sure to haue him very fasting the next Morning and so let him rest all the Night without disturbance The next Morning early you shall take halfe an ounce of the powder of Diapente as the Greekes call it because of the number Fiue which Diapente is thus made compounded Take of round Aristoloch of Gentian of the best Mirrhe of Bâ—y-berries and of the purest shauings of Iuory of each one ounce beat all but the Myrrhe together in a Morter in a fine pouder and â—earse it through a fine Searse then likewise beate the Myrrâ—e by it selfe and fearce it also and then mixe all well together in a Morter and so keepe the pouder in a closse Gally-pot When you haue taken halfe an ounce of this powder you shall put it into a pint of the best Muskadine that you can get and brew them very well together in two pots tossing it well too and fro because otherwise the Myrrhe will clotter and lumpe together when it is well brewed after you haue made cleane your Stable and righted your Horses Cloathes you shall with an Horne giue him this Potion to drinke Then if he haue any small strength you shall mount his backe and walke vp and downe in some warme or sunnie place for an hower or thereabout then set him vp in the Stable warme and well littered and tying him to the Racke in his Bridle let him so stand and fast for another houre or more then offer him a little sweete Hay or any other meat that he will eat and so let him stand till betwixt twelue and one of the Clocke in the afternoone at which time you shall first rub his Head and Legges well as was formerly declared for the day before Then you shall perfume him as was beforesaid and both those workes finished you shall giue him a sweet Mash as was also shewed before and so let him rest till the Euening at which time you shall offer him either Oates or Bread but in little quantitie as handfull by handfull and be sure it be sweet cleane drest sifted and dusted and so let him rest till eight of the clocke at Night at which time you shal againe perfume him Then put sweet Hay in his Racke tosse vp his Litter and right his Cloathes but in any wise bare not his body then hauing made the Stable cleane you may leaue him to his rest for that night The next day being the third day you shall doe all things as you did the second day already rehearsed As first you shall giue him his Potion of Diapente and sweete wine then ayre him at Noone his Mash at Euening and Night his perfume with all other obseruations that were before declared The next day which is the fourth day there is no doubt with the helpe of God but you shall finde alteration and health approaching which you shall know by his stomacke by his more cheerefull countenance and by other outward gestures and finding that health is comming you may then forbeare to giue him any more Potions and onely attend him with good Food good dressing and moderate exercise neither shall you giue him any more Mashes for although they be wholsome in the extreamitie of sicknesse yet being any thing too much vsed they take away the Horses stomacke and brings him to a loathing of other meat and therefore in steade thereof you shall in the Morning after your Horse is well rubd and drest take a pottle of faire Water and heat it scalding hot then put it into a gallon or two of cleere cold Water that it may take away the extreame coldnesse thereof and then being scarcely lukewarme giue it the Horse to drinke You may if you please throw an handfull of Bran or an handfull of Wheat-Meale into the Water for it is good and not hurtfull As soone as the Horse hath drunke take his backe and ride him forth gently for an howre or two At Noone perfume him at Euening water him as you did in the Morning and ride him in like manner Feed him at vsuall howres as iâ— time of health and thus doe for three or foure dayes more then finding his strength increasing you may be degrees abate his Cloathes you may water him abroad at some cleare Riuer or Spring gallop him after his watering and draw euerie thing to the same custome as you did in best health Thus you see the manner how to cure an Horse that is sicke but not violently sicke and as it were at the very poynt and doore of death which Cure is this which followeth To cure any violent Sicknesse if the Horse be at the very pâ—ynt and doore of death IF you shall haue an Horse in this extreamitie and desperate case then the first thing you doe you shall open his Necke veine and let him bleed very well Then two howres after his bleeding take two Ounces of the Powder of Diâ—pente before rehearsed and beat it in a Morter with as much clarified pure life Hony as will bring it to a substantiall Treackle for this is an excellent Treackle and of the Italians called Horse Methridate and is the same which our Physitians call Thâ—â—iaca Diatessaron When this Confection is made you shall take a full halfe ounce thereof or more and dissolue it in a pint and an halfe of Muskadine and so giue it the Horse to drinke with an Horne Then if he haue so much abilitie of Body walke him vp and downe for halfe an howre or an howre either in some sunny place or some close Barne or emptie House then set him vp and let him fast full another howre At Noone giue him if you can get it a gallon or neere there about of the first running of the strongest Ale before it be put to Barme and when it is cleere strong and carryeth a Royall on the top But where this is not to be had then giue him a sweet Mash perfume him râ—b him cloathe him dyet and order him in all respects as was shewed you in the former Cure and thus you shall doe for three dayes together without all fayle and then no doubt but you shall see health approaching At the end of three dayes you shall forbeare all sorts of Mashes of both kindes and follow all the prescriptions before declared Now if during the Cure either through the violence of the Medicine or the foulnesse of the Horses Body you shall finde any hard Pustules or Swellings to ryse vp betweene the Horses Chaps and at the Root of the Tongue then you shall first clip away the hayre as close as may be then you shall take a Waxe Candle and therewith burne the swelling till you may scarifie the Skinne then take a peece of Leather somewhat larger then the swelling and hauing prickt it all ouer with the point of your Knife spread thereupon in some thicke manner your blacke Shoomakers-Waxe that is well seasoned and new then warming it ouer a few Coles lay it vpon the
swelling and remoue it not till it either fall off by it selfe or els the sore breake then renew the Plaster and with it onely heale vp the Sore This Plaster for the cheapnesse and meannesse will hardly win credite with those which are curious But I dare assure you that are a louer of Truth that there is not a more exellent or soueraigne Plaster which belongs to an Horse for it ripeneth and breaketh any Impostumation whatsoeuer it asswageth any hard swelling or tumor whether in Ioynts or other Fleshy parts and it healeth what it breaketh or ripeneth and with its heat it dissolues all manner of humours that are knit together and occasion paine or swelling There is another accident which attendeth the sicknesse of Horses and that is Costiuenesse or Belly-binding which maketh an Horse that he cannot Dung or auoyd his Ordure This accident when at any time it hapneth it shall be good for you first to rake him that is you shall annoynt your hand all ouer with sweet Butter or clarified Hogges grease Some vse Oyle of Bays but it is too sharpe and too hot and many times if the action be vsed too roughly or vnaduisedly it breedeth exulceration and sorenesse in the Tuell and inward parts Therefore as before I said take either Butter or Hogs grease and your hand being all besmeared therewith thrust it vp into his Tuell till you feele his Ordure and then drawing out as much thereof if it be blacke and hard as conueniently you can without doing iniury to the Horse or striuing with your hand to goe too farre And if you finde it to be very sore baked within then after you haue raked got what you can you shall take a great Candle or Percher of three or foure in the pound at the most and cutting off an inch or two of the vpper or smaller end with your hand annoint as before thrusting the great end forward put it vp into his Tuell so farre as you can get it then suddenly drawing out your hand and leauing the Candle behind you clap downe his Tayle close to his Tuell and drawing it vp betweene his Legges hold it with both your hands hard and constantly for the space of an houre or more in which time the Candle will dissolue in the Horseâ— body and so separate and breake his Ordure that vpon the letting loose of your hands he will presently dung This you may doe in euery case of extremity but not otherwise and beleeue it you will finde this the most excellentest Suppositorie of all other and that there is noâ— Glyster which can worke with greater efficacie or more wholesomnesse There is another accident which attendeth the sicknesse of Horses and that is quite contrarie to this before rehearsed and is called Lax atiuenesse or Loosenesse of Body which is expressed by a vehement and violent scowring This if at any time it shall happen you shall at first note the violence therof and the continuance thereof The violence is knowne by the thinnesse the sharpnesse and the oft and speedy auoyding of the Excrâ—ments The continuance is knowne by the vnchangeablenesse of the Infirmitie and by the processe and long continuance of time contrarie to all naturall and wholsome custome for you are to obserue that an horse may haue a scowring for a day or two or a little more and this is not vnwholsome but natural and good and if after it stay of it selfe then it worketh no euill effect but if it continue longer and bring the Horse into any extraordinarie weakenesse of Body then you shalâ— seeke to stop it in this manner Take a quart of new Milke and putting thereunto a good spoonfull or two of fine Beane flower and as much Bolearmoniacke finely beateâ— to powder boyle all together tilâ— the Milke thicken and then being made lukewarme giue it the Horse with an horne and doing thus 〈◊〉 morning or two no doubt but it will binde the horse which if it doâ— not then you shall take a quart oâ— Red-Wine and put thereunto 〈◊〉 handfull of the Hearbe called Shepheards Purse and halfe so much of Tanners Barke and boylâ— all very well together till the Hearb and the Barke be soft then strainâ—â— it and put thereunto two spoonfull of the powder of Cinamon and being made lukewarme giue it the Horse to drinke with an Horne and this doe one morning or two or three if need require For mine own part I neuer found but it wrought good effect and so I hope all men shall find that approue it Now whereas in all my Cures heretofore in this Booke for Sicknesses of what extremitie soeuer I make you onely rely vpon Diapente or Horse Methridate which is a kind of Diatessaron And for as much as at any times in many places these thinges cannot be had then in such extremitie and the Horse being at the poynt of death in stead of the Powder of Methâ—date aforesaid you shall take halfe a pint of Dragon water and dissolue into it a good spoonfull or more of the best Treakle vpon a soft fire of embers then being lukewarme giue it the Horse to drinke with an Horne aad thus doe for a morning two or three till you see alteration and health approaching This expelleth all infection and euill from the heart comforts the spirits and restores nature to its first best strength And thus you haue the vttermost secrets of my heart concerning the curing and discerning of all manner of inward sicknesses in Horses how desperate mortall or contagious soeuer The preuenting of all inward Sicknesses THE preuenting of inward sicknesses consisteth in two speciall obseruations and considerations The first is to preuent it before 〈◊〉 come so that it may not offend atâ— all The second is to take it at the rst appearance and so preuent it that it arise not to any great danger or hazard To preuent sickness that it offend not your Horse at all it is an excellent course when you put your Horse to grasse euer three or fourâ— dayes before you turne him out to take Blood from his Necke veine then the next day after to giue him a pint and an halfe of Muskadine and halfe an ounce of the Powder of Diapente or three quarters of an ounce of the Horse Mithridate or Treakle before rehearsed and then by degreeâ— to abate his Cloathes if he haue been vsed to any and to make his body familiar with cold Also you shall obserue when you let your Horse blood to proportion the quantitie which you take from him according to the goodnesse or badnesse of the blood when you behold it for the losse of good blood is vnholsome and doth hurt and to preserue ill blood is both dangerous and noysom Also if you obserue when you take blood from your Horse to rcceiue it into a vessell and by stirring it about continually as the Horse bleedeth to keepe it from clotting then hauing bled to take the blood aud to besmeere
or white Spot in an Horses face or in any other part 105 How to keepe your weollen Horse-clothes Brest clothes Rubbers and the like from Moathes 109 THE Faithfull Farier OR A Catalogue of all those principall and approued Secrets in Horsmanship which the Author neuer published but hath kept Secret in his owne Brest and which haue beene the Glory of all his practise Obseruations in the electing of Horses and what Countrie Horse is for what vse THE first and principall thing which giueth the noblest Character to a good horseman is the well electing of horses for that vse and purpose for which you intend to imploy them And in this choise there is no better or readier a way then the knowledge of Races and Straynes from whence horses descend for it is certaine that the Clymate Heat and Cold are three excellent Elements in an horses Composition Touching the election of horses by their Shapes and proportions by their Colours and Complextion and by their Markes and other outward Semblances I haue written sufficiently in my former books and intend to reiterate nothing for nothing shall fall from my pen in this Treatise but the very secrets of mine hart things certaine and approued things secret and vnpublished To come then to the election of horses according to their Races Breedes and Clymates â—f you will elect an horse for seruice or a Martiall or warlike imployment then these are best The Neapolitan The Sardinian c. The Almaine The French Or any of these Bastardized in themselues or with a faire well shaped and well mettalled English Mare If you will elect for swiftnesse and seruice then The Arabian The Barbarie The Spanish The Grecian Or any of these Bastardized in themselues or with our best English Mares If you will chuse for long trauell and seruice then The English The Hungarian The Sweathland The Poland The Irish If you will chuse for draught and for seruice then The Flanders The Freisland Or any of the Netherlands either Bastardized in themselues or with our English Races and these are excellent for Coatch for Cart for Packe or any burthen The occasions of inward Sicknesses and Accidents which happen vpon those occasions SIcknesses are of diuers kindes and proceede from diuers causes haue their diuers Signes and their diuers Remedies as I haue shewed in my bookes But to come neerest to the marke of curing let me perswade you to call to account these few obseruations First to remember that all sickenesses in horses come either by Heares in ouer violent exercise and then is the Grease melted the heart ouer strained the vitall blood expelled outward and the large Pores and Oryfices of the heart so stopped that the spirits cannot returne back to their proper places but confound and mortifie Or else by Colds in indiscreet keeping either before or after exercise and then is the Head perplexed the Eyes pained the rootes of the Tongue swelled the Lungs tickled and offended with rheumaticke moysture occasioning coughing and the nostrils still pouring out filthy and corrupt matter Or else by Surfeit of Food in either eating too much or too little of that which is good or in giuing any thing at all of that which is vnwholesome The first kils the stomacke macke oppresseth the heart and sends vp those euill fumes into the head by which is ingendred the Staggers Frenzie and other mortall diseases The second putrefies the blood and turnes all nourishment into corrupâ—ion from whence proceedes the Yellowes and other such like pestilent diseases which suffocating the heart spreads it selfe vniuersally ouer the whole body and confounds euery faculty and member Or lastly by Accidents as when a horse receiueth some grleuous and deepe wound either in his body or else in some other vitall and dangerous part by which nature is so offended that instantly a generall sickenesse seazeth vpon the horse and if not preuented death suddenly followeth and these sicknesses are called Accidentall-Feauers for if you obserue it you shall finde the horse sometimes trembling sometimes sweating sometimes cold and sometimes burning Thus you see there are foure occasions of sickenesses in horses as Heates Colds Surfeits and Accident The signes of inward Sicknesses NOw to know the signes of these sicknesses if it proceed from the first occasion which is Heates then the signes are these First heauinesse of countenance swelling of the limbes scowring or loosenesse of body in the beginning of the sicknesse and drinesse or costiuenesse in the latter end short breath and hot and a loathing or forsaking of his meate It it proceed from the second occasion which is Colds then the signes are heauinesse of countenance and either dull or else closed up eyes hard boyle or big pustules betweene the Choppes and the roots of the tongue and sometimes an hard swelling vp from the chops to the roots of the eares A rotten and moyst cough the horse euer chawing some loose filthy flegmatique matter in his mouth after his coughing which in one respect is no euill signe because it sheweth a rotten cold that is newly gotten and soone to be clensed whereas to cough cleare and hollow and not to chaw after it shewes a drie cold that is of long continuance sore festred and hard to be recouered Lastly his body will fall away and when hee drinketh the water will issue forth at his nostrilles and his eyes will bee euer mattery and running and his haire rough and staring If it proceed from the third occasion which is Surfeit of Meats and Drinkes either naturall or vnnaturall then the signâ—s are these First heauinesse of head and countenance in such a violent manner that the horse can hardly lift his head from the maunger a dull and dead eye a staggering and reâ—ling pace and if the disease bee farre growne a franticke and mad behauiour as biting the Racke and Maunger and at such as shall come about him sometimes biting at himselfe and beating his head against the wals boards or ground and other franticke passions But if the disease bee lesse contagious in the braine but more inwardly setled at the heart then the signes are yellowes in the whites of the eyes and in the inside of both the vpper and nether lippes and if the disease be farre gone then a yellowes ouer all the skin a continuall faint sweat and a desire rather to lye downe then to stand besides a generall loathing and forsaking of his meat which is the common signe of all sicknesses Lastly if it proceed from the forth occasion which is Accident then the signes are a perplexed and troubled body sometimes sweating at the rootes of the eares in the flanke and behinde the foureshoulders against the heart sometimes trembling ouer all the body and somtimes glowing and burning in the vital parts and on the Temples of the head against the heart on the inside of the fore-legs next of all to the body and on the inside of the hinder thighes close to the body
also his mouth will be hot and dry and his tongue subiect to furring and to a white scalded complection lastly a generall loathing of his meate but a great thirstinesse desire of cold drinke and when he can drinke no more yet a desire still to hold his mouth in the water Thus you haue the foure occasions of sicknesses and the signes by which to know those occasions Now for as much as sicknesses come many times suddenly and vnlookt for and that not any man how skilful so euer but may sometimes bee ouertaken with the sudden sickenesse of his horse And though hee can after vpon consideration giue an account for such sicknesse when it is apparant yet till nature haue thrust it forth the disease was obscure to his knowledge therefore I will here shew those generall and most vsuall signes which doe attend and waite vpon euery sicknesse by which you may bee enabled to know the approach or beginning of sicknesse before it take fast hold on the vitall parts and so vse preuention or if it haue taken some small hold then how to fortifie nature against it and so to kill the Contagion ere it come to any great height of danger or being at the highest how to qualifie the extremitie and to bring euery vitall part and spirit to its first moderate state and temper Now that you may effect this the better it is requisite that you acquaint your knowledge well with the complections qualities customes and conditions of horses for whensoeuer you shall finde any alteration in any of these bee sure there will follow alteration of health as thus First in the complections of horses which I draw from their colours and countenances If your horse be a faire bright daplegray or a fleabitten a white a white-gray or the like if any of these colours being naturally cleare and bright shall grow duskish or cloudy or the white hayres shall turne sandy and reddish it is a signe of some vnnat urall distemperature in the horse and that hee is euill affected and either entreth into a consumption or into some other inward disease of body If the horse bee of a pure blacke colour a bright bay a browne bay or a red sorrell without flexen Maine or flexen Taile a cleare chessenut or a mouse-dun if thse haires shall grow discoloured and contrary to their proper natures that is to say of a weaker and worse complection as if the black turne dunnish or yellow the bright bay cloudy pale sandy the browne bay like the mouse-dunne the redsorrell corrall or like the yellowdunne the chessenut hoarie and grey and the mouse-dunne of a more blacke and pale blue then is naturall all these are signes of inward sickenesses And as of these colours so of any other colour whatsoeuer if they shall alter from their proper and true natures to a worse and more vncomely complection that is to say to a complection that is vnuaturall and vnproper for an horse they are most pregnant signes of some inward sicknesse which either lingereth vpon the horse or else is sodainly in breaking forth and therefore by all meanes remember that the alteration of colours bee vnnaturall For you must vnderstand that if the daple-grey in processe of time do turne to white the darke Iron-grey to a bright grey the blacke to an Iron grey and such like that then this is a naturall and no vnnaturall alteration and so no signe of sicknesse and therefore not to bee deceiued or to stand doubtfull at all acquaint your selfe well with the true colour and complection of your horse which you shall best discerne when hee is in the pride and height of lust when hee is wanton full of flesh and smooth sleeke and shining and when you shal see this complection alter in part or all then euer expect some sicknesse As you thus acquaint your selfe with the complection of your horse which I include in his colour so you must also haue a settled knowledge in his countenance and gestures and to that end you shall be carefull to marke and note his countenance and behauiour in all his actions and motions as well within doores as without as well in his play â—s in his rest at his times of feeding at his times of exercise you shall note the cheerefulnesse of his eye the cariage of his head and necke which be his angry Characters and which bee his pleasant when he biteth for wantonnesse or for offence and these you shall best finde out in his feeding in his exercise and playing and in his dressing and if at any time you finde any of these Characters of fayle on the sudden and that â—is gesture is more lumpish heauy then call your selfe to account what you haue done eyther in exercise feeding ayring or ordering For there is no doubt but there is distemperature and sicknesse is approaching if it be not preuented As you thus acquaint your selfe with the complection and countenance of your horse so you must also not be ignorant but obserue diuerse other outward and inward quallities for they are the greatest lights that can bee both to health and sicknesse and to this end you shall especially marke his filling his emptying that is his manner of feeding and the manner of discharging his body In his feeding whether he eateth with a good appetite or a weake stomacke the first is healthfull the latter vnwholesome If he eate with a good Appetite he will Neigh and call for his meate before it come when either he seeth his Keeper or a preparation for feeding as sifting of his Oates chipping of his Bread and the like hee will receiue it cheerefully and greedyly shaking his Head and shewing other signes of alacritie and reioycing which quallities after he hath vsed if on the suddaine he refraine and so receiue his meate dully and vnpleasantly it is a great signe of sicknesse As his feeding so you shall marke his quallities in emptying as the Time the Place the Substance the Time as whether he emptieth in the Night-time better then in the Day the Place as whether he emptieth better in the House or abroad whether in the Hand or when you are mounted whether before you begin exercise or else after some gentle motion or stirrings whether at the Stable doore or at some vsuâ—all places by the way or in thâ— Ground where you giue him hiâ— Exercise lastly for the Substance whether it be much or little if iâ— be much you must forbeare exercise and make him emptie the oftner if it be little then you may fall to labour at pleasure then whether it be good or bad and thaâ— commonly falleth out according to the Food he eateth if it be cleere firme and pale with white graines and in complection like sweet sope then it is wholsome if it be blacke it shewes heat in the body if greasie then it shewes foulnesse if red and hard it shewes costiuenesse if pale and loose then inward coldnesse And
it all ouer the Horses backe and body you shall find it wonderfull wholsome for it comforteth the body cleareth the skin and breedeth a reioycing in all the Horses vitall parts Now if you haue no determination to put your horse to grasse and yet you wold preuent inward sicknesse then you shall obserue once in two or three moneths when you haue the best leasure to rest your Horse after it not to fayle to giue your Horse Muskadine Diapente or Muskadine horse Methridate as was before shewed and not to let blood at all for this verie Potion is the greatest purger and purifier of the blood that can be and auoideth all that yellow cholericke matter and other euill and vndigested humors whrch corrupt the blood Now you are to obserue here that although I only prescribe Muskadine wherein you shall dissolue your Powder or Methridate yet know that when you cannot get Muskadine or other sweet Wine that then you may take strong Ale or Beere but in greater quantitie for as you take but a pint an halfe of Wine you shall take of Beere or Ale a full Ale quart as for the pouder or Methridate you shal keep the first quantitie already prescribed and if you warme your Beere or Ale a little on the fire it will not be amisse but better yet that I referre to your owne discretion Now to take sicknesse at the first approach and to preuent it that it arise not to any great danger you shall by all meanes obserue to looke well into the occasions of sicknesses which are already shewed and into the signes of those occasions and if you finde your selfe guilty of any of those occasions or that the Horse discouereth any of the former signs then presently let the Horse blood and three seuerall mornings after giue him the Drinke or Potion before prescribed and vndoubtedly it will preuent all the force of sicknes and restore the Horse to his former strength and good estate of Body And thus much of all inward sicknesses and their preuenâ—â—on Two sorts of Bals to â—â—re any violent Cold or Glaunders to preuent Heart-sicknesse to purge away all molten Grease to recouer a lost Stomacke and to keepe the Heart from fainting with exercise and to make a leane Horse fat suddenly TAke of Aniseeds of Cominseeds of Fenegreekeseedes of Canthamus seeds of the Powder of Elicampane roots of each 2. ounces beate them and â—earse them to a very fine Powder then adde to them one ounce of the flower of Bâ—imstone then take an ounce of the best Iuice of Licoras and dissolue it in halfe a pint of White wine which done take an ounce of the Oyle of Aniseeds and as much of the Surrup of Coltsfoot then of Sallet oile and of fine Life Hony of each halfe a pint then mixe all this with the former Powders and with as much fine Wheat flower as will binde knit them altogether then worke them into a stiffe Paste and make thereof Bals somewhat bigger then French walnuts and so keepe them in a close Gally por for they will last all the yeere when you haue occasion to vse them take one and anoynt it al ouer with sweet Butter and so giue the Horse euerie morning one in the manner of a Pil and ryde him a little after it if you please otherwise you may chuse then feed and water him abroad or at home according to your vsuall custome and thus doe if it bee to preuent sicknâ—sse for three or foure mornings together but if it bee to take away infirmity then vse it at least a weeke or more if it be to take away molten Grease or foulnesse then instantly after his heate and in his heat onely but if it bee to fatten a Horse then vse it at least a fortnight or more Now if you find any difficulty in the giuing of it as Pils you may then at your pleasure dissolue one of these Bals either into sweete Wine Beere or Ale and so giue it the Horse to drinke with an Horne But if it be to fatten and to take away infirmity as the running Glanders or such like then besides these Bals you shall make you these second Bals. Take of Wheat flowre six pound or more as shall suffice to make stiffe the Paste then take of Aniseeds of Cominseeds of Canthumus of Fenegreeke of ordinary Brimstone of each two ounces of Salet Oyle a pint of Honey a pound and a halfe of White wine a pottel beat the hard simples to a fine powder and â—earse them then with the rest make them into a stiffe Past Then of this Paste take a Ball as bigge as a Mans fist and dissolue it in two or three gallons of cleere cold running water by washing and lauing the Paste therein and so giue it the Horse to drinke at his ordinary watring times or at any other time when he is disposed to drinke for he cannot drinke too much of this water then ride and warme him a little after it Then when the water is spent doe not cast away the bottome but filling the Vessell vp againe with new fresh water dissolue another Ball therein and thus do foureteene dayes together at the least and you shall see wonderfull effects arise thereof This Water scowreth cleanseth and feedeth in admirable manner And the other lesser Bals first spoken of purge the stomacke and intrayles of all foulnesse auoydeth molten Grease and fortifieth Nature so powerfully that it leaues no euill in the Body And this small Ball if it were for my life would I giue to an Horse immediately vpon his drawing forth if hee went either to run to hunt or vse any violent or extreme labour Annther way how to fatten a Horse suddainly THere is another way to fatten an Horse suddainly but not better then that before shewed yet this I haue found both good and certaine and therefore I refere it to your owne discretion Take of Elicampane of Comimseeds of Turmericke of Aniseeds of each two ounces of Groundsell an handfull boyle all these verie well with three Heads of Garleeke cleansed and stamped in a gallon of strong Ale then strayne it well and giue the Horse a quart to drinke lukewarme in the morning fasting then ride him till he be warme then â—et him vp warme and thus doe for foure or fiue mornings and then turne the Horse to grasse if the time of the yeere be sutable therefore and he will feed wonderfully and suddainly But if the time of the yeere serue not for Grasse then you shall keepe him in the House and ouer and besides the drinke before shewed you shall take the fine Powder of Elicampane the fine Powder of Cominseeds of each a like quantitie mixe them well together then euerie time you giue your Horse Prouender which would be at least thrice a day as morning noone and night Take halfe an ounce of this Powder and sprinkle it by little and little into his prouender for
you may candy all manner oâ— Roots Flowers or any thing else Now if you find any difficultie either in the making or the procuring of these Midicines before shewed or that the Infirmitie not being great or dangerous you thinke a Medicine of lesse force and easier to compasse will accomplish it Then you shall take of the Sirrup of Coltsfoot an ounce of the fine Powder of Elicampane of Aniseeds and of Licoras of each halfe an ounce of browne Sugar Candy an ounce deuided into two parts then with as much sweet Butter as will suffice worke all the former Powders and one part or halfe of the Sugar Candy and all the Sirrup into a stiffe Paste then diuide it into two or three Bals and role them into a round forme or the fashion of an Egge and after role them all ouer in the other halfe or part of the Sugar Candy and then giue this whole quantitie at one time to the Horse in the manner of a Pill and giue them in the morning fasting then ride the Horse halfe an houre after the giuing and let him fast two howres at the least after he commeth in and let him be warme cloathed and stopt and his Limbes and Body well rubbed especially his Head Let him by no meanes drinke any cold Water but so as he may haue exercise after it and let his exercise be moderate and not violent let his Hay be a little sprinkled with Water his Oates with Beere or Ale as for bread it is of it selfe moyst enough and let all his meat generally be well dusted sifted or chipped for nothing is more offenciue then foulenesse and drynesse nor more comfortable then cleannesse prouided that your Corne be not greene and vnsweet in the Mow or Reeke your Bread new nor your Hay vnsweete or rotten Thus you shall doe not for one morning or two but for diuerse till you find amendment neither shall you spare any trauell or occasion but haue medicine about you vse it in your iournying for this doth not take away anything to weaken Nature but addes to the force thereof and makes the Body a great deale more able An excellent Scowring after any sore Heate or for any Horse after his exercise TAke a quart of good Sacke and set it on the fire in a Bason or open Skillet and when it is warme take an ounce of the clearest Rosen and bruise it exceeding small then by degrees little after a little put it into the Sacke and stirre it fast about for feare of clotting and when the Sacke and it is incorporated then take it from the fire and put thereto halfe a pint of the best Sallet Oyle and in the cooling stirr them all well together then lastly take an ounce of the browne Sugar Candy beaten to Powder and put it in also and being lukewarme giue it to the Horse in the height of his heat as soone as you come home from exercise then rub hard cloath warme and let him fast at least two howres after but yet depart not your selfe or some deputie for you out of the Stable but stay and keepe the Horse stirring and waking partly by extraordinarie noyse and clamour and partly by action about him or making him moue vp and downe as he standeth for there is nothing more hurtfull to the Horse or the working of the Medicine then sleepe stilnesse and rest and nothing better or more auailable to the working of the Medicine then action or motion for they make the spirits worke and stirre vp those humours which should be remoued when rest keepes the spirits dull and the humours so inclosed and reserued that Nature hath nothing to worke vpon Whensoeuer you giue any scowring be sure that day to giue no cold water after it for it is binding and knitteth and detayneth that foulnes which the Scowring should take away Thus you see how to giue a Scowring in the proper and due time But if now either through Errour Ignorance or Imagination that your Horse is so cleane that he needeth no Scowring as I know many of opinion that Scowrings are idle vnnecessarie things and not to be vsed at all yet your Horse hauing his Grease molten and no course taken for the auoyding therof you find he droopeth and languisheth as of force the â—horse must doe and experience daily shewes it vs. For the opinion that Scowrings are vnprofitable is friuolous and idle In this case vpon the first apprehension of the euill you shall giue the Horse a sweet Mash in the Euening which is in the same nature and of the same quallitie that a Preparatiue is before a Purgation Then the next morning very early mount his back and â—n some conuenient peece of ground giue your Horse a gentle heat I doe not meane that you shal run him furiously or violently but to gallop him gently neither to heat him through the extremitie of sudden and sharpe labour but to warme him kindly through the continuance of moderate exercise Nor would I haue you to melt his Grease anew but only to loosen and stirre vp that which was before molten Your exercise being finished doe not alight from his back suddenly but rub him as you sit on his backe and so bring him home then presently hauing the Scowring ready as soone as you are alighted giue it him lukewarme then rub him dry cloathe and stop him very warme and then in all other things doâ— as hath beene before declared For any dangerous Bots Maw wormes or poysoned Red Wormes TAke as much precipitate which is Mercury Calsoynd as will gently lye vpon a Siluer Twopence and lay it in a peece of sweete Butter almost as big as an Hens Egge in the manner of a Pill and then in the morning fasting the Horse hauing stood all night on the Mussell or at the emptie Rack if it be possible or otherwise if the extremity of the disease compell you at any other time draw forth the Horses Tongue and make him swallow downe the Pill then chafe him a little vp and downe and after set him vp warme making him fast full two howres after and it will kill all manner of Wormes whatsoeuer Yet in the administration hereof you must be wondrous circumspect and carefull for in the Precipitate there is a strong poysonous quality so that by no meanes there must be taken more then is prescribed except with good caution Againe if you mixe the Precipitate with a little sweet Butter as much as an Hazell Nut before you lap it vp in the great lumpe of Butter it well not be worse but better and it will allay much of the euill qualitie But this I leaue to your owne discretion assuring you that there is not any thing comparable to this for this infirmitie For Gourded or foule sweld Legges or other parts by reason of melting the Grease or other Accident FIrst with a Fleame pricke the parts that are swelled then take a pint of Wine lees an ounce of