whē to giue 108 Drinke against wormes in horses 134. 110 Drinks against cough or cold Drink to comfort a horse 153. 181 E EAres inflamed to helpe Eies sore to heale Euill trauel in a horse Eies bloudy to helpe Eies blinded to helpe 166 Eies watery to helpe Eies stricken to helpe Eies stricken another Eies with the pin and webbe 146 Eies being chaft to heale Eies redde to helpe Eies sore how to heale Eies of horse oftē looked vnto 176 Enterfeere to remedie 142 Enterfering another Experience of hot and cold horse F FAlling of teeth in a horse Falling of haire in a horse taile 186 Faintnes in a horse to helpe 154 Farcy or fashiō in a horse 179. 124 Fat horse to make leane Feuer in horse to helpe 122 Feuer in Colts to helpe 154 Foaling of Coltes Fistula to heale 147 Fistula in the head of a horse 148 Flat hoofe how to pare Flies troubling a horse to helpe Foundring of a straight shoe 185 Foundring of a horse to help 140. 190. 180 Fraying in a horse to helpe Frunce in a horse to helpe 133 G GALling or fretting to help 174 Glanders in horse to helpe 172 Glanders another 131. 177 Gorge how to heale 152 Gelding of horse Greene wounds to heale Grinders or wolues teeth Graueling of a horse 141 Gummes pained to ease H Haw to take forth best way 132 Haw in the eie to helpe 126 Haw another way 174 Haire to increase Heate to abate in a horse 154 Head of a horse pained 108 Hen dung vnholesome for a horse Hide bound to helpe 173 Hinder feet shoyng Hollow feete pared Oyntment for hoofes Howsing of a horse Hoof bound to help or loose 123 Hoofes being hot on his feet 119 Hoof bound how to shoe Hoofe loose how to helpe 152 Horse without braines Horse that wil tire to helpe 182 Horse for to skoure Horse age or growing Horse harnesse to be looked vnto 119 Horse or beast forespoken 172 Horse bewitched to know I ILl for horse eyes Itch in the taile to helpe 154 Impostumes to helpe or ripe 183 Impostumed wounds to help 181 L LAmpas to helpe 148 Lamenes in a horse to help 174 Leannes in a horse to helpe 123 Lice on horse to helpe 143 Long wormes to helpe 134 Long hoofe how to pare Loose hoofe to helpe 166 Loose teeth how to fasten 192 M MAlender how to helpe 134 Malt worme to helpe 163 Mares when to be couered 104 Mares when to couer 161 Mangie to helpe 176 Mangie in horse to helpe 173. 193 Mangie another 168. 183 Mares how for to gouern 105 Mares hard in foaling to helpe Mares old not good for coltes Mares how to haue male or female colts 106 Mares with fole hauing bottes to helpe 110 Mares hauing rage of loue 113 Mares hauing the pestilence 113 Matelong in the foote 123 Moyles how to nourish Moyles with their beautie 116 More founding in the foote 179 Mourning of the chine 167. 132. 173 Another for the same Another for the same N NErfes sinewes broken 188 Nailes for horseshoes to make 157 Nailes in the flesh to heale 168 Narrow heeld horse howe to pare Nauelgall to helpe Nauelgall another Nose bleeding to stanche P PAines a disease in the feete 137 Paynes or Cratches Paring the hoofe bound Paring of hoofes 156 Paring a broade hoofe 157 Pastornes fretted to heale 122. 126 Pestilence among mares 113 Pestilence among horse 150 Pinne and webbe to helpe Pissing blood to helpe 149 Pissing not well to helpe 126 Another for the same Place to couer mares best Plucking out thorne or yron Pole euill to helpe 129 Pricked in a ioynt to helpe 184 Pricked with a naile to helpe 166 Proude flesh to helpe Properties of a good horse Prouerbes Purging of horse Puffing vp a leane horse Q QVincie in horse to helpe 127 Quertes or chinks in the hoofs R RAge of mares Ringbone to helpe Rubbing of horses doth good Rugged or brittle hoofe to pare Repaire flesh in a wound 189 S Saddle chafe your horse Scratches to heale 177. 162. 165 Another for the same To make a horse to scoure 185 Scratches another Sinewes troubled Selander to helpe 135 Shakle gall to helpe Shot poysoned Shoing of a cart horse 155 Shoing of other horse 155 Shoing of diuers hoofes diuersly fol. 158. 159. 160 Shoing the forefeet of horse best 156 Shoing a broade hoofe 157 Shoes made with whole quarters Shoulder hurt to heale Signes to know if a horse hath the bots Signes to know a sick horse 127 Sinewes broken to heale Skin of horse rased to heale Skinne of horse watery to helpe Sore chafings to heale Sorenesse when they breede Sore impostumes to heale Spauin to helpe 136 Spayde coltes 167 Spraines or straine in horse 124 Another for straines Splint to heale 133 Stabling or houssng of horse Stalions in his best age Stalions some hoter thā other 115 Staggers a disease to helpe Strongest horse or moyle to know Stound in the pastorne to helpe Stifnes of sinewes and ioynts Stifle in the heele to helpe 124 Strangury to helpe 132 Stubbe in the flesh to helpe Surbating to heale 145 Swelling vnder the iowles 193 Swolne places to heale 161. 167 Another for the swelling by too much wind 191 T TAint in a horse to helpe 143 Taming of horse Taste loste in a horse to helpe Teeth not euen to helpe Teeth pained to helpe 192 Tyring on the horse by the way to helpe 182. 189 Thorne to plucke out Tongue hurt with bit 181 Tōgues of horse to see to oftē 176 Trenches to helpe 166. 176 Another for the same V VEnomed places to helpe 149 Viues how to heale 126. 180 Vometing in horse to staie W WArtes on horse legs to marke White feete on a horse Water vnholesome for horse 149 Weakenesse in a horse to helpe Wearines in a horse to helpe 123 Wound on horse to heale 181 Wingalles to helpe 179. 135 Wolues teeth in horse to help 176 190 Worms in horse to helpe Wormes in the maw 192 Y YEalowes a disease in horse to helpe 150. 193 These be the herbs which are called the fiuelaunces which leadeth vnto a wounde Dittan Pellute Meniconfound Pimpernell and Speare wort The fiue grasses that draweth a wound Oculus Christi Madder Buglosse Red coale Erual The eight grasses defensiue Ache herbe Robart Buglosse Sanicula Sauery Sauin Mollen and Crow foot these are defensiue These are the grasses with the fiuelaunces that leadeth vnto a woūd and draweth vnto a wound and knowledgeth a fester But vnderstād that euery open sore is not a fester for the flesh of a fester is harde and shining being chafed There be two kindes of festers the hot and the colde The hoate will haue a great hole and the colde fester wil haue a straiter hole Of the one commeth out white matter and fretted flesh And of the other commeth out black matter which fretteth the sinews and ioynt and that is vncurable This take alwaies for a generall rule THE Third
thus once a day and this wil heale it also If there be any inflamation behind the eares or that it grow to any inpostumation in that place ye shall boyle the rootes of mallowes in water till they waxe tender thē bruse them and straine out the water cleane and warme giue it vnto the horse The lampas is a light sorenes to heale it cometh by the aboundance of bloud and is afore in the ruffe of the mouth they will swell and bee so sore that hee cannot eate his meate The cure is Take a hooked knife made very sharpe and made very hot and therwith cut the swoln places in two partes crosse against the téeth but if they bee but smally swolne then cut but the third ranke from the téeth and so let them bleed well then rub it with a little salt and let him go If a horse do pisse bloud it cometh by some sore straine or ouer laden by some heauie burthen or else being too fatte or some vains broken The cure ye shall let him bloud and boyle that bloud with wheat and with powder of dride barke of the pomgarnets then strayne it and giue it hym to drinke three or foure mornings and let hym not trauell thereupon And some do but let him bloud in the pallet or ruffe of the mouth Also others do giue him of husked beanes boilde with the huskes of acornes beat small and mixt therewith Use this as ye shall see cause If a horse haue receiued any venome in his haye or any venemous beast haue bitten him ye shall perceiue by his eyes his head and his bodie will swell and much shake The remedy is to runne him till he sweate then straight waye drawe bloud in the pallet of his mouth and so much as he bleedeth let him swallow it downe hotte If he bite of adder or snake yee shall take a liue cocke and cleane him in the middest and all hotte clappe it to the wound Some take but a pigin and open her and clappe it to and thereupon giue him drinke made with a pinte of strong wine and some salte Or take the roote and leaues and fruit of brionie burnt to ashes and giue vnto the horse a good sponefull thereof in a pint of good wyne Also if the horse haue eaten in his meate anye henne or chicking dung it will cause him to haue the bloudye fluxe or the trenches which is small wormes or a crowling in his bellye or guttes Therefore kéepe poultry out of your stables if ye loue your horses Also puddle or dunghill water is vnholsome for a horse to drynke of Or where geese or ducks do vse For it will corrupt their bloud and breede a plague Therefore if ye can let them drinke litle thereof And against the hen dung and drinking such water yee shall vse to giue them quarterly of the hearbe Angelica and of Smallage made in pouder And giue anounce thereof in a pint of good wine mixt with a litle honyed water Then walke him till his bellyswage or till he make his dung And when soeuer a horse is in danger of the pestilence called Phibula they are preserued by the seperating asunder from that place Which disease commeth diuers waies as by heate and ouermuch labour by hunger And being hote to drinke colde water Or suddaine chafing after long rest which things breede the pestilence It is a disease hard to know but when one dyeth there will soone follow another Then the best is to seperate them And to make them a drinke of bayberies myrre aristolochia and gentian with the shauing of iuorie of each alike made in pouder and giue to each horse a spoonfull thereof in a pinte of wine or ale Use this as yee shall sée cause Or yee may giue them of Triacle in wine or ground iuy in his water and meate The yellowes is an euil sorenes in a horse and it is a kinde of the iaundise gotten by colde His body and eyes will shew yelaow And also his skinne will be yealow In a young horse it is soone had by taking of colde after a heate Or it may come by stopping of the bladder or gall or his liuer enflamed And likewise a horse getteth the blacke iaundise if blacke choller abound in his bodie And then he will not lye but stand The cure Ye shall minister vnto him a glister and rake him and let him bloud on both sides of the necke and of the nose Some doe take saffron and turmericke and mixe them with milke and giues it warme But first let him bloud on the nose or in the roofe of the mouth And then put of the iuice of selandine into his eare and binde it fast and in twelue howers after then ride him a litle and then keepe him warme for two or three dayes after and let him haue white water warme and this disease doth often bréede the staggers The Staggers is an ill sorenes to heale It will make the horse to hold downe his head And also hee will reele to and fro and forsake his meate and this procéedeth of the yellowes and of a corrupt humour in the brayne His sight will bee dimme and hee will bee heauie in going The cure They do let him bloud in the temple vayne and also cut the skinne on the fore toppe and with a bucks horne doth raise it vppe towardes the head three fingers or more deepe Then to melt turpentine and hogges grease together and dippe a tent of flaxe therein and tent it therewith and vse this once a daye till it be whole and make the like issue on his poll behinde and giue him warme mashe and walke him softly once a day Another Ye shall put a sponefull of the iuyce of selandine into one of his eares and so bind it fast and so let him remaine and he shall mend Another Put a little of white salte into his eare and then put in after a sponefull or two of fayre water and then knit fast his eare that hee cannot cast it out This is a vsed medicine for this disease and a most certaine helpe If anye horse chaunce to bee gorde with a stake or otherwise yee shall take and cast him and open the wounde as much as yee maye Then take fresh butter and boyle it ouer the fyer and boylyng hot poure thereof into the wounde and make it runne to the bottome of the wounde if yee can and let him so lye that it maye go to the bottome And then lette him rest till the next morning and vse him so once a day till hee bée whole For this will heale him without anye other thing To cast a horse or other beast yee shall binde firste his head with a strong halter vnto some post or tree then Englishe saffron alike Some of these or so manye as yee shall thinke good made in fine powder and mixed with ale and giuen warme in vsing as afore is mentioned Coltes are oft payned
helpeth against the burning and sore ach thereof Triacle fortiâ—eth the body and wasteth venome If triacle cannot be gotten then take garlicke sod in broth with a fatte henne and drinke thereof for garlick is contrarie to venome and doth aswage the inner burning thereof and therefore it is cald the husbandmans triacle Also if one be bitten with a mad dog take a cock or a hen and kil him and slit him straight and all hotte clappe it to the place and it will sucke draw out the venome The drawers of venowe are these the flesh of a snake or adder cut and laid to straight Also calamint the séede of wilde tares cald orobancke Sea onions water cresses hearbe grace salt Aristolochia nuts eate with rue the roots of a sperage the séed also Balsamum dinegar the milke of an asse a childes pisse the stones of a hedgehog the stones of a stagge or an asse dride and drunk Also castoreum garlicke gencian mint dittan All these afore said are good against venome and others without number and although the danger of venome cometh many and sundry waies therfore God of his goodnes hath prouided sundry helpes and remedies A good way to helpe the biting of any beast shéep or other with a mad dog or other venemous beast Which is ye shal cut the wound and make it to bléed that the venome with the bloud may thereby come forth Some do vse to put to lech wormes to sucke out the bloud and to cuppe or boxe it and to giue them triacle and lay to the woundes plaisters as nuts mixt with garlicke rue and salt all together and also nuts alone chewed and laide to the place and also triacle with water of creues of the riuer made in pouder and drunke or the ashes of the said creuis with gentian is a singular remedie against the byting of a mad dogge Likewise the iuice of caprisolium called woodbind Also the leaues of the wilde figge trée onions and salt or mint stampt like wise with salt and laide to euerie one of these aforesaid laide to and mixt with vineger or hony are sufficient to helpe against the byting of a Mad dogge or stinging of other venomous wormes but a perfect remedie is the oyle wherein a Scorpion hath beene drowned and therein also is sod and thereof a peece laide to the place infected doth helpe Other remedies against the byting of a mad dogge A singuler remedie which is to burne the flowers of hany suckles or thrée leaued grasse mixe it with elde greace and laye it to Or to beate the saide flowers with olde white wine and giue it him Also the rootes of eglintine made in pouder and laide thereon or to make him a drinke it with good olde white wine Another the horses of elder or the iuyce of the leaues to bee giuen with wine luke warme Also the iuyce of plantaine giuen to drinke or stampt with salte and laid to Or the roote of the great burre brused with a little salte and laide to doth destroye venome incontinent Againe the strong nettle brused with salt and laid thereon Or selandine drunke with wine and stampt with salt and laid to Or the leaues of horehound stampt and laid to with salte All these are speciall good against the biting of a mad dogge If a madde dogge do bite other houndes or hogges ye shall giue them the iuice of plantaine and let them bloud and it will helpe them but mixe it with a little milke and so giue it Remedies and medicines to helpe mangy dogs as well in their eares as also other partes of their bodies IN sommer commonly the eares of dogs are sore troubled with vlcers scabbes and flease that many are marde therby The remedy is against the scabbines in the eare annoint it with oile of bitter almands and it will heale it or to rub his eare with bitter almands smally beaten but if his eares are sore within ye shall then mixe therwith tarre and hogges grease and with the same do annoint and ye shall make the ticks and lice to fall if ye touch them therewith ye must not scratch them with your hand for feare ye make an vlcer rise thereof If a dogge haue flease the remedy is take of beaten cummin with as much ellebory and mixe them together with water and wash him therewith or with the iuice of wilde cowcumbers if ye haue none thereof then annoint all ouer his body with the lies and old dregs of oile oliue But if he be mangie and brokeÌ„ forth ye must beat yâ— teaues of mellilot sestamine in like portion mingled with tarre so annoint and this they say is good for men also that are scabbed if the scabs be yet more vehemeÌ„t ye may heale it with the iuyce of the Cedar Also rue with a corne or two of salt beat them together then take butter or oyle put therevnto and stirre them wel altogether then straine it all out and annoynt therwith or séeth the gréene rootes of Elecampane in running water and make it strong of the rootes in sée thing long and put some sope salt therevnto wash your dogge therewith warme 3. or 4. dares together and it will heale very well Also another some take gréene grasse beates it into fine pouder mixe it with the powder of brimstone finely beaten together and then al wel hurt with fresh greace then made hot and therewith annoint Also another very perfect and good medicine is yee shal take an oate sheafe as it come from the field with his afles theron and burne him to ashes and with those ashes make lye and therewith washe your mangie dog twise or thrise a day and it wil helpe often proued and to let him blood on the gamarel vaine behinde Also another very excelleÌ„t medicine to kil any itch either in man or dog which is ye shal take a portioÌ„ of oyle of flower deluce with a good quantitie of brimstone beaten to a fine powder and the like quantitie of Elecampane rootes dried in an ouen and beate into a fine powder with a quantitie of bay salt dried and beaten to a fine powder then mixe all these foresaide powders with the said oyle and then warm it ouer the fire and annoynt therewith But if ye scratte or make the skin first to bléed or water and then to annoint it wil do the better Wel and often proued Another for a magie dogge Take quicksiluer Uerdegreace Wooloyle brimstone powder then mixe all well together and therewith annoynt the dog twise a day Thus much for the byting of mad dogs in helping the same And also helpes for mangie dogs A bitch goeth with whelpe fourescore dayes and her whelpes are seuen daies blind not perfit sight till 21. daies and a grayhound bitch goeth 6. wéekes with whelpe her whelpes are blind twelue daies ¶ The Table following to finde out any thing in this booke as touching moules and hogs and to find out likewise
then after to annoint and chafe their pasturns and betwixt their clées with olde grease and they shall do well Also if an oxe do halte of his foote through taking of some great cold ye must then wash it with warme vrin but if it come through the cause of bloud or an impostume in the foot then ye shall chafe and rubbe it first well to stirre the bloud and then raze the skin with a sharpe razor aboue the clées and make it bléede and wash it with pisse and salt if it wil not so heale but descend into the foot ye must then open the toppe of the hoofe vnder to the quicke and make the bloud there to come forth then lap his foot as afore is said or make a buskin that no water or other thing get in to hurt it till it be whole Likewise if an Oxe be cut or grauelled in the foote the helpe is yee shall bathe him with warme vrine and then annoint him with tarre and olde grease melted together and there is nothing better to vse before ye doe vnyoke then to rubbe and chafe their feete with old fresh greace If the feete of an Oxe do open and chappe so that yâ— horne doe cracke and cleaue ye shal bath it well first with warm vinegar and and salt and oyle mixt altogether Then lap it wel for a daie or more and put thereon a plaister of olde greace and pitch melted together And so it wil heele again and doe wel and when his hoofes are broken yee shal couer and wrappe them with linnen steeped in vinegar oyle and salt for three daies stil renew it in laying to the sayde medicine Then on the fourth daie melt pitch and olde greace together and put it thereon with the barke of a pyne apple tree cleane pullished and when it beginneth to heale yee shal rubbe it al ouer with the soote of a chimney and let it heale But if yee make smal account thereof there will woorms ingender soone in the sore and make it fal to a coldnes if ye washe it not on morninges with colde water so if this wil not heele it ye shal then bruise of horehound leeks and salt together and so laie it there too and this will soone kil the wormes and when the sore is wel cleansed ye shal laye thereon a plaister of tow mixt with pitch oyle and old greace and so annoint it al ouer with the same to keepe off the flie away and it wil do wel To helpe the bruise on the shoulder of a beast SOmetimes by long trauel a labouring Oxe in treading on the hard ground or by some crushe against postes or gates wil be lame in their shoulders and oftentimes sore bruised if this happen in anie beast ye shal then let him blood on the fore legges If he be hurt in the hinder hippes ye shal then let him blood on the hinder legges and then washe and bathe it with warme vinegar salt and oyle mixt together or bathe his shoulder with pisse and mallowes boyled together If these doe not helpe then ye shal launce it a little and then laye a playster of pitch thereon and it will heale it Against stinging with Adder or Snake WHen any beast is stung with Adder or bitten with a snake it wil so ranckle that the beast may soon die thereof if there be not remedy soone had Against any byting thereof ye shal bruise the roote of the great burre with salt and so laye it too and it wil take away the venome Another better which is cake of the rootes of the sharp pointed threeleaued grasse which beareth long sweete leaues and rough mixe the iuyce thereof with wine and giue it the beast or cast it into his mouth and beate the leaues with salt and laye it to the sore if ye cannot haue the greene herbe bruise the seed with wine and giue it him or bruse the stalks roots and then mixe it with meale and salt honyed water plaister wise laid thereon Another ye shal take v. pound of the tender crops of an Ash tree well beaten and then mixt with three pynts of sallet oyle in so much wyne theÌ„ strayne it giue it to the beast Also take of the sayd Ashtree croppes beate them with salt and lay it to the venoumed place If a beast be stung yee shal rubbe the place with the oyle of a scorpion which ye shall haue at the Apothecaries or giue him sope mixt with vinegar wash the place with bur leaues sodde in water or greene stampt with salt and layd too The stinging of the fieldspider IF a beast bee stung with the field spider it wil soone cause nflammation and grow to an impostume if there be not speedy remedy A beast beyng stung with yâ— fielde spyder or bitten with antes al they be but smal wormes yet their venom is great wil put the beast to great danger therfore some do hold in pricking the place with a latten naule and then mixe sope vinegar chafe the place therewith Also some say if the field spider be taken put in oyle oliue so die therein â—ot if a beast bee stung of him annoint with the oyle and it wil helpe and so like of other venemous worms put in oile but if yée haue none thereof so that the wounde shew faire and without danger yee shall but take of brused Cummin mixed with tarre and so annoint therewith and plaister it thereon also and it will take away the daunger thereof But if it doe grow inward to an impostume then it shal be best to burne it with a hoat yron so much as is corrupted and then annoynt it with tarre and oyle and so it heales Some lappes a liue spider in claye earth and when it is drie hanges it about the beasts necke and by that they say it preserues the beast from being stung therewith Againe some doe stampe of wormewood or Southernewood with Uinegar and clappes it on the venomed place and it helpes Also to take beaten cammamile with hony and lay it too doth the like Also take of house leeke stampe it with ale and giue it to drinke or the water of a Lilly roote bruised and strained in water vinegar so giuen to the beast Remedies against diseases of the eies THe eie of a beast is tender is a principal meÌ„ber soone may be hurt diuers wayes The griefs therof are coÌ„monly healed with hony but when they do inflame and swel theÌ„ they mixe of the meale of pure wheat with honied water lay it too Also if an oxe haue yâ— haw in the eye ye shal heale it with the salt of the montain or spanish salt or Sal armeniacke or sal Capadoce any of these beateÌ„ into a fine pouder and blowne with a quill thrée morninges into his eye Likewise the pouder of the roote called in Gréeke Silphion in English pelliter of Spayne mixe with
ten times so much Salarmeniack wel beatē together then blow thereof into his eie it destroyes the haw Also the said roote beaten with the oyle of masticktrée ther with annoynt y◠eye Likewise for the haw or sore eye some makes a round collar of Sal armeniack mixt with some hony layes it round about his eye and annoynts theron al round about with tar resolued with oyle oliue for feare of bées comming to his eye or to annoint his eye with the iuyce of Cammamell Also the leaues and stalks of Crow foote to be bruised laid to the eie doth take away the haw or webbe and is good against a lashe on the eie Againe if a beast be stricken on the eye yee shal take of the iuice of centory hearbe and mixt with a little honie and therewith annoynt his eie and laie it also plaister wise theron Doe this against night for feare of Bées troubling the beast also if the eie of your beast chaunce to be stricken ye shal take the croomes of wheaten bread or other and then soake it a little in rose water or vinegar and so lay it to his eie and it will helpe But if it swell or inflame then the best is to take southernwood and bruise it with a litle vinegar and laie it too Also the iuice of Pimpernell is good against all griefes of the eyes or to be mixed with other thinges Also against the watering of beastes eies as sometimes they wil runne of water The remedie therefore they vse to laie on the browes or eye liddes the meale of dried barley tempered with water and honey Also the féeds of wild parsenepes or the iuyce of wilde dayfies mixed with honie and so annoynt which is also good against anie paine of the eies then annoint it all ouer with tarre and oyle mixt as aforesayd for feare of bées comming to the hony and troubling the beast And also for the webbe in the eye yée shall take of white salt and wrappe it in a linnen cloth and then rake it vnder the embars and burne it and then take beat it to a smal pouder and with a goose quil blowe thereof into his eie and then holde your hand thereon a while ye shal sée it water and therevpon amend Also the iuyce of Dragōs to annoynt the eie is good against the web in the eie and the iuyce of the wild lettice doth the like Also for a sore eie in a beast yée shall spurt beere therein or chewe the leaues of ground Iuie and droppe it in his eye or the iuyce thereof in like manner mixt with a litle powder of Gynger If a beast chaunce to swallow a horseleech worme in his water IF anie beast doe swallow downe a horsléech with his drinke which wil molest and trouble him greatly For the said horseléech wil cōmonly stay in his throat and there suck blood and so wil inflame the place in causing his throatebowle to swell whereby he wil sore trouble the beast in letting the passage of his meate so that hee cannot swallowe nor take his winde If shée lie so farre within that one cānot take her foorth with his hande ye must then put a quill or some kane into the beastes throate filled with hoate oile and let it goe downe or squirt oyle and so soone as the oyle doe but touch the worme she wil fal off Yée may also get her off by letting the fume of the punaise vnto her which is in Italy a stinking worme like a tycke which assoone as she féeleth the fume she wil fall off But if she doe holde and staie in the stomake entrales then yée must giue the beast hoate vinegar which wil kil her and this wil serue as wel for other cattell For the Dewbolne in cattell THe dewbolne in Oxe Cow or other beast is swelling in his body as much as the skinne may holde which swelling is verie dangerous to some for bursting it is gotten by eating of the trifoly grasse in a dewy morning as some say which grasse maketh him so to swell as though he woulde burst The remedy is some doe chase and driue him softly vp and downe to make him to doung If that doe not helpe then ye must rake him and take foorth his doung If that wil not serue then they strike a hole with a knife or bodkin into the hollow part of his backe aboue his flanke and so thereat le ts out the winde by a fether or quil and so he will recouer againe But beware ye strike him not so déepe that yée pearce his guts Also to giue him rue or garden tanzey stampt with wine and ale to drinke is very good for the same or giue him a quart of veriuyce This disease commeth to a beast that is gréedy and is put into a Pastor of such rank grasse in eating so gréedily thereof that his sides will swell as high as his backe bone and sometimes the one side will swell more than the other and yet few die thereof and when a beast is so he may not bee hastily driuen nor laboured til he bee swaged for it is but a substance of winde within his body Therfore it is good to driue him softly and suffer him not to lye some doe strike him as aforesayde so deepe till the winde doe come forth for wynde do remaine betwixt the body and the great panche and his bowels Wherfore it is euill to put a hungry beast into suche pasture after a deawe or rayne for the sayde grasse is then so swéete and windy withall that it filleth them full of winde and when they be so swolne some beast wil stand stil some will lie downe but if ye can raise him stirre hym vp and downe to make him doung For if he doe once doung he is past danger for that time but if he lie and wil not ryse yee shall strike him in with a sharpe knyfe or bodkin three ynch deepe or more if that wil not serue thrust hym so deepe till ye sée the winde come foorth Then some doe put a quill into the hole or a fether that the winde may come foorth thereat the better and when yee shall see him well slaked yee may then laye a little tarre thereon to keepe off the flye and hee shall doe well agayne in a shorte space Against the stinging of hornet waspe or breese flie IF your oxe or Cow bee stung with waspe or hornet the remedy is ye shal temper Ceruse or redde leade in water then rubbe the stung place therewith it is good also to sprinckle the place where the beast do feede with the decoction of bay leaues sod in water Also how to make that the breese flie shal not annoy and bite cattel when they labour which is yee shall rubbe the beast with the decoction afore mentioned Also if any be stung or bit therwith ye shal rub and wet that place al ouer with the froth
vnder nigh his rumpe and byndes thereto a little bruised garlicke and so he will recouer and doe well againe Against mylting of a beast THe mylting of Oxe Cow or other beast is called of husbandmen when he wil sodeyne lye downe if ye shal stay neuer so litle beyng at plough or cart Which griefe is gotten by some blowe or sore strype with gode or suche like on the beastes side which makes him to faint and fall down Whē any shal so lie down ye shal not raise him vp sodayne agayne but ye shal then turne him and lay him on the other side and so let him rest a while and so he wil recouer agayne then if ye can bruise of the barke of an Ashe and strayne it with ale and so giue him to drinke and hee shal doe well To helpe any beast that cannot pisse THey vse to giue vnto an Oxe that cannot pisse of warm water mixt with brā which is good to make him pisse also take and stampe of sowthistle and then heat it with ale or beere and so giue it to y◠beast Another take and bruise a hādful of anniseedes and then mixe it with ale or beere and giue it Another take bruise of Carduus benedictus thē strain it with white wine and so giue it to the beast Anye one of these aforesaide is good to be giuen a beast when hee cannot pisse and to prouoke hym there vnto Against the flowing of the gall in cattel THe flowing of the gall in Oxe or other beast the chiefe occasion thereof some husbands cannot wel tel except it should be the aboundance of choler encreasing by great trauel in hoat times and so there by filling the gall with choler therupō it flowes al ouer the body so encreaseth y◠yelows or iaundise The remedies are some takes of gal woort herb which is bitter then stamps a handful thereof so strains it with a quart of ale so giues it to the beast 2. or 3. mornings Another ye may also giue the iuice of wormwood or southernwood stampt and straind with ale and so giuen as y◠other Another take y◠inner green barke of elder a handful and soke it al one night in beere or ale in a vessel close couered then straine it in y◠morning and so giue it to the beast Another some do giue the iuyce of mugwoort mixed with honied water with a little saffron and so giuen All these aforesaide are very good against the flowing of the gall and also for the iaundice Another for the same take the yelke of an egge and mixe it with some harde soot powder of Peper and hony and put the egge shel and al down his throat then giue him a little chamberlye and hee shal dowel To helpe a beast that is gored IF any beast chaunce to be stricken and gored with some of his fellowes for feare of some gargel come thereof or some impostume to growe and bréede thereof The remedie yee shall take of ashes finely sifted and mixe them with the groundes of ale or béere and make it thicke like a batter and so laye it thereon vse this and it will heale it Another some doe take vnto the saide groundes or dregges of ale of vnquenched lime finely beaten and so mixt well together and so laie it theretoo Another some puts in stéed of ashes redde earth or oaker mixt like wise together as aforesayd and so layes it too plaisterwise Another likewise a playster of pitch is also good to be layde thereon And all the other aforesayde are very good to heale a beast that is gorde or hurt Against the turning disease in cattel THere is a certain disease comes to some cattel called of husband mē y◠turning disease Which disease in eating their meat wil cause thē to turn about let their féeding sore also those cattell which are troubled with this disease are alwaies in dāger of falling into pits and ditches such like The cause is there lieth a bledder vnder the skul in the forehead of the beast which is betwéen the braine and the brayn pan which bladder must be taken foorth or hee wil neuer amend but in y◠end he wil die therof The remedy is ye must cast him and bind his 4. féete together and there ye shal feele al ouer softly with your thumbe thrusting theron wheras yee finde the softest place a litle there aboue yee shall cutte the skinne ouerthwart foure ynches so lykewise beneath the soft place Then also in the middes ye shall cut the skin downward between the two ouerthwart cuts flea those skins on both sides then turne them vp and pynne them with pyns Then take a sharpe knife and cutte the brayne panne there vnder two ynches broade and thrée ynches lōg but beware your knife goe no deeper then the thicknesse of the brayne pan for pearcing the brayne For if ye do so the beast wil dye Then ye shal take away that cut boane yee shal see a bledder there vnder two ynches or more long ful of water Which bledder ye shal softly take clean away and see that yee hurt not his braine So done then ye shall laye downe againe the cut skin as before and sow them fast together then bynde a lynnen cloth thrée or foure folde dipt in fresh greace and tarre and layde thereon which wil keepe it from winde and colde for the space of ten or twelue dayes which skinne wil so grow againe and he shall doe well And herevpon I haue seene saith mine Author many recouer and doe well But for the more surety when a beast is troubled with this disease being flat or hauing any reasonable flesh on him is to kyl hym and so there is but small losse The like disease yee shal haue in young sheepe which is spoken of in his place Thinges good for sinewes and to knit bones VVHen as there shall chaunce anye bones of your cattell to be broken yee shal take of the herbe called in Latine Aron in English Cuckospit stampe thereof with barley meale and a little hony and so playsterwise lay it to Another take of the herbe called in Latine symphitum in English cumphory bruise of the leaues and roote with a litle hony and laye it to playsterwise Another take of yarrow and stampe it with swines greace and playsterwise lay it to which will knyt not bones onely but sinewes also Another take the tender buddes of the Ashe tree stamp them with shell snailes or blacke snayles and so lay it too or take the powder made of the barke of an Ashe trée mingle and beate it with the leaues of cumphory and then laie it too Another séeth the barke of an Elme trée in running water then bruise it and lay it to All these aforesaide are good to comfort sinewes and for the knitting of bones To breede calues and to gelde them IF ye wil bréede calues to make young bulles take no calf that is
sea onion the poplar root and common salt of ech a like then lay it a while in water then stampe them and so giue it vnto your cattell till they be well Giue it to them in the spring for the space of forty dayes which will preserue them from the plague or all other sicknes for that yeare And if beasts be sick ye shal giue them madder long pepper the barke of a walnut trée with fetherfew stampe these and straine it and giue it with some triacle to drink fasting and they shall do well For sicke beastes that will not feede in pasture or drinke TTake liuerwoort night shade cinckfoyle veruaine egrimony and centory of ech a like boile all these in a quart of good ale then stampe and straine it and put to iii. peniworth of triacle of Iene and milke warme giue theron to your sicke beastes fasting and driue them vp and downe after a good space and they shal do wel To heale a beast cut with a bill TAke turpentine barrow hogs grease hony and tar but the tar mustly next the cloth and boile the other a little and laie it on the cloth then strike it al about with pitch the â—des of the cloth to make it cleaue fast ye may shift it once in two daies and this will heale it For a shéepe ye may lay on a plaister of pitch and it will heale it FINIS ¶ The Table of the principall thinges in this Booke by Alphabet as followeth A AGue in Calues B Barbes vnder the tongue of cattell to helpe 12 Beastes sicke to helpe Belching signes thereof 85 Byles on cattel to heale Byting with a madde dogge 26 Blaine on the tongue to help 38 Blood in Beast 44. 87 Blood pissing to helpe 13 Bloudie fluxe 13 Bones loose thinges good to knit Broken bones thinges good to knit 80 Bruise on the shoulder to helpe 29 Bulles how to make tame 3 Bulles put vnto labour Bull of his forme qualitie 63 C CAlues hauing the laske Calues hauing woormes to helpe 41 Cattell sicke Calues how to breed 49 Calues how to nourish Calues how to reare Cattel to be looked vnto 58 Cattell in pasturing together 69 Cattell how to fodder Charge to the keeper of cattel 51 Closh in the feet to helpe Closh on the neck to heale 27 Collicke in Cattel to helpe 62 Common medicine for cattell Crowling in the guts to helpe 〈◊〉 Costiuenesse in cattel to helpe 16 Cough in a beast to helpe 17 Cut with weapon on a beast 92 Cowes vdder swelled Cowe in make Cow to helpe of the weather Cowe with her forme and qualitie 63 Cow with calfe how to be kept 64 Cow new calued scant of milke to helpe 76 D DRopping nostrels in Cattell to helpe 13 Drinke for cattel 82 Deawbolne in cattell for to helpe 33 Diseases of all sortes to helpe E EDder stinging to helpe Eies grieued to heale 31 Eye hauing the haw Eies stricken to helpe Eies inflamed to helpe Eies watery to helpe Eies hauing the webbe F FAintnes of Oxen that labour 76 Farming of Oxen. Fatting of an Oxe 61 Fatting in the stall 71 Feuer in cattel to helpe 17 Field spider stinging to helpe Flesh superfluous vnder the toÌ„gue Flowing of the gall to helpe 46 Fluxe of the belly to stay Flux of blood to helpe Foddering of cattell Founder in the feet of cattell 19 Foule a disease in the foote 42 G GAlling of Cattell to helpe Gall flowing to helpe Garget to helpe 37 Garget on the tongue to helpe 37 Garget by some stroke giueÌ„ 38. 33 Garget in the maw 39 Gelding of Calues 83 Gelding another way Goring of a beast to helpe 77 Goring another Greene corne hurtful to Cattel Gouernment of Cattel 55 Goute in the feet to helpe 45 H Haw in the eie to helpe 81 Herbes venemous for Cattel to eat Hide bound to help 84. 83 Hoofe hurt to heale 27 Hoofe chopt to helpe Hornet or other flie stinging Horseleech worme drunk to help I IMpostumes to helpe 18 Inflammations in the mouth Ioynt being out to helpe 79 Ioint being out another 79 Itch on cattel to helpe 24. K KEper of Cattel his charge Kine diseased to helpe Kibes to helpe Kine put to the Bull. Kine put to labour Kine how to nourish and feede Knees of beasts swolne to help 21 Kow with Calfe how to vse L. LAxes in beasts to stop 62 Leane Cattel how to buy 40. 65 Leane or fat Cattel to buy 65 Leane kine or beasts to helpe 83 Lice on cattel to kill 35 Looking often vnto cattel is good Losse of Cattel léast hurt 69 Lungs of Cattel infected to helpe 87 Longroune in Cattel to help M MAw of beasts grieued to helpe Milting of a beast to helpe 45 Milch kine to feede Medicines to haue ready Milk scant in a Cow to helpe Murren among Cattell to helpe 88. 66 Mouth of a beast inflamed 27 N NEcke galde to helpe Neck bruised to heale Necke swolne to helpe 78 Necke swolne to helpe Necke hauing the clowse Neck out of ioynt to helpe 79 Nostrils of Cattel dropping to help O OXen how to buy and sell Oxen how to buy Oxen how for to tame Oxen diseased to helpe Oxen for to labour Oxe or Cow be sound to know Oxe feete worme to helpe Oxen labouring and yet fat Oxen how to fat Oxen being faint to helpe Oxen stalfed P PAstoring against tillage Panting in Oxe or Cow Pestilence and the cause Pissing of blood to helpe 43 Pissing of blood another 43 Pissing good things to prouoke 56 Pots to keepe Oxe pisse Purging things for Cattel 58 Pricking with a thorne 57 Q QVide of a beast lost to helpe 40 R REaring of Calues for increase Rotting in a beast to helpe 81. 85 S SCabbes on Cattel to helpe 21 Sinewes shrunke or broken to helpe Sinewes stiffe to helpe 20 Sicke beasts to helpe Sinewes good things to knit them 48 Sinewes another to knit Shroue mouce and her nature 74 Shoulder bruised to helpe Shoulder out of ioynt to help 78 Spraine or stroke to helpe 78 Stroke in the eie Stall fed Oxen. Stall to giue Cattel drinkes in 60 Stinging of Adder or Snake 30 Stinging of the field spider 30 Stinging with hornet or waspe 34 Sound beasts to know 81 Swelling thorow bloud to help 14 Swelling by eating a tine worme 15. 88 Swelling by drinking a horsleech 33 Swelling in any out part 80 Swelling in Cattell by venemous herbes 36 Swelling by eating green corne 36 T TEtter on Cattel to helpe 75 Another for the same 76 The tayle a griefe Teeth loose in cattel to help 45. 82 Tine worme eaten to helpe Tine blaine on the tongue to help Trenches in the guts to helpe Turning disease to helpe 47 V VEnomed tongue to helpe 14 Vaine cut to helpe Vometing of a beast to helpe W WArrenall worme in the backe of Cattel 44 Water in the belly of cattel to help Water meet for cattel to drinke Weary bread a disease Weathering in a Cow to
him forth to some place to make him swim Then do nourish him well after for a time and hee shall doo well If your horse is troubled with choller his belly wil swell and wil be hot nor he cannot then vent beneath and then ye must rake him with your hand and clense the naturall conduits which are stopt and take forth his dung and ye shall giue him sauin stauesaker and salt boild and mixt together in putting to a little honie and minister it in at his tuel like a glister or suppositorie which will moue and purge forth al the choller Some do beat iii. ownces of mirre with iii. pintes of wine and giues it with a horne and to chafe and rub his tuell with tarre and olde grease Other do wash his belly with falte water of the sea or water and salte As for other purgations they do commonly giue in powders and pilles which must be giuen with good discretion according to ech disease his medicine Which ye shal vnderstand more thereof at large in M. Blundeuils booke for horses howe and when to purge them therefore I here passe it ouer Against the bots or wormes in the guts when the horse is troubled therewith the signes are he will oft wallow and lye downe for paine and rise sodainly againe Also hee will bow his head towards his side or bellie and stampe with his feete and friske with his taile often the next remedy is put your hand into his tuell and drawe forth his dung and wash his belly with sea water or strong salted water and caste in his throate three ownces of the rootes of capers beaten with halfe so much vinegar and that will kill all wormes and bottes Some take hot embers and put it in running water then strayne it and giue it warme with a horne and walks him after halfe an houre and tyes him vp with the bridle and others take fenegreke and baies licoras and turmericke of ech a halfepeny worth of anniseséeds a penyworth with a quantitie of brimstone in powder beat all these smal together and put them in a quart of ale and giue it fasting warme and walke and vse him as before kéepe him warme al that day after or a pint of milke with a sponful of sope Some giue sauin chopt among prouender or a ry shelfe or the fine powder of brimstone in warme milke some other do let them bloud fasting in the ruffe of his mouth and that is the best for a mare that is with fole and to let her bloud often and to giue her a little prouender after for if ye should giue her stronger thinges it were dangerous for the colt except it were strong and nigh her time some do giue them mans dung hot and annoints the bridle therewith and chafes him thereon and maluesy also is good fasting for the cough newly taken they take lentile pease clean made dride and beat to powder and put thereof in warme water and so giuen a pint Use him thus thrée daies and giue him grasse and tender branches of hearbes For an old cough they heale with vi ounces of the iuice of léekes mixt with a pound of oyle oliue and so giue it with a horne and giue him grasse to eat after and to annoint his griefe with vinegar oyle mixt together If it helpe not then chafe him sometimes with sal niter allum mixt together with a fether of ech 〈◊〉 like with some vinegar If there be pushes or blisters on his body ye shal frote them so hard in the sunne that they bléed they mixe of the roote of iuie with so much brimstone of tar and allum put al together and therewith heale it For the cough some say take a hedgehog cast him into an ouen dry him to powder and alway mixe of that powder with his prouender which wil helpe at length any cough Or to take a handful of boxe leaues smal chopt and mixe it with a peck of ground malt and séeth it in a gallō or two of faire water and let the horse drinke thereof milke warme and giue him white water for two or three daies after or a handfull of groundsell small shred with the powder of licoras and anniseséedes of ech a quantity and so giue it warme in a quart of ale then ride him softly after and keepe him warme for two or thrée daies after To heale al sores or other chasinges on horses in any part of his body they do vse to wash them with warme water and then to rub and chafe them with grease and salt melted together so long till the matter ripe and issue out such sores oftimes do kill horses if there be not in the beginning some remedy found Some do annoynt them with oyle of Cedar or of Lentyles or with nettle séedes mixt with sallet oyle or the oyle of a whale or the dropping of salte tunny and chiefely the grease of a seale fish But if the sores be old ye must haue stronger thinges as to boyle of betony hearbe and brimstone powder of ellebory of pitch with as much old grease and with this they do heale all old sores in racing them first with a sharpe yron and then to wash them with pisse and so to annoint And sometime if it bee festred to cutte it to the quicke and then to drawe it with medicines as shall be made with tarre and oyle or such like which will clenes and fill agayne the place and when the haire shal be full againe and closed full with haire then it shall be good to chafe the place with soote of a cawdrone and butter and to heale a nauelgall or sore backe take soote of a chimney and yest mixt together and plaister it therwith which wil heale without any other thing in shifting it once a daye For rising of the skinne or raysing thereof Take two great onyons and boyle them in water with hounds tongue hearb then being hot take a pound of salt and mixe it with strong vinegar putting therein the yeolke of an egge then mixe all together and rub the place therewith and ye shall see the experience And for his backe that is chopt and swolne ye shall first wash him with pisse hot then annoint him with fresh butter and lay theron a little hay wet in cold water and so clap your saddle thereon and let him rest so al that night or annoint it with butter then put on the wette hay and your saddle Some clap these to hot horse dung then the saddle but take the groundes of ale or beere and boyle it wel with mallowes and clap it hot but if the skinne be through chaft so that it do water and is very moist yee shall haue ready in a bagge filde with the powder of bryer leaues finely beaten and put a little of that thereon and it will drie it by the morning ond it will heale it also without other thing Also for
in the gummes and téeth when they growe yee shal take of good chalke with strong vinegar mixed together and rubbe the teeth and gummes therwith and they will mend The feuer is holpen by letting blood on the middle vaine on his thigh foure fingers vnder his tuell or els take the vayne in the necke and for his drink ye may mixe the iuice of purselaue gumme dragant frankencense in powder with a few damask roses and giue him this in a quantitie of honied water Agaynst faintnesse and weakenesse about the hearte of a Horse yee shall keepe him verye warme take an ounce of myrre two ounces of gum dragant two ounces of saffron one ounce of the powder of mellilot one pounde of the herbe Mercurie the powder of frankincense according to the rest then mixe altogether and make it in fine powder and take two spoonful thereof and giue it with a pynt of homed water and two spoonefull of oyle of roses Use this once a daie till yee see him amende this is also good to strengthen the reynes and backe and slacknesse of other members Against heate in a horse if it be in Winter ye shall giue him three ounces of sallet oile with a pint of redde wine if it be in Sommer giue him two ounces of oile with a quantitie of wine The barbes are twoo tettes vnder the tongue if they growe long they will hinder the horses feeding and they doe vse to clippe them with a payre of sheares and then washe it with water and salte and so they wil heale For the ytche in the tayle yee shall annoynt it with soape and then washe it with strong lye This will helpe against the scabbe scurfe and and woormes and against muche wearing of the taile keepe it alwaies wette with faire water The ytche may come of trunchins in the fundalent and then yee must rake him for that is a good helpe Also they saie if a Colt doe not cast his milt when hee is folde he will not liue long after but die sodainely within few yeeres after there is no horse that doth liue long which hath any milt in him Also for the shooyng of a Horse mee thinkes it is connenient that the husbandman shoulde vnderstande somewhat thereof although in manie places they doe know better than some Smithes For in most places of Englande the Smithes haue small skill thereof but after a common sorte howe to shooe euerye Horse as hee ought to bee they knowe not Which knowledge doeth consist in diuers pointes as in good stuffe in making fitte shooes for ouerye horse foote in driuing the nayles right and also the making thereof in paring and leauing the hoofe where it ought to bee alwayes hauing respecte therevnto For there is as greate a respecte vnto the paring as in the shooing because of the diuersitie of hoofes for some bee rounde some long some shorte some smooth some rough some tender some tough tome flatte and some hollowe and broade hoofes commonly haue narrowe heeles which will bee soone weake to trauell or to carrie his shooe long and in goyng lowe on his pastornes hee is apte to surbat and grauell The rugged horse is not so muche apte to surbat or grauell but it is a signe of vntemperate heate and drought which makes the hoofes brittle A long hoofe commonly treades on the heeles and pastornes which breedeth wyndegalles A broade crooked hoofe without and narrowe within it makes him splayfooted and treadeth more inward than outward going with his ioyntes close together maketh him to enterfeere and so become same A broade foote inwarde and narrowe outwarde is not so hurtfull but on the outside hee will soone grauell A flatte hoofe not hollowe within is like to a vnperfecte hoofe A hollowe hoofe will waxe soone drye and that causeth hoofe bounde And the straight vpright and narrow hoofe will waxe soone drie except hee bee stopped will soone bee hoofe bounde which will cause hym to bee so lame that hee cannot treade sure And whereas the frushes are broade the heeles are commonlie weake and softe so that yee maye easily crushe them together and those horses will neuer treade well on stones or harde grounde And also where the heeles are narrow they are commonly tender and hoofe bound The hoofe ought to bee pared euen that the shooe maye fitte close and iust thereon not beeyng in one place more higher than another And because the weight of the bodie afore lies most on the heeles Therefore to fauour them take as little as yee maye but the toes beyng thicke and harde may be taken the thinner and the paring of the hinder foote is cleane contrary to the fore feete as afore is shewed in driuing the nayles saying before behynde behinde before which is beware the twoo hindermost natles on the fore feete and the two foremost nayles on the hinder feete In shooing the fore feete make your shooes with a broade webbe and with thicke spoonges meete in all places somewhat appearing on the outside of the shoe And when yee naile or set on the shooe spare not from the middes forewarde but beware backwarde towardes the heeles and yee shall pearce the heales wider on the outside of the shoe then on the inside and more distant from the toe then the quarters because the hoofe is more thicker forewarde then backwarde and more holde to be taken the nayles woulde bee made stiffe with square heades and with sharpe pointes and meete at the head to fill the holes of the shoes standing a strawe breadth without the shoe and so will hée stande most sure without shaking and also will last longer But that order most Smithes doe little regarde but to dispatche and awaye and when they pearce a shoe they commonly make the inside as broade as the outside and theyr nayles are made with suche greate shoulders they cannot sitte well thereon nor enter close into the hoales aâ—ayle wel made shoulde haue no shoulder at al but still lesser and lesser towarde the poynt For otherwise he wil stande so high and the necke thereof being weake soon doth breake or els bend at euery light stroke as I haue oft séene the triall and the shoe thereby soone lost The nayles also would be made flatter on the one side than the other with a small poynt and stiffer still towards the head and when yee driue strike softly first with a light hammer till it bee well entered Some doe greace the poyntes for a tender hoofe to goe more easter and first yee shall driue the two hoofe or side nayles of eache side one then looke if the shoe stande right or not with the spoonges right on the sides If not mende it and driue your other nayles and sette downe then his foote to see if they bee all fitte and wel placed and the horse to treade euen thereon If not take vp his other foote to make him stande more stiffer thereon and with
pare hollow his féete nigh to the quick then race him with a crooked launcet from the heels to the toe in 2. or 3 places raise the hoofe on both sides of your races let him bleed wel then clap two or three harde egges as hotte as yee can and as these doe coole take new and lay hot horse doung thereon and about his hoofe and so he shal soone recouer and be well againe as before To know the age of a horse YE must féele of his bridle téeth aboue at a yéere olde he wil shout forth a tooth at two yéeres two teeth at three yeeres foure teeth at fiue yeeres fiue teeth aboue A mare that hath bridle teeth aboue shee will bring few coltes or none and when his vaine tooth is with an edge towarde the fore téeth he is eight yéeres A drinke to comfort a horse YE shal boile in ale great raisons the stones taken forth of licoras and Anniséeds in like quantitie of cummin and sallet oyle straine it and giue it with a horne or take also of turmericke fenegreke Anniseeds lycoras and sallet oyle let your powders be searst very fine mixe them all milke warme and so giue it with a horne To heale an impostumed wounde TAke and hollow two or thrée great enyons and put therin a cursie of bay salt and a litle hole saffron and so rost them vnder the embars and plaister wise laie them al hoate on the wounds If ye would haue the skin of make a playster of Cow doung sodde in milke and clappe it too for 24. houres which wil take away the skinne putrified But the other will heale al wonndes alone by it selfe The Horse tongue hurt with the bridle YE shall boyle in water of woodbind leaues of black brier leaues of primrose leaues knotgrasse with some hony sod then put to a litle allum once or twice a daye to make it luke warme and wash his tongue therewith with a clowte tied on a stickes ende and this will soone heale it againe For a Horse that doth tire on the way TAke slyse a péece of freshe béefe and lap it about his bit and fasten it with a threed and then bridle him ride him and he will not lightly tyre To helpe a horses mouth venoumed called of some the Camery THe Camery is a disease in the tongue and lips of a horse which hath eaten some venomed grasse or haie that dogs or cattes haue pissed on which wil make his tongue to haue like cliftes and scabbes and his vpper lippe vnder to be full of blacke whealkes or pimples which will let him to eate hardly anie meate The cure is ye shall take out his tongue and pricke the vaines vnder the end in sixe or eight places so vnder his vpper lip and let him bléed wel then al to rub it with salt then the next day wash it with some Uinegar and rubbe it againe with salt and he shal do wel againe and giue him warme drinke a day or two after Duoth Sharpe To helpe the bagges in the mouth of a horse THe bagges or geakes is an easie sorenesse to heale which is hard gristles being on the insides of a horses mouth in the weakes of his lippes or mouth which will often goe betweene his téeth and trouble him that he cannot eate nor chew wel his meate The remedy Yee shal take foorth his tongue and put a rowling pin of wood vnder so hold it out on the contrary side then shal ye with the point of the sheares clip an ynch long of that inner gristle cleane away theÌ„ turne his tongue and doe the other side of his mouth likewise and then rub them wel with salt and let him goe and they will shrinke awaie and the horse shal do well againe A proued medicine to kil mangie on a horse TAke a pound of blacke sope a pottle of mustard foure peniworth of brimstone made in fine powder thrée penieworth of quicksiluer wel killed with fresh greace two peniworth of verdegreaceÌ„ a quarter or lesse of a pint of greace stirre all these together in a vessel till the greace and other thinges be molten with labour and without fire and therewith annoint the mangie sore but first let him blood then after two daies washe it with the water that young broom or At semanacke herbe hath béene well sodde in and smally chopt and mixt with a little powder of soote and lette those séeth wel together and this wil help him with once annointing and twise washing To ripe an impostume in anie outward part SEeth mallow rootes and lillie rootes in water bruise theÌ„ and mixe them with porkes greace and put to of linséede meale and plaister wife laie it to against the impostume of a cold cause seeth white mints in wine and oile or ale and butter so laie it too This wil destroy and wast a hard impostume Also for a cold impostume stampe cuckospit with old greace and so plaister it on this wil waste it also Againe against a hotte impostume stampe liuerwort and mixe it with the grounds of ale it wil help or bruised with mallowes at the beginning mixt with hogs greace and all hot laide to will ripe an impostume or the grouÌ„ds of ale or béere boiled with mallowes bath it therwith hot and plaisterwise laie it on the swelled place and it wil disperse and waste it awaie in 2. or 3. daies Also bawme stamped and mixt with hogges greace so plaistred wil ripe disperse anie cold impostumatioÌ„ Against a hot rising or swelling bruise of lettise seed or Popie séede and mixe it with oile of ree roses so plaister it on which wil helpe if it be taken betimes Thus much for swollen places and impostumes For a horse that is pricked in a ioynt among sinewes TAke of rosen pitch turpentine and Sanguis draconis then melt these together and clap it somwhat warme on the place or ioynt then take of floxe and put vpon it for that will cleane too and defend it and this wil rype it and cause it to runne if any thing wil d ee it for there is not founde a better waie to helpe a swolne ioynt Against stiffenesse of sinewes and ioyntes SEeth blacke sope a pound in a quart of strong ale till it waxe thicke like tarre then reserue it and when ye shall sée cause vse to annoint the sinewes ioynts therwith and it wil supple them and bring them againe although they be shrunke This is as wel for man as for beast For a horse that hath a canker in his mouth or throate A Horse that hath a canker or is venomed in his throate and mouth he cannot swallow his meate but it wil lie in his iawes on both â—es his mouth and oft when hee haue chewed haie he wil put it out againe and his breath wil sauor very strongly before meat and hauing this griefe he wil neuer prosper but pyne away
at length The cure Ye shall cast him and open his mouth with a pin of wood then take a crooked kiffe yron wrapped with tow on the end therewith rake out al the stinking grasse or other meate that lieth in his iawes and vnder the roote of his tongue So clensed cleane all about ye shall heat strong wine vinegar somwhat warme and wrappe your yrons ende with towe and dip it in the vinegar then al to chafe his iawes on both sides a good while and also the rootes of his tongue when ye haue so chaft him well wash his tongue therewith and so let him rise because his mouth will be sore for a wéeke after ye must giue him mashes and graines hotte or such soft meat but no hay and he will do wel againe god willing Foundring of a straite shooe IF ye let fore shooes remaine aboue a moneth if yee so iourny him ye may founder him which ye shall perceiue in tauell by the way for he will often trippe on those féete or that foote which is most griefe vnto him therefore remoue them betimes or els he will founder and halt downe right then the shooe must be remoued and let bloud in the tooe and some do stop it with brused sage so set on the shooe againe and let him so rest for iii. or iiii daies or ye can ride him thē may ye ride him softly and he wil do wyll A prouerbe among husbandmen for the breede of a colt IF thou haue a fole with iiii white féet kéepe him not a day If he haue three white féete put him soone away If he haue two white féet lend him to thy frend If he haue one white foot kéepe him to his liues end To make a horse to scoure GIue him one ounce of the pouder of brimstone finely beaten in a mash with some pouder of spurge Against wormes in the coddes SOme horse will haue wormes in their coddes and when they doe abound if he be not remedied hee will dye of them And these are the signes he will scratch his belly with his feete and his haire will stare there and waxe more grayer then before If ye helpe him not before they pearce his bellye and guts hee shall hardly escape They are bred by euill meate and fault of drinking good water The cure Ye shall cast into his mouth fasting the guts of a young pullet and make him to swallow it downe in holding vppe his head do this three mornings and let him not eate nor drinke of v. houres after verye little Also some do vse to bruse french broome and giue it among good prouender and salte water to drinke Others do also giue the horse of greene braunches of willow or Sallow or reedes and in digestion of his meat he shall cast out those wormes To helpe sinewes troubled with humoures BOyle the meale of lineséed and hony in like portion together with some white wine and make thicke as a plaister and so put it on and ye shall sée it come to good proofe Against shot impoysoned WHen a horse is hurt by some poysoned yron or shot take the sweat of an other horse with tosted or burnt bread mixe them together with mens vrine and make the horse to swallow it downe and put grease of a hog into the wounde with the like mixture and he shall mend Falling of haire in a horse taile THe falling of haire commonlye is when he hath to much bloud or when he traueleth to much on the waye or is beaten on the tayle whereof comes sometimes scabbes with shedding his haire The cure If this happe in the tayle ye shall race the out part vnto the middest of the fourth bone or ioynte of the tayle and take forth that bone called of some bariuole which ye shall take out cleane and betwixt the senture and the body bee coctures or stringes some what deepe which ye shall softly touch with a hotte yron and a little salte and in each fent yee shall gently put a broach of wood which must remaiue ix daies if they fall not awaye of themselues The canker in the tayle of a horse THere comes a disease in the tayle of a horse called in french Langie and will eate the flesh of his tayle in manner of a canker so that the haire will fall awaye for the bones are corrupt If yet see not vnto it betimes all the tayle will corrupt The cure Make a head boulster of cloth verye strong for it and wette it in vinegar within and without and so binde it fast on the sore and alwaye when it waxeth drye yee must wette it agayne Do this twise or thrise a day if it be done oftener it is the better So shall yee continue for thrée or foure dayes and then yee must heale it as yee heale a greene wound For a horse euill disposed and very heauie in trauaile YE shall cutte the skinne betweene the fore legges and then make a ring of a vine branch and put it into the cut place betwixt the skinne and the flesh like a rowell and then hee shall trauell surely againe For a horse that is to fat to make him leane TO make your horse leane that is verie fatte yee shall giue him branne mixt with honye and warme water and so it shall abate his fatnes without trauell To know the differences betwne a horse bewitched and other sorenesse YE shall marke this in a horse as in other cattell that when they be sicke or diseased naturally the griefe will often times alter againe by litle and litle and so to mend Or els it will increase by leasure and not to come so vehemently as when he is bewitched For the farcie in a horse will rise in knobs and bunches and will so continue a long time or they breake out And yet the horse so infected will eate dayly his meate But if he be bewitched he will eate no meate because he is so inflamed with such poyson in his body so that within xii houres manie die or like to die Some are striken with knobbes and bunches rising in their bodies with lamenes of linunes Some with running at their nostrels matter and flegme Some their eiesswelling and hanging out of their head with flegme and matter roping and running Some sodainely falle and so die Some run about in fieldes as they were mad and drowne themselues in pits and ponds of water with diuers other infinite waies they vse in bewitching mens cattell which here I will passe ouer But when ye shall doubt of any such thing the best is to séeke remedy betimes or the poyson go through his body For if it tarry any space it will be past remedy Sinewes and nerfes broken or brused IF Sinewes or nerfes be broken or brused or hurt by some sore or otherwise ye shall lay thereon the flesh of a tortue well mixt and beaten with the powder of mullen hearbe But if the nerfes and sinewes be brused and hurt
which hath bene howsed in winter will soone take this griefs as the red sorell assoone as any other The remedy Ye shall let him bloud on the vaine vnder the taile nye the rumpe and then rub his gums with sage tide on a stickes end Also ye shall giue him for a while the tender crops of blacke bryers with his prouender and so he shal do well againe For wormes in the maw IF wormes be in the maw of a horse Take great wormes and clense them and shels of egges beat these both togesmall with a hammer and put to a quauite and pepper and so mixe them all together and being warme put it downe the horse throat For proude flesh in a wound FIrst ye shall wash the wound with wine wherein is sob nettle séede Then straw thereon a little of the â—ine powder of verdigrease and this will take it away Use this as ye sée cause To make a horse to scoure or laxatiue YE shal giue him among his prouender one ounce of brimstone beaten to small powder and this will maks him to scoure Also some giue a rye shefe some make a drinke with polypodium and spurge sod in ale and the roots of the water flagge stampt and boile them in ale and straine it and milke warme giue it a pint thereof to each horse fasting and kéep him warme after Another way to heale the mange in a horse LEt him bloud on both sides the necke if hee bee a young horse Then cut the skin downe the mids of his forehead two fingers broad or long downe right then open the skinne an inch wide on both sides the cut and put therein thinne slices of the gréene root of Ellecampane or Angelica which is better So let them remaine vnder the skin till the matter rot then crush it forth in two or three daies and in xii daies the rootes will fall as it healeth and this will helpe but yee must annoint the mange with brimstone in fine powder with verdigrease oile oliue het and mixt all together A perfect and proued way to heale the farcy or fashion in a horse TAke iii. ounces of quicksiluer halfe a pound of hogs grease of verdigrease an ounce ye shall first kill your quicksiluer in a bladder with a spone full or two of the iuice of an orringe or a limon in rubbing and chafing them in the bladder till the quicksiluer be cleane kild Then put your hogs grease in a morter or dish with your verdigrease so beat them well together Then put to your quicksiluer and beat theÌ„ al well together and so kéep it and when your horse hath theÌ„ fashion or farcy in rising on the vaines like knobs and bunches then annoint them round and all ouer those knots or bunches Use this once a day or as ye shall sée cause for they wil go no further but grow to a matter and when ye shall feele them soft launce them and the matter will run out and so daie by and heale againe Also in the nointing him ye shall put into each of his eares one good sponefull of the iuice of ragwart some call it slylote a weede growing in field and this will helpe him in few daies Against the swelling vnder a horse iawes FOr the swelling vnder or betwéene the horse iawes take his owne dung hot as soone as he makes it and with a cloth bind it fast thereto Use this twise a day and it will be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 husband â—mixe there with hot boyling pisse of men and so â—ay it to and it helpes To heale a horse hurt with harrowtines or such like on the legs or other partes YE shall first wash the woundes with mans brin and sall then take the soft down of the stalkes of hearbe benedictus cald the holy thistle and therewith fill the woundes or holes and so let them remaine and ye shall néede no other medicine For that will heale it alone onely without changing Well proued To make a horse stale MIxe wine and oyle together and rub and chafe it on his loynes or put a louse into his yard or put sope in his yard if these helpe not squirt of honied water sod then cold into his yard with some salt Another present remedy If a maid strike him on the face with her girdle he shal stale If your saddle do chafe your horse Take an hearbe calde arsemart in latin Parcicaria stamp it and lay it to which is a present remedy Teeth changing or falling A Horse hath forty teeth in the xxx moneth after his foling he looseth two aboue and two beneath Againe in the fourth yere he looseth iiii téeth two aboue and two beneath on the fift yeare he casteth the rest both aboue and beneath those that come first be hollow teeth aboue At vi yeares his hollow téeth are filde vp and in the vii yeare all the rest are fild vp Of this age ye can no longer iudge by his teeth But if ye plucke vp the skinne of his iawes or cheekes if they fall soone smoth againe is a signe he is young But if they fall wrincled he is old And like of other beastes The horse groweth not after vi or vii yeares the mare groweth not after v. yeares And to haue them bring faire colts let them not be horst but euery other yeare FINIS The Table of all the principal thinges contained in this Booke for horses A AGe of a horse to know Asses how for to nourish Age of a horse to know B BAbbes or Gekes to helpe 182 Backe gald to heale 177. 163 Barbs in the horse mouth to helpe 154 Blisters on his body to helpe 110 Blindnes in a horse to helpe 145. 165 Blood how to stanch 128 Blood a disease how to helpe 191 Blood how to let Blood letting to know where 128 Bors or wormes how to helpe 133 Bots another way 177 Breeding of coltes Brittle hoofes how to helpe 153 Brittle hoofed horse to pare 158 Broken winded horse to helpe 130 Brode hoofes how to pare C CAnker in the mouth throat 184. 189 Camery to helpe 166. 182 Canker in the taile 187 Cart horse how to vse in trauell Cart how to prepare in trauell 120 Casting of horse or other Chafings on a horse to help 107. Chafing sores to helpe 111 Clefts or crackes in the hoofe 179 Chaffe for horse to giue 167 Chafed or weary horse to helpe Cloying a horse to heale 144 Coltes with their good signes 106 Cold taken in a horse Coler abouÌ„ding in a horse to help Colts to change to other dammes Colt euil for to helpe 142 Cods inflamed 155 Colts pained in the gums or teeth 154 Couering mares in what time best 161. 104 Cordes a disease to helpe Cough to helpe 110 Cough another way 178 Couering young mares and howe best 116 Cratches to heale Crooked hoofes how best to pare Curbes a disease to helpe 137 Colours of good horses to knowe D DIseases where they breed on all horse Drinke or meat
be lowzy Sheepe also are of lesse stoutnes of nature and wit then other foure footed beasts The thunder feareth sheepe greatly specially if one be alone If thunder happen in the euening or night it is daungerous to make yowes to cast their lambes or if any be alone Therefore it shall bee a good remedy to bring them all into one flocke Acornes are ill for sheepe and make yowes to cast their lambs Some shepheards say to shere sheepe not afore midsomer is good to make them haue a long staple for in hotte weather the wooll of sheepes backes doth grow most In folding of sheepe the opinion of some husbands holde that the pisse of shéepe doth heat helpe and comfort the land as much or rather more then doth their dung therefore some do will their seruants or shepheards to raise all the shéepe in the fold before they let thē forth in winter once euery night and to go about the sides of the fold with a dogge for commonly when as shéepe do sée anie dogge come nie them they will then dung and pisse and when they haue so done ye may let them out of the fold and this order is very good for your lands Against the rot if you feare your shéepe in wet times ye shal put them into a house thrée daies and thrée nights without meat or drinke then giue to euery hundreth one bushel of bran mixt with so much salt laid in troffes hunger will make them to eate it then driue them to the water and let them drinke their fill Then let them be chast with a curre a good space after and put them then into what ground yee will for one quarter and they shall take no hurt then must you take them vp the next quarter and serue them so again Thus must ye vse them iiii times in the yeare in doubtfull times if ye will saue your shéepe from the rot Some shepheards do vse when they feare the rot to take them vp and to giue ech shéepe hee suspecteth a little milke mixt with salt and to set water by them and to kéepe them so for certain daies which is thought a good way to preserue them if they be taken in time Some shepheards do giue his shéep the iuice of elder mixt with honied water or milke giuen warme a little which wil purge water forth of their bodies or iii. drams of the iuice of spurge in a pint of honied water to giue a quantitie thereof Also plantaine sod in water mixt with some milke and giuen do purge water betwixt the flesh and the skinne Thus much concerning the rot and water in shéepe Also if sheepe be chast or driuen a iourney if then they will drinke salte water it is a signe they are sound and wil do wel A good medicine for the stagger in lambs or young sheepe TAke of long pepper of licoras of annises 〈…〉 des of hempséeds and of honie of each a peniworth Then beate all these together then put thereto a pottell full of new milke and sturre the honie and it with the rest all together and thereof giue each lambe or sheepe two sponefuls or somewhat more thereof milke warme And this will saue them for that yeare This must bee giuen in the beginning of May. To helpe sheepe that haue the poxe YE shall pricke the vayne vnder the tayle nigh the rumpe and let them bleede and likewise pricke the vaine vnder the right eye and let them bleed Then take strong vinegar as ye can get and put to so much salte as ye maie make it like a brine and milke warme giue euerye sheepe three good sponefuls thereof Use this twise or thrise betweene two or three daies and it wil helpe But as soone as you shall sée any sheepe infected put him from the rest and then giue him this drinke aforesaid The poxe will commonly begin vnder the brisket and so on the rumpe and then it will meete in short time and so perish For the itch or scabbe in sheepe YE shal boile the hearbe bearefoot in water with the roots of camelion noir which is the great thistle that hath milke and wash the scabby places therewith warme and it will helpe them often proued Cutting or gelding lambs THe age of cutting and gelding of young lambs as some shepheards say is best in the wane of the moone the signe and the houre being good young lambs from three dayes olde till nine dayes olde for then they are young and tender and maye easily be gelt Yet some other do hold it is better cutting of lambs when they are more stronger as of three weekes olde or more But then is more danger in cutting them For if they be then ranke of bloud as some will be more then other some then the bloud often will fall into the codde raines and belly and there it will lye and cause the lambs soone after they are cut to die Therefore put the fine powder of rozen into his codde and that will drie vp the quarie bloud Therefore some do choose out those lambs that bee lustie and fayre and cuts their eares or lets them bloud the daye before Some shuts them in a house the night before without meat and then to cut them Also a good sure way is this ye shall cause one to hold the lambe betwixt his legs or on his lappe and turne the lambe on his backe in holding his foure feete vp right together But if ye shall see blacke spots in his 〈…〉 ankes then cut him not for he will die for he is rank of bloud Then let the cutter take and holde the tippe of the codde in his left hand and with a sharpe knife cutte the top thereof an inch long cleane away Then with his thumbes and his two formost fingers on both handes slippe softely downe the codde ouer the stones to his belly and then with his teeth holeyng the left stone whole in his mouth drawe it softlye forth so longe as the string is So done then drawe foorth the other in like maner Then spytte in the codde ano annoint his flankes on both sides of the codde with fresh grease and so let him or them go But if ye draw the stones rashly as some will not holding downe his cod with their hands as afore said and suffers the lambe to struggle whereby it may soone breake the string of a vaine in drawing the stones which will then gather to lumps of bloud in his belly and codde and thereof die within two or thrée houres after And when ye haue cut them lette them not lye but sturre them vp and downe after for two or three houres For the lambes to rest sodainely after cutting is not good nor yet to bee put forth sodainely in colde windes or wet weather Thus much for the cutting gelding of lambs For a sheepe that hath lost her quide IF a sheep haue lost her quide notwithstanding sheep will eate all the day and cast it
to correct 214 Rams of what age to couer Rams when to be put to the yowes Rams to the yowes another Rams to the yowes 260. Rayny weather not good to lye Red water to helpe 248 Rotting of sheepe to know Rotting of sheepe to helpe Remedies with medicines to help Rymy grasse euill for sheepe 211 Rotting of sheepe 239 S SCabbe on sheepe to helpe 220 Scab on the chine of sheep 226 Scab on the lips 228 Scabbed sheepe how to preserue Scratches of sheepe among bushes Shepheard how to gouerne his sheepe Shearing of sheepe 217 Sound sheepe to chuse Spring a disease in sheepe to helpe Staggers in lambs or sheepe 240 Strange sheepe to order Stopping of nipples of yowes to helpe 243 T TAgging of sheepe to see to 231 Tar and of his nature 228 Teeth lose in sheepe to helpe 239 Another for the same Tets stopped to helpe Thunder Tetters in sheepe to heale 256 Teeth many in a sheepe to marke The tine worme 250 Thornes or scratches on sheep Tokens good in a sheep Turning disease in sheepe 249 W WEthering of yowes to helpe Water in the belly of a sheep 229 Water in the belly another Water bladder vnder the chin-243 Washing sheepe with salt water is good 217 Washing sheepe often Wildfier in sheepe to helpe 224 Wood euill in sheepe to helpe 232 Wooll to come soone againe 228 Worme in the ile to helpe 222 Wormes in the guts of sheep Worme vnder the horne to helpe 230 FINIS The nature and qualities of hogges and also the gouernement thereof THe hogge is a hurtfull and spoiling beast stout and hardie and troublesome to rule he is a great rauener for his meate because hee is hote of nature Hogs are commonly knowne to most men therefore I will here let passe to speake in euerie point thereof but such as shal be most meete and necessarie to bee knowne There be of all sortes to be had but the meetest hauing and choosing of them is the males and boore pigges for they doe more resemble the nature of the boore then the sow And those that are large and bigge of bodie are most expected rather then those of long and round of bodie And they ought to haue a deepe bellie with thicke and large thighes not hauing his clawes very hye nor yet verie long legs but thicke and short with a great thicke necke His groyne and snout short and bending backwarde with a broad thicke chine and yet those are most knauishly giuen when they are a yeare old for they will engender and desire to couer or to be couered within euerie ten monethes and so will continue till they bee foure yeares of age and one Boore is sufficient for ten sowes Also the sowes ought to haue a long body and all the rest of her bodie like the other aforesaide of the Bore Whereas the countries are cold and subiect to frosts it is best there to choose and haue hogs which haue hye and hard bristles thicke blacke if it be in temperate countries warme against the sunne there ye may wel nourish those hogs which haue thin smal low bristles because they are cōmonly more tender then others Also those hogs which are norished in houses towns are most cōmonly whiter then others A sowe wil cōmonly bring pigs vntil she be seauen yeares old those sowes tha◠bringeth pigges most often in the yeare doe sooner waxeolde then others for some young Sow well fed being one yeare old will haue pigges The Sowes are best to bee couered in the moneth of Februarie and when she hath gone with pigge foure monethes or fifteene wéekes then in the sixtenth weeke or beginning of the fifth moneth she will farro Some as they say will haue pigges twice some thrice a yeare And when the grasse is strong and wette it causeth them to bring aboundance of milke to norish their pigs the better for when she waxeth dry and hath no milke to nourish them with then must yee take them from her and see to weane them and so by litle and litle they will fall to eate grasse and corne and such as falles on the ground And thus in continuance they will waxe more stronger to eate of all other kinde of meate This order they chiefly vse in villages where great troopes of hogges are vsed and kept together bred and brought vp in townes whereby at length there comes a great profit by them vnto the husband As in places and villages nigh vnto great townes or gentill mens houses in selling the young sucking pigs which are alwaies readie money vnto them and by this meanes the Sow is discharged of her pigs the sooner Whereby she shall be the readier to bring pigs twice or thrice a yeare and the boore pigs ought to be gelded when they are about sixe monethes olde for then they begin to waxe strong in heate and being vngelt till then they will grow to be more stouter hogges and yet they commonly geld them when they are young vnder the damme as being thrée wéekes or a moneth old and some say they will haue the swéeter flesh but the trueth is contrarie as manie doe iudge because they are too soone weakened in their nature and therefore they will not be so large hogs Some doe counsell to geld or spay the sowes when they haue béene often couered as of thrée or foure yeares and to spay the sowes is counted then best Some thinke in spaying them of shots is best in cutting them in the mid flanke with a sharpe knife two fingers broad in taking out the bag of birth and cutting it off and so they doe stitch vp the wound againe and then annoynt it and keep her warme in the stie two or thrée daies after and those that be spayde can bring no more pigges nor the bores wil not séeke after them and they will waxe the fatter Notwithstanding I cannot saie why they spay them except it should be to fat them or where there is want of meate to feede them For where as plentie of meate is better it is there to haue them bring vp pigges than otherwise Of these kinde of Beastes yee shall finde in all countries christened and some are in mountaines as well as in plain countries But the plaine and moyst groundes are far better for them then the hot and drie grounds For the forrests and Commons are most conuenient for them to féede on And where there is great plentie of Oake trées Beech Ashe and thorne of Bryers Hazels and crabtrees wilde peare or Plumtrees Fearne rootes and suchlike to féed them withall from time to time For these sortes of trees doe not rype al at one time but in diuers and sundry times of the sommer which are almost sufficient to nourish them all the yéere long with helpe of grasse and rootes and some helpes now and then in Winter of other meate And where there is want of such trees yee must haue them to other féeding
ground and the best is to haue of dirtie slymie and soft grounde then to haue drie and harde ground For in the in the soft ground they maie the easier digge and séeke for wormes rootes in the earth and to tosse and tumble in the durty water which doth them much good in hot time Wherein they muche delight to tumble them because ofttimes they would haue water to coole them in which cooling dooth profite them much and easeth them of their great heate which is a bréeder of the meazels They doe féede in moyst marrish grounds where they haue manie small and sweet rootes as flagge rootes and the rootes of galingale of rushes reedes and also the rootes of Daffadill which is very good for hogges knotgrasse and such like And likewise in fallow fieldes they doe finde store of rootes and wormes which doth make them fat And as for other grounds couered with grasse they finde diuers sortes of hearbes and fruites so that in diuers partes thereof they may haue besides of wilde plums of peares or hawes sloes and nuts and such like and whereas ye shall sée them haue scante of meate ye must not then spare your Garners for then ye must néeds helpe them a mornings with some meate and likewise at night with some for al the day before perhaps in féeding abroad they haue had litle or nothing And therefore all good husbands should kéepe plentie of acorns after Michaelmas to serue them all the yeare if they can Acorns may be kept in Cestorns with water or to be dryed and kept in fats for so ye may kéepe them from rats and mice or to dry them and lay them on drye boardes and giue thereof in their wash or drye with some beanes or other graine when it is good cheape and what yee spend one way yee may so profit an other waye Unto sowes that giue sucke to eate of gréene hearbes sometimes it doth them hurt Therefore in the morning before ye put them forth to feede yee ought to giue them somewhat to kéepe them in hart for much eating of greene grasse in the spring will cause them to be lose bellied which will make them leane And ye should not put hogges together like other cattell in their styes but make them partitions therein And to put the sowes asunder by them selues and the young pigs by them selues For when they are shut vp altogether they tumble tosse and lye out of order one vpon another and thereby oftentimes makes the sowes to cast their pigs Also those husbandes that dwell by forrests or commons it were good for them to haue styes in the saide forrests and commons whereby they may at all times feede such hogges as they shall seeme most meete And there likewise vse to giue them their meat whereby they may within a while forget the comming to his house and thereby he shall the lesse bee troubled with them from time to time And it were good to make the walles or hedges of your styes of foure foote hye for then your hogs or sowes can not get ouer nor yet others come vnto them And so open at all times that the keeper may looke into the stye and to take account of them at his pleasure to sée if he haue all or not and to seee if anie sowé doe ouerlay or lye on her pigs then to remoue her and see vnto the pigs so long as they be yong and tender The hoghearde or keeper ought also in keeping of them to be watchfull diligent painefull seruiceable with wisedome and of a good nature Being verie carefull to nourish them from time to time who ought also to haue in mind the number of all his hogges sowes and pigges both old and young and to haue regarde and consider the profit and encrease of euerie one from time to time And likewise to take heede of his sowes that they take no hurt with dogges or otherwaies when they are readie to farro but to shut them vp in the styes that they may farro there for feare of casting her pigges For in farroing abroad often times many wayes they perish as with the Foxe or other like chances which is for lacke of looking to in time Which to a poore man is a great losse if hee consider all thinges Also when a sowe doth farro the keeper ought to see how manie pigges she hath for some sowes will eate of them assoone as she hath farroed them and therefore to looke well vnto them and see what they be and let them not sucke of any other sow but of their owne damme For if the pigges resorte out of the stye and goe among others when she lyeth downe to giue them s 〈…〉 e they will sucke with others which may thereby soone be bitten of the straunge sowe Therefore the best is to see each sow shut vp by them selues that one hinder not the other for at length yee shall not know the higges of the one sowe from the other except ye marke them And among a heard of many pigges yee must haue of diuers markes to know which is which For els it will trouble his wittes to knowe one from an other And among a great number it wil be a hard and a painfull thing to doe Therefore it shall be good to tell them in going forth and comming in as afore is declared or to tell them in entring in at a doore no bigger then one hogge or sow may passe alone in going in or comming forth And looke that euerie sow haue with her but her owne pigs and so manie as she shall best continue with to nourish well which is not aboue eight pigs if she haue any more it were best to sell the rest being young without yee perfectly sée that the sow is well able to nourish them for if she be not ye shall soone perceiue by decaying of the pigs for they will soone waxe leane and euerie pigge will but sucke his drene or tette To weans pigs whereas husbandmen haue no styes They wene their pigs in tying a wollen cloth list about the vpper snowte with a knot in the middest of the roofe of his mouth so remaining vnder the pallet of his mouth he can not draw any store of milke whereby the sow will soone waxe drye And those sowes which are good bréeders of pigs they should be rather chosen that sucke of the hinder tets and ought to be nourished often with dry and sod barley for feare least they beeing young shoulde waxe leane or fall into some sicknesse Also the hogheard or keeper ought often to cleanse their styes for although these kind of beastes be foule and filthie feeders yet they doe desire to lye cleane and drye in their styes Thus much heere for the nourishing and good keeping of hogs The maner and gelding of hogs there is two times in the yeare to geld these kind of cattell best One is in the spring and
remedies against the biting of maddogs and helpe for mangie dogs ACh in hogs heads to helpe 278 A corns to feed hogs 262 Aristotles saying 277 B BIting of a mad dog to helpe Biting of hogs Biting another 280 Bores one sufficient forx sowes Bloud letting in hogs Brimming of Sowes C Catarre to helpe 272 Choosing of hogs Couering Sowes 260. D Dogges are necessarie and also hurtfull Dissines in hogs Of mad dogs Dogs mange to helpe E ELme leaues are good for hogs 279 F FAtting with what meat 270 Feuer in hogs to helpe 265 Feeding a hog fat 268 Feeding a bore best 273 Feeding a hog for larde Figure how best to 〈◊〉 a hog Flowing of the gall G GAll flowing to heale Garget in hogs to helpe 271 Gelding of pigs Gelding of hogs 264 Gouernment of hogges H HEarbes ill for hogs Hearbes good for hogs 271 Hearbes to coole them in sommer 279 Hole footed hogs Hogs being sicke to know 278 Hogs sicke to helpe 270 Hogheard to be watchfull 263 Henbane 279 Hogs grease to harden Hogs to stower 280 I IMpostumations vnder the throat to heale 265 L LAske in hogs to stop 271 Leannes by sickenes in hogs to helpe 266 Littargie in hogs to helpe 266 Lice to kill in hogs 280 M MAggots to kill Mangie in dogs to helpe Marking your pigs 293 Mezell in hogs to helpe Mezell to saue them from it 273 Mezell to helpe another 267 Mezell to preserue hogs 279 Mezell to helpe another way 268 Mezell to helpe another 269 Mezell thinges euil for it 277 Mezell and causes thereof 269 Milt pained to helpe 271 Mustard ill for hogs 270 Milt pained to helpe 267 Mice in hogsties to kill 270 Moules to take P PEstilent feuer to helpe 272 Pigs weaning Pigs how to marke Prouerbe of the hogs goodnes Pigs winter pigs 278 Poxe in hogs to helge R RAmmish pigs Remedies against the bitting of mad dogs Ringing of hogs 273 Ringing double 275 Rootes good for hogs 261 S SIcke hogs to helpe 271 Signes after the biting of a mad dog Sowes good breeders 264 Sowes going with pig 264 Sowes when to brim Sowes vnnaturall 267 Spaied Sowes 260 The spaing of a Sow Sowes great with pig how to keep 263 Staggers in hogs for to helpe 277 Styes for your hogs Stying your hogs 262 T TOunges of mad dogs are venemous V VEnome taken by meates Vomit to stay in hogs 266 Vomit to prouoke in hogs 266 FINIS L. M. Buying oxen and his properties Flies wormes and tykes to take awaie Taming a bul To yoke a young oxe VVeary oxen â—oking vnequall VVater in the bellie Columella Vomit to help Medicine against the pestilence Trenches Fluxe of the â—elliâ— Fluxe of blood Byles Stiffenesse of sinewes To knit sinews Hoofe cho 〈…〉 Haw in the eie Stroke in the eie Eies inflamed Watry eyes Webbe in the eye Quod Willis Horse gelt or Bull. A kind of gelding The labouring Oxe Bul te labour Kine put to the bull To gelde calues Kine to labor Gelt of calues Husbandmen to haue alwaies ready Against the laske Against the bloudy fluxe For an old cough For the kibe in the heeles Oxe feet neere worne Scabbes in the feet A common medicine for all cattell Couering mares Gouernment of the mare with fole Mares for male female Tokens of a good colt Chafing his body Drinke or meat paine in the head Drinkes for horses Mare with sole Cough Pushes and blisters All sores chafes Pestilence in mares Mares in a rage Hot stallionâ— Beauty of moyles Couering of young mares Place to couer Horse without braines Hot feet or hoofe The horse cart and harnaise to see to Prouerbe Preparing the cart Belles on the horse Feuer Pastornes freted Leannesse in a horse Weary and chafed Hoofe bond or mate long Stiffeling 〈◊〉 horse Sprainde Stiffle in the heele Farcie or Fashion Horse cannot stale Haw in the eie The viues in horses Quincie Signes of sicâ—nesse To stanch blood Bloud to be let in horses The poll 〈…〉 Broken winde to helpe Glaunders in Horse Mourning of the chine Strangury in horse the haw The Frounce to helpe Splint to help Bots in horses Long wormes 〈◊〉 drinks Malender in a horse windgall Selander in a horse The spauin in horses Soft Spauin Curbe in a horse Paines of feet Foundring in the feet Graueling a horse Enterfering of a horse the colt euil Lyce on horses Taint in a horse Cloying a horse Surbating a horse Blindnes in horses the pin and web in the eye Bistula in horse Fistula in the head Lampas in a horse Pissing bloud Horse venomed Water not good for horse Pestilence in horses Yellowes in a horse Coltes pained in the gummes and teeth Feuer in colts Faintnesse and weakenesse Of too muche heat in a horse Barbes in a horse Itch in the cayle Folling of coltes Shoing of horse Faring the hoofe Shoyng the fore feete Nayles to be made Paring shoing the great hoofe Paring the rough brittle hoofe To shoe aloÌ„g hoofe To pare a croked hoofe To pare the flatte hoofe the hollow hoofe the broade frushe the hoofe with narrows heeles Shoing the binder feete Shoing with a false quarter Shoing for enterfeering Paring the hoof bound An ointment for the hoofe Couering the Mare For the scabbe swelling or straine Crackes paines Sight to recouer Malt wormes to helpe Cratches to heale Coddes inflamed For a pricke with a naile Loose hoofe â—ies blinde The stone in the Pastrone The Camery to helpe trenches to helpe Swelling to helpe Spaide Coltes and Geldings Mourning of the chine Another for the chine Chaffe to feed Horse For naile yron or stubbe Colour of horse of best proofe Third booke of georgicks Rams estemed Ramâ—to correct Thornes or scratches Putting the Ramme Male lambes Female lambs To alter thyâ— flocke to breede to nourish sheepe Lambing time Pasture grouÌ„d Drinke Rimes or gellie A Shephearde to gouerne Strange sheep Meate for sheepe Wash sheepe In Deuonshire they neaer washe their sheepe when they clip but after wash the wooll before they spin it in warme lie and drieth it on hurdles Shearing Nointing or greasing Medicines Sicknes or pestilence Scabbe Medicines for itch Broome Salue for the scabbe Magots to kill Seabbe Feuer or red water The worme in the claw Gall in the foot Worme in the claw Lunges sicke Wilde fire Of choler in sheepe Iaundise Fleame Broken bones Hearbes ill for sheepe Short breath or purcy Glanders or sneuell Lambes sicke Scab on the chin Lambes scabby â—cabbes on the mousell of sheepe Wooll to come againe Of tarre and his nature The cough Blood in sheep Cough or morfound Haw in the eye Blindnesse in sheepe Water in sheep The worme vnder the horne Blood on sheep Bladder in the head To tag or belr sheepe Dogs for shepheards Scabbe to perceiue in sheepe Pockes of sheepe The wood euil or crampe Maggots in sheepe Yeawes to loue their lambes Poyson of sheepe Yeaning time Weake lambs new yeaned Easie deliuerance Loose teeth to increase milke Herbs holsom Weaning lambes Lambes weaned To make the yeaw to loue her lambe to deuide or draw sheep Foldes for sheepe To put the Rammes to yeawes A yeaw with lambe The leafe in lambes Against loose teeth Rotters of sheepe Grasse among fallowes Aristotles precepts Lambes Lamming time Black Lambes Water in the belly To kill lice stopping the tets Water bladder in sheepe Clo ueu pefill Goat bucke waxe soone old Of diseases in goates as pestilence and such like The stopping of the tets Choosing of hogges A Bore is sufficient for ten sowes Couering 〈…〉 es Sowes go with pig 16. weeks Gelding pigs spaied Sowes Rootes good for hogs Akornes kept Stying your hogges Hogheard watchfull Sowes with pigge Marking yourâ— pigges sowes good breeders Gelding of hogs Feuer in hogs Impostume vnder the throat Against vomit Of a leannesse in hogges Litargie in hogges To vomit Milt pained Sowes vnnat 〈…〉 rall To feede a hog fatte Measeld hogs to helpe To saue them from measeld Cause of measelry Mustard is ill for hogs Fatting a hog Mice in the flie Hogs sicke by ill hearbes cating Laske to stop Hearbes good for hogs The garget in a hog Sicke hogs to know Disease of the milt Pestilent feuer Catar in hogs Flowing of the gall Measell to help To feed a bore best Ringing of hogs Prouerbe The double ring To feed a hog for larde Measeld to help Ill for measels Staggars Aristotles sayings Winter pigs Diseases in hogs Ache in their heales Mistrisse Risley Cold hearbes in sommer Elme leaues for hogs Henbane Hogs grease Measeld to helpe Hogs to scoure Lice to kill Hogge bitten Gelding 〈◊〉 Bore Feeding of hogs in styes Let blood