whole Lice are occasioned by poverty dropping of Trees or the like and known by the Horses rubbing his Ears neck and other parts c. To kill them wash him over with the decoction of Henbane in Cow-piss or with Tobacco stalks and Copras boyled in water or man's Urine To keep your Horse from being annoyed with Flies anoint him with Oyl of Bays water wherein Rue has been sodden or Linseed Oyl and no Flie will settle on him Red-Water Over-reach Salender and stinking Breath their respective causes and cures REd-water is an infectious water which proceeds from most wounds occasioned by the ill humours that flow from divers parts of the body and greatly hinder the cure To extract which or disperse the humour rub him well all over his body but especially his belly and giving him to drink water wherein has been boyled the roots of Emanuel or All-good a Herb so called and Mustard seed of each a pound to three Gallons of water Over-reach cometh by a slip or strain or by the Horses running beyond his strength and the cure is the same with the upper and nether Attaint which Receipt you may find in the foregoing part of this book being directed thereto by the Table Stinking breath is occasioned by the putrefaction of the Lungs and is soon discovered by those that have their smelling to remedy which take Colts foot Fennel Anniseeds and Fennegreek of each a handful boyl them in Beer or Ale to the quantity of three pints and straining them give him the liquor hot as he can drink it and in so using him ten or twelve days if the Lungs be not too much perished with the corruption which proceeds by raw humours descending upon them through foul feeding or unwholesom air the cure will be effected As for the consumption of the Liver caused by some inbred distemper there is no certain cure yet to preserve and perhaps restore it give your Horse in a pint of Mallagoe half a pint of Pigs blood both as warm as may be and so do three days successively feeding him in the mean time with black Oats and giving him to drink new wort and the night before he receives the Medicine permit him to eat nothing or for want of this take an ounce of the powder of Agrimony a handful of Red rose leaves and of Saccarum Diarchadon Disantelon Abbatis and Licorish of each half an ounce boyl them in two quarts of Malmsey and give him a pint to drink four mornings successively suffering him to eat Mashes and the like during the said days Ring bone Rottenness and Rheumes their cause and cure THe Ring bone comes divers ways especially two the one is hereditary from the Mare or Stallion the other by a bruise c. and is a vicious humour which causeth gristly flesh upon the Coronet till at length fastening to the bone it becomes hard as a bone making the leg to swell and the flesh higher in that place than any other to kill or take away which take unslacked Lime burn it well and beating it into powder lay it upon the bone to the quantity of two ounces binding it about with a linnen cloath and immediately put your Horse into the water then the Lime slacking will burn the core and kill it so that in a short time it will diminish Rottenness is a putrefaction of the Lungs and Liver the which if far gone admits no cure but if not so take what I have before prescribed for the Lungs and Liver using them after the same manner A direction to which you will find in the Table the which use also for the Rot that causes swelling like the Dropsie Rheums falling upon the Jaw c. come by cold which so infeeble the Gums that they shrink away leaving the teeth loose staring out long and uneven greatly hindering the Horse from eating To cure which give your Horse Conserve of Elecampain roots two ounces in a pint of Mallagoe very warm adding thereto two new-laid Eggs beaten well half an ounce of Anniseeds and a Nutmeg grated small give it him warm four Mornings and afterward wash his mouth with Sage Allum and Sugarcandy dissolved in Vinegar The Yellows and Falling of the Yard and Sway-back their cause and cure THe Yellows is properly the Yellow Jaundice most commonly accompanyed with the black though of different natures for the Yellow is moist and the Black dry the former proceeding from the over flowing of the Gall and the latter from the Spleen being the most dangerous the former is known by the yellowness of the Horses Lips Eyes c. and the Black by a black duskish colour striving to master the Yellow the which when it has done it mostly proves Mortal To cure them take the juice of Celendine four ounces Turmerick and Pepper bruised into powder of each an ounce the iuice of Burdock roots two ounces bruised Anniseeds and Liquorish powder of each half an ounce mix them together and having set a quart of Beer over the fire when it is boyling hot put them into it adding six peny-weight of Saffron half an ounce of London Treacle and two ounces of Butter and give him half of it in the morning fasting and the other half in the evening and so continue to do four days successively The falling of the Yard happens through cold or defect in the Horse through the weakness of that Member the Sinews or Muscles strained and lastly through weariness after great journies To prevent which wash his Yard with Whitewine anoint it with Oyl of Roses and Hony and so putting it into his sheath bolster it up and in so doing once or twice he will afterwards recover strength to keep it up The Sway Back which is both undecent and a great weakness in the Horse is caused divers ways sometimes by heavy burthens other times by over straining or suddenly turning round as also naturally and is known by the rigling of the hinder parts by his frequent swaying backward or sideways and trouble in rising when he is laid To cure which take the Oyl of Pine Aples two ounces three ounces of Olibanum four ounces of Rozin of Pitch a like quantity of Bolearmonick an ounce and of Sanguis Draconis half the quantity all which being by fire incorporated spread them plaisterwise and lay them on the place grieved and by twice renewing it the grief will be at an end Quitterbone and quick-scab their cause and cure THe Quitterbone a Sorrance so called is a hard swelling upon the Cornet between the quarter and the heel commonly found on the inside of the foot occasioned by the long continuance of Gravel in the Shoo a bruise upon the hoof Stub prick of a nail or the like which for want of timely care fester and break out above the hoof and sometimes it has its original from evil humours descending into the foot c. To cure it take away the hair open the sorrance and tent it with Hogs lard and
stretch at his length as also to strain in making Urine without any effect and at other times to bite the Rack-staves or what ever is within his reach to remedy which take two ounces of Garlick four ounces of Acrement a handful of Rue and Tormentile bruise them well and put them into three pints of Whitewine then blood your Horse in the Tail and dividing the liquor boyled and strained give him it in equal proportions six mornings successively and it will effect the cure The defect in Horses Lungs the cause and cure MOst diseases of the Lungs proceed from excessive heats or their contraries occasioned by hard riding or evil looking to and if the descending humours so contracted are not timely removed they cause the Lungs to putrefie and rot to know which distemper observe his Flanks and Ribs for if they rise slowly and beat heavily then are the humours contracted by cold and must be speedily removed 't is also to be known by his short drawing of his breath and slow cough as likewise by filthy matter that will upon his lying down and rising up issue out of his mouth and nostrils then to remove the humours take Horse lungwort by some called Mullet a good handful Fennegreek seed two ounces of Madder made into powder an ounce then having shred and bruised the Herbs boyl them in new Ale or Beer and give it the Horse grieved in a Drenching horn for ten or twelve days each morning fasting feeding him afterward with Mashes and giving him warm water with Wheat-bran scattered in it and when you give him his dose at the same time anoint his Breast and Ribs with the Oyl extracted from a Snake and in so doing he will be restored to health The Lethargy or Sleeping evil its cause and cure THis distemper proceeds from Phlegmatick humours which settle about the Brain and so numb it that it causes the Horse to be greatly desirous of sleep even standing or travailing to redress which let him blood in the neck vein and pallate of the mouth and taking a gallon of spring-Spring-water boyl therein Camomile Wheat-bran Mother-wort and put thereto a considerable quantity of Salt and Vinegar which done add to it two ounces of Parsly seed and as much Fennel seed then boyling them well give the water clean strained to your Horse to drink anointing afterward the Pallate of his mouth with Hony and Mustard and by striking or making a noise keep him for twelve hours space from sleeping Moorfoundred what it is and how to cure it THis distemper according to the French is no other than a foundering in the Horses body by the melting of the grease occasioned by excessive heats or not due cooling after travail To cure which having well raked his tail gut with your hand dipped in Olive Oyl give him a Clister made of Camomile Mallows Agarick and Baum all boyled in new milk and well strained Then take a quart of the best Malago and setting it on the fire put into it Cinnamon Liquorish and Anniseeds of each an ounce and three ounces of Hony and give it him as warm as he can receive it then ride him forth a racking pace for an hour or more suffering him to fast after it two or three hours then sift him a pint of Beans and a quart of Oats after which let him have a knop of Hay sprinkled with warm water giving him every other day a Mash of Malt and water and four days after his taking the aforesaid dose let him blood and keep him exceeding warm and you will perceive the grease to come away in greater or lesser quantities proportionable to what is in the Horses body Mattering of the Yard how to cure it as also to prevent shedding of the Seed FOr the first take Roach-allum an ounce Whitewine Vinegar a pint and having dissolved the Allum in the Vinegar and made it lukewarm with a syringe force it into his Yard four or five times a day for three or four days together and it will cure the Rawness and bring away the cause of the grievance For the last take the herb Aramanthus the juice of Bistwort and Plantaine as also that of Comfery red wine and Hogs dung and boyl them together in Verjuice sweeten the liquid part with Sugarcandy or Mollossus and having given it him to drink ride him into cold water up to the belly and suffer him there to stand for an hour To cure the Melancholy in a Horse commonly called the Stagger or the Stavers an excellent Receipt THe Horse troubled with the aforesaid distemper must as soon as by his giddiness and heavy eyedness you perceive it be let blood and then take Hazel-nuts Butter and Salt of altogether to the quanty of a pound weight and having broken the Nut-shells put the kernels into the butter and salt when they are hot over the fire and add thereto half an ounce of Assa fetida and half a quartern of wine-vinegar into which well mixed put small raggs spunges or fine flax and with them so dipped stop his ears sewing them up to prevent his shaking them out and in twenty four hours the distemper will vanish For want of the former ingredients take bitter Almonds two ounces of Oxes Gall two drams the Roots of Black Helebore vulgarly called Bearsfoot an ounce dryed and pulverised the Grains of Castorum two drams Vinegar a quarter of a pint Varnish a spoonful and boyling them together put them into the Horses Ears stopping them close or for want of the aforesaid thing use Garlick bruised in Aqua-vitae Imposthumes their cause and cure IMposthumes are divers though in quality they little differ being for the most part generated of evil blood and gross humours the which at first cause swellings and if not then prevented turn to running and loathsome sores many times they are occasioned by unfortunate blows and sometimes by hurt received from strait Halters and Harness or taking cold the symptoms by which they may be discovered are by the much running of the Horses Ears and Eyes the heat in his Ears and Temples his unwillingness to be handled thereabouts and dullness and must if they be far gone be brought to a head and broke before they can be cured to perform which take the roots of Mallows and White Lillies of each three ounces bruise them well and mixing them with Hogs-grease and Linseed Meal boyl them well and upon Flax or Leather apply them plaisterwise to the place grieved and it will both ripen and break it Now there are hot and cold Imposthumes the cold one will not break so soon as the hot therefore when you find it is come to a head which you may perceive by its throbbing open it with a sharp hot Iron and let out the corruption To cure either hot or cold Imposthume when broken or opened take Dragons blood Gum Arabick Bees-wax Mastick Greek-pitch Turpentine and Frankincense of each an ounce melt them and plaister-wise apply them to the
following viz. Take a pound of Hogs-grease an ounce of Verdigrease half an ounce of Venice Turpentine and the juice of Mallows all boyled into an ointment An excellent Salve for curing of any wound whether by Sword Fire Gun-shot or any other accident TAke two ounces of Roach-allum Whitewine-vinegar two spoonfuls Verdegrease powder an ounce two ounces of Sublimate finely pulverised and with fire bring them to a Salve and when occasion requires lay it plaisterwise to the wound having first washed it with water wherein Copperas and Bay-salt have been dissolved it is also excellent at eating away dead flesh c. An excellent Salve for Wounds Vlcers Bruises or Strains how to make it TAke Perosin and other Rosin of each a pound Bees-wax Frankincense and Sheeps suet of each six ounces Hogs-grease twenty ounces boyl the Gums and Wax in half a pint of Whitewine then put to it your Hogs lard and Sheeps-suet adding an ounce of fine Turpentine and mix well all the ingredients keep the Salve for your use Glisters convenient to be used upon divers occasions IF your Horse be Costive and is greatly pained in his dunging take the fat of Beef broth a pound of English Hony four ounces of white Salt half a spoonful having made them thin by fire force them into his body pretty warm holding afterward his Tail close to his Tuel to keep it in till it work which will be half an hour first then trot him up and down the Stable and give him a warm Mash and it will not only make him Laxative but bring away much foul matter contracted in the bowels or for want of the aforesaid materials boyl two handfuls of Mallows in a pottle of spring-water adding thereto after it is strained half a pint of Olive Oyl or for want of it half a pound of Butter and it will have the same effects If your Horse be inwardly desperate sick Take Oyl of Cammomil Dill Violets and Cassia of each half an ounce powder of Brown Sugar-candy three ounces Marsh-mallow leaves half a handful boyl them in running water and having strained out the liquid part give it him warm glister-wise using him as abovesaid If your Horse be afflicted with the Pestilence or Fever take of the seeds of Coloquintida half an ounce three quarters of an ounce of Dragantium of Centaury and Wormwood each a handful and a quarter of an ounce of Castorum boyl them in three quarts of water or small beer adding three ounces of Gerologundinum half a pint of Olive Oyl and half a spoonful of Salt strain it and use it Glisterwise If your Horse be afflicted with the Colick or any pain in his bowels take salt-water or new brine a quart boyl in it a handful of Cammomil or Groundsil dissolving into it a quarter of a pound of Castle sope and having strained out the liquid part administer it as the former in case of giving Glisters observe to anoint the pipe with butter or Oyl Rake him well before you adminster it let him keep it at least half an hour and suffer him to drink no cold water that day nor the next but let his drink be warm water and his meat be Mashes or fine Provinder and observe to give the Glister fasting Cordial Powders and Cordial balls Receipts to make them and their use TO make an excellent Cordial powder for the Consumption of the Lights and Liver or any internal wasting distemper take Cinamon and Loaf-sugar of each an ounce two ounces of Bolearmoniack dry them well and reduce them to a powder giving it to the Horse in a pint of Mallagoe To make an excellent Cordial powder or Electuary for a Horse that is sick weak or out of case take syrup of Lemons syrup of Roses and syrup of Violets of each half an ounce an ounce of London Treacle and two ounces of the powder of Elecampain roots mingle them together and put them in a Stove till the syrups become exceeding thick and as it were a hard Electuary the which as occasion requires give him dissolved in warm Ale about an ounce in a Pint. To make Cordial balls to cure any violent Cold Glaunders Heart sickness recover lost Appetite prevent fainting under moderate labour bring away Molten grease or Fatten your Horse take Carthamus seed Anniseed Fennegreek seeds Cummin seeds the Roots of Elecampain and Colts-foot of each two ounces of Brimstone flower and Chymical Oyl of Anniseeds each two ounces and an ounce of the juice of Licorish half a pint of Whitewine and a like quantity of syrup of Sugar or Molossus Olive Oyl and Hony of each a quarter of a pint and having boyled them over the fire add as much wheat flower as will stiffen them into a past and making it up into balls as big as pullets Eggs give him four of them in a morning fasting suffering him to drink immediately after a quart of warm Ale Purgations Perfumes Baths Suppositories Charges Drenches and Causticks what they are how to make and use them upon sundry occasions IF you would gently purge your Horse give him three ounces of Turnesole in a quart of warm water or for want of that Feltwort Baldmony Aloes or Sea Housleek If you would purge out Cholerick humours boyl S. Peters wort the seeds of Tutsan or Park-leaves of each a handful boyl them in a quart of small Ale and give it him warm If he be troubled with watry humours give him Dodder that grows upon Savory and Hedge-Hyssop of each a handful boyled in a quart of water Scammony or purging Blindweed are great purgers insomuch that unless they are mixed with Aloes they often prove hurtful to the body of the Horse If you would purge your Horse violently give him three ounces of Coloquintida in a pint of Canary but it is not safe to use this purge unless in dangerous distempers Black-hellebore Hogs Fennel or either of the Polipodiums purge Phlegm and Choler an ounce of Aloes made up in Butter and given the Horse purges away Melancholy But if your Horse be very sick take an ounce of Hony half a pint of Olive Oyl Hempseed Fennegreek seed Cassia of each an ounce boyl them in a pint of Canary and give it him warm If you would have your Horse vomit up any filthy thing which he has received or bring away the gross Phlegmatick humours take the largest roots of Polipodium of the Oak steep them in Oyl of Spike and fasten them to the Horses nose with a muzel where letting them rest all night next morning you will find your Horse sickish then taking away the Roots trot him about and if foul humours afflict him he will vomit extreamly Baths their use and how to make them A Bath used for Horses is no other than his being bathed with the concoction of divers simples exceeding hot to disperse the humours setled in any one place to dry up humours or refresh a Horse after Travail c. And of these in their
things used for the most part are burnt Allum Redcoral Mercury sublim Verdigrese and Copperas of either sort and often compounds as Unguentum Apostolorum Aegyptiacum Croceum c. Another sort of this kind there is called Medicines Putrefactive applied to swelling Tumours and the like to bring them to a head as roasted Sorrel White Lilly Roots Ground Ivy Butterflowers c. Thus far Reader having proceeded I shall close up the Medicinal and Chirurgical part of Farrying in relation to Horses c. with hot and cold simples which a skilful Farrier ought either moist or dry to have always by him Hot Simples what they are ALoes Agarick Allum Aristolochia Asonteo Asarabacca Arsmart Anniseeds Arch-angel Assa fetida Angellica Alexander Alehoof Garden Bassil Balme Bayberries Wild running-Bettony Burrage Brank Ursin Briony Broom Butter-Bur Brimstone Burdock Cellendine Chervil Garden Clarge Clowns-wound-wort Coloquintida Callamus Cummin Garden Chammock Cinamon Cloves Long and round Pepper China Darnel Elecampain Fennel Gentian Garlick Germander Stinking Gladwin Golden Rod Gramel English Gallinga Ginger Glasswort Galls Grains of Paradise Hempseed Galbanum Garden Hyssop Juniper-Berries Hony Saint Johns wort Jack by the Hedg Ivy Rue-Holme Irish Ladies-smock Lavender cotten Lavender Lovage Leeks Mallows Marsh-Mallows Garden Lillies Marrygolds Sweet-Marjoram Wild Marjoram Melilote Spearmint French-dogs Mercury Masterwort Misleto Motherwort Mouse ear Mugwort Mustardseed Neesing Root Nutmeg Ragwort Restharrow Wild Wild Rocket Rosemary Garden Rue Saffron Sage Sanicle Savin Common Saxafrage Burnt Saxafrage Scabens English Scurvy-grass self-Heal Sopewort Smallage Southernwood Sea Starwort Staves-acre Garden Tansie Time Tutsan Turmerick Valerian Wood-Vervaine Diers-weed Fennegreek Scotcheneel and London Treacle Cold simples what they are GRoundsil Hawks-weed Clove-gilli-flowers Knotgrass Hawks-weed Howsleek Kidnywort Lettice Water-Lillies Common Liver-wort Liquorish Medlars Mony-wort Tree-Moss and unripe Mulberries Mace Common Night-shade Navel-wort Orpin Water and Land-plantins Pomgranet Queen of the Meadows Shepherds-purse Common and Wood-sorrels Sowthistle Succory Stone-Crop Strawberry-leaves Starwort Sphinack Wild-Tansies Sloes the Bark and Root of Black Thorn Medow Trefoile both the Vervains Hony-suckles Vineleaves Violets Viper-Bugloss the Leaves Flowers and Seeds of the Willow Vinegar Yarrow Antimonium Alcanet Garden Arach Barberry-Rind Barly Bilberries Blew-bottle Bucks-Horn Plantain Bolearmoniack Comfry Cranes-Bill Dentd'lion All the sorts of common Docks Ducks-meat and Fumitory Divers ways there are to preserve most of these simples in their primal virtue all the year but too tedious here to be inserted some of which likewise are both hot and cold and may indifferently be used in hot and cold distempers to describe them I think it altogether tedious and unnecessary for as much as most of them are vulgarly known and if any of them are not and for that cause some may pretend they know not how to find them a Herbal will give them directions and rectifie their understanding And now I shall proceed to the Shooing and Roweling things worthy to be noted by all that have any thing to do with Horses Hoofs how many sorts there are their perfections and imperfections OF Hoofs there are divers kinds some perfect and others imperfect The imperfect Hoof is when any part is lacking or if it be unseemly spreading broad and being exceeding flat that no shooe will sit compleatly upon it for such Horses for the most part are narrow heel'd on which he for the most part treads rendering himself thereby unable for Travailing subjecting him frequently to cast his shooes and subject to false quarters and this is often caused by the Horses being brought up in moist and Fenny ground To shoo which not being as yet grown to too flat the Farrier with his paring Iron must take off as much of the Toe and sides as it is possible still keeping it round but let him not touch the quarter or the heel unless it be to make the seat of the shoo plain and let that be as lightly as may be still anointing the Hoofs with Hogs-grease and Oyl of Baies and within a while they will become round thick and feasable The shoo wherewith this Hoof must be brought to perfection must be made strong with a broad webb and broad Spunges pierced from the quarters to the hard Toe but not to the Heel the holes wider without than within and the foot diligently pared as aforesaid from the Tallon nail towards the heel suffer the shoo to stand a straws breadth without the Hoof the better to save the Coffin let your nails be made of good Iron the heads square but not so broad above as below that they may not only stand above the shooe but fill the holes putting five nails on the outside and four on the inside because in this case the Horse weareth more within than without The perfect Hoof on the forefeet how to pare shooe c. IF the Hoof be perfect first pare the seat of the Shooe as even and plain as may be that the shooe sitting close may bear no more on the one side than on the other nor take more on the Toe than the Heel for the Heels must be higher than the Toes but by reason all the weight of the Horses fore part presses upon the quarters and heels of the fore feet those parts must be most regarded and as little of the Butteresses taken off as may be for the heels are naturally weaker than the toes but this is meant by the fore-feet only for the paring of the hinder-feet is quite contrary as will hereafter appear For the most exact method of shooing the perfect Hoof observe these following rules viz. Let your shooe be of Spanish Iron or other well tempered Iron the web broad fitting it to the Hoof the Spunges thick and more firm than any other part and somewhat broad that the quarters may stand somewhat beyond the Hoof to preserve the Coffin and pierce it from the quarter to the hard toe but not backwards towards the heel suffer the holes to be wider without than within that the pierced circle may be more distant from the edge of the toe than from the edge of the quarter because the Hoof is thicker forward than backwards thus having fitted the shoo take nails made of the same Iron the Heads square though not fully so broad beneath as above that the nails may fill up the holes and the shooe be kept from stirring suffering them to appear somewhat above the shooe and let the points appear in a just line not one lower than another or in and out like the teeth of a Saw and cut them off so near that when they are clinched by a little raising the Hoof with a Knife they appear to be within it but be sure ere the shooe is fastened with any more than two nails see it stand right by looking on the Frush and suffering the Horse to set his foot to the ground whilst you hold up the other with your hand and if the shooe stand but a little awry you may by striking the Hoof with
eating of green Corn or Clover you must not only give him the aforesaid medicine but a Clister made of the decoction of Mallows Chammomil Liver-wort and Groundsil adding an ounce of Turmerick They must be boiled in new wort and before you give it Rake him well dipping your hand first in sweet Oyl or anointing it with Hogs-grease If the beast be troubled with pains in the belly or Windcolick take an ounce of Mithridate a quarter of an ounce of Rubarb the like quantity of the Oyl of Mace boyl them in a pint of Wine give the liquid part to your beast hot and in so doing every other morning for five mornings it will cure the grievance or for want of them give him beer wherein Chammomil and Mayweed has been boiled but if the vent be obstructed then boyl in either of those drinks half an ounce of Alloes and give him before it a pint of Olive Oyle Loosness Bloody-Flux pains in the Loins pains of the Reins or Brawns Inflammation and pissing blood their respective Cures IF the beast be extreamly loose take of Night-shade a handful Red-rose-leaves or cakes two handfulls Turpentine an ounce pursly a handfull Turmerick and Allum of each an ounce boyl them in strong Vinegar and Whitewine and give the beast the liquid part fasting and in so doing three or four times the loosness will be staid but if it become to the Bloody Flux then suffer him to eat little and drink less for the space of four days at the end of which take the stones of Raisins Nutgalls Mirtleberries and Old Cheese of each two ounces boyl them in a quart of Claret and give it the Horse hot and so do often till you perceive the issue of blood stayed If the Beast be afflicted with a pain in the Loyns take of Poppy flowers if they be to be had if not the seeds one handful of Coleworts or Cabbageseed a like quantity bruise them and boyl them in fair water and having strained them give him the juice to drink and apply the seeds c. pultiss-wise to the place as near as you can where the grief is and cover them with a plaister of Greek-pitch Rosin and Collophonia mingled with a little Barly-meal and the humours that cause the pain will be dispersed or if it is occasioned by any bruise it will be cured If the beast be afflicted with pains of the Reins Brawns or Muscles occasioned by inflammation or otherwise let him blood in the Tail or Thighs Boyl in two quarts of Ale a root of Garlick a handful of Rue two ounces of Sugarcandy an ounce of Cinamon and the juice of four or five Lemons give it him hot to drink laying a plaister made of Bees-wax Olive Oyl Turpentine and Storax upon the place grieved If the beast piss blood keep him from drinking any water take a Sea Onion two ounces of Linseed an ounce of Treacle a quarter of an ounce of Rosatum and the like quantity of Alloes a quarter of a pint of the juice of Nettles an ounce of Wood-soot and the like quantity of Irish Slate mix them with a quart of Redwine or juice of Sloes adding half a pint of Olive Oyl and the Whites of two Eggs boyl them well and give him them fasting and so do morning and evening for two days If he be troubled with the stone or cannot urine take the powder of burnt Sea Crabs Cloves and Pepper of each an ounce Bolearmoniack two ounces and a like quantity of Parslyseed boyl them in a quart of Vinegar and give them the beast to drink very warm morning and evening for four or five days and it will dissolve the Stone and cause him freely to urine And thus Reader having laid down rules for Ordering and Cures for the most dangerous distempers and left none untouched but such as are vulgarly known by almost every Husbandman or Cow-herd I shall procceed to give necessary instructions to the Shepherd as to the ordering and cure of his flocks upon all occasions A TREATISE OF SHEEP How to chuse your Ram and Ewe for breed when the Ewe ought to be covered and how ordered during her pregnancy and upon her Yeaning c. IF you are desirous to have a good breed of this sort of Cattle which serve to so many ends let your Ram be tall rather long than thick his belly large and a good coat of Wooll for his covering the Tail long and bushy his Eyes black and round overgrown as it were with Wooll his Stones large and even his Ears great the undermost part of his Tongue speckled with black his Horns large sound and well wreathed let the Ewe be long with a great belly large Udder long necked white and shining of Colour and well woolled Teats great Eyes large and shining and her Tail long and well covered with Wooll c. Thus having chosen your Getter and Breeder suffering neither of them to exceed three years old the Ew is best when two years old nor let any Ews bear Lambs for breed after seven years The most convenient season for her to suffer the Ram is in October or the beginning of November that she may bring forth her Lamb or Lambs in the spring at what time if her milk should fail other nourishments may be procured during the time of her bearing suffer her not to lie abroad in cold Snow or extream frosty weather nor in excessive rains and sometimes with her water give her a handful of Salt and Fennelseed when she has cast her Lamb bring her into a warm house and there keep her for two or three days that she and the Lamb may gather strength giving her a Mash of Oats and Bran each morning Many are of opinion that if the Ewe is covered by the Ram when she is feeding towards the North wind she will bring forth a Ram Lamb and when towards the South a Ewe Lamb though to it I give not over much credit nor to the tradition of knitting the right or left stone of the Ram to produce the like effects nor that other opinion held by divers for Authentick that whatsoever colour the Ewes tongue is of when she conceives of that colour the Lamb will be whether White Black Speckled or the like The Head-ache Giddiness loss of Cudd diseases in the Eyes Agues in Lambs or Sheep Rheums Catarrhs diseases in the Eyes or Teeth Boyls Aposthumes and Vlcers their respective cures THese sort of creatures are subject to divers Diseases occasioned by infection evil digestion wet and unwholesome feeding eating noisom herbs drinking dirty stinking water the droping of trees or being abroad in immoderate showers If the Ram Ewe or Lamb be troubled with the Head-ache which is caused by damp and unwholesome feeding burn Storax under his nose and give him the juice of Sage and House-leek boyled with half a pint of Whitewine adding thereto a dram of Saffron If afflicted with giddiness which frequently happens in the Summer season if
the weather be excessive hot let them blood as soon as you perceive them stagger or turn round by slitting the nose vein a cross then take a handful of Baum Mint and Rue boyl them in a quart of small beer and suffering the liquid part to cool give it the beast to drink and so do morning and evening for two days successively If there happen a defect in the Cud take a handful of Wheatflower a spoonful of Baysalt and as much sharp Vinegar as will make the flower into little balls two or three of which thrust down the beasts throat fasting and in so doing twice or thrice the Cud will be restored If with the Ague being a Ram or Ewe blood him or her between the Claws as well behind as before not suffering any cold water to be drunk for Twenty four hours at the end of which boyl a Root of Garlick an ounce of Pepper and a handful of Bettony and Wood-forrel in a pint of Whitewine and a quart of spring-spring-water then straining forth the liquid part give it the beast lukewarm and so do for three or four days and the Ague will vanish but if it be a Lamb give him a pint of the Ewes milk wherein Polipodium of the Oak and Chubebs have been boyled If with Rheums or Catarrhs caused by abundant humour in the body of the beast then burn under their noses Assa ferida the bark of Elder and Tamarisk giving him Ale wherein Licorish and Rubarb have been boyled and suffer him not to be abroad in the wet If the Sheep be troubled with specks Films Rheums or the like in the Eyes Take a handful of Eye-bright an ounce of Lupins three or four sprigs of Cellendine and half an ounce of Bithwort Roots boyl them in Ewes milk and strain the liquid part with which wash the grieved Eyes after you have blowen into them the powder of burnt Eggshell and Allum If with pains in the Teeth bleed the Gums or upper lip rubbing the place with Salt and the juice of Sage If afflicted with Aposthumes or Ulcers draw them to a head with Riemeal ground Ivy and the yolks of Eggs Launce them when ripe and put into the hole burnt Allum and salt covering them with a plaister of Burgundia pitch If with Boils melt Brimstone Pitch and Bees-wax boyl them in Vinegar and adding powder of Gall Nuts to them lay them plaisterwise to the Sorrance Saint Anthonies Fire Rot or Plague Diseases of the Lungs Scab or Itch Cough Swallowing Spiders or any venom and Belly swelling their respective cures SAint Anthonies-fire called the wild fire is very hurtful to sheep To cure which take Bolearmoniack Turpentine Deers suet Soot and the juice of Housleek and after having boyled them or melted them wash the Place with Goats milk and apply them plaisterwise giving him at the same time water wherein salt and butter have been boyled To cure the Rot or Plague take a handful of the herb Melliot as much Comfry Polipodium of the Oak Rue Vervine and Walnut-tree-leaves a like quantity boyl them in a quart of water and a pint of Aquavitae adding an ounce of Mithridate giving the Liquid part to the beast so afflicted For the Scab or Itch Take Soot the stalks of Tobaco Brimstone-flower and Fern roots boyl them in Chamberly and wash the Place grieved with the liquid part Morning and Evening To cure the disease in the Lungs take a handful of Sage a like quantity of Coltsfoot as much Parsly and Purslain a Root of Garlick an ounce of Mithridate and two ounces of Hony boyl them in a quart of Whitewine and give them to the grieved beast lukewarm at twice viz. Morning and Evening To cure the cough or shortness of breath take Cuminseed Fennegreekseed and the powder of Liquorish of each two ounces a handful of Coltsfoot three ounces of the Oyl of sweet-Almonds boyl them in a quart of stale-bear and give the liquid part to drink in the morning fasting to the afflicted beast If the Sheep have swallowed any venomous thing which causes them to swell warm strong Vinegar and Olive Oyl and pour down their throats If their bellies swell which is mostly occasioned by eating unwholesom herbs let them blood under the Tail and give them to drink water wherein Rue and Chammomile have been boiled Lame Claws Maggots and Lice broken or bruised joints c. how to order IF the Claw be lame over-grown or broken you must pair it and apply to it a plaister of Bees-wax Rosin unslacked Lime and Hogs-grease and binding it up warm it will soon recover To kill Maggots or Lice use water wherein Tar Burdock and Briony roots have been boiled And to any broken or bruised joynt apply a pultis of Chammomil Marsh-mallows Bettony Bugloss and Honysuckle leaves stamped and fried in Hoggs-grease apply it hot and bind it up warm And thus much for sheep those most useful and necessary creatures in feeding and cloathing mankind A TREATISE OF SWINE The Marks whereby to know a good breed and how to procure it THe Bore that is capable of getting a good breed must be chosen by the following Marks viz. his mouth drawn upwards and long his breast thick and broad as likewise his shoulders his Thighs great and short his colour white with sandy-spots being near as thick as long his bristles thick and stiff and his stones well and even hung Let your Sow designed for a breeder have a long body a large and lank belly many Teats broad Buttocks long and broad Ribs her Head little Snout long and legs short hair white and soft and in thus chusing your breed will in all things answer your expectations When the Sow ought to be covered the time of Spaying and Gelding and how with little charge to make Swine fat WHen by the mark aforesaid you have stored your self with a good Sow and Bore the former being a year old and upwards and the latter between three and four years put them together in the increase of the Moon having first driven the Sow into water up to the belly suffer the Bore to serve her three times or more if she take it not kindly at the first after which take the Bore from her and keep her in a warm yard or house if it be in the winter time giving her Granes Bran Mast Pease Beans and now and then Roots and green-leaves the most convenient Month for her to take Bore in is February that so the Farrow may come in warm weather for those that come in Winter are either stunted or troubled with diseases Geld your Pigs at two or three months old if you would have the Bacon extraordinary sweet but the Hog will be of a larger growth and much fatter if his Stones continue with him till a year old and the best Gelding time is when the Moon is in the wain either in the Spring or Fall to do this take the Pig or Hog and slit his Cods one by one
c. p. 315 The Head-ache Giddiness loss of Cudd diseases in the Eyes Agues in Lambs or Sheep Rheums Catarrhs diseases in the Eyes or Teeth Boyls Aposthumes and Vlcers their respective cures p. 317 Saint Anthonies Fire Rot or Plague Diseases of the Lungs Scab or Itch Cough Swallowing Spiders or any venom and Belly swelling their respective cures p. 320 Lame Claws Maggots and Lice broken or bruised joints c. how to order p. 322 A Treatise of Swine The Marks whereby to know a good breed and how to procure it p. 323 When the Sow ought to be covered the time of Spaying and Gelding and how with little charge to make Swine fat p. 324 Sickness in Swine how to know it and the cure for Head-Ach Swine-pox and the distemper called the eating Yarrow p. 326 Diseases in the Eyes of Swine Agues Fevers Measels Rhumes and Catarrhs their respective Remedies p. 328 Plague or diseases in the Milt Imposthumes or swellings in the Throat Neck swelling their cure as also an excellent Remedy to prevent vomiting p. 329 Colds or Coughs Belly-Ach Lameness Diseases in the Gall and Flux their Cure c. p. 331 To kill Lice prevent Thirst and an excellent Receipt for an Oyntment to be used in case of fractured bones dislocated or swelled Joynts c. p. 333 THE Introduction SEeing divers have undertaken to treat about Horses c. those most excellent of Animal Creatures I have not thought it amiss from long experience to lay down as I well hope to the satisfaction of the skilful reader such perfect Rules and Methods to order and mannage Horses in all their useful capacities as have been hitherto but lightly touched by such as have made essays in the like nature for as the Horse may worthiliest challenge place as the noblest and goodliest the necessariest and trustiest Beast that we use in our service and since he serveth to so many ends notwithstanding much may have been spoken on that Subject yet it is not doubted but in that as on all other Subjects where so large a Field is given to treat something material may be omitted by those who have travailed therein that may occur to the memory and deliberate judgment of those that come after them For as all Arts are bettered by long Experience and improved by time and industry this amongst the rest worthy the Studies and Labour of the most industrious must needs admit of variety and afford new matter of discovery Therefore Reader I shall no longer trespass upon your Patience but to satisfie your expectation open the Cabinet wherein are contained such rarities as are worthy the notice of the most Experienced and Learned upon Earth and since Horses serve for sundry purposes as Pleasure Profit and War in Racing Traveling Hunting servile labour Charging in the Field and the like I shall first declare how they ought to be bred and at first chose as most fit and promising to the uses they are designed for and so proceed to each particular relating to mannagement Ordering Cure c. THE Compleat Horseman OR Gentlemans Delight The first consideration in relation to Pasture for Horses c. THe first thing to be considered in Breeding is the commodiousness of the Ground wherein the Horses Mares and Colts are to run which must in no wise be too rank of Grass nor over sparing but a firm sweet Soil situate in a wholsome Air somewhat ascending inclosed with Quicksets and spreading Trees the better to shelter your Beasts from the wind or heat of the Sun Nor let your Mares Colts or Horses continue long in one Pasture but put them into fresh Pasture and let the vicissitude be so often as occasion requires or as you find them uneasie which will appear ether by their carelesness in feeding attempting to leap the Hedges Ditches or making continually towards the Gate and looking through it or over it The Summer Pastures must be shady as aforesaid and those you intend to winter them in accommodated with a Hovel Hay-rick Barn Stable or some convenient house to shelter them from the stormy blasts especially the Colts who are by nature tender the first year Directions and Rules about the choice of Horses THe next thing to be considered is the choice of Stallions and Mares First let your Stallion have hoofs hard and sound round and hollow to keep the feet from the Ground his Legs even and straight his knees round flexible and small his Thighs large and well brawned his Breast great and broad his neck soft and broad bending Arch-wise his Main thick and for the most part falling on the right side his Head small and lean for a great head betokens a dull and heavy Jade his Mouth ever moist his Eyes great and bloody or rather fiery standing as it were out of his head which is a sign of quickness and liveliness his Ears short and standing upright his Nostrils wide his Shoulders large and straight the sides turning inwards the ridge bone over the shoulders being somewhat high his Sides deep and well knit behind his Loyns broad his Belly gaunt his Buttocks full of flesh his Tail long brisly and curled these being the tokens of a good Stallion and indeed of a good Horse for all services the contrary properties denoting badness And now I shall proceed to the description of a good Mare for breeding first observe she be not subject to diseases nor above three or four years old let her have a fair forehead lively eyes standing ears a large womb a bright colour and well metled gentle and easie to be handled for wild Mares are too apt to destroy their Colts in their bellies and when foaled will not easily brook the weaning of them How to oblige a Mare that is unwilling to take the Horse to be covered when and in what manner she ought to be covered and how afterwards to be used IF your Mare be backward to take the Horse which will appear by her biting and kicking at him then turn to her a stone Horse of small stature who by his nimble running about her and playing with her will soon wooe or oblige her to gentleness so that she will suffer her self to be covered which willingness perceived take away the said Horse and the next morning about Sunrising put to her your Stallion having been well provendered but suffered to drink little put him to her in a close fenced ground where she will in a short time permit him to cover her the which when he has twice or thrice done let her graze but keep her from water taking the Horse from her whom you must rub down and well provender till Evening at what time turn him loose to your Mare again and let him cover her as often as he pleaseth unless you perceive him too robust or furious that thereby he may suâ—tain injury The Mare thus covered unless she be greatly desirous of his company a third time you need not put him to her
receives the dose To make the gentlest Pills good aginst any infectious or pestilential disease take these directions viz. peel 20 Cloves of Garlick bruise them and temper them with a pound of sweet butter and rouling them up into balls as big as Hen-eggs put four or five of them down the Horses throat and they will work out the pestilential humours if they have not seised the heart brain or Liver Another sort of gentle pills may be made after this manner take a quarter of a pound of red Saunders and the like quantity of fresh butter mix them well together and making them up as the former give them your Horse in like manner Another harmless purge may be made of Rosemary leaves bruised and mixed with butter and lastly green figgs bruised and made into pills or balls with sweet butter and given him have almost the same effects All of them gently purging mostly by Sweat and Urine Strong purging Pills how to make them IF your Horse be of a strong constitution and the nature of his distemper require it make and give him these Pills according to the following directions viz. Take Hoggs lard steep it well in water then without any skin put a quarter of a pound of it to the powders of Aniseed Fenigreek and Liquorish of each an ounce and a half adding to them an ounce of Aloes beaten to powder and sifted as likewise of Agarick half an ounce all which being well tempered make them up into balls or pills as big as large Walnuts and give him four at a time or if you find him inclinable to weakness three for this is a strong purge and will work extreamly A gentle Drink or Drench to prevent sickness or cure it TO make this drink take the roots of round Aristolochia wash and scrape them well then take unexcorticated Juniper-berries and excorticated Bay-berries ten or twelve drops of the Oyle of Myrrh and of Ivory shavings a quarter of an ounce pulverize all but the Myrrh and sierce them and then add to them the Myrrh the which given viz. an ounce of the powder or confection in half a pint of white-wine it is Soveraign against all manner of infection Internal or biting of Venomous beasts External Purfying Cleansing suppleing the body dissolving gross humours removing distempers that afflict the Liver or Stomach helps digestion and cureth cold Consumption Phlegm Staggers and most distempers in the head preventing Tiring Weariness Cramp Convulsion and Scurvy dissolves the Stone opens Internal obstructions cures the Yellows Gargil and dropsie likewise diseases of the Lungs as Glaunders and Rottenness which occasions noisome breath easeth the Wind-colick provoketh Urine and killeth Worms c. An Excellent Drench to open the body of an Horse and cleanse it MIx together Hony Olive Oyle and new milk of each 8 ounces six yolks of Eggs and an ounce of London treacle to which add Liquorish Sugar-candia and Aniseeds beaten fine of each an ounce the which being well mixed and given him in a quart of warm ALE and he afterwards kept warm and fasting it will open all obstructions give the blood free passage and inliven the body though never so dull and drowsie Diatessaror or an excellent Drench for curing Pestilential distempers TAke the powder of Diapente or five Simples viz. Gentian Aristolochia Bay-berries Myrrh and Ivy shavings of each a quarter of an ounce bruise them in a Mortar with clarified hony to the quantity of a quarter of a pint which being wrought into a confection may be given your Horse for any violent distemper in a pint of Muscadel or Canary though not above half an ounce at a time for if more unless the Horse be of a strong constitution it may greatly injure him It is an excellent Antidote against all poysonous distempers or infections occasioned through ill airs causing heart sickness and divers sorts of feavers to cure the latter observe to bleed him before you give him the drink If at any time you have not Diapente give him this drink UPon urgent occasions when such ingredients as before are mentioned cannot be got then use these following ingredients which will in a manner work the self same cure viz. two ounces of Tarr one ounce of Hony two drams of black Soap and half a pint of Bay-salt all which being well mixed together put them into an Egg-shell broken only at the top so that the white and yolk may be taken out and then oblige your Horse to swallow it and afterwards give him warm ALE to the quantity of a quart then ride him moderately not suffering him to stand still for the space of two or three hours after which you may suffer him to drink which the medicine will easily provoke him to but be sure it be warm water then cloath him well and for three or four days after give him Mashes with hay sweet and good well dusted Signs of sickness in general ALthough I have already discoursed on this matter yet seeing it is the hindg on which the whole Series turns it will not be amiss to discourse of the cause of sickness in general as thus if you find your Horse dull and heavy his countenance louring and head hanging his body more than ordinary loose his breath short and he loathing his meat how good soever his Eyes dull and seldom winking his Hair rough stairing and unnatural coloured with a dry and rotten cough his pace staggering his behaviour frantick his Eyes yellow and his body covered with a faint or cold sweat at divers times his coveting to lie down beating himself or looking upon his body alteration of qualities or gesture delaying to cast his Coat in due season Hide-bound or lean suddenly are all apparent symptoms of distempers and especially of internal sicknesses Things to be observed in Physicking a Horse IN all Drenches or Glisters let the heat not exceed the warmth of blood for if it does it will prove offensive nothing being more obnoxious than things administered too hot or too cold let what you administer be given not over hastily lest if it be given down his throat you choak or overcharge his weasand and by that means cause him by coughing or straining to cast it up In giving him balls you must if they be any thing large draw forth his Tongue that he may swallow them easily and not be obliged to strain himself thrusting them down as far as you can before you let go his Tongue the which being suddainly dismissed will force them down Ever observe to administer your potions when the Horse is fasting either by the space of one whole night or three hours at the least unless the suddainness of a distemper prevent such conveniency for upon an empty stomach the physick will have the more effectual operation and the better eradicate the gross and vitious humours which generate most distempers likewise be sure upon what occasion soever he takes physick that he fasts two or three hours after its
reception Exercise to be observed upon the Reception of Physick IF you are desirous the Physick should work then as soon as your Horse has received it course him about moderately not exceeding a Pace or Trot or if he be weakened by any distemper then walk him gently under some warm hedge for the space of a Mile then bringing him into the Stable rub him down with dry cloaths and cloathing him warm let him stand the time aforesaid before you give him any meat all the while you or your Groom observing his postures and how the Physick operates by which you may discern what his distemper is and whether it afflicts him more or less What is to be observed in raking your Horse who cannot dung without pain WHen your Horse is troubled with any obstruction in the Fundament you with your hand must often draw away the dung which he through its hardness or his weakness cannot otherwise avoid without great pain the which when you do you must anoint your hand with Oyle of Olives or Neats-foot Oyle which will greatly allay the heat and for the future render him more capable of casting his dung or if to make him laxative in such a case you give him a Glister anoint the quill or pipe with Olive Oyle or Hogs Lard What further is to be observed in Phlebotomy or blood-letting IT is to be observed that you ought to take a due proportion of blood from the Horse according to his age strength or the quality of the distemper If he be a strong Horse full grown take from him four times the quantity from him as you take from a Colt of a year old but if he be an old Horse and weak of constitution twice the quantity If he have a Pleurisie or any violent distemper occasioned by rankness of blood then you may let him blood if you see the distemper threaten his life three days together but not suffer him to bleed excessively at one time The causes for which Horses ought to bleed are either to preserve health by diminishing the superfluity of blood that burns or heats the veins to divert sickness or chear the vital spirits by giving the blood a free and uncontrouled passage after which you must moderately chafe or walk him to make the blood fill those veins or branches that were emptied and to make him bleed the freer suffer him to drink warm water before you open the Vein If he bleed not freely it is a sign that he is pursie fat or the blood stagnated then to oblige him thereto put your finger in his mouth tickle him and cause him to move his Jaws thereby to press the vein to a more facil evacuation and having bled sufficiently take part of the blood mingled with salt and pour it down his throat with a Drenching-horn and with the other part bathe his body whilst it is warm which is excellent in a consumption moist cough or weakness of the Limbs How to know when it is necessary to bleed your Horse IF your Horse be rank of blood his eyes will be red his veins strut prick and itch especially in his Tail and Main so that he will be often rubbing himself his Hair shedding at unseasonable times the roots of his Ears pill and the place where his headstal is fastened become bare his Urine will be of a high and reddish colour his Dung black and hard or little bumps red and fiery appearing on his back faulter at his meat if the whites of his eyes be yellow or the inside of either lip of the same colour then is it apparent that he is over charged with blood or that his blood is watery and full of evil humours Observations on outward sorrances a description of them and how they are to be ordered THese grievances called Sorrances have in their particulars divers names according to their being placed in the body but in general are taken two manner of ways viz. either an evil state and composition of the body which is to be discerned by the number quality or sight of the members evilly affected diseased or otherwise it is a loosening or division of any unity the which is thus in general divided and chancing diversly have divers particular names according as is aforesaid to the parts of the body in which they happen for if such a loosning or division happen in the bone then it is properly termed a Fracture if in the fleshy part a wound or Ulcer in the Veins if it happen then 't is called a Rupture If in the sinews the Cramp or Convulsion if in the skin excoriation Now the things chiefly to be observed in curing Sorrances are these First Observe that in burning or cauterizing with a hot Iron or with Oyle or making an incision with a knife that it be neither upon a vein or sinew but somewhat higher or lower or on one side Secondly Observe that you never apply to any joynt or sinewey part violent corrosives as Resalgar Arsnick sublimate Mercury Oyl of Vitriol or the like Thirdly That in cauterizing you rather lance with a hot Iron than with a cold and that 't is better to cauterize than to cut Fourthly observe if the Horse be Sanguin his blood produceth a white thick matter but if Colerick a waterish salt and thin matter though in quantity small If Phlegmatick great store of watery gelly as it were but if Melanchly dry Scabs only Fifthly observe as I have before hinted never to bleed your Horse but upon the days prescribed and not then for fansie sake but in case of some distemper that requires it or to prevent a sickness imminent by reason of bad or boiling blood which afflicts the Veins Sixthly Observe in all Imposthumes or swelling Sores called Tumors diligently to note the place where the grief began its increase state and dangerous consequence as likewise its declination and ending Seventhly Take notice that if in the beginning of every swelling Imposthume you cannot eradicate it use Repercussive medicines if it be not too near the vitals or some other principal part of the body if it be you must forbear the use of such Medicines or applications lest thereby you indanger the Horses life but rather use softening and suppling medicines till such time as the Imposthume Tumor or swelling be ripe and then with a Lancet let out the corruption and by degrees dry it up with cleansing and healing medicines Eighthly All soft or hard swellings ought to have different applications according to the part of the body where they happen or the cause from which they proceed as for hard swellings they are for the most part corrosive and the soft unless well regarded of long continuance Now to know whether a swelling has been of long standing especially in the legs press it with your finger and suddainly taking it away if you perceive the flesh immediately to fill the dint then the swelling is newly taken but if it stand hollow then is the swelling
Turpentine boyled together and stirred till cold Of Rat-Tailes a kind of scratches And the cure for them c. WHen you perceive he is troubled with this grief which will appear by the breaking out of knops Ride him pretty briskly even till by his heating the vein swells then let him blood in the Fetlockvein on either side suffering him to bleed indifferent well washing the sore the day following with warm water then clipping away the hair anoint it with Oyntment thus made viz. Verdigrease and green Copperas of each two ounces and four ounces of hony well pounded and mixed together and by often using it it will effect the cure Of Aches or Numness in the joynts and their cure AChes and Numbness in the joynts are mostly occasioned by cold gotten by excessive labour or standing unregarded in damp or watry places to cure which take Accopium mixed with Mallago and heating them hot chafe them into the place grieved with your hands and in three or four times so doing it will remove the pain or for want of the aforesaid things take Brandy or Aquavitae and Pepper finely sifted and bath the grieved place as hot as may be and then bind rags dipped in them hard to the Ach or Numbness renewing them as often as they dry And Aches come sometimes by Sprains Hurts and stretching of the Nerves or Sinews it will not be amiss to set down things good in general for their cure Things generally good for Aches Numbness or the like dispondences in the joynts FOr Swellings Aches Numbness or the like proceeding from Heat Cold or any other cause these following things are exceeding good viz. Oyl of Almonds Aquavitae Archangel Allheal Balsum Burgundy-pitch Burnet Bay-leaves Brandy Oyl of Chamomil Cumfrey-roots Chickweed Mallows or Marsh-mallows Cowslips Mullen Mugwort Purslain Peneroyal Burdocks Saxafrage Gander-Tansie English-Tobacco Mother-Time Flower de Luces Sow-Fennel Turpentine Ragweed Accopium Pepper Safron Garlick Rosemary Myrrh and Sciatick-creses which may be used altogether or some of them at a time pounded and mixed according to your discretion For the bloody Flux an excellent Remedy THe Bloody-flux is a dangerous distemper proceeding from the over-flowing of the Liver or vessels of blood or pestilential distempers and is known by voiding of blood in Dung or Urine to stay which take an ounce of Saffron two ounces of Myrrh an handful of Southernwood the like quantity of Rue or Herbgrace of Spittlewort and Hissop each half a handful and of Cassia an ounce the which being bruised small and tempered well must be with Chalk-dust and Vinegar made into a past so that little cakes may be thereof made the which dryed in the shade dissolve of them to the quantity of three ounces at a time in three pints of Milk from kine fed with barly straw or for want of that dissolve them in a juice called Ptisane and give it the Horse to drink morning and evening and after it a quart of warm water and it will not only stay the Efflux of blood but any pain in the belly or bladder unless the stone or gravel Barbs what they are and how to cure them THe Barbs are common to most Horses and are to be perceived by two Paps under the Tongue and seldom do they disadvantage the Horse unless they are inflamed with corrupted or putrefied blood proceeding from crude humours which corrode them and constrain them to stretch beyond their usual length causing them to become exceeding troublesome to the Horse in his feeding to ridd him of which with sharp Scissers clip them away and let the roots bleed a considerable season as likewise let him blood on the second barr and having made a mixture of Bolearmoniack Vinegar and Salt wash his mouth therewith observing that no hay nor hay dust stick therein upon his feeding thereon Of the Blood Spavin what it is and how to cure it THis grief is occasioned by and indeed is no other than a soft swelling growing through the Hough commonly filled with blood being largest on the inner side by reason of its being fed by the master vein descending to the Pastern and has its original from the corrupted blood that settles there by hard riding or immoderate labour Especially when the Horse is young and his Hoof tender if it harden 't is more difficult to be cured than otherwise To cure it having shaved away the hair on either side the swelling take up the thigh vein and bleed it well tying the vein above the place you strike which will extract the blood gathered about the Spavin after which slit the swelling and prick it likewise on either side the Hoof where the Spavin is that so the medicine may operate with more ease and to better effect than otherwise it would do and when the corrupted blood and water is well pressed out then lay a plaister to the grievance made of Bolearmoniack and whites of Eggs the which after one days continuance remove and wash the place with this bath or supplement viz. Take Mallows tops of Nettles and boyl them in Spring water till they are soft after which bath him therewith whereupon take Brancha Ursian Wax Oyle Mallow roots and French-wine of each a proportionable quantity and having boyled them bind them about the place grieved with a linnen cloth as hot as he can indure it the which continue for the space of three or four days stroaking it gently with your hand every day to cause the corrupt blood to avoid after which make a plaister of Stone-pitch Carana and Brimstone of the two former an ounce of each and of the latter a quarter of an ounce adding to them half an ounce of Turpentine and apply it being spread upon Leather to the place grieved binding it hard and permitting it to remain till it fall off of its own accord The Bone Spavin what it is and how to cure it THis grievance is at first a tender gristle on the inner side of the Hoof which by long continuance hardens till it becomes hard and crusty sticking close to the Bone and is occasioned by extraordinary riding in dirty ways or Hereditary from the Dam or Sire who were infested with the like grievance placed in the Hough to cure which take up the vein that feeds it whether Spavin or Curb as well below as above bleeding it sufficiently and clapping thereto a plaister of pitch heated and stuck upon flax Dulcifying the sorrance four days after with Oyl of Pampillion and fresh butter as hot as he can indure it and when the Scar shall be obliterated apply a medicament called Blauco or White made of Iessoe and suffer it to remain untill it is whole Of the Pricking and itching blood the occasion and cure THe Itching all over a Horses body is either occasioned by inflammation of the blood by heating or suddainly taking cold by which means the salt watery humours get between the flesh and skin which occasions the Horse to scrub and rub himself against
take a hank or skien of black thread in a pair of Tonges when lighting it at the lower end to prevent its flaming too fast make it dampish with Whitewine Vinegar holding the burning thread under his Nostrils so that he may conveniently receive the smoak into them and it will infallibly stay the efflux of blood New Horsedung tempered with whitewine Vinegar and chalk beaten small and applyed to the nostrils will stench the bleeding as likewise bleeding at any other place occasioned by a wound or so and in case you have not the aforesaid things in a readiness burning of silk the of juice Corianderseed Hogs dung a new cut Turf juice of Sage or Hysop the young shoots of green Hawthorn bruised or the blood of a Horse dryed and beaten to powder blown up the nostrils or laid upon the wound are all good to stay bleeding as likewise are the juices of Parsly Periwinkle the Coame of a Smiths forge laid to the wound or mixed with Vinegar spirted up the nostrils the herb called Shepherds Pouch distilled into a water and given him to drink fasting in the morning the which water stayeth internal bleeding whether gotten by a bruise or coming naturally Divers other things there are that are excellent against bleeding as the powder of the stone Emachile blown up into the nostrils or applyed to any broken vein or wound The roots of Rubarb dryed and pulverised the powder blown into the nostrils of the Horse and lastly Bettany bruised with Baysalt and mixed with Vinegar put into the nostrils cause the veins to cease from further efflux Of the Botch in the Groyne and how to cure it THis Sorrance proceedeth from humours ingendered by hard labour which assembling in the Groyne occasion the Botch as likewise in divers other parts and places of the Horses body known by the swelling of the hinder thighs Cambrils and knots in the flesh the which if upon feeling they prove round and hard will come to a head and become troublesome to the Horse Therefore to cure them you must take Turpentine Hony and Wheat-flower of each a pound and with them make a stiff plaister renewing it daily till the sorrance either break or become soft abounding with corruption if it do not break lance it that so the matter may avoid then take a linnen ragg and having dipped it in Turpentine and Hogs-grease molten taint it with the said ragg and so renew it daily till the poysonous matter is quite voided Then heal it up with Bees-wax and Occicrocium melted and laid plaisterwise anointing it with oyntment of Tobacco A second remedy for the Botch in the Groine or imposthumation THe swelling perceived according to the aforesaid symptoms take a piece of Allomed Leather and spread thereon a ball of Shoomakers wax applying it plaisterwise to the grievance till it break or grow soft if it break not you must lance it and extract the corruption washing it daily with water wherein a considerable quantity of Roach Allum has been dissolved and dipping a ragg in Egyptiacum an oyntment so called suffer it so to continue till it become whole Of Blisters and their cure BListers are risings between the flesh and the skin occasioned by watery hot humours or from any Burn Scald or chafing to take them away rub them in a Sun-shiny day till they break or bleed after which take the roots of Ivy bruise them well and mix them with Tarr Allum and Brimstone boyl them together and spread them plaisterwise upon the grieved place and it will cure it The Canker its cause and cure THis is a loathsome and dangerous Sorrance proceeding from corrupt blood or vitious humours caused by unwholesome or immoderate feeding and many times by Salt and fiery humours coming of extraordinary cold rendering the Horses breath unsavory This Canker fretteth and gnaweth the flesh still incroaching so that if it happen on the Tongue as sometimes it doth it will eat it in sunder If upon the nose it will eat through the Gristle 'T is known by the rawness and often bleeding of the place where it happens and sometimes by a white scurse growing over it The cure take as followeth For the Canker in the Mouth or Nose take the quantity of a walnut of Roach-allum the like quantity of Bay Salt a spoonful of English Hony Rue red Sage Bramble leaves and Ribwort of each half a handful boyl them in whitewine so much as will suffice till a quarter is consumed then strain and press them well and with the liquid part wash the mouth or place grieved in whatsoever part of the body with a clout fastened to a stick c. doing so twice a day or oftener if time will permit and it will both stay and kill the Canker Of Clefts and Cracks in the Heels and their cure THese Sorrances are occasioned divers ways as by excessive riding extraordinary labour heats surfeits or the like as also through the indiscretion of the keeper by washing him when he is hot or suffering him to cool suddainly which corrupting the blood obliges the gross humours to descend and settle in the heels causing them to be chopped broken and become raw mattery and extreamly offensive to the Horse especially if he travail upon rough ground or in wet ways To cure which cut away the hair rub off the scabs with Chamber-ly as likewise the blood that follows and keeping him dry take flower of Brimstone mixt with sweet butter and anoint the place grieved therewith once or twice a day binding his feet close to keep out the air or dust If this should fail to effect the cure as past doubt it will not then take Soot Salt and unsleckedlime of each a handful boyl them in Whitewine Vinegar till they become thick then add to them Hogs-lard and work them into an Oyntment and anoint his Sorrance therewith untill it s healed which will be in a short time effected The cause of the swelling in the Cods and Stones with directions to asswage the same THese swellings are sometimes occasioned by the stinging of venemous insects other times by bruises received by fighting with other Horses overstraining corruption of blood setling too much plenty of Seed or after sickness surfeiting by cold and the like To cure which take Oyl of Turpentine Marsh-mallows Groundsil and Cammomile stamping the three latter small and boyling the juice thereof with the former and with it as warm as he can well indure it anoint his Cods morning and evening and the swelling will abate The Cord a grievance so called what it is and how to remedy it THis cord is a sinew in the forelegs which ascendeth from the sheckle vein to the gristle in the nose between the lip a beans length in breadth or two strings like threads fastned above the knee and passing through the body to the nostrils subjecting to stumble and pitch upon his nose which amongst young Horses is frequent This grievance may be known by the stiff going
of the Horse and stumbling without any visible Sorrance to rid him of which slit him upon the tip of the nose and with your Cornet take up the two great sinews which you shall perceive and cut them in sunder healing them up with oyntment of Earth worms or Marshmallows and he will not for the future be subject to stumble and indeed it is necessary that most young Horses be so served Another in the like case to be observed is when to prevent stumbling you slit the tip of some Horses noses between the nostrils you will find a white flat gristle which being taken up twist till you perceive him draw his hinderlegs close in a manner to his forelegs then with a sharp knife cut of the gristle and heal up the Incision with green oyntment The Colick its cause and cure THe Colick is occasioned by wind in the bowels and from thence it takes its name of Wind Colick causing terrible pains wringings and gripings which you may perceive by the Horses often striking at his belly with his hinder feet as also by his lying down tumbling beating with his feet and loathing or forsaking his meat To cure which take a quart of Whitewine four ounces of Fenegreek seed Bay berries and Pepper of each four ounces of Grains and Ginger each an ounce Water Cresses Sage Senegreen and Mint of each a handful bruise the herbs and beat the spices small in a Morter and having well boiled them in the wine strain them well and adding two spoonfuls of Hony or so much as will sweeten the liquor give it him pretty warm and so doing three mornings and evenings will expel the wind and make the pain to cease The Colt Evil its cause and cure THis distemper is as well subject to a Horse as a Gelding and to the Horse it happens through the extraordinary swelling of the Yard occasioned by too much windiness in the Sinews Arteries or pipe of the Yard which causes the Yard to swell extraordinarily or too much rankness of seed and to a Gelding for defect of natural heat to expell the seed generated to prevent which take the juice of Rhue mixed with Hony boyled in Hogs-grease with Bay leaves and powder of Fenegreek made into an oyntment and with it as warm as may be anoint the sheath If this fail twice thrice or four times using take the leaves of Bettony powder of the herb Anit and stamping them small mix with them Whitewine and anoint or lay them plaister-wise to the place grieved having first washed it clean with Vinegar made warm over a gentle fire as likewise his Cods and Yard and soon after ride him into deep water moving him to and fro to remove the heat of the Genitals till the swelling is abated or if you cannot get these things then put him to a Mare and afterward bathe his Cods and Yard with juice of Housleek Senegreen or the water wherein Rhue holm has been boyled but if through the hardness of the swelling the making water prove impossible or exceeding difficult give him a Drench made of new Ale and Black Sope and wash his Cods with butter and Vinegar made warm or the juice of Hemlock making a plaister of Bean flower and Bolearmoniack tempered with Vinegar or for want of them with wine lees stamped Housleek and Bran and apply it to his Cods and Sheath Consumptions in a Horse the cause and cure OF Consumptions there are two kinds the one a dry kind of a Malady and the other a Consumption of the Flesh the former being occasioned by violent heats and colds with excess of vitious corroding humours descending from the head and falling upon the Lungs known at first by a thin matter flowing from the nose which by degrees becomes gross and thick the which if not prevented will cause a leanness and decay of flesh making his belly become gaunt and clung as if he was famished forbidding the hair to fall off in due season and obliging him to continue a husking wheesing cough being a distemper difficult to cure if not taken in time The latter is a more particular Consumption and wasting of the flesh caused either by violent heats or immoderate labour watering your Horse when he is hot or negligence in the keeper in letting him stand after a journey wet and dirty To cure which take Horehound Wood-bettony Juniper berries Leeks Frankincense Bay-berries Brank-ursin Chian Dandelion of each a like quantity bruise them well and boyl them in a quart of Cannary till a fourth part be consumed then strain and press them well adding to the liquid decoction half a pint of Oyl Olive and pour it down his throat with a Drenching-horn for six days morning and evening or if the season permit you may give him a scouring and put him to grass and before you put him forth give him this Mash made of the broth of a Sheepshead boyled wooll and all and in it half a pound of clarified hony or for want of it Loaf-Sugar Cinamon Conserve of Roses Barberries and conserved Cherries of each an ounce and although he be abroad yet visiting him once a day give him this drink and afterward chase him to and fro for the space of half an hour but not too hard and give him water to drink wherein some Wheatflower or fine Bran has been scattered and if you perceive he mend not upon this then taking him up again give him often change of wholesome meats Mashes and warm waters and as you see occasion Cordial powder or Cordial balls and in a short time unless the distemper have too much consumed him he will return to his pristine strength and vigor The Cold or Poze in a Horses Head its cause and cure THis infirmity proceeds from gross humours and cold distillations according to the proportion of cold taken or moisture of the Brain if the cold be great upon search you will find great kernels under his chaule about the root of his Tongue but if new taken and small then little kernels 'T is a sign likewise that his cold is of no long continuance if he rattle in the head his eyes and nose venting thin mattery humours This cold may be likewise perceived by his holding down his head in the Manger his water when he drinks running out at the nose or between his teeth he chews slimy or nauseous stuff but if you perceive him void foul stinking and thick matter out of his nostrils and cough strongly then signifies it that the cold if not turned is turning to the Glaunders or consumption of the Lungs To cure it either new or old then take these directions Take Moss growing upon a fell'd Oak to the quantity of a handful root of Elecampanum green and sliced and a stick of green Liquorish boyl them in three pints of red Cows milk till the liquor be reduced to a pint and a half to which add a quarter of a pound of sweet butter an ounce of Treacle and
what it is together with its cause and cure THis Sorrance is composed of small Warts or Pimples arising in the Palate of the Horses mouth being sore and soft and sometimes seen upon his Lip and Tongue occasioned by eating of Hay on which or amongst which any vermine have dunged or pissed by licking up any venemous Worm or herb many times by feeding upon Hay amongst which are sharp Thistles or seeds which fret and fester the tender parts of the mouth The cure is to let the Horse blood under the Tongue in the two great veins washing the place grieved with Bay salt and Roch-Alum dissolved in Vinegar or with a hot Iron you may burn them on the head if you perceive the former things cure them not presently and afterward rub them with Ale and Salt Of Casting the cause and cure c. THe cause of a Horses casting his drink out of his mouth proceeds from the effects of a cold stomach or cold contracted in the head ingendering thick phlegm or slimy humour which lapping about the root of the Tongue hinders its office as also straitning the passage of the stomach To cure which take a quart of Malmsie or Canary put into it an ounce of Cinamon bruised or beaten into powder an ounce of Cloves and the like quantity of Anniseeds and give them him at twice pretty warm anointing his Temples Breast and under his chaps with Spike Oyl Oyl of Cyprus and Oyl of Pepper mingled together smoaking his nostrils with Gum Ellumi Crest fallen what it is and how to cure it THis deformity is when the flesh whereon the Main groweth standeth not upright but declineth to the right or the left and for the most part proceedeth from evil keeping and want of convenient Provender or when by reason of internal sickness a well fleshed Horse falleth away To raise the Crest when fallen take it in your hands and setting it upright permit one that stands by to pull abroad the bottom of it upon which with a hot Iron sear the skin that hangs loose on either side then clip it away and sow the skin pulling it close with silk as near as you can to the colour of the Horse starching up the Crest on both sides with Shomakers wax spread upon stiff Leather anoint the places you have made sore with Turpentine Hony and Bees-wax tempered into an ointment or with a piece of grease but if the Crest be not extreamly fallen good keeping and looking to will cause it to rise of it self without any application Crick in the Neck its cause and remedy THe Crick in the Neck is a kind of a convulsion in the nerves hindering the Horse from turning his neck at pleasure or taking his meat from the ground but with great trouble and is occasioned by over much heating and thereon taking sudden colds or by cold humours falling into the neck from the head To remedy which take a hot Iron and pierce the skin and part of the flesh in divers places still observing not to touch any sinew and in the Orifices put Horse hair in the nature of Rowels anointing them with Hogs Lard suffering them though with daily moving to keep open the holes to remain there for the space of thirteen or fourteen days or if you think not good to serve your Horse as aforesaid then rub his neck all over with Oyl of Spike and Oyl of Peter clothing him exceeding warm and next to his neck lay Litter that smoaks with the heat of his dung and Urine Of the Canker in the Eye its cause and cure THis Sorrance is caused by corrupt and rank blood descending from the head which setling in the corner of the Eye next the nose creates a worm with a black head like a Pismire so that if you do not timely destroy it it will eat into the head of your Horse and destroy him now to know whether he be afflicted with this Malady is to observe whether his eyelid be knopped or pimpled within and without or whether his eye be full of corrupt matter the which symptoms or any of them appearing take burnt Allum and fresh butter bruising the Allum into powder and mixing it with butter put it into his eye as near as you can upon the head of the worm and by closing the eyelid hold it in tell 't is dissolved and in so doing three or four times it will kill it and render the eye sound especially if you after the opening it spirt Lime-juice and the juice of House-leek into it Of the Dropsie in a Horse whence it proceeds and how to cure it THe Dropsie is known by the swelling of the body through the abundance of water that gets between the skin and flesh when as the Buttocks and Flank will appear withered and dryed the bones plainly appearing and if you press any of the swollen part the dints will plainly appear for as much as the flesh wanting natural heat cannot immediately return to its place this distemper makes him heavy dull and evil coloured proceeding mostly from evil nourishment and want of good digestion which concocteth Melancholy and vitious humours sometimes it proceeds from the Liver where the blood by reason of failure of heat is turned into watery humours This distemper perceived let him blood and then rubbing his body well with warm cloaths to dissolve the humours congealed boyl a Gallon of Ale often scumming it put into it the tender tops and leaves of wormwood and Rue or Herbegrace of each a handful Bramble leaves Mayweed and Smallage of each a like quantity boyl the Ale till three parts is consumed then dissolve into it three ounces of London-Treacle adding thereto long Pepper beaten and Granes of each an ounce stir them well in the concoction and give it the Horse six mornings together blood-warm anoynting his body with Train or Neatsfoot Oyl and if the weather be seasonable after you have fed him a while with Mashes and white water turn him to grass and the water will fume away Chops Rifs and Clifts in the Palate of the mouth how they are caused and how to cure them THese Sorrances are occasioned by the Horses eating hard and dry Hay full of Thistles and prickly things or foul Provender full of sharp seeds which grate of and fester the tender part of the mouth To cure which take water and salt washing the rough of the Horses mouth till it bleed then with Allum and Hony indifferent warm anoint it and in so doing for a week together every morning it will cure it if in the mean while and for a considerable time after you give him soft meat as Bran Grass Mashes and soft Hay The Bony Excretion its cause and cure THis Malady is frequently caused by corrosives laid to the wounds that happen near the bone which corrosives piercing by their sharp and operating quality the bone many times to the Marrow and causes the excretion to grow upon it although the wound is cured
which in the Farriers is a great defect for he ought to be very wary in burning the flesh with hot Oyls or other applications too near the bone or any sinew sometimes also this Malady happens through the gauling and fretting of a fetlock To cure it upon the top of the excretion make a slit a quarter of an inch then raising with your cornet the skin from the flesh hollow it round about the place grieved into which hollowness thrust Lint dipped in the Oyl of Origanum and upon it lay a plaister of Paracelsus suffering it to continue till it rot and nature cast out both the Lint and Core or opening it if you lay roasted Elecampain roots to it it will take away the grievance Kibed heals the cause and cure THis Sorrance is known by a Scab breeding somewhat above the under joynt overthwart the Fettlock and is divers ways occasioned as by your Horses running in cold ground after a hard journey immoderate labour or neglect of the Keeper in not cleansing his feet and legs of the dirt contracted in the joynts which causeth the legs to sweell especially in winter when the ways are deep To cure this take the tender tops of Elder buds Blackberry bush-buds ere they bloom boyl them in the wort of new Ale adding thereto the whites of two new laid Eggs and half an ounce of Allum with which wash the place grieved morning and evening If this should fail take tryed Hogs-grease two ounces the like quantity of Gunpowder and mixing them well together daily anoint the place grieved for the space of six days and it will effect the cure if you be careful to keep your Horses feet and legs from Rain or other wet Kernels under the Chaul the cause and cure THis grievance incident to Horses is occasioned by heats and colds mostly taken by the neglect of those that have the Horse in charge the which if not timely prevented turns to the Glaunders To cure it give your Horse a convenient scouring the dose being made of Alloes fresh butter and the powder of Agarick giving him at once a ball thereof as big as a Pigeons Egg and afterward trot or amble him a mile or two and then bringing him to his Stable cloath him and keep him warm permitting him to fast two or three hours at the expiration of which give him a knop of Hay or if you can procure it a Mash of Malt very warm Lasks Looseness or open flux of a Horses Body the cause and cure THis distemper incident to Horses frequently rendering them weak and infirm is mostly occasioned by cold unseasonably taken though some times by Cholerick humours descending upon the Liver or the overflowing of the Gall which penetrates the Bowels by insensible ways at other times by drinking excess of cold water upon a full stomach which generates evil humours or by drinking cold water when hot or travailing too hard eating Hens dung or with the Provender licking up Feathers Spiders or any nauseous thing To cure which take flower of Garden Beans three ounces three ounces of Bolearmoniack and a quart of Stale-Beer to which add a quarter of a pint of red wine making them pretty hot and mixing them well give the Horse grieved to the quantity of a pint morning and evening for six days successively If the Lasks be violent use this medicine viz. of Allum and Bolearmoniack pulverized each an ounce put them into a quart of new-milk brewing it to and fro till it be sufficiently curdled and then making it blood-warm give it him to drink If the scouring be violent take the intralls of a Pullet omitting nothing but the Gizard dipping them when smalled by shreading in Oyl of Spicknard and so thrust them down your Horses throat by degrees and it will not only stay the scouring but the bloody flux notwithstanding if the bloody-flux be predominant take Saffron one ounce two of Myrrh three of Southernwood one of Parsly three of Rue two of Spittlewort and Hyssop one of Cassa and adding to them a quart of wine Vinegar and half a pound of the powder of Chalk bruise them well and then boyl them till they come to a thickness sufficient to be made into little cakes which cakes give your Horse dissolved in Whitewine or Stale-Beer well warmed morning and evening and in a day or two it will cause the Efflux of blood to stay and ease the pain in the bowels or bladder which is occasioned for want of staling Leprosie its cause and cure THis Loathsome distemper is known by a running Scab or Manginess spreading all over the body occasioned by Melancholy humours corrupt blood so made by excessive heats surfeits or unwholsome Provender and this grievance for the most part is first seen about the neck which becomes raw thereby and unseemly being altogether infectious insomuch that it is extreamly catching To cure this distemper take an ounce of Allum eight ounces of green Copperas an ounce of cut Tobacco free from stalks and boyl them well in a quart of spring water till the water is near half consumed and then as warm as the Horse can suffer it supple with the remaining part of the liquor the place grieved having first rubbed off the scabs and so do twice a day letting the Horse stand at the Rack a considerable time after If the Leprosie be inclinable to Mangie which it mostly is if occasioned by a surfeit then let your Horse blood and having rubbed off the Scabs or scurfe put together two ounces of Verdigrease and eight of Vinegar a pint of Cows Stale and a like quantity of Train Oyl and having bruised a handful of wild Tansie put it amongst the liquids adding moreover four ounces of Brimstone flower the like quantity of Roach-allum and of Bolearmoniack boiling together all the ingredients and putting amongst them about a pint of the Horses blood wash the place grieved with the liquor as hot as he can indure it and afterwards cloath him warm and in so doing six or seven times the cure will be perfected unless the infection has reached his internals the which if it has you must give him Diapente drink which will render him more liable to be cured The cause and cure of the distemper in a Horse called the Low-worm and the symptoms by which it may be known THis distemper is by many taken for St. Anthonies fire or the Shingles but indeed is caused by a worm in the back of the Horse bred between the flesh and the back bone often running along the neck till it tainteth the Brain at what time the Horse frequently falls mad which many Farriers mistaking for the staggers apply frequently the wrong medicine even to the destruction of the Horse The symptoms by which it may be distinguished are these viz. After a long journy the Horse will refuse his meat be troubled with sickness and suddain pains in his back which will cause him to shrink it up and again to
the scab till it bleed then take seven or eight sprigs of dryed Rosemary the like quantity of red Sage a handful of Bay-leaves and the like quantity of Pellitory of the wall adding to them half a pound of Allum powder then boyling them in Canary and Ale to the quantity of two quarts a fourth part of the former only with the liquid part wash the Sorrance Morning Noon and Evening and it will effect the cure How to know when a Horse is pricked and how to cure it THis Sorrance often comes by the negligence of the Farrier by not well pointing the nails well clenching them or driving weak nails that are apt to start aside and sometimes by stubs needles or rusty Iron getting into the foot in travailing to know which observe the Horses halting or pinch his hoof round with pinsers and when you come at the place grieved he will shrink in his foot or if you throw cold water upon the Hoof that part where the foot is grieved will be the soonest dry the which when you perceive take off the shoo and having discovered the cause of the grief draw it forth and opening the hole take Allum Salt and Copperas boyl them in Chamberly then washing therewith the grieved place tent it with Hogs Grease Verdigrease and Turpentine and putting on the shoo again stop his foot well with Cow-dung and by so doing five or six times the cure will be perfected Quinsie or Squinsie its cause and cure THis dangerous distemper both to Horses or Kine is occasioned by cold Phlegmatick humours settling in the neck and throat or many times through excess of blood and not timely bleeding To cure it after you have bled him if the swelling in his throat abate not lay a Poultiss of Mallows Chammomile Groundsil and Harts Tongue under his Chaule well beaten and fryed with Hogs-lard the which having once opened the passage of his throat take White Dogs-turd Roach-Allum and Hony and dissolving them in Milk give him them hot in a drenching horn and two or three hours after give him a horn full of the juice of Cinque foil or Cudweed in which Hyssop and Figs have been boiled and after it a pint of sweet wine the which by repeating three times a day for four or five days together will restore him to his feeding and health Rupture Vncording or Burstenness their cause and cure THese distempers differ but in name being in nature all one known when the Film Rim or Chaul sustaining the Horses Intrals break by excessive straining leaping or other accident insomuch that his Bowels fall into his Cod or Flank and is by many held incurable and indeed for the most part is so yet often by this method Bursten Horses have been cured viz. bring your Horse into a Barn and having gently thrown him upon soft straw by drawing his four legs together with Cords then by throwing them over a beam raise him from the ground with his back downwards and with butter and water or Deers suet well warmed supple his Stones taking them up between your fingers and by degrees dividing them from the Guts putting the Guts in their proper places and having so done tye the stones as near to the belly of Horse as as may be with a linnen string or soft list but so that the string of the Stones may not be bruised then let him down gently and putting him into a warm Stable take Vallerian Rupture-wort the husks of Hazelnuts Cross-wort Cranesbill Cyprus and Elme leaves or Bark Chammock roots beaten to powder and Corn-flag of each a handful bruise and mix them well and give it him to drink in Ale well boyled morning noon and night and suffer him not to eat over much for the space of thirteen days at the end of which take out one or both his Stones if he be bursten on both sides and not too old and by carefully sewing up the Cod and healing it with Oyl of Bays and now and then throwing cold water on it the Rim will knit and the Guts be retained in their due place rendering the Horse firm and fit for moderate labour The Stone in Horses it 's cause and cure THis grief much afflicting Horses comes by sundry means as by bad humours that stop the passage of the Bladder by excessive labour or over much riding foul matter descending upon the Kidnies when purged from the Liver and Spleen vitiating the neck of the Bladder causes hard knops to settle there which make him piss with pain and many times by holding his urine too long when heated by travail it condensates the humours it fiâ—st created into hardness which by the operation of the kidnies in time becomes little Stones or Gravel and may be perceived by his often striving in vain to avoid his urine but cannot at least not freely but in great pain to dissolve and make him avoid which take the Roots of Nettles Parsly Sperage and Dodder of each three ounces bray them well and boyl them in two quarts of Whitewine till a third part be consumed then taking them off the fire put thereto Goats-lard Salt and Olive Oyl of each three ounces strain it and give him a pint of the liquor each morning as hot as is convenient for six or seven mornings together and it will bring away the Gravel c. For want of the aforesaid Medicine take Radish-roots slice them as also Onions and Parsly-leaves of all three to the weight of sixteen ounces an ounce of London Treacle and the like quantity of Eggshells burnt to powder and boyling them in a gallon of spring water till a third part be consumed give it the Horse to drink seven or eight mornings successively or at any other time if the infirmity be grievous The falling out of the Mares Womb or Horses Fundament the cause and how to prevent them THe Womb of a Mare is subject to many defects as Barrenness Falling out Abortion c. mostly caused through intemperateness creating too much moisture and cold or too much fevorish humour or heat and the former of these causes it is that makes the Horses Fundament to fall out something relating to which I have already laid down but for the better and more speedy cure and prevention Take Leeks Bolearmonick Nitrum and Oyl of Cammomil boyl them in a pint of white-wine and a quart of Ale and give it Glister-wise administring it to either of them after the Womb or Fundament is well put up and for several days after give them water wherein Fennegreek Seeds have been boyled permiting him or her to stand warm and dry Wind-Galls what they are and how to cure them THese sorrances are Bladders fill'd with salt watery humours gellied and thick growing mostly upon the Fetlock joynt on each side being troublesome and painful especially in hot weather and the ways hard they proceed from the effects of hard labour overheatings and unseasonable coolings which cause the humours to descend into
order To disperse evil humours take smallage Ox-ey of each two handfuls bruise them in a Mortar and put to them mans urine and Oyl of Turpentine boil them and as hot as the Horse can indure it rubbing the place exceeding hard and afterward cloath him warm If your Horse be troubled with Gourdy-gouty legs coming either by Farcins or scratches use this Bath Take a quart of Chamberly put into it a handful of Baysalt a quarter of a pound of sope a handful of Soot and Misletoe chopped small with all which well boyled bath the place grieved and in so doing divers times the swellings will vanish and the Farcins be prevented If your Horse be subject to tire or stiffe and out of order with hard travailing make a bath of Mallows Sage Mint and Rose-cakes putting a good handful of each into a Gallon of water boyling the water till it is near consumed then adding half a pint of Olive Oyl and half a pound of Butter with the liquid part bath his legs and keep him walking for half and hour These and such like are the natures and uses of baths Perfumes for purging the Head how to make and use them IF your Horse be troubled either with the Glaunders Colds Pozes Catarrhs or any the like distemper in the head take Olibanum Storax Benjamine and Frankincense of each half an ounce bruise and mix them well then taking a Chafingdish of coles sprinkle it upon them and having a funnel ready cover the Chafing-dish therewith that so the smoke coming out of the little end may ascend into the Horses head and it will comfort the brain purge away filth and break the cold or for want of these burn the roots of black Hellebore and Turpentine or Burgundy-pitch or Ducks feathers dried Pimpernel and Rosemary and by so doing the effects will manifest their virtues Suppositories what they are their use and how to make them A Suppository so called is no other than a preparative for a Glister by opening the Horses body and rendering him capable to receive it in such a case take a large Candle of five or six in the pound cut off both ends anoint it with Oyl and having raked the Horse thrust it into his Fundament and there suffering it to rest trot him and it will greatly loosen his belly If your Horse has taken a surfeit take six ounces of Hony an ounce of Salt-niter and the like quantity of Anniseeds making them into a stiff past with wheat flower then make a ball as big as a half-penny loaf and thrust it into his Fundament keeping it in by binding down his Tail to the Girt If you intend to purge Phlegm put a round piece of Castle Sope in his Fundament if Choler take a handful of Savin and a like quantity of Staves-acre bruise them and put them into a like quantity of Hony and boyl them till they may be made into a ball then use it as the former If melancholy take a large Red Onion and peeling it put it into his Fundament If for Phlegm make a suppository of Hony and Oat flower and in thus ordering your Horse be sure he be fasting and that he drink no cold water that day That he be kept warm and well looked to Charges what they are their use and how to make them CHarges are no other than Plaisters or Poultesses laid to the place grieved and because I have already largely treated about the like I shall now insist on but two which may be used upon any occasion viz. Take two pounds of Wheat flower half a pint of Whitewine a pound of Hony half a pound of Bolearmoniack beaten into powder boyl them on a fire adding half a pound of black Pitch the like quantity of Turpentine the seeds of Cummin Sanguis Draconis and Fennegreek of each an ounce Bayberries and Oyl of Bays of each an ounce boyl them to a Salve and use it in case of any wrench shoulderslip Hipslip dislocated bone stretched sinews scratches swelling tumour or the like there being no better any where to be found The second Charge make thus take of the Oyl of Bays a quarter of a pound of Cantharides Orpin and Euphorbum of each two ounces and having made the latter three into powder mingle them with the former and spreading it after it has been well boiled plaisterwise lay it to the place grieved it is excellent in case of fractured or dislocated bones joynt slips or strains weeping wounds to dry up humours and also for any swelling of the Back strain or sinews and indeed it may be applied with success to any Grief or Sorrance Most excellent Drenches to cure all inward diseases as Feavers of all sorts Plague infection c. HAving let your Horse blood especially in case of Fevers of all forts which are Tertian Quartan Quotidian Hectick and Autumnal Fevers coming by Pestilential air Accidental Fever or general Plague known by Trembling Panting Sweating Dull countenance Short-breath Faintness decay of stomach Costiveness and the like give him this drink viz. Take the Roots of Cellendine as also the leaves a good handful a like quantity of Rue Balm and Wormwood Powder of Diapente half an ounce a pound of Fresh Butter wash the herbs bruise them and put them into a quart or three pints of Ale then having boyled them strain the liquid part and give it the Horse to drink three mornings successively Secondly To the same purpose take three or four new laid Eggs beat their yolks with as many spoonfulls of Brandy put thereto an ounce of Diapente and a like quantity of Hony adding half a pint of Canary and give it your Horse when the Fever or Ague is just coming on him Thirdly Take Elecampain Roots reduced into powder an ounce Liquorish Anniseed and Cuminseed a like quantity Bay berries Longpepper and Fennegreek of each a quarter of an ounce beat them together adding half a pint of Olive Oyl or for want of it half a pound of sweet butter set them over a fire in a pint of Canary or Ale and give him the liquid part in a Drenching horn Fourthly Take Red Sage Mint and Diatessaron of each two ounces boyl them in a quart of Beer sweeten them with two ounces of Sugarcandy and give them the Horse and thus observing in all hot distempers to administer cooling things and in cooling distempers hot things your expectations will be answered if you do not apply them unseasonably Causticks and Corrosives what they are and how to be applyed A Caustick is no other than a burning by application making a wound where none was before in which case Lime Oyl of Vitriol Aqua fortis c. are applyed how to mannage which upon divers occasions I have before recited Corrosives are in the same manner applyed but of less force only used in eating away dead or spungy flesh hard knobs Bony Excrescences or the like they are used likewise in case of Farcines Leprosie Mange and the
hair he with a Lancet raises the skin and thrusts in the Lead being dipped in Oyl of Tartar suffering it to rest there four days then taking it out claps the skin close so that the hair growing again becomes as white as milk To make a Red Star Blaze or Snip in a White-Horse he shaves away the hair and anoints the skin with Oyl of Vitriol Soot and the juice of Hemlock To make a Black Star in a White Horse he uses the decoction of Fern-roots Soot or Ink and the wood of Oliander the which when he has raised the skin he puts under suffering it there to remain and by so doing the hair immediately becomes Black nay if he has had a Horse often to the Market and he has there been blown upon he will dye him a quite contrary colour and though he be troubled with most distâ—â—pers incident to Horses yet will he swear he has neither Splint Spavin nor Windgal Scratches Crepances nor Rats-tails Mules nor Cibil-heels Sellender nor Mallender Curb Ringbone nor Quitterbone Houghbone Sit-fast Anbury nor Vives neither Farcine Founder-footed Broken-winded Grease Molten or Running Glaunders but good Eyes good Thighs and every thing answerable These and a hundred more are the tricks of the Jockies which for brevities sake I shall at this time forbear to mention and proceed to treat of other Cattle useful and necessary to man A TREATISE OF CATTLE Their Ordering Cure c. HAving treated largely of the Horse c. I shall now proceed to satisfie the reader in the management of other useful Cattle and first of the Bull Ox Cow and Calf The Bull most fit to get a good breed must be long bodied of colour Red broad shouldered strong-boned not over large of body his breast broad his head short and full foreheaded his eyes black and full his Horns smooth and short and his Tail long and Bushy The Cow must not be too large nor too small rather long than short her Rump broad of colour Black with some changeable spots of White or Red her Wind-pipe large her Womb the like her forehead flat and broad her Eyes large and Black her Horns long but smooth and for the most part black great Mouth thin Cheeks wide Nostrils large Dew-laps long and thick-neck broad Shoulders long Tail smooth and even Claws long Teats and broad Breast and in making these observations in your choice you will seldom or never miss of a good breed if you order them accordingly viz. put not your Heifer to the Bull till she be three years old and suffer her not to bear Calves for store after twelve The best time to put her to the Bull is in May or June and to know when she is desirous of him observe if the Claws of her feet be swollen the which if they be then is it a sign of Lust in her and that she is desirous to be covered or by her continual lowing the same may be known and that she may the sooner conceive keep her with spare diet two or three days before you lead her to the Bull and the leaner the better though the Bull at the same time must be in good Case if she refuse to take the Bull or that the Bull be backward burn Harts-Tail under their noses or rub the Cows Reception place with Nettleseeds or ground Ginger and afterwards with a Sponge with which Sponge rub the Bulls nose and by so doing you will provoke them to desire when the Cow has so often received the Bull as you think convenient put her into a warm house for a weeks space not milking her in that time unless her Udders stretch then put her into an inclosed field where she cannot leap out nor run through Bushes suffering her often to drink clear water and in so ordering her at ten months end she will bring you a lusty Calf or two if no casualty prevent it When your Cow has Calved you must give her a comfortable dose viz. half a pint of Malmsey four new laid Eggs and a pint of Ale mixed together suffering the Calf to lie by her in fresh and warm straw and as soon as you find he has recovered any strength put him to the Teat at what time if you perceive him bubble and rather mumble the Teat than suck or if it be at any time after look under his tongue and if you there perceive a white fleshy substance growing over the Tongue cut it away with a sharp pair of Scissars without wounding the Tongue washing it thereupon with Water Salt and the juice of Garlick and when the Calf begins to grow up it you perceive he is troubled with Lice or afflicted with Scabs keep him in fresh straw and wash him with urine wherein Butter and Colewort-stalks have been boiled In gelding your Calf that he may so be an Ox the best time is at a year and half Old when the Moon is in the Wane observing that the sign at that time be not in Libra Scorpio nor Sagittarius The manner of gelding must be thus throw him on soft Straw having good help to hold him that he hurt not himself with strugling then taking one Cod between your fingers slit it so wide that the Stone may come forth which being done use the other in the like manner and drawing them forth put the strings between a cleft stick hold them hard and sear them off with a hot Iron then melt bees-wax on the heads of the strings and having anointed them and the Cod with warm butter put them up and keep him in a warm house for two or three days especially if the weather be cold giving him milk dusted with Bran chopped Hay and crumbs of Bread and in that time he will recover his appetite and soon after give him a purge viz. half an ounce of Rubarb and ten or twelve leaves of Spurg Laurel boyled in a quart of small Ale or an ounce of Lupinseeds boil'd in a pint of Whitewine and by so doing you will preserve him from sickness and render him strong and lusty Diseases and Sorrances incident to this kind of Cattle and their Cure and first of Scabs Itch Mange eating sores in the Neck Aposthumes Boils Vlcers Head-Ach Rheum and Hidebound on the Legs Ribs c. IF the Bull Cow Calf or Ox be troubled with the Itch Scab or Mange To Cure them take the dregs of Oyl Olive Ox Gall the powder of Brimstone and Roach-Allum of each two ounces Vinegar half a pint put them into a quart of Chamberly and having well boyled them therein bath the places grieved with the liquid part thereof and the cure will be effected If afflicted with the eating neck Sore take three roots of Garlick an ounce of Brimstone flower sharp Vinegar a pint six Galls and a handfull of Soot boyl them together adding three ounces of Hogs-grease till the liquid part is mostly consumed and it becomes so thick that it may be applyed to the grievance plaisterwise
drawing forth the Stones as far as may be then putting the strings between a cleft stick sear them asunder with a hot Iron and melt on the tops of them Bees-wax or Rosin anoint them afterwards with butter and put them up keeping the Swine so gelded exceeding warm for a month after giving them warm Pollard and ground Beans The Sow-pigs must not be spaied till eight or nine months old at soonest and then it must be done with great caution especially in cutting the slit and sowing it up after the Matrix is taken out for if the Guts be touched in cutting or stitched to the side in sowing the Sow will either soon dye or pine away If you would have your Hog suddenly fat put him up in a close Stie suffer him to lye dry and have as little light as may be give him half a peck of Pease morning noon and evening or for want of them Beans Mast and Acorns after each quantity let him drink warm water into which wheat-bran has been scattered or if you are not stored with the aforesaid meats give him Pollard and Carrots but by no means Offal or Garbidge for that renders the flesh unwholesome and in so doing your Hog will be very good meat for Pork in ten or twelve days and for Bacon in sixteen but as all countries are not alike stored with food for Swine other meats than what have been expressed must be given them in like manner Sickness in Swine how to know it and the cure for Head-Ach Swine-pox and the distemper called the eating Yarrow THere are few beasts more subject to distempers than the Swine though their distempers are not so many To know when they are sick the hanging of their Ears dullness of Countenance want of Appetite and the like are certain signs but a more certain than these is suddenly to draw half a score or more Bristles out of the Hogs back and if the ends or roots appear white then is the Hog in good health but if black bloody or spotted then is he afflicted with some internal sickness or has received some great bruise To cure the Head-ache commonly called the Sleepy-evil hold open his mouth with a Gagg and with a Pen-knife or Fleam blood him under the Tongue after which boyl Savin Rue and Cropel-stone in fair water of each a proportionable quantity give it him to drink being strained or if he refuse to drink put a quart of Malt into it and he will receive it For the distemper called the Swine-pox give him an ounce of Mithridate boiled in a quart of water sweetned with an ounce of English Hony or if that fail give him a pint of Lambs blood warm adding thereto a quarter of a pint of Olive Oyl and an ounce of beaten pepper There are divers herbs dangerous to Hogs as Mad-chervil Millfoil and the like of which if a Hog eat he presently becomes sick To remedy which boyl Wild-Cucumbers and Anniseeds in water and set it before the Swine lukewarm that by drinking it he may vomit up the infectious humour generated by eating those unwholsom herbs and restore his health Diseases in the Eyes of Swine Agues Fevers Measels Rhumes and Catarrhs their respective Remedies If your Swine be afflicted with any specks spots Rheums or blood-shot in his Eyes for the specks or spots Take burnt-Allum and the powder of burnt-eggshel and blow into his eyes and afterwards wash them with juice of Bettony and Housleek or for want of them with the juice of Rue or Herbagrace if with Rheums take an ounce of Bolearmoniack beat it into powder add to it a like quantity of grated bread and of the juice of Cellendine Eye-bright and Whitewine as much as will make them exceeding moist when blowing into his Eyes the powder of round Bithwort-roots or for want of them the powder of the yolk of an Egg apply the aforesaid ingredients to the Eye or Eyes plaisterwise and by renewing it twice or thrice the grievance will vanish you must bind it hard on or the Swine will soon throw it off If the Swine be troubled with Ague or Fever let him blood in the Tail and give him water to drink wherein Tree-foil and Wood-sorrel have been boiled and keep him close The measels come through excessive or unwholesome feeding and are discerned by knots or pimples under the Swines tongue and weakness of his hinder parts at what time let him bath in Sea water or water made excessive salt give him that water and bruised Garlick with his meat also the Husks of Grapes and Gooseberries if they may be had or the Peels of Lemons or Citterns If your Swine be afflicted with Rheums or Catarrhs burn Brimstone under his nose or Storax if you can get it then bruise Garlick well make it up into Pills with salt and Butter and oblige him to swallow two or three of them Plague or diseases in the Milt Imposthumes or swellings in the Throat Neck swelling their cure as also an excellent Remedy to prevent vomiting IF your Swine by eating Carrion or other nauseous meats be afflicted with the Plague or Milt swelling which is known by his dullness uneasiness burning and the like take new Hony two ounces Turpentine an ounce Brimstone-flower an ounce juice of Garlick a quarter of a pint boyl them in a quart of small beer and give it him as hot as he can well indure and afterwards keep him close in his Stie If your Swine be troubled with Imposthumes or swellings in the throat make him a drink of Chammomil Mallows and May-weed boiled in Vinegar sweetened with brown Sugar and give it him warm laying to the swelling a plaister of Tarr Salt and Rieflower or for any Imposthume in the body you may use the same Medicine for any swelling in the Neck or Throat if you cannot presently get the aforesaid things let him blood If your Swine be addicted to vomiting occasioned by eating Hemlock Hens-dung or the like or through two much moisture let him fast a day then give him Bran and water wherein Dillseeds and Allum have been boiled and it will close up the mouth of the stomach and prevent for the future his vomiting Colds or Coughs Belly-Ach Lameness Diseases in the Gall and Flux their Cure c. IF your Swine be afflicted with Cold or Cough which indeed is troublesome and does greatly impoverish those creatures Take six or seven ounces of live hony a quarter of a pint of the juice of Lemons a handful of Coltsfoot and Lungwort an ounce of the powder of Liquorish and half a pint of Olive Oyl boyl then in a Gallon of beer or fair water and give him the liquid part to drink very warm morning and evening three or four days successively not exceeding a pint at a time If your Swine be afflicted by the Belly-Ache which is occasioned either by much wind or evil feeding Take of Black-Pepper an ounce Hony two ounces Anniseeds two ounces boyl them in a quart of Whitewine and give it him hot and in twice so doing provided he take the dose fasting it will cure him In case of Lameness by Sprain Stroak Ulcer Thorn Stroak or the like when the bone is rightly place the Thorn Splint or Stub c. pulled out take a quarter of a pint of French-wine half an ounce of Turpentine the like quantity of Oyl of Roses an ounce of Hony and the like quantity of Mutton suet boyl them till they come to a thickness and spreading them plaisterwise apply them hot to the place grieved If your Swine be afflicted by the overflowing of the Gall take of Bolearmoniack an ounce a like quantity of Hony and Turmerick beaten into powder a dram of Saffron and of the seeds of Mellions half an ounce boyl them in two quarts of sweet wort and give him a pint for four mornings together If he be afflicted with the Flux or looseness take a quart of Whitewine a handful of Rosecake half a pint of Milk an ounce of Galls and an ounce of Ginger boyl them together give him the liquid part suffering him to feed for two or three days upon dry meat as Pease Beans Bran or the like To kill Lice prevent Thirst and an excellent Receipt for an Oyntment to be used in case of fractured bones dislocated or swelled Joynts c. IF your Swine be afflicted with Lice or Ticks anoint with Linseed Oyl and flower of Brimstone if with Maggots in any sore place use Tarr and Sope. To prevent excessive Thirst which through the heat of the Swines body causes Fevers in Summer time suffer your Hogs to bath in cool water driving them thither often for that purpose To make the Oyntment for fractured bones c. Take sheeps suet three ounces Venice Turpentine and Bees-wax of each half an ounce Galbâ—num and Storax of each a dram Olivâ— Oyl half a pint boyl them inâ—â— an ointment and use them as you see occasion And thus Reader I have performed my promise as I well hope to your satisfaction FINIS