which may be any ways noxious to the inward part of the Body And it also preventeth sudden Sickness if you do suspect it Fifthly the opening of the two Plate or Breast-Veins do help the Anticor Sickness of the Heart Morfoundring which is the Foundring in the Body by over-riding whereby the Grease of the Horse is molten it also preventeth Diseases in the Liver Lungs and inward parts grieved and sometimes Hurts in the Shoulder which causeth Lameness before Sixthly we use to touch the two Thigh-Veins before which helpeth Foundring in the fore-Feet Mallenders Splent Screw Ring-bone and such like infirmities in the fore-Foot and such other higher Parts Seventhly we use to take Blood from the four Shackle-Veins before and this is very good for the Crow-scab Ring-bone and such like Diseases Eighthly we use to strike the two Spur-Veins which Cureth the Farcin in the Sides Morfoundring swelling under the Belly which is a Disease called the Feltrick and the like Ninthly we prick the two Toe-Veins which do help Frettizing Foundering Hoof-bound beating of the Horses Feet by Riding upon hard and stony ways and the like Tenthly we open the two Thigh-Veins behind and this doth help the Grief of the Kidneys swelling in the Hinder-Legs Foundring Sellenders Scratches Kybes c. And it also helpeth Diseases in and about the Belly as Pissing of blood Pissing oft after great and extraordinary hard labour and the weakness of the Reins the Back Belly Guts or any other of the inward Parts the Curb Spaven and such Diseases which come of Rankness of Blood Eleventhly we sometimes do open the four Shackle-Veins behind and this is very good against Founderings and other pains in and about the Feet Twelfthly we let Blood in the two Flank or Hanch-Veins and this is most probable for all kind of Feavers the Stones Poverty and the Felter-worm Thirteenthly we draw Blood from the two Tail-Veins which Cureth the Mange in the Tail falling of the Hair or Itch in the Tail And these are for the most part all the Veins that are usually opened So that the full sum or number of Veins which Farriers commonly open are thirty Other Veins there are which are of a smaller proportion and therefore not fit to be opened I will not say that these Veins so opened doth Cure the Diseases absolutely but it doth sometimes asswage the Malignancy of the Malady sometimes it preventeth Diseases and sometimes again it prepareth the Body the better to receive such Physical Drinks which do inwardly Cure them and such Salves Oyls Unguents which do dry and heal up outward Infirmities c. How many Bones a Horse hath and where they are Situated All the Bones which every Horse hath whereby to make up an Organical Body are these viz. He hath in his Head thirty nine or fourty Teeth The Bones in his Head do Comprehend the Crocks and Handles of the Scull albeit they be composed of parts and parcels of other Bones also the two flat Handles which from the Pallat and the Fork or Throat hath five the Chine hath fifty two the Breast one the Ribs hath thirty six the fore-Legs and fore-Feet hath fourty four and the hinder-Legs and Feet fourty so as the whole structure of the Body of a Horse whereby to perfect a full Building of Bones consisteth of about two hundred fifty seven or two hundred fifty nine if they be rightly computed which do represent themselves altogether at what time the perfect Anatomy of a Horse is laid open Of the Elements The Elements are four and they give Life and Nutriment unto Man and all other living Creatures They are these Fire Air Water and Earth Their Nature The Nature of Fire is to be hot and dry Air to be hot and moist Water to be cold and moist and Earth to be cold and dry Signes of the Zodiack Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces These do all Govern the twelve Months of the year and are placed above the Zodiack Names of the Planets Saturn Jupiter Mars Sol Venus Mercury and Lunâ—a The Government of the Signes Aries governs the Head Taurus the Neck Gemini the Shoulders and Armes Cancer the Stomach and Breast Leo the Heart Virgo the Belly and Guts Libra the Reins and Buttocks Scorpio the Privy Parts Sagittarius the Thighs Capricornus the Knees Aquarius the Legs and Pisces the Feet The best time to let a Horse Blood in If there be no extraordinary cause as in Case of desperate Sickness or so then Jan. the third and fifteenth Feb. the fourth and ninth Mar. the seventeenth and eighteenth April the tenth and sixteenth May the first and thirteenth June the fifteenth and twentieth But for July and August by reason that the Canicular days be then predominant Blood-letting is not so good but only in urgent Case of Necessity In Septemb. the eleventh and twenty eighth Octob. the eighth and twenty third Novemb. the fifth and Seeds Gather Seeds and Fruits when they be fully ripe and they also last but one whole year Rind or Bark Gather the Rind or Bark of any Simple when the Herb is ripe dry them and they will last many years The Office of the Farrier What Points Consist the Office of the Farrier IT Consists in four things viz. Science Experience Knowledge and Handy Work But I shall let pass the first three and speak to Handy-Work and that is To Heat an Iron well to Turn a Shoo well to make and Point a Nail well to Pare the Hoof well to Cauterize well to let Blood well to be light and well-Handied Bold and Hardy and Dressing of a Horse well of such Accidents as may happen unto him The Principal Members of a Horse Some hold that there be four and make the Stones or Gignitors one but I say there are but three The Liver the Heart and The Brain and if he be offended in any of these he will die but if any other Member besides these be hurt he may live and therefore the Stones or Gignitors cannot be one of the Principal Members for you cannot touch any of those three but you kill him out-right or desperately endanger him Now the Stones may receive hurt and if I despair of Curing them I can cut them out without peril of his life Of the Sinews and of the number of them There are two Sinews or Tendons which are white and begin at the end of the Nose and extend themselves along the Neck and along the Back and make their extent to the four Legs and take their ligaments in the fore-Feet There are in every Horse twenty nine or thirty great and small The two great Sinews which I named before It. Two Branches which are main Sinews that proceed from the Brain and run down the Cheeks to the Teeth It. There are from the Shoulders to the first Joynt of the Armes or fore-Legs downwards two great Sinews It. From the Knees to the Pasterns are four
and Wind and great ones either in the Wind or Sun or by the Fire Lay them in a dry place towards the South and they will keep long provided that neither Sun nor Moisture do injure them Herbs Gather all manner of Herbs when they do most â—lourish and dry them in the Shade except they be very moist and apt to putrifie they last for the most part a whole year sixteenth Decâ—mb the fourteenth and twenty sixth And these days we hold to be the very best unless dangerous and sudden Sickness do cause us to alter the same for in Cases of Necessity no days are to be regarded or observed More Observations of Blood-letting you may finde hereafter Of the four Humors Blood Choler Phlegm and Melancholy Four Humors also there are which be as it were four Children to the four Elements already spoken of And these are Blood Phlegm Choler and Melancholy without which a natural Body cannot be made for Blood naturally if it be perfect is hot and moist but taketh most from Heat and therefore is subordinate to Air Phlegm is cold and moist but the Principality thereof is Coldness and therefore hath reference to Water Choler is hot and dry but his chiefest Nature is Heat and therefore is Governed by the Element of Fire Melancholy is cold and dry but his chiefest condition is Driness and therefore subjects it self to the Element of Earth Now the Fountain of Blood is the Liver which dispersing it self by the help of the Veins into all the parts of the Body nourisheth and preserveth the same Phlegm preoccupateth the Brain being a cold and spungy substance and the Seat of the sensible Soul Choler inhabiteth the Liver which being hot and dry maketh a pleasing Harmony with the Blood Melancholy resideth in the Spleen 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 Blood principally nourisheth the Body Phlegm occasioneth Motion of the Joynts and Members Choler exciteth and provoketh the Belly to avoid its Excrements And lastly Melancholy disposeth the Body to an Appetite Whereupon all the Learned Philosophers do with one unanimous Assent agree in this That in every Natural Body there are four Principal Instrumental Members from which all the Parts of an Organiâ—al Body are said to be Framed and these are the Brain the Heart the Liver and the Stones or Gignitors and each one of these do Perform its true Function to all the particular Members of the Body for the Sinews do receive their Sustentation from the Brain and these are called Animal spirits the Artâ—ries from the Heart which are Vital spirits the Veins from the Liver which are Natural Parts and the Seed-Vessels from the Stones or Gignitors as the Place of Generation Of a Horses Complexion which is the most necessary Faces that a Farrier can judge of his Infirmities To speak of the Complexions of a Horse in a particular manner which is one of the most necessary Faces that a Farrier can behold both for the judging of Horses Infirmities and also for the true Compounding of his Medicines for every disease And therefore by the Colour of the Horse you are to judge his Complexion For look which of the Elements is most Predominate in him from that Element you may draw his Complexion as thus If he participate more of the Fire then of any of the other Elements then we hold him to be a Cholerick Horse and his Colour is either a bright Sorrel a Coal black without any white or an Iron Grey unchangeable that is such a Crey as neither will ever turn a Daple-Grey a White or a Flea-bitten and these Horses are of Nature light hot fiery and seldom of any great strength These Horses are most subject to Pestilent Feavers Yellows and Inflammation of the Liver Therefore every Farrier should be careful in his Composing of any Medicine for such a Horse to purge Choler yet very moderately and not with any extraordinary strength in the Potion or Drench because the Horse being in his best strength not reputed strong should you apply any violent thing to him that little strength being abated there were great danger in confounding the whole Body If the Horse participate more of the Air then of the other Elements then is he of a Sanguine Complexion and his Colour is either a bright Bay or a dark Bay which hath neither scouling Countenance Myly Mouth noâ— white Flank Or a white Flea bitten White Lyard like Silver or black with a white Star white rash or white Foot These Horses are of Nature pleasant nimble free and of good strength The Disease to them most incident is Consumption of the Liver Leprosie Glanders or any disease that is infectious They are of a good strong Constitution and may endure strength in their Medicines especially any thing that cooleth the Blood If the Horse participate more of the Water then of the other Elements then is he of a Phlegmatick Complexion and his Colour is either Milk white a yellow dun Kite glewed or a Pyde-ball in whom there is an equal Mixture of Colours Otherwise if the Bay the Black or the Dun exceed the White he is said to be of that Complexion of which the Colour is greatest These Horses are of Nature slow and apt to lose Flesh The Diseases which are most incident unto them are Colds Head-ach Rheums Staggers and such like They are able to endure the reasonable strength of any Medicine because of the abundance of Phlegm which is in them sufficeth both Nature and the Potion to work upon All cold Simples are to them exceeding hurtful so are also they which are violently hot in the third degree The first because it bindeth too soon The latter because it disperses too suddenly therefore Simples of a moderate Mean are best If the Horse participate of the Earth more then of the other Elements then is he of a Melancholy Complexion And his Colour is a Mouse-dun Russet Chesnut Ashie Grey dark Bay having long white Haiâ— like Goats Hair growing on his Legs These Horses are of Nature heavy and faint-hearted The Diseases to them most incident are Inflammations in the Spleen Frenzie Dropsey and such like They are commonly of better strength then they appear by their Actions and are able to endure the strength of any reasonable Medicine All cicatrizing and dry Simples are hurtful unto them the cold and moist are the most profitable Having thus shewed you these four Complexions Cholerick Sanguine Phlegmatick and Melancholy together with their qualities and strengths You shall understand now that amongst Farriers there is another Complexion or fifth Constitution which is called the Composition or Mixture of Complexions that is when a Horse doth participate of all the four Elements equally and in due proportion and this is the best Complexion and the Horse that is of this Complexion is ever one of these Colours that is
of Oats you had formerly Sifted About eleven of the Clock give him the same quantity of Oats and let him rest till the Afternoon At one of the Clock in the Afternoon if you intend not to give him a Heat that day Feed him with Bread and Oates as you did in the Forenoon and so consequently every Meal following for that day But if you intend the next day to give him a Heat to which I now bend mine aim you shall only then give him a quart of Oats clean Sifted but no Hay and so let him rest till Evening At four of the Clock give him a quart of clean Sifted Oats and after they are eaten Bridle him up Dress Cloath Saddle Air Water Exercise bring home and order as before shewed only give him no Hay at all After he hath stood an hour upon his Bridle give him a quart of Oates and after they are eaten put on his Head a sweet Muzzle and let him rest till Nine at Night The Vse of the Muzzle The Use of the Muzzle being rightly made is to keep the Horse from eating up his Litter from gnawing upon Boards and Mud-walls and indeed to keep him from eating any thing but what he receiveth from your own hands they are made sometimes of Leather and stampt full of holes or else close but they are unsavoury and unwholesom Nay indeed all Leather is unpleasant Besides they are too close and too hot for him The best Summer Muzzle and indeed best at all times is the Ner-Muzzle made of strong Pack-thread and knit very thick and close in the bottom and so enlarged wider and wider upwards to the middle of the Horses Head then bound upon the top with Tape and on the nether side a Loop and on the farther side a long String to fasten it to the Horfes Head The best Winter Muzzle and indeed tolerable at any time is made of double Canvass with a round Button and a square Latice Window of small Tape before both his Nostrils down to the very bottom of the Muzzle and upward more then a handful and must also have a Loop and a String to fasten about his Head At Nine of the Clock at Night give him a quart of clean Oats and when they are eaten put on his Muzzle and toss up his Litter and so leave him The next day early give him a quart of clean Oates rubbed between your hands with some Beer or Ale and when he hath eaten them Dress him and Saddle him as before and being ready to depart give him a new laid Egg or two and wash his Mouth after it with Beer or Ale and so lead him away and at the door provoke him to empty then Mount and Rack him gently to the Course ever and anon making him smell another Horses dung When you are come within a Mile of the starting Post alight and take off his Body-Cloth and Breast-Cloth and Girt on the Saddle again then sending away your Grooms both with those Cloaths and other dry Cloaths to rub with let him stay at the end of the Course till you come then your self Rack your Horse gently up to the starting Post and beyond making him smell to that Post which you call the weighing Post that he may take notice of the beginning and ending of the Course There start your Horse roundly and sharply at near a three quarters speed and according to his Strength of Body Ability of Wind and Chearfulness of Spirit run him the whole Course through But by no means do any thing in extremity or above his Wind but when you find him a little yield then give him a little ease so that all he doth may be done with Pleasure and not with Anguish For this manner of training will make him take delight in his labour and so encrease it The contrary will breed discomsort and make Exercise irksom Also during the time you thus course him you shall Note upon what Ground he runneth best and whether up the Hill or down the Hill whether on the smooth or on the rough on the wet or on the dry or on the level or the Earth somewhat Rising and according as you find his Nature so manage him for your own advantage When you have Finished the Heats and a little slightly Galloped him up and down to Rate his Wind and chear his Spirits you shall then the Groom being ready Ride into some warm Place and with your Glassing Knife or scraping Knife made either of some broken Sword blade or some old broken Sythe or for want of that a thin piece of old hard Oaken wood fashioned like a long broad Knife with a sharp edge scrape off the Sweat of your Horse in every part Buttocks excepted till there will none arise ever and anon moving him up and down Then with dry Cloaths Rub him all over Buttocks excepted then take off his Saddle and having Glassed his Back and rub'd it near dry put on his Body-Cloth and Breast-Cloth and set on his Saddle again and Girt it then Mount and Gallop him gently and ever and anon Rubbing his Head Neck and Body as you sit then walk him about the Fields to cool him And when you find he drieth apace then Rack him homewards sometimes Racking and sometimes Galloping and by no means bring him to the Stable till you find him throughly dry When you are come to the Stable-door entice him to empty then set him up and Tie him to the Rack and as having prepared it before give him this Scouring made in this manner The first Scouring Take a Pint of the Syrup of Roses or a pint of strong honyed-Honyed-water and dissolve into it of Cassa Agarick and Myrrhe of each an ounce and Jumble them well together in a Viol-Glass Then being Mul'd and made warm at the Fire and the Horse newly come from his Heat as before shewed give him this Scouring for it is a strong one and avoideth all manner of Molten Grease and Foulness Ordering him after his Scouring When you have given it him rub his Legs well then take off his Saddle and if his Body be dry run slightly over it with a Curry-Comb and after that the French Brush and lastly rub him all over with dry Cloaths very well and Cloath him up very warm and if the Weather be very cold to throw over him a loose Blanket He must fast full two Houres after his Scouring not departing out of the Stable and keep him stirring therein for it will work the better After he hath Fasted on the Bridle two houres then take a Handful of Wheat-Ears and coming to him handle the Roots of his Ears then put your Hand under his Cloaths next to his Heart upon his Flanks and on the nether part of his things and if you finde any new Sweat arise or any Coldness arise or if you see his Body beat or his Breast move fast then forbear to give him any thing for it shews there is much soulness
a Cloth into some convenient thing and put to it so much of black or white Wooll as it will well drink up and fill each Ear full of it putting a piece of dty Wooll upon it to keep it in the better Then sowe them up as you have Directions before and do not unstitch them in twenty four houres If you open his Head in the usual place under his fore-top and put into it about the length of an Inch of the inner Rind of Elder and let it remain there about the same time the Cure will be the sooner Expedited Another Medicine to put into his Eares to Cure it when it is in his Head After you have let Blood bruise so much of Housleek and Hemlock as will contain two spoonfuls of the Juice of each of them and add to them two spoonfuls of Sallet-Oyl and fill each Ear full of it leaving so much room as you may put Flox or Wooll upon it to keep it in the better When you have so done stitch up his Eares as in the former Receipt and at twenty four houres end take out the stuff If you like best the former way of soaking up the Juice with the Wooll better then this you may use that A Drink to Cure the most malignant Farcy that is Before you Give him this Drink here under-written let him be kept very sparing of Meat all night and the next Morning Blooded on both sides the Neck very well 'T is this Take the inner Rind of the Barberry Tree Herb-grace Sage Wormwood Fennel Lungwort of each half a Handful chopped small Anniseeds Turbich Turmerick and of Aristolochia rotunda about two Ounces of all of them beaten to powder boyl the Herbs pretty well in two quarts of small Beer to one quart then strain it forth and put in your Powders to it and when it is cold enough to take give it him How to Order him before and after you have Given it him 1. Before you give it him let him fast four houres and after it as much when you have given it him Air him well by Riding him after it 2. Let him drink but once a day and let it be white Water which is a handful or two of Wheat-Bran stirred in amongst his water made first luke-warm 3. Let him be kept in the House with very dry Meat during his Cure 4. Exercise is very good in this Distemper and the more you use him to it the better you will find him 5. 'T is good also in order to his Cure once or twice a day to Flounce him backward and forward in some clear River or Pond up to the Midsides which will cleanse his Body and take away the Filth and Venom of the Disease 6. This often washing him in cold water will wash off the poisoned Medicines if he hath been poisoned with any and also abate very much the Malignancy of the Disease 7. Let him rest three or four days after his first Drink and then give him another and Order him in every thing as you did before 8. If you find him after this second Drink that he is not perfectly Cured you may give him the third and this will certainly Cure him 9. When you give him his first Drink if you please you may Blood him with the end of your Cornet in the Furrow on the top of his Mouth The Vertues of this Malignant Drink for the Farcy are these It will cause him to vomit up much Filth and run at the Nose very nauseous and stinking stuff and yellowish Water It is a great Sweetner and Purifyer of the Blood as also a great Drier up of all evil and malignant Humours that are seated and rooted in the Body If the Heads of the Buds appear red and loose lay upon them a little burnt Allom mixed with a little Butter or Hogs-grease and you shall quickly find them to fall off A Receipt for the Câ—re of the Water Farcy This is the usual and common Way for the Cure of it viz. To take a long and small Iron Rod and bend it backward at one end about the length of a Fleam then heat it red hot in the Fire and strike the swelled places under his Belly and chaps full of Holes and let and squeeze out the grey and Oyly water that you find pent up in the Skin and wash the places to keep them from wrankling and to take out the Fire with Chamberly and Salt and some powder of Bolearmoniack mixt amongst it as hot as he can weâ—l endure it for three or four times and he is Cured Things good in general to Cure the Running or rotten Frush To take off the Shoo and pare away all the corrupt places and make them raw then put it on again being widened then take Soot and Salt bruise them well together in a Dish and mix therewith the Whites of three Eggs and dip Tow therein and stop all the Foot with it renewing it seven days together or to wash it with Urine three or four times a day or take a quart of urine and boyl in it a quarter of a pound of Allom with some green Copperas and strain it out and keep it for your use and after you have washed the Sore with it strow on it the powder of green Nettles Fryed and Pepper and it will dry it up When you dip Tow in any thing you must splint it in that it may not fall off and during the Cure to let him come into no wet and at the seven days end leave stopping him and ride him abroad and bring him in very clean into the Stable for dirty setting up breeds this infirmity c. Things good in general for the Over-flowing of the Gall which is a yellowness of the Skin and a Costiveness of the Body Saffron boiled in Milk is good or Ale Saffron and Anniseeds mixt together or Cellandine Roots chopt bruised and boiled in Beer or for want of Cellandine Rue and give it him luke-warm c. Things good for Gangrenes inward or outward The Leaves Fruit or Roots of Briony but it is a great Purger which must be Corrected the Leaves of Bugle bruised and applied or the Juice of it to wash the place the Meal of Darnel is good to stay them Cankers or any other eating and fretting Sores Water-Cresses Mallows Elder-leaves Brook-lime mouldy Hay and Bran boiled in the dregs of strong Beer and laid to very hot is good to stay its spreading if any thing will do it Nettles bruised and laid to them is good so is the decoction of the Leaves or Bark of the Tamarisk-Tree and the place Bathed therewith VVhat the Spleen iâ— It is a long flat narrow and spungy substance of a pale fleshy colour joyning with the Liver and Gall it is the Receptacle of Melancholy and the dregs of the Blood and it is as subject to Infirmity as any inward part whatsoever as to Inflammations Obstructions Knobs and Swellings it is through
Scaldings either by Shot Gun-Powder or Wilde-Fire The leaves or roots of the yellow Lilly Daffodil stamped with Honey the Juice of an Onion the Juice of the red Lilly Lettuce the Juice of Thorn-Apples boiled in Hogs-Grease to the form of an Ointment cures all manner of Burnings or Scaldings whatsoever in a very short time Water Plantine the Juice of Housleek St. Johns wort bruised the Herb Tutsan or Park leaves an Ointment made of the Juice of Cowslips and Oyl of Linseed Cureth all manner of Scaldings or Burnings whatsoever Ivy that groweth upon Walls or Trees Brank-Ursine the Juice of Elder-leaves the Decoction or the distilled Water of Archangel the Flowers and Herb of Ladies Bed straw made into an Oyl by setting it in the Sun is good the leaves of the Bur-dock bruised with the White of an Egg is a most excellent thing for all manner of Burnings by Fire the Juice of Colts-foot the Decoction of Dasies Wall-wort and Agrimony cureth inward Burnings being given inwardly the Decoction of the leaves of Brank-Ursine Particular Receipts to Allay Burning with Shot Gun-Powder or wilde Fire Take Varnish and put it into fair Water and beat them very well together then pour away the Water from the Varnish and anoint the place burned with a Feather dipt into it and in a few days dressing it will kill the Fire which done heal the Sore with your carnifying and healing Salves Another Take Hogs-Grease and set it on the Fire and take off the Filth that shall arise and when it is well boyled take it off the Fire and put it into an Earthen Pan to cool for four or five Nights together in the open Air then wash it in fair Running Water so often till it become White then melt it down again and keep it for your use and anoint the place grieved and it will Cure him Another Take fresh Butter and the Whites of Eggs as much of each as will suffice beat them well together till you bring them to a formal Ointment and anoint the places burned therewith and it will speedily take away the Fire and Cure them soundly Another Take a stone of quick Lime which must be well burned which you may know by its lightness dissolve it in fair Water and when the Water is setled strain the clearest through a fine Cloth then put into the water either the Oyl of Hemp-seed or Sallet Oyl of like quantity with the water and so beat them well together you shall have an excellent Unguent very precious for all sorts of Burnings And the Nature of these three Unguents be to leave no scars Wherefore we apply them for most sovereign Remedies as well for Man as Beast To Help a Horse that is Costive in his Body Take a Decoction of Mallowes one quart Sallet Oyl half a Pint or fresh Butter half a pound Benedicta laxativa one Ounce give him this Blood-warm Glister-wise then clap his Tail to his Tuel and hold it close and make him keep it for half an houre at the least and when it hath workt give him a sweet Mash and so keep him to Mashes and white Water for two or three days What is good to make a Horse draw up his Yard To Bathe his Yard and Sheath with white-Wine made warm then anoint it with Oyl of Roses and Live Honey mingled together and so put up the Yard into the Sheath and with a short Bolster of Canvass keep it from falling down and dress him once every day till he be well and let his Back and Fillets be kept warm and anoint him with Acopum but if you have it not apply this Charge unto his Back and Fillets Take Bole-armoniack the Whites of Eggs Wheat-Meal Sanguis draconis Venice Turpentine and strong white-Wine Vineger of each as much as you think fit mix them well together and charge his Back with it as also his Sheath and his Stones Another Take the Ashes of Ashen wood the whitest finest and best burned and searce them one pound of Red Clay dried and made into fine powder half a pound Bolearmoniack half an Ounce powdred boyl all these in as much Verjuice of the Crab as will make it liquid like Pap and with it anoint his Yard Sheath and Stones Morning and Evening and he shall be presently Cured A Receipt to Scour and Cleanse a Horses Yard that is Foul and Furred by Pissing within his Sheath Draw forth his Yard and Rub and Pick off the Filth with your Hand and cleanse it well with Butter and white-Wine Vineger melted together and squirt some of it up into his Yard with a Syringe and he will do well A Receipt to Prevent Diseases in a Horse the whole Year The first day of April open a Vein in the Neck and if it be good take the less if bad take the more then from that day until the first of May give him this which I shall prescribe and let him have it Morning and Evening during the whole Month of April from the first to the last which is before his turning out to Grass or Soyling which shall be about the middle of May and let him have the same all the whole Month of October like as you must do in April after you have taken him from Grass about Bartholomew Tide that which I prescribe is this To Prevent Diseases Take a Bushel of Old Rye sweet and clean well purged or made clean from all Filth and put it in a clean Iron Pot dry and without Water put it over the Fire and put in your Rye and keep it continually stirring to the bottom until it be so parched that it becometh black hard and dry then take it from the Fire and put it into some clean Vessel and when it is cold keep it close stopped for your use When you use it take two or three Handfuls of it and beat it into fine Powder and mingle it amongst his Provender at every Watering Morning and Evening or at other times when you give him Oates do this these two entire Months of April and October for all Men hold that in these two Months the Blood turneth and altereth as we alter his Diet from hard and dry Meat to Grass and so likewise from Grass to dry Meats for this Rye thus parched and ordered doth refine the Blood cool the Liver and purgeth the Spleen so as the whole Structure of the Body is thereby better â—ured and freed from all such bad and unnatural Humours which would otherwise make the Body inclinable to sundry Maladies and Diseases which this Rye preventeth Things good to keep a Horse from Casting forth his Drink As it proceeds from Cold in the Stomach or other Causes as Cold in the Head where the Rheum bindeth about the Roots and Kernels of the Tongue hath as it were strangled and made strait the Passages to the Stomach therefore to prevent this mischief you must give him Cordial and warm Drinks as Malmsey Cinnamon Anniseeds and Cloves well brewed
for fifteen days together yet before you purge him in any case let him Blood and whilest he is in Purging let him have no Prevender A Horse good store of Blood after Travel A Horse after Travel hath ever more Blood then any Beast whatâ—oâ—ever therefore it is good to take Blood from him to prevent the Yellows or other Diseases that may follow What you are to do in Case of Necessity coming late to your Inn. If you come late to your Inn so that your Journey be great and earnest and that your Horse will not eat till he hath drunk and yet is hot notwithstanding then let his Drink be Milk given in the dark lest the whiteness make him refuse it this is both cordial and pleasant If you cannot get Milk enough then mingle Milk with water luke-warm To give him Mares Milk to drink if he be poor If your Horse either by Labour or any Surfeits be brought low lean and weak give him Mares Milk to drink many days together and it will make him strong The best-times to Water in the Winter The best Houres to water your Horse in the Winter when he is at Rest is betwixt seven and eight in the Morning or four or five in the Evening Not good to wash a Horse if he be hot It is not good to wash a Horse when he is hot but you may wash him above the Knees so that you do not wash his Belly and that you ride him after he is washed and so set him up and dress him The purer the water is wherein you wash your Horse the more wholesom it is so that it be not too extream cold To light at every steep Hill When you Travel at every steep Hill light both to refresh your Horse and your self How a fat Horse is to have his Meat and his Water Let a fat Horse have his water at four times and not as much as he will drink at once and let him stand two or three houres every day without Meat Rubbing is good for a Horse Rubbing much hard and well doth profit preserve and it keeps both legs and body in strength and he doth much delight in it and it doth better then much Meat Boiled Barley is good Boiled Barley is a great Fatner of a Horse To Pick his Feet after Travel Cleanse and pick the Soles of his Feet ever after Travel and stuffe them well with Ox-dung and anoint his Hoofs with Grease Tarr or Turpentine Much Rest naught Much Rest is the Nurse and Mother of many Diseases Be careful to look to your Saddle When you Ride look often to your Saddle and your Horses Shooes and you shall find much more ease in your Journey A Horse-Mans Rule If you do intend to keep your Horse in his Skin Go softly out and come softly in Riding softly Ride moderately the first two houres but after according to your occasions Trotters Oyl is good to help stiff Limbs Trotters Oyl is an excellent Ointment being applied very warm to your Horses Limbs to nimble them and to help Stiffness and Lameness And Dogs Grease is better therefore never want one of them in the Stable To Bath his Legs with cold water is good to Keep his Legs from Scabs and Swellings Bath the Fore-legs from the knees and Gambrels downwards with cold water for it is wholesom and both comforteth the Sinews and prevents Scabs and Swellings To Wash at the Stable door if Necessity requires If foul ways compel you to wash your Horses Legs then do it with a Pail of water at the Stable-door rather then to endanger him in Pond or River and for walking rather Sit on your Horses back to keep his spirit stirring then to walk him in your Hand for he will soon catch Cold that way the Wind and Air getting between his Saddle and Back Dressing upon Travel and Rest Dress your Horse twice a day upon Rest and once upon Travel Blooding Spring and Fall are the best times to take Blood from a Horse Ordering of Hunting Horses While he is at Rest let him have all the quietness that may be let him have much Meat much Litter much Dressing and Water ever by him and let him sleep as long as he pleaseth keep him to Dung rather soft then hard and look that it be well coloured and bright for Darkness shews Grease and Redness inward heating Let Exercises and Mashes of sweet Mault after his usual Scourings or let Bread of clean Beans or Beans and Wheat mixt together be his best food and Beans and Oats the most ordinary Sir Robert Chernock's Manner of Hunting in Buck-season He never takes his Horse up into the Stable during the Season but Hunts him upon Grass only allowing him as many Oats as he can well eat And he approves of this to be a very good way by reason that if there be any Molten Grease within him which violent Hunting may raise up this going to Grass will purge it out He hath Rid his Horse three days in a week during the Season and never yet found any hurt but rather good by it so that you turn your Horse out very cool The Ordering of your Running Horse Let him have no more Meat then will suffice Nature drink once in twenty four houres and dressing every day once at Noon only Let him have moderate Exercise Morning and Evening Ayrings or the fetching of his water and know no other violence but in his Courses only If he be very fat scoure oft if of reasonable stature seldom If lean then scoure but with a sweet Mash only let him stand dark and warm having many Clothes and much Litter and that Wheat-straw only Let him be empty before you Run and let his Food be the finest lightest and quickest of Digestion that may be The Sweats are most wholesom that are given abroad and the Cooling most natural which is given before he cometh into the Stable Keep his Limbs with cool Ointments and let not any hot Spices come into his Body If he grow dry inwardly wash'd Meats is most wholesom If he grow loose give him Wheat-straw in more abundance And be sure do every thing Neat and cleanly about him which will Nourish him the better Ordering of Coach-Horses Let them have good Dressing twice a day Hay and Provender their Belly-full and Litter enough to tumble on Let them be walk'd and wash'd after Travel for by reason of their many occasions to stand still they must be inur'd with all hardness though it be much unwholesom Their best food is sweet Hay or well dried Beans and Oats or Bean-bread Look well to the strength of their Shooes and the Galling of their Harness Keep their Legs clean especially about their hinder Fetlocks And let them stand in the House warmly Cloathed Ordering of the Pack and Cart-Horse They need no walking washing or houres of Fasting only dress them well look to their Shooes and Backs and then fill their Bellies and they will do their
his Back where the Saddle stood Then Cloath him up first with a Linnen-sheet and then over that a good strong Housing-Cloth and above it his Woollen Body-cloth which in the Winter it is not amiss to have loyned with some Cotton but in the Summer the Kersie is sufficient When these are Girt about him stop his Circingle with small Wisps very loose for they will be the softer His Feet stopped with Cows dung After he is Cloathed stop his Feet with Cows dung then throw into the Rack a little bundle of Hay hard bound together and well dusted and let him eat it standing upon his Bridle When he hath stood an houre upon his Bridle take it off and Rub his Head and Neck very well with a Rubber of Hempen Cloth for this is good to dissolve all gross and thick Humors from the Head Then after you have made clean the Manger take a quart of sweet dry old and clean dress'd Oats for those that are unsweet breed infirmities Those that are moist cause swelling in the Body Those that are New breed Wormes And they which are half-dress'd deceive the Stomach and bring the Horse to ruine Though the black Oat is tolerable yet it makes foul dung and hinder a Mans knowledge in the state of his Body This quart of Oats you shall dress in such a Sieve as will let a light Oat pass thorough it and if he eat them with a good stomach let him have another and let him rest till eleven of the Clock Then Rub his Head and Neck as before and dress him another quart of Oats then leave him till one of the Clock with the Windows close for the darker you keep him the better and will cause him to lie down and take his rest which otherwise he would not therefore you are to Arm the Stable with Canvass both for darkness warmth and that the filth may not come near him Then at one of the Clock use him as you did before and give him another quart of Oats in the same manner making of him clean by taking away his dung and give him a little Knob of Hay and leave him till the Evening At the Evening come to the Stable and having made all things clean bridle as in the Morning take off his Cloaths and dress him as before Then Cloath Saddle bring him forth and urge him to empty Mount rack him abroad but not to the Hills if you can find any other plain Ground and Air him in all Points as you did in the Morning When you have Watered and spent the Evening in Ayring till within Night for nothing is more wholesom and consumeth foulness more then early and late Ayrings Rack him home to the Stable door and there alight and do as you did in the Morning both within doors and without and so let him Rest till Nine at Night then at Night come to him and Rub down his Legs well with Wisps and his Face and Neck with a clean Cloth and turning up his Cloaths Rub all his hinder parts then give him a quart of Oats in the same manner as you did before and after that a little bundle of Hay then Toss up his Litter and make his bed soft and leave him till the next Morning Then the next Morning do every thing to him without the least Omission as hath formerly been declared and thus keep him for the first Fortnight which will so take away his foulness and harden his flesh that the next Fortnight you may adventure to give him some Heats Object But to Answer an Objection that may be urged touching the quantity of Provender which is prescribed Being but a quart at a Meal seeing there be many Horses that will eat a larger Proportion and to scant them to this little were to starve or at the best to breed weakness Answ I set not down this as an infallible Rule but a President that may be imitated yet altered at Pleasure For I have left you this Caveat that if he eat this with a good Stomach you may give him another leaving the Proportion to the Feeders Discretion Four Considerations in giving of Heats First That two Heats in the Week is a sufficient proportion for any Horse of what Condition or state of Body whatsoever That one Heat should ever be given on that day in the Week on which he is to run his Match as thus Your Match-day is a Monday your Heating-days are then Mondays and Fridays and the Monday to be ever the sharper Heat but because it is the day of his Match and there are three days betwixt it and the other Heat If the day be Tuesday then the Heating-days are Tuesdays and Saturdays if Wednesday then Wednesdays and Saturdays by reason of the Lords day if on Thursday then Thursdays and Mondays and so of the rest You shall give no Heat but in case of Necessity in Rain or foul Weather but rather to defer houres and change times for it is unwholesom and dangerous And therefore in case of Showers and uncertain Weather you shall have for the Horse a loyned Hood with loyned Eares and the Nape of the Neck loyned to keep out Rain for nothing is more dangerous then cold wet falling into the Ears and upon the Nape of the Neck and Fillets 4. And lastly observe to give the Heats the Weather being seasonable as early in the Morning as you can that is by the Spring of day but by no means in the dark for it is to the Horse both unwholesom and unpleasant to the Man a great Testimony of folly and to both an Act of danger and precipitation The second Fortnights Feeding You shall do all things as in the first Fortnight only before you put on his Bridle give him a Quart of Oats then Bridle him up and dress him as before shewed then Cloath Saddle Air Water Exercise and bring him home as before shewed only you shall not put Hay into his Rack but give it him out of your hand handful after handful and so leave him on his Bridle for an hour then rub him and after other Ceremonies Sift him a Quart of Oats and set them by then take a Loas of Bread that is three days old and made in this manner The First Bread Take three Pecks of clean Beans and one Peck of Wheat mix them together and grind them and bolt it pretty sine and Knead it up with good store of Barm and Lightning but with as little water as may be labour it in the Trough very well and break it and so cover it warm that so it may swell then Knead it over again and make it up in big Loaves and so bake it well and let it soak soundly and when they are drawn turn the bottom upwards that so they may cool At three days old give it him for new Bread is hurtful when you give it him chip it very well and cut some of it into small Pieces and put them into his Quart
stirred up on which the Medicine worketh with a conquering quality the Horse is brought to a little Sickness therefore in this case you shall only take off his Bridle put on his Coller toss up his Litter and absent your self having made the Stable dark and still for other two houres which is the utmost end of that Sickness But if you finde no such offence then give him the Ears of Wheat by three or four together and if he eat this handful give him another and so another or two Then give him a little Knob of Hay well dusted and draw his Bridle and rub his Head well An hour after give him a quart of clean Oats and put two or three handfuls of spelted Beans amongst them and see that they be very clean and break amongst them two or three Shives of Bread clean chipt and so leave him for two or three houres At Evening before you dress him give him the like quantity of Oates Beans and Bread and when he hath eaten them Bridle him Dress and Cloath him for you shall neither Saddle or Air him forth because this Evening after his Heat the Horse being foul and the Scouring yet working in his Body he may not receive any cold water at all After he is drest and hath stood two houres on his Bridle then wash three pints of clean Oates in Beer or Ale and give them him for this will inwardly cool him as if he had drunk water After he hath eaten his washt Meat and rested upon it a little you shall at his feeding times with Oates and spelt Beans or Oates and Bread or altogether or each several or simply of it self according to the liking of the Horse feed him that night in plentiful manner and leave a Knob of Hay in his Rack when you go to Bed The next day early first feed then dress Cloath Saddle Air Water and bring home as at other times only have a more careful eye to his emptying and see how his Grease and Foulness wasteth At his feeding times feed as was last shewed you only but little Hay and keep your Heating-days and the preparation of the day before as was before shewed Thus you shall speed the second Fortnight in which your Horse having received four Heats Horse-man like given him and four Scourings there is no doubt but his Body will be drawn inwardly clean you shall then the third Fortnight Order him according to the Rules following The third Fortnights Feeding The third Fortnight you shall make his Bread Finer then it was formerly As thus The Second Bread Take two Pecks of clean Beans and two pecks of fine Wheat Grind them well and Searce them through a fine Raunge and Knead them up with Barm and great store of Lightning and make it up as you did the former Bread With this Bread after the Crust is taken away and being old feed your Horse as before shewed for this Fortnight as you did the former putting it amongst his Beans and Oats observing his Dressings Airings Feedings Heatings and Preparations as in the former Fortnight only with these differences First you shall not give your Heats so violently as before but with a little more pleasure as thus If the first Heat have violence the second shall have ease and indeed none to over-strain him or to make his Body sore Next you shall not after his Heats give him any more of the former Scouring but in stead thereof instantly upon the end of the Heat after the Horse is a little cooled and cloathed up and in the same place where you Rub him give him a Ball as big as a Hens Egg of that Confection which is mentioned in the Office of the Farrier and goeth by this Title The true Manner of Making those Cordial Balls which Cure any violent Cold or Glanders which c. The fourth and last Fortnights Feeding The fourth and last Fortnight you shall make your Bread much Finer then either of the former The last and best Bread Take three Pecks of fine Wheat and one Peck of Beans Grind them on the black Stones and boult them through the finest Boulter you can get then Knead it up with sweet Ale Barm and new strong Ale and the Barm beaten together and the Whites of twenty or thirty Eggs But in any wise no Water at all but in stead thereof some small quantity of New Milk then work it up Bake it and Order it as the former With this Bread having the Crnst cut clean away and with Oats well Sunned Beaten and Rubbed between your Hands then new Winnowed Sifted and Dress'd with the purest spelt Beans and some fine Chiltern Wheat with any Simple or any Compound feed your Horse at his Feeding times as in the Fortnight last mentioned You shall keep your Heating-days the first Week or Fortnight but the last Week you shall forbear one Heat and not give any five days before the Match-day only you shall give him strong and long Airings You shall not need this Fortnight to give him any Scouring at all If this Fortnight Morning and Evening you burn the best Frankincense in your Stable you shall finde it exceeding wholesom for him and he will take wonderful delight therein In this Fortnight when you give him any washt Meat wash it in the Whites of Eggs or Muskadine for that is most wholesom and less Pursie This Fortnight give him no Hay but what he taketh out of your hand after his Heats and that in little quantity and clear dusted The last Week of this Fortnight if the Horse be a foul Feeder you must use the Muzzle continually but if he be a clean Feeder then three days before the Match is sufficient The Morning the day before your Match feed well both before and after Airing and water as at other times before Noon and after Noon scant his Portion of Meat a little before and after Evening Airing feed as at Noon and Water as at other times but be sure to come home before Sun-set Late at Night feed as you did in the Evening and give him what he liketh according to his stomach only as you can forbear Bread and Beans This day you shall Coul your Horse Shoo him and do all extraordinary things of Ornament about him provided that you do not give him offence to hinder his Feeding or Resting For I have heard some Horsemen say that when they had shod their Horses with light Shoos the Night before the Course that their Horse hath taken such notice thereof that they have refused to eat or lie down But you must understand that those Horses must be old and long Experienced in this Exercise or else they cannot reach these subtil apprehensions But to pass by Curiosity as plating of Tails and all other unnecessary Ornaments whereby they do injury to the Horse I shall advise you for necessary and indifferent things that they be done the day before then in the Morning of the Course because I would
hath one Complexion as green if upon Hay then another as a little more dark If upon little Provender then inclining to yellow But to avoid both curiosity and doubt observe well the Complexion of his Dung when he is in best Health and the best feeding and as you finde it alter so judge either of his Health or Sickness as thus If his Dung be clear crisp and of a pale yellowish Complexion hanging together without separation more then as the weight breaks it in falling being neither so thin nor so thick but it will a little flat on the Ground and indeed both in Savour and Substance resembling a sound Mans Ordure then is he clean well fed and without Imperfection If it be well Coloured yet fall from him in round Knots or Pellets so it be but the first and second Dung the rest good as aforesaid it matters not for it only shews he did eat Hay lately and that will ever come away first But if all his Dung be alike then it is a Sign of foul feeding and he hath either too much Hay or eats too much Litter and too little Corn. If his Dung be in round Pellets and blackish or brown it shews inward Heat in the Body If it be Greasie it shews foulness and that Grease is Molten but cannot come away If he void Grease in gross Substance with his Dung if it be white and clear then it comes away kindly and there is no danger but if it be yellow or putrified then the Grease has long layn in his Body and Sickness will follow if not prevented If his Dung be red and hard then he hath had too strong Heats and Costiveness will follow if not prevented if it be pale and loose it shews inward coldness of Body or too much moist and corrupt feeding Signes from the Vrine Though the Urine be not altogether so Material as the Dung yet it hath some true Faces as thus Pale Colour That Urine that is of a pale yellowish Colour rather thick then thin of a strong smell and piercing condition is an healthful sound and good Urine but if it be of an high red Complexion either like Blood or inclining to Blood then hath he had either two sore Heats been over-ridden or ridden too early after Winter-Grass High Complexion If the Urine be of an high Complexion clear and transparent like old March Beer then he is inflamed in his Body and hath taken some Surfeit White like Cream If it carry a white Cream on the top it shews a weak Back or Consumption of the Seed Green A green Urine shews Consumption of the Body Bloody streaks A Urine with bloody Streaks shews an Ulcer in the Kidneys and a black thick cloudy Urine shews Death and Mortality Of Sickness in general Whensoever upon any occasion you shall find your Horse droop in Countenance to rorsake his Meat or to shew any other apparent sign of Sickness if they be not great you may forbear to let Blood because where the Blood is spent the Spirits are spent also and they are not easily recovered But if the Signes be great and dangerous then by all means let Blood instantly and for three Mornings together the Horse being Fasting give him half an Ounce of the Powder called by me Diahexaple and by the Iâ—alians Râ—gina Medicinae the Queen of Medicines brewed either in a Pint of Muskaâ—iâ—â— or 〈◊〉 or a Pint of the Syrup of Sugar being two degrees above the ordinary Molosses or for want thereof Molosses will serve the turn and where all are wanting you may take either a Pint of dragon-Dragon-water or a quart of the sweetest and strongest Alâ—wort or in extremity take a quart of strong Ale or Beer but then warm it a little before the Fire This must be given with an Horn and if he hath Ability of Body ride him in some warm place after and let him fast near two houres after the Riding At Noon give him a sweet Mash Cleath very warm and let him touch no cold water The making of the Diahexaple you may finde in the Table General Observations in the Physi king Horses Know then first that whensoever you give your Horse any inward Portion or Glister give it him no more then Milk-warm for there is nothing more Mortal to a Horse then the Scalding of his Stomach for a Horse of all living Creatures can worse endure to receive inwardly hot things Besides let his Drinks and inward Medicines be given him easily and gently leâ—t in making too much haste you suffocate him which if it do you must then let his Head loose and walk him up and down till the Passion be past Now for the Administring of Pills â—alls and such like Medicines little Advice is required if they be not made too great only if you take forth his Tongue first and then put them up into his Mouth upon the end of a stick then let go his Tongue again which when he draws it into his Mouth he must needs force the â—alls down his Throat You are to Administer your Physick â—ermore fasting unless upon urgent occasion as in case of sudden and dangerous Sickness and the longer he be kept Fasting from Meat and Drink as well before he taketh as Physick as after it will be the better for by that means his Medicine will work the more kindly in his Body for he ought to be kept from eating and drinking at least three houres before and after Purging Balls how made and given Take an ounce or an ounce and a half of Aloes Succotrina more or less according to the strength and Constitution of your Horse powder it very well and mix it with a little fresh Butter Then divide it into three equal parts and cover them all over with fresh Butter to prevent the bitter taste of the Aloes Make them about the bigness of a large Wall-nut shaped thick in the middle and sharp at both ends and given him in the Morning fasting If you think them not stiff enough with Butter alone you may mix some Bran with it and then they will be as stiff as Dough or Paste What Exercise is meet with Physick A little moderate Exercise is very necessary whereby his Physick may work the better and the sooner as to Trot him easily about or to walk him up and down under the Wind in the warm Sun about a quarter of an hour Then bring him into the Stable and Cloath him up warm and Litter him well and let his keeper be with him three or four houres observing his Postures and as occasion may require to help him with all things necessary for his use No Creature hath a moister Body then a Horse Of Mixing your Simples If your Horses Sickness be a Feaver to mix always your Simples with warm Water with Honey or with Oyl but if the Disease be Coughs Rhenms or any thing that proceedeth of cold Causes then mix them with good Ale or Wine but if he be
them and if they be washed with the Juice of Vervine and strong Vineger mingled together and this Powder cast upon them will heal and skin them It healeth likewise and skinneth all other Sores Another Oyntment Take half a pound of tried Hogs-grease a penniworth of Verdegrease beaten to fine Powder give them two or three Walms on the Fire then take it off and put into it half an Ounce of Venice-Turpentine and stir it well together till it be cold this Ointment will heal any Wound or Sore in a Horse Another Oyntment Burn a good quantity of Roch-Allum and as much bay-Salt and burn that also make them both together into fine powder Then take of common Honey and of sweet Butter of each alike as much as will suffice incorporate them altogether by melting them over a gentle Fire and with a Taint or Plaister apply it And this Cureth any foul Sore A good VVater Take a pint of fair Water and put into it of bay-Salt and of green Copperas of each the quantity of a Hazel-Nut first made into fine powder let them boil a little upon the Fire with this wash your Sore before you do apply any of your Salves Unguents or Powders Another Salve Take of common Honey two Ounces Roch-Allom Verdegrease and Vinegar of each an Ounce make your Allom and Verdegrease into fine Powder then take of â—ublimate finely powdered two Ounces boil them a little on the Fire this laid Plaister-wise on the Wound once a day or if the Wound be deep to Taint it with it but before you dress it wash the Sore with Water made of green Copperas and bay-Salt The Vertues of it This doth not only Cure all sorts of Wounds in the Body but the Foot also and it cleareth any Wound from dead and proud Flesh Another Salve Take the Buds or the tender tops of the leaves of Elder or for want there of the inner Rinâ— of the Bark one handful and first shred and after pound them very well till you bring them to a Salve and apply this to the Sore binding a Cloth about it to keep it from falling off The Vertues of it This will Cure any Old or New Sore whatsoever in any part of the Body as Galled Backs Spur-Galls Gravelling Prick'd being dressed every day once and it will Cure a Fâ—â—tula if the Juice of it be injected into it unto the bottom An Oyntment Take the White of a new laid Egg and Sallet-Oyl as much as will suffice and beat them well together and before you apply it unto the Wound pour into the Wonnd burnt Butter and then lay on your Medicines with Hurds Plaister-wise And this will Cure any green Wound Another An Ounce of black Sope and as much Dogs Grease with as much burnt Allom as will lie upon a six pence melted upon the Fire together is very good to heal or skin any wound or hurt let the burnt Allom be put in last when the others are melted How to give a Horse a Vomit Vomits are given to Horses newly taken from Grass to bring away their gross and Phlegmatick Humours which do abound in their Stomach and Head which if they be not taken away in due time may empair greatly the Health of the Horse I never knew that Vomits were useful to a Horse till I met with a French Farrier which I saw administred it to sundry Horses which did work very kindly The Receipt is this Take two of the greatest Roots you can get of Pollâ—podium of the Oak washed and scraped very clean and Tie it to his Snaffle Trench or Bit then let it be steeped in the Oyl of Spike all Night and in the Morning fasting put on his Bridle with the same Roots and Ride him about with it about an hour fair and softly and if he be troubled with any Rheumaâ—ick or Phlegmatick humour or with any cold or silthy Matter which may annoy his stomach this will force him to vent it at his Mouth and Nose and it will cause him to Cough and Nâ—ez where he will send forth a great abundance of silth and evil slimy stuff from off his Stomach and Head as that in a very short time he will become very clean in his Body for this will both refine his Blood and exhaust all his watery Humours which will make him found a long time after it And this is not only to be applied to a Horse newly taken from Grass but to any other Horse that hath taken Cold or to any Ketty Foul Foggy or Pursive Horse whatsoever This may seem strange here amongst us but let any man make trial and he shall find it to be most admirable Purâ—ing Pills Take of Fresh Butter one pound Alloes and Fennegreek of each an Ounce Life-Honey and white Sugar-Candy powdred of each four Ounces Agarick half an Ounce make all these into fine powder and being well incorporated with the Butter and Honey make Pills thereof and give them to your Horse and if he be but a small and weak Horse you must give him but two parts of three but if he hath a strong Cold and Cough withal Then Take Fresh Butter and of Mel-Râ—sâ—rum of each four Ounces of Alloes and Sene of each an Ounce of Rubarb and Bay-â—erries of each three Ounces Collâ—quintida and S ffron of each two drams Coâ—di l-powder one Ounce Dâ—kâ— or Dâ—tch-powder four Ounces make them all into fine powder and mix them well with two Ounces of Mithridaâ—e and with your Butter and Mel-Rosarum beat and pound them well together and make them up into Pills and give them your Horse This Receipt will purge him very well though it heat him for some time and let him be ordered as in other Physical Cures of the like Nature and proportion your Pills according to the strength greatness and corpulency of your Horse A Plaister to dissolve and take away evil Humours which shall at any time fall down in the Legs of your Horse Take of Common Honey a pound of Turpentine half a pound of Mastick in fine powder two Ounces of Frankincense and Bole-Aâ—mâ—â—iack made into fine powder of each four Ounces of Sâ—ngâ—is Dâ—aconis three Ounces six new laid Eggs of the strongest Wine-Vineger one pint of the Flower of Rice seven Ounces mix all these together and hereof make a Plaister and lap the Legs of the Horse from the Feet to the upper Joynâ—s and do this but four or five times and you shall find that it will perform a strange and rare Cure Of several sorts of Baths and first of a Bath to dry up Humours Take Sage Rosemary of each a handful and of the Bark of the Root of Bâ—â—ch three pounds and of the Bâ—â—ks of young Eâ—mes Oaks and Ash of each a handful of Nâ—p Penvy-Royal and of Coestnuts the Rinds being taken away of each a handful three or four white Onions clean pilled and cut into small pieces or slices Red Wine three Pottles strong white-Wine Vineger two Pottles Boyl
Coals and let him receive the smoke of it up his Nostrils through a Tunnel which will bring away abundance of tough Matter into water from the Head and Brain insomuch that it will be almost ready to extinguish the Fire It is a most excellent Comforter of the Brain and brings a great chearfulness to the Heart and rejoyceth the whole Body The Green Ointment The Green Ointment which Cure Sores whether old or green Vleers Fistulaes Poll-evils or what else for where this Ointment cometh no proud or dead Flesh will grow no Flies will come near the place or for Horse or Mare-Filly that is Gelt or Splad anoint but the place and they will neither swell nor fester for it doth not only heal soundly but speedily also provided you lay nothing upon the Wound or Sorrance where the Ointment is administred as neither Hurds Lint Plaisters or the like unless you have occasion to taint a Wound which is deep 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 days it will heal the better and faster especially if it be brought into good for wardness of healing And together with this Ointment you may do well wash the Sorrance with the Copperas water which by reason it is always first to be used you shall have it first and the Green Ointment after it The making of the Copperas water Take two quarts of fair water and put it into a clean Postnet and put to it half a pound of green Copperas of Salt a handful of ordinary Honey a spoonful and two or three Branches of Rosemary boil all these till one half of the water be consumed and a little before you take it from the Fire put to it the quantity of a Doves Egg of Allom then take it from the Fire and strain it into a Pan and when it is cold put it into a Glass close stopped and keep it for your use And when you are to dress any Sore first wash it very clean with this Water and if the Wound be deep inject it with a Seringe The Vertues of it This Water will of it self Cure any reasonable Sore or Wound but the green Ointment being applied after it is washed will heal any old Ulcer or Fistula whatsoever if they come to the bottom of them and for green Wounds they have not their fellow if you think good you may boyl it in Verjuice or Chamber-lye one being a great Searcher Cleanser and Healer the other a great Drier How to make the green Oâ—nâ—ment Take a clean Skillet or Postnet and first put into it of Rozin the quantity of a Wallnut which being Molten put to it the like quantity of Wax and when that is also Molten put to them of tried Hogs-grease half a pound and when that is Molten put into it of common English Honey one spoonful and when all these are Molten and well stirred together then put in of ordinary Turpentine half a pound and when that is dissolved take it from the Fire and put to it an Ounce of Verdegrease beaten to fine powder and so stir it altogether but be careful it run not over for that the Verdegrease will cause it to arise then set it again upon the Fire till 〈◊〉 begin to Simper then take it off for if you let it boil too much it will turn red and lose its vertue of Healing and become a Corrasive then strain it through a Cloth into some Earthen Pot and keep it for your use close covered The Vertues of it This is the most Excellent Ointment that ever I knew for de Grey hath done such rare Cures with it that he hath been offered ten pounds for it For it cleanseth a Wound be it never so foul or infected with dead proud spungy or naughty Flesh it carnifieth and healeth abundantly and withal so soundly and firmly as that it doth never more break forth it draweth forth Thorns Splinters Nails and all such things in the Flesh and in a word it Cureth all sorts of Sores and Wounds Another Excellent Green Ointment made only in the Month of May which Cureth all sorts of Strains Aches Burnings Scaldings and Swellings whatsoever either in the Throator any other part of the Body Take half a pound of each of these things here under-mentioned viz. Rue red Sage Wormwood and young bay Leaves beat them very well in a Mortar Then take four pounds of new Sheeps Suet and work the Herbs and it very well together with your Hands till they be incorporated and become as one Lump Then put to them two quarts of Sallet-Oyl and Work that also till it become all of one softness and colour Then put it into a new Earthen Pan and let it stand covered eight days then boyl it over a soft Fire the space of two houres or more keeping it stirring all the while Then put into it four Ounces of the Oyl of Spike and let that boyl as long The way to know whether it be well boiled is to put a drop of it upon a Plate and if it be upon a fair Green you may assure your self it is enough Then strain it through a new Canvass and keep it in an Earthen Pot for your use This Ointment will hold very good seven or eight years A very good Receipt to keep back Humours that flow too fast to a Wound you have in Cure which will make it heal so much the sooner Take two pints of white-Wine Vineger or Tartar and put to it an Ounce or more of the powder of Bole-Armoniack and of common Salt well dried the like quantity the powder also of the Bur-dock Root or the Juice of the Leaves and wash the swelled place round about with it once or twice a day and it will be a great help in Order to its Cure Another for the same Vse After you have beaten a penniworth or more of Camphire very small dissolve it in a Pint of Verjuice and boyl it about a quarter of an hour then put it into a Glass close stopped to keep for your use and use it as you have Directions in the former Receipt To Cleanse a Wound Old or New before you dress it Take more or less of white-Wine Vineger according as you have occasion and put into it the powder of the Roots of Elder dried or the Juice of the Leaves with a spoonful of Honey and a little powder of burnt Allom and boyl it about half a quarter of an hour and use it warm Another sort of Green Ointment which is good to heal any Wound Old or New Take a handful of these Herbs here under-mentioned viz. Rosemary Wound-wort Red Sage Mug-wort Comfrey Rue and Southern-wood c. Cut them small and boyl them in a pound and an half of May Butter and the like quantity of Sheeps Suet When you have boiled it according as you have Directions for the Boyling of Ointments in
Heath-bush hath a digesting Faculty the Flowers and Leaves are good to lay upon the biting of venomous Beasts and the Bark and Leaves may be used for the same Causes as Turmerick is Harts-horn is dry yet it strengthneth very much and expelleth Poison Honey is hot and dry in the second degree it cleanseth the Stomach and Entrails stoppeth Humours and incarnateth Wounds and cleanseth also the Reins and Bladder Hyacinths do little cleanse and bind the seeds are dry in the third degree but the Roots are dry and cold in the first Hellebore vide Bears-foot I. St. Johns-wort is hot and dry being of substance thin and is a most excellent Herb for inward Bruises or Hurts or outward Wounds it is good to open Obstructions dissolve Swellings and strengthen those Parts that are weak and feeble it is good for Bleedings inward or outward for the biting of any venomous Creature and is good to cast forth the Stone in the Bladder by Urine Ivy that groweth upon Walls or upon Trees it hath a certain binding and cold substance and somewhat biting the Flower of it is good for the bloody Flux and Lask the Leaves or Flowers outwardly applied is good for the Nerves and Sinews the yellow Berries of them are good for the Yellows and killeth the Wormes is good for the Plague provokes Urine breaks the Stone It is good for to cleanse foul Ulcers Sores and green Wounds or for Burnings and Scaldings The Juice of the Berries and Leaves squirted up the Nose purgeth the Head from Rheum and cureth the Ulcers therein and is good given for a Surfeit The â—uniper Bush is hot and dry in the third degree the Bâ—rries are also hot but not so dry they are good against Poison Plague the biting of any venomous Creature provokes Urine is good for the Dropsey strengthens the Stomack expels Wind they are good for the Cough Shortness of Breath Consumptions Pains in the Belly Ruptures Cramps and strengthens all the Members of the Body A Lye made of the Ashes of the Wood and the Body Bathed therewith is good for the Mange and all manner of Scabs the Berries break the Stone and brings a Horse to a Stomach and is good for the Falling Sickness Jack by the Hedge or Sauce alone is hot and dry but much lesser then Garlick the seed boiled in Wine is a good Remedy against the Wind-Cholick or Stone the green Leaves are good to heal Ulcers Iris is a Root that is hot and dry it cleanseth and ripeneth and is good against Colds and purgeth Ulcers Iron-Rust is hot and dry in the second degree it comforteth and retaineth evil Humors K. Knot-Grass all the kinds of them are cold in the second degree and dry in the third and are of a binding quality it is good to cool the heat of the Stomach and to stay any Flux of Blood or Humours as Lask bloody Flux it is good for the Falling of the Seed provoketh Urine helpeth the Strangury and expelleth the Gravel and Stone it killeth Wormes is good to cool all manner of Inflammations and to expel the Poison or Venom of any venomous Creatures it helpeth Gangreens Fistulaes Cankers and Ulcers and is good for fresh and green Wounds and to strengthen broken Joynts and Ruptures Kidney-wort or VVall-penny-royal or VVall-penny-wort the distilled water of it given is good to allay all hot Inflammations of the Stomach and Liver or Bowels and being outwardly applied is good for outward Heats Inflammations and St. Anthonies Fire and healeth â—ore Kidneys torn and fretted by the Stone provoketh Urine is good for the Dropsey it helpeth the bloody Flux and Cureth green Wounds and stayeth their Bleeding Knape-weed helpeth to stay Bleeding at the Mouth and Nose and other outward parts and all inward Bleedings of Veins and also the Flux of the Belly and inward Bruises it is good for Ruptures taken inwardly or outwardly applied it drieth up the noisture of all Cankerous and Running Sores and healeth them up gently Knee-holm or Butchers broom the Roots which are chiefly used are hot and meanly dry with a thinness of Essence the decoction of it provoketh Urine breaketh the Stone and driveth forth Gravel It raiseth up tough Phâ—egm that sticketh at the Chest and Lungs and the Berries of it is good for the Yellows L. Ladies Mantle is good for Inflammations and to stay Bleedings Fluxes of all sorts and helpeth Ruptures and Bruises it is one of the best Wound-herbs that is both inwardly taken and outwardly applied Lavender is hot in the first and dry in the second degree it is good for all the Griefs of the Head and Brain that proceed of a cold cause it strengthens the Stomach and freeth the Liver and Spleen from Obstructions expelleth the dead Foal and Secundine the Flowers distilled and so used are good to cause Urine and to ease the pain of the Cholick it is good for the Falling Sickness French Lavender hath a cold and earthly substance by reason wherèof it bindeth it is of force to take away Obstructions to extenuate and make thin to cleanse and to strengthen not only all the Entrails but the whole Body also Sea Lavender is very Astringent or Binding the Seed beaten to powder and given in Wine or Beer helpeth the Cholick and Strangury and stayeth all Fluxes of Blood Lavender-Cotton is hot and dry in the third degree it resisteth Poison and helpeth the biting of any venomous Creature the Powder of it is good for the Mattering of the Yard it killeth the Wormes and Scabs Ladies Smecks or Cuckoc-Flowers all the sorts of them are hot and dry in the second degree they differ not much from the Water-Cresses they provoke Urine break the Stone and warm a cold Stomach Lâ—ttice is a cold and moist Herb but not in the extream degree of Cold they Loosen the Belly being boiled It is good for the pains of the Bowels coming by choler they are naught for short-Windedness and the Lungs Water-Lilly the seed of it hath a drying force the leaves and flowers of it are cold and moist and cool all Inflammations both inward and outward the Seed as well as the Fruit stayeth Fluxes of Blood or Humors either inward or outward and is good for the Mattering of the Yard Lilly of the Valley called Conval-Lilly or May-Lilly the distilled water of it helpeth all Inflammations in the Eyes and the Pin and Web. White Lillies which are the Garden Lillies are hot and partly of a subtil substance but the root is dry in the first degree and hot in the second they expel Poison and are very good in Pestilent Feavers An Ointment made of the Roots with Hogs-Grease is good for Scabs and unites Sinews when they are Cut and is a great Clenser of Ulcers the Oyl of it is good to bring any Head-swelling to ripeness to break Licoris is very familiar to the Body of Man or Beast It hath a certain binding quality which warmeth and cometh nearest of all to a mean
It is a good Wound-herb and is good for the Obstructions of the Liver and Gall Yellows Dropsey for all Ulcers of the Reins or other inward Wounds and Bruises and for Ulcers in the Mouth and Throat and pains in the Stomach Sawce alone vide Jack in the Hedge VVinter Savory and Summer-Savory is very good for the Cholick the Summer-kind is the best it expelleth Wind in the Stomach and Bowels it provoketh Urine it cutteth tough Phlegm in the Chest and Lungs the Juice dropped into the Eyes cleareth the Sight if it proceed of thin cold humors distilling from the Brain and being used in a Poultess is good for old Aches and Pains in the Hips and Joynts coming of cold Savin is hot and dry in the third degree of subtil parts It cleanseth old Ulcers being dried and mixed with Honey It is good to break Carbuncles Plague-Sores Farcin Wormes Scabs Itch and Running Sores Cankers Tettars Ring Wormes it kills the quick Foal and expels the dead Common Saxafrage the Root and seed thereof is of a warm and hot Composition it cleanseth the Reins and Bladder and dissolveth the Stone and expels the Gravel by Urine helps the Strangury cleanseth the Stomach and Lungs from phlegm Bâ—rnet Saxafrage the Seed Leaves and Roots of the great and small are hot and dry in the third degree and of thin and subtil parts they have the same Properties as Parsley hath in provoking Urine and easeth the pains of the Cholick breaks and avoids the Stone by Urine and is good against Venom and is good for Cramps and Convulsions the Juice of it dipped into Wounds drieth up the moisture of them Scabius three sorts there are of it though there be many others yet these be most Familiar and the Vertues of these and the rest are much alike it is hot and dry in the latter end of the second degree or near hand in the third and of thin and subtil parts It is good for Coughs short Windedness and all other Diseases of the Breast and Lungs ripening and digesting cold phlegm and other tough Humors it ripeneth also all inward Ulcers and Impostumes it is good for running and spreading Scabs Tetters and Ring-wormes English Sâ—urvey-Grass is evidently hot and dry very like in taste and quality to the Garden-Cresses it openeth and cleanseth the Blood the Liver and Spleen it openeth Obstructions and Evacuateth cold clammy and Phlegmatick Humors both from the Liver and Spleen the Juice of it is good for soul Sores in the Mouth Self-â—eal is of the temperature of Bugle moderately hot dry and something binding It is a most excellent Herb for inward and outward Wounds or Bruises in any part of the Body it stayeth the Flux of Blood in any Wound and cleanseth soul Ulcers and Sores The Service-Tree the Berries are cold and binding it is good to stay bleedings of Wounds Lasks and Fluxes of Blood Shepherds Parse is cold dry and very much binding it help all Fluxes of Blood either caused by inward or outward Wounds and also Flux of the Belly and bloody Flux or Pissing of Blood is good for the Yellows and being made into a Poultess helps Inflammations and St. Anthonies Fire an Ointment being made thereof is good for all Wounds in the Head Smallege is hotter drier and much more Medicinable then Parsley it openeth the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen cleanseth the Blood provokes Urine helps the Yellows Agues the Juice is good for sore Mouths and Throats cleanseth all the foul Ulcers and Cankders being washed therewith The Seed is good to expel Wind kill Wormes the Roots are effectual to all the Purposes aforesaid and is stronger then the Herb. Sope-wort or Bruise-wort is hot and dry and a little Scouring the Juice is good to heal up green Wounds it provokes Urine expels the Gravel and Stone and is good for the Dropsey The Sorrels are moderately cold dry and binding the common Sorrel is good to cool hot Diseases Inflammations or heat of Blood for it puriâ—ieth it it killeth VVormes and is a Cordial to the Heart which the Seed doth more effectually being more drying and binding and therefore stayeth the humors of the bloody Flux and Flux of the Stomach It is good to resist Poison expelleth the Gravel and Stone helpeth the Yellows The Juice of it with Vineger killeth the Itch Scabs Tettars Ring wormes and the like VVood-Sorrel is cold and dry like Sorrel and serves for all the Purposes that the other Sorrels do and is more effectual in hindring the Putresaction of Blood and Ulcers in the Mouth and Body and cooleth Heats Inflammations and Pestilential Feavers or other contagious Sickness Sow-Thistles are of a mixt temperature for they consist of a waterish substance cold and binding the Milk of them is good for short windedness and causeth the Stone and Gravel to be avoided by Urine it helpeth the Strangury it causeth Milk in Cattel Southern-VVood is hot and dry in the third degree the Seed is an Antidote against all deadly Poison and is good to kill VVormes it is good to draw forth thornes out of the Flesh the Ashes of it drieth up old Ulcers that are without Inflammation Spignel provokes Urine helpeth the Strangury and all Joynt Aches the powder of the Root with Honey breaketh tough Phlegm and drieth up the phlegm that fasteneth upon the Lungs the Roots are good against the biting and stinging of venomous Beasts Spleen-worts are of thin parts and are in a mean temper it is good for the Spleen helpeth the Strangury wasteth the Stone in the Bladder and is good for the Yellows Straw-berry leaves do cool and dry with a binding quality they are good for all hot inflammations and swellings applied outwardly and being inwardly given after they have been boiled in Vineger doth cool the Liver and Blood and asswage all inflammations in the Reins provoketh Urine and allayeth the heat and sharpness thereof stayeth the bloody Flux The Juice of the leaves are good to make a Lotion for a sore Mouth or Ulcerstherein Succory and Endive are cold and dry in the second degree and withal somewhat binding they cleanse phlegmatick and waterish humors out of the Stomach opens the Obstructions of the Liver Gall and Spleen is good for the Yellows heat of the Reins Urine and Dropsey the water or the Juice of the bruised leaves applied outwardly allay swellings inflammations and St. Anthonies Fire and to wash Pestilential sores Wilde Succory agrees in nature and temperature with the Garden Succory and as it is more bitter so it doth more strengthen the Stomach and Liver Stone-crop Prick Madum or small Housleek grows upon the ground with divers branches with thick and whitish green leaves it is cold in quality and somewhat binding and therefore very good to stay defluctions that flow from the Eyes it stops Bleeding both inward and outward helps Cankers and all fretting Sores and Ulcers it abates the heat of Choler expels Poison resisteth Pestilent Feavers and is good for
boyl some Cinnamon Pepper Nutmegs Ginger and Bay-berries in it But if you find that he will not purge at all which is very unlikely then ride him to some green Corn that is not Eared or for want of that some four Grass and let him â—eed thereon about a quarter of an hour then ride him gently home and set him up warm and you shall find him purge very kindly without any danger The Receipt for the Scratches After you have thus purged him clip off the Hair as close from his Heels as you can then scrape off all the scabs till they bleed and wash them with Brine or Chamberly and Salt scalding hot Then take a quarter of a pound of Brimstone half a quarter of a pound of green Copperas beaten to Powder or a quarter of a pound of Goose-grease a penniworth of Tarr boyl all these together in a very large Pipkin or else they will boyl over let them boyl about a quarter of an hour then take a Rag and Tie it to a stick and dip it into it and put it all over the raw Places scalding hot and dress it every other day making his Feet first clean by washing off the stuff with scalding Brine or Chamberly and Salt and the Scabs picked off and in three or four Dressings it will Cure them be they never so bad provided you keep him out of the VVater during his Cure If you find his Legs not very much swelled you need not purge him Another very good but not so certain but more proper for the Killing and shealing of all manner of Scabs growing about a Horses Legs After you have Clipped off the Hair of his Legs very close and rubbed off the Scabs with a Thumb-Rope of Hay and washed them with scalding Chamberly and Salt or with scalding Brine and when he is dry anoint him with this Ointment here under written VVhen you come to use it mix with it as you use it some Oyl of Turpentine for it will be much the better 'T is this take a pound of tried Hogs Grease with a quarter of a Pint of â—rain Oyl and boyl these things in it very well after they are beaten to fine powder viz. Dyer-Galls five of Verdegrease Bolearmoniack green Copperas Allum Brimstone two wilde Briar-Balls a Red Herring chopped small throe or four sprigs of Rosemary and as many of Rue mix them as equally as you can I mean the rest of the Ingredientâ— only Brimstone excepted which you should have most of about half a pound weight of all of them together is enough After your Hogs-grease is melted and the rest of the Ingredients boiled for some time in it then put in two or three penniworth of Tart and boyl that with it which will take away the ill Sent of all the rest of the Ingredients when you have well boyl'd it strain it out into a Pot and keep it for your use Observation upon it When you dress his Legs with it anoint him well with it over-night and rub it off with a Thumb-Rope of Hay the next Morning very easily for this Ointment will sheal them off extraordinarily then wash it with scalding Brine and at Night anoint him again with the same Ointment keep him dry during the Cure Another that Cureth not only the Scratches but also all rotten and broken Cuts and puâ—rified Sinews After you have Ordered him as in Observations how to Order him in this Disease take half a pound of English Honey one Ounce of black Pepper beaten about thirty Cloves of peeled Garlick bruise and mix them very well together in a wooden Bowl or Stone Mortar till they come to a Salve and apply it to the grieved place spread upon a brown Paper doubled two or three times double and put over that a Linnen Cloth sowed fast to keep it from coming off Bind also over that a Thumb band of wet Hay and about two or three days after take all off and make clean the grieved place very well with warm Beef-Broth Do this three or four times after this manner and it will certainly Cure them conditionally you give him a Drench or two of the Drink that is called A Drink to Cure the most malignant Farcy that is The Vertues of this Salve It will not only kill this Disease but also draw cleanse and knit Sinews together in a very strange and wonderful manner A most Excellent Water not only good for this Infirmity but also for sore Heels Sellender or Mallender and to cleanse and heal any Wound or Sore by drying up the evil Humour that abounds therein After you have boiled a quart of Conduit or spring-Spring-water and scummed off the filth that shall arise on the top take it off the Fire and put it up into a Bottle with two Ounces of white Copperas and three Ounces of the powder of burnt Allum When you use it shake the Glass to make it all alike and apply it warm to the place grieved and wrap a Linnen Rag dipt in Water about the Mallender three or four times double This Water will keep many years for the Older it is the better Things good in general for Foundring First pare all his Soles so thin that you may see the quick then let him Blood at every Toe and let them Bleed well then stop the Vein with Tallow and Rozâ—n and having Tackt hollow Shooes on his Feet stop them with Bran Tarr and Tallow as boiling hot as may be and renew it once in two days for a Week together then exercise him much and his Feet will come to their Use and Nimbleness or after he is pared thin and let Blood at his Toes stop his Feet with Cowes-dung Kitchins Fee Tarr and Soot Boiled together and poured boiling hot into them If you Travel your Horse you must stop him with it cold and add unto it the white of an Egg or two for that will take away the heat of the former days Journey Or to stop his Feet with Tow dipt in an Ointment made of Turpentine Sallet-Oyl Verdegrease Wax and Hogs-grease If he be newly Foundred give him with a Horn a Pint of fair Water with a handful of Salt in it but if you stay three or four days or longer then give him of Hellebore a spoonful of Saffron a penniworth of Assâ—foetida and of Soap of Venice two drams a little of the Seed of Bay all made into Powder and given him in a Pint of Vineger blood-warm and cover him with a wet Cloth and Cloath him warm and Tie him up to the Rack that he neither lie down nor Vomit and let him Sweat an Hour and cool him by degrees Particular Receipts for the Cure of a Foundred Horse For a Horse Foundred in his Feet let him Blood in the Neck Breast and Spur Veins and take two quarts of Blood from him with which make this Charge as followeth Take the Blood and put into it eight new laid Eggs shells and all beat them well
the Sore you cleanse wash and inject the Wound with this water A Water to wash and cleanse a Sore or VVound before you use the Ointment above Take red Sage Plantain Rib-wort Yarrow Bramble-leaves Rosemary Hysop and Honey-suckle leaves of each half a handful boyl them in one Pint of white-Wine and as much of Smiths or Cold Trough water then add thereto the boyling of common Honey one spoonful and as much Allom as a Wall-nut and a bright black piece of a Sea coal the bigness of an Egg unbroken then let it boyl till half be consumed then strain it hard and wash the Sore therewith and if the Wound be deep inject of this Water with a Syringe into it every day when you dress him and by this doing you shall cleanse the Wound and take away all bad and dead flesh and heal it up soundly Another Water to cleanse and heal a Sâ—re To a Gallon of Smiths Water and a quart of Ale add two Handfuls of Sage a Pint of Honey an Ounce of common Allum and half an Ounce of white Copperas boyl them very well together till they be all consumed and put them into a clean Vessel and keep them for your use Dr take Spring-water and put to it Roch-Allum and Madder and boyl them till they be both consumed and put them up for your use Or take Sage Cinquefoyl and Fennel of each a good handful and boyl them in a Gallon of spring-Spring-water till they be tender then strain the Liquor from the Herbs and put to it a quarter of a pound of Roch-Allum and let it boyl again a little while till the Allum be dissolved then take it from the Fire and make use of it after this manner viz. Dip Lint in it warm and lay it upon the Sore and if it be hollow apply more Lint Then make a Bolster of Linnen Cloth and wet it well in the Water then wring out the Water and bind on the Bolster close A Receipt for a Puncture or green Wound If it be in the Foot or any other part of the Body if you can come well unto it or if it be an Imposthumation unbroken scald it first with this Medicine Then wash it with the Water above Medicâ—ne Take red Tarr a penniworth of the reddest and best of Hogs grease half a pound of green Copperas and Bay-salt of each a handful both made into fine Powder boyl all these very well and with a Clout fastned upon a stick apply it scaulding hot four Mornings together for this scaulding doth so kill the Malice of the Fistula that it can never break to annoy the Horse any further It Careth the Imposthumes and â—oul Ulcers being thus applied Things gâ—od to take a VVen or any other Excression arising in the Flesh or hard Swellings Balm used with Salt taketh away the hard Swellings in the Throat or Wâ—ns or Kernels therein The Decoction of the lesser Sellendine wonderfully Cureth all hard Wens or Tumors applied to them The seed of Darnel Pigeons dung Sallet-Oyl and the Powder of Linseed boâ—led to the form of a Plaister consumeth them the Seed of Turn-Sole laid upon them Archangel or rather the Hedge-Nettle stamped with Vineger and applied as a Poultess taketh away any hard Swelling and also fiery hot Inflammations To Tie a double Thread about it to eat it off then with your Incision-Knife cut it a cross in four equal parts or quarters to the very bottom but beware you touch not either Vein or Sinew then with Oyl of Vitriol eat it away or with Mercury or else burn them off with your hot Iron then heal the place with your green Ointment The Leaves of Bucks-horn bruised and applied will consume them The Milk that issueth out of the Fig-Tree Branches when they are broken and applied is also very good so is the Juice of Housleek or Mercury the Juice of the Leaves and Flowers of Mullein with the Powder of the dried Root rubbed upon them taketh them away The Water that droppeth from the hollow places of the Poplaâ—-Tree anointed with it doth the like Garden-Rue bruised with a few Myrtle-leaves made with Wax and applied taketh away all sorts of them so doth an Ointment made of the burnt Ashes of the Willow-Tree mixed with Vineger and the place anointed therewith c. Things good to Cure an Anbury which is a great spungy Wart full of Blood To Tie it about with a Thread or Hair so hard as you can pull it and in few days it will fall away of it self then strew upon it the Powder of Verdegrease to kill it at the Root and heal it up again with your green Ointment But if it be so flat that you cannot bind any about it then take it away with your Incision-Knife close to the Skin or else burn it off with a hot Iron and then first kill the Fire with Turpentine and Hogs Grease molten together and heal it up as before prescribed but if it grow in such a Sinewy place that it cannot be conveniently cut away with a hot Iron then eat it out with the Oyl of Vitriol and heal it up as you do other Wounds Head Purged Vide Perfumes in the First Part. Things good for to put in Ointments and Salves for the Cure of all manner of Wounds in General The Juice of ordinary Centaury is good to cleanse Old Sores and to heal â—p Wounds the Juice of the leaves of Cleavers do close up the Lips of green Wounds or the powder of the Seed of the Herb doth the same Clowns Wound-wort Coral-wort Cole-wort the powder of the Root of Sow-Fennel or Hogs-Fennel Fox-gloves Golden-rod Winter-green True love or one Berry Hounds tongue St. Johns-wort Kidney-wort Knape-weed Ladie Mantle is the best Wound-Herb that is and is good for inward and outward Wounds Loosestrifâ— The dryed leaves of Medlers strewed upon a Wound healed it quickly Money wort or the Herb two pence The Juice of Nettles is good to wash a Wound with and if it be bound to it but three days you need no other Medicine Pimpernel Ground-pine Plantine Rag-wort wâ—ld Sage Sarasens Consound Solomons Seal Sanicle Burnet Saxafrage Scabius Self heal Southern-wood the Juice of wild Tansie Tutsan Vervain Blew-bottle Elder Couch-grass or Dogs-grass Daffadil Cranes-bill Comfrey doth so Conglutinate things together that it is reported that it will sodder Meal together being cut into pieces and put into the Pot Celandine Broom Turpentine Mastick Frankincense Balsom the leaves of Elm Flix-weed is good for Ulcers and VVounds Byfoyl Costmary Cowslips Cross-wort Yarrow is good for Fistulaes and Ulcers c. Particular Receipts for Salves or Ointments for VVounds Old or New Take common Honey and Verdegrease finely pulverized of each as much as will suffice boyl them together till the Medicine wax red and this will heal up any Old or green Sore in short space Another Take Turpentine black Soap Hogs-grease green Treat and Pitch a like quantity mix and boyl them
or Lard half a pound of Mâ—y â—utter and half a pound of Sheeps Tallow How to make Adders Tongue Ointment which is a most Sovereign and Excellent Ointment for any Beast that hath been stung or bitten by any venomous Creature Or for any Wound by Stake Bite or any other Accident As also for any hard Swelling in any Part of the Body and is also very good for the Garget in a Cows Bag chafed in very well with your Hand twice a day Take as much of the Herb Adders Tongue as you have occasion to use with a third part of Male Plantine and bruise them very well in a Mortar together then put to it fresh Butter new from the Churn well beaten from the â—utter Milk and mix it very well with your Herbs but put not in so much of it as to make it lose its green Colours After you have so done put it into an earthen Pan and let it lie about three or four Weeks in some cool place till it grow mouldy then melt it down upon a gentle Fire till the Herbs grow crisp then strain it out into some convenient thing fit for your purpose and keep it for your use You may dissolve into it if you please when it comes off the Fire some fine and clear Turpentine which will make it much the better You may make an Excellent green Balsom for the said Distempers if you boy the Herbs in Sallet Oyl and dissolve into it when it comes off the Fire some fine clear Turpentine This Ointment is made only in the Month of April or May the Herb being then to be found and in its prime for it soon perisheth with a little heat Another f r a Sore or Swelling Black Soap common Turpentine Green Treat which is a green Ointment bought at the Apothecaries Pitch and Hogs-grease of each a small quantity boiled well together and applied is very good Another to dissolve any Sore or Swelling is very good without breaking Take half a pound of black Soap or for want of that common Soap as much Bolearmoniack powdred with a little of the powder of unslackt Liâ—e and put to them a quarter of a Pint of Brandy with a small Gâ—ll of the Oyl of Roses and Oyl of Linseed and anoint them with it and it will help them Things good to Cure a Galled or Swelled Back in General Take the white of an Egg and beat it to an Oyl then take Flower Honey and â—olearmoniack finely beaten and mix them well together and spread it upon a piece of thin Leather and lay it over the place galled and it will not come off till it be well Or take the Soot of the Chimney and mix it with Cream till it become a Salve and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the Gall and Swelling and it will Cure him Or take some two or three spoonfuls of Aquavitae and put to it some Sope and boyl them well together and anoint the place well with it as hot as it can be well applied to the Swelling and it will take it down or Loam boyled in Vineger to a Poultess and apply to it very hot taketh it down Or take a Loaf of wheaten Bread and cut a slice of it and toast it very well and when it is toasted spread it all over with Honey on both sides and prick it full of holes and toast it till the Honey is well soaked into it and the toast is become dry then put it into a Mortar and beat it to powder and keep it for your use when you use it strew it upon the Galled place and it will dry it up in a short space To take away any Swelling and to heal any Galled back whatsoever Take only the Oyl of Turpentine and lay it upon the raw Back Morning and Evening with a Feather and it will heal it up and so use it to a Swelled Back it will either sink it or break it Another for a Galled Bâ—ck Enterâ—ering or Shackle-Gaul Take three parts of Sheeps dung newly made and one part of Rye or Wheat Flower and dry the Flower and mix it well with the Sheeps dung kneading it to a Paste and make it into a Cake and bake it and apply the powder warm unto the place and it will heal it very well or anoint it with Turpentine and Verdegrease mixed together finely powdred Aâ—other Take Water and Salt and boyl them well together and wash the place therewith Then take Pepper made into fine powder and strew it upon the place and it will heal it in a very short time or to bruise a new laid Egg between his Legs and rub the place with it Cureth the Gall there Another Take the leaves of Ars-smart and wash them and lay them all over the place and though you ride him every day yet they will heal very fast but if he remain in the Stable put the Water of the leaves upon it Another which Cureth not only Galled Backs but any other Wound whatsoever Take Rosin and common Pitch of each six ounces Mastick and Incense of each one ounce Turpentine Galbanum Bolearmoniack of each three ounces melt and incorporate all these together upon a gentle fire and as they begin to cool make them up in Rowls and when you use it spread it upon a Cloth or Leather somewhat thin but if you use it without either Cloth or Leather to any outward part that is not yet broken then lay it on much thicker then you use to do Plaister-wise and whilest it is warm clap Flox of the same Colour upon it This is a most excellent defensative Plaister for the staying and drying up of all evil humours and also very Sovereign for asswaging of Swellings Another for a sore Back Take the Juice of Cellandine and Live Honey of each two spoonfuls beat them with the Yolk of an Egg and as much Allom and Wheat-flower as will serve to bring it to a Salve dress the Sore with this once a day and it draweth and healeth Now though these Medicines are enough yet because Farriers hold divers Opinions and think what they know to be the best I shall give you a Catalogue of their Receipts in General The powder of Bryer-leaves Rye-flower the powder of burnt Oyster-shells the white of an Egg Honey Barley Straw burnt and Soot will dry up and heal a sore Back The powder of Honey and unslackt Lime will skin any Gall provided the Sore be first washt with Vineger and Onions boiled in Water and laid hot to a swoln Horses Back will asswage the Swelling and the Yolk of an Egg Salt and Vineger will heal it up when it is broken provided you wash the Sore with Ale wherein Rosemary hath been sod The Soot or Grim of a Pot will dry and skin a galled Back Things good for inward or outward Bruises or Swellings in General Wood and Water-Bitony Honey-suckle leaves Knot Grass Archangel Plantine Rib-wort Yarrow
taking forth his Tongue and putting it upon the end of a stick put it down his Throat and Ride him a little after it and give him no Water that Night and let him fast two houres and then let him feed as at other times With this Medicine you may kill all manner of Bots Trunchions and Wormes of what kind soever but you must be very careful you exceed not the quantity prescribed for it is a very strong poison Another Take the â—ender tops of Broom and of Savin of each half a handâ—ul chop them very small and work them up into Pills with fresh or sweet Butter and having kept him over Night fasting give him three of these Pills the next Morning early and let him fast two houres after it and give Him no Water that Night Or take Rosin and Brimstone beaten not very fine and strowed amongst his Provender and given him fasting long before he drinks is good To a Mare with Foal be Cautious what you Give her You shall need therefore but only to Rake her and to let her Blood in the Rooâ— or Palate of her Mouth and make her eat her own Blood for that will not only Kill but help all inward Maladies Another Take a quart of Milk warm from the Cow and put half a pint of Honey to it and give it him the first day The next day take Rue and Rosemary of each half a handful stamp them well together then let it inâ—use together with the powder of Brimstone and Soot so much as will suffice four Houres in a quart of Beer or Ale-wort then strain it and give it him Blood-warm then Ride him gently an hour or two and set him up warm and give him Hay an Hour before you give him Drink and let it be white Water and give him no Hay before you give him his said Drink and let his Drink be either a Mash or white Water Another Take two or three Heads of Garlick well peeled and bruised with the quantity of a small Nutmeg of black Soap and put them into a quart of strong Beer and warm it a little over the Fire and give it him luke-warm in the Morning fasting with about an Ounce of the Flower of Brimstone at the Mouth of the first Horn And Order him as you do Horses that you give Drenches to Another Three or four penniworth of the powder of Carolinâ— which you may buy at the Apothecaries given him in a quart of sweet Wort in the Morning fasting is a very good Cure for them Another Take of Turmerick and Anniseeds a good spoonful of each beaten to powder put them in a quarter of a Pint of Brandy and a pint and a halâ— of strong Beer and giâ—e it him fasting in the Morning luke-warm with some Flower of Brimstone put at the Mouth of each Horn not exceeding an Ounce of it in all and let him Fast three or four houres after it You may Repeat this Drink two or three times as you see occasion Another for the Bots in a Horse Take the Guts of a Chicken newly Killed and wrap them up warm in Honey and put it down his Throat over Night the next Morning give him a Pint of New Milk with about three Ounces of the Flower of Brimstone and exercise him after it Things good iâ— General to stench Bleeding either inward or outward or of any Sinew Cut or Wound or of Bâ—eâ—ding at the Nose The leaves of Snakeweed or Bistort strowed upon the Wound after it is beaten to Powder the Juice of Cleavers applied to a bleeding Wound will stop it the green leaves of Cud-wâ—ed or Cotton-weed bruised and laid to the Wound the decoction of the Herb called Golden Rod outwardly applied the smoother Horse-tail is good either inwardly taken or outwardly applied Ladies Mantle the dried leaves of Medlars strowed upon the Wound being beaten to powder stoppeth the Bleeding of it the Juice of Mint given in Vineger stayeth Bleeding inwardly Money-wort or the Herb two pence stayeth Bleeding inwardly so doth Moonwort or the Oaken Moss of a Pale or Spear Mouse-ear stayeth the Flux of Blood inward or outward the Powder of the leaves of the Peach Tree strowed upon the Wound Plantain Queen of the Medows Medlars dried before they be ripe and beaten to powder and strewed upon the Wound the Juice of Sorrel stone-crop a piece of a Fuze-ball or a Mullipuss laid to any Bleeding Wound stoppeth it presently An Ointment made of white Lilly-Roots with Hogs-Greas is very good for them The Broth wherein Coleworts hath been sodden is good for cut Sinews and Joynts The Root of Garden-Lilly stamped with Honey gleweth and soddereth them together the Herb Tutsan or Park-Leaves the Leaves or Bark of the Willow-Tree is good for the Bleeding of Wounds or at the Nose or Fluxes of Blood the powder of the blew Bottle taken inwardly the Juice of Clowns Wound-wort taken inwardly with Comfrey or applied outwardly the Down of a Hares or Cony Skins or Woolen Cloth burnt to Ashes and strewed upon the Wound Primrose leaves or Wild Tansie bruised and old Felt burnt and beaten to Powder Bolearmoniack beaten to powder and given inwardly or applied outwardly stancheth Bleeding To stop Bleeding at the Nole Tie him hard upon his fore-Legs about twelve inches above his Knees and just beneath his Elbow and keep the Nape of his Neck as cold as may be with wet Hay or Clothes and it will stanch him presently The leaves of Rosemary made into Oyls Ointments or Bathings help all cold and benumbed Joynts Sinews or Members c. The best Receipt to stop Bleeding at the Nostrils The Juice of the Roots or Leaves of Nettles squirted up his Nostrils stayeth the bleeding at the Nose But the best thing of all to stop bleeding at the Nose is to take a Hank of Coventry-blew thread and hang it cross a stick and set one end of it on fire and strow a little white-Wine Vineger on it to keep it from burning too fast and let him receive the smoak up his Nostrils and it will stop it in a very short time when Nothing else will do New Horse Dung tempered with Chalk and strong Vineger laid to a Bleeding Wound will stop it burnt Silk is good likewise for it so is the Juice of Coriander or bruised Sage or Hogs dung or a Clod of Earth or bruised Hysop or the soft crops of Haw-thorn bruised or to boyl two ounces of the Horses blood and beat it to powder and strow upon the Wound and to stop Bleeding at the Nose the Juice of Coriander squirted up it stayeth it or the Juice of Periwincle the Coam of a Smiths Forge laid to the Wound stayeth bleeding or Shepherds Pouch distilled and an ounce given fasting stayeth any inward bleeding whether natural or unnatural or Bursa-Pastoris bruised and applied to the place Particular Receipts to stop Bleeding Take the powder of the Stone Emachile and blow it up into his Nose and
Root of the black Hellebore bâ—aten to powder and strowed upon them consumeth the dead Flesh instantly the leaves of True-Love or one Berry Knape-weed Knot-Grass Ladies Mantle Money-wort or the Herb Two-pence the Juice of the Leaves or Roots of Nettles is good to wash all rotten and stinking Sores Fistulaes and Gangrenes and such as are fretting eating or corroding scabs or manginess in any part of the Body the Root of Cow Parsneps scraped upon the hard skin of a Fistula will take it away the Juice of Pellitory of the Wall Pimpernel Ground-pine or Champepitis the Juice of Plantine Queen of the Medows the Juice of Rag-wort or Rag-weed the red Rattle-grass Winter Rochet or Winter-Cresses the Juice of wild Sage the Juice of Sâ—razens Wound-wort It is good for Ulcers in the Mouth and Throat be it never so foul and stinking and so is Sanicle the powder of Savin is good to cleanse them but it keeps them from healing the Juice of Scabius the Juice of Garden Succory Self-heal is good to cleanse Sores and is good for Ulcers in the Mouth and Throat so is the Juice of Smallage put to Honey of Roses the Juice of Sorrel or Wood sorrel is good for Ulcers and Cankers the Juice of the Tamarisk Tree Vervain the Juice of the Leaves of the Wall-Nut Tree or the Water of them distilled in Ale is good to cleanse and Cure â—oul Running Sores Wheat-Flower mixed with the Yolk of an Egg Honey and Turpentine doth draw and heal any Bile Plague Sore or any running â—oul Ulcer Roch Allom and Bay-salt burned to powder and beaten together and mixed with Cummin and Honey keep it for your use and apply it either Tent-wise or Plaister-wise which will heal any old Sore the Oyl of Turpentine is good likewise for the same purpose the Juice of Beets Calafoma or Calofonia the Ashes of Garlick strowed upon them the powder of Cellendine or Verdegrease Vineger and Honey mingled together upon the Fire but if you intend to make it stronger put to it some Mercury Sublimate and Arsnick beaten to powder but the other may be applied to the Mouth and he receive no danger or white-Wine Vineger Mercury Precipitate Camphire green Treacle Sage Yarrow and Ribwort with Honey and Hogs-grease boiled together till half be consumed and strain it and wash the Wound with the Liquor or take four quarts of Cole-trough water boyl it and skin it then boyl it over again after you have strained it with white Copperas Allom and Verdegrease of each a pound beaten to powder and when it is clear put it into a Glass for your use The powder which remaineth at the bottom keep by it self for it will heal up any Old Sore or take Roman Vitriol Roch Allom and Rose-water boiled till they become as hard as a stone and strow this powder upon it is excellent good but to break a Fistula take Brook lyme Mallows Arsmart of each alike boiled in Chamber-Lye till they be soft and apply it to the Swelling and renew it not in two or three days But to Cure a Canker take red Grape leaves Bramble-leaves Honey-suckle leaves Allom Columbine â—eaves Sage leaves boiled in Water and wash the sore till it bleed or Verdegrease Butter and Salt melted scaldâ—ng hot and pour it into the Fistula and use it till all the Flesh look red then tent it with Verdegrease Allom Wheat-flower and the Yolks of Eggs beaten and mingled together and skin it with Barm and Soot mixt together or Loam-Wall and Wine Vinegâ—r put hot upon the sore is good to ripen and heal it or Butter Rozin and Frankincense made boiling hot and poured into the Wound and for a Fistula in the Head dip a Lock of Wooll in the Juice of the Housâ—eek and put it into his Eare and put Hurds upon it and Tie it cloâ—e and this will break it or â—alt mixed with Butter or Water and salt put into his Ear will do the like Particular Receipts for the Cure of a Fistula After you have searched it to the bottom with a Probe of Lead or some other thing which will bend wheresoever the Concavity of the Sorrance leadeth it and when you have found the bottom let it be opened downwards if it may be possibly done to the end the Corruption may the better issue out then tent it two or three days with tried Hogs-grease to cause the hole to be the wider then inject this Water following Take of Sublimate and of Precipitate of each as much as will lie upon a three-pâ—nce of Allom and of white Copperas of each three Ounces burn all these in an Earthen Pot but first rub the bottom with a little Oyl to keep it from burning this done burn them together then take two quarts of fair clear Water boyl it first by it self and scum it in the boyling then take it from the Fire and put in as much of this powder as will lie upon a shilling at twice and thus it is made bâ—t if you would have it stronger then take fair water and Smiths water of each alike and of white Wine vineger a third part 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 in the former Ingredients according as before is taught you inject this water with a Syringe into the Sorrance and in a short time it will both kill the Fistula and heal it up and is an approved and infallible Cure Another Take a Pint of the best Honey an Ounce of Verdegrease beaten to powder and boyl them together three quarters of an hour then strain it into a Gally-Pot and keep it for your use This is a very precious Ointment to tent a Fistula or Poll-evil for it searcheth it to the bottom and eateth away all dead and evil Flesh which causeth it to heal the better A Water for a Fistula Take a Pint of the best white-Wine you can get or for want of that white-Wine Vineger or Verjuice and put a good handful of Sage-leaves bruised into it After you have boiled it pretty well strain out the Sage from the Wine and dissolve into it about an Ounce and a half of Roman Vitriol half an Ounce of burnt Allom and half an Ounce of the fine powder of Verdegrease When it is cool put it in a Glass and keep it close stopped for your use When you dress the Sore let it be very warm and Syringe it very well to the bottom once or twice a day and in five or six Weeks it will be Cured Another Receipt for a Fistula Take of Roch Allom and bay Salt burnt of each half an Ounce the leaves of Rag-weed and Elder-tops what you think fitting according to the Concavity of the Sore bruise and mix them very well together with a handful or two of Grey Snails shells and all and stop the Hole full of it to the bottom having first washed and cleansed it very
to a salve and put this Medicine into his Eares by equal portions in the Morning before Sun-rise and stitch them up and let him stand with Meat before him and let his Drink be white water Unstitch them not in twenty four houres then take forth the wooll and stuff and he is Cured Another If the Farcin be in the fore-parts of the Horse take two ounces of Arsnick and put it into a piece of new Cloth and bind it up with a piece of new pack-thread and fasten it unto his Mayn and if it be in his hinder-parts as well as his fore-parts then hang it upon his Tail and the more you ride and exercise him the better and though the common way is to keep him with a spare diet I like not of it for you cannot keep him too well for the lower you keep him the more doth the disease get the upper hand of him Another to anoint the Farcy Knots with Take black Hellebore and add to the Herb some of its Juice then put to it old Boars or Barrows Grease and boyl it till the Juice be quite boyled away in it whereby to bring it to an Ointment with which anoint the Knots or Buttons of the Farcin with but shave or clip away the hair before you do anoint it Another for it when it first appears before it begins to be raw Take of Chamberly Soot and Bay-salt and boyl them very well together then at night wash the Places infected with a rag upon the end of a stick very hot but not so hot as to scauld away the hair then in the morning anoint it with Tarr and black Sope boyled together pretty hot This done four or five times together will Cure it Another which De-Grey says he hath Cured 100 Horses with Take of Rue the leaves and tender tops only without any the least stalk a good handful first chop them small then stamp them in a Mortar to an Ointment then put to it one spoonful of the purest tried Hogs-grease you can get and work them together to a Salve then stop into either Ear the whole quantity by equal proportions and put a little wooll upon the Medicine to cause him to keep it in the better and so stitch up his eares and let it be in about twenty 24 houres and then unstitch them and take forth the Wooll and he is Cured Another which if he hath it given him twice it will Cure him Take the inner Rind of Elder the inner Rind of the Wall-nut-tree the inner Rind of the Barberry-tree of all of them an equal quantity and not exceeding above a handful of all of them together Boyl them in a quart of strong Beer a little while then take out the Barks and add to it the powder of Turmerick Fennegreek and two Nut-galls beaten to powder with the powder of Grains of Paradice about an ounce of all of them boyl them in the same Beer about as long as you did before then sweeten it with Treacle and give it him luke-warm in the Morning fasting and let him fast two or three houres after it and order him as you do a sick horse if you put into it a little handful of stone-crop it will be the bettet You must wash the buds of the Farcy night and morning with this water Take half a pound of green Copperas and boyl it a little while in a quart of Chamberly before you boil it you must put in a good quantity of Salt or Brine Another After you have kept him slenderly fed all Night give him the next Morning fasting half a pint of the Juice of Housleek and half a Pint of Sallet Oyl mingled together and let him Fast till Night and then give him Hay and no Water till the next Morning and that warm too This Drink used twice will almost Cure any Farcy Another for the Farcy Take a handful of each of these Herbs here under-written chopped very small and boiled in three Pints of strong Ale or Beer to about a Pint and an half and after you have strained the Liquor very well from the Herbs give it him luke-warm fasting in the Morning but before you give it him stir into it an Ounce of crude Antimony finely powdred and searc'd About three or four days after give him the like Drink again and repeat it the third time if there be occasion and it will certainly Cure him The Herbs are these Chickweed Wood-bittony Groundsel and Mullen The Buds must be anointed also with this outward Application Take the bigness of a Hazel-Nut of yellow Arsnick beaten to powder and put to it about a spoonful of black Sope or for want of that common Sope and lay a little of it upon the Head of every one of them which will so corrode and eat into them that they will become so loose that they will drop out by the Roots then heal up the wounded places by anointing them with your green Ointment which you may find in the first Part or with Sallet-Oyl or Hogs grease take care you let him not come to gnaw it with his Teeth for fear of poisoning him or that you lay it not upon any sound place for it will make a Wound wheresoever it comes You may anoint them with the Oyl of Vitriol if yoâ— please which hath the same Operation with the other Another outward Application for this Disease which will not only Cure the Buds of it but any foul Scab Leprosie or Mange After you have let Blood which is always convenient in this Disease Take three Pints of old Urine and a Pint of Vineger or Verjuice and put to it half a Pound of the Stalks of the strongest Tobaccho you can get but let them be first bruised and laid asteep in the Urine all Night before you boil them After you have â—o done set it over the Fire and put to it an Ounce of the Flower of Brimstone and boil them altogether till it come to a quart then strain forth the Liquor from the stalks and anoint the infected places with it till they be well Another inward and outward Application for the Farcy After you have Blooded those Buds with your Incision-Knife which are fresh and green wash them once or twice a day with your fistula-Fistula-water which will Kill them conditionally you give him this inward Drink with it viz. Take two quarts of Running Water and put to it two Handfuls of Herb-grace chopt indifferent small with two or three spoonfuls of bruised Hemp-seed and set it over the Fire and let it boyl away till it come to three Pints then give it him three times in nine days and Order him as you do sick Horses and he will do well Another to Cure it by pâ—tting something into his Eares After you have bruised about nine or ten Cloves of Garlick being first peel'd wiuh a Handful of Rue and about half a quarter of a Pint of Brandy strain the Juice through
of Populeum one Ounce of Galbanum one Ounce of the drops of Storax one Ounce of common Wax one pound of Rozin Cabial half a pound of Viscus Italicus one Ounce and a half of Apoxima one Ounce of the Juice of Hysop one Ounce of the drops of Armoniack one Ounce of Pitch half a Pound let them be well molten together and incorporated and make a Plaister thereof Another Plaister to dry up any Swelling VVind-gall Splint or Bladder in or about the Joynts Take of Virgin-Wax half a pound of Rozin one pound and a quarter of Galbanum one Ounce and a half of Bitumen half a pound of Myrrh secundary one pound of Armoniack three Ounces of Costus three Ounces boyl all these together in an Earthen Pot saving the Armoniack and Costus which being first Ground like fine Flower must be added unto the other things after that they have been boiled and cooled and then boiled together again and well stirred so as they may be incorporated together and made all one substance and then applying as occasion shall be administred Things good to dissolve Humours To bath the Sorrance well with hot melted Butter and to strew upon it the powder of Rozin for a day or two then take Cream and Soot and work them to a thick Paste and apply it to the Sorrance and it will dry up the humour and skin and heal the sore VVormwood Sage Rosemary and the Bark of an Elm or of a Pine and Linseed boiled in Oyl and make a Bath thereof and lay it to the grieved place and it will dissolve any humour that are bound and gathered together A pound of Figs stamped with Salt till they come to a Salve dissolveth all manner of Humors by opening the Pores and giving a large Passage Look for more Receipts in my first Part of this Nature Things good to stop Humours The Flower of VVheat mixed with the Juice of Henbane stayeth the Flux of Humors The Flowers of the VVillow-Tree boiled in white-Wine and given inwardly drieth up evil humors Wormwood Sage Bolearmoniack Camphopia a kind of Gum Cardimonium is good Things good to drive back Humours Vineger Salt and bold-Armoniack beaten together and spread about the Sore driveth it back or White-Lead and Sallet Oyl beaten together or Red Lead and Sallet Oyl or else Vâ—gueâ—um Album Camphoratum and such like but to take away the evil Humours of the Legs take of common Honey Turpentine Mastick Frankincense Bolearmoniack made into powder Sanguis Draconis New laid Eggs white-Wine Vineger the Flower of Rice mixed altogether and make a Plaister of it and Lap it round about the Legs from the Feet to the upper Houghs do this four or five times Hmours made thin Garlick maketh thin thick and gross Humours and cutteth such as are tough and clammy French Mercury a Decoction made of it and Cummin-seeds Humours Purged A Conserve made of Musk Roses are a great Purger of waterish Humours Sene purgeth cholerick and phlegmatick Humours also gross and Melancholick Simples that are good to cleanse the Body from all manner of evil Humours Agrimony Anniseeds the inner Rind of the Barberry-tree boiled in Ale and given him for three or four Mornings together cleareth the Body from Itching Mange Tettars Ring-wormes Yellows and Boyls The Flowers of Broom or Fuz clenseth it of Choler The Decoction of the root of Butchers Broom or Knee-holly made in Wine and Treacle pâ—c thereto clenseth the Breast from Phlegm and the Chest from much clammy Humors gathered therein wild Marjorem clenseth it from Choler the seed of Cow Parsnips clenseth it from tough phlegmatick matter therein the powder of English Rubarb steeped all night in Ale and given him fasting clenseth the Stomach Liver and Blood by purging away those evil Humours that offend the Body the distilled Water of Dragons given him is a great Clenser of the internal Parts Mallows or Macsh-mallows does the like Mercury clenseth the Breast and Lungs from Phlegm the distilled Water of the Star-thistle or Root beaten to powder is very good Common Wormwood clenseth the Body from Choler Ground-Pine is good for all Diseases of the Brain procured from cold and phlegmatick Humours c. Simples that are good to dry up all manner of evil Humours in Sores or Wounds The powder of the root of the Butter-bur doth wonderfully help them wilde Bryar-balls dried and beaten to powder and strewed upon them doth the like the root of Sow Fennel beaten to powder and used as before doth the like so doth Fig wort Mother-wort and Lung-wort Nettles bruised and applied to them is very good Pollipody Rupture-wort bruised and applied to the place grieved drieth up all manner of filthy Ulcers and Humours Green Copperas boiled in water and the place bathed therewith drieth them up About two Ounces of burnt Allom put into a quart of spring-Spring-water after it comes off the Fire and the place grieved Bathed therewith warm Morning and Evening and a wet Cloth dipped in the water and bound about it three or four times double wet is excellent good to dry them up the powder of the root of Turmentil is good The Flower of Wheat mixed with the Juice of Henbane laid to them stayeth the Flux of them to the Joynts the Leaves Bark or Seed of the Willow-Tree doth the like the Flowers also hath the same Faculty in drying up of evil humours Wood-Sage digesteth Humours c. Things good in General for the Shedding of the Hair from the Main or Tail To anoint the Main and Crest with black Sope and then to make a strong Lie of Ash Ashes or else of Urine and Ashes and wash it all over with it but if there should grow on the Horses Tail a Canker which will consume away â—oth the flesh and bone then lay some Oyl of Vitriol upon it and it w ll kill it if you find it eat too much 't is but wetting it with cold water and it will stop it Or take of green Copperas Allom and white Copperas boiled in Running water till half be consumed and wash it with it till it be whole but if the Hair fall away then take Southernwood and burn it to Ashes and mix it with common Oyl and anoint it with it and it will presently bring Hair again If it be in the Main let him Blood but if it be both in the Main and Tail then take Quick-silver and tried Hogs-grease the Quick-silver being first mortified with fasting Spittle incorporate them very well together till the Hogs-grease be of a perfect Ash-colour and anoint the Sorrance with it every day once heating it in with a hot Fire-shovel and three or four days thus dressing him he will be well Things good in General to take away Hair in any part of the Body The Gum that grows on the Body of Ivy rubbed therewith for it is of so hot a quality that it doth obscurely burn the Juice of Fumitory of that which groweth amongst Barley
come to a perfect Ointment then strain it into a Gally-pot and keep it for your use only warm it aâ—d so dress the Sorrance therewith with Lint or Hurds and it will soon be whole Another After you have washed the Sore with old Urine and Salt then anoint it with an Ointment made of Bitony powder of Brimstone Hellebore Pitch and old Hogs-grease stamped together and melted or with your green Ointment in the First Part. Another for the Navel-Gall If the place be only swelled and the skin not broken then dabb the grieved Part all over with your Hand or with a Rag wet in Brandy and it will take it down Or the Oyl of Turpentine used after the same mannâ—r will do the like but if it be raw and sore then these Medicines are very proper for it viz. Take a quarter of a Pint of Whale Oyl by some called Train Oyl and boyl in it as much of the powder of Verdegrease finely powdred and â—earced as will lie upon a small shilling and the grieved part anointed with it will Cure it very speedily Or the same quantity of Verdegrease Train-Oyl and two or three spoonfuls of the Ointment of Marshmallows boyled a little together is a certain Cure for it How you are to Order them If the Skin hang loose about them you are to cut it off But if it be an Old Navel-Gall which feels hard then cut out the bruise with your Incision Knife and â—ear the wound up again with a hot Iron and heal it up with your green Ointment in the First Part. These Medicines are not only good for a Navel Gall but for any manner of Sores and raw Backs whatsoever and also for a Sit-fast Vnguentum Bubrum desicativum is also good for them so is Palm-Oyl What is good for the Cure of the Palâ—ey To let him Blood on his Neck-Vein and Temple-Veins on the contrary side to that way he wryeth his Neck then anoint his Back all over with Oyl of Petrolium and with a wet Hay Rope swaddle his Neck all over even from his Breast to his Eares Then for three Mornings together give him a Pint of old Muscadine with a spoonful of these powders in it viz. Opoponax Storax Gentian Manna Succory Myrrh and long Pepper beaten all into fine powder but put not in so much of the Myrrh and long Pepper as of any of the rest Things good in general to Cure the Lethargy or sleeping Evil. To keep him waking with great Noise and let him Blood in the Neck and Palate of the Mouth and to give him water wherein hath been boiled Chamomel Mother-wort Wheat Bran Salt and Vineger to perfume his Head and to anoint the Palate of his Mouth with Honey and Mustard mixt together or to put Parsley-seed or Fennel-seed into his Water to provoke him to Urine Another for the same After you have Blooded as you must always do in this Disease then take some of the green Boughs of the Ash-Tree and set them on Fire in some clean place and quench the Coals made thereof in some Ale and when you have strained it out give him a Hornful of it at each Nostril the Cold being first taken off 'T is good also to open his Forehead underneath his Fore-top and put into it a Slice or two of an old Onion and let them lie there till they Rot. Things good in General for the Phrenzie and Madness in a Horse To let him Blood in all the lower parts of his Body to draw the Blood front his Head As namely in his Shackle Veins the Spur-Veins the Plat-Veins and the Thigh Veins and let him Blood very much then give him this Drink Take the Root of wilde Cucumber and where that cannot be gotten take a Handful of Rue or Mints and a Handful of black Hellebore and boyl them in Beer and give it him luke warm or to give him the Root of Virga Pastoris stamped in water or to give him Mans Dung in Wine three Mornings together or to make him swallow down Hens Dung Things good in General for the Quitter-bone To open it and put some Oyl of Vitriol into it and that will so eat about the Bone so that you may thrust it out this is a very safe and as good a Medicine as any you have If you find it eat too much you may stop the eating of it with cold water or with your Copperas water in my First Part which will not only keep it sweet and clean but also keep proud Flesh from growing in it or you may heal it up with a Salve made of Turpentine and Hogs-grease and always before you dress it to wash it with the said water or Auripigmentum made into fine powder and steeped in white-Wine twenty eight houres and apply it to it and it will eat so about it that you may pull it away with your Fingers and do likewise after the bone or gristle is taken out heal it up with your Copperas water and your green Ointment and let him not come into the water during the time of Cure Particular Receipts for the Cure of a Quitter-bone Tent it a day or two with Hogs-grease and Verdegrease ground together then take scalding hot Grease poured into the Hole and lay a Plaister of Pitch and Tarr mixt over it for twenty four houres and if the Bone rise not do the same again and it will rise then take it out with your Nippers and heal it up with some of your Salve which you best like on which you may find in my First Part. Another Take of common Honey and Verdegrease in fine powder as much of each as will suffice boyl it till it be red and tent the Wound till it be whole keeping evermore the Wound open lest it heal up above before it be well healed up at bottom Another Take of Arsnick the quantity of a small Bean made into â—ine powder and put it to the botttom of the Sorrance and stop the Mouth of it with hurds and bind a clout over it very fast that he bite it not off for it will poison him and after it hath remained on for twenty four houres open it and it will look black therein it is a sign that it hath done his work then to allay the fire and to restore the flesh is to taint it with Turpentine and Hogs grease melted together and to cover the taint with a Plaister made of Rozin Pitch Wax and Turpentine melted together and thus dress him daily till you have got out the Core or sharp Gristle for till that be out the Sorrance will not heal or to heal it up with your green Ointment Things good in General for the Cure of a Ring-bone To wash the place with Vineger after you have shaved away the Hair then use green Vitriol Euphorbium Cantharides Verdegrease Oyl de Bay Venice Turpentine Oyl of Turpentine the powder of Tartar and Salt Arsnick unslackt Lime the powder of Vitriol Pepper
those Roots Herbs or Flowers you intend to make it of and to two Handfuls of the bruised Herbs add a pound of tried Hogs Seame Mash and beat them very well together in a Mortar then put them into an Earthen Pot covering it with paper to keep it from filth and set it in the Sun or in some other warm place for four or five days that it may melt then take it forth and boyl it gently over the Fire for some little time then strain it out while it is hot pressing the Herbs very hard to get what Grease you can out of them then add to it as many more fresh Herbs bruised and set in the Sun and Ordered in every thing as before but if you think them not yet strong enough you may repeat the Herbs over again the third or fourth time for the fuller of Juice the Ointment is the stronger will it be The last time you boyl it boyl the Herbs and all with it and when they be crisp and the Juice consumed which you may know by the leaving of its bubling while it is on the Fire 't is enough then strain it out very hard in a Press and to every pound of Ointment add two Ounces of the best common Turpentine you can get and as much Bees Wax which will take away the offensiveness of the Grease which is very prejudicial to Wounds as well as Oyl CHAP. V. Of Plaisters 1. The Emplaisters of the Greeks consisted of very many Ingredients viz. Gums Rosin Wax Herbs Seeds Roots Juices Liquoris Minerals Metals Stones and Excrements of Creatures c. which said Metals they reduced to powder and mixed them with their satty substances which the rest of the Plaister consisted of while it was hot keeping it continually stirring up and down to prevent the sinking of them that they may the better stiffen and incorporate together which after it was somewhat cold and hard they made them up into Rolls and when they needed it they melted them again by the Fire 2. The Arabians made up their Medicines with Meal Oyl and Fat which needed not so much boyling as the other did But seeing these are so difficult to make and when made so rarely used in Farring I shall advise you to let them alone and buy them rather of the Druggist when you have occasion to use them then put your self to the needless trouble of making of them CHAP. VI. Of Charges 1. The Use of these are for Strains Sprains or any other Weakness in the Legs Shoulders or Back and are made of several things viz. Pitch Rosin Mastick Oxycrocium Paracelsus add Hernium Galbanum Frankincense Turpentine Meal Bolearmoniack c. The manner of using them is to melt what things you have occasion for in an Earthen Pipkin and lay it on with a Lath all over the grieved part then clap upon it some Flax Hurds Tow Wooll Deers Hair or such like thing then heat the Charge again and daub it all over the Flax Tow or Wooll the second time scalding hot then daub it over again the third time as you did before pressing it all the time close with your Hands to the grieved part to make it bind on the faster and let it remain there till it fall off of it self 2. If his Charge be on his Legs be careful that he come not into the Water for that will soon fetch it off But to prevent this chuse rather to keep him in the Stable and Water him there till he be somewhat amended CHAP. VII Of Poultisses 1. Poultisses are vulgarly called Cataplasmes which is as much as to say a thick Poultess made of Meal and Herbs which is a very excellent Medicine to ripen and break Sores ease Pains cool hot Inflammations dissolve hardness ease the Spleen disperse Swellings and digest Humors 2. When you are to make them you are to take those Roots and Herbs as are most proper and suitable to the Disease and Member afflicted chopping them first small then put them into clear running Water and boyl them to a Gelly then add to them a little Meal of Lupins or for want of that Barley-Meal with a little Sallet Oyl or rough sweet Suet which I account better Then spread it upon a Linnen Cloth and apply it to the grieved part bound fast with a Tape or Pack thread that it fall not off CHAP VIII Of Oyls 1. Sallet Oyl is made from the Expression of Olives which is so temperate that it exceeds in no one quality 2. Of Oyls some are Simple and some are Compound 3. Simple Oyls are such as are made by Expression of Fruits or Seeds as Linseed Oyl Rape-seed Oyl and Oyl of sweet or bitter Almonds 4. Compound Oyls are made of the Oyl of Olives and other Simples as Leaves Flowers Roots c. 5. The Manner of making up those Herbs or Flowers you intend to make your Oyl of must be first bruised and then put into an Earthen pot and to two or three handfuls of them so bruised put a pint of Sallet Oyl and then cover up your Pot close with a paper to keep it from Filth then set it in the Sun for about a Fortnight then warm it on the Fire and press out the Oyl from the Herbs very hard and add so many more Herbs to the Oyl and use them in every thing as before The oftner you repeat your Herbs the stronger will your Oyl be When you think it is strong enough for your use boyl the last Herbs you put in it and Oyl together till the Juice be consumed which you may know by the leaving of its bubling and the Herbs grown Crisper Strain it while it is hot and put into some convenient Earthen or Glass-Vessel and set it up till you have occasion to use it CHAP. IX Of Syrups by Infusion by Decoction and by Juices 1. A Syrup is a Medicine of a Liquid Form Composed of Infusion Decoction and Juice 2. Those Syrups that are usually made by Infusion are made of such Flowers as lose their Colour and Strength in Boyling As Violets Roses Peach Flowers They are thus made viz. To every pound of Flowers well pickt add three Pints of Spring Water made boyling hot on the Fire Put them in an Earthen Vessel and put the Water to them then cover it close and let it stand by the Fire to infuse about twelve or thirteen houres then strain it out in such Syrups as Purge as Peach-Flowers Damask Roses c. the usual and best way is to repeat to their Infusion fresh Flowers divers times which after you have strained it out into some convenient Vessel add to every pint of it two pounds of Loaf Sugar then melt it over a gentle Fire again taking off the Scum that shall arise and your Syrup is made 2. Those Syrups that are made by Decoction are made of Compounds yet any Simple Herb may be made also into a Syrup Take the Root Herb or Flower you intend to
make into a Syrup and bruise it a little in a Mortar Then take it forth and put to every Handful of Roots Herbs or Flowers a pint of Running Water and boyl it till half the Water be consumed After you have so done strain it through a Woollen Cloth letting it Run out at leisure without pressing And to every pint of this Decoction add one pound of Sugar then boyl it again over the Fire till it come to a Syrup which you may know when it is well done if you take a little of it now and then in a Spoon and let it cool Be sure you take off the Filth that doth arise while it is a boyling And when you think it is enough strain it hot through a Woollen Cloth and press it out and keep it for your use 3. Syrups that are made by Juices usually are made of such Herbs as are most full of Juice and are best made this Way viz. Take the Herbs and beat them in a Mortar with a Wooden Pestle then press forth the Juice and Clarifie it as you were taught before in Juices then set it over the Fire again and let it boyl till a quarter of it be consumed and to a Pint of it add a pound of Sugar and boyl it up to a Syrup keeping it scumming all the while When you think it is well boiled strain it through a Woollen Cloth as you did the other and keep it for your use 4. If you make Syrups of Roots that are hard as Grass-Roots Parsley Fennel c. Bruise them very well first then lay them asteep in that Water you intend to boyl them in which will cause the Vertue of them to come forth so much the better 5. Your Syrups that are well made will keep somewhat above a year but such as are made by Infusion will not keep so long 6. The best Way to keep them when made is in Glass or Stone-pots and to bind a Paper about the Mouth of them CHAP. X. Of Decoctions 1. Decoctions are made either of Fruits Barks Roots Leaves Flowers or Seeds and is made after the same manner as is shewed you in your Syrups 2. Those Decoctions that are made of Wine are more durable then those made of Water 3. If you make a Decoction for to cleanse the Passages of Urine and to open Obstructions chuse rather to make it of white-Wine because it is of a more penetrating and subtil Nature then Water 4. Decoctions are of the best use for the Cure of such Diseases as lie Lurking in the Passages of the Body Stomach Bowels Kidneys Passages of Urine and the Bladder c. which are more powerful in Operation in passing quicker to the aforesaid Diseases then any other sort of Medicines 5. All the difference that are between Decoctions and Syrups made by Decoction is only this Syrups are made to keep Decoctions only for present spending 9. You may sweeten them with Sugar or Syrup or such things as you imagine most fit for the Disease you give it 7. If you make a Decoction of Roots Herbs Flowers and Seeds together boyl the Roots a good while first because they retain their Virtues longer so then the next in Order according to the same Rule are first Barks secondly Herbs thirdly seeds fourthly Flowers And fifthly Spices which are put in last because their Vertues do soonest come sorth 8. All Decoctions are to be kept in a Glass close sâ—opped and the cooler you set them the longer they will keep their usual time of lasting is not above a Week at most 9. The usual Dose you are to give him at a time is a quart or more according to the Age Strength and Constitution of your Horse Season of the year strength of the Medicine and quality of the Disease Roots th t are hot in the First Degree Liquoris Dogs-grass Marsh-mallows Burrage China Valerian Bazil Parsley Bugloss Pilewort Lillies Peony male and female wilde Parsnips Burrdocks Spatling Poppey Kneeholly c. Herbs hot in the second Degree Lovage Water-flag Fennel Butter-bur Hogs Fennel Swallows-wort Carline-thistle Devils-bit Spignel Mercury Sarsaparilla c. Hot in the third Degree Ginger Angelica Asarabica white Dittany Doronicum Elecampane Hellebore white and black stinking Gladdon Filapendula Aron Sow-bread Birth-wort Galangal Cellandine Snake-root 〈…〉 and black Master-wort Rest-harrow c. Hot in the fourth Degree Leeks Onions Garlick Pellitory of the Wall c. Roots that are very Temperate Cinquefoyl Turmentil Mallows Bears-breech Mechoachan Jallop Eringo Asparagus our Ladies thistle c. Roots Cold in the first Degree Plantine Comfrey the greater Sorrel Madder Beets white and red Rose-root c. Cold in the second Degree Hounds-tongue Alkanet Succory Endive Dazies c. Cold in the Third Mandrakes Bistort c. Cold in the Fourth Henbane Roots dry in the first Degree Calamus Aromaticus Bears-breech Madder Burr-docks Pile-wort Red Beets Eringo Self-heal Knee-holly Endive c. Dry in the second Hounds-tongue Zedoary Plantine Mercury Reeds Devils-bit parsley Butter-bur Fennel Spignel Lovage Alkanet Marsh-mallows Valerian Sprattling poppey Bazil Water-flag our Ladies thistle Cyprus long and round â—orrel Smallage Aspodel male swallow-wort c. Dry in the third Cellendine Angelica Hogs Fennel Turmentil Ginger Birth-wort long and round Aron Sow-bread Carline thistle Bistort Briony white and black Sarsaparilla Asarabica Virginian snake-root China Doronicum Dittany Galangal of both kinds Hellebore white and black Elecampane Rest harrow Peony Male and Female Filapendula Orris English and Florence stinking Gladdon c. Dry in the Fourth Costus Pellitory of Spain Garlick Onions and Leeks c. Roots Moist are Dasies Burrage Valerian and spatling poppey Bugloss white Beets Liquoris Dogs-grass parsnips Skirrets c. Of hot Medicaments Appropriate to the Parts of the Body 1. Heating the Head Doronicum Fennel peony Spikenard Winters his Cinnamon Bitony Costmary Cardus benedictus Cowslips Eye-bright Featherfew Goats-Rue Herb Mastich Lavender Laurel Lovage Maudlin Mellilot Time penny Royal Rosemary Celandine Scurvey-Grass Sneese-wort fena peony Male and Female Chamomel sage Nutmegs Jallop 2. Heating the Throat Devils-bit pilewort Archangel white and red Alewort 3. Heating the Breast and Lungs Birthwort long and round Calamus Aromaticus Cinquefoyl Elecampane Liquoris Orice squills Cassia Lignea Cinnamon Bitony Bayes Bawm Calaminth Camomil Distaff Thistle Fennel Germander Hysop Hore-hound Indian-leaf Maiden-hair Nettle Oak of Jerusalem Organy periwincle Rue scabius Time Figs Raisins Orris English and Florentine 4. Heating the Heart Angelica Butter-bur Basil Cinnamon Citrons Carline-thistle Turmentil Valerian of both sorts pimpernel Bay-berries Bawm Broom Cardus Benedictus Rue Goats Rue Rosemary southernwood sene saffron spicknard Juniper-berries Mace Nutmegs Wall-nuts Mustard-seed Doronicum Bugloss 5. Heating the Stomach Avens Fennel Galangale Ginger Radish Spicknard Enula Cassia Lignea Cinnamon Citrons Lemmons Sassafras Bayes Bawm Broom Hysop Indian Leaf Mints Time Parsley Sage Smallage Wormwood Rosemary Cloves Almonds Ben Nutmegs Pine-Nuts Annis Caraway Cardamums Cummin Elecampane Fern. 6. Heating the Liver
Zedoary Camomil Dill Juniper Marjorem Organy savory Wormwood â—chenanth Bay Nutmeg pepper Ginger Annis Caraway Cummin Humour-dâ—ssolving things Roots of Turmentil Zedoary Virginian snake weed Ginger leaves of Cardus benedictus scordium Butter-bur Rosemary sage Rue Flowers of Saffron Bezoar-stone Cochenele Treacle Things good to drive away poison Angelica Birthwort Bistort â—ugloss Costus Cyprus Carline Doronicum Enula Garlick Gentian smallage Turmentil Vipers bugloss Zedoary Bitony Cardus Calaminth Agrimony Avens Juniper Organy penny-royal Rue scordium Wormwood Centaury Bay-berries pepper Citrons Anniseeds Animi Cardamums Caraway Fennel Bezoar saffron Cochenele Dragons plantine See more in this part Astonisting things Mandrake-roots leaves of Mandrake Hemlock Henbane poppey Opium spirit of Darnel and Darnel meal To stop the Running of the Glanders for present sale Take some Frank in cense and strow it upon a Chafing dish of Coals and let him receive the smoke through a Tunnel into the Nostril that runneth and it will stop it for some time The best Receipt for the Cure of the Glanders that is which if your Horse be Youthful and his Strength and Lungs not too much wasted you need not fear the Cure For if any thing in the World will Cure this Disease this Receipt will Take a small Faggot made of the green Boughs of the Ash-tree and set it on Fire in some Chimney-corner clean swept for your use then having a Gallon of the best Ale you can get in a readiness quench so many of the Coals that is made thereof therein as will make it pretty thick then strain it through a Linnen Cloth into some convenient Vessel fit for your use then double it over again to make it the stronger by quenching fresh Coals therein then strain the Liquor from the Coals as you did before and when it is cold put it into a Bottle close stopped for your use for if you do not put it in cold it will quickly soure which will spoil it If you make it strong enough you shall find that the Coals will drink up a quart or more of your Ale when you use it shake the Bottle to make it all alike then pour out of it so much as you think fit for your use and warm it luke-warm and put a small drenching Horn full of it into each Nostril of your Horse if he runs at both if not but one will serve do this Morning and Evening during his Cure and ride him gently after it for about an hour Then let him feed a while upon Hay and after that you may give him some drink Three or four quarts of this Liquor will perfect the Cure at the farthest if you find that the Kernels under the Chaul do waste which this Liquor will take away in four or five days at the furthest you need not much question the Cure you are to keep him in the House during his Cure After you have given him this drink for about a week together you may rest him by forbearing to give him any more for a day or two then give it him again and so use it till you have Cured him 'T is convenient if the Horse be very strong and lusty before you give him this Drink to cleanse his Body with this Scouring which is both safe and sure Take an ounce of the best Barbadoes Alloes you can get for mony and beat it very fine then mix it very well with fresh Butter and after you have so done divide it into three parts and cover every part all over with Butter as big as a good Wash-Ball then give them the Horse in a Morning fasting upon the point of a stick and stir him a little after it then bring him into the Stable and keep him warm and let him fast two or three Houres then give him a Mash of Malt and after that some Hay The best of all Receipts for the Ordering and Making up of Pills or Balls of Alloes for the Scouring or Purging of a Horse that is sick either of Cold Surfeit Molten Grease Wormeâ— or any other inward Illness c. Take an Ounce of the best Barbadoes Aloes or of Aloes Hepatica with half an Ounce of the Fylings of Steel Needles and put them both together in a Mortar and beat and rub them round about with your Pestle till the Aloes be finely powdred then drop into it sixteen or twenty drops of Bâ—andy or for want thereof Water and rub them round with your Pestle and they will incorporate and become one Body which you may work and make up with your Hand like unto Paste into what form or shape you please Divide them into two or three Balls and give him them Fasting in the Morning one after another in a Hornful of cold strong or small Beer and exercise him after it then bring him Home and set him up warm Clothed and Littered and no question but he will purge very well Some Observations upon iâ— If you chance to put too much Brandy into it it will be so thin that you cannot work it up into a Paste If this Misfortune happen to you put a little of the powder of English Liquoris to it and that will so qualifie the thinness of it that you may work it up into a Body very well Or you may make up your Aloes after the same manner only with the powder of Liquoris or with any other Powder which you think most proper for your use How to know the Goodness of the Fylings of Steel Needles If it look bright and be clean from dirt 't is good but if you find it of a rusty colour 't is naught You may buy it at the Needle-makers in Crooked Lane near the Monument for 6 d. the pound Another Receipt very good for the said Distempers Take an Ounce of Barbadoes Aloes or Aloes Hepatica with a dram of each of these Roots here under-written finely beaten and searc'd viz. Gentian Aristolochia rotunda and Elecampane put them into a Mortar together and make them up as in your former Receipt Or you may make up your Aloes with the powder of Crude Antimony Another Excellent Purge or Scouring which is good to free a Horse from the same Distempers as the others did and is the best way I know of for the dissolving of Aloes Take an Ounce of the best Barbadoes Aloes or Aloes Hepatica and beat it in a Mortar to a fine powder then put it into a Bladder and wet the powder very well with Brandy wine then Tie it up hard that it receive no Vent and put it into a Skillet of Water and set it over the Fire and you shall find that in a little more then a quarter of an Houres boyling your Aloes will be quite dissolved Then take it off the Fire having first in a readiness a quart of strong Beer indifferent hot and untie or clip your Bladder with a Pair of Scissers and let out your Aloes into the Beer and put also into it an
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Woman ☞ Turmerick white Lilly Roots chopped small and dried ☞ ☞ Throw these things among his Provender ☞ The time of Gelding is when the Moon is in the Wain the Sign in Arie or Virgo the time of the year is early in the Spring or Fall ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ An Iron with a Button The Drawing Iron ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ See more of them in the Table of Simples You may give him two Ounces of it by it self All these within this Bracket are bought at the Grocers You may Give one Ounce and a half of it by it self 'T is not so strong as Alloes Succeâ—ing 'T is commonly adulterated with the Oyl of Turpentine This is also adulterated Have a care of the adulterate Have a care of the Adulterate She has been dead about lafayear but he Son contrives in the H use and sells it ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ The Flower of it is best used for any inward use ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ 1. W. ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ For want of the Leaves taâ—e the Root ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ Tâ—e up the Horses Head for â—ear of biting it away When you take off the Pâ—aister anoynâ— the place with Train Oyl 〈◊〉 ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ I. W. ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ If your Roots be green slice them if dry beat them to powder ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ â—â—ooâ— not your Horse in this Disâ—â—se for if you do it wâ—ll certainly Kâ—ll him The Scull of a dead man dried and beaten to powder and given in Sack iâ— most excellent ☜ ☜ * Hob-goblin is a Stone much like an Oyster-shell which you may find upon course stony Lands It is good also beaten to powder to take off a Felm from the Eyes ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ This water will Cure any Fistula whatsoever if it come to the bottom and heal is up with your green Ointment A Cankâ—r Cured ☜ ☜ ☜ * Some hold it death to let Blood but this you may use as Discretion servâ—th If you desire to know the several sorts of Feavers look in the First Part for Feavers and there you shall find them ☞ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ â— W. ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ If you give it for Bruises or Falls leave out the Bolearmoniack ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ For the dry Gripes ☜ ☜ ☜ You shall find another most excellent for this Purpose afterwards ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ RESALGAR is a composition of Sulphur Orpiment and unslackt lyme and is a most strong â—â—rrosiv◠☞ ☜ Blood him first and about two or three days after give him this Drink ☞ ☜ ☞ See more of this in the First Part. P. 151. ☞ ☜ See a more large Account of things of this Nature in the First Part p. 152. ☞ ☜ See the Expellers of Wind in the First Part. p. 150. ☞ ☜ ☜ They are both very cooling things ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ They are both very cooling things ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ * If the Bone do fall in its true Plâ—ceâ—g in it will give on a sudden a great 〈◊〉 See my First Part for Conglutinating things good in General or Strengthners of Parts out of Joynt p 1â—6 ☞ ☜ Patch or Piece-grease is the Tallow that is gotten from Shoomakers shreds ☜ ☜ The Nail or Sâ—ub must be first drawn out and the Corruption let forth and made very clean before you dress it ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ Clip away the Hair before you apply it ☞ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ Or with the Help of the Fire and your warm Hands you may work up by it self into Balls the bâ—itlest sort of â—loes that is ☜ ☜ ☜ Or you may dissolve your Aloes in cold Brandy being first beaten into fine powder and put therein ☜ ☞