a small kettle or Posnet and so soon as the butter is molten put into it all the former ingredients and so let them boyle wel and when you have brought it to a perfect unguent take it off and keep it for your use And when you would use it warm thereof upon a chafing dish and coles and annoynt your Horse therwith upon the sorance and that but once and it will suffice But you must let him bloud the day before you doe annoint him in the necke veine And at the end of eight dayes take a quantity of cold Lee and three ounces of blacke sope and wash the sorance therewith This quantity of oyntment will serve but onely for two Horses Of this Receit I never had occasion to make tryall but it was taught me by a famous Marishall of France who commended it unto me for an extraordinary good Receit and truely it seemes to me so to be CHAP. VI. §. 1. C. Hippophylus WHat is good to bee applyed to a Horse that hath cast himselfe in his Halter Hippos This commonly commeth to a Horse which being tyed down to the manger his eare or Poule itching with his hinder Foote scratcheth the the place that itcheth so as when he taketh away his Foote
or shave away the haire close from about the sores then wash the places with broken Beere and Butter warme and dry them againe which done apply this Plaister to the places grieved Take Sheepes-suet or Deeres-suet which is much better and being molten upon the fire let it coole till you may hold your finger therein then put to it so much Ry-bran or for want thereof Wheate-bran as will bring it to a salve lay it to the place Plaister-wise upon Hurds or Tow and binde a cleane linnen cloath over the Plaister to keepe it on and so let it remaine foure or five daies without medling with it by which time the Sores wil be throughly purged and the scurfe will easily come off then take old Bores grease well rotted and melt it upon the fire and when it is so cold as was the Sheepes or Deere-sewet put to it the yolkes of Egges so much as will suffice and a little Verdegrease in fine powder incorporate all these well together bringing them to an Vnguent with which annoy at the sores every day once untill they bee throughly and perfectly whole ✚ Another Take Oyle de Bay foure ounces Verdegrease and Litarge of Gold both in fine powder of each two drammes make all these into an unguent and annoynt the sores therwith morning and evening till they be whole In every of these Cures let your Horse come into no water ✚ Another Take Soot five ounces Verdigrease in fine powder three ounces Orpin one ounce beat all these together into fine powder and then adde thereto as much common honey as of all the residue boyle all these together well putting into it as it boyleth quick-lime as much as will suffice keeping it alwayes stirring till it be well boyled and is become thick with this oyntment annoynt the Sores twice every day untill they be sufficiently cured ✚ Another Take hot wood Ashes and Quick-lime and with common honey and white wine make it into one body to a perfect Vnguent and herewith annoint the Sores and if this malady have not been long upon the Horse this oyntment will certainly cure him but if they be old and have run long upon him then give him the fire and then dresse the Burning with the oyntment prescribed you in the former Cure Another Take a round iron and give the fire towards the extremities or ends of the chops and annoynt them every day as before and assure your selfe the clifts chops and rifts will not increase but diminish and so in short time he will be whole and sound ✚ This is speciall good §. 8. C. Hippoph I Would gladly know Hipposerus something of Clisters and their true natures Hippos As touching Clisters there be sundry kindes of Purgations and therefore to the end you shall the better understand them and their proper vertues I will first anatomize unto you the severall degrees of Purgations and by reason I have been much and that for a long time versed in this subject Of Clisters I am not ashamed to discover unto you from whence I had my first grounds and principles for every man as the Proverb is must have a beginning to wit he must be a scholler before he can be Master for as Seneca saith very well It is great temerity in any man to take upon him to be a Master who did never know what it was to have beene a Schollar My first rudiments therefore I received for Master Blundevile and after somewhat I attained unto by the help of Master Markham both very well travelled in this Art the rest I atchieved partly in my travels and partly from my particular practise and experience Now Master Markham followeth Master Blundevile in many things verbatim in the rest in substance wherein Master Markham doth more largely dilate and deliver himselfe making thereby oft times many things more cleare and apparant yet they both assent in what they say Purgation defined viz. that Purgation is defined by the learned Physicians to be the emptying and voyding of superfluous humours which doe cumber pester and disturb the body with their peccant condition affirming that such ill humours do breed much bad nutriment which the learned doe call Cacochymia which when it will not be corrected or amended either by faire meanes or by the help of nature then must it be compelled forced and driven away by Purgation Vomit Clister or Suppository And whereas Master Blundevile saith that Horses are not used to be purged by Vomit as men be I in conference with him once asked him the reason thereof he answered me for that the necke of the Horse was of that length as not to be able to purge by vomit which for the present I tooke for satisfaction I then imagining the thing not to be knowne untill such time as I travelling into remote parts where I had frequent commerce with famous Marishals and Ferriers I at length fastned upon one eminent for his faculty who upon occasion offered used to administer vomit to Horses as frequently as he did either Purgation or Clyster which thing when I well observed I demanded if a Horse could vomit and to what purpose he did administer in that kinde he answered me that a Horse could vomit and that he oft times administred for the same end and thereupon both gave me his Receit and did administer in my presence and made me an eye-witnesse to the working not in one Horse alone but in sundry others But now leaving this to its proper place I come to assoyle your demand as touching Clysters their natures and vertues Clysters secundum vulgus are called Glisters but the more learned assume the name Clyster borrowed from the latine word Clyster from whence the French hath it Clystere Now whereas all other kindes of Physick is râ—ceived in at the mouth Clysters and Suppositaries are administred per Anum whose natures for the most part are to purge the guts and to cause the Horse to voyd and to throw forth of his belly such humours as doe offend him in matter of his health to allay the shâ—rpenesse of bad humours to cleanse ulcers to asswage the griefes and paines in the belly caused by winde or otherwise and so likewise in many other cases Now Clysters are not all of one and the same nature neither are they all laxatives as many doe imagine or do serve to one and the same end for some must be made to give ease some are restringent and doe binde some do loosen and purge some are to cleanse ulcers old and long running sores and some to prepare the body the better to receive its Physicke whereby it may the better worke which otherwise cannot be administred without much perill to the life of the sicke creature So that a Clyster is I say commonly given for a Preparative or beginning to purgation And a Clyster by cleansing the guts refresheth the vitall parts and prepareth the way before Wherefore I doe admonish every Ferrier that
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
too great abundance of seed which causeth a stopping in the pipe or conduct of the yard Colt-Evill and to a gelding for want of heat and strength to send it forth whereby the yard and sheath swelleth very much The best way to cure a Horse is to give him a Mare whereby he sendeth forth his seed freely and then two or three houres after swimme him or else ride him up to the flankes to and fro a pretty while against the streame This disease is knowne by the swelling of the yard and sheath I have cured many Horses and Geldings with this ensuing Receit First swimme him but specially against the streame foure or five dayes together then apply this Plaister Take Beane-meale and Mallowes of each one handfull Hogs grease halfe a pound chop the Mallowes small then put to the Hogs grease and so boyle it with a pinte of white Wine and when it is boyled put it into a cloath and wrap his cods therein and so order it as that it may gather like a purse and make it fast so as it may neither fall off nor hurt him dresse him herewith every day till he be well ✚ I have had great experience of this Receit but if you be desirous to have variety then looke over Master Blundevile and Master Markham who are well stored § 13. C. Hippoph WHat is best to be given for a cold Hippos There are so many and so good as that I am to seeke almost to know how to begin they be of so many and sundry sorts of them Cold. for some are for colds newly taken some for old colds some for colds that bringeth the Glanders c. Wherefore for colds newly taken at first you must understand Sir that a cold newly taken a thing not to be prevented by reason it oft times commeth by meanes and wayes unknowne you must observe first that if your Horse be propense to many bad humours whereof some Horses are more than others you must first then labour to expell them by purging his head then search betwixt his jawes and if there you do finde any small kernels then be you assured he hath a new-taken cold but if he have great kernels then was not the cold so lately taken as you might have imagined also if he doe rattle in the head it is a signe his cold is newly taken or if he doe voyd any thinne matter forth of his nose or eyes or if he hold his head into the manger or if when he drinketh the water commeth out of his nostrils or that he cougheth oft and sometimes perhaps cheweth mattrative stuffe betwixt his teeth c. These and many others be certaine signes of a Pose Catarre and newly taken cold wherein is no danger if it be taken in time otherwise it will come to a worse matter I will now give you sundry good Receits most of which I have often tryed and found to be right good First I hold moderate exercise and seasonable ayering to be marvellous good without further applying of medicines but if you finde that he is much stopped in the head then Take a small quantity of fresh or sweet Butter and of brimstone made into fine powder work them together til they be one entire body of a deep yellow gold colour then take two long wing Goose-feathers and annoynt them herewith to the very quils on either siâ—â— which done rowle them in more of the powder of Brimstone and so put them up into either nostrill one and at the but end of the quils put a strong packthred which must be fastned over his pole like to the headstall of a Bridle and then leap his back and ride him moderately up and down an houre or longer and this will provoke him to snort and snuffle forth of his nose and head much of the congealed filth which is in his head then tye him to the Racke for an houre after and this will purge his head very cleane then draw forth the feathers and he will doe well keeping him warme and giving him Mashes or white water every day for foure or five dayes after This Receit was taught me for more than 30 yeares since by a famous Marishall of France which since I found in Master Markhams Master-piece but I hold it one of the best things can be prescribed for this Malady ✚ Another very short but as good Take of Time one handfull boyle it in a quart of strong Ale till it come to a pinte then straine it and adde thereunto of ordinary Treacle two spoonfuls and give it him bloud-warme ✚ Another An excellent drinke to be given to a Horse for a new-taken cold provided he be young that is not above five yeares old Take of French Barly halfe a pound put it into a posnet and put thereto of faire water one quart and set it upon the fire and let it boyle a little then take it off and draine the water from the Barly and cast away the water then adde the second time the like quantity of water and boyle it as much as you did the first t me and then draine it from the water cast away the water again then adde once againe the like quantity of a quart of water as you did twice before and boyle that also so long a time as you did the two former waters draine this also from the Barly but cast it not away but keep it and then adde to the water of Anniseeds and Licoris of each halfe an ounce make them into very fine powder and searce them and put the said powder into the boyled water and adde to it of white sugar-candy foure ounces then set it upon the fire in a cleane skillet and so boyle it up untill a third part be consumed then take it off and straine it and give it your Horse bloud-warme drench him thus three mornings together and it will ripen his cold and cause it to come away This is very good ✚ Another Take of white wine vineger the best and strongest five spoonfuls and put to it of oyle de Bay one spoonfull warme it upon the fire stirring it well this must be made and given in the morning but when you doe administer it you must first put your drenching horn into faire water that is good and hot to keep the medicine from sticking to the horne then taking it forth out of the hot water before the horne can be cold and whilst it is yet moyst with the water put the one halfe of your medicine into the same and so as speedily as may be convey it into one of his nostrils and after the other moity into his other nostrill this done ride him for halfe an houre moderately then set him up and cloath and litter him warme and let him stand upon the trench three or foure houres before you give him any meat and after doe as is accustomed to be done to sicke Horses in Physicke ✚ This I doe approve
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
Arquequamis one ounce make it into juyce and put to it of white wine one pinte and so give it to the Horse which done annoynt his privy members with this unguent Take of Garlicke unpilled as much as will suffice and stampe it well and mixe with it of Sallet oyle as much as will suffice and so bring it to an unguent and therewith annoynt the yard sheath and cods and it will both give him ease and cause him to stale suddenly by which meanes he will amend Another Take Cinque-foyle halfe an handfull or Pantaphillon beat and stampe it well and moysten it with warme water and so give it him to drinke Another Take of the powder of Siliris Montani D'quare and of Comin of each an ounce and put them into white Wine one pinte and so give it him then so soone as he hath taken this drinke trot him out for halfe an houre a good round trot especially up the hill and after bring him into the Stable and cloathe and litter him warme Another Take of Fenugricke and of Comin of each one ounce make them into fine powder and with white Wine a pinte give it him bloud warme and trot him out as before § 23. D. Hippoph HAve you no way to dry soares Hippos Yea Sir and I will give you some receits for that purpose â—ake egge shels and burne them almost blacke Dry up soares take also the upper leather of old shoes and burne them to a cole take also a Char-cole quick lime and greene coperas burned in a well nealed earthen pot untill it be red Take of each of these a like quantity and beate them together to fine powder and strew this powder upon the soare or galled place and every time you dresse the soare herewith wash it well with strong vineger or chamber-lye warmed ✚ But if it be an old ulcer or cankerous soare then take Masticke Frankincense Cloves greene Coperas Brimstone of each like much Myrra double as much as any of the former ingredients beate all these by themselves to fine powder and mixe them well then take of this powder and burne it upon a chafing-dish and coles Lint wheâ— with to heâ— ulcers or oâ— soares but be carefull it flame not then as the smoake or fume thereof ariseth take of fine lint a good handfull or two and hold it over the said smoake or steame so as it may receive all the said steame into the said lint then when it is throughly well perfumed put the lint into a box pot or glasse and be sure to stop it up so close as that none the least ayre can possibly come into it for the least ayre will deprive the lint of its vertue and so keep it for your use and when you have occasion to make use thereof first wash the soare with new made chamber-lye warme either as it commeth from the man or else warmed upon the fire then dry the soare againe and lastly lay some of this lint to the soare and so make it up and doe this twice every day and you shall finde it to be a speedy and perfect cure ✚ But if you would dry up the scratches in the heeles of your Horse Take then chamber-lye which is old made or stale and rock or roch-Allum as much as will suffice boyle them together and reserve it thus well boyled in a glasse or other cleane vessell well stopped then take of greene nettles the strongest most angry and keene two handfuls and lay them thin upon some plate or other broad thing and so dry them either before the fire or in an Oven after houshold-bread is drawne then make it into powder very fine this done take of Pepper and make it also into very fine powder being finely searsed so as it may be of like quantity with the powder of nettles and so mixe them well together then keep this powder in a dry glasse close stopped and when you may have occasion to use this powder first wash the soare with the said liquor of Allome and Chamber-lye made bloud warme and so having purged cleansed and dryed the sorance well with a cleane linnen cloth strew and lay on your powder and thus doe after travell or exercise every day once during the time of his rest and this will cure him throughly ✚ This cure I have often practised §. 24. D. Hippoph VVHat disease is that which is called the Arraistes and how is it cured Hippos Arraistes or Rats-tayles This is also a French Epitheton which we call the Rats-tayles being a kinde of scratches of this disease I have spoken before in the letter A. and therefore I will now leave entreating further thereof CHAP. VIII §. 1. E. Hippoph WHat is to be given to a Horse that hath eaten a Taynt Hippos A Taynt is a kinde of red worm which many Ferriers will say can doe a Horse no harm but they are much mistaken for I have knowne Horses to dye with eating it but if he have eaten a Taynt the signes will be that he will be sicke and forsake his meat and he will swell in all his body also his eyes will so swell that you would thinke they would fall out of his head he will draw in and out his breath very short and his tongue and mouth will be very dry and hot and peradventure blistred but he will be easily cured for so soone as you shall perceive him to forsake his meate and that he doth begin to swell then be you confident that he hath eaten some unwholesome thing for this inconvenience seldome commeth to any Horse but at grasse onely The cure is Eate a Taynt Take of the urine of man as it commeth warme from him one pinte and of bay-salt one handfull stirre these well together and give it him with a horne and after walke him up and downe halfe an houre and he is cured ✚ This I have sundry times tryed and it is a certaine cure §. 2. E. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Horse that hath eaten a Feather Hippos This may be gotten aswell in the Stable as abroad at grasse in the Stable through the negligence of the Keeper or Groome in not dusting shaking or picking and searching his Hay and Provender well and by not looking narrowly that no Feathers bee among his Hay Oates or Provender when he giveth him his meate eyther in the Rack or Manger he may also get a Feather at Grasse as hee feedeth in a Meadow or Pasture where Swannes Geese Ducks Turkies or other Poultry or Foules doe lye and feed they in the Summer season mowting and mewing their Feathers whereby the Horse grafing and feeding in those places may easily and unwares eate a Feather which being taken into the Wesand will stick fast there which will so suffocate him as that it will provoke him to cough so vehemently as if his Heart would breake for it will sticke so fast in his Throte or Wesand as that he
in the Eye this every Smith can take away neverthelesse whereas all other Ferriers that ever I saw worke upon this disease do use to take it away from the out-side of the Eye I doe take it away from that part which lyeth next of all to the eye and I doe finde my way to be much better and a safer way as well whereby to preserve the sight of the eye as also the wash and so soone as I have cut out the Haw I doe use to wash the eye with white Wine and the juyce of selendine mingled together of each a like much for this healeth the sorance and keepeth the eye from rankling Now I have oft times seene the French Marishals take up the wash of the eye with a Spanish needle threeded with a double brown threed and to pluck forth the Haw so farre as he well can then with a payre of sizers to clip off the Haw so close as he can but I cannot commend this manner of curing the Haw for by that meanes he cutteth away the wash of the eye which indeed is the beauty of the eye whereby the Horse becommeth bleare-eyed which is in him a very great eye-sore he being thereby very much disfigured ✚ But if your Horse have gotten a canker in his eye then Eye a Canker Take Ale-hoofe which is indeed your true ground Ivy and stamp it well in a morter and if it be very dry then moysten it with a little white Rose-water or the water of Eye-bright distilled as much as will suffice and so straine it into a cleane glasse and therewith wash bathe annoynt and taint the sorance therewith and in short time it will cure it ✚ This is very good to cure a Canker a Pin and Web bloud shotten eyes or any such griefe in or about the eyes and I have often made use of this medicine Another much better Take of stone Coperas a thing knowne to few and therefore very hard to get but in the stead thereof you may use ordinary white Coperas make it into fine powder as much as will suffice for I must leave the quantity to your owne discretion and put it into a small Pipkin and put thereto so much very faire cleare running or Well water as will fill up the Pipkin to the very top then set the Pipkin upon a few coales and cause the water to boyle but so treatibly as it may but onely simper and as the scum doth arise take it away with a feather continuing so to doe till the scum doe leave to arise any more and when you have sufficiently well boyled it take it off and let it stand till it be through cold then poure away the cleare from the bottome which must be cast away and the cleare kept in a glasse viall very close stopped and bound up for your use which being thus carefully kept the water will remaine in its perfection long yea a whole yeare together or longer This water cureth almost all diseases in the eyes as Filmes Pearles weeping eyes Pin and Web Dragons Cataracts dimnesse of sight Blindenesse Rheumaâ—icke watry stroake blow or stripe of or in the eye and so consequently in many other cases of the like nature ✚ And of this water I have had great experience Another Take Sal-Armoniack Lapis-Tulia prepared Sagina called in Latine Panicum-Indicum and of Ginger of each halfe an ounce and of white sugar-candy two ounces powder all these and searse them and being well mixed put this powder into a cleane and dry boxe very close stopped and so keep it that no ayre come to it for your use and when you have occasion to use of this powder take a little thereof and mixe with it of the juyce of ground Ivy alias Ale-hoofe as much as will suffice and so twice a day convey thereof into his eye with a feather till it be throughly whole ✚ This is a principall good receit I will give you another speciall good receit which will cure all manner of sore eyes Take the leaves and roots of Vervine ordinary honey and Roman Vitrioll of each like much beat bruise and mixe these together and put it into a stillitory glasse and distill it by Balnea-Maria with a gentle fire and the water you take into your Receptacle put into a viall glasse and keepe it very close stopped that no ayre get into it and when you are to use of the same water poure of it a little into a silver spoone and mixe with it of the fat of a Henne or Capon a small quantity and therewith annoynt the sore eye twice a day and it will cure the same perfectly ✚ I will give you another receit which will take the filme from off the eye albeit there be a very great and thicke skin growne Take the gall of a Hare and life honey of each like much put them together into a spoon and hold the spoone over the fire till the medicine be bloud warme and with a feather convey part of this medicine into the eye of the Horse and thus dresse him morning and evening and in short time it will take it quite away so as the eye will become as bright and cleare againe as ever it was before ✚ This receit I doe hold no whit inferiour to any of the former for I have often made use thereof But if your Horse have gotten a stripe in the eye then let him bloud in the necke and in the weeping veyne on the same side where the stripe is then Take white Rose-water and the white of a new laid egge beat them very well together then wash and bathe the eye well therwith and lay round about it with your splatter this charge restringent Take Masticke Bolearmonacke Sanguis Draconis the white of a new laid egge and white wine vineger of the strongest Eye a charge beat first the hard simples to very fine powder and then searse them and they must be beaten severally then mixe them all together with the white of the egge and the vineger so well wrought as that the medicine come to a thicke oyntment and with this charge the sorance round about the eye and this will keepe off the humour and when that you finde that the eye doth begin to amend then wash and bathe the eye twice or thrice a day or oftner with cold fountaine or Well water so fresh as it is taken or drawne out of the Well or Fountaine and if after you shall perceive that there doth grow a filme or skin over the eye then take it away by blowing or putting the powder of Camphire or Sol Armoniacum or white sugar-Candy in fine powder according as I have before prescribed you ✚ This is a most soveraigne receit Also if your Horse in his eye have gotten a stripe Take of fresh Butter wherein never came salt the quantity of a Walnut and put it into his eare on that side where the stripe is and it will helpe him
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
therewith and after annoynt the coffin of the hoofes good and thicke with the same receit And this is the best mollifier can be had in a cure of this nature ✚ I have often used it § 16. F. Hippoph WHat remedy have you for the Figge in the foot of a Horse Hippos This disease is so called by reason of that naughty flesh which groweth upon the frush or heele which is in likenesse and shape of a figge from whence this malady and sorance taketh its denomination and the French also give it the very same Epitheton viz. la Figne which signifieth a figge It commeth by means of some hurt which the Horse hath formerly received in his foot which was not well healed by some nail stub thorn bone or stone oft times by some over-reach upon the heele or frush It is apparant to the eye and therefore needs no other remonstrance The cure is Cut away the hoofe so as there may be a convenient space betwixt the sole and the hoofe Figge in tâ— foot to the end the figge may the more easily be cured then put to the sorance a piece of spunge which you must binde close upon the figge which will eate it off to the very root then heale up the sore with the green oyntment taught you in lib. 2 chap. 10. § 4. G. ✚ This I have found good Another Cut away the figge close either with your incision knife or else burne it off with a hot iron which is the better way and so lay unto it for two dayes after tryed Hogs grease to take away the fire Take then the tops of the most angry yong nettles you can finde pound them very small and so lay them upon a linnen cloth just the bignesse of the figge then take the powder of Verdegreece and strew it upon the chopped nettles which must be done before you lay it to the sorance and so binde it upon the sorance renewing it every day once till the hoofe have covered the sore ✚ This I doe know to be a most certain cure for it never did faile me § 17. F. Hippoph BVt now what say you to a Fistula how doe you cure that Hippos A Fistula is a hollow ulcer which maketh its way crooked proceeding oft times from naughty and malignant humours sometimes it is ingendred from some wound which hath not bin well healed sometimes it commeth by meanes of a stripe which having been so strongly laid on that it hath bruised the flesh to the bone whereby it hath putrified inwardly and either brake forth of it selfe or was opened by the Ferrier and thus it commeth to be a Fistula sometimes it commeth by a wrench or pinch with a Collar in drawing or by being wrung by the tree of a bad saddle and sometimes it ingendreth of its own accord by the meanes of peccant and bilious humours which hath long lyen lurking in the body of the Horse The signes how to know it are so manifest as that it needeth not an Ecce The way how to cure it is to search to the bottome either with a probe of lead or else with some other thing which will bend and yeeld which way soever the concavity of the sorance leadeth it and when you have found the bottome thereof let it be opened downwards if it may possibly be done to the end the corruption may the better issue from the place then taint it for two or three dayes with tryed Hogs-grease thereby to cause the hole to be the wider and then inject this water following Take of Sublimate and of Precipiâ—at of each so much as will lye upon a three pence of Alume and of white Coperas of each three ounces burn all these in an earthen pot but first rub the bottom with a little oyle that it may not burn there this done burne them all together then take of faire cleare water two quarts boyle this water first by it selfe and scum it in the boyling then take it from the fire and put in as much of this powder as will lye upon a shilling at twice and thus it is made But if you be desirous to make this water of more strength and efficacy take then faire water and Coltrough or Smiths water of each like much and of white Wine Vineger a third part and with the ashes of Ashen wood make lye of them with the water and Vineger and so make your water with this powder and lye and the former ingredients according as before is taught you Inject this water with a Syringe into the sorance and in short time it will both kill the fistula Fistula and heale it up ✚ This is a most approved and infallible cure Another Take of the best honey one pinte of Verdigreece one ounce make it into fine powder and so boyle them together upon a soft fire three quarters of an houre that done strain it into a gally pot and so keep it for your use ✚ This is a most pretious unguent wherewith to taint a fistula or poll evill for it goeth down to the bottome it eateth away all dead and evill flesh whereby to cause that the carnifying flesh may heale the better ✚ This I have often tryed I have also another Aegiptiacum which I make thus Take honey one pinte white Wine Vineger halfe a pinte Allum three ounces and Verdigreece finely powdered one ounce and a halfe boyle all these together till it be thicke this is a good Aegyptiacum But if you desire to make it yet stronger then put to these ingredients of Mercury sublimate in fine powder one ounce and of Arsnick three scruples powdred also and so boyle them with the former ingredients This last will kill any fistula or old ulcer whatsoever being dressed therewith but the other which is made onely of Vineger Allum and Verdigreece may be applyed to a fistula in the mouth without prejudice to the Horse ✚ Of both these I have made often tryall §. 18. F. Hippoph HAve you not some good water beside wherewith to wash a Fistula or old sore Hippos I can give you a most excellent water which is this Take white Wine Vineger four pints Fistula water of Camphire and of Mercury-Precipitate of each halfe an ounce greene Treacle three ounces red Sage Yarrow and Rib wort of each one handfull of Honey and of Hogs-grease of each halfe a pound boyle all these together untill the one halfe be consumed and then strain it and so wash and cleanse the wound with the liquor X This is speciall good Another no whit inferiour to the former Take of Coltrough water four quarts first boyle it by it selfe a good while and scumme it so long as any scumme doth arise then straine it through a fine cloth into a cleane pot and throw away the grounds which will be black and naught then wash the Postnet cleane wherein it was boyled and put in your water againe Then take of white Coperas of Allum and of
Verdegreece of each one pound beat them all into fine powder and put them into the water and boyle them all together and when it is boyled as much as will suffice which will soon be done let it stand to settle a while then poure the cleare into a glasse being first cold enough and so keep it for your use But the powder which remaineth in the bottome you may dry and keep in a boxe by it selfe for it will heale and dry up any sore or ulcer This water being injected with a syringe of wood or pewter will cure any fistula whatsoever if it may come to the bottome thereof ✚ Of this water I have had great experience But you must understand that these severall waters will onely kill the cankerous humour of the fistula and therefore after the malice thereof is quelled you must heale up the sorance with the green oyntment prescribed you in lib. 2 chap. 10. § 4. G. or else with some carnifying salve or unguent Another Search the depth thereof with your Probe as before is taught you but be certaine you finde the bottome then if the bottome be where you may boldly make incision do it and that so wide as that you may thrust in your finger to feele whether any bone or gristle be perished or whether there be any spungy loose dead or proud flesh therein which must first be gotten forth either by incision or by corrosive then take of common honey foure ounces and of Verdigreece one ounce made into fine powder boyle these together keeping it alwaies boyling and stirring it till it look red then with a taint of Hurds taint it to the bottome and make it so fast that it get not forth and renew the taint every day once till it have done mattering making the taint every day shorter then other and sprinckle upon it a little slaked Lime But if you cannot come to taint it to the bottome of the fistula then take strong Lye Honey Roch-Allum white Mercury of each as much as will suffice and boyle them together and inject it to the very bottome of the fistula and it will kill it ✚ But if the fistula be in the head then Take the juyce of Houseleeke and dip a locke of blacke Wooll into it and put the same into his eares and so stitch them up renewing it every day till it be whole This cure hath been highly recommended unto me but I never had opportunity to make proofe thereof Another Take Roman Vitreall Roch-Allum and rose-Rose-water of each two ounces boyle all these on a quicke fire till they come to be as hard as a stone then beat it to fine powder and when you dresse the sore make a taint which being dipped in unguentum Aegyptiacum rowle then in this powder and so convey the end of your taint down to the very bottome of the fistula This is the best way also to cure a poll-evill and this powder being laid upon an old sore will both heale and dry it up ✚ This I onely made twice proofe of the first time to a fistula and the second time to a poll-evill both which cures I perfected But now you would gladly know how to ripen and breake a fistula wherefore Take Brooke-lime Mallowes Assmart of each like much boyle them in old Chamberlye till the hearbs be very soft and apply these hearbs to the swelling neither doe you renew it in two or three dayes and then it will both ripen and breake any impostume ✚ This I have often used and found very good And let this suffice for this malady §. 19. F. Hippoph NOw let us come to the Feete how doe you cure the Fetlock being hurt Hippos If this sorance commeth by any wound by the biting of a Dogge or by being cast in a Halter then the best way to cure the same is Take unslaked lime and the yelke of an Egge of each like much Fetlock hurt beat them together to a salve or unguent then mixe therewith the juyce of one head of Garlick and a little soot and with this annoint the sore till it be almost whole then to skinne the same Take Sallet oyle and oyle of Roses of each one ounce of Turpentine three ounces and of new waxe one ounce melt them altogether and adde to it a fourth part of the powder Verdegrease and herewith annoynting the sore in few dayes it will heale it and skin it up very soundly ✚ This is a very well approved Receipt But if your horse have gotten a sore foot by meanes of any cannell-nayle or bruise by treading upon a stone which after rankleth inwardly or by other accident then first rayle the skinne with your Cornet and lay upon sorance Wheate-flower and Bores-grease well incorporate together and dresse him therewith twice a day for two daies together and at the second dayes end Take the powder of Quick lime Sope and Tallow and mixe them well together for three dayes or more apply it to the place dressing it also twice a day then wash the wound with hot Vineger and put upon it Caprinell till it be whole This I nevâ—r tryed Froathy oâ— weeping hoofe But if the hoofe doe weepe or froath by sending forth thinne watry or froathy stuffe then open the toppe thereof with your Cornet so as the wound may become hollow round about the extreamities thereof so farre forth as that you may come to the Master Keine to breake it in sunder which done let it bleed at pleasure what it will and when the Veine hath stanched fill up the wound with Salt finely powdred then take Hurds and steepe them in Vineger and so stop the wound therewith and bind thereto a cloath to keepe the same from falling away and it will cure it ✚ But if the sole be hoofe and in danger to fall away draw it round twixt the sole and the hoofe with your drawing Iron and so take out the soâ—e quite and then suffer his foot to bleed well then apply to it this Plaister Take the whites of Egges and beate them a little and so laying them upon Hurds apply it to the foot and bind it on that it fall not off and let it remaine on so by the space of two dayes which ended open it and wash the foote with strong Vineger warmed and then fill the sole with the powder of Salt and Tartar mixed together and so bind it up with Hurds steeped in strong Vineger and thus dresse it till it be whole These two Receipts were taught me by a famous Ferrier of Paris in France but I never had occasion to make use of it howbeit I esteeme them to be very good But if your horse be foundred in the feet and that he hath not bin foundred above foure daies then with this ensuing Receipt you may easily set him upright and make him sound againe in foure dayes more The Cure is this Foundring in the feet First let him bloud in the Neck Breast
vessell that dust get not into it and if it be not strained then the grounds in the bottome will corasive a sore and not heale it ✚ This is the most soveraigne Oyntment that I could ever know for with it I have done so many great cures as have made me admired by Ferriers themselves who have courted mee not a little for this Receipt yea they have profered mee ten pounds to teach it them This cleanseth a wound bee it never so foule or infected with dead proud spungy or naughty flesh it carnifieth and healeth abundantly and with all so soundly and firmely as that it doth never more breake forth it draweth forth thornes splinters nayles and all such things in the flesh and in a word it cureth al sorts of sores and wounds § 5. G. Hippoph WHat is good to bee administred to a Horse whose grease is molten Hippos As touching this infirmity I have sufficiently shewed you before how it commeth the signes how to know it and how to cure the same and therefore I may now forbeare to spend any more time in the declaration thereof only I will give you one singular Receipt more and this it is Grease molten First take bloud from the neck-veine to a reasonable good proportion to the end all his inflamed bloud may be let forth then give him to eate eyther branne prepared as you are shewed in lib. 2. chap. 9. § 4. F. or dry branne whether he will eate best but if he will eate neyther and that he doth empty himselfe over much then give him the Clyster Restringent prescribed you in lib. 2. chap. 6. § 8. Clyster 3. letter C. or else if you please you may give him the 8. Clyster in the same § eyther of these two so often as neede shall require you may give And if his appetite be not good give him Arman prescribed you in lib. 2. chap. 2. § 2. letter A. and two dayes after let him bloud in both the Flank-veines and if you cannot easily finde them then in the spurre-veines and the next day after that give him to drinke two quarts of water warmed and put into it of white-Wine-Vineger one pint for this will very much refresh his body and then the next day give him this drinke Take of Tisan three pints of lofe Sugar finely powdred thre ounces of Cordiall powder one ounce of life honey foure ounces give him this to drink bloud warme In maladies of this nature you must forbeare to administer such drugs as be hot for by such meanes more horses dye then doe recover and live for such kinde of drinks as this is being wholly cordiall are best for this infirmity ✚ This cure I doe assure you I have often administred and have done very much good and made many great and desperate cures therwith §. 6. G. Hippoph VVEll now let us come to the Glanders Hippos With all my heart Sir As touching this disease which we doe call the Glanders it is of all others the worst noysome and most infectious insomuch as that horse that hath it if he be not removed and separated from his fellowes will infect so many as shall be with him in the same Stable and roome To finde out the depth root and true nature of this disease I have greatly laboured as also how to cure the same I have also had much conference with many the most famous and exquisite Marishals and Ferriers abroad and I have seen very much of their practise therein so also have I had very serious discourses with a number of our best Ferriers and Smiths at home but I finde not one in twenty can speake truely to any purpose of the nature of this disease and therefore I do not wonder that they cannot cure a disease whereof they are so much to seek Neverthelesse what I do understand of this disease I will ingenuously deliver unto you The Glanders is an infirmity which proceedeth first of cold taken which being neglected will in time come to be the Glanders you shall first perceive it by the inflamed kernels and knots which may be felt under the chaule of the horse and as they doe grow in bignesse so do the Glanders grow and increase within the body of the Horse which first beginning with a thin Rhume ascendeth up to the head and settleth neer to the brain and so venteth it selfe at the nose which yet may be easily cured as I have before inculcated where I entreated of Colds afterwards it growes thicker and then it is worse to cure but yet faisable enough in longer time it commeth yet to a thicker substance and its colour is yellowish much like unto Butter and then it is more hard to cure but yet curable albeit that now it is come to be a perfect Glanders but when it commeth to be of a viscous and of a tough and slimy substance and of a green colour and to stink terribly and that it hath now runne some moneths or peradventure halfe a yeer or better as also having some small specks of a reddish colour in it then is not every Ferriers work or Art to cure the same for in a case of this nature the ablest Ferrier may receive the foyle and the Horse dye under his hands and cure as I have often by experience been an eye witnesse albeit there hath been no defect in the Ferrier either in Art industry care or diligence I doe therefore averre that I would not have any man be he never so expert an Artist to promise to himselfe the cure of every Horse he shall take in hand by the reason that the Glanders it selfe is the thing he must cure but in taking upon him o cure that malady he must before he can have perfected his cure cure him also of many other diseases which the Glanders will bring along with it as v. g. the consumption of the flesh and lungs griefes and aches in the head and braine inflamations under the chaule diseases in the liver pursivenesse hide-bound dropsie swelled legges and many other infirmities too prolixe to repeat all which I say are inherent to the Glanders and its origine that it is of cold past all peradventure howsoever it sometimes commeth of Surfets sometimes of Morfounding sometimes by infection all which the last only excepted taketh its first source from cold and when it runneth as before I said greenish with reddish specks accompanied also with an offensive or stinking breath then are his lungs ulcerated by meanes whereof the cure is the more desperate and difficile I do therefore advise all Ferriers my brethren who shall at any time take upon them this cure that they doe first prepare the body of the Horse with such preparatives and Physicke as are meet to expell his peccant humours which must be also very carefully administred yea and that according to the strength and ability of the Horse for the Horse cannot choose but be feeble and weake having of a long time before visited
mixe with it White or Claret Wine in such a proportion as may make it liquid and inject or squirt it into his nose ✚ Or else Take the juyce of Selendine mingled with faire water and inject that into his nose ✚ Or else Take Roch-Allum and Salt dissolved in white Wine and inject that up into his nose ✚ Either of all these are very good to cause him to cast such naughty corruption forth of his nose and head that doth much oppresse him which lotions are to be administred evermore after the aforesaid drink ✚ Another also very good drink Take Tanners Owes new made and new milk of each one pint Sallet oyle halfe a pint one head of Garlick pilled and bruised a little Turmerick in fine powder boyle all these together as much as will suffice then take it off and put in your Sallet oyle and so give it him bloud warm give him this drink three times in fifteen dayes that is to say once every five dayes and every time you do administer it unto him convey halfe a hornfull into each nostrill and let him stand upon the Trench 3. hours after warm clothed and littered and then give him a sweet Mash and such meat as is dry sweet and wholesome but during the time of his cure let his drink be white water ✚ This is very good Another very good Take of faire water two quarts of Comin made into fine powder and searsed two ounces and of the inward rinde of Elder six handfuls boyle this to a moyety then take it off and when it is halfe cold straine it and put into the liquor halfe a pint of Sallet-oyle and give him thereof at his mouth three hornefuls and at eyther nosthrill halfe a hornefull then leape his backe and ride him moderately till he be warme so set him up warme cloathed and littered and three or foure houres after give him a warme Mashe but let him eate some Hay first ✚ This I can averre to be very good both for Glanders and cold Another Take Oyle-de-Bay and sweet Butter of each halfe a pound Rose-mary shred very well and small halfe a handfull Garlick one pound beate the Garlicke unpilled in a stone Morter with a woodden Pestell very well then put to it your Oyle Butter and Rose-mary and so make it into one body then with Wheate-flower so much as will suffice make it up into pils and give him three or foure of these every day for ten daies together and order him ut supra Of this I did never make tryall but it was recommended unto me for a speciall good Receipt Another Take Cloves long-Pepper Browne-Sugar-Candy and London Treacle of each two ounces beat the Sugar-Candy and spices to very fine powder and put to them your Treacle and after adde to these Ingredients of good Sacke or Muskadine one pint and first warme it upon the fire and when it is almost cold enough to bee given him put to it of Sallet-oyle three penny-worth and so bloud-warme give it him and in the giving convey into eyther Nosthrill halfe a hornefull of this drinke and then order him ut supra Another Take of new-milke one quart warme from the Cowe two heads of Garlick pilled and bruised boyle these together keeping them with continuall stirring then take it off and let it coole and a little before it be cold enough to give him put to it of life-hony two spoonfuls and of Sallet-oyle halfe a pint give it him bloud-warme reserving for eyther Nosthrill halfe a hornefull then order him ut supra These latter cures I never made tryall off but I think them to be very good Another Take Isope sweet Margerome Lavander-Cotton the roots and crops of Elecampane of each one handfull chop and shred all these together very small and boyle them in good Ale or Beere so much as will suffice then straine it and when the liquor is almost cold breake into it two new-laid Egges and stirre all well together and so give it him bloud-warme give him this drinke three times that is every third day This hath beene recommended unto me for a very good Receipt whereby to cure not onely the Glanders but the mourning of the Chine but I never made use thereof But now sithence I am come almost to the end of my Receipts for this Infirmity I will give you two Receipts the one for the Glanders the other for the mourning of the chine which are Master Markhams which hee stileth thus Two most certaine and newly found out Medicines which will without faile cure any Glanders though our Ferriers hold it impossible The cure If your Horse his cold be come to the worst Glanders which is a continuall running at the nose and hath so runne by the space of divers moneths so that the Ferriers can do no good then shall you take better then two handfuls of the white cankerous Mosse which groweth upon an old Oaken pale and boyle it in Milke two quarts till one part bee almost consumed then straine it and squeeze the mosse well which done give it your Horse luke-warme to drink Then take two Geese-Feathers and take sweet Butter as a bigge Wall-nut and with the powder of Brimstone finely beaten and searsed worke them together with your knife or splatter till the Butter be brought to a high gold colour then take two cleane feathers the longest in all the Goose-wing and first at the quilles ends with a needle fasten two long threds then with your salve annoynt the feathers all over which done in the dry powder of Brimstone rowle them over and over then putting the feathers ends formost open the Horse Nosthrils and thrust them up into his head then take the threds which are at the quils ends and fasten them on the top of the Horses head which done ride him abroad for an houre or two ayring him in this manner morning and evening and when you bring him into the Stable after hee hath stood tyed up a pretty season unty the threds and draw out the feathers and wiping them very dry lay them up till you have next occasion to use them and keep his body warme This disease you must understand commeth not suddainely but growes out of long processe of time so likewise the cure must not be expected to be done in a moment but with much leasure therefore you must continue your Medicine as your leasure will serve eyther every day or at the least thrice a weeke if it bee for foure or five moneths together and bee sure it will in the end yeeld your desire Now the second and well assured and certaine Medicine is to take Elecampane-roots and boyle them in milke till they bee soft that you may bring them to pap then with a home give them to the horse together with the milke luke-warme being no more then will make the rootes liquid then having annointed your Goose-feathers put them into his Nosthrils and ride him forth as before is shewed The
Feaver or a Surfet to the great perill of his life The signes are knowne by the swelling Lâ—gs swelled and therefore to annoynt them with Acopum were very good But the best cure is first to take up the thigh veines then with your Fleame to prick the places most swelled and hottest in sundry places especially be low to the end that the corrupt bloud may issue forth then Take of white Wine-lees one pint of Comin bruised one ounce boyle then together to a pultis with Wheate flower three handfuls then with a cloth apply it to the place good and warme renewing it every day once if in two or three daies it doth draw it to a head as it is very probable it will do then lanch it and heale it up either with Shooe-makers waxe laid on upon a Playster of leather or also with a salve made of the yolke of an Egge Whete flower and common honey well wrought together to a salve which you must also apply Plaister-wise ✚ But if it do not come to a head and yet the swelling continue then Take of Pitch and of Virgin-wax of each three ounces Rosin half a pound of the iuyce of Isop and of Galbanum of each half an ounce and of Mirrah-secondary half a pound of Bdellium-Arabicum Populeon and of the drops of Storax of each halfe an ounce and of Deeres-suet halfe a pound boyle all these together in an earthen Pot and when it is cold take of Bitumen halfe a pound Bole-Armoniack and of Costus of each one ounce and halfe make all these into fine powder and then incorporate them well with the other and so boyle them all over againe very well that done poure this whole mixture or Medicine into cold water and so make it up into rowles like a salve for Playsters and when you are to use it spread thereof upon Playsters of Leather which must bee so large as to cover the Legges full so far as the swellings are which if any thing can do it this will asswage the swelling and give very much strength and comfort the Sinewes and Nerves neyther is this Playster to be removed so long as it will remaine on ✚ This I have applyed to many Horses very much annoyed with swolne-Legges and brought them to their former smallnesse when as Ferriers have spent much time upon the Cure and given it over at last But if the Swelling do fall into the hinder-Legs or into all foure-Legs together being but a bad Sorance causing them to burne and swell exceedingly and the hayre to stare the cause whereof coming as I have before said from immoderate Riding heat and labour whereby the grease melting falleth downe into the Legges by reason the Horse cannot voyd it in his Excrements or else being over-hot he is washed or negligently set up without sufficient store of litter and rubbing so as the taking cold the bloud with the grease setleth in the Legges and there congealeth and so causeth them to swell This sorance also commeth by having his feet beaten especially in the Summer with being ridden and galloped upon hard ground which first occasioneth wind-gals and those also causeth the legs to swell which truely is the worst kinde of swelling of all other by reason that lamenesse doth immediately follow it unlesse great Art and diligence be speedily applyed for prevention thereof Wherefore the signes being so apparant needs no remonstrance and therefore I will passe on to the Cure which is thus Take Populeum Nervell Hogs grease of each one ounce Legs â—led incorporate them very well together cold and annoynt the sorance therwith morning and evening foure dayes together and at foure dayes end take of Claret Wine lees one quart boyle it upon the fire with so much Bran as will bring it to a Poultesse apply this to the place grieved plaister-wise with a cloth good and hot for foure or five daies more renewing it every day once and in short time he will be sound again ✚ This is a most excellent receit which I have often experimented Another The swelling of the legges may be easily cured if in the beginning they be often times in the day laved and bathed in cold water unlesse the malady come of too great a surfet wherefore if this of cold water will not doe it then Take of common honey one pound Turpentine common Gum meale of Linseed meale of Fenugrick of each foure ounces Bay berries made into very fine powder and seraced three ounces mixe and boyle all these together well and when you take it from the fire put unto it of white Wine one pinte and then boyle it over againe till it doe become thicke spreade this upon a cloath reasonable hot and wrap it about the members swelled and doe not renew it above once in a weeke and it will cure them ✚ This is a certaine and most approved Cure Another If you take up the veines and make them to bleed below and not above and then rope up the legges with thumbands of soft Hay wet in cold water and then cast more water upon them in short time he will be sound and well againe ✚ This is also very good § 5. L. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure the Leprosie Hippos This is a moyst mainge very infectious which commeth by meanes of great surfets taken by over-riding which is very easie to be seen and known and therefore needs no further description The cure therefore is first let him bleed well in the necke then scrape away the scurfe with an old Curry-combe Oyster-shell Hayre-cloth or some such like thing till the sorance doe looke raw and that it be ready to bleed then annoynt the raw places with this oyntment Leprosâ— elephaâ— malady Take Arsnick or Resalgar and tryed Hogs grease the Arsnick or Resalgar being first beaten unto very fine powder incorporate these well together to make them into a perfect oyntment then tye up the head of your Horse so high to the Rack as that he may not be able to bite rub or lick himselfe and so annoynt the places therewith and cause the oyntment to sinke the better in by himselfe and so annoynt the places therewith and cause the oyntment to sinke the better in by holding a hot bar of iron neere to the place as you annoint him and let him stand so tyed three houres and then wash away the Vnguent with the strongest Chamber-lye you can get and wash him so throughly that you may be assured you leave none of the oyntment upon the Horse and then untye him and give him meat and thus dresse him once every day till the sores be quite dryed up ✚ This is also good for Scratches and Kibed-heeles §. 6. L. Hippoph VVHat is good to kill Lice in a Horse Hippos Lice commonly commeth to a horse when he is very poore especially when he runneth abroad in the Winter time in some Wood Coppice or places where are many high trees for that the
malignancy of the infection from the heart and to send it forth first let him bloud in the necke and weeping veines and then give him of Diapent two sponfuls with white Wine one pinte and of London Treacle one ounce and this will recover him And for your other Horses which you may have just cause to suspect to be infected to prevent their danger give him this preparative Preâ—arative Take two Walnuts the kernels onely and the older the Nuts be the better take also two Figs and twenty leaves of Rue stamp them all well together and let every Horse have his proportion three or foure mornings together fasting being made up and given in pils and let them fast three houres after and this will both preserve and free them These things I have often used and found them to be speciall good § 5. P. Hippoph VVHat good purging pils have you Hippos I have already shewed you many in lib. 2. cap. § But yet I will give you one or two more Take fresh Butter one pound Aloes and Fenugrick of each one ounce life Honey and white refined Sugar powdred of each foure ounces Agarick halfe an ounce make all these into fine powder and being well incorporated with the Butter and Honey make pils thereof and give them to your Horse and if he be a small or weake Horse then you must give him but two parts of three but if your horse have a strong cold and a cough withall then Take of fresh Butter and of Mel-Rosarum of each foure ounces of Aloes and Sene of each one ounce Rubarb and Bay berries of each three ounces Colloquintida and Saffaron of each two drams cordiall powder one ounce Ducke or Dutch powder foure ounces make all these into fine powder and mixe them well with Mithridate two ounces and with your Butter and Mel Rosarum beat and pound them well together and so make them into pils and give them your Horse this receit will purge him very well albeit it may heat him for some time and as touching the ordering him in his dyet or otherwise let all things be done as in other physicall cures of the like nature if it be a small horse then give unto him two parts in three and proportion the pils according to the strength greatnesse and corpulency of your horse ✚ This is very good § 6. P. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure the paines in the Heeles of a Horse Hippos This is a noysome Sorance comming to a Horse either by ill humours and corrupt bloud by meanes of Surfets proceeding from great heats by intemperat ridings as I have sufficiently declared before or else through the negligence of his Groome or Keeper for want of good rubbing clensing and picking this doth grow betweene the Fetlock-ioynt and the heele in the very Pasterne which will cause the place to swell and to have chops from whence will issue a thin and stinking water and those horses which have shaggy and long hayre upon their Fet-locks are most subiect to this Malady the signes bee easily knowne by reason that the chops may be soone felt for they will cause the Legges of the horse to swell and much filthy matter will come from the place greived being of that hot nature as that it will scald the very haire from about the sorance and this will cause the horse to go very stiffe and lame at first setting forth The cure is Take of the Lees of red Wine one pint of Wheat-branne one handfull of House-leeke one head of common Hony two spoonefuls of the dust of Tanners bark Allome and tryed Hogges-grease of each one pound of Verveine halfe a handfull bray all these well in a Morter and adde unto them of the leane of of Martlemas or dryed Beefe burned and made unto fine powder halfe a pound and so work them to a kind of salve and apply it unto the Sorance so hot as the horse can suffer it But before you do apply this medicine you must draw the skin with a hot iron a little above the houghes or knees or else take up the veines which I altogether use to do then take of Tarre and of sweet Butter and of Hony of each two spoonfuls and warme them upon the fire and eyther annoynt the places seared or else the veine so taken up with this Vnguent once every day till his Oyntment be all spent and by that time your horse will be perfectly cured especially if you continue this former Emplayster daily to the sorance having first clipped and shaven away the hayre from about the place greived ✚ With this I have cured many horse Another Take of Turpentine Hogges-grease and Honey of each like much Pastons so much as will suffice a little Bole-armoniack in fine powder and yolkes of two Egges with so much Wheat-flower as will thicken all the other ingredients incorporate all these well together and so bring it to a salve and Plaister-wise apply it to the Sorance and so bind it up renewing it every day and let him not come out of the Stable or come into any wet and he will be soone cured ✚ This is also very good Another Take of tryed Hogges-grease one pound Verdegrease one penny-worth of strong Mustard two ounces Nervall foure ounces of oyle de Bay of Hony and Wax of each halfe a pound Arsenick one ounce Red-lead two ounces and of white-Wine-Vinegar halfe a pint powder your Verdegrease and then boyle all together and the hayre first clipt away which must alwaies be done in any of these Cures apply this Medicine hot to the place and renew it daily and it will not only cure the paines but all manner of scratches scabbed and kibed Heeles to wash also the Sorance with Vinegar and Gunpowder is very good to helpe the paines and scratches ✚ This I have often used §. 7. P. Hippoph DOe you not use to purge a Horse that is Pursive Short winded Hippos Yea Sir and I do it after this manner Pursivenes a pill Take of the fat of a Boare three pound mince it very small and lay it in faire Water foure and twenty houres to the end the salt if any be in it may soake out of it then Take of Agarick Pulverized two ounces of Colloquintida in powder halfe an ounce mel rosarum six ounces in corporrate all these well together and worke it to a paste which you must make into Pils the bignesse of an ordinary tennis Ball one of which you most give him at a time rowled up within the powder of Lycoris but the night before you doe administer it you must give him no Oats at all but a little Hay and wheat-Branne prepared only then the next morning about six or seven of the clocke give him one of these Pils and then cover him up warm and ride or walke him two houres space then bring him in and let him stand upon the Trench two houres more then unbridle him and give him
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
sometimes it comes again by the means of a stroke or blow given by some cudgell by his Keeper or Rider betwixt his eares whereby it festereth inwardly and inflaming breedeth an impostumation so as if it be not in time taken it will grow to a very foule Fistula not easie to be cured for the poll of the horse is so tender a member as to be soon offended and therefore easily damnified I need not to deliver you the signes for the swelling will be so apparant as that it cannot be mistaken albeit it will putrifie much more inwardly then outwardly and therefore you ought to apply your diligence to open it before it do breake of it selfe The cure is First to lay unto the place swollen such things as will ripen it Poll-evill and to prepare it ready to be opened and as touching the ripening thereof Take the loame of a mud wall which had never any Lime in it but much Straw or Litter and the elder this Loame or mud wall is the better boyle so much as you shall please thereof in the strongest white Wine Vineger and let it boyle till it come to be a very Poultesse then being very hot lay it to the swelling renewing it morning and evening till it be ripe enough to be opened then open it with a red hot iron made sharpe at the end and let the iron be the bignesse of a naile rod but you must begin below thrusting your instruments upwards cleane through that it may come forth in the softest place and when it is thus opened so as the corruption may issue forth at ease anoynt the orifices with tryed Hogs grease two or three dayes together to get out the fire but howsoever faile not to dresse it twice every day with the said Poultesse taynts being dipped in the Poultesse and put down to the bottome as well to carnifie and heale the Fistula at the bottome as to keep open the orifices and this Poultesse will cure him ✚ But withall you must remember to make him a hood or nightcap to keep warm the nape of his neck and to keep in the taints also this also cureth the Botch in the groine hurts in the withers navell-galles galled-back or Sit-fasts c. Another First ripen it as before or else with tryed Hogs grease scalding hot making him a Biggin wherewith to keep his poll very warme and renew this Emplaister every day and it will ripen it the sooner then when you finde it to be softest and most likely to breake open it with a hot iron two inches beneath the soft place carrying your hand upward into the soft and most matterative place to draw forth the corruption downwards then taint it with Flaxe or Hurds dipped into molten Hogs grease and lay also a plaister of Hogs grease upon it renewing it for four or five dayes once every day to get forth the fire after this take of Turpentine of Venice halfe a pound thrice washed and dryed from the water the yolks of two Egges and of Saffaron one penny worth in powder incorporate all these together very well then with a probat search the depth of the sorance and taint it with a spunge full as bigge as the hole of the wound and as long and convey the taint down to the very bottome well anoynted with the said medicine but this must be done with the help of your instrument and then cover it with a plaister of Hogs grease renewing it twice a day but when the swelling is alaid then use no plaister and in short time it will be perfectly whole and sound X This is a very good cure Another First ripen and open it as before is taught you and apply Hogs grease to fetch forth the fire then heale it thus Take Roman Vitreall Allum and Rose water of each two ounces boyle all these together on a quick fire till they do come to be as hard as a stone and then beat it into a very fine powder and when you are to dresse the sore first dippe a taint into Vnguentum Egiptiacum and so rowle it in the said powder and convey the taint with the help of your instrument to the very bottome and it will in short time make it perfectly whole and sound ✚ This powder being strewed upon any old sore or ulcer will both heat and dry it up Another Powder for old sores Take of Quick-silver one ounce let it be well mortified with fasting spittle and mixe with it tryed Hogs grease the quantity of a Hens Egge and Brimstone pulverised incorporate these very well together and anoynt the swelling very well with this unguent having thus done take presently of red Tarre one penny worth of the reddest and best of Hogs grease halfe a pound and of green Copperas and bay Salt of each one handfull both made into fine powder boyle all these on the fire exceeding well and then boyling hot even as it comes from the fire with a clout fastened upon the end of a stick apply this medicine upon the place being so lately anointed with the Quick-silver Hogs grease and Brimstone and thus by scalding it three or foure mornings together you shall after those mornings but onely warme the Tarre medicine upon the fire so that it be but molten and apply it and it will be cured for this scalding of the place doth so kill the malice of the Fistula that it can never breake to annoy the Horse any further ✚ And thus with this medicine I have not onely cured many poll-evils but sundry other Fistulaes it cureth all impostumations and foule Vlcers being thus applyed § 11. P. Hippoph VVHat is good in case of Pursivenesse or shortnesse of Breath Hippos This disease commeth by two meanes the first naturall the second accidentall naturall as when a horse is as we doe usually say cock-thropled for that his throppell or winde-pipe being too long and so becomes crooked as his winde is thereby so straightned or stopped as that he is not able to draw it in and put it forth with that ease and pleasure that other horses doe that are loose thropled for that the winde-pipe is I say straightned which doth convey his breath into his lungs and vent it forth againe In like manner a horse becommeth pursive and short-winded when the pipe is too much filled with fat or other phlegmaticke stuffe whereby he is very much suffocated which causeth his lungs to labour the more and therefore if you shall be pleased to follow my counsell never breed with that horse that is cock-thropled This disease commeth secondly by accident when a horse shall be too hard strained upon his water like as many of your ignorant Ioctries use to doe when morning and evening they doe make them watering courses as they are frequently so termed so also this infirmity commeth by riding gallopping or straining a horse upon a full stomacke before he hath either digested his meat or emptied himselfe for by this meanes
corrupt the bloud and consequently the flesh and at the last breaketh forth into this malady which we call the Quick-scab Quick sâ— And the reason why we do give it this name is for that it runneth from one member of the horse to the other sometimes it will be in the neck and at other times in the breast of the horse now in the maine and then in the tayle c. The cure is First shâ—ve oâ— clip away the hayre from that place visited so close as may be and take off the scurfe and scabs with some old Curry-Comb Oyster-shell or some such like thing Then Take faire cold water with a linnen cloth wash and bathe the places very well and lay the linnen cloth well wet upon the place and so touch it no more in ten dayes and if in that time the quick-scab do not heale then dresse it as before and so a third time or a fourth or so oft as necessity requireth till it be throughly healed But remember that the day before you thus dresse the sorance after this manner you take to a reasonable quantity of bloud from the neck-vein ✚ This is an approved cure Another as good as the former First let him bloud and then shave or clip away the hayre close as in the former cure Then take Mallowes and Marsh-Mallowes of each like much and boyle them in faire water as much as will suffice till the hearbs be soft and with the hearbs and decoction bathe and wash the sorance two or three dayes together warme then take of common Honey one pinte Coperas Allum of glasse and Verdigrece all made into fine powder of each four ounces Turpentine and Quick-silver mortified of each two ounces boyle all these together with the Honey unto an Vnguent and herewith dresse him every day till he be whole ✚ This I say is very good § 2. Q. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Quitter-bone Hippos This commeth to a horse by some hurt he hath taken in the foot either by a pricke with a nayle in shooing or by graveling or by a stub or the like when it was not so well healed that it impostumated and so brake out above the cronet which bred the malady or else being neglected it brake out above the hoofe before it was perceived It is bred also sometimes by a hurt upon the hoofe by a blow or by striking one foot upon the other and sometimes it commeth by evill humours which fall down into that place and it groweth most usually upon the in-side of the foot where when it beginneth it causeth a hard round swelling upon the cronet of the hoofe betwixt the heele and the quarter of the long talent it begetteth an Vlcer at what time it doth beginne to impostumate and it breaketh out above the Cronet like as I said before The signes I have already given you for the place will be swelled the bignesse of a hasle nut and the horse will hault right down The cure is so soon as it is espied to open it above if it doe begin to be soft then Take Auripigmentum made into fine powder and infuse it in the strongest white Wine Vineger can be gotten forty eight houres and then apply it to the sore and it will so eat about the Quitter-bone Quitter-bone as that you may pluck it away with your finger or pliers which so soon as the bone or gristle is taken forth you may heale up the wound with your Coperas water and green oyntment prescribed in lib. 2. cap. 10. § 4. G. till it be whole but he must not come into any wet during the time of the cure ✚ This is very good Another First cut the hoofe to the quicke then Take a Snake the greatest you can get and cut off his head and taile and flea it and so boyle it in water till the flesh come from the bone and then you may bring the flesh to be a very oyntment put of this into the sorance down to the bottome and this will kill the Quitter-bone and dry up and heale it but you must not suffer him to come into any wet dirt or gravell during the time you have him in cure ✚ With this medicine I cured one horse onely for that I had no cause to use it to any other since Another Take of Arsenick the quantity of a small beane make it into powder and put it into the hole of the Sorance conveying it downe unto the bottome with your instrument and then stop the mouth of the wound with Hurds and binde it on with a cloth and a rowler that the Horse may not bit it away and so let it remaine foure and twenty houres then open it and if you shall perceive the wound to looke blacke within it is a token that the Arsenick did its office in well working then to allay the fire and to restore the flesh that is thereby become mortified taynt the hole with Turpentine and Hogs-grease molten together Then take Pitch Rosin and Waxe of each like much and of Turpentine as much as of all the other three and melt them and so make a Plaister of Leather with which you must cover the top of the Sorance but first be sure to convey the aforesaid taint to the bottome and then lay on your Plaister and thus dresse him dayly till you have gotten forth the Core or sharpe Gristle if the Arsenick have not eaten it out before for if the Gristle be in the bottome of the wound and uncovered you may raise it with your Fingers or Instrument and so pluck it quite away for till that be out the Sorance will not heale that done heale it up with your green oyntment or else with this Vnguent Take of common-Hony and of Verdegrece in fine powder of each so much as will suffice boyle this till it bee red and therewith Taint the wound till it be whole keeping evermore the mouth of the wound open least it heale up above before it be well healed at the bottome neyther let your Horse come into any wet or go forth of the Stable untill he be throughly cured ✚ Thus I have cured many Quitter-bones Another Cut the place to the quick then take Virgin-wax Pitch of Greece Galbanum Mastick Sagapenum Olibanum and Sallet-oyle of each one ounce and of Deere or Sheeps-suet halfe a pound melt these upon a soft fire and incorporate them well together and therewith Taint and dresse the same till it be whole ✚ This is also very good CHAP. XVIII §. 1. R. Hippophilus WHat is good to cure the Red-water Hippos This Red-water is that which issueth out of old incurable Vlcers and Sores which when you shall see it to come forth of any wound then be you assured that it is very hardly or seldome cured till that Water be gotten away for it is a signe that the wound is poysoned with the said Red-water nor could I ever finde any cure for the Red water
Red waeter but only one which a Marishall of France taught me which is this viz. Take of the root of the hearb called Emanuell alias Bonus-Henricus or good King-Henry or All-good boyle the Rootes thereof in water and give it him drench-wise with a horne bloud-warme and this will take away the Red-water and you may then cure the wound with your other Salves or Vnguents This I had never cause to make tryall off in England but I have beene an Eye witnesse to two or three cures in this kinde which the Marishall of whom I had the Receipt did very sufficiently perfect The French calleth this Malady La Eu Rouse § 2. R. Hippoph HOw doe you make a Restringent charge Hippos This Restringent charge Restringent charge is to be applyed to broken bones or to bones dislocated or out of joynt being first set as also take moist humours from weeping wounds and so dry up bad humours which do preoccupate the body I will commend unto you one onely receit which shall be speciall good Take of oyle de Bay four ounces Orpin Cantharides and Euphorbium of each two ounces make all these into fine powder and mixe them with your oyle de Bay very well and therewith Charge the place greived ✚ This is also very good to Charge the swelling of a Back-sinew spraine § 3. R. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Ring-bone Hippos A Ring-bone commeth two waies to wit eyther by Nature or by Accident by Nature when as either the Stallion or Mare have it from whom the Colt is ingendred whereby he taketh it as hereditary from them and therefore as I have formerly admonished I will disswade you from breeding upon any such Horse or Mare that either had or have this malady It commeth also accidentally by some knock or blow given either by some other Horse or by his Keeper or other person and sometimes by some evill humour which through over-heats do fall down into the legges and maketh its residence upon the top of the cronet It beginneth first with a slimy humour which in time groweth to a hard gristle you shall know it for that there will be a swelling round about the cronet of the hoofe adjoyning unto the lower part of the pasterne and the hayre will stare and be bristly and it will cause the Horse to hault The cure is first wash the plaâ—â— and shave away the hayre then Take quick or unslaked Lime newly taken from the Kill Ring-â— which must be well burned the best burned you may know by its lightnesse make your lime into fine powder and lay it upon the place swelled all along of a good thicknesse and binde upon it a linnen cloth made fast about the foot and so put the horse into the water and let him stand in the water a pretty while then take him forth and unbinde the foot and he is infallibly cured for the burning of the Lime doth kill the Ring-bone even unto the very root thereof ✚ With this receit I have cured not so few as a hundred horses at the least but when you are thus to dresse your horse let him be brought close to the water whereinto he is to be ridden that so soon as you have applyed your Lime unto the sorance you may presently put him into the water Another First shave away the hayre as before is advised then scarifie the place Take then Cantharides halfe an ounce Euphorbium and oyle de Bay of each one ounce your Cantharides and Euphorbium must be made into fine powder and then boyled with your oyle de Bay stirring it continually that it run not over then with two or three feathers lay it boyling-hot upon the sorance good and thick let him be dressed in the same place where usually he standeth in the Stable and let him have no litter neer him but tye up his head so as he may not reach the medicine with his mouth but when the hayre do begin to grow again give the fire to the sorance to wit three or four straight lines right downwards drawing the swelling quite crosse and let the edge of the iron be no thicker then the back of an ordinary knife neither must you burn him any deeper then that the skin may look yellow that done apply to the place this charge Take of Pitch and Rosin of each like much let them be molten together and whilst it is hot apply it to the place all along from the one end of the swelling to the other before it be cold clap Flocks upon it and about three dayes after lay on more of the said charge and new Flocks again upon that charge and so let it remain untill the Flokcs and charge fall off of its own accord ✚ This is also very good Another First wash and shave and scarrifie as before then Excretion to cure Take gray-Sope and Arsnick pulverized of each the quantity of a Wall-nut which being very well mixed spread it upon the sorance so far as the Ring-bone goeth and having thus spread it apply upon it a few Hurds and binde a cleane linnen cloth upon it to keep it on neither let it be removed in four and twenty hours then take it away and stir not the asker or scab but onely annoint it with fresh Butter till it doe fall away of it selfe and so heale it up with some healing salve whereof I have given you plenty ✚ This I have tryed and have found to be very good This medicine will cure a bone-Spaven Splint Curb or any other bony excretion §. 4. R. Hippoph HAve you any way to recover and make sound a Horse that is rotten Hippos Truely Sir for any man to promise that were great precipitation onely thus far he may wade therein as to give ease and help to a horse that hath the rot for it is one thing for a Horse to be rotten and another thing for him to have the rot For a horse to be rotten is to have his inward parts wasted and consumed or at least so rotten as never possibly to be recovered to wit his Liver Lights c. But for a horse to have the disease called the rot I doe finde the same to be either a formall aropsie or else a disease so allied neerly thereunto as not to be distinguished easily as we say a Sheep is rotten when his Liver is become foule and tainted neverthelesse men doe eate the carkas and doe averre it to be good meat wherefore the Sheep is not rotten but hath the disease called the rot This malady commeth oft times to horses unhandled to wit in their youth whilst they be yet Colts which be bred and do feed in Fenny-Marsh and wet grounds and sometimes it commeth to them after they have bin backed and ridden when they haue too hard and violent riding being yet but young whereby the bloud is first enflamed and after putrified and corrupted begetting obstructions in the Liver and those do cause putrefaction and
so knots and pustils do engender in the Liver which breedeth either a Dropsie a Feltricke or a rot The signes how to know this infirmity are these After his journeyes his hayre will stare his legges swell and burn and when you shall presse the places swoln with your finger upon taking your finger away there will remaine a pit or dint hee will forbeare his meat very much and when he doth eate it will be without any stomacke or appetite he will pant much lift and beat in the flanks many times he will swell under the belly neither will he cast his coat in seasonable time when other Horses that be sound do and he will be so faint of body as that he will become lunt and utterly to have lost his mettle These and such like be the symptomes of this malady Now come I to the cure Let him first bleed well under the taile then Take of Mares-milke two quarts if the same may be had if not Rot. the like quantity of the milke of a red Cow then take a lump of Arement then take a young horse of or about the age of foure yeares and of colour blacke if it may be if not then of some other colour run and chafe him about that he may sweate much then with a spoone or with some other such like instrument rake the sweate from his head necke breast backe sides ribbes buttocks legges and in a word from each part or member of the said horse and get off the sweat so much as you can possibly and so put your Arement and your sweat into the milke which all being well mixed give him this by equall portions three mornings together till he hath taken it all and let him drinke none other drinke after it in sixe or seven houres but immediately after his drink let him be led forth into some pasture where other horses be the better to cause him to neese stale dung and empty himselfe for it is very wholesome for him so to doe before he either eate or drink Having thus done set him up warm and well littered and if the season do serve give him of the green blades of Rye if not give him Barly steeped in milk three dayes but renewed every day once Then after every of these drinks if you feele him cold in the pasterne joynts or that he trippeth or stumbleth as you leade him in your hand meddle no further with him for that he is past cure otherwise for nine dayes together after morning and evening give him white water onely unlesse now and then a sweet Mash and sometimes give him milke with his white water if the Horse be not above nine years old and so you may cure him but if he be elder this may prolong his life whereby he may do the more service This I never did experience but a Noble Knight and a very friend told me that he hath thus recovered sundry Horses which have beene visited with this disease CHAP. XVIII §. 1. S. Hippophilus WHat good Salves have you wherewith to heale up sores and wounds Hippos Sir I have many according as I have before shewed you but yet I will give you many more the greatest number of which I have tryed and I am able to commend them unto you for very good and those not Salves Salve onely but Vnguents Powders and Waters which be most soveraign Take of Perosen and of hard Rosin of each one pound of Frankincense Virgin-Wax or for want thereof new Waxe and Sheeps suet of each halfe a pound of old tryed Hogs grease one pound and a quarter boyle the Gummes and Waxe in white Wine halfe a pint and then put unto it your Sheeps tallow and Hogs grease and when all is well molten and incorporated straine it and whilst it is yet hot put in of Venice Turpentine one ounce and so work all well together and when it is cold poure in the liquor from the salve which put up into a cleane galley pot or other cleane vessell for your use ✚ This is a most soveraign Treate or Salve wherewith to heale any wound that is not come to an Vlcer and so dry it up Another most excellent powder Powder Take unslaked Lime the dry dust of Tanners Oken Bark and old shooe soles burned to a cole of each like much make these into fine powder and mixe them well and keep it in a cleane boxe or glasse for your use ✚ This powder healeth the buds or knots of the Farcin after they be broken and it skinneth them and if they be first washed with the juyce of Vervine and strong Vineger mingled together and then this powder being cast upon them will I say heale and skin them It also healeth and skinneth all other sores Another Oyntment Take tryed Hogs grease halfe a pound Verdigrece in fine powder one penny worth boyle these upon the fire two or three walms then take it off and put unto it of Venice Turpentine halfe an ounce and stirre it well together till it be cold ✚ This Vnguent will heale any wound or sore in a Horse Another Oyntment Take of Roch-Allum a good quantity and burn it and as much bay Salt and burn that also make both these together into fine powder then take of common Honey and of sweet Butter of each like much as will suffice incorporate the Allum and Salt with the Honey and Butter by melting them over a gentle fire and with a taint or plaister apply it ✚ And this cureth any foule sore This I have often tryed Another Take of faire water Water one pinte and put into it of green Coperas and of bay Salt of each the quantity of a good hasle nut both made into very fine powder let these boyle a little upon the fire With this wash any sore before you do apply your Salves Vnguents or Powders ✚ This is a right good water Another Take of common Honey two ounces Roch-Allum Verdigrece and Vineger of each one ounce make your Allum and Verdigrece into very fine powder then take of Sublimate finely powdred two ounces boyle all these a walme or two on the fire this laid on a Spatula plaister-wise once a day or if the wounds be deep with a taint cureth both speedily and soundly but before you dresse him with this Salve let the Sore be well washed and injected with the water last above mentioned made of faire water Coperas and bay Salt ✚ This is a most approved cure and good beyond all peradventure for it cureth not onely sores and wounds in any part in the body of the Horse but in the foot which way soever it may happen and it cleanseth any wound from dead or proud flesh Another Take the buds or tendrest tops of the leaves of Elder one handfull and first shred and after pound them very well till you bring them to a perfect Salve Salve and apply this to the sore binding a cloth
curd knobs and knots causing them to be dissolved And as for the water which she is to drinke for some time after her foling let it be either sweet Mashes or white water a moneth after her foling give her a Mash putting thereinto the powder of Brimstone or Savin or the like which will be a great preservation of the Colt then if she be moderately laboured either at Plough or Harrow if she will draw as well the Mare as Colt will prosper the better provided she be kept from raw meat while she remaineth in the Stable by which meanes she will the sooner recover strength lust and courage and have store of good milke which will cause the Colt to thrive the better and to grow to be of the greater bone which above all things is a matter of greatest consequence And that you suffer not the Colt to sucke the Mare when she commeth from worke untill she be throughly cold lest thereby you surfet the Colt Thus much I have thought fit to handle of this subject and albeit I have laboured herein to attaine to brevity neverthelesse the premisses well considered I shall not greatly offend in prolixity howsoever this my manner of breeding being different from the old received customes will not I doe assure me passe voyd of censure But as touching old customes thus much I doe averre that as they are in many cases of that force as no law is able to abrogate so on the contrary part many of them are so absurd and ridiculous as nothing can be more for what saith the civill Law Those things which by event or successe of time are found to be pernicious or hurtfull even these things ought to be repealed yea albeit they were at the first found profitable Which ground holdeth good in nothing so much as in old customes for of their absurdities I am able to produce instances not a few howsoever with many It is one of Hercules greatest labours to beat many a man from his old customes be they never so bad albeit Custome is a meere tyrant and his soveraignty most insufferable as a grave Author very well observeth CHAP. III. How to make and order your Stable HAving thus waded into this mystery of breeding I hold it a thing very behoovefull to be handled how your Stable ought to be accommodated First therefore your Stable should be scituate where the ayre is wholesome pure and good and the ground dry the structure would be either of free Stone or Bricke but Bricke is best most wholesome and warmest besides this benefit Brick hath which Stone hath not of being very dry for Stone will weep and sweat drops of water against raine and misty weather which begetteth damps and causeth rhumes in Horses Your Stable ought not to have any unsavory Gutter Channell or Sinke neare to it no Iakes Hogsties or Hen-roust whereby to annoy it It would be also seeled over head and have strong doores with lockes bolts and barres unto it The Racke would not be made too high or too low but placed in an indifferent proportion and so artificially set that neither the dust or hay-seeds may fall into his Mane or upon his necke and face The Manger would be set at an indifferent height made deep and of one entire piece as well for strength as for conveniency to be kept sweet and cleane Let the flore be pitched with Flint and not planked The windowes would be made with handsome shuts and casements and well glazed as well to keep out cold and wind as also when there may be cause to let in the coole and fresh ayre Againe take heed there be no lome wall or plaister so neare as that the Horse may reach thereto with bis mouth for upon that he will gnaw which may doe him much prejudice and be the cause of much dangerous sicknesse for Lome and Lime are suffocating things they will infect and putrifie the bloud endanger the Lounges and be no friend to his winde neither suffer any dung to lye neare him Furthermore there would be made a faire Loft wherein to lay Hay and convenient lodging chambers for your Groomes whose nearenesse together with their care and vigilancy might prevent many dangers and inconveniences which may accrue unto your Horses by night Also let a neat Saddle-house be contrived with Bings for Provender and in it Presses wherein to lay up the Saddles Bridles and all other furniture appertaining to Horfes and an Aqua-duct wherewith to bring water to the Stable And lastly other Stals would be erected remote wherein upon occasion to sever the sicke from the sound Many other accoutrements there are belonging to a perfect Stable as partitions with boards posts and barres with pins driven into every post whereon to hang Bridles and the like shelves also fastned to the wall serving for many uses to place necessaries upon c. which being known to all men will be needlesse for me here to repeate But you may peradventure startle at paving rather then planking your flore preferring planks as warmer and much better then flint or a pitched flore can be as also for that it is a new thing little practised and seldome heard But give me leave I pray a little to inform your understanding in this one point by which means your judgement may fortune to be much bettered First therefore whereas novelty may be objected I shall most easily assoile that point even from the selfe-same ground in the civill Law which I inserted in the conclusion of the precedent chapter viz. That things found to be prejudiciall ought to be inhibited although they might be thought needfull and good in foreknown times For that paving of Stables is better then planking them Paving Stabâ— much bâ— then plaâ—ing I have reasons not a few wherewith to satisfie a reasonable man First it is much more durable and lasting supposing the flore to be pitched by an expert workman Secondly it is lesse charge by much and therefore in that point the better Thirdly for a Horse to stand continually upon a pitched flore it emboldneth his feet and treading the more Fourthly it is the most excellent thing that may be for Colts who are unshod for it hardneth their hooves so as by custome they will be as bold to goe upon stones rocky and hard wayes as Horses that are shod neither will a pitched flore suffer the hoofe to goe abroad in manner of an Oyster besides the use thereof will make their hooves more tough durable and hollow insomuch as when they shall come to be shod and to have exercise they will carry their shooes much longer better and with more ease then otherwise if they had been used to a planked flore The inconvenience of a planked flore Now on the contrary part which concerneth the planked flore that I say cannot in reason be so good by many degrees First it is more slippery out of which reason a mettled horse may soone
or with some sword hatchet Bill or other edge-toole or that you should enforce him to doe more than what nature or strength were well able to compasse or leading him upon plaine ground he might wrinch any member or sway his back or breake his leg either by the stroke or stripe of some other horse or otherwise accidentally or should by misfortune fall downe some steepe precipice whereby he may breake or dislocate some limb or member all these disasters we usually doe call Accidentall and all such things of this nature Hippiat Which be the elements which doe give life and nutriment unto man and all other living creatures Hippos They are foure in number that is to say Fire Ayre Water and Earth whose natures if you shall please I will discusse elsewhere Hippiat No I pray let us have them both now and elsewhere their natures conditions and qualities Hippos The nature of Fire is to be hot and dry Ayre to be hot and moyst Water to be cold and moyst and Earth to be cold and dry Hippiat Doe you know the twelve Signes of the Zodiacke and how they doe govern the body of man and of all creatures Hippos Yes I doe know them all perfectly and thus are they called Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Vrgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces These doe all governe the twelve Months of the yeare and are placed above the Zodiack Hippiat Doe you know the names of the Planets and their numbers Hippos That I doe very well and they bee seven in number to wit Saturne Iupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercury and Luna Hippiat What parts doe the twelve Signes before mentioned governe Hâ—ppos Aries governeth the Head Taurus the Neck Gemini the Shoulders and Armes Cancer the Stomack and Breast Leo the Heart Virgo the Belly anâ— Guts Libra the Reines and Buttocks Scorpio the Privy parts Sagittarius the Thighs Capricornus the Knees Aquarius the Legs and Pisces the Feete Hippiat In what dayes is it best for a horse to be let bloud Hippos If there be no extraordinary cause as in case of desperate sicknes or so then Ianuary the third and the fifteene Februâ—ry the fourth and nineth March the seventeene and eighteene Aprill the tenth and sixteene May the first thirteene Iune fifteene and twenty But for Iuly and August by reason that the Canicular-dayes be then predominate bloud-letting is not so good but only in urgent case of necessity In September the eleventh and twenty eight October the eight and twenty three November the fift and sixteene December the fourteene and twenty six And these daies doe wee hold to be the very best unlesse dangerous or sudaine sicknesse doe cause us to alter the same for in cases of necessity no daies are to be regarded or observed For Qui retinente vita et non sit mortis imago Si semper fuerit vivens morietur et infra Hippiat What medicine would you apply to a Horse who may have any of the foure Maladyes Hippos I would give him of the foure Cordiall waters which I would make of Buglas Savin Succary Aquavitae Endife and the like Hippiat How would you make a comfortable drinke Hippos I would make it of certaine Cordialls to wit of Sugar Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs Saffron Licoris Annyseeds all these in fine powder adding thereto white wine and all these infused in a cleane earthen pot and hereof would I make a drinke Hippiat Whereof would you make an operative drinke Hippos I would take white Wine Sallet-oyle Aloes Rubarb Agarick Duke or Duck-powder Hony Cordial-powder and of all these things would I put such a quantity as I should thinke requisite and according to the strength and corpulency of the Horse Hippiat Whereof would you make a laxative Clister Hippos Into a laxative Clister I will put either of Pellitory Melelote or Cammamile but Pellitory is the best and of this would I make a Decoction and to this Decoction would I put Sallet Oyle Hony Aloes and Verjuice of the Crab. Hippiat What be the natures of your principall Drugs Hippiat Agarick purgeth the Braine Allos the Breast and body Rubarb purgeth the evill water and it openeth the Liver and helpeth obstructions and oppilations Aristolochia-Rotunda mollifieth the Breast Liver and Lungs and Bacchalauri or Bay-berries doe mortifie the peccant Humours which doe ingender in the Breast or Entrayles nere about the Heart and Saffron if it be discreetly given doth marveylously comfort and enlighten the Heart CHAP. II. Of the causes of Sicknesse in generall and the causes of Health and long Life Hippiat NOw that we have proceeded thus farre in a discussion of the Office of the Ferrier Let us approach yet nearer to intreate of the Cures and that we may goe on Pedetentim and Gradatim Let us first discusse the causes of Maladies and therefore I demand of you What are the true Causes of the sicknesse of the Horse Hippos Sir that man which hath a desire to become an Expert Ferrier must apply himselfe to understand the true nature of two things viz. of Generation and of Corruption in which I could never find the least discord in the Primary nature of Horses albeit compounded of the contrary nature of the foure Elements But I will proceed in Anatomizing unto you the verity hereof more particularly whereby you may the better understand my meaning Hippophyl But friend Hipposerus in my judgement you begin to assume too high a pitch for ordinary Feâ—riers who are in a manner all or the greater number un-lettered persons and therefore will never be able to understand what Generation and Corruption meaneth for these are termes taken from the grounds of Philosophy and therefore above their Genius or Sphere Hippos Sir there be many things necessary to bee duly knowne and as diligently to be observed in him that desireth to be a perfect and able Ferrier which whosoever shall be defective in he may well be an Empyreticall-Hors-Leach but skilfull Ferrier or Marshall he shall never be And for that you please to say that I sore too high because I began my discourse with the termes of Generation and Corruption if you had not interrupted me I should have explicated my selfe so cleerely as that a very reasonable judgement might easily have apprehended me for I hold it not a thing fitting to pussell mens Braines either with Chimeras which they are not able to understand or with over-long and tedious discourses of things meerly impertinent but if you shall be pleased to heare me with patience I will touch upon this subject to wit What are the causes of Sicknesse in generall as also of Health and long Life and that Laconica brevitate and so leave the rest to your judgement and practise especially considering what other Authours my Masters have so learnedly and no lesse sufficiently intreated in this very Art To begin therefore and but to say what I said before with the causes of sicknesse and death of Horses in generall in
roots of Ireos or Flour de luce one ounce and a quarter Isope and Carpo Balsamum of each a quarter of a pound Oyle of Floure de luce a quarter of a pound and halfe a quarter of Oyle de Bay as much Oyle of Spikenard three quarters of a pound Oleum Cyprinum three quarters of a pound and halfe a quarter the oldest oyle Olive a pound and a halfe Piche a quarter of a pound and two ounces Turpentine a quarter of a pound melt of every of these that will be molten severally by themselves and then mingle them with the residue of the ingredients being first beaten to fine powder and after they have boyled a little on the fire take it off and straine it into a cleane gally-pot and so keep it for your use and when you are to administer of it to your horse let it be given as before is shewed and if by long keeping it waxe hard then soften it with the oyle of Cypresse so that it may be good and thick ✚ Hippophil What are the vertues of this Receipt called Acopum Hippos Acopum its vertues Master Blundevile and Master Markham doe tell you to wit it helpeth convulsions in the sinewes and muskles it draweth forth all noysome humours and disburdeneth the head of all griefe being put up with a long Goose feather annoynted in it into the nostrils of the horse it healeth I say all manner of convulsions cramps numnesse and stringholts colds and rhumes it dissolveth the liver being troubled with oppilations and obstructions it helpeth Siccity and Aridity in the body it banisheth all wearinesse and tyrednesse if his limbs be bathed with this medicine and lastly it cureth all sorts of inward diseases if it be administred by way of Drench to a horse in Wine strong Beere or good Ale § 2. A. Hippoph DOe you know another Receipt which is called Arman Hippos Yea sir it is a confection in great request in France among the Ferriers there and now we have it here in England and it is a most soveraigne medicine to be given to a sick horse and it is to be administred inwardly Hippoph What be the principall vertues of the Arman Hyppos It provoketh a good appetite to meat and causeth good digestion it taketh away all annoyances which doe either clog or otherwise trouble the stomacke it cooleth the inward heat in the body it helpeth all Agues and Feavers it is most excellent against Surfets it is an infallible remedy for the Quinsie or Suinancy in the throat comming of cold taken and very good against the Tranchaisons or gripings in the belly or guts proceeding of winde and such like inward infirmities Hippophil How doe you make this confection Hippos Take hony of roses a pound half Arman 1 the crums of the whitest manchet made into fine powder quantum sufficiet then take Nutmegs cordiall powder cinamon of each an ounce half mixe all these being made first into fine powder then put it into a clean glasse or gally-pot and moysten it with Rose vineger that it may be of a thicke substance like unto pap all your Ingredients being very well incorporate together and so keep it to your use And when you have occasion to administer of this Arman take some of it upon the end of a Buls pizell and put it into his mouth and let him champ thereon but if you give it to a horse that hath a Quinsy let him gulp down two horns full as also to a horse that hath a Fever and is much distempered therewith and it will give him health in two or three times taking and give him also an appetite to his meat But then you must remember that he take this in a morning fasting and let him fast three or foure houres after and his drinke must be for some time either sweet Mashes or white water and a spare dyet till he be somewhat recovered Hippoph I pray what is that thing you call cordiall powder and whereof is it made Hippos Cordiall-powder hath not its name for nought for its nature jumps right with its Epitheton this we have also from the French who use to giue it to their sicke horses which are farre spent and enfeebled with a consumption in the flesh liver c. for it is a most restaurative Cordiall comforting the vitall parts and spirits animall and restoreth it to Sanity and thus it is made Take Cinamon and Sugar of each foure ounces Cordiall Powder and of fine Bolearmonack two ounces let all these be made into very fine powder and mixe them well together keep this powder from ayre made up close till you have occasion to make use thereof I doe use of this powder in very many of my Receits as you shall hereafter understand Hippoph Have you any other sorts of Cordials besides this Hippos Yes Sir I have another powder which the French doe call Duke or Duche-powder which little differeth from the former cordiall powder onely it wanteth the Bolearmonack We have also another Cordiall which is an Electuary and is known by the name of Electuarium Theriacum by reason it hath much treacle in it and we doe compound this Electuary thus Take syrrop of Violets syrrop of Lemons and syrrop of Roses Electuarii Theriacū of each halfe an ounce adding thereunto of your best London treacle one ounce mingle them well together and it is a most soveraign Cordiall to be administred unto Horses which are dangerously sicke and weake Hippoph Why doe you rather choose London Treacle before Venice Treacle Treacle of Genoa or our common Treacle Hippos This London Treacle I doe select for all medicines for horses rather then any other Treacle whatsoever by reason it worketh the best with them of any other for that Venice Treacle and that of Genoa are too hot and your common Treacle is nothing at all worth it being made onely of the drosse and excrements of Molasses which is none other thing then the drosse of the refining of Sugar for I have made tryall of them all but this London Treacle I do finde to be most agreeable to the nature of Horses wherefore both my selfe and my Master doe use none other unlesse in some particular causes wherein we administer sometimes the Treacle of Venice Hippoph What meane you by your white water Hippos White water White water is none other thing then water made hot in a cleane kettle and when it is hot enough I use to put into it a quantity of Wheat-bran and sometimes Barly-meale which I commonly prescribe to sicke Horses in physicke in stead of Mashes for that when Mashes are either not to be had or that they are not necessary for my purpose as in some cases they be not or to prevent giving of cold water I make use of this white water which must evermore be given bloud warme according as our ensuing discourse shall declare Hippoph But now let us returne to this confection
each the quantity of three Wallnuts halfe as much Hony browne Sugar-candy in fine powder halfe an ounce mixe these with a quantity of powdred Brimstone so much as will suffice and sew them into a fine linnen cloth and ty it to his Bit or Snaffle and so ride or journey him moderately till all be dissolved into his body then bring him into the stable and cloth and litter him warme and three houres after give Hay and after a warme Mash use him thus three mornings together and longer if you shall see cause ✚ Another Take bloud from him if you have ground for the same otherwise not Bran prepared then insteed of giving him Oates you shall give him bran boyled in water after this manner viz. Set a Kettle over the fire almost full of water when it beginneth to boyle put in your bran and let it boyle a full quarter of an houre at least then take it off and let it stand till it bee almost cold and about foure or five a clocke in the morning give him this Bran so hot as he can eate it then for his drinke give him the same water and at night give him Oates and white water and let him be covered and littered warme if it be in Summer let not the Stable be too hot for that will take away his stomacke and make him faint and sweat too much and at night give him the quantity of what you can put into an Egge-shell among his Oates of this powder following to which you must keep him for eight dayes together or longer if you shall see cause You must understand that the boyled Branne is that which dryeth up all his grosse and corrupt humours which was the cause of his cold Now the powder is this viz. Take of Comen-seed Fenugrick Silleris-Montani alias Sisileos Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two ounces Quick Brimstone sixe ounces make all these into fine powder and let them be well mixed this must be given with his Oates as is before inculcated but he must first be watered and then presently let him be well rubbed body necke pole legges breast and belly and cloathed and littered warme and an houre before you give him his Oates put into his Rack a little sweet wheat straw and so I say let him eate thereof the space of one houre or better and then give him his Oates mixed with this powder which having eaten give him Hay at your pleasure and thus doing in short time you shall perceive his Cold to be quite gone and the sooner if he shall be moderately ayered an houre after Sun-rising and an houre before Sun-set if the Sunne doe shine Now if this Cold bring with it a violent cough as is often seen then give him the aforesaid Wheat Branne boyled together with the said powder with his Oates but then not above three or foure dayes for that the said powder disperseth the corrupt and grosse humours that are in the body which doe occasion the said cough and when you doe perceive that he hath purged sufficiently keep him notwithstanding to his white water but an houre before you doe water him Take a sticke of the bignesse of your thumb or better of well nigh a foot long and wrap a linnen clout about it four or five times first dipped in oyle de Bay and put it into his mouth and with some piece of leather thong or other small cord fasten it to either end of the sticke and so fasten it over his eares like the Headstall of a Bridle like as Smiths use to do when they burn a Horse for the Lampas and let him drinke with this sticke in his mouth which done let him stand with it thus in his mouth an houre after at the least to the end he may licke and sucke up the said oyle and when he is to eate his Oates put among them this other powder following viz. Take Fennell seed four ounces Fenugrick two ounces Cardimums one ounce pound these grosly otherwise he will blow them away in eating his Oates and with his Oates put every night of this powder one spoonefull and keep him warme and so use him as before is prescribed ✚ Another Take Ivy-berries and dry them and make them into powder and so give it to your Horse in Ale or Beere This I never tryed and this is onely for a cough Another for a cough Take of salt one pinte of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte oyle of Anniseeds one ounce browne sugar Candy in powder three ounces give this with your horne to your Horse three mornings together and it will rid him of his cough and heale any putrifaction in his lungs or any other inward parts whatsoever This also I never tryed but it was highly commended to me Another Receit for a cough which I have found to be very good Take two new laid Egges and open the crownes and get forth some of the white and then put into these Egges so much of the powder of Brimstone as you can take up upon a shilling into either Egge give him this every morning for some time or till you see the cough to goe from him Another Take three new laid egs and put them into a pinte pot then put so much of the best and strongest white wine vineger into the pot as will very well cover the Egges and let them lye in the Vineger 24 houres at least then beat the Vineger and Egges together shels and all and so give it your Horse cold and then ride or walke him an houre and against his comming in have this drinke in a readinesse and give it him viz. Take Isope Anniseeds Licoris Graines Long Pepper Gentiana Elecampane dried of each three drams make all the spices into fine powder and stamp the Isope well and so put all into good Sack one pinte and of good Ale also one pinte and of Honey one spoonfull and so boyle it and give it your Horse bloud-warme and set him up and cloth him and litter him warme causing him to fast three houres after it and give him no cold water but sweet Mashes or white water and this will cure him for it is an approved good receit ✚ Another very good Take Wheate meale Anniseeds Licoris Polipodium of the Oake dryed Elecampane dryed make all these into powder and mixe them well Take two spoonfuls of this powder with a head of Garlicke pilled and bruized mixe all these well together and with your Wheate meale and honey as much as will suffice make pils thereof to the bignesse of a great Walnut and give your Horse every morning three or foure of these Pils and so soone as he hath taken them give him two new laid Egges with their shels X Another Take of life hony three spoonfuls of the best and whitest refined loafe sugar one spoonfull and an halfe made into fine powder dryed Elecampane root made also into fine powder one spoonfull and of Amber-greece two graines mixe all these
very well together and put it into an Egge-shell and give him hereof at night late and in the morning fasting and so let him fast for three houres after and be the cough never so violent it will both stay and cure the same X This is right good for I have had very great proofe thereof Another Take Benjamin and Brimstone made into very fine powder of each halfe an ounce give this your Horse with one pinte of Muskadine putting into it two new laid Egges shels and all broken and well beaten together let it be given three mornings together This was commended unto me for a speciall good Receit but I never did make tryall thereof Another Take Nettle-seeds Anniseeds Reysins of the sunne stoned Elecampane in fine powder of each halfe an ounce make all the spices and seeds into very fine powder and cut the Reysins very small and so boyle all these in Muskadine or Sacke a quart with three spoonefuls of life Honey then straine it and give it him three mornings together bloud-warme This I never proved Another Take of Rue one handfull chop or stampe it very small and put to it a penny worth of Anniseeds in very fine powder make it up into Pils with sweet Butter and so give it your Horse X This I have found to be most soveraigne for a Horse that hath a cold whether newly or formerly taken either wet or dry cough it is also most excellent for a Horse that hath been over-ridden or any way wronged by labour Now if his cough be so violent as that it may endanger his winde then Take Calamint Gentiana Comin-seed Licoris Elecampane of each two drams make all these into fine powder and confect them with life Honey and Butter mingled together and molten and when it is cold make it up into Pils then rowle them in the powder of Anniseeds and give him of these Pils three or foure every morning for two or three mornings together fasting and after keep him warm and let his drinke be Mashes or White-water ✚ But if hee hath a Cough of the Lungs give him these Pills Take the Rootes of Mallowes newly gathered Elecampane Rootes newly also gathered of each one handfull slice them thin and boyle them in faire water with Barly two handfuls till the roots be soft then straine forth the liquor and put into it a penny dish of sweet Butter of life Honey three spoonfuls and as much Beane meale as will make all into a paste then make it into Pils and rowle them up in the powder of Anniseeds and give him three or foure of them every morning fasting for three or foure mornings together keepe him temperately warme and during the time he taketh these Pils let his drinke be either sweet Mashes or white water and every day about mid day give him boyled Barly or Brewers graines ✚ Another for a Horse that hath his winde broken Take the leaves of Mullet alias Mullen alias Horse-Lungwort and dry them and make them into fine powder and then make them up in Bals or Pils with ordinary Hony so much as will suffice let these Pils be made of the bignesse of an Egge and give him of them three at a time fourteen or fifteen dayes together or longer if you shall see cause and let him not drink any cold water during the time and for a while after the giving of his Pils and let his exercise be very moderate and his Hay sprinkled with water and his Oates wet with good Ale or Beere and in short time he will be well and sound againe ✚ This is a most approved good Receit with which I have done cures held impossible to have been effected Another Take Comen halfe an ounce Anniseeds and Licoris of each two ounces dryed roots of Elecampane three ounces make them into fine powder and then boyle them in a pottle of Ale or Beere to a quart then straine it and give the liquor to your Horse in a morning fasting bloud-warme and ride him moderately upon it two or three houres then set him up warme and use him ut supra This I never tryed but he that gave it me did highly commend the same unto me Thus have I given you many Receits for a cold and such diseases which are thereof dependant whereof many are to my knowledge right good and by my selfe experimented with which I have done cures which have been held very strange and beyond expectation Hippoph Truely Hipposerus as touching these maladies something there is in them wherein I doe earnestly desire to be yet better informed and first I would gladly know what be the diversities of the diseases which doe proceed from Colds and how wee may come to know one malady from another Hippos Sir in answer hereunto you must understand that from a cold taken doth issue many infirmities if the said cold be not speedily prevented as namely first Coughs as well wet as dry Catars Murs Rhumes Pose Ratlings in the head Kernels and inflamations under the Chaule with Bunches Knots Pustils c. It causeth also Hide bound Feavers Head-aches Frenzy Sleeping-Evill weeping-Eyes Canker in the Nose Strangles Quinsey to have Gourded or swolne legges It will cause the hayre to stare it will in time cause the mourning of the Chine if there be such a disease shortnesse of breath pursivenesse purtisick broken winde also if there be such a disease Frelised broken and rotten lungs glanders incurable if it be not in time prevented griefe and paine in the breast Antecor it will also cause the evill habit of the stomacke dropsie loathing of meat foundring both in the body and feet tyrednesse putrifaction and inflamations in the bloud it will also cause many diseases and inflamations in the liver together with the siccity and aridity thereof obstructions opilations costivenesse and stoppings both in the body and pores a consumption in the liver the overflowing of the gall the unnaturall working of the spleene the Yellowes Stavers the Collick and gripings belly bound laxe and bloudy-fluxe All these and many more diseases and maladies doe depend upon this one onely infirmity we call the cold and therefore how needfull a thing it is for a man who is the true-lover of his Horse to be carefull what in him lyeth both to keep his Horse from cold taking as also to know how to cure the same so soone as it shall appeare in performance whereof no small diligence and art is required §. 14. C. Hippoph YOu make question whether or not there bee such a disease which is so commonly called the Mourning of the Chine why is there not such a disease Hippos No truely there is no such disease for that which is called the mourning of the Chine is none other thing than a plain and rank Glanders which very few of our English Ferriers doe know how to cure which hath its first source and origen from a cold which being let run long commeth to be a Glanders which in
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 fountain-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
this is to be thus administred if the farcin be onely in the foreparts but if the disease be as well in the hinder-parts as in the fore-parts then hang also the like quantity of Arsnick made up in a cloth like as was the former and hang that also upon his tayle and the more you ride work or travell and exercise him the better it will be for his disease to qualifie and rid the same and the more spare his dyet be the sooner is he cured provided you keep him warm in the stable and for some time you must give him white water This cure I did never try but it was taught me by a great Marishall of Paris one who had the repute of a very honest man and a most skilfull Ferrier who protested unto me that he had perfectly cured many Horses with this receit Another Take white Bran prepared like as you shall finde prescribed you lib. 2. cap. 2. § 4. F. how to make fat a Horse and give it him a day before he is to be dressed and let him eate it so hot as well he may continue him to this dyet three mornings together then let him bleede well in the necke-veyne but give him no Hay that day he bleedeth but sweet wheat straw onely neither let him either eate or drink in four houres after and then let his drink be white water And two dayes after his bleeding you shall begin to give him again his wheat bran prepared as before which shall continue for sixe dayes together during which time you shall give him every evening with his Oats this powder and these roots following viz. Take of Comin of Linseed of Fenugrick Sileris Montani of each two ounces quick Brimstone foure ounces let all these be powdred and mixe them well and give it at one time with his Oates so much as you may put into an egge shell the meat being first taken out let him be thus used daily by the space of sixe dayes Those dayes being ended Take the root of Salerick the root of Tassus-Barbatus the root of Valerion and the root of Lappaizon of each like much chop them all very small as hearbs to the pot which being thus well mixed give them to the Horse without Oates if he will eate them if not then otherwise in Pils and when you give him the roots do not give him the aforesaid powder and so continue him with these roots sixe dayes together which sixe dayes ended cause him to be bloudied againe on the other side of the necke but then let him not bleed so much as before and order him as before after the first bleeding nor shall you give him either powder or roots but let him be still kept warm and have his ordinary allowance of meate as well of Hay as of Oats and then for sixe dayes after every evening after he hath drunke white water give him one evening of this powder with his Oates and the next evening of these rootes and if you finde not the Farcin to dry up to your minde continue then this powder and these roots for sixe dayes more and those dayes being past give him good Hay and good Oates and not any longer the powder or the rootes and thus following these directions punctually your Horse shall be perfectly cured and be brought into good state and health again neither shall the relicks of the farcin remaine in any part of his body and if there be any knots remaining they shall breake purge cleanse heale and dry up the maine cause being taken and purged away Of this my selfe had never tryall by reason that many of the ingredients were not easily to be had Another Take blacke Elebore and adde to the hearb some of its juyce put unto it old Boares-grease and boyle it untill the juyce be quite boyled into it whereby to bring it to a perfect unguent with which you shall annoynt and rub the knots or buttons of the farcin but before you doe apply this unguent let the hayre be shaven or clipped away from and about the knots ✚ With this receit I have cured onely one Horse Another Take five or sixe handfuls of four-leaved Plantane with the roots of Bay salt one handfull and so much Comin as you may well take up with your thumb and two fingers beate the Comin to fine powder and then stamp the Plantane and Salt well together with the Comin and after they be well incorporate let it steepe and infuse 24 houâ—es then straine and wring it hard and give the liquor thereof to your Horse in a morning fasting but you must take bloud from him the day before and he must stand upon the Trench sixe hours before you give him the said drinke and you must also put into his eares the juyce of Rue and then stitch up his eares and so let them remaine 24 hours but if the malady shall continue which I think it will not doe then must you let him bloud againe and give him the aforesaid drink This I never tryed but he that taught me this did assure me that there is no kinde of farcin but this receit will cure Another Albeit that all these receits be very good for the farcin yet are not all Horses cured with one and the same medicine and most certain it is that the most infallible way to cure the farcin is to give him the fire in the practise not onely of this cure but of many others also which are to be administred inwardly it is greatly behoofefull that the Ferrier be mindfull to observe the strength age quality and ability of the Horse to which he is to administer and accordingly to mixe and apply his ingredients Another First let him bloud on both sides the necke and spurre-veynes and let him bleed a good quantity then take Hemlocke Cinque-foyle or five leaved grasse and Rue of each like much stamp them and strain them and put the juyce thereof into his eares and then stitch them up 24 houres and it is a certain cure ✚ For with this I have cured sundry Horses Another First let him bleed well at the necke veyne then take Trifora-Magna and Aloes Platice of each two ounces and as much Barly bran mixe all these and dissolve it in oyle-olive one pinte and put thereto of white wine one pinte and then divide it into two parts or moyities and so give it two mornings together to your Horse fasting with a Horne that is to say either morning the one moyity this done take as much black sope as a Walnut halfe as much Arsnick in fine powder and work them into one body to a salve then with the poynt of a knife slit or open all the hard knots or pustils and so put into every of them the quantity of two Barly cornes of this salve which will eate forth the cores and kill the poysonous humours then where you see the wounds and places red and faire heale them up by annoynting them with
if your horse be poore bare leane Fat horse and feeble so that his stomack be good to meate I will give you a Receit which if you doe duly observe my rules justly as I shall deliver them you shall get him up into flesh in twelve or foureteene dayes First therefore take bloud from him if you do find it grosse or Flâ—gmatick for otherwise he cannot possibly mend then insteade of Oates in the morning you shall give him Wheate branne Bran prepared prepared after this manner Set over the fire a cleane Kettle and fill it almost full with faire water and so soone as it boyleth put in your Wheate branne and so let it boyle a quarter of an houre at the least then take it off and let it stand to coole and about foure or five in the morning give him of this branne so hot as he can eate it then for his drinke give him of the same water and at night give him Oates and white water and let him be kept covered and littered warme but if it bee Summer let not the Stable be too hot but temperate and at night give him with his Oates also the quantity of what you may coâ—vey into an Egge-shell of this powder following with which you must continue him the space of eight dayes or according as you shall see cause You must understand that this branne thus prepared is the only thing which dryeth up his naughty grosse and corrupt humours and doth the better prepare the body to assume lust courage strength and flesh together with the helpe of the powder which is this Take of Commin Fenugrick Sileris-Montani Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two ounce Quick-Brimstone six ounce Fat a leanâ— horse make all these into powder of this powder give him every night the quantity of an Eg-shell full with his Oates as I have before prescribed but he must first be watred with white water which so soone as hee hath drunke let his whole body be rubbed then cloathed littered which being done then give him a small sheafe of wheat straw sweet good and well threshed into his Racke and let him eate thereof by the space of an houre which done give him Oates mixed with his powder which when he hath eaten give him Hay at your pleasure remembring to keep him warm but so as with moderation and let him be also well rubbed especially against the hayre and by this doing in short time you shall perceive him to mend exceedingly but you must put also into his Oates together with its former powder of Nettle-seed two handfuls every time for that is the thing which principally will cause him to battle It will also greatly availe to his amendment if he be ayered every morning and evening an houre after sunne rising and an houre before sunne set if the weather be warme and the sunne doe shine ✚ And this I doe assure you is the most exquisite course can be taken whereby to sâ—t up a leane Horse and to make a poor Horse fat in little time and with small charge §. 5. F. Hippoph VVHat helpe have you for the falling of the Fundament Hippos This malady commeth to a Horse sometimes by cold sometimes through weakenesse and meere poverty and sometimes by meanes of a laxativenesse and fluxe of bloud when straining to expell the Horse is not able and by that meanes the fundament commeth out the cure is Falling of the fundament Take white-Salt made into very fine powder strew a little upon the gut then take a piece of Lard and first having boyled Mallow-leaves till they be soft take of these leaves and beat them well with the Lard and when it is sufficiently beaten make it up like to a suppository and apply it to the place every day once till it be whole ✚ This I have often tryed §. 6. F. Hippoph I Should be very glad to know what you can say of Feavers Hippos Sir as touching feavers in Horses I say that they be as subject to them as man is as also that these feavers are of severall natures which cannot be denied which may most easily be distinguished and knowne if you please diligently to observe A feaver commeth many times either by intemperate riding or travell or else through bad and unwholesome dyet and all feavers for the most part have their sourse from these effects if you adde thereunto evill ayre §. 7. F. Hippoph VVHy Hipposerus how doe you define a Feaver Hippos I define it thus A Feaver is an unnaturall and intemperate heat which beginneth at the heart dilateth it self through all the arteries and veynes of the whole body of the Horse hindring all his naturall motions howsoever some Ferriers are pleased to make of them more sorts then I will question their physicall and learned distinctions for I could never conclude them but in a few as quotidian tertian quartan and pestilent and yet all these be of one nature albeit some more malignant then others be onely a Hectique feaver is of a different nature from the former and so also a pestilent feaver may be Now as touching feavers which come in the Spring Summer Autumne or Winter I cannot see why they should be feavers different in nature from these other for there are not any of these but may come to a Horse in any of these seasons §. 8. F. Hippoph FRom whence doe Feavers proceed then Hippos First Sir you must understand that Feavers are of two sorts that is to say Ordinary and Accidentall the ordinary feavers are those that come of surfets over-riding and labour unwholesome meat as moyst raw mouldy and musty bread corne provender and hay of what nature sort or condition soever but your feavers Accidentall come of some terâ—ible stroke or deep wound bringing therewith insufferable paine dolour and griefe to the poor beast again your ordinary Feavers come oft times by the extreame violent scorching of the Sunne but most commonly in the canicular dayes as when your Horse is abroad at grasse where is either want of water or having such as is neither good or wholesome or else where is want of housing shelter to goe into or shady trees to be under and such kinde of Agues doe prove for the most part either Hectike or Pestilent feavers for by that meanes his bloud becommeth inflamed whereby the humour of choller is predominate Now Sir if you be pleased to observe strictly and carefully you shall also finde that feavers doe come many times also from a quite contrary cause as from cold taken upon hard riding or great labour and by having at such times cold water given him to drink or by washing or walking having sweat much or by being out too late in the gripse or shutting in of the evening or upon day breaking especially neere or among fenny moorish or marish grounds by reason that naughty vapours do arise from such kinde of places Feavers also do accrew to Horses when upon hard
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
which descending from the stomacke goe down into the guts and there torment him and sometimes it commeth by reason of Wormes Bots or Truncheons which doe engender in the stomacke or guts of the Horse which do feed and gnaw upon the paunch and guts putting him to mickle pain and perplexity The signes are he will forsake his meat lye down oft and tumble and when he standeth he will eft soones strike at his belly with his hinder legs he will also stampe with his fore-feet and turn his head towards his belly and looke upon it and he will many times sweat at the flankes and seldome any where else and if the malady be of winde then shall you perceive his belly to swell especially towards the flanks the cure is Fret Take of good Ale two quarts of Fenugrick foure ounces of Bay-berries seven ounces of long Pepper foure ounces of Ginger one one ounce Water-Cresses two handfuls Sage and Nettles of each one handfull beat to powder the Spices and chop the hearbs small and boyle them in the Ale till one moyity be consumed then straine it and so give it him bloud warme and then cover and litter him warme and let him stand upon the Trench sixe houres after But yet so soone as he hath his drinke rope up all his legges to the body not suffering him to lye down and cover him so as that he may sweat for one houre onely and then coole him by degrees and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water and he being thus ordered two or three dayes he will be well ✚ This I have often used Another Take the entrals of a great Chicken casting away the gizzard rowle them up in bay-Salt and the powder of Brimstone and so give it him down his throat then presently let him be gently ridden or walked till he doth dung and at night give him a Mash or white water and he is cured This is also very good But if you have cause to suspect that he hath the Bots then rake him and in his raking search for Bots which if you doe finde any sticking upon the great gut pluck them all or so many as you can finde away whereby you may be confident that the Bots is cause of his griefe wherefore apply such remedies and medicines which I have formerly prescribed you for Bots Truncheons and Wormes in lib. 2. cap. 5. § 15. where you shall finde such receits as will cure him ✚ But if you doe perceive this griefe of his commeth of winde then make use of such receits which you shall finde by me before inculcated for the Collicke in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 11. lit C. where be very good remedies for this Malady CHAP. 10. §. 1. G. Hippophylus WHat is best to be done to cure a galled backe Hippos There be so many wayes which doth occasion it as that it would be an endlesse labour to deliver every particular thereof But because you doe motion the galled backe onely I will first speake something thereof A galled backe commeth commonly either with the Saddle the Pannell Pack-Saddle or Male-pillion which through evill stopping or defect of stopping may very easily gall the Horse so also may the fault be in the tree which may be so badly made so as that let the Saddler be never so sufficient skilfull or carefull yet shall it both gall and hurt him so also may the tree of the Saddle be either broken or crackt if it at any time happen be you then confident that it can never be so amended or repaired but that doe what you can it shall hurt the back of the Horse and these be the most frequent and ordinary wayes whereby to gall the back of your horse howbeit I passe over Male-pillions Cloake-bags Port-mantues Trusses and the like The signes to know a galled back are easie for either the backe will be apparantly swelled or the hayre fretted off the skinne either broken or raw or the backe either inflamed or impostumated every of which is easily to be determined by the eye or if his backe be wrung with the Saddle and yet not come to be visible to the eye yet may you come to the knowledge therof if taking off the Saddle stroking your hand all along the back you shall perceive him either to shake his head or to winch with his tayle to rouze or shake to stamp or strike with his feet to offer to bite or the like whereby you may come to know it and very easily to finde out the place grieved Now if the back be swelled and before it be impostumated so soon as you shall take off the Saddle and finde the same clap upon the swelling a little of his wet litter and so set on the Saddle againe and let him remain with his Saddle on all night and in the morning the swelling will be abated and the place it selfe become whole and sound again Now if the hayre be but galled off so that it doth not impostumate annoynt the place but with a little Butter and Salt melted together and in twice dressing the place will be whole but if the backe be so galled as that it is become raw then the cure is thus viz. Take three parts of sheepes-dunge newly made Gaelled 〈◊〉 and one part of Rie or Wheate flower and dry the flower and then mixe it well with the sheepes-dung kneading it as into paste and making it into the fashion of a Cake and after bake it a little and apply the powder thereof warme unto the place ✚ This will heale him very well But I may very well spare the labour in reciting any more receipts for this matter considering I have sufficiently already handled them in lib. 2. chap. 5. § 1. letter B. §. 2. G. Hippoph VVHat say you to a Galde that commeth by the Shackell Hippos Tâ—aâ— kind of Gallings being so frequent as to be knowne to every one both in the manner how it commeth and in the signes how to know them needeth not much disscussion neverthelesse I will give you an experiment or two of mine owne and so leave it to its more proper place Take new milke three quarts Plantane one handfull Galled wiâ— the Shackâ— boyle these together till one part of the milke be consumed then take of Allum six ounces and of white sugar-Candy one ounce beat them both to fine powder and so put it to the milke and adde also unto it of white Wine-Vineger six spoonfuls then boyle it a little till there do come upon the top a tough curd then strayne it and keep the whay A whay casting away the curd and with this whay first made warme bathe and wash the sore the hayre being first clipped close away and having thus washed the sorance and wiped it dry then apply your greene oyntment mentioned in the fourth § of this Chapter but in case where the Galde is not yet broken yet likely to breake there you shall
with a sicknesse of this nature yea peradventure a whole yeere or two before together during which time he hath continually wasted and languished wherefore he cannot be strong but a very weake Horse and therefore his physicke must be very gentle yet such also which may have operation whereby to work otherwise physicke is but cast away The signes how to know this disease need no further description and therefore I will proceed to the cure for the which I will deliver you many receits some whereof I have well experienced to which I will give my particular marke like as I have formerly done And I do the rather insert the more receits because as I have before remembred that receit which will not cure one will cure another Glanders The first therefore that is to be done in this case is to prepare his body by giving him for four or five dayes together in stead of his Oates and Provender wheat Bran prepared like as I have before shewed you in the cases of sick Horses especially in lib. 2. cap. 9. § 4. F. to qualifie and dry up his moyst and bad humours abounding in him then let him bloud in the neck and the next day rake him and give him this Clister Make a decoction of Mallowes one pinte and a halfe and put unto it of fresh Butter foure ounces and of Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte and administer it bloud warme and then with a strappe of leather tye it to his tayle and then fasten the other end of the said strap to his Sursingle so straight that his tayle must be close to his tuell that he cannot purge till it be loosened then mount his back and let him be gently ridden sometimes a foot pace and sometimes an easie trot for halfe an hour then set him up warm clothed and littered and let him stand upon the Trench three hours during which time he will purge kindely then give him white water and Hay and at night a few Oats for he must be kept to a spare dyet The next day annoynt two long Goose-feathers with the powder of Brimstone and fresh Butter being first well wrought together till it be brought to the colour of gold put them into either nostrill and fasten them to his headstall as is before taught you and so ride him an houre or two for this will purge his head and cause him to send forth mattrative stuffe which abideth in his head and lungs then bring him in and take them forth and an houre after give him Hay and white water and Bran prepared which also he should have given him before his riding abroad The next day give him his Clister againe and so let him rest for that day but ordered in all things as before The next day give him his Goose feathers again annoynted as before and ordered in the like manner as you did before and all this is but to prepare him for his after drinke but remember to keep him alwaies warme and let him bee evermore fasting and empty when he is to have any kind of Physicke administred unto him and let him be ayered morning and evening if the sunne shine or that it be otherwise warm and calm weather And having thus begun with him three dayes after give him this drink Take of Aqua vitae halfe a pinte and of white wine one pinte Aristolochia-Rotunda Agarick Gentian Bay-berries Myrrha Ivory Aloes of each three drams make all these into fine powder each one by it selfe then mixe them very well and put them into a clean Posnet with the Wine and Aqua vitae and so warm it upon the fire then being well brewed give it him bloud warm This drink must be given thrice to wit every third day and he made to fast three houres after and after ordered as is accustomed with horses in Physicke during which time and some time after let him drink no cold water but most commonly white water which once or twice in a week may be changed into a sweet Mash and let him eate the Bran and Malt and dyet and feed him so as that he may be kept to a stomack but be carefull you neither cloy nor pine him Instead of the Oats which you should give him let them sometimes be changed into bread if he will eat it and sometimes you may give him in stead of Oats some Wheat either in the eares which is best or else Wheat threshed and cleared ready for the Mill. ✚ Truely with this cure as I have set it you down I have recovered many horses But you must understand that this malady as it hath runne along upon the horse before it come to that height as to be so rank a Glanders to be termed the mourning of the chine so will it aske a long time to cure and therfore you must not think that it can be cured with this one only course of Physick but you must let him rest a few dayes whereby he may the better gather strength and then to him again and again but take no more bloud from him and as you doe perceive him to gather flesh and get strength so let his exercise be increased but withall so as not to over-labour him or to cause him to sweat violently nor yet straine his winde too much Another If you do finde that together with his Glanders he hath the Strangles that is that he be oppressed with inflamations under the chaule clip away the hayre from about the place and clap a piece of sheeps skin newly killed over all the place which must be daily renewed and you must keep warme not only that place but his Poll also then Take Basilicon old Bores grease and Dialthea of each four ounces and of oyle de Bay one ounce beat all these very well together then annoynt the place enflamed once every day at the least and then put to the sheeps skin and so keep it on till it be ripe enough then open it and put into the orifice a taint of Basilicon for three or four dayes then heale up the wound with taints of Aegyptiacum prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 4. § 4. lit A. and during the time of his cure give him Wheat Bran as well dry as prepared and for his drink let it be white water unlesse sometimes a Mash keep him warm and after five or sixe dayes ride him abroad with the Goose feather in his nose annoynted as is before advised you and if he do runne at nose very much then take a stick and wrap a fine linnen rag about it and annoynt it very well with black sope and put it into his nostrils a good way but not so as to cause him to bleed and doe this three or four times a day or else Take the seed of Pordo accenta and bruise it made up in sweet Butter so much of the seed as you may take up betwixt your thumb and two fingers at a time ✚ This is very good
both supple and loosen his skin the next day give him this drink Take of Muskadine and of strong Ale of each one pinte Grunsell Rue Smalage Rosemary and Betony of each like much all together amounting to a handfull Then take Gum-Dragamant one ounce two heads of Garlick pilled and bruised let all these boyle in the Muskadine and Ale to the consummation of one pint then put to it of sweet Butter a penny worth and when it is molten take it from the fire and straine it very hard and so give it him bloud warm Let this drink be divided into three parts whereof give him one part the first morning the other second parts the second and third mornings following for you must understand that when I said that this drink must be boyled to the consummation of one pinte my meaning is that it must boyle till one part be consumed and not otherwise and in the interim you must keep your Horse very warm and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water and four dayes after he hath been thrice thus drenched give him this other drink Take Anniseeds Licoris Fennel-seeds Bay-berries Elecampane dryed Fenugrick Turmerick of each like much all made into very fine powder and searsed let two spoonfuls of this powder being well mixed be infused in good Ale one quart with Sallet oyle two spoonfuls give him this drink four mornings together wherein you are to observe that the first time you are to administer this drink to your horse you are to put into the Ale two spoonfuls of this powder and the other three mornings but one spoonfull keep him warme and order him as is behoovefull for a sicke Horse that is in physicke and he is certainely cured ✚ This is a speciall good Receit Another Let him bloud in both the flanke veines then take of good white Wine one quart and put thereto of Sallet oyle three ounces of Comin one dram Anniseeds and Licoris of each two ounces make all these into very fine powder and searse them and give it him bloud warm then set him up and let him be throughly rubbed against the hayre and along the back and ribs and nape of the necke halfe an houre together then cover all his backe with a Sacke made throughly well soaked in a tub of water and when it hath drained a while lay it upon him and upon that two housing clothes at the least and gird them close unto him well wipsed which will bring him into a sweat which truely will be the prime cause whereby to restore him to his pristine sanity but let him not sweat above one houre at most and coole him by degrees taking away the Sack first and keep him to sweet Mashes or white water during the time of his physicke and longer let him be thus drenched sweated and ordered seven dayes together and give him in stead of his Oates Barly boyled and dry Beanes bruised in a Mill and good old sweet Hay well shaken and dusted and sometimes green Mault from off the floore and after eight dayes let him bloud in both the brest veines but take not above a pinte of bloud from him in all and that day you bloudy him give him of good Sacke one pinte and put to it of Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte and of London Treacle one ounce warm this upon the fire and brew them well together and so administer it bloud warm then leap his backe and ride him till he sweat then set him up warm clothed and littered and at night give him a sweet Mash putting into it the powder of Brimstone two spoonfuls and he will be well again ✚ This is very good Another Take Hogs grease two drams and of the juyce of Dragon-wort one ounce of Incense halfe a dram of Sirrop of Roses three ounces dissolve all these in Tison one pinte and a halfe set it upon the fire till all be dissolved and so give it him bloud warme and exercise him moderately upon it till he do begin to sweat then set him up warme and let him fast three houres after and this will scowre from him all his infection loosen his skin and procure a good appetite to meat provided you take bloud from him the day before and if as well in this receit as in all the former you doe give your Horse a suppository the day before you drench him you will much better and sooner perfect your cure especially if you finde him costive otherwise a gentle Clister will not be amisse ✚ This is a well approved cure and I have often used it § 7. H. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Horse that is Hip-shot Hippos Sir this commeth sundry wayes that is to say either by a stroke with another Horse or by a wrench by which meanes the bone may be slipped out and then it must be put in again or by a straine which may cause him to halt or by meanes of some thorne which he may get by leaping or running among bushes which must first be gotten out otherwise the place will fester and he goe lame The cure is first let him bloud in the thigh veine on that side whereon the griefe is then charge him with the charge we call a honey-charge prescribed you in the next § and so put upon the other foot a Pattent-shooe and let him not lye down in ten dayes if that the bone have been out after bathe the place well with that bath which is already taught you in lib. 2. cap. 5. lit B. and the receit beginneth thus take Smalage Oxe-eye and Sheeps suet c. and put into the Bath some of the said honey charge and if this doe not cure him as it is most probable it will then apply to the place this Ceroene as the French doe terme it which is a Searcloth very hot and this Ceroene is thus made Take of blacke Pitch halfe a pound of Masticke two ounces of Galbanum four ounces of fat Pitch and of Turpentine of each halfe a pound melt these in a pot together and when it is halfe cold charge the place up to the hanch and so overthwart the reynes of the backe and if he be not cured at the end of eight or tenne dayes more with this Ceroene or Searcloth then take it off and apply to the place grieved this unguent Take of oyle de Bay Althea tryed Hogs grease of each halfe a pound incorporate all these together to an unguent and therewith annoint rub and chafe the place grieved and he shall doe well ✚ This is a very good receit and I have made great use thereof §. 8. H. Hippoph HOw doe you make this Honey-Charge Hipposerus Hippos I will shew you Sir Take of Wheat meale two pound and put a little Wine to it as much as will suffice put it into a kettle as if you were to make a Poultesse when it is wel mixed adde to it of Bolearmoniack in fine powder half a pound of
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
handfull and put to it of faire water one pinte and give it him to drink and ride him moderately upon it till he sweate and this will cure him if it be administred so soon as you may suspect the malady but if you stay three or foure dayes or longer before you doe give him this water and salt then take of the powder of Hellebore one spoonfull and of Saffaron one penny worth of Assafaetida and of Sope of Venice of each two drams of Bacca alias the seeds of Bayes a farthing worth made also into fine powder mixe and pound all these together well putting to them of Vineger one pinte and give it him bloud warme then cover him with a wet cloth and clothe him warme and set him upon the Trench that he may neither lye down nor vomit but let him sweat an hour after and then coole and dry him by degrees and let him be well rubbed and he will doe well again X This is also a very good receit CHAP. XIIII § 1. N. Hippoph WEll now Hipposerus let us goe on what will cure the running at the Nose Nose running Hippos I have shewed you that before but yet I will give you two or three receits more Take Orpin and Brimstone as much as will suffice and cast them upon burning coles and so perfume his head and nose therewith and that will dissolve the humours congealed in the head and braine ✚ This is very good Another Take Auripigmentum and Tussilago of each two drams make them into fine powder and with good Venice Turpentine washed make it into a stiffe paste and thereof make small cakes the breadth of your thumb naile and dry them a little and therewith perfume your horse over a Chafing-dish and coles every day but before you doe perfume him give him the drink prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. § which beginneth thus first let him bleed in the necke veine well then take Assafaetida as much as a hasle nut c. ✚ and this is very good § 2. N. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure a Navell gald Navell galled Hippos This is a naughty sorance comming by meanes of a Saddle behinde which being let run a while will be long in curing It is called a Navell galled by reason that the hurt is upon the top of the backe right over against the Navell the signes are so demonstrative as that they need no description the cure therfore is Take oyle de Bay Costus Foxe grease oyle of Savine of each one ounce then take great garden Wormes a hundred and scowre them well in white Wine and Salt then put all the ingredients together into an earthen pot very well stopped and boyle it well then adde thereto of Sallet oyle one ounce and a halfe and boyle it over again till it come to a perfect oyntment then straine it into a Galley pot or glasse and so keep it close stopped for your use and when you are to use it onely warme it and so dresse the sorance therewith with Lint or Hurds and it will soon be whole ✚ This by proofe I do know to be very good § 3. N. Hippoph VVHat helpe have you for a Horse that is troubled with a disease commonly called the Night-mare Night-◠Hippos This disease is so called indeed but yet all able and skilfull Ferriers doe laugh at those that give it the same Epiphrase for it is none other thing but a Malancholly-bloud wherewith the creature is oppressed for it doth perplex the Heart more then any other member or part of the Body causing him in the night time to sweate more then in the day bereaving him of his sleepe and naturall rest and the best signes to know this disease is by observing well the Horse when you come unto him in the morning you shall perceive him to have sweat aswell in the Flankes as Neck and Short-ribs next to the place where the heart lyeth The Cure for the Malady is Take of Salt one handfull Sallet-oyle halfe a pint and of brown-Sugar-Candy made into fine powder foure ounces mix all these very well then warme them upon the fire and so give it him with a horne bloud warme give him this two mornings together and it will cure him But the day before you drench him first open the two Spur-veines and let him bleed there very well ✚ I have knowne many who have taken a good great stone which hath had an hole in it and they have taken a withe and put it through the hole of the said stone and so hung it upon the top of the Rack iust over the Horse whereby hee hath beene perfectly cured CHAP. 15. §. 1. O. Hippophylus WHat good Receipt have you wherewith to Cure old Sores Old sores Hippos Sir I have many and the most of them be very good whereof I will give you only one and leave the residue to their proper places Take of Roch-allome a good quantity and burne it in a hot fire Pan then take so much Bay-salt and burne that also beat these together to very fine powder then Take of common Hony and of sweet Butter of each like much so much as will suffice and so incorporate all these ingredients together neyther must it be warmed upon the fire but only thus brought to a Salve and so keep it for your use which must be applyed eyther Plaister-wise or Taint-wise or both according as you shall see cause and this will heale any Sores very soundly neither will it permit any dead or proud flesh to remaine in the place ✚ This I have often tryed § 2. O. Hippoph VVHat is best to bee applyed to an over-reach upon the Heele Over reach in the heele Hippos I have handled this Malady before in lib. 2. chap. 4. § 10. let A. notwithstanding I will give you one or two Receipts more First cut out the over-reach with your incision Knife making it plaine as may be then wash it with Beere and Salt and apply this Plaister unto it Take Oate-meale and Butter so much as will suffice to bring it to a Salve pound them together in a Morter working them into one body and apply this Plaister-wise to the Sorance renewing it every day once till it bee whole ✚ This is very good Another Mollifie the heeles of the Horse with suppling things whereof I have given you store then open the sole of the Foote round about and dresse the Heele to enlarge it then when you have made the Sole firme againe keep his Feete moist with Vnguentum Rosatum or some such like suppling thing and hee will bee whole and sound againe This I never tryed Another If the malady doth proceed from a disease which the French doe call Encastelure then take out the sole of the Foot where the Sorance is open it close to the hayre then take up the veine in the ball of the Foote and give him the fire all a long the hayre upon the saide Sorance
phlegmaticke humours do distill out of the head into the winde-pipe and so fall upon the lungs where they doe rest and there congeale hindring the drawing of his breath it comes also by Colds Glanders and the like the signes are so apparant as that they need no discription onely this inconvenience besides many more it bringeth with it as to be heavy sad and dull in travell be marvellous subject to sweats and be ready to fall down if he be but a little strained A right skilfull Ferrier not long since told me of a strange cure in this kinde which a Gentlemans Groome relatd to him of a Gelding which the Groome had in his said keeping who was so pursive or as we plainely say broken-winded as that he became almost unusefull and his cure was after this manner he suffered his Gelding to eate what he would as well his fill viz. of good Hay as of Provender but debarred him of all drink for the space of two or three dayes together then leaping his backe he rode him upon a foot pace to the water at which time he suffered him to drink his fill then comming forth of the water he clapt spurres suddenly to him and ran him with a loose hand upon the top of his speed so long untill for want of breath he fell with him and for some time lay as if he were dead but recovering breath he arose and being well recovered of his winde he rode him into the water the second time where he also drank and being come out of the water he did as before and so being againe ridden from off his wind he fell like as at first having thus the second time recovered breath hee gave him water the third time and then rode him as formerly but now this third time being fallen when he began to get breath again he coughed most vehemently at what time through the violence of his coughing the Gelding cast forth of his mouth and that out of his wind pipe a hard lumpe of congealed Flegmatick stuffe of a good bignes which by this meanes brought up the Gelding was ever after freed from the malady and made sound and from that houre had the use of his winde as ably and as well as ever before and this was the story which one of the ablest Ferriers I do know in England delivered unto me as he affirmed and I do beleeve him for that I do know him to be a right honest man from the mouth of the Groome who with many vehement asseverations affirmed the thing to be most true neverthelesse albeit I do Mathematically beleeve that the Groome delivered this history to the Ferrier I must say with the French man Ie croy en Dieu But leaving this famous Groome to his rare cure let us proceed to cures that are more probable and now of such cures as I have met with for this disease You shall participate Take of new Milke one pint and of Sallet oyle halfe a pint give him this bloud warme which done put downe his throate two new laid Egges Puâ—sivenes or shortnes of breath do thus three or foure mornings together and then you shall perceive amendment but for his Hay let it be spinkled with water and his Oates well wet in good Ale or Beere and let his drinke bee altogether white water ✚ This is very good Another Keepe your horse three or foure daies to a spare Diet before you do administer to him then give him this drinke Take Fenugreecke three ounces of Bay-berries one ounce and a halfe of the inner rind of Elder halfe a pound the whites of six new laid Egges of browne-Sugar-Candy water-Cressets Prim-rose leaves if they may bee had red Mints red Fennell white or Hawethorne leaves of each one pound bray all these together in a Morter the Spices before beaten by themselves and when they be well powdred put to the Ingredients Ale one quart and so boyle it and after straine it and so give the liquor thereof to your Horse to drinke bloud warme and set him upon the Trench and let him fast six houres after then give him meat and an houre after that give him a warme Mash or white Water and let him be kept to a strickt Dyet and let his drinke be Mashes or white Water nine daies together after and his Hay sprinkled with Water and his Provender wet in Ale or Beere and thus you may cure him ✚ With this medicine I have don very great cures Another Take the guts of a Hedge-hogge and hang them in an Oven till they be dry then make them into powder then take three or foure spoonefuls of the powder and put it into sweet Wine Ale or Beere and so give it him to drinke and the residue of the powder mix with the powder of Anniseeds and Lycoris and with sweet Butter make it into Pils and give him two or three of the Pils presently after his drench and keepe him fasting three or foure houres after then you may give him Hay first sprinkled with water and after Provender or Bread wet or moistned in good Ale or Beere putting also thereunto of this powder and if you have not enough of this powder to serve then Take of Comin Lycoris Centaury and Anniseedes of each like much make these into fine powder and give him thereof two spoonfuls with his provender and put also into his Mashes and bread of the powder of Fennell-seede mixed with the powder of brimston this is very good for this malady for I have seen a horse for a month together to eate no other Provender but what hath been mixed with this powder and also his Mashes and white water so made and compounded and I have also brought him to drinke new Milke mingled with the powder of Brimstone by meanes whereof he hath been the sooner recovered and made perfectly sound X. and this is very good Another First let him bloud then take of sweet Wine one pint and of the juyce of Hore-hound halfe a pound of the Oyle of Frankincense halfe an ounce of the powder of Anniseed Lycoris and browne-Sugar-Candy of each halfe an ounce let all these be made into fine powder incorporated well together and give it him once or twice in the weeke for a while and ride him not at all that day you drench him but keepe him warme clothed and well littered and let him stand upon the Trench foure houres after fasting then give him meat and three houres after a sweet Mash Putting thereinto of the powder of Lycoris and Anni-seeds of this I never made tryall but it hath beene highly commended unto me for right good Another Take of Barley two gallons steepe it in water two dayes and shift the water every day then take it cleane from the water wherein it was last steeped and boyle it in three gallons of faire cleere water till it burst putting thereto of Anniseeds and Lycoris and of Raisins of the Sunne stoned of each one pound
of Mechoacan of the best and choycest as you may take up upon a shilling at foure times give him this drinke warm with a horne then Trot him but a matter of a Mile gently upon good ground and so set him up warme and let him stand upon the Trench till one of the clock then give him a warme Mash This will purge and fetch away his filth and slime and carry away his peccant humours which Surfets have engended halfe an houre after hee hath had his Mash give him Bread or else a few Oats mingled with wheat bran and that little and oft for feare of cloying his stomacke and at night give him white water and so give him bread and hay sprinkled with water for all night ✚ This is an excellent Purge Another Purgation 2 If it be in the spring prepare him as before then for three or foure daies together give him greene Rye so much as he will eate and after feed him with Bread or else Oates and Bran like as you are told before but insteed of Hay continue him those nights with greene Rye by reason his teeth will be on edge ✚ This cooleth his body and cleareth it from all Flegmatique and Rhumatique humours as for his bloud-letting let that bee according as your judgement shall dictate unto you and you may use this so long as you may see cause ✚ If you doe perceive your Horse to bee sicke Surfetted full of colds or otherwise ill disposed whether in Summer or in Winter after you have opened a Veine give him this Purge Take of Alloes Siccatrina made into fine powder two ounces Purgation 3 and make it up into pils with fresh or sweete Butter and give it to your Horse over night he having beene kept fasting the whole day before and prepared also with the Dyet before prescribed and after he hath taken those pils give him either a sweet Mash or white water the next morning early for that will cause his pils to work the more kindly that day and so let him fast till night during which time he will purge freely then at night he having stood upon the Trench all day give him white water and after Oates and Branne and then give him Hay sprinkled with water for all night neverthelesse he may not the first day purge by reason that some horses are of so strong a Constitution as that Physicke will not easily or soddenly worke but then bee you confident it will the next day you must therefore be carefull how you do order him After his purging keep him still warm clothed and well littered take him from the Trench and put on his Coller-halter give him sweet Mash or white water and after feed him well but by discretion both with Hay Oates and Bran and keepe him to white water two or three dayes after or longer if you shall so please and when you give him cold water let it bee with exercise ✚ This I have often tryed Another If your horse bee newly taken from Grasse and that you hold it needful his body be cleansed to free him of his many bad humous which eyther his Grasse or former Surfets might bring Then first Rake him and administer unto him the Clyster prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 8. letter C. Clyster 4. and the next day after give him this drinke Take of the strongest Ale-wort one quart of ordinary Honey a Purgation 4 quarter of a pint of London Treacle two ounces mixe and brew all together well and so give it him bloud-warme this done keepe him upon the Trench warme clothed and well littered sixe houres after and let his drinke be a sweet Mash or white water and let his Racke meate be sweet Wheate-straw Oates and Branne X. This both purgeth and comforteth Another which must bee given the next day Take of white-Wine one pint and put thereto of Sene one ounce Purgation 5 which must be infused all night in the Wine the next morning betimes straine it and put into it of the best and choycest Alloes one ounce made into fine powder and Agarick halfe an ounce of Licoris powdred one spoonfull warme this a little upon the fire and mix and brew it well together and so give it your Horse bloud-warme then walke or ride him gently a quarter of an houre and so set him up warm clothed and littered nor let any cold ayre come unto him neither let him eate or drink in six hours after and at night give him a sweet Mash or white water and let his Rack-meat be sweet Wheat straw and Oates with Bran. ✚ The next day if the signe be good open a veine in the necke and prick him in the mouth and if the bloud be bad take from him two quarts but if good then not fully one quart keep him warm and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water and put into his drink either the powder of Brimstone or of Fenugrick of Turmerick or of Elecampane one or more together according as he will be brought to like and take them which being well mixed put thereof into his drink one spoonfull at once ✚ These are very soveraign purgative receits whereby to coole the body purge choler and other peccant humours and to purifie and refine the bloud but besides this is not onely good for horses newly taken from grasse but for other sick surfetted and diseased Horses Another Purgation 6 Take of Gentian two ounces slice it into very small slices then boyle it in Beer one quart till it come to one pinte and give it him bloud warm but it will make him very sick for a short time but have no feare for the potion will do him much good let him fast upon it four or five hours at least then give him a warm Mash or white water and the next day give him this receit Take of Life-Honey or for default thereof ordinary Honey and mingle it with his Oates that he is to eate which must be mixed by rubbing the Oates and Honey betwixt your hands so that the Honey may be very well mixed let him eate his Oates thus mingled untill you do finde him to be quite cured which will be when he hath quite done running at the nose ✚ This is one of the best and most certain cordials that I know neither have I made use of any so much as of this for the time I have known the same for this disperseth all flegme and choler it also purgeth the head and brain it purifieth the bloud it venteth the evill humours it causeth good digestion and freeth a Horse from Glanders Colds Catars Rhumes Running at the nose and the like CHAP. XVII § 1. Q. Hippoph WHat cure have you for the quick or running Scab Hippos This is a noysome disease and infectious a very formall mainge and meer neighbour to the leprosie or Elephantique disease It commeth by surfet taken by over-riding when the bloud is over-hot it doth putrifie and
occasion the Scratches It is therefore requisite that the Groome doe clip away the long shag haire from about the pasternes if he have any and fetlocks as also from the inside of his legs unto the bending of the knee by meanes whereof he may the better keep the legges of his horse from this disease sometimes it also comes from the corruption of the bloud after great heats and surfets taken sometimes againe for that the horse hath been bred in marrish fenny and watery grounds sometimes it is ingendered from melancholy humours â—hich doe fall down to the legges and sometimes by standing continually upon his owne dung which will through the heat and steame thereof breed the Scratches without other help and sometimes again the Scratches will fall down into the heeles of the horse and there make its way forth after a desperate sicknesse taken by a surfet and lastly it comes by reason the grease of the horse had been moulten by over-riding or labour whereby the grease falleth down and resteth in the pasterne and fetlocks and so causeth the Scratches to be ingendered It beginneth first with a dry scab and after it sendeth forth fretting watrish and matterative stuffe which will stinke and be most noysome and his pasternes and fetlocke ioynts will be full of chaps and chinkes sometimes all along sometimes right down and sometimes overthwart and the places will swell and the cracks or chinkes will cause the legs to be very gourdy and to run with much noysome and offensive matter and the horse will be many times so lame as not to be well able at first setting forth to goe but with much trouble and no lesse paine and by these very signes you shall know this malady neither shall you want store of receits wherewith to cure it the French doe call this disease grappes grapes and Iavars and Arraistes as also such other like tearmes and epithetons all which as before is touched makes but onely one and the same disease the first thing which is to be done towards the cure is to bathe and wash the places all about and then either to shave or clip away the hayre very close otherwise you can hardly make a perfect cure thereof then Take the spawne of Toads Scratches which in the beginning of March you shall finde in pooles ponds ditches and standing water and first draine the water from the said spawn and then distill it and keep the water in a glasse close stopped to serve you for the whole yeare and herewith wash and bathe the places every day warm and in short space it will cure them this I have often used Another Take Honey and Pepper made into very fine powder of each as much as will suffice and boyle them together and anoint the sorance therewith and they will soon heale and dry up this I did never try but a famous Ferrier of France taught it me Another Take Lime and Salt and make them both into fine powder which being well mixed apply it to the places grieved good and thick then take Hurds and cut them very small and clap them upon it and so binde up the place with a linnen cloth that it doth not remove and so let it remaine two whole dayes and nights and this will cause the sorance to purge and after heale it up very kindely This I did never try Another Take Verdigrece and the fat of Bacon and pound them to a formall Salve and so plaisterwise apply it to the sore and it will heale up the scratches in short time This is very good Another Take old Bores grease and common Honey of each as much as will suffice and worke it to an Vnguent anoynt the sorance therewith four or five dayes and no longer and it will cure the Scratches ✚ This is very good Another Take Verdigrece in fine powder Gals Brimstone and Bolearmoniack of each one ounce make all into fine powder and mixe them with Bores grease as much as will suffice and so bring it to an Vnguent and anoint the sorance therewith and this will both heale and dry them up ✚ This I have often tryed Another First cauterize five strakes on either side and your iron must be somewhat broad and you must go but only one crosse-wise and after heale it up as it is usuall in Cures in your Cures of Cauterize this I never did practise Another Take Pepper Garlick Cole-wort-leaves and old Boares-grease of each so much as will suffice pound them together to an Vnguent and herewith anoint the Sorance and in few daies it will ripen the Scratches and kill the mallice of the disease and heale it up X. of this Receipt I have made often use and it is good you must not faile alwaies before you dresse any horse that hath the Scratches first to wash and bathe the place well with warme water and then to shaw or clip away the haire very close also every time you are to dresse any horse of this malady wash the place with Chamberly and greene Copperas boyled together and after dresse him up with your other Salves Vnguent c. Another Take Hogs-grease and strong Mustard and anoint the Sorance therewith and in short time he will be whole ✚ This is very good Another Take first of white-Wine-Vineger one pint and put unto it of the strongest Tobacco in the Rowle you can get one ounce open the leaves and shread the Tobacco small and boile it untill the Vineger do begin to consume then take it from the fire and strain it wringing it hard then take white-Wine one pint of Roach Allome the quantity of a Walnut of Bay-salt and of common Honey of each one Spoonefull red Sage Rue Hony-suckle-leaves Yarrow Plantaine Rib-wort Bramble-leaves of each like much halfe a handfull in the whole boile all these in the Wine till one quart be consumed then straine this water also and mix them both together and set it upon the fire till it begin to boile then take it off and when it is through cold put it up into a glasse and so keep it close stopped that no ayre come unto it and when you would use it for the Scratches wash the Sorance and then put upon it the powder of burnt Allome and this will cure the Scratches ✚ This I have often tryed and it is singular good Another Take Verdegrease and make it into fine powder and then take common hony and worke them together to an Vnguent and therewith anoynt the sorance and in short time it will infallibly cure him ✚ With this Receipt I have cured very many Horses Another Take tryed Hogs-grease and Gun-powder of each so much as will suffice first beat your Gun-powder to very fine powder and incorporate them very well together and anoynt the places greived once a day therewith and it will soone cure the Scratches ✚ This is a speciall good receipt Another Take Trayne oyle white-lead made into very fine powder and the Ielly
skin it in short time ✚ This is good for I have often tryed it Another for a sinew grieved Sinew grieved If the sinew be so farre grieved whereby to cause the horse to complaine and to hault Take then of Mallowes a good quantity and boyle them in faire water untill they shall become tender then draine the water from the hearbs and so stamp them to mash and apply them to the member grieved hot over night and the next morning he will be upright againe but then he must haue eight or ten daies rest at the least after But if it be a sinew spraine then clip away the hayre close or shave it then Take of the oyle of Sulphur and of the oyle of Turpentine of each one ounce take first the one halfe thereof being well mixed and chafe and rub it into the sinew well and so let him be tyed up to the Rack that he may not come unto it with his mouth for that it will greatly perplexe him for four or five hours after his dressing and the next day anoint him as you did the day before he wil be cured but the place will be raw and therefore heale him up with sweet Butter or Hogs grease and when the place healeth the skin will peele and yet the hayre will come again but he must either runne at grasse or else be kept in the Stable without any exercise at all by the space of a moneth at least If the sinew be cut Sinew cut then Take new Waxe and Gumme-Arabick of each two ounces of the marrow of an Oxe or Cow four ounces of the oyle of Roses three ounces melt and incorporate all these on the fire and so keep it for your use and when you are to use it warme it and so apply it either unguent wise or taint wise or plaister wise according as you shall see cause and it will cure any sorance of this nature ✚ This I have often tryed Another If your Horse have a sinew sprained Sinew sprain by an over-reach stroke or otherwise weakened the better to strengthen the same Take tryed Hogs grease Horse grease May or fresh Butter Sallet oyle of each sixe ounces take also of the oyntment called Agrippa two drams or new Waxe two ounces and a halfe and of Camphier a third part to all the rest melt them all together upon the fire and so work it to an unguent and good and warme anoint the swelled or grieved part therewith morning and evening and what remaineth of this medicine let it be reserved in a galley pot for other times for it will keep a whole yeare ✚ This is very good Another if it be a sinew spraine onely then Take Goats Kids or Deeres suet and Rosin of each one pound Fig dust halfe a pound Verdigrece in fine powder halfe a pound melt and mixe all these well and therewith anoint the sinew grieved every day and chafe it into the sinew by holding a hot bar of iron neer it This will both comfort and strengthen the sinew but I did never make tryall thereof §. 15. S. Hippoph BVt Hipposerus is it needfull that by applying your Vnguents you doe evermore worke them in with a hot bar of iron Hippos Truely Sir those that are for Straines Aches Mainges Farcins and such like maladies and sorances the further they doe sinke into the skinne and flesh the sooner and better will the cure be performed and therefore albeit I do not alwaies put you in minde of the hot bar of iron in every of my receits yet it is needfull to be used But to proceed with another receit for a sinew spraine Sinew sprain Take ordinary Sope and Aqua vitae of each as much as will suffice boyle them and in the boyling keep it by continuall stirring then take it off and so hot as he can well suffer it bathe and chafe in the oyntment and he will be sound again This was commended unto me for most soveraigne but I never made tryall thereof Another for a straine taken in travell Take so muâ—h of the best gray Sope as will serve to anoint the sinew strained but before you do anoint him having caused his legge to be cleansed from dirt sand or gravell and made dry again anoint him therewith and then swathe the leg with a thumband of Hay and so let him stand all night and the next morning he will be sound again so that you may securely travell him againe without feare ✚ This I have often used and it is very good Another if it be a straine newly taken Straine newly taken Take then of the strongest white Wine Vineger you can get one pinte and May or fresh Butter halfe an ounce then put to it of Wheat bran as much as will suffice which by boyling will bring it to a Poultesse and apply it so hot as he can suffer it doe this morning and evening untill the swelling be asswaged ✚ This is very good Another but if it be an old taken straine then Take Mallowes and Chickweed of each like much boyle them either in the grounds of Ale or Beere or else in old Chamberlye and apply it to the place ✚ This is a speciall good cure Another for an old straine which is thought to be incurable insomuch as the sinew being swelled is become very hard and knotty St aine old Take Patch-grease alias Peere or Peece-grease as much as will suffice melt it upon the fire and anoint the straine therewith very hot and chafe and heat it very well then rope the place as before is shewed you but before you rope him up wrap a rowler of linnen upon the place and do thus daily and it will dissolve the hardnesse and make him sound again ✚ This is most excellent Another for a spraine of the same nature Take Nervall Bolearmoniack Bores grease black Sope of each like much melt them together but first pulverize your Bolearmoniack and anoint the sorance herewith chafing and heating in very well continue thus to do twice a day till it be well ✚ This is also very soveraign § 16. S. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Horse that hath a stinking Breath Stinking breath Hippos This commeth by means of corrupted and infected lungs the signs how to know it is by the smell onely the cure is Take Cinamon Cloves Galingall Comine and Coriander seeds of each three ounces Fenugrick eight ounces make all these into fine powder and searce and mixe them well with Wheat flowre two pound and put thereto so much white Wine as will bring it to a stiffe paste and make a cake thereof and bake it in an Oven till it be as dry and as hard as bisket and when it is cold beat it to fine powder and give him every morning an houre at least before his water of this powder four spoonfuls in white Wine or strong Ale of each one pinte This will take away all the corrupt and
what causes doe you take up Veines Hippos As touching taking up of veines you shall understand that it is a thing in many cases so much behoofefull as that many times the most exquisite Ferrier living shall not be able to perfect this cure but by that way and meanes for unlesse such veines be either taken up or some wayes stopped which are noxious to the cure by feeding the malady with its peccant humours the Ferrier can never worke by true Art Againe veynes well taken up doe prevent many maladies wherunto many horses are much more propense then others are And lastly the taking up of veynes cureth some diseases which could otherwise never be cured For by taking up of the thigh-veines sendeth away Spavens Splents Curbs Kibed-heeles Swelled-legges Scratches Malenders Faricion in the legs and the like sorances besides it easeth all paines aches straines stiffnesse in the limbs c. Take up the Shackle-veynes Voynes to take up and it preventeth the Quitter-bone Ring-bone swellings in the lower-joynts foundrings c. Wherefore forasmuch as ignorant people whatsoever opinion they may have of their superabundant skill yet are they very much to seeke in that they doe so much exclaime against taking up of veyns absurdly affirming it to be a great meanes of laming of Horses but let them not mistake themselves for assuredly it is the best and onely remedy against these and many more maladies and when they shall have made triall they will not be of so prejudicate opinions CHAP. XXI § 1. W. Hippoph WHat good thing have you wherewith to preserve the winde Winde to preserve of a Horse Hippos Sir for this infirmity I make a Cataplasme which is this Take Wheate flowre foure pound Elecampane and Gentian of each one ounce Anniseeds Fenugrick Comyn Brimstone and Licoris of each halfe a pound let all these be made into very fine powder and searced then put unto it of common English Honey halfe a pound and so much white Wine as will make all these things into a Cataplasme boyle all these sufficiently till it be so thicke that you may make it into Pils and give your horse of them three or foure at a time for sixe or eight mornings together Vse this often for it will conserve a horse in health and keepeth him sound of his body winde and courage ✚ This is most excellent But if you doe perceive a taint in his winde then Take a close earthen Pot or Pipkin and put thereinto of the strongest white Wine Vineger three pints and foure new laid Egges unbroken and foure heads of Garlicke cleane pilled and bruised then cover the pot very close and bury it in a Mixen or Dung-hill twelve houres then take it up and take forth the Egges but breake them not then straine the Vineger and Garlick through a fine linnen cloth putting unto the liquor of life-honey foure ounces and of browne Sugar-Candy Anniseedes and Licoris all made into very fine powder of each two ounces and your horse having fasted all night till morning give him one of the steeped Egges and then one hornefull of this liquor or drinke and then another Egge and after that another hornefull and so a third Egge and then an hornefull and lastly a fourth Egge and so the residue of the liquor remembring to give him into eyther nosethrill halfe a hornefull of his drinke and it must be administred bloud-warme then set him upon the Trench cloth stop and litter him warme and let him stand so foure houres then unbit him and if it be in Winter time give him sweet Wheate-straw but no Hay and if it be in Summer give him grasse greene-corne or the leaves of Sallowes and for nine dayes give him eyther sweete Mashes or white water putting therein some Salet-oyle and be you assured hee will doe well againe ✚ This is also very good Another Take a Hedge-hogge alive and Bake him in the Oven in an earthen-pot close stopped untill he do become so dry as that you may make him into powder give him also this powder one spoonefull in a quart of good Ale every other day and this will infinitely helpe and preserve his winde ✚ This is also speciall good § 2. W. Hippoph IS there such a disease which is called the Wilde-Fire Wild-fire Hippos Yea Sir there is and it is a disease most dangerous and very difficult to cure but by a Receipt of a powder which once I obtained of a skilfull Chirurgion which said powder is not fit to bee applyed to any living creature but to a horse only it is so terrible And thus it is to be made viz. Take of living Toades foure the greatest and blackest can bee found living Moles or Ants three and of old Shoo-soles sixe and heads of Garlick unpilled and with their beards or roots remaining upon them forty then take of the leanest and saltest Martlemas-beefe three pounds cut it into thin and swall peeces and slices such Martlemas-beefe I meane which hath longest hanged in the smoake take also of Oates eight pints and of old woollen-ragges the couser the better two pounds take also of Swallowes-dung a good quantity and foure or five living Swallowes put all these things into an Earthen-pot new and well nayled and let it bee big enough to be able to hold all the Ingredients and put also all those living-creatures among them alive and then make a Cake of Clay and therewith lute up the Pot so close as that neyther smoake nor ayre can eyther get in or out having so done carry your Pot into some Orchard or other Close or Back-side from Housing or Straw and there place it and so make a great fire both round about it and upon it and so keep the fire unto the Pot till it bee as red-hot as the very fiery-coles themselves and let the fire continue so great after the pot is red-hot by the space of halfe an hour at the least then let the fire remaine untouched untill it be all consumed to ashes and so go forth of it selfe without eyther quenching the same or taking away any of the fire about it and so let it stand till it be through cold which will hardly be done the same day so when the Pot is through cold take it from the place and opening it take forth the stuffe and put it into some Trough or great Morter made for the purpose which must stand in some out or open place where no winde can come the Trough or Morter being covered with a cloth that the powder may not fly away there pound and stamp these things together into fine powder and in the stamping adde thereunto of unslacked-Lime one pound Let him that stampeth it be close muffled and his eyes covered with a glasse-case made for the purpose for feare of hurting them and when it is throughly powdred searse the powder through a course Haire-cloth and so keepe the very finest of the powder for your use in some cleane