Strangle for it is apt to essay them and if not taken in time it will destroy them The first VVinter spare neither Hay nor Corn that is Oats in the Chaff or in the Sheaf or give him any Offal that comes from any Grain whatsoever The Time of Foaling look'd upon to be very improper because in the VVinter-Season The Time of Foaling as I have said before I would have in December or January which most hold to be a very improper time the VVeather being cold and but little Grass which of Necessity she must be Housed and fed with hard Meat which will dry up her Milk and so starve the Foal But to satisfie this Scruple and to tell you That Experience is the best Master for certainly the VVinter-season must needs be the best both for the Mare and Foal being kept in a warm House and as for her Milk she will have great plenty being fed well and that more nourishing then that got at Grass which will make him more lusty and of greater Bone and Stature and cleaner Limb'd and more neatly Joynted and Hoof'd and in better liking then that Colt Foaled in May or June or any of the hotter Months for though Grass doth yield great plenty of Milk yet it is not so nourishing because it is very thin and watery therefore it will not yield so substantial Nourishment as the VVinter-food â—if it be good for though the quantity of Milk is not so great yet it is of greater goodness And besides the pinching Cold Rains and Floods in VVinter will so Nip the poor Colt and enfeeble the Mare in such desperate manner that the wanting her former plenty of Food and dry Lodging her Milk will decay when the Colt hath most need of it by which means they must needs both fall into extream Poverty And over and above all this by his Running abroad with the Mare he becometh so savage and wild that if any Infirmity seize upon him his own unruliness being so great the Cure may be very difficult for infinite are the Number that hath perished in this kind VVhen Mares are fit to take Horse Observe their Chasing and Galloping up and down morning and evening and their throwing up of their Noses and lifting up of their Tails riding on one anothers Backs often Pissing or opening of their Shapes and closing of them again which are Signes of Lust To know the true Shape Spirit and Height of a Foal The same Shape that it carries at a Month old he will carry at six years old if he be not abused in after-keeping and as the good Shape so the defects also From the Shin-bone A large Shin-bone that is long from the Knee to the Pastern in a Foal shews a tall Horse From the space between his Knee and VVithers Look what space he has between his Knee and VVithers double that will be his height when he is a compleat Horse From their Spirits to know their goodness If they are stirring Spirits free from affrights wanton of disposition and very active in leaping and running striving for Mastery prove generally good mettl'd Horses the contrary Jades From his Hoofs If his Hoofs be strong deep tough smooth upright standing and hollow he cannot be evil for they are the Foundation of his Building and lend Fortitude from all the rest Therefore the Barbary-Horse is well known by his Hoofs for there is no Horse hath naturally so good a Hoof as he VVeaning of Foals VVean your ordinary Foals at the end of seven Months your better at a year or two and let them not be within the hearing of one another and keep them very high the second year but the third and fourth put them to hard Grasing Taming of Colts You are to make them familiar to you from the first VVeaning and so VVinter after VVinter in the House use them to familiar Actions as Rubbing Clawing Haltering Leading to water taking up of his Feet knocking his Hoofs and the like The Time to break Colts The best Time to break Colts to the Saddle is at three years old and the advantage or four at the utmost But he that hath the patience to stay to see his Horse full five shall be sure to have him of longer continuance and less subject to Disease or Infirmity and on that but by death will hardly come to the knowledge of tyring Coiling of the Stud or making of Election I advise you by no means to make too early Coiling for some Horses will shew their best Shape at two and three years old and lose it at four others not till five nay six but then keep it ever some will do their best days work at six or seven years old others not till eight or nine But be the time when it will let him preserve for his own use the best those that be defective I mean such as bring incurable desormities gross Sorrances as Spavins Ring-boncs imperfect Eyes or the like make away with them Barren Mares If you fâ—nd any of your Mares grow into Barrenness away with them for though I could prescribe you Remedies yet they are not worthy of your use General Observations concerning Mares In length and height a Mare groweth till she be five and a Horse till he be six years old Covering VVhen a Mare is past two years old she may be Covered but the best time is after four years old Bringing of Foals Common Mares may bring Foals every year but let your best bring but every second year especially if they bring Horse Colts To make a Mare stink Foal To make a Mare slink her Foal is to give her down her Throat with a Horn some water with three Grig Eeles which will make her slink with a great deal of safety To make her stand to Horse To make a Mare stand to Horse the better is to let her stand by him two oâ— three days before he cover her Stallion for Trotters Let your Stallion for Trotters be either Neâ—politan Courser or Arabian Turk or Barbary and for Amblers either the Spanish Jennet or the Irish Hoboy Mares to Horse Put your Mares to Horse from the middle of March till the middle of May or middle June the Moon having newly changed To put your Horse into an empty House It is good to put the Horse and the Mare for three or four Nights together in an empty house and take him away in the Morning and feed him well and feed your Mare sparingly but especially give her but little water Chasing the Mares At the end of six Months chase not the Mares for then they are a quickning and may easily be made to cast their Foals The VVall-Eye The wall-Eye of a Horse or Mare doth never see perfectly especially when the Snow is upon the Ground Choice of Mares For your choice of Mares you ought to respect their Shapes and Mettles that they be beautifully fore-handed and that they be of a mean stature large and broad and the
which will be when he hath quite done Running at the Nose This is one of the best and most certain Cordials that I know for this disperseth all Phlegm and Choler it also purgeth the Head Brain and Blood it venteth evil Humours it causeth good Digestion and freeth him from Glaunders Colds Catarrhs Rhâ—ums running at the Note and the like Or 15. When you let Blood you may save it in a Bowl or Dish keeping it stirring to keep it from Clotting and give it him to drink in a Drenching-Horn mingled with a Handful of Salt This is good for a Cold. Or 16. Take an Ounce of Aloes Succotrina beaten to powder and as much of the powder of Rozin of Jallop as will lie upon a six pence mix them well with a little fresh Butter then divide it into three parts and cover each part all over again with Butter about the bigness of a good handsom Wash-ball and give them him in the Morning Fasting with a drenching Horn-full of strong warm Beer after every Ball And order him as you have Directions for sick Horses This is a very good Receipt to scour a Hide-bound Horse that is sick of Moulten Grease and that does not thrive nor Fill himself nor carry a good Coat Or 17. Take a handful of Groundsel half a handful of dried or less of green Wormwood and half a handful of Red Sage chopped very small and boiled in three Pints of strong Beer or Ale Then strain the Beer from the Herbs and put into it a good Piece of Butter with as much of the powder of Mechoâ—â—an as will lie upon a broad shilling and give it him luke-warm in the Morning Fasting and order him as you do sick Horses This Drink purgeth slime and Moulten Grease in Lumps and makes a Horse thrive very well both in Winter and Summer See the second Part for Purgations for anothor of this kind Bran how Boiled and Prepared to give a Horse that hath a Cold As also what Seeds you are to give him amongst his Provender for the Cure of it Set a Kettle over the Fire almost full of water and when it is ready to boil put in your Bran and let it boil about a quarter of an hour Then take it off and cover it with a Cloth or Board let it stand till it cool a little and give it him early in the Morning as hot as he can conveniently eat it At Night let his Meat be Oates and white Water but be sure you put into his Provender the quantity of an Egg-shell full of these Powders grossly beaten lest he blow them away viz. Linseed Cummin-seed Nutmegs Ginger Cloves Fennegreek Sileris-Montani of each of these two Ounces and of Brimstone six Ounces but before you give him his Oates and Powders give him white Water and Rub him and Litter him well Let him seed on Wheat-straw about an hour before you give him his Oates and afterwards give him some Hay This way of Feeding about eight or nine days together will quite free him from his Cold if it be not too violent Horse-Spice how to make These several Powders mixed together make it viz. Rubarb one Ounce Turmerick two Ounces Eleoampane six Ounces Brimstone four Ounces Fennel-seeds four Ounces Grains of Paradise four Ounces c. Put all these together in a Glass or Gally-pot and keep them till you have occasion to use them The quantity that you are to give your Horse is either greater or smaller according to the strength and Constitution of your Horse you are not to exceed above an Ounce at a time mixed with a spoonful of the best Sallet-Oyl and a spoonful or two of the Treacle of Jean dissolved in a quart of strong Beer which is very good for a Cold and to make a Horse thrive Or you may give him an Ounce of them in three pints of warm Beer or Ale after Blood-letting to prevent Diseases If you leave out the Rubarb you may give him a greater quantity for that is a great Purger Rules to know where a Horse Halteth either before or behind If he do Halt before his Grief must of necessity be either in the Shoulder or Knee or in the Shank or in the Pastern or in the Foot if it be in the Shoulder it must be either towards the Withers or in the pitch of the Shoulder you may know it in that he will a little draw his Leg after him and not handle it so nimbly as he doth the other if he cast his Leg more outward then he doth the other it is a sign that he is Lame and that the Grief lieth in his Shoulder and if you take him in your Hand turn him short on either Hand you shall finde him to complain of that Shoulder he is Lame of and he will either favour that Leg or trip in the turning you may finde him Lame by his standing in the Stable and he will hold out that Leg that is Lame more then the other and if he complains more when you are on his Back then otherwise then be sure the Grief lies in the Withers and Gripe him hard and you shall perceive him to shrink and perhaps offer to bite If he tread thick and short before then is the Grie upon the Pitch of the Shoulder close to the Breast which you may finde by setting your Thumb hard to the place and by Thrusting him with it if you would have him to go back whereat he will shrink and put back his Leg Foot and Body if the Grief be in the Elbow you may know it by pinching him with your fore-Finger and Thumb and he will hold up his Leg and offer to bite and these be all the Griefs that lie in the Shoulder of a Horse If the Griefs lie lower they must be either in the Knee in the Skin in the Pastern or in the Foot When in the Knee If it be in the Knee you may find it by his stiff going for he will not bend it so nimbly as he doth the other If it be in the Shank or Shin-bone you may see it and likewise feel the same it being then a Back-Sinew strain Splint or some such like Sorrance or Annoyance If it be in the bending of the Knee then it is a Mallender which is also easily descried when it is in the Pastern or Joynt then you may know it by his not bending it so well as the other besides if you put your Hand upon the place you shall find it very hot if it be in the Foot it must be either in the Cronet or in the Sole if in the Cronet it is probable it came by some strain or wrench if in the Heel then it came by some over-reach or else by some Disease in or about the Frush If in the Sole then it came by some Prick Accloy Retoire Nail Stub Stone or Gravel And thus I have shewed unto you the several ways that cause a Horse to be Lame
to a salve and put this Medicine into his Eares by equal portions in the Morning before Sun-rise and stitch them up and let him stand with Meat before him and let his Drink be white water Unstitch them not in twenty four houres then take forth the wooll and stuff and he is Cured Another If the Farcin be in the fore-parts of the Horse take two ounces of Arsnick and put it into a piece of new Cloth and bind it up with a piece of new pack-thread and fasten it unto his Mayn and if it be in his hinder-parts as well as his fore-parts then hang it upon his Tail and the more you ride and exercise him the better and though the common way is to keep him with a spare diet I like not of it for you cannot keep him too well for the lower you keep him the more doth the disease get the upper hand of him Another to anoint the Farcy Knots with Take black Hellebore and add to the Herb some of its Juice then put to it old Boars or Barrows Grease and boyl it till the Juice be quite boyled away in it whereby to bring it to an Ointment with which anoint the Knots or Buttons of the Farcin with but shave or clip away the hair before you do anoint it Another for it when it first appears before it begins to be raw Take of Chamberly Soot and Bay-salt and boyl them very well together then at night wash the Places infected with a rag upon the end of a stick very hot but not so hot as to scauld away the hair then in the morning anoint it with Tarr and black Sope boyled together pretty hot This done four or five times together will Cure it Another which De-Grey says he hath Cured 100 Horses with Take of Rue the leaves and tender tops only without any the least stalk a good handful first chop them small then stamp them in a Mortar to an Ointment then put to it one spoonful of the purest tried Hogs-grease you can get and work them together to a Salve then stop into either Ear the whole quantity by equal proportions and put a little wooll upon the Medicine to cause him to keep it in the better and so stitch up his eares and let it be in about twenty 24 houres and then unstitch them and take forth the Wooll and he is Cured Another which if he hath it given him twice it will Cure him Take the inner Rind of Elder the inner Rind of the Wall-nut-tree the inner Rind of the Barberry-tree of all of them an equal quantity and not exceeding above a handful of all of them together Boyl them in a quart of strong Beer a little while then take out the Barks and add to it the powder of Turmerick Fennegreek and two Nut-galls beaten to powder with the powder of Grains of Paradice about an ounce of all of them boyl them in the same Beer about as long as you did before then sweeten it with Treacle and give it him luke-warm in the Morning fasting and let him fast two or three houres after it and order him as you do a sick horse if you put into it a little handful of stone-crop it will be the bettet You must wash the buds of the Farcy night and morning with this water Take half a pound of green Copperas and boyl it a little while in a quart of Chamberly before you boil it you must put in a good quantity of Salt or Brine Another After you have kept him slenderly fed all Night give him the next Morning fasting half a pint of the Juice of Housleek and half a Pint of Sallet Oyl mingled together and let him Fast till Night and then give him Hay and no Water till the next Morning and that warm too This Drink used twice will almost Cure any Farcy Another for the Farcy Take a handful of each of these Herbs here under-written chopped very small and boiled in three Pints of strong Ale or Beer to about a Pint and an half and after you have strained the Liquor very well from the Herbs give it him luke-warm fasting in the Morning but before you give it him stir into it an Ounce of crude Antimony finely powdred and searc'd About three or four days after give him the like Drink again and repeat it the third time if there be occasion and it will certainly Cure him The Herbs are these Chickweed Wood-bittony Groundsel and Mullen The Buds must be anointed also with this outward Application Take the bigness of a Hazel-Nut of yellow Arsnick beaten to powder and put to it about a spoonful of black Sope or for want of that common Sope and lay a little of it upon the Head of every one of them which will so corrode and eat into them that they will become so loose that they will drop out by the Roots then heal up the wounded places by anointing them with your green Ointment which you may find in the first Part or with Sallet-Oyl or Hogs grease take care you let him not come to gnaw it with his Teeth for fear of poisoning him or that you lay it not upon any sound place for it will make a Wound wheresoever it comes You may anoint them with the Oyl of Vitriol if yoâ— please which hath the same Operation with the other Another outward Application for this Disease which will not only Cure the Buds of it but any foul Scab Leprosie or Mange After you have let Blood which is always convenient in this Disease Take three Pints of old Urine and a Pint of Vineger or Verjuice and put to it half a Pound of the Stalks of the strongest Tobaccho you can get but let them be first bruised and laid asteep in the Urine all Night before you boil them After you have â—o done set it over the Fire and put to it an Ounce of the Flower of Brimstone and boil them altogether till it come to a quart then strain forth the Liquor from the stalks and anoint the infected places with it till they be well Another inward and outward Application for the Farcy After you have Blooded those Buds with your Incision-Knife which are fresh and green wash them once or twice a day with your Fistula-water which will Kill them conditionally you give him this inward Drink with it viz. Take two quarts of Running Water and put to it two Handfuls of Herb-grace chopt indifferent small with two or three spoonfuls of bruised Hemp-seed and set it over the Fire and let it boyl away till it come to three Pints then give it him three times in nine days and Order him as you do sick Horses and he will do well Another to Cure it by pâ—tting something into his Eares After you have bruised about nine or ten Cloves of Garlick being first peel'd wiuh a Handful of Rue and about half a quarter of a Pint of Brandy strain the Juice through
the Juice of Sage Morning and Evening in Wine or Ale but if he be outwardly venomed bruise the Sage and apply it to the grieved part twice a day and it will take out the Venom Things good in General for Vlcers Tarr Hogs-Grease green or white Copperas Salt-Peter Bees Wax Honey Rozin Verdegrease Linseed Oyl all boiled together and make a Salve of it and dress it with it Euphorbium Mastick French Soap is good or to wash the Sore with white Wine and green Copperas dissolved together and to heal it up with Swines Grease the Leaves of Lillies beaten in a Mortar and make a Salve of it and lay it upon the Sore and cover it with a Plaister or Loam and Horse dung mixed with Pepper and the white of an Egg or to strow upon the Sore of the powder of Galls or to scald it once a day with Sallet-Oyl or Sack Frankincense Cloves green Copperas and Brimstone and double as much Myrrh as any of them and put it upon a Chafing-dish of Coals and receive the smoke of it upon Hurds and keep it close in a Box and when you use it wash the Sore with Urine or Vineger twice a day Things good in General for a Vlcer or Canker in the Nose Green Copperas and white Copperas with some Allum boiled in Running water and squirted into his Nostrils luke-warm three or four times one after another is good but if the Canker be hot and very burning with great pain then take the Juice of Purslain Night-shade Lettice and mix them together and wash the Sore with a fine Cloth dipt therein or else squirted up his Nostils and it will allay the heat of it Or to take Sage Rue Hysop of each a Handful and seethe them in Urine and Water and strain it out and put into it a little white Copperas Honey and Aquavitae and wash or squirt it into the place But if the Canker be killed heal it with this Water take of Rib-wort Bitony and Dasies of each a Handful and Seethe them well in Wine and Water and wash the Sore therewith Or take Chrystal made into fine Powder and strow upon it Pauls Bitony bruised is very good Things good in General to Cure the Vives To Cut a Hole where the Kernels are and pick them out with a Wire and â—â—ll the Hole with Salt and at three days end it will run then wash it with the Juice of Sage and heal it up with an Ointment made of Hony Butter and Tarr or with your green Ointment in my First Part or to wash the Sore wherein hath been boiled green Copperas and Allum and to Taint it with Flax dipt in the white of an Egg beaten to an Oyl or to heal it up with Hogs Grease Turpentine and Wax molten together or take a Spunge dipped in white-Wine Vineger and bind to the Sore and renew it twice a day till the Kernels do Rot then open the nethermost part of the softness and let the corruption out and fill the Hole with Salt finely brayed and the next day wash away the Filth with warm water and the next day after wash the Sore with Honey and Fitch-flower mingled together till it be whole Particular Receipts for the Cure of the Vives Take Tar tried Hogs-Grease Bay-Salt and Frankincense powdered of each as much as will suffice melt them together and with a Clowt fastned to a stick scald the place four or five Mornings together until the inflamed places do become soft and ripe then slit the Skin with your Incision-Knife and let forth the Corruption and heal up the Sore with tried Hogs-grease and Verdegrease made up into fine Powder melt them upon the Fire and let it not boyl more then a Waum or two then put in some ordinary Turpentine and so stir all together till it be cold and anoint the Sorrance with it till it be whole Another which is the best Cure for it Take a penniworth of Pepper beaten to fine Powder Swines Grease a spoonful the Juice of a Handful of Rue Vineger two spoonfuls mix them very well together and convey it equally into both the Eares of the Horse and so Tie or stitch them up then shake his Eares that the Medicine may sink downwards which done let him Blood in the Neck-Vein and Temple-Veins and this is an infallible Cure Another very good for the same The Vives are Cured several manner of ways as you find by the Receipts above but the most usual and common way that our Smiths generally use for the Cure of this Infirmity is for to let Blood on both sides the Neck-Veins then to sear the Swelling with a small hot Iron from the Root of the Ear down to the bottom of it till the Skin look yellow the manner and form of the Searing-Iroh must be somewhat like the shape and fashion of a great Arrows Head as you see by the Figure in the Margin with three or four small Lines or Stroaks on each side drawn from the Body of it After you have seared it to take out the Heat of the Fire and to make it sound again anoint it with fresh Butter or Hogs-Grease and he will do well What is good to Cure the Arraistes or Rats-tails which is a kind of Scratches To Ride him till he be warm which will make the Veins to swell and the better to appear then let him Blood on the Fet-lock Veins on both sides making him to bleed well and the next day after to wash the Sores with warm water and then clip away all the Hair from about the Sores and anoint the grieved place with this Ointment viz. Take green Copperas and Verdegrease of each two Ounces and of Common Honey four Ounces beat your Copperas and Verdegrease very small and so work them with your Honey to an Ointment and anoint the Sores daily with it till it be whole Things good in General for the Cure of the Wind-Cholick Alheal True-love or one Berry the Berries of Holly Holm or Hulver-Bush Juniper-Berries the Flowers of Lavender steeped in Wine wilde Parsnips Jack by the Hedge Winter and Summer Savory but the Summer is the best Burnet Saxafrage the leaves of the Willow-tree bruised and the Juice given with some Pepper in Beer Cardamum Fennegreek Hawes beaten to powder Rue Cloves Cinnamon an Onion peeled and Jagged and put it into his Fundament or to give him a Pipe of Tobaccho at his Fundament lighted and the Wind of his Body will draw it out If you intend to see more of this Nature look for Cholick Angelica Wood-bittony Mullen Mustard-seed Centaury A Plaister to lay upon the Wound to keep in the Taint or Salve Take Pitch Rozin Mastick Turpentine Hogs grease of each so much as will suffice melt them together and keep it for your use when you use it spread it upon Leather and cover the wound therewith this Salve doth infinitely comfort a Wound both green or old be the same Fistula or
VVater him at seven or eight in the Afternoon Dress him between three and four and VVater him about four or five and give him Provender always after watering Litter him at eight and give Food for all Night The Night before he is ridden about Nine at Night take away his Hay and at four of the Clock in the Morning give him a Handful or two of Oats which being eaten turn him upon the Snaffle Rub him all over with dry Clothes then Saddle him and make him Fit for his exercise and when you have done with him bring him into the Stable all sweaty as he is and Rub him all over with dry VVisps then take off his Saddle and after you have rubbed him all over with dry Cloaths put on his Housing-Cloth then put on the Saddle again and girt it and walk him about gently while he be cold then set him up and after two or three houres fasting put him to his Meat then in the Afternoon curb rub and dress him and water him and order him as aforesaid Ordering a Horse for a Prince or great Ladies Seat You must Order him in the time of his Rest like unto the Horse for Service and in his time of Labour like the Travelling Horse only you are to keep him more choicely I mean in a beautiful manner his Coat lying smooth and shining if he come in sweating into the Stable after you have rubbed him down take off the sweat with a Sword Blade whose edge is rebated Ordering of Travelling Horses at home and abroad Feed him with good Hay in the VVinter and good Grass in the Summer His Provender let it be good dry Oats Beans Pease or Bread according to his Stomach In the time of Rest half a Peck at a Watering is sufficient in the time of Labour as much as he will eat with a good Stomach Of Watering in the Morning When you Travel him Water two houres before you Ride then rub dress and lustily feed then bridle up and let him stand an hour before you take his back Of Feeding betimes In your Travel feed your Horse betimes for all night that thereby he may the sooner take his rest Moderate Travelling Travel moderately in the Morning till his wind be rackt and his Limbs warmed then after do as your Affairs require Be sure at Night to water your Horse two miles before you come to your Journey 's end then the warmer you bring him to his Inn the better walk not nor wash not at all the one doth beget Colds the other Foundrings in the Feet or Body but set him up warm well stopt and well rubbed with clean Litter Give no Meat whilest the outward parts of your Horse are hot or wet with sweat as the Ear-roots the Flanck the Neck or under his Chaps but being dry rub and feed him according to the goodness of his Stomach To get a Stomach Change of Food begetteth a Stomach so doth the washing the Tongue or Nostrils with Vineger Wine and Salt or warm Urine Not to stop the Horses Feet with Cow-dung till they be cold Stop not your Horses Feet with Cow-dung till he be sufficiently cold and that the Blood and Humours which were dispersed be setled into their proper places Look to his Back Girts and Shooes Look well to his Back that the Saddle hurt not to the Girts that they gall not and to his Shooes that they be large fast and easie Not to eat nor drink when he is hot Let him neither eat nor drink when he is hot nor presently after his Travel To Labour him moderately when the Weather is either extream hot or cold Labour him moderately when the Weather is either extream hot or extream cold that so you may avoid extream Heats or sudden Colds Not to Travel him too late Travel him not too late that your own eye may see him well dried and well fed before you take your own rest The Saddle not to be presently taken off Take not the Saddle from your Horses Back suddenly Horse-bread very good Food Horse-bread which is made of clean Pease Beans or Fitches feedeth exceedingly River-water is not so good as standing-water Let your Horses Meat and Drink be exceeding sweet and clean Standing-water is better then River-water for that is too piercing Swine and Pullen is naught to be nigh a Stable Let him lie clean and dry keep your Stable sweet let no Swine lie near it nor let any Pullen come within it Let the Light of your Stable be towards the South and North. Let the Light of your Stable be ever towards the South and North yet so as the North-windows may in the Winter be shut close at Pleasure To be Tied with two Reins Let him be Tied with two Reins To Ride him on stony wayes Ride him often on stony ways that he may the better feel his Feet and harden his Hoofs Wheat-straw and Oat-straw best for Litter Let his Bed be of Wheat-straw above his Knees the Barley-straw is the softest yet a Horse will covet to eat it which is unwholesom Wheat-straw though it be hard to lie upon yet it is wholesom to eat and as for Oat-straw it is the best in the Superlative for it is not only wholesom to eat but soft to lie upon Of Dressing your Horse Curry or Dress your Horse twice a day that is before water and when he is Curried rub him well with your Hand and with a Rubber his Head should be rubbed with a wet Cloth and his Cods made clean with a dry Cloth otherwise he would be scabby between his Legs you should wet his fore-top his Mane and his Tail with a wet Mane-Comb and ever where the Horses Hair is thinnest there Curry the gentlest Of the Stable Let the Plaunchers of your Stable lie even and level that your Horse may stand at his ease and not prove Lame by too much oppressing his hinder Feet A Mud-wall is naught to be nigh a Horse Let not any Mud-wall be within your Horses reach for he will naturally covet to eat it and nothing is more unwholesom Chopt Straw is good to strow amongst his Provender Give your Horse plenty of Garbage which is Chopt VVheat-straw both with his Provender and without for it is a mighty Clenser of a Horses Body Bottles of Hay to be Tied hard Let your Hay-bottles be very little and Tied very hard for so your Horse shall eat with a better Stomach and make least waste To sprinkle the Hay with water is good and to strow Fennegreek amongst his Provender To sprinkle water upon your Hay is most wholesom and to sprinkle Fennegreek upon your Provender is as sovereign The â—rst is good for the VVind the latter for VVormes Exercise good Let your Horse have daily Exercise for that begets a good Stomach to his Meat Grafs is good once a year to cleanse the Blood and cool the Body Purge your Horse once a year with Grass or green Blades of Corn called Forrage
sure there is foulness And lastly to the Estate of Body that he may rather Augment then decrease Vigour so shall his Work be prosperous and his Actions without Controulment To conclude two Months I allow for Preparation and according to that time have laid my directions Mine humble suit is out of a sincere Opinion to Truth and Justice so to allow or disallow to refrain or imitate The first Ordering of the Running Horse according to the several Estates of their Bodies This Office of the Feeder albeit in general it belong to all Horse-men yet in particular it is most appropriate to the Feeder of the Running-Horse because other general Horses have a general way of Feeding these are Artificial and Prescript from full of Curiosity and Circumspection from which whosoever errs he shall sooner bring his Horse to destruction then perfection You are to have regard to three Estates of a Horses Body The first is if he be very Fat Foul or either taken from Grass or Soil The second if he be extream Lean and poor either through over-Riding disorder or other infirmity And the third if he be in good and well-liking estate having had good usage and moderate exercise If he be in the first Estate of Body you shall take longer time for his Feed as two Months at the least for he will ask much labour in Airing great carefulness in hearing and discretion in Scouring and rather a strict then liberal hand in feeding If he be in the second Estate of Body which is poor then take a longer time and let his Airings be moderate as not before and after Sun rather to encrease Appetite then harden Flesh and let him have a bountiful hand in Feeding but not so much as to cloy him If he be in the third Estate of Body which is a mean betwixt the other extreams then a Month of six Weeks or a Fort-night or less may be time sufficient to dyet him for his Match Now as this Estate participates with both the former so it would borrow from them a share in all their Orderings that is to be neither too early nor too late in Airings laborious but not painful Heatings nourishing in Scouring and constant in a moderate way of Feeding To have an Eye to the particular Estate of a Horses Body Now as you regard these general Estates of Bodies so you must have an eye to certain particular estates of Bodies As if an Horse be Fat and Foul yet of a free and spending Nature apt quickly to consume and lose his Flesh this Horse must not have so strict a Hand neither can he endure so violent Exercise as he that is of an hardy disposition and will feed and be fat upon all Meats and all Exercises Again if your Horse be in extream Poverty through disorder and misusage yet is by Nature very hard and apt both soon to recover his Flesh and long to hold it then over this Horse you shall by no means hold so liberai a hand nor forbear that Exercise which is of a tender Nature a weak Stomach and a free Spirit provided always you have regard to his Limbs and the Imperfections of Lameness The first Fortnights feeding of an Horse for Match that is fat foul or either newly taken from Grass or Soil If you Match a Horse that is fat and foul either by running at Grass or standing at Soil or any other means of Rest or too high feeding you shall after his Body be emptied and the Grass avoided which will be within three or four days for the first Fortnight at leust rise early in the Morning before day or at the spring of day according to the time of the year and having put on his Bridle washt in Beer and tied him up to the Rack take away his dung and other foulness of the Stabie then dress him well as in The Office of the Keeper When that Work is finished take a fair large Body-cloth of thick House-Wives Kersie if it be in Winter or of Cotton or other light stuff if it be in Summer and fold it round about his Body then clap on the Saddle and Girt the foremost Girt pretty streight but the other somewhat slack and Wisp it on each side his Heart that both the Girts may be of equal streightness Then put before his Breast a Breast-cloth suitable to the Body-cloth and let it cover both his Shoulders then take a little Beer into your Mouth and squirt it into the Horses Mouth and so draw him out of the Stable and take his Back leaving a Groom behind you to trim up the Stable to carry out your dung and to truss up the Litter For you are to understand that he is to stand upon good store of dry Litter both Night and Day and it must be Wheat-straw or Oat-straw for Barley-straw and Rye-straw are very unwholesom and dangerous the one doth Heart-burn the other causeth Scouring When you are Mounted Rack the Horse a Foot-pace for you must neither Amble nor Trot for they both hurt speed at least a mile or two or more upon smooth and sound Ground and as near as you can to the steepest Hills you can find there Gallop him gently up those Hills and rack and walk him softly down that he may cool as much one way as he warmeth another And when you have thus exercised him a pretty space and seeing the Sun begin to Rise or else Risen Rack down either to some fresh River or clear Pond and there let him drink at his pleasure After he hath drunk bring him gently out of the water and so Ride him a little space with all gentleness and not according to the ignorance of some Grooms ruâ—h him presently into a Gallop for that brings with it two Mischiefs either it teaches the Horse to run away with you so soon as he is watered or else refuse to drink fearing the violence of his Exercise which follows upon it When you have used him a little calmly put him into a Gallop gently and exercise him moderately as you did before then walk him a little space after offer him more water if he drink then Galhim again after calm usage if he refuse then Gallop him to occasion thirst And thus always give him Exercise both before and after water When he hath drunk sufficient bring him home gently without a wet Hair or any sweat about him When you come to the Stable Door provoke him to Piss if you can by stirring up his Litter under him which if he do not a little custom will make him do it and it is a wholesom Action both for his Health and the sweet keeping of the Stable This done bring him to the Stall and Tie him up to the Rack and Rub him well with Wisps then loose his Breast-Cloth and Rub his Head and Neck with a dry Cloth then take off the Saddle and hang it by then take his Body-Cloth and Rub him all over with it especially
his Back where the Saddle stood Then Cloath him up first with a Linnen-sheet and then over that a good strong Housing-Cloth and above it his Woollen Body-cloth which in the Winter it is not amiss to have loyned with some Cotton but in the Summer the Kersie is sufficient When these are Girt about him stop his Circingle with small Wisps very loose for they will be the softer His Feet stopped with Cows dung After he is Cloathed stop his Feet with Cows dung then throw into the Rack a little bundle of Hay hard bound together and well dusted and let him eat it standing upon his Bridle When he hath stood an houre upon his Bridle take it off and Rub his Head and Neck very well with a Rubber of Hempen Cloth for this is good to dissolve all gross and thick Humors from the Head Then after you have made clean the Manger take a quart of sweet dry old and clean dress'd Oats for those that are unsweet breed infirmities Those that are moist cause swelling in the Body Those that are New breed Wormes And they which are half-dress'd deceive the Stomach and bring the Horse to ruine Though the black Oat is tolerable yet it makes foul dung and hinder a Mans knowledge in the state of his Body This quart of Oats you shall dress in such a Sieve as will let a light Oat pass thorough it and if he eat them with a good stomach let him have another and let him rest till eleven of the Clock Then Rub his Head and Neck as before and dress him another quart of Oats then leave him till one of the Clock with the Windows close for the darker you keep him the better and will cause him to lie down and take his rest which otherwise he would not therefore you are to Arm the Stable with Canvass both for darkness warmth and that the filth may not come near him Then at one of the Clock use him as you did before and give him another quart of Oats in the same manner making of him clean by taking away his dung and give him a little Knob of Hay and leave him till the Evening At the Evening come to the Stable and having made all things clean bridle as in the Morning take off his Cloaths and dress him as before Then Cloath Saddle bring him forth and urge him to empty Mount rack him abroad but not to the Hills if you can find any other plain Ground and Air him in all Points as you did in the Morning When you have Watered and spent the Evening in Ayring till within Night for nothing is more wholesom and consumeth foulness more then early and late Ayrings Rack him home to the Stable door and there alight and do as you did in the Morning both within doors and without and so let him Rest till Nine at Night then at Night come to him and Rub down his Legs well with Wisps and his Face and Neck with a clean Cloth and turning up his Cloaths Rub all his hinder parts then give him a quart of Oats in the same manner as you did before and after that a little bundle of Hay then Toss up his Litter and make his bed soft and leave him till the next Morning Then the next Morning do every thing to him without the least Omission as hath formerly been declared and thus keep him for the first Fortnight which will so take away his foulness and harden his flesh that the next Fortnight you may adventure to give him some Heats Object But to Answer an Objection that may be urged touching the quantity of Provender which is prescribed Being but a quart at a Meal seeing there be many Horses that will eat a larger Proportion and to scant them to this little were to starve or at the best to breed weakness Answ I set not down this as an infallible Rule but a President that may be imitated yet altered at Pleasure For I have left you this Caveat that if he eat this with a good Stomach you may give him another leaving the Proportion to the Feeders Discretion Four Considerations in giving of Heats First That two Heats in the Week is a sufficient proportion for any Horse of what Condition or state of Body whatsoever That one Heat should ever be given on that day in the Week on which he is to run his Match as thus Your Match-day is a Monday your Heating-days are then Mondays and Fridays and the Monday to be ever the sharper Heat but because it is the day of his Match and there are three days betwixt it and the other Heat If the day be Tuesday then the Heating-days are Tuesdays and Saturdays if Wednesday then Wednesdays and Saturdays by reason of the Lords day if on Thursday then Thursdays and Mondays and so of the rest You shall give no Heat but in case of Necessity in Rain or foul Weather but rather to defer houres and change times for it is unwholesom and dangerous And therefore in case of Showers and uncertain Weather you shall have for the Horse a loyned Hood with loyned Eares and the Nape of the Neck loyned to keep out Rain for nothing is more dangerous then cold wet falling into the Ears and upon the Nape of the Neck and Fillets 4. And lastly observe to give the Heats the Weather being seasonable as early in the Morning as you can that is by the Spring of day but by no means in the dark for it is to the Horse both unwholesom and unpleasant to the Man a great Testimony of folly and to both an Act of danger and precipitation The second Fortnights Feeding You shall do all things as in the first Fortnight only before you put on his Bridle give him a Quart of Oats then Bridle him up and dress him as before shewed then Cloath Saddle Air Water Exercise and bring him home as before shewed only you shall not put Hay into his Rack but give it him out of your hand handful after handful and so leave him on his Bridle for an hour then rub him and after other Ceremonies Sift him a Quart of Oats and set them by then take a Loas of Bread that is three days old and made in this manner The First Bread Take three Pecks of clean Beans and one Peck of Wheat mix them together and grind them and bolt it pretty sine and Knead it up with good store of Barm and Lightning but with as little water as may be labour it in the Trough very well and break it and so cover it warm that so it may swell then Knead it over again and make it up in big Loaves and so bake it well and let it soak soundly and when they are drawn turn the bottom upwards that so they may cool At three days old give it him for new Bread is hurtful when you give it him chip it very well and cut some of it into small Pieces and put them into his Quart
stirred up on which the Medicine worketh with a conquering quality the Horse is brought to a little Sickness therefore in this case you shall only take off his Bridle put on his Coller toss up his Litter and absent your self having made the Stable dark and still for other two houres which is the utmost end of that Sickness But if you finde no such offence then give him the Ears of Wheat by three or four together and if he eat this handful give him another and so another or two Then give him a little Knob of Hay well dusted and draw his Bridle and rub his Head well An hour after give him a quart of clean Oats and put two or three handfuls of spelted Beans amongst them and see that they be very clean and break amongst them two or three Shives of Bread clean chipt and so leave him for two or three houres At Evening before you dress him give him the like quantity of Oates Beans and Bread and when he hath eaten them Bridle him Dress and Cloath him for you shall neither Saddle or Air him forth because this Evening after his Heat the Horse being foul and the Scouring yet working in his Body he may not receive any cold water at all After he is drest and hath stood two houres on his Bridle then wash three pints of clean Oates in Beer or Ale and give them him for this will inwardly cool him as if he had drunk water After he hath eaten his washt Meat and rested upon it a little you shall at his feeding times with Oates and spelt Beans or Oates and Bread or altogether or each several or simply of it self according to the liking of the Horse feed him that night in plentiful manner and leave a Knob of Hay in his Rack when you go to Bed The next day early first feed then dress Cloath Saddle Air Water and bring home as at other times only have a more careful eye to his emptying and see how his Grease and Foulness wasteth At his feeding times feed as was last shewed you only but little Hay and keep your Heating-days and the preparation of the day before as was before shewed Thus you shall speed the second Fortnight in which your Horse having received four Heats Horse-man like given him and four Scourings there is no doubt but his Body will be drawn inwardly clean you shall then the third Fortnight Order him according to the Rules following The third Fortnights Feeding The third Fortnight you shall make his Bread Finer then it was formerly As thus The Second Bread Take two Pecks of clean Beans and two pecks of fine Wheat Grind them well and Searce them through a fine Raunge and Knead them up with Barm and great store of Lightning and make it up as you did the former Bread With this Bread after the Crust is taken away and being old feed your Horse as before shewed for this Fortnight as you did the former putting it amongst his Beans and Oats observing his Dressings Airings Feedings Heatings and Preparations as in the former Fortnight only with these differences First you shall not give your Heats so violently as before but with a little more pleasure as thus If the first Heat have violence the second shall have ease and indeed none to over-strain him or to make his Body sore Next you shall not after his Heats give him any more of the former Scouring but in stead thereof instantly upon the end of the Heat after the Horse is a little cooled and cloathed up and in the same place where you Rub him give him a Ball as big as a Hens Egg of that Confection which is mentioned in the Office of the Farrier and goeth by this Title The true Manner of Making those Cordial Balls which Cure any violent Cold or Glanders which c. The fourth and last Fortnights Feeding The fourth and last Fortnight you shall make your Bread much Finer then either of the former The last and best Bread Take three Pecks of fine Wheat and one Peck of Beans Grind them on the black Stones and boult them through the finest Boulter you can get then Knead it up with sweet Ale Barm and new strong Ale and the Barm beaten together and the Whites of twenty or thirty Eggs But in any wise no Water at all but in stead thereof some small quantity of New Milk then work it up Bake it and Order it as the former With this Bread having the Crnst cut clean away and with Oats well Sunned Beaten and Rubbed between your Hands then new Winnowed Sifted and Dress'd with the purest spelt Beans and some fine Chiltern Wheat with any Simple or any Compound feed your Horse at his Feeding times as in the Fortnight last mentioned You shall keep your Heating-days the first Week or Fortnight but the last Week you shall forbear one Heat and not give any five days before the Match-day only you shall give him strong and long Airings You shall not need this Fortnight to give him any Scouring at all If this Fortnight Morning and Evening you burn the best Frankincense in your Stable you shall finde it exceeding wholesom for him and he will take wonderful delight therein In this Fortnight when you give him any washt Meat wash it in the Whites of Eggs or Muskadine for that is most wholesom and less Pursie This Fortnight give him no Hay but what he taketh out of your hand after his Heats and that in little quantity and clear dusted The last Week of this Fortnight if the Horse be a foul Feeder you must use the Muzzle continually but if he be a clean Feeder then three days before the Match is sufficient The Morning the day before your Match feed well both before and after Airing and water as at other times before Noon and after Noon scant his Portion of Meat a little before and after Evening Airing feed as at Noon and Water as at other times but be sure to come home before Sun-set Late at Night feed as you did in the Evening and give him what he liketh according to his stomach only as you can forbear Bread and Beans This day you shall Coul your Horse Shoo him and do all extraordinary things of Ornament about him provided that you do not give him offence to hinder his Feeding or Resting For I have heard some Horsemen say that when they had shod their Horses with light Shoos the Night before the Course that their Horse hath taken such notice thereof that they have refused to eat or lie down But you must understand that those Horses must be old and long Experienced in this Exercise or else they cannot reach these subtil apprehensions But to pass by Curiosity as plating of Tails and all other unnecessary Ornaments whereby they do injury to the Horse I shall advise you for necessary and indifferent things that they be done the day before then in the Morning of the Course because I would
to say of a fair brown Bay dabled or not dabled a Dable Grey a Black full of Silver Hair or a fair Roan red or black And these Horses are of Nature most excellent most temperate strongest gentlest and most healthful though they may have any disease as the other hath yet are they naturally inclined to no disease But what infirmity soever falleth unto them is meerly accidental and not through any overflow of natural distemperature All Medicines must be compounded for them according to the Nature of the Sickness and the time of their Languishment for if the Sickness be young and new bred then are they able to receive any well Composed Receipt but if it be old and the inward Powers and Faculties feebled then you must be careful to help Nature by adding to every Medicine of what Nature soever some Simple of Comfort that as ill Humors be clensed so Strength may still be repaired and maintained And thus much for Complexions Twelve Causes of Health and long Life 1. The First is Nature good Digestion and good Nourishment 2. The second is Moderation in Feeding and Diet. 3. The third is Moderate Labour 4. The fourth is moderate Use of Sleeping and Waking 5. The fifth is moderate spending upon Mares 6. The sixth is moderate Journeys 7. The seventh is wholesom Air. 8. The Eighth is not to be exercised too soon after Grass 9. The Ninth is to be kept from raw and green Meats 10. The tenth is not to be suffered to eat or drink being hot 11. The eleventh is not to be neither washed nor walked at the end of his Journey 12. The twelfth is to give him with his Provender such Powders and Simples as are Prescribed you in all those Chapters which are by me mentioned but more particularly in Page 2. And though he dislikes them at first yet by mixing a little and a little at a time they will become natural to him Dangerous Sicness how it cometh First all Sickness cometh either by Heats in over-violent exercise as when the Horse hath his Grease moulten the Heart over-charged the vital Blood forced from the inward Parts and the large Pores and Orisices of the Heart are so obstructed and stopped that the Spirits cannot return back to their proper places so as the Organs of the Body cannot rejoyce but by this means the Body must of necessity languish founder and mortifie Secondly dangerous Sickness cometh also by Colds as by indiscreet and negligent keeping as well before as after long and violent exercise and then is the Head perplexed the Eyes dulled and pained the Roots of the Tongue inflamed and fwelled the Lungs with Rheums tickled and offended occasioning strong and laborious Coughing and the Nostrils often Distilling and pouring â—orth filthy and corrupt matter Thirdly dangerous Sickness cometh also by Surfeit of Food either by eating too much or too little of what is good or also of what is not wholesom so as the first killeth or at least debilitateth the Stomach oppresseth the Heart and sâ—ndeth up those evil Fumes into the Head by which are engendred the Stavers Frenzies and other mortal Diseases The second putriâ—ies the Blood and converts all its Nutriment into corruption from whence proceeds the Yellows Farcins Feavers Mainges and other such like Pestilent Leprous and Lothsom Diseases which suffocating the Heart and clogging the Stomach dilates and spreads it self universally over the whole Body leaving no Member free and confoundeth every Faculty and Member thereof Fourthly and lastly dangerous Sickness come also by Accidents as when a Horse receiveth some deep or perillous wound or Hurt either in his Body or elsewhere in some vital or dangerous part by means whereof Nature is so far offended as that incontinently a general Sickness seizeth upon him which if not prevented Death immediately ensueth Signes to Know these dangerous Sicknesses If his Sickness proceed from the first which are Heat then are the Signes these viz. The Heaviness of his Countenance Swellings of his Limbs especially of his hinder-Legs Scouring and Loosness of his Body in the beginning of his Sickness short and hot Breath a Loathing and forsaking of his Meat If from the second viz. Cold then the Signes are A dejected Countenance Dulness or Sleepiness of the Eyes Pustels or hard Knots under the Caul yea and many times insâ—amed Kernels and Swellings so high as to the very Roots of the Ears a rotten moist inward and hollow Cough he many times Chewing betwixt his Teeth some loose filthy and phlegmatick matter immediately after his Coughing which in some Cases is not an evil Sign by reason that thereby the Cold rotteth and goeth away Whereas on the contrary side for a Horse to Cough clear and dry doth demonstrate a dry Cough which hath long time lurked in his Body which is difficult to Cure which will so discover it self at last that his Belly will shrink up and when he drinketh Water will come forth of his Nose and his Eyes will be either watery or mattery and run continually through pain he hath in his Head procured by means of his Cold and his Hair will be rough and staring c. If from the Third which is Surfeit then the Signes of his Sickness are these A dulness of the Head Eyes and Countenance and that so violent that he will not be able to lift up his Head from the Manager A dull and dead Eye and sunk into his Head his Ears prickt upright and the Tops of them cold as also his upper Lips and his Sheath his Pace reeling and staggering and if he be too far gone he will be Mad which you may know by his biting the Rack and Manger or any Body that shall come nigh him and sometimes biting of himself and beating his Head against the wall c. But if the Malady be not got into the Brain then you shall find by the yellowness of his Eyes Lips and Tongue that it is turned to the Yellows which will so infect his Blood all over that if not prevented suddenly he will soon come to the Dogs Accidental The sourth and last Ground of his Sickness is if it proceed from Accidental means the Signes then are a perplexed and troubled Body sweating at the Roots of his Eares Flanks behind the Shoulders against the Heart sometimes trembling all over his Body and sometimes glowing and burning in his Vital Parts as in the Temples of his Head against his Heart on the inside of his fore-Legs and on the inside of his hinder-Legs his Mouth will be dry and hot his Tongue will be subject to be inflamed and furied he will have a Loathing against meat and a great drought to thirst and drink cold Water and to keep his Mouth in the same when he hath done drinking To Cure Sickness before it comes and to prevent it when it comes First when you finde it come to let him Blood and for three Mornings together to give him the drink of Diapente and
hath one Complexion as green if upon Hay then another as a little more dark If upon little Provender then inclining to yellow But to avoid both curiosity and doubt observe well the Complexion of his Dung when he is in best Health and the best feeding and as you finde it alter so judge either of his Health or Sickness as thus If his Dung be clear crisp and of a pale yellowish Complexion hanging together without separation more then as the weight breaks it in falling being neither so thin nor so thick but it will a little flat on the Ground and indeed both in Savour and Substance resembling a sound Mans Ordure then is he clean well fed and without Imperfection If it be well Coloured yet fall from him in round Knots or Pellets so it be but the first and second Dung the rest good as aforesaid it matters not for it only shews he did eat Hay lately and that will ever come away first But if all his Dung be alike then it is a Sign of foul feeding and he hath either too much Hay or eats too much Litter and too little Corn. If his Dung be in round Pellets and blackish or brown it shews inward Heat in the Body If it be Greasie it shews foulness and that Grease is Molten but cannot come away If he void Grease in gross Substance with his Dung if it be white and clear then it comes away kindly and there is no danger but if it be yellow or putrified then the Grease has long layn in his Body and Sickness will follow if not prevented If his Dung be red and hard then he hath had too strong Heats and Costiveness will follow if not prevented if it be pale and loose it shews inward coldness of Body or too much moist and corrupt feeding Signes from the Vrine Though the Urine be not altogether so Material as the Dung yet it hath some true Faces as thus Pale Colour That Urine that is of a pale yellowish Colour rather thick then thin of a strong smell and piercing condition is an healthful sound and good Urine but if it be of an high red Complexion either like Blood or inclining to Blood then hath he had either two sore Heats been over-ridden or ridden too early after Winter-Grass High Complexion If the Urine be of an high Complexion clear and transparent like old March Beer then he is inflamed in his Body and hath taken some Surfeit White like Cream If it carry a white Cream on the top it shews a weak Back or Consumption of the Seed Green A green Urine shews Consumption of the Body Bloody streaks A Urine with bloody Streaks shews an Ulcer in the Kidneys and a black thick cloudy Urine shews Death and Mortality Of Sickness in general Whensoever upon any occasion you shall find your Horse droop in Countenance to rorsake his Meat or to shew any other apparent sign of Sickness if they be not great you may forbear to let Blood because where the Blood is spent the Spirits are spent also and they are not easily recovered But if the Signes be great and dangerous then by all means let Blood instantly and for three Mornings together the Horse being Fasting give him half an Ounce of the Powder called by me Diahexaple and by the Iâ—alians Râ—gina Medicinae the Queen of Medicines brewed either in a Pint of Muskaâ—iâ—â— or 〈◊〉 or a Pint of the Syrup of Sugar being two degrees above the ordinary Molosses or for want thereof Molosses will serve the turn and where all are wanting you may take either a Pint of Dragon-water or a quart of the sweetest and strongest Alâ—wort or in extremity take a quart of strong Ale or Beer but then warm it a little before the Fire This must be given with an Horn and if he hath Ability of Body ride him in some warm place after and let him fast near two houres after the Riding At Noon give him a sweet Mash Cleath very warm and let him touch no cold water The making of the Diahexaple you may finde in the Table General Observations in the Physi king Horses Know then first that whensoever you give your Horse any inward Portion or Glister give it him no more then Milk-warm for there is nothing more Mortal to a Horse then the Scalding of his Stomach for a Horse of all living Creatures can worse endure to receive inwardly hot things Besides let his Drinks and inward Medicines be given him easily and gently leâ—t in making too much haste you suffocate him which if it do you must then let his Head loose and walk him up and down till the Passion be past Now for the Administring of Pills â—alls and such like Medicines little Advice is required if they be not made too great only if you take forth his Tongue first and then put them up into his Mouth upon the end of a stick then let go his Tongue again which when he draws it into his Mouth he must needs force the â—alls down his Throat You are to Administer your Physick â—ermore fasting unless upon urgent occasion as in case of sudden and dangerous Sickness and the longer he be kept Fasting from Meat and Drink as well before he taketh as Physick as after it will be the better for by that means his Medicine will work the more kindly in his Body for he ought to be kept from eating and drinking at least three houres before and after Purging Balls how made and given Take an ounce or an ounce and a half of Aloes Succotrina more or less according to the strength and Constitution of your Horse powder it very well and mix it with a little fresh Butter Then divide it into three equal parts and cover them all over with fresh Butter to prevent the bitter taste of the Aloes Make them about the bigness of a large Wall-nut shaped thick in the middle and sharp at both ends and given him in the Morning fasting If you think them not stiff enough with Butter alone you may mix some Bran with it and then they will be as stiff as Dough or Paste What Exercise is meet with Physick A little moderate Exercise is very necessary whereby his Physick may work the better and the sooner as to Trot him easily about or to walk him up and down under the Wind in the warm Sun about a quarter of an hour Then bring him into the Stable and Cloath him up warm and Litter him well and let his keeper be with him three or four houres observing his Postures and as occasion may require to help him with all things necessary for his use No Creature hath a moister Body then a Horse Of Mixing your Simples If your Horses Sickness be a Feaver to mix always your Simples with warm Water with Honey or with Oyl but if the Disease be Coughs Rhenms or any thing that proceedeth of cold Causes then mix them with good Ale or Wine but if he be
the fore-Legs unless great extremity compel you for there is nothing will sooner make a Horse stiff and Lame Many other Observations there are which because they are not so general as these be I think it meet to omit Five things a Parrier ought Principally to know 1. First what Diseases a Horse is inclineable to 2. Secondly What be the Causes of every disease in particular 3. Thirdly How and by what ways and means these Diseases do accrew 4. Fourthly The Signes how to distinguish and know them 5. And Lastly the means and manner how to Cure them Of Glisters and their Vses The Nature and Property of Glisters are divers therefore every Farrier ought to know to what end they serve and which hath Drugs or Simples they ought to be compounded for every Glister is to be made according to the Disease Now some are to ease Griefs and to allay the sharpness of the Humours some to Bind some to Loosen and some to purge and some to heal Ulcers These Glisters by cleansing the Guts refresh the Vital Parts and prepare the Body if the Body be not at that time Soluble to make the Purgation work the better which if you give your Medicine without giving a Glister before it you may stir up and provoke the peccant Humours which by reason they cannot finde present way sorth being hindred by Oppilations in the Guts through Costiveness and Ventosity and other Impediments do attempt to make their Passage a contrary way which cannot be done but with great hazard to the life of the poor Beast Now for the Composition of Glisters you shall understand that they be made of four things that is of Decoctions of Drugs of Oyl of such like Unctuous Matter as Butter or soft Grease and fourthly of divers Salts to provoke the Vertue expulsive A Decoction is a Broth made of certain Herbs as Mallowes Marsh-Mallowes Pellâ—ory Camomile and sometimes of white Lilly Roâ—ts and other such like things which we do boil in Water to a third part and sometimes we use in stead of Herbs and Water to take the Fat of Beef-broth of a Sheeps-Head Milk Whey and some such kind of Liquor mingled sometimes either with Honey or Sugar according to the quality of the disease the Glister being either Lenitive that is to say casing of Pain or Glutinative which is joyning of things together or else Abstersive which is wiping away or cleansing of â—ilthy Matter You ought to Administer according to the Age Strength Greatness and Corpulency of the Horse for if he be a Horse of a strong and able Body of large growth and stature fat and lusty we use to put into the Glister of the Decoction three Pints but if he be of a small growth weak sick feeble or lean then we do put in a quart of the same at most Of Oyl we use to put in half a Pint of Salt two or three drams at most and sometimes we put Verjuice sometimes Honey as we finde cause Drugs we use are Sene Cassia Agariâ—k Anniseeds Oyl of Dill Oyl of Camomile Oyl of Violets Sugar-Candy c. You ought not to exceed the quantity of three Ounces in one Glister at the most neither must you exceed of Butter four Ounces and let it not be above luke-warm when you give it him let him be somewhat empty and let him be Raked before you Administer it give it him in a Glister-Pipe made for that purpose Which ought to be twelve Inches in the Shank which must be put home and having the Confection within the Bladder wring it with a very good strength into his Body then draw out the Pipe by degrees cut of his Body and not all at once and clap his Tail close to his Tuel and so hold it with your Hand close about half an hour at the least to the end it may work in his Belly the better A Glister for a Horse that is very Costive of Body and cannot Dung. Take the Fat of Beef-broth a Pint and an half of English Honey half a Pint adding thereto of white Salt two drams mix them well together and Administer it Blood-warm and clap his Tail close to his Tuel and there hold it for half an hour at least and if then it will not work as I am confident it will let him Trot about easily about half an hour and set him up warm Cloathed and Littered and let him stand upon his Trench four or five houres during which time he will purge kindly then unbit him and give him sweet Hay and an hour after he hath eaten give him a Mash of Malt and an hour after that white Water and let him drink no cold Water in a day or two after The Vertues of it The Nature of this Glister is to open and loosen the Body to bring away with it all offensive Humours to remove Obstructions ingendred in the Body by means of excessive Heat it cleanseth the Guts and slicketh away all slimy Substance which is residing in the Guts The Horse that received this Glister was a small Seotch Nag and was grown weak and poor and low of his Flesh but if he had been a great large fat healthy or Corpulent Horse you might have made it stronger Another Laxative Glister Take the Decoction of Mallowes and mix therewith fresh Butter four Ounces or Sallet-Oyl half a Pint and so luke-warm Administer it and order him as you did before The Nature of it This is of all the Glisters the most gentle and is very Lenitive and a great Easer of pain it is good for a Horse that is taken with any Contraction or Convulsion and generally for any Costiveness in a Horse whatsoever proceeding from any Surfeits or Sickness Another Glister Laxative Take Pellitory two Handfuls or for want thereof Melilot two Handfuls or if you cannot get any of them then two Handfuls of Camomile but Pellitory is the best boyl it to a Decoction and add to it of Verjuice and Salter-Oyl of each half a Pint of Honey four Ounces of Cassia two Ounces mix altogether and apply it Blood-warm Glister-wise The Vertues of it It will open the Body and Guts of the Horse very well it will take from him all noxious and offensive Humours it will carry away all spungy Matter it will allay the sharpness of Humours it will cleanse old Vlcers it will refresh and comfort the Vital Parts But if you find you have given him too great a quantity so that he Purgeth or Scoureth too much then you may give him this Glister Restringent A Restringent Glister Take the aforesaid Decoction one Pint and as much of Cows Milk as it cometh warm from her and put to it the Yolks of three New laid Eggs well beaten and mixed with the said Liquor and give it him Blood-warm This is only to be applied to a Horse that is very Laxative or that doth empty himself too much A Glister for a fat Horse that cannot be kept clean Take Mallowes three
and order him as before prescribed This purgeth ill Humours it cooleth and comforteth the Body very much and causeth a good Appetite to Meat Observations to be observed in Giving of Suppositories Glisters or Portions First you must do it in a Morning Fasting unless Necessity urgeth the contrary Secondly you must not at those times suffer him to drink any cold water no not with exercise but either sweet Mashes or white water Thirdly It is very needful that before you administer either of them to Rake him And Fourthly That he be after kept warm Of Purgations and their Uses Purgation is an emptying and voiding of superfluous Humours which do cumber pester and disturb the Body with their peccant condition which ill Humours do breed bad Nutriment which when it will not be concocted and amended either by fair means or by the help of Nature then it must be compelled forced and driven away by Purgation Vomit Glister or Suppository but to speak only of Purgations Purging of Horses are either by Pills or Portions Pills are any solid or substantial stuff fixed together in one Body and being made into round Balls are cast down the Horses Throat A Portion is when you give him any liquid purging Matter to drink whether it be Purging Powders dissolved in Wine or Ale or that if it be any other liquid stuff Now Pills purge and make clean the Head and Brain bringing Phlegm and other gross Humours down into the Excrements And Potions cleanse the Stomach Guts and every other inward Member VVhat a skilful Farrier ought to know before he goes about to Purge a Horse he ought to consider the Nature of the Simples Now the Art of the true Farrier is in choosing of the Simples whereof these Pills or Portions are to be compounded and in skilfully applying the same First then he ought to know what ill Humours he is opprest with as whether it proceed from Choler Phlegm and Melancholy and where they do most abound and then what Simples are best to purge those Humours and with what quality or temperament they are indued for some Simples are most violent and next Cousins to strong Poisons as Scamony or Colloquintida some again are gentle as Manna Cassia Whey Prunes and such like and some are neither too violent nor too gentle but of a Mean as Rubarh Agarick Sene and Aloes The Nature of the Disease the Strength of the Horse and the Climate he was bred in You ought to consider the Nature of the Disease the Strength of the Horse and with them joyn the Nature Strength and Quantity of the Medicine he must consider likewise the Climate wherein he was bred And you are to make a difference between delicate and tender Horses and strong and sturdy Horses and in such Cases the quality and quantity is to be looked into of every Simple The Climate likewise is to be respected whether it be too hot or too cold and you are not to administer as hot Simples in the Summer as in the Winter nor so cold things in the Winter as in the Summer you ought to have respect to the day and to chuse that always that is most temperate for too much Heat makes a Horse faint and too much cold spoils the working of the Medicine When he is to have his Portion Give him his Portion in the Morning after he hath fasted from Meat and Drink all the Night before To Ride him after it After he hath received his Portion ride him gently after it about an hour and set him up and let him stand on the Bit two houres after it well Littered and Cloathed If he be sick let him lie down but if that will do him no good and that you finde him so sick that you fear his life then give him a quart of warm Milk with a little Saffron in it and he will do well and give him no other Meat then a Math of Malt and white water to drink till his Medicine hath done working How to make a Mash Take half a Peck of Ground Malt and put it into a Pale then put in as much scalding hot Water as will wet it very well then stir it about half an hour till tasting the Water you finde it as sweet as Honey then being luke-warm give it to the Horse to drink This Mash is only to be used after you have given him a Purge to make it work the better or after hard labour or instead of drink in the time of any great Sickness Now to come to particular Receipts and Medicines themselves and though the Ancient Farriers do make but two kinds that isto say Pills and Purgations yet I divide them into three that is to say Scourings Pills and Purgations VVhat Scourings are Scourings are those wholesom Natural and gentle purging Medicines which stirring up no great Flux of Humours do only keep the Body clean from such Evils as would arise and grow being every way as wholesom in Health as in Sickness and may most properly be termed Preparatives or Preparers of the Body to entertain more stronger Medicines Scouring by Grass To speak of the most gentle and natural Scouring which is Grass which you are to give but for fifteen days together and no more for after that it Fatteth the best Scouring Grass is a new Mown Meadow for that will Rake his Guts very well nor will he in such a place gather Flesh but if you intend to Fat him you are to take him out from thence and put him into some other Pasture where the Sithe hath not been And this manner of Scouring will cause him to empty himself well of all his evil Hamours and Surseits ease his Limbs marvellous well do his Legs and Feet very much good refine his corrupt Blood and make him agile and full of Spirit Next unto Grass is Sorrage which is only the Blades of green Corn as VVheat Rye Barley and such like being given him seven days and no more which cleanseth and cooleth the Body very much so doth the leaves of Sallows and of the Elm-green Thistles likewise being cut up and given him for about five days is a good Scourer And the last of these gentle Scourings is the Mash of Malt as ascresaid but as you are prescribed there to make it of a quarter of a Peck of Malt you are to take a larger here if you use it for a Scouring a Peck of Malt and put to it a handful or more of beaten Hemp-seed A Scouring to be given after a Sweat Take half an Ounce of Rozin of Jallop in Powder half an Ounce of Cream of Tartar powdred and half an Ounce of Licorish in Powder make these up into Balls with fresh Butter about the bigness of a small Wall-nut and give him four or five at a time in a Horn-full of Beer one after another Scourings of a little stronger Nature are these To Mix with his Oats a Handful or two of Hemp-seed or to take a Handful of
to Gangreen to become the sounder and stronger and the worst that can be made thereof will be but a little Eye-fore by reason of a Scar which it leaves behind it But then you must have a very great regard unto your Instruments that they be made according to the nature and quality of the Place and Member which is to be Scared for one fashion will not serve in all Causes for as the Places which are to be Cauterized are commonly different in shape and proportion so ought the shapes and fashions of your Instruments to be accordingly You ought to have a care in the heating of them for as they ought not to be too hot so they ought not to be too cold for by that means you may inflame the place too much Your Instruments are to be made of Iron or Steel which are the best to work with and to be preferred before Gold Silver Brass or Copper because Steel or Iron will retain its own received heat longer then any other Metal for the others as they are the sooner made hot so they are the sooner cold Now Steel and Iron Metals are much more substantial and harder then the other Metals are and though they are the longer a heating yet they retain their heat the longer Again a man cannot tell when those other Metals are hot enough as also when they be too hot and if you put never so little water to them to allay their heat they presently become too cold the contrary whereof you shall find to be in the Nature of Iron and Steel Cautery Potential Now I will in a word handle Cautery Potential which as the Cautery Actual burneth the Flesh by hot Instrument even so doth Cautery Potential burn the Flesh by Medicine of which there are three sorts or degrees Namely by Corrosive by Caustick or by Putrifaction Corrosive Corrosive is when that is applied to the wound wherein is dead or proud Flesh to corrode or eat it away by which means the wound is prepared and made the more fit for Emplasters Waters or Unguents which do carnisie and make good Flesh by which means the Wound which before was foul is now become clean healed up and made sound and these corroding things are commonly Precipitates Sublimatum Arsnick Resalgar Leads white and red Copper as white and green Verdegrease Allom Viteral Sandaracha Chrysocollo Origanum Mercury Aconitum Capitellium Romane Vitrial shaving of Ox or Harts-horn red Coral Spunge of the Sea somewhat burned Vnguentum Apostolorum Vnguentum Aegiptiacum Vnguentum Caeraccum Magistra Sal niter Cantharides Apium Aqua fortis Siclamine Melanacardium and many more that do burn eat and corrode the Flesh putting the poor Beast to a great deal of pain A Caustick A Caustick is a great Burner for that being once put to the Skin will in a short time make a Wound where none was before for which we do use to make Issues for Causticks are stronger and more violent then either Putrifactives or Corrosives for whereas Corrosives do work only upon Skin broken and to corrode and eat out dead proud spungy and naughty flesh and Putrifactives do Ripen Mollifie and prepare the Wound for the Caustick so Causticks do break Skin and Flesh and all and therefore it is more violent and burneth worse then any of the two former Putrifactive Now your Putrifactives are such Medicines as we do commonly apply to Swellings which we do make for the most part of Medicines compounded as Poltesses rosted Sorrel white Lilly-Roots and the like for such things are Drawers causing swellings which be hard and Fleshy to become soft and putrifactive and to prepare Sorrances for the Causticks whose nature is to break and open what before the Putrifactive had ripened which otherwise must have been done by Cautery Actual or by Incision And this I do think sufficient to be handled upon this subject How to make Bread for a Horse to keep him in Heart and Strength of Body and to Keep him from fainting in his Labour and Exercise be it never so sore Take Wheat-Meal Oat-Meal and Beans all Ground very small of each a Peck Anniseeds four Ounces Gentiana and Fennegreek of each an Ounce Licoris two Ounces beat themall to fine Powder and searce them well and add to them twenty new laid Eggs Whites and all well beaten and as much strong Ale as will Knead it up then make your Leaves like to Horse-bread but not too thick and let them be well baked but not burned give it him not too new and when you give it him give it him five or fix Mornings together without any Provender and thus you shall have him well winded lusty strong hardy and healthy whereby to be able to hold out and retain his Metal to the last Another sort of Bread Take of Wheat-Meal one peck Rye-Meal Beans and Oat-Meal of each half a peck Ground very small Anniseeds and Licoris of each one Ounce and white Sugar-Candy four Ounces beat all into fine powder with the Whites and Yolks of twenty new laid Eggs well beaten and put to them and so much white-Wine as will Knead it into a Paste make them into great Loaves and bake them well and after they be two or three days old let him eat of this Bread but chip away the out-side Now the reason I prefer Meal before Flower is because Flower is much more hot and binding and therefore the courser the Bread is the better it is for the Horse And the reason why I put Rye into my latter Bread is because Rye is a Loosner and a Cooler and therefore it will make him the more soluble For what causes Veins are to be taken up As touching taking up of Veins you shall understand that it is a thing very behoof-full as that many times the most exquisite Farrier living shall not be able to perfect this Cure but by that way and means for unless sueh Veins be either taken up or some way stopped which are noxious to the Cure by feeding the Malady with its peccant Humours the Farrier can never work by true Art Again Veins well taken up do prevent many Maladies whereunto many Horses are much more propense then others are And lastly the taking up of Veins cureth some diseases which could otherwise never be cured For the taking up of the Thigh-Veins sendeth away Spavens Splents Curbs Kibed Heels Swelled Legs Scratches Malenders Farcin in the Legs and the like Sorrances besides it causeth all Pains Aches Strains stiffness in the Limbs c. Take up the Shackle-Veins and it preventeth the Quitter-bone Ring-bone Swelling in the lower Joynts Founderings c. Wherefore for as much as ignorant People whatsoever Opinion they may have of their super-abundant skill yet they are very much to seek in that they do so much exclaim against taking up of Veins absurdly affirming it to be a great means of Laming of Horses but let them not mistake themselves for assuredly it is the best and only Remedy
and anoint it all over with sweet Butter and give it him in the Morning in the manner of a Pill then ride him a little after it if you please otherwise you may chuse and feed and water him abroad or at home according to your usual custom And thus do three or four Mornings together If you use them to Cure either Cold or Glaunders then use them in the same manner for a Week together If you use them to satten a Horse then give him them for a Fortnight together But if you use them in the Nature of a Scouring to take away Moulten Grease and Foulness then instantly after his heat and in his heat Again if you find your Horse at any time hath taken a little Cold as you shall perceive by his inward Ratling if then you take one of these Balls and dissolve it in a Pint of Sack and so give it him it is a present Remedy Also to dissolve the Ball in his ordinary water being made luke-warm it worketh the like effect and fatneth exceedingly To give one of these Balls before Travel it prevents tyring to give it in the heat of Travel it refresheth the weariness and to give it after Travel it saves him from all Surfeits and inward Sickness A Reccipt to Fat a Lean Horse in twelve or fifteen days First Therefore to let him Blood if he wants Bleeding then instead of Oats in the Morning give him Wheat-Bran prepared after this manner Set over the Fire a great Kettle and fill it almost full with fair water and when it boyls put in your Bran and let it boyl a quarter of an hour at least then let it stand to cool and in the Morning early give him of this Bran so hot as he can eat it and let his drink be of the same water and at night give him Oates and white Water and let him be well Littered and warm covered but if it be in the Summer his Stable ought not to be too hot and at Night with his Oats give him an Egg full of this Powder with which you are to continue him for the space of eight days or according as you shall see cause You must understand that Bran thus prepared drieth up his naughty gross and corrupt humours and doth the better prepare the Body to assume Lust Courage Strength and Flesh together with the help of the Powder which is this The Powder how to make a Lean Horse Fat Take of Cummin Fennegreek Sileris-Montani Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two Ounces Quick Brimstone six Ounces make all these into Powder and give him the quantity of an Egg-shell full with his Oats every Night but first let him be watered with white water which is two or three handfuls of Bran stirred amongst his water then Rub him Litter him and Cloath him well and then give him some sweet Wheat-straw in his Rack and let himseed on that for an hour then give him his Oats mixed with his Powder and when he hath eaten them give him Hay at your pleasure remembring to keep him warm but so as with Moderation and you shall find him amend exceedingly but you must put into his Oats every time two handfuls of Nettle-seeds for that is the thing that will principally cause him to Battle It will also greatly avail to his amendment if he be Aired every Morning and Evening an hour after Sun-rising and an hour before Sun-set if the Weather be warm and the Sun do shine And this is the best Course you can take to set up a Lean and poor Horse Another Receipt to make a Lean Horse Fat Take of Elecampane dried Cummin Turmerick Anniseeds of each two Ounces Groundsel half a handful boyl all these together in a Gallon of Ale with three Heads of Garlick well bruised and picked then strain it and give him a quart of it in the Morning fasting Blood-warm and Ride him after it but not to heat him and thus do four Mornings together and in a short time after if the year be seasonable turn him to Grass and he will Fatten suddenly But if the time of the year will not serve and that you have a mind to raise him in the Stable then give him amongst his Oats this Powder Take of Elecampane dried and of Cummin both alike well beaten and searced and when you give your Horse Provender then give him half an Ounce of them well mixed amongst it for fourteen days together and you shall find him to amend and prosper after a strange manner provided that you give him seasonable Ayring moderate Exercise and Mashes and white Water Of the Drink called Acopum Take of Euforbium half an Ounce Castoreum one Ounce Adraces half a quarter of a pound Bidellium half an Ounce and half a quarter Opoponax one Ounce Fox Grease half an Ounce Pepper one Ounce Laserpitium three quarters of an Ounce Ammoniacum half a quarter of a pound Pigeons Dung as much Galbanum half an Ounce Nitrum one Ounce and a quarter Spuma nitri three quarters of an Ounce Ladanum a quarter of a pound Pyrethrum and Bay-berries of each three quarters of an Ounce Cardanum two Ounces Seed of Rue half a quarter of a pound Seed of Agnus Castus one Ounce Parsley seed half an Ounce dried Roots of Ireos or Flower-de-luce one Ounce and a quarter and half a quarter of Oyl de Bay as much of Oyl of Spikenard three quarters of a pound of Oleum Cyprinum three quarters of a pound and half a quarter the oldest Oyl Olive a pound and a half Pitch a quarter of a pound and two Ounces Turpentine a quarter of a pound Melt of every of these that will be Molten severally by themselves and then mingle them together with the rest of the Ingredients being first beaten to fine powder and after they have boiled a little on the Fire take it off and strain it into a clean Gally-pot and so keep it for your use And when you give your Horse any of it at any time you must not give him of it above two spoonfuls in a Pint of Sack or Muscadine and if by long keeping you find it wax hard then soften it with the Oyl of Cypress so that it may be good and thick The Vertues of it It is both a Medicine and an Ointment for it helpeth Convulsions in the Sinews and Muscles it draweth forth all Noisom humours and disburdeneth the Head of all Grief being put up with a long Goose Feather anointed in it into the Nostrils of a Horse it healeth I say all manner of Convulsions Cramps Numbness and String-halts Colds and Rhumes it dissolveth the Liver being troubled with Opilations and Obstructions it helpeth Siccity and Aridity in the Body it banisheth all weariedness and tiredness if his Limbs be Bathed with this Medicine And lastly it Cureth all sorts of inward Diseases if it be administred by way of a Drench in Wine strong Beer or good Ale The Nature of it It is hot
them and if they be washed with the Juice of Vervine and strong Vineger mingled together and this Powder cast upon them will heal and skin them It healeth likewise and skinneth all other Sores Another Oyntment Take half a pound of tried Hogs-grease a penniworth of Verdegrease beaten to fine Powder give them two or three Walms on the Fire then take it off and put into it half an Ounce of Venice-Turpentine and stir it well together till it be cold this Ointment will heal any Wound or Sore in a Horse Another Oyntment Burn a good quantity of Roch-Allum and as much bay-Salt and burn that also make them both together into fine powder Then take of common Honey and of sweet Butter of each alike as much as will suffice incorporate them altogether by melting them over a gentle Fire and with a Taint or Plaister apply it And this Cureth any foul Sore A good VVater Take a pint of fair Water and put into it of bay-Salt and of green Copperas of each the quantity of a Hazel-Nut first made into fine powder let them boil a little upon the Fire with this wash your Sore before you do apply any of your Salves Unguents or Powders Another Salve Take of common Honey two Ounces Roch-Allom Verdegrease and Vinegar of each an Ounce make your Allom and Verdegrease into fine Powder then take of â—ublimate finely powdered two Ounces boil them a little on the Fire this laid Plaister-wise on the Wound once a day or if the Wound be deep to Taint it with it but before you dress it wash the Sore with Water made of green Copperas and bay-Salt The Vertues of it This doth not only Cure all sorts of Wounds in the Body but the Foot also and it cleareth any Wound from dead and proud Flesh Another Salve Take the Buds or the tender tops of the leaves of Elder or for want there of the inner Rinâ— of the Bark one handful and first shred and after pound them very well till you bring them to a Salve and apply this to the Sore binding a Cloth about it to keep it from falling off The Vertues of it This will Cure any Old or New Sore whatsoever in any part of the Body as Galled Backs Spur-Galls Gravelling Prick'd being dressed every day once and it will Cure a Fâ—â—tula if the Juice of it be injected into it unto the bottom An Oyntment Take the White of a new laid Egg and Sallet-Oyl as much as will suffice and beat them well together and before you apply it unto the Wound pour into the Wonnd burnt Butter and then lay on your Medicines with Hurds Plaister-wise And this will Cure any green Wound Another An Ounce of black Sope and as much Dogs Grease with as much burnt Allom as will lie upon a six pence melted upon the Fire together is very good to heal or skin any wound or hurt let the burnt Allom be put in last when the others are melted How to give a Horse a Vomit Vomits are given to Horses newly taken from Grass to bring away their gross and Phlegmatick Humours which do abound in their Stomach and Head which if they be not taken away in due time may empair greatly the Health of the Horse I never knew that Vomits were useful to a Horse till I met with a French Farrier which I saw administred it to sundry Horses which did work very kindly The Receipt is this Take two of the greatest Roots you can get of Pollâ—podium of the Oak washed and scraped very clean and Tie it to his Snaffle Trench or Bit then let it be steeped in the Oyl of Spike all Night and in the Morning fasting put on his Bridle with the same Roots and Ride him about with it about an hour fair and softly and if he be troubled with any Rheumaâ—ick or Phlegmatick humour or with any cold or silthy Matter which may annoy his stomach this will force him to vent it at his Mouth and Nose and it will cause him to Cough and Nâ—ez where he will send forth a great abundance of silth and evil slimy stuff from off his Stomach and Head as that in a very short time he will become very clean in his Body for this will both refine his Blood and exhaust all his watery Humours which will make him found a long time after it And this is not only to be applied to a Horse newly taken from Grass but to any other Horse that hath taken Cold or to any Ketty Foul Foggy or Pursive Horse whatsoever This may seem strange here amongst us but let any man make trial and he shall find it to be most admirable Purâ—ing Pills Take of Fresh Butter one pound Alloes and Fennegreek of each an Ounce Life-Honey and white Sugar-Candy powdred of each four Ounces Agarick half an Ounce make all these into fine powder and being well incorporated with the Butter and Honey make Pills thereof and give them to your Horse and if he be but a small and weak Horse you must give him but two parts of three but if he hath a strong Cold and Cough withal Then Take Fresh Butter and of Mel-Râ—sâ—rum of each four Ounces of Alloes and Sene of each an Ounce of Rubarb and Bay-â—erries of each three Ounces Collâ—quintida and S ffron of each two drams Coâ—di l-powder one Ounce Dâ—kâ— or Dâ—tch-powder four Ounces make them all into fine powder and mix them well with two Ounces of Mithridaâ—e and with your Butter and Mel-Rosarum beat and pound them well together and make them up into Pills and give them your Horse This Receipt will purge him very well though it heat him for some time and let him be ordered as in other Physical Cures of the like Nature and proportion your Pills according to the strength greatness and corpulency of your Horse A Plaister to dissolve and take away evil Humours which shall at any time fall down in the Legs of your Horse Take of Common Honey a pound of Turpentine half a pound of Mastick in fine powder two Ounces of Frankincense and Bole-Aâ—mâ—â—iack made into fine powder of each four Ounces of Sâ—ngâ—is Dâ—aconis three Ounces six new laid Eggs of the strongest Wine-Vineger one pint of the Flower of Rice seven Ounces mix all these together and hereof make a Plaister and lap the Legs of the Horse from the Feet to the upper Joynâ—s and do this but four or five times and you shall find that it will perform a strange and rare Cure Of several sorts of Baths and first of a Bath to dry up Humours Take Sage Rosemary of each a handful and of the Bark of the Root of Bâ—â—ch three pounds and of the Bâ—â—ks of young Eâ—mes Oaks and Ash of each a handful of Nâ—p Penvy-Royal and of Coestnuts the Rinds being taken away of each a handful three or four white Onions clean pilled and cut into small pieces or slices Red Wine three Pottles strong white-Wine Vineger two Pottles Boyl
Saffron the fruit of the Pine with the Yolks of Eggs given him to drink with Wine and Sallet-Oyl is good to Conglutinate any inward Member or Vein broken the Roots and Seeds of Asparagus sod in water and given him and after three days give him Opoponax with Honey and Myrrh and it will Conglutinate any inward Ulcer or Rupture whatsoever The Bark of Ash beaten with Wine and Plaister it is a great Knitter of broken Bones or the inward Bark of an Elm laid in Running water and Bathe the place therewith or the Roots of Rocket boiled in water and plaister it or Wilde Briony stamped and plaistered also Hazel-tails and the Seeds of red Docks made into powder and given him to drink is good or Bugel is a Knitter of Wounds inward or outward so does Lions-paw or Self-heal the distilled water of sow-Bread doth Knit any broken Sinew in the Body Bole-Armoniack beaten to powder and finely Sifted and beaten with the white of an Egg and spread upon the Leg and covered over with Flox is very good for a Sinew-strain and is a great Strengthner of the grieved place where a Bone hath been out of Joynt and put in again The yellow Wall Flower strengthens any weak part out of Joynt A Poultess made of brank-Ursin and applied is good so is a Decoction of the Root of Butchers-broom or Knee-Holly with the Berries made also into a Poultiss the Root of the great Comfrey bruised and laid to them doth consolidate and knit them together The Decoction of the Leaves Bark or Roots of Elecampane healeth them being bathed therewith The Roots of Eringo or Sea-holly boiled in Hogs-grease and applied to them draweth not only Bones out of the Flesh but also Thorns and healeth them again An Ointment made of the Roots of Osmond-Royal or Water-Flag in a Mortar with the Oyl of Swallows and the place grieved anointed with it is very good Flix-weed doth consolidate broken Bones so doth the leaves of the Holly-tree used in Fomentations so doth Knot-grass and Moon-wort the leaves of Mullen bruised and boiled in Wine and laid to any Member out of Joynt and newly Set again taketh away all swellings and pains thereof the Leaves of Nettles also bruised and laid to them refresheth them the Juice of Plantine applied to any bone out of Joynt hindreth the Inflammation swelling or pain that shall arise thereon Solomons Seal knitteth any Joynt which by weakness useth to be often out of its place Or the Decoction of the Root being bruised and infused in Wine all Night and given him much helpeth towards the Cure the Leaves of Turn-Sole bruised and applied to Bones out of Joynt is very good for them c. Simples that are good to cleaâ—se the Blood Avens VVater-Cresles or Brook-lime Burage or Bugloss Butchers broom or Knee-holly Cardus Bâ—nedictus the red Dock which is commonly called Blood-wort Fennel-seeds Fumitory Hops VVall-Rue or ordinary white Maiden-hair Mustard-seed the Root of the bastard Rubarb Sage Succory Scurvey-Grass Smallage VVood-sorrel Star-Thistle Ladies Thistle the yellow VVall-Flower c. Simples that are good in general to ex pel the dead Foal Aâ—heal the Herb Alkanet applied to her Shape draweth it forth Angelica Brook-lime or Water-Pimpernel Centaury or sweet Chervil given her in Wine is very good The powder of the Root of Cuckow-point or the Juice of it given in Wine bringeth it away Flax-weed or Toad-Flax is good Flower de-luce made up in a Pessary with Honey and put up into her Body bringeth it forth Germander Hore-hound Filapendula or Drop-wort is good also given her so is the Root of Masterwort Ground-pine is excellent good to expel it The Decoction of the Leaves and Branches of Sage given is also good so is the Juice of the yellow Wall-Flower c. Simples good in general to provoke Lust in Horses The Decoction of Asparagus given him for some time the seed of the Ash-tree powdred with Nutmegs is a great Increaser of it Beans Chest-Nuts Cream of Cich-pease or Cicers boiled in water and given The Seeds of both the sorts of Clary the pith of the stalk of the Burr-dock before the Burr cometh forth The weight of one Ounce of Cloves given in Milk provoketh it exceediugly Bread made of Potatoes and Bean-flower and given him is a great Provoker of it The Roots of Chervil the Roots of Fennel-gyant Spear-mint Mustard-seed Nettle-seed The seed of the wilde Rocket encreaseth it exceedingly Raisins of the Sun sweet Almonds Pine-Nuts the pizzle of a Bull or Hart Boars stones dried and powdred and given him amongst his Provender c. Simples good in General to increase Milk in Mares The seed or leaves of Burrage or Bugloss Cicers boiled in Milk Cocks-Head the leaves or seed of Fennel the seed of wilde Rocket Sow thistles the seed of Vipers Bugloss given him in Ale Dandelion c. Things good in General to wash all manner of Sores and Vlcers Alehoof bruised with white-Wine and Allom is very good to wash all sorts of them Flixweed made into a Salve doth quickly heal them how foul or malignant soever they be the distilled water of the Herb worketh the same effect but it is somewhat weaker The Juice of Fox-Gloves doth cleanse dry and heal them The Juice of the Leaves or Roots of stinking Gladwin and anoint any Scab or sore in the Skin it taketh them away The Juice of Purslain is good to allay the heat in sores and hurts Meadow sweet Ragwort the Juice of the green Herb of Tobacco wilde Tansie boiled with Vineger and Honey is good to heal moist corrupt and running Sores c. Simples that are good in General for all manner of swellings or risings in the Skin viz. hard Knobs and Kernels as also swelled Legs Swellings under the Chaul hard or soft and to ripen them Archangel stamped with some Salt and Vineger and applied dissolveth them Bdelium a kind of Gum doth ripen them The leaves of the Beech Tree is good to discuss hot swellings Barley-meal and Flea-wort boiled in water and made into a Poultess with Honey and Oyl of Lillies cureth swellings under the Throat Brine dissolveth hard swellings Chickweed boiled in water very soft adding to it Hogs-Grease with the powder of Fennegreek and Linseed and a few Roots of Marsh-mallows stamped in the form of a Cataplasm or Poultess and applied taketh away the swelling of the Legs or any other part Bâ—ook-lime or water Pimpernel used in the like manner is also very good the Decoction of Coleworts taketh away the pain and Ach and allayeth the swellings in swollen Legs wherein any gross or watery Humours are fallen the place being bathed with it warm Oyl of Camomil is good to dissolve hard and cold swellings Cummin put into a Poultiss is also good for them so is Chervil bruised and applied Cinquesoyl boiled in Vineger helpeth all hard swellings so does Clary and Cleavers boiled in Hogs-Grease do the like Cocks-head bruised when they are green
and laid as a Plaister dispenseth Knots and Kernels in the Flesh the Juice of Colts-foot is good for all hot swellings and inflammations Endive applied asswageth all Swellings and Tumors coming of a hot cause an Oyl made of the broad Flag Flower-deâ—luce mollifieth all manner of Tumors and Swellings in any part of the Body As also of the Matrice the Roots of stinking Gladwin boiled in Vineger or the Grounds of Beer and laid upon them consumeth them the Decoction of the leaves of the Goose-berry bush cooleth them Frankincense mingled with Honey and applied dissolveth hard swellings the fresh Herb of Groundsel made into a Poultess taketh away the heat and pains of them and used with Salt dissolveth Knots and Kernels Henbanâ— asswageth all manner of swellings in the Cods or elsewhere if they be boiled in Wine or the Grounds of Beer and applied either of themselves or by a fomentation warm True-love or one Berry hath the same Vertues Hore-hound boiled in Hogs Grease is also good for any swelling in any part of the Body St. Jâ—hâ—s wort dissolveth swellings Knotgrass cooleth all manner of hot Inflammations breaking out by heat Hedge Mustard is good for swellings in the Stones The Decoction of Rag-weed or Pellitory of the VVall is good Rye-bread or the leaves thereof ripeneth and breaketh Imposthumes and other swellings so doth Wood-Sage the leaves of Southern-wood boiled till they be soft and stamped with Barley-Meal and Barrows Grease and applied to the place grieved is good for all cold Tumours The Decoction of the Root of Scabins applied doth wonderfully help all sorts of hard or cold swellings in any part of the Body c. Simples good in General to cause Sweat given inwardly or applied outwardly Mountain Calamint given inwardly or applied outwardly being boiled in Sallet-Oyl and the Body anointed with it the Juice of Scabius given him with Treacle Camomil used in Baths provoketh it opening the Pores and mitigating the Griping pains in the Guts and Bowels the Juice of Bugloss mixed with Brandy and the Body rubbed therewith is good Master-wort or Herb-Gerrard is also good Fennel-Gyant mixed with Sallet-Oyl and the Body anointed with it An Oyl made of Asarabaca with Landanâ—m by setting it in the Sun and the Back anointed with it is good Wood-sage c. Simples and other things that are good to Expel the Heam in Beasts which is the same as the after-Birth is in Women Time Winter-succory penny Royal boiled in white-Wine and given Common Horehound boiled also in the same Wine and given Dittany given or put up in a Pessary driveth forth the dead Foal and expelleth the Secundine Angelica driveth it forth also so doth Parsley-seed Alexanders Hops Fennel Savin and bay-Berries the powder of the inside of the wrinkled skin of the Gizzard of a Hen that Lays dried and given in white-Wine is excellent c. Simples good in general to provoke or expel Wind. Alexander or House-parsley Angelica seeds Bay-berries the seeds of the wild Carriots Bishops-weed dissolveth it Caraway-seeds Cardamum seeds sweet Chervil Cummin taken inwardly or given in Glisters is good for the gnawing of the Guts and Belly Dill-seeds the Herb Devils-bit boiled in Wine Fennel-seeds Filapendula or Drop-wort Hemp seed the Berries of Holly Juniper-berries the Root of Lovage Lavender Nep or Cat-mint Nutmegs wild Parsnix or the Seeds or Roots of common parsley dissolveth it both in the Stomach and Bowels China-Roots Winter and Summer-Savoury penny-royal given him in Sack Burnet Saxaâ—rage stone-parsley the seed of smallage Time or Mother of Time Valerian c. Simples that are good in general for Cattel that are bewitched Two drams of the berries or seed of True-love or one berry beaten to powder and given him for twenty days together restoreth him Misle-toe growing upon Pear-trees and hung about the Neck is very good Amara â—ulcis gathered in its Influency is also good for it used as before Peony is good The branches of the Holly-tree is reported to defend not only from Witch-craft but Lightning also c. Simples that are Cordials and Strengthners of Nature Gentian strengthens the Stomach exceedingly and keepeth the Heart from fainting Clove Gilly-Flowers are great Strengthners both of the Brain and Heart and are very good to put into Cordials for sick and weak Horses St. Johns-wort Juniper-berries strengthens the Brain and all the Limbs of the Body Marigolds strengthens the Heart so doth Saffron and Mustard-seed Give not above two drams of Saffron at a time when you use it Mother of Time is a great strengthner of it Red Roses doth not only strengthen the Heart but Stomach and Liver and the retentive Faculty and mitigateth the pains that arise from Heat Bugloss Balm Motherwort Mace Cinnamon Cloves Anniseeds Canary c. Simples that are good in general either taken inwardly or applied outwardly for the Biting or Stinging of any venomous Beast viz. Adders Vipers Spiders Wasps Bees and Hornets c. The Decoction of Agrimony given him or the Juice of Alexander or Horse-parsley Aristolochia rotunda or Birthwort Asarabica Balm Wood-bitony the powder of the dried Leaves of the blew Bottle given in Plantine-water Comfrey Bucks-horn Plantine given him with some of the Leaves laid to the hurt place is good against the Biting of Adders the Juice of the Root of the Bur-dock given him inwardly and applied outwardly to the place bruised with Salt is also very good for them to ease the pain thereof Water-Caltrops Cantaury Campions Flower-de luce boiled in Vineger and given is good so is the Decoction of the Root of Common Elder the seed of St. Johns wort given inwardly and applied outwardly is good for them so is Sage Rocket Penny-royal Pimpernel Ground-pine Marjorem Summer-Savory taketh away the stinging of Bees or Wasps the Root of Spignel the green Herb of Tobaccho applied to the place bruifed the Leaves of the Tamarisk Tree boiled in Wine and given him is good so is Valerian and Vipers Bugloss the Flower of Barley or Wheat-meal boiled in Vineger applied to the place grieved is very good to draw forth the Venom the Juice of Mead or Trefoyl is also good for them c. A very large Account in general of what Simples are good for all sorts of Sorâ—s or Vlcers whether inward or outward of what Nature soever Agrimony Alehoof boiled with a little Honey and Verdegrease doth wonderfully cleanse them and stayeth the spreading and eating of the Cankers in them the Juice or the Water of Angelica is very good to wash them with so is Anemone or Wind-Flower and Archangel Arsmart is good for putrid Ulcers Alloes beaten to powder and strewed upon them is also good so is the Juice of Broom and Water-bitony the Water or Juice of Bistort or Snakeweed or of the Leaves Buds or Branches of the Bramble is very good to wash them with the â—uice of the Leaves of the blew Bottle helpeth all Ulcers or Sores in the Mouth Bugle Burnet wild
â—mpostumes being laid to with Barley Meal and applied with Salt helpeth the biting of a mad Dog it is good in all manner of breakings out of the skin and is good against Poison Nep or Cat Mint hath the same faculties with the other Horse-Mint is hot and dry it dissolveth Wind in the Stomach helpeth the Cholick and short-windedness it is good against the biting of venomous Beasts the Farcy taken inwardly and squirted up the Nostrils purgeth the Head of evil humors Misletoe the Leaves and Berries are hot and dry and of subtil parts the Bird-lime doth mollisie hard Knobs Tumors and Impostumes ripeneth and discusseth them and being mixed with equal parts of Rosin and Wax heals old Ulcers and Sores Missletoe bruised and the Juice put into the Eares healeth the Impostumes in them in a few days The Missletoe of the Oak being given inwardly Cures the Falling Sickness or hung about his Neck Money-wort or Herb Two-pence it is moderately cold it stays Lasks and bloody Fluxes Bleedings inwardly or outwardly and is good for all Wounds inward or outward Moon-wort is cold and drying more then Adders Tongue and is good for all manner of Wounds both inward and outward it stayeth all inward Bleeding as Veins broken bloody Fluxes and the like it consolidateth all Fractures and Disâ—ocations it is good for Ruptures it is reported that it will unlock Locks and unshooe Horses that tread upon it Tree-Moss is cold and binding and is the more binding according to the nature of the Tree it grows upon that of the Oak is the most binding and is good to stay Fluxes and inward Bleedings Moss boiled in Milk with the powder of Anniseeds Elecampane and Licoris is a most excellent Medicine for a Cold or Cough Mechoachan-Root is hot and dry in the second degree and purgeth filthy humors It is very safe and is good for inveterate Coughs Cholick Dolour and the Farcin Ground-Moss is dry and astringent without any heat or cold It breaketh the Stone and driveth it forth by Urine being boiled in white-Wine and given and being boiled in Water and applied easeth all Inflammations and pains coming of a hot cause Mother-wort is hot and dry in the second degree by reason of the cleansing and binding quality It is a very great Comforter of the Heart provoketh Urine cleanseth the Chest from cold Phlegm and killeth the Wormes in the Belly it warmes and dries up the cold humors in the Body and helps the Cramp and Convulsions of the Sinews Mouse-ear is hot and dry of a binding quality it is good for the Yellows it is good for the Stone and pains in the Bowels and is a very good Herb for inward or outward Wounds it is good for the Dropsey and stayeth the Fluxes of Blood both outward and inward the Juice of it is good to stay the spreading of all fretting Cankers and Ulcers whatsoever Mugg-wort is hot and dry in the second degree and somewhat binding it expels the dead Foal it breaks the Stone and is good for stoppage of Urine the Root made up with Hogs-Grease to an Ointment taketh away Wens and hard Knobs The Mâ—lbeerry-Tree the Mulberry is of different parts the ripe Berries by reason of their slippery moisture doth cleanse and open the Body the unripe fruit is cold and dry in the second degree the Bark but chiefly the Root is hot and dry in the third degree the unripe fruit being binding is good to stop Lasks and bloody Fluxes the Bark of the Root killeth the broad Wormes in the Belly the Juice made of the Berries is good for Inflammations and Sores in the Mouth or Throat Mullein doth dry the Leaves are of a digesting and cleansing quality the Root is good against Lasks and Fluxes of the Belly it is good for Burstness Cramps and Convulsions for old Coughs the Decoction of the Root in red Wine or in Water wherein Steel hath been quenched doth stop the bloody Flux it opens the Obstructions of the Bladder and Reins the powder of the dried Flowers is good for the pain of the Cholick the Decoction of the Roots and Leaves are good to dissolve Tumors Inflammations or Swellings the Seed bruised in Wine draweth forth thornes and splinters Common Mustard-seed doth heat and make thin and is a Loosner of the Belly it also draweth forth and is hot and dry in the fourth degree it cleanseth the Blood strengthens a weak Stomach and heats it if cold and is very good for the Head it draweth forth splinters and bones out of the Flesh provokes Urine resisteth Poison it is good applied outwardly to fetch out cold or any other pain of the Body or Joynts and is good for all Scurfs or wilde Scabs Hedge Mustard is good for Diseases of the Chest and Lungs and for Coughs shortness of Breath Yel ows and is used commonly in Glisters the seed is good against poison or venom Millet is cold in the first degree and dry in the third and is of a thin substance the Meal of it mixed with Tar and applied to the biting of any venomous Beast is good to take out the venom The Myrtle Tree consists of contrary substances a cold Earthliness it hath a subtil heat and drieth the Leaves Fruit and Juice doth bind outwardly applied and inwardly taken stayeth all Issues of Blood Mâ—stâ—ck is good to draw forth splints and nails out of the Flesh it bindeth and strengthneth weak parts and is good for old or new strains and inwardly taken strengthens the Stomach and is good to stop the Distillation upon the Lungs Mâ—lva is cold and moist it stoppeth softneth and mitigateth pain Malva visâ—us is very dry it softneth loosneth and mitigateth Mace is dry in the third degree without heat and only bindeth it is a comforter of the Heart and Spirits Maâ—na is of equal temper hot and dry it openeth mollifyeth and incarnateth Mariaton or Martiaton is a hot Unguent against all cold humors it helpeth the grief of the Sinews purgeth cold watery matters and ripeneth Tumors Marrow of what kinde soever is cold and moist and mollifieth Ulcers Now the best Marrow is that of a Hart or old Stag the next that of a Calf the next that of a Sheep and the last that of a Goat Myrrhe is a sovereign Gum it is hot and dry in the second degree it conglutinateth bindeth and cleanseth Wounds it is good against all colds it killeth Wormes and helpeth Pursiness for though it doth cleanse much yet it doth not exasperate the Arteries also it doth incarnate it helps all diseases of the Lungs the cholick stops Fluxes Morcosita or Marcasita is hot and dry it comforteth bindeth and melteth humors The fruit of the Myrtle-tree is dry in the third degree it doth bind good and loosen evil humors N. Narlwort or VVhitlow-grass is good for Imposthumes in the Joynts Neepe or Cat-mint is good for the Head ach coming of cold causes all Catarrhs Rheumes It is good for windiness of the Stomach
Cramps Wilde Tansie is cold and dry almost in the third degree having a binding quality It stayeth the Lask and all Fluxes whatsoever it is good for Burstness and is good for all Joynt-Aches or Pains it is good for inward or outward Wounds and to heal Running Sores it cooleth the hot Fits of the Ague be it never so violent the distilled water of it dropped into the Eyes or a Cloth wet therein taketh away the heat and inflammation of them Of Thistles in general all of them provoke Urine the Juice of them will cause Hair to grow where it is fallen off Treacle Mustard and Methridate Mustard both purge the Body upwards and downwards it breaks inward Imposthumes It is a very good Antidote against Poison Venom and Putrefaction it is also available in many Cases the Common Mustard is used but somewhat weaker The Black-thorn or Slo-Bush all the parts of it is cooling and binding and drying and good to stay Bleeding at the Mouth and Nose stop the Lask of the Belly or Stomach bloody Flux and to ease the pains of the Bowels and Guts that come by overmuch Scourings the Leaves are good to put into Lotions to wash a sore Mouth or Throat with wherein are Sores or Kernels and to stay the defluctions of Rheums to the Eyes or other parts and to cool the heat of them Thorough-wax or Thorough-leaf is of a dry Complexion and is good for all sorts of Bruises and Wounds inward and outward and old Ulcers and Sores likewise the decoction of the Herb or the Powder of it taken inwardly and the leaves bruised and applied outwardly is good to Cure Ruptures and Burstings Thyme is hot and dry in the third degree it is a great Strengthner of the Lungs it purgeth the Body of Phlegm and is good for short-windedness an Ointment made with it is good for hot swellings it comforteth the Stomach and expels Wind. VVilde Thime or Mother of Thime is of Temperature hot and dry in the third degree it is of thin and subtil parts cutting and much biting provokes Urine easeth the Griping pains in the Belly coming by Wind it is good for Cramps Ruptures and Inflammations of the Liver it is good for the Lethargy Pissing of Blood Coughing strengthens the Stomach expels Wind and breaks the Stone Turmentil or Serfoyl is binding and therefore good to stay all Fluxes of Blood or Humors whether at the Nose or Mouth or any Wound in the Veins or elsewhere It resisteth Poison Plague Pestilential Feavers and contagious diseases and expelleth the Venom from the Heart by Sweating there is not found any Root more effectual to help any Flux of the Belly Stomach Spleen or Blood then this taken inwardly or applied outwardly it opens the Obstructions of the Liver helpeth the Yellows it is good made into a Plaister to strengthen the Reins of the Back it is good for Ruptures and Bruises by Falls taken inwardly or applied outwardly and 't is a most excellent Wound-herb applied outwardly to rotten Sores and Ulcers any where of the Body or for any inward Wound it dissolves hard knots and kernels any where about the Body Turnsole or Heliotropium purgeth Choler and Phlegm boiled with water and given and being boiled with Cummin helpeth the Stone of the Reins or Bladder provoketh Urine the Herb bruised and laid to any old Pain in the Joynts taketh it away the Juice of it is good to take away Wenns and to dissolve hard kernels or knobs in the Flesh Medow Trefoyl or Honey-suckles is cold and dry and are good to put into Glisters it is good in a Poultess for Inflammations and Swellings the Juice dropped into the Eye taketh away the Pin and Web and taketh away the Blood-shotten of them Hart-trefoyl is a great Strengthner of the Heart fortifieth it against Poison and Pestilence and defending it from the noisom vapors of the Spleen Pearl-Trefoyl it differs not from the Common sort save only it hath a white spot in the Leaf like a Pearl and is of great Vertue against the Pin and Web in the Eyes Tuâ—bich is a Root that is hot and dry and purgeth by moderate drawing f it be corrected gross viscid and putrid Phlegm from the Brain Breast and remote Parts and Junctures Tutsan or Park-leaves the faculties are such as St. Peters-wort which declares it to be hot and dry it purgeth humors it is good for burnings by Fire it is a very good Wound-herb either inwardly given or outwardly applied Tartar is the Excrement of Wine which sticks to the Vessel and is hot and dry in the third degree and only cleanseth Turpentine is hot in the second and dry in the first it doth draw skin incarnate and conglutinateth things together and is good for the Mattering of the Yard given inwardly being made up by Art into Balls with Flower and bole-Armoniack Thuris Cortex is dry in the second degree and bindeth Trifora Magna is a certain Composition which will provoke Sweat helpeth Griefs in the Stomach and taketh away all cold Rhumes Tutia Preparata is a certain Mineral that is cold in the first and dry in the second degree and is very good for sore Eyes Turmerick is hot in the third degree and openeth Obstructions it is good against the Yellows and all cold Distempers of the Liver and Spleen and Fattens by a certain hidden quality Tastil wilde is cold in the third and dry in the first degree and comforteth and bindeth V. Garden Valerian is hot but not much provoketh Urine being dried and given helpeth the Strangury it is good for short Windedness the Roots of it being boiled with Licoris Raisins and Anniseeds helpeth to open the Passages and expectorates the Phlegm easily it is good for the Plague and those that are bitten and stung by any venomous creature it expelleth Wind and being boiled in white-Wine and dropped into the Eyes taketh away the dimness of Sight or any Pin and Web it healeth any inward sores and wounds and also all outward wounds and hurts and draweth out splinters and thornes out of the Flesh the Herb being bruised and laid to the place grieved VVilde Valerian some hold that being dried and beaten to Powder purgeth upwards and downwards Both the Vervaines are very dry and do meanly bind and cool it is an excellent Herb for the Womb and all the cold Griefs belonging thereunto as Plantain doth the hot It is hot dry and bitter opening Obstructions cleansing and healing It is good for the Yellows Dropsey the defects of the Reins and Lungs and all inward pains and torments of the Body it is good against the Plague and the venom of venomous Beasts against Agues the Wormes the diseases of the Liver and Spleen and all diseases of the Stomach and Lungs Coughs shortness of Breath and to cleanse the Bladder from all evil humors that engender the Stone it healeth all Wounds both inward and outward stayeth Bleeding and healeth old Ulcers in any part of the Body being
them If it be of a duskish sad brown and hath an Eye of yellow amongst it you may conclude it to be good but the most common colour is black like unto Pitch An Ounce of either of these three is a Purge strong enough for most reasonable Horses 4. Aloes Succotrina is the weakest but best of all the kinds of them If you break it thin and find it of a clear Roziny colour and transparent you may be satisfied 't is the very best This is four times dearer then the other sorts and is also Given to Horses but in a larger quantity by those that value not their Purses XVIII If you make your Balls of the Powder of Aloes and Butter mix it not all at once with the Butter but work it up in a little at first and then divide it into three equal parts and cover every part over with fresh Butter about the bigness of a small Wash-ball which will prevent the bitter taste of the Aloes from offending him when you give them give him a Horn-full of warm Beer after every one of them not only to prevent sticking but to clear his Passage the better for the remaining Balls But the best Way of making of Balls of Aloes for a Scouring you may find after the best Receipt for the Glanders within a leaf of the latter end of the Book XIX If you put London-Treacle at any time into your Horses Drinks put not above one Ounce of it at a time where there are other Ingredients but if you give it by it self you may give him two Ounces of it dissolved in a pint of Sack or for want of that a quart of good Ale or Beer XX. When you physick your Horse at any time give him his Hay so sparingly over-night that he may stand two or three houres at the Rack-staves and let him fast three or four houres after he hath taken it XXI 'T is good to stir him a little after he hath taken his Drink which will make his physick work so much the better XXII If you are about the Cure of any outward Wound or Sore the best way to Expedite it is to keep the place warm which is done by clapping a plaister of Burgunaâ—-Pâ—tch over the Medicine which will be a means to deâ—end the grieved part from the Air or VVind XXIII If a Horse hath swollâ—n or Gourded Legs and hath been poisoned with the Medicines of other Farriers and is fallen into your hands for Cure then be sure before you undertake to meddle with him to wash his Legs very well with warm Whey or for want of that Milk but Whey is best for this will clear off the venom and poison of their Medicines and make the Cure more facile and easie to be effected Directions how to Order a sick Horse Whensoever you find your Horse sick at any time either of Feaver Farcy Molten-grease Cold or any other Distempers c. and that you have given him something in Order to his Cure and yet you find his Stomach so bad that he falls from his Meat then to recover it again and to strengthen and keep up his weak and feeble spirits give him first to bring him to a Stomach half a Pint of white-Wine Vineger or Verjuice luke-warm sweetned with two or three spoonfuls of Honey well dissolved in it over the Fire And about three or four houres after it give him the common Cordial for Horses which is made of a quart or three Pints of strong Beer with a good big Toast of Houshold Wheat-bread crumbed into it gross and well boied Before you give it him while it is cooling put into it two or three spoonfuls of Honey and about two Ounces of fresh or salt Butter and let him have it luke-warm Give him at Night a Mash of Malt or Oats that are boiled till they are bursten After he hath eaten them let him feed upon Hay for about an hour or more then give him warm-VVater to drink with a handful or two of VVheat-Bran stirred amongst it The next morning give him his Cordial again and at Nine or Ten of the Clock warm-VVater and Bran and boiled Oats and now and then a Cordial of white-VVine and Honey and moderate Exercise once or twice a day if he be not too weak to walk This is the only Method that I know of that you can use for the Recovery of a sick and weak Horse and for to Remedy his Costiveness which does usually attend Sicknesses 2. The longer he Fasts after you have given him his Drink conditionally he be in good heart and strength the better effect it will have in working upon the Disease for which it was given For three or four houres is time long enough to fast but if he be a sick feeble and weak Horse then two houres is enough 3. After he hath Fasted according to his strength give him some comfortable thing to Recruit his Spirits aâ— a Mash of Malt boiled Oats sâ—alâ—ed Bran c. which will be a means to put Heart and strength into him again which his Drench and Fasting may in some measure have weakâ—ed 4 If you use your Horse to scalded Bran Mashes of Malt or boiled Oats and have boiled Fennegreek amongst them or given him it at any time amongst his Provender he will be the more ready and willing to take his Oats thus prepared which is very good after any Drench you have given him viz. To boyl a quarter of a pound of Fennegreek with half a peck of Oats till they burst and throw them into the Manger scaulding hot and though he cannot well eat them till they be somewhat cold yet the steam that doth arise from thence is very wholesom to open and comfort his Head and Brain and to free him from Colds and Stuffings therein If you find him nice and not willing to eat them decoy him with a little Wheat-Bran strowed upon them which to the liking he may have to that possibly may cause him to lick them up both together The Water that is drained from his Oats put into a pale of cold Water by it self and give it him to drink luke-warm after he hath fed a little while upon Hay An Advertisement not only touching the Vsefulness of the general Simples set down in Order one after another in the First and Second Part for the Curâ— of all inward and outward Diseases but also of the Table of Simples Wherever you Meet with such Simples in the First and Second Part imagine not that they were put there to no other end nor purpose then to blot or blur Paper with or that they were intended only to make the Book swell large and big to bring profit and advantage to the Bookseller I confess to the ignorant and unskilful it may appear so by reason of their want of Knowledge and Judgement to discern and apprehend the several Uses for which they were written But if the ingenious and skilful in the Art of
a Splint Take of the Oyl of Vitriol and dip a stick or feather into the Glass and touch the place with it and it will eat it away If you find it eat too much you may stop it by bathing it with cold water Or if you boyl some green Copperas in water and wash the sore with it it will not only cleanse the Sore from any piece of the remaining Splint but soon heal it up likewise To take away a Splint and leave no Scar behind Take a red Hazel stick about the bigness of your Thumb about a quarter of a yard long and after you have beaten and knockt the Splint very well with it then take and cut one end of it very smooth and stick a Needle into the pith of it leaving so much of the point of it out as will prick through the Skin pricking it full of holes then take some of the Oyl of Peter and rub all over it and bath it in with a hot Fire-shovel and do thus four or five days together and it will cure it Another First wash the place with warm water and shave away the hair then slit a Hole in the skin more then the length of a Barley-corn and then convey into the Hole so much Arsnick in the fourth part of a Hazel-Nut and bound on with a Bolster and Rowler of Linnen and made fast with a Needle and Thread and so let it remain for three whole days and Nights in which time the Arsnick wâ—â—l eat and corrode clean away the Splint then to kill the Fire anoint the place with sweet fresh Butter eight or ten days after being first molten and it will be whole Another Take the Root of Elecampane well washed and cleansed and lap it in a brown Paper wet it and roast it in the hot Embers as you do a Warden then after you have rubbed and chaâ—ed the Excression bind it fast on but not so hot as to scauld away the hair this will consume it away in two or three dressings or if you anoint the Splint with the Oyl of Origanum Morning and Evening it will take it away but not presently Observation You must stay the falling down of new humours to the place troubled by binding Plaisters as Pitch Rozin Mastick red Lead Oyl Bole-armonâ—ack and such like then to draw forth matter which is gathered with drawing Simples as VVax Turpentine and such like And lastly to dry up the Relicks with drying powders as Honey and Lime Oyster-shells Soot and such like and also you must know that all Splints Spavens or Knobs must either be taken away at the beginning or after the full of the Moon Another Receipt to take off a Splint which though it seem difficult yet de Grey declares that he hath taken off more then 100 Splinâ—s Take two Heads of Garlick and peel them and cut them small and do neither stamp nor bruise them then take the like quantity of Salt and mix with them and divide them into two equal parts and put them into two fine Linnen Clouts and bind them upon the ends of two sticks about a foot in length of the fashion of two short wooden foyls but not so long being not above twelve inches a piece Take then your Blood-stick and rub knock and beat the splint therewith very well to soften it then prick it through the skin with your Blood-staff and Fleam then take of the Oyl of Nuts one pint and put it into a small Pipkin and set it upon the Fire with a Chasing-dish of Coals and make it boiling hot and when it is ready to boyl put in your short sticks or â—oyles which hath the Garlick and Salt fastned unto them and first with the foyl and then with the other I mean by turnes apply them hot to the Splint and between whiles rub and stroak the Splint downwards with your Thumb whereby to bring forth the Blood till having with the foyls very well mollified the said Splint you may the more easily crush forth the Blood whereof the Splint is engendred and formed and thus it is cured only you must remember to anoint the place two or three times after with sweet or fresh Butter Things good in general for a Curb Oyl of Vitriol Arsnick Verdegrease an Elecampane Root roasted and laid to it an Onyon roasted with unslackt Lime and laid to it Mercury Turpentine Nerval green Gopperas Tartar c. Particular Receipts to Cure a Curb First shave away the hair then bind the Hough strait above the Joynt then with a small stick beat rub and Chaâ—e the Curb like as you do in the Cure of a Splint then pierce the skin with your Fleam in two or three places and so with your Thumb thrust forth and crush out the corrupt Blood and after convey so deep as you can get into every hole the bigness of two Barley cornes of Arsnick and so bind up the place and let it remain for the space of twenty four houres then open the place and anoint it every day with fresh Butter till it be whole Oyl of Vitriol used as you do to take away a Splint will take off a Curb also Note that whatsoever Cureth the Splint or Spaven Cureth the Curb also Another Receipt Take white-Wine Lees one Pint a Porringer-full of Wheat Floure of Cummin in fine powder half an Ounce mix all these well together and being made warm upon the Fire charge the place therewith renewing it once for three or four days together and when the swelling is almost gone draw it with your hot Iron and charge the Burning with Pitch and Rosin molten together which must be applied warm to the end the Charge may stick on the better then presently clap on Flox and let it remain until it fall away of it self and let it come in no wet or water for the space of fourteen days Another Take a Bar of Iron heat it red hot and hold it near to the place till it become warm then with your Fleam prick six or seven holes through the skin and anoint the Sorrance with Nerval then take a spoonful of salt and a penny weight of Verdegrease in â—ine powder with the white of an Egg incorporate them well together and wet some Flax in this Medicine and bind it to the place renewing it every day once and in a short time he will be perfectly â—uâ—ed Or to â—alcinate Tartar and dissolve it in water and congeal it like Salt and mingle it with Soap like an Ointment and dress it therewith and this will in fourty houres heal any Mules Pains and Scratches whatsoever Things good for the Mules vide Scratches Things good for the Pains vide Scratches Things good for Kib'd Heels vide Scratches Things good for Crepances and Rats-tails vide Scratches What Cures the Scratches Cures all these Diseases Things good in general for the Scratches These things boiled in Hogs Grease and Train-Oyl viz. Tarr white Lead Bolâ—armoniack Verdegrease green
taking forth his Tongue and putting it upon the end of a stick put it down his Throat and Ride him a little after it and give him no Water that Night and let him fast two houres and then let him feed as at other times With this Medicine you may kill all manner of Bots Trunchions and Wormes of what kind soever but you must be very careful you exceed not the quantity prescribed for it is a very strong poison Another Take the â—ender tops of Broom and of Savin of each half a handâ—ul chop them very small and work them up into Pills with fresh or sweet Butter and having kept him over Night fasting give him three of these Pills the next Morning early and let him fast two houres after it and give Him no Water that Night Or take Rosin and Brimstone beaten not very fine and strowed amongst his Provender and given him fasting long before he drinks is good To a Mare with Foal be Cautious what you Give her You shall need therefore but only to Rake her and to let her Blood in the Rooâ— or Palate of her Mouth and make her eat her own Blood for that will not only Kill but help all inward Maladies Another Take a quart of Milk warm from the Cow and put half a pint of Honey to it and give it him the first day The next day take Rue and Rosemary of each half a handful stamp them well together then let it inâ—use together with the powder of Brimstone and Soot so much as will suffice four Houres in a quart of Beer or Ale-wort then strain it and give it him Blood-warm then Ride him gently an hour or two and set him up warm and give him Hay an Hour before you give him Drink and let it be white Water and give him no Hay before you give him his said Drink and let his Drink be either a Mash or white Water Another Take two or three Heads of Garlick well peeled and bruised with the quantity of a small Nutmeg of black Soap and put them into a quart of strong Beer and warm it a little over the Fire and give it him luke-warm in the Morning fasting with about an Ounce of the Flower of Brimstone at the Mouth of the first Horn And Order him as you do Horses that you give Drenches to Another Three or four penniworth of the powder of Carolinâ— which you may buy at the Apothecaries given him in a quart of sweet Wort in the Morning fasting is a very good Cure for them Another Take of Turmerick and Anniseeds a good spoonful of each beaten to powder put them in a quarter of a Pint of Brandy and a pint and a halâ— of strong Beer and giâ—e it him fasting in the Morning luke-warm with some Flower of Brimstone put at the Mouth of each Horn not exceeding an Ounce of it in all and let him Fast three or four houres after it You may Repeat this Drink two or three times as you see occasion Another for the Bots in a Horse Take the Guts of a Chicken newly Killed and wrap them up warm in Honey and put it down his Throat over Night the next Morning give him a Pint of New Milk with about three Ounces of the Flower of Brimstone and exercise him after it Things good iâ— General to stench Bleeding either inward or outward or of any Sinew Cut or Wound or of Bâ—eâ—ding at the Nose The leaves of Snakeweed or Bistort strowed upon the Wound after it is beaten to Powder the Juice of Cleavers applied to a bleeding Wound will stop it the green leaves of Cud-wâ—ed or Cotton-weed bruised and laid to the Wound the decoction of the Herb called Golden Rod outwardly applied the smoother Horse-tail is good either inwardly taken or outwardly applied Ladies Mantle the dried leaves of Medlars strowed upon the Wound being beaten to powder stoppeth the Bleeding of it the Juice of Mint given in Vineger stayeth Bleeding inwardly Money-wort or the Herb two pence stayeth Bleeding inwardly so doth Moonwort or the Oaken Moss of a Pale or Spear Mouse-ear stayeth the Flux of Blood inward or outward the Powder of the leaves of the Peach Tree strowed upon the Wound Plantain Queen of the Medows Medlars dried before they be ripe and beaten to powder and strewed upon the Wound the Juice of Sorrel stone-crop a piece of a Fuze-ball or a Mullipuss laid to any Bleeding Wound stoppeth it presently An Ointment made of white Lilly-Roots with Hogs-Greas is very good for them The Broth wherein Coleworts hath been sodden is good for cut Sinews and Joynts The Root of Garden-Lilly stamped with Honey gleweth and soddereth them together the Herb Tutsan or Park-Leaves the Leaves or Bark of the Willow-Tree is good for the Bleeding of Wounds or at the Nose or Fluxes of Blood the powder of the blew Bottle taken inwardly the Juice of Clowns Wound-wort taken inwardly with Comfrey or applied outwardly the Down of a Hares or Cony Skins or Woolen Cloth burnt to Ashes and strewed upon the Wound Primrose leaves or Wild Tansie bruised and old Felt burnt and beaten to Powder Bolearmoniack beaten to powder and given inwardly or applied outwardly stancheth Bleeding To stop Bleeding at the Nole Tie him hard upon his fore-Legs about twelve inches above his Knees and just beneath his Elbow and keep the Nape of his Neck as cold as may be with wet Hay or Clothes and it will stanch him presently The leaves of Rosemary made into Oyls Ointments or Bathings help all cold and benumbed Joynts Sinews or Members c. The best Receipt to stop Bleeding at the Nostrils The Juice of the Roots or Leaves of Nettles squirted up his Nostrils stayeth the bleeding at the Nose But the best thing of all to stop bleeding at the Nose is to take a Hank of Coventry-blew thread and hang it cross a stick and set one end of it on fire and strow a little white-Wine Vineger on it to keep it from burning too fast and let him receive the smoak up his Nostrils and it will stop it in a very short time when Nothing else will do New Horse Dung tempered with Chalk and strong Vineger laid to a Bleeding Wound will stop it burnt Silk is good likewise for it so is the Juice of Coriander or bruised Sage or Hogs dung or a Clod of Earth or bruised Hysop or the soft crops of Haw-thorn bruised or to boyl two ounces of the Horses blood and beat it to powder and strow upon the Wound and to stop Bleeding at the Nose the Juice of Coriander squirted up it stayeth it or the Juice of Periwincle the Coam of a Smiths Forge laid to the Wound stayeth bleeding or Shepherds Pouch distilled and an ounce given fasting stayeth any inward bleeding whether natural or unnatural or Bursa-Pastoris bruised and applied to the place Particular Receipts to stop Bleeding Take the powder of the Stone Emachile and blow it up into his Nose and
lay it to the Vein or Wound that Bleeds and it stancheth them Another Take the Root of Rubarb and bruise it in a Mortar and stop it into the Nostrils that bleeds and it stayeth it Anoâ—her for the Bleeding at the Nose Take Bitony and stamp it in a Mortar with bay-Salt or other white Salt with Wine-Vineger and put it into his Nostril that bleeds and it stayeth it Loosening Things in General Vide the first Part. Binding Things in General which is good to stop a Loosness Lask or Flux of Blood Sloes or the inner Rind of the black Bush wilde Bryar-ball or the inner Rind of it Dock-Roots or the seeds of Docks boiled in Beer the inner Skin that covereth the Chest-Nut Cud-weed or Cotten-weed the Root of the Water-flag or Flower-de-luce the seed of Flea-wort fryed and given the seed of Flix-weed given in Water where Steel hath been quenched the powder of stinking Gladwin is good for the Flux Winter green the dried shells of Hazel-Nuts or the red Skin that is over the Kernel the berries of Holly-holm or Halver-bush beaten to powder and given Knape-weed Knot-grass Ladies Mantle the seeds or Roots of Water-Lilly Loose-strife or Willow Herb Honey-wort or the Herb Two-pence Moon-wort the Oaken-Moss of a Pale or Spear Mulberries the Roots of Mullen the Leaves and Bark of the Oak and Acorn Cups the leaves of the Pear-Tree or sour Pears Periwincle Queen of the Medows red Roses Sanicle the powder of Services when they are mellow Shepherds Purse wilde Tansie the Bark of the Wall-Nut Tree or the Kernels of the Wall-Nuts when they are old Yarrow Wormwood the Juice of Rue mixed with clarified Honey with red Wine or Bean flower and Bole-armoniack boiled in Milk or red Wine and Bay-Salt bruised together Cinnamon and Nutmegs boiled in red Wine Tanners Bark Dragon-water a pint of it sweetned with Treacle Myrrh Mastick Storax the Rind of Pomegranate Allum for a Foal give him a Pint of Ver-Juice to drink The inward and outward Barks of the Willow-Tree burnt to Ashes is a great binder and dryer up of Sores c. Particular Receipts to stay a Lask or Loosness Take Bean-flower and Bolearmoniack of each three Ounces mix them with red Wine or stale Beer and give it him blood-warm Another Take half a Pint of Plantine water and half a pint of red Wine or for want of that Claret and put into it an Ounce of Cassia powder finely beaten with as much of the powder of Pomgranate Rinds and boyl them well together then take the Yolks of two Eggs and some Loaf Sugar and make a Caudle of it and give it him luke warm and it will help him Another The powder of a Stags Pizel dried and grated and given him in Claret or stale Beer is a very Sovereign Remedy for it so is the powder of the Jaw-bone of a Pike Teeth and all given after the same manner Another very Excellent Take three pints of stale Beer and put to it the powder of Cummin-seeds three spoonfuls and boyl them together till half be consumed then take Knot grass Shepherds Purse and Plantine and stamp them severally and put four or five spoonfuls of the Juice of each of them and put to the Beer and boyl them again a little and give him it half over-night and half the next Morning But if it fall out in the Winter that you cannot get the Herbs then take the Water of the distilled Herbs and use it as before Another Take as much Bole-armoniack as contains the bigness of a Wall-Nut beat it into fine powder and put it into a pint of Claret or for want of that Verjuice and give it him when you find occasion Or take a pint of Claret Verjuice or Beer and put into them an Ounce of the powder of Cinnamon with some of the powder of the wild Briar-balls and two or three â—olks of new laid Eggs warmed over the Fire This Given twice or thrice at most will perfectly Cure him Another very good Take a quart of Claret and put to it four Yolks of new laid Eggs half an Ounce of long pepper with as much of the Grains of Paradise boyl them together and give it him luke-warm Or take an Ounce of the inward Bark of an Oak and half an Ounce of the powder of long pepper boiled in a quart of new Milk and give it half over-night and the other half of it the next Morning fasting is very good Another Take two or three wild Briar-balls if they be not very large and beat them to powder and boyl them in a quart of Beer with a little of the powder of Bolearmoniack and give it him Blood warm and it is a certain Cure Another for a violent Scouring Take the Intrails of a Pullet or great Chickin all but the Gizard and mix with them of Spikenard one Ounce and make him swallow it and this will infallibly stay his Scouring yea though it be a bloody Flux Another which will stay a Lask be it never so violent Take a penny worth of Allum powdered Bolearmoniack powdered an Ounce put them in a quart of Milk keeping them stirring till the Milk become all of a Curd and give it him luke-warm Another Take a quart of Red Wine and put into it an Ounce and a half of Bolearmoniack in fine powder and two Ounces and a half of the Conserve of Sloes mix them together and boyl them pretty well then take it off and put into it a spoonful of the powder of Cinnamon brewed altogether and give it him and let him fast two houres after it and leâ— him eat no washed Meat Hay is wholesom so is Bread and Oats if they be well mixt with Beans or Wheat but not otherwise Another Take a handful of the Herb Shepherds Purse and boyl in a quart of strong Ale and when it is luke-warm take the leaves of Woodrose stampt and put therein and give it him Things good in General for a Bloody Flux Cummin-seeds Knot-grass Plantine the leaves or seeds of Agrimony the inner Rind of the Barberry-tree or Berâ—ies or red Beets Bistort or Snakeweed and Turmentil is very excellent Brank uâ—sine Bears-breech Bucks-horn Plantine Burnet the Roots of Cinquefoyl or Five Leav'd Grass the Juice of Clowns Wound-wort red Darnel the powder of the yellow Water-Flag or Flower de luce the Flower of â—vy Kidney-wort Sage Wormwood Shepherds pouch Red Robin the seeds of Sorrel or Roots wilde Tansie â—ole-armoniack Myrrh Southernwood Parsley Rue Spittlewort Cassia Cinnamon Chalk Vineger Bursa Pastoris Tanners Bark Red Wine Sloes Arsmart Self-heal Pauls bittony Milfoyl the blood of a Hare made into Powder the Powder of Mens bonâ—s the powder of white Dogs Turd the Pizzle of a Hart or of Harts or Goats Hornes burned the Jaw bone of a Pike beaten to powder red Saunders c. Particular Receipts for the Bloody Flux Take an Ounce of Saffron two Ounces of Myrrh three Ounces of
Root of the black Hellebore bâ—aten to powder and strowed upon them consumeth the dead Flesh instantly the leaves of True-Love or one Berry Knape-weed Knot-Grass Ladies Mantle Money-wort or the Herb Two-pence the Juice of the Leaves or Roots of Nettles is good to wash all rotten and stinking Sores Fistulaes and Gangrenes and such as are fretting eating or corroding scabs or manginess in any part of the Body the Root of Cow Parsneps scraped upon the hard skin of a Fistula will take it away the Juice of Pellitory of the Wall Pimpernel Ground-pine or Champepitis the Juice of Plantine Queen of the Medows the Juice of Rag-wort or Rag-weed the red Rattle-grass Winter Rochet or Winter-Cresses the Juice of wild Sage the Juice of Sâ—razens Wound-wort It is good for Ulcers in the Mouth and Throat be it never so foul and stinking and so is Sanicle the powder of Savin is good to cleanse them but it keeps them from healing the Juice of Scabius the Juice of Garden Succory Self-heal is good to cleanse Sores and is good for Ulcers in the Mouth and Throat so is the Juice of Smallage put to Honey of Roses the Juice of Sorrel or Wood sorrel is good for Ulcers and Cankers the Juice of the Tamarisk Tree Vervain the Juice of the Leaves of the Wall-Nut Tree or the Water of them distilled in Ale is good to cleanse and Cure â—oul Running Sores Wheat-Flower mixed with the Yolk of an Egg Honey and Turpentine doth draw and heal any Bile Plague Sore or any running â—oul Ulcer Roch Allom and Bay-salt burned to powder and beaten together and mixed with Cummin and Honey keep it for your use and apply it either Tent-wise or Plaister-wise which will heal any old Sore the Oyl of Turpentine is good likewise for the same purpose the Juice of Beets Calafoma or Calofonia the Ashes of Garlick strowed upon them the powder of Cellendine or Verdegrease Vineger and Honey mingled together upon the Fire but if you intend to make it stronger put to it some Mercury Sublimate and Arsnick beaten to powder but the other may be applied to the Mouth and he receive no danger or white-Wine Vineger Mercury Precipitate Camphire green Treacle Sage Yarrow and Ribwort with Honey and Hogs-grease boiled together till half be consumed and strain it and wash the Wound with the Liquor or take four quarts of Cole-trough water boyl it and skin it then boyl it over again after you have strained it with white Copperas Allom and Verdegrease of each a pound beaten to powder and when it is clear put it into a Glass for your use The powder which remaineth at the bottom keep by it self for it will heal up any Old Sore or take Roman Vitriol Roch Allom and Rose-water boiled till they become as hard as a stone and strow this powder upon it is excellent good but to break a Fistula take Brook lyme Mallows Arsmart of each alike boiled in Chamber-Lye till they be soft and apply it to the Swelling and renew it not in two or three days But to Cure a Canker take red Grape leaves Bramble-leaves Honey-suckle leaves Allom Columbine â—eaves Sage leaves boiled in Water and wash the sore till it bleed or Verdegrease Butter and Salt melted scaldâ—ng hot and pour it into the Fistula and use it till all the Flesh look red then tent it with Verdegrease Allom Wheat-flower and the Yolks of Eggs beaten and mingled together and skin it with Barm and Soot mixt together or Loam-Wall and Wine Vinegâ—r put hot upon the sore is good to ripen and heal it or Butter Rozin and Frankincense made boiling hot and poured into the Wound and for a Fistula in the Head dip a Lock of Wooll in the Juice of the Housâ—eek and put it into his Eare and put Hurds upon it and Tie it cloâ—e and this will break it or â—alt mixed with Butter or Water and salt put into his Ear will do the like Particular Receipts for the Cure of a Fistula After you have searched it to the bottom with a Probe of Lead or some other thing which will bend wheresoever the Concavity of the Sorrance leadeth it and when you have found the bottom let it be opened downwards if it may be possibly done to the end the Corruption may the better issue out then tent it two or three days with tried Hogs-grease to cause the hole to be the wider then inject this Water following Take of Sublimate and of Precipitate of each as much as will lie upon a three-pâ—nce of Allom and of white Copperas of each three Ounces burn all these in an Earthen Pot but first rub the bottom with a little Oyl to keep it from burning this done burn them together then take two quarts of fair clear Water boyl it first by it self and scum it in the boyling then take it from the Fire and put in as much of this powder as will lie upon a shilling at twice and thus it is made bâ—t if you would have it stronger then take fair water and Smiths water of each alike and of white Wine vineger a third part with the Ashes of Ashen-wood make Lye of them with the Water and Vineger and so make your Water with this Powder and Lye in the former Ingredients according as before is taught you inject this water with a Syringe into the Sorrance and in a short time it will both kill the Fistula and heal it up and is an approved and infallible Cure Another Take a Pint of the best Honey an Ounce of Verdegrease beaten to powder and boyl them together three quarters of an hour then strain it into a Gally-Pot and keep it for your use This is a very precious Ointment to tent a Fistula or Poll-evil for it searcheth it to the bottom and eateth away all dead and evil Flesh which causeth it to heal the better A Water for a Fistula Take a Pint of the best white-Wine you can get or for want of that white-Wine Vineger or Verjuice and put a good handful of Sage-leaves bruised into it After you have boiled it pretty well strain out the Sage from the Wine and dissolve into it about an Ounce and a half of Roman Vitriol half an Ounce of burnt Allom and half an Ounce of the fine powder of Verdegrease When it is cool put it in a Glass and keep it close stopped for your use When you dress the Sore let it be very warm and Syringe it very well to the bottom once or twice a day and in five or six Weeks it will be Cured Another Receipt for a Fistula Take of Roch Allom and bay Salt burnt of each half an Ounce the leaves of Rag-weed and Elder-tops what you think fitting according to the Concavity of the Sore bruise and mix them very well together with a handful or two of Grey Snails shells and all and stop the Hole full of it to the bottom having first washed and cleansed it very
a Cloth into some convenient thing and put to it so much of black or white Wooll as it will well drink up and fill each Ear full of it putting a piece of dty Wooll upon it to keep it in the better Then sowe them up as you have Directions before and do not unstitch them in twenty four houres If you open his Head in the usual place under his fore-top and put into it about the length of an Inch of the inner Rind of Elder and let it remain there about the same time the Cure will be the sooner Expedited Another Medicine to put into his Eares to Cure it when it is in his Head After you have let Blood bruise so much of Housleek and Hemlock as will contain two spoonfuls of the Juice of each of them and add to them two spoonfuls of Sallet-Oyl and fill each Ear full of it leaving so much room as you may put Flox or Wooll upon it to keep it in the better When you have so done stitch up his Eares as in the former Receipt and at twenty four houres end take out the stuff If you like best the former way of soaking up the Juice with the Wooll better then this you may use that A Drink to Cure the most malignant Farcy that is Before you Give him this Drink here under-written let him be kept very sparing of Meat all night and the next Morning Blooded on both sides the Neck very well 'T is this Take the inner Rind of the Barberry Tree Herb-grace Sage Wormwood Fennel Lungwort of each half a Handful chopped small Anniseeds Turbich Turmerick and of Aristolochia rotunda about two Ounces of all of them beaten to powder boyl the Herbs pretty well in two quarts of small Beer to one quart then strain it forth and put in your Powders to it and when it is cold enough to take give it him How to Order him before and after you have Given it him 1. Before you give it him let him fast four houres and after it as much when you have given it him Air him well by Riding him after it 2. Let him drink but once a day and let it be white Water which is a handful or two of Wheat-Bran stirred in amongst his water made first luke-warm 3. Let him be kept in the House with very dry Meat during his Cure 4. Exercise is very good in this Distemper and the more you use him to it the better you will find him 5. 'T is good also in order to his Cure once or twice a day to Flounce him backward and forward in some clear River or Pond up to the Midsides which will cleanse his Body and take away the Filth and Venom of the Disease 6. This often washing him in cold water will wash off the poisoned Medicines if he hath been poisoned with any and also abate very much the Malignancy of the Disease 7. Let him rest three or four days after his first Drink and then give him another and Order him in every thing as you did before 8. If you find him after this second Drink that he is not perfectly Cured you may give him the third and this will certainly Cure him 9. When you give him his first Drink if you please you may Blood him with the end of your Cornet in the Furrow on the top of his Mouth The Vertues of this Malignant Drink for the Farcy are these It will cause him to vomit up much Filth and run at the Nose very nauseous and stinking stuff and yellowish Water It is a great Sweetner and Purifyer of the Blood as also a great Drier up of all evil and malignant Humours that are seated and rooted in the Body If the Heads of the Buds appear red and loose lay upon them a little burnt Allom mixed with a little Butter or Hogs-grease and you shall quickly find them to fall off A Receipt for the Câ—re of the Water Farcy This is the usual and common Way for the Cure of it viz. To take a long and small Iron Rod and bend it backward at one end about the length of a Fleam then heat it red hot in the Fire and strike the swelled places under his Belly and chaps full of Holes and let and squeeze out the grey and Oyly water that you find pent up in the Skin and wash the places to keep them from wrankling and to take out the Fire with Chamberly and Salt and some powder of Bolearmoniack mixt amongst it as hot as he can weâ—l endure it for three or four times and he is Cured Things good in general to Cure the Running or rotten Frush To take off the Shoo and pare away all the corrupt places and make them raw then put it on again being widened then take Soot and Salt bruise them well together in a Dish and mix therewith the Whites of three Eggs and dip Tow therein and stop all the Foot with it renewing it seven days together or to wash it with Urine three or four times a day or take a quart of urine and boyl in it a quarter of a pound of Allom with some green Copperas and strain it out and keep it for your use and after you have washed the Sore with it strow on it the powder of green Nettles Fryed and Pepper and it will dry it up When you dip Tow in any thing you must splint it in that it may not fall off and during the Cure to let him come into no wet and at the seven days end leave stopping him and ride him abroad and bring him in very clean into the Stable for dirty setting up breeds this infirmity c. Things good in general for the Over-flowing of the Gall which is a yellowness of the Skin and a Costiveness of the Body Saffron boiled in Milk is good or Ale Saffron and Anniseeds mixt together or Cellandine Roots chopt bruised and boiled in Beer or for want of Cellandine Rue and give it him luke-warm c. Things good for Gangrenes inward or outward The Leaves Fruit or Roots of Briony but it is a great Purger which must be Corrected the Leaves of Bugle bruised and applied or the Juice of it to wash the place the Meal of Darnel is good to stay them Cankers or any other eating and fretting Sores Water-Cresses Mallows Elder-leaves Brook-lime mouldy Hay and Bran boiled in the dregs of strong Beer and laid to very hot is good to stay its spreading if any thing will do it Nettles bruised and laid to them is good so is the decoction of the Leaves or Bark of the Tamarisk-Tree and the place Bathed therewith VVhat the Spleen iâ— It is a long flat narrow and spungy substance of a pale fleshy colour joyning with the Liver and Gall it is the Receptacle of Melancholy and the dregs of the Blood and it is as subject to Infirmity as any inward part whatsoever as to Inflammations Obstructions Knobs and Swellings it is through
Sanguis Draconis Turpentine and Vineger or else lay next his Back a wet Sack or wet Hay and a dry Cloth over it and that will keep his Back exceeding warm VVhat is good for the Cure of the Particular Diseases in Mares Barrenness Consumption Rage of Love Casting Foals hardness to Foal and how to make a Mare cast her Foal If you have your Mare barren boyâ— good store of the Herb Agnus in the Water that she drinketh or to stamp a good Handful of Leeks with four or five spoonfuls of Wine then put twelve Flies called Cantharides and strain them altogether with a sufficient quantity of Water to serve the Mare two days together by pouring the same into her Nature with a Glister Pipe made for that purpose and at the end of three days offer the Horse to her and if he covers her wash her Nature twice together with cold water Or to take of Nitrum Sparrows dung and Turpentine of each a like quantity wrought together and made like a Suppository and put that into her Nature and it will cause her to desire the Horse and also to conceive If you will have her fruitful boyl good store of Mother-wort in the Water which she drinketh If she lose her Belly which sheweth a Consumption of the Womb give her a quart of Brine to drink Mug-wort being boiled therein If your Mare through good keeping forsake her food give hâ—r for two or three days together a Ball of Butter and Agnus Castus chopt together If you will have her cast her Foal take a handful of Bittony and boyl it in a quart of Ale and it will deliver her presently If she cannot Foal take the Herb Horse-Mint either dry it or stamp it and take the powder or the Juice and mix it with strong Ale and Give it her and it will help her And if your Mare is subject to cast her Foals as many are keep her at Grass very warm and once in a Week give her a good warm Mash of Drink this secretly Knitteth beyond expectation Things good in General for the Cure of a Consumption Wood-bitony Hore-hound Juniper-berries Leeks mixed with Sallet Oyl and Sack with some Frankincense Agarick Bay-berries Brank-Ursine China Dandelion but the best is to scour him well and put him to Grass Or take a Sheeps Head with the Wooll on wash it clean and boyl it in a Gallon of fair water until the flesh come from the Bones then strain it and put into the Broth half a pound of Reâ—ined Loaf Sugar of Cynnamon Conserve of Roses Conserve of Barberries Conserve of Cherries of each three Ounces and give him a quart every Morning fasting use this till four or more Sheeps-Heads be spent and let his Drink be either sweet Mashes or white Water Take no Blood from him in this Disease but rather labour to Cherish the Blood hâ— hath neither be too busie in Administring unto him Purges but Cordials as Diapente Diatessaron Duke Powder Cordial Powder and such like Restoratives and to give him good Meat and good Mashes and to change his Meat sometimes to make him eat his Meat the better Things good in General for the Lungs Physick-Nuts is good for Rotten Lungs Lung-wort or Wood Liver-wort beaten to powder and Given in Beer is good for Inflammations and Ulcers of the Lungs the powder of stinking Gladdon given him in Beer with a little Mastick is good for them The Decoction of Hysop made with Figs Water Honey and Rue helpeth the Inflammations of the Lungs the old Cough or shortness of Breath Featherfew Penny-royal given with Honey cleareth the Breast from all gross and thick Humors and cleanseth the Lungs Calamint is good for the Wheesing of them Common Horehound cleanseth them and is good for the Ulceration of them so doth Bittony Scabius scoureth the Chest and Lungs Mullen or Lungwort is good Comfrey Cowslips of Jerusalem Cinquefoyl is good for the Liver and Lungs Chervel boiled is good for the Consumption of the Lungs Cummin-seeds Brank-Ursine Rue Licoris Bay-berries Cassia Water-Agrimony Alehoof the Leaves of the Fig-Tree Lung-wort which grows upon Oaks or Beeches which is a kind of Moss with broad grayish tough Leaves Maiden-hair wilde Marjorem Hedge Mustard-seed Rosa Solis or Sun-dew the Juice of Sanicle Vervain Wood-bind or Honey-suckles Cresses Almonds Bugloss Garlick boiled in Milk Tartar which is the thickest of white-Wine Lees dried and made into powder Elecampane Sugar-Candy Diapente or take a Pint of sweet Sack Honey Myrrh Saffron Cassia and Cinnamon of each alike made into fine Powder and mix two spoonfuls of it with your Sack and give it him warm fifteen days together and feed him with Mashes and white Water But if his Lungs be rotten then take the Juice of Purslain half a Pint and mix with it Oyl of Roses and put to it Tragantium steeped in Cows Milk and give it him seven Mornings together and this will Ripen the Impostume which you may know by his stinking Breath then give him this Powder Take of Cassia made into fine powder seven Raisiâ—s of the Sun stoned boiled in a Pint of Muskadine and give it him Blood-warm or the Water of Angelica give him with some of the Root Particular Receipts for the Lungs Take of Horse Lungwort alias Mullet it groweth in every place with broad hoary soft leaves which do feel like Velvet shred it stamp it and strain it Then take of Fennegreek a good spoonful and of Madder as much made into â—ine powder and give this to him in a quart of good Ale or Beer and give it him every other day for twelve or fourteen days and sprinkle his Hay with Water and let his Oats be washed in good Ale and let his Drink be white Water and somtimes sweet Mashes Another Take a Snake and cut off the Head and Tail and Flea it and after cut the same into Pieces the length of your Finger and roast it as you would an Eel upon a Spit and let it Baste it self and keep the Oyl of it in a Glass for your use when you use it anoint the Breast and his four short Ribs which be against the Lungs but first clip away the Hair for that will take too much of the Oyl up and thus do often for some time and it will recover his Lungs again and make him perfectly â—oâ—nd Things good in General for the Consumption of the Liver There is no absolute Cure for it but to preserve it give him half a Pint of Sack with the same quantity of the Blood of a young Pig luke-warm to drink or to give him three days together no other food then warm Wort and baked Oats and let him be kept Fasting the Night before he receives his Medicine or to put into his Wort which he drinketh two or three spoonfuls of the powder of Agrimony red Rose-leavs Saccarum Rosaceum Diarcadon Abbat is Disantelon Licoâ—as and of the Liver of a Wolf or to give him Sulphur and Myrrh
with Gum Arabick c. Particular Receipts to take off Hair in any Part of the Body Dissolve in Water eight Ounces of Lyme and then boyl it till a quarter be consumed then add to it an Ounce of Orpiment and lay a Plaister of it to any part of the Horse and it will in few Houres bring away the Hair Another Take Rust and Orpiment boiled in Running Water and wash the place with it very hot and it will soon bring the Hair away To make Hair black The Leaves of the Bramble boiled in Lye and anoint any place with it maketh it black or the Leaves and Berries of the Wayfring Tree boyled in Lye or the Juice of common Elder or the Decoction of Sage washed therewith To make Hair Yellow To wash the Hair with the Lye of the Ashes of the Barberry-Tree Things good in General to make Hair grow very soon very thick and very long The Roots of the Elme boyled very well in water and wash the place therewith the Juice of Thistles put on the place the Juice of Red Beets the Juice of Onions Tar Hogs grease Dogs-grease the Ashes of green Willow Nut-shells Soap Bears-grease Aquavitae Oyl of Turpentine an Oyl made of the white Lilly-roots with Hogs-grease is very good the Ashes of Southern-wood mingled with old Sallet-Oyl c. Particular Receipts to bring Hair and to cause it to grow long Take the dung of a Goat newly made ordinary Honey Allom and the blood of a Hog the Allom being first made into fine powder boyl them together and anoint the place with it every day and it will make the Hair come again apace Another To wash the place with the water wherein the Roots of Althaea hath been boyled and after dry it gently with your hand increaseth Hair much Others To wash the place with the Urine of a young Boy then take Lye made of unslackt Lyme Ceruse and Lytergy and with it wash the Hair off and it will make it come soon long and thick or to wash the place with Oyl mingled with the Ashes of Nut-shells burnt or else Snails shells burnt or Nettleseeds bruised with Honey Water and Salt or the Root of the white Lilly beaten and sod in Oyl and anoint the place therewith or the Juice of Radishes or Tar Sallet-Oyl and Honey boyled together or the Soot of a Caldron mixed with Honey and Oyl c. Another Take a quarter of a pound of Soap and as much Piece-Grease and a quarter of a pint of Aquavitae boyl these together and apply it to the bald places and in a Fortnight it will bring Hair again Another which is the best of all Take green Wall-nut shells and burn them to powder and mix it with Honey Sallet-Oyl and Wine and anoint the place therewith and it will encrease Hair wonderfully and very soon Things good in General for to Ripen all Imposthumes Inflammations hot or cold or for any Swelling in any part of the Body and Legs and to take away hard Knobs or Kernels c. Wheaten-Bran boiled in Vineger Leaven made of Wheat Daffodill stamped with Bores-grease and Leaven of Rye-bread is good to ripen hard Impostumes Brank-cresses Sow-thistles Hawk-weed the Juice of Thorn-Apples boyled in Hogs-grease to an Oyntment the leaves of Arsmart bruised and laid to any Impostumes in the Joynts for the space of an hour or two taketh away the pain the Juice of Housleek is good against the burning Inflammations the Juice of Wall-penney-wort is likewise good for any hot Inflammâ—tions or Tumors all the sorts of Pimpernel is good to Cure Inflammations and Swellings the Leaves of Flowers of Fether-few is good for all hot Inflammations and Swellings the Leaves of Mullen boyled in Water and laid to the Eyes Cureth and easeth the pains of them Walter-Caltrops used in the Nature of a Poultess is good Water Sengreen or fresh-water-souldier Duckmeat is good for all hot Inflammations and Swellings the fruit of the Pompion boyled in Milk is good for the Inflammations of the inward parts the green leaves of Elder pounded with Deers Suet allayeth all hot Inflammations Straw-berrie-leaves Bay-leaves Apples are good for all Inflammations and hot Swellings Figs stamped and made into the form of a Plaister with white Meal and the powder of Fennegreek and Lynseed and the Roots of Marsh Mallows applied warm doth soften and ripen Impostumes and all hot and angry Swellings and Tumors and if you add thereto the Roots of Lillies it ripeneth and breaketh venomous Imposthumes Observation To all cold Swellings or Imposthumes you may apply hot Simples to them and to all hot Swellings and Inflammations you must put cold If the Swelling doth Imposthumate you may know it by the heat and when you have made it fit to be opened open it with a red hot Iron Particular Receipts to Ripen Imposthumes or Swellings Take Mallow-roots and white Lilly-roots of each alike bruise them and put to them Hogs-grease and Linseed-Meal and boyl them till they be soft and Plaister-wise apply it to the Grief and it will Ripen it break it and heal it presently Or Oyl of Populeon is very good anointed twice a day with it Another Take Southern-wood and dry it to powder and with Barley-Meal and the Yolk of an Egg make it into a Salve and lay it to the Impostume and it will ripen it break it and heal it Another Take of Sanguis Draconis Gum Arabick New Wax Mastick Pitch of Greece Incense and Turpentine of each a like quantity and melt them together then strain them and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the Imposthume without removing and it will both ripen break and heal it Another Take Wheat-bran two Handfuls and so much Wine Ale or Beer as one quart and to thicken it put to it of Hogs-grease half a pound boyl them together till the Liquor be quite consumed and apply it hot to the place renewing it every day once till it break of it self or be so soft to be opened then let forth the Corruption with a hot Iron and Taint it with Flax dipt in this Salve take of Turpentine and of Hogs-grease of each alike and of Rozin and Wax a much greater quantity melt them together and dip the Taint in it and put it into the Wound renewing it every day once till it be whole This is to Ripen Inflammations Pustules and Kernels which do grow under the Chaul of a Horse but if it be an Inflammation in any other part of the Body then take four quarts of the Grounds of a Beer-Barrel of Smallage Penny-royal Winter-Savoury Comfrey Rue and of the Leaves and Berries of Misletoe of each two Handfuls chop them small and put them to the Grounds and put to it a pound of Sheeps Sewet or Deers Sewet tried and three or four Handfuls of Rye or Wheat-bran so much as will serve to boyl it to a Poultess and when it is boiled apply it to the place it will break it or at least
will do him much good in order to his Cure A Receipt for a Sprain Shoulder And if you desire to see more Variety of Receipts look for Sinew-strains Take Oyl de Bay Dialthaea fresh Butter Oyl of Turpentine of each two Ounces boyl and mix them well together and when they be well incorporated anoint the grieved place therewith so hot as he can well suffer it without Scaulding and anoint him thus twice or thrice a day and give him moderate Exercise by walking him a Foot pace gently up and down and this is a certain and approved Remedy Another for a Sprain in the Shoulder Take one Ounce of the Oyl of Spike half an Ounce of the Oyl of Linâ—eed half an Ounce of the Oyl of St. Johns wort with half an Ounce of the Oyl of Pompilion and put them all together into a Glass Viol and shake them very well together to mingle them then put them forth into some earthen Vessel to prevent penetrating and loss of the Medicine And when you have occasion to use it chafe and rub it all over the grieved place with your hand one holding at the same time at a little distance a hot Fire-shovel or Brick-bat before it to make the Oyls sink in the better This is very good for a slight Strain Then Blood him in the Shoulder and Tie his fore-Feet together Another for a very great and violent Shoulder-strain which is the best Râ—ceipt I know for the Cure of it If by any Accident he get a Strain in his Shoulder take this common and usual way which our Smiths do now generally use viz. To take up his sound Leg before and double it backwards in the Joynt and Tie it so doubled with some List or Garter so fast that it Untie not then force him to go upon his three Legs till he sweat at the Roots of his Eares Flanks and between his Legs then let down his Leg again by untying it which will cause the Blood to descend so into the Plate-Vein that it will be more visible to be seen then when it was Tied up but in case it does not appear so plain as you would have it dabb a little warm Water upon it with your Hand and stroke it downwards towards the place you are to let Blood and this will make it appear more visible to be seen then it was before Then Tie up his Leg again and let him Blood in the common bleeding place viz. between his Chest and lame Leg about two quarts or more according to the greatness or smalness of his Strain Let the blood that you save for this purpose to anoint him with be about a quart add let it be the last blood for that is the best and therefore most proper and fit for your use put a handful of Salt into the Bowl you receive it into and keep it stirring all the while it is running to keep it from clotting When he hath bled so much as you think Fitting pin up the Mouth of the Vein with a Pin or Needle to prevent Bleeding winding some Hairs of the Mane or Tail about the Pin to keep the Pin fast and steddy and a day or two after take it out but before you pin him up anoint him all over the Shoulder and bottom of his Breast between his Legs and down to his Knee with Oyl of Turpentine and strong Beer or Ale of equal parts alike shaked and mingled very well together first in a Glass Vial clapping and dabbing it well in with your hand And after you have anointed him as much as you think good smear all the said places anointed before with the Blood and Salt chafing and dabbing this also very well in with your hand as you did the other Then bring him home softly into the Stable and give him some Meat and Tie his Fore-legs together with his Surcingle or any other String that is broad and easie The next day you may untie his Legs and walk him abroad in your Hand at the Halters end which if you find that he goes pretty well you may Mount his Back and Ride him a Mile or more gently Then set him up again and Tie up his Legs as you did before The third day after his Dressing make him a thin flat Wedge of Wood about the bredth of a Six-pence and drive it between the Shooe and â—oe so fast that it stir not not forgetting still to Tie his Legs together Thus Order him for three or four days together which is the usual time limited to make him sound again conditionally it be but a new Strain When you take him out of the Stable or Ride him at any time you must untie his Legs and take forth the Wedge This Receipt is good also for a Shoulder that is pulled out of its place about the bredth of a Mans Hand or more or a Wrench Shoulder or a splayed Shoulder c. Things good in General to Cure the Sit-fast or hard Knobs growing under the Saddle Take a long Nail with the Point turned inwards and catch hold of the edge of the dead Skin or Horn which will rise from the sound Skin and with a sharp Knife cut away all the dead and hard skin from the sound Flesh and heal it up by pouring hot Butter into it Morning and Evening and when the Flesh is made even dry and skin it either with the powder of Honey and Lyme or with Soot and Cream mixt together or to wash the Wound either with Urine or white-Wine and dry it up with the powder of Oyster-shells burnt or of Bole-Armoniack or take the green Leaves of Cabbage and stamp them with Hogs-grease and work them to an Ointment and lay it to his Back then put on the Saddle and Mount his Back to the end that the Ointment may the better enter or sink into his Back and in few days it will Cure him c. Things good in General for a Navel-Gall To anoint it with the Oyl of Turpentine will not only cleanse it but heal it also but if you find any dead or proud Flesh arise in it either cut or eat it away before you use any Medicine with either burnt Allom or the powder of Verdegrease or after you have washed and clensed the Sore with your Copperas water or with warm Vineger strow this powder on it Take of Honey a Quartern and as much unslackt Lyme as will thicken the Honey and make it into a Paste and bake it so hard as that you can beat it to powder and strow it on the Sorrance c. Particular Receipts for the Navel-Gall Take Oyl de Bay Oyl of Costus Fox Grease Oyl of Savin of each an Ounce then take one hundred of great Garden Wormes and scour them with Salt and white-Wine and put all the Ingredients together into an earthen Pot very well stopped and boyl it well then add thereto of Sallet Oyl one Ounce and a half and boyl it over again till it
and ride him gently upon it and after that set him up warm covered and littered and in a little while you shall see him piss freely let him have it several Mornings together and during the Cure let his Drink be white Water Another Make a strong Decoction that is to say boil the first quantity of water to an half Pint three times over of keen Onions clean pilled and Parsley then take a quart thereof and put to it a good spoonful of London-Treacle and as much of the powder of Egg-shells and give it him And thus do divers Mornings if the Infirmity be great otherwise when you see him offended Things good in General for the Cholick or Stone or for the Gripings or Fretting of the Guts by VVind Centaury Costmary is good for the Gripings of the Belly Camomel Flowers is good for the Cholick and Stone and is good given in a Glister for that purpose the Roots of the Sea holly boiled in white-Wine Rue boiled with Dill and Fennel-seeds in Wine is good Cinnamon sixteen or eighteen of the Berries of Holly purgeth the Body of thick and phlegmatick Humors Hawthorn-berries Cardamum Cloves Pepper Juniper Berries given him or to put a Jagged Onion into his Fundament or to give him a Pipe of Tobaccho at his Fundament Hore-hound Southernwood or the powder of a Stags Pizel dried and given in Beer or the Heart of a Lark swallowed down whole Hysop Cowslips Liver-wort Lungwort the Urine of a Child given him to drink Gentian Aristolochia rotunda Enula Campana or a Glister made of Sope and salt Water or to give him two drams of Myrrh in Wine Nettle-roots Sperage-roots Dodder bruised and boiled in white-Wine with some Salt amongst it is good to give him Fasting the powder of the wilde Briar Apple-balls Or you may give him by way of a Drink or by Glister this following Drench viz. Two good Handfuls of Mallow leaves boiled in three Pints of New Milk till it comes to a quart Strain out the Milk from the Mallows and give it him either way sweetned with Loaf-sugar luke-warm This is a most Excellent Receipt for the dry Gripes for this will make his Body loose which by this means will free him from those tormenting pains he is troubled with Particular Receipts for the Cholick or Stone Take of white-Wine a quart Fennegreek four Ounces Bay-berries and Pepper of each four Ounces Grains and Ginger of each an Ounce Water-cresses two Handfuls Sage one Handful Sengreen one pound Mints a Handful stamp the Herbs and pound the Spices and put them to the Wine and boyl it then strain it and put two spoonfuls of Honey to it and give it him luke-warm Another Take Cloves Pepper Cinnamon of each one Ounce all made into fine powder and well mixed then put it into a quart of Sack and let it boyl a while then take it off and put to it one spoonful of Honey and give it him luke-warm then Cloath him up and Litter him and let him Fast three or four houres after it then give him Hay and one hour after that a sweet Mash or white Water Another for the Cholick and Stone Take of white-Wine one Pint of Burdock Seeds eight Ounces made into fine powder of Parsley-seed two Ounces two Ounces in powder of Hysop unset Leeks and Water-cresses of each half a handful of black Sope half-an Ounce stamp them well and strain them with the Wine then put to it your Bur and Parsley-seed and so give it him blood-warm this will break the Stone and bring it from him with much ease and cure his Cholick Another for Griping and Fretting in a Horses Belly First blood him in the Mouth with your Cornet Horn and give him a Pint or a Quart of Pork or Beef Brine cold when you see occasion After you have so done strip up your Shirt as high as your Elbow anoint your Hand and Arm with Sallet Oyl Butter or Hogs-Grease and put it into his Fundament and draw forth as much of his hard and baked Dung as you can well get Then take a good big angry red Onâ—on and peel it and Jag it cross-ways with your Knife and Rowl it very well in Salt and Floure of Brimstone and cover it all over with fresh Butter and put it up into his Body as far as you can well thrust it and Tie down his Tuel or Tail close between his Legs to his Surcingle or Girts and walk or Ride him about a quarter of an hour or more then Untie his Tail and you shall find he will purge freely The excellency of this Receipt is That it will cleanse his Maw and Guts and Kill the Wormes within him The next Morning you may give him a comfortable Drink warm made of an Ounce of Horse Spice boyled a little in a quart of strong Beer sweetned with either Hony or common Treacle Or you may give him a Cordial of three Pints of strong Beer with a Toast of Houshold Wheat bread crummed in it and boyled together with a little Mace and when you have taken it off the Fire dissolve into it two or three spoonfuls of Honey with a good big Lump of sweet Butter and he will do well Things good in General for the Dropsey To let Blood first to take away the thin Wheyish Blood the Kernels within the Hu ks of the Ashen Keys Broom Chamomel wild Carrets Centaury the Berries of Elder either green or dry Dwarf Elder Hawk-weed Wormwood Juniper berries Kidney wort wilde Marjorem the Juice of Pellitory of the Wall the Seed of Plantain Bayberries Succory the Bark of the Tamarisk Tree Lady thistle Vervain Peony Seeds Coleworts Smallage Elm boughs Sallow Leaves or whatsoever else that will make him Urine Chiche steeped in water a day and a night Parsley stamped and mixt with white-Wine or Burdock seeds taken the same way Rue red Sage Winter Savoury Time Horse Radish Roots Rubarb Saldanella Salt of Scurvey-Grass Garden Scurvey-Grass Rosemary tops Asarabica Wood bitony China-roots the Juice of the white Lilly-Roots tempered with Barley-Meal and baked and given him for to eat is very good A Particular Receipt for the Cure of the Dropsey Take a Gallon of Ale and set it upon the Fire and scum off the Froth as it riseth then put into it of Wormwood and of Rue the tender tops and leaves without stalks very well picked of each a Handful and boyl it to a quart then strain it and dissolve into it three Ounces of London Treacle and put into it of long Pepper and Grains made into sine Powder of each an Ounce then brew them well together an give it him blood-warm and bath and anoint his Legs that be swelled with Train-Oyl twice a day till it go away and give him Mashes or white Water and feed him with such Meat as he will best eat and if the Weather be seasonable turn him to Grass and he will do well Things good in General for Gravelling To take
good in General to keep the Flies off a Horses Head To anoint his Head with Oyl and Bay-berries mingled together or to rub his Head all over with the water wherein Rue hath been steeped in after it is well bruised or to anoint his Head or round about his Eyes with Lynseed Oyl and it will keep them away or with the water wherein Devils dung hath been dissolved is the best of all or with the water of Pellitory of Spaein or the leaves of Ivy bruised with a little Water and his Head washed therewith Things good in General for the Cure of the Leprosie or Mange To take Blood first from the Neck-Vein good store and scrape away the Scurf with an old Curry-eomb Oyster-shell or such like then these things you are to use as your discretion serves Staves-acre Chickweed Elecampane Mercury Sublimate the leaves of Bramble boyled in Lye Cow-Piss the powder of the dried root of Briony the powder of the red Dock or the powder of Arsnick Resalgar or white Mereury mixed with Hogs grease till it be killed Urine Tobaccho and Brimstone boiled together is very good or Salt Verdegrease Allum Verjuice and Train Oyl boiled together and anoint him therewith or Broom Wormwood Mustard-seed Elecampane Chimney-soot and black Soap boyled together or the Juice of Hemlock unslackt Lyme Pepper and Ginger boiled in Beef-broth and anointed therewith is very good Particular Receipts for the Mange Take a quart of fair Running Water and put into it half a pound of green Copperas and an Ounce of Allum and an Ounce of Tobaccho chopped small then boyl them together till they come to somwhat more then a Pint and anoint him all over with it very warm after you have rubbed off the Scabs and Tie him to the Rack three or four houres twice dressing him cures him Or the Ashes of the Bark of the Ash Tree made into a Lie and the Body washed therewith Calamint taken inwardly the Decoction of the Leaves of the Fig tree wilde Flower c. Another First let Blood then take a quart of old Urine or Vineger and break it into a quarter of a pound of Tobaccho and set it on the Embers to stew all Night and wash the infected places whether it be in the Mane or otherwise Another for any Mange or Vniversal Leprosie in a soul Surfeited Horse After you have let him Blood and scraped off the Scabs or Scurf take of Verjuice and Vineger a Pint Cow-Piss a Pint Train Oyl a Pint old Urine a Pint and put to them a Handful of wilde Tansie and a Handful of Bay-salt a quarter of a pound of Brimstone as much Allum two Ounces of Verdegrease and four Ounces of Bolearmoniack boyl all well together with this very hot wash him well and if you put to it a quantity of a Pint of Blood you take away it is not amiss do this twice or thrice Another Take Mother of Salt Peter the best and strongest and wash the Sores therewith so hot as he is able to suffer it and in three or four times dressing it will cure him this will not only kill the Mange but all Scratches Pains and Rats-tails c. Another Take of Sopers Lees and after you have scraped away the Scurf wash him with it and in once or twice dressing he will be well it cures the Mange not only in Horses but also Dogs provided they get not to it with their Mouth An inward Drink with an outward Application which I think is the best Remedy that can be Invented for this Disease Take Anniseeds and Turmerick of each an Ounce finely beaten of the blackest Rozin powdered one Ounce put them into a quart of strong Beer heated luke-warm and give it him in the Morning lasting with a little of the Flower of Brimstone at the Mouth of every Horn you give him not exceeding above an Ounce in all and let him fast four or five houres after it and Order him afterwards as you do a sick Horse About two or three days after his Drink when he hath a little recruited and recovered his strength again apply this outward application but first curry off all the Scabs with an old Curry-comb till the blood and water appear viz. Take Oyl of Turpentine and Beer of equal parts alike with some Flower of Brimstone well shaked and Jumbled together in a Glass Vial to incorporate them the better and anoint him all over with it Tying him first with a strong Bridle to the Rack to prevent him from biting at it for it is a very terrifying biting and sharp Medicine and will torment him for about half an hour or more and then the smarting will be over If you find your Horse full of good and in heart you may venture to give him two or three of these Drinks and Ointings if you see the Cure will not be performed without them but if he be a very poor lean Horse then one is enough till he hath recovered more heart and strength Things good in general for the Cure of the Scab Tetter or Ring-worm The water that is â—ound in the hollow places of a decayed Beech-tree and annoint him with it the Juice of the leaves and roots of stinking Gladwin one part of Plantine water and two parts of the Brine of Beef boyled together and clarified and anoint him with it Plum-tree leaves boyled in Vineger killeth Tettars the Juice of the Root of Monks Rubarb which is a kind of Dock some call it Garden-Patience is very good the Oyl of Wheat pressed between two thick Plates of Copper the Juice of Mercury mingled with Vineger Water-cresses the Roots of Docks boiled in Vineger and bathed therewith Cardimonium mixt with Vineger To make a strong Lye of old Urine Ash Keys and green Copperas and bathe the Knots therewith and it will kill and heal them or to cut the Head and Tail of a Snake and cut it into small Pieces and roast it and anoint the Sore with the Grease of it and it will heal it in a shor time and have a care you touch no place but the Sorrance for it will venom Particular Receipts to Cure the Tettar or Ring-worm Take two drams of Precipitate and put it into a small Vial-Glass with fair water much more then will cover the powder keep it close stopped and with this Water twice a day wash it and it will infallibly Cure it and after you have dressed the Sorrance shake the Glass and let it stand till the next dressing But if it be in any fleshy part you may kill it by Bathing the Sorrance with the Juice of Southern-wood Maudlin and Rue of each alike stamped together and strained and Bathe the place with it twice a day till it be whole Another Take the roots of Elecampane and the roots of red Docks of each alike slice them thin and put them into three quarts of Urine with two Handfuls of Bay-salt let it boil till one quart be
put on the Saddle again and let it so remain all Night and this presently helpeth any Swelling in the Withers or any other part of the Back as also any Swellings by Spur-Galls But if the Skin be broken or ulcerated then take sweet Butter Bay salt and the powder of Frankincense of each as much as will suffice boyl all these together and with a Clout fastned upon a stick dip it into it scalding hot and scald it two or three times but if it be full of corruption then make incision on both sides beneath that the Matterative stuff may the more easily void away downwards and heal it up with your powder of Lyme and Honey or to anoint it well with the Oyl of Turpentine and it will either asswage or break the Swelling and if it be broke squeeze forth the corruption and drop some of the said Oyl into it Morning and Evening and it will both cleanse and heal it but if the Skin be only Galled off take Cream and Soot well mixt together and lay upon the Sore and it will heal it presently if the Wound be not very deep Things good in General for Swelled Cods If it come of Rankness of Seed or of Blood then let him have a Mare and let him Cover her two or three days together and half an Hour after Ride him into the Water above the Cods or Stones against the stream and he will do well But if it come of other Causes take the Lees of Claret-Wine or for want of that the Dregs of strong Beer and Cummin-seed made into fine powder and a little Wheat and Bean-Flower boyl them altogether to an Ointment and anoint his Cods warm therewith then draw forth his Yard and wash that and his Sheath also with white-Wine Vineger and three or four Houres after Ride him into the Water above the Cods and let him stand in the Water some short time and to Ride him against the stream do this every day till the Swelling be asswaged or take the Roots of wilde Cucumbers and white Salt boyl them in fair Water to an Ointment and anoint his Cods with it warm and then apply this Ointment Take Goats-Grease or Deers Sewet the White of an Egg and Sallet Oyl boyl them gently and anoint his Cods therewith but this must be after he hath been ridden into the Water and dry again A Charge for Swelled Cods Or take Bolearmoniack beaten into fine Powder Vineger and the Whites of Eggs well beaten together and anoint him therewith daily till it be abated and if it Impost humate where you find it to be soft open it with a hot Iron or with your Incision Knife if it break not of it self and heal it up with your green Ointment taught you as aforesaid Another for any Bite or Bruise on his Cods which cause them to Swell very much To remedy this Accident Wash and Bathe them very well with warm Whey Morning and Evening for three or four days together and anoint them after it with the Oyl or Ointment of Populeon till you finde the Swelling abated keeping his Cods warm with a Linnen Bag made in the nature of a Purse and drawn easily over them If you find that the Swelling is abated you may then apply the Common Charge of Soap and Brandy to it very hot which will Knit the Strings of his Cods together again But if you find that they are so torn that you question his Cure then the best way in my opinion is to Geld him A most Excellent Bath which is not only good for Swelled or bruised Cods but for all manner of Bruises in any Part of the Body from Head to Foot Take two quarts of the strongest Ale you can get Then set it over the Fire in a large Skillet or Pipkin and put to it two good Handfuls of the Rind of the black Berry Bush and let it Simper away till it come to a quart then strain it forth and keep it for your use How you are to use it Bathe the grieved part Night and Morning with it very hot and heated very well in by the Fire then dip a Linnen Cloth in the same and bind it up hot When you have done peel off the Bark towards the Root when you gather it for that is the best This is a very great Strengthner of any weak Member by either Bruise Strain or Pain Things good in General for Bursting or Ruptures in Horses Though I hold it incurable yet I shall give you those things that worketh much good though no absolute Cure These things are great Knitters and are to be taken inwardly Valerian Rupture-wort Cross-wort Cranes-bill the powder of the Roots of Chammack the Leaves and Nuts of the Cypres Elm leaves or the Bark thereof Corn-Flag any of these things given inwardly with the outward means used maketh the Cure the more effectual The outward means is this Bring the Horse into a place where there is a Beam overthwart and strow it thick with straw then put on four strong Pasterns with four Rings on his Feet and fasten one end of a long Rope to one of those Rings with the loose End of the Rope and so draw all his fore-Feet together and he will fall then cast the Rope over the Beam and hoist him up so that he may lie flat on his Back with his Legs upwards without strugling then Bathe his Stones well with warm Water and Butter molten together and the Stones being somewhat warm and well mollified raise them up from the Body with both your Hands being closed by the Fingers close together and holding the Stones in your Hands in such manner work down the Gut into the Body of the Horse by stroaking it downwards continually with your two Thumbs until you perceive that that side of the Stone to be so small as the other and so having returned the Gut to the right place take a List of two Fingers broad thoroughly anointed with fresh Butter and Tie his Stones both together with the same so nigh the Body as may be yet not over-hard but so as you may put your Finger between that done take the Horse quietly down and lead him gently into the Stable and keep him warm and let him not be stirred for the space of three Weeks but forget not the next day after you have placed his Gut in his true place to unloosen the List and to take it away and as well at that time as every day once or twice after to cast a dish or two of cold Water up upon his Cods and that will make him to shrink up his Stones and thereby to restrain the Gut from falling down and at the three Weeks end to make the Cure so much the surer take away the Stone on that side he is bursten so he shall hardly be bursten on that side again and during the Cure let him not eat much nor drink much and let his Drink be always warm A
Cured Let him first bleed under the Tail then take of Mares Milk two quarts or the Milk of a red Cow then take a Lump of Arement then take a young Horse about the Age of fonr years and of colour black if it may be if not of some other colour run and chafe him about till he sweat much then with a Spoon or some other Instrument Rake off the Sweat from off his Head Neck Breast Back Sides Ribs Buttocks Legs and in each part or member where you can get off any and so put your Arement and your Sweat into the Milk mixing them well together and by equal Portions give it him three Mornings together till he hath taken it all and let him drink no drink after it in six or seven houres and immediately after his Drink lead him forth into some Pasture where other Horses be to sneeze stale or dung to empty himself which is very wholesom for him so to do before he either eats or drink then set him up warm and well Littered and if the Season do serve give him of the green Blades of Rye if not give him Barley steeped in Milk three days but renewed every day once Then after every of these Drinks if you feel him cold in the Pastern Joynts or that he trippeth or stumbleth as you lead him in your hand do no more to him for he is past Cure Otherwise for nine days together after Morning and Evening give him white Water only unless now and then a sweet Mash and somtimes give him Milk with his white Water if he be not above nine years old this will prolong his life whereby he may do the more service Mr. Grey declares that this Receipt a Knight taught him who recovered sundry Horses with it Swaying in the Back Take of the Fat of the fruit of the Pine-tree two Ounces of Olibanum three Ounces of Rozin four Ounces of Pitch four Ounces of Bole-Armoniack an Ounce and of Sanguis Draconis half an Ounce incorporate all these well together and lay it Plaister-wise all over the Reins of his Back and let it remain till it fall off of it self Another most Excellent Receipt for Swaying a Weakness in the Back These Infirmities are seldom or never perfectly Cured But the best Help for them that I know of is to give him inwardly some strengthning things as common Turpentine made up into Balls with the powder of Bolearmoniack and powder of the dried leaves of Clary and to apply outwardly at the same time all over the Reins of his Back these strengthning Charges viz Oxycrocium and Paracelsus melted together Or Coleworts boiled in Sallet Oyl made thick like a Poultess with the powder of Bolearmoniack and Bean-floure If you desire to see more Variety of Charges though these are very good look into the First Part and there you may find plenty where you may pick and chuse what you best fancy Foundering in the Body to Cure To Cure this Distemper is first to Rake his Fundament and to give him a Glister which you have variety of in my First Part Then take Sack or Ale a quart Cinnamon half an Ounce Licoris and Anniseeds of each two spoonfuls beaten into fine powder with five or six spoonfuls of Honey put them all into the Ale together and warm them till the Honey is molten and give it him luke-warm to drink and Ride him gently after it for the space of an hour and let him fast two houres more and keep him warm Clothed and Littered and let his Hay be sprinkled with Water and his Oats very clean Sifted from dust and give it him by little and little and let his drink be warm Mashes of Malt and Water and when he hath recovered strength let him blood in the Neck-Vein and once a day perfume his Head with Frankincense There is no Drink nor Diet that is comfortable but is good for this Disease The Way of Gathering Drying and Preserving of Simples and their Juices viz. Roots Barks Leaves Herbs Flowers Seeds c. CHAP. I. Of Roots 1. Chuse those that are sound and not rotten nor worm-eaten and let them be such as have their proper taste smell and colour 2. Those that are dry hard and sound are the best and fittest for your use 3. If they prove soft dry them in the Sun or else string them and hang them up by the Fire but the dry and hard ones you may lay any where 4. The small Roots will keep a year or two very well but the larger sort of them will keep four or five but they are best in their prime the first year 5. The best time to gather them is in the Summer before they Run out to seed for then they grow hard and sticky and lose their Vertues 6. Those Roots that you may have all the year as Plantine Fennel or Parsley c. trouble not your self to dry them CHAP. II. Of Barks 1. Barks of such Trees as are frequently with you as the Oak Elm or Ash c. Gather them but when you have present use for them As for the Out-landish you may have ready dried at the Druggist 2. The Barks of Roots as Fennel Parsley c. is only that which remains when the Pith is out which is called a Bark though very improperly CHAP. III. Of Leaves of Herbs or Trees 1. Of Leaves gather such as are fresh and green and full of Juice and in the picking of them be careful to throw away the dead and decayed Leaves which are not fit for any Physical use 2. That Place they most delight to grow in are best for use as Bitony delights to grow in the Shadow and therefore 't is better then that that grows in the Sun because it is its proper place 3. Those Herbs that Run up to Seed and in Flowers their leaves are not so good then as before they were spindled some few only excepted and therefore I advise you If through Ignorance you know them not or through Negligence forget them rather chuse to take the Tops then the Leaves 4. The Sun is better to dry them in then the Shadow 5. The best Way to keep them after they be dried is near the Fire in a Bag made of brown or white Paper 6. 'T is not certainly known how long Herbs will keep but 't is concluded by most they will keep a year very well 7. You may know when they are decayed by the loss of smell colour or both 8. Those that grows upon dry Grounds does usually keep longer then those that grow upon moist and those that are very full of Juice will not continue their Virtue so long as those that are drier because more subject to Putrifaction and Corruption 9. Those that you do thoroughly dry will keep better then those that are ill dried CHAP. IV. Of Flowers 1. The Flower which is the Glory and Beauty of the Plant is of excellent use in Physick if it be gathered when it
those Roots Herbs or Flowers you intend to make it of and to two Handfuls of the bruised Herbs add a pound of tried Hogs Seame Mash and beat them very well together in a Mortar then put them into an Earthen Pot covering it with paper to keep it from filth and set it in the Sun or in some other warm place for four or five days that it may melt then take it forth and boyl it gently over the Fire for some little time then strain it out while it is hot pressing the Herbs very hard to get what Grease you can out of them then add to it as many more fresh Herbs bruised and set in the Sun and Ordered in every thing as before but if you think them not yet strong enough you may repeat the Herbs over again the third or fourth time for the fuller of Juice the Ointment is the stronger will it be The last time you boyl it boyl the Herbs and all with it and when they be crisp and the Juice consumed which you may know by the leaving of its bubling while it is on the Fire 't is enough then strain it out very hard in a Press and to every pound of Ointment add two Ounces of the best common Turpentine you can get and as much Bees Wax which will take away the offensiveness of the Grease which is very prejudicial to Wounds as well as Oyl CHAP. V. Of Plaisters 1. The Emplaisters of the Greeks consisted of very many Ingredients viz. Gums Rosin Wax Herbs Seeds Roots Juices Liquoris Minerals Metals Stones and Excrements of Creatures c. which said Metals they reduced to powder and mixed them with their satty substances which the rest of the Plaister consisted of while it was hot keeping it continually stirring up and down to prevent the sinking of them that they may the better stiffen and incorporate together which after it was somewhat cold and hard they made them up into Rolls and when they needed it they melted them again by the Fire 2. The Arabians made up their Medicines with Meal Oyl and Fat which needed not so much boyling as the other did But seeing these are so difficult to make and when made so rarely used in Farring I shall advise you to let them alone and buy them rather of the Druggist when you have occasion to use them then put your self to the needless trouble of making of them CHAP. VI. Of Charges 1. The Use of these are for Strains Sprains or any other Weakness in the Legs Shoulders or Back and are made of several things viz. Pitch Rosin Mastick Oxycrocium Paracelsus add Hernium Galbanum Frankincense Turpentine Meal Bolearmoniack c. The manner of using them is to melt what things you have occasion for in an Earthen Pipkin and lay it on with a Lath all over the grieved part then clap upon it some Flax Hurds Tow Wooll Deers Hair or such like thing then heat the Charge again and daub it all over the Flax Tow or Wooll the second time scalding hot then daub it over again the third time as you did before pressing it all the time close with your Hands to the grieved part to make it bind on the faster and let it remain there till it fall off of it self 2. If his Charge be on his Legs be careful that he come not into the Water for that will soon fetch it off But to prevent this chuse rather to keep him in the Stable and Water him there till he be somewhat amended CHAP. VII Of Poultisses 1. Poultisses are vulgarly called Cataplasmes which is as much as to say a thick Poultess made of Meal and Herbs which is a very excellent Medicine to ripen and break Sores ease Pains cool hot Inflammations dissolve hardness ease the Spleen disperse Swellings and digest Humors 2. When you are to make them you are to take those Roots and Herbs as are most proper and suitable to the Disease and Member afflicted chopping them first small then put them into clear running Water and boyl them to a Gelly then add to them a little Meal of Lupins or for want of that Barley-Meal with a little Sallet Oyl or rough sweet Suet which I account better Then spread it upon a Linnen Cloth and apply it to the grieved part bound fast with a Tape or Pack thread that it fall not off CHAP VIII Of Oyls 1. Sallet Oyl is made from the Expression of Olives which is so temperate that it exceeds in no one quality 2. Of Oyls some are Simple and some are Compound 3. Simple Oyls are such as are made by Expression of Fruits or Seeds as Linseed Oyl Rape-seed Oyl and Oyl of sweet or bitter Almonds 4. Compound Oyls are made of the Oyl of Olives and other Simples as Leaves Flowers Roots c. 5. The Manner of making up those Herbs or Flowers you intend to make your Oyl of must be first bruised and then put into an Earthen pot and to two or three handfuls of them so bruised put a pint of Sallet Oyl and then cover up your Pot close with a paper to keep it from Filth then set it in the Sun for about a Fortnight then warm it on the Fire and press out the Oyl from the Herbs very hard and add so many more Herbs to the Oyl and use them in every thing as before The oftner you repeat your Herbs the stronger will your Oyl be When you think it is strong enough for your use boyl the last Herbs you put in it and Oyl together till the Juice be consumed which you may know by the leaving of its bubling and the Herbs grown Crisper Strain it while it is hot and put into some convenient Earthen or Glass-Vessel and set it up till you have occasion to use it CHAP. IX Of Syrups by Infusion by Decoction and by Juices 1. A Syrup is a Medicine of a Liquid Form Composed of Infusion Decoction and Juice 2. Those Syrups that are usually made by Infusion are made of such Flowers as lose their Colour and Strength in Boyling As Violets Roses Peach Flowers They are thus made viz. To every pound of Flowers well pickt add three Pints of Spring Water made boyling hot on the Fire Put them in an Earthen Vessel and put the Water to them then cover it close and let it stand by the Fire to infuse about twelve or thirteen houres then strain it out in such Syrups as Purge as Peach-Flowers Damask Roses c. the usual and best way is to repeat to their Infusion fresh Flowers divers times which after you have strained it out into some convenient Vessel add to every pint of it two pounds of Loaf Sugar then melt it over a gentle Fire again taking off the Scum that shall arise and your Syrup is made 2. Those Syrups that are made by Decoction are made of Compounds yet any Simple Herb may be made also into a Syrup Take the Root Herb or Flower you intend to
make into a Syrup and bruise it a little in a Mortar Then take it forth and put to every Handful of Roots Herbs or Flowers a pint of Running Water and boyl it till half the Water be consumed After you have so done strain it through a Woollen Cloth letting it Run out at leisure without pressing And to every pint of this Decoction add one pound of Sugar then boyl it again over the Fire till it come to a Syrup which you may know when it is well done if you take a little of it now and then in a Spoon and let it cool Be sure you take off the Filth that doth arise while it is a boyling And when you think it is enough strain it hot through a Woollen Cloth and press it out and keep it for your use 3. Syrups that are made by Juices usually are made of such Herbs as are most full of Juice and are best made this Way viz. Take the Herbs and beat them in a Mortar with a Wooden Pestle then press forth the Juice and Clarifie it as you were taught before in Juices then set it over the Fire again and let it boyl till a quarter of it be consumed and to a Pint of it add a pound of Sugar and boyl it up to a Syrup keeping it scumming all the while When you think it is well boiled strain it through a Woollen Cloth as you did the other and keep it for your use 4. If you make Syrups of Roots that are hard as Grass-Roots Parsley Fennel c. Bruise them very well first then lay them asteep in that Water you intend to boyl them in which will cause the Vertue of them to come forth so much the better 5. Your Syrups that are well made will keep somewhat above a year but such as are made by Infusion will not keep so long 6. The best Way to keep them when made is in Glass or Stone-pots and to bind a Paper about the Mouth of them CHAP. X. Of Decoctions 1. Decoctions are made either of Fruits Barks Roots Leaves Flowers or Seeds and is made after the same manner as is shewed you in your Syrups 2. Those Decoctions that are made of Wine are more durable then those made of Water 3. If you make a Decoction for to cleanse the Passages of Urine and to open Obstructions chuse rather to make it of white-Wine because it is of a more penetrating and subtil Nature then Water 4. Decoctions are of the best use for the Cure of such Diseases as lie Lurking in the Passages of the Body Stomach Bowels Kidneys Passages of Urine and the Bladder c. which are more powerful in Operation in passing quicker to the aforesaid Diseases then any other sort of Medicines 5. All the difference that are between Decoctions and Syrups made by Decoction is only this Syrups are made to keep Decoctions only for present spending 9. You may sweeten them with Sugar or Syrup or such things as you imagine most fit for the Disease you give it 7. If you make a Decoction of Roots Herbs Flowers and Seeds together boyl the Roots a good while first because they retain their Virtues longer so then the next in Order according to the same Rule are first Barks secondly Herbs thirdly seeds fourthly Flowers And fifthly Spices which are put in last because their Vertues do soonest come sorth 8. All Decoctions are to be kept in a Glass close sâ—opped and the cooler you set them the longer they will keep their usual time of lasting is not above a Week at most 9. The usual Dose you are to give him at a time is a quart or more according to the Age Strength and Constitution of your Horse Season of the year strength of the Medicine and quality of the Disease Roots th t are hot in the First Degree Liquoris Dogs-grass Marsh-mallows Burrage China Valerian Bazil Parsley Bugloss Pilewort Lillies Peony male and female wilde Parsnips Burrdocks Spatling Poppey Kneeholly c. Herbs hot in the second Degree Lovage Water-flag Fennel Butter-bur Hogs Fennel Swallows-wort Carline-thistle Devils-bit Spignel Mercury Sarsaparilla c. Hot in the third Degree Ginger Angelica Asarabica white Dittany Doronicum Elecampane Hellebore white and black stinking Gladdon Filapendula Aron Sow-bread Birth-wort Galangal Cellandine Snake-root 〈…〉 and black Master-wort Rest-harrow c. Hot in the fourth Degree Leeks Onions Garlick Pellitory of the Wall c. Roots that are very Temperate Cinquefoyl Turmentil Mallows Bears-breech Mechoachan Jallop Eringo Asparagus our Ladies thistle c. Roots Cold in the first Degree Plantine Comfrey the greater Sorrel Madder Beets white and red Rose-root c. Cold in the second Degree Hounds-tongue Alkanet Succory Endive Dazies c. Cold in the Third Mandrakes Bistort c. Cold in the Fourth Henbane Roots dry in the first Degree Calamus Aromaticus Bears-breech Madder Burr-docks Pile-wort Red Beets Eringo Self-heal Knee-holly Endive c. Dry in the second Hounds-tongue Zedoary Plantine Mercury Reeds Devils-bit parsley Butter-bur Fennel Spignel Lovage Alkanet Marsh-mallows Valerian Sprattling poppey Bazil Water-flag our Ladies thistle Cyprus long and round â—orrel Smallage Aspodel male swallow-wort c. Dry in the third Cellendine Angelica Hogs Fennel Turmentil Ginger Birth-wort long and round Aron Sow-bread Carline thistle Bistort Briony white and black Sarsaparilla Asarabica Virginian snake-root China Doronicum Dittany Galangal of both kinds Hellebore white and black Elecampane Rest harrow Peony Male and Female Filapendula Orris English and Florence stinking Gladdon c. Dry in the Fourth Costus Pellitory of Spain Garlick Onions and Leeks c. Roots Moist are Dasies Burrage Valerian and spatling poppey Bugloss white Beets Liquoris Dogs-grass parsnips Skirrets c. Of hot Medicaments Appropriate to the Parts of the Body 1. Heating the Head Doronicum Fennel peony Spikenard Winters his Cinnamon Bitony Costmary Cardus benedictus Cowslips Eye-bright Featherfew Goats-Rue Herb Mastich Lavender Laurel Lovage Maudlin Mellilot Time penny Royal Rosemary Celandine Scurvey-Grass Sneese-wort fena peony Male and Female Chamomel sage Nutmegs Jallop 2. Heating the Throat Devils-bit pilewort Archangel white and red Alewort 3. Heating the Breast and Lungs Birthwort long and round Calamus Aromaticus Cinquefoyl Elecampane Liquoris Orice squills Cassia Lignea Cinnamon Bitony Bayes Bawm Calaminth Camomil Distaff Thistle Fennel Germander Hysop Hore-hound Indian-leaf Maiden-hair Nettle Oak of Jerusalem Organy periwincle Rue scabius Time Figs Raisins Orris English and Florentine 4. Heating the Heart Angelica Butter-bur Basil Cinnamon Citrons Carline-thistle Turmentil Valerian of both sorts pimpernel Bay-berries Bawm Broom Cardus Benedictus Rue Goats Rue Rosemary southernwood sene saffron spicknard Juniper-berries Mace Nutmegs Wall-nuts Mustard-seed Doronicum Bugloss 5. Heating the Stomach Avens Fennel Galangale Ginger Radish Spicknard Enula Cassia Lignea Cinnamon Citrons Lemmons Sassafras Bayes Bawm Broom Hysop Indian Leaf Mints Time Parsley Sage Smallage Wormwood Rosemary Cloves Almonds Ben Nutmegs Pine-Nuts Annis Caraway Cardamums Cummin Elecampane Fern. 6. Heating the Liver
Provender suddenly when he is too hot panting whereby his meat not being well digested breedeth evil humors which by little and little do spread through all his members and at length doth so oppress all his Body that it taketh away his strength and make him in such evil condition that he can neither go nor bow his Joynts and being once laid is not able to rise again neither can he stale nor dung but with great pain Itcometh also if he drink too much upon Traveling when he is hot and not riding him after it The Signes to know it He will be Chill and quake for Cold after drinking and some of it will come out of his Nose and some few days after his Legs will Swell and after a while begin to Pill and have a dry Cough which will make his Eyes to Water his Nose to run with a white Phlegmatick stuff and cause him to forsake his Meat and make him hang down his Head for extream pain in the Manger Foundering is a French word and signifieth no more then a Surfeit given in the Body of a Horse 272 and 399 Chest-Foundered is discovered by this infirmity He will often covet to lie down and stand stradling with his fore-Legs 275 Fa se Quarter is a Rift Crack or Chink on the out-side but most commonly on the inside of the Hoof which is an unsound Quarter seeming like a Piece put therein and not all of one entire Piece It cometh several ways somtimes by ill Shooing and Parâ—ng sometimes by Gravelling or a prick with a Nail or Stub which will make him halt and waterish Blood will issue out of the Chink or Rift 335 Flux cometh several ways vide Lask or Loosness Bloody Flux or Flix are of several kinds sometimes the fat of the slimy filth that is avoided is sprinkled with a little Blood sometimes the Excrements is like waterish blood and somtimes like pure Blood and all these do spring from one and the same cause which is the Ulceration of the Guts Now you may know by their several mixtures whether the Ulceration be in the inner small Gut or in the outward great Gut if it be in the inner Guts then the Matter and Blood will be mixt together but if it be in the outward Gut then they be not mingled together but come out severally the Blood most commonly following the Matter It cometh commonly of some sharp Humour breeding by filthy raw Food or sore Travel or Labour being violently driven through many crooked and narrow Passages do cleave to his Guts and with their heat and sharpness fret them causing Ulceration and grievous pains It cometh also by some great Cold Heat or moistness or by means of receiving some violent Purgation as Scamony Stibium or such like violent Simples applied in too great a quantity or it may come by weakness of the Liver 310 The Fig this disease bears its name from a hard piece of Flesh growing upon the Frush or Heel which resembleth the shape and fashion of a Fig. It cometh by reason of some hurt received in his Foot being not throughly Cured or by some Stub or Nail Bone Thorn or Stone and sometimes by an over-reach upon the Heel or Frush 389 Falling-Evil is a disease that is seldom seen which is no other then the Falling Sickness proceeding from ill Blood and cold and thick Phlegm gathered together in the fore-part of the Head between the Panicle and the Brain which being disperst over the whole Brain doth suddenly cause the Beast to fall and bereave him of all sense for a time It is more subject to Italian Spanish and French Horses then to English Some are of opinion that at a certain course of the Moon Horses and other Beasts many times do fall and die for a time as well as Men. This Disease is known by these Signes When they are fallen theiâ— Bodies will quiver and quake and their Mouths will foam and when you think they are dying they will rise up immediately and fall to their Meat You may know whether they will fall often or not by putting your Fingers to the Gristle of their Nostrils and if it feel cold he will have most but if it be warm he will seldom fall 239 397 Frenzy vide Madness G. Gigges Bladders or Flappes in the Mouth of a Horse are small Swellings or Pustules with black Heads on the inside of his Lips under his great Jaw-teeth which will sometimes be as great as a Wall-Nut and so painful withal that they will make him let fall his Meat out of his Mouth or at least keep it in his Mouth unchawed They do proceed from foul Feeding either of Grass or Provender you may feel them with your Finger 418 Gangrene is a running and creeping Sore that as far as it runs mortifies the Flesh causing it to rot so that of necessity that Member wherein a Gangreen is Radicated must be cut off 329 Grease Molâ—tn is when his Fat is melted by over-hard Riding or Labour You may know it by his Panting at the Breast and Girting place and heaving at the Flank which will be visible to be seen the Night you bring him in and the next Morning and besides his Body will be very hot and burning ib. Glaunders is such a lothsom and filthy disease and withal so infectious that it will infect those that stand nigh him It cometh first of Heats and Colds which beginneth with a thin Rheum and ascendeth up to the Head and setleth near to the Brain and so venteth it self at the Nose which in time groweth thicker and thicker till it comes of a yellowish Colour like unto Butter which is then very hard to cure but if it comes to a viscious and of a tough and slimy substance and the Colour be Green and stink much having run some Months with some reddish Specks in it then the most Experienced Farrier may fail in the Cure thereof and the Horse die under his Hands for then it is most certain if he hath those last Symptomes that his Lungs are Ulcerated and his Cure not to be performed without great difficulty Besides these inward Signes to know this Disease I shall give you one outward one which is He will have some Kernels and Knots that may be felt under his Chaul and as they grow bigger and more inflamed so doth the Glaunders more increase within the Body of the Horse I would advise you before you begin his Cure to prepare his Body for four or five days together with scalded Bran and give it him instead of his Provender for this will dry up the moisture and bad humours in his Body then let him Blood in the Neck and the next day Rake him and give him the Glister in the First Part. 254 and 414 Graveling cometh to a Horse in traveling by meanes of little Gravel stones getting betwixt the Hoof and the Shoo which setleth at the Quick and there festereth and fretteth 364 H. Hoof-Brittle
suddenly Or lastly from extream Hunger occasioned by long Fasting The Signes whereof you have had already viz. Numbness and want of Motion If this Disease cometh of Heat You may know it by the hotness of his Breath and the free fetching of his Wind If it proceed from Cold then you may know it by his stuffing and poze in his Head 239 Palsie or Apoplexie is a Disease depriving the whole Body of Sence and which is called a General Palsey and hath no Cure But when he is deprived but of some part and Member of his Body and most commonly it is in his Neck then it is called a particular Palsey The Signes to know it are He will go Groveling and side-ways like a Crab carrying his Neck as if it were broken and goeth crookedly with his Legs beating his Head against the Walls and yet forsaketh not his Meat nor Drink and his Provender seemeth moist and wet It proceeds from foul Feeding in Fenny Grounds which breed gross and tough Humors which joyneth with Crudities and raw Digestion oppress the Brain or it cometh by means of some wound or blow given him upon the Temples 354 Pearl Pin and Web or any unnatural spot or thick Felm over the Eye cometh by some stroke or blow given him or from descent of the Sire or Dam. The Pearl is known by a little round thick white spot like a Pearl from which it hath its Name growing on the Sight of the Eye 288 The Pains is a kind of Ulcerous Scab full of Fretting Matterish Water and breedeth in the Pastorns betwixt the Fetlock and the Heel which cometh for want of clean keeping and good rubbing after the Horse hath been Journeyed by means whereof the Sand and dirt remaining in the Hair fretteth the Skin and Flesh which cometh to a Scab and therefore those Horses that have long Hair and are rough about the Feet as the Friezland and Flanders Horses are are soonest infected with this Disease if they be not the cleanlier kept The Signes be these His Legs will swell with the vehemency and heat that is caused from the venom and filthy water that issueth from the scabs for it is so sharp and scaulding that it will scauld off the Hair and breed scabs so far as it goeth What Cures the Scratches cures these 266 Pestilence Plague Murrain or Garget is all one disease which is very Infectious and Contagious It cometh to a Horse many ways sometimes by over-hard Riding or Labour whereby a Horse is surfeited somtimes by the Contagiousness of the Air and Evil Vapours and Exhalations that springs out of the Earth after great and sudden Floods or coming into Fenny or Marish Ground that hath alwayes been bred in pure and wholesom Air. The Signes to know this Disease are these 'T will come suddenly upon him but after three or four days drooping he will swell under the Roots of his Eares like the Swelling of the Vives and under the Chaul and come up to his Cheeks through the Malignancy thereof and become very hard he will forsake his Meat and be very sleepy hanging down his Head in the Manger his Eyes will be yellowish he will Breath short which will be very hot and offensive and sometimes he will break forth in a Carbuncle or Boyl in his Groine as big as a Goose-Egg and his Stones will hang Limp and Flaging but not always If you cannot recover him but that he dieth bury him very deep that no scent if possible may remain on him to infect the rest 314 Q. Quinsey is no other then a sore Throat which if not carefully taken in time will soon put a period or end to his days It cometh sometimes by Cold and Phlegmatick Humors setling there or for want of Blooding when he is over-run therewith 368 Quarters false vide false Quarters Quick-scab doth putrifie and corrupt the Blood and Flesh and at last breaketh forth into a lothsom and infectious Disease much like unto the Mange or Leprosic It cometh by a Surfeit taken by over-Riding or hard Labour it is called a Quick-scab because it runneth from one Member to another for sometimes it will be in the Neck and at other times in the Breast sometimes in the Main and then another time in the Tail 398 Quitter-bone is a hard Round Swelling upon the Cronet between the heel the Quarter and groweth most commonly on the inside of the Foot It cometh to a Horse many ways sometimes by Gravel underneath the Shoo sometimes by some Bruise Stub Prick of a Nail or the like which being neglected will Impostumate and break out about the Hoof it cometh sometimes also by evil humors which descend down to that place whereof that Quitter-bone springeth 355 R Red-water is that which issueth from any Wound Sore or Ulcer which so long as that remains in them it doth so poison them that till it get out they are not to be Curâ—d 357 Riâ—g-bone cometh two ways Naturally or Accidentally Naturally from the Stallion or Mare Accidentally by some blow of a Horse or any other Accident the Pain whereof breedeth a viscous slimy Humour like a Gristle upon the top of the Cronet and sometimes goeth round about it which resorting to the Bones that are of their own Nature cold and dry waxeth hard and cleaveth to some Bone which in process of time cometh to a Bone the Signs to know it are There will be a hard swelling round about the Cronet of the Hoof which will be higher then any place of it besides his Hair there will stare and be bristly and make him halt 356 Râ—tâ—enness is to have his inward Part viz. His Liver Lights and Lungs so wasted and consumed that he is not to be recovered by Arâ— Rheumatick or waterish Eyes cometh by the Flux of Humors distilâ—ing from the Brain and sometimes by some stripe received The Signes to discover it is The continual watering of the Eye and his close shutting of his Lids together accompanied somtimes with a little swelling 288 Rupture Incording or Burstness is when the Rim or thin Film or Chaul which holdeth up his Entrails be broken or over-strained or stretched that the Guts fall down either into his Cod or Flank which cometh several wayes either by some stripe or blow or by some strain in leaping over a Hedg ditch or Pale or by teaching him to bound when he is too young or by forcing him when he is full to run beyond his strength or by your sudden stoping him upon uneven ground whereby he stradling and slipping his hinder Feet teareth the Rim of his Belly The Signs to know it are these He will forsake his Meat and stand shoring and leaning on that side that he is hurt And if you search on that side with your Hand betwixt his Stone and his Thigh upwards to the Body and somewhat above the Stone you shall find the Gut it self big and hard in the feeling whereas on the other side you shall find
of his Head will be hollow his Tongue will hang out of his Mouth his Head and Eyes will swell and the passage of his Throat so stopt that he can neither eat nor drink and his Breath will be very hot 349 Swayed in the Back cometh several ways sometimes by some great strain slip or heavy burden sometimes by turning him too hastily round His Grief commonly lieth upon these kind of strains and wrenches in the lower part of the back below his short ribs and directly between his Fillets You may perceive it by the reeling and rowling of his hinder parts in his going and be ready to fall to the Ground by his frequent swaying backward and side-long and when he is down 't is a great deal of trouble for him to rise again 399 Shoulder-pincht cometh either by labouring or straining him too young or by putting too great a burden upon his back You may know it by the narrowness of the Breast and by the Consumption of the flesh of the shoulders insomuch as the fore-part of the shoulder bone will stick out and be higher then the flesh And if it be of a long standing he will be very hollow upon the brisket towards the Arm-holes and will go wider beneath at the Feet then above at the Knees The Cure I set down here because it is not in the place of Cures 'T is this Give him a Slit with a sharp Knife an inch long upon both sides an inch under the shoulder-bone then with a large Quill put into the Slit blow up first one shoulder and then the other as big as you can possibly even up to the Withers and with your hand strike the Wind equally into every place of the shoulders and when they be both full beat all the windy places with a good Hazel wand over all the Shoulder then with a flat Sclice of Iron loosen the skin within from the flesh Then rowel the two slits or cuts with two round Rowels made of the upper Leather of an old Shoo with a hole in the midst that the corruption may issue forth and let the Rowels be three inches road and put in flat and plain within the Cut Then make a Charge and lay upon the same Look in the Table for a Charge and there you may take your Choice Shoulder-wrench or Strain cometh several ways sometimes by turning or stopping too suddenly upon some uneven ground sometimes by running hastily out at some door som etimes by slipping or sliding in the Stable or abroad sometimes by the stroke of another Horse and sometimes by falls on the Planks or slippery Ground You shall perceive it by his Trailing his Leg upon the Ground close after him 351 Shoulder-splaiting or Shoulder-tâ—rn cometh by some dangerous sliding either abroad or at home whereby the shoulder parteth from the Breast and so leaves an open Rift not in the Skin but in the flesh and film next under the skin which maketh him so lame that he is not able to go You may know it by the trailing of his Leg after him in his going 417 Shoulder-pight is when the Shoulder-point or pitch of the Shoulder is displaced by some great Fall Rack or Strain You may know it by this His Shoulder-point will stick out further then his fellow and besides he will Halt downright ib. Spaven-blood or bone vide Blood or Bone-spaven Shrow-running vide Planet-struck T. Tongue-hurt cometh by accident or with a Bit Halter or the like 374 Tetter Flying-worm or Ring-worm is a very evil sorrance which runneth up and down the Skin of a Horses Body from whence it bears its Name It cometh to him several ways sometimes by heat in the Blood which engendreth a sharp and hot humour sometimes by bad and foul feeding it is most commonly found in his Rump which runneth down the Joynts till it comes into his Tail and if it continue there long it will turn to a Canker But yet sometimes it will settle upon some fleshy part of his Body which will so trouble him with itching and rubbing against walls and posts that he will bring away the hair yea and the Skin and Flesh also with his Teeth if he can come at it so violent is his itching You may know it by the falling away of the hair by his continual rubbing but if it get into the Joynt between the top of the Rump and the Tail then it is known by a Scab which you may feel with your Finger and if you scrape or pick it away there will come out of it by little and little a thin water which being let long to run will in time run into his Tail and become a Canker as I said before 371 Trunchions are wormes in shape short and thick and of a pretty bigness which have black and hard heads vide more for Bots and there you may find all the kinds of them that do engender in a Horses Body 303 V. Aves Avives or Fives are all one Disease They are certain flat Kernels much like unto Bunches of Grapes which grow in a Cluster close knotted together in the grieved place They Center from the Ears and creep downwards between the Chap and the Neck of the Horse toward the Throat and when they come to inflame they will swell and not only be painful to the Horse but prove mortal by stopping his Wind unless you take a speedy course for the Cure of him 'T is commonly rankness of Blood that is the cause of this Infirmity When you go about the Cure of them have a care you touch them not with your Fingers for that will venom them 376 W. Wind-broken or broken Wind cometh to a Horse when you let him stand long in the stable without exercise and foul food whereby gross and thick humors are drawn into his Body so abundantly that sticking to the hollow places of the Lungs stop up his Wind-pipe that the Wind cannot get backward nor forward sometimes it cometh to a Horse when you run him off his Wind when he is very fat and foul you may know it by his heaving and drawing together of his Flanks and by blowing wide his Nostrils 251 252 Wart or spungy Excression growing near to the Eye doth come from condensed Phlegm residing there which in time causeth the Eye either to consume or to grow little if it be not remedied 279 A Wen is a hard Rising out of the flesh like a Tumor and Swelling and are of several Sizes sometimes great sometimes small some are painful and some are not painful They proceed from gross and vitious humors binding together in some sick part of the Body but most commonly by some stroke bruise blow or a stone thrown at that place it is outwardly flesh but towards the root it is Matterative 278 Wind-Galls are Bladders full of corrupt Gelly which being let forth is thick and of the colour of the Yolk of an Egg they are sometimes great and sometimes small and grow upon each
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Woman ☞ Turmerick white Lilly Roots chopped small and dried ☞ ☞ Throw these things among his Provender ☞ The time of Gelding is when the Moon is in the Wain the Sign in Arie or Virgo the time of the year is early in the Spring or Fall ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ An Iron with a Button The Drawing Iron ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ See more of them in the Table of Simples You may give him two Ounces of it by it self All these within this Bracket are bought at the Grocers You may Give one Ounce and a half of it by it self 'T is not so strong as Alloes Succeâ—ing 'T is commonly adulterated with the Oyl of Turpentine This is also adulterated Have a care of the adulterate Have a care of the Adulterate She has been dead about lafayear but he Son contrives in the H use and sells it ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ The Flower of it is best used for any inward use ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ 1. W. ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ For want of the Leaves taâ—e the Root ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ Tâ—e up the Horses Head for â—ear of biting it away When you take off the Pâ—aister anoynâ— the place with Train Oyl 〈◊〉 ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ I. W. ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ If your Roots be green slice them if dry beat them to powder ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ â—â—ooâ— not your Horse in this Disâ—â—se for if you do it wâ—ll certainly Kâ—ll him The Scull of a dead man dried and beaten to powder and given in Sack iâ— most excellent ☜ ☜ * Hob-goblin is a Stone much like an Oyster-shell which you may find upon course stony Lands It is good also beaten to powder to take off a Felm from the Eyes ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ This water will Cure any Fistula whatsoever if it come to the bottom and heal is up with your green Ointment A Cankâ—r Cured ☜ ☜ ☜ * Some hold it death to let Blood but this you may use as Discretion servâ—th If you desire to know the several sorts of Feavers look in the First Part for Feavers and there you shall find them ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ â— W. ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ If you give it for Bruises or Falls leave out the Bolearmoniack ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ For the dry Gripes ☜ ☜ ☜ You shall find another most excellent for this Purpose afterwards ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ RESALGAR is a composition of Sulphur Orpiment and unslackt lyme and is a most strong â—â—rrosiv◠☞ ☜ Blood him first and about two or three days after give him this Drink ☞ ☜ ☞ See more of this in the First Part. P. 151. ☞ ☜ See a more large Account of things of this Nature in the First Part p. 152. ☞ ☜ See the Expellers of Wind in the First Part. p. 150. ☞ ☜ ☜ They are both very cooling things ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ They are both very cooling things ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ * If the Bone do fall in its true Plâ—ceâ—g in it will give on a sudden a great 〈◊〉 See my First Part for Conglutinating things good in General or Strengthners of Parts out of Joynt p 1â—6 ☞ ☜ Patch or Piece-grease is the Tallow that is gotten from Shoomakers shreds ☜ ☜ The Nail or Sâ—ub must be first drawn out and the Corruption let forth and made very clean before you dress it ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ Clip away the Hair before you apply it ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ Or with the Help of the Fire and your warm Hands you may work up by it self into Balls the bâ—itlest sort of â—loes that is ☜ ☜ ☜ Or you may dissolve your Aloes in cold Brandy being first beaten into fine powder and put therein ☜ ☞
and do this three or four times and it will cure him Another Take of Sanguis Draconis three quarters of an Ounce Bole-armoniack one Ounce Sallet Oyl as much Mastick three Ounces Sewet as much and as much Hogs-grease melt and mix all these together and lay it to the swelling and it will take it away Aâ—other Take one or two Handfuls of Saexafrage and all the Sewet of a Loyn of Mutton and a Pint of white Wine chop the Herb and Mince the Sewet very small and boil them all very well â—ogether then take a good quantity of Horse-dung newly made that goes to Grass and mix with the other Ingredients and work it to a Salve and apply it Plaister-wise hot to the place renewing it every day so long as you think convenient and this is a very excellent Cure Another for the Nether Attaint Take a Piece of Filletting and bind it about the Pastern Joynt pretty hard which will cause the blister or swelling the better to appear then let out the corrupt Jelly with your Incision-Knife and crush it all out then heal it up with your Copperas water and anoint it with the green Ointment Things good in General for the Stavers Head-ach or Farcin To let Blood to hang about his Neek the Root of Amara dulcis the Juice of Sow-Fennel or Hogs Fennel squirted up his Nose or the Seed and Root of Cow-Parsnip boiled in Oyl and his Head anointed therewith The Seeds of Brank-Cresses blown up his Nostrils or Ducks-Meat applied to his Forehead made into a Poultess or his Head Bathed with the distilled water of common Elder taketh it away if it cometh of a cold cause Flea-wort bruised and applied after the same â—anner do h the like so doth Germander and Henbane bruised with Vineger and applied the dust of Tobacco blown up his Head with a large Quill or Kix causeth him to Neese which easeth him from the pain the Root of Pellitory of Spain dried and beaten to Powder and used in the same manner doth the like The Juice of Cellendine put into his Eares or Assa foetida dissolved in Brandy and put into his Eares or Verjuice and Salt put into his Eares or Groundsel and Aqua vitae stamped together and put into his Ears c. Particular Receipts for the Stavers After you have taken Blood from him take the quantity of a Hazel-Nut of sweet Butter and Salt dissolve it in a Sawcer full of white-Wine Vineger then take Lint or fine Flax dipt therein and so stop both his Eares therewith and stitch them up and let it remain there about twelve houres and he will be Cured Another Take of bitter Almonds an Ounce and a half of the Gall of an Ox two drams of black Ellebore made into fine powder a half Penniworth of Grains Castoreum Vineger and Varnish of each five drams boyl all these together till the Vineger be consumed then strain it and put it into his Eares and do as you did before Another Aqua vitae and Garlick so much as will suffice and stamp them together and put into his Ears doing as before Another Take the Seeds of Cressy of Poppy of Smallage of Pursly of Dill the Seeds only of these Herbs and take also Pepper and Saffron of each two drams make them all into fine Powder and put to them of Barley-water two quarts boiling hot from the Fire and â—et it infuse therein three houres and strain it and give him one quart thereof and his Hay sprinkled with water and the next day give him the other quart fasting and let him drink no cold water for four or five days after but only white water unless sometimes a sweet Mash and this will cure him You must Note that in this Disease of the Stavers you must be sure to let him Blood before you give him any Medicine Another After you have sharpned a small and tough Oaken or Ashen stick and made a Notch at one end like a Fork to keep it from Running so far into his Head put it into his Nostrils and Job it up and down to the top of his Head which will cause the Blood to descend freely then in the Morning fasting give him this Drink well brewed together viz. One Ounce of the Powder of Turmerick with as much of the powder of Anniseeds in a quart of strong Beer or Ale with a pint of Verjuice and a quarter of a pint of Brandy and stop his Eares with Aqua vitae and Herb-Grass beaten very well together Put an equal quantity into each Ear and stop Flox or Hurds over it to keep it down and stitch them up with a Needle and Thread and let it remain in for about twenty four houres then unstitch them and pull forth the Hurds and the next day blood him in the Neck and give him his Blood with a handful of Salt put therein well stirred together ro keep it from clotting and he is in a fair way to be cured Things good in general for the Yellows Agrimony Water-Agrimony the Bark of the black Elder Tree Hops Fennel Smallage Endive Succory-Roots Garden-Arrach Orach Asarabacca Ash-tree the Juice of Coleworts the inner Rind of the Barberry Tree or Berry Bay-berries Burr-dock Roots Wood-Bitony Bistort or â—nakeweed Red Beetes Burrage or Bugloss Butchers-broom Calamint or Montanie Mint Camomel Cardus benedictus Celandine the Juice of Cinquefoyl the Juice of Cleavers the seed of Columbines and Saffron boiled together and given him Dandelion Dodder of Thyme Eringo Flax-weed or Toad-Flax the Juice of the Flower-de-luce Fumitory the Fuzz-bush Garlick Gentian Feltwort or Baldmony the seed of Germander Groundsel the Roots of black Hellebore the yellow berries of Ivy Liver-wort Madder Maiden-hair Wall-Rue the seed both of the male and female Mercury Wilde-marjorem Worm-wood Mouse-Ear Hedge-mustardseed Cow Parsnips the Roots of Penny royal the seed of Plantine Bastard-Rubarb or the great round leaved Dock Rupture-wort Sarasens Consound or Sarasens Wound-wort Shepherds Purse the Seeds and Roots of Sorrel Spleen-wort Tamarisk Turmentil or Setfoyl Vervain Ground-Pine Myrrh Ivory or Harts horn Long-Pepper Licoris Anniseeds Ganders or Geese dung Misle-toe white Thorn the Roots of Parsley Pimpernel Chick-weed Sheeps dung steeped in Beer You are to let him blood in the first place A particular Receipt for the Yellows Take an Ouuce of Mithridate and dissolve it in a quart of Ale or Beer and give it him luke-warm But if you have no Mithridate give him two Ounces of London Treacle and for want of that two or three spoonfuls of common Treacle Another particular Receipt for the Yellows Take of Turmerick Burr-dock Roots long Pepper of each about half an Ounce Anniseeds and Licoris in fine Powder and searced of each a spoonful Celandine the Leaves and Roots one handful chopt small and strain the Celandine and put them into a quart of strong Beer and boyl them a little on the Fire and in the Cooling sweeten it with London-Treacle and put into it a
good piece of Butter and give it him Blood-warm and give him white water and he will do well Another Take of the best Live Honey half a pound of Saffron and Fennegreek made into fine powder as much as will suffice incorporate these with your Honey to a stiff Paste and so make thereof three Pills and dipping them in Sallet-Oyl give him them and ride him and walk him gently an hour and set him up warm Another After you have let him Blood take a quart of Ale and put an Ounce of Saffron and an Ounce of Turmerick into it being first made into fine Powder and with the Juice of Sellandine so much as will suffice and give it him Blood-warm Another for the Yellows After you have blooded him on both sides the Neck and third Barr on the Palat of the Mouth Give him Camomil Elder leaves and Celandine of each a small handful chopped indifferent small with a little of the inner Rind of the Barberry Tree boiled in three Pints of strong Beer or Ale till they come to a quart Then strain the Herbs from the Liquor and give it him luke-warm fasting in the Morning with a piece of sweet Butter melted in it and sweetned with two spoonfuls of Honey or Common Treacle And Order him as you have Directions in the Physicking of Horses Another for the Yellows To let Blood as before Then give him Turmerick and Anniseeds beaten to powder of each an Ounce with half an Ounce of the powder of the inner bark of the Barberry tree or for want of that a Gill of the Juice of Celandine Give him all these either in a Pint of white Wine Vineger or in a quart of stale Beer and half a pint of Brandy luke-warm fasting in the Morning Give him with it a spoonful of the Flower of Brimstone at the Mouth of the first Horn you give him but none with the rest And Order him as you do usually sick Horses Another for it After you have let Blood as you must always do in this Disease mix two penniworth of Saffron beaten well to powder and a Thimble-full or two of the powder of Turmâ—rick with freâ—h â—utter and make it up into a small â—all and give it him for three or four Mornings together fasting and it will cure him Simples that are good in Gener l for the Cure of the black â—aurdice or Yellows The Decoction of the Flowers of Sorrel made in white-Wine or stale Beer and sweetned with Honey helpeth it given him often the powder of the Leaves and Bark of the Tamarisk Tree is also good given him in beer so is the Juice of the leaves of Broom aâ— also the Seeds given him several Mornings together in beer till you see Amendment A Horn-full of it is enough to give it him at a time A Particular Receipt which is very good for the Cure of it Take the Roots of red Docks the Roots of burr-docks and slice a good quantity of them and put them into a Bottle of Beer with a little Mithridate close stopped and give him a Horn or two full of it in the Morning fasting Things good in General for the Falling-Evil Planet-struck Night-Mare or Palsey Fifteen of the Seeds of the single Peony given him in four Wine to hang a Flint-stone over his Head or some old Sythe or old Iron or to give him exercise before and after water and to mix Hemp-seed in his Provender and to enforce him to Sweat Misâ—etoe of the Oak given Mustard-seed the Seed of the black Poplar Cinquefoyl Germander Hysop St. Johns wort c. Particular Receipts for the Night-Mare Take a handful of Salt half a pint of Sallet-Oyl brown Sugar candy four Ounces mix them all very well together and warm them on the Fire and give it him Blood-warm two Mornings together and it will cure him Another Give him this purging Pill take of Tarr three spoonfuls of sweet Butter the like quantity beat them well together with the powder of Licoris Anniseeds and Sugar-candy till it be like Paste Then make them into round Balls and put into each Ball two or three Cloves of Garlick and so give it him observing to warm him before and after and let him be fasting likewise two or three houres before and after Things good in General f r Cramps or Convulsion of the Sâ—nâ—ws Rhubâ—rb taken inwardly the Seed of Bastard St. Johns wort given the Oyl drawn from sweet Marjorem and the grieved place anointed with it is good for all manner of Aches coming of a cold cause Calamint given inwardly Bitony Elecampane Master-wort or the Herb Gerard given inwardly the roots of Valerian given southern-wood or the seeds of the Ladies Thistle given Juniper-berries given Bay-berries China-roots Brank-Ursine taken inwardly or applied outwardly the leaves of the Burr-dock bruised and laid to the place grieved Oyl of Chamomel Centaury applied to it Costus the Juice of Chick-weed made up with Hogs-grease and anoint the place grieved with it is very good or to force him to sweat by Clothes or to bury him in a Horse dunghil only with his Head out Alheal or Centaury bruised and applied to them is very good so is sow-Fennel bruised with fallet-Oyl and Vineger and applied so is Gentian and Germander bruised and applied the powder of stinking Gladwin boiled in Ale or Beer and given is good a Poultiss made of Hawk-weed and Barley-meal and said to the place offended is also good Lavender is good for them given inwardly the roots and seeds of Marsh-mallows boiled in the Grounds of Beer and applied is also good for them so is a decoction of Mugwort with Camomil and Agrimony and the grieved place bathed therewith warm Penny-royal applied with salt honey and vineger is also good Hermodactils and Venice-Turpentine given inwardly is also very good the Juice of the green herb of Tobaccho made into an Ointment and applied is also very good c. Particular Receipts for the Cramp Chafe and rub the Member contracted with Vineger and common Oyl and then wrap it all over with wet Hay or rotten Litter or else with wet Woollen Clothes either of which is a present Remedy Another After you have sweated him well in a Horse dunghill anoint him with this Ointment take of Hogs-Grease one pound of Turpentine a quarter of a pound of Pepper half a dram of new Wax half a pound of sallet Oyl one pound boyl them altogether and anoint him with it Another Take Pimpernel Primrose-leaves Chamomel Crow-foot Mallows Fennel Rosemary of each six handfuls steeped fourty eight houres in fair water and boil them in it till they be tender and Bath him therewith four days together Morning and Evening and apply the herbs to the place with a Thumb-band of Hay wet in the same Liquor and anoint the said Member every day about Noon with Petroleum Nerval and Oyl of Spike mixed together Another Take two quarts of strong Ale and of black soap two