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A02060	The compleat horseman and expert ferrier In two bookes. The first, shewing the best manner of breeding good horses, with their choyce, nature, riding and dyeting ... The second, directing the most exact and approved manner how to know and cure all maladies and diseases in horses ... dedicated to his most Excellent Majestie, by Thomas de Gray Esquire.	De Grey, Thomas.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1639 (1639)	STC 12205; ESTC S106703	378,871	394

and above all this the Colt will by his running abroad with the Mare become so salvage and wilde as that if any infirmity should happen to seize upon it it s own unrulinesse will be so great that the cure may thereby become the more difficile for to speake truely infinite have been and daily are the numbers of Colts yea and those many times rightly bred which have miscarried and perished in this nature I doe therefore conclude and as a friend to my Country averre that the ablest way to breed up the best and most serviceable Horses is as I have before inculcated after this methode and none other and therefore I am bold to advise all noble Gentlemen who are lovers of good Horses and of this mystery to make triall and to put these my rudiments in execution and he will never I doe well assure me hereafter either alter or swerve from them for of this kinde of breeding I have had more then forty yeares good experience during which time I intimated these my grounds to a Knight an intimate friend of mine who was a great lover of good Horses and as great a Breeder as a lover of them and very well versed in Horse-man-ship who hearing my reasons and throughly digesting them approved of them so well as that he fell to follow these my instructions and esteeming them sufficient would never be brought from them after he affirming no way comparable to this for he found by plaine demonstration that whereas in former times in breeding as commonly he did ten or twelve Colts yearly when they came to Backing Riding and proofe of those ten or twelve he thought himselfe well appayed and his labour and cost well bestowed if two or three at the most proved right and to his minde whereas ever after in ten Colts thus bred and reared up hardly any one missed which proved not right and to his good liking and this manner of breeding made him more in love with this mystery then ever before reason dictating it so well unto him For most certain it is when the Stallion and Mare are both right and have all their true attributes and the time season and manner of breeding with all circumstances thereunto belonging punctually and in every point duly observed it will be a hard matter for the Colt to prove ill but if otherwise then marvell not if the Colt answer not your expectation according to the Greeke Adage which saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iade Sire Iade Colt Wherefore if upon tryall it shall appeare to you that you have hitherto been to seek of the true grounds and of the originall causes why you have not bred so many good Horses as you have desired doe not then wonder that The cause of your errour and of so great a mischiefe hath stolne upon and deceived you for the great decay of good Horses together with those infinite errors in breeding and Horse-man-ship that increase that is being in so vile a manner of base Iades have so swarmed in this kingdome as that a lamentable case to be related of one rightly bred we now adayes have a thousand Iades to the great dishonour disprofit and weakning both of King and Country And what is the reason I shall in a word tell you It is impossible for a man to bring his work to its wished perfection who never knew the true grounds of his principles CHAP. IV. Of the Marks Colours and Shapes of Horses THe next thing befitting our subject is to speake albeit briefly of the Colours Marks and perfect Shapes of Horses Wherein I will first deliver other mens opinions and lastly mine owne Some there be who hold that Colours Marks and Shapes are little materiall to make up a perfect Horse which I will not contradict for my meaning is not to traduce or controule any man but this I will say that if a good horse have these properties adherent to his goodnesse then is he questionlesse in much better esteem for if beauty be added to his other inward vertues then is he like to the Nightingale in the beginning of Aprill heard and hearkened unto more praise-worthy and better prized For a horse who if he be good and serviceable well metled bold and hardy of a gentle condition of a round and comely trot and pace lightly and well borne obedient mouthed sure on foot tough strong and easie will I say not such a horse be well esteemed But if together with these good properties there shall be added good colour true marks and perfect shape which causeth him to appeare most beautifull to all beholders will not these endowments set him the better forth and cause him to be the better esteemed of every man desired and much more money offered for him nay shall not you whose the horse is be come unto be sued unto have letters sent you from sundry friends and will not your selfe prize him at a higher rate than otherwise you would have done yes assuredly and hereof I make no question True it is and I must confesse no lesse that a horse may be very good and performe his function very well who hath neither good colour true marks or perfect shape neverthelesse these extrinsecall vertues are more frequently to be found and better observed to be in good horses in whom are colour markes and shape than in horses which are otherwise Wherefore because these things are termed exteriour vertues and therefore takes its object from the eye onely I will conjoyne them altogether in this my discourse and shew you what hath been and is the opinion of both ancient and moderne Writers Virgil in his Georgickes handling most accurately sundry points of husbandry among other things in his third book of Georgicks describeth the horse as well his breeding and his severall sorts of imployments as his colour shape and markes yea and that in most exquisite manner And thus he beginneth Let the Males goe Without restraint to venery and so By timely breeds preserve a perfect kind Their first age best all wretched mortals finde After diseases and old age doe come Labour and death's inexorable doome There still will be whose bodies with thy will Thou would'st wish chang'd Therefore repaire them still And lest thy kinde quite lost thou finde too late Prevent the losse and yearely p●opagate And such a choice you must in Horses make By him whom you for Stallion meane to take As hope of all the race elect with care Even from a tender Fole such Colts as are Of generous race straight when at first they 'r fol'd Walke proudly their soft joynts scarce knit and bold Dare leade the way into the rivers enter And dare themselves on unknowne seas to venture Not frighted with vaine noyses lofty neck'd Short headed slender belly'd and bro●d back'd Broad and full brested let his colour be Browne-bay or gray white proves not commonly Nor flesh-colour when warres alarums sound His nostrils gather and breath fire no ground Can hold his

skin it in short time ✚ This is good for I have often tryed it Another for a sinew grieved Sinew grieved If the sinew be so farre grieved whereby to cause the horse to complaine and to hault Take then of Mallowes a good quantity and boyle them in faire water untill they shall become tender then draine the water from the hearbs and so stamp them to mash and apply them to the member grieved hot over night and the next morning he will be upright againe but then he must haue eight or ten daies rest at the least after But if it be a sinew spraine then clip away the hayre close or shave it then Take of the oyle of Sulphur and of the oyle of Turpentine of each one ounce take first the one halfe thereof being well mixed and chafe and rub it into the sinew well and so let him be tyed up to the Rack that he may not come unto it with his mouth for that it will greatly perplexe him for four or five hours after his dressing and the next day anoint him as you did the day before he wil be cured but the place will be raw and therefore heale him up with sweet Butter or Hogs grease and when the place healeth the skin will peele and yet the hayre will come again but he must either runne at grasse or else be kept in the Stable without any exercise at all by the space of a moneth at least If the sinew be cut Sinew cut then Take new Waxe and Gumme-Arabick of each two ounces of the marrow of an Oxe or Cow four ounces of the oyle of Roses three ounces melt and incorporate all these on the fire and so keep it for your use and when you are to use it warme it and so apply it either unguent wise or taint wise or plaister wise according as you shall see cause and it will cure any sorance of this nature ✚ This I have often tryed Another If your Horse have a sinew sprained Sinew sprain by an over-reach stroke or otherwise weakened the better to strengthen the same Take tryed Hogs grease Horse grease May or fresh Butter Sallet oyle of each sixe ounces take also of the oyntment called Agrippa two drams or new Waxe two ounces and a halfe and of Camphier a third part to all the rest melt them all together upon the fire and so work it to an unguent and good and warme anoint the swelled or grieved part therewith morning and evening and what remaineth of this medicine let it be reserved in a galley pot for other times for it will keep a whole yeare ✚ This is very good Another if it be a sinew spraine onely then Take Goats Kids or Deeres suet and Rosin of each one pound Fig dust halfe a pound Verdigrece in fine powder halfe a pound melt and mixe all these well and therewith anoint the sinew grieved every day and chafe it into the sinew by holding a hot bar of iron neer it This will both comfort and strengthen the sinew but I did never make tryall thereof §. 15. S. Hippoph BVt Hipposerus is it needfull that by applying your Vnguents you doe evermore worke them in with a hot bar of iron Hippos Truely Sir those that are for Straines Aches Mainges Farcins and such like maladies and sorances the further they doe sinke into the skinne and flesh the sooner and better will the cure be performed and therefore albeit I do not alwaies put you in minde of the hot bar of iron in every of my receits yet it is needfull to be used But to proceed with another receit for a sinew spraine Sinew sprain Take ordinary Sope and Aqua vitae of each as much as will suffice boyle them and in the boyling keep it by continuall stirring then take it off and so hot as he can well suffer it bathe and chafe in the oyntment and he will be sound again This was commended unto me for most soveraigne but I never made tryall thereof Another for a straine taken in travell Take so mu●h of the best gray Sope as will serve to anoint the sinew strained but before you do anoint him having caused his legge to be cleansed from dirt sand or gravell and made dry again anoint him therewith and then swathe the leg with a thumband of Hay and so let him stand all night and the next morning he will be sound again so that you may securely travell him againe without feare ✚ This I have often used and it is very good Another if it be a straine newly taken Straine newly taken Take then of the strongest white Wine Vineger you can get one pinte and May or fresh Butter halfe an ounce then put to it of Wheat bran as much as will suffice which by boyling will bring it to a Poultesse and apply it so hot as he can suffer it doe this morning and evening untill the swelling be asswaged ✚ This is very good Another but if it be an old taken straine then Take Mallowes and Chickweed of each like much boyle them either in the grounds of Ale or Beere or else in old Chamberlye and apply it to the place ✚ This is a speciall good cure Another for an old straine which is thought to be incurable insomuch as the sinew being swelled is become very hard and knotty St aine old Take Patch-grease alias Peere or Peece-grease as much as will suffice melt it upon the fire and anoint the straine therewith very hot and chafe and heat it very well then rope the place as before is shewed you but before you rope him up wrap a rowler of linnen upon the place and do thus daily and it will dissolve the hardnesse and make him sound again ✚ This is most excellent Another for a spraine of the same nature Take Nervall Bolearmoniack Bores grease black Sope of each like much melt them together but first pulverize your Bolearmoniack and anoint the sorance herewith chafing and heating in very well continue thus to do twice a day till it be well ✚ This is also very soveraign § 16. S. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Horse that hath a stinking Breath Stinking breath Hippos This commeth by means of corrupted and infected lungs the signs how to know it is by the smell onely the cure is Take Cinamon Cloves Galingall Comine and Coriander seeds of each three ounces Fenugrick eight ounces make all these into fine powder and searce and mixe them well with Wheat flowre two pound and put thereto so much white Wine as will bring it to a stiffe paste and make a cake thereof and bake it in an Oven till it be as dry and as hard as bisket and when it is cold beat it to fine powder and give him every morning an houre at least before his water of this powder four spoonfuls in white Wine or strong Ale of each one pinte This will take away all the corrupt and

to triumph and glory in his temerarious attempt We reade of Nicomedes King of Bithynia whose Horse so intirely loved him as that his Master was no sooner dead but the Horse presently forsooke his meat and so continued untill such time as he languishing for very griefe dyed of famine Virgil the Prince of Poets maketh honourable mention of Aethon the Horse of Pallas sonne of Evander who saith that this Aethon being present at the funerall of his master wept for sorrow as these two verses do inculcate After came Aethon bold in fight now weeping And in his teares his mournfull visage steeping Silius Italicus in his ninth Book doth highly extoll two horses to wit Pelorus and Ciraeus speaking of them in this manner Ready Pelorus was to th' hand and rayne Obedient still and of a generous straine Hearing his Masters voyce Ciraeus hies 'Fore the beholders and the winde of flies The tractablenesse and love that the Horse beareth to man have been the occasion that sundry great personages have reciprocally answered it by erecting of Statues and by building of most famous Cities to their honour and memory Alexander before mentioned founded an opulent City in honour of Bucephalus and gave it his name and celebrated his exequies The Egyptians erected most magnificent Piramides and sumptuous sepulchres to such horses as had served them well in their warres Octavius Caesar and after him Adrian the Emperour interred their Horses with great pomp and solemnities and caused famous Epitaphs to be engraven upon their monuments The Emperour Commodus did the like to his Horse Parsinus and commanded that he should be buried in the Vatican Romulus did institute Playes and Games called Equitiae in honour of Horses and caused them to be presented in the field of Mars The Ethiopians did so highly esteem of these noble creatures as that they armed their Helmets with the skins of Horses suffering their eares to remain on and they did weare their tayles upon their Crests like as now a daies men use their plumes Other nations have done the like who held Horses in no little esteem We reade of a Roman Emperour who made his Horse a Senator The ancient Astrologers have likewise attributed so much to Horses that they have placed one winged amongst the coelestiall signes The Poets hold that the Fountaine where the nine Muses used to bath themselves and to drink sprang up by the blow of the foot which Pegasus gave against the two topt hill Parnassus Neptune God of the Sea is surnamed Hippius by reason that as the Poets doe fable the first Horse that was ever seen received his origen from him or from a stone whereon Neptune had poured water There remaineth much more to be said in honour of the Horse then their hath been already delivered Wherefore omitting further Encomiums and attributes I hasten to matters of greater consequence Sithence therefore the case so standeth that this dumb creature is by Almighty God given unto man as a creature of so usefull importance what thankfulnesse then are we bound to give unto him for so great a blessing and benefit And therefore what diligence is required of us yea and what carefulnesse ought we to use in travelling to attaine to this so necessary a creature in the most exact manner we are able Nor can this possibly be acquired to our true content unlesse we doe apply our best endeavours herein for the Ancients have this Proverb All rare and excellent things are hard to compasse and therefore we ought to apply all care and industry to attain unto good Horses which can never be so well done as by breeding them for they must be the Horses that will be able best to serve us in those offices whereunto we shall intend them according as hereafter shall be most exactly illustrated CHAP. II. Of the best manner of breeding THere are so many diversities of opinions so mainly defended pro con that maketh men fearefull to bring that to publique view which long practice and experience hath brought them to know and understand to be most true and infallible Neverthelesse I presuming that the more judicious may peradventure favour my reasons and grounds allowing them at least for probable and good if they shall adventure to make triall which if they be pleased so to do I am confident they will both allow and approve of this my manner of breeding above all other wayes heretofore practised who finding it to be much better will never be brought from the same method and therefore I would not have any man to condemne me before he shall first have made triall My counsell therefore is that such generous spirits unto whom Almighty God hath extended his benigne hand would take to their consideration how needfull a thing it is for them to lay hold upon this so noble and profitable a blessing and benefit by applying their best care and diligence to breed good able and serviceable Horses which may be as easily performed and in a manner with as little cost as in breeding Iades and Baffles unusefull and unprofitable For by procuring a good and able Stud of choice Mares and by endeavouring to get select Stallions which for mettle spirit shape colour marks and the like shall be known to be rightly bred and truely generous as well I say the Mares as the Stallions and these young handsome of size indifferent that is neither too small nor too large long-legged or under-bodied but well knit limb'd and joynted it will be beyond all peradventure but that you shall have Horses fit wherewith to serve your Country upon all occasions and your own turn and your friends and acquire to your selfe no small honour and commendations both from your Prince and the weale publique And this the better to bee performed you must understand that some things are necessary to be considered First that your grounds be fit for breeding and those not to be such as be low wet fenny moorish or marish but they must be pastures upland hilly and in some places stony and rocky for grounds of this nature are very profitable for your Colts to scope run and play in it helpeth their winde it knitteth their joynts and hardeneth and maketh tough their hooves some of your grounds ought also not to be without Underwoods Bushes Fursells Broome and the like these will serve for shelter at what time the cold windes doe blow the residue of your grounds ought to have Lawnes and Plains wherein should be better grasse then the former and in these Lawnes is needfull there should be great Oakes and such like timber-trees for them whereby to shelter them from the scorching sunne in the extreame heats especially during the time of the Canicular dayes and these trees will also defend them from the buzzing and stinging Fly which otherwise would greatly annoy and afflict them you must also accommodate your grounds with partitions convenient as well for change which sometimes is most requisite as also whereby

each the quantity of three Wallnuts halfe as much Hony browne Sugar-candy in fine powder halfe an ounce mixe these with a quantity of powdred Brimstone so much as will suffice and sew them into a fine linnen cloth and ty it to his Bit or Snaffle and so ride or journey him moderately till all be dissolved into his body then bring him into the stable and cloth and litter him warme and three houres after give Hay and after a warme Mash use him thus three mornings together and longer if you shall see cause ✚ Another Take bloud from him if you have ground for the same otherwise not Bran prepared then insteed of giving him Oates you shall give him bran boyled in water after this manner viz. Set a Kettle over the fire almost full of water when it beginneth to boyle put in your bran and let it boyle a full quarter of an houre at least then take it off and let it stand till it bee almost cold and about foure or five a clocke in the morning give him this Bran so hot as he can eate it then for his drinke give him the same water and at night give him Oates and white water and let him be covered and littered warme if it be in Summer let not the Stable be too hot for that will take away his stomacke and make him faint and sweat too much and at night give him the quantity of what you can put into an Egge-shell among his Oates of this powder following to which you must keep him for eight dayes together or longer if you shall see cause You must understand that the boyled Branne is that which dryeth up all his grosse and corrupt humours which was the cause of his cold Now the powder is this viz. Take of Comen-seed Fenugrick Silleris-Montani alias Sisileos Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each two ounces Quick Brimstone sixe ounces make all these into fine powder and let them be well mixed this must be given with his Oates as is before inculcated but he must first be watered and then presently let him be well rubbed body necke pole legges breast and belly and cloathed and littered warme and an houre before you give him his Oates put into his Rack a little sweet wheat straw and so I say let him eate thereof the space of one houre or better and then give him his Oates mixed with this powder which having eaten give him Hay at your pleasure and thus doing in short time you shall perceive his Cold to be quite gone and the sooner if he shall be moderately ayered an houre after Sun-rising and an houre before Sun-set if the Sunne doe shine Now if this Cold bring with it a violent cough as is often seen then give him the aforesaid Wheat Branne boyled together with the said powder with his Oates but then not above three or foure dayes for that the said powder disperseth the corrupt and grosse humours that are in the body which doe occasion the said cough and when you doe perceive that he hath purged sufficiently keep him notwithstanding to his white water but an houre before you doe water him Take a sticke of the bignesse of your thumb or better of well nigh a foot long and wrap a linnen clout about it four or five times first dipped in oyle de Bay and put it into his mouth and with some piece of leather thong or other small cord fasten it to either end of the sticke and so fasten it over his eares like the Headstall of a Bridle like as Smiths use to do when they burn a Horse for the Lampas and let him drinke with this sticke in his mouth which done let him stand with it thus in his mouth an houre after at the least to the end he may licke and sucke up the said oyle and when he is to eate his Oates put among them this other powder following viz. Take Fennell seed four ounces Fenugrick two ounces Cardimums one ounce pound these grosly otherwise he will blow them away in eating his Oates and with his Oates put every night of this powder one spoonefull and keep him warme and so use him as before is prescribed ✚ Another Take Ivy-berries and dry them and make them into powder and so give it to your Horse in Ale or Beere This I never tryed and this is onely for a cough Another for a cough Take of salt one pinte of Sallet oyle halfe a pinte oyle of Anniseeds one ounce browne sugar Candy in powder three ounces give this with your horne to your Horse three mornings together and it will rid him of his cough and heale any putrifaction in his lungs or any other inward parts whatsoever This also I never tryed but it was highly commended to me Another Receit for a cough which I have found to be very good Take two new laid Egges and open the crownes and get forth some of the white and then put into these Egges so much of the powder of Brimstone as you can take up upon a shilling into either Egge give him this every morning for some time or till you see the cough to goe from him Another Take three new laid egs and put them into a pinte pot then put so much of the best and strongest white wine vineger into the pot as will very well cover the Egges and let them lye in the Vineger 24 houres at least then beat the Vineger and Egges together shels and all and so give it your Horse cold and then ride or walke him an houre and against his comming in have this drinke in a readinesse and give it him viz. Take Isope Anniseeds Licoris Graines Long Pepper Gentiana Elecampane dried of each three drams make all the spices into fine powder and stamp the Isope well and so put all into good Sack one pinte and of good Ale also one pinte and of Honey one spoonfull and so boyle it and give it your Horse bloud-warme and set him up and cloth him and litter him warme causing him to fast three houres after it and give him no cold water but sweet Mashes or white water and this will cure him for it is an approved good receit ✚ Another very good Take Wheate meale Anniseeds Licoris Polipodium of the Oake dryed Elecampane dryed make all these into powder and mixe them well Take two spoonfuls of this powder with a head of Garlicke pilled and bruized mixe all these well together and with your Wheate meale and honey as much as will suffice make pils thereof to the bignesse of a great Walnut and give your Horse every morning three or foure of these Pils and so soone as he hath taken them give him two new laid Egges with their shels X Another Take of life hony three spoonfuls of the best and whitest refined loafe sugar one spoonfull and an halfe made into fine powder dryed Elecampane root made also into fine powder one spoonfull and of Amber-greece two graines mixe all these

Another Take Lentels or Gray-Pease and champe or chew them in your mouth and then whilst they be in your mouth blow and breath into your Horses eye but not any of the Pease by any meanes doe this every day often and a little after wash the sore eye with cold Fountaine water till it be whole ✚ But yet I will teach you another receit which will take off a Pin and Web Filme Thicknesse or any other foulenesse which may be in the eye whatsoever whereof I have had great experience and have done many rare cures in this kinde viz. Take the shels of seven or eight egges cleanse them from all manner of inward slime and dry them well within then lay those shels betweene two new Tyles or old so they be made very cleane and free from Morter and then lay them in the glowing embers and cover them all over and on every side with burning hot embers and so let them ly a good space untill the moyst substance be quite taken from them then take them up and beat the shels to very fine powder and searse the powder then with a goose quill blow of this powder into your Horses eye doe this twice every day and it is a certaine cure ✚ But if you doe finde the eye to be fed with any Rhumaticke humour or that it be inflamed or that it hath go●ten a bruise stripe or the like then Take of the purest and whitest refined loafe sugar one spoonfull and a halfe let it be made into fine powder and searsed or else of the best white sugar-Candy which is much better the like quantity let it be finely powdred and searsed and mixe with it so much May or sweet butter wherein never came salt as a Walnut and adde also to it so much of the former powder of Egge shels as of sugar-Candy make these into one body and bring it to a salve and put thereof into the Horses eye morning evening and noone and this will make the eye to be cleare sound and whole againe ✚ This unguent doth purge cleanse coole and comfort the eye of the Horse and helpeth greatly his sight make use of this for it is very good But if the eyes be inflamed which you may easily know by the red strakes which will be in them then Take Thuris Masculi the marrow of a Lamb Saffaron Cuttle-bone of each one ounce of the oyle of Roses one ounce and the whites of ten new laid egges beat and incorporate all these very well together and then with a feather put some of this medicine into his eyes once every day ✚ This receit is very good for I have had great triall thereof Another Take of white Starch made of wheate Frankincense life-honey of each as much as will suffice make all these into one body and with a feather apply it to the grieved eye ✚ Another If the inflamation be great let him bloud in both the temple veynes and in the weeping veynes and then wash his eyes with womans milke and life honey mingled together ✚ Another for a wart or spungy excretion growing neere to to the eye of the Horse which commonly doth proceed from a condensed flegme that descendeth to the eye which in time will cause the eye either to consume or to grow little if it be not prevented which must be done thus Take Roch Allum and burne it Eye a W and then adde unto it so much white Coperas unburnt grinde them together to very fine powder then lay a little of this powder just upon the top of the wart but take heed none get into the eye for it is a strong corrasive and will corrode let the Wart be thus dressed once every day and in short time it will consume and eate it quite away never to come more ✚ But as touching Lunaticke eyes Lunatic● eyes this word Lunaticke is derived from the Latine word Luna which signifieth the Moone and the reason why this disease takes its denomination from thence is for that at certain times of the Moone he will see well and at other times a little but then at other times no whit at all and therefore this disease is called lunaticke and this kinde of blindenesse we do hold to be the very worst of all other but when he doth see you may know it by the colour of his eyes for then they will be dimme and yellowish but when he seeth nothing then will they looke fiery and red This disease commeth sometimes naturally taking it hereditary either from the Stallion his Sire or from the Mare his Damme by whom he was begotten and foled it commeth also sometimes by meanes of evill humours which descending from the head make their residence in and about the eyes and these naughty humours are occasioned by the meanes of intemperate riding drawing or other laborious exercise in which the poore creature hath bin put to doe more then nature was well able to performe wherefore by one of these wayes this malady commeth the cure is thus Take Pitch Rosin and Masticke of each like much melt them together and having before hand provided in a readinesse two round plaisters of leather the breadth of a 20 shilling piece of gold lay and spread the medicine hot upon these two plaisters and so hot as the Horse can suffer them apply them to his temples causing them to stick fast to the skinne and let them there remaine untill they shall fall off of themselves then rowell him on the face just under his eyes with a very small French Rowell the bredth of a three pence at the most and let it be turned every day once the space of 12 or 15 dayes then take forth the Rowell and heale up the orifice with the greene oyntment prescribed you in lil 2. cap. 10. § 4. G. and this will undoubtedly very much help his sight ✚ Another Shave away the hayre the breadth of a shilling on either side of the head upon the temple veines and after apply to the place this charge Take Taca-Mahaca and lay it upon those places which were shaven and clap upon them flocks of the same colour then make incision and put in two French Rowels as is shewed in the cure going before to bring downe the peccant humours and let the eyes be washed twice every day with the medicine before taught you made of ground Ivy Honey Selendine and womans milke X This is very good for this disease and this I can boldly commend unto you to be a very good medicine for I have often used Now as touching sore eyes which must be cured by medicine you must understand that the eye is the most delicate part of any one member in all the whole body it is the Torch or Candle which doth give light to the whole body it is the guide which doth usher the body and to carry it from danger so as it shall not at any time either stumble upon rockes or blockes or