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A39068	The Experienced jocky, compleat horseman, or gentlemans delight containing plain and easie directions in breeding, feeding, keeping and managing horses for all occasions, as war, raccing, hunting, travel, &c. ... to which are added plain and easie directions for the breeding, feeding, managing and curing distempers in bulls, cows, calves, oxen, sheep and swine, useful and necessary for all persons who expect pleasure or profit by any of the forementioned animals, the like before not extant.		1684 (1684)	Wing E3878; ESTC R1977	136,221	359

as Waterings hot Rheumes Haws Pin and Web Pearls blood-shotten and the like The opening the Palate-veins cures or pervents the Lampass or inward sickness as Stavars Anticor Yellows Drowsiness Surfeits Tirings and many times cureth the Strangles Quinsie Swelling of the kernels Pustles Inflammation or Glaunders especially if you cause him to drink the blood mixed with a little Bay-salt The next veins opened help the Yellows Farcins Stavars Mangies Agues Feavours Surfeits Scabs Glaunders and the like and often prevent sickness in your Horse or Mare The opening the palate or breast veins prevent or help the Anticor Moore-foundering occasioned by molten grease contracted in the body by hard riding it likewise preventeth diseases in the Liver Lungs and other internal parts is convenient to be done upon any hurt or sprain in the Shoulder to prevent Lameness The opening the two thigh veins helpeth foundering in the forefeet Splint Screw-ringbone Mallender or the like infirmity To bleed the four Shackle veins before is good against the Crown-scab Quitter-bone and the like distemper incident to the feet of a Horse or Mare To bleed the Spur-veins is excellent good for the Moore-founder Farcine in the side swelling under the belly or the like The Toe-veins being opened do help Frettizing foundering Hoof-bound or any grief occasioned by the Horses beating his Hoofs upon hard stony way Bleeding the two thigh-veins behind easeth the grief of the kidnies swelling in the hinder legs Foundering Scratches pissing of Blood occasioned by overstraining or the weakness of the Reins Back or Belly and infirmity in the Guts as likewise the Curb Spavin and such other distempers or griefs as proceed from rankness or impurity of Blood To open the Shackle veins behind is exceeding good to prevent foundering or any pain the Horse is subject to have in his feet To open the Flank-veins is exceeding good in case of a Feavour Swelling in the Stones Poverty or the Felt-worm And lastly to bleed the Tail-vein often prevents the Mange Scabs Itch and falling off of the Hair So that the number of veins that are usually opened upon divers occasions are Thirty the opening of which greatly contribute to the health of the Horse or Mare not only by preventing distempers as has been before said but frequently without any other application by taking away the effects cause the grief to cease or at least prepare the body of the Horse the better to receive such effectual medicines as will work his cure and dispose outward wounds bruises and the like to such a temper that they heal without much difficulty What seasons are best to let blood in IF the Horse be in great danger you need not expect the critical times but let him blood presently but if otherwise observe these following days viz. the third and fifteenth of January The fourth and ninth of February The seventeenth and eighteenth of March. The tenth and sixteenth of April The first and thirteenth of May The fifteenth and twentieth of June In July and August forbear letting blood unless upon some urgent occasion In September bleed him on the eleventh and twenty-eighth day In October on the eight and twenty third In November on the fifth and sixteenth In December on the fourteenth and twenty sixth these days being by all the experienced Farriers holden the best for sundry regards but especially in respect to the signs which are these and thus govern viz. Aries the head Taurus the neck Gemini the shoulders Cancer the stomach Leo the heart Virgo the guts and belly Libra the reins and buttocks Scorpio the privities Sagittarius the thighs Capricorn the knees Aquarius the legs and Pisces the feet from which note that it is not at all safe to let blood in that part where the sign is predominant Of the bones of a Horse and how placed IN the body of a Horse the Bones are these viz. 40 teeth his head Bones comprehending the crooks and handles of his Scull although they are compiled of part and parcel of other Bones likewise two flat handles which from the Palate and Fork or Throat have five his breast-bone and fifty two bones in his Chine his Ribs short and long are thirty six his fore legs and fore feet are composed of 44 Bones and the hinderlegs and feet of 40 so that the whole structure of his body as to Bones is computed to consist of 157. or as some say one hundred fifty nine Of the four Humours Sympathising with the four Humours incident to all Creatures IT is not the least part of the Farriers Office to consider and well understand the nature and qualities of the four Elementary Humours that go to the composition of all creatures And first as the four Elements viz. Fire Air Water and Earth give life and Nutriment to all living creatures So the four Humours viz. Choler Blood Phlegm and Melancholy are the principal Agitators in the bodies of all Creatures and as it were compose them or at least preserve them for without either no creature can subsist Choler by reason of its heat being alluded to Fire Blood by reason of its heat and moisture to Air Phlegm by reason of its coldness and moisture to Water and Melancholy by reason of its cold and dryness to Earth as for Choler its seat is in and near the Liver which by reason of its heat and dryness accords with the blood which has its fountain in the Liver and from thence disperses it self throughout the whole body nourishing and preserving it in all parts Phlegm has its chief seat in and about the Brain that seat of life altogether affecting Cold. Melancholy occupieth the Spleen being the gross and excremental part of blood and choler descending from the Liver As for the Offices or dispositions of these humours they are four viz. Choler causeth concoction and voiding of Excrements Blood nourishes the body Phlegm gives motion to the joynts And Melancholy disposeth to appetite creating a good stomach How to know by the Colour of a Horse to which of the four aforesaid Humors he is most inclinable and how thereupon to order him for the prevention or curing such distempers as he is most subject to TO know the better to prepare your Medicines necessary to be given upon sundry occasions it is first necessary that you know which of the four aforesaid humours is most predominant in your Horse which cannot better be discerned than by his Colour or complexion note then if he be cole-black without any white a bright Sorrel or an Iron-gray unchangeable that will neither turn to a Flea-bitten White or Daple gray then is he most subject to Choler by reason of the great heat in him often incident to inflammation of the Liver Yellows and Pestilential Feavours and in that case you must to prevent these distempers give him medicines to purge Choler but let them not be of a quality too much operating lest they impair his strength to that degree that he never after recover it

reception Exercise to be observed upon the Reception of Physick IF you are desirous the Physick should work then as soon as your Horse has received it course him about moderately not exceeding a Pace or Trot or if he be weakened by any distemper then walk him gently under some warm hedge for the space of a Mile then bringing him into the Stable rub him down with dry cloaths and cloathing him warm let him stand the time aforesaid before you give him any meat all the while you or your Groom observing his postures and how the Physick operates by which you may discern what his distemper is and whether it afflicts him more or less What is to be observed in raking your Horse who cannot dung without pain WHen your Horse is troubled with any obstruction in the Fundament you with your hand must often draw away the dung which he through its hardness or his weakness cannot otherwise avoid without great pain the which when you do you must anoint your hand with Oyle of Olives or Neats-foot Oyle which will greatly allay the heat and for the future render him more capable of casting his dung or if to make him laxative in such a case you give him a Glister anoint the quill or pipe with Olive Oyle or Hogs Lard What further is to be observed in Phlebotomy or blood-letting IT is to be observed that you ought to take a due proportion of blood from the Horse according to his age strength or the quality of the distemper If he be a strong Horse full grown take from him four times the quantity from him as you take from a Colt of a year old but if he be an old Horse and weak of constitution twice the quantity If he have a Pleurisie or any violent distemper occasioned by rankness of blood then you may let him blood if you see the distemper threaten his life three days together but not suffer him to bleed excessively at one time The causes for which Horses ought to bleed are either to preserve health by diminishing the superfluity of blood that burns or heats the veins to divert sickness or chear the vital spirits by giving the blood a free and uncontrouled passage after which you must moderately chafe or walk him to make the blood fill those veins or branches that were emptied and to make him bleed the freer suffer him to drink warm water before you open the Vein If he bleed not freely it is a sign that he is pursie fat or the blood stagnated then to oblige him thereto put your finger in his mouth tickle him and cause him to move his Jaws thereby to press the vein to a more facil evacuation and having bled sufficiently take part of the blood mingled with salt and pour it down his throat with a Drenching-horn and with the other part bathe his body whilst it is warm which is excellent in a consumption moist cough or weakness of the Limbs How to know when it is necessary to bleed your Horse IF your Horse be rank of blood his eyes will be red his veins strut prick and itch especially in his Tail and Main so that he will be often rubbing himself his Hair shedding at unseasonable times the roots of his Ears pill and the place where his headstal is fastened become bare his Urine will be of a high and reddish colour his Dung black and hard or little bumps red and fiery appearing on his back faulter at his meat if the whites of his eyes be yellow or the inside of either lip of the same colour then is it apparent that he is over charged with blood or that his blood is watery and full of evil humours Observations on outward sorrances a description of them and how they are to be ordered THese grievances called Sorrances have in their particulars divers names according to their being placed in the body but in general are taken two manner of ways viz. either an evil state and composition of the body which is to be discerned by the number quality or sight of the members evilly affected diseased or otherwise it is a loosening or division of any unity the which is thus in general divided and chancing diversly have divers particular names according as is aforesaid to the parts of the body in which they happen for if such a loosning or division happen in the bone then it is properly termed a Fracture if in the fleshy part a wound or Ulcer in the Veins if it happen then 't is called a Rupture If in the sinews the Cramp or Convulsion if in the skin excoriation Now the things chiefly to be observed in curing Sorrances are these First Observe that in burning or cauterizing with a hot Iron or with Oyle or making an incision with a knife that it be neither upon a vein or sinew but somewhat higher or lower or on one side Secondly Observe that you never apply to any joynt or sinewey part violent corrosives as Resalgar Arsnick sublimate Mercury Oyl of Vitriol or the like Thirdly That in cauterizing you rather lance with a hot Iron than with a cold and that 't is better to cauterize than to cut Fourthly observe if the Horse be Sanguin his blood produceth a white thick matter but if Colerick a waterish salt and thin matter though in quantity small If Phlegmatick great store of watery gelly as it were but if Melanchly dry Scabs only Fifthly observe as I have before hinted never to bleed your Horse but upon the days prescribed and not then for fansie sake but in case of some distemper that requires it or to prevent a sickness imminent by reason of bad or boiling blood which afflicts the Veins Sixthly Observe in all Imposthumes or swelling Sores called Tumors diligently to note the place where the grief began its increase state and dangerous consequence as likewise its declination and ending Seventhly Take notice that if in the beginning of every swelling Imposthume you cannot eradicate it use Repercussive medicines if it be not too near the vitals or some other principal part of the body if it be you must forbear the use of such Medicines or applications lest thereby you indanger the Horses life but rather use softening and suppling medicines till such time as the Imposthume Tumor or swelling be ripe and then with a Lancet let out the corruption and by degrees dry it up with cleansing and healing medicines Eighthly All soft or hard swellings ought to have different applications according to the part of the body where they happen or the cause from which they proceed as for hard swellings they are for the most part corrosive and the soft unless well regarded of long continuance Now to know whether a swelling has been of long standing especially in the legs press it with your finger and suddainly taking it away if you perceive the flesh immediately to fill the dint then the swelling is newly taken but if it stand hollow then is the swelling

for all cholerick Horses though they be fierce and fiery are but of small strength If your Horse be coloured either Bright-bay or Dark-bay neither scouling countenance maughy mouthed or white flanked or a white Fleabitten white Lyard like silver or black with a white Star white Rash or white foot then is he Sanguin and the diseases to which he is most subject are the Glaunders Consumption of the Liver Leprosie or such other distempers as are caused by infection As for the Horses of a Snguin complection they are for the most part of a strong constitution and will indure strong medicines without impairing their strength if the medicines be not compounded of extraordinary hot ingredients to over-heat the blood If your Horses colour be Milk-white Py-bald Yellow Dun Kite-colour or any the like colours in mixture then is he Phlegmatick being slow by nature and apt to lose his flesh subject to cold Rheums Head-ach Cough Staggers and indeed all distempers proceeding from cold or watery distillations and therefore must have hot medicines that is simples of a hot and strong working nature that may operate upon the Mass of Phlegm which generates the distempers If your Horse be of a Dark-bay colour having long white hairs like Goats hairs on his legs Russet Chesnut Ash-coloured Gray or Mouse-dun then does Melancholy abound in him and the distempers he is most subject to are the inflammation of the Spleen Dropsie Frenzy and such like dull and Melancholy distempers and therefore require cold and moist medicines those of a dry or hot quality being altogether hurtful and unprofitable Their strength is greater than it appears to be and for the most part they are fit for servile labours and thus much of the four Elementary humours now there are divers Horses mixed with all the aforesaid colours or some three or four of them in such a case note that those Horses have those humours most predominant of which their colour is mostly according to what has been said and so consequently ought the medicines to be prepared with regard to the nature of the sickness for if it has continued long and the Horse be infeebled thereby then you must not give him over strong potions but if he be young and lusty not having languished under the force of the distemper then any well composed sutable medicine will not be amiss but as to medicines in particular I shall speak at large hereafter Things to be observed to keep a Horse in health and make him long continue so IF you would have your Horse continue in health and live long twelve things are to be observed 1. Let him moderately feed 2. See that he have good nourishment and be of a quick and clean digesture 3. Let him labour moderately 4. If he be not too much subject to sleep 5. If he be not permitted often to leap Mares 6. That in all journeys moderation be used not Travailing too far without resting or baiting 7. That he be kept in wholsome Air. 8. Not to exercise him too soon after Grass 9. That he be kept from raw green meats 10. Not to suffer him to eat or drink after exercise or a journey before he is throughly col'd 12. With his Provender give him wholsome simples for the most part dry the nature of which being such as is good against such distempers as your Horse by his complexion may be or is inclinable to as Anniseeds Fennel-seed Fennegreek Bay-berries Brimstone Alum Hempseed Elecampain or the Roots of Polipodium of the Oke Savin Rue Hyssop Colts foot Hore-hound Marsh-mallows and the like if you have them not dry you may by chopping them small give him them green but if dry for so they are best crush them to powder and sprinkle them amongst his Oats or Beans or amongst Hay cut short and they so taken will prevent obstructions by purifying the blood thereby rendering the whole body in sound and perfect health Of Sickness Dangerous to Horses and its Original THe main cause of most Internal distempers in Horses proceeds either from over violent heats in exercise as when the Horse hath his grease molten or the heart over charged with vitiated blood so that the Pores or passages are so stopped that the Vital spirits dispersed throughout the body cannot return turn to their center nor the heart be exhilerated for want of an intercourse with the Liver These obstructions I say excluding the Vital Spirits the Organs of the body cannot rejoyce which occasions mortal sickness Another cause there is which proceedeth from cold occasioned through the negligence of the keeper in not regarding him before and after a journey or exercise as he ought which once taken troubles his head with pains and dullness making him look heavy and dull eyed the root of the Tongue being often inflamed and swelled The Lungs tickled and offended with Rheums causing strong and tedious Coughs which greatly indispose and offend him whiles noisome filth proceeds from his nostrils c. A third cause there is cometh by unseasonable eating or over eating which frequently begets a surfeit especially if he eat unwholsome food If he eat to excess it many times proves mortal by reason it creates unwholesome vapours noisome fumes and the like which ascending from the stomach to the brain poyson and infect it or if the Horse escape with life yet seldom misses to have Stavers or Frenzy if the food he has eaten be unwholsome raw or out of season then it breeds diseases by producing corrupt vitiated blood or infectious watery humours from which proceed the Yellows Farcines Feavers Manginess and the like which infecting the heart stopping the free passage of the stomach and dispersing throughout the body leaves no member free from affliction A fourth cause there is which we may call accidental which is when a Horse taketh in poyson with his food or receiveth a wound or extraordinary bruise which inflames the blood and makes each part become hot and feaverish the which by degrees turns to many evil distempers that end but with the life of the Horse therefore on this occasion there is nothing more necessary than to apply pertinent medicines in time ere the malady has taken root How to discern by divers symptoms any mortal sickness in a Horse HAving laid down the original causes of most mortal sicknesses I shall now proceed to let you understand how they may be known by the sundry symptoms that forerun or attend them according to the opinion of the most expert practitioners in this Art If the sickness be occasioned through immoderate heats or journeying then it is signified by the heavyness of his countenance swelling of his legs and other limbs but his hinder legs especially by the loosness and scouring of his body at the beginning of the sickness short and hot breath and a loathing or forsaking his meat If the sickness proceeds from cold then it is known by a down-cast Countenance Drowsiness and desire of sleep Pustils or hard

knots under the Caul and many times by the inflammations of the Kernels and swellings as high as the roots of the Ears attended by a moist and inward sounding cough and the like If the sickness be occasioned by a surfeit taken after the manner aforesaid then the signs or symptoms are violent pains in the head so that he will not by reason of the dullness it occasions be able to hold it up to the Rack His Eyes will likewise appear dull and sunk in his Head his Ears pricked up and the tops of them cold as also his upperlip and sheath Reeling and Staggering as he goes the which if it be delayed will turn to Madness and that Madness be known by his eager biting the Manger or Rackstaves and often beating his head against the Wall you may likewise know whether the distemper has tainted the Brain by the yellowness of his Eyes Lips and Tongue The symptoms to know accidental sickness occasioned by wounds and the like are unusual Sweats tremblings a sweat or Froth at roots of his Ears upon the Flanks behind the Shoulders and against the Heart at othertimes glowing and burning in the Temples against the Heart and inside of the fore-legs and of the hinderlegs dry and hot in the Mouth inflammation in the Tongue a loathing of meat and desire of cold water in which after he hath drunk his fill he will be desirous to hold his mouth Now to prevent any of these sickness if you find him a little distempered or any thing inclining to be out of order let him blood and for three mornings successively give him a Diapente-drink and keeping him warm let him fast for three hours after then give him a Mash of Beans Bran and Oats and a little knop of Hay but if it so happen that you are unprovided with Diapente which no Farrier ought to be then take a handful of Celendine wash it well roots and leaves adding to it Wormwoord and Rue half a handful of both boil them in a pottle of ALE or Beer till they come to the quantity of a quart to which well strained put half a pound of sweet-butter and two ounces of Treacle which ingredients well mixed give him blood warm If you would fortifie your Horse against any distemper then observe all the twelve rules before laid down relating to health and long life or continuance and moreover if you intend to put him to Grass after he hath long stood in the House then having let him blood every day abate of his cloaths till you have brought him to none thereby to render him hardy and able to indure cold but be sure you put him not into wet Pasture where damp and noisome Air arise from Ditches Rivers Fens or Quagmires and before you turn him out of the Stable for three mornings successively give him drink made as followeth The Drink to be given before Grass OF Aristolochia Bayberries Myrrh Gentian and shavings of Ivy take of each one once bruise them severally so that they may be sierced through a fine sieve and then weighed to a just and equal quantity the which you must give him in Muscadel Mallago or for want of them warm A L E or Beer viz. In a pint and a half of the two former put three spoonfuls of the powder or the like quantity into a quart of the latter How to order your Horse upon taking him up from Grass to prevent sickness OBserve when you take up your Horse that he be throughly dry not damp either by rain cold dews or sweat and let him not stay abroad longer than St. Bartholomews day unless the weather is exceeding clear and warm and if so you may suffer him to run the first of September but not longer for after that cold dews fall raw damps arise and the heart of the Grass faileth if you through neglect take him up wet it will subject him to manginess and if you suffer him to continue abroad longer than the times specified the grass instead of nutriment will breed could Phlegmatick humours and putrefied blood and for a week or more after he is taken up give him no immoderate heats nor Travail lest thereby you melt the grease within him his fat gotten at grass being so tender that the least extraordinary motion dissolveth it whereby if the blood happen to be inflamed it will indanger his falling into a mortal sickness which happening often ends in Death when you have him in the stable let him blood upon the next blooding day according to the blooding days prescribed then being well shod give him the drink the same with what you gave him at your putting him out and let him be kept in a clean warm Stable and well looked to both as to his dressing and diet Directions to cleanse your Horse after taking up for comeliness and healths sake THe day being fair and warm three or four days after your Horse is taken up lead him abroad and gently rubbing him down to take of the loose hairs anoint him with sope and then with warm water wash him all over rubbing him with a Spunge or Linnen-cloth but beware no sope gets into his Mouth Eyes Ears or Nostrils After you have indifferently well cleansed him rub him hard with a dry Woollen-cloath then soaping him over again rub him as aforesaid which done take Buck-Lee and a hard wisp and wash him clean from froth or foam and afterward with a Woollen-cloth exceeding dry leaving no wet hair about him lead him into the Stable cloathing him by degrees till you have wrapped him up in all his cloaths This way is many times used as well to conceal stollen Horses as for the Horses health for by so rubbing the Horse is so altered in colour slickness and shape that the owner without extraordinary prying cannot directly challenge him How to prepare your Horse for any Medicine in case you find the distemper has effectually seised him OBserve that two days before you intend to administer the potion whether Pill Powder or Drench composed of simples that you permit him to eat neither Hay nor Straw or indeed any hard meat not admitting of easie digesture thereby to hinder the operation of the Physick and for twelve hours before keep him from all manner of meats for emptiness gives a free operation to the purgation when fullness by obstructing it may turn the force thereof upon the vitals and thereby do much harm to the Horse The safest meat to prepare him is either Rye or Wheat-Bran mixed with splent-beans or Bread made of Bean and Wheat-flower mixed with clean Oats and his drink warm water with a little fine flower or bran shaked into it What purgations may be given with the least danger THe gentlest and most effectual purgations are Pills but in giving Physick you must consider the state of your Horses body whether he be strong or weak or rather the end for which you purge him in relation to the distemper for which he

grievance or for want of them take dryed Southernwood the yolks of new-laid Eggs and Barly-meal which well tempered and applied plaister-wise to the grievance will cause the filth to come away and cure the sore The Mallender what it is and how to cure it THis Sorrance is a hard dry scab full of Rifts and Chaps and long staring hairs growing upon the inward part of the foreleg where if it be not looked to in time it will canker and corrupt the flesh and blood making the Horse go exceeding lame It comes divers ways proceeding some times from corrupt humours and over-heated blood at other times 't is occasioned by the negligence of the Keeper in suffering the dirt long to continue on the Horses legs c. To cure the Mallender take half an ounce of Gunpowder two ounces of Hogs-lard a soft rowed Pickled herring four ounces of common sope and an ounce of Roach allum beaten to powder all which being bruised heated and tempered that it may be applyed plaisterwise lay them upon the sore after you have washed it with Urin and clipped away the hairs and by every day renewing it for three or four days the cure will be effected especially if you anoint it between whiles with the Oyl of Turpentine The Mange in Horses its cause and cure THis Sorrance is a like loathsome and dangerous and may be known before its breaking out by the extraordinary desire the Horse has to rub against every thing he meets to allay his Itch the hair falling away in many places and undecently staring the skins scurfiness c. The cause frequently arises from hard riding cold and heats excessive labour bad humours and corruption of blood To cure it take Mother of Salt-Peter and adding thereto wine Vinegar and Oyl of Turpentine wash the place grieved binding upon it afterwards bruised Chamomil and Hogs grease For want of the abovesaid Medicament take Sope Lees and steeping in them Tobacco-stalks wash the Sorrance after the scabs are rubbed off and keep your Horse as much as may be from rubbing himself against any hard thing The Mourning of the Chine what it is together with its cause and cure THis grievance is a kind of Glaunders caused by either excessive heat standing wet or travailing in deep and dirty ways which if not in time taken notice of reverts its bad humours upon the Liver and Lungs whereby they are frequently so putrefied that the Horse dies suddainly The cure is first to let your Horse blood and then to take Sallad-oyl Whitewine Vinegar of each three ounces the juice of Sallendine and the powder of Elecampain Roots of each an ounce and put them into his nostrils holding his head to the Rack and thrusting into them at the same time a Feather dipped in Oyl of Bays to make him sneese after which give him an ounce of Rubarb beaten to powder in a pint of Canary very hot and so cloathing him exceeding warm let him lie or stand as he best liketh and in so serving him five or six times it will bring away the nauseous humours by which the disease will decrease and the Horse in time recover his perfect health Madness and Frenzy in Horses from whence it proceeds and how to cure it THis distemper happens to Horses divers ways as first when through the evil operation of the veins crude blood stays in the head and by an insensible way enters the Panicle of the Brain which is known by the Horses heaviness the dulness of his Eyes and his want of Appetite his often turning round and staggering secondly when the blood is vitiated so far that it by its fiery humour has pierced the film of the Brain and inflamed it which puts him out of all patience insomuch that he goes quite mad beating his head against the Manger Post or whatever stands in his way biting and stamping kicking and flinging with many the like extravagancies Thirdly when the blood in the stomach is by overmuch heat stagnated and corrupted and turning upon the heart infecteth it Fourthly and lastly the cause of madness proceedeth from the bloods being generally infected insomuch that at once the Heart Brain and Pannicles are afflicted which is the worst of all and commonly proves mortal To cure these grievances let your Horse blood in all his four legs to draw down the blood that occasions it and when he has bled sufficiently take the roots of wild Cucumbers or for defect of them the roots and leaves of Rue or Herbegrace Mint and black Helebore of each a handful with a like quantity of the herb and root of Virgo-pastoris all which being well bruised and boyled in beer give it him warm and so continue to do for three or four days if the madness cease not Mans dung or Hens dung in whitewine is good in this case and has been often given with success The Malt-long or Malt-worm what it is and how to cure it THis Sorrance commonly happens above the Hoof of the Horse almost in the nature of a Crownscab appearing in divers little Knops and Bunches both Cankerous and venomous which knops if not prevented will run into branches voiding salt watery humour causing great lameness and spoiling the Hoof. To cure which take if you can get them black Snails and Burdock roots beat them together and lay them to the sore renewing the plaister every morning for five or six days but if no Snails can be got take the Soot or scrapings of a Pot or Kettle the inner rinde of Elder Garlick Pepper and Hony all which bruised and well tempered lay plaisterwise and it will cure the Sorrance being received as aforesaid The Night-Mare what it is and how to cure and remove it THis distemper by some is held for Hag-riding though indeed it proceeds from Melancholy blood which pressing to the heart dulls and benumbs the Vital spirits and thereby causes nature extreamly to labour under it till it be expelled and driven thence insomuch that at divers times the Horse so afflicted will be in a foaming sweat not being capable of rest To cure or prevent which take half a pint of Olive Oyl four ounces of common salt and half a pint of Spruce Beer boyl them together adding afterward three ounces of Brown Sugarcandy and give it him as warm as is convenient for two three or four Mornings successively if you find he is so long afflicted with the oppression of crude blood Planet struck what it is and how to cure or prevent it THis distemper incident to Horses is known by a suddain defect of the Horses members insomuch that he often falleth down or standeth stiff almost without any appearance of life or motion it is caused divers ways sometimes by excessive congealing of Phlegm about the Brain at other times by cold Melancholy blood which instead of nourishing the Brain numbs and sickens it likewise happens by evil digestion which instead of blood fills the veins with raw watery humours and sometimes by