or with some sword hatchet Bill or other edge-toole or that you should enforce him to doe more than what nature or strength were well able to compasse or leading him upon plaine ground he might wrinch any member or sway his back or breake his leg either by the stroke or stripe of some other horse or otherwise accidentally or should by misfortune fall downe some steepe precipice whereby he may breake or dislocate some limb or member all these disasters we usually doe call Accidentall and all such things of this nature Hippiat Which be the elements which doe give life and nutriment unto man and all other living creatures Hippos They are foure in number that is to say Fire Ayre Water and Earth whose natures if you shall please I will discusse elsewhere Hippiat No I pray let us have them both now and elsewhere their natures conditions and qualities Hippos The nature of Fire is to be hot and dry Ayre to be hot and moyst Water to be cold and moyst and Earth to be cold and dry Hippiat Doe you know the twelve Signes of the Zodiacke and how they doe govern the body of man and of all creatures Hippos Yes I doe know them all perfectly and thus are they called Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Vrgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces These doe all governe the twelve Months of the yeare and are placed above the Zodiack Hippiat Doe you know the names of the Planets and their numbers Hippos That I doe very well and they bee seven in number to wit Saturne Iupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercury and Luna Hippiat What parts doe the twelve Signes before mentioned governe Hâ—ppos Aries governeth the Head Taurus the Neck Gemini the Shoulders and Armes Cancer the Stomack and Breast Leo the Heart Virgo the Belly anâ— Guts Libra the Reines and Buttocks Scorpio the Privy parts Sagittarius the Thighs Capricornus the Knees Aquarius the Legs and Pisces the Feete Hippiat In what dayes is it best for a horse to be let bloud Hippos If there be no extraordinary cause as in case of desperate sicknes or so then Ianuary the third and the fifteene Februâ—ry the fourth and nineth March the seventeene and eighteene Aprill the tenth and sixteene May the first thirteene Iune fifteene and twenty But for Iuly and August by reason that the Canicular-dayes be then predominate bloud-letting is not so good but only in urgent case of necessity In September the eleventh and twenty eight October the eight and twenty three November the fift and sixteene December the fourteene and twenty six And these daies doe wee hold to be the very best unlesse dangerous or sudaine sicknesse doe cause us to alter the same for in cases of necessity no daies are to be regarded or observed For Qui retinente vita et non sit mortis imago Si semper fuerit vivens morietur et infra Hippiat What medicine would you apply to a Horse who may have any of the foure Maladyes Hippos I would give him of the foure Cordiall waters which I would make of Buglas Savin Succary Aquavitae Endife and the like Hippiat How would you make a comfortable drinke Hippos I would make it of certaine Cordialls to wit of Sugar Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs Saffron Licoris Annyseeds all these in fine powder adding thereto white wine and all these infused in a cleane earthen pot and hereof would I make a drinke Hippiat Whereof would you make an operative drinke Hippos I would take white Wine Sallet-oyle Aloes Rubarb Agarick Duke or Duck-powder Hony Cordial-powder and of all these things would I put such a quantity as I should thinke requisite and according to the strength and corpulency of the Horse Hippiat Whereof would you make a laxative Clister Hippos Into a laxative Clister I will put either of Pellitory Melelote or Cammamile but Pellitory is the best and of this would I make a Decoction and to this Decoction would I put Sallet Oyle Hony Aloes and Verjuice of the Crab. Hippiat What be the natures of your principall Drugs Hippiat Agarick purgeth the Braine Allos the Breast and body Rubarb purgeth the evill water and it openeth the Liver and helpeth obstructions and oppilations Aristolochia-Rotunda mollifieth the Breast Liver and Lungs and Bacchalauri or Bay-berries doe mortifie the peccant Humours which doe ingender in the Breast or Entrayles nere about the Heart and Saffron if it be discreetly given doth marveylously comfort and enlighten the Heart CHAP. II. Of the causes of Sicknesse in generall and the causes of Health and long Life Hippiat NOw that we have proceeded thus farre in a discussion of the Office of the Ferrier Let us approach yet nearer to intreate of the Cures and that we may goe on Pedetentim and Gradatim Let us first discusse the causes of Maladies and therefore I demand of you What are the true Causes of the sicknesse of the Horse Hippos Sir that man which hath a desire to become an Expert Ferrier must apply himselfe to understand the true nature of two things viz. of Generation and of Corruption in which I could never find the least discord in the Primary nature of Horses albeit compounded of the contrary nature of the foure Elements But I will proceed in Anatomizing unto you the verity hereof more particularly whereby you may the better understand my meaning Hippophyl But friend Hipposerus in my judgement you begin to assume too high a pitch for ordinary Feâ—riers who are in a manner all or the greater number un-lettered persons and therefore will never be able to understand what Generation and Corruption meaneth for these are termes taken from the grounds of Philosophy and therefore above their Genius or Sphere Hippos Sir there be many things necessary to bee duly knowne and as diligently to be observed in him that desireth to be a perfect and able Ferrier which whosoever shall be defective in he may well be an Empyreticall-Hors-Leach but skilfull Ferrier or Marshall he shall never be And for that you please to say that I sore too high because I began my discourse with the termes of Generation and Corruption if you had not interrupted me I should have explicated my selfe so cleerely as that a very reasonable judgement might easily have apprehended me for I hold it not a thing fitting to pussell mens Braines either with Chimeras which they are not able to understand or with over-long and tedious discourses of things meerly impertinent but if you shall be pleased to heare me with patience I will touch upon this subject to wit What are the causes of Sicknesse in generall as also of Health and long Life and that Laconica brevitate and so leave the rest to your judgement and practise especially considering what other Authours my Masters have so learnedly and no lesse sufficiently intreated in this very Art To begin therefore and but to say what I said before with the causes of sicknesse and death of Horses in generall in
the true knowledge whereof consisteth their preservation I doe hold it a thing most needfull that we doe perfectly know that thing which wee doe cal Generation and Corruption which all Physitians and Philosophers have so much discussed both in their Schooles and Writings and how the body of the Horse like also to that of Man is compounded of the foure Elements viz. Fire Aire VVater and Earth Of the foâ— Elements Fire Ayâ—â— Water anâ— Earth The natures of these four Elements are different for Fire is hot and dry but it participates most of Heat Ayre is hot and moyst but chiefly moyst Water is moyst and cold but most cold Earth is cold and dry but most dry Fire and Ayre are both light Elements and VVater and Earth both heavy Four Humours also there are Of the foâ— Humours Bloud Phlâ—gme Choler 〈◊〉 Melanchoâ—â— which be as it were four Children to these four Elements and these are Bloud Phlegme Choler and Melancholy These foure Humours are attendant upon the four former Elements without which a naturall body cannot be made for Bloud naturally if it be perfect is hot and moyst but taketh most from heat and therfore is subordinate to Ayre Phlegme is cold and moyst but the principall quality thereof is coldnesse and therefore hath reference to VVater Choler is hot and dry but his chiefest nature is heate and therfore is governed by the Element of Fire Melancholy is cold and dry but his chiefest condition is drynesse and therefore subjects it selfe unto the element of earth Now the fountaine of the bloud is the Liver which dispersing it selfe by the helpe of the veines into all the parts of the body nourisheth and preserveth the same Flgme preoccupateth the braine being a cold and spungy substance and the seat of the sensible soule Choller inhabiteth the Liver which being hot and dry maketh a pleasing harmony with the bloud Melancholy resideth in the spleene which is the receptacle and discharge of the excrements of the Liver From whence we may collect that it hath its proper use and end as for demonstration Bloud principally nourisheth the body Flegme occasioneth motion of the joynts and members Choler exciteth and provoketh the body to avoyd it's excrements and lastly Melancholy disposeth the body to an appetite Whereupon all the learned Philosophers doe with one unanimous assent agree in this that in every naturall body there are foure principall instrumentall members The instrumentall members The braine the heart the liver and the stones or gignitors from which all the parts of an organicall body is said to be framed and these are the braine the heart the liver and the stones or gignitors and each one of these doe performe its true function to all the particular members of the body for the sinewes doe receive their sustentation from the braine and these are called animall spirits the arteries from the heart which are vitall spirits the veines from the liver which are naturall parts and the seed-vessels from the stones or gignitors as the place of generation Now forasmuch as I have shewed you the foure elements with their true natures the foure humours with their qualities and the foure instrumentall members with their true conditions It now remaineth that we intreat briefly of the foure naturall faculties which is in every body together with their true attributes The foure naturall faculties To eate to retaine to concoct and to expell The first faculty is to eate the second to retaine the third to concoct and the fourth to expell And to answer to these foure faculties you must understand that there are residing in the body the afore-named humours that is to say Bloud Flegme Choler and Melancholy whereof nature maketh use of the service of but one of these onely to work upon which is an excrement which we doe justly call whey or wheyish-bloud whose engendring is wrought in the liver and so conveieth it selfe into the veines at what time the foure humours doe take from the body that forme and substance it ought to assume and of this very liquor doth nature serve it selfe to resolve the meat and so to operate that the same may passe through the straight caves conducts pores and passages carrying nourishment to all the parts of the body You must therefore understand that the veines are the receptacles for the bloud which is mixed with the vitall spirits so as the said veines have their source or origin from the liver whereby their office is to exhaust from the liver unto the veines the said wheish substance and to inject part thereof through the passages into the bladder and from thence againe forth of the body by which meanes the body is freed from offence and from sustaining domage whereof two of the veines conduct part of the said whey from the liver unto the coddes and so to the seed-vessels where it remaineth with some small quantity of the purest bloud by which meanes the operation of the stones whose quality are hot and dry doe thereby effect a most perfect seed Which two veines nature who is the most exquisite Artist and Quae nihil habet vitii hath planted one in the reines on the right side which endeth in the right cod and another semblable in the left both which take their issue from either of the coddes accordingly besides nature hath bestowed upon the right cod much heat and drynesse so hath she also given unto the left as great a quantity of cold and moysture the right cod by meanes of its heate engendring the male and the left by reason of its cold engendring the female and so likewise is it as well of the female as of the male of every creature But now to come to the heart which is formed with the liver and braine and maintained with the purest bloud which is so excessively hot as whilst the creature liveth if you put but your finger into its hollow part it is impossible to continue it there long without burning or scalding the same from whence it must necessarily ensue that the liver being the fountaine of all the bloud must of necessity have great and abundance of pure bloud wherwith to support and maintaine the structure of the whole body and the vitall spirit of any creature is none other thing than a corporeall fume or vapour to speake properly very pure and subtile begun in the heart by the operation of the naturall heat spread by the arteries and veines to refresh and comfort the whole body which agitative or subtile Spirit proceeding from the heart and vitall spirits being a continuall motion by reason that motion and agitation is the true life therof which continually remaineth in all living creatures But the heart which may be truely and rightly stiled the fountaine of life and heat nature hath assigned it its proper place which is to be scituate in the center that is the middle part of the body from whence proceedeth life and heat into each
take these things with his provender you may then sometimes administer of these powders and other simples with good Ale or Beer giving it him as you give drinks and it will suffice howbeit it will doe him more good to be given in his provender Hippiat What is the best thing to be given to a horse to preserve the liver from infecting and to refine the bloud Hyppos I have knowne many things administred in this case but the very best is Liver to preserve to take the root of Polipodium of the Oke to wash it and to make it very cleane then cut or chop it very small then take Liver-wort one handfull small chopped also and so much Rubarb as the weight of a tester either cut very small or grated give him this in his provender three or four mornings together fasting and give him no meat in three houres after and let his drinke be white water for that day and give him this monethly and once in halfe a yeare make tryall of his bloud to see how pure or foule it is and administer accordingly Hippoph I pray you Hipposerus what is the true nature of Rubarb whether is it purgative or binding Hippos Truely Sir Rubarb hath two contrary natures for if you either scrape grate or cut it then is it a loosener for it dissolveth and openeth the liver and expelleth the obstructions thereof it expulseth all bad humours in and about the heart liver and spleene it clenseth the body and sendeth away the peccant humours among the excrements and all such things as may annoy or offend the intrayles but if you shall pound or beat Rubarb in a Morter or otherwise the spirit thereof being a subtile body will Transire and fly away whereby the operation thereof will be to bind and be no way profitable Hippoph Let this suffice for the present I have detained you too long from your particular affaires it now growes late and therefore I will take leave till our next meeting which God willing shall be to morrow at the same houre at what time I shall not faile you for that I desire a finall end of this businesse wherefore for this present I will take leave recommending you both to God CHAP. III. Of such things which are of necessity to be knowne by every expert Ferrier before he doth adventure to administer Hippophyl HItherto Hippiatrus we have proceeded orderly and your servant Hipposerus hath discoursed very accurately pithily Neverthelesse some things there be which yet he hath not put home enough whereby I have not received that full satisfaction I desire Hyppiat Sir Sithence we are met here againe to discusse such things whereof you desire to informe your selfe my will is to have you fully and substantially satisfied if it may be in every point which might concerne this our subject wherfore I entreat you to propose your doubts and looke in what Hipposerus may faile my selfe shall endevour to supply to the utmost of our best skill Hippophyl Sir I thanke you but withall one favour I must begge of you and that is that for that my memory may peradventure faile me it being none of the best if as things occurre to my thoughts I should aske any question out of season and order yet you will not take it ill that I should interrupt him or you in your discourses Hippiat No truely Sir will I not and therefore begin to make your demand and Hipposerus shall give you answer Hyppoph I thank you then thus As touching the composition of the body of the horse more I grant might have been spoken in words but not more to purpose for a man to runne into divisions and subdivisions were but to beget confusion in the unlearned Reader such are your ordinary Smiths for the most part for whose instruction I doe principally undergoe these paines and to send him away worse satisfied in his judgement than before Whereas a plaine and succinct methode doth more edifie and instruct him than the other can doe I therefore demand of you Hypposerus that forasmuch as you have spoken well of the foure Elements to wit Fire Ayre Water and Earth yet have you not demonstrated their natures or where they are placed For true it is my selfe and all men do perfectly know that these foure elements are not these foure materiall and visible elements which we daily behold and make use of as things most usefull for us towards the sustentation of our livelihood being creatures without which we cannot live but I would gladly have you shew what their true natures be being things incorporate and therefore concealed from our eyes I would also know in what parts they doe raign and have their identity or being Hippos Sir as touching the natures of these foure Elements I have sufficiently made appeare unto you in Capitulo praecedenti poenè in initio but as touching the second part of your demand I say that these foure elements which be in nature so dissonant and distinct one from the other as that nothing can be more no white can be more opposite to blacke neverthelesse that you may know these Elements I thus averre The nature of the 4. Elements The Fire is highest being neare neighbour or adjoyning to the Moone and therefore naturally hot Ayre is placed next unto it and therefore naturally light The Water is annexed to the Ayre and therefore naturally moyst And the earth is scituate next to the Water but lowest and out of that reason naturally heavy As touching their vertues all the learned doe hold 1 Fire that Fire by meanes of its heat exciteth matter to Generation and occasioneth warmth in every living body and it doth ripen things raw and undigested in such excellent and subtle wise as that the Ayre which is of a more grosse nature may the better enter into the body making a commixture with the Fire whereby also it moderateth the heat of the Fire the coldnesse of the Water and the drynesse of the Earth so as distemper may the lesse oppresse the Body 2 Ayre The Aire by reason of its moystnes maketh the matter apt to receive its naturall shape and through the instinct of the Fire its naturall heat causing the mixt Bodies as well subtle as penetrable as well Light and moving whereby they bee neither too grosse nor too heavy and withall the Ayre cooleth and abateth the extremity of the burning heat of the Heart 3 Water Liver c As touching the third Element which is Water its nature is that through the coldnes thereof it congealeth conglutinateth and bindeth in mixt Bodies both the parts and members together to wit Sinewes Bones Flesh so as the Water by meanes of its coldnes doth temper and asswage the violent heat of the Fire and the condensity of the Ayre 4 Earth collecting those things together which they otherwise would have dissevered And as touching the Element of Earth its nature is by meanes of its drynesse
and Siccity in mixt Bodyes so to harden and fasten them together as that having once assumed their Shaps it causeth them to retein and keep them which otherwise by the force of the other Elements would be so lax and loose as not to be able to hold together wherein I could produce many familiar instances which for brevities sake I am enforced to omit But the opinion of the best Physitians is that when any naturall Body dyeth the substance thereof returneth back againe to those Elements from whence they came Thus you may plainely see that Fire is naturally hot and therefore separateth Ayre moyst and therefore giveth Shape Water cold and therefore bindeth and Earth dry and therefore naturally hardneth and keepeth its impression Wherefore in any Malady in a Horse observe but this one Rule viz. that when at any time an Inflamation shall arise in the Body be you confident it proceeds of Fire and therefore you must administer if you will performe a right Cure things contrary to that Element to wit what may be agreeable to Ayre and Water whereby to moysten coole and allay the rage of the heat If it be a Flux of Bloud or the like proceeding from the abundance of moysture which takes its origin from the Element of Ayre then must you apply Medicines which may connive with the Eâ—rth whose drynesse may harden such moysture If it proceed of Cold Rhumes or the like whereby the infirmity hath its source from the Element of Water you must then administer Medicines cohering with the Element of Fire and Ayre which may be able through its heat and moysture to expell all cold and grosse humours And lastly if the griefe be Maingenesse or the like which cometh from the Earth which be dry and arid infectious diseases then must your applications be had from the Element of Fire whose nature is to dissolve all siccative humours Wherefore I say againe that heat being too predominant is asswaged by the meanes of moystnesse and coldnesse too great moystnesse by heat and drynesse over-much coldnesse by heat and drynes and too great a proportion of drynesse by heat alone Hippophyl But then tell me I pray you bee there no other Elements or beginnings in Living Bodies more then these foure before named Hippos No Sir not any other which have their beginnings but there are two other which the Learned doe terme proper Elements viz. the Ingendring of Seed and Menstruall Bloud but these I say doe assume their essence from the other foure Elements whereby they become a Body wâ—ich otherwise they could not and therefore are subordinate to them and they take their place after them Hippophil Having spoken sufficiently of the Natures and Qualities of these foure Elements What say you to the Humours Hippos I say that the Humours are also foure in number The 4. first Qualities which Physitians doe stile the first Qualities according as I have formerly intimated and these foure are Bloud Phlegme Choler and Melancholy Bloud being sweet in tast Phlegme neither sweet bitter nor sowre and therefore of no tast or if of any like to that of good Oyle rather sweet then otherwise Choler is bitter in tast and Melancholy is sowre in tast So as by these tasts you may distinguish them and these Humours have reference or neere affinity unto the foure Elements for like as I have before agnized Bloud is of the nature of the Ayre Phlegme of the Water Choler of the Fire and Melancholy of the Earth and these Humours have their particular abode and residence in the body absolute and peculiar to themselves as Bloud hath his abiding in and about the Heart Phlegme in the Braine Choler in the Liver and Melancholy in the Spleene whereby we may the better come to know what Complexion raigneth in every Horse as also how he is naturally qualified and disposed for the Horse that is of a Sanguine Complexion is commonly a Bright Bay who is of disposition joviall wanton or merry agile and of motion temperate neither too fiery nor too dull or melancholy Your Milke-white is of Complexion Phlegmatique whose property commonly is to bee lunt heavy and slow your Bright-Sorrell hath commonly reference to Choler and he is naturally for the most part fiery hot and ever-free-mettled but yet of no great strength Your Mouse-Dunne and such like rusty and sut-colours are commonly of a Melancholy Complexion and they be ordinarily cowardly faint-hearted subject to starting flothfull restife stubborne disobedient revengefull c. but if these Complexions be rightly symbolized and doe all meete in one and the same Horse according to each ones proper nature they doe performe their functions as they ought in a perfect harmony whereby the Horse remaineth sound and healthy but if there be discord or disagreement in the Elements and Humours there must bee the like in the Complexions and then doth the poore horse suffer for it to the danger both of Life and Health Hyppophyl I ever understood that there are certaine Spirits which doe remaine in the body of every Horse doe you know them Hipposerus Hippos Yes I doe and they be said to bee two in number viz. The Spirit Animal Spirit Animal and the Spirit Vitall the Spirit Animal hath its residence in the Braine by which meanes it giveth motion feeling and power to the Horse through the ayd of the Sinewes and the Spirit Vitall Spirit Vitall makes abode in the Heart which is the only cause of the excessive heat thereof which disperseth the Bloud into every part and member of the Body For the Heart and the Braine are in equality absolutely different the Heart being most violently hot as I have before shewed and the Braine is as extreamely cold and so hereof needs not any more be spoken in this place Hippophyl But may not a man conjecture to what infirmities or diseases Horses may probably be subject by their Complections Hyppos Yis Sir very easily yea and that with so great advantage and profit to the Cure if the Ferrier be expert and skilfull in the making and applying of his Medicines The disease known by the Complexion as that nothing can be more For example the horse that is of colour either bright-Bay or dark Bay with a pleasant and cheerfull countenance or if he bee a white Flea-bitten white-Lyard or Black with a white-starre or race downe the face or white-foot if he be of eyther of these colours we hold him to bee of a Sanguine Complection and in Horses of this Complecâ—â—on the Element of Aire is most predominant Of the Sanguine Complexion and they be commonly of nature affable well-metled active and of good strength but the Maladies whereunto they are most usually incident are Leaprosies glanders Consumptions and the like yet these Horses are frequently of so able Constitutions as that they have vigour enough to endure good and strong Medicines provided these Medicines be not too hot but cooling The Horse
shall find them to come away in his Dounge and the most of them to be living for no Medicine but those two only of Precipitate and Sublimate before remembred in which is so great perill can kill them ✚ This Receipt before any other I have made most use of I find it to be the very best and most infallible of them all and this will hardly leave one Bot Trunchion or Worme in all his Body I forbeare to report unto you what quantity of these Vermine a Horse hath voyded at a time for I love not to relate Wonders Another Receipt I will deliver you howbeit not equivalent to the former which is this viz. Take the tender tops of greene broome and of Saven of each halfe a handfull chop them very small and work them up into Pils with fresh or sweet Butter and having kept the Horse over night fasting give to him three of these Pills in the Morning early then set him upon the Trench and let him fast two houres after but give him no Water till night and that white Water ✚ This also have I experienced and have found it to be very good for it hath caused the Horse to voyd many of these bad Cattle I will conclude with this viz. Take a quart of Milke warme from the Cow and put to it of Honey halfe a pint and give it him the first day the next day take Rue and Rosemary of each halfe a handfull stamp them well together then let it infuse together with the powder of Brimstone and Soute so much as will suffice foure houres in Wort or Ale a quart then straine it and give it him bloud warme then let him bee walked or gently ridden an houre or two and so set him up warme and give him Hay an houre before you give him any drinke which let bee white Water and you must not give him Hay in foure or six houres after you have given him his foresaid drinke And you must withall remember that in all Medicines as well for this kind of Malady as for any other his drinke must be either a sweet Mash or else white Water ✚ This also is a very good Receipt and I have had good experience of it and it hath evermore wrought well ✚ §. 16. B. Hippoph WHat helpe have you for a Brittle Hoofe Hyppos This cometh two waies to wit by nature or by accident it cometh naturally when the Stallion who begat him or the Mare which did Fole him was subject to the same infirmity and therefore I doe advise all men to forbeare Breeding with such a Stallion or Mare for all their Colts will bee in danger to partake thereof Brittle hoof If it come Accidentally then must it fall out to come either by some Surfet that fell downe into the Feet which caused a siccity in the Hoofes or else in that he had beene formerly Foundred or heat in the Feete and not well cured I need not shew the Signes whereby to know this Malady being it is most apparant As touching the Cure I will give you but only one Receipt for the present by reason I shall have occasion to handle it more largely when we come to intreate of the Hoofes And the Cure is this viz. Take a Rape or a Drawing Iron and with eyther of these make the Coffin of the Hoofe fine and thin in all such places as you shall see cause and pare the Soles very thinne also then apply to the Feete as well Soles as Coffins this ensuing Charge Take Ry-bran or for default thereof Wheate-bran Oxen or Cowes-dunge of these so much as will suffice then take Sheepes-Suet and Hogs-grease tryed Tarre and Turpentine of each halfe a pound mince the Sheepes Suet very small and melt it on the fire then put to your Hogs-grease and when these be molten put in your Oxe or Cow-dung stirring them well together then by degrees put in your Bran continnually stirring them and lastly your Tarre and Turpentine and when you have kneaded al these so well together as that they are become one body and like to paste take them from the fire and so keepe them for your use and being only warme stop his Soles therewith but tack on his Shooes first but for his Coffins make Bagges of course cloath and first covering all his Coffins good and thick fasten those bagges over his hoofes to his Pasterns but take heed they be not too hard tyed yet so as they may stay on dresse him thus every day once for fifteene or twenty dayes together and let him not in all that time touch any Water with his Feete and his Hoofes will become firme and tough againe After if you turne him forth into moyst ground it will be the better if the season will permit it You must during the time of his cure give him continually white Water ✚ This cure I have often tryed and it is very good ✚ §. 17. B. Hippoph VVHat doe you hold good to be applyed to the Heeles and Feete of a Horse that is bruised and beaten with travell Hippos Sir I will give you only one Receipt for this cure which I have often used and it is so truly a good one as that it 's equall can hardly be found And thus it is Take of the tender tops of the most angry Bruised heeles 〈◊〉 feete and stinging Nettles you can get one handfull stamp them very well in a Morter and when they be throughly beaten put unto them of Turpentine and tryed Hogs-grease so much as will suffice to bring it to a formall Vnguent Apply this to the Feete and Heeles of your Horse in bags or cloutes and let this bee done the very next morning after you come where you may rest him renew this every day once and in short time he wil be sound and well againe ✚ § 18. B. Hippoph VVHat is good to allay burning with Shot Gun-powder or Wilde-fire Hippos For this malady I use evermore to take varnish and to put it into faire water and to beat the water and varnish very well together then I powre away the water from the varnish and so with a feather I annoynt the place burned Burning with shot and in few times dressing it will kill the fire which done I heale the sorance with carnifying and healing salves ✚ This is very good But I will now give you two or three other unguents which are most precious against all sorts of burnings which is this Take Hogges grease as much as will suffice set it upon the fire and let it boyle well and as the skimme ariseth take it away with a feather or such like thing untill no more will arise that done and that it hath boyled enough then put it forth into an earthen vessell and set it forth into the open ayre foure or five nights after which time you must wash it in a great quantity of cleere running or fountaine water to the end it may be free from
curd knobs and knots causing them to be dissolved And as for the water which she is to drinke for some time after her foling let it be either sweet Mashes or white water a moneth after her foling give her a Mash putting thereinto the powder of Brimstone or Savin or the like which will be a great preservation of the Colt then if she be moderately laboured either at Plough or Harrow if she will draw as well the Mare as Colt will prosper the better provided she be kept from raw meat while she remaineth in the Stable by which meanes she will the sooner recover strength lust and courage and have store of good milke which will cause the Colt to thrive the better and to grow to be of the greater bone which above all things is a matter of greatest consequence And that you suffer not the Colt to sucke the Mare when she commeth from worke untill she be throughly cold lest thereby you surfet the Colt Thus much I have thought fit to handle of this subject and albeit I have laboured herein to attaine to brevity neverthelesse the premisses well considered I shall not greatly offend in prolixity howsoever this my manner of breeding being different from the old received customes will not I doe assure me passe voyd of censure But as touching old customes thus much I doe averre that as they are in many cases of that force as no law is able to abrogate so on the contrary part many of them are so absurd and ridiculous as nothing can be more for what saith the civill Law Those things which by event or successe of time are found to be pernicious or hurtfull even these things ought to be repealed yea albeit they were at the first found profitable Which ground holdeth good in nothing so much as in old customes for of their absurdities I am able to produce instances not a few howsoever with many It is one of Hercules greatest labours to beat many a man from his old customes be they never so bad albeit Custome is a meere tyrant and his soveraignty most insufferable as a grave Author very well observeth CHAP. III. How to make and order your Stable HAving thus waded into this mystery of breeding I hold it a thing very behoovefull to be handled how your Stable ought to be accommodated First therefore your Stable should be scituate where the ayre is wholesome pure and good and the ground dry the structure would be either of free Stone or Bricke but Bricke is best most wholesome and warmest besides this benefit Brick hath which Stone hath not of being very dry for Stone will weep and sweat drops of water against raine and misty weather which begetteth damps and causeth rhumes in Horses Your Stable ought not to have any unsavory Gutter Channell or Sinke neare to it no Iakes Hogsties or Hen-roust whereby to annoy it It would be also seeled over head and have strong doores with lockes bolts and barres unto it The Racke would not be made too high or too low but placed in an indifferent proportion and so artificially set that neither the dust or hay-seeds may fall into his Mane or upon his necke and face The Manger would be set at an indifferent height made deep and of one entire piece as well for strength as for conveniency to be kept sweet and cleane Let the flore be pitched with Flint and not planked The windowes would be made with handsome shuts and casements and well glazed as well to keep out cold and wind as also when there may be cause to let in the coole and fresh ayre Againe take heed there be no lome wall or plaister so neare as that the Horse may reach thereto with bis mouth for upon that he will gnaw which may doe him much prejudice and be the cause of much dangerous sicknesse for Lome and Lime are suffocating things they will infect and putrifie the bloud endanger the Lounges and be no friend to his winde neither suffer any dung to lye neare him Furthermore there would be made a faire Loft wherein to lay Hay and convenient lodging chambers for your Groomes whose nearenesse together with their care and vigilancy might prevent many dangers and inconveniences which may accrue unto your Horses by night Also let a neat Saddle-house be contrived with Bings for Provender and in it Presses wherein to lay up the Saddles Bridles and all other furniture appertaining to Horfes and an Aqua-duct wherewith to bring water to the Stable And lastly other Stals would be erected remote wherein upon occasion to sever the sicke from the sound Many other accoutrements there are belonging to a perfect Stable as partitions with boards posts and barres with pins driven into every post whereon to hang Bridles and the like shelves also fastned to the wall serving for many uses to place necessaries upon c. which being known to all men will be needlesse for me here to repeate But you may peradventure startle at paving rather then planking your flore preferring planks as warmer and much better then flint or a pitched flore can be as also for that it is a new thing little practised and seldome heard But give me leave I pray a little to inform your understanding in this one point by which means your judgement may fortune to be much bettered First therefore whereas novelty may be objected I shall most easily assoile that point even from the selfe-same ground in the civill Law which I inserted in the conclusion of the precedent chapter viz. That things found to be prejudiciall ought to be inhibited although they might be thought needfull and good in foreknown times For that paving of Stables is better then planking them Paving Stabâ— much bâ— then plaâ—ing I have reasons not a few wherewith to satisfie a reasonable man First it is much more durable and lasting supposing the flore to be pitched by an expert workman Secondly it is lesse charge by much and therefore in that point the better Thirdly for a Horse to stand continually upon a pitched flore it emboldneth his feet and treading the more Fourthly it is the most excellent thing that may be for Colts who are unshod for it hardneth their hooves so as by custome they will be as bold to goe upon stones rocky and hard wayes as Horses that are shod neither will a pitched flore suffer the hoofe to goe abroad in manner of an Oyster besides the use thereof will make their hooves more tough durable and hollow insomuch as when they shall come to be shod and to have exercise they will carry their shooes much longer better and with more ease then otherwise if they had been used to a planked flore The inconvenience of a planked flore Now on the contrary part which concerneth the planked flore that I say cannot in reason be so good by many degrees First it is more slippery out of which reason a mettled horse may soone
dramme half white Wine foure pints Fennugreke one ounce two drammes Brimstone one ounce half good Sallet Oyle one pint two ounces English hony one pound half powder and searce what is to bee powdred and searced then compound them together and make it into one body into a stiffe paste and so keep it in a cleane Gally-pot close covered for your use And when you have occasion to use it make a Pill or Ball thereof of the bignesse of a mans fist and so lave and dissolve it into two Gallons of faire water till it bee all molten into the water Let your Horse drinke hereof so long as you please hoth morning and evening and let him have none other water to drinke to the end he may be the better compelled to drinke of the Water which in the end he will doe and like it very well ✚ Of this cataplasme I have made often use and I doe finde it to be a soveraigne Receit for many infirmities it also preventeth much inward sicknesse it raiseth and battleth a Horse much better than either Grasse or Provender and it giveth him Life Spirit and Stomacke and keepeth him in perfect health Our ordinary Country Smiths have yet another drinke which they administer upon all inward causes and truely it doth oft times hit right especially in cold causes viz. Take Fennugrick Turmerick Graynes Anniseeds Licoris All Diseases Long-Pepper Comin of each halfe an ounce and of Saffron one dram and of hearbs take Selendine Rue Pelamontine Isop Time and Rosemary of each like much but yet no more then will make of them all but halfe a handfull First chop small these hearbs and put them into a quart of good Ale and when they have boyled a while put in your spices finely powdred and then boyle them again with a small fire then take it from the fire and straine it and put to the liquor the quantity of an egge of sweet butter and halfe an ounce of London Treacle give this to your Horse bloud warme and and ride him moderately after and then set him up warme and well littered letting him fast foure houres after and let his drink be either a sweet Mash or white water This is very good against Feavers Colds and the Yellowes ✚ § 7. A. Hippoph I Met not long since with a disease called S. Anthonies Fire I pray is there such a disease Hyppos Yes Sir there is such a disease but it so seldome comes to a Horse as that few Ferriers have had occasion to cure the same by reason very few know it and therefore marvell not in that they cannot cure the same Saint Anthonies Fire is that burneth in the flesh most extreamely and hath in it so great malice as that look what you do apply to the place unlesse you hit the cure right it will doe it no good but more harme much after the nature of a Noli me tangere or wild-fire This disease is also called by some the shingles in a Horse and like as the Disease it self is very rare and seldome known in a Horse so also is the cure as uncouth and strange For my part I will not professe my selfe to be any whit more skilfull then indeed I am this disease I never yet observed to be in any Horse I only have heard some Ferriers talke thereof but yet I never heard but of one man who was ever truely able to make a Cure thereof and this was a Knight of very good worship who taught it me he averring confidently unto me how that he had cured three severall Horses of this very malady I asked him whence this disease proceedeth and what are the symptomes whereby to know the same he answered me that he could never rightly come to be mathematically assured how it breedeth or occurreth to the Horse but by guesse onely and that himselfe thought it came from some cholericke bloud passing to his head into the braine and pannicles which causeth the Horse to become starke mad yea so truely mad as to be deprived of his memory in not knowing his Keeper or any other body else yea his fury is so great as to resist stripes to slight and contemne correction be it never so severe he will endeavour what in him lyeth to perpetrate what mischiefe he is able by biting striking and endangering whom or whatsoever thing commeth into his way and when he cannot have his minde of living creatures whereupon to wreake his malice then will he doe it partly upon dead creatures by biting and gnawing the Manger and Racke-staves and by striking the posts and barres with his heeles and partly upon himselfe by beating his head against the wall and ground S. Anthonies fire he will also forsake both his meat and sleep or naturall rest untill he dyeth if he be not in time cured which is thus Take first help enough and cast him which done take a worme which groweth in a Fullers Teasell and put this worme alive and without any hurt into a quill then slit the skin of the fore-head of the horse under the fore-top and open the same round about with your cornet making a concavity an inch round every way and better betwixt the skin and the bone which done blow the said Worme out of the quill into the place which you made hollow as aforesaid but take heed you doe not kill the Worme in stitching up the skin againe because that the Worme may not get forth and after twenty dayes the Worm will dye and in that time the Horse will be throughly cured This cure was taught me by the aforesaid Noble Knight with which he affirmed to me that he had cured 3 or 4 horses § 8. A. Hippoph VVHat say you to an Anticor Hippos Sir I say it is a disease whereunto Horses are oft times enclined and it commeth sundry wayes to wit sometimes with too much feeding without exercise sometimes of too hard and immoderate riding or other labour both which waies the bloud of the creature becommeth corrupted and inflamed which maketh its residence in and about the heart which if it should not have a way to make its vent it would quickly kill him by which meanes many good Horses dye suddenly and the cause unknowne This Disease is apparent to the eye by a swelling which will arise in the middle of the breast just against the heart from whence it taketh its name which if it be not soone prevented will ascend to the throat and then it is certaine death It commeth likewise by surfets taken by heats and colds sometimes also by Feavers which are malignant and sometimes againe by feeding upon unwholesome meats The signes to know this disease before the swelling doe appeare are these he will be sicke and grone many times when he is layed he will hang down his head and forsake his meat and then if he should desire to eate what meat he loveth best whether Hay Grasse Provender or Bread lay
doe say that the Italians use to take a spunge well dipped in strong wine vineger and bound to the Sore renewing it twice a day till the kernels doe rot then they open the neather most part of the softnesse and so let the corruption forth and then fill the hole with salt finely brayed and the next day they wash away the filth with warme water and the next day after they annoynt the Sore with Honey and Fich flower mingled together till it be whole This Cure I never made tryall of but it seemeth to me to be a very good and probable Cure Another for the Avives Take Tarre tryed Hogges grease Bay-salt and Frankinsence powdred of each so much as will suffice melt these on the fire all together then with a clout fastened to the end of a sticke boyling hot scald the places 4 or 5 mornings one after another untill the enflamed places doe become soft and ripe Then with your incision knife slit the skin and let forth the corruption then to heale up the sorances take tryed Hogges grease and Verdigrease made into fine powder melt them upon a gentle fire but suffer it not to boyle more then a waume or two at the most then take it off and put to it of ordinary Turpentine as much as will suffice and so stirre all together untill it be cold And herewith annoint the sorances daily till they be whole ✚ This is very good Master Markham in his Master piece hath a Cure for the Avives which he intituleth A most rare and certaine approved Medicine which will cure the Vives without either burning melting rotting or any such like violent exercise But as yet I did never experiment the same The cure is this Take a penniworth of pepper beaten to fine powder Swines grease a spoonefull the juyce of Rue a handfull and of Vineger two spoonfuls mixe all well together and convey it equally into both the eares of the Horse and so tye or stitch them up then shake his eares that the medicine may sinke downewards which done you shall let him bloud in the neck-veyne and in the temple-veine And this saith he is an infallible cure § 12. A. Hippoph VVHat disease is that which we doe call the Arraistes Hippos Arraistes is also a French Epitheton which is a disease we doe commonly call the Rat-tayles engendring in the heeles of a Horse not much unlike to the Scraches but that it is much more venimous and malignant It commeth of too much rest and the Keepers want of care in the not rubbing and dressing him as also by reason that the Horse standeth continually in the Stable his fore-feet being higher than his hinder-feet for by reason of his great rest and pampering the bloud corrupting in his body falles down into his hinder-legges and breedeth this disease which now we doe call the Arraistes Arraistes or Rat-Tayles Rat-tayle◠The best Cure for this Malady is first to let the Horse be ridden till he be warme whereby the veines will swell and the better appeare Let him bloud in the fetlocke veins on both sides making him to bleed well and the next day after wash the sores with warme water and then clip away all the hayre from about the Sores then annoynt the grieved places with this Oyntment viz. Take greene Coperas and Verdegreace of each two ounces and of common honey foure ounces beat your Coperas and Verde-greace very small and so worke them with your honey to a perfect unguent and herewith annoint the Sores daily till they be whole ✚ And thus we doe conclude this Chapter CHAP. V. § 1. B. Hippoph VVHat is your best way to breake and heale the backe of a Horse that is swolne Hippos We have many wayes to cure a Malady of this nature if the place be swelled and yet not ripe enough to be opened then apply that remedy which you shall finde taught you hereafter to resolve or ripen the same and when it is ripe put your incision knife unto it or a hot iron and so open it in the lowest part so as the putrifaction may the more easily passeaway then every morning inject this Lotion with a Seringe which is thus to be made viz. Backe swelled Take Honey-suckle leaves Plantine Ribwort Yarrow Bursa-Pastoris Knot-grasse and Cumphrey of each halfe a handfull boyle these in a quantity of running water till a moity be consumed then straine the herbs from the water casting away the hearbs and then set the water upon the fire again and so soon as it beginneth to boyle againe put into the said water hony of Roses one ounce Allum and Alkenet of each two drams stirre all these well together and let it boyle till these latter ingredients be well dissolved then take it from the fire and when it is cold put it into a cleane glasse keeping it close stopped for your use Vse this water every day five or sixe dayes together and it will cure any Sorance in the backe or other part of the body provided that to skin the sore you apply a rag made wet in the said water ✚ Another Receit I have wherewith I have cured many galled backs and other sorances which is as followeth Take water and salt and boyle them well together and first wash the sore place therewith Then take Pepper made into very fine powder and strew it upon the sore it will heale it in very short time ✚ A third I have much more soveraigne than the two former which cureth not onely all galled backs but any other wound whatsoever Take Rosin and common Pitch of each sixe ounces Masticke and Incense of each one ounce Turpentine Galbanum Bolearmonacke of each three ounces melt dissolve and incorporate all these together upon a gentle fire and as they doe begin to coole make them up into rolles and when you would use this Salve spread it upon a cloath or leather somewhat thin but if you be to use it without either cloath or leather to any outward part that is not yet broken then lay it on much thicker than you use to doe plaister-wise and whilst it is warme clap flocks of the same colour upon it This Emplastrum as it cureth any swelling gall wound sore or hurt so it ripeneth breaketh and healeth all impostumations biles and pustils It is also a most excellent defensative plaister for the staying and drying up of all evill humours and also very soveraign for asswaging of swellings ✚ Another Receit I have taught me by a worthy Knight but I never made use thereof Take the leaves of Asmart and wash them and lay them all over the place and albeit you ride him every day yet will he heale very fast But if he doe remaine in the Stable without exercise if you put the water of the leaves upon the place it will heale him speedily Another Receit I have which was taught me by a French Marishall howbeit I made no tryall thereof but he
the Halter catcheth into the Pasterne Ioynt which he feeling falleth to striving whereby he casteth himselfe downe and by meanes of the hardnesse of the Cord he is gauled even to the very bone and many times if he be not opportunely rescued the Halter doth strangle him and he found starck dead But if the Horse do escape with life he will be neverthelesse terrible gauled which will soone rankle and swell unlesse cure be presently administred The signe whereby to know it is apparant enough I will give you only two Receipts for this sorance whereof the first shal be this viz. Take the leafe of the hearb called Saubsucus Cast in a Halter stamp it and strayn it and take only the juyce thereof and apply the said juyce to the sorance by washing it therewith after take a linnen cloth white and cleane and make it into three or foure folds steeping the cloath in the said juyce and bind it on to the place grieved but in Winter when the said Leafe is not to be had you must take the second rinde thereof and do therewith as before but then note that before you wash and apply the saide juyce to the wound you must first wash the sorance with warme Water and then apply your said juyce and he shal be perfectly cured in short time This I never yet experienced by reason I could never yet meete with the Hearb This second I have often tryed and I have found it to bee infallible viz. Make a Rowle of fat Wooll and steepe the same in Vineger and Sheepes Suet so much as will suffice boyled together till it commeth to bee very thick and let the Rowle bee full as long or rather somewhat longer then the place gauled apply this to the sorance Plaister-wise and bind upon it a cleane Linnen cloth changing it twise a day and in short time it wil be whole This is right good ✚ § 2. C. Hippoph VVHat Cure have you for a Canker Hippos This is a very loathsome Sorance which if it be suffred to run long will so fester and corrupt the place where it hapneth that it will violently eate even to the bone if it fall upon the Tongue it will eate the very roote in sunder if in the Nose it will eate the very Gristle through You may easily know this Sorance for that the places wil be very raw and bleed often and many times you shall perceive a white Scurfe to grow upon the place grieved For it is a most Cankerous Vlcer which ofttimes is engendred of a fretting humour It commeth two waies that is eyther of naughty and corrupt bloud procured by meanes of unwholesome meate or by some Bilious Humour which came to the Horse by an extreame cold not long before taken which will cause his bteath to stinke loathsomely Canker I will deliver unto you sundry cures for this sorance which my selfe have experimented and have found them to be very good Take white Wine halfe a pint Roch Alome the quantity of a Wall-nut Bay-salt halfe a Spoonefull English Honey one Spoonefull Red-Sage Rue Ribwort Honey-Suckle Leaves Yarrow Plantine Bramble-leaves of each like much but of every one a little boyle all these in the white Wine so much as will suffice till a quarter be consumed and then first inject of this Water into the sorance or else if the Canker be in the Mouth wash the place with a clout fastned to a sticks end and so dresse him therewith twice a day or oftner if you shall see cause till it be whole ✚ Another Take greene Coperas and Alome of each one pound white Coperas foure drammes boyle these in a pottle of running Water untill almost the one moiety bee consumed then take it from the fire and put into it of Honey half a pound then holding up his Head with a Drenching Staffe but yet not too high with a Pewter or Elder Sering or Squirt inject it into his Nose if the Canker be there bloud warme which done give presently his head liberty whereby hee may snuffle and blow forth the corruption and faile not to inject him thus three or foure times one after the other at every dressing and do thus Morning and Evening till it bee whole which will not be long ✚ But if it be only a sore Mouth and that it come to be a Canker then Take of the strongest white Wine Vineger and make it thick with powdred Alome and so wash the sorance therewith two or three dayes together for this will kill and destroy the Vlcer then heale up the Sorance thus viz. Take of faire Water a quart Alome and Honey of each foure ounces Maudeline leaves red Sage and Columbine leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in the Water till halfe bee consumed and every day twice that is Morning and Evening wash his Mouth therwith bloud-warme and it will heale him ✚ Another First make this strong Alome Water viz. Take Alome halfe a pound Hony halfe a pint red Sage and Wood-bind-leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in faire water till halfe bee consumed with this Water and Hearbs wash and rub the Sores till they become red and raw then take white Wine Vineger halfe a pint Alome powdred two ounces Ginger powdred halfe an ounce and of life Honey halfe a pint mix all these well together and therewith annoynt the sore Morning and Evening and it will cure him ✚ All these Receipts I have made tryall of and have found them to be right good Another Take the juyce of the Root Asphodill seven ounces Quick-lime Arsnick of each two ounces beat and incorporate all these together and put them into a new pot close stopped and let it boyle till it come to ashes these ashes you shall apply to the Sorance twice a day but the sore must be first washed with strong Vineger as before is taught §. 3. C. Hippoph HOw cure you that Horse who hath cast his Hoofe Hippos This is a troublesome Sorance yet with care it may be cured it commeth either by meanes of some Foundring or by an Accloy Prick Stub Graveling Quitterbone or other hurt within the Foote which breaking out above round about the Cronet and in time the Hoofe breaking it falleth from the Foote I neede relate no Signes whereby to know the same The Cure is thus Take Aquafortis the strongest you can get Casting the hoofe and first with a Rape or Drawing Iron file or draw away the old hoofe somewhat neere then touch the hoofe so prepared with your Aquafortis three or foure severall dressings and no more This done annoynt the Foote with the Vnguent we doe commonly make for Horses Feete viz. Take Hogs-grease three pound Pach-grease two pound Venice-Turpentine one pound new Wax halfe a pound Sallet-Oyle one pound Melt and mix all these upon the fire and herewith chafe rub and annoint the Coffin of the Hoofe up to the very top and this will bring a new hoofe ✚
it come by ranknesse of seed or of bloud then let him have a Mare and cover her two or three dayes together and halfe an houre after ride him into the water above the cods or stones against the streame and he will doe well ✚ But if this disease come by other causes then Take the Lees of Claret Wine and Comen-seed made into fine powder and a little Wheat or Beane flower boyle these together to an unguent and so warme as he may well endure it annoint the cods therewith which done draw forth his yard and wash it and his sheeth also with white wine vineger and three or foure houres after ride him into the water above the cods and let him also stand in the water some short time and sometimes ride him against the streame doe this every day till the swelling be asswaged ✚ This is a very good Cure Another Take the roots of wild Cucumbers and white salt so much as will suffice boyle these in faire water to an oyntment and annoynt the cods therewith warme and then apply this oyntment Take Goats grease or for default thereof Deeres suet the white of an Egge and Sallet oyle boyle these over a gentle fire and herewith annoynt the cods but this must be applyed after he hath been ridden into the water and dry againe doe this every day once till he be well ✚ This I have often tryed and have found it to be right good Another First annoynt and bathe the cods in the juyce of Hemlock and when it is dryed then Take Pigeons dung and new Milke and boyle it till it be as thick like to a Poultesse and therewith annoint the cods every day once Another First let him bloud in both the spur or flanck veines Then take oyle of Roses and vineger of each a pinte and of Bolearmonack in fine powder two ounces make all these into one body and being luke-warme annoynt the cods therewith and the next day ride him into the water up to the cods against the streame then bring him into the stable and when he is through dry annoynt him againe thus continuing to do till he be well But if the cods be swolne by meanes of any hurt bite or stroke then apply to them this following charge A charge for swelled cods Take Bolearmonack in powder vineger and the whites of Egges as much as will suffice well beaten and wrought together and annoynt him therewith daily till it be abated and if it impostumate where you finde it to be soft open it either with a hot iron or with your incision knife if it breake not of it selfe and so heale it up with the oyntment taught you in lib 2. cap. 10. § 4. and it will soone be whole ✚ This is very soveraigne §. 11. C. Hippoph VVHat say you to the Collick Hippos It is Sir a disease which commeth of winde and therefore we generally call it the winde collicke the French call this disease the Tranchaisons Collicke it causeth great gripings and extreame paine in the belly of the Horse so as he will oft times lye down and tumble he will also strike at his belly with his hinder feet and stamp with his fore-feet and the paine will be so great as to cause him to forsake his meat these signes I have often observed in Horses perplexed with this malady and albeit I have sundry Receits for it and all or the most of them by me tryed and approved good yet one of Master Blundeviles and Master Markhams I hold inferiour to none of mine for I have often tryed it and this is it Take a quart of Muskadine or of sweet Sack of Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each halfe an ounce Sugar two ounces make all these into fine powder and give it him bloud warme then annoynt his flankes with oyle de Bay but I often use to annoynt them with the oyntment of Acopum I finding it to be much better then bridle him up and trot him out a good round trot or gallop him softly sometimes the space of an houre untill he doe dung but if he will not then rake him or else put an Onyon pilled and jagged into his fundament then for three or foure dayes let his drinke be either sweet Mashes or white water and keep him warme and he will doe well againe ✚ Another Keep him fasting over night and in the morning give him this drinke Take of white Wine a quart Fenugrick foure ounces Bay-berries and Pepper of each foure ounces Graines and Ginger of each one ounce Water-Cresses two handfuls Sage one handfull Sengrene one pound Mints a handfull stampe the hearbs and pound the spices and put them into the wine and let it boyle a little then straine it and put to it of life Honey two spoonfuls and so give it him bloud-warme ✚ This I have also found to be very good notwithstanding if he be a stoned Horse the best cure for him is to have a Mare especially if he be so troubled with the collicke so as that he cannot pisse besides it helpeth and preventeth sundry sorts of sicknesses and diseases and strengtheneth nature ✚ Another Take of white Wine one pinte and three or foure Cantharides and make them into very fine powder and give this to the Horse well brewed in wine bloud-warme This I never tryed for that these flyes being a strong corasive have deterred me howsoever I have been often invited thereunto by many good Ferriers who have averred unto me that they have often used it and have found it to be right good Another Take Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each one ounce all made into fine powder and well mixed then put it into a quart of Muskadine and let it boyle a while then take it off and put to it of Honey one spoonfull give it him bloud-warme which done cloath him up and litter him and so let him stand upon his trench foure houres then give him meat and an houre after a sweet Mash or white water This was taught me by a Noble Knight who said he had often used it But if your Horse hath the collicke and stone then Take of white wine one pinte of Burr-seeds eight ounces Collicke and Stone made into fine powder of Parsley-seed two ounces in powder also of Isope unset Leekes and Water-Cresses of each halfe a handfull of black Sope halfe an ounce stamp all the hearbs in a morter and straine them with the Wine then put to that liquor your Burre and Parsley seeds and so give it him bloud-warme this will breake the stone and bring it from him with much ease and cure his Collicke ✚ This I have often administred § 12. C. Hippophyl VVHat Disease is that which is called the Colt Evill Hyppos It is a disease in the yard sheath and cods of a Horse or Gelding and it commeth to Horses by meanes of heat and ranknesse of seed and to a Gelding by weaknesse and coldnesse of seed to the Horse through
too great abundance of seed which causeth a stopping in the pipe or conduct of the yard Colt-Evill and to a gelding for want of heat and strength to send it forth whereby the yard and sheath swelleth very much The best way to cure a Horse is to give him a Mare whereby he sendeth forth his seed freely and then two or three houres after swimme him or else ride him up to the flankes to and fro a pretty while against the streame This disease is knowne by the swelling of the yard and sheath I have cured many Horses and Geldings with this ensuing Receit First swimme him but specially against the streame foure or five dayes together then apply this Plaister Take Beane-meale and Mallowes of each one handfull Hogs grease halfe a pound chop the Mallowes small then put to the Hogs grease and so boyle it with a pinte of white Wine and when it is boyled put it into a cloath and wrap his cods therein and so order it as that it may gather like a purse and make it fast so as it may neither fall off nor hurt him dresse him herewith every day till he be well ✚ I have had great experience of this Receit but if you be desirous to have variety then looke over Master Blundevile and Master Markham who are well stored § 13. C. Hippoph WHat is best to be given for a cold Hippos There are so many and so good as that I am to seeke almost to know how to begin they be of so many and sundry sorts of them Cold. for some are for colds newly taken some for old colds some for colds that bringeth the Glanders c. Wherefore for colds newly taken at first you must understand Sir that a cold newly taken a thing not to be prevented by reason it oft times commeth by meanes and wayes unknowne you must observe first that if your Horse be propense to many bad humours whereof some Horses are more than others you must first then labour to expell them by purging his head then search betwixt his jawes and if there you do finde any small kernels then be you assured he hath a new-taken cold but if he have great kernels then was not the cold so lately taken as you might have imagined also if he doe rattle in the head it is a signe his cold is newly taken or if he doe voyd any thinne matter forth of his nose or eyes or if he hold his head into the manger or if when he drinketh the water commeth out of his nostrils or that he cougheth oft and sometimes perhaps cheweth mattrative stuffe betwixt his teeth c. These and many others be certaine signes of a Pose Catarre and newly taken cold wherein is no danger if it be taken in time otherwise it will come to a worse matter I will now give you sundry good Receits most of which I have often tryed and found to be right good First I hold moderate exercise and seasonable ayering to be marvellous good without further applying of medicines but if you finde that he is much stopped in the head then Take a small quantity of fresh or sweet Butter and of brimstone made into fine powder work them together til they be one entire body of a deep yellow gold colour then take two long wing Goose-feathers and annoynt them herewith to the very quils on either siâ—â— which done rowle them in more of the powder of Brimstone and so put them up into either nostrill one and at the but end of the quils put a strong packthred which must be fastned over his pole like to the headstall of a Bridle and then leap his back and ride him moderately up and down an houre or longer and this will provoke him to snort and snuffle forth of his nose and head much of the congealed filth which is in his head then tye him to the Racke for an houre after and this will purge his head very cleane then draw forth the feathers and he will doe well keeping him warme and giving him Mashes or white water every day for foure or five dayes after This Receit was taught me for more than 30 yeares since by a famous Marishall of France which since I found in Master Markhams Master-piece but I hold it one of the best things can be prescribed for this Malady ✚ Another very short but as good Take of Time one handfull boyle it in a quart of strong Ale till it come to a pinte then straine it and adde thereunto of ordinary Treacle two spoonfuls and give it him bloud-warme ✚ Another An excellent drinke to be given to a Horse for a new-taken cold provided he be young that is not above five yeares old Take of French Barly halfe a pound put it into a posnet and put thereto of faire water one quart and set it upon the fire and let it boyle a little then take it off and draine the water from the Barly and cast away the water then adde the second time the like quantity of water and boyle it as much as you did the first t me and then draine it from the water cast away the water again then adde once againe the like quantity of a quart of water as you did twice before and boyle that also so long a time as you did the two former waters draine this also from the Barly but cast it not away but keep it and then adde to the water of Anniseeds and Licoris of each halfe an ounce make them into very fine powder and searce them and put the said powder into the boyled water and adde to it of white sugar-candy foure ounces then set it upon the fire in a cleane skillet and so boyle it up untill a third part be consumed then take it off and straine it and give it your Horse bloud-warme drench him thus three mornings together and it will ripen his cold and cause it to come away This is very good ✚ Another Take of white wine vineger the best and strongest five spoonfuls and put to it of oyle de Bay one spoonfull warme it upon the fire stirring it well this must be made and given in the morning but when you doe administer it you must first put your drenching horn into faire water that is good and hot to keep the medicine from sticking to the horne then taking it forth out of the hot water before the horne can be cold and whilst it is yet moyst with the water put the one halfe of your medicine into the same and so as speedily as may be convey it into one of his nostrils and after the other moity into his other nostrill this done ride him for halfe an houre moderately then set him up and cloath and litter him warme and let him stand upon the trench three or foure houres before you give him any meat and after doe as is accustomed to be done to sicke Horses in Physicke ✚ This I doe approve
to be equivalent to either of the two former Another Tâ—ke water and salt so much as will suffice brew them well together it then being made bloud-warme give it him and doe after as is usuall ✚ This for a new taken cold I have often used and I doe finde it to be singular good to be given to a young Horse Another Take of oyle de Bay of Anniseeds and of Licoris of each one halfe penny worth and of browne sugar-candy a penny worth make all these into fine powder and being well mixed sew it up into a fine linnen rag and so fasten it unto the Bit or Snaffle of the Horse and so ride a journey and travell him and in short space he will be cured if it be a new-taken cold onely ✚ This I have also proved and I doe finde it good for it will cure both cold and cough if it be rightly applyed to wit with riding and exercise Another Take of white Wine one pinte Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte Rubarb and Aloes and Saffron of each two drams Nutmeg Sene Agarick Bay-berries Duke or Dutch powder and of Cordiall powder of each halfe an ounce mixe all these together and then adde to it of Honey foure ounces warme them well in a Pipkin and give it him to drinke bloud-warme but let him stand upon the trench at least three houres before and three houres after neither let him for all that day eate any Oates but in its stead let him have Wheate-bran and let his drinke be that day either a warme Mash or white water and no cold water but this white water for foure or five daies after and put into his Provender for some time Fennugrick made into grosse powder ✚ This is a most soveraigne drinke to be given for a cold But if you do finde that his head is very much oppressed with a Pose or Catar then give him this drinke twice a day viz. Take Fenugrick one ounce and boyle it in a good quantity of water till it burst then mixe with the decoction thereof wheate meale as much as will suffice and give it him to drink Another Take a quart of the best Ale and warme it upon the fire and put into it so much Tobacco made into fine powder as you can take up upon a shilling at twice and as much dryed Rosemary in fine powder as you may take up upon a shilling at once give him this to drink bloud-warme in a morning fasting This drinke is called Potio-Necotiana but I did never make tryall thereof for that I once saw it given by a Ferrier to a sicke Horse which so wrought with him as that with all his Lenitives and Cordials the Ferrier had much labour to save the life of the poore Horse this potion was so violent which notwithstanding drove the Horse into a most dangerous Calentura But the next is better Take a Hens egge and make a hole in the top thereof no bigger than that you may get forth the white and yolke Then take Tarre and sweet Butter of each like much as much as will suffice incorporate these well together into one body and so convey it into the egge shell and give it your Horse three or foure mornings together and either journey him gently or else ride him three or foure houres after it which done bring him into the Stable and cloath him up warme and litter him well and let him be well rubbed and so keep him upon the trench two houres after and then give him Hay and an houre after give him either a warme Mash or white water and this will help a cold newly taken ✚ This will not make him sicke for I have often made tryall of it Another as good as this Take the long white mosse that groweth upon an old dry Parke pale one handfull chop it small and put it into a pottle of good Ale or Beere till one halfe be consumed then take it off and straine and presse it hard and put into the liquor of Anniseeds and Licoris of each halfe a spoonfull and a piece of sweet Butter and so give it him three mornings together fasting and it will cure him X Another if he hath taken a cold or poze in the head Take a quart of Muskadine or sweet Sacke of Nutmegs Pepper Cominseed Graines Bay-berries of each three drams all made into fine powder boyle these a waume or two then take it off and put into it a piece of sweet Butter and give it your Horse three mornings together bloud-warme let him all those three dayes be kept warme neither let him drinke any cold water but either a sweet Mash or white water yea and that three or four dayes after and during these three dayes let him fast three houres after the receit of his said medicine Also three dayes after when you perceive the cold to begin to breake from him and to rot cause him to sneeze by blowing into either nostrils either the powder of Tobacco or of Pepper or of Elebore X Another which will cure a longer-taken cold yea though it be accompanyed with a dry cough and shortnesse of breath or pursivenesse which I had of Master Markham and I have often made tryall thereof and it hath done cures which have been held impossible to have been effected Take of the conserve of Elecampane three quarters of an ounce and dissolve it in a pinte and a halfe of sweet Sacke and so give it your Horse with a horne in a morning fasting and ride him gently a little after and thus doe sundry times untill you doe finde the infirmity to decrease Hippoph But Hipposerus this Conserve of Elecampane I doe suppose is hard to come by for surely every Countrey Apothecary hath it not how then may a Man make this Confection you so much commend Hippos Sir this Conserve I make my selfe and I will give you the receipt hereof You must understand that there bee two kinds thereof the one is called particularly a Preserve and the other an absolutâ— Conserve The first is Simple the other Compound both very soveraigne for this Infirmity but the Conserve is evermore to bee esteemed the better and I do counsell you never to be without either of them for they will keep the whole yeere through if they be reserved close stopped Wherefore as touching the first which is the Simple you must preserve it like as you doe all other greene rootes and so keepe them in a Gally pot or Glasse in a good quantity of its owne Sirop till you have occasion to use the same and when you are to use it let it bee beaten well in a Morter together with its Sirop and refined Sugar made first into very fine powder Now your Compound or Conserve is thus made First let your roots of Elecampâ—ne be neatly Candied and made very dry and hard and get the best and youngest Rootes can be had which must be kept also in a Gally pot or Glasse close stopped
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
some of these hearbs to the places or limbs greived and keep them on with a thumb-band of Hay wet in the said decoction and every day about noone anoynt the said visited member with Petroleum and Nervall and Oyle of Spike mixed together and keep him warme give him good meat and mashes or white water not only during the time of his cure but a good time after and let his ayrings be temperate and his exercise moderate and take heed of washing him after labour for that probably was the cause of his Convulsion ✚ Another Take strong white Wine vineger and Patch-grease alias Peece-grease of each like much melt them upon a gentle fire then with Wheat-flowre make it into a Poultesse and apply it to the grieved member good and warme renewing it morning and evening but before you doe administer this charge by holding a barre of iron or a chafing dish of coales neere let him be annoynted with Petroleum Nervall and Patch-grease and oyle of Spike of each like much very well and after binde on the charge all over the grieved place dresse him thus morning and evening and give him moderate exercise and ayrings and let him have Mashes and white water to drinke and keep him warm This is very good ✚ Another First rake him then give him the Clister prescribed in booke 2. chap. 11. § 8. Clister 4. then let two men on either side of the horse one rub him well with soft cloaths all his body and limbs over especially the diseased limb then cloath him up warme and let him stand upon the trench foure or five hours to the end the Clister may work the more kindly after give him meat and white water and so feed him for that day But I must tell you that so soon as you have given him this Clister and before his friction give him this drink whereby to cleanse his body viz. Take of white wine one pinte Aloes halfe an ounce Agarick half an ounce all beaten very small and infused in the Wine putting thereto of the purest clarified Hogs-grease one spoonfull or for want thereof and which is much better of sweet Butter sixe ounces and give him this bloud warme The next day prepare in a readinesse this unguent Take of strong Ale two quarts and of black Sope two pound boyle them together till they look black like Tarre and herewith annoynt rub and chafe him all over that the unguent may sinke in that done cloath him up and stuffe him warme that he may sweat well but stuffe head necke and brest well let him sweat thus two hours then coole him by degrees taking now a little from him then a little till he be brought to a good temper againe then keep him so and about one of the clock at afternoon give him a warm Mash or white water and then some Hay and an houre after that Provender Let not this drink be given him above once during his whole Cure but his Clisters Sweats and Frictions till he be well yet the Clisters not every day neither and let his drinke be white water wherein Mallowes have been boyled unlesse sometimes you give him wherewith to comfort him a sweet Mash but if he will not drink his white water boyled with Mallowes then let him have it without and let his food be that which is sweet and very good This did I never try but two severall Ferriers who lived more then 100 miles distant the one from the other gave me this Receit verbatim without scarse altring one word and they both protested unto me they have cured sundry Horses which have been forely perplexed with this disease Hippoph What meane you by moderate and temperate ayering of a Horse Hippos I doe meane by moderate ayering Ayering that he be not forth in ayering too long and by temperate ayering that a sicke Horse if there be cause why he should be ayered it be not done too late in the evening nor too early in the morning for that such kinde of ayerings will take too much from a Horse that is feeble or sick but in such cases let him be walked to his ayerings in a warme evening an houre before sunne-set at least and in a morning an houre after the sunne is up especially if the winde be not too high or blow too cold and that the sunne shine warme for by ayering before sunne rising and after sunne set like as is to be used with Running and Hunting Horses will make a fat strong Horse both so poor and leane as not to have a Crow of flesh on his back as the proverb is and so feeble as not to be able to arise being layed and therefore give not such kinde of ayerings to a Horse that is infirme but those which I do tearme the temperate ayerings will greatly comfort the spirits of your Horse give him a very good appetite to his meat and encrease his flesh and good liking whereas the late ayerings will be as I said before very noxious to sicke diseased or leane Horses § 17. C. Hippoph HOw doe you helpe a Horse that groweth costive or belly-bound Hippos The nature of this disease is such as that the Horse that is therewith troubled cannot discharge himselfe but with great paine and trouble his ordure comming from him both very dry and hard Horses that are kept too much to hard dry and hot meats are most incident to this malady sometimes it commeth by eating too much Provender especially Beanes Pease Tares or Wheat which albeit these graines be more hearty then any other yet they siccicate and dry up the moysture because they beget more heate and costivenesse in the body then other graines doe yea and winde too and bad humours causing obstructions and sometimes this costivenesse commeth to a Horse by reason he hath been kept to too spare a dyet as is usually seen in Horses in dyet for this hot and dry food doth suck up like to a spunge the flegmaticke moysture of the body giving way thereby that choller is become the more predominant so that the meat he eateth cannot be so well digested This is a disease very perilous and the origine of many maladies and it is easily knowne by its symptomes And you may cure him after this manner viz. Take the decoction of Mallowes one quart Costivenesse or Belly-bound Sallet oyle halfe a pinte or fresh Butter halfe a pound Benedicte laxative one ounce give him this bloud-warme clister-wise and then clap his tayle to his tuell and so cause him to keep it halfe an houre at least being walked up and downe then set him up warme and it will worke whereby he will empty himselfe and in due time give him a sweet Mash and after Hay and so keep him to Mashes or white water two or three â—ayes but withall faile not to rake him before you administer your Clister ✚ This is a most excellent Receit which you shall finde in lib. 2. chap. 6. § 7.
give him this drinke Take of new milke warmed as much as will suffice the yelkes of three new laid Egges of pepper made into very fine powder a halfe penny worth of Anniseeds Myrra Bay-berries Turmaricke powdred also of each halfe a dram of ordinary Treacle one penny worth and a little saffron powdred pound all the simples that are to be pounded every one by it selfe and mixe them well with the residue and let them infuse in the milke a whole night and the next morning give it to the Horse bloud warme and after order him as you are accustomed to doe to sicke Horses in Physicke but let him have this drink five mornings together and keep him to Mashes or white water and if during that time you doe not finde his appetite to come unto him better then before then let him rest foure dayes and at foure dayes end give him this drinke viz. Take Bay-berries Iuniper-berries Aristoloch rot Ivory Myrra of each two ounces make all these into fine powder and searse them and let them be well mixed boyle of this powder two spoonfuls in strong Ale one quart or Muskadine or Sacke one pinte which is much better adding thereto when you take it from the fire so much Pepper finely beaten as will lye on a sixe pence and so much grated Ginger as will lye upon a shilling and so bloud warme administer it to your Horse then so soone as he hath taken this drinke trot him gently a mile or two upon faire ground and then set him up warme and cause him to sweate in the Stable an houre but not too violently and after coole him discreetly and by degrees and give him this drinke and sweats three times to wit every other day and after the taking of these three drinkes Take of burnt Sack one pinte and put to it of Arement two good lumps made first into fine powder and give it your Horse two mornings that is to say having given it him once let him rest and then give it him for the secoâ—d drinke foure dayes after ✚ And thus have I cured sundry horses of this infirmity § 9. D. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Dropsie Hyppos This disease hath an apparant ground more then conjecturall for it never commeth to be knowne by any symptomes but onely when the horse falleth into dislike and loseth the true and perfect colour of his hayre and skinne and when he loseth his spirit mettle strength cheerefulnesse and stomacke and therefore we see it commeth principally for want of good nourishment and digesture which passeth into melancholy it proceeding either from the spleene or from the liver or both the bloud being corrupted and converted into a thin and watry substance and sometimes it commeth of over-much rest for want of moderate exercise which I doe judge to be the more probable Some Ferriers doe affirme that there be three kindes of this disease but I could never observe more then one only which hath its origen either of melancholy bloud water or winde but chiefly of water by reason that the belly legs of a horse will swell and that a watry humour runnes 'twixt the skin and the flesh and if you lay your finger hard upon the swolne places when you shall take it away there will be in the place a pit for a small time after The signes to know it are that he will be swelled both body and legges he will be also short-breathed lose his stomacke have in his body a continuall drought but yet when he commeth to drinke he will not drinke much but pudder long with his nose in the water he will be as if he had a generall consumption over all his body and in time he will pine and fall away to the very bones and his flankes and buttockes will be dry and his hayre will shed and pill off with every rubbing c. The cure is first let him bloud to take away the cold Dropsie thin watrish or wheyish bloud that better may come in its place then cover him warme and give him a sweat in the Stable but if he will not be brought to sweat in the Stable as many times it so falleth out then exercise him abroad till he sweat and bring him into the Stable againe and cloath and litter him warm and let him be well rubbed and give him Sallow leaves or the leaves of the Elme tree greene Rye blades Sedge or Grasse to keep his body open and when you doe give him Hay let it be sprinckled with water then give him this drinke Take of Ale one gallon set it upon the fire and scum off the froth as it riseth then put into it of Worm-wood and of Rue the tender tops and leaves without stalkes carefully picked of each a handfull and so boyle the Ale to a quart then take it off and straine it well and dissolve into it of the best London Treacle three ounces and put also unto it of long-Pepper and Grains both made into fine powder of each one ounce then brew all these well together till it be but bloud warme and so give it him to drinke then bathe and annoynt the legs that be swelled with Trayne-oyle twice a day till the swelling goe away and give him Mashes or white water and feed him with such meate as he will best eate changing his dyet daily and give it him by little at once and after some small time thus spent with him if the weather be seasonable turne him to grasse and he shall doe well and become sound againe ✚ This is all the Dropsie I doe know howsoever many Ferriers doe talke much of another kinde which they doe call the Feltrick which is not truely a Dropsie but a disease distinct from the Dropsie unto which young Horses are inclinable that from Foles and Colts are bred in Fennes Moores Marshes moyst and wet grounds and Commons by meanes whereof they will swell exceedingly under the belly and so soone as they doe come to be handled and backed whereby they may be provoked to sweate they will presently have inflamations under the Chaule runne at nose fall into an incurable Glanders and in a word become inwardly rotten The cure is Feltrick First with your fleame strike him in sundry places under the belly where the swelling is most ranke and so let the corrupt bloud and filth issue forth by the space of an houre or two then wipe the places cleane and dry and then Take of Buck-lye made very strong with chamber-lye and the ashes of Ashen wood and dissolve into the lye of Vnguentum Populeon and Dialthea of each one ounce or as much as will suffice according to the Lye you have and being made good and hot wash bathe and annoynt the swelling therewith morning and evening till the swelling be quite gone and after every dressing trot him up and downe by the space of a quarter of an houre which will be a very good meanes to cause
then take Lint or fine Hurds and dip it into the medicine and so stop it into the eares of the Horse and with a needle and threed stitch up his eares so as the medicine get not forth the next day take the dry mosse which groweth upon an old pale of a Parke or other pale or upon the limbs of an old Oke one handfull or better chop it small and boyle it in a pottle of new milke together with a green root of Elecampane cut into thin and small slices and so let it boyle till halfe the milke be consumed then straine it and presse it throughly and before it be cold put into the milke a good piece of sweet Butter and of ordinary Treacle so much as will suffice and so give it him bloud warme ✚ This is also good for the head-ach Frenzy Stavers Pose Cold Cough wet or dry shortnesse of breath rotten lungs Glaunders mourning of the Chine Laxe Loosenesse Bloudy-fluxe of the like diseases §. 16. D. Hippoph WHat may a man apply to a Horse to cause him to draw up his yard Hippos This is a disease which commeth of weakenesse in the backe Draw his yard or kidneyes either through over-riding or some leap or strain or by meanes of a cold and sometimes it commeth by a terrible stripe given him upon the loynes against the kidneyes or upon the yard it selfe or by wearinesse or tyrednesse the signes to know it is by the unseemely hanging of the member and the cure is thus First wash and bathe all the yard and sheath with white Wine made warme and after that annoynt it with oyle of Roses and life honey mingled together and so put up the yard into the sheath and with a soft boulster of Canvas keep it from falling downe and dresse him thus every day once till hee we well and let his backe and fillets be kept warme and annoynted with Acopum or if you have not Acopum then apply this charge unto his backe and fillets Take Bolearmonacke the whites of Egges Wheate meale Sanguis Draconis Venis Turpentine and strong white Wine vineger of each of these as much as will suffice mixe them well and charge his backe therewith his sheath and his stones and he shall be well Another Take the ashes of Ashen wood the whitest finest and best burned and searse them one pound or red-clay dryed and made into fine powder halfe a pound Bolearmonacke halfe an ounce powdred boyle all these in as much Verjuyce of the crab as will make it liquid like pap and with it annoynt his yard sheath and stones morning and evening and he shall be presently cured ✚ This is speciall good §. 17. D. Hippoph VVHat is good to draw a thorne stub iron splinter naile or what else out of the flesh of the horse Hippos If the stub thorne or whatsoever else it be that is gotten into the flesh be so deep as that you cannot come to it to plucke it forth with your fingers or plyers then lay to the place a good quantity of blacke sope Draw a thorne and so let it lye all night and in the morning it will make it to appeare so as you may come to take hold of it with your Instrument but if it be gotten into the flesh so deep as that the sope cannot doe it then must you open the flesh by the way of incision so deep till you may come to take hold thereof with your Instrument and so plucke it forth which done heale up the wound with the oyntment taught you in lib. 2. cap. 10. § 4. G. and so heale it up but be you certaine that you doe heale it from the bottome lest it breake out againe ✚ This is the most certaine way for this cure that I doe know §. 18. D. Hippoph VVHat good drinke is to be given whereby to preserve the lungs Hippos If you have no great occasion to feare your horses lungs then you may administer to him in his Provender onely such powders as you shall finde prescribed you already in lib. 2. cap. 2. § 43. but if you have just cause to suspect that his lungs may be rotten fretized or broken then to heale or make them sound againe or at least to give him great ease for you may know it by these signes Drinke to preserve lungs viz. his flankes will beat when he cougheth which he will often do but principally when you give him riding or exercise and the slower they beat the older and more dangerous the disease is he will also draw his winde short he will grone oft but most in lying downe and rising up and be very fearefull and loth to cough The cure is Take Tartar made of white Wine Lees which you may have of the Apothecaries or if you please you may make it your selfe for it is none other thing then the thickest of the Lees of white Wine well dryed and made into powder Take I say of this one ounce and a halfe of Isope and of Colts foot of each halfe a handfull of Hore-hound one handfull of Elecampane in fine powder Anniseeds and Licoris of each one ounce of browne sugar candy foure ounces boyle all these together in good Ale one quart and when it is halfe boyled put into it of Isope water and of Colts-foot water both twice distilled to take off their crudities of each one pinte and so boyle all againe together and then straine it and give it your Horse bloud warme ✚ If your Horse have been exercised being foule or having been in dyet then he hath been over-much used to Clisters Drinkes Rakings Purgations Sweats Vomits and the like give him this drinke then and you shall finde it to be most soveraign for him and the cleaner he is within the better is its operation and will worke more kindely in his body and at what times you are to Tilt Hunt Travell or exercise him give him but one pinte of this drinke in the morning fasting before his going forth for it will so helpe his breath whereby through moderate exercise he will be much the better able to goe through with his worke then otherwise he could have done ✚ And this drinke I have often proved Also if you doe finde him to be either diseased or sicke in his lungs or that they be any way fretized then give him this drinke Take of tryed Hogges-grease two ounces and of Diapente three spoonfuls put these into a quart of water wherein Barly hath been boyled till it burst and warme it in the fire till the Hog-grease be dissolved and so bloud warme give it your sicke Horse and three houres after give him of the Barley warme to eate and either sweet mashes or white water to drinke ✚ This was taught mee by an Italian Rider in Paris and I have often made use thereof and have found it to be speciall good howbeit for the time it will cause him to bee very sick but have no feare for it
is right good for this Malady Another Take Muskadine or sweet Sack one pint life-honey thâ—â—e Spoonfuls Myhrre Saffaron Cascia and Cinamon of each like much make all these into fine powder and mixe two Spoonefuls of this powder with your Muskadine and Hony and give it him warme with a Horne give him this drinke fifteene daies together continuing to give him mashes and white water and this is a most certaine Cure ✚ But if you do find that his Lungs be rotten and impostumated then Take of the juyce of Purslaine halfe a pint and mix therwith of the Oyle of Roses so much as will suffice and put thereto a little Tragantum steeped before in Goates Ewes or Cowes milke and give him thereof to drinke seven mornings together but this drinke will but only ripen and breake the Impostume which you shall know to be done by his exceeding stincking breath then shall you give him in fine powder Cassia three ounces and seaven Raisins of the Sunne stoned boyle these in Muskadine one pint and bloud warme give it him and it will heale up his Lungs againe ✚ This is very good §. 19. D. Hippoph IS there no good thing to be given to a Horse wherewith to prevent diseases all the whole yeare Hippos As touching the prevention of all diseases I have spoken before I thinke sufficiently but yet I will teach you one thing for that you are desirous to learne and learning is no burthen which may bee worthy your notice for I will keepe no secret from you Sithence it is my Masters pleasure I should dilate the utmost of my skill and Art First therefore the spring of the yeare comming on a time when new bloud beginneth to come and that ere long grasse wil be able to take heart whereby the better to give nutriment to a Horse The first day of April open a veine in the Neck to see the better how the bloud is if good take the lesse if bad then the more then from that day untill the first of May give him this which I shall prescribe you and let him have it every day without fayle Morning and Evening during the whole month of April from the first day to the last which is before his turning out to grasse or soyling which should be about the middle of May and let him have the same also all the whole month of October like as you must do in April after you have taken him from grasse about Bartholmewtide and do as you before have bin taught in all poynts That which I prescribe is this Take a Bushell of old Rie sweet and cleane well purged Diseases 〈◊〉 prevent or sifted from dust stones lome feathers cobwebs or any such like filth and put it into a cleane iron pot dry and without water I meane such an iron pot in which usually flesh meat is boyled for such a like vessell is best for this our purpose it taketh least harme and is much more wholesome then Brasse Copper or any other mettall set this pot thus dry and without water over the fire and put into it your Bushell of Rie for a lesse quantity you cannot well have and as it beginneth to wax hot keepe the Rie with continuall stirring even from the bottome without any intermission untill you have so parched the Rie that it becommeth black and hard which to be so will aske good heat and no lesse labour to stirre it up and downe in the pot when you do find that the Rie is sufficiently parched which you shall know by its blacknesse drynesse and hardnes take it from the fire and put it into some other cleane and dry vessell which so soon as it is cold let the vessell be kept close stopped and so kept for your use Now when you are to use of this Rie take two or three good handfuls of it and let it bee beaten to fine powder and given to your Horse mingled with his Provender at every watring morning and evening or other times when you usually give him Oates doe this these two entire months of April and October for that all men doe hold that in these two months the bloud turneth and altereth as wee alter his diet from hard and dry meate to grasse and so likewise from grasse to dry meate for this Rie thus parched and ordred doth refine the Bloud coole the Liver and purgeth the Spleene so as the whol structure of the body is thereby the better eased and freed from all such bad and unnaturall humors which would otherwise make the body inclinable to sundry Maladies and diseases which this Rie preventeth and therefore if you bee willing to keepe your Horse sound and free from diseases order him in these two months according as I have prescribed you and you shal be secure ✚ This I have oft made use of and it is good §. 20. D. Hippoph HAve you any comfortable drinke to administer to a Horse that is very sicke Hippos I have heretofore shewed you divers but yet I will give you one more Take of good white Wine one pinte of white Sugar Candy Drink comfortable and of Cinamon of each one ounce of Cloves halfe an ounce Saffron three drammes of Sugar refined three ounces make all these into fine powder then take Mithridate two ounces Honey of Roses foure ounces mixe all these well together and put it to the Wine and make it bloud warme over the fire and so give it him and now and then as he standeth upon the trench let him chew upon the end of a Buls pizell some Arman let him be cloathed and littered warm and remaine fasting upon the trench three houres and after give him a sweet Mash or white water and after order him as is usuall for a sicke horse ✚ This is one of the best preservative drinkes that I know and I have had great proofe thereof §. 21. D. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you for a dislocated joynt Hippos Let it be first put into its right place then in the binding up apply this plaister Dislocated joynt Take Wheate Bran and Hogs-grease of each as much as will suffice make them into one body and make thereof a Plaister of Hurds and so apply it to the place and after binde and swathe it up and the joynt and member will be well againe having rest §. 22. D. Hippoph WHat disease is that is called Tranchaisons Hippos This tearme we have from the French which is onely a paine or griping in the belly caused partly of winde and partly of cold and eftsoones of both and our English tearme is the Chollicke which is a most grievous paine ingendring many infirmities as I have before declared in its due place notwithstanding because you have given me the French tearme I will give you two or three French Receits for the same disease albeit I did never experiment any of them yet I doe hold them to be good Disease of Tranchaisons or the chollicke Take of
in the Eye this every Smith can take away neverthelesse whereas all other Ferriers that ever I saw worke upon this disease do use to take it away from the out-side of the Eye I doe take it away from that part which lyeth next of all to the eye and I doe finde my way to be much better and a safer way as well whereby to preserve the sight of the eye as also the wash and so soone as I have cut out the Haw I doe use to wash the eye with white Wine and the juyce of selendine mingled together of each a like much for this healeth the sorance and keepeth the eye from rankling Now I have oft times seene the French Marishals take up the wash of the eye with a Spanish needle threeded with a double brown threed and to pluck forth the Haw so farre as he well can then with a payre of sizers to clip off the Haw so close as he can but I cannot commend this manner of curing the Haw for by that meanes he cutteth away the wash of the eye which indeed is the beauty of the eye whereby the Horse becommeth bleare-eyed which is in him a very great eye-sore he being thereby very much disfigured ✚ But if your Horse have gotten a canker in his eye then Eye a Canker Take Ale-hoofe which is indeed your true ground Ivy and stamp it well in a morter and if it be very dry then moysten it with a little white Rose-water or the water of Eye-bright distilled as much as will suffice and so straine it into a cleane glasse and therewith wash bathe annoynt and taint the sorance therewith and in short time it will cure it ✚ This is very good to cure a Canker a Pin and Web bloud shotten eyes or any such griefe in or about the eyes and I have often made use of this medicine Another much better Take of stone Coperas a thing knowne to few and therefore very hard to get but in the stead thereof you may use ordinary white Coperas make it into fine powder as much as will suffice for I must leave the quantity to your owne discretion and put it into a small Pipkin and put thereto so much very faire cleare running or Well water as will fill up the Pipkin to the very top then set the Pipkin upon a few coales and cause the water to boyle but so treatibly as it may but onely simper and as the scum doth arise take it away with a feather continuing so to doe till the scum doe leave to arise any more and when you have sufficiently well boyled it take it off and let it stand till it be through cold then poure away the cleare from the bottome which must be cast away and the cleare kept in a glasse viall very close stopped and bound up for your use which being thus carefully kept the water will remaine in its perfection long yea a whole yeare together or longer This water cureth almost all diseases in the eyes as Filmes Pearles weeping eyes Pin and Web Dragons Cataracts dimnesse of sight Blindenesse Rheumaâ—icke watry stroake blow or stripe of or in the eye and so consequently in many other cases of the like nature ✚ And of this water I have had great experience Another Take Sal-Armoniack Lapis-Tulia prepared Sagina called in Latine Panicum-Indicum and of Ginger of each halfe an ounce and of white sugar-candy two ounces powder all these and searse them and being well mixed put this powder into a cleane and dry boxe very close stopped and so keep it that no ayre come to it for your use and when you have occasion to use of this powder take a little thereof and mixe with it of the juyce of ground Ivy alias Ale-hoofe as much as will suffice and so twice a day convey thereof into his eye with a feather till it be throughly whole ✚ This is a principall good receit I will give you another speciall good receit which will cure all manner of sore eyes Take the leaves and roots of Vervine ordinary honey and Roman Vitrioll of each like much beat bruise and mixe these together and put it into a stillitory glasse and distill it by Balnea-Maria with a gentle fire and the water you take into your Receptacle put into a viall glasse and keepe it very close stopped that no ayre get into it and when you are to use of the same water poure of it a little into a silver spoone and mixe with it of the fat of a Henne or Capon a small quantity and therewith annoynt the sore eye twice a day and it will cure the same perfectly ✚ I will give you another receit which will take the filme from off the eye albeit there be a very great and thicke skin growne Take the gall of a Hare and life honey of each like much put them together into a spoon and hold the spoone over the fire till the medicine be bloud warme and with a feather convey part of this medicine into the eye of the Horse and thus dresse him morning and evening and in short time it will take it quite away so as the eye will become as bright and cleare againe as ever it was before ✚ This receit I doe hold no whit inferiour to any of the former for I have often made use thereof But if your Horse have gotten a stripe in the eye then let him bloud in the necke and in the weeping veyne on the same side where the stripe is then Take white Rose-water and the white of a new laid egge beat them very well together then wash and bathe the eye well therwith and lay round about it with your splatter this charge restringent Take Masticke Bolearmonacke Sanguis Draconis the white of a new laid egge and white wine vineger of the strongest Eye a charge beat first the hard simples to very fine powder and then searse them and they must be beaten severally then mixe them all together with the white of the egge and the vineger so well wrought as that the medicine come to a thicke oyntment and with this charge the sorance round about the eye and this will keepe off the humour and when that you finde that the eye doth begin to amend then wash and bathe the eye twice or thrice a day or oftner with cold fountaine or Well water so fresh as it is taken or drawne out of the Well or Fountaine and if after you shall perceive that there doth grow a filme or skin over the eye then take it away by blowing or putting the powder of Camphire or Sol Armoniacum or white sugar-Candy in fine powder according as I have before prescribed you ✚ This is a most soveraigne receit Also if your Horse in his eye have gotten a stripe Take of fresh Butter wherein never came salt the quantity of a Walnut and put it into his eare on that side where the stripe is and it will helpe him
therewith and after annoynt the coffin of the hoofes good and thicke with the same receit And this is the best mollifier can be had in a cure of this nature ✚ I have often used it § 16. F. Hippoph WHat remedy have you for the Figge in the foot of a Horse Hippos This disease is so called by reason of that naughty flesh which groweth upon the frush or heele which is in likenesse and shape of a figge from whence this malady and sorance taketh its denomination and the French also give it the very same Epitheton viz. la Figne which signifieth a figge It commeth by means of some hurt which the Horse hath formerly received in his foot which was not well healed by some nail stub thorn bone or stone oft times by some over-reach upon the heele or frush It is apparant to the eye and therefore needs no other remonstrance The cure is Cut away the hoofe so as there may be a convenient space betwixt the sole and the hoofe Figge in tâ— foot to the end the figge may the more easily be cured then put to the sorance a piece of spunge which you must binde close upon the figge which will eate it off to the very root then heale up the sore with the green oyntment taught you in lib. 2 chap. 10. § 4. G. ✚ This I have found good Another Cut away the figge close either with your incision knife or else burne it off with a hot iron which is the better way and so lay unto it for two dayes after tryed Hogs grease to take away the fire Take then the tops of the most angry yong nettles you can finde pound them very small and so lay them upon a linnen cloth just the bignesse of the figge then take the powder of Verdegreece and strew it upon the chopped nettles which must be done before you lay it to the sorance and so binde it upon the sorance renewing it every day once till the hoofe have covered the sore ✚ This I doe know to be a most certain cure for it never did faile me § 17. F. Hippoph BVt now what say you to a Fistula how doe you cure that Hippos A Fistula is a hollow ulcer which maketh its way crooked proceeding oft times from naughty and malignant humours sometimes it is ingendred from some wound which hath not bin well healed sometimes it commeth by meanes of a stripe which having been so strongly laid on that it hath bruised the flesh to the bone whereby it hath putrified inwardly and either brake forth of it selfe or was opened by the Ferrier and thus it commeth to be a Fistula sometimes it commeth by a wrench or pinch with a Collar in drawing or by being wrung by the tree of a bad saddle and sometimes it ingendreth of its own accord by the meanes of peccant and bilious humours which hath long lyen lurking in the body of the Horse The signes how to know it are so manifest as that it needeth not an Ecce The way how to cure it is to search to the bottome either with a probe of lead or else with some other thing which will bend and yeeld which way soever the concavity of the sorance leadeth it and when you have found the bottome thereof let it be opened downwards if it may possibly be done to the end the corruption may the better issue from the place then taint it for two or three dayes with tryed Hogs-grease thereby to cause the hole to be the wider and then inject this water following Take of Sublimate and of Precipiâ—at of each so much as will lye upon a three pence of Alume and of white Coperas of each three ounces burn all these in an earthen pot but first rub the bottom with a little oyle that it may not burn there this done burne them all together then take of faire cleare water two quarts boyle this water first by it selfe and scum it in the boyling then take it from the fire and put in as much of this powder as will lye upon a shilling at twice and thus it is made But if you be desirous to make this water of more strength and efficacy take then faire water and Coltrough or Smiths water of each like much and of white Wine Vineger a third part and with the ashes of Ashen wood make lye of them with the water and Vineger and so make your water with this powder and lye and the former ingredients according as before is taught you Inject this water with a Syringe into the sorance and in short time it will both kill the fistula Fistula and heale it up ✚ This is a most approved and infallible cure Another Take of the best honey one pinte of Verdigreece one ounce make it into fine powder and so boyle them together upon a soft fire three quarters of an houre that done strain it into a gally pot and so keep it for your use ✚ This is a most pretious unguent wherewith to taint a fistula or poll evill for it goeth down to the bottome it eateth away all dead and evill flesh whereby to cause that the carnifying flesh may heale the better ✚ This I have often tryed I have also another Aegiptiacum which I make thus Take honey one pinte white Wine Vineger halfe a pinte Allum three ounces and Verdigreece finely powdered one ounce and a halfe boyle all these together till it be thicke this is a good Aegyptiacum But if you desire to make it yet stronger then put to these ingredients of Mercury sublimate in fine powder one ounce and of Arsnick three scruples powdred also and so boyle them with the former ingredients This last will kill any fistula or old ulcer whatsoever being dressed therewith but the other which is made onely of Vineger Allum and Verdigreece may be applyed to a fistula in the mouth without prejudice to the Horse ✚ Of both these I have made often tryall §. 18. F. Hippoph HAve you not some good water beside wherewith to wash a Fistula or old sore Hippos I can give you a most excellent water which is this Take white Wine Vineger four pints Fistula water of Camphire and of Mercury-Precipitate of each halfe an ounce greene Treacle three ounces red Sage Yarrow and Rib wort of each one handfull of Honey and of Hogs-grease of each halfe a pound boyle all these together untill the one halfe be consumed and then strain it and so wash and cleanse the wound with the liquor X This is speciall good Another no whit inferiour to the former Take of Coltrough water four quarts first boyle it by it selfe a good while and scumme it so long as any scumme doth arise then straine it through a fine cloth into a cleane pot and throw away the grounds which will be black and naught then wash the Postnet cleane wherein it was boyled and put in your water againe Then take of white Coperas of Allum and of
Verdegreece of each one pound beat them all into fine powder and put them into the water and boyle them all together and when it is boyled as much as will suffice which will soon be done let it stand to settle a while then poure the cleare into a glasse being first cold enough and so keep it for your use But the powder which remaineth in the bottome you may dry and keep in a boxe by it selfe for it will heale and dry up any sore or ulcer This water being injected with a syringe of wood or pewter will cure any fistula whatsoever if it may come to the bottome thereof ✚ Of this water I have had great experience But you must understand that these severall waters will onely kill the cankerous humour of the fistula and therefore after the malice thereof is quelled you must heale up the sorance with the green oyntment prescribed you in lib. 2 chap. 10. § 4. G. or else with some carnifying salve or unguent Another Search the depth thereof with your Probe as before is taught you but be certaine you finde the bottome then if the bottome be where you may boldly make incision do it and that so wide as that you may thrust in your finger to feele whether any bone or gristle be perished or whether there be any spungy loose dead or proud flesh therein which must first be gotten forth either by incision or by corrosive then take of common honey foure ounces and of Verdigreece one ounce made into fine powder boyle these together keeping it alwaies boyling and stirring it till it look red then with a taint of Hurds taint it to the bottome and make it so fast that it get not forth and renew the taint every day once till it have done mattering making the taint every day shorter then other and sprinckle upon it a little slaked Lime But if you cannot come to taint it to the bottome of the fistula then take strong Lye Honey Roch-Allum white Mercury of each as much as will suffice and boyle them together and inject it to the very bottome of the fistula and it will kill it ✚ But if the fistula be in the head then Take the juyce of Houseleeke and dip a locke of blacke Wooll into it and put the same into his eares and so stitch them up renewing it every day till it be whole This cure hath been highly recommended unto me but I never had opportunity to make proofe thereof Another Take Roman Vitreall Roch-Allum and rose-Rose-water of each two ounces boyle all these on a quicke fire till they come to be as hard as a stone then beat it to fine powder and when you dresse the sore make a taint which being dipped in unguentum Aegyptiacum rowle then in this powder and so convey the end of your taint down to the very bottome of the fistula This is the best way also to cure a poll-evill and this powder being laid upon an old sore will both heale and dry it up ✚ This I onely made twice proofe of the first time to a fistula and the second time to a poll-evill both which cures I perfected But now you would gladly know how to ripen and breake a fistula wherefore Take Brooke-lime Mallowes Assmart of each like much boyle them in old Chamberlye till the hearbs be very soft and apply these hearbs to the swelling neither doe you renew it in two or three dayes and then it will both ripen and breake any impostume ✚ This I have often used and found very good And let this suffice for this malady §. 19. F. Hippoph NOw let us come to the Feete how doe you cure the Fetlock being hurt Hippos If this sorance commeth by any wound by the biting of a Dogge or by being cast in a Halter then the best way to cure the same is Take unslaked lime and the yelke of an Egge of each like much Fetlock hurt beat them together to a salve or unguent then mixe therewith the juyce of one head of Garlick and a little soot and with this annoint the sore till it be almost whole then to skinne the same Take Sallet oyle and oyle of Roses of each one ounce of Turpentine three ounces and of new waxe one ounce melt them altogether and adde to it a fourth part of the powder Verdegrease and herewith annoynting the sore in few dayes it will heale it and skin it up very soundly ✚ This is a very well approved Receipt But if your horse have gotten a sore foot by meanes of any cannell-nayle or bruise by treading upon a stone which after rankleth inwardly or by other accident then first rayle the skinne with your Cornet and lay upon sorance Wheate-flower and Bores-grease well incorporate together and dresse him therewith twice a day for two daies together and at the second dayes end Take the powder of Quick lime Sope and Tallow and mixe them well together for three dayes or more apply it to the place dressing it also twice a day then wash the wound with hot Vineger and put upon it Caprinell till it be whole This I nevâ—r tryed Froathy oâ— weeping hoofe But if the hoofe doe weepe or froath by sending forth thinne watry or froathy stuffe then open the toppe thereof with your Cornet so as the wound may become hollow round about the extreamities thereof so farre forth as that you may come to the Master Keine to breake it in sunder which done let it bleed at pleasure what it will and when the Veine hath stanched fill up the wound with Salt finely powdred then take Hurds and steepe them in Vineger and so stop the wound therewith and bind thereto a cloath to keepe the same from falling away and it will cure it ✚ But if the sole be hoofe and in danger to fall away draw it round twixt the sole and the hoofe with your drawing Iron and so take out the soâ—e quite and then suffer his foot to bleed well then apply to it this Plaister Take the whites of Egges and beate them a little and so laying them upon Hurds apply it to the foot and bind it on that it fall not off and let it remaine on so by the space of two dayes which ended open it and wash the foote with strong Vineger warmed and then fill the sole with the powder of Salt and Tartar mixed together and so bind it up with Hurds steeped in strong Vineger and thus dresse it till it be whole These two Receipts were taught me by a famous Ferrier of Paris in France but I never had occasion to make use of it howbeit I esteeme them to be very good But if your horse be foundred in the feet and that he hath not bin foundred above foure daies then with this ensuing Receipt you may easily set him upright and make him sound againe in foure dayes more The Cure is this Foundring in the feet First let him bloud in the Neck Breast
for the residue I do remit you to its proper place when and where I will give you store of good Receipts and therfore I leave it for the present § 26. F. Hippoph VVHat is good to stay a Flux Hippos This commeth of cold taken sometimes by reason nature is offended with some cholerick humour proceeding from the Liver or Gall into the Guts it commeth eftsoones when a horse drinketh too much presently after the eating a great quantity of Provender for by that meanes the water comming to the Provender causeth the Provender to swell whereby crudities are bred in the stomack and so conveyed down into the Guts which occasioneth his Flux also it commeth by travelling too soone after provender it not being well digested before and it will come also to a Horse by drinking cold water when he is very hot and after the water not being presently warmed in his belly is the cause of a Lax or Flux It will also come by eating of a Feather Hen-dung Spider some venemous worme or other troublesome creature and therefore my counsell is not to stop a Flux too hastily unlesse you do finde that your horse do purge too too violently and then be you well assured that nature is not a little offended for it will bring him in short time to great weaknesse and debility of body give him therefore first the Clyster Laxative Flux which you have taught you in lib. 2. chap. 6 § 8. Clyster 21. letter C. and that will carry away from him all that may any way offend him and a day after give him tâ—â—â— drink Beane flower and Bole-Armoniack powdred of each three ounces mix them with red Wine or Tinte one quart give it him bloud warme and after keep him warme in the stable and let him have Hay and Oates by a little at a time and that often and eyther sweete Mashes or white water ✚ This is very good Another Take of red Wine one quart and Bay-salt one handfull and brew them well together and with a horne give it him and this will stay his scowring ✚ This is also an approved Cure Another Take of wood Ashes finely searsed and of Bole-Armoniack made into very fine powder of each like much put them into the water that he is to drinke and let him drinke thereof morning and evening and this will stay his Flux ✚ But if it be a violent scowring proceeding from the eating of a Feather or some other naughty thing so as this will not stay it then Take the entrals of a Pullet or great Chicken all but the Gizard and mixe with them of Spike-nard one ounce and make him swallow it and this will infallibly stay his scowring yea if it be a bloudy Flux ✚ This is speciall good § 27. F. Hippoph VVHat good Receipt have you to Mundifie cleanse and heale foule and old Sores Hippos I had thought Sir you would not have fallen upon this till it had come to its proper place when and where we should have the particular matters of Sores by themselves together with their cures but sithence you are pleased to touch them in this place I will give you one Receit which cannot easily be paralleld Take of green Coperas and of Salt-Peter of each halfe a pound Foule an old sores â— mundifie bay Salt and Salt-Gemma of each three ounces Arsnick one ounce put all these finely powdred into a stillitory glasse the pot or bottome thereof well nealed and put also thereunto of the strongest white Wine Vineger one pinte set the pot on the fire and put on the head closing it with Cute of Hermes and being thus placed in the furnace make under it a strong fire by the space of five or sixe hours and with your Receptory take the first water that commeth for that is the very strongest and best and after an houre the fire will be out of the warer then stop up the glasse very close and so keep the water for your use The next water is also good but not so strong as the first but reserve it also by it selfe as you do the first And when you are to wash any sores therewith be very carefull that you lay none of this water upon either sinewes or veynes for that it will burn them in sunder but where Vlcers and fouler old sores be in the fleshy parts this water will work wonders if wounds be washed with it and you carefull in the application thereof ✚ Of this I have had great experience Another I have taught me by an expert Marishall of France but by reason of the extreame violence thereof I never durst use it which is called the spirit of Tinne which will also mundifie all sorts of old sores and the French Marishals do use it much And this is the Receit viz. Take Mercury one ounce Spirit of Tinne and put into an old cleane pewter pottinger and fill up the pottinger with Plantane water and with your finger stirre the Mercury about the pottinger till it be quite dissolved and then the water will become white then let it stand an hour in the pottinger then poure forth the water into a cleane glasse-viall and then you shall see in the bottome of your pottenger the Tinne runne liquid like unto Quick-silver or life as if it were melted for that is your spirit of Tinne and thus is it made § 28. F. Hippoph WHat is to be administred to a Horse that forsaketh his meate Hippos There be many causes that may make a Horse to forsake his meate and yet not be sicke at all and so also by occasion of sicknesse that either comming upon him or else which hath already seized him And first a Horse may forsake his meate and forbeare to eate for some time no whit sicke as when he shall eyther linger after Mares or after grasse being weary of dry meate againe he may forbeare his meate and yet not be sicke by meanes of some accident or inconvenience bred in him or befalne unto him as by having the Lampes Barbs Giggs Blisters bloudy-rifts tongue hurt paine in the teeth or some such like infirmity in or about his mouth these may be causes that may induce him to forbeare to eate and yet the creature not sicke but otherwise healthy and hungry and faine would feed but eyther cannot or dare not Also a Horse may forsake his meate being through the inconsideratenesse of his keeper cloyed whereby he doth loath his meat sometimes through over-ayerings morning and evening sometimes againe by suffering him to eate being very hot after great swearing upon immoderate riding and toyle or after water or washing being also very hot These and many more may be the causes why a Horse may forsake his meat and yet not be sicke And he may also forsake his meat by reason of sicknesse ensuing as upon Colds Rhumes and Catarres newly taken and beginning to be felt upon him so also he may forsake his meat by reason
only apply the medicine taught you in lib 2. chap. 16. § 10. L. for the Poll-evill ✚ This whay is also good to cure the bloudy Riftes Bladders Canker in the mouth Barbs Pappes and all Feavers and Maladies in the Mouth Another Take life-hony seven spoonfuls and Verde-grease halfe an ounce and boyle them till the hony bee halfe consumed and that it is become red then put it into some cleane pot and annoynt the sorance therewith made warme twice every day and when you have thus annoynted it cast upon the place Hurds cut very short to keep on the oyntment and this will in short time heale it up very sound ✚ This is most soveraign for any shackle-galde which commeth eyther by lock cord or shackle but if your Horse be desperately galled in any part of his body as by the girt or otherwise then Take of Verjuyce of the Crab two quarts of greene Copperas two penny-worth and boyle them together to one pint and a halfe and wash the sorance therewith very well and after fill up the hole if any be with the powder of red-leade and so let it remaine three dayes untoucht then wash it as before and fill it with your red ointment againe and thus in two or three times dressing it will heale up bee the galling never so dangerous ✚ This have I often used §. 3. G. Hippoph VVHat is best to bee done to a Horse that is Gravelled Hippos This malady commeth when a horse in his travell hath gotten gravell betwixt the sole and the hoofe which setleth at the quicke and there fretteth and festreth you shall soone know it by his halting and complayning upon the same foot which so soone as you do perceive take up the foote and you shall feele it warmâ—t in that place then in any other part of the foote and if you make tryall with your Pinsors Gravelling you shall perceive him to shrinke and to yeeld when you nip him against that place Take off the shooe and with your drawing iron draw the place till you come unto the quick picke forth all the gravell and crush forth the matter and bloud cleane then wash the sore cleane with your Copperas water taught you in the next ensuing Paragraph then poure upon the sore sheeps-Tallow and Bay-salt molten together of each so much as will suffice and let it bee poured into the wound scalding hot then stop up the hole with hurds and set on the shooe againe and at two or three times dressing it will be whole but till he be through well do not travell him neyther let his foote come into any wet ✚ This is a certaine cure Another Search and draw the place as before and get forth all the gravell then stop the place with Hogs-grease and Turpentine molten together pouring it into the wound scalding hot and stop it up with hurds and tack on the shooe and keepe his foote from wet and hee will soone bee whole This is also very good Another Be you certaine that you have gotten forth all the gravell and corruption then Take Virgin-waxe one ounce Rosin and Deeres-suet of each two ounces Bores-grease halfe an ounce and of Sea-greene alias House-leeke one head incorporate all these together in a Morter then melt them over a very gentle fire and so apply it hot to the sorance and stop it up with hurds and tack on the shooe and in few dressings it will cure it ✚ This is a speciall good cure § 4. G. Hippoph HOw doe you make your greene oyntment you doe so much commend Hippos Sir this Vnguent which I doe so much commend unto you is the most rare and soveraigne thing that I ever yet saw or knew for the cure of any sores whether old or greene Vlcers Fistulas Poll euills or what else for where this oyntment commeth no proud or dead flesh will grow no flies will adventure neere the place where this oyntment is laid and for a Horse or Mare-Filly that is cut gelt or spla annnoynt but the place and they will neyther swell or fester whereby the creature is the further of from danger for this Vnguent doth not only heale soundly and well but speedily also provided you lay nothing upon the wound or sorance where the oyntment is administred as neyther hurds lint plaisters or the like unlesse you may have occasion to Taint a wound which is extraordinary deepe neither that for any long time or too often and besides the seldomer the wound is dressed as once a day or once in two daies it will heale the better and faster especially if it be brought into good forwardnesse of healing And together with this Vnguent you may do well to wash the sorance with the water I call the Copperas water which by reason it is alwaies first to be used I will set it downe first and the Greene-oyntment shall assume the second place Take faire water two quarts and put it into a cleane Postnet and put thereto of greene Copperas halfe a pound Copperas â—ter and of salt one handfull and of ordinary Honey one spoonefull and a branch or two of Rosemary boyle all these till one halfe of the water bee consumed and a little before you take it from the fire put to it the quantity of a Doves egge of Alume then take it from the fire and when it is cold put the water into a glasse and stop it up close and keepe it for your use and when you are to dresse any sore first wash it cleane with this water and if the wound be deepe iniect it with a seringe ✚ This water of it selfe will cure any reasonable sore or wound but the greene oyntment being applyed after it is washed will heale any old Vlcer or Fistula whatsoever if they come to the bottome of them and for greene wounds they have not their fellow the Greene-oyntment is thus made Take a cleane Skillet or Postnet Greene-oyâ—ment and first put into it of Rosin the quantity of a wall-nut which being molten put to it the like quantity of wax and when that is also molten put to them of tryed-Hogs-grease halfe a pound and so soone as that is molten put into the rest of common English Hony one spoonfull when all these are molten and well stirred together then put in of ordinary Turpentine halfe a pound and so soone as it is dissolved take it from the fire and put into the Skillet of Verdegrease made into very fine powder one ounce and so stirre it well al together but be carefull it runne not over for that the Verde-grease will cause it to arise then set it againe upon the fire till it do beginne a little to simper then take it off for if you suffer it to boyle it will turne red and lose its vertue of healing and become a Corasive then straine it through a cloth into some earthen Pot or Pipken and keepe it for your use laying something upon the mouth of the
eate good sweet Hay and Bran in stead of Oates aad let his drinke be only white Water ✚ This is a most excellent Receipt § 5. I. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Ioynt that hath in it any Ach Numnesse Weakenesse or Swellings which commeth of a cold cause Hippos This commeth sometimes of a Streyne and sometimes of a Cold taken after a great and violent riding or labour The signes are apparent and the Cure is Take Acopum and mixing it with sweete Sack all to rub and chafe the Ioynt greived Joint gâ—ved therewith And if it come of cold it will at foure or five times thus doing cure it ✚ This is singular good Another Take Aqua-vitae and warme it upon the fire and therewith bathe and rub the greived Member therewith very well and hold a hot bar of iron before it to cause it to sinke in the better take then a rag and wet it in the same Aqua-vitae and lastly take Pepper finely powdred and searced anâ— strew it good and thick upon the said wet rag and so bind it to the place greived take then a dry Rowler of linnen and swathe the place therewith and so let them remaine and thus do every day once and in short time it will recover him ✚ Of this I have made often tryall §. 6. I. Hippoph VVHat is good to encrease the Hoofe of a Horse Hippos I have given you sundry good Receipts before but I will adde one more which the most Famous Marishall of all Paris gave me which he recommended unto me for tresbonne but I never had yet a good occasion to make tryall thereof The receipt is this Take of the Oyle of Hempe-seed of Waxe of Venice Turpentine Increasâ— Hoofe Rosin Pitch Bay-seeds dryed and powdred of each halfe a pound Roch Allume two ounces mixe all these together and let them boyl softly upon a gentle fire then straine it through a hayre-cloath and keepe it for your use With this annoynt every day the hoofes of your Horse and this will cause them to grow very much This is probably a good Receipt CHAP. 12. §. 1. L. Hippophylus HOw doe you cure the Lampas Hipposerus Hippos This is a Malady that every common Smith can easily cure by putting into the Mouth of the Horse a good big Bat of wood where unto two long peeces of the Head-stall of an old bridle is nayled at either end which will cause him to keepe open his Mouth and then holding up his Lip with your left hand burne away the ranke flesh with a hot Iron made of purpose and after rubbing the place with Salt and giving him Bran for Oats three or foure daies at the most he will bee whole ✚ This disease is a Swelling proceeding from ranknesse of bloud which groweth in the Mouth adioyning to the fore teeth which said Swelling is an impediment to his feeding it is apparant enough to be seene and therefore needs no further remonstrance ✚ Neverthelesse I will shew you how the Marishals in France do use to cure the Lampas from whom I had the Cure and wherewith I my selfe have cured many horses Take a rosted Onion and very hot put it upon a clout or upon hurds and with it rub the Lampas Lampas very hard and do this two or three times a day till it be whole ✚ But many times they burne away the Lampas like as do our Smithes with an iron instrument which they do call a Bistory which is the very same that our Smithes use here in England § 2. L. Hippoph HOw do you stop a Lax or Loosenesse when it commeth to be violent Hippos Very easily Sir but I had thought I had handled that point sufficiently before in letter F. where you made your demand touching the Flux in a Horse notwithstanding I will give you other very good Receipts by me almost forgotten To illustrate the manner of it's comming Laxe to stop and the signes how to know the same I hold unfitting for this place by reason I have sufficiently already performed it Take of Allome one penny-worth powdred Bole-Armoniack poudred one ounce put these into Milke one quart continually stirring it till the Milke doth become all of a Curd give him this with a horne and it will stay his Laxe bee it never so violent ✚ This I have used Another Take Beane flower and Bole-Armoniack in fine powder of each foure ounces put them into red Wine one quart and give him this with a horne bloud warme Let his drinke be white water only insteed of Wheate-bran put in Bean-flower and that for three or foure daies after then let him bloud in the Temple veines and give him warme Mashs made of ground Malt and Beane-flower and having drunke up the Wort let him eate up the residue but if this doe not stay him within two daies then put in each Nosthrill Sallet-oyle and that will do it ✚ This is speciall good §. 3. L. Hippoph VVHat meanes have you to raise a leane Horse and to cause him in short time to hecome very fat Hippos I have shewd you this before but yet I will give you Rereipt which you yet have not Take Elecampane dryed Comin Turmerick Anniseeds Leanâ— to maâ— of each two ounces Grunsell halfe a handfull boyle all these very well with three heads of Garlick picked a little bruised in strong Ale foure quarts then straine it well and give unto your Horse of this drinke one quart in a morning fasting bloud warme and then ride him upon it till he do begin to be warme but not to sweate and thus do for foure mornings together and within some short time after turne him to grasse if the time of the yeare be seasonable and he will feed wonderfully and fatten sodainely but if the time of the yeare doe not serve for grasse then shall you keep him in the Stable and besides his former drinke you shall give him in his Oates this powder viz. Take the powder of Elecampane dry and of Comin both pulverized and searced of each like much mix them wel together and every time you give your Horse this Provender take of this powder half an ounce and strew it by little and little among his Provender for feare of offending him till he hath eaten up all cleane and doe thus but foureteene daies together and you shall perceive your Horse to thrive mend and prosper after a strange manner provided that you do give him seasonable ayring moderate exercise and Mashes or white water ✚ This is marvelous good §. 4. L. Hippoph VVHat is to bee done to a Horse whose Legges doe swell Hippos If this Swelling be only in his fore Legges and not behind then it is a signe that this his Swelling came by over-violent labour when the Horse was very fat especially inwardly by reason that the grease that was molten fell downe into his fore-Legges which if it had staid in his Body must of necessity have engendred either an Anticor
Feaver or a Surfet to the great perill of his life The signes are knowne by the swelling Lâ—gs swelled and therefore to annoynt them with Acopum were very good But the best cure is first to take up the thigh veines then with your Fleame to prick the places most swelled and hottest in sundry places especially be low to the end that the corrupt bloud may issue forth then Take of white Wine-lees one pint of Comin bruised one ounce boyle then together to a pultis with Wheate flower three handfuls then with a cloth apply it to the place good and warme renewing it every day once if in two or three daies it doth draw it to a head as it is very probable it will do then lanch it and heale it up either with Shooe-makers waxe laid on upon a Playster of leather or also with a salve made of the yolke of an Egge Whete flower and common honey well wrought together to a salve which you must also apply Plaister-wise ✚ But if it do not come to a head and yet the swelling continue then Take of Pitch and of Virgin-wax of each three ounces Rosin half a pound of the iuyce of Isop and of Galbanum of each half an ounce and of Mirrah-secondary half a pound of Bdellium-Arabicum Populeon and of the drops of Storax of each halfe an ounce and of Deeres-suet halfe a pound boyle all these together in an earthen Pot and when it is cold take of Bitumen halfe a pound Bole-Armoniack and of Costus of each one ounce and halfe make all these into fine powder and then incorporate them well with the other and so boyle them all over againe very well that done poure this whole mixture or Medicine into cold water and so make it up into rowles like a salve for Playsters and when you are to use it spread thereof upon Playsters of Leather which must bee so large as to cover the Legges full so far as the swellings are which if any thing can do it this will asswage the swelling and give very much strength and comfort the Sinewes and Nerves neyther is this Playster to be removed so long as it will remaine on ✚ This I have applyed to many Horses very much annoyed with swolne-Legges and brought them to their former smallnesse when as Ferriers have spent much time upon the Cure and given it over at last But if the Swelling do fall into the hinder-Legs or into all foure-Legs together being but a bad Sorance causing them to burne and swell exceedingly and the hayre to stare the cause whereof coming as I have before said from immoderate Riding heat and labour whereby the grease melting falleth downe into the Legges by reason the Horse cannot voyd it in his Excrements or else being over-hot he is washed or negligently set up without sufficient store of litter and rubbing so as the taking cold the bloud with the grease setleth in the Legges and there congealeth and so causeth them to swell This sorance also commeth by having his feet beaten especially in the Summer with being ridden and galloped upon hard ground which first occasioneth wind-gals and those also causeth the legs to swell which truely is the worst kinde of swelling of all other by reason that lamenesse doth immediately follow it unlesse great Art and diligence be speedily applyed for prevention thereof Wherefore the signes being so apparant needs no remonstrance and therefore I will passe on to the Cure which is thus Take Populeum Nervell Hogs grease of each one ounce Legs â—led incorporate them very well together cold and annoynt the sorance therwith morning and evening foure dayes together and at foure dayes end take of Claret Wine lees one quart boyle it upon the fire with so much Bran as will bring it to a Poultesse apply this to the place grieved plaister-wise with a cloth good and hot for foure or five daies more renewing it every day once and in short time he will be sound again ✚ This is a most excellent receit which I have often experimented Another The swelling of the legges may be easily cured if in the beginning they be often times in the day laved and bathed in cold water unlesse the malady come of too great a surfet wherefore if this of cold water will not doe it then Take of common honey one pound Turpentine common Gum meale of Linseed meale of Fenugrick of each foure ounces Bay berries made into very fine powder and seraced three ounces mixe and boyle all these together well and when you take it from the fire put unto it of white Wine one pinte and then boyle it over againe till it doe become thicke spreade this upon a cloath reasonable hot and wrap it about the members swelled and doe not renew it above once in a weeke and it will cure them ✚ This is a certaine and most approved Cure Another If you take up the veines and make them to bleed below and not above and then rope up the legges with thumbands of soft Hay wet in cold water and then cast more water upon them in short time he will be sound and well againe ✚ This is also very good § 5. L. Hippoph VVHat is good to cure the Leprosie Hippos This is a moyst mainge very infectious which commeth by meanes of great surfets taken by over-riding which is very easie to be seen and known and therefore needs no further description The cure therefore is first let him bleed well in the necke then scrape away the scurfe with an old Curry-combe Oyster-shell Hayre-cloth or some such like thing till the sorance doe looke raw and that it be ready to bleed then annoynt the raw places with this oyntment Leprosâ— elephaâ— malady Take Arsnick or Resalgar and tryed Hogs grease the Arsnick or Resalgar being first beaten unto very fine powder incorporate these well together to make them into a perfect oyntment then tye up the head of your Horse so high to the Rack as that he may not be able to bite rub or lick himselfe and so annoynt the places therewith and cause the oyntment to sinke the better in by himselfe and so annoynt the places therewith and cause the oyntment to sinke the better in by holding a hot bar of iron neere to the place as you annoint him and let him stand so tyed three houres and then wash away the Vnguent with the strongest Chamber-lye you can get and wash him so throughly that you may be assured you leave none of the oyntment upon the Horse and then untye him and give him meat and thus dresse him once every day till the sores be quite dryed up ✚ This is also good for Scratches and Kibed-heeles §. 6. L. Hippoph VVHat is good to kill Lice in a Horse Hippos Lice commonly commeth to a horse when he is very poore especially when he runneth abroad in the Winter time in some Wood Coppice or places where are many high trees for that the
sometimes it comes again by the means of a stroke or blow given by some cudgell by his Keeper or Rider betwixt his eares whereby it festereth inwardly and inflaming breedeth an impostumation so as if it be not in time taken it will grow to a very foule Fistula not easie to be cured for the poll of the horse is so tender a member as to be soon offended and therefore easily damnified I need not to deliver you the signes for the swelling will be so apparant as that it cannot be mistaken albeit it will putrifie much more inwardly then outwardly and therefore you ought to apply your diligence to open it before it do breake of it selfe The cure is First to lay unto the place swollen such things as will ripen it Poll-evill and to prepare it ready to be opened and as touching the ripening thereof Take the loame of a mud wall which had never any Lime in it but much Straw or Litter and the elder this Loame or mud wall is the better boyle so much as you shall please thereof in the strongest white Wine Vineger and let it boyle till it come to be a very Poultesse then being very hot lay it to the swelling renewing it morning and evening till it be ripe enough to be opened then open it with a red hot iron made sharpe at the end and let the iron be the bignesse of a naile rod but you must begin below thrusting your instruments upwards cleane through that it may come forth in the softest place and when it is thus opened so as the corruption may issue forth at ease anoynt the orifices with tryed Hogs grease two or three dayes together to get out the fire but howsoever faile not to dresse it twice every day with the said Poultesse taynts being dipped in the Poultesse and put down to the bottome as well to carnifie and heale the Fistula at the bottome as to keep open the orifices and this Poultesse will cure him ✚ But withall you must remember to make him a hood or nightcap to keep warm the nape of his neck and to keep in the taints also this also cureth the Botch in the groine hurts in the withers navell-galles galled-back or Sit-fasts c. Another First ripen it as before or else with tryed Hogs grease scalding hot making him a Biggin wherewith to keep his poll very warme and renew this Emplaister every day and it will ripen it the sooner then when you finde it to be softest and most likely to breake open it with a hot iron two inches beneath the soft place carrying your hand upward into the soft and most matterative place to draw forth the corruption downwards then taint it with Flaxe or Hurds dipped into molten Hogs grease and lay also a plaister of Hogs grease upon it renewing it for four or five dayes once every day to get forth the fire after this take of Turpentine of Venice halfe a pound thrice washed and dryed from the water the yolks of two Egges and of Saffaron one penny worth in powder incorporate all these together very well then with a probat search the depth of the sorance and taint it with a spunge full as bigge as the hole of the wound and as long and convey the taint down to the very bottome well anoynted with the said medicine but this must be done with the help of your instrument and then cover it with a plaister of Hogs grease renewing it twice a day but when the swelling is alaid then use no plaister and in short time it will be perfectly whole and sound X This is a very good cure Another First ripen and open it as before is taught you and apply Hogs grease to fetch forth the fire then heale it thus Take Roman Vitreall Allum and Rose water of each two ounces boyle all these together on a quick fire till they do come to be as hard as a stone and then beat it into a very fine powder and when you are to dresse the sore first dippe a taint into Vnguentum Egiptiacum and so rowle it in the said powder and convey the taint with the help of your instrument to the very bottome and it will in short time make it perfectly whole and sound ✚ This powder being strewed upon any old sore or ulcer will both heat and dry it up Another Powder for old sores Take of Quick-silver one ounce let it be well mortified with fasting spittle and mixe with it tryed Hogs grease the quantity of a Hens Egge and Brimstone pulverised incorporate these very well together and anoynt the swelling very well with this unguent having thus done take presently of red Tarre one penny worth of the reddest and best of Hogs grease halfe a pound and of green Copperas and bay Salt of each one handfull both made into fine powder boyle all these on the fire exceeding well and then boyling hot even as it comes from the fire with a clout fastened upon the end of a stick apply this medicine upon the place being so lately anointed with the Quick-silver Hogs grease and Brimstone and thus by scalding it three or foure mornings together you shall after those mornings but onely warme the Tarre medicine upon the fire so that it be but molten and apply it and it will be cured for this scalding of the place doth so kill the malice of the Fistula that it can never breake to annoy the Horse any further ✚ And thus with this medicine I have not onely cured many poll-evils but sundry other Fistulaes it cureth all impostumations and foule Vlcers being thus applyed § 11. P. Hippoph VVHat is good in case of Pursivenesse or shortnesse of Breath Hippos This disease commeth by two meanes the first naturall the second accidentall naturall as when a horse is as we doe usually say cock-thropled for that his throppell or winde-pipe being too long and so becomes crooked as his winde is thereby so straightned or stopped as that he is not able to draw it in and put it forth with that ease and pleasure that other horses doe that are loose thropled for that the winde-pipe is I say straightned which doth convey his breath into his lungs and vent it forth againe In like manner a horse becommeth pursive and short-winded when the pipe is too much filled with fat or other phlegmaticke stuffe whereby he is very much suffocated which causeth his lungs to labour the more and therefore if you shall be pleased to follow my counsell never breed with that horse that is cock-thropled This disease commeth secondly by accident when a horse shall be too hard strained upon his water like as many of your ignorant Ioctries use to doe when morning and evening they doe make them watering courses as they are frequently so termed so also this infirmity commeth by riding gallopping or straining a horse upon a full stomacke before he hath either digested his meat or emptied himselfe for by this meanes
head and let him be thus perfumed a quarter of an houre together ✚ Another Perfume 2 Take Brimstone made into fine powder and mixe with it fresh Butter and Sallet oyle as much as will suffice let him not take this with fire like as he did the former but let it be conveyed into his nose with a linnen clowt rowled up in the fashion of a great Taynt and this will bring forth much bad matter ✚ Another Perfume 3 Take Penny-royall Sage and Wheate of each as much as will suffice and boyle them in faire water till the Wheat do burst put the Wheat and Hearbs being first drayned from the water so hot as it commeth from the fire and so fasten the bag unto the head of the horse whereby he may receiue the fume up into his head And thus you may perfume him at pleasure and as you shall see cause ✚ The residue of perfumes and the manner how to apply them you shall finde among my Cures and therefore it will be superfluous for me to intreat any further of them §. 14. P. Hippoph VVHat is the best manner of administring Purgations to a Horse Hippos As touching Purgations I have spoken before very largely as well for inward purging as for outward and therefore what I shall say more is in effect but one and the same thing neverthelesse for your further satisfaction I will briefly deliver unto you what can be said of Purgations Five wayes we have whereby to purge a horse viz. by Pils Potions Clisters Suppositories and Grasse Pils for the most part do purge and cleanse the head and braine by drawing the peccant humours down into the body and so sending them forth with the excrements Potions do free the stomack belly and guts from such naughty humours which Glanders Colds and Surfets have engendred in the body Clisters are of sundry and those of different natures some to ease and appâ—ase griefes some to allay the biliousnesse and sharpnesse of evill humours some to binde and some to loosen and some to heale as in case of Vlcers and old Sores within the body principally and those do also cleanse the guts refresh the inward parts and spirits vitall and prepare the body before hand for the receiving of purging pils or potions Suppositories help the diseases in the guts being of nature and condition more gentle then Clisters are and may be applyed when Clisters cannot It therefore remaineth that the skill of the Ferrier be such as to be able judiciously to understand the severall natures of every of these things to know how to make choice of his ingredients and simples aptly to understand how to compound them punctually and artificially to discern rightly before he do administer what be the humours and maladies wherewith the creature is annoyed and visited as whether V. G. it be Choler Melancholy Flegme or Rhume as also in what part of the body the humour offensive is most predominant and what simples will purge or remove those evill humours for it is requisite he be able to know right well and ad unguem the nature and property of every one of them in particular by reason that some are much more asperous and violent then others be yea many simples are strong poysons if they be not well prepared and corrected and yet their qualities well weighed and compounded by true Art and great good judgement will work wonderfull effects Those simples which be strong are Colloquintida Scamony Elebore c. the more gentle are Manna Cassia Whey Prunes c. But those that be of the meane or indifferent working are Rubarb Agarick Aloes Sene c. and this I am bold to intimate unto you to the end you may the better understand their natures vertues and qualities and come to know the more securely how to work when occasion shall be offered The fift and last way of purging is by grasse especially if the horse be surfetted and hath been over-toyled the Winter before for this must be done in the Summer time when grasse is in its best heart but that grasse which will scoure and purge most is a new mown meadow for that will rake his guts very well nor will he in such a place gather flesh I do therefore counsell you not to suffer him to remain in such grounds above fourteen or fifteen dayes and then take him forth and put him into some other pasture where the grasse hath not been touched with the Sithe for then he will belly well and in short time recover much flesh and become fat and lusty This manner of scowring will cause him to empty himselfe well to purge and send away all his bad humours and surfets ease his limbs marvellously well do his legges and feet very much good refine his corrupt bloud and make him agill and full of spirit To mow green Rye before it be eared is also most wholesome for it scowreth cleanseth and cooleth the body very much so doth the leaves of Sallowes and of the Elme but as touching the administring of Scowrings and Purgations in the Stable you must understand that some skilfull Ferriers who have been far travelled in this Mystery have very diligently and studiously set you down many very good rudiments and instructions wherewith to worke with all security whose observations I do advise you punctually to observe as first the seasons of the yeere are to be pondred V. G. in winter if his body be to be purged it must be first prepared by Phlebothomy or Bloud-letting together with artificiall dyet therefore you shall administer eyther Suppository Clyster Potion or Pill c. You must keep him a day or two from hay straw or such like hard-meats of digestion for that those things will be a great impediment to the working of physicke or medicine and he must also be kept for a time from meate because emptinesse is a great helpe to physicall operation otherwise it may happen as it doth oftentimes that more danger then good may accrew to the Horse Wherefore two or three dayes before you do intend to purge him let his meate be eyther Wheate or Rye-bran prepared like as before is taught you and give him also either good bread made of purpose with Beanes Pease and some Rye in it or else Oates well sifted which must be dry and sweet and let his drinke be white water onely and that morning you intend to give him a purge let him befasting from either meate or drinke but about six or seven a clock in the morning give him this or some other purge which I have already taught you or shall hereafter which must be correspondent unto the malady for which you are to purge him for one Purgation will not sort to every infirmity but this purge is most profitable for the causes which I shall presently deliver unto you And this it is viz. Purgation 1 Take of white Wine one pint or of strong new Ale one quart so much of the powder
of Mechoacan of the best and choycest as you may take up upon a shilling at foure times give him this drinke warm with a horne then Trot him but a matter of a Mile gently upon good ground and so set him up warme and let him stand upon the Trench till one of the clock then give him a warme Mash This will purge and fetch away his filth and slime and carry away his peccant humours which Surfets have engended halfe an houre after hee hath had his Mash give him Bread or else a few Oats mingled with wheat bran and that little and oft for feare of cloying his stomacke and at night give him white water and so give him bread and hay sprinkled with water for all night ✚ This is an excellent Purge Another Purgation 2 If it be in the spring prepare him as before then for three or foure daies together give him greene Rye so much as he will eate and after feed him with Bread or else Oates and Bran like as you are told before but insteed of Hay continue him those nights with greene Rye by reason his teeth will be on edge ✚ This cooleth his body and cleareth it from all Flegmatique and Rhumatique humours as for his bloud-letting let that bee according as your judgement shall dictate unto you and you may use this so long as you may see cause ✚ If you doe perceive your Horse to bee sicke Surfetted full of colds or otherwise ill disposed whether in Summer or in Winter after you have opened a Veine give him this Purge Take of Alloes Siccatrina made into fine powder two ounces Purgation 3 and make it up into pils with fresh or sweete Butter and give it to your Horse over night he having beene kept fasting the whole day before and prepared also with the Dyet before prescribed and after he hath taken those pils give him either a sweet Mash or white water the next morning early for that will cause his pils to work the more kindly that day and so let him fast till night during which time he will purge freely then at night he having stood upon the Trench all day give him white water and after Oates and Branne and then give him Hay sprinkled with water for all night neverthelesse he may not the first day purge by reason that some horses are of so strong a Constitution as that Physicke will not easily or soddenly worke but then bee you confident it will the next day you must therefore be carefull how you do order him After his purging keep him still warm clothed and well littered take him from the Trench and put on his Coller-halter give him sweet Mash or white water and after feed him well but by discretion both with Hay Oates and Bran and keepe him to white water two or three dayes after or longer if you shall so please and when you give him cold water let it bee with exercise ✚ This I have often tryed Another If your horse bee newly taken from Grasse and that you hold it needful his body be cleansed to free him of his many bad humous which eyther his Grasse or former Surfets might bring Then first Rake him and administer unto him the Clyster prescribed you in lib. 2. cap. 6. § 8. letter C. Clyster 4. and the next day after give him this drinke Take of the strongest Ale-wort one quart of ordinary Honey a Purgation 4 quarter of a pint of London Treacle two ounces mixe and brew all together well and so give it him bloud-warme this done keepe him upon the Trench warme clothed and well littered sixe houres after and let his drinke be a sweet Mash or white water and let his Racke meate be sweet Wheate-straw Oates and Branne X. This both purgeth and comforteth Another which must bee given the next day Take of white-Wine one pint and put thereto of Sene one ounce Purgation 5 which must be infused all night in the Wine the next morning betimes straine it and put into it of the best and choycest Alloes one ounce made into fine powder and Agarick halfe an ounce of Licoris powdred one spoonfull warme this a little upon the fire and mix and brew it well together and so give it your Horse bloud-warme then walke or ride him gently a quarter of an houre and so set him up warm clothed and littered nor let any cold ayre come unto him neither let him eate or drink in six hours after and at night give him a sweet Mash or white water and let his Rack-meat be sweet Wheat straw and Oates with Bran. ✚ The next day if the signe be good open a veine in the necke and prick him in the mouth and if the bloud be bad take from him two quarts but if good then not fully one quart keep him warm and let his drink be either sweet Mashes or white water and put into his drink either the powder of Brimstone or of Fenugrick of Turmerick or of Elecampane one or more together according as he will be brought to like and take them which being well mixed put thereof into his drink one spoonfull at once ✚ These are very soveraign purgative receits whereby to coole the body purge choler and other peccant humours and to purifie and refine the bloud but besides this is not onely good for horses newly taken from grasse but for other sick surfetted and diseased Horses Another Purgation 6 Take of Gentian two ounces slice it into very small slices then boyle it in Beer one quart till it come to one pinte and give it him bloud warm but it will make him very sick for a short time but have no feare for the potion will do him much good let him fast upon it four or five hours at least then give him a warm Mash or white water and the next day give him this receit Take of Life-Honey or for default thereof ordinary Honey and mingle it with his Oates that he is to eate which must be mixed by rubbing the Oates and Honey betwixt your hands so that the Honey may be very well mixed let him eate his Oates thus mingled untill you do finde him to be quite cured which will be when he hath quite done running at the nose ✚ This is one of the best and most certain cordials that I know neither have I made use of any so much as of this for the time I have known the same for this disperseth all flegme and choler it also purgeth the head and brain it purifieth the bloud it venteth the evill humours it causeth good digestion and freeth a Horse from Glanders Colds Catars Rhumes Running at the nose and the like CHAP. XVII § 1. Q. Hippoph WHat cure have you for the quick or running Scab Hippos This is a noysome disease and infectious a very formall mainge and meer neighbour to the leprosie or Elephantique disease It commeth by surfet taken by over-riding when the bloud is over-hot it doth putrifie and
so knots and pustils do engender in the Liver which breedeth either a Dropsie a Feltricke or a rot The signes how to know this infirmity are these After his journeyes his hayre will stare his legges swell and burn and when you shall presse the places swoln with your finger upon taking your finger away there will remaine a pit or dint hee will forbeare his meat very much and when he doth eate it will be without any stomacke or appetite he will pant much lift and beat in the flanks many times he will swell under the belly neither will he cast his coat in seasonable time when other Horses that be sound do and he will be so faint of body as that he will become lunt and utterly to have lost his mettle These and such like be the symptomes of this malady Now come I to the cure Let him first bleed well under the taile then Take of Mares-milke two quarts if the same may be had if not Rot. the like quantity of the milke of a red Cow then take a lump of Arement then take a young horse of or about the age of foure yeares and of colour blacke if it may be if not then of some other colour run and chafe him about that he may sweate much then with a spoone or with some other such like instrument rake the sweate from his head necke breast backe sides ribbes buttocks legges and in a word from each part or member of the said horse and get off the sweat so much as you can possibly and so put your Arement and your sweat into the milke which all being well mixed give him this by equall portions three mornings together till he hath taken it all and let him drinke none other drinke after it in sixe or seven houres but immediately after his drink let him be led forth into some pasture where other horses be the better to cause him to neese stale dung and empty himselfe for it is very wholesome for him so to doe before he either eate or drink Having thus done set him up warm and well littered and if the season do serve give him of the green blades of Rye if not give him Barly steeped in milk three dayes but renewed every day once Then after every of these drinks if you feele him cold in the pasterne joynts or that he trippeth or stumbleth as you leade him in your hand meddle no further with him for that he is past cure otherwise for nine dayes together after morning and evening give him white water onely unlesse now and then a sweet Mash and sometimes give him milke with his white water if the Horse be not above nine years old and so you may cure him but if he be elder this may prolong his life whereby he may do the more service This I never did experience but a Noble Knight and a very friend told me that he hath thus recovered sundry Horses which have beene visited with this disease CHAP. XVIII §. 1. S. Hippophilus WHat good Salves have you wherewith to heale up sores and wounds Hippos Sir I have many according as I have before shewed you but yet I will give you many more the greatest number of which I have tryed and I am able to commend them unto you for very good and those not Salves Salve onely but Vnguents Powders and Waters which be most soveraign Take of Perosen and of hard Rosin of each one pound of Frankincense Virgin-Wax or for want thereof new Waxe and Sheeps suet of each halfe a pound of old tryed Hogs grease one pound and a quarter boyle the Gummes and Waxe in white Wine halfe a pint and then put unto it your Sheeps tallow and Hogs grease and when all is well molten and incorporated straine it and whilst it is yet hot put in of Venice Turpentine one ounce and so work all well together and when it is cold poure in the liquor from the salve which put up into a cleane galley pot or other cleane vessell for your use ✚ This is a most soveraign Treate or Salve wherewith to heale any wound that is not come to an Vlcer and so dry it up Another most excellent powder Powder Take unslaked Lime the dry dust of Tanners Oken Bark and old shooe soles burned to a cole of each like much make these into fine powder and mixe them well and keep it in a cleane boxe or glasse for your use ✚ This powder healeth the buds or knots of the Farcin after they be broken and it skinneth them and if they be first washed with the juyce of Vervine and strong Vineger mingled together and then this powder being cast upon them will I say heale and skin them It also healeth and skinneth all other sores Another Oyntment Take tryed Hogs grease halfe a pound Verdigrece in fine powder one penny worth boyle these upon the fire two or three walms then take it off and put unto it of Venice Turpentine halfe an ounce and stirre it well together till it be cold ✚ This Vnguent will heale any wound or sore in a Horse Another Oyntment Take of Roch-Allum a good quantity and burn it and as much bay Salt and burn that also make both these together into fine powder then take of common Honey and of sweet Butter of each like much as will suffice incorporate the Allum and Salt with the Honey and Butter by melting them over a gentle fire and with a taint or plaister apply it ✚ And this cureth any foule sore This I have often tryed Another Take of faire water Water one pinte and put into it of green Coperas and of bay Salt of each the quantity of a good hasle nut both made into very fine powder let these boyle a little upon the fire With this wash any sore before you do apply your Salves Vnguents or Powders ✚ This is a right good water Another Take of common Honey two ounces Roch-Allum Verdigrece and Vineger of each one ounce make your Allum and Verdigrece into very fine powder then take of Sublimate finely powdred two ounces boyle all these a walme or two on the fire this laid on a Spatula plaister-wise once a day or if the wounds be deep with a taint cureth both speedily and soundly but before you dresse him with this Salve let the Sore be well washed and injected with the water last above mentioned made of faire water Coperas and bay Salt ✚ This is a most approved cure and good beyond all peradventure for it cureth not onely sores and wounds in any part in the body of the Horse but in the foot which way soever it may happen and it cleanseth any wound from dead or proud flesh Another Take the buds or tendrest tops of the leaves of Elder one handfull and first shred and after pound them very well till you bring them to a perfect Salve Salve and apply this to the sore binding a cloth
occasion the Scratches It is therefore requisite that the Groome doe clip away the long shag haire from about the pasternes if he have any and fetlocks as also from the inside of his legs unto the bending of the knee by meanes whereof he may the better keep the legges of his horse from this disease sometimes it also comes from the corruption of the bloud after great heats and surfets taken sometimes againe for that the horse hath been bred in marrish fenny and watery grounds sometimes it is ingendered from melancholy humours â—hich doe fall down to the legges and sometimes by standing continually upon his owne dung which will through the heat and steame thereof breed the Scratches without other help and sometimes again the Scratches will fall down into the heeles of the horse and there make its way forth after a desperate sicknesse taken by a surfet and lastly it comes by reason the grease of the horse had been moulten by over-riding or labour whereby the grease falleth down and resteth in the pasterne and fetlocks and so causeth the Scratches to be ingendered It beginneth first with a dry scab and after it sendeth forth fretting watrish and matterative stuffe which will stinke and be most noysome and his pasternes and fetlocke ioynts will be full of chaps and chinkes sometimes all along sometimes right down and sometimes overthwart and the places will swell and the cracks or chinkes will cause the legs to be very gourdy and to run with much noysome and offensive matter and the horse will be many times so lame as not to be well able at first setting forth to goe but with much trouble and no lesse paine and by these very signes you shall know this malady neither shall you want store of receits wherewith to cure it the French doe call this disease grappes grapes and Iavars and Arraistes as also such other like tearmes and epithetons all which as before is touched makes but onely one and the same disease the first thing which is to be done towards the cure is to bathe and wash the places all about and then either to shave or clip away the hayre very close otherwise you can hardly make a perfect cure thereof then Take the spawne of Toads Scratches which in the beginning of March you shall finde in pooles ponds ditches and standing water and first draine the water from the said spawn and then distill it and keep the water in a glasse close stopped to serve you for the whole yeare and herewith wash and bathe the places every day warm and in short space it will cure them this I have often used Another Take Honey and Pepper made into very fine powder of each as much as will suffice and boyle them together and anoint the sorance therewith and they will soon heale and dry up this I did never try but a famous Ferrier of France taught it me Another Take Lime and Salt and make them both into fine powder which being well mixed apply it to the places grieved good and thick then take Hurds and cut them very small and clap them upon it and so binde up the place with a linnen cloth that it doth not remove and so let it remaine two whole dayes and nights and this will cause the sorance to purge and after heale it up very kindely This I did never try Another Take Verdigrece and the fat of Bacon and pound them to a formall Salve and so plaisterwise apply it to the sore and it will heale up the scratches in short time This is very good Another Take old Bores grease and common Honey of each as much as will suffice and worke it to an Vnguent anoynt the sorance therewith four or five dayes and no longer and it will cure the Scratches ✚ This is very good Another Take Verdigrece in fine powder Gals Brimstone and Bolearmoniack of each one ounce make all into fine powder and mixe them with Bores grease as much as will suffice and so bring it to an Vnguent and anoint the sorance therewith and this will both heale and dry them up ✚ This I have often tryed Another First cauterize five strakes on either side and your iron must be somewhat broad and you must go but only one crosse-wise and after heale it up as it is usuall in Cures in your Cures of Cauterize this I never did practise Another Take Pepper Garlick Cole-wort-leaves and old Boares-grease of each so much as will suffice pound them together to an Vnguent and herewith anoint the Sorance and in few daies it will ripen the Scratches and kill the mallice of the disease and heale it up X. of this Receipt I have made often use and it is good you must not faile alwaies before you dresse any horse that hath the Scratches first to wash and bathe the place well with warme water and then to shaw or clip away the haire very close also every time you are to dresse any horse of this malady wash the place with Chamberly and greene Copperas boyled together and after dresse him up with your other Salves Vnguent c. Another Take Hogs-grease and strong Mustard and anoint the Sorance therewith and in short time he will be whole ✚ This is very good Another Take first of white-Wine-Vineger one pint and put unto it of the strongest Tobacco in the Rowle you can get one ounce open the leaves and shread the Tobacco small and boile it untill the Vineger do begin to consume then take it from the fire and strain it wringing it hard then take white-Wine one pint of Roach Allome the quantity of a Walnut of Bay-salt and of common Honey of each one Spoonefull red Sage Rue Hony-suckle-leaves Yarrow Plantaine Rib-wort Bramble-leaves of each like much halfe a handfull in the whole boile all these in the Wine till one quart be consumed then straine this water also and mix them both together and set it upon the fire till it begin to boile then take it off and when it is through cold put it up into a glasse and so keep it close stopped that no ayre come unto it and when you would use it for the Scratches wash the Sorance and then put upon it the powder of burnt Allome and this will cure the Scratches ✚ This I have often tryed and it is singular good Another Take Verdegrease and make it into fine powder and then take common hony and worke them together to an Vnguent and therewith anoynt the sorance and in short time it will infallibly cure him ✚ With this Receipt I have cured very many Horses Another Take tryed Hogs-grease and Gun-powder of each so much as will suffice first beat your Gun-powder to very fine powder and incorporate them very well together and anoynt the places greived once a day therewith and it will soone cure the Scratches ✚ This is a speciall good receipt Another Take Trayne oyle white-lead made into very fine powder and the Ielly
which you shall find upon the ground which many do report to be the falling of a Star in the night where it shooteth of each like much incorporate these well together and anoynt the sore twice every day therewith but if you cannot get of this Ielly then adde to the former ingredients a little Arsenick pulverised and in ten or twelve daies this will heale him X. This also is very good Another Take the tender tops of Elder buds and the berries of the bramble while they be red and before they be rip of each one handfull boil them in Wort two quarts and put unto it of Allome the quantity of an Egge and therewith wash and bathe the Sorance good and hot twice every day and this water will cure him X. This is also very good Another Take of Hemlocke a good quantity shread it very small then take of Creame one quart and boyle it with the Hemlock till the Creame do turne into an oyle which done take it from the fire and straine it into a cleane galley pot and keepe it for your use with this anoint the Sorance and it will soone heale it of this I never had tryall Another Take Brimstone and make it into fine powder and mix with it of sweet Butter so much as will suffice to bring it to an Vnguent which will be of the colour of Gold herewith anoint the sores and it will cure them This I never tryed Another Take unslaked Lime Salt and Soot of each like much all made into very fine powder boyle this in the strongest white Wine Vineger you can get so much as will suffice till it become as thicke as a Pultis then soften it with tryed Hogs-grease and so worke it to an Vnguent and herewith anoint the places greived till they be perfectly cured ✚ This is very good but to prevent all sorts of Scratches Kibes Rat-tayles c. take up the Thigh-veynes and your Horse shall never have any of these Maladies or if he have them yet by so doing they will of themselves be cured ✚ This I have oft experienced § 7. S. Hippoph HOw doe you cure a Sit-fast Hippos This Malady the French do call Mal de la Corn it is an hard knob which hath beene formerly a Saddle-gald but by reason that the Owner of the Horse was unwilling to spare his worke till it was fully cured it is converted into a Sit-fast Sit-fast which is oftimes troublesome to the Horse by reason it is growne to a dry knob so hard as a horne The cure is Take the greene outward leaves of a Cabbadge and stamp them with old Boares-grease or tryed Hogs-grease and worke them to an Oyntment and then mount his Back and then set the Saddle to the end that the Oyntment may the better enter or sinke into his Backe and in a few daies it will Cure him ✚ This is a very good cure §. 8. S. Hippoph THere be yet certaine Scabbes which doe grow upon Horse-heeles which Ferriers doe deny to be the Scratches but they will have it to bee a disease wholy different How doe you cure them Hippos Sir men may say what they shall please but I doe assure you these are also plaine Scratches But yet I will give a few Receipts for them Scabs and Scratches Take of Salet-oyle three ounces Red-wax-gummed one ounce common Hony two ounces mixe and melt all these together and make them into an Vuguent with which you must oft anoint the Sores and this will cure them ✚ I have often used it Another Take ordinary Turpentine two ounces new Wax oyle de Bay Quick-Brimstone of each three ounces common Hony one ounce Allome and Zacacon of each halfe an ounce mixe melt and incorporate all those well together and every evening anoint the places grieved therewith having first cleansed the Sorances as before is taught you This I did never try but I hold it to be very good Another Take the strongest white-Wine-Vineger Mustard and Soote of each so much as will suffice and mix them well them adde to them the yolkes of two Egges and of Hogs-grease one ounce Rape-oyle and new Wax of each two ounces quick-Brimstone in fine powder halfe an ounce melt all these and make it into an Vnguent and therewith anoint the grieved Sorances ✚ This I have often tryed and I know it to be very good § 9. S. Hippoph VVHat is good for a Horse that can neither Stale or Dunge Hippos This accident oftimes hapneth to a Horse that is suddenly travelled being newly taken from Grasse or that hath beene long time kept and pampered in the Stable without any execise at all for as those who be too hard Riders do soone surfet their Horses so likewise do these terribly wrong their Horses who be too indulgent and tender of them and therefore the golden meane is evermore the best The signes to know this Malady is plaine for that his paine will bee so great as that it will cause him oft to lye downe and tumble as if he had the Bots. I will give you one onely Receipt which a famous French Marishall gave me with which I cured one Horse for that I had never occasion to practise it upon any since but I do hold it to be most soveraigne in a case of this nature Take the root of Male-Brake or Fearne and put a piece thereof upon his tongue and it will cause him both to stale and dung Stale or dung and so he will be cured The male of Fearne is to be knowne by the root from the female for if you take a Fearne-root and cut it in two pieces you shall see the perfect figure of an Eagle and thereby you may know it to be the male which is for your turne And the female root will beare other effigies different from the male which wanteth its vertue to perfect this cure ✚ This I say I have once tryed § 10. S. Hippoph VVHat is to be done to a Horse that falleth sicke in his iourney or travell Sicke in travell Hippos This also hapneth as the former doth but yet oftner and sooner especially if he be very fat and pursive and wanting breath as also if he be travelled being fat and heavy the Sunne shining and scorching much for such a horse is in danger either to tire or to fall desperately sicke which may also endanger his life as I have frequently knowne The cure must be Take Muskadine or sweet Sacke one pinte Aqua vitae a quarter of a pinte of London Treacle two ounces and of the best Sallet oyle a quarter of a pinte warme all these upon the fire and brew it well and give him one hornfull thereof then take his tongue in your hand and put down his throat a new laid Egge breaking it with your fingers as you put it forth of your hand then give him a second horne full and then another Egge and after all the residue of the drinke and
bloud being most wholesome for him and whilst he is thus bleeding thrust an iron Bodkin through the gristle of his nose skin and all then Take Assafetida the quantity of a hasle nut and dissolve it into a sawcer full of white Wine Vineger then take Lint or fine Flax and dip it into the liquor and so stop both your Horse eares therewith and so stitch them up and at the end of foure and twenty houres unstitch them and he is cured ✚ This is very good Another First let him bloud in both the weeping veynes and in the mouth then Take of bitter Almonds one ounce and a halfe of the gall of an Oxe two drams of black Ellebore made into fine powder a halfe penny worth of Graynes Castoreum Vineger and of Varnish of each five drams boyle all these together untill the Vineger be all consumed then straine it and put it into his eares and do as before ✚ This is very good Another Bloudy him as before then with your incision knife make a slit down his forehead an inch long and better and with your cornet loosen the skin round about but most toward the foretop then put into the place the root of a red great Dock cut thin and let it remaine there fourteen or fifteen dayes and once in two dayes at furmost crush out the mattrative stuffe and then take forth the Dock roots and heale up the place with your healing Salve and give him during these fourteen dayes white water onely and he will doe well ✚ This I assure you is very good Another Bloudy c. Then take Aqua-vitae and Garlicke of each so much as will suffice stamp them together and convey it into his eares doing vt supra ✚ This is singular good Another Let him bleede well in the neck and mouth for the abundance of bad bloud is the cause of this disease then with your Incision knife slit the forehead of the Horse and with your Cronet raise the skin especially upwards put in three or foure cloves of Garlick pilled put upon it a little lint or fine Flax to keepe away the Wind for that is dangerous and then give the Orifice a stitch to keep in the Medicine the better Then Take the seeds of Cresses of Poppy of Smallage of Parsly of Dill I say the seeds only of these hearbs and take also pepper and Saffaron of each two drammes make them all into fine powder and put unto them of Barley water two quarts as it commeth boyling from the fire and let it infuse therein three houres and then straine it and give him one quart thereof if it may be in the morning fasting bloud-warme and walke him up and downe an houre and better and then set him up warme and give him Hay sprinkled with water and the next day give him the other quart fasting and then doe as before neither let him drinke any cold water in foure or five daies after but only white water unlesse sometimes a sweet Mash And thus doing he will be cured X. This is a most excellent Receipt and I have often used it §. 21. S. Hippoph VVHat remedy have you for a Horse that hath Swelled-Legges Hippos This Malady of swelled or Gourdy-Legs commeth eft-soones by long standing in the Stable when as the upper parts of the plancks at his fore-feete are much higher then that at the hinder feete as I have before observed in lib. 1. cap. 4. for by that meanes the Horse not standing even and therefore not at his case the bloud setleth in the hinder-Legges which causeth them to swell Sometimes they doe come by reason the Horse being hard ridden was brought into the Stable too hot and carelesly set up who taking cold the bloud grease and humours do fall downe into the Legges and so cause them to swell Sometimes it commeth by over-riding whereby the Horse hath his bloud stirred and his grease melted which falleth down and resteth in the hinder-Legges causing them to swell Sometimes by being ridden and gallopping upon hard waies in the Heates and by that meanes the bloud and grease falleth downe into his Legges congealeth there whereby they do become gowty and gourdy And sometimes gourdy-Legges cometh by sicknes and surfets taken which after remedy had yet the faeces or dregges thereof still remayning in the body of the horse falleth downe and causeth the legges to swell as I have frequently seene And these be the primme causes and reasons which we have observed for this Malady Swelled-Legges The signes your eie doth demonstrate and you may without teaching point to it with your finger and therefore we may say nothing thereof Wherefore now we will to the cure If the swelling come by ordinary meanes then take up the Thigh-veines and then you neede doe no more for that alone will cure him and after open the heele-veines and lay a Retoyre to the Legges or else give him the fire which will siccicate dry up the bad humours which must be given gently and lightly neither would I have you give him the fire unlesse you might thinke or find it in your iudgement to be very requisite But my meaning is not that this remedy of the fire bee applyed but only to an old griefe otherwise not at all ✚ This is good But if besides his swelled-Legges they also be stiffe comming to him after much labour and travell therefore Take of Violet-leaves Primrose-leaves and Strawberry-leaves of each a handfull boyle all these in new-Milke till they become very soft and then take it from the fire and put to it of the oyle of Nervall of Petroleum and of Pamphilion of each one ounce and so stirre all together untill it becometh bloud-warme and therewith chafe rub and anoint the Legges Nerves Sinewes and Ioynts holding a hot barre of Iron neere to the place to cause the Vnguent to sinke the better in Anoint him thus with this Vnguent five or sixe daies together and it will helpe him ✚ This I have often used Another Take Traine-oyle and warme it upon the fire and therewith bathe his legges morning and evening and in short time he will be well ✚ This is very good also to ride your Horse into the water morning and evening up to the belly doth take away the swelling of his legges X. This is mervelous good § 22. S. Hippoph VVHat is good to asswage the swelling of the Cods in a Horse Hippos This Malady commeth many waies to wit by violent riding heats when there was not sufficient care had of him but was neglected in the setting up also it commeth by washing walking and cold taken after immoderate labour and sometimes by feeding to intemperately upon Provender and sometimes by feeding upon unwholesome meate The signes to know it are his stomacke may be peradventure good to his meate but yet it will do him little good for he will be alwaies meagre and leane his hayre will stare neither will he cast his
phlegmaticke humours do distill out of the head into the winde-pipe and so fall upon the lungs where they doe rest and there congeale hindring the drawing of his breath it comes also by Colds Glanders and the like the signes are so apparant as that they need no discription onely this inconvenience besides many more it bringeth with it as to be heavy sad and dull in travell be marvellous subject to sweats and be ready to fall down if he be but a little strained A right skilfull Ferrier not long since told me of a strange cure in this kinde which a Gentlemans Groome relatd to him of a Gelding which the Groome had in his said keeping who was so pursive or as we plainely say broken-winded as that he became almost unusefull and his cure was after this manner he suffered his Gelding to eate what he would as well his fill viz. of good Hay as of Provender but debarred him of all drink for the space of two or three dayes together then leaping his backe he rode him upon a foot pace to the water at which time he suffered him to drink his fill then comming forth of the water he clapt spurres suddenly to him and ran him with a loose hand upon the top of his speed so long untill for want of breath he fell with him and for some time lay as if he were dead but recovering breath he arose and being well recovered of his winde he rode him into the water the second time where he also drank and being come out of the water he did as before and so being againe ridden from off his wind he fell like as at first having thus the second time recovered breath hee gave him water the third time and then rode him as formerly but now this third time being fallen when he began to get breath again he coughed most vehemently at what time through the violence of his coughing the Gelding cast forth of his mouth and that out of his wind pipe a hard lumpe of congealed Flegmatick stuffe of a good bignes which by this meanes brought up the Gelding was ever after freed from the malady and made sound and from that houre had the use of his winde as ably and as well as ever before and this was the story which one of the ablest Ferriers I do know in England delivered unto me as he affirmed and I do beleeve him for that I do know him to be a right honest man from the mouth of the Groome who with many vehement asseverations affirmed the thing to be most true neverthelesse albeit I do Mathematically beleeve that the Groome delivered this history to the Ferrier I must say with the French man Ie croy en Dieu But leaving this famous Groome to his rare cure let us proceed to cures that are more probable and now of such cures as I have met with for this disease You shall participate Take of new Milke one pint and of Sallet oyle halfe a pint give him this bloud warme which done put downe his throate two new laid Egges Puâ—sivenes or shortnes of breath do thus three or foure mornings together and then you shall perceive amendment but for his Hay let it be spinkled with water and his Oates well wet in good Ale or Beere and let his drinke bee altogether white water ✚ This is very good Another Keepe your horse three or foure daies to a spare Diet before you do administer to him then give him this drinke Take Fenugreecke three ounces of Bay-berries one ounce and a halfe of the inner rind of Elder halfe a pound the whites of six new laid Egges of browne-Sugar-Candy water-Cressets Prim-rose leaves if they may bee had red Mints red Fennell white or Hawethorne leaves of each one pound bray all these together in a Morter the Spices before beaten by themselves and when they be well powdred put to the Ingredients Ale one quart and so boyle it and after straine it and so give the liquor thereof to your Horse to drinke bloud warme and set him upon the Trench and let him fast six houres after then give him meat and an houre after that give him a warme Mash or white Water and let him be kept to a strickt Dyet and let his drinke be Mashes or white Water nine daies together after and his Hay sprinkled with Water and his Provender wet in Ale or Beere and thus you may cure him ✚ With this medicine I have don very great cures Another Take the guts of a Hedge-hogge and hang them in an Oven till they be dry then make them into powder then take three or foure spoonefuls of the powder and put it into sweet Wine Ale or Beere and so give it him to drinke and the residue of the powder mix with the powder of Anniseeds and Lycoris and with sweet Butter make it into Pils and give him two or three of the Pils presently after his drench and keepe him fasting three or foure houres after then you may give him Hay first sprinkled with water and after Provender or Bread wet or moistned in good Ale or Beere putting also thereunto of this powder and if you have not enough of this powder to serve then Take of Comin Lycoris Centaury and Anniseedes of each like much make these into fine powder and give him thereof two spoonfuls with his provender and put also into his Mashes and bread of the powder of Fennell-seede mixed with the powder of brimston this is very good for this malady for I have seen a horse for a month together to eate no other Provender but what hath been mixed with this powder and also his Mashes and white water so made and compounded and I have also brought him to drinke new Milke mingled with the powder of Brimstone by meanes whereof he hath been the sooner recovered and made perfectly sound X. and this is very good Another First let him bloud then take of sweet Wine one pint and of the juyce of Hore-hound halfe a pound of the Oyle of Frankincense halfe an ounce of the powder of Anniseed Lycoris and browne-Sugar-Candy of each halfe an ounce let all these be made into fine powder incorporated well together and give it him once or twice in the weeke for a while and ride him not at all that day you drench him but keepe him warme clothed and well littered and let him stand upon the Trench foure houres after fasting then give him meat and three houres after a sweet Mash Putting thereinto of the powder of Lycoris and Anni-seeds of this I never made tryall but it hath beene highly commended unto me for right good Another Take of Barley two gallons steepe it in water two dayes and shift the water every day then take it cleane from the water wherein it was last steeped and boyle it in three gallons of faire cleere water till it burst putting thereto of Anniseeds and Lycoris and of Raisins of the Sunne stoned of each one pound
and so let it boyle one houre then take it from the fire strain it very dry and put unto the liquor of honey one pint and of Sugar-Candy in powder sixe ounces then put the liquor into a clean earthen Pot or bottle keeping it close stopped and thereof give your horse bloud warme foure mornings together the quantity of an Ale pint at a time and let him eate the Barly if he will howsoever put it not away but heat some of it every day and being hot put it into a bagge and therewith perfume his head ✚ This is very good for I have often used it Another First you must keep him to a very space Dyet and inure him five or sixe daies to eate his Oates steeped in Chamber-ly and after that Take of Bayberries Fennell Cummin Smallege Fenugreak Fearne-roots dryed and Lycoris foure ounces in the whole or of each halfe an ounce according to the bignes age strength or Corpulency of the Horse make all these into powder then take one part of the powder and put unto it of fresh or sweet Butter halfe a pound and of new Milke halfe a pint and so give it your horse bloud warm the next day do the like with the other halfe of the powder and the third day let him not forth of the Stable give it him so long as he shall be in Physicke for his drinke let it be white water made of Barly meale but not with Wheate bran and let him stand upon the Trench at least two houres before his drench and two houres after then after that give him that which followeth Take of fresh Butter halfe a pound of good Agarick night-shade and Cassia of each one ounce make all these into Pils being first powdered searced and well mixed and administer them to your Horse then give him of white Wine halfe a pint whereby the better to cause him to swallow Pils the fift day let him rest and keepe him alwaies warme covered and well littered and if you do percive him to bee loose in his body and that hee hath purged well let him rest three or foure daies quiet without doing any thing unto him but if he hath not purged after one daies rest only then give him this drinke Take Mithridate Diacartami Senae of each two ounces and of good white Wine one pint mixe and brew all these together and so give it him to drinke and let him rest three daies giving him every one of these three dayes about noone of fresh Butter onely halfe a pound made into the manner of Pils these three dayes being ended you must administer unto him as followeth and continue it weekely till he be perfectly cured Take of Agarick Alloes and of Diacartami of each one ounce of Saffaron Mirrh halfe an ounce make all these into fine powder and so make them into Pils with fresh Butter foure ounces and give it to your Horse and then presently after give him of white Wine one pint to wash down the Pils ✚ This is a most excellent cure and by me often practised Another Take of white Wine one pint of Sallet-oyle three quarts of Alloes Lycoris of each one ounce of Colloquintida of Agarick Mirrh of each halfe an ounce of Aristolochia-rotunda three drams of Night-shade one ounce of Bay-berries three drammes make all these into fine powder then take of Venice Turpentine two drams of mel rosarum three ounces mix all these together and make it bloud warme and so give it your Horse to drinke with a horne but give him no Oates in fifeteene daies and let his drinke be white water it will not bee good to give him much Hay but Wheate flower which should not be much beaten or threshed and instead of his Oates give him Wheate bran or Barly meale and keepe him warme six dayes after let him bloud in the Neck ✚ Let him have this drink twice to wit after the first drinke let him rest one day and then drench him againe as you did before Another First give him this purgation Take of fresh Butter halfe a pound of Sene and of Agarick of each halfe an ounce made into fine powder of Alloes and of loafe Sugar both powdred of each one ounce of Cordiall powder halfe an ounce make all these into fine powder then Take common-hony foure ounces mix and beat all these together and so make them into Pils and give them to your Horse but before you do administer these Pils he must stand upon the Trench two houres and so likewise two houres after that day give him no Oates and let his drinke be white water and for your other directions you may give him his allowance of Oates all the other daies but you must then wet them either in strong Ale or good Beere and you may travell or give him exercise but with moderation all those other daies and three times every day you shall give him three or foure handfuls of Wheate bran prepared as before is shewed you in lib. 2. Chap. 9. § 4. F. and thus continue him to this dyet at your pleasure ✚ I have made tryall of this cure and I doe know it to bee right good for in a month or six weekes I have brought a Gaunt and Pursive Horse to have a belly as round fresh as cleer as that of a sucking Colt nor is this cure very chargable or costly you must give him Wheate straw insteed of Hay only in the night you may give him Hay provided it be sprinkled with water §. 12. P. Hippoph VVHat cure have you for a Horse that is Prickt Hippos This Sorance hath many names It is called Accloyed Cloyd Retraite Prick't c. All which names wee for the most part do fetch from the French and all is but only plaine Prick't which occurreth to the horse eyther through the unskilfulnes or negligence of the Ferrier in the driving of his Nayles or in the weak-nesse of the Nayles of their evill pointing or if a Nayle should fortune to breake in the quick and not be immediatly drawne fâ—rth it will in short time fester in the flesh and soone after impostunate and so in time beget a fowle Sore which may aske much Art to Cure The signes be that he will complaine when he treadeth upon stony or hard ground specially which so soone as you perceive you have then iust cause to suspect him to bee Prick't if hee were lately shod wherefore the better to make tryall your way must be to search the foote whereof he complaineth and you shall no sooner put your Pinsors to the place but that he will presently shrinke in his foote by reason that the nipping of the Pinsons doth paine him in the quick or if you do but cast water upon the foote whereon he halteth in short time you shall perceive the hoofe to be sooner dry against the nayle or place which grieveth him before any other part of the hoofe Again if you shall with your hammer