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
then other and at length he grew to be so much enfeebled by continuall languishing as that being downe he was not able to rise but with helpe in fine shortly after the Nagge died then for my better experience I would needs have him opened which being done a sounder body in a Horse could not be seene but I discovered the cause of the disease and death of this Nagge in his skinne for it being taken from him you might most evidently see the Fat which did ly next unto his belly brisket ribs and sides to be so caked and hard as that it not being dissolved the Nagge could never after enjoy himselfe which caused him to wast and dwindle of his flesh and languishing dy which so soone as I espied I presently told the Gentleman the owner of the Nag that the Ambler had given him that Infirmity the Nagge being then very fat and after in his heate put him into the water which the owner examining found to bee most true as well from the report of honest neighbours who lived adjacent to the Ambler as after some small pressure from the ingenuous confession of the very Ambler himselfe And this I think fit to bring you for an instance to the end you may be the more carefull in avoyding the like inconvenience and be the better able to judge of a Malady of this nature But now as touching the best cure for a Consumption of the flesh albeit there be many yet I can recommend but only this one which both Master Blundevile and Master Markham have recorded which is this viz. Consumption of the flesh Take a Sheepshead with the wooll on cleave it wash it very cleane and boyle it in a gallon of faire water untill the flesh come from the bones then strayne the liquor from the flesh and put into the broath of refined loafe-loafe-Sugar halfe a pound of Cinamon conserve of Roses conserve of Barberies conserve of Cherries of each three ounces and give your Horse of this broath a quart every morning fasting bloud warme use this till foure or more Sheepsheads be spent and after every of these drinks let him be walked abroad if the weather be warme and not windy otherwise walke him in some barne or warme place and let him fast two or three houres after let him not drinke any cold water in fifteene daies after at the least but let his drink be eyther sweet mashes or white water and for his Diet let that be what himselfe best liketh and that given by little at once and often and by this meanes he may recover both Flesh and strength againe in reasonable time ✚ Neverthelesse when he hath gotten Flesh depart with him so soone as may be least upon any hard travell he happen to relaps as is most probable he may With this Receipt I have recovered three Horses whereof one was a Horse of a high price Hippoph But tell me I pray you were it amisse for this disease to take bloud from him before you drench him Hippos Yea that it were Sir very much amisse for so to do were certaine death for in cases of Consumptions you must take no bloud at all but rather labour to cherish the bloud he hath for his debility and feeblenesse wil be such as that he consuming so much in his Flesh you must rather endeavour to procure his strength then any way to hinder the same which the losse of bloud may most easily do Neither must you be too busie in administring unto him Purges but Cordialls as Diapente Diatesseron Duke powder Cordiall powder and such like restoratives also by giving him good meat as good strengthning bread and hartning well made and of purpose for him if he will eate bread sometimes boyled Barley and Oates also boyled Beanes and such like hearty meat as will restore him and to give him sometimes about midday a quart of strong Ale or Beere is very good and will greatly comfort him And thus keeping him warme feeding him and ordering him well you may in time recover him againe ✚ And this is the best Counsell I can give you for this Infirmity §. 16. C. Hippoph Now what say you to a Convulsion How doe you cure that Hippos A Crampe and Convulsion is one and the same Malady which is a violent contracting or drawing together of the Sinewes and Veines and Muskles as well through the whole Body as in any one member of the same yet doth it not alwaies apprehend or seâ—ze the whole body but takes one member or other as sometimes it laieth hold upon the Eye sometimes upon the Tongue the Iawes Lips Legs c. which albeit it commeth by severall meanes yet principally it comes eyther through cold in the body or else for want of bloud or lastly by over much purging The signes to know this disease are most easie for that horse that is therewith troubled will have that member for the time the fit is upon it so stiffe that a man with the utmost of his strength is not able to stirre the same by reason that the Sinewes and Muskles wil be so much contracted as not possibly to bring the limb to its pristine state but only by rubbing and chafing the limbe or member with warme cloths and after the fit is over it were very requisite to sweate him in the Stable in his cloaths for two or three houres together and if the Malady bee in the lower parts as in the Legges Convulsiâ— then let that member which is taken be wisped up with thumb-bands of Hay made wet first and after when the member is thus wisped to cast thereon cold water and after this his sweating let his whole body but especially the member taken be annoynted with the oyntment of Acopum before mentioned in the second booke cap. 14 § 1. A. and to give him some of it inwardly with sweet Sack or Muskadine and thus have I recovered sundry horses perplexed with this disease giving him two or three drinks after of Diapente then to keepe him warme and to continue him for some time with sweet mashes or white water but when you come to give him cold water againe let it be with exercise and ayrings after Sun rising and before Sunne set the Sunne shining and when there is no wind or other cold nipping weather But if you have not of this Acopum in a readinesse then apply this bathe or oyntment to the greived place or member viz. Take Pinpernell a good armefull Primrose leaves Camomile Crow-foot Mallowes Fennell Rosemary of each six handfuls fine up-land Hay cut made about Midsomer when the strength and heart of grasse is at the best a good quantity put all these into a Lead or Chalderon and fill up the Chalderon with faire water and so let it steepe eight and forty houres then boyle it untill the hearbs be soft and bathe the the greived member therewith foure daies together morning and evening warmed which done apply
other diseases but first to rake him then to administer to him this Clister Take of Mallowes three handfuls and boyle them in faire water tvvo quarts to one quart then straine it and put to it of fresh or svveet butter sixe ounces and of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and so administer it to him Clister-wise bloud warm that done vvalk him up and dovvn in the vvarm sunne or in some vvarm house untill he doe begin to empty himselfe then keep him fasting three or four hours keeping him vvarm and to a stomacke for three or foure dayes but let him have but that one Clister onely and let all his Hay be sprinckled with water and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water which when he hath drunk give him the Malt or Bran to eate and let his Provender be very little for fourteen dayes after especially if his disease came through glut of Provender Neverthelesse the day after his Clister give him this cordiall drinke Take of Muskadine one quart of Sugar two ounces of life honey foure ounces of Cinamon halfe an ounce Licoris and Anniseeds of each one spoonfull all these made into fine powder put them into the Muskadine and warme them on the fire till they be dissolved and then give it him bloud warme then walke him in the Sunne or warm house an houre then set him upon the trench warm cloathed and littered and so let him stand three houres fasting unlesse sometimes you put a little Armen into his mouth then give him Hay sprinckled with water and after an houre a sweet Mash or white water and then a few Oates well sifted and dusted and this by a little at once remembring to take bloud from the necke veyne the same morning you give him this drinke and that a little before he taketh it and pricke him also in the mouth and the next day after this drink perfume his head with Storax Benjamin and Frankincense and so order him according as you in your discretion shall think to be most meet onely remember to ayre him every day abroad if there be no winde for winde is hurtfull to him and thus doing you may recover him and make him a sound Horse againe ✚ This is singular good Another First give him this Clister take the flowers of Melelote Anniseeds and Licoris Linseeds Silleris-Montani of each halfe an ounce Polipodium of the Oake two ounces and a halfe Agnus-Castus one handfull the hearb Mercury Mallowes Pellitory of the Well Branca-ursina of each three handfuls make a decoction of al these lettiog it boyle to a quart then put to it of red waxe one ounce and a halfe of Cassia newly drawn three ounces of Diafennicon two ounces of Benedicta one ounce of oyle of nuts as much as will suffice and of all these make your Clister according to Art which you shall give to your horse so soon as you doe suppose or suspect him to droope and after this Clister hath done working give him the drink prescribed in lib. 2. chap. 9. § 10. F. which is very proper and good provided that you doe administer it so soon as you doe perceive your horse to be foundred in the body and withall adding to the drinke the juyce of three great Onions well beaten and strained into the white Wine and that he be dressed ayered ridden and ordered as is fitting and usuall for horses in physicke ✚ Of this I have made tryall and doe finde it to be good Another Take a head of Garlicke of Pepper of Ginger and of Graines of each two penny worth make all these into fine powder and put them into strong Ale one quart and so give it him to drink bloud-warm give him this drink two or three mornings and order him as is before prescribed And when you doe finde that he hath gotten strength let him bloud in the necke and spurre-veynes ✚ This is very good All cordiall drinkes are good for this infirmity §. 23. F. Hippoph VVHat is your best cure for a false Quarter Hippos A false Quarter is a very evill sorance it is a rift cracke or chinke which is most commonly upon the inside of the hoofe yet sometimes though rarely it happeneth upon the out side it is occasioned sometimes by evill shooing by evill paring and sometimes by gravelling or a prick with a nayle or stub neverthelesse which way soever it commeth it will cause the Horse to halt and watrish bloud will many times issue out of the rift or chinke the signes are needlesse to recite they be so manifest the onely way to cure this malady and sorance is first to take off the shooe and to cut away so much of the shooe on that side where the griefe is as that the shooe being immediately set on again the chinke may be wholy uncovered False quarter then open the chink to the quick with your drawing yron and then fill up the rift with a rowle of hurds dipped in this unguent Take Turpentine Waxe and Sheepes-suet of each like much melt them together and your rowle of hurds being dipped therein stop the rift therewith renewing it once a day till it be whole and thus the rift or chinke being with this oyntment closed in the top draw the place betwixt the hoofe and the hayre with a hot yron overthwart that place which will cause the hoofe to grow and shoot all vvhole dovvnvvards and vvhen your Horse goeth upright and sound again let him not be ridden vvith any other shooe untill the hoofe be throughout hardened neither let him be ridden upon any hard ground till his hoofe is become very sound and perfect ✚ Another For a false Quarter and to cause the hoofe to grow First prepare a flat piece of wood making it an inch broad at the least and so slender as that it will bend like to a hoop which must be also so long as that it may come well nigh twice about the cronet of the hoofe then when you are to bring it about the hoofe have in a readinesse a piece of filliting which must be long enough which you must cut into two pieces then having brought the hoope about the cronet with one piece of the filliting binde fast the top of the hoope which fastning must be behinde against the heele and bound very straight and hard and then the filliting so bound must be twisted three or foure times and so brought about upon the hoope and the ends made fast before upon the hoop then take the other piece of filliting and few it upon the top of the first filliting which you bound about the hoofe and then let it be sewed as well upon the one side of the hoofe as the other so fast sewed on as that it cannot get off Now you must understand that before you doe binde the foot of the Horse with the wooden hoop and filliting you must prepare the sorance of the said false quarter by drawing the place with yowr drawing
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
speciall good Hippoph What is good for the Head-ach Hippos First let him bloud in the mouth and rub it with Salt to cause it to bleed the more then take two long feathers of a Goose wing well annoynted in oyle de Bay thrust them up and down his nostrils whereby to open and purge his head and then perfume his head with the stalks of Garlick broken into small pieces as is before shewed keeping him to a spare dyet and moderate exercise the better to cleanse his head and stomack and to empty himselfe by meanes whereof the head and braine will be the better quieted Head-ach It were very good also to perfume him with Frankincense Storax and Benjamin grosly beaten and well mixed of each like much as will suffice but two or three dayes after let him bloud and give him white water for eight dayes after during which time you may do well to give him sometimes a sweet Mash ✚ This is very good § 3. H. Hippoph VVHat is good to helpe the heels that be scabbed Hippos You shall many times have small dry Scabs upon your Horse heeles which will not be greatly noxious to him therupon the best cure for his Keeper daily to annoynt them throughly with the oyntment made of Elbow grease But if there be any running humour issuing from the heeles of the Horse Heeles scabbed then let him stand every day morning and evening up to the belly in water till the scabs do dontract then make a convenient Cautherize neer to the joynts as well crosse as thwart wise then heale it up as you use to do kibed heeles ✚ This is very good § 4. H. Hippoph WHat is good for heels that be kibed Hippos This disease the French do call Iavarrs which is a kinde of Scratches and the cure is to Cautherize the middle of the swelling along both long and crosse-wise that done Heeles kibed take Oxe dung reeking hot mixe it upon the fire with Sallet oyle and apply it to the sorance once and no more then do afterwards as is prescribed you in a cure for a Splent in lib. 2. cap. 18. § 17. S. This I never tryed §. 5. H. Hippoph WHat cure have you for heels that are troubled with the Mellet Hippos This sorance we call the mellet is a dry scab that groweth upon the heele sometimes on the one and sometimes on the other heele sometimes it commeth of corrupt bloud sometimes of a blow given by the toe with the hinder foot for the mellet growes commonly upon the heele of the fore-foot and sometimes for want of good rubbing and dressing after travell it will also have a dry chop without any moysture at all The signes to know it is easie to wit it will soon be felt with your hand Heele Mellet To cure it I have before shewed you in § precedenti But yet I will give you one receit more for the same cure whereof I have made often tryall and it is very good Take of ordinary Honey halfe a pinte black Sope a quarter of a pound mixe these together and put thereto four or five spoonfuls of Vineger and as much Allum finely beaten as a Hens egge unburned and of Rye-flowre two spoonfuls mixe and incorporate all these well together and having first clipped or shaven away the hayre apply this medicine plaister-wise to the sorance just so farre as the sorance goeth and let it so remain five dayes and then take it away and wash all the legge foot and sorance with powdred beefe broth after rope up his legs with thumbands of soft Hay wet and he wil be sound But then you must understand that when at any time you do dresse the sorance you do not faile to take off the dry scab or whatever crusty thing shall be upon or about the place and by washing and cleansing the sore that you do make it marvellous clean ✚ This is a very good receit §. 6. H Hippoph VVHat is good to helpe a Horse that is Hide-bound Hippos This malady is when the skin of the horse doth cleave to the flesh as you cannot with your hand pull up the skin from the ribs sometimes it commeth through extreame poverty and maceration and sometimes through the indiscretion of the Groome for want of good tending sometimes of a surfet taken by over-riding and violent heats given him and then washed or negligently suffered to stand long in the cold or in the raine and sometimes again it commeth of corrupt cholericke bloud siccicating the flesh which wanting its naturall course causeth the skin to shrink and cling together and to cleave to the bones and flesh it also maketh him sick and to have a gaunt belly shrunk up to his flankes and his hayre will stare and his legges will swell and by these signes you may know the disease it is so conspicuous It causeth also siccity and aridity in the liver and lungs causing great torment throughout all the whole body and his dung will be very hard and dry and of a naughty savour for his body will be very costive and if he have not help in reasonable time if death it selfe ensue not yet will at the last other desperate maladies attach him whereof the least will be the mainge which will not easily or suddenly be cured The cure is to let him bloud either on both sides the necke or on both the spur-veines then cloth and litter him warm and do no more unto him that day more then to give him good meat and white water for cold water he must not drink till he be throughly well againe The next day give him this drink Hide-bound Take of white wine one pinte of Sallet oyle one pound of Venice Turpentine one ounce of Methridate of loafe Sugar and of Cassia prepared of each two ounces of the milk of sweet Almonds halfe a pinte and of Verjuyce of the Crab one penny worth mixe all these well together and warming it upon the fire give it to the sick horse let him have this drink sixe or seven mornings together alwayes having a speciall care to the strength of the Horse as well in this as in all other your cures ✚ This is a cure I have used very often and haue found it to be speciall good Another singular good receit First annoynt his body all over with Acopum and Sacke warmed together or else with this Bath Take faire water Mallowes Smalage Rosemary and Bay leaves boyle all these in the water till they shall become soft and so bath his whole body therewith warm and when you have dryed him again annoint him with this unguent Take of Hogs grease tryed one pound Camomile Mallowes Grunsell Smallage of each one handfull chop the hearbs very small and boyle them with the Hogs grease a good while with a soft fire then strain it and wring forth the oyle that commeth of the hearbs and with this Vnguent annoynt his body all over for it will
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-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
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
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
doe hold him violently then Take of London Triacle three ounces and dissolve it in Muskadine one pint and squeeze into it the iuyce of two or three good Lemons and so administer it with a horne and this will presently put the fit from him for the presâ—nt The nature of this Feaver is so malignant and so contagiously hot as that it will furre the mouth exceedingly and cause ulcers and sores to breed in the mouth and throat wherefore you shall doe the more carefully if every day you doe look into his mouth and if you can perceive it to be furred and clammy then faile you not to wash his mouth and tongue either with the syrope of Mulberries or the lotion water taught you in the precedent Section and if through his too great heat you doe finde your horses body to be costive then shall you administer this Clister Take of new milke and of sallet oyle of each halfe a pinte and of the decoction of Mallowes and of Violets of each one pinte adding thereto of Sene one ounce and of Century halfe an ounce administer this clister bloud warme and by thus ordering your Horse you will infallibly cure him of his feaver pestilent for I my selfe have cured many and I never failed in any one ✚ Provided you do give him during the time of his physicke continually morning and evening either sweet Mashes or white water and be also dieted and ordered as is fitting for a Horse that is in physicke §. 13. F. Hippoph VVHat disease is that which of some is called the Flying-Worme Hippos This malady is the same which the French Marishals doe call ver-volant which we in England doe call a Tetter or Ring worm Ver volaâ—â— and by reason it runneth up and down the body upon the skinne it is called by the name of the Flying-worme It commeth by a heat in the bloud whereby is ingendred a billious shâ—rp or hot humour which breedeth to a Tetter or Ring-worme but most commonly it seazeth the rumpe of the horse running down all along the joynts till it get into the tayle where I have known it to remain so long untill such time as it came to be a Canker but yet sometimes again it will seaze some fleshy part of the body of a horse and so torment him through its continuall itching as that the horse will with frequent rubbing himselfe against posts pales trees and walles c. as also with his teeth if he can come to the place bring away the hayre yea the skin and flesh also And this disease many ignorant Ferries have taken to be nought else but the louse of a Hog which to kill or destroy they onely apply a little sope But I have often known it to prove another thing viz. a formall Ring-worme or Tetter it is easily known by the falling away of the hayre by reason of the horses continuall scrubbing when it is in the fleshy part but if it get into the joynt betwixt the top of the rump and the tayle then you shall know it by a kinde of scab which you may with your finger feele and if you scrape or pick it away then will issue forth by little and little a kinde of thin water which being let long to run will in time runne down into his tayle from joynt to joynt and there become a Canker as I said before wherefore to prevent this inconvenience if the Tetter be in the joynt then Flying worme or Tâ—tter Take of Precipitat two drams and put it into a small viall glasse with faire water much more then will cover the powder keeping it close stopped and with this water wash the place every day once and it will infallibly cure it And alwayes so soone as you have dressed the sorance with this water and stopped it up again close then shake it together and so let it remaine untill its next dressing which ought to be twice a day But if the Tetter or Ring-worm be in any fleshy part it is killed by bathing the sorance with the juyce of Sothern-wood Maudlin and Ruâ— of each like much stamped together and strained and so let the place be washed and bathed therewith every day once or twice till it be whole ✚ I have thus cured many Tetters § 14. F. Hippoph VVHat is good to keep a Horse that he be not tormented with Flyes Hippos These Flyes are a vermine which are more bold then welcome to a Horse for what by their buzzing their biting and stinging they do infinitely annoy and afflict the poore beast causing him many times to falter in his travell and lose his pace and most commonly through his nodding and other evill postures and gestures provoked by these flyes they cause him so to fret as to loose his rain and comely carriage of hiâ— body whereby he hath bin much undervalued besides in his travell these Flyes doe so cause him to fret and fume that he both overtoyleth himselfe in his way causing him to sweat so much as that he losing his mettle hath many times thereby inflamed his bloud and brought upon himself sicknesse together with a cistemperature throughout his whole body So likewise being at grasse at what time the flye is too busie they do provoke him to run and to scope about by which meanes he being many times very full it causeth crudities and raw digestions to arise in his stomacke which breedeth surfets or other maladies wherefore for prevention thereof Take the leaves of Gourdes Pumpions or wilde or garden Cowcumbers stamp them and strain them and with the juyce thereof wash your horse all over and the flyes will not come nigh him ✚ Of this I have made often tryall Another Take an Apple of Colliquintida and slice or shred it into small pieces and boyle it in â—yle de Bay and so annoynt your horse therwith and the flyes will not approach him ✚ This is also good Another Take Mallowes stamp and strain them and with the juyce thereof wash your horse and it will keep away the flyes ✚ This is an approved good thing also Another Take Verdegreece made into very fine powder and boyle it in Vineger and wash him therewith being carefull that none get into his eyes or eares ✚ This is the best and will last longest § 15. F. Hippoph WHat is good to mollifie the foot of a Horse Hippos If your horse hath bin foundred and that after being cured his soles and hoofes doe waxe dry and hard they be either shrunk or in perill of shrinking then first take off his shoes and let him be pared somewhat close but not too neere which done with Bee-waxe molten annoynt the soles with the said molten waxe with a Goose-feather and so set on his shooes againe then three daies after Take tryed Hogs-grease and Tarre of each four ounces Feet to mollifie of fat Pitch and of Turpentine of each two ounces melt and mixe all these together and first stop his feet
it will comfort the Frush very much but if the hoofe be naturally brittle and by foundring become dry and streightned then to enlarge the same and to make it the more tough and to grow the better also Take of Hogs grease Turpentine and Masticke of each like much and halfe so much Lard as of either of them melt all these but the Turpentine on the fire and when it is well dissolved take it off and then put in your Turpentine stirring it well till it be throughly incorporate then keep it in a stone pot by it selfe and when it is through cold be sure to stop the pot very close and so reserve it for your use With this Salve annoynt the coffines but especially the Cronets every day twice at the least and it will cause the hoofe to grow very much and become tough and sound ✚ This I have often used and it is very good § 2. I. Hippoph VVHat is good to ripen an Impostumation Hippos To ripen any swelling which doth impostumate you shall know by the heat for if you lay you hand theron it will be hot and burne wherefore to prepare and make it ready to be opened Impostumation to ripen Take Mallow roots and white Lilly roots of each like much bruise them and put to them Hogs grease and Linseed meale of each so much as will suffice and boyle them till they be soft and so plaister-wise apply it to the griefe ✚ § 3. I. Hippoph VVHat is good for any inward sicknesse in a Horse Hippos I have shewed you that sufficiently before in lib. 2. cap. 3. § 6. A. where I give you three excellent receits together neverthelesse if you doe finde that your horse doe not thrive but droop and impaire I will here give you one receit more which I doe know to be most singular and will doe him much good and whereof I have had very long and great good experience First therfore if you do see cause take bloud from him but not otherwise and if he be subject to costivenesse then administer unto him either a Clister or a Suppository and the day following give him this drinke Take Aristolochia Rotunda Bay berries Gentiam Anniseeds Inward sicknessâ— Ginger and of Trifora-Magna of each one ounce beat all the simples to very fine powder and mixe them well together then take of white Wine one quart or of Sacke the like proportion which is better then put of this powder and of your Trifora-Magna one spoonfull into the Wine Salet oyle halfe a pinte and of Mithridate two drams warm these upon the fire and so administer it bloud warme and let him be exercised as well before as after his drinke but not so farre as to sweat by any meanes neither let him drinke any cold water in foure or five dayes after but either warm Mashes or else white water ✚ This is most soveraigne for any inward sicknesse droopings forsaking of meat Feavers Colds Coughs or the like § 3. I. Hippoph YOu speake hereof administring a Suppository but what Suppository were best to be given in a case of this nature Hippos I will shew you Sir if your Horse be so ficke whereby you feare to give him any strong medicine and that he be costive withall then give him this Suppository following Take of Honey sixe ounces of Salâ—niter one ounce and a halfe Inward sicknessâ— Supposiâ— of Wheat flower and of Anniseeds in fine powder of each one ounce boyle all these to a hard thicknesse and then make it into Suppositories and first annoynt your hand with Sallet oyle or sweet Butter and the Suppository also which he is to take and so convey it into his fundament a pretty way and after tye his tayle betwixt his legges as I have elsewhere shewed you or else hold it close to his body with your hand by the space of a quarter of an houre at the least till it be throughly dissolved and this will cause him to purge kindly and it will very much coole and loosen his guts then you may be the more bold to administer what Drinkes Cordials or other things which you may thinke most requisite for his recovery ✚ §. 4. I. Hippoph VVHat is good to ripen inflamations Pustils and Kernels which doe grow under the chaule of the Horse Hippos This commeth to a horse that hath either Cold or Glanders which must be dissolved otherwise the Horse can never be cured Jnflamations wherefore take Wheat Bran two handfuls and so much Wine Ale or Beere as one quart with which to thicken it put to it of Hogs grease halfe a pound boyle these together till the liquor be quite consumed and so apply it to the place so hot as the horse may well suffer it renewing it every day once till it do of it selfe breake or be so soft to be opened then let forth the corruption and taint it with a taint of flaxe dipped in this Salve Take of Turpentine and of Hogs grease of each like much and of Rosin and Waxe a much greater quantity melt all these together and with the said taynt dipped in this medicine put it into the wound renewing it every day once till it be whole ✚ This is an approved receit But if it be an inflamation impostumating in any other part of the body take then the grounds of a Beere-Barrell foure quarts of Smalage Penny-royall Winter-Savory Cumfrey Rue and of the leaves and berries of the Missell-tow of each two handfuls chop all these very small and put them to the said grounds and put to it of Sheeps or Deere Suet tryed one pound and three or foure handfuls of Rye or Wheat Bran so much indeed as will serve to boyle this to a Poultesse and when it is boyled as much as will suffice apply it to the place and if the swelling be very much impostumated it will breake it or at the least so soften it that it may be opened if it be hard at what time you put your Poultesse thereunto it will send it backe again without more to doe ✚ This I have very much experimented and have found it to be right good But if he be troubled with the Strangles and that he is very much inflamed under the chaule then cure them thus take Basilicon old Bores grease and Dialthea of each foure ounces of oyle de Bay one ounce incorporate all these well together and first clipping away the hayre from under the chaule annoynt the swelling and inflamed place therewith very well this done binde upon it a piece of Sheeps skin with the Wooll next to the inflamation that the warmth thereof may the better helpe to ripen the Pustils which being ripened open them and let forth the corruption that done taynt it first for three or foure dayes with Basilicon onely but after heale up the sorance with your blacke Aegyptiacum taught you in lib. 2. chap. 4. § 4. A. and during the time of this cure let him