For swell'd or Gourded-Legs whether it be by reason of the Grease falling into them or other accident as Scratches Pains Mules c. IF your Horses Legs be swell'd only because the Grease is faln into them and that there is no other outward Ulcer neither will the bathing with cold water and other outward helps asswage it Then you shall take a piece of strong course woollen Cloths and thereof make him an Hose a pretty deal larger then his Leg to reach from the lower part of his pastern up to the Cambrel or to the Knee and make it close and straight at the pastern and wide above Then take a pottle of Wine Lees if you can get them or else the grounds or Lees of strong Ale or Beer and set them on the fire and boyl them well then put to them a pound of clarified Hogs-grease and when it is melted and stirred well together take as much Wheat-Bran as will thicken it and bring it to the bo dy of a Pultis with this Pultis as hot as the Horse can fuffer it only you must not scald fill the Hose or Hoses and then close the Hose at the top With this Pultis let the Horse stand two days then the third day open the Hose at the top but stir not the Pultis only take molten Hogs-grease hot as the Horse can suffer it and with a spoon pour it unto the Pultis on every side till it will receive no more for this will renew the strength of the Pultis Then close up the top of the Hose and so let the Horse stand other two dayes or three Then you may open the Leg and rub it down and if you find strong occasion you may apply another new Pultis if not your cure is wrought Now if besides the swelling of his Legs your Horse hath Ulcers or Chaps or Scratches Pains Mules or the like Then you shall first apply the former Pultis in all respects as aforesaid then after five or six dayes application when you take the Pultis away you shall take a quart of old Urine and put to it half a handful of Salt as much of Allom and half an ounce of white Copperas and boyl it till all be mixt and incorporated together then with this water very hot wash the sores once or twice a day and after a little drying anoint them with the oyntment called Aegyptiacum and is made of Vinegar eight ounces of Honey twelve ounces of Verdigrease two ounces of Allom one ounce and an half boyl it to that height till it come to a red Salve and it will both kill the malignant humors and also heal and dry up the sores Another approved Cure for the Scratches or any Disease of that nature TAke of Hogs-grease eight ounces of Brimstone of Lime of Gunpowder of each three ounces of black Soap eight ounces and of Soot as much as will suffice to bring the rest to a Salve boyl the Hogs-grease and Soap together and bring the other hard simples to a fine powder and so mix all together and make a black ointment with this anoint the sores once a day after they are cleansed and made raw For any Splint Spaven Ringbone Curb or any other hard Knot or Excression FIrst having taken view of the Excression clip away the hair as far as the excression goeth and a little thought more then take a piece of Allom'd Leather made as big just as the place you have bared and fit it to the same proportion Then take a little Shoo-makers Wax and spread it round about the very edge or verge of the same leaving all the inward or middle part empty and not touched with the Wax according to this Figure O. Then take of the herb called Sparagus which hath the virtue to raise Blisters and bruising it in a Mortar lay some thereof on the Leather in the void and empty place which ought to contain the just quantity of the Knot or Excression and bind it fast thereon suffering it so to lye if it be in the Spring or Summer time when the Sparagus hath its full strength and virtue two or three hour â—But if it be in the Winter then it hath less virtue Then it is not amiss to revive the strength of the Herb if you add to it a drop or two of Origanum and let it lye a day and and be sure to tye up the Horses head for two hours for fear of biting it away When you have taken off the Plaister anoint the place with Train-oyl warm and you shall find no Excression An approved Cure for the Swift Cut or any hewing on the Legs whatsoever TAke a pint of White-wine and put to it two or three spoonfulls of Hony and stir them well together then boyl them till they be well incorporated together and brought to the body of an ointment Then take it from the fire and put in as much Turpentine as there was Hony before and stir all well together Then strain it with this Salve somewhat hot bath the Sores twice a day and it is a most specdy healer For any Farcy Mangy Scab or Leprosie whether in the Mane or otherwise FIrst let Blood then take a quart of old Urine or Vinegar and break into it a quarter of a pound or better of the best Tobacco then set it on the fire of Embers where it may simper and not boil and so let it stew a whole night then strain it and with this water wash the infected place whether it be in the Mane or any other obscure place and it is a certain Remedy For any Founder Frettize Surbait or any imperfection in the Feet FIrst pare thin open the heels wide and take good store of blood from the Toes then tack on a Shooe somewhat hollow after take of the best Frankincense and rowling it in a little fine Cotton-wool or Bombast with an hot iron melt it into the Foot betwixt the Shooe and the Toe till the Orifice where the blood was taken be filled up Then take half a pound of Hogs-grease and melt it on the fire then mix it with Wheat bran till it be as thick as a Pultis Then boyling hot as is possible stop up the Horses foot therewith then cover it with a piece of an old Shooe and splent it up and so let the Horse stand for three or four days then if occasion serves you may renew it otherwise the cure it wrought To make Hoofs grow quickly and to be tough and strong TAke of the Juyce of Garlick seven ounces of old Hogs-grease two pound of Asses dung for want of it Cows dung an handfull mingle them and boyl them all well together then with this both stop the Horses foot and anoint the Crownets of the Hoofs and the effect is great A general Salve for any Sore or Swelling TAke Turpentine Black-Soap Hogs-grease Green Treat and Pitch of each a little quantity mix and boyl them all well together and apply
many inward passages which causeth bad blood Which to help you must let them blood in the beginning of the Month of May and let them stand in some close yard the Night before And the Night after give them a handful of Hemp-seed a piece Now for the Pestilence Gargil and Murrain they are infectious contagious Diseases none like them they proceed many times from hard driving heats and colds hunger or any other thing breeding corrupt humors as by drinking when they are hot or feeding upon gross foul and corrupted foods as in low grounds after floods when the Grass is unpurged and the like And sometimes it cometh from some evil influences of the Planets corrupting the Plants and Fruits of the Earth And sometimes from Cattle too And from divers such like causes But howsoever when these Diseases begin certain it is that they are most infectious and if there be not great care taken they will leave but few alive of a great many for the one infects the other These Diseases are easily known they will hang down their heads and run Atter at the Eyes will swell on the Lips and all on one side of the Cheek and under the Tongue and sometimes at the roots of the Ears The Cure is to separate the sound from the sick a good distance of place from the Air where the sick breathe then let them blood on the Neck-veins and give every one a spoonful of Diapente in a pint of Verjuyce If you cannot get Diapente take a spoonful of Treacle-Jean and give it in a pint of Verjuyce Thus give them a good quantity of old Urine and a handful of new Hens-dung stir the Urine and Hens-dung well together and give it to the Beast luke-warm keep him in the house a Week after These for Cows or Bullocks be prime Receipts Proved LXXIV For a Bite Blow or Film in the Eye TAke as much white Copperis as the bigness of half a Walnut and beat it very fine the same quantity of Verdigrease beaten to powder Bray these two well together upon an Iron-spade or in a Mortar then mix them with as much fresh Butter as a Walnut put into the Eye as much of this as the bigness of a Pease once a day until it be well and clear Proved LXXV A precious Oyntment for an Horses Eye either for Bite Blow or Film GO to the Apothecaries and buy the stone called Lapis Calaminaris it is of a blew colour heat it red hot then take it out and quench it presently in a pint and a half of Whitewine and so heat it and quench it as afore 12 times one after another then add unto the Wine half so much of the juyce of Housleek well stamped and strained and stir them up well together dip a Feather in this water and dress it two or three times a day till the sight be recovered Proved LXXVI A gallant Scouring to make a Beast thrive Winter or Summer TAke a handful of Groundsel called by some Sertion half a handful of Red-sage half a handful of dried or green Wormwood stript you must shred them all small and boyl them in a pint and a half of strong Beer and when it comes off the fire put in a piece of Butter as big as an Egg You may put in as much of the powder of Mechoacan as will lye upon a shilling at three or four times I know it purgeth Slime and moulten Grease in Lumps and works very kindly Give him warm Water to drink evening and morning for three or four daies after A Mash of Malt once a day or once in two daies if your Horse do not fill well and that his Coat stand right up staring or be Hide-bound give him this LXXVII IF you let blood in the Neck or Temple-vein you must alwaies Cord the Horse Take this for a Rule LXXVIII For a Strangling in the Spring TAke a handful of Elder-buds as much of dried Wormwood half an handful of Mercury as much of Tansey cut these small and boyl them in a pint of strong Beer and it will serve for three drinks three daies distance between drink and drink Give it him fasting in mornings give a Mash three hours after warm Water for a day or two let him stand in all the while If he be swelled between the Jaws anoint it with Bacon-grease once in two or three daies till it be rotted and then let it out and heal it with your healing-salves Proved LXXIX To kill Lice in Horses or Cows TAke two pennyworth of Quicksilver and work it well with Fasting-spittle upon the Palm of your hand till the Quicksilver be killed then take the whites of two Eggs and bray them with the Quicksilver and Spittle till they be as an Oyntment spread these upon a List that will go round about the Beasts Neck let it be as broad as four fingers first cut away the hair and then tye your List round about and sow it up they will come to it and it will kill abundance of them and in several places about the Beast daub on some Train-oyl LXXX To make a Horse Stale or Piss TAke as much Castle-sope as a Walnut boyl it in a pint of strong Beer a little while and give it him luke-warm it will make him piss Proved LXXXI For an inward Bruise with any Fume or Stub TAke a pint and a half of strong Beer and one ounce of Bolearmoniack and boyl them a little together and give it him with a Horn luke-warm It is very good for an inward bruise of a Beast The greasie sort is best Proved LXXXII For a Horse that hath rent his flesh about the Belly or elsewhere or for any new wound TAke a pint of Whitewine Vinegar the sharpest you can get boyl it in half a quarter of a pound of Bolearmoniack after it hath boyled a little and when it comes off the fire put into it a little piece of Butter and bathe the place grieved once in two daies and in two or three times dressing it will cure This is a plain and easie Cure LXXXIII For an old Cold with a Cough TAke as much fresh or salt Butter as an Egg and make it hollow as a Pye and put as much Tar into it as a Walnut then close up the Ball very round and roul it in the Seeds and strippings of Wormwood cut small To make two Balls of the Butter and Tar is better give him this in a pint and a half of strong Beer in the morning fasting he having stood in the night before keep him in house three or four daies after give him warm Water the cold just taken off it for two daies the water must be no warmer at any time If you see he doth not fill well and hath left his Coughing then four or five daies after give him the same again and order him as before When you have given him this ride him a hand-gallop for three or four miles till he sweat well but
and here also will cause a present Cure Now to cure the Strangling or a Cold that runs at the Nose or hath done for half a year or more or Squinsey when he is troubled with tough thick flegm For these three last mentioned take these following Ingredients and give them as you are directed First one ounce of Anniseeds an ounce of Turmerick beaten to powder half a quartern of Brandy or Aqua-vitae half a dozen spoonfuls of Whitewine or Vinegar a pint and an half of strong Beer put all these into a Skellet and heat them blood-warm and give it to the Beast fasting then presently run the point of the Cornet-horn into the third furrow in the roof of his Mouth and let him bleed then walk him a mile and set him up Clothe and Litter him warm Let him stand upon the Bit four or five hours he will sweat with his Drink till one drop follow another If you see he be sick and desirous to lye down you may let him Give him no Mashes but only warm Water to drink with an handful or two of Wheat-bran put into it and the next Morning warm Water and Bran again and presently after give him two ounces of Hony and half a pint of Whitewine or half a pint of Wine-vinegar if you have not White-wine walk him a Mile after it The third day in the Morning after this Drink in the beginning of the Receipt give him this Cordial three pints of stale Beer Houshold-bread a piece as big as a great Tost and crum it in a quarter of a pound of Butter put them into a Skellet together and heat them a little upon the fire and when you take it off put in a quarter of a pound of Hony stir them together and give it him blood-warm fasting then ride him a mile and set him up warm clothed and littered Three or four hours after give him warm Water and Bran to drink Every two or three daies for a Cold whether it cause the Beast to run at the Nose or no or be in Glanders In course of Physick after his drink give him this Cordial to bring him to a stomack it will help to kill the Canker in his mouth or throat clear the Guts and cleanse the Lights with one drink of White-wine and Hony and these Cordials he will be in a very short time cleared and cured If in the time of his Cure he hath hard Kernels between his Jaws apply the Charge of Sope and Brandy which will either quite sink them or break them Again if there be not Kernels but hard swellings in the Jaws as most part there is when he hath the Strangling in this case also apply the Charge of Sope and Brandy and heat it well in If this Swelling do break in the time of the Cure let it run and heal up of it self If the Swelling between his Jaws be soft all over and in the midst of the Swelling the hair begins to scale off you may then put in the point of your Knife a little way through the skin and let it out if it be not full ripe it will heal up with proud rank flesh and there will be a knot between his Jaws which is an ugly blemish therefore heal it up with nothing but let it heal up of it self In the time of any of these Cures ayr and ride him out two or three times every day it will do him abundance of good if you do not ride him too hard but gently If that which comes out of his Nose be yellowish and afterwards turns white there is hope of perfecting the Cure the Drink will make him swell and be very sick but it will do him a great deal of good Proved CXL For a Horse that hath a dry Surfet in his Body and falls away in his Flesh That hath a weak Cough and is in a Consumption THe Signs of this Disease are He will not thrive but be gaunt-bellied and dried up in his Body and cannot cough but gruntingly by reason of the Cold and Surfet and great soreness in his Body The Remedy is this First ride him a mile and then let him blood in the bottom of the belly at the lower end of all the Spurvein after he hath bled well give him this Drink one ounce of Anniseeds half an ounce of Diapente four pennyworth of English Saffron one ounce of Syrup of Colts-foot one ounce of brown Sugar-candy one ounce of Bay-berries four or five spoonfuls of Whitewine Vinegar a pint and a half of strong Beer put all these into a Skellet and heat them lukewarm and give it to the Beast fasting and ride him two or three furlongs after it then tye him up to the Rack and let him fast five or six hours after his Drink and clothe and litter him up very warm then unbit him and give him a little sweet Hay till night then give him warm Water and Bran to Drink The next day in the morning before he eat or drink burst half a peck of Oats with two ounces of Fenygreek two ounces of Coriander-seeds for want of Coriander two ounces of Caraway-seeds burst them altogether well and give him them before he eat or drink And at noon give him warm Water and Bran and after three or four daies end give him this drink after the first drink One ounce of Anniseeds beaten small half a pound of Raisins of the Sun an handful of unset Leeks cut small two quarts of mild Beer boyl all these together in a Skellet till half be consumed then take out all the Raisins and beat them in a Mortar stones and all take some of the Liquor wherein they were boiled and wash the Mortar clean therewith and put it again into the Kettle amongst the rest then take the Kettle off and put in as much Butter as an Egg and let it melt and give him this drink fasting walk him a furlong or two and tye him up to the Rack for five or six hours and clothe and litter him up warm then give him Hay and at Night warm Water and Bran The next day have in readiness some Oats Coriander-seeds or for want of them some Caraway-seeds burst them together by eleven or twelve a Clock and throw some of them into the Crib as you were directed before and if he refuse to eat them strew some Wheat-bran over them and that will cause him to eat them give him but a few at a time After this second Drink given you shall see the Horse within two or three daies to void at the Nose yellow Glanders or some other colour ride him moderately twice a day and keep him warm in the Stable And two or three daies after you have given him this last Drink and warm Water then and not before water him at the River and presently after it give him every Morning two ounces of Hony and half a pint of Whitewine mixed together heated lukewarm you may give it him abroad or in
give it him to drink and let him fast other two hours more after it and the worms will avoid in great abundance Another most excellent Receipt for the Botts or any Worms which is most easie and most certain without sickness TAke the soft downy hairs which grow in the Ears of an Horse and which you clip away when you poll him and the little short tuft which grows on the top of his forehead underneath his foretop and having a pretty quantity of them mix them well with a pottle of sweet Oats and so give them to the Horse to eat and there is not any thing that will kill worms more assuredly An uncontrollable way how to know the Age of any Horse THere are seven outward Characters by which to know the age of every Horse as namely his Teeth his Hoofs his Tail his Eyes his Skin his Hair and the Barrs of his Mouth First If you will know his Age by his Teeth you must understand that a Horse hath in his head just fourty Teeth that is to say six great wang Teeth above and six below on one side and as many on the other which makes twenty four and are called his grinders Then six above and six below in the forepart of his mouth which are called gatherers and make thirty six Then four Tushes one above and one below of one side and one above and one below on the other side which is just fourty Now the first Year he hath his Foals Teeth which are only grinders and gatherers but no Tushes and they be small white and bright to look upon The second Year he changeth the four foremost Teeth in his head and they will appear browner and bigger then the other At three Years old he changeth the Teeth next unto them and leaveth no apparent Foals Teeth before but too of each side above and two below which are also bright and small At Four Years old he changeth the Teeth next unto them and leaveth no more Foals Teeth but one on each side both above and below At five Years old his foremost Teeth will be all changed but then he hath his Tushes on each side compleat and the last Foals Teeth which he cast those which come in their place will be hollow and have a little black speck in the midst which is called the mark in the Horses mouth and continueth till he be eight years old At six years old he putteth up his new Tushes near about which you shall see most apparently growing a little Circle of new and young flesh at the bottom of the Tush besides the Tush will be white small short and sharp At seven years old all his Teeth will have their perfect growth and the mark in the Horses mouth before spoken of will be plainly seen At eight years old all his Teeth will be full smooth and plain the black speck or mark being hardly to be discerned and his Tushes will be more yellow then ordinary At nine years his fore-most Teeth will shew longer yellower and fouler then at younger years and his Tushes will be bluntish At ten years old in the inside of his upper Tushes will be no holes at all to be felt with your fingers end which till that age you shall ever most perfectly feel besides the Temples of his Head will begin to be crooked and hollow At eleven years of Age his Teeth will be exceeding long very yellow black and foul only he will cut even and his Teeth will stand directly opposite one against another At twelve years old his Teeth will be long yellow black and foul but then his upper Teeth will over-reach and hang over his neather Teeth At thirteen years old his Tushes will be worn somewhat close to his Chaps if he be a much ridden Horse otherwise they will be black foul and long like the Tushes of a Bear Second If an Horses Hoofs be rugged and as it were seamed one seam over another and many if they be dry fou and rusty it is a sign of very old age as on the contrary part a smooth moist hollow and well sounding Hoof is a sigu of young years Third If you take your Horse with your Finger and your Thumb by the stern of the Tail close at the setting on by his Buttock and feeling there hard if you feel betwixt your Finger and your Thumb of each side his Tail a joynt stick out more than any other joynt of the bigness of an Hasel-nut then you may presume the Horse is under ten years old but if his joynts be all plain and no such thing be felt then he is above ten and may be fifteen Fourth If an Horses Eyes be round full and staring from his head if the pitts over his Eyes be filled smooth and even with his Temples and no wrinckles either about his Brow or under his Eyes then the Horse is young If otherwise you see the conrrary it is a sign of old age Fifth If you take up a Horses skin on any part of his body betwixt your Finger and your Thumb and pluck it from his flesh then letting it go again if it suddenly return to the place from whence it came and be smooth and plain without wrinckle then the Horse is young and full of strength but if being pulled up it stand and not return to his former place then he is very old and wasted Sixth If an Horse that is of any dark colour shall grow grissel only above his Eye-brows or underneath his maiu or any Horse of a whitish colour shall grow meanelled with either black or red meanels universally over his body then both are infallible signs of extream old age Seventh If the Bars in his mouth be great deep and handle rough and hard then is the Horse very old but if they be soft shallow and handle gently and tenderly then is the Horse young and in lust And thus much of the Age of an Horse An Excellent Purgation when any Horse is sick of his Grease or any Costiveness TAke a pint of good old white-Wine and set it on the fire then dissolve into it a lump half as much as an Hens-Egg of Castile Sope and strain them well together on the fire then take it off and put into it two good spoonfuls of Hempseed beaten into fine dust and an ounce and an half of the best Sugar-Candy beaten to fine powder and brew all well together Then having warmed the Horse to stir up the Grease and other foul humors give him this to drink and walk him up and down a little after it to make the potion work then set him up warm and after a little stirring him up and down in the stall if he grow sickish give liberty to lye down After two or three hours fasting give him a sweet Mash Then feed as at other times For Laxativeness or extream Looseness TAke a quart of red Wine and set it on the fire then put into it an ounce and half
once a day with this till it be healed with other Medicines This will much further the Cure of any Wound or Sore where humors do fall down to it whilst you do apply other Medicines to heal up the Sore or Wound For these defensives are for no other purpose but to keep back humors that hinder Sores or Wounds from healing Proved XII A rare Receipt for a Farcion TAke Mullin by some called Higtaper it hath a great woolly leaf it groweth close by the ground upon the banks of Ditches or in the high-ways side Chickweed Groundsel and Wood Betony of each an handfull cut them small and boyl them all in a quart of Ale and when it is luke-warm put in two penny-worth of Quicksilver and give it him to drink fasting The third day after give him the like proportion warm water all the while to drink and to stand in Proved XIII For a Horse that hath his Fundament fallen out or for a Cow that hath the Mother fallen out TAke an armfull of Willow boughs and dry them on a hot Hearth when they are dry sweep the Hearth as clean as you can and set them on fire and burn them to ashes then take the ashes and searce them through a fine boulter and before you strew on the powder of the ashes wash the Fundament with warm water to make it as warm as the body then strew on the finest of the ashes and put the Fundament up into its place then tye a line to the Horses tayl and bring it between his hinder Legs and fasten it to a Surcingle under his belly pretty straight using this means his Fundament will be kept up and in a very short time it will be knit firm and strong again If the Mother of a Cow come forth use but the aforesaid means and you will find it a perfect remedie both proved White Pepper beaten finely and searced through a fine searce the Fundament being well warmed with warm water or milk and after warmed with a warm cloth and then this beaten Pepper strewed upon it and so put up and his tayl tyed close between his Legs as before you will find it very good A Marrow-bone of a Bullock burnt in the fire and beaten to fine powder is for a Wound a great and good dryer and healer and will skin a Wound Proved The inward and outward bark of a Willow-tree first dryed and afterwards the hearth being swept very clean burnt to ashes and the ashes sifted through a fine boulter the finest of these ashes is good to dry up any Sore nothing like it These ashes are likewise a great binder for a loosness in Horses or Cows bodies Proved XIV To kill Lice of horses and Cows TAke a quantity of Hogs-grease and anoint the Horse underneath the Mane and upon the ridgebone of the back it will burst them all presently XV. For a Stub or other hurt in or about the Foot TAke Bees-wax Pitch Hogs-grease and Turpentine boyl them together in an earthen pan but put in the Turpentine a little before you take it off the fire and stir it well together make the wound clean and pour it in scalding hot dip hards or tow in it and stuff the place where it is hurt full with it and it will heal it in a short time this will last a year Proved XVI To Cleanse any Wound old or new TAke the Roots of Elder and beat them to powder and boyl them with English-Hony It is good to cleanse any Sore old or new But take this for a general observation that before you dress any Wound let it be where it will about the Horse wash it clean first with White-wine wine Vinegar and then dress it with your Salve Proved XVII For the Sleeping Evil. THe signs to know it are The Horse will stand sleeping in a corner continually with his head hanging down to the ground it takes away his memory The Cure is to be performed thus Let him blood on both sides the neck in the morning fasting before he drink let him blood also in the mouth in the third furrow in the roof of his mouth and after he hath bled well give him this Drink Take of Camomil and motherwort together three handfulls cut small and boyl them in two quarts of Running water half an hour and then give the Horse a pint once in two days fasting the third day give him the rest fasting and three or four hours after give him warm water and a little comfortable Mash made of ground Mault put into scalding hot water after it comes of the fire keep him in the house warm the time of the cure and fume his head as you do for the Staggers and this in a short time is a perfect cure Proved XVIII To stop bleeding at the Nose THe chief cause thereof is the thinness of the Vein in the head you must let him blood in both the Plate veins and then wind a thumband of wet Hay about his neck and throw cold wate upon the thumband till you see the blood to stanch the thumband must be so long that it may be wound from his ears to his breast very lightly XIX For the Falling Evil in an Horse THe Falling Evil will cause him suddenly to fall down and to lye sprauling with his heels and foaming at the mouth like a man that hath the Falling sickness you shall know whether he be subject to fall often by feeling him by the gristles of his Nose which will be cold if he be subject to it The Cure is to let him blood on both sides of his neck after he hath bled in the morning before he drink give him this Drink Take Miseltoe that groweth upon an Apple-tree the leaves are like Ivy leaves dry it and rub it to powder and use it at your leisure give him of this powder of Miseltoe one spoonfull in half a pint of Sack and keep him in the house till he be well and give him to drink water luke-warm Proved You may add to the Miseltoe three drams of the Electuary called Theriaca Diaresseron or the Oyl of Pepper one dram or a dram and an half XX. For a Cough old or new or the heaving of his Lungs TAke the Root of Gentian which you shall have at the Apothecaries slice it dry it and beat it to powder give the beast as much of this powder as will lye upon a shilling in half a pinte of his own water give this to him fasting once in three days and so continue every third day till you see his Cough and Heaving to abate or be quite gone the cold of his water must be just taken off and he must stand in all the time of the Cure This for an old Cough or heaving of the Lungs is the best Cure in the World Proved XXI For a Canker in the Tongue YOU shall see his mouth and tongue raw within you shall know it by his stinking breath and his roping slavering Which to
any Swelling being new whether it be broke or not broke TAke tvvo pintes of red Wine-Vinegar and boyl in it sour handfulls of Foles-foot leaves not cut but vvrung a pieces vvith your hand vvhen it begins to boyl put in tvvo handfulls of Bay Salt and vvhen the Salt is melted in it take it off the fire and vvhen you use it heat it as hot as you can indure your hand in it and vvith it anoint the place once a day till it be assvvaged This also is a very likely Medicine but by me not tryed XXXIII For a Quitterbone though far gone and hard to cure TAke off a quarter of the hoof right under the Quitterbone that it may drain the better you may do it after this manner that this figure directs Take a dravving Knife and dravv it dovvn after this manner to the quick on both sides and belovv according to the figure then take hold vvith a pair of Pincers presently belovv the piece of Hoof then pull it avvay vvhen it is off lay a piece of Hares skin to it lightly to stanch the blood and do not look to it in tvventy four hours then take all the Hares-skin away and wash it once with Wine-Vinegar and scald it with Butter and Salt boyled together as hot as may be to kill the rankling and to keep it from dead flesh do this three times once every other day And then take Verdigrease as much as three Hasel-nuts beaten to powder then take a quarter of a pint of Wine Vinegar and as much Hony boyl them together vvith the Verdigrease and keep it continually stirring the time it boyls which must be half an hour then take it off the fire and put it into a Pot or Pipkin and anoint the wound with it once a day till it be whole when it is whole then anoint the Hoof to make it grow with Tar Tallow Turpentine Dogs-grease boyled together put in the Turpentine a little before you take it off the fire and stir it well keep him dry in the house the time of the cure forbear to pull off the Hoof if you think you can cure him without for that will take a long time the curing to make the Hoof compleat this is a certain way but it is none of the readiest this way is vvhen all other waies fail XXXIV For a Foundred Horse TO take out the Soals of his Feet you must pare the Foot thin then at the end of the Frush you must cut the Hoof after this manner as this Figure shews Cut the middle of the Soal just at the Frushes end in the fashion of a Hens tongue and raise it a little with the point of your Knife as you may see in the midst of this Figure which I have made near the fashion of a Horse Hoof when you have cut and raised the little piece at the Frushes end then take your Pen-knife and with the point thereof prick the vein till it bleed the vein lyes right under the little piece in the middle of the foot at the Frushes end when it hath bled close down the piece of Hoof again then let him stand in the Stable the time of the Cure and not drink his water abroad when you see him halt and that you think it is festred enough between the Soal and the quick round about the bottom of the Hoof being thus festred the soal will come out easier by a great deal and with less danger of pulling away the veins with the Soal of the foot if you let it fester in this manner before you pull it out you must take your drawing Knife and draw the Hoof to the quick round about the Soal within the Hoof as you may see by this Figure When you have drawn it to the quick round about then raise the soal at the Toe and take hold of it with a pair of Pinsers and pull it upwards to the heel and so pull it quite out when it is out apply Hares wool to Hstanch the blood and within 24 hours take away the wool again then wash the soal of the foot with Chamber-lye then set on the Shooe and put in Pitch Turpentine and Hogs-grease melted together of each an equal proportion dipping hards or Wool in the same Medicine and apply it to the bottom of the Foot stuff it in with splinters or a soal of Leather to keep it it apply this Medicine three times in a week or ten days three times is enough You must never take out the Soals of both his fore feet at one time for then he will never be able to stand hereafter in another Chapter I will give you the practise of another which in my judgment is far more easie for the Beast than to fester the Foot which is first to cord the foot-lock hard that it may not bleed then to draw round about the Soal to the quick and so to pull out the Soal without festring by cording of it it will not bleed at all after you have pulled out the Soal so that you need not to take care to stanch the blood but as soon as you have pulled out the Soal you may wash it with Chamber-lye and then put in the aforesaid materials After you have set on the Shooe stuff it as you were before directed Proved XXXV For a Splent YOu must cast the Horse first then you must beat the place with a blood-stick or other stick till you feel it soft then fleam in three or four places upon the splent and squeese out the blood with your stick your fingers and thumb then take as much Hogs grease as a Wallnut as much Bolearmoniack and Brimstone as much beat these two last to powder and mix them with grease and spread it upon a sheet of gray Paper and lay it upon the splent then heat a Brick very hot and dry the Medicine in it then melt some black Pitch in an Iron pan and dip some flocks in it and dab it on all over the splent close that it may lye on sure when the flocks come off the splent will come out but if the flocks come off before the splent then lay on more flocks till the splent come out and as soon as it does come out wash it with a little White-wine Vinegar and then anoint it with Sallet Oyl and Turpentine melted together anoint it cold till it be whole once a day and in a weeks time the splent will come out and be whole This you may do but it makes a great blemish it takes away hair and flesh and sometimes the hair comes no more You shall have a Receipt hereafter for this purpose that will not take off the hair nor break the flesh It is a very gallant one that will lay the splent flat in a few hours XXXVI For a through great Splent BEat it and fleam it as you were directed in the other then take as much Crown Sope as an Egg and mix it with as much Bolearmoniack
fine Tow Flax or Hards to dry the blood up and there let it lye five or six hours then take it away and put in some of the Medicine which you use for a Canker in the Head Face Eyes or Nostrils of a Horse vide Receipt C. With this Medicine dress it once a day at first and as it begins to heal dress it once in two daies this Medicine will heal it suddenly cut a hole at the edge or lower part of the swelling to lay it a draining and it will heal a great deal sooner dab and throw on good store of Wheat-bran upon it when you lay it on when your Plaister comes off look upon the top of the Poll-Evil to see how far the dead proud white jelly flesh goes cut it all out with your Incision knife till you come at the red flesh which is sound the Veins will bleed much and spin again when you come at the quick but let not that hinder you from cutting out all the dead proud flesh which if you cut all out clean you cannot do amiss only take heed you do not cut the white Paxwax which runs along the top of the Neck which some call a Cress it is white and you may easily see it if you cut that his Neck will fall and look basely therefore have a care There is a white Pith in a Poll-evil near the top of the Neck by the Paxwax take your Nippers and pull it out it will come out like a Plug there is no such thing in a Fistula when you have pulled it out put some of your Medicine to it and it will heal it apace Let not the dead flesh be left in the wound but cut it clean out although the wound seem never so broad The same cure and the same way is to be used for a Fistula the Beast must stand in the time of the Cure Proved CXXII For a through Splent on both sides of the Leg by some called a Great Bone-Sâ—rupin FIrst Tye the Horses head close to a strong Post then tye up his contrary Leg then bruise and beat the Splint on both sides with a Blood-stick or Bed-staff beat it till it be something soft if he will not endure the beating of it standing cast him with a rope after you have beat it soft Take of the Oyl of Riggrum 12 pennyworth and rub it on with your fingers on both sides upon the very splent and no where else you shall have of this Oyl but a little for a shilling Tye up his head for two or three hours for it will smart and tye up his contrary Leg this way will take off the Hair a little but it will grow again of the same colour presently If it be never so big do but thus two or three times and within a weeks time it will be quite faln one dressing will serve for a small Splent or for a blood Splent this way will a little break the hair but not the skin If you will you may turn him out Proved to be admirable CXXIII For a Mallender FIrst Clip away the hair which grows upon it and about it then rub the Scabs off with a Hair-cloth or the back of your Scissars or Knife this rubbing of it will cause it to run a yellow matter take a Linnen-cloth and wipe away the filth clean then take four penny-worth of the Oyl of Riggrum and mix it with a little of your own Dung and lap it on with a flat stick upon a Linnen-cloth and bind it to for a Week then make it clean and dress it again and it is a Cure After your first dressing you may ride him or turn him out Proved CXXIV For a looseness in the Body of any Beast TAke a pint of Red-wine or for want thereof a pint of Claret warm it in a Wine-pot upon the fire then put an Ounce of beaten Cinamon therein and give him it a little warm you may put thereto the yolks of two new laid Eggs once or twice is a Cure give him warm Water at night and cold Water next day and ride him upon it Proved CXXV For a Cold in Summer or when a Horse doth not fill BOyl a quarter of Red-stone Sugar in a pint of Sack till it be dissolved and then take it off the fire and put in two spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl and give it lukewarm ride hard when you have given it unto him Give him warm Water for three or four daies after keep him warm give him now and then a Mash Proved CXXVI For a sudden great heat as in Hunting Racing or hard Riding that the Horses Grease is melted THis you shall know by the panting of the Horse that Night he comes in so hot for if he be over-ridden and his Grease melted you shall know it by his panting at the Breast and Girting-place and heaving at the Flank you shall see the Night he comes in and the next day morning that his Body will be mighty hot For Remedy Take and give this to purge him and cleanse him and to qualifie the heat and working of his Body Take one pint of Sack and put to it one ounce of Diascordium beaten small mix them together and give it to the Beast at any time cold but in the morning fasting is the best give him warm Water for three or four daies after give him bursten Oats boyled Barley and Mashes made of ground Malt keep him well littered and clothed warm If he forsake his meat and you see he hath lost his stomack to bring him to his stomack again give him two ounces of Hony and half a pint of Whitewine mixed together and heated lukewarm in the morning after he hath drank cold water you may give him it with a Horn It will make him piss clear his bladder and bring him to his stomack again After you have given him it ride him a mile or two gently and set him up warm at night ride him a mile or two again and litter him well and keep him warm Thus do for three or four daies or a week at three daies end give him the Wine and Hony as before you were directed If you see notwithstanding all these means used that he will not fall to his meat and that he is bound in his belly and dungs very small then give him this Cordial two or three times in two or three daies betwixt each Cordial giving Take three pints of stale Beer houshold brown Bread the quantity of half a penny Loaf boil these two well together then take it off the fire and put into it a quarter of a pound of Hony and a quarter of a pound of fresh Butter give him this Cordial lukewarm fasting and ride him a mile or two every Evening and Morning as well when you do not give it to him as when you do ride him fairly and clothe and litter him up vvarm this Cordial vvill bring him to his stomack and cause him to be loose bodied and dung
and let them boyl till the Beer be boyled half away then take them off the fire and put into it a quarter of a pound of Butter and a quarter of a pound of Hony and give the Horse of this to drink three times in nine daies in the morning fasting and give him warm Water to drink all the while with a handful of Bran put into it give him of this Drink a quart at a time Buy of these Roots green dry them and beat them small and keep them from wind and air for your use If you cannot get the root of Solomon's Seal make use of the other things they may do well without but better with it Let him stand in the time of the Cure To this Drink you may add Penny-royal Clarey and Comfrey they are all knitting and strengthening Herbs Proved CXXIX For a new Wound made with a Stake or such like thing Stub or Fork First wash the Wound well with Butter and Vinegar melted together then take a Clout and tye it about a sticks end and dip it in some Linseed Oyl and run it to the bottom of the wound anoint it well and in a short time nothing but this will heal it and kill the Gangrene of it If the Wind get into the Wound and cause it to swell anoint it with the Oyl of Populeon round about the swelling Train-oyl and Verdigrease melted together will heal and skin any Wound well and quickly Proved CXXX For a Stub in the Foot or Heel For an over-reach with the Toe of the After-foot upon the Heel of the Fore-foot A Tread or Cut above the Hair or when a Stone hath cut a Horses Leg. FIrst wash the Wound with fair Water or with Water and Salt when the Wound is dry take a big Onyon or two or three small ones to the bigness of a great one a spoonful of Pepper beaten small as much Crown-sope as the bigness of an Egg these three things must be beaten to a Salve and laid upon a Linnen-cloth and laid to the Wound four and twenty hours and at the end of that time dress it as you did before and so continue doing every four and twenty hours till it be whole If this quantity of Medicine bee too little make more As you see it heal dress it but once in two or three daies This Onyon Salve will prevent a Quitter-bone if you lay it to before it break This Salve is good to heal and cure all these hurts Proved CXXXI For a Horse that is prickt in the shooing and afterwards festred FIrst open it well and take out all the corruption to the very bottom so far as the Nayl did go then take three or four House-snails a little Salt as much Sope as a Walnut beat them altogether and lay it to the place that was pricked four and twenty hours till you see it begin to heal then dress it but once in two daies and in three or four dressings it will be whole When you lay this Medicine to the bottom of the foot lay some Flax Hards or Tow over it and over that a piece of Leather or Splinters to keep the Hards and Medicine in And if it break out or be soft above the top of the Hoof lay some of this Medicine to and bind it on with a Linnen rag Proved CXXXII For a Horse that is prickt with a long Channel Nail FIrst search it with your Buttris and drawingknife till you find where the Channel Nail went in open it well and give it all the ease you can search it to the bottom with a little Tow at your Instruments end then drop ten or twelve drops of the Oyl of Turpentine into the hole take a little Tow or fine Lint at your Instruments end and dip it in the Oyl of Turpentine and put it in Tent-waies then mix a little Crown-sope a little Salt and a little Pepper beaten together and lay it over the former and Tow or Hards over it and a piece of Leather and Splinters over it to keep it in The Shooe must be taken off when you dress it and after to set it on again dress it once in four and twenty hours till it be whole If you find that after three or four times dressing that the Horse is in great pain still and that you fear a breaking out above the hoof then take out the Soal of his Foot and apply the Medicine in order as you were directed for a foundred Horse in Receipt CXXVII Do with this just as you are there directed to make the Soal come again after his Foot begins to grow again take as much Hogs Grease as an Egg and the like quantity of Burgundy Pitch mix them together and lay a pretty quantity thereof in the bottom of the Hoof and lay Hards or Tow over that and a piece of Leather or Splinters over it as you were formerly directed Dress it every day for three or four daies this Grease and Pitch will much nourish his Foot and strengthen it and keep it from drying up Let him stand in the time of his Cure and then if you please you may turn him out abroad Proved CXXXIII For a Brittle Hoof. LAy the Poultis to the bottom and top of the Hoof and Foot as you have directions for a Foundred Horse in Receipt CXXVII Lay that Poultis to and in three or four times dressing it will make his brittle Hoof tough and hard as you can desire Let him stand in the time of his Cure Proved CXXXIV For an Horses Yard foul and furr'd without so that he pisses in the Cod. TAke some fresh Butter and Whitewine Vinegar and melt them then pull out his Yard and do off the filth with your hand and wash it with the Butter and Vinegar till it be clean squirt some of it into his Yard with a Syringe it will much help him in this particular Proved CXXXV When a Horse doth not thrive and when his Coat stands staring and doth not lye smooth For an inward dry Surfet that causeth the Cods to swell sometimes continually and sometimes betwixt times When the Grease is melted and afterwards set and dried in his Body and his Legs sometimes swelled For an Horse that is Gaunt and will not fill or is Gut-foundred when he is Costive in Body and Dungs small To procure a Stomack The following Directions are admirable good for all these following Distempers FIrst make your Purge thus Take an ounce of fine Aloes the best is that which shines and glisters an ounce will cost you a shilling beat it to powder take a quarter of a pound of fresh Butter bray and mix these two well together and put a handful of Wheat-bran to it to make it stiff like a piece of Dough or Paste then roul it up in Balls made big in the midst and sharp at both ends this quantity will make four or five Balls then hold up his Head with a Drenching-stick and take his Tongue in
your Left-hand and put in one Ball to the root of his Tongue if you can that he may swallow it the better put your finger under his Tongue then give him a Hornful of strong Beer cold after it then give him a second Ball and a Hornful of Beer to wash it down and so do in like manner by all the rest then ride him a Mile gently and set him up warm Let him not eat not drink for five or six hours after it then give him a little clean Hay at Night not before and some warm Water to drink with some Wheat-bran put into it the next Morning give him warm Water to drink in the same manner and ride him a Mile gently and tye him to the Rack for an hour after then you may give him what meat he will eat at Night warm Water and Bran again the third day in the Morning after he hath done purging give him cold Water and before you ride him after his cold Water give him two ounces of Hony and half a pint of White-wine heated a little warm to make him piss and to clear his bladder and to beget a stomack then ride him a Mile or two gently and at Night ayr him again and so do Morning and Evening till he be well litter him well and keep him warm If you see that after his Purge and after you have given him the Hony and Whitewine he do not fall to his meat but is still bound in his body and dungs very small then give him this Cordial fasting two or three times and let there be two or three daies betwixt each Cordial giving It is thus made Take three pints of stale Beer course Houshold bread the quantity of half ae penny Loaf when these two are well boyled together take it off the fire and put into it a quarter of a pound of Hony and a quarter of a pound of fresh Butter give him all these together as a Cordial lukewarm then ride him a mile after it and set him up warm and tye him up to the Rack for three or four hours after it then give him a Mash of bursten Oats or Barly and warm Water with Wheat-bran in it till the Horse be come to his stomack and be loose bodied again which in two or three times giving he will be The fore-going Purge is admirable good for a dry Surfet and for a Horse that is bound in his body and dungs small The Cordial with Whitewine and Hony is admirable good for a Horse that is weak and hath little stomack to bring him to a stomack again When at any time for the fore going Diseases you give a Mash of bursten Oats to half a peck boyl a quarter of a pound of Fenygreek with them and put some of them into the Manger hot if he be loth to eat them because of the taste of the Fenygreek throw some Wheat-bran over them and he will eat them this is the only way to bring your Horse to a stomack and raise him suddenly Concerning his swelled Cods and swelled Legs as soon as his Purge hath done working take the Charge of Sope and Brandy and dab it on his swelled Cods or swelled Legs with a flat stick as it comes boyling hot off the fire three or four daies after it hath taken its course whilst he stands in the house take and ride him into the River up to his Saddle-skirts with the stream and against it half a quarter of an hour at a time wash him thus once every day or twice till you see the swelling quite down his Cods or Legs which will be in very few daies once laying on the Charge is enough If it be a dry Surfet give the Purge first and afterwards the Cordial of Whitewine and Hony But if he have a Cold and run at the Nostrils then first give him the following Drink made of Anniseeds Turmerick Brandy or Aqua-vitae Vinegar and Beer and three daies after give him the Purge and if you see his stomack to fail him give him the Cordial when a Horse is fat and lusty and then melted and the Grease set within him in this case use the Purge first But if he be fat and sick both together then give him the Whitewine and Hony and Cordials as you are before in this Receipt directed to bring him to a stomack first and when you have done that then give him the Purge and order him after it as you are there directed If there be hard Kernels between his Jaws or Chaps at the same time the Charge of Sope and Brandy laid hot upon them and heated well in in once doing it will either sink them flat or break them And if they break wash them with Butter and Vinegar and let them heal up of themselves All proved to be good and certain CXXXVI For a moist hot running Surfet that falls out of his Body into his Fore-legs and sometimes into his After-legs and sometimes into all four THis Surfet comes with Colds and Heats which are divers waies taken when it falls out of his Body into his Legs and runs hot moist white yellow thin thick stinking Water or Matter in this case the Horses breath will stink and smell very strong and his Legs will swell and stink extreamly when this Surfet breaks in his Body and falls down into his Legs at his first going out of the Stable he will hardly draw his Legs over the Threshold and he will be so stiff that he can hardly stir in the Stable but will hold up his Leg to his Midribs and although this Disease be never so violent in breaking out or causing his Legs to swell and run yet you need not fear Remedy for him if you observe these Directions following First keep him fasting all the Night before or give him but a very little meat to keep his jaws from falling the next day in the Morning before he drink let him blood on both the Neck-veins and let him bleed well then uncord him and give him this Drink following which will much purge and dry up his gross humours in his body and cleanse his blood Take one ounce of Aristolochia one ounce of Turmerick one ounce of Anniseeds dry and beat the Turmerick and Anniseeds small and grate the root of Aristolochia put all these together with one handful of Rew and a handful of Wormwood green or dry and one handful of Red-sage one handful of green Fennel if it be Winter that you cannot get green then take two ounces of Fennel-seeds and beat them small and put to the rest of the things and all put into an earthen pot or pan and put to them three pints of running and Spring-water and there let them lye in steep all Night the next Morning before you give it to him ride him a Mile till he be a little warm give it to him cold as it stood all night then after that ride him a Mile again and let him stand upon
faces and looke as if there were much difference between them yet they are in nature all one and proceed all from one offence which is only cold Phlegm thick humour ingendred about the Brain and benumming the Senses weakning the members sometimes causing the Horse to fall down and then it is called the falling Evil sometimes weakning but one Member only and then it is called Planet-struck sometimes oppressing a Horses stomack and making him sweat in his sleep and then it is called the Night-mare sometimes spoiling one special Member by some strange contraction and then it is called the Palsey The cure for any of these infirmities is to give the Horse this purging Pill Take of Tar three spoofuls or of sweet Butter the like quantity beat them well together with the powder of Liquorish Annis-seeds and Sugar-Candy till it be like a paste then make it into three round Balls and put into each Ball two or three Cloves of Garlick and give them to the Horse observing to warm him both before and after and keeping him fasting two or three hours both before and after CCXIX. Of the general Cramp or Convulsion of Sinews CRamps are taken to be contracting or drawing together of Sinews of any one member but Convulsions are when the whole body from the setting on of the head to the extremest parts are generally contracted or stiffened The Cure of either is first to chafe and rub the member contracted with Vinegar and common oyl and then rap it all over with wet Hay or rotten Litter or else with woollen Clothes either of which is a present remedy CCXX For any Cold or Cough whatsoever wet or dry or for any Consumption or Putrefaction of the Lungs whatsoever A Cold is got by unnatural Heats and too sudden cooling and these Colds ingender Coughs and these Coughs putrefaction and rotteness of the Lungs The Cure therefore for them all in general is to take a handful or two of the white and greenest Moss which grows upon an old Oak or any old Oaken Pale or Wood and boyl it in a quart of Milk till it be thick and being cold and turned to a jelly then strain it and give it to the Horse luke-warm every morning till his Cough ceaseth CCXXI Of the Running Glanders or mourning of the Chine TAke of Auripigmentum two drams of Tuslagsinis as much made into powder then mixing them together with Turpentine till they be like Paste and making thereof little Cakes dry them before the fire then take a Chasing-dish of Coals and laying one or two of the Cakes thereon covering them with a Tunnel and when the smoak ariseth put the Tunnel into the Horses Nostrils and let the smoak go up into his head which done ride him till he sweat do this once every morning before he be watered till the Running at his Nostrils cease and the Kernels under his Chaps be lessened CCXXII Of Hide-bound or Consumption of the Flesh HIde-bound or Consumption of the Flesh proceedeth from unreasonable travel disorderly Diet and many Surfeits It is known by a general dislike and leanness over the whole body and by the sticking of the skin close to the body in such sort that it will not rise from the body The Cure is first to let the Horse blood and then to give him to drink three or four mornings together a quart of new Milk with two spoonfuls of Honey and one spoonful of course Treacle Let his food be either sodden Barley warm Grains and Salt or Beans splitted in a Mill his drink Mashes CCXXIII. Of the Breast-pain or any other sickness proceeding from the heart as the Antocow and such like THese Diseases proceed from too rank feeding and much fatness the signs are A faltering in his fore legs a disableness to bow down his neck and a trembling over all his body the Cure is to let him blood and to give him two mornings together two spoonfuls of Diapente in a quart of Ale and Beer for it alone putteth away all infection from the heart CCXXIV. Of Tired Horses IF your Horse be tired injourneying or in any Hunting match your best help for him is to give him warm Urine to drink and let him Blood in the mouth to suffer him to lick up and to swallow the same then if you come where any Nettles are to rub his mouth and sheath well therewith then gently to ride him till you come at the resting place where set him up very warm and before you go to bed give him six spoonfuls of Aqua-vitae and as much provender as he will eat the next morning rub his Leggs with Sheeps-feet oyl and it will bring fresh nimbleness to his Limbs CCXXV. Of Diseases in the Stomack as Surfeits lothing of Meat or Drink IF your Horse with the Glut of Provender or eating raw food hath given such offence to his stomack that he casteth up all he eateth or drinketh you must then give him comfortable things as Diapente or Trephenicon in ale or Beer then keep him fasting Let him have no food but what he eateth out of your hand which would be bread well baked Oats and after two or 3 bits a Lock of sweet hay and his Drink should be only new milk till his stomack have gotten strength and in a bag you shall continually hang at his Nose sowr brown bread steeped in Vinegar at which he must ever smell and his stomack will quickly come again to his first strength CCXXVI Of foundring in the Body FOundring in the Body is of all Surfeits the mortallest and soonest gotten it proceedeth from intemperate riding an Horse when he is fat and then suddenly suffering him to take cold and there is nothing sooner brings this infirmity than washing a fat Horse The signs are sadness of Countenance Staring hairs stifness of Limbs and loss of Belly The Cure is only to give him wholsom meat and bread of clean Beans and warm drink and for two or three mornings together a quart of Ale-brewed with Pepper and Cinamon and a spoonful of Treacle CCXXVII Of the Hungry Evil. THe Hungry-Evil is an unnatural and over-hasty greediness in an Horse to devour his meat faster then he can chew it and is only known by his greedy snatching at his meat as if he would devour it whole The Cure is to give him to drink Milk and Wheat meal mixed together a quart at a time and to feed him with Provender by little and little till he forsake it CCXXVIII Of the Diseases of the Liver as Inflammations Obstructions and consumptions THe Liver which is the Vessel of Blood is subject to many Diseases according to the distemperature of the Blood and the Signs to know it are a stinking Breath and a mutual looking towards his body The Cure is to take Aristolochia longa and to boyl it in running water till half be consumed and let the Horrse drink continually thereof and it will cure all evils about the Liver CCXXIX Of the Diseases
and Motion whatsoever to the sweating of his Horse and to the occasions of his sweating as if an Horse sweat upon little or no occasion as walking foot-pace standing still in the Stable or the like it is then apparent that the Horse is faint foul fed and wanteth exercise but if upon good occasion as strong heats and the like he sweat if his sweat is white frothy and like soap-suds then is the Horse inwardly foul and wanteth also exercise but if the sweat be black and as it were only water thrown upon him then is the Horse in good lust and good case Observations from the Horses Hair OUR Keeper shall observe well his Horses Hair in generall but especially his neck and those parts which are uncovered and if they be sleek smooth and close then is the Horse in good case but if they be rough and staring or any way unnaturally discoloured then is the Horse inwardly cold at the heart and wanteth clothes and warm keeping or else there is some sickness creeping upon him Many other Observations there be but these are most material and I hope sufficient for any reasonable understanding MATTHEW HODSON'S Medicines A Medicine for the Glanders TAke a quart of red Vinegar being no Wine Vinegar put it over the fire and put thereto two spoonfuls of English Honey two spoonfuls of Elecampane beaten into fine Powder and searse it through a fine Searser and as much Roch-Allum as the bigness of an Egg beaten into fine Powder half a Pint of Sallet Oyl put in your Sallet Oyl after all these have boyled together one quarter of an hour then take it off the fire and let it stand until it be Milk-warm then give your Horse six spoonfuls in each nostril with a little horn after you haue given this drink ride him two or three turns and no more then tye his head down to his foot for the space of four hours then let him fast four hours you must give this drink at nine several times being three days betwixt every drink every second day after he hath had his drink give him Chickens guts warm rolled in beaten Bay Salt and put them down his throat giving him warm water and wet hay all the time you give him this drink and this will amend the Glanders and the mourning in the Chine Probatum est A Medicine for any Cold that is not the Glanders TAke two spoonfuls of Pepper well beaten two spoonfuls of Mustard four spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl four rosted Onions rosted very soft and cut them very small then take two spoonfuls of Elecampane made into fine Powder mingle all these together and make them into Balls with fresh Butter and give your Horse three Balls at a time Nine Balls given at three times will cure him so you travel him upon it For a Strain in the Shoulder TAke two ounces of Oyl of Pumpillion and two ounces of Oyl of Spike two ounces of Lint-seed Oyl rub these Oyls well together upon his shoulder and warm it in with an hot iron then let him be blooded in the shoulder and hopple his forefeet together and this will cure him A Cure for a Sinew-Sprung Horse TAke a pint of Lin-seed Oyl and boyl it then put in three penny-worth of Aqua-Vitae and stir them together then anoint your Horses Leg with it and this will cure him The true manner of making those Balls which Cure any violent Cold or Glanders which prevent heavy Sickness which purge away all molten grease which recover a loose stomack which keep the heart from fainting with exercise and make a lean Horse fat suddenly TAke of Anni-seeds of Cummin-seeds of Fenugreek-seeds of the fine searse powder of Ellecampane roots of each two ounces beaten and searst to a very find dust then add to them two ounces of brown Sugar-Candy beaten to powder and two ounces of the flour of Brimstone then take an ounce of the best juyce of Licoris and dissolve it on the fire in half a pint of White-wine which done take an ounce of the best Chymical Oyl of Anni-seeds and three ounces of the sirrup of Colts-foot then of Sallet-Oyl of fine live Honey and the purest sirrup of Sugar or Molosses of each half a pint then mix all this with the former powders and with as much fine wheat-flour as will bind and knit them all together work them into a stiff paste and make thereof balls some what bigger then French wall-nuts huls and all and so keep them in a close Gally-pot for they will last all the year yet I do not mean that you should keep them in the pot in Balls for because they cannot lye close the Air may get in and do hurt as also the strength of the Oyls will sweat outward and weaken the substance therefore knead the whole lump of past into the Gallypot and make the Balls as you have occasion to use them Now for the use of these Balls because they are Cordial and have divers excellent vertues you shall understand that if you use them to prevent sickness then you shall take one of these Balls and anoint all over with sweet butter and so give it to the Horse in the morning in the manner of a Pill then ride him a little after if you please otherwise you may choose and feed and water him abroad or at home according to your usuall custome and this do three or four mornings If you use them to cure either Cold or Glanders then use them in the same manner for a week together If you use them to fatten an Horse then give them for a fortnight together But if you use them in the nature of scowring to take away molten grease or foulness then instantly after his heat and in his heat you must use them Again If you find your Horse at any time hath taken a little cold as you shall perceive by his inward ratling if then you take one of these Balls and dissolve it into half a pint of Sack and so give it the Horse with a Horn it is a present remedy Also to dissolve the Ball in his ordinary water being made milk-warm it worketh the like effect and fatneth exceedingly To give one of these Balls before travel it prevents tiring to give in the height of travel it refresheth weariness and to give it after travel it saves an Horse from surfeits and inward sickness An approved Cure for the Botts and all manner of Worms of what nature soever TAke a quart of new Milk and as much of the purest clarified Honey as will make it extraordinary sweet then being luke warm give it to the Horse very early in the morning he having fasted all the night before which done bridle him up and let him stand tyed to the empty Rack for more then two hours Then take half a pint of White-wine and dissolve into it a good spoonfull or more of black Soap and being well incorporated together the Horse having stood two hours as aforesaid
of Bolearmony made in fine powder and two ounces and an half of the Conserves of Sloes Then stir and mix them well together after take it from the fire and put to it a spoonful or two of the powder of Cinnamon And brewing all well together give it the Horse Let him fast two hours after it and let him eat no washt meat Hay is wholesom so is Bread and Oats if they be well mixt with Beans or wheat but not otherwise An Infallible help for the Stone or pain of Urine causing Sickness MAke a strong Decoction that is to say boyl your first quantity of Water to an half pint three times over with keen Onions clean pilled and parsley Then take a quart thereof and put to it a great spoonfull of London-Treacle and as much of the powder of Egg-shels finely searc't and give it the Horse to drink and thus do divers mornings if the infirmity be great otherwise when you see the Horse offended An approved Medicine to cure and break any old grevious festred and rotten Cold and to dry up a foul running Glanders TAke a pint of the best Verjuyce and put to so much strong Mustard made with wine-Vinegar as will make the Verjuyce strong and keen thereof Then take an ounce or more of Roach-Allom and beat it into fine white Powder then when you give this to the Horse so with a Knife or Spoon put some of the Allom into the Horn and so give it the Horse part at his mouth and part at both his Nostrils but especially that Nostril which runneth most Then ride and chafe him a little after it then set him up warm At noon give him a warm Mash and at all times give him no cold water but when the Horse may have exercise after it And thus drench the Horse three days together and it will be sufficient Another for a Violent Cold. TAke of Wine Vinegar half a pinte and as much Sallet-Oyl brew them well together and then put to it an ounce and half of Sugar-Candy in fine powder and so give it the Horse and stir him a little after This is exceeding good but it will occasion sickness for a small season An excellent Scowring when other Scowrings will not work TAke of sweet Butter a quarter of a pound half so much Castle-soap beat them well together then add to them two spoonfulls of Hempseed bruised of anniseed a spoonfull bruised of Sugar-Candy an ounce of Rosin finely bruised half a spoonful work all these into a paste and give it the Horse in the manner of Pills immediately after his heat or when you have warmed him and stirred up the grease and foulness within him An admirable Water for any sore Eye or to clear any dim sight as the Moon-eyes and the like TAke the stone called Lapis Calaminaris and heat it red hot in the fire then quench it in half a pint of White-wine and thus do twelve times together Then add unto it half so much of the juice of Housleek and with this bath the Eye twice or thrice a day and it is excellent against any imperfection therein Another Water no less precious for the Eyes then the former TAke a pint of Snow-water and dissolve it into three or four drams of white Vitriol and with this water wash the Horses Eyes three or four times and the effect is great and strange The Master Medicine of all Medicines for a Back Sinew-Strain or any grief pain straightness shrinking or numness of joynts or sinews TAke a fat sucking Mastive whelp flay it and bowel it then stop the body as full as it can hold with gray Snails and black Snails then roast it at a reasonable fire when it begins to warm bast it with six ounces of the Oyl of Spike made yellow with Saffron and six ounces of the oyl of Wax Then save the drippings and what moisture soever falls from it whilst any drop will fall from the Whelp and keep it in a Gally-pot With this oyntment anoint the strain and work it in very hot holding a hot bar of iron before it And thus do both Morning and Evening till the Cure be finished St. Antayne his only Excellent Medicine for any Strain or Swelling TAke Cummin-seeds and bruise them gross and boyl it with the oyl of Camomile then add to it so much yellow Wax as will bring it to the body of a Cerrot or Plaister and spread it on either Cloth or Leather and very hot apply it to the grief It is wonderfull soveraign for any man also Another for any desperate old Strain whether it be in the Shoulder Joynts Hips or Back-sinews TAke of the best Aqua-vitae a pint of oyl de Boy of oyl of Swallows and of black Soap of each half a pinte work and labour all these together till they come to a thin oyntment then take of Camamoile and of red Sage an handfull of Rue and of Misseldine an handfull dry them and bring them to a very fine powder Then mix them with the former oyntment and bring all to a gentle Salve With some of this Salve made as hot as the Horse can suffer it anoint the Strain and hold an hot bar of Iron before the grieved place chafing it in with your hand as much as may be and thus do once a day and in nine dayes the Cure will be effected An Excellent Charge for any New Strain or offence on the Sinews or any grief proceeding from heat TAke the whites of six Eggs and beat them well with a pint of white Wine-Vinegar and an ounce of the oyl of Roses as much of the oyl of Mintils Then take four ounces of Bolearmonie and as much Sanguis Draconis and with as much fine Bean-flower or wheat flower but Bean-flower is the best as will thicken it bring it to a stiff Salve then spread it about the grieved place and renew it as it dryeth A perfect Cure for any Sinew-Strain TAke a live Cat either wild or tame and cut off her head and tail then cleave her down the chine and clap her hot the bowels and all upon the strain and remove it not for forty eight hours and the effect is great Markham's own Balm which hath never failed him for any Strain in the Shoulder or other part hidden or apparent Or any Wind-gall Pain or Swelling whatsoever TAke ten ounces of the best and purest Goose-grease and melt it on the fire then take it off and put it into four ounces of the Oyl of Spike and an ounce of the Oyl of Origanum stir them very well together then put it up into a Gallipot With this Oyntment anoint the grieved part the Oyntment being made exceeding hot and rub and chafe it in with all painfulness holding an hot bar of Iron before it and thus anoint once in two dayes but rub and chafe it in twice or thrice a day at the least and give the Horse moderate Exercise This is approved and infallible
your Colts growing all the Summer following will make your Colt Mares so bare that they shall not be able to foal nor give their Colts sufficient suck At what age Colts may best be handled WHen your Horse-Colt hath been bred as is afore-appointed the best age in my opinion to take him up to break is when he shall be full four years old and the vantage or if you may spare him and have good close ground to keep him in rather at five years old and the vantage for then will his joynts and sinews be strong and well knit his hoof ever tough and not brittle his eye-sight good his chine strong so that you cannot hurt him neither in breaking nor in reasonable riding besides he will last a good Horse till he be 24 or 25 years old whereas if you will take him up at two or three years old as we commonly do you shall find him afterwards many times blind brittle hoofed weak back'd full of windgalls and splints and shew himself to be an old stiff Horse before he come to be ten years old as the most part of their Spanish Horses do because they are taken up so young which is because that in Spain they have no good close ground to let their Colts run longer in and not for any other Commodity Approved Receipts For the Curing of all Diseases Incident to HORSES Receipt I. To draw out any Thorn or Nayl in any place TAke Dod monds which are house Snails and seeth them in Butter and apply them and they will draw out any Thorn or Nayl And so will the Roots of Reeds if they be bruised and laid to being bound to the wounded place with a linnen cloth He may run out but to stand in is better Proved II. A perfect Drier of a Green Wound or any other Sore TAke Soap and unslaked Lime and mix them well together but before you lay it to wash the wound or sore with a little White-wine Vinegar and then apply it Proved A Marrow-bone burnt and made into powder and strewed on a Sore or wound is a great Dryer III. For any Anbury TAke a hot Iron and make it very sharp and take the Anbury in your hand and sear it off to the bottom with a red hot Iron Then mix a little beaten Verdigrease and Train-oyl together heat them and anoint the place once a day till it be whole Proved IV. For the Flapps in an Horses mouth TO know this you shall perceive his Lips to be swell'd on both sides of his mouth and that which is in the blisters is like the white of an Egg you must cut some slashes in it with a knife then rub it once with Salt and it is cured Proved V. To rot a Sore or Swelling ANoint the Sore or swelling with cold Bacon-grease once in two days till it be soft then open the skin with a Pen-knife at the bottom of the Sore and let out the filth and so heal it up with your healing Salve Proved See the water and Green Oyntment VI. Directions how to lay a Wound open and where and how to miss the Veins under it be it in Body or Legs WHen you cut a Sore open lay it drayning at the bottom or a little lower Be sure always to do this To miss the Master Vein if it lye lengthwise in the body be sure to cut under the Vein If it be a Sore upon the Leg that lyes right over the Vein then cut it side-wayes of the Vein right up and down If a Sore happen to be hollow a great length be it in Body or Legs then cut a hole at the lowest place that the filth may drain from the Sore the better then put in your finger under the Vein and when your finger is past the Vein upwards as far as it will go cut at your fingers end another hole and if you fee occasion turn your finger to another place and at your fingers end cut another hole If you chance at any time to cut a Vein in pieces put in a piece of a Hares skin with the wool on or Cony wool but Hares is best and this will stop the bleeding Proved That Hares wool will stop bleeding sooner than most things See Receipt To stop bleeding in Veins that be cut VII The way to put in a French Rowel THat is upon the lowest part of the Horses breast to that side that is lame you shall with a sharp knife cut the skin through not cross the breast but right down half the length of your finger then put your finger between the skin and the flesh and raise the skin from the flesh round about the hole the breadth of a six pence then take a piece of the upper leather of a shooe and cut it in the manner of this Figure here prescribed cut the piece of Leather round and then cut out a hole Your breath must not smell of Tobacco when you blow the skin up for a sweet breath is best if it do the place will swell the more VIII A rare Green Oyntment to heal any Wound old or new quickly TAke an handfull of water-Betony as much of Comfry of Mugwort red Sage Sage of Bethlehem by some called Jerusalem Sage of Sothern-wood of Rue by some called Herb of grace of Rosemary of each of these an hand full boyl all these in a pint of May Butter and as much Mutton Suet and when it hath boyl'd a while take it off the fire and strain it through a cloth and put it into a pot for your use This Oyntment will last good a year Proved Before you lay this Oyntment to wash the Wound first with the Water which you have in Receipt 38. IX To take a Film off an Horses Eye YOU must take as much of Dialthaea as the bigness of a Walnut and put to it the powder of Verdigrease as much as an Hasel-nut mix them well together then every day Put into his Eye as much of it as the bigness of a Pease this will take of any Film whatsoever Proved X. A Medicine to defend and keep back humors from a Wound so that it may heal the sooner TAke two pints of Tartar or the dregs of White-wine Vinegar but the Tartar is better and put in as much Bolearmonick as contain to an Egg an handfull of white or bay Salt and an handfull of great Burdock leaves or the Roots wash the swell'd place and round about the Swelling with this once a day this will hasten the cure very much if you do so wash it with this and apply to the wound your healing Salves or Oyntments as you may in this Book be furnished with store of them for that purpose Proved XI Another for the same TAke a pint of Verjuyce and put to it three penny-worth of Camphire cut very small boyl them together a quarter of an hour and when it is almost cold put it into some glass or pot and wash the swell'd place round about it
on purpose that none may knovv that you use any thing but Sope lay it on a piece of gray Paper and heat a Brick hot and dry it in as you did the former this is much of the nature of the former Proved XXXVII For a Splent great or small an excellent one IF it were never medled with before be it great or small this will cure it First take a piece of Leather as broad again as will cover the Splent then take of Cantharides which is a flye that you may have at the Apothecaries and beat them to powder or very fine take of them half a quarter of an ounce at a time mixed with as much Nerve Oyl as contain to half a Wallnut bray them well together and lay them upon a piece of Leather and bind it on for eight or ten hours and then take it off and stroke it down with your Fingers and Thumb twice or thrice a day till you see it quite fallen This Medicine will dissolve the Splent into a Water and you shall see it sweat out drops of water doing it with your fingers and Thumb every day If it be a great through Splent lay it on twice if it be a little one but once doing will serve he must stand in all the time of the Cure you may ride him after you have taken the Medicine off take a piece of Tape to bind it on Make no more at a time than you shall use it will not last as to do good This will not diminish a hair but sink it flat This Medicine is not to be laid to a Splent that hath been formerly medled with where the swelling still remains and the hair is come off and the skin very thin the Medicine is too strong and will soon eat the thin skin a pieces in such a case Proved to be right good XXXVIII A Water to cure any old Wound or green in Man or Beast TAke half a pound of Bolearmoniack a quarter of a pound of white Copperis two ounces of Roch Allum beat your Roch Allum and Copperis small and put them into a Pipkin and melt them together and when they are cold put them with the Bolearmoniack into a Mortar and beat them all together to a fine powder then take a pottle of Running Spring water where the Spring boyls with a blew sand at the bottom if possible rather than in any other Spring set this pottle of Spring-water on the fire with a close Skellet till it be scalding hot and then put it into a clean earthen Pitcher and put two spoonfuls of this powder into the water and stir it up well together before you let it stand to settle and vvhen the vvater hath stood two or three days setling then skum off the upper most froth put the vvater into another Pitcher clean from the dregs and afterwards use it vvhen you have occasion But vvhen you use it either for man or beast vvarm the vvater as hot as can be indured either by man or beast When you vvash any vvound of a man let the cloth lie a vvhile vvet upon the vvound and vvet a double cloth in the same vvater and bind it on plaister vvise renevving it tvvo or three times a day For any vvound old or nevv alvvaies vvash it first vvith this vvater and then apply the green Oyntment to it aftervvards vvhich you shall find in R. VIII Proved XXXIX A Receipt to cure a Horse Pestilence TAke of Wormwood a handful of Rue a handful of Selendine roots a handful to be cut small then put them into a quart of Aloes Milk boyl it till it comes to a pint Then strain it and put to it half a pound of fresh Butter then give it the Horse in the morning fasting pretty vvarm and keep him from drinking two daies and if he does drink let it be cold water and if grass may be had let him ear grass Another Receipt for a Febula or Horse-Pestilence TAke one ounce of Storax one ounce of Benjamin one ounce of Betony a quarter of an ounce of English Saffron these being beaten all to a powder put them into a quart of new Ale and give it to the Horse to drink Let him not have any warm water but keep him as before from any drink two dayes and let him eat grass if to be had XL. For the Yellows YOu shall know this by his faint sweating at the roots of his Ears and the white of his Eyes will be yellow you must first let him blood in the Neck veins or on both sides of the Neck then take Elder Leaves Cellendine and Camomile of each a handfull cut them small and give them to the Horse in a pint and a half of the best Beer being heated lukewarm fasting you may run your Cornet-horn into the third roof in the palat of his mouth keep him warm and give him warm water to drink for a day or two and this drench will certainly cure him Proved XLI For a Chest-Founder To know this he will go crimpling and stand stradling and covet lye to down Take six penny-vvorth of the Oyl of Peter and bath it well into his breast rub it in well at the first then dry it lightly with a hot Iron this with once doing will be a perfect Cure Not tried but very likely XLII For a swelling under the Jaws when a Horse hath the strangling FOr a swelling of this nature take nothing else but Bacon-grease and anoint it which will if it be hard suddenly soften it with twice anointing and when it is full ripe let it out some use to burn the swelling with a Candle before they anoint it and it will cause it to break the sooner let it out with the point of a Pen-knife and sometimes there will come out a pinte of filth when it is clean out put in some white Salt when any sore is soft let it out with the point of a Pen-knife lay it drayning as much as you can with all the advantages you can If it be a sore in any other place than the Throat rot it with Bacon-grease and open it and put it out and heal it with the green Oyntment mentioned in R. XXXVIII You must have a care of veins that you do not cut them Proved XLIII For a Sore IF a Horse hath a Sore in his side or else where rot it first with Bacon-grease then open it in the midst and let the hole below enough that you may put your finger in from the middle of the wound downwards cut it in the midst and slash it quite down to the bottom it will drain the better and heal the sooner a great deal Heal it up with the green Oyntment dressing it once a day and always before you lay your green Oyntment to the wound wash it with the rare water to heal any wound first This is that I advise you when you wash a wound with this water dry it with a clean linnen cloth before you
part of the After-leg much about the Ancle-bone it will be swelled and knotted when it is thus over-strained you may see and discern it by his going and by the swelling if you nip it between your Fingers and Thumb he will quinch at it very much For the Cure Take Nerve-oyl and Turpentine of each a penny-worth and mix them together and lay it on at two or three several times or more till it be well and alwaies dry it in well with a hot bar of Iron when you lay it on anoint it two or three daies distance you must rest him in the time of the Cure Probatum LXV A Scouring Drink WHen you let a Horse blood save the blood with a Bowl or Dish and put thereunto a handful of Salt take the blood as it comes from him and stir it and the Salt together with your hand that it may not clot and give it him again to drink with a Horn fasting whether it be the blood of another Horse or his own blood it matters not much Give him warm Water to drink once Proved LXVI For Brittle Hoofs ANoint them with an equal proportion of Dogs-grease Turpentine and Tar all boyl together a little while and it will make them grow strong and tough put in the Turpentine but a little before you take it off the fire Proved LXVII For a Horse that is Moulten and breaks out WHen you see Swellings appear like Bags about the Girting place under the Horses belly First anoint it with Bacon-grease once every day till it be rotten then lance it in one place to make the filth come out with the point of your Pen-knife stroke your hand pretty hard upon it squeez out all the filth then anoint the Swelling with Train-oyl all over and wind a linnen Cloth about a sticks end and dip it in Train-Oyl and with it wash the wound well within If the Swelling run under the belly to the Cods-ward then get a Smith with a Nail at a Rods end to beat a piece in the fashion of a Fleme then heat it red hot and strike him just through the skin in six or eight several places thereafter as the largeness of the Swelling is and as your discretion shall guide you when you have flemed it and squeezed it that all the filth is out then daub on Chamberlye and Salt scalding hot and then anoint it with Train-Oyl within and without the Train-Oyl will heal it alone anoint it once a day at first within and without and once in two or three daies as it heals You must alwaies have a care of any wound that the cold and wind get not in if it do it will swell much and in such a case you must anoint about the wound all over the Swelling with the Oyl of Populeon and that will take the Swelling down certainly be it in what place it will Both proved LXVIII A Scouring Drink to cleanse his Kidneys if they be pained FIrst heat a pint of strong Beer in a Skellet and scum it and put in a penny-worth of Treacle-Jean and give it him luke-warm it will cleanse his Kidneys and Guts much three or four hours after it give him a Mash warm water the first day and no longer Let him stand two or three daies Probatum LXIX For a fleshy Knot that is moving from the place where it grows LEt it grow where it will if you by feeling upon it with your Fingers and Thumb feel it moving and something soft upon the place where it grows then take the knot in your hand and with the point of your Knife slit a hole in the middle and cut the knot out if it bleed much sear it with a hot Iron to stanch the blood then stuff the wound with Hares-wool or Coneys-wool but Hares-wool is best to stanch blood The nextday take out the wool and wash it clean with White-wine Vinegar then dry the wound with a clean linnen cloth then heal it with your blew Medicine or green Oyntment which I take to be best but the blew Medicine is good Alwaies before you anoint the wound wash it with the water which you have for an old Ulcer if it grow rank if not you shall not need to do it Tye a Rag about it to keep the Dirt out Dress it once a day till it be whole Proved LXX For a Cow that hath a Garget in her Dug or Udder YOu shall know when she-hath the Garget in her Dug for then she will not give down her Milk For remedy let her stand in some House or Yard the Night before you let blood the next Day in the Morning fasting let her blood on both sides of the Neck then give her this Drink Take a handful of Higtaper by some called Mullin and cut it small it groweth by the sides of Dikes and in High-waies it hath a long stem with a broad woolly Leaf and afterwards boyl it a little in a pint of Beer and give it her luke-warm fasting This with once giving will make her give down her milk freely Proved LXXI For a Ring-bone A Ring-bone grows just upon the instep as we use to say upon the fore-part of the hinder Leg just above the Hoof in a hard knob as big as a Walnut First the Beast must be cast or else you must tye up his contrary Leg with a strong Rope till you strike four or five holes in the Ring-bone at the very edge of it Let every hole be an equal distance from other then take white Mercury or Arsnick beaten to powder as much as will lye upon your Fleme and put it into one hole and as much likewise in the same manner into every hole binding it on for twenty four hours LXXII Another for the same TAke quick and unslaked Lime newly taken from the Kiln which must be well burned and the best burned you may know by its lightness make your Lime into fine powder and lay it upon the place swelled all along of a good thickness and bind upon it a linnen Cloth made fast about the foot and so put the Horse into the Water a pretty while then take him forth and unbind his foot and he is infallibly cured For the burning of the Lime in the Water does kill the Ring-bone even unto the Root thereof with this Receipt I have cured not so few as an hundred Horses But when you are thus to dress your Horse let him be brought close to the Water wherein he is to be ridden that so soon as you have applyed the Lime unto the Ring-bone you may presently put him into the Water Proved LXXIII Observations concerning the ordering of Cattle as Cowes c. in the time of feeding when there is great fulness of Grass As in the Months of May June and July THen in those Months must be your care to let them blood For at that time of the Year they never digest their meat so well as in Winter And those raw digestions do hinder
him to belly give him another keep him warm and it is a Cure Proved LXXXIX For the Scratches THey are upon the After-heels of a Horse in the Pastern and above For Remedy take two penny-worth of black Sope as much as an Egg of the newest Hens-dung as you can get Oyster-shels put into hot Embers five or six they must be put in over-night and raked up so that they may be well dried by the morning then beat them to powder and bray them altogether like an Oyntment and apply it to the Horses sore Heels every morning and evening the Horse must not come in the Water till you see he is cured Alwaies rub his Heels very clean before you rub in the Oyntment and you shall find it a certain Cure in two or three times dressing Proved XC For the Scratches OVer-night let his Heels and Legs be bathed well in Beef-broth the next morning rub his Legs clean and then apply this Oyntment to heal it Take two pennyworth of Gilts-grease two pennyworth of Speck-oyl at the Curriers made of shreds and cuttings of Leather two pennyworth of Verdigrease beaten small two pennyworth of Train-Oyl put all these into a Pipkin and set it on the Coles to melt but stir them till they be melted then once a day anoint him with this Oyntment till his Heels be well which will be whole very suddenly Chafe it and rub it in with your hand very well let him come in no water nor dirt till he be whole when Horses have been so swelled crannied and stiff that they could not go but fall down This hath cured them Proved XCI Another for the same IF at any time a Horses Leg swell but especially in the month of March ride him into a River where the Water runs swiftly up to the Mid-leg and there let him stand not above a quarter of an hour then when you set him up in the Stable take a Wisp and a Payl of Water and dash the Water against his Legs till they be clean This is a Cure for swelled Legs in a very short time that is when they are not broken out but only swelled Proved XCII For Foot-foundring THat Foot which is foundred he will set before the other For Remedy pare him down to the quick if he bleed it matters not then set on his Shoe very hollow then take Flax or Tow and make a pretty thick Cake thereof and spread Venice Turpentine thereon a good thickness then lay it all over the bottom of the Hoof and put a piece of the upper Leather of a Shoe to keep it in At 3 daies end lay on a new Plaister as before If his Foot grow again pare him to the quick again and every third day lay on a new Plaister till you see him go better he must run abroad in low grounds this Plaister will draw down the humours exceedingly Continue thus doing and if he have not been foundred too long this will cure him in a month or very little more perfectly To further the Cure you may let him blood at the Toes nevertheless the place should not be dirty that he goes in Proved XCIII For the Garget in the Throat of a Cow IF you have an Ox or Cow or Bullock that hath the Garget in the Throat it comes for want of Water it will cause a swelling under the sides The Remedy is first to cast the Beast then cut the skin through in the midst of the swelling and flea the skin from the flesh so far as any swelling goes then take of the whitest Wood-ashes that you can get sifted fine mix them with some mouldy stale old Piss stir them well together and wash the Sore therewith Proved XCIV Another for a Garget at the Root of the Tongue of a Cow A Garget at the Root of the Tongue is a certain swelling under the Root of the Tongue which causeth his head and face to swell also and to froth at the mouth he will then for sake his meat with often gulping in his throat The Remedy is first cast him in soft straw from bruising his body then take his Tongue in your hand and pull it out as far as you can and with the point of a sharp Penknife slit down the middle Vein an inch right under the Tongue and there will come forth black blood and water which comes from the Gall then rub the place with Salt and Vinegar mingled together and it will cure Proved XCV For the Garget in the Guts of a Cow or Bullock THe signs are these The Beast will run at the Eyes drivel and slaver at the Mouth with a sad heavy countenance For Remedy take an Egg-shel full of Tar and put it down her Throat then take two handfuls of Salt and put it into a pint of Verjuyce and put it down the Beasts Throat with a Horn then drive her to and fro till she dung Keep her fasting four hours after Proved XCVI For the over-flowing of the Gall in a Cow or Bullock THe signs are extraordinary fulness of the Body and slavering at the mouth The Remedy Take an Egg-shell full of Tar and put it down her Throat having before a pint of Verjuyce or Vinegar and a pennyworth of Cloves beaten boyl the Verjuyce and Cloves together and when you take it off the fire put in two good handfuls of Salt and give it her lukewarm with a Horn immediately after the Egg-shell full of Tar and drive her to and fro Proved XCVII For a Horse or Cow that makes Red-water TAke a Red herring with a hard Row and cut it as small as you can and put it into a quart of strong Beer and give the Beast it luke-warm and in twice giving it is a Cure Proved XCVIII For a Horse that is Back-swanckt or for a Strain in the Kidneys being over-burthened in the Hinder part or in Race-running or by being over-strained in the Back TAke a fat hot Sheeps-skin just as it comes from the back of the Sheep as soon as she is kill'd mix four pennyworth of Nerve-oyl and four pennyworth of Turpentine well together and besmear or anoint the inside of the Sheeps-skin all over and clap it to the place of the back where the grief lies which commonly is in the Navil-place of the back-bone In that part of the back-bone is a horse mostly swanckt of when you have thus laid it along his back-bone make a Crupper to go under his Tail to keep it on and a breast-plate before and fasten them together to girt it upon him for a month till his back be knit and strengthened Proved Here followeth Nathaniel Shaw's Receipts which are all approved things and he is accompted as able a Farrier as any is in London I have both proved my self and seen him prove most of them both Inward and Outward and although the former Receipts in this Book will do much good Yet these go beyond them in many things both for cheapness and readiness of the Cure
I shall begin with a Disease in the Head called the Canker C. For a Canker in the Head A Canker is a Disease in the Head and sometimes will set upon the Eyes and sometimes in the Nostrils You shall know it by his rawness and it will run a yellow Water For Remedy Take half a pint of Sallet-oyl one ounce of the Oyl of Turpentine three ounces of Burgundy Pitch and one pennyworth of Verdigrease beaten fine put all but the Verdigrease into a Pipkin and let them boyl together a pretty while then take it off the fire and put in the Verdigrease and let them all boyl together to a Salve but if you have not a great care the Verdigrease will make all boyl over to prevent which alwaies have another Pipkin stand by in readiness that if it boyl over you may put some into that then put them together again and set them upon warm embers and let it gently boyl till you see it come to a Salve being neither too hard nor too soft you must stir it all the while it boyls then take it off and keep it for your use If you use this Medicine for a Canker in the Nostrils first tye a rag about a sticks end and dip it in some Whitewine Vinegar and some Salt and run it up his Nostrils to do off all the scales When you have washt it clean take a Feather and if it be not long enough tye two together and dip it in the cold Salve and run it up his Nostrils but once a day If it be a Canker in the Head Face or Eyes take a little Tow and rub the Canker till it bleed and when it leaveth bleeding anoint it with a Feather dipt in the aforesaid Salve and strew some Wheat-bran upon the Salve it will hold on the better Dress it once a day till you see it heal and then once in two or three daies whilst it heal up Observe this Rule in all outward Cures for it is needful let him stand in all the time of the Cure Proved CI. For a dry scurvy Mange although it be from the Head to the Tayl of Horse Cow Dog or any thing else FIrst scrape off all the Scurff with an old Curry-comb or piece of Knife then take two ounces of the Oyl of Turpentine and as much strong Beer mix them together and shake them well in a Glass Vial then anoint the Horse where he is pild and mangy a Week after dress him again if you see any matter y running places else not tye him up with a strong Halter till it hath done working for it will smart terribly When you have kill'd the Mange to make the hair come again wash it two or three times with a little strong Beer now and then and it will make the hair come quickly and thick Let the Beast stand in at dry meat the time of the Cure This is a rare Receipt Proved CII For a blow or any other mischance which causeth a swelling about the Head Face Jaws or Chaps FIrst Let blood in the Neck-vein on the side the Head swells if he swells on both sides let him blood on both sides Then give him this Drink to prevent a Farcy take an ounce of Turmerick and an ounce of Anniseeds of Red-sage Wormwood Herbgrace of all three but a handful cut them small and put all into a quart of strong Beer and give it the Beast cold for they are hot of themselves fasting in a morning and let him fast four or five hours after it give him warm Water to drink but for once so soon as you have given him his Drink apply this charge hot with a flat stick dab on the swelling a quarter of a pint of Aqua-vitae or Brandy-wine which is the spirit of Aqua-vitae but Brandy is best mixed with a pennyworth of Crown-sope according to the bigness or smalness of the swelling make a quantity of these two things which you apply as a charge this charge of these two things will take down any swelling old or new whatsoever soke it in with a red hot Iron apply it but once it will not come off in fourteen or fifteen daies it will sink it quite flat or break it Proved CIII For a Navil-Gall TAke Brandy-wine cold and dab it on with your hand or with a Rag it will take it down in a few times dressing if the skin be not broken Proved CIV For hard Kernels under the Throat MIx Sope and Brandy-wine together and apply it to the Kernels hot then heat it in with a hot Iron it will either sink them flat or break them Proved CV For a New Sinew strain APply Sope and Brandy once hot and heat them in with a hot Iron but first you must clip the hair away in the Pastern right over the Shackle-veins and then let blood on both the Shackle-veins and then apply the Charge letting Blood will much further the Cure Let the Sinew-strain be before or behind you must let blood if you will have a speedy Cure Letting blood thus and applying the Charge will take his lameness away in eight and forty hours with once doing at the most Do not ride him in four or five daies after you have laid on this charge This Sope and Brandy heat well in with a hot Iron it will not come off in 14 or 15 daies and when you see the scurff to rise anoint it with Trotters-oyl which is made of Sheeps-feet boiled anoint it once in two dayes to strengthen the Sinews till he go well you may ride him in four or five daies and for four or five daies or a week keep him out of the Water after you have applyed the Charge and it will be a perfect Cure Proved CVI. For an old Sinew-strain that is swelled and hard on Fore or After-legs FIrst clip away the hair right over the Shackle-veins on the Pastern and you will see to strike the Shackle-vein the better when it hath bled apply two ounces of the Oyl of Turpentine mixed with two ounces of strong Beer and put them into a glass Vial and shake them well together bath most of it in with your hand upon the Vein or swelling and three or four daies after it hath done swelling and begins to be scurfie lay a Charge of Sope and Brandy heat it well in with a hot Iron and it will take it quite down in a week or a fortnights time you may ride him in five or six daies When you see the Charge to scurf and pill you may anoint it with Oyl of Trotters once or twice Proved very certain CVII For any old hard and crushy Knobs or Swellings that have been a long time let them be never so hard Do thus FIrst anoint it with an ounce and a half of the Oyl of Turpentine and as much strong Beer mixed together and put it in a Glass and well shaken together and bathed in with your hand and three or four daies after the Charge of
soft although he be vveak and have little or no stomack four or five hours after his Cordial the first thing you give him boyl him half a peck of Oats and a pound of Fenygreek together in vvater till they be burst and the vvater vvherein these vvere boyled pour it from the Oats into another Payl and put some cold vvater to it and vvhen he drinks let him drink of this vvater for the Oats and Fenygreek throvv some of them into the Manger hot and if he be loth to eat them then strevv some Wheat-bran upon it and it is very likely he vvill eat all together This course taken in every particular vvill bring your Horse to a stomack and raise him suddenly Look the Receipt follovving for a dry Surfet and when the Horse's Cods are swelled and he runs at the Nose and there you shall see the purge of Aloes A fortnight or three vveeks after he is thus melted and that you have given him the former things to give him this Purge of Aloes vvill do the Beast a great deal of good in this case I am confident it is good Or give him as much of the povvder of Mechoacan as vvill lye upon a shilling at three or four times that is very good in a pint of Wine or a quart of strong Ale Proved CXXVII For a Foundred Horse FIrst tye a List or Blood-cord hard about the Pastern and that will keep the Blood up into his Leg that it cannot come dovvn into his Foot when you have taken out the Soal set on his Shooe something hollow and broad then untye the string about the Pastern and knock the out-side of the Hoof and the blood will come pouring out Let him bleed well then put a handful of Salt into the bottom of the foot and put as many Hards Flax or Tow after it as will fill the bottom of the Foot take two or three flat sticks and lay them between the Hards and the Shooe a piece of stiff Soal-Leather will do as well at the end of 24 hours take the Hards away and take a handful of Nettle-tops and a handful of Salt and beat them together and lay them to the bottom of the Foot and to keep them in take Hards and Splinters as you were directed before at forty hours end take the Hards away and apply the same quantity of Nettles and Salt mixed with as much Hogs Grease as contains to an Egg and beat them altogether in a Mortar and lay them to the Soal of the foot and Hards and Splinters as before with this last Medicine you may dress his foot once or twice more if you see cause after you see the Horse goes a little well set on another Shooe formed with a broad Web and let it stand broad and easie and in ten daies time the Horse will go very well and sound when you come at your journeys end wash his Legs clean and when his Legs are dry make a Poultis of a quarter of a pint of Whitewine Vinegar and a quarter of a pound of Sheeps-kidney Suet cut very small Let these two boyl a pretty while in a Skellet and when it comes off the fire put two or three handfuls of Wheat-bran to it and stir them all together and make it thick like a Poultis and lay it to the bottom of the foot then Hards and Splinters as before you were directed then spread the rest of the Poultis upon a long piece of Linnen-cloth and lay it hot to the hair round about the top of the Hoof and the Foot-lock and let it come under the bottom of the Hoof lay it to as hot as you can let every Poultis lye on forty eight hours Three or four Poultisses laid to in this manner will do the Horse much good and cause his foot to grow and shoot out and give him much ease so as in a very short time he will go very sound If an Horse be bruised in the bottom of his foot with a stone or any other thing this Poultis will give present ease For a foundring the Beast must stand in till the bottom of his foot be grown again I hold it best to take out but one soal at a time because if you take out both at a time the Horse will not be able to stand Some take out Frush and all some take out nothing but the bare Soal and leave the Frush The way is first cord the Pastern then pare the Soal and then raze it round about the Soal to the quick as near the inside of the outward shell of the Hoof as you can with a drawing knife then raise the Soal at the Toe then lay hold with a pair of Pincers and pull it quite out but beware you break not the Veins in the foot Proved CXXVIII For a Back swanckt in the Fillet of the Loin or for a Wrench in the Back-bone about the Navel place or for a strain in the Kidneys by being over-burthened in the Hinder-parts or over-strained in the Kidneys in Race-running IF you see any of these mischances to fall upon the Back or Hinder parts of your Beast then do thus and no otherwise for all those mischances above-written Take a hot Sheeps-skin fleaed of a Sheep newly kill'd apply it as hot as you can with the fleshy side from his Rump all over to the midst of his Back-bone if it will reach so far Let it lye on twenty four hours and at the end of that time lay another hot Sheeps-skin in the same manner to it if need require and you see the first will not do Let the grief be never so great two hot skins will do it with the help of the Drink next under written but if the hurt be not great the Sheeps-skin will do it alone It will make the Horse to sweat much it will draw out all the bruise and strengthen the back of the Horse exceedingly in a short time But if your Horse be so weak that he cannot stand nor go then take a Sack or two and Ropes and throw them over a Balk and hang him for nine or ten daies when you first hang him clap a hot Sheeps-skin to his Rump and Back for twenty four hours and at the end of the time lay another hot Sheeps-skin to and then no more In the time of this Cure give him this Drink if the strain be great If it be but small this Drink can do no hurt but a great deal of good Take Polygonatum commonly called Solomon's Seal you may have it at the Apothecaries but it is dear take ten roots of it that may weigh three ounces Polypodium of the Oak a quarter of a pound two handfuls of Wood-betony or for want thereof as much Garden-betony cut it small and if the roots be dry beat them to powder if they be green cut them thin then take a Gallon of strong Beer or somewhat more put it into a Kettle and put the other three things to it
will prevent a Farcey of the sound Horse CLIII For a Button-Farcey THis Farcey you shall know by these Signs The Horse will be full all over of Bunches and Knots some as big as Pease some as big as Nuts they lye in bubbles in the skin and are easie to be seen First let blood on both sides his Neck and let him bleed well The next thing is take a little Housleek and beat it and strain it through a fine Linnen-cloth and put it into his Ears then take an ounce of Aristolochia and grate it small the tops of Rue an handful as much Hogs Grease as an Egg beat these three last together till they be like a Salve as soon as you have put in the Housleek into each Ear alike divide the other into two parts and put the one half into one Ear and the other half into the other Ear and put some Wool after it to keep it in then stitch up his Ears with a Needle and thred and tye a List hard about his Ears that he may not shake it out then tye the List of both Ears together a little streight when you have done thus with the Point of your Penknife make a little hole in his Forehead and after that with your Cornet-horn raise the Skin from his Forehead the breadth of your hand round about the hole with your Knife then take a Red-dock root and slice it and put into the hole three pieces of it which will be enough at once it will draw a great deal of corruption out of it the corruption that comes out will scald the hair off after the strength of the root is gone it will drop out of it self when you see it is dropped out anoint it with a little fresh Butter after you have put in the Root lay a Plaister of Burgundy Pitch over it to keep out the wind and cold Let him fast seven or eight hours and let him stand upon the Bit you shall see him slaver champ and foam as if he were ridden give him warm Water and Bran at night let it be in his Ears two daies before you pull it out Taking this course you shall see the Knots and Bunches to fall in a short time and the hair will come again upon his Forehead Proved CLIV. To cure the Cords which is when an Horse can neither lift up his Head to the Rack nor put his Head to the Ground no not to his Knees YOu may know this Disease by the Signs above the cause thereof cometh by reason of an extream cold which lodgeth in the stomack and cause the cords to set and shrink quite up so that the Beast can neither lift his Head up nor down but only to eat meat out of the Crib in this case a Horse is afraid to lye down and if he be laid he cannot rise The Remedy First make him a comfortable Drink of these things Take half an ounce of Diapente one ounce of Anniseeds beaten small three pennyworth of English Saffron dry it by the fire in a Paper and crumble it small with your fingers two ounces of Hony two ounces of fresh Butter a pint and a half of strong Beer a quarter of a pint of Whitewine Vinegar put all these things together and set it on the fire till the Butter and Hony be melted and no longer then take it off and give it the Beast lukewarm fasting then walk or ride him till he be warm then set him up and tye him upon the Bit five or six hours clothe and litter him up warm after it give him a little Hay and then a Mash and no warm Water that night but the Water in his Mash give him the next day in the morning another Mash and about nine or ten of the clock warm Water and Bran and thus keep him for four or five daies look where the Sign is if it be in the Head or Stomack do not cut him for it will not be so well yet you may cut him although the Sign be there but it will not be so well In cutting observe this You must cut him at the very bottom of the Breast you shall see the Vein and under the Vein lyes the great Sinew as big as a Tobacco-pipe steal just by the in-side to the top of his Leg when you see where the Vein lyes draw the skin aside which lyes over the Vein and cut that part of the skin an Inch or more which may just fall upon the Vein again this being cut with your Cornetshorn point make a little way and you shall see a blew film lye over the Vein chafe it a pieces till you come to see the Vein with the point of your Cornet-horn then draw the Vein aside with one hand and put your Cornet-horns end under the Sinew and raise the Sinew up above the skin with your Cornet-horn and cut it quite asunder let it go and put a little Butter and Salt into the Wound and afterwards heal it up with some of the afore-named healing Salves walk him an hour at a time twice a day for a Week together If you find that with the first Drink the Cold breaks at his Nostrils then give him the same Drink again at three or four daies distance between each Drink and order him as you are at the beginning of this Receipt directed If need require give him a third Drink It is an extream Cold that shuts the Cords this Drink will break the Cold and in a short time the Beast will do well and stir his Head again Proved CLV For a Stumbling Horse FIrst tye him up with a Halter close to a Post that stands in a Shop-window then take your Knife and cut a hole length-waies down to his Lips end-wards in the midst of his Nose between his Nostrils the length of your Thumb when you have cut through the Skin then do off the red film with your Cornet-horns end and you shall see a white flat Sinew lye before your Eye take the point of your Cornet-horn and put under it and raise it above the Skin then pull it hard out with your Cornet-horn and turn your Cornet-horn about then pull it the second time and turn your Horn again and so the third time in this doing you shall see him bring his Hinder-legs to his Fore-legs almost when you have thus pulled and turned the Sinew two or three times about the Cornet-horn then cut the Sinew under the Cornet to the Lips end but cut not the Sinew upon the Cornet nor about it when you have cut it let it go and put a little Butter and Salt into the Wound then over it lay a Plaister of Burgundy Pitch to keep out the wind and you shall see the Horse go very well and never stumble afterwards Proved DLVI. How to make Diapente TAke a quarter of a pound of Aristolochia a quarter of a pound of Myrrh half a pound of Bay-berries the outward Husk pilled off two ounces of white Ivory
ride him whether he halt or not so you ride him moderately then take an ounce of the Oyl of Swallows and rub it well in with your hand upon the Sinews of the bent of the Leg to retch and give liberty to them use of this Oyl every four or five daies and in four or five times dressing it will be a Cure After he come from work or riding at any time and his Legs be washt and dry then rub on this Oyl upon the bent of his Leg and upon the Sinews you need not heat it in now with a hot Iron but rub it well in with the palm of your hand and within a fortnights time the blood Spavin will not be seen and the swelling will be quite gone If you take a a BloodSpavin at the first coming out of a young Horse then do but fire it lightly and lay the former Charge to and in once dressing it will be a compleat Cure Proved CLXXIII For an old Cold. IF you see cause take blood from the Neck-vein otherwise not then instead of giving him Oats give him Wheat-bran boiled in water after this manner viz. Set a Kettle over the fire almost full of water and when it begins to boil put in your Bran and let it boil a full quarter of an hour then take it off and let it stand till it be almost cold and about four or five of the Clock in the Morning give it him as hot as he can eat it and for his Drink give him the same water and at Night give him Oats and White water to drink and let him be covered and littered up warm If it be in Summer let not the Stable be too hot for that will take a way his stomach and make him faint And when you give him his water at night alwaies give him as much of this powder as an Eggshel will hold amongst his Oats to which you must keep him eight daies together or longer if you shall see cause the boiled Bran is that which drieth up all his corrupt and gross humours which was the cause of his cold Now the Powder is this viz. Take of Cummin-seeds Fenygreek Sileris Montani otherwise called Sisilers Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each of these two ounces quick Brimstone six ounces make all these into fine powder and mix them all well together it must be given him in his Oats the quantity that was prescribed before but he must first be watered with White water and then presently let him be well rubbed all over and cloathed and littered vvarm and an hour bdfore you give him his Oats put into his Rack a little sweet Wheat-straw and let him eat thereof an hour or better and then and not before give him his Oats mixed with this powder which having eaten give him Hay at your pleasure and with doing thus his Cold will be gone in a short time and the sooner if you air him an hour before Sun-set and an hour after Sun-rising if the Sun shine mark that keep up his stomack with White-wine and Honey and the Cordials or with what else you think best of Proved Now if this cold bring with it a violent Cough as is often seen then use this Receipt following CLXXIV For a Cold with a violent Cough FIrst give him the Wheat-bran boiled together with the Powder with his Oats as is directed in the fore-going Receipt but not above three or four daies or till you see he hath purged sufficiently for that the said Powder dispersed the corrupt and gross humours that are in his body which do occasion the Cough and when you perceive that he hath purged sufficiently keep him notwithstanding to his White-water which is no other thing than water made hot in a Kettle and then put in some Wheat-bran or Barley-meal let him eat the Bran as hot as he will and drink the Water a little warm But alwaies an hour before you water him take a stick a little bigger than your thumb of well nigh a foot long and wrap a Linneu cloth about it four or five times first dipped in oyl of Bayes and put into his mouth and with some Leather-thong or piece of small Cord fasten it to either end of the stick and so fasten it over his Ears like the head-stall of a Bridle like as Smiths do when they burn a Horse for a Lampra's Let him drink with this stick thus in his Mouth and so stand with it an hour after at the least that he may lick and suck up the said oyl and after the three or four daies are expired and that you see he hath purged sufficiently which is a little before mentioned then when you give him the Oats give him amongst them this other Powder following viz. Fennel-seeds four ounces Fenygreek two ounces and Cardimum one ounce beat them but grossly or else he will blow them away when he eats his Oats put one spoonful into his Oats and keep him warm and use him as is prescribed in the foregoing Receipt and you will find it to do him much good Proved CLXXV A rare Receipt to cause an Horse to vomit TAke two of the greatest Roots of Polypodium as you can get from the Oak wash and scrape them very clean and tie it to his Snaffle or Bit then let it be steeped in oyl of Spike a whole Night and in the Morning fasting put on his Bridle with the Roots tied to his Bit and ride him softly and fairly an hour or better with it in his mouth and if he be troubled with any Rheumatick or Flegmatick humour or with any cold or filthy matter which may any way pester clog or annoy his stomach this very thing will force him to vent and vomit it up at his mouth or nose and it will cause him to cough and sneeze much that you shall see him to send forth a great abundance of filth and evil slimy matter from his stomach and head and in a short time he will become very clean in his body for this will both refine his blood and exhaust all the watrish humours in such sort as by temperate ordering of him and doing as heretofore is prescribed you may keep him a long time sound perfect and serviceable and this you may give to an Horse newly taken from Grass or to any other Horse that hath taken a Cold or to any other filthy foul foggy or pursy Horse whatsoever And this upon trial upon all occasions before mentioned you shall find to be most admirable this being done I conceive it to be very good to give them Whitewine and Hony and the Cordial formerly set down Proved CLXXVI For a Curb THis Curb alwaies groweth upon the back-part of the heel of the knee of the hinder Leg in a hard substance I shall give no more signs for it is easie to be seen The remedy is this first tie up the contrary Leg as you do for a blood-Spavin then with an hot Iron fear it length-waies down
his Leg upon the Curb till the skin look yellow then draw your hot Iron cross it as you did for a blood-Spavin in two or three places then presently take an Horsenail and drive it through a stick so that the point of the nail may come a little through the stick the breadth of a straw or a little more then set the point of the nail to the fired places and strike it in some ten or twenty times according as the burning goes in several places and as you see occasion then take a handful or two of Salt and rub it well in with your hand to stop the blood and half an hour after wipe the Salt off and apply the charge of Sope and Brandy hot on and heat it well in with a bar of Iron and as your Iron cools flake it over it to dry it in the better let the charge lie on till it comes off of it self you may ride him every day after three or four daies in the mean time let him stand in the Stable Proved CLXXVII For a Quitterbone Old or New THis Quitterbone alwaies grows just above the top of the Hoof on the Hinder Foot and sometimes on the Instep just above the Hoof and sometimes above the Hoof on the side of the Foot but be it in any place this is the Cure First take up the vein in the small of the Leg if the Quitterbone be on the inside of the Leg above the Hoof then take up the vein on the inside of the Leg If it be on the outside of the Leg then take up the vein on the outside this is the way to further the Cure and make all sure by taking up the vein which does feed it You may see how to take up a vein if you look into the Receipt for a Blood-Spavin For the taking up of a vein is all alike be it vvhere it will be after you have taken up the vein let it bleed well and put into the wound some Butter and Salt Then with a little Towe or Hards or a Linnen-cloth wound about your Instrument's end search the Quitterbone to the bottom and where you see the matter come out there put in your Instrument when you have searched the wound and made it clean put into it a piece of white Arsenick as big as a small Bean and put a little Tow after it and lay a little Tow upon the top of the quitterbone with a Linnen cloth next and a Woollen cloth over all tyed on fast that it may not come off then tie him up to the Rack with a strong Halter one day till the anguish of the Arsenick be over for fear he come at it with his mouth let the Arsenick lie in fourty hours then take out the Hards and you shall see the hole in the quitterbone look very black and swelled more than it was before It is the effects of Arsenick therefore you need not fear but as soon as you have pulled off the Clothes and Hards from the place you may put his foot into a pail of cold water for a quarter of an hour and let it soak or if the River be near that you can lead him into it if it be clear water so that no sand or dirt get into the wound and let him stand and soak his Leg there for a quarter of an hour for his Leg must be once a day soaked either in a pail of clean water or in the River for a week together take off his wet hard Clothes and tie on dry ones this is all you have to do till you see the Core of the Quitterbone come out which when you see make this Medicine to heal it up Take a pennyworth of good Honey put it into a Pipkin and when it begins to be hot put in a penny worth of Verdigrease and three or four spoonfuls of White-wine Vinegar boil them all together for half an hour then take it off the fire and when it is cold take a little fine Towe and dip into it and put it into the wound and lay a little dry Towe or Hards over that and a Linnen cloth over them and bind them on with a string and so dress it once a day till you see it begin to heal and then dress it but once in two daies and as you see it heal dress it the fewer times till it be whole There will be a little space bare where no hair will come put in Arsenick but once and although you tie him up to the Rack because his mouth should not come to the Arsenick yet give him meat for all that do but remember these two last Cautions and you need not question the Cure for it will be speedy Proved Now suppose you meet with a Quitterbone that hath been a long time in other Farrier's hands that have so corroded and poysoned it that it is much swelled about the Pastern and Leg In this case you must first take up the vein on that side the Leg that the Quitterbone grows on to keep the humour back that feeds it then put in as much Arsenick as a Bean as you were directed before and so doing as it is there exprest soaking his Leg as yon are therein taught and when the Core is out heal it with the same Salve that is there prescribed but if there grows proud flesh in it whilst you are a healing of it then scald it with Butter and Salt and that will keep the proud-flesh down An old hurt in the foot may come to be a quitterbone and break out above the Hoof but a quitterbone will never break out in the Sole of the foot Except you take up the vein a quitterbone is a very hard thing to cure after the Core is come out it will not be amiss before you go about to heal it to wash the sore well with Whitewine Vinegar and then to wash it with the wattr mentioned in Receipt XXXVIII and then apply the healing Salve mentioned in the foregoing Receipt CLXXVIII A Preparation before you give the Black Drink for the Glanders in the next following Receipt FIrst take blood from him if you do find it gross or phlegmatick for otherwise he cannot possibly mend then instead of Oats give him every Morning about 4 or 5 a clock Wheat-bran prepared for four or five daies together and the Water to drink that the Bran is sodden in as you may see in the Receipt for an old Cold which is to qualifie and dry up the moist and bad humors abounding in him and then let him blood in the Neck if you have not before The next day rake him with your hand and then give him this Glister Make a decoction of Mallows one pint and a half and put into it four ounces of fresh Butter and of Sallet oyl a quarter of a pint administer it Blood-warm and then with a strap of Leather tied to his tail and put between his legs and the other end fastened to the