in both the weeping veins And when I do not perfume him I take the longest feather of a Goose and moysten it well in Oyle de bay which I put up into his Nosthrills and this doth both open and purge his head abundantly and then keeping his Poule warm together with moderate dyet for three or foure daies after I then take bloud from the Neck-veine and give him all the time of his Cure either good Mashes or white-water and undoubtedly he will doe well But sometimes if I find his head-ach cometh of cold taken wherein he may bee enclining to an Ague or Feaver I then besides drawing bloud do both apply Acopum to his Nose like as I said for Oyle de-Bay and also give him thereof to drinke as I have formerly prescribed If he be Feaverish take a pint of Muskadine the yolke of five new-laid Egges and a head of Garlick picked pilled and brused Pepper Cinamon and Nutmegges and somuch as well I can take up upon a Tester or six-penny peece these all made into very fine powder give him to drinke bloud warme three daies together and let him fast six houres after ✚ §. 4. A. Hippoph HOw doe you make Aegiptiacum Hippos Wee have two sorts of them the first we doe call Black-Aegyptiacum the second Red both Corrosives for their natures be to corrode and eate away al manner of dead prowd rotten and naughty flesh out of any old Sore or Vlcer and they do also cleanse and prepare a Sore make it apt to be healed with carnifying or healing Salves The first is thus made Take course English Hony two pound Verdegrease Diers-Gals and Green Coperas of each four ounces Aegypticum Let all these be made into powder and mixed together and so put into an earthen pot and set upon the fire keeping it with continuall stirring but so soone as it beginneth to boyl take it from the fire let it cool for by suffering it long to boyle it will become red which will not be so good This black Aegiptiacum besides what I have said before of it's vertues is also very good to dissolve the hooves of the Horse if they bee too dry or hard so as it will cause the corruption if any be in the Foote to ascend above at the Cronet where the haire is and also to restore and repaire the hoofe of the horse when the Sole is taken out and in this nature you must use this Vnguent but onely at the third dressing after you have taken out the sole ✚ Now the second Aegiptiacum is made thus Take course Hony two pounds Verdegrease foure ounces Aegyptiâ—cum green-Coperas two ounces beate the Verdegrease and the Coperas very small to powder then put it into an earthen put and put unto it a little Vineger and so boyle it very well till it become red and keepe it for your use ✚ Another §. 5. A. Hippophil What is your best cure for a Horse that is Accloyed Hippos Sir this Malady so called by the French is the same we call prick't with a Naile in the Shooing and it is easily cured if the Ferrier be skilfull and that it be also taken in time And thus wee worke viz. First take out the sole and cut the hoofe round about the place pricked that no corruption be remaining behind Accloy fil it up againe with hurds steeped in whites of Egges dresse him thus three dayes together then heale the sore up with salt made into fine powder mingled with Vineger or else with Diers Galls or with Mirtle or Lentils and annoint the outside of the hoofe with black Aegiptiacum ✚ Another Take a litle cotten or bumbast and steepe it in browne Sugarcandy molten and apply it with a hot Iron to the place And if the foot be bruised with the shoo or that the femall horn be hurt or bruised then cleanse and prepare the place first and then apply unto it a quick or live Spider with a hot Iron and so tack on the shoo and let him not come into any wet till he be fully cured ✚ Another Take Salet Oyle Turpentine and Rosinpitch all molten together put it very hot into the hole where hee is pricked and so stop the hole with Hurdes ✚ §. 6. A. Hippophyl WHat Receipts have you for all inward diseases Hippos The Spaniards have one Medicine with which they Cure all Diseases and albeit I say they doe cure all diseases with this one Receipt yet my meaning is that looke whatsoever the infirmity be they administer none other thing but that one whether it cure or kill and this they call a Cataplasme of which they make no small account which they give as Pills Take wheate meale twelve pound Annisseeds foure ounces in fine powder All diseases a Cataplasme Brimstone in powder three ounces Fennugrick in powder three ounces et sem Comin in powder three ounces Honey two pound good Sallet-Oyle one pound et sem of good Sack as much or so much as will suffice to make it into a Cataplasme or Paste This Cataplasme say the Spaniards or Medicine is all of it to be put into a stone pot well nealed and so boyled untill it be thick so as when it is cold it may bee made up into Pills or Balls whilst it is in boyling it must be kept with continuall stirring otherwise it will burne too and being thus made into pills give him of them every morning fasting for foure or five dayes together or longer if you shall see cause for that say they it is most soveraigne against many Maladyes It killeth all sorts of wormes within the body of the horse it also helpeth the diseases of the Lungs and inward parts and it is generally good for any inward cause and an excellent locall plaister to be applied outwardly It is the Spaniards principall Physick for their Iennets and Barbaryes I have made tryall thereof sundry times and I doe find it to be most usefull in all cold Causes and truly it is most Cordiall for it doth bring a leane and poor Horse into flesh and good state in a little time ✚ A second Receipt I also have which cureth all inward Diseases which I had of a Rurall Smith who was cryed Vp for a famous Ferrier all the Countrey about All diseas a Cataplâ—me So I having heard so great a report of his skill addressed my selfe unto him when I had conferred with him putting him hard to it in the matter of his Art he at last ingenuously confessed unto me that he had but this one only drinke which gat him all his knowledge and credit which with much pressure I wrested from him under condition that I should never make him knowne wherein I have precisely kept my word And the Cure and Drinke is this viz. Take wheate meale six pound or as much as will bring the Ingredients into a stiffe paste Anniseeds two ounces Comin two ounces wild or bastard Saffron one
it upon the ground before him and if he hath a minde to eate thereof albeit he make proffer to bring his mouth towards it yet he shall not be able to reach it but will sooner famish when you doe perceive the swelling to appeare first draw bloud from both the Plate-veynes but if you cannot finde them then let him bloud on both sides of the necke to a good proportion which done you may give him the drinke of Diapente with Beere or Ale putting thereinto one ounce of browne sugar candy and halfe an ounce of London Treacle which will drive the sicknesse and griefe from his heart which done annoynt the swelling with this Oyntment Take Hogges grease Bores greace and Basilicon Anticor of each three ounces incorporate all these well into one body and annoynt and rub the swelling therewith every day till it come to a softnesse and then open it and let forth all the corrupted matter then wash the Sore with your Coperas water mentioned in lib. 2. cap. 10. § 4. and then put in your green Oyntment prescribed you in capite ibidem and it will be soon whole ✚ Thus have I cured many Horses of this Disease and I never failed if the Horse had not been swelled too high towards the throat or necke before I took him in hand ✚ But Master Blundeviles and Master Markhams cure for an Anticor is thus First they let him bloud in the plate-veins and then they give him this drinke Take a quart of Malmesey and put thereto halfe a quarterne of Sugar and of Cinamon two ounces and so give it him bloud-warme and keep him warme in the Stable especially his breast that no winde doe offend him and for his drinke let it be warm Mashes and such meat as he will eate And if the swelling doe appeare then besides letting him bloud they doe strike the swelling in divers places with their flegme that the corruption may goe forth and annoynt the place with warme Hogges grease and that will cause it to weare away or else grow to a head if it be kept warme Thus Master Blundevile and Master Markhams cure is in effect the very same Master Markham also prescribeth Malmesey and Diapente which is used also by others and it is very good and he also saith that some do administer Doctor Stephens water whith he affirmeth he hath seen to have wrought in this kinde strange effects For my part I submit for that these Receits seeme very probable howsoever I never did experiment any but that onely which I first inserted which I had of a famous Ferrier in France and therefore I finding mine to be infallible made tryall of none other § 9. A. Hippos Attaint upper VVHat is that you doe call an Vpper Attaint Hyppos It is none other thing but a swelling of the master or Back-sinew of the fore-legge above the Pastern-joynt and most commonly commeth by an over-reach that is when the Horse in running either down a hill or upon deeps or upon or over-thwart high furrowes of plowed lands or upon other evill or uneven grounds doe strike the toe of his hinder-foot against the great sinew of the fore-leg This I say we terme an Vpper Attaint Hippophyl How may a man come to know assuredly that the griefe lyeth in that sinew Hippos Your eye and hand Sir will shew it you very palpably for the sinew will swell and burne and be sore and the Horse will hault therewith Hippoph What cure have you for it Hippos We use to apply to the place a charge restringent which must be siccative Hippoph I should rather think that by applying suppling or mollifying Oyles or Vnguents you might cure it sooner and much better Hippos Herein Sir under your favour you are much mistaken For all things that are suppling are most noxious unto these kinde of Maladies by reason that all Oyles and unguents will cause the Sinew to swell much more than otherwise and therefore we do apply siccative and drying things Some use Cauterizings which indeede will cure and set the Horse upright againe but therein are two inconveniences to wit First albeit it taketh away his paine so as hee desisteth from haulting yet will the place be ever after swelled which wil be a continuall eye-sore during his life Secondly the markes and stroakes where the Iron went wil be ever after seene making the haire of a different colour both which are great blemishes to the Horse Hippoph Wherein then consisteth your best Cure in this case Hippos I alwaies use for a Sorance of this nature to apply this ensuing Charge Take Cantharides two ounces Masticke foure penniworth Attaint â—per or baâ— sinew spraâ— Venice Turpentine two penniworth Euforbium foure drammes Black-Rosin six ounces Aqua-fortis two drammes beate the Cantharides and Euforbium into fine powder then first melt the Masticke and Black-Rosin then put in your Turpentine which so soone as it is molten put in your Cantharides and Euforbium and let all boyle together keeping them stirring and have a speciall care it boyle not over and when you have taken it from the fire put in your Aqua-fortis and so stir them well together and put it into a glasse or galley-gally-pot and so keepe it for your use And when you have occasion to use the same first wash and bath the grieved place well then with your Splatter spread it upon the place being made warme and clap flox upon it of the same colour and give him rest and he will doe well But he must have time and after a weeke that hee hath beene thus charged let him be put forth to grasse if it be not in Winter or the Winter or cold weather approaching ✚ Another Take the whites of two new-layed Egges and the powder of Bole-Armonack and the best and strongest white Wine Vineger incorporate these very well together with the powder of Sanguis draconis and having shaven away the haire as aforesaid spread it good and thick upon the grieved place adding still more every three daies for fifteene dayes together and then put him forth to grasse and let him run a whole March and after so long as you shall thinke to bee sufficient and he wil be sound againe ✚ This I have also made tryall of and I have found it to be right good A French Marshall taught me a Medicine for an Attaint or Over-reach whereof I did never make use howbeit he protested unto me he thought it one of the best cures that he could ever know and I my selfe saw him dresse a Horse therewith but how the Horse became cured I had not time to know by reason I departed from Orleans before the Cure was performed And the Cure was this Take one or two handfuls of Saxafrage and all the Sewet of a Loine of Mutton and a pint of white Wine chop the Hearb and mince the Sewet very small and so boyle all these together which being thus well boyled take a sufficient quantity
therewith and after annoynt the coffin of the hoofes good and thicke with the same receit And this is the best mollifier can be had in a cure of this nature ✚ I have often used it § 16. F. Hippoph WHat remedy have you for the Figge in the foot of a Horse Hippos This disease is so called by reason of that naughty flesh which groweth upon the frush or heele which is in likenesse and shape of a figge from whence this malady and sorance taketh its denomination and the French also give it the very same Epitheton viz. la Figne which signifieth a figge It commeth by means of some hurt which the Horse hath formerly received in his foot which was not well healed by some nail stub thorn bone or stone oft times by some over-reach upon the heele or frush It is apparant to the eye and therefore needs no other remonstrance The cure is Cut away the hoofe so as there may be a convenient space betwixt the sole and the hoofe Figge in tâ— foot to the end the figge may the more easily be cured then put to the sorance a piece of spunge which you must binde close upon the figge which will eate it off to the very root then heale up the sore with the green oyntment taught you in lib. 2 chap. 10. § 4. G. ✚ This I have found good Another Cut away the figge close either with your incision knife or else burne it off with a hot iron which is the better way and so lay unto it for two dayes after tryed Hogs grease to take away the fire Take then the tops of the most angry yong nettles you can finde pound them very small and so lay them upon a linnen cloth just the bignesse of the figge then take the powder of Verdegreece and strew it upon the chopped nettles which must be done before you lay it to the sorance and so binde it upon the sorance renewing it every day once till the hoofe have covered the sore ✚ This I doe know to be a most certain cure for it never did faile me § 17. F. Hippoph BVt now what say you to a Fistula how doe you cure that Hippos A Fistula is a hollow ulcer which maketh its way crooked proceeding oft times from naughty and malignant humours sometimes it is ingendred from some wound which hath not bin well healed sometimes it commeth by meanes of a stripe which having been so strongly laid on that it hath bruised the flesh to the bone whereby it hath putrified inwardly and either brake forth of it selfe or was opened by the Ferrier and thus it commeth to be a Fistula sometimes it commeth by a wrench or pinch with a Collar in drawing or by being wrung by the tree of a bad saddle and sometimes it ingendreth of its own accord by the meanes of peccant and bilious humours which hath long lyen lurking in the body of the Horse The signes how to know it are so manifest as that it needeth not an Ecce The way how to cure it is to search to the bottome either with a probe of lead or else with some other thing which will bend and yeeld which way soever the concavity of the sorance leadeth it and when you have found the bottome thereof let it be opened downwards if it may possibly be done to the end the corruption may the better issue from the place then taint it for two or three dayes with tryed Hogs-grease thereby to cause the hole to be the wider and then inject this water following Take of Sublimate and of Precipiâ—at of each so much as will lye upon a three pence of Alume and of white Coperas of each three ounces burn all these in an earthen pot but first rub the bottom with a little oyle that it may not burn there this done burne them all together then take of faire cleare water two quarts boyle this water first by it selfe and scum it in the boyling then take it from the fire and put in as much of this powder as will lye upon a shilling at twice and thus it is made But if you be desirous to make this water of more strength and efficacy take then faire water and Coltrough or Smiths water of each like much and of white Wine Vineger a third part and with the ashes of Ashen wood make lye of them with the water and Vineger and so make your water with this powder and lye and the former ingredients according as before is taught you Inject this water with a Syringe into the sorance and in short time it will both kill the fistula Fistula and heale it up ✚ This is a most approved and infallible cure Another Take of the best honey one pinte of Verdigreece one ounce make it into fine powder and so boyle them together upon a soft fire three quarters of an houre that done strain it into a gally pot and so keep it for your use ✚ This is a most pretious unguent wherewith to taint a fistula or poll evill for it goeth down to the bottome it eateth away all dead and evill flesh whereby to cause that the carnifying flesh may heale the better ✚ This I have often tryed I have also another Aegiptiacum which I make thus Take honey one pinte white Wine Vineger halfe a pinte Allum three ounces and Verdigreece finely powdered one ounce and a halfe boyle all these together till it be thicke this is a good Aegyptiacum But if you desire to make it yet stronger then put to these ingredients of Mercury sublimate in fine powder one ounce and of Arsnick three scruples powdred also and so boyle them with the former ingredients This last will kill any fistula or old ulcer whatsoever being dressed therewith but the other which is made onely of Vineger Allum and Verdigreece may be applyed to a fistula in the mouth without prejudice to the Horse ✚ Of both these I have made often tryall §. 18. F. Hippoph HAve you not some good water beside wherewith to wash a Fistula or old sore Hippos I can give you a most excellent water which is this Take white Wine Vineger four pints Fistula water of Camphire and of Mercury-Precipitate of each halfe an ounce greene Treacle three ounces red Sage Yarrow and Rib wort of each one handfull of Honey and of Hogs-grease of each halfe a pound boyle all these together untill the one halfe be consumed and then strain it and so wash and cleanse the wound with the liquor X This is speciall good Another no whit inferiour to the former Take of Coltrough water four quarts first boyle it by it selfe a good while and scumme it so long as any scumme doth arise then straine it through a fine cloth into a cleane pot and throw away the grounds which will be black and naught then wash the Postnet cleane wherein it was boyled and put in your water againe Then take of white Coperas of Allum and of
and so let it boyle one houre then take it from the fire strain it very dry and put unto the liquor of honey one pint and of Sugar-Candy in powder sixe ounces then put the liquor into a clean earthen Pot or bottle keeping it close stopped and thereof give your horse bloud warme foure mornings together the quantity of an Ale pint at a time and let him eate the Barly if he will howsoever put it not away but heat some of it every day and being hot put it into a bagge and therewith perfume his head ✚ This is very good for I have often used it Another First you must keep him to a very space Dyet and inure him five or sixe daies to eate his Oates steeped in Chamber-ly and after that Take of Bayberries Fennell Cummin Smallege Fenugreak Fearne-roots dryed and Lycoris foure ounces in the whole or of each halfe an ounce according to the bignes age strength or Corpulency of the Horse make all these into powder then take one part of the powder and put unto it of fresh or sweet Butter halfe a pound and of new Milke halfe a pint and so give it your horse bloud warm the next day do the like with the other halfe of the powder and the third day let him not forth of the Stable give it him so long as he shall be in Physicke for his drinke let it be white water made of Barly meale but not with Wheate bran and let him stand upon the Trench at least two houres before his drench and two houres after then after that give him that which followeth Take of fresh Butter halfe a pound of good Agarick night-shade and Cassia of each one ounce make all these into Pils being first powdered searced and well mixed and administer them to your Horse then give him of white Wine halfe a pint whereby the better to cause him to swallow Pils the fift day let him rest and keepe him alwaies warme covered and well littered and if you do percive him to bee loose in his body and that hee hath purged well let him rest three or foure daies quiet without doing any thing unto him but if he hath not purged after one daies rest only then give him this drinke Take Mithridate Diacartami Senae of each two ounces and of good white Wine one pint mixe and brew all these together and so give it him to drinke and let him rest three daies giving him every one of these three dayes about noone of fresh Butter onely halfe a pound made into the manner of Pils these three dayes being ended you must administer unto him as followeth and continue it weekely till he be perfectly cured Take of Agarick Alloes and of Diacartami of each one ounce of Saffaron Mirrh halfe an ounce make all these into fine powder and so make them into Pils with fresh Butter foure ounces and give it to your Horse and then presently after give him of white Wine one pint to wash down the Pils ✚ This is a most excellent cure and by me often practised Another Take of white Wine one pint of Sallet-oyle three quarts of Alloes Lycoris of each one ounce of Colloquintida of Agarick Mirrh of each halfe an ounce of Aristolochia-rotunda three drams of Night-shade one ounce of Bay-berries three drammes make all these into fine powder then take of Venice Turpentine two drams of mel rosarum three ounces mix all these together and make it bloud warme and so give it your Horse to drinke with a horne but give him no Oates in fifeteene daies and let his drinke be white water it will not bee good to give him much Hay but Wheate flower which should not be much beaten or threshed and instead of his Oates give him Wheate bran or Barly meale and keepe him warme six dayes after let him bloud in the Neck ✚ Let him have this drink twice to wit after the first drinke let him rest one day and then drench him againe as you did before Another First give him this purgation Take of fresh Butter halfe a pound of Sene and of Agarick of each halfe an ounce made into fine powder of Alloes and of loafe Sugar both powdred of each one ounce of Cordiall powder halfe an ounce make all these into fine powder then Take common-hony foure ounces mix and beat all these together and so make them into Pils and give them to your Horse but before you do administer these Pils he must stand upon the Trench two houres and so likewise two houres after that day give him no Oates and let his drinke be white water and for your other directions you may give him his allowance of Oates all the other daies but you must then wet them either in strong Ale or good Beere and you may travell or give him exercise but with moderation all those other daies and three times every day you shall give him three or foure handfuls of Wheate bran prepared as before is shewed you in lib. 2. Chap. 9. § 4. F. and thus continue him to this dyet at your pleasure ✚ I have made tryall of this cure and I doe know it to bee right good for in a month or six weekes I have brought a Gaunt and Pursive Horse to have a belly as round fresh as cleer as that of a sucking Colt nor is this cure very chargable or costly you must give him Wheate straw insteed of Hay only in the night you may give him Hay provided it be sprinkled with water §. 12. P. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Horse that is Prickt Hippos This Sorance hath many names It is called Accloyed Cloyd Retraite Prick't c. All which names wee for the most part do fetch from the French and all is but only plaine Prick't which occurreth to the horse eyther through the unskilfulnes or negligence of the Ferrier in the driving of his Nayles or in the weak-nesse of the Nayles of their evill pointing or if a Nayle should fortune to breake in the quick and not be immediatly drawne fâ—rth it will in short time fester in the flesh and soone after impostunate and so in time beget a fowle Sore which may aske much Art to Cure The signes be that he will complaine when he treadeth upon stony or hard ground specially which so soone as you perceive you have then iust cause to suspect him to bee Prick't if hee were lately shod wherefore the better to make tryall your way must be to search the foote whereof he complaineth and you shall no sooner put your Pinsors to the place but that he will presently shrinke in his foote by reason that the nipping of the Pinsons doth paine him in the quick or if you do but cast water upon the foote whereon he halteth in short time you shall perceive the hoofe to be sooner dry against the nayle or place which grieveth him before any other part of the hoofe Again if you shall with your hammer
of Salendine and wash the hurt-tongue therewith nine dayes together and it will cure it albeit it be halfe cut in sunder for the iuyce of Salendine well conglutinat and sodder the tongue together being cut or wounded ✚ This also is very good §. 2. T. Hippoph HOw doe you helpe a Horse that hath an Itch in his Tayle Taile an itch Hippos This commeth of ranknesse of bloud and therefore it is requisite that first he be let bloud in the Tayle and that hee bleed well After Take Buck-lye and with a Ragge or Hurds in the Lye wash the place infected every day often or as many times as it shal be dry and continue thus doing foure or five dayes and this will cure it ✚ This is very good Another But if the hayre do fall away with the Mainge or Itch then slit the skin from within two inches of the Tuell to the fourth ioynt and with your Cornet take out a certaine bone or gristle which the French do call Bariuole then fill up the clift with Salt made into fine powder and with a hot iron burne the tayle in sundry places and wash it with Buck-lye as before But your Lye must bee made very strong This cure I never practised but I once saw a Marishall of Paris dresse and so cured a Horse in this manner of this malady of whom I had the cure § 3. T. Hippoph HOw doe you make your Vnguentum Theriacum Hippos This Vnguentum Theriacum Theriacum Vnguentum is most soveraigne for any Ach in any of the Ioynts it is also speciall good for Horses that doe fall lame if the griefe be in the Hip Stifling-place legs shoulders Pasternes or any other part of the legges a back-sinew-sprain only excepted And thus I do make it Take of Nervell of Oyle of Pamphilion and of black-Sope of each two ounces and of tryed-hogs-grease halfe a pound melt all these upon a gentle fire and being molten put into it of ordinary Treacle two penny-worth then take it from the fire then with a Splatter or Spoone keepe it by continuall stirring till it be through cold then will it be of a dun-colour keep this in a galley-gally-pot for your use And when you shall have occasion to use the same anoynt the grieved place therewith rubbing and chafing it in very well and let one hold a barre of hot iron neere as you do anoynt the griefe And thus is it made ✚ This is most excellent to raise the veine from the sinew at what time you are to take up the veine I have tryed it saepè et saepiùs §. 4. T. Hippoph HOw doe you destroy a Tetter Hippos This Malady or Sorance the French doe call Vervolant the Flying Worme which is a Tetter or Ring-worme Tetter or Ring-worme and the cure is this Take the rootes of Elicampane and the rootes of the red-Dock of each like much slice them thinne and put them into vrine three quarts with Bay-salt two handfuls let it boyle untill one quart bee consumed then take it off and with a clout fastned to a stick wash the Sorance very hot Vse this foure or five mornings together and it will kill it ✚ This is very good §. 5. T. Hippoph VVHat is to be done to a horse that tyreth in travell and falleth sicke Hippos For a Horse to tire upon the way the causes are many First for that he is travelled when he shall be too young Secondly in that he is lately taken from grasse whilst he is yet foule and foggy before he be well ensaimed thirdly in that he hath beene long kept and pampered in the Stable without giving him breath or moderate exercise Fourthly by being travelled beyond his strength in longer journeyes and deeper waies then he was well able to performe Fiftly it might be through the covetousnesse or carelesnesse of his rider in not feeding or seeing him fed so well as was fitting Sixtly and lastly by reason the Horse might have some secret infirmity whereof his master might be ignorant Wherefore if your Horse may happen in his travell to tire or faint have patience with him and do not force him beyond what he may be able to performe either by spurring or beating him like as many cholericke and passionate people doe usually but get to some house or Inne so soone as conveniently you may when first you see him begin to sinke or to faint under you set him presently up warme clothed and well littered that he take no cold and let his Keeper or the Ostler of the Inne rubbe and chafe him all over with fresh dry straw but especially let him rub him against the hayre and let him have no meat till two houres or more after you have given him this drinke Take of the best sweet Sack one pinte but if that cannot be had Tyring in travell then take the same quantity of White or Claret Wine and put therto of Cinamon Ginger Nutmegs Graines Cloves Anniseeds and Fennell-seds of each one ounce all made into fine powder then take red Sage Rosemary-tops Mints Camomill and wilde Thyme of each like much so that in all they amount to halfe a handfull chop the hearbs very small and then put all these Hearbs and Spices into the Wine and then boyle them a pretty while then take it from the fire and straine it hard and unbit your horse and give him this drink bloud warme this done Bit him up againe and with a switch stir him up and down as he standeth in his place tyed to the Rack then coole him and two houres after his drink give him first some Hay and halfe an houre after that give him either a sweet Mash or white water and after feed him at your pleasure but be you considerate in giving him his Provender by little at once and often and howsoever feed him well and thus ordering him by morning he will be well recovered and able to travell againe ✚ This is an excellent drink and of great vertue for any Horse that tyreth or falleth sick upon the way It is also very requisite that with a Syringe you do inject of this drinke into his nostrils Another If you doe feare that your horse may tire in his journey for prevention carry with you a boxe of powder of dryed Elecampane roots and let the powder be also searced and when you do come unto your Inne let him not be walked but set up warme in the Stable clothed and littered his legs body head and necke be by the Groome or Ostler well rubbed but chiefly his Poll betwixt his eares Then take of strong Ale one quart or of sweet Sack one pinte which is much better and put into it of your Elecampane halfe an ounce brew them well together and give it him with a horne then bridle him and tie him to the Racke but not too high so as he may put down his nose and let him stand so an houre then unbridle him and give
dramme half white Wine foure pints Fennugreke one ounce two drammes Brimstone one ounce half good Sallet Oyle one pint two ounces English hony one pound half powder and searce what is to bee powdred and searced then compound them together and make it into one body into a stiffe paste and so keep it in a cleane Gally-pot close covered for your use And when you have occasion to use it make a Pill or Ball thereof of the bignesse of a mans fist and so lave and dissolve it into two Gallons of faire water till it bee all molten into the water Let your Horse drinke hereof so long as you please hoth morning and evening and let him have none other water to drinke to the end he may be the better compelled to drinke of the Water which in the end he will doe and like it very well ✚ Of this cataplasme I have made often use and I doe finde it to be a soveraigne Receit for many infirmities it also preventeth much inward sicknesse it raiseth and battleth a Horse much better than either Grasse or Provender and it giveth him Life Spirit and Stomacke and keepeth him in perfect health Our ordinary Country Smiths have yet another drinke which they administer upon all inward causes and truely it doth oft times hit right especially in cold causes viz. Take Fennugrick Turmerick Graynes Anniseeds Licoris All Diseases Long-Pepper Comin of each halfe an ounce and of Saffron one dram and of hearbs take Selendine Rue Pelamontine Isop Time and Rosemary of each like much but yet no more then will make of them all but halfe a handfull First chop small these hearbs and put them into a quart of good Ale and when they have boyled a while put in your spices finely powdred and then boyle them again with a small fire then take it from the fire and straine it and put to the liquor the quantity of an egge of sweet butter and halfe an ounce of London Treacle give this to your Horse bloud warme and and ride him moderately after and then set him up warme and well littered letting him fast foure houres after and let his drink be either a sweet Mash or white water This is very good against Feavers Colds and the Yellowes ✚ § 7. A. Hippoph I Met not long since with a disease called S. Anthonies Fire I pray is there such a disease Hyppos Yes Sir there is such a disease but it so seldome comes to a Horse as that few Ferriers have had occasion to cure the same by reason very few know it and therefore marvell not in that they cannot cure the same Saint Anthonies Fire is that burneth in the flesh most extreamely and hath in it so great malice as that look what you do apply to the place unlesse you hit the cure right it will doe it no good but more harme much after the nature of a Noli me tangere or wild-fire This disease is also called by some the shingles in a Horse and like as the Disease it self is very rare and seldome known in a Horse so also is the cure as uncouth and strange For my part I will not professe my selfe to be any whit more skilfull then indeed I am this disease I never yet observed to be in any Horse I only have heard some Ferriers talke thereof but yet I never heard but of one man who was ever truely able to make a Cure thereof and this was a Knight of very good worship who taught it me he averring confidently unto me how that he had cured three severall Horses of this very malady I asked him whence this disease proceedeth and what are the symptomes whereby to know the same he answered me that he could never rightly come to be mathematically assured how it breedeth or occurreth to the Horse but by guesse onely and that himselfe thought it came from some cholericke bloud passing to his head into the braine and pannicles which causeth the Horse to become starke mad yea so truely mad as to be deprived of his memory in not knowing his Keeper or any other body else yea his fury is so great as to resist stripes to slight and contemne correction be it never so severe he will endeavour what in him lyeth to perpetrate what mischiefe he is able by biting striking and endangering whom or whatsoever thing commeth into his way and when he cannot have his minde of living creatures whereupon to wreake his malice then will he doe it partly upon dead creatures by biting and gnawing the Manger and Racke-staves and by striking the posts and barres with his heeles and partly upon himselfe by beating his head against the wall and ground S. Anthonies fire he will also forsake both his meat and sleep or naturall rest untill he dyeth if he be not in time cured which is thus Take first help enough and cast him which done take a worme which groweth in a Fullers Teasell and put this worme alive and without any hurt into a quill then slit the skin of the fore-head of the horse under the fore-top and open the same round about with your cornet making a concavity an inch round every way and better betwixt the skin and the bone which done blow the said Worme out of the quill into the place which you made hollow as aforesaid but take heed you doe not kill the Worme in stitching up the skin againe because that the Worme may not get forth and after twenty dayes the Worm will dye and in that time the Horse will be throughly cured This cure was taught me by the aforesaid Noble Knight with which he affirmed to me that he had cured 3 or 4 horses § 8. A. Hippoph VVHat say you to an Anticor Hippos Sir I say it is a disease whereunto Horses are oft times enclined and it commeth sundry wayes to wit sometimes with too much feeding without exercise sometimes of too hard and immoderate riding or other labour both which waies the bloud of the creature becommeth corrupted and inflamed which maketh its residence in and about the heart which if it should not have a way to make its vent it would quickly kill him by which meanes many good Horses dye suddenly and the cause unknowne This Disease is apparent to the eye by a swelling which will arise in the middle of the breast just against the heart from whence it taketh its name which if it be not soone prevented will ascend to the throat and then it is certaine death It commeth likewise by surfets taken by heats and colds sometimes also by Feavers which are malignant and sometimes againe by feeding upon unwholesome meats The signes to know this disease before the swelling doe appeare are these he will be sicke and grone many times when he is layed he will hang down his head and forsake his meat and then if he should desire to eate what meat he loveth best whether Hay Grasse Provender or Bread lay
doe say that the Italians use to take a spunge well dipped in strong wine vineger and bound to the Sore renewing it twice a day till the kernels doe rot then they open the neather most part of the softnesse and so let the corruption forth and then fill the hole with salt finely brayed and the next day they wash away the filth with warme water and the next day after they annoynt the Sore with Honey and Fich flower mingled together till it be whole This Cure I never made tryall of but it seemeth to me to be a very good and probable Cure Another for the Avives Take Tarre tryed Hogges grease Bay-salt and Frankinsence powdred of each so much as will suffice melt these on the fire all together then with a clout fastened to the end of a sticke boyling hot scald the places 4 or 5 mornings one after another untill the enflamed places doe become soft and ripe Then with your incision knife slit the skin and let forth the corruption then to heale up the sorances take tryed Hogges grease and Verdigrease made into fine powder melt them upon a gentle fire but suffer it not to boyle more then a waume or two at the most then take it off and put to it of ordinary Turpentine as much as will suffice and so stirre all together untill it be cold And herewith annoint the sorances daily till they be whole ✚ This is very good Master Markham in his Master piece hath a Cure for the Avives which he intituleth A most rare and certaine approved Medicine which will cure the Vives without either burning melting rotting or any such like violent exercise But as yet I did never experiment the same The cure is this Take a penniworth of pepper beaten to fine powder Swines grease a spoonefull the juyce of Rue a handfull and of Vineger two spoonfuls mixe all well together and convey it equally into both the eares of the Horse and so tye or stitch them up then shake his eares that the medicine may sinke downewards which done you shall let him bloud in the neck-veyne and in the temple-veine And this saith he is an infallible cure § 12. A. Hippoph VVHat disease is that which we doe call the Arraistes Hippos Arraistes is also a French Epitheton which is a disease we doe commonly call the Rat-tayles engendring in the heeles of a Horse not much unlike to the Scraches but that it is much more venimous and malignant It commeth of too much rest and the Keepers want of care in the not rubbing and dressing him as also by reason that the Horse standeth continually in the Stable his fore-feet being higher than his hinder-feet for by reason of his great rest and pampering the bloud corrupting in his body falles down into his hinder-legges and breedeth this disease which now we doe call the Arraistes Arraistes or Rat-Tayles Rat-tayle◠The best Cure for this Malady is first to let the Horse be ridden till he be warme whereby the veines will swell and the better appeare Let him bloud in the fetlocke veins on both sides making him to bleed well and the next day after wash the sores with warme water and then clip away all the hayre from about the Sores then annoynt the grieved places with this Oyntment viz. Take greene Coperas and Verdegreace of each two ounces and of common honey foure ounces beat your Coperas and Verde-greace very small and so worke them with your honey to a perfect unguent and herewith annoint the Sores daily till they be whole ✚ And thus we doe conclude this Chapter CHAP. V. § 1. B. Hippoph VVHat is your best way to breake and heale the backe of a Horse that is swolne Hippos We have many wayes to cure a Malady of this nature if the place be swelled and yet not ripe enough to be opened then apply that remedy which you shall finde taught you hereafter to resolve or ripen the same and when it is ripe put your incision knife unto it or a hot iron and so open it in the lowest part so as the putrifaction may the more easily passeaway then every morning inject this Lotion with a Seringe which is thus to be made viz. Backe swelled Take Honey-suckle leaves Plantine Ribwort Yarrow Bursa-Pastoris Knot-grasse and Cumphrey of each halfe a handfull boyle these in a quantity of running water till a moity be consumed then straine the herbs from the water casting away the hearbs and then set the water upon the fire again and so soon as it beginneth to boyle againe put into the said water hony of Roses one ounce Allum and Alkenet of each two drams stirre all these well together and let it boyle till these latter ingredients be well dissolved then take it from the fire and when it is cold put it into a cleane glasse keeping it close stopped for your use Vse this water every day five or sixe dayes together and it will cure any Sorance in the backe or other part of the body provided that to skin the sore you apply a rag made wet in the said water ✚ Another Receit I have wherewith I have cured many galled backs and other sorances which is as followeth Take water and salt and boyle them well together and first wash the sore place therewith Then take Pepper made into very fine powder and strew it upon the sore it will heale it in very short time ✚ A third I have much more soveraigne than the two former which cureth not onely all galled backs but any other wound whatsoever Take Rosin and common Pitch of each sixe ounces Masticke and Incense of each one ounce Turpentine Galbanum Bolearmonacke of each three ounces melt dissolve and incorporate all these together upon a gentle fire and as they doe begin to coole make them up into rolles and when you would use this Salve spread it upon a cloath or leather somewhat thin but if you be to use it without either cloath or leather to any outward part that is not yet broken then lay it on much thicker than you use to doe plaister-wise and whilst it is warme clap flocks of the same colour upon it This Emplastrum as it cureth any swelling gall wound sore or hurt so it ripeneth breaketh and healeth all impostumations biles and pustils It is also a most excellent defensative plaister for the staying and drying up of all evill humours and also very soveraign for asswaging of swellings ✚ Another Receit I have taught me by a worthy Knight but I never made use thereof Take the leaves of Asmart and wash them and lay them all over the place and albeit you ride him every day yet will he heale very fast But if he doe remaine in the Stable without exercise if you put the water of the leaves upon the place it will heale him speedily Another Receit I have which was taught me by a French Marishall howbeit I made no tryall thereof but he
commended it to be tres-bonne which is this viz. Take three parts of sheeps-dung and one part of wheate or Rye-flower and dry the flower and then knead them together and bake it a little and apply it bloud warme to the place § 2. B. Hippoph IS there a disease in a horse called the Barbes Hippos Yea Sir there is such a disease and it groweth in the mouth vnder the tongue naturally for every Horse hath them Barbes neverthelesse there is no harme in them untill they doe become inflamed and then they will swell with corrupt bloud proceeding from naughty humours and become raw and so trouble and pain the Horse so as he cannot feed without much griefe for it commeth by meanes of evill humours and inflamed bloud I never heard of more Cures than two for this malady which is to take hold of his tongue and on either side under it of the jaw you shall see two teats or paps clip them away close and then wash the place with a little water and salt and they are cured The other Cure Take a paire of Sizers and clip them away from under the tongue and let them bleed then prick him in the palate of the mouth with your Fleame that he may bleed the better then wash the places with white wine vineger Bolearmonacke and Bay-salt of each as much as will suffice and for three or four dayes after let him see that no hay-dust sticke upon the places so clipped and he will soon be well againe §. 3. B. Hippoph VVHat good Receit have you to dissolve and dry up all ill humours in the body Hippos The best thing that I could ever know Bath for Humours to dry them up is a certain Bath which I make wherewith I bath him and I doe finde it to be right good which I make thus viz. Take Sage and Rosemary of each a handfull of the barke of the root of Beech three pound and of the barks of young Elmes Oakes and Ashe of each a handfull of Nep Penny-Royall and of Chest-nuts the rindes being taken away of each a handfull three or foure white Onions cleane pilled and cut into small pieces of slices red wine three pottles strong white wine vineger two pottles boyle all these together and cause your Horse to be walked a quarter of an houre before a good pace that he may be onely warme then let him be presently bathed with this Bath good and hot and then set him up warme and let his drinke be either sweet Mashes or white water bath him thus three dayes together and feed him with such meat as is sweet and wholesome and let him not be ridden into any water in eight or tenne dayes after and this will dissolve and dry up all his bad humours ✚ This I learned of an Italian Rider in Bruxels whom I saw practise it very often whilst I was there and rode with him And since I have my selfe administred it to many good Horses here in England with which I have done very much good Hippoph Now that we speake of Bathes I would gladly know what are their vertues Hippos Bathes have been much more in use in former times than now they are howbeit I and my Master doe use them often and we doe finde great profit by them for they are fomentations which be the most comfortable things of any to the joynts and limbs of a Horse Bathes dissolve all ill humours and gives heat and warmth unto all the members that are benummed with cold or for want of bloud it comforteth and strengtheneth them and it giveth very great ease to the pained sinewes Besides it asswageth swellings in or about any outward parts of the body for legges swelled stiffe or benummed or for any other joynt pained or grieved Bath for st ffe legges or for any string hault crampe or convulsion I commonly use a bath which doth in short time cure all such like Maladies And my bath is this Bath 1 Take Muskadine and Sallet oyle of each a pinte Bay-leaves and Rosemary of each two handfuls let them boyle halfe an houre and when you are to bathe your Horse therewith rubbe and chafe the grieved place with a wispe or hayre-cloath a pretty while then put the foot into some broad bowle or payle whereby to preserve the liquor and hearbs and lave and bathe him thus a quarter of an hour which ended binde upon the place a piece of Sheeps or Lambs skin with the woolly side to the legge and let him stand so four and twenty houres apply this five or sixe times and it will be a perfect Cure ✚ Another bath I have which is most soveraign to cure all gourdy gowty and swoln legges which commeth either by farcin scratches or the like wherewith I have cured very many Horses And thus it is made Bath 2 Take the grounds of a Beere battell with the Barme Smallage Featherfew Winter-savory Cumâ—ry Mallowes Rue Set-well Penny-Royall Wormewood Arch-angell of each a good handfull and of the leaves and Berryes of Missletow three or foure good handfuls Sheepes Tallow one pound tryed Hogges-grease halfe a pound three or foure handfuls of Rie or Wheat Branne boyle all these together untill all the hearbes and Missletow become soft but be sure you have liquour enough and a little before you take it from the fire put into it some Hay With this bathe his Legges first one then the other putting still that Legge which you are to bathe into a broad Bowle or Payle as is afore shewed and when you have bathed that Legge sufficiently then take of the hay in the Bath and making a Thum-band thereof rowle it about the Leg above the uppermost or middle Ioynt and put off the hearbes betwixt his Legge and the Thum-band and so use the other Legge or Legs which are swelled and need bathing Which done powre of the liquour remaining upon the thum-bands and thus let him bee bathed herewith every day once for so many dayes together as you shall thinke requisite and it will bring downe the swelling quite and make him sound ✚ Another Bath I have no lesse excellent wherewith I have done many rarecures viz. Take Smallage Oxe-Eye and Sheepes Sewet of each like much Bath 3 to a good quantity Chop them small together and after stamp them in a stone Morter then boyle them with mans Vrine and bathe the grieved parts herewith warme doing as before with a Bowle or Payle then with Thum-bands of soft Hay made first wet in cold water rope up the member as well above as below the griefe Vse this as oft as you shall see cause out if the griefe happen in travell then by bathing him thus over-night and roping him up he wil be able to travell again the next morning without complaining ✚ This I doe assure you is a most excellent Bath and it cureth any Lamenesse which cometh eyther by stroke strayne or other Accident One other Bath I have whereof I never made
the Halter catcheth into the Pasterne Ioynt which he feeling falleth to striving whereby he casteth himselfe downe and by meanes of the hardnesse of the Cord he is gauled even to the very bone and many times if he be not opportunely rescued the Halter doth strangle him and he found starck dead But if the Horse do escape with life he will be neverthelesse terrible gauled which will soone rankle and swell unlesse cure be presently administred The signe whereby to know it is apparant enough I will give you only two Receipts for this sorance whereof the first shal be this viz. Take the leafe of the hearb called Saubsucus Cast in a Halter stamp it and strayn it and take only the juyce thereof and apply the said juyce to the sorance by washing it therewith after take a linnen cloth white and cleane and make it into three or foure folds steeping the cloath in the said juyce and bind it on to the place grieved but in Winter when the said Leafe is not to be had you must take the second rinde thereof and do therewith as before but then note that before you wash and apply the saide juyce to the wound you must first wash the sorance with warme Water and then apply your said juyce and he shal be perfectly cured in short time This I never yet experienced by reason I could never yet meete with the Hearb This second I have often tryed and I have found it to bee infallible viz. Make a Rowle of fat Wooll and steepe the same in Vineger and Sheepes Suet so much as will suffice boyled together till it commeth to bee very thick and let the Rowle bee full as long or rather somewhat longer then the place gauled apply this to the sorance Plaister-wise and bind upon it a cleane Linnen cloth changing it twise a day and in short time it wil be whole This is right good ✚ § 2. C. Hippoph VVHat Cure have you for a Canker Hippos This is a very loathsome Sorance which if it be suffred to run long will so fester and corrupt the place where it hapneth that it will violently eate even to the bone if it fall upon the Tongue it will eate the very roote in sunder if in the Nose it will eate the very Gristle through You may easily know this Sorance for that the places wil be very raw and bleed often and many times you shall perceive a white Scurfe to grow upon the place grieved For it is a most Cankerous Vlcer which ofttimes is engendred of a fretting humour It commeth two waies that is eyther of naughty and corrupt bloud procured by meanes of unwholesome meate or by some Bilious Humour which came to the Horse by an extreame cold not long before taken which will cause his bteath to stinke loathsomely Canker I will deliver unto you sundry cures for this sorance which my selfe have experimented and have found them to be very good Take white Wine halfe a pint Roch Alome the quantity of a Wall-nut Bay-salt halfe a Spoonefull English Honey one Spoonefull Red-Sage Rue Ribwort Honey-Suckle Leaves Yarrow Plantine Bramble-leaves of each like much but of every one a little boyle all these in the white Wine so much as will suffice till a quarter be consumed and then first inject of this Water into the sorance or else if the Canker be in the Mouth wash the place with a clout fastned to a sticks end and so dresse him therewith twice a day or oftner if you shall see cause till it be whole ✚ Another Take greene Coperas and Alome of each one pound white Coperas foure drammes boyle these in a pottle of running Water untill almost the one moiety bee consumed then take it from the fire and put into it of Honey half a pound then holding up his Head with a Drenching Staffe but yet not too high with a Pewter or Elder Sering or Squirt inject it into his Nose if the Canker be there bloud warme which done give presently his head liberty whereby hee may snuffle and blow forth the corruption and faile not to inject him thus three or foure times one after the other at every dressing and do thus Morning and Evening till it bee whole which will not be long ✚ But if it be only a sore Mouth and that it come to be a Canker then Take of the strongest white Wine Vineger and make it thick with powdred Alome and so wash the sorance therewith two or three dayes together for this will kill and destroy the Vlcer then heale up the Sorance thus viz. Take of faire Water a quart Alome and Honey of each foure ounces Maudeline leaves red Sage and Columbine leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in the Water till halfe bee consumed and every day twice that is Morning and Evening wash his Mouth therwith bloud-warme and it will heale him ✚ Another First make this strong Alome Water viz. Take Alome halfe a pound Hony halfe a pint red Sage and Wood-bind-leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in faire water till halfe bee consumed with this Water and Hearbs wash and rub the Sores till they become red and raw then take white Wine Vineger halfe a pint Alome powdred two ounces Ginger powdred halfe an ounce and of life Honey halfe a pint mix all these well together and therewith annoynt the sore Morning and Evening and it will cure him ✚ All these Receipts I have made tryall of and have found them to be right good Another Take the juyce of the Root Asphodill seven ounces Quick-lime Arsnick of each two ounces beat and incorporate all these together and put them into a new pot close stopped and let it boyle till it come to ashes these ashes you shall apply to the Sorance twice a day but the sore must be first washed with strong Vineger as before is taught §. 3. C. Hippoph HOw cure you that Horse who hath cast his Hoofe Hippos This is a troublesome Sorance yet with care it may be cured it commeth either by meanes of some Foundring or by an Accloy Prick Stub Graveling Quitterbone or other hurt within the Foote which breaking out above round about the Cronet and in time the Hoofe breaking it falleth from the Foote I neede relate no Signes whereby to know the same The Cure is thus Take Aquafortis the strongest you can get Casting the hoofe and first with a Rape or Drawing Iron file or draw away the old hoofe somewhat neere then touch the hoofe so prepared with your Aquafortis three or foure severall dressings and no more This done annoynt the Foote with the Vnguent we doe commonly make for Horses Feete viz. Take Hogs-grease three pound Pach-grease two pound Venice-Turpentine one pound new Wax halfe a pound Sallet-Oyle one pound Melt and mix all these upon the fire and herewith chafe rub and annoint the Coffin of the Hoofe up to the very top and this will bring a new hoofe ✚
take from him all noxious and offensive humours it will carry away all spungy matter it will allay the biliousnesse and sharpnesse of humours it will cleanse old Vlcers it will refresh and comfort the Vitall parts c. But if you doe finde that by giving too great a quantity your Horse purgeth and scowreth longer and more violently than you would have had him to have done or for feare it should stir up in him upon the suddaine more bad humours than you may easily know how to allay then give him this Clyster viz. Take the aforesaid Decoction one pint 3 Clister Restringenâ— adding thereto as much of Cowes milke as it commeth warme from her and put also thereto the yolkes of three new-layed Egges well beaten and well mixed with the said liquour and so give it your Horse bloud warme This is called a Clyster Restringent for this is only to be applyed to a Horse that is very Laxative or that doth empty himselfe too much which is occasioned oft times through overmuch debility and want of strength or when nature is very much offended you may apply this so oft as need shall require ✚ Another 4 Clister for fat Horse Take Mallowes three handfuls marsh mallow roots cleansed and bruised and Violet leaves of each two handfuls Flaxe seed three spoonfuls so many of the cloves of white Lilly roots as you may easily hold in your hand boyle all these in faire water from a gallon to a wine quart then straine it and put thereto of Sene one ounce which must be infused or steeped in the liquor three houres standing upon the hot embers then put thereto of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and being bloud warme administer it Clyster-wise causing him to keep it at least halfe an houre or longer if you may and the best time to give this is three or foure dayes before the Full and change of the Moon howsoever it may be given to very good profit as occasion may profer it selfe at any other time ✚ This Clister is to be given to a Ketty or fat Horse which otherwise cannot be kept cleane for it purgeth glut abundantly and it is also principally to be given to a Horse that is newly taken from grasse Another 5 A Clister for melancholy Take of Whey a quâ—â—t of Anniseeds in fine powder two penniworth of the leaves of Mallowes one handfull boyle these till the Mallowes be soft then straine it then put to it of sweet Butter foure ounces which when the butter is molten administer it bloud-warm ✚ This purgeth melancholy it causeth a good appetite which before was wanting it refresheth the spirits dulled and occasioneth good digestion if the Horse be kept warm and well tended Another 6 Clister in case of desperate sickâ—esse Take of the oyle of Dill of the oyle of Camomile of the oyle of Violets of Cassia of each halfe an ounce and of browne sugar candy in powder three ounces then take of Mallow-leaves halfe a handfull boyle the Mallowes first to a Decoction in faire water then straine it and put to the broth all the forenamed ingredients administer this bloud-warme Clyster wise This is a most soveraigne Clister to be given in case of desperate sicknesse it helpeth all Feavers it is good against the Pestilence and all languishing diseases most excellent against Surfets either by Provender or otherwise and it will occasion great strength in short time if it be rightly made and carefully given ✚ Another 7 Clister for the Pestilence Take the pulpe of Colliquintida halfe an ounce I meane the seeds and skin taken away of Dragantium three quarters of an ounce of Centuary and of Wormwood of each halfe a handfull of Castoreum a quarter of an ounce boyle all these in three quarts of water to a quart then straine it and dissolve into the broth of Gerologundinum three ounces and of white salt three drams of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and bloud warme administer it Clister-wise ✚ This I have often proved and doe finde it to be most excellent for the Pestilence and to helpe all Feavers Another 8 Clisters Lenitive Take the decoction of Mallowes and put to it either of fresh Butter foure ounces or of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and give it him Clister-wise ✚ This is the gentlest Clister of any before prescribed for it is both a Lenitive and a great cooler of the body and doth infinitely ease paine It is the best thing can be given to a Horse that is taken or against Convulsions or Cramps and most singular against Costivenesse proceeding from any sicknesse or surfet by Provender foundring in the body c. Another 9 Clister for the Collick Take salt water or new made brine 2 pints dissolve therein a pretty quantity of Sope and so bloud-warm administer it Clister-wise This I never did experience howsoever I have been oft perswaded by many able Ferriers who have averred it to be the most excellent that may be had for the Collick or any sicknesse or gripings in the guts or belly And let this suffice for Clisters onely by way of advise I counsell you that before you administer any Clister you first rake him that you put in the Pipe being first annoynted with sweet Butter or oyle Olive gently and by degrees and that you also draw it forth very treatably that you make him keep it at least halfe an houre that you doe administer it but bloud warme at most that you squeeze and presse between your hands the bladder strongly and lastly that you let him not drink any cold water in a day or two after but let it be either a sweet Mash or else white water §. 9. C. Hyppoph VVHat is good to be applyed to a Horse that is cloyed prickt or hath other hurt in the hoofe Hippos You must first with your Butter Drawing iron or Paring knife lay the wound bare as may be then Take waxe Hogs grease and Turpentine of each one ounce Cloyed Verdigrease two ounces boyle these upon a gentle fire your waxe and Hogs grease being first put in and molten then put in your Turpentine and lastly your Verdigrease in fine powder and being indifferently warme dip Tow or Hurds into the oyntment and so lay it to the Sore then stop and splent it up and dresse him twice a day and this will make him whole and sound in short time ✚ But of this more in its due place § 10. C. Hippophylus VVHat say you to a Horse whose Cods and Stones are swelled Hippos This infirmity proceedeth from sundry causes as sometimes by being bitten with a Dog or with another Horse or by being stung with some venemous or evill creature The French do call it Enflure de Coullon's Cods swelled It commeth also by meanes of some evill humours and corrupt bloud which doe fall down to the cods sometimes after sicknesse and sometimes of ranknesse of bloud and seed for want of a Mare If
to be equivalent to either of the two former Another Tâ—ke water and salt so much as will suffice brew them well together it then being made bloud-warme give it him and doe after as is usuall ✚ This for a new taken cold I have often used and I doe finde it to be singular good to be given to a young Horse Another Take of oyle de Bay of Anniseeds and of Licoris of each one halfe penny worth and of browne sugar-candy a penny worth make all these into fine powder and being well mixed sew it up into a fine linnen rag and so fasten it unto the Bit or Snaffle of the Horse and so ride a journey and travell him and in short space he will be cured if it be a new-taken cold onely ✚ This I have also proved and I doe finde it good for it will cure both cold and cough if it be rightly applyed to wit with riding and exercise Another Take of white Wine one pinte Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte Rubarb and Aloes and Saffron of each two drams Nutmeg Sene Agarick Bay-berries Duke or Dutch powder and of Cordiall powder of each halfe an ounce mixe all these together and then adde to it of Honey foure ounces warme them well in a Pipkin and give it him to drinke bloud-warme but let him stand upon the trench at least three houres before and three houres after neither let him for all that day eate any Oates but in its stead let him have Wheate-bran and let his drinke be that day either a warme Mash or white water and no cold water but this white water for foure or five daies after and put into his Provender for some time Fennugrick made into grosse powder ✚ This is a most soveraigne drinke to be given for a cold But if you do finde that his head is very much oppressed with a Pose or Catar then give him this drinke twice a day viz. Take Fenugrick one ounce and boyle it in a good quantity of water till it burst then mixe with the decoction thereof wheate meale as much as will suffice and give it him to drink Another Take a quart of the best Ale and warme it upon the fire and put into it so much Tobacco made into fine powder as you can take up upon a shilling at twice and as much dryed Rosemary in fine powder as you may take up upon a shilling at once give him this to drink bloud-warme in a morning fasting This drinke is called Potio-Necotiana but I did never make tryall thereof for that I once saw it given by a Ferrier to a sicke Horse which so wrought with him as that with all his Lenitives and Cordials the Ferrier had much labour to save the life of the poore Horse this potion was so violent which notwithstanding drove the Horse into a most dangerous Calentura But the next is better Take a Hens egge and make a hole in the top thereof no bigger than that you may get forth the white and yolke Then take Tarre and sweet Butter of each like much as much as will suffice incorporate these well together into one body and so convey it into the egge shell and give it your Horse three or foure mornings together and either journey him gently or else ride him three or foure houres after it which done bring him into the Stable and cloath him up warme and litter him well and let him be well rubbed and so keep him upon the trench two houres after and then give him Hay and an houre after give him either a warme Mash or white water and this will help a cold newly taken ✚ This will not make him sicke for I have often made tryall of it Another as good as this Take the long white mosse that groweth upon an old dry Parke pale one handfull chop it small and put it into a pottle of good Ale or Beere till one halfe be consumed then take it off and straine and presse it hard and put into the liquor of Anniseeds and Licoris of each halfe a spoonfull and a piece of sweet Butter and so give it him three mornings together fasting and it will cure him X Another if he hath taken a cold or poze in the head Take a quart of Muskadine or sweet Sacke of Nutmegs Pepper Cominseed Graines Bay-berries of each three drams all made into fine powder boyle these a waume or two then take it off and put into it a piece of sweet Butter and give it your Horse three mornings together bloud-warme let him all those three dayes be kept warme neither let him drinke any cold water but either a sweet Mash or white water yea and that three or four dayes after and during these three dayes let him fast three houres after the receit of his said medicine Also three dayes after when you perceive the cold to begin to breake from him and to rot cause him to sneeze by blowing into either nostrils either the powder of Tobacco or of Pepper or of Elebore X Another which will cure a longer-taken cold yea though it be accompanyed with a dry cough and shortnesse of breath or pursivenesse which I had of Master Markham and I have often made tryall thereof and it hath done cures which have been held impossible to have been effected Take of the conserve of Elecampane three quarters of an ounce and dissolve it in a pinte and a halfe of sweet Sacke and so give it your Horse with a horne in a morning fasting and ride him gently a little after and thus doe sundry times untill you doe finde the infirmity to decrease Hippoph But Hipposerus this Conserve of Elecampane I doe suppose is hard to come by for surely every Countrey Apothecary hath it not how then may a Man make this Confection you so much commend Hippos Sir this Conserve I make my selfe and I will give you the receipt hereof You must understand that there bee two kinds thereof the one is called particularly a Preserve and the other an absolutâ— Conserve The first is Simple the other Compound both very soveraigne for this Infirmity but the Conserve is evermore to bee esteemed the better and I do counsell you never to be without either of them for they will keep the whole yeere through if they be reserved close stopped Wherefore as touching the first which is the Simple you must preserve it like as you doe all other greene rootes and so keepe them in a Gally pot or Glasse in a good quantity of its owne Sirop till you have occasion to use the same and when you are to use it let it bee beaten well in a Morter together with its Sirop and refined Sugar made first into very fine powder Now your Compound or Conserve is thus made First let your roots of Elecampâ—ne be neatly Candied and made very dry and hard and get the best and youngest Rootes can be had which must be kept also in a Gally pot or Glasse close stopped
either prevent sicknesse before it commeth or cure the same at first appearance Hippos Sir in this case two things are principally and diligently to be considered The first is to prevent sicknesse before it shall approach whereby it shall not offend at all and the second is to take it at the first appearance and so to prevent and hinder it whereby to prevent the danger thereof As touching the first Dangerouâ— sicknesse how to prevent the best way will be three or foure dayes before you put forth your Horse to grasse to take bloud from him and the next day to give him the drinke of Diapente halfe an ounce with a pinte and a halfe of sweet Sacke which you shall finde mentioned in lib. 2. § sequent and so by degrees to abate his clothes if he have had any and it is also very good that when you doe take bloud from him you doe receive it in a bason or bowle and therewith annoint his backe loynes fillets breast and all such like places about him with the said bloud for it is most wholesome and doth comfort the body very much cleanseth the skinne and begetteth a generall rejoycing throughout all the vitall parts of the Horse But if you have no intent to put him forth to grasse and yet would prevent inward sicknesse then faile not when you have best meanes to give him rest take no bloud from him at all unlesse you may justly suspect his bloud not to be very good but give him onely a drinke of Diapente or Diatesseron for either of these are the greatest and best refiners and purifiers of the bloud of any thing can be administred and doe cause the Horse to avoyd all yellow cholerick-matter and all evill indigested humours which may any way putrifie inflame or corrupt the bloud And observe moreover that in administring of these drinks if Sacke or Muskadine be not at hand to be had that then in the place of a pinte and a halfe of either of these which is the proportion I limit to a Horse of a strong able and corpulent body but to a small or weake Horse one pinte you doe take of good Ale or Beer one quart and the same quantity of Diapente or Diatesseron formerly prescribed and if the Ale or Beere be made warme upon the fire it will be the better And thus much as touching the first poynt to wit the prevention of sicknesse before it come that it may not offend your Horse at all Now I come to the second poynt viz. To take sicknesse at its first appearance whereby to send it packing before it hath taken deep root in the body of the Horse Dangerouâ— sicknesse how to cuâ—â— so that it shall never come to danger of life or limb then thus in a few words You must be very cautelous and vigilant in observing your Horse well and to pry into him so narrowly as to discover the least symptome of sicknesse that may be able to peep out its head which so soon as you shall descry then presently if reason so require let him bloud and three severall mornings together give him the drinke of Diapente and let him be kept warme well rubbed and have Mashes or white water during that time and some dayes after which will be a very good meanes for him to remaine in perfect health strength and good estate of body But if this Diapente or Diatesseron be not to be had on a sudden then Take Selendine halfe a handfull as well the roots as the leaves well washed and picked Worm-wood and Rue of each halfe a handfull boyle all these in strong Ale or Beere from a pottle to a quart and then straine it well and put into the liquor of sweet Butter halfe a pound and of ordinary Treacle two spoonfuls and so give it him bloud warme ✚ And this is most effectuall to the ends before recited §. 2. D. Hippoph YOu speake very much of Diapente giving it very great commendations I pray how doe you make the same Hippos The receit of Diapente doth merit many more Encomiums than I am able to give it for that it is so pretious and soveraigne a powder for Horses and it is compounded of five severall simples if it be rightly made It is I say the most soveraign thing which can be given to a Horse by way of drench whereby to cure him of very many inward diseases It is good against all infectious maladies as feavers of what nature soever all sorts of Pestilences or contagious colds Coughs wet or dry Glaunders Surfets inflamations in the bloud or liver Frenzies Yellowes it purifieth refineth and purgeth the bloud from all infection and corruption it easeth the overflowing or the gall and the working of the spleene and in a word it cureth whatsoever diseases the body of the Horse may be inwardly inclined unto And it is thus made viz. Diapente Take Aristolochia-Rotunda Gentiana Baccalani Myrrha Eboraci of each alike much let these be first pounded severally and finely searsed and after weighed so as the quantities may be just and even not any one lesse or more then another and after so well mixed as may be possibly and so put into a Gally-pot pressed as hard as may be done and after so close stopped as that no ayre can get into it and thus you must make it and reserve it for your use This must be administred to a Horse in Muskadine if you drench him for a cold or Glanders If for other maladies then in sweet Sacke and the quantity must be a pinte and a halfe but if Sacke or Muskadine be not to be had then give it in strong Ale or Beere and the quantity of this powder of Diapente must be two or three spoonfuls unlesse to a small sicke or feeble Horse then the lesse quantity according as in your owne judgement and reason you shall thinke to be most requisite ✚ And thus is this so excellent powder of Diapente made and such are its vertues §. 3. D. Hippoph HOw doe you make also your Diatesseron Hippos This confection I have heard some call Horse-Mithridate and some Horse-Treacle by reason of the inward vertue thereof whereby to expell all poysonous and contagious annoyances and to drive them and all manner of sicknesse from the heart And thus it is made viz. Take first of the powder of Diapente two ounces Diatesse and put it into a cleane stone morter that is not over-great and put thereto of life or clarified honey the like quantity let the morter be made hot against the fire before you doe put in your powder or honey and then with a pestell of wood worke it till it come to a very Treacle which when you shall finde to be sufficiently compounded then take it forth and put it into a cleane galley-gally-pot or glasse and so keep it very close stopped for your use and when you have occasion to make use of it Take of
this confection halfe an ounce and dissolve it in Muskadine or sweet Sacke a pinte and a halfe and so give it your Horse bloud-warme and as occasion is profered adde to it of London Treacle one ounce ✚ This Diatesseron is a confection so soveraigne being as I said before an antidote against all infectious diseases it is a present cure for all sorts of Feavers or any other desperate or dangerous sicknesse taking first bloud from the Horse if there be cause § 4. D. Hippoph IS there nothing good besides these in case of desperate and dangerous sicknesse supposing that neither Diapente or Diatesseron can be had Hippos Yea Sir if neither of these may be gotten and that you are fearefull of the life of your Horse then doe I counsell you thus Take of the best Tarre two ounces of honey one ounce Desperate and dangerous sicknes◠blacke sope two drams and bay salt a handfull incorporate all these well together then fill two egge shels the crownes onely being broken so as you may get forth the meat and fill them up againe with this medicine and put them downe his throat and walke or ride him gently up and down a quarter of an houre or more warme cloathed that done set him up warme and litter him well and let his drinke be either Mashes or white water for foure or five dayes after but let him fast three houres after his medicine and let his Hay and Provender bee sweete and good ✚ This I have often experimented §. 5. D. Hippoph I Should thinke Hipposerus that for change Bread were good to be given sometimes to a Horse I pray you what is your opinion thereof Hippos If you meane such ordinary Horse-bread which our common Bakers used to make for Horses which is now long since out of date and use I say it cannot be good for a Horse by reason it was ill made and the Materialls whereof it was compounded nourish very little nay it hurteth a Horse much more than it can do him good for it breedeth evill humours and worse bloud in his body it being made of bran and chisell for the most part with a little course Rye meale to make it stick together and so made up and kneaded with cold water and after the outside of the loaves or roules are rowled in ground or rather bruised pease which can in no case bee good or wholesome But if you have a desire to give your horse bread whereby hee may the better endure labour eyther in his travell or long journeys or in Tilting Hunting or otherwise then if you please to give him this bread which I do heere prescribe you it will give him strength of body be very much helpfull to his winde keep him from fainting in his labour and exercise be it never so sore Horse bread Take Wheate meale Oate meale and Beanes all ground very small of each one peck Anniseeds foure ounces Gentiana and Fenugrick of each one ounce Licoris two ounces let all these be finely powdred and searced and ad the whites and yelkes of twenty new layd Eggs well beaten together and put to the other ingredients and so much strong Ale as will knead it up then make your loaves like to horse-bread but not too thick and let them be well baked but not burned let not this bread bee given to your Horse too new and when you doe give it too him let it be five or six mornings together without other provender and thus you shall have him well winded lusty strong hardy and healthy whereby to be able to hold out and retaine his mettle to the last Also when he is to bee used or employed Take a thinne linen cloath and put therein of white Sugar candy one ounce and as much powder of Anniseeds sew up this to the Bit or Snaffle in a fine linnen cloath when you are to take his backe first dipped in White or Claret Wine and so let him bee exercised or travelled with this in his mouth this giveth moysture to his mouth and stomacke it expelleth inward heat and faintnesse from his body and heart and causeth him to forget his labour and travell for it doth revive his vitall spirits ✚ Another kind of bread I will give you not much unlike the former but somewhat better and a greater cooler Take Wheate-meale one peck Rie-meale Beanes and Oate meale both ground very small of each halfe a peck Anniseeds Lycoris of each one ounce and white Sugar candy foure ounces all in fine powder the yelkes and whites of twenty Egges well beaten and so much white Wine as will knead it into a past make this into great loaves bake them well and after they be two or three dayes old let him eate of this bread but chip away the outside ✚ Hippoph What is the reason you choose of these graines meale rather then flower wherewith you doe make your bread Hippos Sir I preferre Meale far before Flower by reason Flower is much more hot and binding and therefore the courser the bread is the better it is for the Horse and the more wholesome and the reason why I doe put Rie into my latter bread is because Rie is a loosener and a cooler and therefore it will make him the more soluble §. 6. D. Hippoph VVHat is good to dissolve and mollifie Tumors and hard swellings in the Legges or other parts and members of the Horse Hippos Tumors and swellings sometimes comes by heats gotten with over hard riding whereby the creature being over much heat the grease falleth downe and setling in the Legges and other parts doe grow dry and hard this breedeth Splents Spavens Curbes Ring-bones and the like Sorances which in trueth are none other things then proper Tumors besides it doth occasion other knots and swellings which are to be cured after this manner viz. Take of the roots of Mallowes or of Holliocks of each two ounces Dissolve Tumors of Linseed and of Fenugrick of each six ounces of the fat or grease of Hennes or Capons or for want thereof of Neats foote oyle a Wine quart of Waxe six ounces steepe the rootes and seedes being bruised in a pottle of white Wine when it is scalding hoat for three dayes and three nights and the fourth day boyle them in the same liquor and adde thereto when you beginne to set it upon the fire your grease and waxe putting also thereunto of Rosin three ounces then let all these boyle together a good while and at the taking it from the fire put thereinto of Venice Turpentine two ounces and so stirre them together and thus it is made fitting for your use which being well reserved will dissolve all hard swellings and Tumors the Sorances being dayly anoynted therewith ✚ This I have by much practise found to be very good Another Take white Lilly roots Hemlock Mallowes Beares-foote Scabeous Cuccoe-pits of each one handfull chop them small and infuse them for twelve daies together in white Wine
give him this drinke Take of new milke warmed as much as will suffice the yelkes of three new laid Egges of pepper made into very fine powder a halfe penny worth of Anniseeds Myrra Bay-berries Turmaricke powdred also of each halfe a dram of ordinary Treacle one penny worth and a little saffron powdred pound all the simples that are to be pounded every one by it selfe and mixe them well with the residue and let them infuse in the milke a whole night and the next morning give it to the Horse bloud warme and after order him as you are accustomed to doe to sicke Horses in Physicke but let him have this drink five mornings together and keep him to Mashes or white water and if during that time you doe not finde his appetite to come unto him better then before then let him rest foure dayes and at foure dayes end give him this drinke viz. Take Bay-berries Iuniper-berries Aristoloch rot Ivory Myrra of each two ounces make all these into fine powder and searse them and let them be well mixed boyle of this powder two spoonfuls in strong Ale one quart or Muskadine or Sacke one pinte which is much better adding thereto when you take it from the fire so much Pepper finely beaten as will lye on a sixe pence and so much grated Ginger as will lye upon a shilling and so bloud warme administer it to your Horse then so soone as he hath taken this drinke trot him gently a mile or two upon faire ground and then set him up warme and cause him to sweate in the Stable an houre but not too violently and after coole him discreetly and by degrees and give him this drinke and sweats three times to wit every other day and after the taking of these three drinkes Take of burnt Sack one pinte and put to it of Arement two good lumps made first into fine powder and give it your Horse two mornings that is to say having given it him once let him rest and then give it him for the secoâ—d drinke foure dayes after ✚ And thus have I cured sundry horses of this infirmity § 9. D. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Dropsie Hyppos This disease hath an apparant ground more then conjecturall for it never commeth to be knowne by any symptomes but onely when the horse falleth into dislike and loseth the true and perfect colour of his hayre and skinne and when he loseth his spirit mettle strength cheerefulnesse and stomacke and therefore we see it commeth principally for want of good nourishment and digesture which passeth into melancholy it proceeding either from the spleene or from the liver or both the bloud being corrupted and converted into a thin and watry substance and sometimes it commeth of over-much rest for want of moderate exercise which I doe judge to be the more probable Some Ferriers doe affirme that there be three kindes of this disease but I could never observe more then one only which hath its origen either of melancholy bloud water or winde but chiefly of water by reason that the belly legs of a horse will swell and that a watry humour runnes 'twixt the skin and the flesh and if you lay your finger hard upon the swolne places when you shall take it away there will be in the place a pit for a small time after The signes to know it are that he will be swelled both body and legges he will be also short-breathed lose his stomacke have in his body a continuall drought but yet when he commeth to drinke he will not drinke much but pudder long with his nose in the water he will be as if he had a generall consumption over all his body and in time he will pine and fall away to the very bones and his flankes and buttockes will be dry and his hayre will shed and pill off with every rubbing c. The cure is first let him bloud to take away the cold Dropsie thin watrish or wheyish bloud that better may come in its place then cover him warme and give him a sweat in the Stable but if he will not be brought to sweat in the Stable as many times it so falleth out then exercise him abroad till he sweat and bring him into the Stable againe and cloath and litter him warm and let him be well rubbed and give him Sallow leaves or the leaves of the Elme tree greene Rye blades Sedge or Grasse to keep his body open and when you doe give him Hay let it be sprinckled with water then give him this drinke Take of Ale one gallon set it upon the fire and scum off the froth as it riseth then put into it of Worm-wood and of Rue the tender tops and leaves without stalkes carefully picked of each a handfull and so boyle the Ale to a quart then take it off and straine it well and dissolve into it of the best London Treacle three ounces and put also unto it of long-Pepper and Grains both made into fine powder of each one ounce then brew all these well together till it be but bloud warme and so give it him to drinke then bathe and annoynt the legs that be swelled with Trayne-oyle twice a day till the swelling goe away and give him Mashes or white water and feed him with such meate as he will best eate changing his dyet daily and give it him by little at once and after some small time thus spent with him if the weather be seasonable turne him to grasse and he shall doe well and become sound againe ✚ This is all the Dropsie I doe know howsoever many Ferriers doe talke much of another kinde which they doe call the Feltrick which is not truely a Dropsie but a disease distinct from the Dropsie unto which young Horses are inclinable that from Foles and Colts are bred in Fennes Moores Marshes moyst and wet grounds and Commons by meanes whereof they will swell exceedingly under the belly and so soone as they doe come to be handled and backed whereby they may be provoked to sweate they will presently have inflamations under the Chaule runne at nose fall into an incurable Glanders and in a word become inwardly rotten The cure is Feltrick First with your fleame strike him in sundry places under the belly where the swelling is most ranke and so let the corrupt bloud and filth issue forth by the space of an houre or two then wipe the places cleane and dry and then Take of Buck-lye made very strong with chamber-lye and the ashes of Ashen wood and dissolve into the lye of Vnguentum Populeon and Dialthea of each one ounce or as much as will suffice according to the Lye you have and being made good and hot wash bathe and annoynt the swelling therewith morning and evening till the swelling be quite gone and after every dressing trot him up and downe by the space of a quarter of an houre which will be a very good meanes to cause
the humour to dissolve and so to depart the sooner and the better and for two or three dayes give him fasting a quart of good Ale and of Diapente two spoonfuls which must be immediately before his trotting forth after his dressing and so set him up warme and give him white water ✚ And thus have I cured many Horses of the Feltrick § 10. D. Hippoph VVHat is good to take dead flesh out of a sore Hippos We use sundry sorts of corrosives wherwith to cleanse foule wounds and to eate away dead proud and naughty flesh out of sores to the end they may heale and carnifie the better and more kindely but yet omitting all sorts of powders and other corrosives to corrode and eate away dead flesh I will teach you a most precious Vnguent which will take off any dead proud spungy or bad flesh in the foote or any other part of the Body be the wound never so deep or ulcerated and it will not only take away all proud dead and naughty flesh but it will also clense and heale up the same very soundly in short space And this Vnguent is thus made and compounded Take of common Hony two ounces Roach-alume Verde-grease and Vinegar of each one ounce sublimat two drammes Dead flesh let all bee made into fine powder and boyle it a few waumes keeping it still stirring and then take it from the fire and keep it in a gally pot stopped for your use Apply this Vnguent upon lint or fine hurds to the Sorance once a day and it cureth speedily and soundly but then observe that every day before you dresse the sore you cleanse wash inject into the wound the water taught you in the next § which I will shew you for a Puncture or deepe wound ✚ And this is an approved cure and beyond all peradventure §. 11. D. Hippoph VVEll shew mee then what is good for a Puncture or deepe wound Hippos If it be in the foote or any other part of the Body if you can come well unto it or if it be an Impostumation unbroken scald it first with the medicine of red-Tarre Hogs-grease Bay-salt and greene Copporas described in lib. 2. cap. 16. § 10. for the Poll. evill then wash the wound with this water Take red-Sage Plantane Ribwort Yarrow Bramble-leaves Deepe wounds Rosemary Isope and Honey-suckle-leaves of each one half a handfull boyle them in white Wine one pint and as much of Smithes or coletrough-water then adde thereunto in the boyling of common Honey one Spoonefull and as much Alume as a wall-nut and a bright black peece of Sea-cole the bignesse of an Egge unbroken then let this boyle till the one moiety bee consumed then strayne it hard and wash the Sorance therewith and if the wound bee deepe inject of this water with a siring or squirt every day when you dresse him and by thus doing you shall cleanse the wound take away all dead and bad flesh and heale up the wound both soundly and speedily ✚ This is a most approved Receipt §. 12. D. Hippoph VVHat is best to be applyed to a desperate Straine Hippos If it bee so desperate an old Straine as that it be holden incurable if it lyeth in the Shoulder or other hidden and fleshy part of the Body or that the Horse have a Fistula Poll-evill or other inflamation or swelling then use but this one Medicine and it will cure the same viz. Desperate straine Take a large earthen vessell or crock of one two or three gallons or more and fill it almost to the top with Asmart and Brookelime of each like much and mix them well then fill it up to the top with old chamber-lye as can be gotten so that all the herbs be quite covered and more then stop it close with a board or some such like thing and so keep it for your use for it never can bee too old now when you have occasion to use this Medicine for any griefe aforesaid then take an earthen Pipkin and put thereinto aswell of the liquor as of the hearbs so much as shall suffice for your present use and boyle it well upon the fire Then if it be for a strayne in the shoulder you shall take an old boote and cut of the foote so as you may draw it over the Horse-foote and bring it up above the knee almost to the Elbow of the Shoulder keeping the neather part of the boote as close and straight to the legge as may be but the upper part which is to cover the shoulder must be wide and spatious then into this boote thrust all this mixture so hot as the Horse can suffer it and lay it fast and close about the shoulder especially before and behind then drawing up the upper part of the boote so fasten it to the Mane and about his Neck as that it may not by any meanes slip downe but keep constant and firme and thus you must apply this Medicine to the place till the griefe depart this is the most violent of all medicines and fit for no creature but a horse to endure yet in short time it will bring forth whatsoever evill matter lyeth in the Ioints and if you have occasion to apply this to a Fistula Poll evill or any Impostumation or swelling then may you spare the boote and only lay on the medicine in manner of a Pultis and it will be sufficient ✚ This is a very approved Receipt § 13. D. Hippoph VVHat meanes have you to dissolve Grease or Glut in a fat or ketty Horse after a strong heate or violent exercise Hippos For a thing of this nature I have seene this scowring administred viz. Dissolve grease Take of sweet Sack one quart and set it upon the fire eyther in a Basin or open Skillet and when it is scalding hot put into it of Rosin one ounce made into very fine powder then by degrees a little after a little convey it into the Sacke continually stirring it as you put it in for feare of clotting and when the Sack and it is very well incorporate take it from the fire and put into it of Sallet oyle halfe a pint and so stirre them well together and as it cooleth put also into it of browne Sugar-candy made into fine powder one ounce and when it is only bloud warme give it to your Horse so soone as hee commeth from his exercise and then being set up let him bee well rubbed and cloathed warme and well littered and let him fast three houres after it and let the Groome remaine continually with him during these three houres till you do give him meate yea and an houre after neyther let your horse all that time stand still long nor sleepe but be kept stirring and mooving for that the medicine will by that meanes worke the more kindly and when you shall give this or any other scowring be you sure that neyther the same day nor the next you give him any
Beere untill the Time do begin to waxe tender and soft then strain it and put to it of browne Sugar-Candy in powder two penny-worth Anniseeds in fine powder one penny-worth and two penny-worth of ordinary Triacle when all these are well dissolved over the fire give it your horse bloud warme but you must remember that you doe let him bloud before you doe give him this drinke in the Neck and Mouth ✚ This I have often tryed and found it right good Another â—ake of strong Ale one quart and of Wormewood halfe a handfull long-Pepper Graynes and the powder of dryed Rue of each one ounce London Triacle two ounces boyle them to a third part then take it off and strayne it that done put into it of browne-sugar-Candy in powder halfe an ounce and so give it him bloud warme ✚ This at twice giving will certainely cure his Feaver Another Take Stone-Crop of the iuice thereof foure Spoonefull put this iuice into strong-Ale one quart and so give it your horse then let him be walked if the winde be not too cold and sharpe an houre then set him up and cover him so as he may sweate an houre then coole him by degrees and let him drinke no cold water by any meanes let his provender bee good old dry and well sifted Oates but against the fit commeth whether the Feaver be Quotidian Tertian or Quartan let him be kept fasting for the longer hee is fasting and more empty upon his sick dayes the sooner will his Feaver leave him ✚ This is a well approved receipt and let this suffice for ordinary Feavers provided that when his fits be gone from him and that he appeareth more lightsome and well it will be very good and wholesome for him if you cause him to bee had abroad and walked warme covered and so ayred in due time in the warme Sun and that will greatly comfort him and revive his spirits §. 11. F. Hippoph VVHat say you now to the Feaver Hectique Hippos I say Sir it is a most dangerous and mortall Feaver and so malignant as that if a skilfull Ferrier bee not with him in time it is certaine death and first it beginneth with a Consumption in the flesh it proceedeth of a hot humour ingendred first in the stomacke which too much Physicke hath occasioned and by taking away of too much bloud from him in his youth without necessity wherefore it is a thing most perillous to take bloud from young horses upon very slight cause not to be over ready with Physick but only in case of great necessity The signes to know this Feaver from any other are to looke into his mouth and to draw forth his tongue and you shall finde both his mouth and tongue raw and mervailous hot and having little appetite to meate his flesh will consume and waste and seene loose if you strike him with your hand upon the buttocks the flesh thereof will quiver and quake and he will be continually subject to quaking and shaking all his whole body over besides he will be very much inclined to sweate as hee standeth in the stable The cure is First to make this lotion for his mouth Take of running water or Well water two quarts and put thereto of Sage of Yarrow of Ribwort of Plantane of Bramble-leaves Feaver Hectique and of Hony-suckle-leaves of each one handfull with common Hony one spoonefull boyle all these to the consumption of one moyety and a little before you take it from the fire put to it the quantity of a wal-nut of Alume and two spoonefull of Vineger when that is dissolved take it off and drayne the water from the hearbs or else slightly strayn it which water you shall keepe for your use and when you would wash his mouth therewith fasten to a stick a ragge and so wash his mouth and tongue twice or thrice a day and this will make his mouth well againe or else if you do wash his mouth with the surrop of Mulberries it is very wholesome and good ✚ After give him this drinke Take of Aloes one ounce powdred of Garlick halfe an ounce Anniseeeds and Licoris of each halfe an ounce make first your Aloes Anniseeds and Licoris into fine powder and after bruise your Garlick a little putting thereto of brown Sugar-Candy three ounce in powder and adde thereto of white Wine one pint warme this and so give it your horse then let him bee ridden a little and so set him up warme and let him bee set upon the Trench three houres before and three houres after and then eyther give him sweete Hay or greene Corne or the leaves of Sallowes and towards night give him a sweete Mâ—sh and give him this drinke every other day for three mornings continuing him with Mashes or white water and let his Oates bee very well sifted and in short time he will doe well againe ✚ With this receipt I have cured sundry horses but then forget not to wash his mouth dayly with the aforesaid lotion But if in all these severall Feavers you do find him eyther to be costiue or very hot in his body then you may do well to administer that Clyster prescribed you in lib. 2. chap. 6. § 2. Clyster 2. letter C. §. 12. F. Hippoph VVHat say you now 〈◊〉 Feaver Pestilent Hippos It is a disease most contagious for it is so malignant as that it will infect so many horses as be in the stable wher he standeth and it proceedeth from one of these two causes viz. eyther from an infectious ayre or from the corruption of the bloud inflamed by meanes of intemperate riding and exercise The signes are these the horse will hang downe his head in the Manger as if hee slept his eyes will water very much and Inflamations will arise at the roots of the Eares as if he had the Vives The best cure I ever knew was this with which I have cured many Horses visited with a Pestilent Feaver Feaver Pestilent first let him bleed well in the Neck veine reserving the bloud in a cleane basin which when it is cold will be very bad and ill coloured then wash his mouth with the lotion specified in the precedent § secondly apply to the Temples this Playster Take of Camamile of Goates-milke of the Iuyce of Sage of Sallet-oyle of white Wine-vineger of each foure spoonfull of red-rose-leaves dryed one handfull which must be eyther of a red-rose cake or otherwise red-rose leaves dryed beat them all in a Morter till they become of one body and so thick as that you may spread it playster-wise upon a linnen cloath then strew upon the Plaister two or three Nut-megges made into fine powder then make it good and hot putting the backside of the Plaister into a Pewter dish over a chaffing dish â—nd coales and so administer it warme to the Horse and for his drinke let it bee such water wherein have bin boyled violet leaves Mallowes and Sorrell but if the fit
yron so close neer till you come almost to the very quick and then will issue out a kinde of sweaty or deawy moysture which you shall perceive then is it time to binde on the hoop and filliting according as I have before prescribed you but yet before you doe any thing at all unto the foot or false quarter have your salve in a readinesse which is to be applyed unto the chinkes of the false quarter viz. Take of the roots of Lingua-Bovis green and newly gathered of the roots of Consolida-Major and the root of Mallowes all newly gathered of each halfe a pound these must be washed and scraped very cleane and cut into small pieces let these roots be boyled in Aligant two quarts untill the â—ine be boyled quite away and that the roots become very soft then pound them very well and straine them through a fine searser and that it may straine the better reserve a little of the Wine as it boyleth wherewith to moysten it in the strayning Take then of Venice Turpentine of new Waxe and of Burgundy Pitch of each halfe a pound of blacke Pitch foure ounces of the oldest oyle Olive one quart put these things with the former ingredients into a cleane kettle or Posnet but yet after this manner viz. First the roots then all the other things by themselves the one after the other the Turpentine onely excepted which must be put in when all the other ingredients be molten you must let all these boyle untill all the Wine be consumed and the ingredients be very well incorporate and then put in the Turpentine and then when it hath boyled one waume or two take it from the fire keep it with continuall stirring till it be cold and so keep it in some cleane vessell for your use you must also adde unto these things which I had almost forgotten of Frankincense foure ounces made into fine powder This salve is to soften and mollifie the hoofe whereby to make it to grow having thus prepared your salve before you bind the hoofe with the hoope and Filleting as before is shewed annoynt and rub very well where the hoope and filletting is to bee placed with the salve then bind on the hoope with the said filletting that don take hurds rowle it up into a rowle the full length of the chinke of the quarter having first annoynted the hurds very wel with the salve lay it upon the chinke of the false quarter and so bind the hoofe up with the two long peeces of the aforesaid Filletting which were sewed unto the other peece of the Filletting which bound and made fast the hoope and let him not be dressed but once every three daies untying all aswell the hoope as filletting Continue him to this kind of dressing fiveteene or twenty dayes or otherwise according as your discretion shall thinke to be requisite Now when you shall find that the salve hath brought up the hoofe and that now you know not how to harden it and make it solide and sound to make an able cure thereof apply this ensuing salve Take of the strongest white Wine-Vineger one quart Diers-gals of greene-Coperas both bruised of each foure ounce boyle these in the Vineger to the consumption of a moyity then straine it and put unto it of old Sallet-oyle one pinte and so boyle it againe untill the Vineger be all consumed which you shall know by stirring it with a little stick and drawing the sticke forth let it drop into the fire and if that which droppeth from the stick into the fire do not crackle theÌ„ let it boyle yet longer for then it is not enough but when it is sufficiently boyled by dropping in a little of the medicine it will burne without crackling then take lyturgy of Gold and lyturgy of Silver of each halfe a pound make thâ—m into very fine powder and searse them Take then the Skillet from the fire and let the medicine stand till it be almost cold then mixe well the lyturgys and put them in for if they should bee put in whilest the liquour is hot they would fly forth of the Skillet againe tâ—en set the Skillet upon the coales againe and so let it boyle upon a gentle fire otherwise you shall not now bee able to keepe in the medicine and so boyle it up keeping it continually stirring untill it become to be of a deepe or darke gray and do cleave unto the thing with which it is stirred and that it doth rope like unto glew then adde unto it of new Bee-waxe three ounces which must bee first molten by it selfe and then put also into the medicine of foote made into very fine powder and which is made of wood and also of white leade in powder of each three ounces these I say being made into very fine powder must bee put into the medicine after it is taken from the fire and by continuall stirring made halfe cold and so set upon the fire againe and kept by continuall stirring untill it bee throughly incorporate and thus it is made and when it doth begin to be so cold as that it may be handled then make it up into Rowles and so keepe it for your use And when you are to use the salve take away the hoope Fillitting and all and all annoynt the hoofe with the salve and so bind upon the hoofe a linnen cloath to cause that the medicine may remayne on and let him bee annoynted therewith every day once till the hoofe bee so hard as that he may be able to travell ✚ This receipt I do hold to be the most soveraigne of any that ever was yet knowne which was taught me by a French man who was so carefull to give me ample instructions therein as that he bound on the hoop and Fillittings which are the most difficult parts of the Cure in my presence for he was very desirous to have me fully instructed therein § 24. F. â—â—ppoph WHat disease is that which is called the Flankes Hippos This disease called the Flankes is different from the former neyther have we no proper name for it unlesse wee will name the same the Plurisie for the Epithete wee have from the French who stile the same Mal-de-Flankes it is when your horse is troubled with over much abundance of bloud whereby he eyther ingendreth a Mainge or else falleth dangerously sick thereby who by reason he hath beene oft-times let bloud before his body now will looke for it whereof he missing falleth eyther into very dangerous or no lesse loathsome Maladies the cure is First take bloud from both sides the Neck Flankeâ— maldesâ— and three dayes after in both the spurre veynes in the Mouth and in the Temple-veines then give him a drinke of Diapente and sweete Sack and he will do well ✚ This is very good §. 25. F. Hippoph VVHat good Charge have you wherewith to stop the Feet Hippos I think I have sufficiently shewed you already notwithstanding
only apply the medicine taught you in lib 2. chap. 16. § 10. L. for the Poll-evill ✚ This whay is also good to cure the bloudy Riftes Bladders Canker in the mouth Barbs Pappes and all Feavers and Maladies in the Mouth Another Take life-hony seven spoonfuls and Verde-grease halfe an ounce and boyle them till the hony bee halfe consumed and that it is become red then put it into some cleane pot and annoynt the sorance therewith made warme twice every day and when you have thus annoynted it cast upon the place Hurds cut very short to keep on the oyntment and this will in short time heale it up very sound ✚ This is most soveraign for any shackle-galde which commeth eyther by lock cord or shackle but if your Horse be desperately galled in any part of his body as by the girt or otherwise then Take of Verjuyce of the Crab two quarts of greene Copperas two penny-worth and boyle them together to one pint and a halfe and wash the sorance therewith very well and after fill up the hole if any be with the powder of red-leade and so let it remaine three dayes untoucht then wash it as before and fill it with your red ointment againe and thus in two or three times dressing it will heale up bee the galling never so dangerous ✚ This have I often used §. 3. G. Hippoph VVHat is best to bee done to a Horse that is Gravelled Hippos This malady commeth when a horse in his travell hath gotten gravell betwixt the sole and the hoofe which setleth at the quicke and there fretteth and festreth you shall soone know it by his halting and complayning upon the same foot which so soone as you do perceive take up the foote and you shall feele it warmâ—t in that place then in any other part of the foote and if you make tryall with your Pinsors Gravelling you shall perceive him to shrinke and to yeeld when you nip him against that place Take off the shooe and with your drawing iron draw the place till you come unto the quick picke forth all the gravell and crush forth the matter and bloud cleane then wash the sore cleane with your Copperas water taught you in the next ensuing Paragraph then poure upon the sore sheeps-Tallow and Bay-salt molten together of each so much as will suffice and let it bee poured into the wound scalding hot then stop up the hole with hurds and set on the shooe againe and at two or three times dressing it will be whole but till he be through well do not travell him neyther let his foote come into any wet ✚ This is a certaine cure Another Search and draw the place as before and get forth all the gravell then stop the place with Hogs-grease and Turpentine molten together pouring it into the wound scalding hot and stop it up with hurds and tack on the shooe and keepe his foote from wet and hee will soone bee whole This is also very good Another Be you certaine that you have gotten forth all the gravell and corruption then Take Virgin-waxe one ounce Rosin and Deeres-suet of each two ounces Bores-grease halfe an ounce and of Sea-greene alias House-leeke one head incorporate all these together in a Morter then melt them over a very gentle fire and so apply it hot to the sorance and stop it up with hurds and tack on the shooe and in few dressings it will cure it ✚ This is a speciall good cure § 4. G. Hippoph HOw doe you make your greene oyntment you doe so much commend Hippos Sir this Vnguent which I doe so much commend unto you is the most rare and soveraigne thing that I ever yet saw or knew for the cure of any sores whether old or greene Vlcers Fistulas Poll euills or what else for where this oyntment commeth no proud or dead flesh will grow no flies will adventure neere the place where this oyntment is laid and for a Horse or Mare-Filly that is cut gelt or spla annnoynt but the place and they will neyther swell or fester whereby the creature is the further of from danger for this Vnguent doth not only heale soundly and well but speedily also provided you lay nothing upon the wound or sorance where the oyntment is administred as neyther hurds lint plaisters or the like unlesse you may have occasion to Taint a wound which is extraordinary deepe neither that for any long time or too often and besides the seldomer the wound is dressed as once a day or once in two daies it will heale the better and faster especially if it be brought into good forwardnesse of healing And together with this Vnguent you may do well to wash the sorance with the water I call the Copperas water which by reason it is alwaies first to be used I will set it downe first and the Greene-oyntment shall assume the second place Take faire water two quarts and put it into a cleane Postnet and put thereto of greene Copperas halfe a pound Copperas â—ter and of salt one handfull and of ordinary Honey one spoonefull and a branch or two of Rosemary boyle all these till one halfe of the water bee consumed and a little before you take it from the fire put to it the quantity of a Doves egge of Alume then take it from the fire and when it is cold put the water into a glasse and stop it up close and keepe it for your use and when you are to dresse any sore first wash it cleane with this water and if the wound be deepe iniect it with a seringe ✚ This water of it selfe will cure any reasonable sore or wound but the greene oyntment being applyed after it is washed will heale any old Vlcer or Fistula whatsoever if they come to the bottome of them and for greene wounds they have not their fellow the Greene-oyntment is thus made Take a cleane Skillet or Postnet Greene-oyâ—ment and first put into it of Rosin the quantity of a wall-nut which being molten put to it the like quantity of wax and when that is also molten put to them of tryed-Hogs-grease halfe a pound and so soone as that is molten put into the rest of common English Hony one spoonfull when all these are molten and well stirred together then put in of ordinary Turpentine halfe a pound and so soone as it is dissolved take it from the fire and put into the Skillet of Verdegrease made into very fine powder one ounce and so stirre it well al together but be carefull it runne not over for that the Verde-grease will cause it to arise then set it againe upon the fire till it do beginne a little to simper then take it off for if you suffer it to boyle it will turne red and lose its vertue of healing and become a Corasive then straine it through a cloth into some earthen Pot or Pipken and keepe it for your use laying something upon the mouth of the
Another Take the oyntment of the oyle de Bay and unguentum Agrippa of each like much rub the inflamation places every night with this unguent well mixed then apply unto the place a piece of a sheeps skin with the wooll on but this medicine is much better in Winter then in Summer by reason that this unguent of it selfe is very hot wherefore in the Summer season in stead of such hot unguents take two ounces of those that be cooler with three roots of white Lillies rosted or boyled or Rie-leaven sixe ounces of old Hogs-grease as much as will suffice and of the tender tops of Isope halfe an ounce mixe all these together and make thereof an unguent with which rub and annoynt the place well and after apply it to the place plaister wise this done cover the place with a piece of sheeps skin the wooll being on and continue to do this till it be ripe and ready to be opened blow also into his nose of Euforbium and black Elebore pulverized of each like much to the bignesse of a hasle nut of either then put into each nostrill a long Goose feather first dipped in oyle de Bay which powder and oyle will cause him to cast forth much of his Glanders and of his bad humours which do feed them ✚ This medicine if it be rightly applyed will cure him Another If your horse together with his Glanders be troubled with inflamed kernels under his chaule then give him this drink Take of Elecampane dryed Anniseeds Fennell seeds Commen Pepper Grains Licoris of each three drams all pulverized and adde thereto two heads of Garlick pilled and bruised boyle all these in strong Ale two quarts to a moyity then strain it and set it over the fire again and put unto this liquor the quantity of a Tennis ball of tryed Hogs grease and let it remain no longer over the fire but untill the Hogs grease be molten and so administer it bloud warm with a horn this done leap his back and trot him gently a mile upon faire ground and so home again then set him up warm clothed and littered causing him to sweat in his clothes two hours then by little and little slake his clothes cooling him by degrees till you have brought him to his former coolenesse and as he doth begin to leave off sweating let him be well rubbed till he be dry then two hours after this give him a sweet Mash and use this drink and sweating sundry times every second day for a week The next week Take Wheat meale Hore-hound Anniseeds and Licoris made into very fine powder of eaeh as much as will suffice make a paste thereof with ordinary Honey and Sallet oyle of each as much as will suffice then every morning make three Pils the bignesse of a great Wal-nut a piece and give them to the horse three mornings together keep him all this time warm and let his drink be white water and his manger meat be either Wheat Bran prepared or dryed Bran but if he have kernels under his chaule then either ripen them as you were taught before or else burn them with the flame of a Candle and open the skin with an incision knife and then put into the orifice the root of a red Dock giving it a slit or two and it will draw his cold quite away from under his chaule But first you must understand that the drink last before mentioned ought to be applyed before you apply any other medicines and my counsell is withall that you doe purge him before you give him this drink or any other medicines for purging doth the better prepare the body of the horse whereby to cause his physicke of what nature soever to work more kindly ✚ This receit I have often tryed and I have perfected very great cures therewith Another very soveraign after your horse hath taken the drink next above prescribed Take Gumma-Guiacum Amber Corall of each halfe an ounce make all these into very fine powder and infuse it into red Wine one quart with a good quantity of Cinamon and Arkanet powdred and give it to your horse two mornings together bloud warm and so order him as is usuall with other drinks ✚ This is also very good Another First give him this drink following but first purge him two dayes before take of Tanners Owes new made wherein never came Hides one pint of Sallet-oyle foure spoonefuls two heads of Garlick pilled and bruised Feather-few and Selandine of each one handfull choped very small Anniseeds and Licoris and Bay-berries all finely puluerized of each one spoonefull boyle all these a little and so give it your Horse bloud-warme twice a weeke fasting and he being thus foure times drenched will bee perfectly cured This I never tryed but I have bin assured by able Ferriers that it will cure the Glaunders be it never so old Another Take strong Ale one quart Tarre a quarter of a pint two heads of garlick pilled bruised and give it your Horse fasting warme once in foure dayes till he be throughly cured This I never tryed Another Take of the newest and strongest Tanners Owes one pint Venice Turpentine washed one ounce Bayberries in fine powder one spoonfull Saffaron powdred one penny-worth Aristolochia rotunda one ounce Guiacum two ounces both in fine powder incorporate all these upon the fire till the Turpentine be dissolved then give it your Horse bloud warm two mornings in a weeke resting three dayes still betwixt till he be cured which will be in foure or five times giving Another Make Pills of Venice-Turpentine with paste of Barley flower and give them to your Horse and they will Cure him Another Take Baked Barley flower two parts the dust of Oaken-barke and Bay-berries in five powder of each one part make a paste thereof with new Tanners Owes and so make them into Pills with the powder of Cinamon three parts and Saffaron one penny-worth and so give them to your Horse Another for the Glaunders and Consumption of the Lungs which must bee given after you have made tryal of the drink before prescribed which beginneth thus take Elecampane Anniseedes Fennel-seedes c. and finding that your Horse is not therewith cured give him these Pills following Take Barly flower baked in an Oven Cumfrey rootes Bursa-Pastoris Bramble-leaves or the red and unripe Berries growing upon Brambles which we do commonly call Black-berries these unripe berries are much better then the Bramble-leaves of each one handfull of Alkenet one dram boyle all but the Barley flower in Tanners Owes newly made so much as will suffice and when it is throughly boyled straine the liquor from the other simples reserving only the liquor and so make a paste thereof with your Barley-flower adding thereto of the dust of Oaken barke one handfull or two then make this paste up into Pills the bignes of a good wall-nut give him foure of these at a time rowled up in the powder of Cinamon two parts and one
both supple and loosen his skin the next day give him this drink Take of Muskadine and of strong Ale of each one pinte Grunsell Rue Smalage Rosemary and Betony of each like much all together amounting to a handfull Then take Gum-Dragamant one ounce two heads of Garlick pilled and bruised let all these boyle in the Muskadine and Ale to the consummation of one pint then put to it of sweet Butter a penny worth and when it is molten take it from the fire and straine it very hard and so give it him bloud warm Let this drink be divided into three parts whereof give him one part the first morning the other second parts the second and third mornings following for you must understand that when I said that this drink must be boyled to the consummation of one pinte my meaning is that it must boyle till one part be consumed and not otherwise and in the interim you must keep your Horse very warm and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water and four dayes after he hath been thrice thus drenched give him this other drink Take Anniseeds Licoris Fennel-seeds Bay-berries Elecampane dryed Fenugrick Turmerick of each like much all made into very fine powder and searsed let two spoonfuls of this powder being well mixed be infused in good Ale one quart with Sallet oyle two spoonfuls give him this drink four mornings together wherein you are to observe that the first time you are to administer this drink to your horse you are to put into the Ale two spoonfuls of this powder and the other three mornings but one spoonfull keep him warme and order him as is behoovefull for a sicke Horse that is in physicke and he is certainely cured ✚ This is a speciall good Receit Another Let him bloud in both the flanke veines then take of good white Wine one quart and put thereto of Sallet oyle three ounces of Comin one dram Anniseeds and Licoris of each two ounces make all these into very fine powder and searse them and give it him bloud warm then set him up and let him be throughly rubbed against the hayre and along the back and ribs and nape of the necke halfe an houre together then cover all his backe with a Sacke made throughly well soaked in a tub of water and when it hath drained a while lay it upon him and upon that two housing clothes at the least and gird them close unto him well wipsed which will bring him into a sweat which truely will be the prime cause whereby to restore him to his pristine sanity but let him not sweat above one houre at most and coole him by degrees taking away the Sack first and keep him to sweet Mashes or white water during the time of his physicke and longer let him be thus drenched sweated and ordered seven dayes together and give him in stead of his Oates Barly boyled and dry Beanes bruised in a Mill and good old sweet Hay well shaken and dusted and sometimes green Mault from off the floore and after eight dayes let him bloud in both the brest veines but take not above a pinte of bloud from him in all and that day you bloudy him give him of good Sacke one pinte and put to it of Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte and of London Treacle one ounce warm this upon the fire and brew them well together and so administer it bloud warm then leap his backe and ride him till he sweat then set him up warm clothed and littered and at night give him a sweet Mash putting into it the powder of Brimstone two spoonfuls and he will be well again ✚ This is very good Another Take Hogs grease two drams and of the juyce of Dragon-wort one ounce of Incense halfe a dram of Sirrop of Roses three ounces dissolve all these in Tison one pinte and a halfe set it upon the fire till all be dissolved and so give it him bloud warme and exercise him moderately upon it till he do begin to sweat then set him up warme and let him fast three houres after and this will scowre from him all his infection loosen his skin and procure a good appetite to meat provided you take bloud from him the day before and if as well in this receit as in all the former you doe give your Horse a suppository the day before you drench him you will much better and sooner perfect your cure especially if you finde him costive otherwise a gentle Clister will not be amisse ✚ This is a well approved cure and I have often used it § 7. H. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Horse that is Hip-shot Hippos Sir this commeth sundry wayes that is to say either by a stroke with another Horse or by a wrench by which meanes the bone may be slipped out and then it must be put in again or by a straine which may cause him to halt or by meanes of some thorne which he may get by leaping or running among bushes which must first be gotten out otherwise the place will fester and he goe lame The cure is first let him bloud in the thigh veine on that side whereon the griefe is then charge him with the charge we call a honey-charge prescribed you in the next § and so put upon the other foot a Pattent-shooe and let him not lye down in ten dayes if that the bone have been out after bathe the place well with that bath which is already taught you in lib. 2. cap. 5. lit B. and the receit beginneth thus take Smalage Oxe-eye and Sheeps suet c. and put into the Bath some of the said honey charge and if this doe not cure him as it is most probable it will then apply to the place this Ceroene as the French doe terme it which is a Searcloth very hot and this Ceroene is thus made Take of blacke Pitch halfe a pound of Masticke two ounces of Galbanum four ounces of fat Pitch and of Turpentine of each halfe a pound melt these in a pot together and when it is halfe cold charge the place up to the hanch and so overthwart the reynes of the backe and if he be not cured at the end of eight or tenne dayes more with this Ceroene or Searcloth then take it off and apply to the place grieved this unguent Take of oyle de Bay Althea tryed Hogs grease of each halfe a pound incorporate all these together to an unguent and therewith annoint rub and chafe the place grieved and he shall doe well ✚ This is a very good receit and I have made great use thereof §. 8. H. Hippoph HOw doe you make this Honey-Charge Hipposerus Hippos I will shew you Sir Take of Wheat meale two pound and put a little Wine to it as much as will suffice put it into a kettle as if you were to make a Poultesse when it is wel mixed adde to it of Bolearmoniack in fine powder half a pound of
it will comfort the Frush very much but if the hoofe be naturally brittle and by foundring become dry and streightned then to enlarge the same and to make it the more tough and to grow the better also Take of Hogs grease Turpentine and Masticke of each like much and halfe so much Lard as of either of them melt all these but the Turpentine on the fire and when it is well dissolved take it off and then put in your Turpentine stirring it well till it be throughly incorporate then keep it in a stone pot by it selfe and when it is through cold be sure to stop the pot very close and so reserve it for your use With this Salve annoynt the coffines but especially the Cronets every day twice at the least and it will cause the hoofe to grow very much and become tough and sound ✚ This I have often used and it is very good § 2. I. Hippoph VVHat is good to ripen an Impostumation Hippos To ripen any swelling which doth impostumate you shall know by the heat for if you lay you hand theron it will be hot and burne wherefore to prepare and make it ready to be opened Impostumation to ripen Take Mallow roots and white Lilly roots of each like much bruise them and put to them Hogs grease and Linseed meale of each so much as will suffice and boyle them till they be soft and so plaister-wise apply it to the griefe ✚ § 3. I. Hippoph VVHat is good for any inward sicknesse in a Horse Hippos I have shewed you that sufficiently before in lib. 2. cap. 3. § 6. A. where I give you three excellent receits together neverthelesse if you doe finde that your horse doe not thrive but droop and impaire I will here give you one receit more which I doe know to be most singular and will doe him much good and whereof I have had very long and great good experience First therfore if you do see cause take bloud from him but not otherwise and if he be subject to costivenesse then administer unto him either a Clister or a Suppository and the day following give him this drinke Take Aristolochia Rotunda Bay berries Gentiam Anniseeds Inward sicknessâ— Ginger and of Trifora-Magna of each one ounce beat all the simples to very fine powder and mixe them well together then take of white Wine one quart or of Sacke the like proportion which is better then put of this powder and of your Trifora-Magna one spoonfull into the Wine Salet oyle halfe a pinte and of Mithridate two drams warm these upon the fire and so administer it bloud warme and let him be exercised as well before as after his drinke but not so farre as to sweat by any meanes neither let him drinke any cold water in foure or five dayes after but either warm Mashes or else white water ✚ This is most soveraigne for any inward sicknesse droopings forsaking of meat Feavers Colds Coughs or the like § 3. I. Hippoph YOu speake hereof administring a Suppository but what Suppository were best to be given in a case of this nature Hippos I will shew you Sir if your Horse be so ficke whereby you feare to give him any strong medicine and that he be costive withall then give him this Suppository following Take of Honey sixe ounces of Salâ—niter one ounce and a halfe Inward sicknessâ— Supposiâ— of Wheat flower and of Anniseeds in fine powder of each one ounce boyle all these to a hard thicknesse and then make it into Suppositories and first annoynt your hand with Sallet oyle or sweet Butter and the Suppository also which he is to take and so convey it into his fundament a pretty way and after tye his tayle betwixt his legges as I have elsewhere shewed you or else hold it close to his body with your hand by the space of a quarter of an houre at the least till it be throughly dissolved and this will cause him to purge kindly and it will very much coole and loosen his guts then you may be the more bold to administer what Drinkes Cordials or other things which you may thinke most requisite for his recovery ✚ §. 4. I. Hippoph VVHat is good to ripen inflamations Pustils and Kernels which doe grow under the chaule of the Horse Hippos This commeth to a horse that hath either Cold or Glanders which must be dissolved otherwise the Horse can never be cured Jnflamations wherefore take Wheat Bran two handfuls and so much Wine Ale or Beere as one quart with which to thicken it put to it of Hogs grease halfe a pound boyle these together till the liquor be quite consumed and so apply it to the place so hot as the horse may well suffer it renewing it every day once till it do of it selfe breake or be so soft to be opened then let forth the corruption and taint it with a taint of flaxe dipped in this Salve Take of Turpentine and of Hogs grease of each like much and of Rosin and Waxe a much greater quantity melt all these together and with the said taynt dipped in this medicine put it into the wound renewing it every day once till it be whole ✚ This is an approved receit But if it be an inflamation impostumating in any other part of the body take then the grounds of a Beere-Barrell foure quarts of Smalage Penny-royall Winter-Savory Cumfrey Rue and of the leaves and berries of the Missell-tow of each two handfuls chop all these very small and put them to the said grounds and put to it of Sheeps or Deere Suet tryed one pound and three or foure handfuls of Rye or Wheat Bran so much indeed as will serve to boyle this to a Poultesse and when it is boyled as much as will suffice apply it to the place and if the swelling be very much impostumated it will breake it or at the least so soften it that it may be opened if it be hard at what time you put your Poultesse thereunto it will send it backe again without more to doe ✚ This I have very much experimented and have found it to be right good But if he be troubled with the Strangles and that he is very much inflamed under the chaule then cure them thus take Basilicon old Bores grease and Dialthea of each foure ounces of oyle de Bay one ounce incorporate all these well together and first clipping away the hayre from under the chaule annoynt the swelling and inflamed place therewith very well this done binde upon it a piece of Sheeps skin with the Wooll next to the inflamation that the warmth thereof may the better helpe to ripen the Pustils which being ripened open them and let forth the corruption that done taynt it first for three or foure dayes with Basilicon onely but after heale up the sorance with your blacke Aegyptiacum taught you in lib. 2. chap. 4. § 4. A. and during the time of this cure let him
Feaver or a Surfet to the great perill of his life The signes are knowne by the swelling Lâ—gs swelled and therefore to annoynt them with Acopum were very good But the best cure is first to take up the thigh veines then with your Fleame to prick the places most swelled and hottest in sundry places especially be low to the end that the corrupt bloud may issue forth then Take of white Wine-lees one pint of Comin bruised one ounce boyle then together to a pultis with Wheate flower three handfuls then with a cloth apply it to the place good and warme renewing it every day once if in two or three daies it doth draw it to a head as it is very probable it will do then lanch it and heale it up either with Shooe-makers waxe laid on upon a Playster of leather or also with a salve made of the yolke of an Egge Whete flower and common honey well wrought together to a salve which you must also apply Plaister-wise ✚ But if it do not come to a head and yet the swelling continue then Take of Pitch and of Virgin-wax of each three ounces Rosin half a pound of the iuyce of Isop and of Galbanum of each half an ounce and of Mirrah-secondary half a pound of Bdellium-Arabicum Populeon and of the drops of Storax of each halfe an ounce and of Deeres-suet halfe a pound boyle all these together in an earthen Pot and when it is cold take of Bitumen halfe a pound Bole-Armoniack and of Costus of each one ounce and halfe make all these into fine powder and then incorporate them well with the other and so boyle them all over againe very well that done poure this whole mixture or Medicine into cold water and so make it up into rowles like a salve for Playsters and when you are to use it spread thereof upon Playsters of Leather which must bee so large as to cover the Legges full so far as the swellings are which if any thing can do it this will asswage the swelling and give very much strength and comfort the Sinewes and Nerves neyther is this Playster to be removed so long as it will remaine on ✚ This I have applyed to many Horses very much annoyed with swolne-Legges and brought them to their former smallnesse when as Ferriers have spent much time upon the Cure and given it over at last But if the Swelling do fall into the hinder-Legs or into all foure-Legs together being but a bad Sorance causing them to burne and swell exceedingly and the hayre to stare the cause whereof coming as I have before said from immoderate Riding heat and labour whereby the grease melting falleth downe into the Legges by reason the Horse cannot voyd it in his Excrements or else being over-hot he is washed or negligently set up without sufficient store of litter and rubbing so as the taking cold the bloud with the grease setleth in the Legges and there congealeth and so causeth them to swell This sorance also commeth by having his feet beaten especially in the Summer with being ridden and galloped upon hard ground which first occasioneth wind-gals and those also causeth the legs to swell which truely is the worst kinde of swelling of all other by reason that lamenesse doth immediately follow it unlesse great Art and diligence be speedily applyed for prevention thereof Wherefore the signes being so apparant needs no remonstrance and therefore I will passe on to the Cure which is thus Take Populeum Nervell Hogs grease of each one ounce Legs â—led incorporate them very well together cold and annoynt the sorance therwith morning and evening foure dayes together and at foure dayes end take of Claret Wine lees one quart boyle it upon the fire with so much Bran as will bring it to a Poultesse apply this to the place grieved plaister-wise with a cloth good and hot for foure or five daies more renewing it every day once and in short time he will be sound again ✚ This is a most excellent receit which I have often experimented Another The swelling of the legges may be easily cured if in the beginning they be often times in the day laved and bathed in cold water unlesse the malady come of too great a surfet wherefore if this of cold water will not doe it then Take of common honey one pound Turpentine common Gum meale of Linseed meale of Fenugrick of each foure ounces Bay berries made into very fine powder and seraced three ounces mixe and boyle all these together well and when you take it from the fire put unto it of white Wine one pinte and then boyle it over againe till it doe become thicke spreade this upon a cloath reasonable hot and wrap it about the members swelled and doe not renew it above once in a weeke and it will cure them ✚ This is a certaine and most approved Cure Another If you take up the veines and make them to bleed below and not above and then rope up the legges with thumbands of soft Hay wet in cold water and then cast more water upon them in short time he will be sound and well againe ✚ This is also very good § 5. L. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure the Leprosie Hippos This is a moyst mainge very infectious which commeth by meanes of great surfets taken by over-riding which is very easie to be seen and known and therefore needs no further description The cure therefore is first let him bleed well in the necke then scrape away the scurfe with an old Curry-combe Oyster-shell Hayre-cloth or some such like thing till the sorance doe looke raw and that it be ready to bleed then annoynt the raw places with this oyntment Leprosâ— elephaâ— malady Take Arsnick or Resalgar and tryed Hogs grease the Arsnick or Resalgar being first beaten unto very fine powder incorporate these well together to make them into a perfect oyntment then tye up the head of your Horse so high to the Rack as that he may not be able to bite rub or lick himselfe and so annoynt the places therewith and cause the oyntment to sinke the better in by himselfe and so annoynt the places therewith and cause the oyntment to sinke the better in by holding a hot bar of iron neere to the place as you annoint him and let him stand so tyed three houres and then wash away the Vnguent with the strongest Chamber-lye you can get and wash him so throughly that you may be assured you leave none of the oyntment upon the Horse and then untye him and give him meat and thus dresse him once every day till the sores be quite dryed up ✚ This is also good for Scratches and Kibed-heeles §. 6. L. Hippoph VVHat is good to kill Lice in a Horse Hippos Lice commonly commeth to a horse when he is very poore especially when he runneth abroad in the Winter time in some Wood Coppice or places where are many high trees for that the
and lay unto it black-Sope upon the Hurds and when the scurfe falleth off dresse it with black Aegiptiacum untill such time as it hath produced a circle of a new horne and keepe the Hoofe alwaies supple with Vnguentum-rosarun and the greife will heale up and weare away in short time This is very good §. 3. O. Hippoph HOw doe you make Oyle of Oates and what is it vertue Hippos To deale ingeniously with you neither my Master nor my selfe did ever know the nature of this Oyle or how to make it untill such time as wee met with Master Markhams Master-Peece from whence since we have made very good use thereof and doe finde it to be a most singular receit I will give it you iust as we have it from him Take of Milke eight quarts and warming it upon the fire put thereunto of burnt Allome foure ounces which will cause it to run into a Curd like to a Posset take of the Curd and cast it away and straine the Whey through a course cloth into a cleane vessell then take of Oates a quarter of a Peck dry and cleane husked that were never dryed and put them into the Whey and so set the Whey upon the fire and let them boyle untill the Oats doe burst and be soft then take them off and put them into a Cullender so that the Whey may go gently from them without any pressing for you must keep the Oats as moist as may be this done put the Oates into a frying-Panne and set them over the fire stirring them continually till you see the vapour or smoke of them not to ascend upwards But as it were to run about the Pan then suddenly take them off and putting them into a Presse presse them most exceedingly and looke what comes from them is only their Oyle which you must reserve in a close glasse and so stop it well Now there are others more artificiall and curious waies whereby to distill and extract this Oyle yet this above them all is both the easiest surest and least troublesome way and the very best for every meane capacitie ✚ This Oyle of Oates is of all medicines whatsoever the most excellent and soveraigne for the Body of the Horse as being abstracted from the most naturall wholesome and best nourishing food which doth belong to the sustentation and lively-hood of the Horse this Oyle being given by foure or five spoonfuls in sweet Wine one pint or strong Ale one quart and some of the Whey poured into his nosthrils doth cure the Glanders before all other Medicines It is also given in the same manner the best of all Purgations for it purgeth away all those venemous and Peccant-humors that feedeth the most incurable Farcin whatsoever and for my owne part at what time I can conveniently come by this oyle of Oates I will never use any other Oyle or vnctious matter in any medicine whatsoever to be administred inwardly but this only I having found by good experience that it is the most Soveraigne of all simples of that kind and thus I have shewed you what Master Markhams opinion which is the same both with my Master and my Selfe is both of this Oyle and it's vertues and so I remit you to the use and practice thereof ✚ CHAP. XVI §. 1. P. Hippophilus WHat is that Receipt which I have often-times heard so highly commended among Ferriers called Pastons and to what use doth it serve Hippos This thing which is called Pastons is none other then a plaine Plaister only some of of our verball Ferriers have gotten hold of the French word Paston which doth signifie a Playster and that they deliver and vent among ignorant people whereby to cry themselves vp for learned and skilfull Doctors in Horse-leech-craft now forasmuch as maladies and diseases are of sundry sorts and different natures so ought the Pastons Plaisters and Medicines bee discrepant each from other but since you were pleased to understand the true nature of this word Paston I have in a word delivered the same unto you and now I will give you the Receipt of one of the Pastons which will bee well worth your acceptance It being the most soveraigne remedy of any that ever I could come to know which is as good to dissolve and take away evill humors which shall at any time fall downe into the Legges of your Horse as any other Medicine you can use And this it is Take of common Hony one pound of Turpentine halfe a pound of Mastick in fine powder two ounces of Frankincense and Bole-armoniack both made into fine powder of each four ounces of Sanguis Draconis three ounces of new laid Egges sixe of the strongest white Wine Vineger one pinte of the flower of Rice seven ounces mixe all these together and hereof make a plaister and lap the legges of the horse from the feet to the upper joynts and do this but foure or five times and you shall see it will performe a most strange and rare cure ✚ § 2. P. Hippoph VVHat is good to helpe a strain in the pâ—sterne joynt Hippos If it be onely a straine in or upon the pasterne joynt Pastern joynt strâ—ned and not upon the backe sinew Take then of Chamber-lye one quart and boyle it untill the scum doe arise then straine it and put unto it of Tansey and of Mallowes of each one handfull and of ordinary Honey two spoonfuls and of Sheeps tallow foure ounces chop the hearbs small and then mingle all these ingredients together and so boyle them untill the hearbs be well sodden and so apply the medicine to the place with a linnen cloth bound up and stitched close with a needle and threed that it may not remove renewing this plaister every day once for three or foure dayes and he will be sound and goe upright againe ✚ This is speciall good Another Take of Brine one quart and boyle it till it ariseth and then strain it and put to it of Tansey and Mallowes of each one handfull of Honey two spoonfuls and of Sheeps tallow foure ounces chop all these together and then pound them well and set them upon the fire and so boyle them as much as will suffice apply this warme to the place with a cloth plaister-wise sewing it fast on and so let it remaine five dayes and if this doe not cure him then wash the place with warme water and shave away the hayre and scarifie the joynt and then apply the medicine of Cantharides and Euforbium c. as you are shewed in the cure for an upper attaint in lib. 2. cap. 4 § 9. lit A. and so he will be cured this is very good § 3. P. Hippoph I Would gladly Hipposerus learne a good pill for the Glanders Pill for 〈◊〉 Glanderâ— Hippos I have delivered you mâ—â—y already but since you are pleased to renew this cure again I will give you two pils which shall be of most singular vertue which shall cure any violent
sometimes it comes again by the means of a stroke or blow given by some cudgell by his Keeper or Rider betwixt his eares whereby it festereth inwardly and inflaming breedeth an impostumation so as if it be not in time taken it will grow to a very foule Fistula not easie to be cured for the poll of the horse is so tender a member as to be soon offended and therefore easily damnified I need not to deliver you the signes for the swelling will be so apparant as that it cannot be mistaken albeit it will putrifie much more inwardly then outwardly and therefore you ought to apply your diligence to open it before it do breake of it selfe The cure is First to lay unto the place swollen such things as will ripen it Poll-evill and to prepare it ready to be opened and as touching the ripening thereof Take the loame of a mud wall which had never any Lime in it but much Straw or Litter and the elder this Loame or mud wall is the better boyle so much as you shall please thereof in the strongest white Wine Vineger and let it boyle till it come to be a very Poultesse then being very hot lay it to the swelling renewing it morning and evening till it be ripe enough to be opened then open it with a red hot iron made sharpe at the end and let the iron be the bignesse of a naile rod but you must begin below thrusting your instruments upwards cleane through that it may come forth in the softest place and when it is thus opened so as the corruption may issue forth at ease anoynt the orifices with tryed Hogs grease two or three dayes together to get out the fire but howsoever faile not to dresse it twice every day with the said Poultesse taynts being dipped in the Poultesse and put down to the bottome as well to carnifie and heale the Fistula at the bottome as to keep open the orifices and this Poultesse will cure him ✚ But withall you must remember to make him a hood or nightcap to keep warm the nape of his neck and to keep in the taints also this also cureth the Botch in the groine hurts in the withers navell-galles galled-back or Sit-fasts c. Another First ripen it as before or else with tryed Hogs grease scalding hot making him a Biggin wherewith to keep his poll very warme and renew this Emplaister every day and it will ripen it the sooner then when you finde it to be softest and most likely to breake open it with a hot iron two inches beneath the soft place carrying your hand upward into the soft and most matterative place to draw forth the corruption downwards then taint it with Flaxe or Hurds dipped into molten Hogs grease and lay also a plaister of Hogs grease upon it renewing it for four or five dayes once every day to get forth the fire after this take of Turpentine of Venice halfe a pound thrice washed and dryed from the water the yolks of two Egges and of Saffaron one penny worth in powder incorporate all these together very well then with a probat search the depth of the sorance and taint it with a spunge full as bigge as the hole of the wound and as long and convey the taint down to the very bottome well anoynted with the said medicine but this must be done with the help of your instrument and then cover it with a plaister of Hogs grease renewing it twice a day but when the swelling is alaid then use no plaister and in short time it will be perfectly whole and sound X This is a very good cure Another First ripen and open it as before is taught you and apply Hogs grease to fetch forth the fire then heale it thus Take Roman Vitreall Allum and Rose water of each two ounces boyle all these together on a quick fire till they do come to be as hard as a stone and then beat it into a very fine powder and when you are to dresse the sore first dippe a taint into Vnguentum Egiptiacum and so rowle it in the said powder and convey the taint with the help of your instrument to the very bottome and it will in short time make it perfectly whole and sound ✚ This powder being strewed upon any old sore or ulcer will both heat and dry it up Another Powder for old sores Take of Quick-silver one ounce let it be well mortified with fasting spittle and mixe with it tryed Hogs grease the quantity of a Hens Egge and Brimstone pulverised incorporate these very well together and anoynt the swelling very well with this unguent having thus done take presently of red Tarre one penny worth of the reddest and best of Hogs grease halfe a pound and of green Copperas and bay Salt of each one handfull both made into fine powder boyle all these on the fire exceeding well and then boyling hot even as it comes from the fire with a clout fastened upon the end of a stick apply this medicine upon the place being so lately anointed with the Quick-silver Hogs grease and Brimstone and thus by scalding it three or foure mornings together you shall after those mornings but onely warme the Tarre medicine upon the fire so that it be but molten and apply it and it will be cured for this scalding of the place doth so kill the malice of the Fistula that it can never breake to annoy the Horse any further ✚ And thus with this medicine I have not onely cured many poll-evils but sundry other Fistulaes it cureth all impostumations and foule Vlcers being thus applyed § 11. P. Hippoph VVHat is good in case of Pursivenesse or shortnesse of Breath Hippos This disease commeth by two meanes the first naturall the second accidentall naturall as when a horse is as we doe usually say cock-thropled for that his throppell or winde-pipe being too long and so becomes crooked as his winde is thereby so straightned or stopped as that he is not able to draw it in and put it forth with that ease and pleasure that other horses doe that are loose thropled for that the winde-pipe is I say straightned which doth convey his breath into his lungs and vent it forth againe In like manner a horse becommeth pursive and short-winded when the pipe is too much filled with fat or other phlegmaticke stuffe whereby he is very much suffocated which causeth his lungs to labour the more and therefore if you shall be pleased to follow my counsell never breed with that horse that is cock-thropled This disease commeth secondly by accident when a horse shall be too hard strained upon his water like as many of your ignorant Ioctries use to doe when morning and evening they doe make them watering courses as they are frequently so termed so also this infirmity commeth by riding gallopping or straining a horse upon a full stomacke before he hath either digested his meat or emptied himselfe for by this meanes
so knots and pustils do engender in the Liver which breedeth either a Dropsie a Feltricke or a rot The signes how to know this infirmity are these After his journeyes his hayre will stare his legges swell and burn and when you shall presse the places swoln with your finger upon taking your finger away there will remaine a pit or dint hee will forbeare his meat very much and when he doth eate it will be without any stomacke or appetite he will pant much lift and beat in the flanks many times he will swell under the belly neither will he cast his coat in seasonable time when other Horses that be sound do and he will be so faint of body as that he will become lunt and utterly to have lost his mettle These and such like be the symptomes of this malady Now come I to the cure Let him first bleed well under the taile then Take of Mares-milke two quarts if the same may be had if not Rot. the like quantity of the milke of a red Cow then take a lump of Arement then take a young horse of or about the age of foure yeares and of colour blacke if it may be if not then of some other colour run and chafe him about that he may sweate much then with a spoone or with some other such like instrument rake the sweate from his head necke breast backe sides ribbes buttocks legges and in a word from each part or member of the said horse and get off the sweat so much as you can possibly and so put your Arement and your sweat into the milke which all being well mixed give him this by equall portions three mornings together till he hath taken it all and let him drinke none other drinke after it in sixe or seven houres but immediately after his drink let him be led forth into some pasture where other horses be the better to cause him to neese stale dung and empty himselfe for it is very wholesome for him so to doe before he either eate or drink Having thus done set him up warm and well littered and if the season do serve give him of the green blades of Rye if not give him Barly steeped in milk three dayes but renewed every day once Then after every of these drinks if you feele him cold in the pasterne joynts or that he trippeth or stumbleth as you leade him in your hand meddle no further with him for that he is past cure otherwise for nine dayes together after morning and evening give him white water onely unlesse now and then a sweet Mash and sometimes give him milke with his white water if the Horse be not above nine years old and so you may cure him but if he be elder this may prolong his life whereby he may do the more service This I never did experience but a Noble Knight and a very friend told me that he hath thus recovered sundry Horses which have beene visited with this disease CHAP. XVIII §. 1. S. Hippophilus WHat good Salves have you wherewith to heale up sores and wounds Hippos Sir I have many according as I have before shewed you but yet I will give you many more the greatest number of which I have tryed and I am able to commend them unto you for very good and those not Salves Salve onely but Vnguents Powders and Waters which be most soveraign Take of Perosen and of hard Rosin of each one pound of Frankincense Virgin-Wax or for want thereof new Waxe and Sheeps suet of each halfe a pound of old tryed Hogs grease one pound and a quarter boyle the Gummes and Waxe in white Wine halfe a pint and then put unto it your Sheeps tallow and Hogs grease and when all is well molten and incorporated straine it and whilst it is yet hot put in of Venice Turpentine one ounce and so work all well together and when it is cold poure in the liquor from the salve which put up into a cleane galley pot or other cleane vessell for your use ✚ This is a most soveraign Treate or Salve wherewith to heale any wound that is not come to an Vlcer and so dry it up Another most excellent powder Powder Take unslaked Lime the dry dust of Tanners Oken Bark and old shooe soles burned to a cole of each like much make these into fine powder and mixe them well and keep it in a cleane boxe or glasse for your use ✚ This powder healeth the buds or knots of the Farcin after they be broken and it skinneth them and if they be first washed with the juyce of Vervine and strong Vineger mingled together and then this powder being cast upon them will I say heale and skin them It also healeth and skinneth all other sores Another Oyntment Take tryed Hogs grease halfe a pound Verdigrece in fine powder one penny worth boyle these upon the fire two or three walms then take it off and put unto it of Venice Turpentine halfe an ounce and stirre it well together till it be cold ✚ This Vnguent will heale any wound or sore in a Horse Another Oyntment Take of Roch-Allum a good quantity and burn it and as much bay Salt and burn that also make both these together into fine powder then take of common Honey and of sweet Butter of each like much as will suffice incorporate the Allum and Salt with the Honey and Butter by melting them over a gentle fire and with a taint or plaister apply it ✚ And this cureth any foule sore This I have often tryed Another Take of faire water Water one pinte and put into it of green Coperas and of bay Salt of each the quantity of a good hasle nut both made into very fine powder let these boyle a little upon the fire With this wash any sore before you do apply your Salves Vnguents or Powders ✚ This is a right good water Another Take of common Honey two ounces Roch-Allum Verdigrece and Vineger of each one ounce make your Allum and Verdigrece into very fine powder then take of Sublimate finely powdred two ounces boyle all these a walme or two on the fire this laid on a Spatula plaister-wise once a day or if the wounds be deep with a taint cureth both speedily and soundly but before you dresse him with this Salve let the Sore be well washed and injected with the water last above mentioned made of faire water Coperas and bay Salt ✚ This is a most approved cure and good beyond all peradventure for it cureth not onely sores and wounds in any part in the body of the Horse but in the foot which way soever it may happen and it cleanseth any wound from dead or proud flesh Another Take the buds or tendrest tops of the leaves of Elder one handfull and first shred and after pound them very well till you bring them to a perfect Salve Salve and apply this to the sore binding a cloth
upon it to keep it from falling off ✚ This will cure any old or new sore whatsoever in any part of the body as galled backs Spurregals gravelling prickt or accloyed the wound being dressed herewith every day once it will cure any Fistula if the juyce thereof be injected to the bottome With this one thing alone I have done cures which very good Ferriers could not cure Another Take common Honey and Verdigrece finely pulverized Aegyptiacum of each as much as will suffice boyle them together till the medicine waxe red and this will heale up any old or green sore in short space ✚ This is also very good Another Take the white of a new laid Egge Oyntment and Sallet oyle as much as will suffice and beat them well together and before you do apply it unto the wound poure into the wound burnt Butter and then lay on your medicine with Hurds plaister-wise and this will cure any green wound ✚ This is very good And thus much for sores §. 2. S. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Horse that hath gotten wrench in his shoulder Shoulder wrench Hippos If you do finde that the griefe be in the shoulder and that you do know it to be a wrench make this charge and charge the grieved shoulder therewith Take Wheate-meale two pound and allay it with red Wine in a Pipkin or Postnet as if you would make thereof a paste then take of Bolearmoniack made into fine powder halfe a pound of ordinary Honey one pound boyle all these together and adde thereunto in the boyling of Pitch halfe a pound and so keep it continually stirring untill your Pitch be throughly molten but before you take it from the fire put into it of ordinary Turpentine halfe a pound of Comin oyle de Bay Dialthea Sanguis Draconis Bay-berries Fenugrick Linseed flowre of each two ounces make all these into fine powder then take of the oyle of Aspick one ounce boyle and mixe all these very well together that done charge Charge the grieved shoulder all over very well even down the knees ✚ This charge is most soveraign for any wrench or straine in the shoulder knees or hips it also cureth Kibes Scratches and all such like sorances it is also most excellent to comfort the sinewes offended or hurt it is very good for a back-sinew-spraine it draweth away all bad humours and abateth swellings X I have often made use of this receit but if it be a shoulder-pight or joynt-dislocated then thus he is to be cured viz. Shoulders dislocated First cast him and lay him upon that side which is not hurt then fasten with a cord the foot of the same legge all along a board and so fasten the foot to some tree or post which must be some two or three paces distant from the horse and neer to the ground and let one stand at the middle of the boord with a stick to turn it easily and by degrees in the middle thereof and whilst that is in doing let another with a paile of cold water rub wash and bathe the grieved place with his hand or foot and that very hard and in so doing he must take up the member grieved which he must chafe from the very top to the farther end of the legge and by thus doing you shall put in the bone which was out into its right place and after this is done you must raise him as gently as may be and when he is up let him bloud in the breast-veine on that side the griefe lyeth putting a Patten-shooe upon the contrary foot and let his forefeet be tramelled fifteen dayes after at the least to hinder him from lying down and charge the grieved shoulder daily with a restringent charge and look upon the grieved member every two or three dayes by the space of fifteene dayes after that you have thus set the same neither let him be removed out of his place during that time and after swim him and apply bathes unto the shoulder made of good hearbs such as I have prescribed you in the Section of bathes and lastly annoint him with this Vnguent Take oyle de Bay the oyle de Petra oyle de Spike and Nervall of each like much and thus ordering him he will be sound and well again ✚ I have proved this upon sixe horses and cured them all Another If the shoulder be either strained or dislocated it were uery good to swimme him then take bloud from the breast veyne on that side the griefe lyeth then tramell his fore-feet that he do not lye down and so let him remaine three weeks then anoynt the member grieved with Sallet oyle onely and the first time you shall take but of Sallet oyle halfe a pound which you must rub in against the hayre very hard both upon the shoulder and the breast by the space of halfe an houre the next day after you shall likewise rub and chafe the shoulder and breast by the space of halfe an houre more Shoulders strained without applying any thing unto them and so continue rubbing and chafing him for the space of eight or ten dayes together as for the Sallet oyle you must take four ounces thereof every third day wherewith to chafe rub and anoynt the shoulder and the other two dayes betwixt you must not rub and chafe it with any oyle at all and at the end of eight or ten dayes his shoulder will be swelled down to the very knee then take off the oyle and apply a restringent charge to the part grieved and swelled and adde to it of ordinary Turpentine halfe a pound to cause the charge to remaine on the better and the next day and all other dayes after in stead of this restringent charge Take Vineger and bathe the shoulder therewith upon the said charge and by degrees the haire will fall away and when the swelling is asswaged send your horse in the beginning to the water upon a foot pace and he will be cured this receit certainly is very good and not costly but I did never make tryall thereof albeit it was highly recommended unto me by a famous French Marishall who averred that he hath recovered very many horses therewith but for a horse that hath gotten a wrench or slip the onely remedy is to put in a French rowell and then to blow him and put on a Patten shooe and let his Keeper turne the rowell every day once as well to cause the putrefaction the better to issue forth from growing to the flesh and after twenty dayes you may take it forth at your pleasure ✚ This is good for a new straine § 3. S. Hippoph VVEre it not much better Hipposerus that after you have thus rowelled and blown him and set a Patten-shooe upon the contrary foot that he were turned forth to grasse for that the horse keeping himselfe in continuall agitation and motion as hee feedeth in the pasture the humour may the better descend and so
occasion the Scratches It is therefore requisite that the Groome doe clip away the long shag haire from about the pasternes if he have any and fetlocks as also from the inside of his legs unto the bending of the knee by meanes whereof he may the better keep the legges of his horse from this disease sometimes it also comes from the corruption of the bloud after great heats and surfets taken sometimes againe for that the horse hath been bred in marrish fenny and watery grounds sometimes it is ingendered from melancholy humours â—hich doe fall down to the legges and sometimes by standing continually upon his owne dung which will through the heat and steame thereof breed the Scratches without other help and sometimes again the Scratches will fall down into the heeles of the horse and there make its way forth after a desperate sicknesse taken by a surfet and lastly it comes by reason the grease of the horse had been moulten by over-riding or labour whereby the grease falleth down and resteth in the pasterne and fetlocks and so causeth the Scratches to be ingendered It beginneth first with a dry scab and after it sendeth forth fretting watrish and matterative stuffe which will stinke and be most noysome and his pasternes and fetlocke ioynts will be full of chaps and chinkes sometimes all along sometimes right down and sometimes overthwart and the places will swell and the cracks or chinkes will cause the legs to be very gourdy and to run with much noysome and offensive matter and the horse will be many times so lame as not to be well able at first setting forth to goe but with much trouble and no lesse paine and by these very signes you shall know this malady neither shall you want store of receits wherewith to cure it the French doe call this disease grappes grapes and Iavars and Arraistes as also such other like tearmes and epithetons all which as before is touched makes but onely one and the same disease the first thing which is to be done towards the cure is to bathe and wash the places all about and then either to shave or clip away the hayre very close otherwise you can hardly make a perfect cure thereof then Take the spawne of Toads Scratches which in the beginning of March you shall finde in pooles ponds ditches and standing water and first draine the water from the said spawn and then distill it and keep the water in a glasse close stopped to serve you for the whole yeare and herewith wash and bathe the places every day warm and in short space it will cure them this I have often used Another Take Honey and Pepper made into very fine powder of each as much as will suffice and boyle them together and anoint the sorance therewith and they will soon heale and dry up this I did never try but a famous Ferrier of France taught it me Another Take Lime and Salt and make them both into fine powder which being well mixed apply it to the places grieved good and thick then take Hurds and cut them very small and clap them upon it and so binde up the place with a linnen cloth that it doth not remove and so let it remaine two whole dayes and nights and this will cause the sorance to purge and after heale it up very kindely This I did never try Another Take Verdigrece and the fat of Bacon and pound them to a formall Salve and so plaisterwise apply it to the sore and it will heale up the scratches in short time This is very good Another Take old Bores grease and common Honey of each as much as will suffice and worke it to an Vnguent anoynt the sorance therewith four or five dayes and no longer and it will cure the Scratches ✚ This is very good Another Take Verdigrece in fine powder Gals Brimstone and Bolearmoniack of each one ounce make all into fine powder and mixe them with Bores grease as much as will suffice and so bring it to an Vnguent and anoint the sorance therewith and this will both heale and dry them up ✚ This I have often tryed Another First cauterize five strakes on either side and your iron must be somewhat broad and you must go but only one crosse-wise and after heale it up as it is usuall in Cures in your Cures of Cauterize this I never did practise Another Take Pepper Garlick Cole-wort-leaves and old Boares-grease of each so much as will suffice pound them together to an Vnguent and herewith anoint the Sorance and in few daies it will ripen the Scratches and kill the mallice of the disease and heale it up X. of this Receipt I have made often use and it is good you must not faile alwaies before you dresse any horse that hath the Scratches first to wash and bathe the place well with warme water and then to shaw or clip away the haire very close also every time you are to dresse any horse of this malady wash the place with Chamberly and greene Copperas boyled together and after dresse him up with your other Salves Vnguent c. Another Take Hogs-grease and strong Mustard and anoint the Sorance therewith and in short time he will be whole ✚ This is very good Another Take first of white-Wine-Vineger one pint and put unto it of the strongest Tobacco in the Rowle you can get one ounce open the leaves and shread the Tobacco small and boile it untill the Vineger do begin to consume then take it from the fire and strain it wringing it hard then take white-Wine one pint of Roach Allome the quantity of a Walnut of Bay-salt and of common Honey of each one Spoonefull red Sage Rue Hony-suckle-leaves Yarrow Plantaine Rib-wort Bramble-leaves of each like much halfe a handfull in the whole boile all these in the Wine till one quart be consumed then straine this water also and mix them both together and set it upon the fire till it begin to boile then take it off and when it is through cold put it up into a glasse and so keep it close stopped that no ayre come unto it and when you would use it for the Scratches wash the Sorance and then put upon it the powder of burnt Allome and this will cure the Scratches ✚ This I have often tryed and it is singular good Another Take Verdegrease and make it into fine powder and then take common hony and worke them together to an Vnguent and therewith anoynt the sorance and in short time it will infallibly cure him ✚ With this Receipt I have cured very many Horses Another Take tryed Hogs-grease and Gun-powder of each so much as will suffice first beat your Gun-powder to very fine powder and incorporate them very well together and anoynt the places greived once a day therewith and it will soone cure the Scratches ✚ This is a speciall good receipt Another Take Trayne oyle white-lead made into very fine powder and the Ielly
which you shall find upon the ground which many do report to be the falling of a Star in the night where it shooteth of each like much incorporate these well together and anoynt the sore twice every day therewith but if you cannot get of this Ielly then adde to the former ingredients a little Arsenick pulverised and in ten or twelve daies this will heale him X. This also is very good Another Take the tender tops of Elder buds and the berries of the bramble while they be red and before they be rip of each one handfull boil them in Wort two quarts and put unto it of Allome the quantity of an Egge and therewith wash and bathe the Sorance good and hot twice every day and this water will cure him X. This is also very good Another Take of Hemlocke a good quantity shread it very small then take of Creame one quart and boyle it with the Hemlock till the Creame do turne into an oyle which done take it from the fire and straine it into a cleane galley pot and keepe it for your use with this anoint the Sorance and it will soone heale it of this I never had tryall Another Take Brimstone and make it into fine powder and mix with it of sweet Butter so much as will suffice to bring it to an Vnguent which will be of the colour of Gold herewith anoint the sores and it will cure them This I never tryed Another Take unslaked Lime Salt and Soot of each like much all made into very fine powder boyle this in the strongest white Wine Vineger you can get so much as will suffice till it become as thicke as a Pultis then soften it with tryed Hogs-grease and so worke it to an Vnguent and herewith anoint the places greived till they be perfectly cured ✚ This is very good but to prevent all sorts of Scratches Kibes Rat-tayles c. take up the Thigh-veynes and your Horse shall never have any of these Maladies or if he have them yet by so doing they will of themselves be cured ✚ This I have oft experienced § 7. S. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Sit-fast Hippos This Malady the French do call Mal de la Corn it is an hard knob which hath beene formerly a Saddle-gald but by reason that the Owner of the Horse was unwilling to spare his worke till it was fully cured it is converted into a Sit-fast Sit-fast which is oftimes troublesome to the Horse by reason it is growne to a dry knob so hard as a horne The cure is Take the greene outward leaves of a Cabbadge and stamp them with old Boares-grease or tryed Hogs-grease and worke them to an Oyntment and then mount his Back and then set the Saddle to the end that the Oyntment may the better enter or sinke into his Backe and in a few daies it will Cure him ✚ This is a very good cure §. 8. S. Hippoph THere be yet certaine Scabbes which doe grow upon Horse-heeles which Ferriers doe deny to be the Scratches but they will have it to bee a disease wholy different How doe you cure them Hippos Sir men may say what they shall please but I doe assure you these are also plaine Scratches But yet I will give a few Receipts for them Scabs and Scratches Take of Salet-oyle three ounces Red-wax-gummed one ounce common Hony two ounces mixe and melt all these together and make them into an Vuguent with which you must oft anoint the Sores and this will cure them ✚ I have often used it Another Take ordinary Turpentine two ounces new Wax oyle de Bay Quick-Brimstone of each three ounces common Hony one ounce Allome and Zacacon of each halfe an ounce mixe melt and incorporate all those well together and every evening anoint the places grieved therewith having first cleansed the Sorances as before is taught you This I did never try but I hold it to be very good Another Take the strongest white-Wine-Vineger Mustard and Soote of each so much as will suffice and mix them well them adde to them the yolkes of two Egges and of Hogs-grease one ounce Rape-oyle and new Wax of each two ounces quick-Brimstone in fine powder halfe an ounce melt all these and make it into an Vnguent and therewith anoint the grieved Sorances ✚ This I have often tryed and I know it to be very good § 9. S. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Horse that can neither Stale or Dunge Hippos This accident oftimes hapneth to a Horse that is suddenly travelled being newly taken from Grasse or that hath beene long time kept and pampered in the Stable without any execise at all for as those who be too hard Riders do soone surfet their Horses so likewise do these terribly wrong their Horses who be too indulgent and tender of them and therefore the golden meane is evermore the best The signes to know this Malady is plaine for that his paine will bee so great as that it will cause him oft to lye downe and tumble as if he had the Bots. I will give you one onely Receipt which a famous French Marishall gave me with which I cured one Horse for that I had never occasion to practise it upon any since but I do hold it to be most soveraigne in a case of this nature Take the root of Male-Brake or Fearne and put a piece thereof upon his tongue and it will cause him both to stale and dung Stale or dung and so he will be cured The male of Fearne is to be knowne by the root from the female for if you take a Fearne-root and cut it in two pieces you shall see the perfect figure of an Eagle and thereby you may know it to be the male which is for your turne And the female root will beare other effigies different from the male which wanteth its vertue to perfect this cure ✚ This I say I have once tryed § 10. S. Hippoph VVHat is to be done to a Horse that falleth sicke in his iourney or travell Sicke in travell Hippos This also hapneth as the former doth but yet oftner and sooner especially if he be very fat and pursive and wanting breath as also if he be travelled being fat and heavy the Sunne shining and scorching much for such a horse is in danger either to tire or to fall desperately sicke which may also endanger his life as I have frequently knowne The cure must be Take Muskadine or sweet Sacke one pinte Aqua vitae a quarter of a pinte of London Treacle two ounces and of the best Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte warme all these upon the fire and brew it well and give him one hornfull thereof then take his tongue in your hand and put down his throat a new laid Egge breaking it with your fingers as you put it forth of your hand then give him a second horne full and then another Egge and after all the residue of the drinke and
so after that a third Egge then let him bloud in the palat and rub it well with white Salt then set him upon the Trench cloath stop and litter him againe warme and let him fast an hour or two after it and then feed him by degrees both with Hay and Oates giving him either a sweet Mash or white water and he will doe well againe This drink refresheth all the spirits being over-laied through heate and labour and causeth a good appetite to meat ✚ With this drinke I have cured many sicke horses as well of mine own as of my friends which have faln away very desperately sick upon the way in travell but if I do finde that his bloud is inflamed as many times it will be I then use to open a veyne in the neck §. 11. S. Hippoph BVt what is to be given to a Horse that falleth suddenly sick Sudden sicknesse Hippos First let him bloud in both brest veines or if you have not skill sufficient to open these veynes then let him bloud in both sides the necke and let him bleed well nigh two quarts then give him this comfortable drink Take of sweet Sacke one quart and burn it with Graines Cloves and Cinamon of each like much being all beaten grosse put to it of Suger three ounces and when it is burnt adde unto it of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and of London Treacle two ounces warm all these and brew them well together and so give it to your horse bloud warme then ride him gently untill he do begin to sweate and so set him up warm clothed and littered but be sure to keep his head and heart warme neither must you stuffe and cloth him too hot for this drink will cause him to sweate sufficiently of it selfe yet litter him well keeping the Stable close and so let him fast sixe hours after against which time let him be rubbed very dry and give him to eate sweet Wheat straw and after give him either a sweet Mash or white water and boile therein of Mallowes and Water-cresses of each one handfull of Fennell-seed and of Persley-seed of each one ounce if he will drink the same After that morning and evening your horse being fasting ride him a mile or two to the end he may take the ayre which is very wholesome for him if the weather be temperate and let his meat be sweet straw old clean dry Oats and some Wheat and Pease mixed therewith give him a little at once and often untill you doe perceive his stomacke to come well unto him and let him be daily well rubbed and warm clothed to provoke him to sweat and let him be also well littered and his drink either sweet Mashes or white water and by this manner of keeping and ordering of him in short time he will recover his pristine sanity ✚ This I have often tryed and it is very good § 12. S. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Selender Hippos This disease is the very same with the Melander but the sole difference is in that the malander breedeth upon the bending of the knee or the legge before and the Selender engendreth of the bending of the hough in the legge behinde but it commeth just as doth the Malander and the cure is the very same with it but yet I will give you one good receit which will cure both first wash and shave away the hayre and rub the sorance with a wispe or hayre cloth till it be raw 〈…〉 then take the shreds of white leather untanned which Glovers doe make and boyle them in Vineger till they be soft and binde of this hot to the place but if you do not finde that by once or twice dressing taketh not away the scurfe or scab renew it daily untill it doth for by this meanes the roots of the bristly haire which groweth in and about the sorance is the onely thing that feedeth the Malander wherefore the roots of the hayre being taken off which this medicine will doe the sorance will soon be cured and to heale up the rawnesse thereof Take fresh or sweet Butter bay Salt and Frankincense both made into fine powder of each as much as will suffice and boyle them all together on the fire and with a ragge upon a sticke apply this medicine to the place scalding hot two mornings together and after heale it up and cause the hayre to come againe being daily anointed with Mallowes and sweet Butter made into an Vnguent ✚ This is a very good cure §. 13. S. Hippoph VVHat is to be given to a Horse sicke surfetted Sick or surfetted and his grease molten Hippos The onely way is first to take bloud from him if there be just cause and after to scowre his guts with this purge Take Cassia one ounce Filonio-persio or Persico and Trifora magna of each halfe an ounce sirrop of Violets two ounces dissolve these in mel Rosarum four ounces and give it him with a horne in a morning fasting and after either ride him gently or else walk him up and down an houre or better and for an houre after at the least let him stand upon the Trench then give him a sweet Mash which when he hath dispatched give him old dry Oates cleane and well sifted and after sweet Hay neither let him have any cold water in eight dayes after nor after that time but with exercise ✚ And this is a speciall good cure §. 14. S. Hippoph NOw let us come to the sinewes what say you to a sinew spraine Hippos I have already handled this point sufficiently in lib. 2. cap. 4. § 9. A. for an Attaint upper neverthelesse I will give you more receits for a sinew spraine albeit it be the same malady the first shall be for a sinew sprung Sinew sprung or when the sinew is broken and severed from the flesh as many times it falleth out then Take Tartar and the lees of Claret or red Wine of each three ounces Wheate Bran one handfull boyle these with the juyce of Smalledge two handfuls or better and when you take it from the fire put into it of Turpentine one ounce binde this to the sinew grieved so hot as he may well suffer it and using this medicine foure or fiue dayes he will be sound againe ✚ This is very good Another if the sinew or artery be broken with Corasives or other accident to cause it to soder or joyne againe Take the leaves and roots of Solomons seate and of great Cumfrey of each like much pound them small and infuse it in white Wine foure and twenty houres bathe the sorance herewith warme you having first boyled it and after you have bathed the place well binde the hearbs and roots to the place grieved dressing him every day once untill he be perfectly consolidate And if the flesh be still broken when you do finde the sinew to be knit strew theron the powder of Lime and Honey which will heale and
bloud being most wholesome for him and whilst he is thus bleeding thrust an iron Bodkin through the gristle of his nose skin and all then Take Assafetida the quantity of a hasle nut and dissolve it into a sawcer full of white Wine Vineger then take Lint or fine Flax and dip it into the liquor and so stop both your Horse eares therewith and so stitch them up and at the end of foure and twenty houres unstitch them and he is cured ✚ This is very good Another First let him bloud in both the weeping veynes and in the mouth then Take of bitter Almonds one ounce and a halfe of the gall of an Oxe two drams of black Ellebore made into fine powder a halfe penny worth of Graynes Castoreum Vineger and of Varnish of each five drams boyle all these together untill the Vineger be all consumed then straine it and put it into his eares and do as before ✚ This is very good Another Bloudy him as before then with your incision knife make a slit down his forehead an inch long and better and with your cornet loosen the skin round about but most toward the foretop then put into the place the root of a red great Dock cut thin and let it remaine there fourteen or fifteen dayes and once in two dayes at furmost crush out the mattrative stuffe and then take forth the Dock roots and heale up the place with your healing Salve and give him during these fourteen dayes white water onely and he will doe well ✚ This I assure you is very good Another Bloudy c. Then take Aqua-vitae and Garlicke of each so much as will suffice stamp them together and convey it into his eares doing vt supra ✚ This is singular good Another Let him bleede well in the neck and mouth for the abundance of bad bloud is the cause of this disease then with your Incision knife slit the forehead of the Horse and with your Cronet raise the skin especially upwards put in three or foure cloves of Garlick pilled put upon it a little lint or fine Flax to keepe away the Wind for that is dangerous and then give the Orifice a stitch to keep in the Medicine the better Then Take the seeds of Cresses of Poppy of Smallage of Parsly of Dill I say the seeds only of these hearbs and take also pepper and Saffaron of each two drammes make them all into fine powder and put unto them of Barley water two quarts as it commeth boyling from the fire and let it infuse therein three houres and then straine it and give him one quart thereof if it may be in the morning fasting bloud-warme and walke him up and downe an houre and better and then set him up warme and give him Hay sprinkled with water and the next day give him the other quart fasting and then doe as before neither let him drinke any cold water in foure or five daies after but only white water unlesse sometimes a sweet Mash And thus doing he will be cured X. This is a most excellent Receipt and I have often used it §. 21. S. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you for a Horse that hath Swelled-Legges Hippos This Malady of swelled or Gourdy-Legs commeth eft-soones by long standing in the Stable when as the upper parts of the plancks at his fore-feete are much higher then that at the hinder feete as I have before observed in lib. 1. cap. 4. for by that meanes the Horse not standing even and therefore not at his case the bloud setleth in the hinder-Legges which causeth them to swell Sometimes they doe come by reason the Horse being hard ridden was brought into the Stable too hot and carelesly set up who taking cold the bloud grease and humours do fall downe into the Legges and so cause them to swell Sometimes it commeth by over-riding whereby the Horse hath his bloud stirred and his grease melted which falleth down and resteth in the hinder-Legges causing them to swell Sometimes by being ridden and gallopping upon hard waies in the Heates and by that meanes the bloud and grease falleth downe into his Legges congealeth there whereby they do become gowty and gourdy And sometimes gourdy-Legges cometh by sicknes and surfets taken which after remedy had yet the faeces or dregges thereof still remayning in the body of the horse falleth downe and causeth the legges to swell as I have frequently seene And these be the primme causes and reasons which we have observed for this Malady Swelled-Legges The signes your eie doth demonstrate and you may without teaching point to it with your finger and therefore we may say nothing thereof Wherefore now we will to the cure If the swelling come by ordinary meanes then take up the Thigh-veines and then you neede doe no more for that alone will cure him and after open the heele-veines and lay a Retoyre to the Legges or else give him the fire which will siccicate dry up the bad humours which must be given gently and lightly neither would I have you give him the fire unlesse you might thinke or find it in your iudgement to be very requisite But my meaning is not that this remedy of the fire bee applyed but only to an old griefe otherwise not at all ✚ This is good But if besides his swelled-Legges they also be stiffe comming to him after much labour and travell therefore Take of Violet-leaves Primrose-leaves and Strawberry-leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in new-Milke till they become very soft and then take it from the fire and put to it of the oyle of Nervall of Petroleum and of Pamphilion of each one ounce and so stirre all together untill it becometh bloud-warme and therewith chafe rub and anoint the Legges Nerves Sinewes and Ioynts holding a hot barre of Iron neere to the place to cause the Vnguent to sinke the better in Anoint him thus with this Vnguent five or sixe daies together and it will helpe him ✚ This I have often used Another Take Traine-oyle and warme it upon the fire and therewith bathe his legges morning and evening and in short time he will be well ✚ This is very good also to ride your Horse into the water morning and evening up to the belly doth take away the swelling of his legges X. This is mervelous good § 22. S. Hippoph VVHat is good to asswage the swelling of the Cods in a Horse Hippos This Malady commeth many waies to wit by violent riding heats when there was not sufficient care had of him but was neglected in the setting up also it commeth by washing walking and cold taken after immoderate labour and sometimes by feeding to intemperately upon Provender and sometimes by feeding upon unwholesome meate The signes to know it are his stomacke may be peradventure good to his meate but yet it will do him little good for he will be alwaies meagre and leane his hayre will stare neither will he cast his
or be unruly This done take pitch which you must have molten in a pot in a readinesse and with a clout upon a stick annoint the stifling three or foure inches broad at the least and ten inches long and presently before the pitch can coole have a strong piece of new Canvas cut fit for the purpose which being made very warme by a fire clap it upon the place so neatly that the bone cannot goe forth againe This plaister must not lye towards the flanke and foot longst-wayes but crosse-wayes upon the joynt as it were about the thigh otherwise it cannot hold in the bone Having thus done anoint the plaister on the out-side all over with the said molten pitch and whilst it is warm clap flocks of the horses colour all over upon the out-side of the Canvas and let the plaister remaine on untill it fall away of it selfe and after that you may apply such good Vnguents as you may thinke to be most expedient for the malady But if the bone be not out then put in a French Rowell a little beneath the stifling-place and let the Rowell remain in fifteen dayes turning it once every day and at fifteen dayes end take it forth and heale up the orifice like as before you have been taught ✚ This is speciall good §. 25. S. Hippoph VVHat remedy may be had for a Horse that is troubled with the Stone Hippos This is a very troublesome disease and it commeth of grosse and bad humours gotten principally by violent exercise and intemperate riding and it commeth from the Liver and Spleen which falling down into the kidneyes and bladder settleth there whereby there groweth in the mouth of the conduct certaine inflamed hard knots which stoppeth his urine whereby he is not able to pisse but with great difficulty by reason the sinewes and the pores about the necke of the bladder are benummed which taketh away the sense and feeling of the bladder And sometimes this infirmity commeth by reason that in his travell the horse is kept so long in agitation as not to suffer him to stale and pisse for the water being made hot by exercise doth conglutinate and becommeth viscous and thick so as it cannot passe away from him as nature requireth it should do whereby there is made too great a retention of the Vrine by meanes of the obstructions he hath in his kidneyes which engendreth gravell sometimes red and sometimes grey which falling down into the conducts ingendreth phlegmaticke and grosse humours which occasioneth conglutination and so becommeth to be the stone waxing so hard and thereby stopping the current of his water so as he will not be able to pisse or stale And you may come easily to know it by reason that he can neither draw his yard nor pisse but with great paine and difficulty in his sheath and that many times drop by drop The cure is take Saxafrage Nettle-roots Parsley-roots Stone Fennell-roots Sperage-roots and of Dodder of each one handfull bruise all these things and boyle them on a gentle fire with white Wine untill a third part be consumed then put unto it of Salt one handfull of Sallet oyle and of the Lard of a Goat of each three ounces Honey halfe a pound when all this is boyled straine it and wring it very hard and of this give your Horse one pinte every morning fasting made bloud warme and if in the boyling or by standing it happen to become thicke dissolve it again with white Wine and after the first boyling it must be but onely warmed And give to him this drinke every morning so long as it will last ✚ This is very good for I have often tryed it Another as good as the former Take of strong Ale one quart and put it into a pottle pot then take so many of the reddest Radish roots cleane washed and sliced into small pieces as will fill up the pot then stop up the pot so close as that the ayre cannot get in and let it remaine foure and twenty hours then straine the roots from the Ale very hard into some other clean pot and so give it him in a morning fasting with a horne then ride him a while upon it and so set him up warme covered and well littered and in a little while you shall see him pisse give him this drink sundry mornings together and during this cure let him have but onely white water to drink ✚ This is speciall good §. 26. S. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a String-hault String-hault Hippos This is a malady which for the most part the best mettled horses be many times troubled with it commeth meerly of cold as by taking cold suddenly after hard riding especially when by being washed for the bloud and sinewes being by that meanes stupified and benummed is the cause of the disease by reason the sense and feeling of the member is taken from him you may easily know it by the manner of the unsightly lifting and sudden snatching up of his legge much higher then the other and it commonly commeth into the hinder legge rather then into the fore-legge The cure is first to take up the veine in the thigh and after to anoint all the legge and the thigh from the body down unto the very foot a long time together one holding a red hot Barre of iron neere to the place and let him be anointed with this oyntment Take of the oyle of Petroleum of the oyle of Wormes of the oyle of Nervall of Patch or Piece grease of the oyle of Spike of each one ounce of London Treacle two ounces and of Hogs grease one pound melt all these upon the fire and then take it off and keep it with continuall stirring til it be thorough cold and with this anoint the visited member every day once and then wispe him up with a soft thumb band of Hay from the pasterne to the top of the hoofe and thus do for ten dayes together rubbing and chafing in the ointment very well a long time together holding as before I have advised a hot barre of iron neere to it to cause this Vnguent the better to sinke into the sinewes nerves and joynts But after you have done anointing him you must keep him warme and well littered and let the thumb band be daily made lesser and lesser and shorter and shorter till you perceive him to handle both legges alike and your Horse to be recovered but you must not ride him that he may sweat much in a moneth after and so soon as warme weather commeth turne him to grasse into some dry pasture where is water and take him up againe about Bartholomew Tide or before the cold commeth and whilst he doth remaine in the Stable keep him warm and so he will be free of his String-hault and be a sound horse againe To anoynt him also with Acopum is very good ✚ Thus I have recovered sundry horses of this malady § 27. S. Hippoph VVHat is the
what causes doe you take up Veines Hippos As touching taking up of veines you shall understand that it is a thing in many cases so much behoofefull as that many times the most exquisite Ferrier living shall not be able to perfect this cure but by that way and meanes for unlesse such veines be either taken up or some wayes stopped which are noxious to the cure by feeding the malady with its peccant humours the Ferrier can never worke by true Art Againe veynes well taken up doe prevent many maladies wherunto many horses are much more propense then others are And lastly the taking up of veynes cureth some diseases which could otherwise never be cured For by taking up of the thigh-veines sendeth away Spavens Splents Curbs Kibed-heeles Swelled-legges Scratches Malenders Faricion in the legs and the like sorances besides it easeth all paines aches straines stiffnesse in the limbs c. Take up the Shackle-veynes Voynes to take up and it preventeth the Quitter-bone Ring-bone swellings in the lower-joynts foundrings c. Wherefore forasmuch as ignorant people whatsoever opinion they may have of their superabundant skill yet are they very much to seeke in that they doe so much exclaime against taking up of veyns absurdly affirming it to be a great meanes of laming of Horses but let them not mistake themselves for assuredly it is the best and onely remedy against these and many more maladies and when they shall have made triall they will not be of so prejudicate opinions CHAP. XXI § 1. W. Hippoph WHat good thing have you wherewith to preserve the winde Winde to preserve of a Horse Hippos Sir for this infirmity I make a Cataplasme which is this Take Wheate flowre foure pound Elecampane and Gentian of each one ounce Anniseeds Fenugrick Comyn Brimstone and Licoris of each halfe a pound let all these be made into very fine powder and searced then put unto it of common English Honey halfe a pound and so much white Wine as will make all these things into a Cataplasme boyle all these sufficiently till it be so thicke that you may make it into Pils and give your horse of them three or foure at a time for sixe or eight mornings together Vse this often for it will conserve a horse in health and keepeth him sound of his body winde and courage ✚ This is most excellent But if you doe perceive a taint in his winde then Take a close earthen Pot or Pipkin and put thereinto of the strongest white Wine Vineger three pints and foure new laid Egges unbroken and foure heads of Garlicke cleane pilled and bruised then cover the pot very close and bury it in a Mixen or Dung-hill twelve houres then take it up and take forth the Egges but breake them not then straine the Vineger and Garlick through a fine linnen cloth putting unto the liquor of life-honey foure ounces and of browne Sugar-Candy Anniseedes and Licoris all made into very fine powder of each two ounces and your horse having fasted all night till morning give him one of the steeped Egges and then one hornefull of this liquor or drinke and then another Egge and after that another hornefull and so a third Egge and then an hornefull and lastly a fourth Egge and so the residue of the liquor remembring to give him into eyther nosethrill halfe a hornefull of his drinke and it must be administred bloud-warme then set him upon the Trench cloth stop and litter him warme and let him stand so foure houres then unbit him and if it be in Winter time give him sweet Wheate-straw but no Hay and if it be in Summer give him grasse greene-corne or the leaves of Sallowes and for nine dayes give him eyther sweete Mashes or white water putting therein some Salet-oyle and be you assured hee will doe well againe ✚ This is also very good Another Take a Hedge-hogge alive and Bake him in the Oven in an earthen-pot close stopped untill he do become so dry as that you may make him into powder give him also this powder one spoonefull in a quart of good Ale every other day and this will infinitely helpe and preserve his winde ✚ This is also speciall good § 2. W. Hippoph IS there such a disease which is called the Wilde-Fire Wild-fire Hippos Yea Sir there is and it is a disease most dangerous and very difficult to cure but by a Receipt of a powder which once I obtained of a skilfull Chirurgion which said powder is not fit to bee applyed to any living creature but to a horse only it is so terrible And thus it is to be made viz. Take of living Toades foure the greatest and blackest can bee found living Moles or Ants three and of old Shoo-soles sixe and heads of Garlick unpilled and with their beards or roots remaining upon them forty then take of the leanest and saltest Martlemas-beefe three pounds cut it into thin and swall peeces and slices such Martlemas-beefe I meane which hath longest hanged in the smoake take also of Oates eight pints and of old woollen-ragges the couser the better two pounds take also of Swallowes-dung a good quantity and foure or five living Swallowes put all these things into an Earthen-pot new and well nayled and let it bee big enough to be able to hold all the Ingredients and put also all those living-creatures among them alive and then make a Cake of Clay and therewith lute up the Pot so close as that neyther smoake nor ayre can eyther get in or out having so done carry your Pot into some Orchard or other Close or Back-side from Housing or Straw and there place it and so make a great fire both round about it and upon it and so keep the fire unto the Pot till it bee as red-hot as the very fiery-coles themselves and let the fire continue so great after the pot is red-hot by the space of halfe an hour at the least then let the fire remaine untouched untill it be all consumed to ashes and so go forth of it selfe without eyther quenching the same or taking away any of the fire about it and so let it stand till it be through cold which will hardly be done the same day so when the Pot is through cold take it from the place and opening it take forth the stuffe and put it into some Trough or great Morter made for the purpose which must stand in some out or open place where no winde can come the Trough or Morter being covered with a cloth that the powder may not fly away there pound and stamp these things together into fine powder and in the stamping adde thereunto of unslacked-Lime one pound Let him that stampeth it be close muffled and his eyes covered with a glasse-case made for the purpose for feare of hurting them and when it is throughly powdred searse the powder through a course Haire-cloth and so keepe the very finest of the powder for your use in some cleane
side very well with white Wine Vineger then take off the wet litter and lay the Turfe very hot with the grassy-side next to the place and so put on the Saddle againe and let it so remaine for all night and this presently helpeth any swellings in the withers or any other part of the backe as also any swellings by Spur-gaules or Navell-gaules ✚ This is very good Another If the skin be broken or ulcerated then Take sweet Butter Bay-salt and powder of Frankincense of each as much as will suffice boile all these upon the fire and with a clowt fastened to the end of a sticke even as it commeth boyling from the fire scald it two or three times but if it be full of corruption then make incision on both sides from beneath that the matterative stuffe may the more easily void away downewards and after use none other thing wherewith to heale it up but onely your usuall powder of Lime and Honey which will heale that or dry other such like hurts ✚ This is most excellent I have often experimented the same Another But if it be a wrinckle either in the shoulder or in any other joynt or member then Take of white Wine one pinte halfe a porringer full of Wheate flower of common Honey one pinte of Syzes three ounces boyle all these together to an Vnguent and anoint the places grieved therewith And this also is very soveraigne for Cones Cracks and Chops in the heeles of the horse ✚ This I often using have found it to be very good Another Take three great Onyons picke forth the cores making a concavity or hollownesse in them then fill them up with the powder of Frankincense then wrap them up in three or four handfuls of Hurds or Tow then wet the Hurds and so cover and heale them up in the hot embers and lay upon the top of the embers a good Shovell-full of hot burning coles and so let it remaine untill the Onions be throughly rosted then take them forth and separate the Hurds and burned part from the other and the soft and pappy part you shall apply to the sorance very hot and let it remain three daies before it be removed and do thus so oft as need shall require untill it be through whole but unlesse the hurt or bruise be very great it will be cured at first dressing ✚ This is very good Another But if the place grieved be broken Take then of the oyle of Worms of Turpentine and common Honey of each two ounces incorporate all these together very well till you have brought them to be one body and either by Taint or Plaister dresse the sorance therewith and it will heale it up sound ✚ And this also is very good Another If your Horse hath taken a wrēch in the shoulder or in the hippe knee or hoofe then first swim him then after for thirteen or fourteen dayes together annoynt the member grieved all over and a good way about with this unguent Take of the oyle de Bay of Nervall of Dialthea of tryed Hogs grease of each two ounces melt all these together and stirre them well till they be well incorporated and herewith anoint him against the haire with a hot bar of iron to be holden before you as you annoint him and after let him be rowelled with a French Rowell and let a Patten-shooe be put upon the contrary foot and let him be kept in the house and the Rowell turned daily and the corruption put forth and then let him be either gently ridden or walked every day halfe an houre and let the Rowell remain in the Horse fourteen daies at the least then take it out and heale up the orifice with your green Oyntment and so soon as he is whole with your cauterizing-iron draw crosse lines eight or nine inches long over against the joynt that was pained so as the rowelled place may be in the middle but yet burn him no deeper then that the skin may look yellow and then charge all that place with this charge Take Pitch one pound Rosin halfe a pound and Tarre half a pint melt these together and whilst it is warm charge the place therwith and clap Flocks upon the charge and then if the season of the yeare will serve let him be turned to grasse and so let him run three moneths at the least ✚ This is very good § 7. W. Hippoph WHat is good to cure wormes Wormes of what sort soever in a Horse Hippos Of this malady I have entreated sufficiently before in the § of Bots where I have given you many good receits Neverthelesse I will give you one or two more for wormes onely and so leave you to practise Take the entrails of a great Chick and with the powder of Brimstone and Bay-Salt rowled in the said entrails give it him down his throat and cause him to swallow them so warm as they come out of the belly of the Chicken but cast away the Gizard give him this three mornings together and every time ride or walk him till he dungeth and keep him warm and give him white water and at three dayes end give him Rice boyled in water and after dryed in the Sun and give him also to eate the leaves of Sallowes and it will cause him to voyd the Worms with his ordure but if you shall rake him first it will be the better ✚ This is very good Another Take the tender tops of Broom and Saven of each halfe a handfull chop them very small and work them into Pils with sweet Butter and having kept your Horse fasting over night give him them in the morning to wit three of those Pils at a time and then set him upon the Trench for two or three hours after and then give him meat but no drink at all till night by any meanes and then let him have warm but no white water ✚ This I have often experienced and do know it to be a most excellent receit CHAP. XXII § 1. Y. Hippoph WHat is your best cure for the Yellowes Hippos This disease of the Yellowes in a Horse is the very same that Physitians do call the Iaundise in a man and as there be two sorts of Iaundise in a man so also are there the like in a Horse viz. the Yellow and the Black the yellow being moyst the black dry the yellow proceeding from the over-flowing of the gall occasioned of choller and the black comming from the over-working of the Spleen by means of over-much malancholy both bad infirmities but the black worst more dangerous and most mortall the yellow is more easily discovered by reason of its colour for it coloureth the whites of the eyes the tongue the lips and the inward parts of the nostrils which the black Iaundise doth not apparantly albeit by due and strict observation you may come to know when your Horse hath a black Iaundise for then you shall perceive the whites of his eyes lips tongue and
mouth to be of a thick and duskish colour and not so cleere and sanguine as before when he was not visited with any such infirmity both which are so mortall especially the latter as that if very great care be not taken whereby to pry into its symptomes the Horse may fall downe upon a sudden as I have often seen and known even as he travelleth and dye or else he appearing to be sound and healthy and to eate his meat like as he was accustomed over night when you left him comming again unto him in the morning you may finde him dead stiffe and cold And the origen of this malady commeth principally of unkindely and unnaturall heats given him by most violent and intemperate riding whereby the Liver becommeth inflamed the Liver the Bloud Gall and the Spleen which causeth choller to have soveraignty and dominion over the other humours and so engendreth this perilous disease which seldome bringeth a lingring or languishing death but that which endeth him suddenly and therefore it is most requisite that the greater eye and care be had unto it The best symptomes how to know it is thus Your Horse will be dry in his body mouth and nostrils being marvellous hot through the abundance of choller that reigneth in him and he will be very gaunt in his belly towards the flanks he will be also very faint and not onely sweat upon every the least motion but also as he standeth in the Stable his eyes the insides of his lips mouth and tongue will be yellow as Saffron and he will seldome lye down and being layd he will sometimes grone The cure First let him bloud in the neck and mouth and let him bleed well then give him this drink Take of Turmerick and long Pepper of each one penniworth Yellowes Anniseeds and Licoris in fine powder and searced of each halfe a spoonfull Selendine the leaves and roots one handfull chop stamp and straine the Selendine and so put all these together into strong Ale one quart warm this upon the fire and in the warming adde unto it of London Treacle one ounce and of sweet Butter the quantity of an Egge and give it him bloud warm and after keep him warme and give him white water and he will do well ✚ This is very good Another First bloudy him as before and then Take Turmerick Myrrah Ivory or Harts-horn of each halfe an ounce Saffron one penny worth make all these into fine powder and searce them and put unto it of the juyce of Selendine a good quantity put all these into Muskadine one pinte Sack or Ale and let it boile upon the fire a walm or two then put unto it of sweet Butter as much as will suffice and of London Treacle one ounce and so give it him bloud warm but let him first be raked This is very good Another First bloudy him as before then Take of white wine one quart of Saffron two drams and of Turmerick halfe an ounce and a good quantity of the juyce of Selendine give him this bloud warm and keep him warm and give him white water ✚ This is very good Another First let him bloud as you are prescribed before Then Take of sweete Wine one pinte of stronge Ale and Beere one quart and put unto it of the iuyce of Salendine six spoonefuls and of the iuyce of Rue two spoonefuls and let all these boyle upon the fire a little then straine into it of English Saffaron halfe an ounce and put into it of life hony three ounces and so give it him bloud-warme then leap his backe and so ride or else walke him a foot-pace a quarter of an houre then set him up warme letting him to fast three houres after and after give him meat and a sweete Mash or white-water ✚ This is very good Another Bloudy him as before Then Take of the best life hony halfe a pound of Saffaron made into fine powder and of the powder of Fenugrick of each so much as will suffice incorporate these with your Hony to a stiffe paste and so make thereof three Pils and dipping them into Salet-oyle give them to your Horse which after he hath taken ride or walke him gently an houre then set him up warme and order him as before ✚ This is a particular good Pill Another First let him bloud as before Then Take of white-Wine one quart or Ale to the same quantity and put therein of Saffaron one ounce and Turmerick one ounce both made into fine powder with the iuyce of Salendine so much as will suffice and give him this bloud-warme and order him as before ✚ This is also very good §. 2. Y. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for the mattering of the Yard Hippos This disease commeth commonly in Covering time by overmuch spending upon Mares for that the heat of the Mares the Horse his own heate and Coity doth burne the Horse giving him the running of the reines as we may truly terme it And the signes to know it is you shall perceive the end of the Yard to be swelled when he pisseth you may observe him to do it with much paine and you may also see at other times the Yard to drop with yellow matter The cure Give him first a purge prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 16. § 14. let P. it is the first purgation which will ease his pain in pissing then the next day Take Roch-Allome one ounce and white-Wine one pinte boyle them till the Allome be dissolved then bloud-warme iniect this Lotion with a Syringe putting it up into his Yard so far as may be foure or five times a day till he be well ✚ This is a perfect cure nor shall you need any other FINIS Imprimatur THOMAS VVYKES A Table of the Contents The First Booke The Contents of all the Chapters contained in the first Book THE Introduction Chap. 1. page 1 Of the best manner of breeding Chap. 2. page 4 How to make and order your Stable Chap. 3. page 10 Of the marks colours and shapes of Horses Chap. 4. page 15 Of the office of the Groome and Rider Chap. 5. page 25 The Second Booke The Contents of all the Chapters contained in the second Booke OF what poynts consisteth the office of the Ferrier handled Dialogue-wise as also a formall examine of the Ferrier chap. 1. p. 34 Of the causes of sicknesse in generall and the causes of health and long life chap. 2. page 46 Of such things which are of necessity to be known by every expert Ferrier before he doe adventure to administer chap. 3. page 55 The manner of handling the particular cures chap. 4. page 64 The Index Chap. 4. A. ACopum and its vertues page 66 Arman 1. page 67 Arman 2. page 68 Ach in the head page 69 Aegyptiacum 1. page 71 Aegyptiacum 2. ibid. Accloy page 72 All diseases a Cataplasme 1 ibid. All diseases a Cataplasme 2. page 73 All diseases 3. ibid. S. Anthonies fire
of Horse-dung newly made by a Horse that goeth to grasse and putting it to the other Ingredients worke it to a Salve and apply it plaister-wise to the place good hot renewing it twice every day for so long time as you shall think to be convenient Now Master Blundevile and Master Markham doe both agree in the Cure of an Attaint which is thus First wash and bath the place with warme Water and shave the haire so farre as the swelling goeth then scarrifie the sore place with the point of a Razor that the bloud may issue forth Then take Cantharides and Euforbium of each halfe an ounce powdered and mingle them together with a quarterne of Sope and with a shy spread some of the Oyntment over all the sore suffering him to rest in the place where you dressed him for one halfe houre after and then you may take him into the Stable there letting him stand without Litter and so tyed that hee may not touch the sore with his Mouth and then the next day use him in the same manner againe then the third day annoint the place with fresh Butter continuing so to doe by the space of nine dayes and at nine daies end make him this bath Take Mallowes three handfulls a Rose-Cake and Sage of each a handfull boyle them together in a sufficient quantity of faire water and when the Mallowes are become soft put in halfe a pound of Butter and halfe a pint of Sallet Oyle and then being somewhat warme wash and bath the sore place therewith every day once till it be whole This Medicine I confesse I never tryed but I think it very good Master Blundevile hath only this but Master Markham hath sundry others some of which I will relate to the end the Ferrier may make his choyce Another Take Dialthea Agrippa and Oyle and mixing these together lay it to the swelling Another Take also Frankinsence Rosin Tarre Euforbium Turpentine Fennugrick of each a quarter of an ounce of Sewet one ounce of Oyle one ounce of Wax three ounces three quarters of an ounce of Myrrh mix and melt all these together and plaister-wise lay it to the place till it be whole Another Take also Sanguis-Draconis three quarters of an ounce Bole-Armonack one ounce Oyle as much Mastick three ounces Suet as much and as much Swines grease melt and mix all these together and lay it to the swelling and it will take it away Another Cure I found in an old Manuscript with which I have cured many horses which have been much swelled which is this viz. Take Turpentine of Venice one ounce and Aqua-vitae three Spoonfulls beat them together in a Bladder or some other convenient Vessell untill they come to a perfect salve then annoynt the sore very well therewith and heat it in with a hot Brick or a hot Iron and thus doing foure or five times it will set him upright ✚ This I have often tryed and it is very good §. 10. A. Hippoph VVHat is that which you call a Nether Attaint Hippos It is also an Over-reach sometimes and sometimes againe it cometh by a Wrench sometimes by a Strayne sometimes by treading upon a sharp stone or stub and sometimes it cometh by a blow and it is called properly a Neather Attaint Attaâ—â—â— Neathâ—â— by reason it being commonly upon the fore-legge like as is the other it is neverthelesse placed lower than the other is for whereas the other is above the Fet-lock Ioynt this is under it for it is commonly upon the Heele or Frush nor is it oftimes visible to the eye howsoever it may be felt as well by the heat and glowing which will be upon the heele as also by the softnesse for there will be a Bladder or blister of viscous corrupt matter like to Ielly which will grow in the place and besides it will make the Horse to complaine and it wil be also somewhat swelled I have cured sundry Horses which have had this Malady and they have done well again The cure is thus Take a peece of Filliting and bind it above the Pastern-joynt a little good and hard which will cause the blister or swelling the better to appeare more visible to the eye make incision with your Incision-knife and crush out all the corrupt Ielly and congealed matter Then heale it up by washing the sore with Coperas water declared in lib. 2. cap. 10. § 4. and after annoynt it with the Greene Oyntment mentioned in capite et § Ibid. and so in short time it will bee whole and sound againe ✚ This is a very hard Cure for your ordinary Country Smiths to take in hand to performe if they bee not well acquainted with the nature of this Malady Master Blundevile and Master Markham have both this manner of Cure only they differ from me in the healing Salve § 11. A. Hippoph VVHat Cure have you for the Avives Hippos This terme Avives we have also gotten from the French which our Ferriers doe call the Viues It is a disease which growes under the Eares and secundum vulgus Aviues it is called the Fives or Vives from the Eares it creepeth downe towards the Throate which when they begin to enflame will swell and not only paine the Horse very much but also prove mortall by stopping his Wind they will kill him out right if it be not in time cured and I my selfe have seene and knowne Horses dy of this malady It proceedeth most commonly of Ranknesse of Bloud in the cure care must be taken that you doe not touch the Graynes or Kernells with your fingers The Avives or Vives are certaine flat Kernells much like Bunches of Grapes which grow in a cluster close knotted together in the place the most certaine cure is to cut the Skin longest-wayes and to lay the Kernells or Graines open and then with an Instrument made like to a paire of Pliers to pinch forth the Graynes then to apply unto the place eyther a linnen-cloth or a few hurds steeped well in whites of Egges well beaten and so bound on and renewing it dayly it will cure it but you must heale up the Skin with the Greene-Oyntment before spoken of in Cap. § Ib. ✚ But the common cure is to draw downe the sore with a hot Iron just in the midst so farre as the swelling goeth and then under the roote of the Eare draw two other strokes of the fashion of an arrowes head then open the skin and with a small payre of plyers pull out the kernels and so cut them off but have a care of the veine that done fill the place with Bay-salt made into fine powder and after heale up the sore with the aforesaid Oyntment ✚ This have I also practised and performed the Cure but with greater difficulty than the former by reason of the Fire which I put to the place and therefore I doe hold my former Cure the better safer and speedier ✚ Master Blundevile and Master Markham
to the eye The best way to cure it is first to shave away the haire on both sides the swelling so farre forth as the swelling goeth then take up the thigh veine and let it bleed well which done tye the veine above the orefice and let the veine bleed from below what it will whereby the bloud which was assembled about the spaven place which caused the former swelling is by this meanes sent away then with your fleame or incision knife make two incisions in the lower part of the swelling and after prick two or three holes in each side of the hough where the Spaven is that the medicine may take the better effect and when the bloud and water hath vented away so much as it will doe bind round about it plaister-wise the whites of Egges and Bolearmonack very well beaten together either upon hurds or linnen cloath and make it fast about the hough so keep on the plaister The next day take it off and wash and bathe the sorance with this bath viz. Bath for Bloud-Spaven Take Mâ—llowes and the tops of nettles and boyle them in water till they be soft and therewith bath him Then take Mallow-roots Brancha Vrsina Oyle Waxe and white Wine so much as wil suffice and boyle them binde this warme to the sorance round about the hough and sew a cloath about it and so let it remaine three dayes more and every morning stroke it downewards with both your hands gently to the end the bloudy humour may issue forth The fourth day bathe and wash it very cleane with the former Bath That done Take Carana and stone Pitch of each one ounce and of Brimstone a quarter of an ounce made into very fine powder melt these together on the fire and when it is almost ready to be taken off put into it of Venice Turpentine halfe an ounce and make a plaister thereof spreading it upon leather and apply it to the place warme round about the hough and so let it remaine untill it doe fall away of its own accord or if it doe come off sooner than you might thinke fitting then make another plaister of the like ingredients and apply it as before ✚ This is the best cure that I could ever know for this malady with which I have cured many Bloud-Spavens ✚ Another for a Bloud-Spaven When the swelling doth appeare upon the inward part of the hough take up the thigh veine and let it bleed from the nether part of the leg till it will bleed no longer and after give fire to the Spaven both longst-wayes and crosse-wayes and then apply a restringent charge to the place and thus it will be cured This I never tryed but positively speaking I hold it to be a very good Cure § 11. B. Hippoph HOw doe you cure the dry or Bone-Spaven Hippos This malady is not easily cured but with great difficulty and danger it is a great hard crust yea as hard as a bone if it be let runne sticking or indeed growing to the bone much closer than the barke of an Oake to the body and it is upon the inside of the hough under the joynt neere to the great veine of which I spake of before in the Cure of the bloud-spaven by which meanes the Horse that hath such a Spaven cannot chuse but hault This bone-spaven Bone-Spaven commeth two wayes the first through hard riding or other kinde of intemperate labour whereby the bloud dissolving falleth downe and maketh its residence in the hough which doth in short time become dry and hard as any bone from whence the sorance taketh its denomination Secondly the Horse may have this malady by inheritance or kinde either from the Sire or Damme as I have before specified in the second Chapter of the first Booke where I doe intreate of Breeding The Signe to know it is evident enough viz. by your Eye and hand for it is both visible and palpable enough and as easie to bee seene and felt as the Legge it selfe The best way to cure it is first by taking up the thigh-veine which caused it and fed and nourished it and let him bleed will and so put him into the Stable and doe no more to him for that day the next day shave away the haire from off the Spaven and rub it hard with a Rowling-pin having first annoynted the place with Petroleum and chafed it well in with your hand or some other round and smooth stick morning and evening for foure daies together and at the fourth dayes end slit downe the skin with your Incision-knife the full length of the Spaven but bee very carefull you do not touch the great Artery or Veine both which do ly very neere for if you do never so little hurt the great Artery you utterly maime the horse past all recovery having thus done lay to the place the Hearb called Flamula bruised and bind it on that it fall not off for two dayes more then for three daies after Take Cantharides Euforbium incorporate them well together being before beaten into fine powder with black Sope and Bay salt and lay this to the place and thus dresse it every Morning this will lay the Bone and Crust bare After take Fearne-roots Hounds-tongu and Bore-grease incorporate all these together and lay it to the place untill you perceive the Crust to be loose and to bee wasted assay now and then to loosen the same with your Cornet or other Instrument and if you can with conveniency take it off quite doe so Which done heale up the wound with your greene oyntment prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 10. § 4. you may also apply to the Sorance after the aforesaid Corasives a Plaister of strong Aegiptiacum till it hath fretted off the flesh upon the Crust so bare as possibly may be and so you may the better attempt the taking away of the said Crust or by rubbing it with a Rowling-pin or a Hasell-stick annointed with Petroleum till the Crust be converted into a mattrative substance or other thinner kind of corruption which may very easily be drawne away And thus have I cured the Bone-Spaven severall times Which disease I cannot easily commend to be cured by any but those who have before hand seene some other skilfull Ferrier to do it before him and the Method he useth in the working by reason that the Cure is so extreamely difficile and over-dangerous ✚ But when at any time you doe perceive a swelling begin to be in the Spaven-place of your horse whereby you may suspect it may prove a Spaven for prevention whereof Take Naturall Balsome and having first shaven away the haire annoint the place with the said Balsome for two or three daies and after you shall represse the Humours with this Charge Take Oyle of Roses three ounces Bole-Armonack one ounce wheat flowre halfe an ounce and the white of one Egge make all these into one body and every day having first annointed it with
shall find them to come away in his Dounge and the most of them to be living for no Medicine but those two only of Precipitate and Sublimate before remembred in which is so great perill can kill them ✚ This Receipt before any other I have made most use of I find it to be the very best and most infallible of them all and this will hardly leave one Bot Trunchion or Worme in all his Body I forbeare to report unto you what quantity of these Vermine a Horse hath voyded at a time for I love not to relate Wonders Another Receipt I will deliver you howbeit not equivalent to the former which is this viz. Take the tender tops of greene broome and of Saven of each halfe a handfull chop them very small and work them up into Pils with fresh or sweet Butter and having kept the Horse over night fasting give to him three of these Pills in the Morning early then set him upon the Trench and let him fast two houres after but give him no Water till night and that white Water ✚ This also have I experienced and have found it to be very good for it hath caused the Horse to voyd many of these bad Cattle I will conclude with this viz. Take a quart of Milke warme from the Cow and put to it of Honey halfe a pint and give it him the first day the next day take Rue and Rosemary of each halfe a handfull stamp them well together then let it infuse together with the powder of Brimstone and Soute so much as will suffice foure houres in Wort or Ale a quart then straine it and give it him bloud warme then let him bee walked or gently ridden an houre or two and so set him up warme and give him Hay an houre before you give him any drinke which let bee white Water and you must not give him Hay in foure or six houres after you have given him his foresaid drinke And you must withall remember that in all Medicines as well for this kind of Malady as for any other his drinke must be either a sweet Mash or else white Water ✚ This also is a very good Receipt and I have had good experience of it and it hath evermore wrought well ✚ §. 16. B. Hippoph WHat helpe have you for a Brittle Hoofe Hyppos This cometh two waies to wit by nature or by accident it cometh naturally when the Stallion who begat him or the Mare which did Fole him was subject to the same infirmity and therefore I doe advise all men to forbeare Breeding with such a Stallion or Mare for all their Colts will bee in danger to partake thereof Brittle hoof If it come Accidentally then must it fall out to come either by some Surfet that fell downe into the Feet which caused a siccity in the Hoofes or else in that he had beene formerly Foundred or heat in the Feete and not well cured I need not shew the Signes whereby to know this Malady being it is most apparant As touching the Cure I will give you but only one Receipt for the present by reason I shall have occasion to handle it more largely when we come to intreate of the Hoofes And the Cure is this viz. Take a Rape or a Drawing Iron and with eyther of these make the Coffin of the Hoofe fine and thin in all such places as you shall see cause and pare the Soles very thinne also then apply to the Feete as well Soles as Coffins this ensuing Charge Take Ry-bran or for default thereof Wheate-bran Oxen or Cowes-dunge of these so much as will suffice then take Sheepes-Suet and Hogs-grease tryed Tarre and Turpentine of each halfe a pound mince the Sheepes Suet very small and melt it on the fire then put to your Hogs-grease and when these be molten put in your Oxe or Cow-dung stirring them well together then by degrees put in your Bran continnually stirring them and lastly your Tarre and Turpentine and when you have kneaded al these so well together as that they are become one body and like to paste take them from the fire and so keepe them for your use and being only warme stop his Soles therewith but tack on his Shooes first but for his Coffins make Bagges of course cloath and first covering all his Coffins good and thick fasten those bagges over his hoofes to his Pasterns but take heed they be not too hard tyed yet so as they may stay on dresse him thus every day once for fifteene or twenty dayes together and let him not in all that time touch any Water with his Feete and his Hoofes will become firme and tough againe After if you turne him forth into moyst ground it will be the better if the season will permit it You must during the time of his cure give him continually white Water ✚ This cure I have often tryed and it is very good ✚ §. 17. B. Hippoph VVHat doe you hold good to be applyed to the Heeles and Feete of a Horse that is bruised and beaten with travell Hippos Sir I will give you only one Receipt for this cure which I have often used and it is so truly a good one as that it 's equall can hardly be found And thus it is Take of the tender tops of the most angry Bruised heeles 〈◊〉 feete and stinging Nettles you can get one handfull stamp them very well in a Morter and when they be throughly beaten put unto them of Turpentine and tryed Hogs-grease so much as will suffice to bring it to a formall Vnguent Apply this to the Feete and Heeles of your Horse in bags or cloutes and let this bee done the very next morning after you come where you may rest him renew this every day once and in short time he wil be sound and well againe ✚ § 18. B. Hippoph VVHat is good to allay burning with Shot Gun-powder or Wilde-fire Hippos For this malady I use evermore to take varnish and to put it into faire water and to beat the water and varnish very well together then I powre away the water from the varnish and so with a feather I annoynt the place burned Burning with shot and in few times dressing it will kill the fire which done I heale the sorance with carnifying and healing salves ✚ This is very good But I will now give you two or three other unguents which are most precious against all sorts of burnings which is this Take Hogges grease as much as will suffice set it upon the fire and let it boyle well and as the skimme ariseth take it away with a feather or such like thing untill no more will arise that done and that it hath boyled enough then put it forth into an earthen vessell and set it forth into the open ayre foure or five nights after which time you must wash it in a great quantity of cleere running or fountaine water to the end it may be free from
salt or other filth and wash it so long in sundry waters in some great bowle until it come to be very white Then melt onely this oyntment and so keep it for your use wherewith annoynt the places grieved and in short time it will cure them ✚ This I had of a famous French Marishall and I have often used it and I ever found it to be most soveraigne for all sorts of burnings But if Hogges grease may not be had then take the fat of Bacon and wash it well and it is marvellous good ✚ Another Take fresh butter and the whites of egges of each as much as will suffice beat them well together till you bring them to a formall unguent and annoint the places burned therewith and it will speedily take away the fire and cure them soundly ✚ This is also speciall good Another Take a stone of quick-lime which must be well burned that which is best burned will be lightest dissolve it in faire water and when the water is settled so as all the Lime remaineth in the bottome straine the cleerest of the water thorow a fine cleane linnen cloath then put unto this water either the oyle of Hemp-seed or of the oyle of Olive of like quantity with the water and so beating them well together you shall have an excellent unguent most precious for all sorts of burnings And the nature of these three unguents be to leave no scarres Wherefore we apply them for most soveraign remedies as well for man as beast in cases of this nature ✚ This also I have often tryed and I have found them all to be most singular § 19. B. Hippoph HOw doe you take away bunches knots warts and wens from a Horse Hippos These kindes of sorances doe come to a Horse by meanes of much ranknesse of bad bloud which is engendred of peccant humours which humours doe proceed of naughty meat Bunche◠Knots 〈◊〉 They are so apparant to the eye that any man may point at them with his finger The way to free your Horse of them is first take up such veines as you may know to feed them then shave away the hayre from about the places and for foure dayes together lay Aegiptiacum to them at foure dayes end wash and bathe the places with strong wine vineger made hot then take wine vineger one pinte green coperas and Dyers gals of each foure ounces cantharides two ounces bay salt one handfull make these into fine powder and let them boyle on the fire with the vineger a little and so wash the sorances therewith scalding hot and every third day continue thus to doe till you perceive them to dry up Let the scurfe fall away of its own accord at leisure if any more shall happen to grow forth afterwards apply the same medicine againe albeit it was formerly cured by the same thing yet I have not seen any Horse to fall into the same malady againe and during the time you have him in cure let him not come in any water but keep him in the stable warme ✚ Another cure is this First as before shave away the hayre and take up the veins which feed those sorances then sixe dayes after let him bloud in the heeles to draw away the humours downwards then wash and bathe him well with hot vineger which done take a quart of oyle of Nuts and Verdegreace powdred two ounces and a quarter of a pinte of Inke mixe all these well together and apply it cold to the places rubbing and bathing them well therewith and if the knots and warts doe not begin to dry up at the first dressing then must you begin again every fourth day untill such time as they be throughly cured ✚ Another Take course honey one pound Verdegreace in powder three ounces mixe these well together with the finest wheat flowre and so bring it to an oyntment and after you have cleansed the sorances as before is shewed you apply this oyntment to the place with a rowler if there be any warts among the knots cut them away cleane before you doe apply the said oyntment and thus doing ten or twelve dayes every other day he will be perfectly cured ✚ Another Shave away the hayre and take up the veins as aforesaid then wash and bath the place well then take mutton sewet mallowes and brimstone make a decoction hereof when you have very well bathed the sorances with the said decoction take the substance thereof and putting it between two linnen cloaths make it fast to the place over night and in the morning take it away which done apply unto the place this unguent viz. Take vineger and mutton suet the gumme of the Pine-tree new waxe and rosin of each like much melt all these together but put in your Gum last and so annoint the sorances with a feather twice every day till they be whole Of this Cure I never made tryall but it seemeth to be a good one You must not forget in every of these Cures to take up such veines which in your judgement you may finde to feed those sorances and to shave away the hayre from about them cleane Now with this other Cure I will conclude Wash and bathe the places with the decoction last before mentioned and lay the substance to the sores Take then new Waxe Turpentine and Gum Arabicke of each like much melt them to an unguent and herewith annoint the sorances during which time let him come into no water and the Poults of Mallowes c. must be every night applyed till he be whole Another Take and to conclude blew slate and brimstone of each four ounces Verdigrease one ounce made into fine powder then take fresh butter four pound melt it in a small kettle or Posnet and so soon as the butter is molten put into it all the former ingredients and so let them boyle wel and when you have brought it to a perfect unguent take it off and keep it for your use And when you would use it warm thereof upon a chafing dish and coles and annoynt your Horse therwith upon the sorance and that but once and it will suffice But you must let him bloud the day before you doe annoint him in the necke veine And at the end of eight dayes take a quantity of cold Lee and three ounces of blacke sope and wash the sorance therewith This quantity of oyntment will serve but onely for two Horses Of this Receit I never had occasion to make tryall but it was taught me by a famous Marishall of France who commended it unto me for an extraordinary good Receit and truely it seemes to me so to be CHAP. VI. §. 1. C. Hippophylus WHat is good to bee applyed to a Horse that hath cast himselfe in his Halter Hippos This commonly commeth to a Horse which being tyed down to the manger his eare or Poule itching with his hinder Foote scratcheth the the place that itcheth so as when he taketh away his Foote
Take also Turpentine halfe a pound Tarre halfe a pint new Wax halfe a pound Sallet Oyle one pint Melt all these except the Turpentine together till they be well mixed and a little before you take it from the fire put in your Turpentine and so stirre it till it be cold but before hand make him a Buskin of Leather with a thick sole made fit for his hoofe but wide enough that it may be tyed about his Pasterne and dresse his hoofe with this medicine laying Tow or Hurds upon it and so put on the said buskin and fasten it to the pasterne joynt or a little above but so as that the buskin may no way offend or trouble the foot renewing your medicine every day once till it be whole ✚ This Receit is also most soveraign for a Horse that is hoofe-bound and as the new hoofe beginneth to come it behoveth you carefully to observe where it groweth either harder or thicker in one place more than in another or crumbleth or goeth out of order or fashion any where about the Hoofe which when you shall perceive file the place with your Rape and so keep the hoofe in good fashion by which meanes there will come a very perfect hoofe againe which being put him out to grasse into some moyst Pasture or Meadow for that is the onely way to cause the hoofe to becomme tough Hippophyl What is the reason that in all your medicines in which you use Turpentine you put that in last and not when you put in your other ingredients Hippos Sir I shall give you in a word a sufficient reason for this demand to wit if the ingredients which I doe put into any medicine be to be molten upon the fire as Gums Pitch Tarre Rosin and the like if I should put in my Turpentine together at once with the residue before it could be sufficiently molten or boyled the Turpentine being a drug so subtile would consume it selfe into vapour and by that meanes leave the medicine imperfect and that is the cause why I doe put in my Turpentine evermore a little before I take it from the fire §. 4. C. Hippoph IN what cases doe you Cauterize and what be its vertues Hippos Cauterization or giving of fire is of two natures viz. Actuall and Potentiall your Cautery actuall is made by hot burning instruments with which you seare and burn those places which be requisite for the perfecting of the Cure you have in hand which cannot be peradventure otherwise well cured but by giving of the fire as in case of great impostumations stanching of bloud in wounds or in searing of veines sinewes or the like or else in case of dismembring if other meanes be not at hand whereby to stay the flux of bloud without danger of bleeding to death and so likewise in very many cases of this nature wherein I doe advise all men that are not very perfect in giving the fire that they doe not practise upon Horses of price Cautery actuall but first upon Iades and low-prized Horses to the end they may the better come to know how to carry their hand and to understand themselves in this Art the better as when they are to use the lighter and when the heavier hand as also that they do make their circles round and their lines streight and even and not crooked or waving For this actuall fire is a thing most necessary for them that doe truely know and understand the true use and vertue thereof and therefore it ought to be very carefully judiciously and moderately applyed and never but upon good and very considerate grounds which in so doing you shall finde it to be a most soveraigne remedy to hinder and stay all manner of corruption whereunto any member may be enclined provided that in the handling of your instrument you touch not Muscles Arteries Sinewes Ligaments Cords or the like for so you may utterly lame where you would set upright and destroy where you would cure excepting onely in cases needfull For by applying this actuall fire you shall joyne and conglutinate parts and members severed dry up superfluous moysture and sinke members swelled you shall besides bring forth all evill and putrifactious matter congealed and gathered into knots as Wens Biles Pustils Exulcerations and the like you shall also asswage old griefes and make perfect all such parts of the body as be any way corrupted neither shall you need feare the increase of any evill humours by reason that the skin being severed by meanes of the hot iron it doth ripen and digest all manner of putrifaction and matrative stuffe whereby it venteth and passeth away much more easily healing and qualifying all griefe and paine causing the member which before was subject to festring and to gangrene to become the sounder and by much the stronger so as nothing of disadvantage will be remaining but the scar onely where the iron passed and the worst that can be made thereof will be but a little eye-sore But then you must have a very great regard unto your Instruments that they be made according to the nature and quality of the place and member which is to be seared for one fashion will not serve in all causes for as the places which are to be cauterized are commonly different in shape and proportion so also ought the shapes and fashions of your instruments to be made accordingly You are also to have a speciall care to the heating of your instruments which ought to be done with a right good judgement for as they must not be too cold so ought they not to be too hot for by that meanes you may easily enflame the cauterized places too much Againe in giving the fire great care must be had to the bearing of the hand for therein consisteth very great cunning and as I have before admonished you to be carefull that you touch not any sinew or ligament so no fire is to be given to the dislocation or fraction of any bone And as touching the mettle whereof your instruments are to be made some commend and prefer gold silver and brasse or copper before steele or iron but I will not controule any mans knowledge confessing mine own to be the least Onely thus much I may averre of that little I have through Gods permission that having made tryall of them all yet I have ever in all my practise found iron and steele to be the very best and most certaine to worke with of all the other mettals and my reason is because steele or iron will retaine it s once received heat longer than any other mettle whereby I cannot be so much deceived in my work for gold silver and brasse as they be sooner made hot than iron or steele so are they as soone cold now steele and iron mettals are much more substantiall and harder of nature then the other mettals be and therefore as they are somewhat longer before they be hot so they retaine their heat much
or shave away the haire close from about the sores then wash the places with broken Beere and Butter warme and dry them againe which done apply this Plaister to the places grieved Take Sheepes-suet or Deeres-suet which is much better and being molten upon the fire let it coole till you may hold your finger therein then put to it so much Ry-bran or for want thereof Wheate-bran as will bring it to a salve lay it to the place Plaister-wise upon Hurds or Tow and binde a cleane linnen cloath over the Plaister to keepe it on and so let it remaine foure or five daies without medling with it by which time the Sores wil be throughly purged and the scurfe will easily come off then take old Bores grease well rotted and melt it upon the fire and when it is so cold as was the Sheepes or Deere-sewet put to it the yolkes of Egges so much as will suffice and a little Verdegrease in fine powder incorporate all these well together bringing them to an Vnguent with which annoy at the sores every day once untill they bee throughly and perfectly whole ✚ Another Take Oyle de Bay foure ounces Verdegrease and Litarge of Gold both in fine powder of each two drammes make all these into an unguent and annoynt the sores therwith morning and evening till they be whole In every of these Cures let your Horse come into no water ✚ Another Take Soot five ounces Verdigrease in fine powder three ounces Orpin one ounce beat all these together into fine powder and then adde thereto as much common honey as of all the residue boyle all these together well putting into it as it boyleth quick-lime as much as will suffice keeping it alwayes stirring till it be well boyled and is become thick with this oyntment annoynt the Sores twice every day untill they be sufficiently cured ✚ Another Take hot wood Ashes and Quick-lime and with common honey and white wine make it into one body to a perfect Vnguent and herewith annoint the Sores and if this malady have not been long upon the Horse this oyntment will certainly cure him but if they be old and have run long upon him then give him the fire and then dresse the Burning with the oyntment prescribed you in the former Cure Another Take a round iron and give the fire towards the extremities or ends of the chops and annoynt them every day as before and assure your selfe the clifts chops and rifts will not increase but diminish and so in short time he will be whole and sound ✚ This is speciall good §. 8. C. Hippoph I Would gladly know Hipposerus something of Clisters and their true natures Hippos As touching Clisters there be sundry kindes of Purgations and therefore to the end you shall the better understand them and their proper vertues I will first anatomize unto you the severall degrees of Purgations and by reason I have been much and that for a long time versed in this subject Of Clisters I am not ashamed to discover unto you from whence I had my first grounds and principles for every man as the Proverb is must have a beginning to wit he must be a scholler before he can be Master for as Seneca saith very well It is great temerity in any man to take upon him to be a Master who did never know what it was to have beene a Schollar My first rudiments therefore I received for Master Blundevile and after somewhat I attained unto by the help of Master Markham both very well travelled in this Art the rest I atchieved partly in my travels and partly from my particular practise and experience Now Master Markham followeth Master Blundevile in many things verbatim in the rest in substance wherein Master Markham doth more largely dilate and deliver himselfe making thereby oft times many things more cleare and apparant yet they both assent in what they say Purgation defined viz. that Purgation is defined by the learned Physicians to be the emptying and voyding of superfluous humours which doe cumber pester and disturb the body with their peccant condition affirming that such ill humours do breed much bad nutriment which the learned doe call Cacochymia which when it will not be corrected or amended either by faire meanes or by the help of nature then must it be compelled forced and driven away by Purgation Vomit Clister or Suppository And whereas Master Blundevile saith that Horses are not used to be purged by Vomit as men be I in conference with him once asked him the reason thereof he answered me for that the necke of the Horse was of that length as not to be able to purge by vomit which for the present I tooke for satisfaction I then imagining the thing not to be knowne untill such time as I travelling into remote parts where I had frequent commerce with famous Marishals and Ferriers I at length fastned upon one eminent for his faculty who upon occasion offered used to administer vomit to Horses as frequently as he did either Purgation or Clyster which thing when I well observed I demanded if a Horse could vomit and to what purpose he did administer in that kinde he answered me that a Horse could vomit and that he oft times administred for the same end and thereupon both gave me his Receit and did administer in my presence and made me an eye-witnesse to the working not in one Horse alone but in sundry others But now leaving this to its proper place I come to assoyle your demand as touching Clysters their natures and vertues Clysters secundum vulgus are called Glisters but the more learned assume the name Clyster borrowed from the latine word Clyster from whence the French hath it Clystere Now whereas all other kindes of Physick is râ—ceived in at the mouth Clysters and Suppositaries are administred per Anum whose natures for the most part are to purge the guts and to cause the Horse to voyd and to throw forth of his belly such humours as doe offend him in matter of his health to allay the shâ—rpenesse of bad humours to cleanse ulcers to asswage the griefes and paines in the belly caused by winde or otherwise and so likewise in many other cases Now Clysters are not all of one and the same nature neither are they all laxatives as many doe imagine or do serve to one and the same end for some must be made to give ease some are restringent and doe binde some do loosen and purge some are to cleanse ulcers old and long running sores and some to prepare the body the better to receive its Physicke whereby it may the better worke which otherwise cannot be administred without much perill to the life of the sicke creature So that a Clyster is I say commonly given for a Preparative or beginning to purgation And a Clyster by cleansing the guts refresheth the vitall parts and prepareth the way before Wherefore I doe admonish every Ferrier that
it come by ranknesse of seed or of bloud then let him have a Mare and cover her two or three dayes together and halfe an houre after ride him into the water above the cods or stones against the streame and he will doe well ✚ But if this disease come by other causes then Take the Lees of Claret Wine and Comen-seed made into fine powder and a little Wheat or Beane flower boyle these together to an unguent and so warme as he may well endure it annoint the cods therewith which done draw forth his yard and wash it and his sheeth also with white wine vineger and three or foure houres after ride him into the water above the cods and let him also stand in the water some short time and sometimes ride him against the streame doe this every day till the swelling be asswaged ✚ This is a very good Cure Another Take the roots of wild Cucumbers and white salt so much as will suffice boyle these in faire water to an oyntment and annoynt the cods therewith warme and then apply this oyntment Take Goats grease or for default thereof Deeres suet the white of an Egge and Sallet oyle boyle these over a gentle fire and herewith annoynt the cods but this must be applyed after he hath been ridden into the water and dry againe doe this every day once till he be well ✚ This I have often tryed and have found it to be right good Another First annoynt and bathe the cods in the juyce of Hemlock and when it is dryed then Take Pigeons dung and new Milke and boyle it till it be as thick like to a Poultesse and therewith annoint the cods every day once Another First let him bloud in both the spur or flanck veines Then take oyle of Roses and vineger of each a pinte and of Bolearmonack in fine powder two ounces make all these into one body and being luke-warme annoynt the cods therewith and the next day ride him into the water up to the cods against the streame then bring him into the stable and when he is through dry annoynt him againe thus continuing to do till he be well But if the cods be swolne by meanes of any hurt bite or stroke then apply to them this following charge A charge for swelled cods Take Bolearmonack in powder vineger and the whites of Egges as much as will suffice well beaten and wrought together and annoynt him therewith daily till it be abated and if it impostumate where you finde it to be soft open it either with a hot iron or with your incision knife if it breake not of it selfe and so heale it up with the oyntment taught you in lib 2. cap. 10. § 4. and it will soone be whole ✚ This is very soveraigne §. 11. C. Hippoph VVHat say you to the Collick Hippos It is Sir a disease which commeth of winde and therefore we generally call it the winde collicke the French call this disease the Tranchaisons Collicke it causeth great gripings and extreame paine in the belly of the Horse so as he will oft times lye down and tumble he will also strike at his belly with his hinder feet and stamp with his fore-feet and the paine will be so great as to cause him to forsake his meat these signes I have often observed in Horses perplexed with this malady and albeit I have sundry Receits for it and all or the most of them by me tryed and approved good yet one of Master Blundeviles and Master Markhams I hold inferiour to none of mine for I have often tryed it and this is it Take a quart of Muskadine or of sweet Sack of Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each halfe an ounce Sugar two ounces make all these into fine powder and give it him bloud warme then annoynt his flankes with oyle de Bay but I often use to annoynt them with the oyntment of Acopum I finding it to be much better then bridle him up and trot him out a good round trot or gallop him softly sometimes the space of an houre untill he doe dung but if he will not then rake him or else put an Onyon pilled and jagged into his fundament then for three or foure dayes let his drinke be either sweet Mashes or white water and keep him warme and he will doe well againe ✚ Another Keep him fasting over night and in the morning give him this drinke Take of white Wine a quart Fenugrick foure ounces Bay-berries and Pepper of each foure ounces Graines and Ginger of each one ounce Water-Cresses two handfuls Sage one handfull Sengrene one pound Mints a handfull stampe the hearbs and pound the spices and put them into the wine and let it boyle a little then straine it and put to it of life Honey two spoonfuls and so give it him bloud-warme ✚ This I have also found to be very good notwithstanding if he be a stoned Horse the best cure for him is to have a Mare especially if he be so troubled with the collicke so as that he cannot pisse besides it helpeth and preventeth sundry sorts of sicknesses and diseases and strengtheneth nature ✚ Another Take of white Wine one pinte and three or foure Cantharides and make them into very fine powder and give this to the Horse well brewed in wine bloud-warme This I never tryed for that these flyes being a strong corasive have deterred me howsoever I have been often invited thereunto by many good Ferriers who have averred unto me that they have often used it and have found it to be right good Another Take Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each one ounce all made into fine powder and well mixed then put it into a quart of Muskadine and let it boyle a while then take it off and put to it of Honey one spoonfull give it him bloud-warme which done cloath him up and litter him and so let him stand upon his trench foure houres then give him meat and an houre after a sweet Mash or white water This was taught me by a Noble Knight who said he had often used it But if your Horse hath the collicke and stone then Take of white wine one pinte of Burr-seeds eight ounces Collicke and Stone made into fine powder of Parsley-seed two ounces in powder also of Isope unset Leekes and Water-Cresses of each halfe a handfull of black Sope halfe an ounce stamp all the hearbs in a morter and straine them with the Wine then put to that liquor your Burre and Parsley seeds and so give it him bloud-warme this will breake the stone and bring it from him with much ease and cure his Collicke ✚ This I have often administred § 12. C. Hippophyl VVHat Disease is that which is called the Colt Evill Hyppos It is a disease in the yard sheath and cods of a Horse or Gelding and it commeth to Horses by meanes of heat and ranknesse of seed and to a Gelding by weaknesse and coldnesse of seed to the Horse through
too great abundance of seed which causeth a stopping in the pipe or conduct of the yard Colt-Evill and to a gelding for want of heat and strength to send it forth whereby the yard and sheath swelleth very much The best way to cure a Horse is to give him a Mare whereby he sendeth forth his seed freely and then two or three houres after swimme him or else ride him up to the flankes to and fro a pretty while against the streame This disease is knowne by the swelling of the yard and sheath I have cured many Horses and Geldings with this ensuing Receit First swimme him but specially against the streame foure or five dayes together then apply this Plaister Take Beane-meale and Mallowes of each one handfull Hogs grease halfe a pound chop the Mallowes small then put to the Hogs grease and so boyle it with a pinte of white Wine and when it is boyled put it into a cloath and wrap his cods therein and so order it as that it may gather like a purse and make it fast so as it may neither fall off nor hurt him dresse him herewith every day till he be well ✚ I have had great experience of this Receit but if you be desirous to have variety then looke over Master Blundevile and Master Markham who are well stored § 13. C. Hippoph WHat is best to be given for a cold Hippos There are so many and so good as that I am to seeke almost to know how to begin they be of so many and sundry sorts of them Cold. for some are for colds newly taken some for old colds some for colds that bringeth the Glanders c. Wherefore for colds newly taken at first you must understand Sir that a cold newly taken a thing not to be prevented by reason it oft times commeth by meanes and wayes unknowne you must observe first that if your Horse be propense to many bad humours whereof some Horses are more than others you must first then labour to expell them by purging his head then search betwixt his jawes and if there you do finde any small kernels then be you assured he hath a new-taken cold but if he have great kernels then was not the cold so lately taken as you might have imagined also if he doe rattle in the head it is a signe his cold is newly taken or if he doe voyd any thinne matter forth of his nose or eyes or if he hold his head into the manger or if when he drinketh the water commeth out of his nostrils or that he cougheth oft and sometimes perhaps cheweth mattrative stuffe betwixt his teeth c. These and many others be certaine signes of a Pose Catarre and newly taken cold wherein is no danger if it be taken in time otherwise it will come to a worse matter I will now give you sundry good Receits most of which I have often tryed and found to be right good First I hold moderate exercise and seasonable ayering to be marvellous good without further applying of medicines but if you finde that he is much stopped in the head then Take a small quantity of fresh or sweet Butter and of brimstone made into fine powder work them together til they be one entire body of a deep yellow gold colour then take two long wing Goose-feathers and annoynt them herewith to the very quils on either siâ—â— which done rowle them in more of the powder of Brimstone and so put them up into either nostrill one and at the but end of the quils put a strong packthred which must be fastned over his pole like to the headstall of a Bridle and then leap his back and ride him moderately up and down an houre or longer and this will provoke him to snort and snuffle forth of his nose and head much of the congealed filth which is in his head then tye him to the Racke for an houre after and this will purge his head very cleane then draw forth the feathers and he will doe well keeping him warme and giving him Mashes or white water every day for foure or five dayes after This Receit was taught me for more than 30 yeares since by a famous Marishall of France which since I found in Master Markhams Master-piece but I hold it one of the best things can be prescribed for this Malady ✚ Another very short but as good Take of Time one handfull boyle it in a quart of strong Ale till it come to a pinte then straine it and adde thereunto of ordinary Treacle two spoonfuls and give it him bloud-warme ✚ Another An excellent drinke to be given to a Horse for a new-taken cold provided he be young that is not above five yeares old Take of French Barly halfe a pound put it into a posnet and put thereto of faire water one quart and set it upon the fire and let it boyle a little then take it off and draine the water from the Barly and cast away the water then adde the second time the like quantity of water and boyle it as much as you did the first t me and then draine it from the water cast away the water again then adde once againe the like quantity of a quart of water as you did twice before and boyle that also so long a time as you did the two former waters draine this also from the Barly but cast it not away but keep it and then adde to the water of Anniseeds and Licoris of each halfe an ounce make them into very fine powder and searce them and put the said powder into the boyled water and adde to it of white sugar-candy foure ounces then set it upon the fire in a cleane skillet and so boyle it up untill a third part be consumed then take it off and straine it and give it your Horse bloud-warme drench him thus three mornings together and it will ripen his cold and cause it to come away This is very good ✚ Another Take of white wine vineger the best and strongest five spoonfuls and put to it of oyle de Bay one spoonfull warme it upon the fire stirring it well this must be made and given in the morning but when you doe administer it you must first put your drenching horn into faire water that is good and hot to keep the medicine from sticking to the horne then taking it forth out of the hot water before the horne can be cold and whilst it is yet moyst with the water put the one halfe of your medicine into the same and so as speedily as may be convey it into one of his nostrils and after the other moity into his other nostrill this done ride him for halfe an houre moderately then set him up and cloath and litter him warme and let him stand upon the trench three or foure houres before you give him any meat and after doe as is accustomed to be done to sicke Horses in Physicke ✚ This I doe approve
in a dry and warme place where they may not give againe and when you would use them take so much as will suffice and beat it in a Morter with the Sirop of Colts soote and the powder of refined Sugar still working it till you have brought it to be a perfect Conserve and so given to your horse in good sweet Sacke or Muskadine The first of these two to wit the Simple is of most excellent use for it helpeth any ordinary cold or stopping it comforteth the Lunges enlargeth his Winde purgeth the Head from all filthy matter and dissolveth many other obstructions as well in the Body and Head But the Compound or Conserve worketh better effects in the Body of the Horse especially if the Malady be old and dangerous or if there be any taint in the Lunges Liver or inward parts This Conserve in time by frequent use thereof will cure all dry Coughs which are held to be incurable it helpeth the heaving of the Belly and Flankes it causeth the Horse to take his Wind kindly and temperately and freeth him of his dry Cough which before did greatly annoy him but if you have not these conserves take this other Receipt little inferiour to the former for these Maladies Take of the sirop of Colts-foote one ounce of Elecampane rootes dryed Anniseeds and Licoris of each halfe an ounce all made into fine powder browne Sugar Candy powdred one ounce which must be divided into two parts then take sweete Butter so much as will suffice and so make this into three Pills good and stiffe which done rowle them in the other moyty of your powdred Sugar Candy and so give them your Horse fasting then ride him gently for halfe an houre and after set him up warme and let him fast three houres after causing him to be well rubbed let him drinke no cold water unlesse it be with exercise and let his Hay be sprinkled with water and his Oats wet in strong Ale or else with Beere ✚ Another very good Take the cankerous Mosse of an old Pale or of the lymbes of an old Oake two handfulls chop and shred it small and boyle it in a pottle of new Milke and with it a roote of Alecompane let these boile together till halfe be consumed then straine it and presse the Mosse and Roote very well which done put to it of sweete Butter the quantity of a Ducke-Egge and so give it him in a morning fasting bloud warme and ride him moderately an houre after then set him up cloath him and litter him warme and order him as is accustomed with Horses in Physicke Let him have this drink three mornings together and it will cure both his Cold and Cough wet or dry or his Poze if he have it But if you find your Horse to be stopped in the Head and that he voydeth filth and stinking matter out from his Nose then shall you every morning administer this fume Take of Auripigmentum and of Colts-foote made into powder of each two drammes then with Venice Turpentine worke them into a stiffe paste and make them into small Cakes the breadth of a sixpence and dry them a little and then put fire into a Chafing-dish with coales and so put one of these Cakes upon the coales covered with a Tunnell and so fume him and this not only during his Physicke but at other times after and let his drink be either sweet mashes or white water ✚ Another if your Horse hath a new taken cold then give him this Caudle which I have often used and do find it to be very good Take the yolkes of foure new layd Egges and beate them well together and dissolve them with a quart of good Ale then take three good Nutmegs with a little Anniseeds Licoras made all into fine powder and as much Pepper in fine powder as you can take up upon a sixpence put these into the Ale with a peece of sweet Butter so much as will suffice and two spoonefulls of ordinary Treacle and of browne Sugar Candy foure ounces warme all these upon the fire till the Treacle and Butter be molten then give it him bloud warme foure or five mornings together and this is an infallible cure ✚ Another very good Take a pottle of sweet Wort three heads of Garlick pilled of ordinary Honey halfe a pound boyle these till one moiety bee consumed and give it your Horse three mornings together Then for three mornings together after give him these Pills Take Boxe leaves and Harts-tongue of each so much as will suffice stamp them well together and with sweet Butter make it into Pills and so every morning give him three of these Pils ✚ But if he hath a cold which breaketh and runneth from him then must you be carefull to keepe his Head and Pole warme by putting on a double Hood and every Morning fasting ride him with two long Goose-feathers put up into either Nostrill well dipped before hand in Oyle de Bay and with a strong Packthread from the ends of the quils fastned over his head like a Headstall of a Bridle so as the feathers may not get forth and fasten also to his Bit or Snaffle one Rooteor two of Polipodium having beene all night before laine steeped in the oyle of Spike and every time you ride him annoint the Bit thus before hand prepared with the said Oyle and when he commeth home put upon his pole his double hood and rub him against the hayre all over especially his Neck and Pole for friction in this case is most soveraigne then whilst he is yet warme perfume his Nose with Frankinsence Storax and Beniamin of each like much do this nine daies together and let his drinke be white water for all Rhumes having had time to worke their malice will become dangerous yea and many times curelesse ✚ Now if your Horse hath taken an extreame cold then Take Cloves Nutmegges Ginger Galls or the fruit of the Oake and Cardimums of each like quantity so much as will suffice and of Fennell-seeds more than any one of the other Ingredients make them into fine powder and searce them then put two Spoonefulls of this powder to a quart of Sack or muskadine and straine these into two penny-worth of English Saffron and the yelkes of two new laid Egges well beaten together give this to your horse bloud warme fasting and let him have none other drinke than white water for three or foure daies after and let his Hay be sprinkled with water and every day at noone give him the blades of reed or the leaves of Sallows to eate out of your hand for they be very good for him and cooling for his body do this divers mornings together and it will not only cleanse his Cold but also open his Pipes and set his wind at liberty But if your horse have an inward cold which lyeth lurking in his Lunges or Stomacke then give him this Medicine Take Oyle de Bay and good Tar of
each the quantity of three Wallnuts halfe as much Hony browne Sugar-candy in fine powder halfe an ounce mixe these with a quantity of powdred Brimstone so much as will suffice and sew them into a fine linnen cloth and ty it to his Bit or Snaffle and so ride or journey him moderately till all be dissolved into his body then bring him into the stable and cloth and litter him warme and three houres after give Hay and after a warme Mash use him thus three mornings together and longer if you shall see cause ✚ Another Take bloud from him if you have ground for the same otherwise not Bran prepared then insteed of giving him Oates you shall give him bran boyled in water after this manner viz. Set a Kettle over the fire almost full of water when it beginneth to boyle put in your bran and let it boyle a full quarter of an houre at least then take it off and let it stand till it bee almost cold and about foure or five a clocke in the morning give him this Bran so hot as he can eate it then for his drinke give him the same water and at night give him Oates and white water and let him be covered and littered warme if it be in Summer let not the Stable be too hot for that will take away his stomacke and make him faint and sweat too much and at night give him the quantity of what you can put into an Egge-shell among his Oates of this powder following to which you must keep him for eight dayes together or longer if you shall see cause You must understand that the boyled Branne is that which dryeth up all his grosse and corrupt humours which was the cause of his cold Now the powder is this viz. Take of Comen-seed Fenugrick Silleris-Montani alias Sisileos Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two ounces Quick Brimstone sixe ounces make all these into fine powder and let them be well mixed this must be given with his Oates as is before inculcated but he must first be watered and then presently let him be well rubbed body necke pole legges breast and belly and cloathed and littered warme and an houre before you give him his Oates put into his Rack a little sweet wheat straw and so I say let him eate thereof the space of one houre or better and then give him his Oates mixed with this powder which having eaten give him Hay at your pleasure and thus doing in short time you shall perceive his Cold to be quite gone and the sooner if he shall be moderately ayered an houre after Sun-rising and an houre before Sun-set if the Sunne doe shine Now if this Cold bring with it a violent cough as is often seen then give him the aforesaid Wheat Branne boyled together with the said powder with his Oates but then not above three or foure dayes for that the said powder disperseth the corrupt and grosse humours that are in the body which doe occasion the said cough and when you doe perceive that he hath purged sufficiently keep him notwithstanding to his white water but an houre before you doe water him Take a sticke of the bignesse of your thumb or better of well nigh a foot long and wrap a linnen clout about it four or five times first dipped in oyle de Bay and put it into his mouth and with some piece of leather thong or other small cord fasten it to either end of the sticke and so fasten it over his eares like the Headstall of a Bridle like as Smiths use to do when they burn a Horse for the Lampas and let him drinke with this sticke in his mouth which done let him stand with it thus in his mouth an houre after at the least to the end he may licke and sucke up the said oyle and when he is to eate his Oates put among them this other powder following viz. Take Fennell seed four ounces Fenugrick two ounces Cardimums one ounce pound these grosly otherwise he will blow them away in eating his Oates and with his Oates put every night of this powder one spoonefull and keep him warme and so use him as before is prescribed ✚ Another Take Ivy-berries and dry them and make them into powder and so give it to your Horse in Ale or Beere This I never tryed and this is onely for a cough Another for a cough Take of salt one pinte of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte oyle of Anniseeds one ounce browne sugar Candy in powder three ounces give this with your horne to your Horse three mornings together and it will rid him of his cough and heale any putrifaction in his lungs or any other inward parts whatsoever This also I never tryed but it was highly commended to me Another Receit for a cough which I have found to be very good Take two new laid Egges and open the crownes and get forth some of the white and then put into these Egges so much of the powder of Brimstone as you can take up upon a shilling into either Egge give him this every morning for some time or till you see the cough to goe from him Another Take three new laid egs and put them into a pinte pot then put so much of the best and strongest white wine vineger into the pot as will very well cover the Egges and let them lye in the Vineger 24 houres at least then beat the Vineger and Egges together shels and all and so give it your Horse cold and then ride or walke him an houre and against his comming in have this drinke in a readinesse and give it him viz. Take Isope Anniseeds Licoris Graines Long Pepper Gentiana Elecampane dried of each three drams make all the spices into fine powder and stamp the Isope well and so put all into good Sack one pinte and of good Ale also one pinte and of Honey one spoonfull and so boyle it and give it your Horse bloud-warme and set him up and cloth him and litter him warme causing him to fast three houres after it and give him no cold water but sweet Mashes or white water and this will cure him for it is an approved good receit ✚ Another very good Take Wheate meale Anniseeds Licoris Polipodium of the Oake dryed Elecampane dryed make all these into powder and mixe them well Take two spoonfuls of this powder with a head of Garlicke pilled and bruized mixe all these well together and with your Wheate meale and honey as much as will suffice make pils thereof to the bignesse of a great Walnut and give your Horse every morning three or foure of these Pils and so soone as he hath taken them give him two new laid Egges with their shels X Another Take of life hony three spoonfuls of the best and whitest refined loafe sugar one spoonfull and an halfe made into fine powder dryed Elecampane root made also into fine powder one spoonfull and of Amber-greece two graines mixe all these
Clister i. c. ✚ There be many other good suppositories and Clisters which I have already and will hereafter set you down which be very soveraigne for this malady § 18. C. Hippophyl VVHat disease is that we call the crowne-scab Hyppos This sorance is a scab or crust which groweth upon the cronet or top of the hoofe next unto the hayre it is a filthy stinking and cankerous disease and not onely troublesome but painefull to the beast and it commeth commonly in the winter whilst the Horse is in the Stable like as doth the Scratches and it is ingendred first by reason the Horse from a Colt till he came to be handled was for the most part kept in moyst wet and cold grounds for no Horses are inclinable unto this disease but those that are bred up in such like grounds The signes to know this malady is that the hayre will stare about the coronet and become thinne and brisly The way to cure the same is Crown scab First to wash and bathe the place well so farre as the scab or sorance goeth which is commonly round about the coronet then shave or clip away the hayre close then Take Turpentine tryed Hogs-grease and honey of each like much a little of the powder of Bolearmonacke the yelkes of two Egges with as much wheate flower as will thicken it by working it to a salve and apply this plaister-wise with a linnen cloath to the sorâ—nce renewing it every day once till it be whole but let him not come into any wet during his cure ✚ This is a very good one Another Take old Chamberly and set it upon the fire and as the scumme ariseth take it off then put to it of white salt as much as will suffice and as the scumme ariseth the second time take it away with this liquor wash and bathe the sorance three or foure times a day till it be whole ✚ Another very good which I have often used Take soft sope tryed Hogs-grease of each halfe a pound Bole-armonacke in fine powder as much as will suffice Turpentine foure ounces make all these into one body and so plaister-wise apply it to the place binding it on with a clout that it come not off renewing it daily till it doe leave running then wash and bathe it in vineger warmed till the sorance be cleane dryed up ✚ §. 19. C. Hippoph HOw doe you take away a Curbe Hippos This is a swelling a litle â—eneath the Elbow of the Hough upon the great Sinew behind and above the top of the horne which caused the Horse to halt especially when he beginneth to be hot for by rest it payneth him the lesse it commeth either by a straine or by carrying of some heavy burthen or else he taketh it hereditarily from his Sire or Damme The signes to know it is by the long swelling in the place before mentioned The cure is First shave away the hayre then with an Incle or Filliting bind the Hough streight above the joynt then with a smallsticke beat rub and chafe the Curb Curbe like as you use to doe in the cure of the Splent then with a Fleame or Knife pierce the skinne through in two or three places and so with your Thumbe thrust forth and crush out the corrupt bloud and after convey so deepe as you can get into every hole the bignesse of two barley-cornes of Arsnick and so having bound up the place let it so remaine by the space of foure twenty houres then open the place and anoynt it every day once with molten Butter till it be whole ✚ Another Take Wine Lees one pint a porrenger full of Wheate-flower of Cummine in fine powder halfe an ounce mixe all these well together and being made warme upon the fire charge the place therewith renewing it every day once by the space of three or foure dayes together and when you do perceive the swelling to be almost gone then draw it with your hot Iron and charge the burning with Pitch and Rosin molten together which must be applyed warme to the end the charge may stick on the better and then presently clap on Flocks and let it so rest till of it self it fall away and let him come in no wett or water by the space of twelve or foureteene dayes after and he wil be perfectly cured ✚ Another Take a Barre of Iron heat it red hot and hold it neere to the place till it become warme then with your Fleame prick six or seven holes through the Skinne and anoynt the Sorance with Nervell then take of salt a Spoonefull and of Verdegreace a penny weight in fine powder with the white of an Egge let these be well incorporated together then take a little Flax or Hurds and wet it in this Medicine and bind it to the place renewing it every day once and in short time it wil be perfectly cured ✚ All these receipts I have used and I have found them to be right-good CHAP. VII §. 1. D. Hippophylus WEll now that we have made an end of this Chapter let us proceede on to another Tell me I pray how may a Dangerous Sicknesse come to a Horse Hippos Sir that which you call Dangerous Sicknesse is of divers natures proceeding from sundry causes Dangerous sicknes how it commeth having everyone its distinct symptoms and therefore do require severall remedies wherefore that you may the better know how and when any sicknesse commeth observe I pray but these foure principles following and you shall never erre viz. First that all sicknesse commeth either by heates in over violent exercise as when the Horse v. g. hath his grease molten the heart overchaged the vitall bloud forced from the inward parts and the large Pores and Orifices of the heart so obstructed and stopped that the spirits cannot returne backe to their proper places so as the Organs of the Body cannot rejoyce but by this meanes the body must of necessity languish founder and mortifie Secondly dangerous sicknesse commeth also by colds as by indiscreete or negligent keeping as well before as after long and violent exercise and then is the head perplexed the eyes dulled and pained the rootes of the tongue inflamed and swelled the lunges with rhumes tickled and offended occasioning strong and laborious coughing and the Nosthrills often distilling and powring forth filthy and corrupt matter Thirdly dangerous sicknesse commeth also by surfet of foode either by eating too much or too little of what is good or also of that which is not wholesome so as the first killeth or at least debilitateth the Stomacke oppresseth the Heart and sendeth up those evill fumes into the Head by which are ingendred the Stavars Frenzies and other mortall diseases the second putrifies the bloud and converts all its nutriment into corruption from whence proceedes the Yellows Farcin Feavers Mainges and other such like pestilent leprous and loathsome diseases which suffocating the heart and clogging the Stomacke dilates and spreads
and Sallet Oyle of each one pint then take wax foure ounces and Beane Flower twelve Spoonefuls and so boyle it and after straine it and bring it to an Vnguent and therewith anoynt the Tumors and swelled parts which being done apply this Plaister to the places Another Take Darnell and red Docks of each two handfuls bruise them and then boyle them in wine and Salet Oyle of each one pint and Beane Flower foure Spoonefuls and put thereto of Asses or Oxes dung so much as will suffice when it is boyled to a pultis apply it Playster-wise and use this every day once till it be well ✚ This is also very good Another Take Linseed and pound it in a Morter and of Fenugrick in powder of each foure ounces Pitch and Rosin of each three ounces Damaske Rose leaves dryed two ounces Pitch of Greece six ounces boyle all these together and when you are ready to take it from the fire adde thereto of Turpentine two ounces Honey six ounces and Sallet Oyle so much as will suffice and thus applying this Salve Plaister wise to the place it will mollifie any hard substance ✚ This I have often tryed and have found it to bee very good §. 7. D. Hippoph BVt Hipposerus is there any cure for a sick Horse whose infirmity is so desperate and he so farre spent as to bee generally judged to be almost at the poynt of death Hippos Truely Sir both my Master and my selfe have done such cures upon Horses which have beene so desperately sick as you speak of insomuch as the beholders have pronounced sentence of death upon them and the owners would have beene well content to have beene satisfied and well appayed with their skinnes and shooes and I will shew you what our cure is First open the neck veine and let him bleed well then two houres after his bleeding Take of Diatesseron halfe an ounce and give it him bloud warme in Muskadine a pint Desperate sicknesse or Sack for want thereof or else if these be not on the suddaine to be gotten then take good Ale or Beere with the like quantity of Diatesseron then having given it walke him halfe an houre if he be able in the warme Sunne or if there be not Sunne-shine then in some warme Stable or Barne then set him up warme cloathed and littered and let him be rubbed all over as Head Pole Neck and Legges and especially twixt the Eares for that greatly easeth the payne in the head by reason it dissolveth and disperseth the humors at noone unbridle him and offer him a little sweet Hay sprinkled with water which if he shall refuse to eate as t is likely he will then offer him so much bread as the quantity of a penny loafe and let him eate it all if he will but if he do refuse to eate thereof also then give him one gallon of the strongest Ale-wort you can get of the first runnings so soon as it is mashed but let it not be over-hot and before barme be put unto it give him this I say bloud warm but if that cannot be gotten then provide him in a readinesse against the same houre a sweet Mash which when he hath taken fume his head with Olibanum Storax and Benjamin and then let him be rubbed againe as before and see him warme kept as is usuall for sicke Horses in physicke and thus doe for three dayes together in all poynts bloud-letting excepted for that must be once onely unlesse extraordinary cause doe require the same and assure your selfe your Horse will mend daily and recover his health and strength in short time and at three dayes end give him no more Mashes but in their stead let him have white water onely if by meanes of this sicknesse he hath any Pustils or inflamations risen under his chaule then clip away the hayre and apply such things thereunto as may ripen them and bring them to a head and after breake them with Shoomakers waxe or other such like good things and so let them runne and heale at pleasure Also if you doe finde your Horse to be costive by meanes of his sicknesse as commonly horses will be after Physicke then first rake him and finding his doung to be hot dry and hard give him the suppository of a candle shewed you in chap. 18. § 27. Suppos 1. of this second Booke And this is the best Suppository can be given him in a case of this nature ✚ But if contrariwise you finde him to have a strong and violent laxe or scowring upon him whereby he purgeth overmuch and so continueth then be you assured that hee hath something in his body wherewith nature is offended which you must labour to remove and for remedy thereof Take of new milke one quart and put to it of Beane flower two spoonfuls and as much of the powder of Bolearmonack searsed boyle these untill the milke thicken and so bloud warme give it your Horse and in a morning or two fasting with a horne and it will stay his loosenesse ✚ but if this doe it not then shall you Take of red Wine one pinte or Tinto the like quantity and put into it of Bursa-Pastoris one handfull and of Tanners Bark in fine powder half a handful the outside being first taken away then boyle it till the hearb do begin to be soft then straine it and put thereto of Cinamon powdred two spoonfuls and so give it him bloud warme one or two mornings and this will infallibly stay his fluxe and if you cannot get Diapente or Diatesseron then give him this drinke Take of Dragon-water one pinte London Treacle one ounce warme it till the Treacle be dissolved and so give it him bloud warm give him this drinke three mornings together and for his drink otherwise let him have sweet Mashes three mornings onely and after till he be well recovered let him have no cold water by any meanes but onely white water and through Gods assistance he will be soone restored to his former health ✚ These things I have often practised to good purpose § 8. D. Hippophyl VVHat is to be done to a Horse that droopeth pineth or languisheth Hippos This disease commeth by a cold taken or by some unnaturall surfet by reason of over-hard riding or by being washed after an extreame heate the fignes to know it is he will feed but with no appetite neither will the meate he eateth disgest well with him for give him Oates and you shall finde many of them come forth whole in his ordure besides he will be lanke in the belly and flankes and his flesh will fall away The cure for such a malady is first to Drooping Take bloud from him as well in the necke as spurre veines for that the bloud is most corrupt and naught the next day rake him and administer unto him the Clister prescribed you in lib. 2. chap. 6. and § 7. Clist 3. C. the next day after he hath taken his Clister
is right good for this Malady Another Take Muskadine or sweet Sack one pint life-honey thâ—â—e Spoonfuls Myhrre Saffaron Cascia and Cinamon of each like much make all these into fine powder and mixe two Spoonefuls of this powder with your Muskadine and Hony and give it him warme with a Horne give him this drinke fifteene daies together continuing to give him mashes and white water and this is a most certaine Cure ✚ But if you do find that his Lungs be rotten and impostumated then Take of the juyce of Purslaine halfe a pint and mix therwith of the Oyle of Roses so much as will suffice and put thereto a little Tragantum steeped before in Goates Ewes or Cowes milke and give him thereof to drinke seven mornings together but this drinke will but only ripen and breake the Impostume which you shall know to be done by his exceeding stincking breath then shall you give him in fine powder Cassia three ounces and seaven Raisins of the Sunne stoned boyle these in Muskadine one pint and bloud warme give it him and it will heale up his Lungs againe ✚ This is very good §. 19. D. Hippoph IS there no good thing to be given to a Horse wherewith to prevent diseases all the whole yeare Hippos As touching the prevention of all diseases I have spoken before I thinke sufficiently but yet I will teach you one thing for that you are desirous to learne and learning is no burthen which may bee worthy your notice for I will keepe no secret from you Sithence it is my Masters pleasure I should dilate the utmost of my skill and Art First therefore the spring of the yeare comming on a time when new bloud beginneth to come and that ere long grasse wil be able to take heart whereby the better to give nutriment to a Horse The first day of April open a veine in the Neck to see the better how the bloud is if good take the lesse if bad then the more then from that day untill the first of May give him this which I shall prescribe you and let him have it every day without fayle Morning and Evening during the whole month of April from the first day to the last which is before his turning out to grasse or soyling which should be about the middle of May and let him have the same also all the whole month of October like as you must do in April after you have taken him from grasse about Bartholmewtide and do as you before have bin taught in all poynts That which I prescribe is this Take a Bushell of old Rie sweet and cleane well purged Diseases 〈◊〉 prevent or sifted from dust stones lome feathers cobwebs or any such like filth and put it into a cleane iron pot dry and without water I meane such an iron pot in which usually flesh meat is boyled for such a like vessell is best for this our purpose it taketh least harme and is much more wholesome then Brasse Copper or any other mettall set this pot thus dry and without water over the fire and put into it your Bushell of Rie for a lesse quantity you cannot well have and as it beginneth to wax hot keepe the Rie with continuall stirring even from the bottome without any intermission untill you have so parched the Rie that it becommeth black and hard which to be so will aske good heat and no lesse labour to stirre it up and downe in the pot when you do find that the Rie is sufficiently parched which you shall know by its blacknesse drynesse and hardnes take it from the fire and put it into some other cleane and dry vessell which so soon as it is cold let the vessell be kept close stopped and so kept for your use Now when you are to use of this Rie take two or three good handfuls of it and let it bee beaten to fine powder and given to your Horse mingled with his Provender at every watring morning and evening or other times when you usually give him Oates doe this these two entire months of April and October for that all men doe hold that in these two months the bloud turneth and altereth as wee alter his diet from hard and dry meate to grasse and so likewise from grasse to dry meate for this Rie thus parched and ordred doth refine the Bloud coole the Liver and purgeth the Spleene so as the whol structure of the body is thereby the better eased and freed from all such bad and unnaturall humors which would otherwise make the body inclinable to sundry Maladies and diseases which this Rie preventeth and therefore if you bee willing to keepe your Horse sound and free from diseases order him in these two months according as I have prescribed you and you shal be secure ✚ This I have oft made use of and it is good §. 20. D. Hippoph HAve you any comfortable drinke to administer to a Horse that is very sicke Hippos I have heretofore shewed you divers but yet I will give you one more Take of good white Wine one pinte of white Sugar Candy Drink comfortable and of Cinamon of each one ounce of Cloves halfe an ounce Saffron three drammes of Sugar refined three ounces make all these into fine powder then take Mithridate two ounces Honey of Roses foure ounces mixe all these well together and put it to the Wine and make it bloud warme over the fire and so give it him and now and then as he standeth upon the trench let him chew upon the end of a Buls pizell some Arman let him be cloathed and littered warm and remaine fasting upon the trench three houres and after give him a sweet Mash or white water and after order him as is usuall for a sicke horse ✚ This is one of the best preservative drinkes that I know and I have had great proofe thereof §. 21. D. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you for a dislocated joynt Hippos Let it be first put into its right place then in the binding up apply this plaister Dislocated joynt Take Wheate Bran and Hogs-grease of each as much as will suffice make them into one body and make thereof a Plaister of Hurds and so apply it to the place and after binde and swathe it up and the joynt and member will be well againe having rest §. 22. D. Hippoph WHat disease is that is called Tranchaisons Hippos This tearme we have from the French which is onely a paine or griping in the belly caused partly of winde and partly of cold and eftsoones of both and our English tearme is the Chollicke which is a most grievous paine ingendring many infirmities as I have before declared in its due place notwithstanding because you have given me the French tearme I will give you two or three French Receits for the same disease albeit I did never experiment any of them yet I doe hold them to be good Disease of Tranchaisons or the chollicke Take of
Arquequamis one ounce make it into juyce and put to it of white wine one pinte and so give it to the Horse which done annoynt his privy members with this unguent Take of Garlicke unpilled as much as will suffice and stampe it well and mixe with it of Sallet oyle as much as will suffice and so bring it to an unguent and therewith annoynt the yard sheath and cods and it will both give him ease and cause him to stale suddenly by which meanes he will amend Another Take Cinque-foyle halfe an handfull or Pantaphillon beat and stampe it well and moysten it with warme water and so give it him to drinke Another Take of the powder of Siliris Montani D'quare and of Comin of each an ounce and put them into white Wine one pinte and so give it him then so soone as he hath taken this drinke trot him out for halfe an houre a good round trot especially up the hill and after bring him into the Stable and cloathe and litter him warme Another Take of Fenugricke and of Comin of each one ounce make them into fine powder and with white Wine a pinte give it him bloud warme and trot him out as before § 23. D. Hippoph HAve you no way to dry soares Hippos Yea Sir and I will give you some receits for that purpose â—ake egge shels and burne them almost blacke Dry up soares take also the upper leather of old shoes and burne them to a cole take also a Char-cole quick lime and greene coperas burned in a well nealed earthen pot untill it be red Take of each of these a like quantity and beate them together to fine powder and strew this powder upon the soare or galled place and every time you dresse the soare herewith wash it well with strong vineger or chamber-lye warmed ✚ But if it be an old ulcer or cankerous soare then take Masticke Frankincense Cloves greene Coperas Brimstone of each like much Myrra double as much as any of the former ingredients beate all these by themselves to fine powder and mixe them well then take of this powder and burne it upon a chafing-dish and coles Lint wheâ— with to heâ— ulcers or oâ— soares but be carefull it flame not then as the smoake or fume thereof ariseth take of fine lint a good handfull or two and hold it over the said smoake or steame so as it may receive all the said steame into the said lint then when it is throughly well perfumed put the lint into a box pot or glasse and be sure to stop it up so close as that none the least ayre can possibly come into it for the least ayre will deprive the lint of its vertue and so keep it for your use and when you have occasion to make use thereof first wash the soare with new made chamber-lye warme either as it commeth from the man or else warmed upon the fire then dry the soare againe and lastly lay some of this lint to the soare and so make it up and doe this twice every day and you shall finde it to be a speedy and perfect cure ✚ But if you would dry up the scratches in the heeles of your Horse Take then chamber-lye which is old made or stale and rock or roch-Allum as much as will suffice boyle them together and reserve it thus well boyled in a glasse or other cleane vessell well stopped then take of greene nettles the strongest most angry and keene two handfuls and lay them thin upon some plate or other broad thing and so dry them either before the fire or in an Oven after houshold-bread is drawne then make it into powder very fine this done take of Pepper and make it also into very fine powder being finely searsed so as it may be of like quantity with the powder of nettles and so mixe them well together then keep this powder in a dry glasse close stopped and when you may have occasion to use this powder first wash the soare with the said liquor of Allome and Chamber-lye made bloud warme and so having purged cleansed and dryed the sorance well with a cleane linnen cloth strew and lay on your powder and thus doe after travell or exercise every day once during the time of his rest and this will cure him throughly ✚ This cure I have often practised §. 24. D. Hippoph VVHat disease is that which is called the Arraistes and how is it cured Hippos Arraistes or Rats-tayles This is also a French Epitheton which we call the Rats-tayles being a kinde of scratches of this disease I have spoken before in the letter A. and therefore I will now leave entreating further thereof CHAP. VIII §. 1. E. Hippoph WHat is to be given to a Horse that hath eaten a Taynt Hippos A Taynt is a kinde of red worm which many Ferriers will say can doe a Horse no harm but they are much mistaken for I have knowne Horses to dye with eating it but if he have eaten a Taynt the signes will be that he will be sicke and forsake his meat and he will swell in all his body also his eyes will so swell that you would thinke they would fall out of his head he will draw in and out his breath very short and his tongue and mouth will be very dry and hot and peradventure blistred but he will be easily cured for so soone as you shall perceive him to forsake his meate and that he doth begin to swell then be you confident that he hath eaten some unwholesome thing for this inconvenience seldome commeth to any Horse but at grasse onely The cure is Eate a Taynt Take of the urine of man as it commeth warme from him one pinte and of bay-salt one handfull stirre these well together and give it him with a horne and after walke him up and downe halfe an houre and he is cured ✚ This I have sundry times tryed and it is a certaine cure §. 2. E. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Horse that hath eaten a Feather Hippos This may be gotten aswell in the Stable as abroad at grasse in the Stable through the negligence of the Keeper or Groome in not dusting shaking or picking and searching his Hay and Provender well and by not looking narrowly that no Feathers bee among his Hay Oates or Provender when he giveth him his meate eyther in the Rack or Manger he may also get a Feather at Grasse as hee feedeth in a Meadow or Pasture where Swannes Geese Ducks Turkies or other Poultry or Foules doe lye and feed they in the Summer season mowting and mewing their Feathers whereby the Horse grafing and feeding in those places may easily and unwares eate a Feather which being taken into the Wesand will stick fast there which will so suffocate him as that it will provoke him to cough so vehemently as if his Heart would breake for it will sticke so fast in his Throte or Wesand as that he
can neither swallow it downe into his Body nor cast it up at his Mouth The cure is Put the cord of your Drenching Staffe into his teeth Eate a feâ—ther and hold his head up on high then take of Verjuyce of the crab one pint and two new laid Egges and beate them together shels and all with the Verjuice and so give it him with a Horne and so soone as hee hath swallowed the same give him a few small branches of Savine and this will carry away the feather into his stomacke ✚ This I have very ofttentimes done and made him well againe § 3. E. Hippoph BVt then what Cure have you for a Horse that hath eaten a Spider which I take to be much more perillous to the life of the Horse Hippos The signes to know this is like to that of the Taint but only that he will swell much more and this may befall him rather in Winter then in Summer for which give him this drinke Take Vrine of a Man newly made one quart of Rue Bittony Eate a Spider Scabious Pimpernell Dragons of each a like much but in such a quantity as in the whole all will amount but only to one handfull chop these hearbs together small and let them boyle together in the Vrine a little adding thereto of Bay-salt and Sallet-oyle of each one Spoonefull and so give it him bloud warme ✚ Now if it be in Winter Take of Vrine one quart Arement one lumpe Aristolochia rotunda Mithridate of each one dramme English Saffaron one scruple Sallet-oyle one Spoonefull Bezar-stone three graines let these bee set on the fire and given him bloud warme if it be in Summer turne him to grasse and if need be rake him and then convey into his Tuell a ball of fresh Butter But if it be in Winter let him be also raked and give him of the blades of Greene Rie to a good quantity and for his Provender let it be for two or three meales of scalded bran and Hempseed and let his drinke for three or foure dayes bee white water ✚ These are all approved medicines §. 4. E. Hippophyl VVHat is good for a blow on the Eye whereby aswell to save the Eye as to asswage the swelling thereof Hippos This needes no study as well to find out the meanes how it commeth as the signes how to know it for both are apparant enough there only remayneth to treate of the Cure Shave off the hayre from off and about the place swelled having first well bathed it in warme water then Eye a stroak Take the tenderst tops of wormwood Pellitory and Branca-Vrsina of each halfe a handfull chop the hearbs very small and then beate them to an oyntment with old Boares-grease so much as will suffice then put to it of life hony and Wheate flower of each one Spoonefull and of Lynseed-oyle three Spoonefull boyle these over the fire very well keeping it with continuall stirring and when it is sufficiently well boyled straine it into a gally pot and keepe it stopped and as occasion is offered anoynt the place swelled herewith ✚ §. 5. E. Hippoph VVHat remedy is to bee had for the Eye that is charged with a Filme Pinne and Webbe or with Dragons c Hippos These diseases in the Eye do come sometimes by meanes of some payne in the head which causeth a Rheume to fall into the Eyes and sometimes by meanes of Rheumes themselves which causing the Eyes to water do ingender these diseases and sometimes againe it is occasioned by meanes of a strip or hay-dust or some hame which may be gotten into the Eye I need not deliver you the signes whereby to know them they are visible to your sight The cure therefore is thus Eye Filme Pin and web Dragons Take Camfire or Sol Armoniacum or for want of eyther of these white-Sugar-Candy any of these three being made into very fine powder and blowne into the Eye three times a day are most soveraigne to cure these diseases in the Eyes of a Horse but Sol Armoniacum is the very best of them all ✚ But if a Filme or Pearle without a Pin and Web do grow in the Eye then take up both the two weeping-veines first which are under the Eyes and then give a Cauterize to eyther place viz. to open the skinne all along to the very Eyes and put in to each of them a quill cut in the middle then oft-times cleanse them and comfort the places Cauterized or roweled with unguentum-Populeum and wash the Eyes every day three times with Eye-bright water mingled with the juyce of Smallage and about fifteene dayes after take away the quils and after wash the Eyes with cold Fountaine-water Another But if it be a Pin and Web then Take Cuttle bone Tartar Salt-Gemme of each like much Pin anâ— make them all into pure fine powder and with a quill blow of this fine powder well mixed into his Eye two or three times a day or oftner ✚ This have I tryed and have found it to be speciall good But if be a Pearle that the horse hath in his Eye then Take the angriest tops of red-Nettles and stamp them well Pearlâ— Filme and put them into a fine cleane linnen Rag then dip the Nettles as they be in the Rag into Beere but yet very slightly and so wring forth the juyce of the said Nettles into some cleane thing which done put to it a little salt so much as will suffice made first into fine powder and when the salt is dissolved convey one drop of the medicine into the grieved Eye morning and evening and this will take away the Pearle and the Eye will become as cleare as the other ✚ This I have often tryed and found it to do rare cures in this kinde Now for a Pin and web any of these ensuing will cure it Take the sword of a Gammon of Bacon and dry it Pin anâ— and make it into powder blow thereof into the grieved Eye ✚ This is good Another Take the juyce of ground-Ivy alias Ale-hoofe Selendine life-hony and womans milke of each of these so much as will suffice mixe all these well and put it into the Eye of the Horse ✚ Another Take the powder of the bottome of a Brasse pot the outermost black being first taken off the next powder let it be blown into the Eye of the Horse and it will helpe him Another Take the powder of burnt Alume or of a black-flint or the powder of Ginger eyther of these made into fine powder and blowne into the Eye of the Horse will helpe a Pinne and webbe Another Take â—â—lt Arment and make it into very fine powder and put thereto of life-honey and fresh butter of each so much as will suffice incorporate all these well together and so convey of this medicine into the Eye of the Horse and this will cure a Pin and web ✚ But if there be a Hawe Hawe
in the Eye this every Smith can take away neverthelesse whereas all other Ferriers that ever I saw worke upon this disease do use to take it away from the out-side of the Eye I doe take it away from that part which lyeth next of all to the eye and I doe finde my way to be much better and a safer way as well whereby to preserve the sight of the eye as also the wash and so soone as I have cut out the Haw I doe use to wash the eye with white Wine and the juyce of selendine mingled together of each a like much for this healeth the sorance and keepeth the eye from rankling Now I have oft times seene the French Marishals take up the wash of the eye with a Spanish needle threeded with a double brown threed and to pluck forth the Haw so farre as he well can then with a payre of sizers to clip off the Haw so close as he can but I cannot commend this manner of curing the Haw for by that meanes he cutteth away the wash of the eye which indeed is the beauty of the eye whereby the Horse becommeth bleare-eyed which is in him a very great eye-sore he being thereby very much disfigured ✚ But if your Horse have gotten a canker in his eye then Eye a Canker Take Ale-hoofe which is indeed your true ground Ivy and stamp it well in a morter and if it be very dry then moysten it with a little white Rose-water or the water of Eye-bright distilled as much as will suffice and so straine it into a cleane glasse and therewith wash bathe annoynt and taint the sorance therewith and in short time it will cure it ✚ This is very good to cure a Canker a Pin and Web bloud shotten eyes or any such griefe in or about the eyes and I have often made use of this medicine Another much better Take of stone Coperas a thing knowne to few and therefore very hard to get but in the stead thereof you may use ordinary white Coperas make it into fine powder as much as will suffice for I must leave the quantity to your owne discretion and put it into a small Pipkin and put thereto so much very faire cleare running or Well water as will fill up the Pipkin to the very top then set the Pipkin upon a few coales and cause the water to boyle but so treatibly as it may but onely simper and as the scum doth arise take it away with a feather continuing so to doe till the scum doe leave to arise any more and when you have sufficiently well boyled it take it off and let it stand till it be through cold then poure away the cleare from the bottome which must be cast away and the cleare kept in a glasse viall very close stopped and bound up for your use which being thus carefully kept the water will remaine in its perfection long yea a whole yeare together or longer This water cureth almost all diseases in the eyes as Filmes Pearles weeping eyes Pin and Web Dragons Cataracts dimnesse of sight Blindenesse Rheumaâ—icke watry stroake blow or stripe of or in the eye and so consequently in many other cases of the like nature ✚ And of this water I have had great experience Another Take Sal-Armoniack Lapis-Tulia prepared Sagina called in Latine Panicum-Indicum and of Ginger of each halfe an ounce and of white sugar-candy two ounces powder all these and searse them and being well mixed put this powder into a cleane and dry boxe very close stopped and so keep it that no ayre come to it for your use and when you have occasion to use of this powder take a little thereof and mixe with it of the juyce of ground Ivy alias Ale-hoofe as much as will suffice and so twice a day convey thereof into his eye with a feather till it be throughly whole ✚ This is a principall good receit I will give you another speciall good receit which will cure all manner of sore eyes Take the leaves and roots of Vervine ordinary honey and Roman Vitrioll of each like much beat bruise and mixe these together and put it into a stillitory glasse and distill it by Balnea-Maria with a gentle fire and the water you take into your Receptacle put into a viall glasse and keepe it very close stopped that no ayre get into it and when you are to use of the same water poure of it a little into a silver spoone and mixe with it of the fat of a Henne or Capon a small quantity and therewith annoynt the sore eye twice a day and it will cure the same perfectly ✚ I will give you another receit which will take the filme from off the eye albeit there be a very great and thicke skin growne Take the gall of a Hare and life honey of each like much put them together into a spoon and hold the spoone over the fire till the medicine be bloud warme and with a feather convey part of this medicine into the eye of the Horse and thus dresse him morning and evening and in short time it will take it quite away so as the eye will become as bright and cleare againe as ever it was before ✚ This receit I doe hold no whit inferiour to any of the former for I have often made use thereof But if your Horse have gotten a stripe in the eye then let him bloud in the necke and in the weeping veyne on the same side where the stripe is then Take white Rose-water and the white of a new laid egge beat them very well together then wash and bathe the eye well therwith and lay round about it with your splatter this charge restringent Take Masticke Bolearmonacke Sanguis Draconis the white of a new laid egge and white wine vineger of the strongest Eye a charge beat first the hard simples to very fine powder and then searse them and they must be beaten severally then mixe them all together with the white of the egge and the vineger so well wrought as that the medicine come to a thicke oyntment and with this charge the sorance round about the eye and this will keepe off the humour and when that you finde that the eye doth begin to amend then wash and bathe the eye twice or thrice a day or oftner with cold fountaine or Well water so fresh as it is taken or drawne out of the Well or Fountaine and if after you shall perceive that there doth grow a filme or skin over the eye then take it away by blowing or putting the powder of Camphire or Sol Armoniacum or white sugar-Candy in fine powder according as I have before prescribed you ✚ This is a most soveraigne receit Also if your Horse in his eye have gotten a stripe Take of fresh Butter wherein never came salt the quantity of a Walnut and put it into his eare on that side where the stripe is and it will helpe him
if your horse be poore bare leane Fat horse and feeble so that his stomack be good to meate I will give you a Receit which if you doe duly observe my rules justly as I shall deliver them you shall get him up into flesh in twelve or foureteene dayes First therefore take bloud from him if you do find it grosse or Flâ—gmatick for otherwise he cannot possibly mend then insteade of Oates in the morning you shall give him Wheate branne Bran prepared prepared after this manner Set over the fire a cleane Kettle and fill it almost full with faire water and so soone as it boyleth put in your Wheate branne and so let it boyle a quarter of an houre at the least then take it off and let it stand to coole and about foure or five in the morning give him of this branne so hot as he can eate it then for his drinke give him of the same water and at night give him Oates and white water and let him be kept covered and littered warme but if it bee Summer let not the Stable be too hot but temperate and at night give him with his Oates also the quantity of what you may coâ—vey into an Egge-shell of this powder following with which you must continue him the space of eight dayes or according as you shall see cause You must understand that this branne thus prepared is the only thing which dryeth up his naughty grosse and corrupt humours and doth the better prepare the body to assume lust courage strength and flesh together with the helpe of the powder which is this Take of Commin Fenugrick Sileris-Montani Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two ounce Quick-Brimstone six ounce Fat a leanâ— horse make all these into powder of this powder give him every night the quantity of an Eg-shell full with his Oates as I have before prescribed but he must first be watred with white water which so soone as hee hath drunke let his whole body be rubbed then cloathed littered which being done then give him a small sheafe of wheat straw sweet good and well threshed into his Racke and let him eate thereof by the space of an houre which done give him Oates mixed with his powder which when he hath eaten give him Hay at your pleasure remembring to keep him warm but so as with moderation and let him be also well rubbed especially against the hayre and by this doing in short time you shall perceive him to mend exceedingly but you must put also into his Oates together with its former powder of Nettle-seed two handfuls every time for that is the thing which principally will cause him to battle It will also greatly availe to his amendment if he be ayered every morning and evening an houre after sunne rising and an houre before sunne set if the weather be warme and the sunne doe shine ✚ And this I doe assure you is the most exquisite course can be taken whereby to sâ—t up a leane Horse and to make a poor Horse fat in little time and with small charge §. 5. F. Hippoph VVHat helpe have you for the falling of the Fundament Hippos This malady commeth to a Horse sometimes by cold sometimes through weakenesse and meere poverty and sometimes by meanes of a laxativenesse and fluxe of bloud when straining to expell the Horse is not able and by that meanes the fundament commeth out the cure is Falling of the fundament Take white-Salt made into very fine powder strew a little upon the gut then take a piece of Lard and first having boyled Mallow-leaves till they be soft take of these leaves and beat them well with the Lard and when it is sufficiently beaten make it up like to a suppository and apply it to the place every day once till it be whole ✚ This I have often tryed §. 6. F. Hippoph I Should be very glad to know what you can say of Feavers Hippos Sir as touching feavers in Horses I say that they be as subject to them as man is as also that these feavers are of severall natures which cannot be denied which may most easily be distinguished and knowne if you please diligently to observe A feaver commeth many times either by intemperate riding or travell or else through bad and unwholesome dyet and all feavers for the most part have their sourse from these effects if you adde thereunto evill ayre §. 7. F. Hippoph VVHy Hipposerus how doe you define a Feaver Hippos I define it thus A Feaver is an unnaturall and intemperate heat which beginneth at the heart dilateth it self through all the arteries and veynes of the whole body of the Horse hindring all his naturall motions howsoever some Ferriers are pleased to make of them more sorts then I will question their physicall and learned distinctions for I could never conclude them but in a few as quotidian tertian quartan and pestilent and yet all these be of one nature albeit some more malignant then others be onely a Hectique feaver is of a different nature from the former and so also a pestilent feaver may be Now as touching feavers which come in the Spring Summer Autumne or Winter I cannot see why they should be feavers different in nature from these other for there are not any of these but may come to a Horse in any of these seasons §. 8. F. Hippoph FRom whence doe Feavers proceed then Hippos First Sir you must understand that Feavers are of two sorts that is to say Ordinary and Accidentall the ordinary feavers are those that come of surfets over-riding and labour unwholesome meat as moyst raw mouldy and musty bread corne provender and hay of what nature sort or condition soever but your feavers Accidentall come of some terâ—ible stroke or deep wound bringing therewith insufferable paine dolour and griefe to the poor beast again your ordinary Feavers come oft times by the extreame violent scorching of the Sunne but most commonly in the canicular dayes as when your Horse is abroad at grasse where is either want of water or having such as is neither good or wholesome or else where is want of housing shelter to goe into or shady trees to be under and such kinde of Agues doe prove for the most part either Hectike or Pestilent feavers for by that meanes his bloud becommeth inflamed whereby the humour of choller is predominate Now Sir if you be pleased to observe strictly and carefully you shall also finde that feavers doe come many times also from a quite contrary cause as from cold taken upon hard riding or great labour and by having at such times cold water given him to drink or by washing or walking having sweat much or by being out too late in the gripse or shutting in of the evening or upon day breaking especially neere or among fenny moorish or marish grounds by reason that naughty vapours do arise from such kinde of places Feavers also do accrew to Horses when upon hard
Verdegreece of each one pound beat them all into fine powder and put them into the water and boyle them all together and when it is boyled as much as will suffice which will soon be done let it stand to settle a while then poure the cleare into a glasse being first cold enough and so keep it for your use But the powder which remaineth in the bottome you may dry and keep in a boxe by it selfe for it will heale and dry up any sore or ulcer This water being injected with a syringe of wood or pewter will cure any fistula whatsoever if it may come to the bottome thereof ✚ Of this water I have had great experience But you must understand that these severall waters will onely kill the cankerous humour of the fistula and therefore after the malice thereof is quelled you must heale up the sorance with the green oyntment prescribed you in lib. 2 chap. 10. § 4. G. or else with some carnifying salve or unguent Another Search the depth thereof with your Probe as before is taught you but be certaine you finde the bottome then if the bottome be where you may boldly make incision do it and that so wide as that you may thrust in your finger to feele whether any bone or gristle be perished or whether there be any spungy loose dead or proud flesh therein which must first be gotten forth either by incision or by corrosive then take of common honey foure ounces and of Verdigreece one ounce made into fine powder boyle these together keeping it alwaies boyling and stirring it till it look red then with a taint of Hurds taint it to the bottome and make it so fast that it get not forth and renew the taint every day once till it have done mattering making the taint every day shorter then other and sprinckle upon it a little slaked Lime But if you cannot come to taint it to the bottome of the fistula then take strong Lye Honey Roch-Allum white Mercury of each as much as will suffice and boyle them together and inject it to the very bottome of the fistula and it will kill it ✚ But if the fistula be in the head then Take the juyce of Houseleeke and dip a locke of blacke Wooll into it and put the same into his eares and so stitch them up renewing it every day till it be whole This cure hath been highly recommended unto me but I never had opportunity to make proofe thereof Another Take Roman Vitreall Roch-Allum and Rose-water of each two ounces boyle all these on a quicke fire till they come to be as hard as a stone then beat it to fine powder and when you dresse the sore make a taint which being dipped in unguentum Aegyptiacum rowle then in this powder and so convey the end of your taint down to the very bottome of the fistula This is the best way also to cure a poll-evill and this powder being laid upon an old sore will both heale and dry it up ✚ This I onely made twice proofe of the first time to a fistula and the second time to a poll-evill both which cures I perfected But now you would gladly know how to ripen and breake a fistula wherefore Take Brooke-lime Mallowes Assmart of each like much boyle them in old Chamberlye till the hearbs be very soft and apply these hearbs to the swelling neither doe you renew it in two or three dayes and then it will both ripen and breake any impostume ✚ This I have often used and found very good And let this suffice for this malady §. 19. F. Hippoph NOw let us come to the Feete how doe you cure the Fetlock being hurt Hippos If this sorance commeth by any wound by the biting of a Dogge or by being cast in a Halter then the best way to cure the same is Take unslaked lime and the yelke of an Egge of each like much Fetlock hurt beat them together to a salve or unguent then mixe therewith the juyce of one head of Garlick and a little soot and with this annoint the sore till it be almost whole then to skinne the same Take Sallet oyle and oyle of Roses of each one ounce of Turpentine three ounces and of new waxe one ounce melt them altogether and adde to it a fourth part of the powder Verdegrease and herewith annoynting the sore in few dayes it will heale it and skin it up very soundly ✚ This is a very well approved Receipt But if your horse have gotten a sore foot by meanes of any cannell-nayle or bruise by treading upon a stone which after rankleth inwardly or by other accident then first rayle the skinne with your Cornet and lay upon sorance Wheate-flower and Bores-grease well incorporate together and dresse him therewith twice a day for two daies together and at the second dayes end Take the powder of Quick lime Sope and Tallow and mixe them well together for three dayes or more apply it to the place dressing it also twice a day then wash the wound with hot Vineger and put upon it Caprinell till it be whole This I nevâ—r tryed Froathy oâ— weeping hoofe But if the hoofe doe weepe or froath by sending forth thinne watry or froathy stuffe then open the toppe thereof with your Cornet so as the wound may become hollow round about the extreamities thereof so farre forth as that you may come to the Master Keine to breake it in sunder which done let it bleed at pleasure what it will and when the Veine hath stanched fill up the wound with Salt finely powdred then take Hurds and steepe them in Vineger and so stop the wound therewith and bind thereto a cloath to keepe the same from falling away and it will cure it ✚ But if the sole be hoofe and in danger to fall away draw it round twixt the sole and the hoofe with your drawing Iron and so take out the soâ—e quite and then suffer his foot to bleed well then apply to it this Plaister Take the whites of Egges and beate them a little and so laying them upon Hurds apply it to the foot and bind it on that it fall not off and let it remaine on so by the space of two dayes which ended open it and wash the foote with strong Vineger warmed and then fill the sole with the powder of Salt and Tartar mixed together and so bind it up with Hurds steeped in strong Vineger and thus dresse it till it be whole These two Receipts were taught me by a famous Ferrier of Paris in France but I never had occasion to make use of it howbeit I esteeme them to be very good But if your horse be foundred in the feet and that he hath not bin foundred above foure daies then with this ensuing Receipt you may easily set him upright and make him sound againe in foure dayes more The Cure is this Foundring in the feet First let him bloud in the Neck Breast
and Spurre veines and take from him of bloud two quarts which you must receive in a Basin or other cleane vessell with which make this Charge as followeth Take the bloud and put into it eight new laid Egges shels and all beat them well with the bloud put to it of Bole-armonacke in fine powder halfe a pound strong white Wine-Vineger one pinte Sanguis Draconis three ounces in fine powder make this up with Wheate meale good and thicke so much as will suffice with this charge his Back Reines Breast Thighes Fetlockes and Soles spread two cloathes Plaister-wise good and thick and apply them to the Coffin of his Hoofes and bind the fore-legges above the knees good and streight with broad Filletting or Listes then Ride him two houres upon a hard way which if it bee paved or pitched is the better his feete having beene pared reasonable neere before hand and when you doe bring him into the stable let his feet be stopped with this Charge Take Rie or Wheate-branne Oxe or Cow-dunge Sheepes-suet Turpentine which must be put in last let your Sheepes-Suet be of the fat of the loyne of Mutton and minced very small melt and heat all these upon the fire and mixe them very well in the heating and then put in your branne to make it into a stiffe paste all which being through hot then last of all put in your Turpentine and so incorporate all very well together with this stop your horse who being thus three or foure dayes charged and stopped ridden and kept warme and not suffered to drinke cold water but eyther Mashes or white water he will be sound in foure or six dayes ✚ This is a most excellent Receipt for with it I have recovered many foundred horses If it be a dry Foundring especially with too long standing in the Stable then first pare him somewhat neere and let him bleed well in the Toe-veines then Take Egges and rost them blew hard raked up in the hot embers and together with the powder of Comin stop his feete therewith so hot as they may be taken out of the embers and put ouer the sole a peece of leather with splents close to keepe the Egs that they come not forth Take then a great Onion pill and stampe it and let it infuse or steepe foure and twenty houres together before in the strongest white Wine-Vineger you can get so much as will suffice so that it may bee in a readinesse against you have stopped your horse which must be given him to drinke with a horne fasting and after let him bee warme covered littered let him stand upon the Trench three houres and after that you may give him meate and white water ✚ This is a most approved good cure If your horse have beene long foundred as a month or better to make a perfect cure and to set him up sound againe it is needfull the soles of his feet be taken out by which meanes new and better will come in their roome wherefore when you do intend to take them off have in a readinesse these things viz. Take the tender tops of Isope three handfuls Foundre◠long pound them to mash in a Morter wherewith to stanch his bleeding then have also further in a readinesse this receipt Take Snayles in the shels and breake the shels so much as will suffice and take forth the Snayles and reserve them then take Bay-salt one handfull and of the tendrest tops of the angriest red-nettles you can find two or three good handfull beat them with your snailes and salt in a Morter to a very salve then take out the sole then presently stanch the bleeding with your Isope and so soone as the foote leaveth bleeding apply to the foote your other Medicine of Snayles Salt and Nettles and so bind up the foot with cloathes and so let it remaine foure and twenty houres then open it and heale up the sorance with your greene oyntment taught you in lib 2. chap. 10. § 4. and within two dayes you shall see a new sole comming ✚ This is right good But if hee bee foundred both in feete and body at once Foundred the feet a◠body and the same time as falleth out oftimes through indiscreete and immoderate Riding by a most violent heat giuen him whereby the bloud is become inflamed and his grease molten then first rake him and give him the Clister prescribed you in lib. 2. chap. 11. § 8. C. Clister 8. and the next day let him bloud in the neck veine to a good quantity reserving the bloud and keeping it from clotting by continuall stirring till it be cold reserve I say of this bloud halfe a pint by it selfe to put into his drinke and the residue keepe wherewith to make a charge Now for his drinke let it be thus made Take of good Sack one pint of the bloud you saved for his drinke halfe a pint of London Triacle and of Diapente of each one spoonfull and of mans-ordure warme as it commeth frō him the quantity of a wall-nut brew and mixe all these well together and give it him to drinke bloud warme This drinke thus given Charge him with this Charge Take the residue of the bloud you kept and put unto it twelve new-laid Egges with their shels and beat them together then put thereunto of Bole-armoniack in powder foure ounces Vineger halfe a pint Sanguis Draconis in powder three ounces and with Wheate meale thicken it to a convenient Charge Charge his Backe Breast Loynes Legges and Feete herewith both above and beneath the knees laying it on against the hayre This done then Take unslaked-lime Orpiment of each like much q.s. dissolve them in running water and let it stand two good houres and after it is thus prepared take as much Matrosetum as will bring it to a thicke substance which being made good and hot annoynt the coffins of his hoofes therewith especially about the cronets and stop also the soles of his feet with the same medicine and if you let him bloud in the toe-veynes well it will be the better and he will be the sooner better and sounder cured ✚ This way I have cured two Horses foundred in the body and feet never having applyed it but unto those two onely But if your horse be hoofe-bound then Hoofe bounden Take Turpentine and sheeps-suet of each halfe a pound Waxe a little as much as will suffice Sallet-oyle halfe a pinte boyle all these together but put in your Turpentine last and as these boyle keepe them with continuall stirring and herewith annoynt his hoofes once a day well or once in two dayes and he will doe well ✚ But if it be but an ordinary heat in the feet newly taken then Take Wheate bran and Hogs grease and make them to a Poultesse and apply it as well to the coffins as the soles and he will be well again These two latter receits a worty Knight taught me but as yet I
other diseases but first to rake him then to administer to him this Clister Take of Mallowes three handfuls and boyle them in faire water tvvo quarts to one quart then straine it and put to it of fresh or svveet butter sixe ounces and of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte and so administer it to him Clister-wise bloud warm that done vvalk him up and dovvn in the vvarm sunne or in some vvarm house untill he doe begin to empty himselfe then keep him fasting three or four hours keeping him vvarm and to a stomacke for three or foure dayes but let him have but that one Clister onely and let all his Hay be sprinckled with water and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water which when he hath drunk give him the Malt or Bran to eate and let his Provender be very little for fourteen dayes after especially if his disease came through glut of Provender Neverthelesse the day after his Clister give him this cordiall drinke Take of Muskadine one quart of Sugar two ounces of life honey foure ounces of Cinamon halfe an ounce Licoris and Anniseeds of each one spoonfull all these made into fine powder put them into the Muskadine and warme them on the fire till they be dissolved and then give it him bloud warme then walke him in the Sunne or warm house an houre then set him upon the trench warm cloathed and littered and so let him stand three houres fasting unlesse sometimes you put a little Armen into his mouth then give him Hay sprinckled with water and after an houre a sweet Mash or white water and then a few Oates well sifted and dusted and this by a little at once remembring to take bloud from the necke veyne the same morning you give him this drinke and that a little before he taketh it and pricke him also in the mouth and the next day after this drink perfume his head with Storax Benjamin and Frankincense and so order him according as you in your discretion shall think to be most meet onely remember to ayre him every day abroad if there be no winde for winde is hurtfull to him and thus doing you may recover him and make him a sound Horse againe ✚ This is singular good Another First give him this Clister take the flowers of Melelote Anniseeds and Licoris Linseeds Silleris-Montani of each halfe an ounce Polipodium of the Oake two ounces and a halfe Agnus-Castus one handfull the hearb Mercury Mallowes Pellitory of the Well Branca-ursina of each three handfuls make a decoction of al these lettiog it boyle to a quart then put to it of red waxe one ounce and a halfe of Cassia newly drawn three ounces of Diafennicon two ounces of Benedicta one ounce of oyle of nuts as much as will suffice and of all these make your Clister according to Art which you shall give to your horse so soon as you doe suppose or suspect him to droope and after this Clister hath done working give him the drink prescribed in lib. 2. chap. 9. § 10. F. which is very proper and good provided that you doe administer it so soon as you doe perceive your horse to be foundred in the body and withall adding to the drinke the juyce of three great Onions well beaten and strained into the white Wine and that he be dressed ayered ridden and ordered as is fitting and usuall for horses in physicke ✚ Of this I have made tryall and doe finde it to be good Another Take a head of Garlicke of Pepper of Ginger and of Graines of each two penny worth make all these into fine powder and put them into strong Ale one quart and so give it him to drink bloud-warm give him this drink two or three mornings and order him as is before prescribed And when you doe finde that he hath gotten strength let him bloud in the necke and spurre-veynes ✚ This is very good All cordiall drinkes are good for this infirmity §. 23. F. Hippoph VVHat is your best cure for a false Quarter Hippos A false Quarter is a very evill sorance it is a rift cracke or chinke which is most commonly upon the inside of the hoofe yet sometimes though rarely it happeneth upon the out side it is occasioned sometimes by evill shooing by evill paring and sometimes by gravelling or a prick with a nayle or stub neverthelesse which way soever it commeth it will cause the Horse to halt and watrish bloud will many times issue out of the rift or chinke the signes are needlesse to recite they be so manifest the onely way to cure this malady and sorance is first to take off the shooe and to cut away so much of the shooe on that side where the griefe is as that the shooe being immediately set on again the chinke may be wholy uncovered False quarter then open the chink to the quick with your drawing yron and then fill up the rift with a rowle of hurds dipped in this unguent Take Turpentine Waxe and Sheepes-suet of each like much melt them together and your rowle of hurds being dipped therein stop the rift therewith renewing it once a day till it be whole and thus the rift or chinke being with this oyntment closed in the top draw the place betwixt the hoofe and the hayre with a hot yron overthwart that place which will cause the hoofe to grow and shoot all vvhole dovvnvvards and vvhen your Horse goeth upright and sound again let him not be ridden vvith any other shooe untill the hoofe be throughout hardened neither let him be ridden upon any hard ground till his hoofe is become very sound and perfect ✚ Another For a false Quarter and to cause the hoofe to grow First prepare a flat piece of wood making it an inch broad at the least and so slender as that it will bend like to a hoop which must be also so long as that it may come well nigh twice about the cronet of the hoofe then when you are to bring it about the hoofe have in a readinesse a piece of filliting which must be long enough which you must cut into two pieces then having brought the hoope about the cronet with one piece of the filliting binde fast the top of the hoope which fastning must be behinde against the heele and bound very straight and hard and then the filliting so bound must be twisted three or foure times and so brought about upon the hoope and the ends made fast before upon the hoop then take the other piece of filliting and few it upon the top of the first filliting which you bound about the hoofe and then let it be sewed as well upon the one side of the hoofe as the other so fast sewed on as that it cannot get off Now you must understand that before you doe binde the foot of the Horse with the wooden hoop and filliting you must prepare the sorance of the said false quarter by drawing the place with yowr drawing
for the residue I do remit you to its proper place when and where I will give you store of good Receipts and therfore I leave it for the present § 26. F. Hippoph VVHat is good to stay a Flux Hippos This commeth of cold taken sometimes by reason nature is offended with some cholerick humour proceeding from the Liver or Gall into the Guts it commeth eftsoones when a horse drinketh too much presently after the eating a great quantity of Provender for by that meanes the water comming to the Provender causeth the Provender to swell whereby crudities are bred in the stomack and so conveyed down into the Guts which occasioneth his Flux also it commeth by travelling too soone after provender it not being well digested before and it will come also to a Horse by drinking cold water when he is very hot and after the water not being presently warmed in his belly is the cause of a Lax or Flux It will also come by eating of a Feather Hen-dung Spider some venemous worme or other troublesome creature and therefore my counsell is not to stop a Flux too hastily unlesse you do finde that your horse do purge too too violently and then be you well assured that nature is not a little offended for it will bring him in short time to great weaknesse and debility of body give him therefore first the Clyster Laxative Flux which you have taught you in lib. 2. chap. 6 § 8. Clyster 21. letter C. and that will carry away from him all that may any way offend him and a day after give him tâ—â—â— drink Beane flower and Bole-Armoniack powdred of each three ounces mix them with red Wine or Tinte one quart give it him bloud warme and after keep him warme in the stable and let him have Hay and Oates by a little at a time and that often and eyther sweete Mashes or white water ✚ This is very good Another Take of red Wine one quart and Bay-salt one handfull and brew them well together and with a horne give it him and this will stay his scowring ✚ This is also an approved Cure Another Take of wood Ashes finely searsed and of Bole-Armoniack made into very fine powder of each like much put them into the water that he is to drinke and let him drinke thereof morning and evening and this will stay his Flux ✚ But if it be a violent scowring proceeding from the eating of a Feather or some other naughty thing so as this will not stay it then Take the entrals of a Pullet or great Chicken all but the Gizard and mixe with them of Spike-nard one ounce and make him swallow it and this will infallibly stay his scowring yea if it be a bloudy Flux ✚ This is speciall good § 27. F. Hippoph VVHat good Receipt have you to Mundifie cleanse and heale foule and old Sores Hippos I had thought Sir you would not have fallen upon this till it had come to its proper place when and where we should have the particular matters of Sores by themselves together with their cures but sithence you are pleased to touch them in this place I will give you one Receit which cannot easily be paralleld Take of green Coperas and of Salt-Peter of each halfe a pound Foule an old sores â— mundifie bay Salt and Salt-Gemma of each three ounces Arsnick one ounce put all these finely powdred into a stillitory glasse the pot or bottome thereof well nealed and put also thereunto of the strongest white Wine Vineger one pinte set the pot on the fire and put on the head closing it with Cute of Hermes and being thus placed in the furnace make under it a strong fire by the space of five or sixe hours and with your Receptory take the first water that commeth for that is the very strongest and best and after an houre the fire will be out of the warer then stop up the glasse very close and so keep the water for your use The next water is also good but not so strong as the first but reserve it also by it selfe as you do the first And when you are to wash any sores therewith be very carefull that you lay none of this water upon either sinewes or veynes for that it will burn them in sunder but where Vlcers and fouler old sores be in the fleshy parts this water will work wonders if wounds be washed with it and you carefull in the application thereof ✚ Of this I have had great experience Another I have taught me by an expert Marishall of France but by reason of the extreame violence thereof I never durst use it which is called the spirit of Tinne which will also mundifie all sorts of old sores and the French Marishals do use it much And this is the Receit viz. Take Mercury one ounce Spirit of Tinne and put into an old cleane pewter pottinger and fill up the pottinger with Plantane water and with your finger stirre the Mercury about the pottinger till it be quite dissolved and then the water will become white then let it stand an hour in the pottinger then poure forth the water into a cleane glasse-viall and then you shall see in the bottome of your pottenger the Tinne runne liquid like unto Quick-silver or life as if it were melted for that is your spirit of Tinne and thus is it made § 28. F. Hippoph WHat is to be administred to a Horse that forsaketh his meate Hippos There be many causes that may make a Horse to forsake his meate and yet not be sicke at all and so also by occasion of sicknesse that either comming upon him or else which hath already seized him And first a Horse may forsake his meate and forbeare to eate for some time no whit sicke as when he shall eyther linger after Mares or after grasse being weary of dry meate againe he may forbeare his meate and yet not be sicke by meanes of some accident or inconvenience bred in him or befalne unto him as by having the Lampes Barbs Giggs Blisters bloudy-rifts tongue hurt paine in the teeth or some such like infirmity in or about his mouth these may be causes that may induce him to forbeare to eate and yet the creature not sicke but otherwise healthy and hungry and faine would feed but eyther cannot or dare not Also a Horse may forsake his meate being through the inconsideratenesse of his keeper cloyed whereby he doth loath his meat sometimes through over-ayerings morning and evening sometimes againe by suffering him to eate being very hot after great swearing upon immoderate riding and toyle or after water or washing being also very hot These and many more may be the causes why a Horse may forsake his meat and yet not be sicke And he may also forsake his meat by reason of sicknesse ensuing as upon Colds Rhumes and Catarres newly taken and beginning to be felt upon him so also he may forsake his meat by reason
mixe with it White or Claret Wine in such a proportion as may make it liquid and inject or squirt it into his nose ✚ Or else Take the juyce of Selendine mingled with faire water and inject that into his nose ✚ Or else Take Roch-Allum and Salt dissolved in white Wine and inject that up into his nose ✚ Either of all these are very good to cause him to cast such naughty corruption forth of his nose and head that doth much oppresse him which lotions are to be administred evermore after the aforesaid drink ✚ Another also very good drink Take Tanners Owes new made and new milk of each one pint Sallet oyle halfe a pint one head of Garlick pilled and bruised a little Turmerick in fine powder boyle all these together as much as will suffice then take it off and put in your Sallet oyle and so give it him bloud warm give him this drink three times in fifteen dayes that is to say once every five dayes and every time you do administer it unto him convey halfe a hornfull into each nostrill and let him stand upon the Trench 3. hours after warm clothed and littered and then give him a sweet Mash and such meat as is dry sweet and wholesome but during the time of his cure let his drink be white water ✚ This is very good Another very good Take of faire water two quarts of Comin made into fine powder and searsed two ounces and of the inward rinde of Elder six handfuls boyle this to a moyety then take it off and when it is halfe cold straine it and put into the liquor halfe a pint of Sallet-oyle and give him thereof at his mouth three hornefuls and at eyther nosthrill halfe a hornefull then leape his backe and ride him moderately till he be warme so set him up warme cloathed and littered and three or foure houres after give him a warme Mashe but let him eate some Hay first ✚ This I can averre to be very good both for Glanders and cold Another Take Oyle-de-Bay and sweet Butter of each halfe a pound Rose-mary shred very well and small halfe a handfull Garlick one pound beate the Garlicke unpilled in a stone Morter with a woodden Pestell very well then put to it your Oyle Butter and Rose-mary and so make it into one body then with Wheate-flower so much as will suffice make it up into pils and give him three or foure of these every day for ten daies together and order him ut supra Of this I did never make tryall but it was recommended unto me for a speciall good Receipt Another Take Cloves long-Pepper Browne-Sugar-Candy and London Treacle of each two ounces beat the Sugar-Candy and spices to very fine powder and put to them your Treacle and after adde to these Ingredients of good Sacke or Muskadine one pint and first warme it upon the fire and when it is almost cold enough to bee given him put to it of Sallet-oyle three penny-worth and so bloud-warme give it him and in the giving convey into eyther Nosthrill halfe a hornefull of this drinke and then order him ut supra Another Take of new-milke one quart warme from the Cowe two heads of Garlick pilled and bruised boyle these together keeping them with continuall stirring then take it off and let it coole and a little before it be cold enough to give him put to it of life-hony two spoonfuls and of Sallet-oyle halfe a pint give it him bloud-warme reserving for eyther Nosthrill halfe a hornefull then order him ut supra These latter cures I never made tryall off but I think them to be very good Another Take Isope sweet Margerome Lavander-Cotton the roots and crops of Elecampane of each one handfull chop and shred all these together very small and boyle them in good Ale or Beere so much as will suffice then straine it and when the liquor is almost cold breake into it two new-laid Egges and stirre all well together and so give it him bloud-warme give him this drinke three times that is every third day This hath beene recommended unto me for a very good Receipt whereby to cure not onely the Glanders but the mourning of the Chine but I never made use thereof But now sithence I am come almost to the end of my Receipts for this Infirmity I will give you two Receipts the one for the Glanders the other for the mourning of the chine which are Master Markhams which hee stileth thus Two most certaine and newly found out Medicines which will without faile cure any Glanders though our Ferriers hold it impossible The cure If your Horse his cold be come to the worst Glanders which is a continuall running at the nose and hath so runne by the space of divers moneths so that the Ferriers can do no good then shall you take better then two handfuls of the white cankerous Mosse which groweth upon an old Oaken pale and boyle it in Milke two quarts till one part bee almost consumed then straine it and squeeze the mosse well which done give it your Horse luke-warme to drink Then take two Geese-Feathers and take sweet Butter as a bigge Wall-nut and with the powder of Brimstone finely beaten and searsed worke them together with your knife or splatter till the Butter be brought to a high gold colour then take two cleane feathers the longest in all the Goose-wing and first at the quilles ends with a needle fasten two long threds then with your salve annoynt the feathers all over which done in the dry powder of Brimstone rowle them over and over then putting the feathers ends formost open the Horse Nosthrils and thrust them up into his head then take the threds which are at the quils ends and fasten them on the top of the Horses head which done ride him abroad for an houre or two ayring him in this manner morning and evening and when you bring him into the Stable after hee hath stood tyed up a pretty season unty the threds and draw out the feathers and wiping them very dry lay them up till you have next occasion to use them and keep his body warme This disease you must understand commeth not suddainely but growes out of long processe of time so likewise the cure must not be expected to be done in a moment but with much leasure therefore you must continue your Medicine as your leasure will serve eyther every day or at the least thrice a weeke if it bee for foure or five moneths together and bee sure it will in the end yeeld your desire Now the second and well assured and certaine Medicine is to take Elecampane-roots and boyle them in milke till they bee soft that you may bring them to pap then with a home give them to the horse together with the milke luke-warme being no more then will make the rootes liquid then having annointed your Goose-feathers put them into his Nosthrils and ride him forth as before is shewed The
speciall good Hippoph What is good for the Head-ach Hippos First let him bloud in the mouth and rub it with Salt to cause it to bleed the more then take two long feathers of a Goose wing well annoynted in oyle de Bay thrust them up and down his nostrils whereby to open and purge his head and then perfume his head with the stalks of Garlick broken into small pieces as is before shewed keeping him to a spare dyet and moderate exercise the better to cleanse his head and stomack and to empty himselfe by meanes whereof the head and braine will be the better quieted Head-ach It were very good also to perfume him with Frankincense Storax and Benjamin grosly beaten and well mixed of each like much as will suffice but two or three dayes after let him bloud and give him white water for eight dayes after during which time you may do well to give him sometimes a sweet Mash ✚ This is very good § 3. H. Hippoph VVHat is good to helpe the heels that be scabbed Hippos You shall many times have small dry Scabs upon your Horse heeles which will not be greatly noxious to him therupon the best cure for his Keeper daily to annoynt them throughly with the oyntment made of Elbow grease But if there be any running humour issuing from the heeles of the Horse Heeles scabbed then let him stand every day morning and evening up to the belly in water till the scabs do dontract then make a convenient Cautherize neer to the joynts as well crosse as thwart wise then heale it up as you use to do kibed heeles ✚ This is very good § 4. H. Hippoph WHat is good for heels that be kibed Hippos This disease the French do call Iavarrs which is a kinde of Scratches and the cure is to Cautherize the middle of the swelling along both long and crosse-wise that done Heeles kibed take Oxe dung reeking hot mixe it upon the fire with Sallet oyle and apply it to the sorance once and no more then do afterwards as is prescribed you in a cure for a Splent in lib. 2. cap. 18. § 17. S. This I never tryed §. 5. H. Hippoph WHat cure have you for heels that are troubled with the Mellet Hippos This sorance we call the mellet is a dry scab that groweth upon the heele sometimes on the one and sometimes on the other heele sometimes it commeth of corrupt bloud sometimes of a blow given by the toe with the hinder foot for the mellet growes commonly upon the heele of the fore-foot and sometimes for want of good rubbing and dressing after travell it will also have a dry chop without any moysture at all The signes to know it is easie to wit it will soon be felt with your hand Heele Mellet To cure it I have before shewed you in § precedenti But yet I will give you one receit more for the same cure whereof I have made often tryall and it is very good Take of ordinary Honey halfe a pinte black Sope a quarter of a pound mixe these together and put thereto four or five spoonfuls of Vineger and as much Allum finely beaten as a Hens egge unburned and of Rye-flowre two spoonfuls mixe and incorporate all these well together and having first clipped or shaven away the hayre apply this medicine plaister-wise to the sorance just so farre as the sorance goeth and let it so remain five dayes and then take it away and wash all the legge foot and sorance with powdred beefe broth after rope up his legs with thumbands of soft Hay wet and he wil be sound But then you must understand that when at any time you do dresse the sorance you do not faile to take off the dry scab or whatever crusty thing shall be upon or about the place and by washing and cleansing the sore that you do make it marvellous clean ✚ This is a very good receit §. 6. H Hippoph VVHat is good to helpe a Horse that is Hide-bound Hippos This malady is when the skin of the horse doth cleave to the flesh as you cannot with your hand pull up the skin from the ribs sometimes it commeth through extreame poverty and maceration and sometimes through the indiscretion of the Groome for want of good tending sometimes of a surfet taken by over-riding and violent heats given him and then washed or negligently suffered to stand long in the cold or in the raine and sometimes again it commeth of corrupt cholericke bloud siccicating the flesh which wanting its naturall course causeth the skin to shrink and cling together and to cleave to the bones and flesh it also maketh him sick and to have a gaunt belly shrunk up to his flankes and his hayre will stare and his legges will swell and by these signes you may know the disease it is so conspicuous It causeth also siccity and aridity in the liver and lungs causing great torment throughout all the whole body and his dung will be very hard and dry and of a naughty savour for his body will be very costive and if he have not help in reasonable time if death it selfe ensue not yet will at the last other desperate maladies attach him whereof the least will be the mainge which will not easily or suddenly be cured The cure is to let him bloud either on both sides the necke or on both the spur-veines then cloth and litter him warm and do no more unto him that day more then to give him good meat and white water for cold water he must not drink till he be throughly well againe The next day give him this drink Hide-bound Take of white wine one pinte of Sallet oyle one pound of Venice Turpentine one ounce of Methridate of loafe Sugar and of Cassia prepared of each two ounces of the milk of sweet Almonds halfe a pinte and of Verjuyce of the Crab one penny worth mixe all these well together and warming it upon the fire give it to the sick horse let him have this drink sixe or seven mornings together alwayes having a speciall care to the strength of the Horse as well in this as in all other your cures ✚ This is a cure I have used very often and haue found it to be speciall good Another singular good receit First annoynt his body all over with Acopum and Sacke warmed together or else with this Bath Take faire water Mallowes Smalage Rosemary and Bay leaves boyle all these in the water till they shall become soft and so bath his whole body therewith warm and when you have dryed him again annoint him with this unguent Take of Hogs grease tryed one pound Camomile Mallowes Grunsell Smallage of each one handfull chop the hearbs very small and boyle them with the Hogs grease a good while with a soft fire then strain it and wring forth the oyle that commeth of the hearbs and with this Vnguent annoynt his body all over for it will
common English Honey one pound then set it upon the fire Honey-charge and boyle it keeping it continually stirring and put to it in the boyling of blacke Pitch halfe a pound still stirring it till it be boyled so much as will suffice when it is almost enough put to it of ordinary Turpentine halfe a pound of oyle de Bay Comin Althea Sanguis Draconis Bay berries Fenugrick and of Linseed-meale of each two drams boyle all these together againe still stirring them till they be well incorporate and herewith charge the grieved members of the horse ✚ This is the very best charge that I doe know for ordinary griefes of this nature but if you be to apply this to many horses then must you double your ingredients according to the number of your horses This charge is singular good for any slip or wrench in the sholder hip or other member for all sorts of scratches and for stifnesse of sinewes or for sinewes hurt or any way offended as also for a hip-shot or dislocation or for a horse that is over-wearied with travell as also to draw away all bad humours to asswage swellings and tumours and it will serve in the place of a white plaister And this I have often tryed § 9. H. Hippoph VVEll now let us come to treat of the hoofe what have you good to mollifie the hoofe and to cause it to grow Hippos I gave you a very good receit in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 3. lit C. but now I will give you more which shall be very good Take of Elder leaves and of Wal-wort of each like much stampe and straine them till you have gotten of the juyce one quart or better Hoofe to grow then take of Mutton or Deers suet clarified three pound Turpentine Honey and Sallet oyle of each one pound boyle these till all the juyce be consumed into the other ingredients then when it is cold reserve it and when you have occasion to use it annoynt the hoofe therewith ✚ This is very pretious Another as good to cause the hoofe to grow You must observe this rule viz. you must at what time you would have him shod cause his hoofe to be pared well and even and to open the heeles and frush well and so let him be shod up which must be done when the Moone is three dayes in the increase after the change by which meanes the hoofe will grow more in eight daies then if he had been pared and shod in any other time of the Moone in fifteen dayes both faster and better then to supple the hoofe and to cause it to grow the more Take Goats grease Turpentine Sallet oyle and new waxe of each two ounces melt them together then whilst they be hot adde to it of ordinary Honey three ounces of Sanguis-Draconis one dram in fine powder incorporate all these together and bring them to an unguent with which annoynt and rubbe the hoofes of the horse daily which may well be done by using to each the quantity of a hasle nut of this oyntment which will cause the hoofe to grow more in fifteen dayes then without it in three moneths and if you adde to the former ingredients of the juyce of the hearb called Hepatica sixe ounces and of the root called Hosmanderigalis two ounces it will be much better For if you doe finde that the aforesaid Unguent doe not make the hoofe to come away to your minde then will this addition assuredly doe it ✚ This is a very good receit Another Take Salet oyle foure ounces new Waxe and Turpentine of each one ounce Goats grease three ounces melt all these together and being all molten take it from the fire and put into it of Horse-grease Agrippa and of Morciaton of each one ounce beat and incorporate all these together with the other ingredients till it be through cold with this oyntment rub and annoynt the coffins of the hoofes especially about the cronet at the hayre every day once and it will grow very much ✚ This is singular good Another very good Take of Hogges-grease three pound of patch or peece-grease two pound Turpentine one pound new Wax halfe a pound and of Sallet-oyle one pound melt and mixe all these together bringing it to an Oyntment and herewith rub and annoynt the Coffins of the Horse especially about the Cronets neere to the hayre ✚ But if your Horse be prickt in shooing or otherwise accidently hurt in or about the Sole draw forth the Nayle first or whatsoever was cause of his harme then take a few of the longest hayres from his Tayle and wrap them about the point of the said Nayle and cast the said Nayle thus wrapped up in the Hayre into the fire and he will goe sound and upright againe provided you doe not suffer any other Nayle to be driven in the place of the former ✚ This many have supposed to be a Charme but I for my part do not thinke it to be any such matter I have often used the same and have ever more found it to make a perfect Cure Now as touching hurts and bruises in the feete most certaine is it that a Horse will many times have a sore foote which will runne with water and matter about the Frush and Heele which many will ignorantly imagin to be a disease in the Foote not knowing how it might come when as it is nought else but a very bruise gotten by treading upon a stone or stub and I have cured many Horses in this wise viz. Take a wild or garden Colewort and beat it with old Bores-grease to an Vnguent and apply it unto the Sorance then leape his back and and ride him an easie Trot upon swarde-ground to the end the Medicine may the better enter into the sore and thus dressing him once a day he will soone bee well ✚ This is very good But if your Horse have a weeping Hoofe or small Cliftes Hoofe ping which disease the French do cal la Corne que Escume the Coffin which frotheth or wheeseth Then the cure is First to open the place with your Drawing-iron or Cornet I meane the outward part thereof only till you come unto the Master-Veine which you must breake with your Cornet and suffer it to bleed so long as it will then fill up the wound with the powder of Salt and hurds steeped in Vineger and bind them so on that they fall not off and thus by dressing it every day once and in short time it will be well This cure I never tryed my selfe but I have beene present sundry times in France where I have seene this cure fully perfected by Marishalls there But if the Hoofe be loose then take Bettony Rosemary Rue Hoofe ◠red-Mints Tansie Sotheron-wood of each like much bray all these hearbs with Tarre so much as will suffice and the powder of Bole-Armoniack so much as will suffice and apply it to the hoofe till you find that it be fast againe
✚ This also is very good Another Take Tarre Brimstone in fine powder Wheate-branne and the Vrine of a Man-child boyle all these to a Pultis and apply it hot to the hoofe and this will fasten it ✚ This is singular good But if the Veine lie bare in the sole of the Foote causing the Horse to halt then to make the hoofe to grow over it whereby it becommeth sound againe make this Plaister and apply it to the Sorance Take Stone Pitch and Rosin of each two ounces Hoofeâ— Brimstone in fine powder one ounce melt all these together till they be well incorporate then when you take it from the fire adde thereto of Turpentine one ounce and so stirre them all together and as it cooleth make it up into Rowles and when you would use it poure the same into the Orifice by the helpe of a red hot iron and so all about the Sorance then clap Hurds upon it and over that a peece of Leather cut and shaped for the purpose and so splent it to keepe it fast on Vse thus to dresse him twice or thrice and he will be cured ✚ This is very good But if the foote have taken any harme by an over reach stub prick or gravell then making the wound very cleane and laying it bare Take Sope and Salt of each like much so much as will suffice make them to an Vnguent then first wash the Sore with Chamberly and Salt or Beere and Salt and dry it againe with a linnen ragge then bind on the Medicine and let it so remaine foure and twenty houres and do thus if the wound be great three or foure daies together then having with this Medicine exhausted all the Venome which it will soone do take of Traine-Oyle one spoonefull or two and as much Ceruse that is white lead in fine powder and so worke them to a thick salve then apply that to the sorance plaister-wise till it be whole which will not be long for nothing doth dry up sooner or is more kindly or Naturall for the breeding of a new Hoofe then this Another most soveraigne for a Hoofe bound Hoofe bound First pluck off the Shooes and shooe him up againe with halfe Moone or lunet-shooes then ease with your drawing Iron or Rape the quarters of the Hoofes on both sides of the Feete from the Cronet downe to the end or bottome of the hoofes so deep till you perceive as it were a dew to come forth and if you make two Rases it will be the better and enlarge the Hoofes the more that done annoynt the Hoofes above next to the Hayre about the Cronet with this oyntment Take of Turpentine one pound of Wax and of Sheepes or Deeres Suet of each halfe a pound of Tarre and of Sallet-oyle of each halfe a pint melt all but the Turpentine together and when it is almost ready to be taken off from the fire put in your Turpentine and so stirre it well together till it be cold Let his Hoofes be annoynted herewith once a day till you doe perceive hee mendeth and then let him be ridden upon soft moyst-swardy-ground an houre or two every day once for the space of a Month and if he do not go well at the Months end as I am confident he will then take off the lunet-shooes and pare his Soles Frushes and Heeles so thin till you may see a dew to come forth the bloud ready to start then tack on his whol Shooes and stoppe all his Feete as well within as without with this Charge Take of Cow or Oxe-dung and of Wheate-branne of each so much as will suffice Hoofe bound a Charge of tryed Hogges-grease and of the kidney of a Loyne of Mutton of each one pound of Turpentine and Tarre of each halfe a pound melt all these together the Turpentine excepted which must be put in when it is almost ready to be taken from the fire continually stirring it to the end the ingredients may be the better mixed Let this Charge be layed on good and hot renewing it every day once by the space of nine daies to the end the sole may arise but if this will not do it then take out the soles cleane and after you have stanched the bleeding with the tender tops of Isope well stamped in a stone Morter then apply the medicine of Snayles Bay-Salt and red Nettles shewed you in lib. 2. chap. 9. § 18. F. renewing it once a day for three daies and after you may heale up the feet and bring a new and perfect sole with your greene Oyntment so often recommended unto you in many other of my Cures and thus you shall rectifie the hoofes and make him sound but then hee must be shod with lavels againe and turned forth to grasse ✚ But if he hath stood in the Stable with little exercise whereby he may bee in danger of a dry foundring Take of Turpentine of Sheeps suet and of Waxe Hoof bâ— of each one pound of Sallet-Oyle one pint of Tarre halfe a pint melt all these upon a soft fire and stirre them in the melting untill they be all well incorporate but put in your Turpentine last which being well molten put it up in a cleane Vessell and keepe it for your use and herewith annoynt the hoofes of your Horse dayly they having beene first washed very cleane and wiped dry and this will conserve his hooves supple and moyst keepe them coole and make them very tough and sound ✚ This I have often used But if the hooves be somewhat straight and yet the Horse not hoofe-bound then administer this Medicine to his feete Take the fat of Bacon the sward cut away halfe a pound Hoofe straighâ— of white Sope three ounces Balme one handfull and five or sixe sprigges of the tender tops of Rue chop and stampe all these together very well in a Morter and then fry them Hoofe â— and lay them to the hooves reasonable hot and keepe him from comming in any wet till he be well and being thus dressed every day once his hooves will in short time bee sound well and easy to him againe ✚ This Receipt is very good But let us discourse of a loose hoofe yet a little more Take of Tarre three spoonefuls of Rosin three ounces of Tansy Rue Mints and Sotheren-wood of each one handfull pound all these very well adding to it of sweet Butter halfe a pound of Virgin Waxe halfe an ounce and so try them all together till it come to bee a thicke salve and apply it Plaister-wise warme to the hooves seven or eight daies together and this will cure him and fasten the hooves againe ✚ This is very good But if his hoofe be otherwise hurt eyther by some other Horse treading upon his Hoofe or by any other accident then Take an Egge and Soot so much as will suffice Hoofe tâ—den upoâ— hurt to be beaten with the said Egge till it be stiffe like a salve then adde
to it of Sallet-oyle and Harts-horne made into powder of each two or three spoonfuls boyle this to a thick salve continually stirring it in the boyling and apply it to the hooves Plaister-wise dayly dressing them till they bee whole This I never made tryall off howbeit it was commended to me to be a speciall good Receipt Another very good to make a brittle or pomized hoofe tough Take fresh Butter one pound Hoofe bâ—tle to mâ— tough Wax and Turpentine of each halfe a pound melt first the Waxe then put to it your Butter and when that is molten put in your Turpentine and so stirring them well together reserve it to your use and when you do use it apply it thus Make a Buskin of leather so as it may be buckled or tyed above or upon the pasterne joynt and then lay on so much of the medicine as will cover the hoofe all over very thicke and then put on the Buskin and fasten it to his legge or pasterne and let him stand so night and day till you have occasion to ride or exercise him dressing him thus once a day and the longer you use this medicine the better will be his hoofe Hoofe to grow ✚ I have often made tryall of this receit and I have found it to be very good But if your horse hath his hoofe broken and that you have a desire it should grow then Take Garlicke pilled seven ounces Rue three handfuls Allum powdred and searsed seven ounces old Bores grease two pound beat all these together with Asses dung one handfull and then boyle it and so reserve it and annoynt his hoofes therwith and they will grow very fast ✚ This is very good If he be hurt by being cast in his halter Halâ—er cast then Take of Waxe and Turpentine of each one ounce melt them together in a pot take then of Verdigrece and Hogs grease of each one ounce and incorporate them well together raw viz. without boyling the Verdigrece being first made into very fine powder and put into another pot by it selfe then when you have occasion to use it whereby to dresse a sore take first of that you made of Turpentine and Waxe two parts and then of that other which was not boyled made of Verdigrece and Hogs grease a third part and mixing them well together in the palme of your hand annoynt the sorance therewith thus doting every day once or twice it will be whole remembring to clip away the hayre first from about the place And this is a most excellent receit ✚ I have often proved it §. 10. H. Hippoph WHat may a man best apply to the Hough of a Horse that is swelled as if hee were in danger to breed a Bloud or Bogg-Spaven Hippos This commeth sometimes to yong horses when they be too hard ridden and journeyed in their youth which is the cause they swell in that place by reason the bloud falling downe there setleth which if it be not speedily removed will assuredly beget a wet Spaven The cure is annoynt the place swolne foure or five dayes together with naturall Balsome and after represse the humours with this charge having first given fire to the place lightly Hough swelled Take oyle of Roses two ounces Bolearmoniack in powder one ounce Wheat flower halfe an ounce and the white of an Egge beat and incorporate all these together and after you have ended to annoynt the place swelled with Balsome charge every day for foure or five dayes after the place herewith and he will be well ✚ This is very good §. 11. H. Hippoph VVHat is good to dry up humours Hippos This kinde of drying up of humours is but onely to restraine them for working too much upon wounds whereby the better to cure them The way therefore is this First bath the sorance well with hot molten fresh Butter and then strew upon it the powder of Rosin for a day or two Hun dry 〈◊〉 then take of the thickest Creame and of Soot of each as much as will suffice and worke them to a thick paste and so apply it to the sorance plaister-wise and it will both dry up the humour which possesseth it and heale up and skin the sore in a short space ✚ This I have often used and it is right good § 12. H. Hippoph VVHat is best to cure the hurt in the Shoulder or other member Hippos There are many things good for a malady of this nature and when I come to treat of Spraines Sores and Wounds I shall deliver them unto you and therefore I will now refer them to its proper place onely I will give you one for the present Take oyle de Bay Dialthea fresh Butter oyle of Turpentine Hurâ—der of each two ounces boyle and mixe them well together and when they be well incorporate annoynt the place grieved therewith so hot as the Horse can well suffer it without scalding and let him be thus annoynted twice or thrice a day and give the Horse moderate exercise by walking him a foot pace gently up and down And this is a certaine and an approved remedy This I never tryed but a great Ferrier who is cryed up for famous taught it me and wished me to make use thereof § 13. H. Hippoph VVHat doe you hold good wherewith to cure old Hurts Hippos The onely best way to cure and dry up old hurts and sores is this Take old shooes and burn them to coles Hurtâ— to cuâ— and then beat them to fine powder then adde to it unslaked Lime and ordinary Honey as much as will suffice to bring it to a stiffe paste which done knead them all together unto a paste and so make it into a Cake and then lay it upon a fire pan and so let it be well baked which done make it into fine powder and every day once put of this powder into the wound and it will heale it up nothing sooner ✚ This I have often used and it is very good and herewith we do conclude this Chapter CHAP. XII § 1. I. Hippoph WHat is good to helpe any imperfection in the feet Hippos First pare the feet very thin open the heeles and make the shooes wide large and hollow if the imperfection come by foundring then Imperfection in the feet Take a good quantity of Oxe or Cow dung Tarre and Hogs grease of each halfe as much and of Soot the like quantity as of either Tarre or Hogs grease boyle all these very well together and herewith stop the horse feet very hot and continue thus to do daily and it will not onely take away any anguish but also strengthen the hoofes and make them so perfect as that they will be able to endure labour but when you trauell your horse for exercise is very good for him let him be stopped herewith hot but if cold adde then thereto the whites of Egges as much as will suffice for that will coole his feet very well and
eate good sweet Hay and Bran in stead of Oates aad let his drinke be only white Water ✚ This is a most excellent Receipt § 5. I. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Ioynt that hath in it any Ach Numnesse Weakenesse or Swellings which commeth of a cold cause Hippos This commeth sometimes of a Streyne and sometimes of a Cold taken after a great and violent riding or labour The signes are apparent and the Cure is Take Acopum and mixing it with sweete Sack all to rub and chafe the Ioynt greived Joint gâ—ved therewith And if it come of cold it will at foure or five times thus doing cure it ✚ This is singular good Another Take Aqua-vitae and warme it upon the fire and therewith bathe and rub the greived Member therewith very well and hold a hot bar of iron before it to cause it to sinke in the better take then a rag and wet it in the same Aqua-vitae and lastly take Pepper finely powdred and searced anâ— strew it good and thick upon the said wet rag and so bind it to the place greived take then a dry Rowler of linnen and swathe the place therewith and so let them remaine and thus do every day once and in short time it will recover him ✚ Of this I have made often tryall §. 6. I. Hippoph VVHat is good to encrease the Hoofe of a Horse Hippos I have given you sundry good Receipts before but I will adde one more which the most Famous Marishall of all Paris gave me which he recommended unto me for tresbonne but I never had yet a good occasion to make tryall thereof The receipt is this Take of the Oyle of Hempe-seed of Waxe of Venice Turpentine Increasâ— Hoofe Rosin Pitch Bay-seeds dryed and powdred of each halfe a pound Roch Allume two ounces mixe all these together and let them boyl softly upon a gentle fire then straine it through a hayre-cloath and keepe it for your use With this annoynt every day the hoofes of your Horse and this will cause them to grow very much This is probably a good Receipt CHAP. 12. §. 1. L. Hippophylus HOw doe you cure the Lampas Hipposerus Hippos This is a Malady that every common Smith can easily cure by putting into the Mouth of the Horse a good big Bat of wood where unto two long peeces of the Head-stall of an old bridle is nayled at either end which will cause him to keepe open his Mouth and then holding up his Lip with your left hand burne away the ranke flesh with a hot Iron made of purpose and after rubbing the place with Salt and giving him Bran for Oats three or foure daies at the most he will bee whole ✚ This disease is a Swelling proceeding from ranknesse of bloud which groweth in the Mouth adioyning to the fore teeth which said Swelling is an impediment to his feeding it is apparant enough to be seene and therefore needs no further remonstrance ✚ Neverthelesse I will shew you how the Marishals in France do use to cure the Lampas from whom I had the Cure and wherewith I my selfe have cured many horses Take a rosted Onion and very hot put it upon a clout or upon hurds and with it rub the Lampas Lampas very hard and do this two or three times a day till it be whole ✚ But many times they burne away the Lampas like as do our Smithes with an iron instrument which they do call a Bistory which is the very same that our Smithes use here in England § 2. L. Hippoph HOw do you stop a Lax or Loosenesse when it commeth to be violent Hippos Very easily Sir but I had thought I had handled that point sufficiently before in letter F. where you made your demand touching the Flux in a Horse notwithstanding I will give you other very good Receipts by me almost forgotten To illustrate the manner of it's comming Laxe to stop and the signes how to know the same I hold unfitting for this place by reason I have sufficiently already performed it Take of Allome one penny-worth powdred Bole-Armoniack poudred one ounce put these into Milke one quart continually stirring it till the Milke doth become all of a Curd give him this with a horne and it will stay his Laxe bee it never so violent ✚ This I have used Another Take Beane flower and Bole-Armoniack in fine powder of each foure ounces put them into red Wine one quart and give him this with a horne bloud warme Let his drinke be white water only insteed of Wheate-bran put in Bean-flower and that for three or foure daies after then let him bloud in the Temple veines and give him warme Mashs made of ground Malt and Beane-flower and having drunke up the Wort let him eate up the residue but if this doe not stay him within two daies then put in each Nosthrill Sallet-oyle and that will do it ✚ This is speciall good §. 3. L. Hippoph VVHat meanes have you to raise a leane Horse and to cause him in short time to hecome very fat Hippos I have shewd you this before but yet I will give you Rereipt which you yet have not Take Elecampane dryed Comin Turmerick Anniseeds Leanâ— to maâ— of each two ounces Grunsell halfe a handfull boyle all these very well with three heads of Garlick picked a little bruised in strong Ale foure quarts then straine it well and give unto your Horse of this drinke one quart in a morning fasting bloud warme and then ride him upon it till he do begin to be warme but not to sweate and thus do for foure mornings together and within some short time after turne him to grasse if the time of the yeare be seasonable and he will feed wonderfully and fatten sodainely but if the time of the yeare doe not serve for grasse then shall you keep him in the Stable and besides his former drinke you shall give him in his Oates this powder viz. Take the powder of Elecampane dry and of Comin both pulverized and searced of each like much mix them wel together and every time you give your Horse this Provender take of this powder half an ounce and strew it by little and little among his Provender for feare of offending him till he hath eaten up all cleane and doe thus but foureteene daies together and you shall perceive your Horse to thrive mend and prosper after a strange manner provided that you do give him seasonable ayring moderate exercise and Mashes or white water ✚ This is marvelous good §. 4. L. Hippoph VVHat is to bee done to a Horse whose Legges doe swell Hippos If this Swelling be only in his fore Legges and not behind then it is a signe that this his Swelling came by over-violent labour when the Horse was very fat especially inwardly by reason that the grease that was molten fell downe into his fore-Legges which if it had staid in his Body must of necessity have engendred either an Anticor
dropping of the trees falling upon the Horse together with his poverty doth cause them to engender and albeit they may be at first but a few yet will they in short time multiply abundantly sometimes also a Horse will catch them by standing neer to another horse that be lowsie and so long as he be visited with them he can never prosper but remaine very meager and leane You may easily know when he is annoyed with this kinde of vermine for that he will often scrub and rub himselfe against Wals Posts and Doores with his mouth and hinder feet The way to destroy them is Lice Take Staves-Acre and boyle it in running water and wash him all over with that water warme and it will kill them ✚ Another Take Quick-silver two ounces and first kill it with fasting Spittle and when it is throughly mortified take Hogs grease tryed and so work them together till it become of an Ash-colour and annoynt him therewith and it will in twice or thrice dressing kill them all ✚ Another Take Tobacco as much as will suffice and shred it very small and put it into small Beere and put to it of Allum powdred as much as will suffice and when the Allum is dissolved wash him therewith and it will kill them X All these I have often tryed and have found them to be very good §. 7. L. Hippoph HOw doe you make your powder of Lime and Honey Lime 〈◊〉 Honeâ— with which you doe heale and dry up Sores Hippos Take of English Honey and of quick-lime newly taken from the Kill unslaked of each like much as will suffice beat your Lime into fine powder and with your Honey and your Lime knead it to a paste and when it is throughly wrought make it into a thin Cake then lay it upon a cleane fire-pan and set it upon the fire and so let it bake and as it is baking take the soles of two old shooes and cast them into the fire and let them burn untill they have done flaming and that they do come to be fire coale then take them forth and when the Cake is baked sufficiently and cold beat the Cake together with the burnt shooes soles to very fine powder and so keep this powder in a bladder or dry boxe for your use X This will heale and dry up any wound or old sore and I have often and long used this powder § 8. L. Hippoph VVHat disease is that we call the Low-worme Hippos This is that disease which I cannot distinguish from Saint Anthonies fire or the Shingles for that it hath the selfe same symptomes and this I have cured This is a Worme that breedeth in the back betwixt the skin and the bone and runneth along the breast to the braine and when it commeth to touch the pannicle of the braine it maketh the Horse starke mad You shall first discover it by these signes viz. presently after a long and tedious journey the Horse will be sick and forsake his meat and stand out of length with his feet bending down his backe and he will often make offer to pisse but cannot and if he doe yet will it be but very little at a time and that in the sheath and in time he will fall mad gnaw the Wals Rack-staves and Manger and bite and strike at every man that commeth within his reach or danger and these be the most pregnant and apparant signes and this disease doth deceive many a good Ferrier For albeit that this infirmity may be many times among horses yet Ferriers being ignorant thereof by mistaking it meerely for the Stavers and applying remedies onely for that cure doe thereby lose many a good horse through their misprision But now to come unto the Cure it selfe I will give you two receits the former of which I learned of a Farmer in Buffolke who was cryed up for a very expert man in this faculty as indeed he was and hath perfected in my presence many a great cure Then thus Take of Acrement a quarter of a pound Loe-â—â— sixe heads of Garlicke cleane pilled of Rue and Turmentile that beareth the yellow flower of each one pound stamp all these in a stone morter and put to it so much white Wine as that when it is strained there may be of the juyce and Wine two quarts when you have of this liquor in a readinesse let your horse bloud under the tayle a good quantity then stanch him and dividing this pottle of liquor into sixe parts give it him sixe mornings together that is to say every morning one part or portion till he hath taken it all and by that time he will he perfectly cured ✚ The second receit was taught me in France by a famous Marishall of Burbon who hath cured very many horses of the selfe same malady but in a quite contrary way For whereas the first Cure was wrought by medicine this second is perfected by giving of fire Take an iron with a Button at one end and make it red hot then burn him therwith upon the top of his forehead and a little under his foretop and another in the fore-top and foure other in the necke cleane through upon the crest whereof two of the holes must be upon the one side of the crest and two on the other side and to take away and kill the fire put into every hole Vnguentum Rosarum and then let him bloud in the necke veine and he is cured ✚ This is also an approved Cure The French do call this malady ver-coquin and the Italians doe name Vermiforme but they both have but one manner of Cure for the fame This Ver-coquin or Low-worme is a living worm which breedeth upon the back bone running along the necke and so by degrees commeth to the head of the horse where with its hard beake it first pierceth the panicle and then worketh it selfe to the very brain of the creature where it lyeth biting gnawing and feeding causeth the horse to become enraged and to dye mad if otherwise he be not cured in time and therefore the French Marishals doe affirme that the prime remedy wherewith to kill and destroy this Worme is by fire and they hold that it cannot be destroyed any other way §. 9. L. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you to helpe the disease of the Lungs Hippos This disease of the Lungs is a malady which is first engendred of cold taken and let runne till the horse be either frettized or putrified in the lungs at what time they become inflâ—med and to come at last to rottennesse and corruption the means how to come to the knowledge of this infirmity is that by carefull observance you may perceive his flankes to beat and his ribbes to work but most chiefly when he cougheth and then the more slowly they doe beat and heave the more old and dangerous is the disease he will also draw his breath at his nose short and yet weakely and he will grone often
phlegmaticke humours do distill out of the head into the winde-pipe and so fall upon the lungs where they doe rest and there congeale hindring the drawing of his breath it comes also by Colds Glanders and the like the signes are so apparant as that they need no discription onely this inconvenience besides many more it bringeth with it as to be heavy sad and dull in travell be marvellous subject to sweats and be ready to fall down if he be but a little strained A right skilfull Ferrier not long since told me of a strange cure in this kinde which a Gentlemans Groome relatd to him of a Gelding which the Groome had in his said keeping who was so pursive or as we plainely say broken-winded as that he became almost unusefull and his cure was after this manner he suffered his Gelding to eate what he would as well his fill viz. of good Hay as of Provender but debarred him of all drink for the space of two or three dayes together then leaping his backe he rode him upon a foot pace to the water at which time he suffered him to drink his fill then comming forth of the water he clapt spurres suddenly to him and ran him with a loose hand upon the top of his speed so long untill for want of breath he fell with him and for some time lay as if he were dead but recovering breath he arose and being well recovered of his winde he rode him into the water the second time where he also drank and being come out of the water he did as before and so being againe ridden from off his wind he fell like as at first having thus the second time recovered breath hee gave him water the third time and then rode him as formerly but now this third time being fallen when he began to get breath again he coughed most vehemently at what time through the violence of his coughing the Gelding cast forth of his mouth and that out of his wind pipe a hard lumpe of congealed Flegmatick stuffe of a good bignes which by this meanes brought up the Gelding was ever after freed from the malady and made sound and from that houre had the use of his winde as ably and as well as ever before and this was the story which one of the ablest Ferriers I do know in England delivered unto me as he affirmed and I do beleeve him for that I do know him to be a right honest man from the mouth of the Groome who with many vehement asseverations affirmed the thing to be most true neverthelesse albeit I do Mathematically beleeve that the Groome delivered this history to the Ferrier I must say with the French man Ie croy en Dieu But leaving this famous Groome to his rare cure let us proceed to cures that are more probable and now of such cures as I have met with for this disease You shall participate Take of new Milke one pint and of Sallet oyle halfe a pint give him this bloud warme which done put downe his throate two new laid Egges Puâ—sivenes or shortnes of breath do thus three or foure mornings together and then you shall perceive amendment but for his Hay let it be spinkled with water and his Oates well wet in good Ale or Beere and let his drinke bee altogether white water ✚ This is very good Another Keepe your horse three or foure daies to a spare Diet before you do administer to him then give him this drinke Take Fenugreecke three ounces of Bay-berries one ounce and a halfe of the inner rind of Elder halfe a pound the whites of six new laid Egges of browne-Sugar-Candy water-Cressets Prim-rose leaves if they may bee had red Mints red Fennell white or Hawethorne leaves of each one pound bray all these together in a Morter the Spices before beaten by themselves and when they be well powdred put to the Ingredients Ale one quart and so boyle it and after straine it and so give the liquor thereof to your Horse to drinke bloud warme and set him upon the Trench and let him fast six houres after then give him meat and an houre after that give him a warme Mash or white Water and let him be kept to a strickt Dyet and let his drinke be Mashes or white Water nine daies together after and his Hay sprinkled with Water and his Provender wet in Ale or Beere and thus you may cure him ✚ With this medicine I have don very great cures Another Take the guts of a Hedge-hogge and hang them in an Oven till they be dry then make them into powder then take three or foure spoonefuls of the powder and put it into sweet Wine Ale or Beere and so give it him to drinke and the residue of the powder mix with the powder of Anniseeds and Lycoris and with sweet Butter make it into Pils and give him two or three of the Pils presently after his drench and keepe him fasting three or foure houres after then you may give him Hay first sprinkled with water and after Provender or Bread wet or moistned in good Ale or Beere putting also thereunto of this powder and if you have not enough of this powder to serve then Take of Comin Lycoris Centaury and Anniseedes of each like much make these into fine powder and give him thereof two spoonfuls with his provender and put also into his Mashes and bread of the powder of Fennell-seede mixed with the powder of brimston this is very good for this malady for I have seen a horse for a month together to eate no other Provender but what hath been mixed with this powder and also his Mashes and white water so made and compounded and I have also brought him to drinke new Milke mingled with the powder of Brimstone by meanes whereof he hath been the sooner recovered and made perfectly sound X. and this is very good Another First let him bloud then take of sweet Wine one pint and of the juyce of Hore-hound halfe a pound of the Oyle of Frankincense halfe an ounce of the powder of Anniseed Lycoris and browne-Sugar-Candy of each halfe an ounce let all these be made into fine powder incorporated well together and give it him once or twice in the weeke for a while and ride him not at all that day you drench him but keepe him warme clothed and well littered and let him stand upon the Trench foure houres after fasting then give him meat and three houres after a sweet Mash Putting thereinto of the powder of Lycoris and Anni-seeds of this I never made tryall but it hath beene highly commended unto me for right good Another Take of Barley two gallons steepe it in water two dayes and shift the water every day then take it cleane from the water wherein it was last steeped and boyle it in three gallons of faire cleere water till it burst putting thereto of Anniseeds and Lycoris and of Raisins of the Sunne stoned of each one pound
knock upon the top of the clenches when you do come to that nayle which grieveth him he will lift up his foot so likewise there be many other such like signes whereby to discover the place prickt Prickt which be familiar to every common Smith and therefore I shall not need to speake any more thereof But let us now passe to the Cure First therefore after you have made tryall with your Pinsons or otherwise as before is inculcated pluck off the shooe and either with your drawing iron or your Butter search the place to the very bottome and if you can see or feele any stub of any naile therein leave not till you have got it away and if the place be festered or matterative wipe or wash the wound very well so as you may leave no part thereof behinde then take of the tender tops of red Nettles a little handfull and stamp them in a morter of Badgers grease two ounces of red Wine Vineger and of black Sope of each two spoonfuls or for want of Badgers grease take the like quantity of the fat of Bacon which is salt Beat all these together in a morter to an Vnguent and stop the wound well therewith and after cover it with Hurds and so tack on the shooe again and do not remove it in two dayes and when you dresse it the second time with the said Vnguent you may shooe him up but drive no naile at that place and so you may travell him for he will be whole and sound ✚ This is an excellent Cure and I have often used the same Another Open the sorance well as before is shewed you and wash it cleane with Vineger and Salt and then lay unto it the tender tops of Elder buds beaten to a very Vnguent if it be in Summer that those buds or leaves may be had if not then in Winter take inward rinde of Elder so pounded and brayed and upon that melt into the wound hard Tallow with a hot iron and then lay upon it to keep it close stopped some Hurds and so tack on the shooe and in few times dressing he will be whole ✚ With these two receits I have done many whereof some have been very great Cures Another First open the place cleanse the sore well as before then take red Nettles and Bay Salt of each like much beat them unto a salve then fill up the hole of the wound therewith that done lay upon it bolster-wise Hurds and melt upon the Hurds hard Tallow to keep wet durt and gravell from it which would annoy the sorance then tack on the shooe causing the foot to be well pared and drive no nayle neere the place and after twice or thrice dressing you may ride him for then the more exercise he hath the sooner will he be whole ✚ This is speciall good Another Take off the shooe and cause him to be well pared and searched as before then take of Turpentine brown Sugar Candy powdred and white Ginger in powder also of each the quantity of a Garden-Beane then melt them all together in an iron spoon and so poure it into the wound hot and lay Hurds upon it and after do as you are directed in the former Cures ✚ This also is very good Another Search the place as before is shewed then take Roch-Allum and burn it and make it into fine powder and so fill the hole therewith and lay a boulster of Hurds upon it and after do as before you are taught ✚ And this is very good Another Search the place as before is shewed then take of Goats grease or for want thereof Deers-suet or Sheeps-suet of Turpentine Sallet oyle and new waxe of each two ounces melt them all together and whilst it is upon the fire adde thereunto of ordinary Honey three ounces and of Sanguis Draconis one dram made into fine powder incorporate all these together upon a gentle fire and bring it to an oyntment and of this you must poure a sufficient quantity into the wound warm then put on Hurds and do as before is prescribed you and let the foot be very well stopped and let him come in no wet if you can prevent the same neither let any nayle be driven neer the grieved place ✚ This is one of the best Receits of this kinde Another Search the place as before and cleanse it with Salt and Vineger Then take Salt and make it into fine powder then take foure times so much Turpentine and boyle them together and so poure it hot into the wound and then put upon it the powder of Brimstone dissolved in white Wine and lay upon it Hurds and then do as before is declared ✚ Very good Another most singular receit which the French do call a Retoire First search and wash as before Then Take of oyle de Bay four ounces of Orpin of Cantharides and of Euforbium of each two ounces make them all into fine powder and set it upon a gentle fire stirring it till you have brought it to an Vnguent with which dresse him as before is taught you § 13. P. Hippoph VVHat hold you good wherewith to perfume a Horse Hippos Perfumes are very necessary to be applyed to horses in some cases viz. in Colds Glanders Rhumes Murs Pozes Catars c. for the better expiation of which maladies Perfumes are admirable helps for sometimes they breake a cold sometimes they dissipate congealed humours which do annoy the head braine and stomacke of the horse sometimes they expell and cause the horse to vent and to send away at his nose and mouth much filth and corruption which doth stop clog and pester his head and body and sometimes they do ficcicate and dry up many bad humours which are engendred in the head and braine and so likewise many vertues Perfumes have whereof very many of our Ferriers here in England are most ignorant for did they truly know the nature of Perfumes and how rightly to apply them in their proper places they might easily do cures for which they should be not a little admired The ingredients and simples wherewith we usually perfume sicke horses are many as Frankincense Storax Benjamin Brimstone Olibanum c. sometimes Hearbs Roots Graine or Corne and such like things which are very much behoofefull for the cures of such diseases for which they are frequently administred as you shall finde in many of my Cures set you down at large yet I will for example sake set you down two or three for your better satisfaction Perfume 1 Take the best Olibanum Storax Benjamin and Frankincense of each one ounce bruise all these and mixe them well together but not too small and when you are to perfume your Horse take all these so well mixed and putting thereof upon a Chafing-dish and coles cover the coles with a Tunnell and so apply the small end to one nostrill at once and after to the other to the end he may receive the smoke or fume up into his
head and let him be thus perfumed a quarter of an houre together ✚ Another Perfume 2 Take Brimstone made into fine powder and mixe with it fresh Butter and Sallet oyle as much as will suffice let him not take this with fire like as he did the former but let it be conveyed into his nose with a linnen clowt rowled up in the fashion of a great Taynt and this will bring forth much bad matter ✚ Another Perfume 3 Take Penny-royall Sage and Wheate of each as much as will suffice and boyle them in faire water till the Wheat do burst put the Wheat and Hearbs being first drayned from the water so hot as it commeth from the fire and so fasten the bag unto the head of the horse whereby he may receiue the fume up into his head And thus you may perfume him at pleasure and as you shall see cause ✚ The residue of perfumes and the manner how to apply them you shall finde among my Cures and therefore it will be superfluous for me to intreat any further of them §. 14. P. Hippoph VVHat is the best manner of administring Purgations to a Horse Hippos As touching Purgations I have spoken before very largely as well for inward purging as for outward and therefore what I shall say more is in effect but one and the same thing neverthelesse for your further satisfaction I will briefly deliver unto you what can be said of Purgations Five wayes we have whereby to purge a horse viz. by Pils Potions Clisters Suppositories and Grasse Pils for the most part do purge and cleanse the head and braine by drawing the peccant humours down into the body and so sending them forth with the excrements Potions do free the stomack belly and guts from such naughty humours which Glanders Colds and Surfets have engendred in the body Clisters are of sundry and those of different natures some to ease and appâ—ase griefes some to allay the biliousnesse and sharpnesse of evill humours some to binde and some to loosen and some to heale as in case of Vlcers and old Sores within the body principally and those do also cleanse the guts refresh the inward parts and spirits vitall and prepare the body before hand for the receiving of purging pils or potions Suppositories help the diseases in the guts being of nature and condition more gentle then Clisters are and may be applyed when Clisters cannot It therefore remaineth that the skill of the Ferrier be such as to be able judiciously to understand the severall natures of every of these things to know how to make choice of his ingredients and simples aptly to understand how to compound them punctually and artificially to discern rightly before he do administer what be the humours and maladies wherewith the creature is annoyed and visited as whether V. G. it be Choler Melancholy Flegme or Rhume as also in what part of the body the humour offensive is most predominant and what simples will purge or remove those evill humours for it is requisite he be able to know right well and ad unguem the nature and property of every one of them in particular by reason that some are much more asperous and violent then others be yea many simples are strong poysons if they be not well prepared and corrected and yet their qualities well weighed and compounded by true Art and great good judgement will work wonderfull effects Those simples which be strong are Colloquintida Scamony Elebore c. the more gentle are Manna Cassia Whey Prunes c. But those that be of the meane or indifferent working are Rubarb Agarick Aloes Sene c. and this I am bold to intimate unto you to the end you may the better understand their natures vertues and qualities and come to know the more securely how to work when occasion shall be offered The fift and last way of purging is by grasse especially if the horse be surfetted and hath been over-toyled the Winter before for this must be done in the Summer time when grasse is in its best heart but that grasse which will scoure and purge most is a new mown meadow for that will rake his guts very well nor will he in such a place gather flesh I do therefore counsell you not to suffer him to remain in such grounds above fourteen or fifteen dayes and then take him forth and put him into some other pasture where the grasse hath not been touched with the Sithe for then he will belly well and in short time recover much flesh and become fat and lusty This manner of scowring will cause him to empty himselfe well to purge and send away all his bad humours and surfets ease his limbs marvellously well do his legges and feet very much good refine his corrupt bloud and make him agill and full of spirit To mow green Rye before it be eared is also most wholesome for it scowreth cleanseth and cooleth the body very much so doth the leaves of Sallowes and of the Elme but as touching the administring of Scowrings and Purgations in the Stable you must understand that some skilfull Ferriers who have been far travelled in this Mystery have very diligently and studiously set you down many very good rudiments and instructions wherewith to worke with all security whose observations I do advise you punctually to observe as first the seasons of the yeere are to be pondred V. G. in winter if his body be to be purged it must be first prepared by Phlebothomy or Bloud-letting together with artificiall dyet therefore you shall administer eyther Suppository Clyster Potion or Pill c. You must keep him a day or two from hay straw or such like hard-meats of digestion for that those things will be a great impediment to the working of physicke or medicine and he must also be kept for a time from meate because emptinesse is a great helpe to physicall operation otherwise it may happen as it doth oftentimes that more danger then good may accrew to the Horse Wherefore two or three dayes before you do intend to purge him let his meate be eyther Wheate or Rye-bran prepared like as before is taught you and give him also either good bread made of purpose with Beanes Pease and some Rye in it or else Oates well sifted which must be dry and sweet and let his drinke be white water onely and that morning you intend to give him a purge let him befasting from either meate or drinke but about six or seven a clock in the morning give him this or some other purge which I have already taught you or shall hereafter which must be correspondent unto the malady for which you are to purge him for one Purgation will not sort to every infirmity but this purge is most profitable for the causes which I shall presently deliver unto you And this it is viz. Purgation 1 Take of white Wine one pint or of strong new Ale one quart so much of the powder
Smalage Pellitory and of Brauca-vrsina of each like much and beat them together with old Bores-grease so much as will suffice and apply it to the place neither did I try this Another First wash and shave as before and knocke beat and rub the splent three or foure times then take marsh mallow rootes boyled with the skin on and laid to the place and it will take away the Splent This I never made use of but a very good Ferrier taught it mee who avowed it to bee right good Another Take Mustard-seede Mallow rootes and Oxe dung all stamped and boyled together and plaister-wise apply it to the place three or foure times This I never used Another Take Auripigmentum made into fine powder and lay it upon the Splent and it will take it off but beware that this powder doe touch neither veine nor sinew for it is a very coroding thing ✚ Another Take two heads of Garlick and pill them and cut them small but do neither stamp or bruise them then take of Salt the like quantity and mix them with your Garlicke and divide them into two equall parts so put them into two fine linen cloutes and bind them upon the ends of two sticks of a foote in length a peece of the fashion of two short woodden foyles but nothing so long being not above twelve inches a peece Take then your bloud sticke and rub knock and beat the Splent therewith very well to soften it then pricke it through the skin with your bloud staffe and Fleame then take of the oyle of Nuts one pint and put it into a small Pipkin and set it upon the fire in a Chafingdish with coles and make it boyling hot and when it is ready to boyle put into it your short sticks or foyles which hath the Garlicke and Salt fastned unto them and first with the one foyle and then with the other I meane by turnes apply them hot unto the Splent and between whiles rub and stroke the Splent downwards with your thumbe whereby to bring forth the bloud till having with the foyles very well mollefied the said Splent you may the more easily crush forth the bloud whereof the Splent is ingendred and formed it being indeede compact of bad and corrupt bloud and thus is the Splent cured only you must remember to anoint the place two or three times after with sweet or fresh Butter ✚ This of all the cures I have is the best for this Malady howbeit it may seeme intricate I gate it of a French Rider to a Noble Knight in England and I have herewith taken off more then one hundred Splents I have used this more then thirty yeares since Another Take up the contrary Legge and beat the Splent with your bloud-staffe till it do begin to be soft then with your Fleame prick it in sundry places that the bloud may issue forth Take then the greatest red Onion and cut off the top and picke out the core and put into it so much of the powder of Verdegrease as the end of your thumbe then put on the top again and wrap it up in a wet brown paper and so rost it in the hot embers as you do a Warden till it be as soft as pap then take it out of the Embers and put away the paper and all that is burnt from about it and stamp it and being yet very hot apply it unto the Splent and lay a Bowlster upon it and then swathe it up with a linnen Rowler stitching it fast and so let it remaine five or sixe dayes and then open it and after anoint the place every day once with sweete Butter till it be whole ✚ This is a very good cure Another Take a great Onyon and pick out the core and put into it of the powder of unslaked Lime and of the powder of Verdigrece of each as much as will suffice but so much as will fill it up then rost it as before is shewed you and stamp it in a morter well then slit the skinne a little that the medicine may come unto it to eate away the splent and shave not away the hayre but lay on the medicine and boulster and bind it up fast and so let it remaine on three dayes without stirring it then unbind it and wash it cleane and anoint it every day with sweet Butter till it be whole ✚ This is very good Another Take an Elecampane root and make it cleane and wrap it up in a brown paper and rost it in the embers as you did the Onions and being soft like pap apply it to the splent you having first rubbed knocked and prickt it as before is taught you the hayre also being washed and shaven off it must be laid on so hot as he is able to suffer it and let it lye on two dayes and two nights then take off that and lay on a second and after a third till the splent be quite consumed and then anoynt the place with fresh butter onely every day till it be whole ✚ This is speciall good Another Take of the oyle of Exeter and taking every day once or twice a little thereof upon the brawn of your thumbe rub and anoint the place therewith and thus doing it will take it quite away but this will aske long time to do ✚ This I have tryed Thus have I given you very many receits for this malady most of which I know to be good from my own experience the residue which I never tryed were cryed up unto me by very skilfull Ferriers and Marishals for very good The French do call this malady Surots and Epineles or Espinuls §. 18. S. Hippoph VVHat helpe have you for stumbling Stumbling Hippos This inconvenience commeth many wayes sometimes it commeth naturally and sometimes accidentally it commeth naturally by reason the sinewes of the fore-legs are somewhat straight so that the horse is not able to handle his legges with that dexterity and agility he should and the onely remedy to cure him of this defect is to cut him of the Cords as we terme it viz. by cuting a slit upon the very top of his nose and with your cornet to take up the two great sinewes which you shall there finde and so cut them in sunder and after to heale it up againe with some healing Salve and this will doe him no harme but good for by this doing it will give him the use of his legges so perfectly as that he will seldome or never after trip any more and this can every ordinary Smith doe ✚ And my counsell is that when at any time you shall either breed or buy a yong horse before or presently after you shall backe him let him be thus cut of the cords and you will finde great profit thereby The second cause that maketh a horse to stumble is accidentall and this commeth either by meanes of the putting forth of a splent or a ridge bone or about wind gals or by some detriment
taken in the foot as by being hot foundred prickt stubd graveld or the like or by some sinew spraine or some hurt or wrench in the shoulder or by some pinch in the withers and it commeth also by over-riding and then negligently set up which causeth him to goe stiffe and then the cure must be done with bathes and unguents wherby to stretch supple mollifie and to comfort the stiffe members for remedy and ease whereof I have given you very many good receits before prescribed you as well of bathes as of unguents But yet I will give you one more which I have often made use of and have done much good therewith for stiffe legges Stiffe legge viz. Take of Hogs grease one pound of fresh Butter Altheae and of oyle de Bay of each halfe a pound mixe and incorporate all these well together and therewith anoynt rub and chafe the legges and sinewes of the horse every third day three times a day and let his shooes be made wide enough especially at the heeles and let him be pared thin the sinewes being well suppled it is needfull he be also cut of the cords which will prevent his stumbling the better Stumbling commeth also by meanes of carrying heavy burthens and when the rider is a man of an extraordinary weight especially if the Horse be young ✚ This is a very good cure §. 19. S. Hippoph VVHat is to be given to a Horse that cannot Stale or Pisse Stale or pisse Hippos This infirmity commeth either of the collicke or by meanes of too much hard riding the cure is Take Grummell seed Saxafrage-seed and the roots of each halfe an ounce make them into fine powder boyle them a walme or two in white Wine one quart and give it him warme ✚ This is very good Another Take the tops of green Broom and burne a good quantity of them so as you may have so many of the ashes as will come to be a pretty handfull searce them and put them into white Wine a pinte and after it hath infused an houre give him the Wine but not the ashes ✚ This is very good Another Take black buds of the Ashen tree and burn them then take the ashes cleansed and as before is shewed you of the Broome ashes and administer it to the Horse just as you did the other X This is a most approved cure § 20. S. Hippoph VVHat good cure have you for the Stavers Hippos This disease is secundum vulgus called the Staggers Of melancholy but the true name thereof is the Stavers it is a dizzinesse in the head neerly allyed unto the frenzy when it seazeth the braine It is ingendred sometimes of corrupt bloud and heavy and bad humours which do intoxicate and oppresse the braine It is a disease incident to almost every horse yea and that most dangerous if it be not soone espied Sometimes it commeth by feeding and grazing at what time the Horse is hard ridden that he be hot and sweateth for by his feeding and holding down his head so low as to graze upon the ground the peccant humours doe fall down to the head and there settle and in short time seazeth the braine which bringeth this mortall disease Sometimes it commeth by what was occasioned by hard and over-violent riding whereby the whole body became distempered and the bloud inflamed and putrified and sometimes it commeth by eating over-much Corrupt bloud for thereby is the stomack so overcharged with meat as not to be able to digest and convert it all as it ought into good bloud and nutriment and therefore must necessarily breed evill humours which attaching the head and braine it is in conclusion the cause of this disease The symptomes whereby to discover it is in that his sight will faile him and he will hardly be able to see a white Wall he will slaver at the mouth and his eyes will be swelled and runne with much water and other filth and his gate will be reeling and staggeâ—ing he will oft lye down and beat his head against the planks floore and walles and when he is laid his body will quiver and shake and he will forsake his meat and these be most certaine signes which I have ever observed to be in horses oppressed and exercised with this infirmity But now to come to the cure I will give you first a cure which a French Marishal taught me which by reason it sounded to be so much improbable I would never make tryall thereof but such as it is you shall have it Fasten unto the end of a stick a linnen ragge and anoint it well with Barbary Sope and put it up into his nose gently and by degrees and so draw it out again as treatably Another If you do perceive your horse in his travell to fall sicke suddenly of the Stavers Stavers and that you be in such a place where for the present you can get no help then thrust up the greater end of your riding rod into either nostrill good and hard causing him thereby to bleed well and this will preserve him for the time till you come where you may meet with better remedy then take a piece of Wheaten leaven bay Salt Rue Aqua vitae and strong white Wine Vineger of each as much as will suffice bray all these in a stone morter very well then put this medicine into two thin fine linnen clothes or rags by equall portions and then moisten it well in the liquor and so convey those clouts into either of his eares one and then stitch them up close that he get not the medicine forth but that the substance thereof may be diffused into his head and let the medicine remaine so foure and twenty hours then take forth the rags and this will make him a sound and whole horse ✚ But before you apply this medicine to his eares run him through the gristle of the nose with a long iron Bodkin and the next day after let him bloud in the neck and mouth and then giue him this drink which will keep off the Yellowes for comming too fast upon him then take Turmerick Mirrha Ivory or Harts-horne of each one ounce of Saffaron one penny worth pound all these by themselves to very fine powder then take Seladine a good handfull stamp it and straine it and put the juyce thereof to the other ingredients then put unto it of Muskadine or sweet Sack one pinte or for want thereof of strong Ale one quart adding unto it of London Treacle one ounce set these upon the fire and let it boyle one walme or two and in the taking off put unto it of sweet Butter the quantity of an Egge and so having well brewed the same give it him bloud warme and for three or foure dayes give him either sweet Mashes or white water ✚ This is very good Another First take bloud from him in the necke and mouth and let him chew and swallow down his own
coate at usuall times like as other Horses doe he will loose his mettle and become very lunt and his eyes will run with water and matter and his stones will swell in a word he will be out of ioynt that is out of good temper throughout every part and member of his Body Other causes there bee of this Malady whereof I have intreated before in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 9. let C. to which place I do referre you neverthelesse I will give you a Receipt or two which I have often used and doe know them to be right good Swelled cods Take Turmerick and long-Pepper of each a penny-worth Anniseeds and Fenugrick of each a halfe penny-worth sweet Butter so much as will suffice boyle all these being first powdred in Ale three pints till one pint be consumed and then take it from the fire and straine it and dissolve into it in London Treacle one ounce and so well brewed give it your Horse bloud-warme let him have this drinke sundry times and let otherwise his drinke be white water and sometimes a sweete Mash till he be well ✚ This is very good Another Take of the best Tarre two spoonefuls life-honey one spoonefull black-sope the quantity of a Nutmegge Diapente one ounce and of Bay-salt two spoonefuls mix all these well together and convey it into two or three Egges-shels the tops being so opened as that you may but get forth the meate then fill up the shels with this Medicine and so put them downe his throate in a morning fasting and give him presently after it two or three hornefuls of Ale or Beere to send downe the Medicine the better but the surplusage of what remaineth of the Medicine let it be spred upon the roofe of his mouth doe thus every morning for eight dayes together and when he hath taken his Medicine let him be ridden gently an houre or two and then set him up warme cloathed and littered and set him upon the Trench three houres and let his drinke bee white water and sometimes a sweet Mash both then and for sometime after ✚ This is also very good § 23. S. Hippoph HOw doe you take off a Spongy-Wart Hippos A Spongy-Wart Spongy-wart is that very thing which our Ferriers cal an Anberry which is kind of wen which swelleth somtimes to a great bignesse sometimes againe it will bee but small but then commonly they are many and do grow into clusters this commeth by meanes of peccant humours caused of bad bloud and that horse that is inclined to Warts will seldome be ever free of them for take them off in one place and he will put forth more in other parts of his body but to breed of eyther Horse or Mare inclined to them I will diswade you for most commonly hee will put them forth about the eyes yea and oft-times so neere to the eye it selfe as to endanger the sight thereof They be easily knowne by reason they be so apparently seene and therefore need no further description The cure is It were good first to purge him and to take bloud from that Master-veine which you doe finde doth most feed them as well to divert as to stop the malice of that bad humour which doth occasion the malady If the Wart or Anberry be farre enough extant from the skin then tye two of his strongest hayres taken from his tayle hard about the sorance so fast as you possibly can and so as that it may not loosen and in few dayes it will fret and eate it cleane off which done strew upon it the powder of Verdegrece to kill it at the root and after heale it up againe with your green salve But if you cannot come to tye it either with hayre or threed then either with your incision knife cut it away close to the skin or else burn off with an hot iron and then first kill the fire with Turpentine and Hogs grease molten together and after heale it up as before is prescribed you ✚ This is very good § 23. S. Hippoph VVHat is good to be applyed to a Horse that is Surbated Hippos Two wayes a horse doth surbate the first is when a horse is newly backt and weighed upon his first shooing and when the owner of the horse will not have patience with him but will presently journey him upon hard and stony wayes his hoofes and feet being yet but tender to what they will be afterwards and so the horse must needs surbate The second way is when a horse hath of himselfe bad feet and is also either ill shod or else his shooes be very thinne worne or that they be too narrow or too short and that he be ridden upon bad hard stony and rough wayes in such like cases your horse will surbate you shall finde it by the handling of his feet especially the next day after a long journey by reason he will not stand still long upon his feet without hitching them up and removing them for that they will be so sore as that he will not know how or where to place them and you shall also perceive him to be surbated by reason that after a journey he will lye much standing being painefull unto him and in his lying you shall see him covet to lye and stretch himself all along upon one side and if you feele the coffins of his hoofes you shall finde them to burne very hot and his hoofes to be very dry The cure is very facile Take two new laid Egges Surbated feet and after you have well picked his fore-feet breake them raw into the soles and then stop them up with Oxe or Cow dung and he will be well by the next morning ✚ This is an approved good cure § 24. S. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Horse that is stifled Hippos This mischiefe commeth accidentally to wit either by a straine in leaping or by a slip in travell or by the stroke of some other horse and thus the bone is either out of its place or else the joynt is very much strained or hurt The signes to know it is if the bone be out you may see it plainely for besides his halting the bone dislocated will so stick out as that the horse can do no more then touch the ground with his toe til it be put in again and the way to put it in is thus First tye down his head to the Manger then take a cord and fasten it to the pasterne of the stifled Stifled legge and draw his legge forwards and so the bone will come right by helping it with your hand which being in your care then must be to keep it in with your hand and then tye the other end of the cord to the Rack so as he may not put back his legge to dislocate the bone any more for an houre or two after till it be setled and dressed Wherefore let his Keeper stand by him all the time lest the horse should lye down
nature of Suppositories Hippos The nature of Suppositories are to helpe a horse that cannot well empty himselfe for a Suppository causeth him to discharge himselfe of many superfluous and evill humours which do disturb annoy and distemper his body with their peccant qualities and conditions for they breed bad nutriment which oft times good dyet cannot amend and therefore must be sent away by purgation that is to say by Suppository or Clister or Potion I have spoken already sufficiently and therefore I will now intreat of Suppositories onely which of all other wayes is the gentlest wherewith to purge and cleanse the guts for a Suppository is but a preparative to a Clister or Potion whereby to loosen the guts which may be bound and clogged with dry hot and hard excrements which a Suppository rather then a Clister can loosen and as I have already given you receits for Clisters so now will I give you for Suppositories whereof you may make use according as occasion and necessity shall require Take a great Candle of four in the pound and cut off three inches Supposi ∣ tory 1 at the smaller end and then anoint the bigger and longer part either with Sallet oyle or fresh or sweet Butter and so convey it into his fundament then with your hand hold his tayle to his tuell a good halfe houre or else tye his tayle with a strap to his girt or Sursingle by which time the Suppository will be dissolved then let loose his taile and then presently leap his backe and trot him up and down till he do begin to empty and purge himselfe for by this meanes it will worke the better and more kindely ✚ This is the most gentle of all Suppositories can be given ✚ This dissolveth all hard dry and hot excrements and sendeth them forth and besides it suppleth the guts Another If you doe finde your horse to be so exceeding weake as that you dare not without perill of his life administer unto him any Potion or purging medicine then give him this Suppository Take of common Honey sixe ounces of Salt-Niter one ounce and Supposi ∣ tory 2 a halfe of Wheate flowre and of Anniseeds in fine powder of each one ounce boile all these to a stiffe thicknesse and so make it into suppositories then take one of them and anoint it all over with Sallet oyle and your hand also and so put it up into his fundament the length of your hand then tye his tayle betwixt his legges as before is shewed and let it remaine so halfe an houre by which time the suppository will be dissolved then ride and order him as before ✚ This is also very good especially in case of surfets or inward sicknesse Another Take a piece of Castle-Sope and paring it bring it into the fashion Supposi ∣ tory 3 of a suppository and apply it and order him as before is taught you ✚ This is speciall good to purge phlegme it is very gentle Another Supposi ∣ tory 4 Take Saven so much as will suffice and stamp it to mash and stamp with in Stavesaker and Salt of each two ounces boyle these in common Hony so much as will suffice till it be thick and so make it up into Suppositories and administer one of them like as you are before shewed and order him so likewise ✚ This purgeth Choler Another Supposi ∣ tory 5 Take an angry red Onion and pill it and iagge it crosse wayes with your knife and so administer it and order him as before X. This purgeth Melancholy Another Supposi ∣ tory 6 Take common-hony one pint and boyle it till it be thick make it up into Suppositories as it cooleth and administer it and order him as before is prescribed you ✚ This purgeth evill humours it cooleth and comforteth the body very much and causeth a good appetite to meate All these I have often used and I do know them to bee very good But you must take with you some instructions fit to bee knowne which are First when at any time you do administer eyther Suppositories Clysters Potions you must doe it in a morning fasting unlesse necessity urge the contrary Secondly you must not at those times suffer him to drinke any cold water no not with exercise but eyther sweet Mashes or white water Thirdly it is very needfull that before you shall administer eyther Suppository Clyster or Potion that the Horse bee raked And fourthly that he be after kept warme §. 28. S. Hippoph VVHat benefit commeth to a Horse by Sweating Hippos Truely Sir very much for by moderat and iudicious giving of Sweates as well in his cloathes in the Stable as abroad in his exercise you may cure him of many Maladies and prevent many infirmities which otherwise might accrew unto him For Sweating doth open the pores sendeth forth those peccant and malignant humours which doe annoy oppresse and vexe him But as touching this manner of sweating by you proposed it hath relation unto what I have already handled in lib. 2. cap. 2. where I intreating of what is to be done to a Horse newly taken from grasse I there tooke occasion to advise sweating and there I referred you to this place and therefore I will here illustrate it Wherefore if you bee in the way of ensayning your Horse having already purged bloudied and cleansed him and prepared his body fit for sweating Sweating if neede shall require Then if the weather be faire and warme ride him a mile upon his trot and then home againe then presently litter him very well and cloath him up so warme as that he may sweate but not yet so violently as to stirre the humours in his body too much neyther let him sweate above an houre and then coole him againe by degrees and that with great care and moderation and thus ride and sweate him for three dayes together then for sixe dayes together keepe him warme but not to sweate any more and during the time of his sweating and sixe or eight dayes after let him have no cold drinke but white water and sometimes a sweet Mash And thus briefly of sweating ✚ This manner of giving sweates I have often used and with great commodity to the Horse But let us passe on to another Chapter CHAP. XIX §. 1. T. Hippophilus WHat cure have you for a Horse whose Tongue is hurt Tong hurt Hippos This Malady commeth by accident as with with a Bit Halter or the like Take therefore of Arman halfe an ounce and rost it in the embers till it be red-hot then take it up and beat it to very fine powder then take of life-hony a Sawcer-full and of white Wine one pint mixe and steepe these with the powder together and so let it boyle over the fire stirring it continually then take it off and let it coole and so wash his tongue therewith morning and evening or as you shall please till it be whole ✚ This is very good Another Take the iuyce
riding and great toyle you give your Horse cold water drawn out of a Well which being much colder then either River or Pond water doth more chill the Horse inwardly whereby he is much more distempered causing him to quake and to shake exceedingly after his drinke which occasioneth crudities and an evill habit in the stomacke which doth beget and ingender an ague or feaver wherefore after sweating and great labour I doe advise you that whatsoever is given him be first set over the fire to take away the chilnesse whereby your Horse may take the lesse damage for that feavers taken of this nature doe commonly prove pestilent feavers whose nature is to infect all his fellowes which are in the same stable or roome with him if he be not either speedily removed from his consorts or else suddenly cured and the reason hereof is most evident for that when as a Horse hath been al the whole day travelled especially in the winter and brought into the stable all hot and sweating when in short time after his bloud and pores begin to be setled and to return to his heart again and to his intrals then if you give him cold water you may instantly perceive him to fall into a formall quivering and shaking for a time which being once passed over you shall see him most palpably assume a most extreame and violent burning and peradventure after fals into a most desperate sweating whereby is most easie to be found in him a generall distemperature throughout his whole body together with a formall and dangerous feaver wherefore if the Ferrier be not the more expert it may stick closer unto him and remain longer by him then a bushell of Oats will do But a feaver which doth proceed elther from the corruption of the bloud or from the contagion of the ayre according as I have before intimated that I say is most frequent albeit not so well known to all Ferriers and I am able to affirme thus much of these kinde of feavers out of mine own long experience that they are of that extreame violence and so malignant and their poyson of that infinite force as that if through their own violence they be not able of themselves to bring the creature visited therewith to his end yet will these convert their malice into other mortall maladies and diseases which will in time prove as noxious to wit into the Yellowes Stavers Glanders Dropsie Consumption Farcin c. unto which a pestilent feaver is evermore the precursor insomuch as if the Ferrier be not very skilfull and cautelous in observing and knowing the true symptomes of these kinde of diseases he may easily in stead of labouring to effect a Cure through his misprision miscarry therein §. 9. F. Hippoph VVHat be the true symptomes or signes whereby to know a Feaver Hippos If you doe observe him well Feaveâ— to knoâ— you shall perceive him so soon as he beginneth to be feaverish and when the fit first commeth upon him to hang or hold down his head and if at first comming it beginneth with a cold fit then will he quake and tremble and when his cold fit is over then will he glow and burn throughout his whole body his breath will be very hot and he will fetch his winde thicke and his nostrils will be very open and his flankes will beat thick he will forsake his meat and reele oft times as he goeth his eyes will be swelled they will water and be matterative he will fall away and consume in his flesh his stones will hang low he will desire and offer oft to lye down and yet being laid he will rise suddenly againe he will have great desire to drinke neither will he drink much and yet you would thinke that all the water in the Thames would not be sufficient to quench his thirst for he will covet evermore to keep his mouth in the water albeit he will drinke very little and his sleepe will goe from him And these are the best most certaine and apparant symptomes that I doe know of a Feaver § 10. F. Hippoph VVHat are the best cures for these ordinary Feavers Hippos If the feaver be quotidian and daily Feaver Ordinarâ— then Take the yolkes of three new laid egges and beat them well with seven spoonfuls of the best Aqua vitae and put unto it of ordinary Treacle a spoonfull and so making it bloud warme over a few hot embers give it him and then take his backe and ride him untill hee doe begin to sweat and then bring him into the stable and cloath wispe and litter him warme so as he may sweat an houre in the stable but then coole him by degrees and let him fast three houres after but let him bloud before you drench him in the necke and mouth and give him white water or Mashes This drinke would be given him one houre before the fit commeth ✚ This is very good Another Take white Wine one pinte of Aloes one ounce made into fine powder of Agaricke halfe an ounce Anniseeds and Licoris of each one dram in fine powder and adde thereto of life-honey one spoonfull let all these be made warme upon the fire and so give him bloud warme then take his back and ride him into a good sweat and set him up cloath him litteâ— him and stop well his body head and breast and let him sweat so two houres then by degrees coole him and when he is cold let him be well rubbed and cloathed up againe warme but not to sweate any more and let him stand upon the Trench three houres after his sweating then unbit him and wash his tongue and mouth with Alume Vineger Sage and water boyled togather that done give him a little Wheate straw to eate and an houre after a gallon of sweet dry and cleane Oats well dressed and sifted but lay not all at once before him but three or foure handfuls at a time continuing thus to feed him till hee hath eaten up his whole gallon and at night give him a sweet Mash And the next morning let him bleed at the neck mouth the quantity of a quart or lâ—sse if the bloud bee good but if you doe find the bloud to be blacke thick hot inflamed yellowish frothy or otherwise evill coloured take then from him two quarts after keepe him warme and let him purge and for foure or five dayes after give him eyther warme mashes or white water ✚ This I have also knowne to bee very good Another First let him Bloud in the Neck and Mouth then Take Germander Sallet-oyle and life-Honey of each foure ounces of Gumme Draganet dry red-Roses of each one ounce put these pounded and chopped very small into good Ale a quart and warme it and so give it him then ride him till he sweate and order him as in the former cure Of this I did never make tryall Another Take of the tops of Time one handfull boyle these in a quart of
glasse or gally-pot This powder killeth all Wilde-fires whatsoever and all running Sorances and Vlcers provided it be applyed to fleshy-places and not to places where veines or sinewes be for that it will burne them in sunder X. This I have made sundry times and often used it and to cure and dry up old sores and Vlcers this powder being discreetly used and rightly applyed a better thing then this truly I know not especially if the cure be eyther desperate or dangerous § 3. W. Hippoph VVHat good Plaister have you to lay upon a Wound whereby to keepe in the Taint or Salve Hippos Take Pitch Rosin Mastick Turpentine Hogge-grease of each so much as will suffice melt all these together and so keepe it and when you would use it spread what will serve upon a plaister of Leather and so cover the wound Wounds therewith ✚ This salve doth infinitely comfort a wound greene or old bee the same Fistula or otherwise Very good §. 4. W. Hippoph HOw doe you take away a Wen or other excretion arising in the Flesh Hippos A Wenne is a hard rising out of the flesh which commeth sometimes by bad-humours but most commonly by some Hurt Stroke Bruise Blow or with a stone throwne at that place it is outwardly fleshie but towards the roote it is matterative you neede no signes whereby to know it for it will betray it selfe by its swelling The cure is If you cannot come to tye a double threed about it whereby to eate it off Wen or excretion as I have formerly shewed you in the cure of a Spongy-Wart then with your Incisionknife cut it a crosse into four equal parts or quarters to the very bottome but beware you touch not either veynes or sinewes then with Mercury eate away the foure quarters or else burne them off with your hot-iron then heale the place with your healing salve ✚ This is very good §. 5. W. Hippoph VVHat is good to take away Wind-gaules Hippos Wind gaules are terrible Sorances which do breed in the legges of a Horse as well on the outside as on the inside a little above the Fet-locke ioynt and by their swelling are plainly discovered and made visible to the Eye for they bee bladders wherein lyeth a Ielly which being let forth is thicke and of the colour of the yolke of an Egge whereof some will be bigger and some lesser It commeth most commoly to Horses in the Summer-time by reason they are ridden upon hard ground and the Horse being over-heat by too hard riding his grease falleth downe into his legges and setleth there and by that meanes breedeth this Malady wee call Wind-gaules Wind-galles and they will be so painefull unto him as to cause him many times to halt The signes to know them are by the swellings in that place before named which be most easie to be seen and felt The cure is eyther to stricke with your Fleame or to open them with your Incision-knife and to let and crush out all the congealed stuffe which is therein opening the place no further then through the skin and you must be carefull of the sinew which lyeth close to that place then Take the white of an Egge and Oyle-de Bay so much as will suffice incorporate them together and apply it with Hurds Plaister-wise and in three or foure dayes thus dressing it he will be cured ✚ Thus have I cured many Horses Another After you have let forth the Ielly Take Pitch Rosin and Masticke of each like much boyl or but melt them together and as it cooleth make it up into rowles bigger or lesser at your pleasure and being thorough cold apply it with a hot iron to the orifice and so round about the place of the sorance on either side of the legge and so soon as you have layed on this charge and before it can be cold clap on Flocks and this will dry up the Wind-gaules and heale them ✚ This is speciall good But during not onely these two cures but all other for this malady you must not suffer your horse to come into any Well by any means Another First shave away the hayre as you must doe in all these kinde of cures then open the sorance as before is taught you and crush forth the jelly and filth then Take Tacha-Mahacha Masticke Parrosin of each to the quantity of a hasle nut and of Stone-Pitch to the quantity of a Wall-nut with a little Brimstone powdred melt all these together and when it is molten put in so much Turpentine as a Wall-nut and so stirre them together and when it is cold make a plaister thereof upon leather and apply it warme to the place upon the out-side onely upon the orifice which ought evermore to be made on the out-side then put on the plaister it selfe and round about it with the same Salve and clap Flocks upon it and so let him rest in the Stable and by keeping him from wet till he be whole and let the plaister remaine on untill it shall fall away of it selfe ✚ This is a most excellent cure and I have often made good use thereof Another Take the oyle of Vineger and dip your thumb therein and rub the sorance therewith every day till the haire do fall off which will cause the Wind-gaules to breake run and bleed then heale and cure the Wind-gaules well and soundly ✚ This is as good as the former Another Wash and shave as formerly is shewed you then give fire to the place that done open the Wind-gaules just in the middle line or stroke halfe an inch at least and so crush forth the jelly with your thumb then Take Pitch Rosin and Mastick of each like much and therewith charge the place as before is taught you This is very good Another First wash and shave and open the place with your fleame c. then take of oyle de Bay and of Turpentine of each one spoonfull Verdigrece in fine powder one penny worth the white of an Egge and of red Leade two ounces in powder boyle all these to a Salve and administer it to the place plaister-wise ✚ This is one of the best cures for Wind-gaules that I doe know §. 6. W. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Horse that is wrung or hurt in the Withers Hippos This is a thing that I have handled before yet I will give you a few more receits Having travelled him and comming home or to your Inne when you take off the saddle and that you doe finde the horse to be wrung in the withers and his backe or withers thereby to be swelled immediately clap on the Saddle againe and lay upon the swolne place some wet litter and so let the Saddle abide on againe Wither-wrung then cut up a thin Turfe of grasse and earth together that done put the Turfe upon the fire and let it there remaine till it becommeth red hot and being well burned take it from the fire and moisten the grassy