doe say that the Italians use to take a spunge well dipped in strong wine vineger and bound to the Sore renewing it twice a day till the kernels doe rot then they open the neather most part of the softnesse and so let the corruption forth and then fill the hole with salt finely brayed and the next day they wash away the filth with warme water and the next day after they annoynt the Sore with Honey and Fich flower mingled together till it be whole This Cure I never made tryall of but it seemeth to me to be a very good and probable Cure Another for the Avives Take Tarre tryed Hogges grease Bay-salt and Frankinsence powdred of each so much as will suffice melt these on the fire all together then with a clout fastened to the end of a sticke boyling hot scald the places 4 or 5 mornings one after another untill the enflamed places doe become soft and ripe Then with your incision knife slit the skin and let forth the corruption then to heale up the sorances take tryed Hogges grease and Verdigrease made into fine powder melt them upon a gentle fire but suffer it not to boyle more then a waume or two at the most then take it off and put to it of ordinary Turpentine as much as will suffice and so stirre all together untill it be cold And herewith annoint the sorances daily till they be whole ✚ This is very good Master Markham in his Master piece hath a Cure for the Avives which he intituleth A most rare and certaine approved Medicine which will cure the Vives without either burning melting rotting or any such like violent exercise But as yet I did never experiment the same The cure is this Take a penniworth of pepper beaten to fine powder Swines grease a spoonefull the juyce of Rue a handfull and of Vineger two spoonfuls mixe all well together and convey it equally into both the eares of the Horse and so tye or stitch them up then shake his eares that the medicine may sinke downewards which done you shall let him bloud in the neck-veyne and in the temple-veine And this saith he is an infallible cure § 12. A. Hippoph VVHat disease is that which we doe call the Arraistes Hippos Arraistes is also a French Epitheton which is a disease we doe commonly call the Rat-tayles engendring in the heeles of a Horse not much unlike to the Scraches but that it is much more venimous and malignant It commeth of too much rest and the Keepers want of care in the not rubbing and dressing him as also by reason that the Horse standeth continually in the Stable his fore-feet being higher than his hinder-feet for by reason of his great rest and pampering the bloud corrupting in his body falles down into his hinder-legges and breedeth this disease which now we doe call the Arraistes Arraistes or Rat-Tayles Rat-tayle◠The best Cure for this Malady is first to let the Horse be ridden till he be warme whereby the veines will swell and the better appeare Let him bloud in the fetlocke veins on both sides making him to bleed well and the next day after wash the sores with warme water and then clip away all the hayre from about the Sores then annoynt the grieved places with this Oyntment viz. Take greene Coperas and Verdegreace of each two ounces and of common honey foure ounces beat your Coperas and Verde-greace very small and so worke them with your honey to a perfect unguent and herewith annoint the Sores daily till they be whole ✚ And thus we doe conclude this Chapter CHAP. V. § 1. B. Hippoph VVHat is your best way to breake and heale the backe of a Horse that is swolne Hippos We have many wayes to cure a Malady of this nature if the place be swelled and yet not ripe enough to be opened then apply that remedy which you shall finde taught you hereafter to resolve or ripen the same and when it is ripe put your incision knife unto it or a hot iron and so open it in the lowest part so as the putrifaction may the more easily passeaway then every morning inject this Lotion with a Seringe which is thus to be made viz. Backe swelled Take Honey-suckle leaves Plantine Ribwort Yarrow Bursa-Pastoris Knot-grasse and Cumphrey of each halfe a handfull boyle these in a quantity of running water till a moity be consumed then straine the herbs from the water casting away the hearbs and then set the water upon the fire again and so soon as it beginneth to boyle againe put into the said water hony of Roses one ounce Allum and Alkenet of each two drams stirre all these well together and let it boyle till these latter ingredients be well dissolved then take it from the fire and when it is cold put it into a cleane glasse keeping it close stopped for your use Vse this water every day five or sixe dayes together and it will cure any Sorance in the backe or other part of the body provided that to skin the sore you apply a rag made wet in the said water ✚ Another Receit I have wherewith I have cured many galled backs and other sorances which is as followeth Take water and salt and boyle them well together and first wash the sore place therewith Then take Pepper made into very fine powder and strew it upon the sore it will heale it in very short time ✚ A third I have much more soveraigne than the two former which cureth not onely all galled backs but any other wound whatsoever Take Rosin and common Pitch of each sixe ounces Masticke and Incense of each one ounce Turpentine Galbanum Bolearmonacke of each three ounces melt dissolve and incorporate all these together upon a gentle fire and as they doe begin to coole make them up into rolles and when you would use this Salve spread it upon a cloath or leather somewhat thin but if you be to use it without either cloath or leather to any outward part that is not yet broken then lay it on much thicker than you use to doe plaister-wise and whilst it is warme clap flocks of the same colour upon it This Emplastrum as it cureth any swelling gall wound sore or hurt so it ripeneth breaketh and healeth all impostumations biles and pustils It is also a most excellent defensative plaister for the staying and drying up of all evill humours and also very soveraign for asswaging of swellings ✚ Another Receit I have taught me by a worthy Knight but I never made use thereof Take the leaves of Asmart and wash them and lay them all over the place and albeit you ride him every day yet will he heale very fast But if he doe remaine in the Stable without exercise if you put the water of the leaves upon the place it will heale him speedily Another Receit I have which was taught me by a French Marishall howbeit I made no tryall thereof but he
the Halter catcheth into the Pasterne Ioynt which he feeling falleth to striving whereby he casteth himselfe downe and by meanes of the hardnesse of the Cord he is gauled even to the very bone and many times if he be not opportunely rescued the Halter doth strangle him and he found starck dead But if the Horse do escape with life he will be neverthelesse terrible gauled which will soone rankle and swell unlesse cure be presently administred The signe whereby to know it is apparant enough I will give you only two Receipts for this sorance whereof the first shal be this viz. Take the leafe of the hearb called Saubsucus Cast in a Halter stamp it and strayn it and take only the juyce thereof and apply the said juyce to the sorance by washing it therewith after take a linnen cloth white and cleane and make it into three or foure folds steeping the cloath in the said juyce and bind it on to the place grieved but in Winter when the said Leafe is not to be had you must take the second rinde thereof and do therewith as before but then note that before you wash and apply the saide juyce to the wound you must first wash the sorance with warme Water and then apply your said juyce and he shal be perfectly cured in short time This I never yet experienced by reason I could never yet meete with the Hearb This second I have often tryed and I have found it to bee infallible viz. Make a Rowle of fat Wooll and steepe the same in Vineger and Sheepes Suet so much as will suffice boyled together till it commeth to bee very thick and let the Rowle bee full as long or rather somewhat longer then the place gauled apply this to the sorance Plaister-wise and bind upon it a cleane Linnen cloth changing it twise a day and in short time it wil be whole This is right good ✚ § 2. C. Hippoph VVHat Cure have you for a Canker Hippos This is a very loathsome Sorance which if it be suffred to run long will so fester and corrupt the place where it hapneth that it will violently eate even to the bone if it fall upon the Tongue it will eate the very roote in sunder if in the Nose it will eate the very Gristle through You may easily know this Sorance for that the places wil be very raw and bleed often and many times you shall perceive a white Scurfe to grow upon the place grieved For it is a most Cankerous Vlcer which ofttimes is engendred of a fretting humour It commeth two waies that is eyther of naughty and corrupt bloud procured by meanes of unwholesome meate or by some Bilious Humour which came to the Horse by an extreame cold not long before taken which will cause his bteath to stinke loathsomely Canker I will deliver unto you sundry cures for this sorance which my selfe have experimented and have found them to be very good Take white Wine halfe a pint Roch Alome the quantity of a Wall-nut Bay-salt halfe a Spoonefull English Honey one Spoonefull Red-Sage Rue Ribwort Honey-Suckle Leaves Yarrow Plantine Bramble-leaves of each like much but of every one a little boyle all these in the white Wine so much as will suffice till a quarter be consumed and then first inject of this Water into the sorance or else if the Canker be in the Mouth wash the place with a clout fastned to a sticks end and so dresse him therewith twice a day or oftner if you shall see cause till it be whole ✚ Another Take greene Coperas and Alome of each one pound white Coperas foure drammes boyle these in a pottle of running Water untill almost the one moiety bee consumed then take it from the fire and put into it of Honey half a pound then holding up his Head with a Drenching Staffe but yet not too high with a Pewter or Elder Sering or Squirt inject it into his Nose if the Canker be there bloud warme which done give presently his head liberty whereby hee may snuffle and blow forth the corruption and faile not to inject him thus three or foure times one after the other at every dressing and do thus Morning and Evening till it bee whole which will not be long ✚ But if it be only a sore Mouth and that it come to be a Canker then Take of the strongest white Wine Vineger and make it thick with powdred Alome and so wash the sorance therewith two or three dayes together for this will kill and destroy the Vlcer then heale up the Sorance thus viz. Take of faire Water a quart Alome and Honey of each foure ounces Maudeline leaves red Sage and Columbine leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in the Water till halfe bee consumed and every day twice that is Morning and Evening wash his Mouth therwith bloud-warme and it will heale him ✚ Another First make this strong Alome Water viz. Take Alome halfe a pound Hony halfe a pint red Sage and Wood-bind-leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in faire water till halfe bee consumed with this Water and Hearbs wash and rub the Sores till they become red and raw then take white Wine Vineger halfe a pint Alome powdred two ounces Ginger powdred halfe an ounce and of life Honey halfe a pint mix all these well together and therewith annoynt the sore Morning and Evening and it will cure him ✚ All these Receipts I have made tryall of and have found them to be right good Another Take the juyce of the Root Asphodill seven ounces Quick-lime Arsnick of each two ounces beat and incorporate all these together and put them into a new pot close stopped and let it boyle till it come to ashes these ashes you shall apply to the Sorance twice a day but the sore must be first washed with strong Vineger as before is taught §. 3. C. Hippoph HOw cure you that Horse who hath cast his Hoofe Hippos This is a troublesome Sorance yet with care it may be cured it commeth either by meanes of some Foundring or by an Accloy Prick Stub Graveling Quitterbone or other hurt within the Foote which breaking out above round about the Cronet and in time the Hoofe breaking it falleth from the Foote I neede relate no Signes whereby to know the same The Cure is thus Take Aquafortis the strongest you can get Casting the hoofe and first with a Rape or Drawing Iron file or draw away the old hoofe somewhat neere then touch the hoofe so prepared with your Aquafortis three or foure severall dressings and no more This done annoynt the Foote with the Vnguent we doe commonly make for Horses Feete viz. Take Hogs-grease three pound Pach-grease two pound Venice-Turpentine one pound new Wax halfe a pound Sallet-Oyle one pound Melt and mix all these upon the fire and herewith chafe rub and annoint the Coffin of the Hoofe up to the very top and this will bring a new hoofe ✚
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
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
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
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
commended it to be tres-bonne which is this viz. Take three parts of sheeps-dung and one part of wheate or Rye-flower and dry the flower and then knead them together and bake it a little and apply it bloud warme to the place § 2. B. Hippoph IS there a disease in a horse called the Barbes Hippos Yea Sir there is such a disease and it groweth in the mouth vnder the tongue naturally for every Horse hath them Barbes neverthelesse there is no harme in them untill they doe become inflamed and then they will swell with corrupt bloud proceeding from naughty humours and become raw and so trouble and pain the Horse so as he cannot feed without much griefe for it commeth by meanes of evill humours and inflamed bloud I never heard of more Cures than two for this malady which is to take hold of his tongue and on either side under it of the jaw you shall see two teats or paps clip them away close and then wash the place with a little water and salt and they are cured The other Cure Take a paire of Sizers and clip them away from under the tongue and let them bleed then prick him in the palate of the mouth with your Fleame that he may bleed the better then wash the places with white wine vineger Bolearmonacke and Bay-salt of each as much as will suffice and for three or four dayes after let him see that no hay-dust sticke upon the places so clipped and he will soon be well againe §. 3. B. Hippoph VVHat good Receit have you to dissolve and dry up all ill humours in the body Hippos The best thing that I could ever know Bath for Humours to dry them up is a certain Bath which I make wherewith I bath him and I doe finde it to be right good which I make thus viz. Take Sage and Rosemary of each a handfull of the barke of the root of Beech three pound and of the barks of young Elmes Oakes and Ashe of each a handfull of Nep Penny-Royall and of Chest-nuts the rindes being taken away of each a handfull three or foure white Onions cleane pilled and cut into small pieces of slices red wine three pottles strong white wine vineger two pottles boyle all these together and cause your Horse to be walked a quarter of an houre before a good pace that he may be onely warme then let him be presently bathed with this Bath good and hot and then set him up warme and let his drinke be either sweet Mashes or white water bath him thus three dayes together and feed him with such meat as is sweet and wholesome and let him not be ridden into any water in eight or tenne dayes after and this will dissolve and dry up all his bad humours ✚ This I learned of an Italian Rider in Bruxels whom I saw practise it very often whilst I was there and rode with him And since I have my selfe administred it to many good Horses here in England with which I have done very much good Hippoph Now that we speake of Bathes I would gladly know what are their vertues Hippos Bathes have been much more in use in former times than now they are howbeit I and my Master doe use them often and we doe finde great profit by them for they are fomentations which be the most comfortable things of any to the joynts and limbs of a Horse Bathes dissolve all ill humours and gives heat and warmth unto all the members that are benummed with cold or for want of bloud it comforteth and strengtheneth them and it giveth very great ease to the pained sinewes Besides it asswageth swellings in or about any outward parts of the body for legges swelled stiffe or benummed or for any other joynt pained or grieved Bath for st ffe legges or for any string hault crampe or convulsion I commonly use a bath which doth in short time cure all such like Maladies And my bath is this Bath 1 Take Muskadine and Sallet oyle of each a pinte Bay-leaves and Rosemary of each two handfuls let them boyle halfe an houre and when you are to bathe your Horse therewith rubbe and chafe the grieved place with a wispe or hayre-cloath a pretty while then put the foot into some broad bowle or payle whereby to preserve the liquor and hearbs and lave and bathe him thus a quarter of an hour which ended binde upon the place a piece of Sheeps or Lambs skin with the woolly side to the legge and let him stand so four and twenty houres apply this five or sixe times and it will be a perfect Cure ✚ Another bath I have which is most soveraign to cure all gourdy gowty and swoln legges which commeth either by farcin scratches or the like wherewith I have cured very many Horses And thus it is made Bath 2 Take the grounds of a Beere battell with the Barme Smallage Featherfew Winter-savory Cumâ—ry Mallowes Rue Set-well Penny-Royall Wormewood Arch-angell of each a good handfull and of the leaves and Berryes of Missletow three or foure good handfuls Sheepes Tallow one pound tryed Hogges-grease halfe a pound three or foure handfuls of Rie or Wheat Branne boyle all these together untill all the hearbes and Missletow become soft but be sure you have liquour enough and a little before you take it from the fire put into it some Hay With this bathe his Legges first one then the other putting still that Legge which you are to bathe into a broad Bowle or Payle as is afore shewed and when you have bathed that Legge sufficiently then take of the hay in the Bath and making a Thum-band thereof rowle it about the Leg above the uppermost or middle Ioynt and put off the hearbes betwixt his Legge and the Thum-band and so use the other Legge or Legs which are swelled and need bathing Which done powre of the liquour remaining upon the thum-bands and thus let him bee bathed herewith every day once for so many dayes together as you shall thinke requisite and it will bring downe the swelling quite and make him sound ✚ Another Bath I have no lesse excellent wherewith I have done many rarecures viz. Take Smallage Oxe-Eye and Sheepes Sewet of each like much Bath 3 to a good quantity Chop them small together and after stamp them in a stone Morter then boyle them with mans Vrine and bathe the grieved parts herewith warme doing as before with a Bowle or Payle then with Thum-bands of soft Hay made first wet in cold water rope up the member as well above as below the griefe Vse this as oft as you shall see cause out if the griefe happen in travell then by bathing him thus over-night and roping him up he wil be able to travell again the next morning without complaining ✚ This I doe assure you is a most excellent Bath and it cureth any Lamenesse which cometh eyther by stroke strayne or other Accident One other Bath I have whereof I never made
flesh which running too and fro being salt and billions it there doth itch and smart provoking the Horse many times to rub scrub and bite himselfe Which disease if it be let run long will come to be an Elephantique leprosie or at least a terrible mainge by which meanes he will soone infect all the Horses which are in the Stable where he standeth for it is a contagious malady and loathsome The best way to cure this itch before it proceed further is Take Chamberly newly made two quarts Bay-salt a handfull unslaked Lime a handfull Enule-campana root dryed and finely powdred a handfull but if not dryed then green cut into thin slices Hens dung a handfull boyle all these together a while then with a sticke with a clout fastened to it wash the Horse all over so hot as he may well suffer the same use this three or foure mornings together and it will cure him keeping him to a spare dyet and giving him white water ✚ § 14. B. Hippophyl VVHat is good to prevent Blowing and Pursivenesse in a Horse Hippos You must first understand Sir the true nature of this griefe as also how he came by it whereby you may the more easily know how to cure the same for that there be sundry wayes and meanes whereby a Horse may come to be breathlesse and short of winde and every one of them may be a severall disease and so require a distinct remedy But if you meane a shortnesse of winde onely then know that many Horses are naturally thicke winded as being cook-thrâ—pled narrow Chawled c. Blowing 〈◊〉 Pursiveneâ— Also shortnesse of winde may come unto him accidentally as when being fat and over-laden with flesh or by being too rank of bloud or by too much glut and foulenesse in the body then is he subject to shortnesse of breath and pursivenesse so as upon any motion or exercise he will sweat pant blow and heave at the flanks and this commeth upon him by immoderate riding eating drinking and rest And such like exercise causeth the panch of the Horse if he be put to any sudden motion or exercise to be so hard and strutted out as that he must so straine his longs the bellowes of the body as to cause a dislocation in them by meanes whereof they cannot execute their office or function as they ought and if care and remedy be not speedily had he will in short time be past all recovery and then hee is brought to that disease which the vulgar doe call broken-winded wherefore to prevent it administer unto him this ensuing Cure Let all the hay he eateth nor let him eate all he desireth for such Horses are commonly great feeders be sprinckled and moystened with water which will asswage his excesse of drinking and very much coole his bloud which cannot but be inflamed Then give him every morning for foure or five dayes together two egges steeped twenty foure houres in the strongest white wine vineger you can get give him I say these two egges and then the vineger after then ride him softly an houre after which done set him up warme and three houres after give him hay sprinckled with water and at night when you do give him his Oats wet them in Beere or good Ale and let his drinke be white water ✚ Doe this ten dayes together so that about the beginning of May and about Michaelmas he may be in breath and so keep him to spare dyet but with discretion ✚ This medicine will both purge him and scowre from him much flegme and filth as well at nose as mouth and he will be both sounder and in better health a long time after provided he be also kept to moderate exercise And if after you have thus drenched and dyeted him you doe not perceive his blowing and lifting at the ribbes and flanks to cease then be you confident your Horse is past all cure onely still moysten his meat as before is inculcated and he will hold out the longer ✚ Another Receit I have for the same malady which if he be not past all cure will infallibly doe him much good which is this viz. Take wheate meale the powder of Lung-wort alias Mullet Gentiana Anniseeds Comin-seeds of each three drammes make them into fine powder and make paste with them with honey and fresh butter of each like quantity so much as will suffice and put to it the yolkes of two new laid egges make this paste into pils and every morning fasting give him three or foure of these pils rowled up in the powder of Enulacampana and the powder of Licoris of each like much These pils preserve the winde of the Horse mervailously and keeps him alwaies in breath and therefore good they be often used ✚ Of these two Receits I have had great experience and a third I was taught whereof I had not oft made triall yet with that little experience I have had of it I doe find it to be right good being as followeth Take the Excrements of a sucking child and put unto it a pint of white wine let it boyle till the one halfe be consumed and so give it him blood-warme This will cause him to forsake his blowing for 15. dayes so as when hee beginneth againe to blow give him the same medicine againe and so keep him with this from time to time so oft as you shall have cause and by this meanes you shall have his wind good ✚ But then you must beware you put not into the wine too large a proportion of the Excrements for it will make him to be very sick and peradventure endanger him for howsoever when at any time you doe administer it it will make him very sick Remember also to sprinkle his meat and to give him white water § 15. B. Hyppoph VVHat is your opinion of Botts Trunchions and Wormes their severall sorts and how doe you kill them Hyppos The generall Opinion is that there are but two sorts of these kind of creeping Creatures to wit Botts and Wormes for they hold that trunchions and bots are both one and the same thing but they are much mistaken for bots are of a different shape and colour from trunchions and of different natures Bots for bots doe breed and reside in the great gut adjoyning to the fundament but trunchions doe breed and make their abode in the maw onely and if they be suffered to remaine any time within the body of the Horse they will make their way through the aforesaid great gut and the trunchions through the maw both which vermine doe bring death to the Horse Now I doe averre that there is a third sort Three sâ— of vermâ— which dâ— engendeâ— the body the Hoâ—â— which have none other denomination than plaine wormes unlesse you will adde the word maw-wormes and so stile them maw-wormes which name indeed is most proper to them by reason that they select for their resting place the maw onely from which they
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
some of these hearbs to the places or limbs greived and keep them on with a thumb-band of Hay wet in the said decoction and every day about noone anoynt the said visited member with Petroleum and Nervall and Oyle of Spike mixed together and keep him warme give him good meat and mashes or white water not only during the time of his cure but a good time after and let his ayrings be temperate and his exercise moderate and take heed of washing him after labour for that probably was the cause of his Convulsion ✚ Another Take strong white Wine vineger and Patch-grease alias Peece-grease of each like much melt them upon a gentle fire then with Wheat-flowre make it into a Poultesse and apply it to the grieved member good and warme renewing it morning and evening but before you doe administer this charge by holding a barre of iron or a chafing dish of coales neere let him be annoynted with Petroleum Nervall and Patch-grease and oyle of Spike of each like much very well and after binde on the charge all over the grieved place dresse him thus morning and evening and give him moderate exercise and ayrings and let him have Mashes and white water to drinke and keep him warm This is very good ✚ Another First rake him then give him the Clister prescribed in booke 2. chap. 11. § 8. Clister 4. then let two men on either side of the horse one rub him well with soft cloaths all his body and limbs over especially the diseased limb then cloath him up warme and let him stand upon the trench foure or five hours to the end the Clister may work the more kindly after give him meat and white water and so feed him for that day But I must tell you that so soon as you have given him this Clister and before his friction give him this drink whereby to cleanse his body viz. Take of white wine one pinte Aloes halfe an ounce Agarick half an ounce all beaten very small and infused in the Wine putting thereto of the purest clarified Hogs-grease one spoonfull or for want thereof and which is much better of sweet Butter sixe ounces and give him this bloud warme The next day prepare in a readinesse this unguent Take of strong Ale two quarts and of black Sope two pound boyle them together till they look black like Tarre and herewith annoynt rub and chafe him all over that the unguent may sinke in that done cloath him up and stuffe him warme that he may sweat well but stuffe head necke and brest well let him sweat thus two hours then coole him by degrees taking now a little from him then a little till he be brought to a good temper againe then keep him so and about one of the clock at afternoon give him a warm Mash or white water and then some Hay and an houre after that Provender Let not this drink be given him above once during his whole Cure but his Clisters Sweats and Frictions till he be well yet the Clisters not every day neither and let his drinke be white water wherein Mallowes have been boyled unlesse sometimes you give him wherewith to comfort him a sweet Mash but if he will not drink his white water boyled with Mallowes then let him have it without and let his food be that which is sweet and very good This did I never try but two severall Ferriers who lived more then 100 miles distant the one from the other gave me this Receit verbatim without scarse altring one word and they both protested unto me they have cured sundry Horses which have been forely perplexed with this disease Hippoph What meane you by moderate and temperate ayering of a Horse Hippos I doe meane by moderate ayering Ayering that he be not forth in ayering too long and by temperate ayering that a sicke Horse if there be cause why he should be ayered it be not done too late in the evening nor too early in the morning for that such kinde of ayerings will take too much from a Horse that is feeble or sick but in such cases let him be walked to his ayerings in a warme evening an houre before sunne-set at least and in a morning an houre after the sunne is up especially if the winde be not too high or blow too cold and that the sunne shine warme for by ayering before sunne rising and after sunne set like as is to be used with Running and Hunting Horses will make a fat strong Horse both so poor and leane as not to have a Crow of flesh on his back as the proverb is and so feeble as not to be able to arise being layed and therefore give not such kinde of ayerings to a Horse that is infirme but those which I do tearme the temperate ayerings will greatly comfort the spirits of your Horse give him a very good appetite to his meat and encrease his flesh and good liking whereas the late ayerings will be as I said before very noxious to sicke diseased or leane Horses § 17. C. Hippoph HOw doe you helpe a Horse that groweth costive or belly-bound Hippos The nature of this disease is such as that the Horse that is therewith troubled cannot discharge himselfe but with great paine and trouble his ordure comming from him both very dry and hard Horses that are kept too much to hard dry and hot meats are most incident to this malady sometimes it commeth by eating too much Provender especially Beanes Pease Tares or Wheat which albeit these graines be more hearty then any other yet they siccicate and dry up the moysture because they beget more heate and costivenesse in the body then other graines doe yea and winde too and bad humours causing obstructions and sometimes this costivenesse commeth to a Horse by reason he hath been kept to too spare a dyet as is usually seen in Horses in dyet for this hot and dry food doth suck up like to a spunge the flegmaticke moysture of the body giving way thereby that choller is become the more predominant so that the meat he eateth cannot be so well digested This is a disease very perilous and the origine of many maladies and it is easily knowne by its symptomes And you may cure him after this manner viz. Take the decoction of Mallowes one quart Costivenesse or Belly-bound Sallet oyle halfe a pinte or fresh Butter halfe a pound Benedicte laxative one ounce give him this bloud-warme clister-wise and then clap his tayle to his tuell and so cause him to keep it halfe an houre at least being walked up and downe then set him up warme and it will worke whereby he will empty himselfe and in due time give him a sweet Mash and after Hay and so keep him to Mashes or white water two or three â—ayes but withall faile not to rake him before you administer your Clister ✚ This is a most excellent Receit which you shall finde in lib. 2. chap. 6. § 7.
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-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
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
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