underneath the Tongue an Inch long for to let forth the Poyson and wash it with Vinegar for the present and within an Hour then give them three penniworth of the Powder of Fenigrick Turmerick long Pepper Liquoris-powder and Anniseeds in a quart of strong Ale or Beer Milk-warm And for to prevent this blood them well at the Spring and at the Fall and when you Blood them give to every Beast some Rhue in a pint of Ale or Beer if they be never so well Milk-warm and they will do well Approved of my self IV. For the Garget on the Tongue and Throat THis Disease somtimes cometh of Blood and sometimes of eating of poyson Grass as Dogs-bane Goose-foot Helmet flowers all these are poyson either to Beast or Swine The Cure You must first blood them in the Neck and if they be swelled under the Jawes against the Throat-Bowl then you must pull forth his Tongue and cut a Vein that lieth under the Tongue and cut the Skin two inches long under the Tongue length-way for to let forth the Blood and Water and wash the Tongue with Vinegar Salt and burnt Allom and for the out side that is swelled you must slit the Hide just against the swell'd place four Fingers broad every way and then put in a good handfull of Speargrass Salt and Butter and stitch some of the hole up again then take a lump of the blewest Clay as much as a Mustard-ball and boyle it with old Urine and the middle Green Bark of young Elder and a good handfull of Salt and let them boyle a quarter of an Hour or more and put in a little reased Bacon and boyl them all together until they be thick like Pap and then bath the Beasts Face from the Ears downwards and stroak it downwards towards the Slit as hot as you can endure the hotter the better and bath the Beast so three times a Day and when the swelling is abated them take Tar fresh Butter and Bees-wax and annoint the sore place and it will be well presently by Gods help Approved And to prevent this Disease you must do by them as I said in the former Chapter Blood them and give them some Rhue and strong Ale or Beer compounded together and give it them Milk-warme V. Another for the same TAke the blewest Clay that you can get and take Hogs Grease and a little Grunsel and boyl them in new milk until the Herbs be well boyled and put in a handful of Salt and bath the Beast as hot as you be able for to put in your Hand but first let blood in the Neck and give them three penniworth of Fenigrick Turmerick Long-Pepper Anniseeds Liquoris all in equal Portions but three Pence in all and give it them in a quart of strong Ale or Beer Milk-warm and they will mend presently by Gods help Approved of my selfe And for the preventing of it you must Blood them in the Spring and Fall and it will prevent them giving them some Rhue in strong Ale when you blood them VI. For the Garget in the Head and Throat as some do call the Murrain Long-sought THis Garget is Cousen German to the Murrain for they will swell and be puck under their Jaws like a rotten Sheep their Cheeks will be swelled up to their Eyes they will not foam at the Mouth but they run water very much and sometimes their Tongue will be swelled at the Root and yet there will be no blisters but only the Venom that cometh of an ill distemper of Stomack and so fumeth into the Head and if it be not staid it will return to the Heart and all over the Body The right name of this Disease is called the Mountain Evil among Beasts The Cure First let them Blood in the Neck Vein both sick and sound and give to every Beast to drink both sick and sound a pint of old Urine and a good quantity of Hens-dung laid in steep Eight or Ten Hours and grind for every Beast a handful of Rhue and put to the Hens-dung Urine when it is strained and give it to the Beasts both sick and sound but more to the sick and less to the sound and it will cure the sick and prevent the sound Approved And for to keep them sound if the year time be dangerous you must take Time lay it in steep in White-wine Vinegar and the Beasts own Water and a handful of Salt and blend with the Vinegar and rub their Mouth and. Tongue very well and put the rest down the Beasts Throat and it will keep their Stomach and preserve their Health but Blood both at the Spring and Fall of the Leaf and give them Rhue as aforesaid VII A special Cure for the Murrain in a Beast THis Disease cometh many severall ways first it cometh of rankness of Blood or Feeding or from the corruption of the Air or the infection of other Cattel you may find this Disease by their Carriage That is they will foam at the Mouth and blow very thick and short and their Heart and Lights will beat very sore and sometimes their Face and Chaps will swell and their Eyes will run with water The Cure First let all your Beasts Blood both Sick and Sound and give to the sick some Rhue Fetherfew Sage Hyssop Time Marjerom Marigolds Fennel Tansey Lavender and Spike of every one a small handful and boyle all the Herbs in Spring Water and boyle them from a Gallon to a quart and then strain the Herbs forth and put to for every Beast a pint of strong Ale to the Juice and put to the Juice and Ale some long Pepper and green Anniseeds Peas and Bay-salt Treacle and Liquoris-powder and Butter pound all these Spices and put them to the Juice of Herbs and give to the sick a full pint and to the sound halfe a pint and they will mend for certain Approved VIII Another excellent Cure for the Murraine in Ox Cow or Calf FIrst you must take for every Beast a quart of old Wash and a good quantity of Hens-dung and lay the Hens-dung in steep Eight or Ten Hours and then strain the Dung forth and break to every Beast Two rotten Eggs into the forenamed Juice and give to every one two penniworth of Spikenard and blend all these together and give it the Beast but first let Blood both sick and sound and seperate the sick from the sound Blood and Drench both Horses and Swine for they are both apt to take the Disease Bury the Dead Carrion deep in the Ground that the Dogs cannot pull it forth for to feed on it for they are those that carry the Desease from one place to another and be carefull where you lay the Murrain Hide of an Horse or how a man doth take off the Hide while the Beast is hot for it is infectious the safest way is to bury the Beast the Hide and all for that is the best way and by Gods help they will be
them sometimes it taketh them in the Neck and sometimes in their Legs and sometimes in both and if it do take them in their Limbs it is very hard to recover them The Cure Take Rosemary Sage Unset Hyssop Woodbine-leaves every one of these a good handful and two handfuls of Burdock leaves and boyl all these in a Gallon of spring Water till they all come to a quart and then strain forth the Herbs and melt in half a pound of Roach-Allom and put it into an earthen Pot and keep it close from the Wind and give it the Beasts in at their Nostrils by six spoonfuls at a time and no more each Nostril three spoonfuls and give it them three times a day and no more and give it them as long as the Liquor lasteth and it will help them Approved But first let them Blood in the Tail and let them bleed very well there is no question of their mending XXV For the Speed in the hinder parts THis Disease may well be called the Speed because it either mendeth or endeth in three days time it cometh of the rankness of blood and is catching among young Cattel betwixt one year old and three and none else it also cometh for want of blooding It taketh them in the hinder parts The Cure Give them Salt and Whitewine blended together and those that are well blood them in the neck Vein and those that are fick blood them in the Taile and let them bleed very well then cast them and tie their Feet and take a sharp knife and slit a hole two Inches long in the inside of the hinder Legs above the hollow of the Gambrel streight up and down for fear of cutting any Vein or Sinew and make some room with your Finger for to put in some Speargrass Salt and Butter and give them a quart of Ale and some Rhue Sage Fetherfew and Spurge ground small and put to the Ale and give to the Beasts warm but you must not drive them above twelve Hours if you do they will be past help if they be taken while they can stand they are curable by Gods help Approved XXVI For the Pantas THis Disease is called the Pantas it cometh by eating foul sowre Grass or dry harsh Grass in Summer which doth not go forth of their Maw but maketh them go with a short grunt and go but a little and stand as if they were not able to go half a Mile The Cure Take a quart of half-churned Milk with the Butter in it and take a good Garlick head or two little ones and pill them as if they were to eat and bruise them and take a penniworth of the finest Tar that you can get and a good handful of the finest Feathers that can be got without any stumps for fear of sticking in the Beasts Throat and beat all these together and if they chance to go on lumps put them all together and beat in a little Soot and give it the Beasts and they will be well in four and twenty Hours Approved XXVII A good Receipt for the biting of a Shrew-Mouse THis Shrew-Mouse for her bigness is a more Venemous Beast then any for if she biteth any Beast though it be but little it will swell abundantly The Cure When you see that your Beast is bitten and is swelled then take an Awl and prick it up and down as far as it is swelled through the Hide and no further then take the Earth where Wains and Carts do much use to go but let it be the dryest of it and blend it with Whitewine Vinegar and it will presently asswage and heal the swelling Also take the Earth of a Cart-wheel and the earth of a Swallows nest and pound them together and blend them with old Urine and make it thick like a Salve and annoint the sore place that is bitten and it will cure either Man or Beast Approved XXVIII Another good Receipt for the Shrew-Mouse THe biting of this Shrew is venomous as is said before The Cure First open the Skin and let out the venom and if it be swelled then beat Salt and Vinegar together and bathe the sore place with it and then boyl some Herbs to bath the swelled place but boyl them in old Urine bathe it round about the Sore and if it chance to break then you must take Barley and lay it on a Fire-shovel and burn it black-brown and then pound it to Powder and lay it in steep in White-wine vinegar all night and put to a little of the juice of Dill and blend them together annoint the place till it be well and that will be quickly Approved of my self XXIX Another for the Shrew-Mouses THe bite of a Shrew-Mouse is as venomous as the sting of a Wasp for if she bite either Man or Beast it will swell immediately The Cure You must take Parsley seed and boyl it with Whitewine Salade oyl Hogs grease also take some Powder of burnt Barley and blend in it and make it like a Salve and annoint the Sore till it be well This is good for to cure the biting of Hedge-hogs or the stinging of Hornets XXX For the stinging of Adders and Scorpions or the biting of a Hedge-hog or Shrew FOr the stinging and biting of these venomous creatures take the oyl of Scorpions and Vinegar with Plantane and Bole-armonick made thick like a Salve and annoint the place so grieved three times a day Also take Sanguis Draconis and a little Barly Meal and the white of Eggs beat all these together and lay them on Plaister-wise to the Sore and renewing it once in twelve Hours it will help them for this and for the the stinging of Hornets Approved XXXI For the swelling of an Oxes Cod. FOr the swelling of an Oxes Cod by any chance whatsoever you must annoint him with sweet Seam at the first three times a day and if it do not fall then take Wallearth and dissolve it in Vinegar and the Dung of an Ox and bath them with it Some holds it a naturall remedy for the dung of a Dog to cure the swelling of an Oxes Cod or Pisle if they be often rubbed with it XXXII For an Ox or Cow that hath lost their Appetite FOr the Beasts that are tired by labour and have lost their appetite you must cause them to swallow raw Eggs well beaten with Honey Vinegar and Salt Also give them Horehound made into fine Powder to drink and it will help the Appetite Also stamp the tops of Rhue Leeks Smallage and Sage and give it them to drink in Whitewine and it will help their Appetite Also for the swelling of the Pallate of the Mouth take a sharp knife and launce it and let forth the Water and Blood and rub the slit with Water and Salt and it will do well XXXIII A Remedy for the loss of the Cud. BEasts sometimes lose their Cud by chance and if so then they will mourn and sometimes by
sickness and poverty The Cure Take sowre Leaven of Rie-bread Salt and beat it in a Mortar with mans Urine and Barm and make a big Ball or two of it and put them down the Throat of the Beasts and they will do well Also take part of the Cud of another Beast and blend it with Rie-bread sowre Leaven and Salt and pound them in a Mortar and make it into Balls and give it to the Beasts and they will get their Cud again for certain XXXIV For the Lungs Growing of any Beast THe Lungs of a Beast is very often subject to sickness or stopping as will appear by their coughing and hosting and sometimes they will hang forth their Tongues a great while after their hosting that is a sign of the Lungs Growing There is no other Medicines for this Disease but these two following The Cure You must take a pint of Tanners Ooze and blend it with a pint of new Milk and an ounce of brown Sugarcandy and two penniworth of Salade Oyl and two spoonfulls of Tar and give it to the Beast warm at twice Also you must give them two Balls either of them as big as an Egg of Tar Butter Garlick and Sugarcandy blended all together and it will mend them presently Approved XXXV For to kill Worms in Ox Cow or Calf THere is nothing better to kill Worms in Cattell then pounded Savin and black Soap blended with a quart of sweet Wort and given them in a morning fasting and keep them without meat three Hours after XXXVI A good Receipt for a Beast that is Dewboulne at the Spring or in Eddige-time FOr this Dewboulne you must first let them blood in the Tail and then take a Nutmeg and grate it and take an Egg and take off the top of the shell and put out so much of the white as you may put the Nutmeg into the shell and blend them together and put it down the Beasts Throat shell and all and walk them up and down and they will mend presently This swelling most commonly cometh when the Grass is full of Water and then it is full of Wind also so that then the Beast lappeth up both Wind and Water and that causeth them to swell then stir them up and down and cause them to Purge and they will do well There is less danger in putting them to wet Eddige then there is to dry for the dry Eddige will not go through their Maws so well when it is dry and the Beasts hungry XXXVII A good way to breed Milk IF your Cow chance to have a Calf and be poor or to Calve before her time and hath not Milk for to keep her Calf you must give her good store of Mashes of Mault Milk-warm also give her every morning and evening a quart of Ale made into a Posset and take off the Curd and put in Anniseeds Cummin seeds Lettice seeds and Coriander seeds all made into Powder and blend them with the Posset and let them stand three Hours blended together and then give it the Beast for four days one after another and by often drawing of her Paps her Milk will be sure to encrease mightily in a short time XXXVIII For the Withering of a Cow FOr the Withering of a Cow take Coleworts Mallows Maidenhair Mugwort Bettany Aristolochia and boyl all these in Water and give it to the Beast Milk-warm Also take Aristolochia Mirrhe and Pepper and bruise them and give it the Beast in white Wine or strong Ale Milk-warm and it will cause her to cast forth her Latter burden or dead Calf and make her whole for certain Approved XXXIX A good Receipt for a Beast that maketh Blend-water that cometh by a strain and issueth through the Bladder THere may be several causes for the making of Blend-water First it may come by a Strain Crush or Wrench in the Back which may cause some Vein to be broken near the Kidney and so may feed the Bladder and it may come to a Cow in her Calving by a strain or it may come by change of Ground or harsh feeding as I mentioned before in the former Chapter The Cure Take a Swallows nest the Birds and all if you can get them and put them all into a Mortar and pound the Birds Nest and Feathers all together and then boyl them in fair Water and put in a good handful of Plantane leaves and seeds Blewbottle and the roots of Daffidillies also put in a little Sumack and boyl them very well then strain them and put to a little sweet Wine and give it the Beast Milk-warm fasting But first let blood in the Neck-vein for to draw the Blood back and within half an Hour give them the Drink and it will stay certainly XL. For to get a Beast a stomach when he is weary and tired WHen a Beast is tired or weary it may be through weakness and poverty of his Body it will bring some Disease or other upon him To prevent that and bring him to a Stomach take a little handfull of Salt and Whitewine Vinegar and rub his Mouth and Tongue very well and put the rest down his Throat and he will eat his Meat presently XLI For the hardness or swelling of a Bull or Oxes Pisle that is bruised by Riding FOr the swelling of a Bull or Oxes Pisle you must take Holyhawk Houseleek and a little Plantane and stamp them together with fresh Butter and annoint it twice a day and if it be sore you must cast him and wash his Sheath and Pisle with Whitewine-vinegar very well and if there be any Cancer or Holes in the Yard then you must put some burnt Allom to the Vinegar and wash it very well and he will mend in three times dressing without fail Approved XLII For Forbaiting or a swolne Foot of any Beast THis Forbaiting cometh by sore travel or work which causeth lameness and fretting of the Foot The Cure You must Boyl Honey and Hogs-grease in Whitewine untill it be thick like Pap and lay it on the Foot a good thickness and let it lie on three days before you remove it Also for a swoln Foot take half a handful of Elder-leaves a few leaves of Grunsel and a few crops of Chickweed and a little Housleek and Swines-grease and beat them altogether in a Mortar till they be like a Salve and lay it on Plaister-wise and it will take down the swelling without fail XLIII For the stenching of Blood of any Beast cut or hurt and how to make a Salve to heal it FIrst if you chance to have any Beast cut or hurt you must take Hares-wooll or Rabbets-wooll and fill the cut or slit full of it and hold it to with your your hand or else bind it fast with some string and burn the upper Leather of an old Shooe and take the Ashes of it and strew amongst the Wooll and it will stay the bleeding But let it lie on four and twenty Hours before you do take it
well again presently IX A good Receipt for to take off an Anberry or Wart on any Beast THis Anberry cometh of Blood and is a spongie kind of Flesh full of Blood and Water and groweth most commonly on young Beasts betwixt one year old and four The Cure If it be of any bulk so that you can tie any thing about it take ten Horse-hairs and tie them about the Wart as hard as you can and once in eight days you will see it fall away and then you may heal it up with unslack't Lime and Honey and if it be flat then you must take it off with a hot Iron and heal it up as is said before and if it be in such a place as among Sinews and Veins then you must eat it away with Rosulger or Mercury and then stop the hole with Flax and the white of Eggs for two days and then heal it up with the Powder of unslack't Lime and Honey and it will do well Approved of my self X. A good Receipt for the Madness in the Head of Bull Ox or Cow FOr the madness in the Head it procedeth from Blood The Cure First cord them in the Neck and Blood them in the Temples under the Eyes and in the Ears and let them bleed very well and give them Fenigrick Turmerick Long Pepper and green Anniseeds all alike in Portions and but three Pence in the whole and the Juice of Rhue or else very small Graines and put all together and give it them in a quart of strong Ale or Beer Milk-warm and give the one half of the thinnest in at their Nostrils and the rest at their Mouth this Disease is easily found for they will reel as they go and set their Head into the Heck or against a Wall or a Gate and two men can hardly stir them And thus much for this Disease for I have approved it XI For the Garget in the Maw FOr the Garget in the Maw you may perceive it by their drooping and heaviness in their Head and hanging down their Head and Ears their Heart will beat very sore and many times they will be very Costive in their Body and will not eat any thing but sit continually The Cure Let them Blood in the Neck-Veine and let them bleed very well and then draw your Cord and take Rhue Plantane Southernwood Wormwood Shepherds-purse Smalledge Calewort if you can conveniently get them or the most part of them every one half a handful bruise them very small and take a handful of Hens-dung and lay it in steep in a Pint of old Wash eight Hours and then strain forth the Hens-dung and put the Herbs and the Wash together and put a full quart of strong Ale to the Herbs and Wash and set them on the Fire and boyl the one half away and then strain them over again and put in an ounce of Treacle a spoonful of the Juice of Garlick and some Anniseeds and some Liquoris-powder blend all together and give to the Beast Milk-warm This is special good for the Murrain or for any Garget or Long-sought whatsoever it will cure them by Gods help Approved XII For the Yellows in the whole Body THis Disease is a forerunner of all Diseases and is the soonest found out for they will be Yellow in their Ears Eyes and in the Taile end and sometimes all over the Body The Cure You must blood them in the Ears and in the Tail very well and put some Salt in their Ears and rub them betwixt your Hands when they are blooded for to make them for to bleed and then give them two handfuls of Salt down their Throat dry over Night and in the Morning give them Fenegrick Turmerick long Pepper and Anniseeds and Liquoris but two pence in all the whole made in Powder and given them in a quart of Ale Milk-warm is very good for the overflowing of the Gall. Approved XIII For the Worm in the Tail FOr the worm you may presently perceive it by the Tail for sometimes the Hair will go off where the Worm lieth and most commonly the Joynts some of them is eaten asunder which you may feel knock one besides the other Many one doth conceive that when a Beasts Taile is soft below towards the end they have the Worm they are meerly mistaken for every Beast hath so The Cure You must be sure that you slit the Skin of the under side above the decayed Joynt just against the Vein and prick the Vein and let it Bleed very well then take Garlick Butter and Salt and bind it to and it will mend and slit their Gums against every Tooth and rub them with Salt and they will grow fast XIV For the making of blend-Blend-Water THis Disease is as some do call it the Morehough it is a Disease that cometh several ways First it cometh of Blood and secondly it cometh from the Yellows which is a Ring-leader of all Diseases and thirdly it cometh by change of Ground the Ground being hard it breedeth this Disease which if they have not help in Six days they will be past help The Cure You must take a penniworth of Bole-armonick and as much Charcoal-flower as will fill an Egg-shell and a good quantity of the inner Bark of an Oak dried and pounded together to Powder and put them into a quart of new Milk and a pint of Erning and give it the Beast at twice and it will help them for certain Approved XV. Another good Receipt for the Blend-Water THis Receipt never failed Take a quart of new churned Milk and take a good piece of Lean-Salt-Hung-Beef and lay it upon the Coals and burn it as black as a Coal and when it is cold pound it to Powder also take a penniworrh of Bole-armonick and pound it and a handful of Shepherds-purse and put all together and give it to the Beast for it never failed me XVI A good Receipt for the Water Murrain THis Disease cometh of Rankness of Blood and chiefly it taketh those that are young betwixt one year old and three this Disease is easie to find out for they do swell on the Back and both sides the Chine and if they have not present help they will die the Hide will be puffed up to the Shoulder-blade on both sides The Cure You must first let them Blood in the Neck and give them some Fenegrick Turmerick long Pepper Spikenard all made into Powder and give it them in Ale or Beer Milk-warm and for the swelling on the Back you must take three handfuls of Salt and a pint of Spring water and a pint of Whitewine Vinegar and take a â—ittle Allom and pound it and put it all together and beat it with a Slice until it be white like Milk and then bathe the swelled places very well it will dry up the rhume and they will be well presently by Gods help Approved And for the preventing of this Disease Blooding is the best in time Also if they be swelled
off The Cure Take a little Wax Honey Turpentine Swines-grease and Wheat-flower and set them all on the Fire and let them boyl gently stir and blend them together and then take them from the Fire and use them at your leisure And if there be a cut of any deepness lay in a Tent of Flax or Linnen cloth dipped in the Salve and lay a Plaister of the same over it and let it lie on four and twenty Hours then remove it and that is enough and it will heal it for certain Approved XLIV For to make a Cow take the Bull by Milk IF your Cow be in good case and you would have her to take Bull if you have any Cow that is a Bulling or any Neighbours Cow get a quart and a half of that Cows Milk that is on the Road and give it to that Cow that you would have to be a Bulling and let the Bull go with her and she will be a Bulling within six or eight days at the farthest XLV For to keep an Ox sound FOr to keep an Ox sound you must wash his Mouth with his own Water and Whitewine-vinegar once in twelve days and it will bring a great deal of Flegme and Water off which would take away his Stomach and cause him to hang down his Ears and have weeping Eyes Also wash his Mouth with Whitewine-vinegar and Time stamped in a little Salt likewise wash his Tongue very well and he will have a very good stomach again XLVI For the Feaver in a Beast THis Feaver may be taken in the heat of Summer in driving or hard labouring and by drinking cold Water when they are exceeding hot and so cause a shaking on them first and afterwards produce a Feaver The Signs They will be very heavy in the Head and will have swoln Eyes and an extream heat in their Bodies their Hair will stand of a Sweat upon their Backs The Cure You must cut them some Grass and give them some Lettice amongst it to cool their Bodies and the next morning let them blood in the Neck-vein and give them the juice of Purslain blended with Gum Dragant Anniseeds the Powder of Damask Roses and put into it a quart of strong Ale and make it sweet with Honey Then blend all together and give it to them three mornings one after another Milk-warm and keep them warm and they will mend presently by Gods help Approved XLVII For the Scab on a Beast FOr the Scab on a Beast take his own Water Salt Butter and Whitewine-vinegar with a little Salade Oyland a little Brimstone blend all together and rub it on and it will mend presently XLVIII A good Receipt for to purge Beasts FOr to purge Beasts and to cleanse the inner part of their Bodies you must give them the dross of Olives after the Oyl is pressed out in new Milk Also take a quart of Clay-water and put in two penniworth of Honey and two penniworth of Salade Oyl and twelve Laurel Leaves dried and made into Powder put all together and make it warm and give it to the Beast Also take half a pound of sweet Soap and sweet Ale that is in the Fat and put in twelve Laurel leaves or the powder of the same ground small or pounded into the sweet Ale and Soap and blend all together and give it to the Beasts Milk-warm and it will help them Also take a half-penny Candle and put up at his Fundament as far as you can reach and leave it behind in the Body Approved XLIX For a dry Hoarsness or Cough in a Beast THis Hoarsness or Cough in Ox or Cow must be carefully looked to for it will grow in time to a worse Disease therefore it is good to prevent it The Cure Take the distilled Water of Hyssop or else the decoction of Mint and Hyssop together with the juice of Leeks and give it with the Oyl of Olives and a little Garlick for there hath not been so long a Cough known but this Medicine hath helped it sometimes if it be an easie Hoarsness you may give them Tar with Honey-water and it will help them for certain Approved L. Another good Receipt for purging of Cattel THere is nothing better for purging Cattel at tht Spring before they go to Grass then to keep them in the House a Week give them Cinnamon or Harts-horn and common Salt boyled together warm Also give them Tar Butter Honey brown Sugarcandy and the powder of the leaves of Lawrel either in Balls or in warm water and when they go to Grass within a Week after let them Blood and give them a handful of Rhue in a pint of Ale warm and this is called the preservation of Health to any Cattel that is ready to feed or any other service LI. Another good Receipt for the Fever in Beasts either in Winter or Summer CAttel may sometimes get the Fever in Winter as well as in Summer if the Beast be low in Flesh by drinking cold Water especially in a morning they will begin to shake and tremble and if they chance to get the Fever they will tremble and have heavy Eyes and groan and froth a little at the Mouth The Cure First let them Blood and then give them a drink of a quart of Ale and four roots of Plantane two spoonfuls of the best London-Treacle and let their meat be sprinkled with Water and they will do well Approved LII For an inward sickness in Cattel IF you cannot find out the Disease of the Beast take a quart of Ale and a handful of Wormwood a handful of Rhue and a handful of Rosemary all being bruised in a Mortar and then boyled a little strain the Herbs forth very well and add two spoonfuls of the juice of Garlick and as much of the juice of Housleek and as much London-Treacle and blend all together and give it to the Beasts Milk-warm and they will mend presently Approved LIII An excellent Cure for a Burn in a Bulls Yard or in a Cows Matrix FOr a burned Bull you must first cast him and pull forth his Yard and wash both his Sheath and Yard with Whitewine vinegar then take the juice of Housleek burnt Allom Honey and the juice of Lettice blend all together and annoint the Bulls Yard and use it some three times and he will mend And for the Cow you may wash and annoint her Bearing and she will mend Approved of my self LIV. For a sucking Calf that scowreth YOu must take a pint of Verjuice and Clay that is burnt until it be red or very well burned Tobacco-pipes and pound them to Powder and searse them very finely and put to a little powder of Charcoal and blend all together and give it to the Calf and he will mend in a night for certain LV. For A Bull that shedeth his Seed TAke Clary-leaves and dry them and pound them to Powder and take the Powder of Tanners Bark and brown Sugar-candy and take two penniworth of
Turpentine and work the Powders and the Turpentine very well into Balls as big as a great Crab and give him two at a time night and morning and he will mend presently without fail LVI For the Disease in Beasts called the Sturdy or turning-Evil OF this Disease there are many kinds one in the Brain-pan of one side or both and another under the Horn-root and another in the Neck-joynt If it be in the Neck-joynt or under the Horn it is uncurable as for that in the Neck-joynt you may finde it out by their carriage for they will hold up their Heads in the Air and look wildly and for the other under the Horn they will turn round none of these are curable but that in the Brain-pan The Cure You must first cast them and bind their Feet then slit the Skin against the Brain-pan and with a Needle and a long double Thread stitch up the Skin out of your way and then take a strong short Knife and a Hammer and cut the Scaup two inches square and turn it up and then you may see the Bladder then take it out very carefully for fear of breaking it and cast it away and annoint the place with fresh Butter and always apply warm Cloths for fear of the cold and be very careful that you lay the Scaup on again in the right place and then turn down the Skin and stitch it down with some Silk close together and then make a Plaister of Turpentine Wax Rosin and Swines-grease or fresh Butter and a plaister of Flax-hards and lay on four or five doubles of Wollen-cloth for to keep it from the Wind and Weather remove the Plaister once in five days and be carefull of cold and let them drink no cold Water for six or ten days or more and they will do well Approved of my self LVII For a Cough or Shortness of Breath in Cattel IF your Beasts are troubled with a Cough as I have already shewed this will cure them if they are Curable The Cure Take a quart of new churned Milk and beat in some Taâ— and a Head of Gailâ—ck clean pilled Alicampane made into Powder and a little brown Sugarcandy blend all together and give it to the Beast three mornings one after another and if they be curable this will oure them without doubt LVIII For to kill Lice in any Beast FOr the killing of Lice in any Beast you must take Quicksilver and kill it with Swines-grease and rub them very wel about the Horns Head and Neck and upon the Shoulders and Dewlap and they will lick the rest of their Body themselves or strew some keen ashes on their hinder parts and let them stand in the Rain a while and it will make them all fly away from the Beast for certain LIX For the Milting of a Beast THe Milting of a Beast is when they have got a stroak with a Goad or Cudgel or Rush against some piece of Timber The Signs are when they lay themselves down they will rise again presently and cannot rest but sit in pain The Cure You must take Stone-pitch and pound it small and blend it with Ale Saffron and Pepper and give it him and walk him a little after it and he will mend presently for certain LX. 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