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water_n	air_n	element_n	fire_n	13,062	5	7.1789	4	true

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

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

of your Horse to set a full bodied man upon him whose weight will so ballance him that he cannot let his feet fall from such a height or with so strong a spring to jolt the Rider by reason he will not be capable of lifting them so high Another way to oblige him to an easie Trot is by loading him at his first bereaking with heavy shoos which will make him Trot more deliberately and with less shaking his body to offend his Rider As for Galloping it is divided into two kinds viz. Hand-gallop and Fullgallop or Full-speed to either of which a skillful rider by the mannagement of the rein and use of Whip or Spur may oblige a free Horse at his pleasure Wherfore I shall no longer insist on them but conclude this part of Horsemanship the most material of all others and from it I shall proceed to advise the keeper what in his place is most convenient to be done both for the credit of himself and the advantage of his Master Rules to be well considered and exactly observed by all that undertake the care of good Horses AMongst other things appertaining to a Horse good looking to is not the least for if he fare never so well if he be not carefully looked after at all convenient seasons he will not thrive therefore for their better understanding to whom such offices appertain I shall lay down these following Rules First Rising in Summer-time about Sun rising and in Winter-time by break of day enter the Stable having over-night prepared three pints or thereabouts of dry Oats well sifted and added to them a pint of split Beans give them your Horse the which when he has eaten fall to dressing him currying him over with your Iron Comb leaving no part undone then with your dusting cloth dust him over or for want of that with a Horse tail after which with your French brush beginning at his forehead proceed by degrees to rub every part of him leaving not so much as the breadth of an inch untouched throughout him then dust him again and with your wet hand lay and smooth his hair then drying your hand dry the wet places with the same not forgetting to cleanse his Sheath Cods Yard Tuel Forebowels Ears Nostrils and all other places that are subject to sweat or filth this done with your hair-cloth rub him over in all parts but especially his Head Cheeks Face and Eyes the top of his forehead and between his chaps then with a woollen Cloth kept clean for that purpose rub him over again in all parts and lastly comb down his Main and Tail The Horse thus put into good order Saddle him and lead him out of the Stable where mounting his back ride him gently to water but so that you may a little warm his stomach then having permitted him to drink a considerable draught Rack him gently ere you bring him into the Stable having done that though not made him sweat bring him into the Stable having his cloaths ready as soon as you have rubbed him down put them on and so let him stand for the space of an hour at which time give him two quarts of Beans and Oats mingled as aforesaid which being eaten toss into his Rack a hard knop of hay and let him bite upon it till noon noon being come furnish him with the like quantity of Beans and Oats and the like knop of Hay if the former knop be eaten or else not Evening being come carefully dress him after the same manner as in the morning you did and so ride him to water warming him before you permit him to drink as likewise afterwards bring him into the Stable clothing him and rubbing him down without any alteration and after an hours standing give him Beans Oats and Hay to the quantity aforesaid that is three pints of Oats one of spelt Beans and a knop of Hay and let him stand till Nine of the Clock at night at what time renewing his Bait and tossing up his Litter leave him till morning How to order your Horse when you design him for Sport or Travail And how in and after Travel Sport c. WHen you intend to take a journey see the day and night before that your Horse have his due proportion of meat and be well rubbed down clean Littered and served with warm water in the Stable without leading him abroad and either with Trotters oyl Neatsfoot-Oyl or Dogs Greace which it behoves you to have in a readiness supple the joynts of fore and hinderlegs it being warmed over a fire which will not only make him nimble in his Travail but hold out much better than otherwise he would In the morning let him have his Beans and Oats but no Hay If you find him lively and mettlesome give him no water before you ride out but being mounted ride him a mile or two a racking pace and when you find him well heated ride him as you please either Amble Trot or Full-speed you cannot hurt him but be sure to observe when you come into your Inn that you with your Glazing Knife ere you rub him down take off the sweat the knife so called is made of an old Sword blade or a piece of a Scithe after which rub him down and cleanse him as you have been formerly shewed Then he having eaten his allowance of meat which must for conveniencies sake be double what at once you are to give him when he stands idle you must if you find him any thing hot give him warm water but if he be indifferent cool cold water will not prejudice him Having after a journey heat or the like brought home your Horse hot or tyred bring him not into the Stable till he be pretty well dryed and cooled by moderate walking when being entred the Stable and tyed up to the Rack rub him down as you have been shewed before and girt his cloaths fast about him Tucking some drie wisps between his body and the Girths and when he has stood on the Bridle for the space of two hours toss a knop of Hay into the Rack whilst you prepare your Oats and Beans to the quantity of two quarts amongst which it will not at all be amiss but rather profitable if you mix half a pint of Hempseed well cleansed and at night when he comes to receive his last bait give him warm water mixed with a small quantity of fine Oatmeal and so tossing up his Litter let him rest till Morning As to washing and walking your Horse after a journey I hold them both dangerous the former occasioning surfeits and the latter contagious colds turning into the Glanders and other both troublesome and noysome infirmities But if he be extraordinary dirty take a pail of warm water and having first scraped off the dirt rub him with a wet brush till he become clean If he be hot and not fitting to be Stabled then ride him gently up and down till you find him temperate and cool