your Colts growing all the Summer following will make your Colt Mares so bare that they shall not be able to foal nor give their Colts sufficient suck At what age Colts may best be handled WHen your Horse-Colt hath been bred as is afore-appointed the best age in my opinion to take him up to break is when he shall be full four years old and the vantage or if you may spare him and have good close ground to keep him in rather at five years old and the vantage for then will his joynts and sinews be strong and well knit his hoof ever tough and not brittle his eye-sight good his chine strong so that you cannot hurt him neither in breaking nor in reasonable riding besides he will last a good Horse till he be 24 or 25 years old whereas if you will take him up at two or three years old as we commonly do you shall find him afterwards many times blind brittle hoofed weak back'd full of windgalls and splints and shew himself to be an old stiff Horse before he come to be ten years old as the most part of their Spanish Horses do because they are taken up so young which is because that in Spain they have no good close ground to let their Colts run longer in and not for any other Commodity Approved Receipts For the Curing of all Diseases Incident to HORSES Receipt I. To draw out any Thorn or Nayl in any place TAke Dod monds which are house Snails and seeth them in Butter and apply them and they will draw out any Thorn or Nayl And so will the Roots of Reeds if they be bruised and laid to being bound to the wounded place with a linnen cloth He may run out but to stand in is better Proved II. A perfect Drier of a Green Wound or any other Sore TAke Soap and unslaked Lime and mix them well together but before you lay it to wash the wound or sore with a little White-wine Vinegar and then apply it Proved A Marrow-bone burnt and made into powder and strewed on a Sore or wound is a great Dryer III. For any Anbury TAke a hot Iron and make it very sharp and take the Anbury in your hand and sear it off to the bottom with a red hot Iron Then mix a little beaten Verdigrease and Train-oyl together heat them and anoint the place once a day till it be whole Proved IV. For the Flapps in an Horses mouth TO know this you shall perceive his Lips to be swell'd on both sides of his mouth and that which is in the blisters is like the white of an Egg you must cut some slashes in it with a knife then rub it once with Salt and it is cured Proved V. To rot a Sore or Swelling ANoint the Sore or swelling with cold Bacon-grease once in two days till it be soft then open the skin with a Pen-knife at the bottom of the Sore and let out the filth and so heal it up with your healing Salve Proved See the water and Green Oyntment VI. Directions how to lay a Wound open and where and how to miss the Veins under it be it in Body or Legs WHen you cut a Sore open lay it drayning at the bottom or a little lower Be sure always to do this To miss the Master Vein if it lye lengthwise in the body be sure to cut under the Vein If it be a Sore upon the Leg that lyes right over the Vein then cut it side-wayes of the Vein right up and down If a Sore happen to be hollow a great length be it in Body or Legs then cut a hole at the lowest place that the filth may drain from the Sore the better then put in your finger under the Vein and when your finger is past the Vein upwards as far as it will go cut at your fingers end another hole and if you fee occasion turn your finger to another place and at your fingers end cut another hole If you chance at any time to cut a Vein in pieces put in a piece of a Hares skin with the wool on or Cony wool but Hares is best and this will stop the bleeding Proved That Hares wool will stop bleeding sooner than most things See Receipt To stop bleeding in Veins that be cut VII The way to put in a French Rowel THat is upon the lowest part of the Horses breast to that side that is lame you shall with a sharp knife cut the skin through not cross the breast but right down half the length of your finger then put your finger between the skin and the flesh and raise the skin from the flesh round about the hole the breadth of a six pence then take a piece of the upper leather of a shooe and cut it in the manner of this Figure here prescribed cut the piece of Leather round and then cut out a hole Your breath must not smell of Tobacco when you blow the skin up for a sweet breath is best if it do the place will swell the more VIII A rare Green Oyntment to heal any Wound old or new quickly TAke an handfull of water-Betony as much of Comfry of Mugwort red Sage Sage of Bethlehem by some called Jerusalem Sage of Sothern-wood of Rue by some called Herb of grace of Rosemary of each of these an hand full boyl all these in a pint of May Butter and as much Mutton Suet and when it hath boyl'd a while take it off the fire and strain it through a cloth and put it into a pot for your use This Oyntment will last good a year Proved Before you lay this Oyntment to wash the Wound first with the Water which you have in Receipt 38. IX To take a Film off an Horses Eye YOU must take as much of Dialthaea as the bigness of a Walnut and put to it the powder of Verdigrease as much as an Hasel-nut mix them well together then every day Put into his Eye as much of it as the bigness of a Pease this will take of any Film whatsoever Proved X. A Medicine to defend and keep back humors from a Wound so that it may heal the sooner TAke two pints of Tartar or the dregs of White-wine Vinegar but the Tartar is better and put in as much Bolearmonick as contain to an Egg an handfull of white or bay Salt and an handfull of great Burdock leaves or the Roots wash the swell'd place and round about the Swelling with this once a day this will hasten the cure very much if you do so wash it with this and apply to the wound your healing Salves or Oyntments as you may in this Book be furnished with store of them for that purpose Proved XI Another for the same TAke a pint of Verjuyce and put to it three penny-worth of Camphire cut very small boyl them together a quarter of an hour and when it is almost cold put it into some glass or pot and wash the swell'd place round about it
on purpose that none may knovv that you use any thing but Sope lay it on a piece of gray Paper and heat a Brick hot and dry it in as you did the former this is much of the nature of the former Proved XXXVII For a Splent great or small an excellent one IF it were never medled with before be it great or small this will cure it First take a piece of Leather as broad again as will cover the Splent then take of Cantharides which is a flye that you may have at the Apothecaries and beat them to powder or very fine take of them half a quarter of an ounce at a time mixed with as much Nerve Oyl as contain to half a Wallnut bray them well together and lay them upon a piece of Leather and bind it on for eight or ten hours and then take it off and stroke it down with your Fingers and Thumb twice or thrice a day till you see it quite fallen This Medicine will dissolve the Splent into a Water and you shall see it sweat out drops of water doing it with your fingers and Thumb every day If it be a great through Splent lay it on twice if it be a little one but once doing will serve he must stand in all the time of the Cure you may ride him after you have taken the Medicine off take a piece of Tape to bind it on Make no more at a time than you shall use it will not last as to do good This will not diminish a hair but sink it flat This Medicine is not to be laid to a Splent that hath been formerly medled with where the swelling still remains and the hair is come off and the skin very thin the Medicine is too strong and will soon eat the thin skin a pieces in such a case Proved to be right good XXXVIII A Water to cure any old Wound or green in Man or Beast TAke half a pound of Bolearmoniack a quarter of a pound of white Copperis two ounces of Roch Allum beat your Roch Allum and Copperis small and put them into a Pipkin and melt them together and when they are cold put them with the Bolearmoniack into a Mortar and beat them all together to a fine powder then take a pottle of Running Spring water where the Spring boyls with a blew sand at the bottom if possible rather than in any other Spring set this pottle of spring-Spring-water on the fire with a close Skellet till it be scalding hot and then put it into a clean earthen Pitcher and put two spoonfuls of this powder into the water and stir it up well together before you let it stand to settle and vvhen the vvater hath stood two or three days setling then skum off the upper most froth put the vvater into another Pitcher clean from the dregs and afterwards use it vvhen you have occasion But vvhen you use it either for man or beast vvarm the vvater as hot as can be indured either by man or beast When you vvash any vvound of a man let the cloth lie a vvhile vvet upon the vvound and vvet a double cloth in the same vvater and bind it on plaister vvise renevving it tvvo or three times a day For any vvound old or nevv alvvaies vvash it first vvith this vvater and then apply the green Oyntment to it aftervvards vvhich you shall find in R. VIII Proved XXXIX A Receipt to cure a Horse Pestilence TAke of Wormwood a handful of Rue a handful of Selendine roots a handful to be cut small then put them into a quart of Aloes Milk boyl it till it comes to a pint Then strain it and put to it half a pound of fresh Butter then give it the Horse in the morning fasting pretty vvarm and keep him from drinking two daies and if he does drink let it be cold water and if grass may be had let him ear grass Another Receipt for a Febula or Horse-Pestilence TAke one ounce of Storax one ounce of Benjamin one ounce of Betony a quarter of an ounce of English Saffron these being beaten all to a powder put them into a quart of new Ale and give it to the Horse to drink Let him not have any warm water but keep him as before from any drink two dayes and let him eat grass if to be had XL. For the Yellows YOu shall know this by his faint sweating at the roots of his Ears and the white of his Eyes will be yellow you must first let him blood in the Neck veins or on both sides of the Neck then take Elder Leaves Cellendine and Camomile of each a handfull cut them small and give them to the Horse in a pint and a half of the best Beer being heated lukewarm fasting you may run your Cornet-horn into the third roof in the palat of his mouth keep him warm and give him warm water to drink for a day or two and this drench will certainly cure him Proved XLI For a Chest-Founder To know this he will go crimpling and stand stradling and covet lye to down Take six penny-vvorth of the Oyl of Peter and bath it well into his breast rub it in well at the first then dry it lightly with a hot Iron this with once doing will be a perfect Cure Not tried but very likely XLII For a swelling under the Jaws when a Horse hath the strangling FOr a swelling of this nature take nothing else but Bacon-grease and anoint it which will if it be hard suddenly soften it with twice anointing and when it is full ripe let it out some use to burn the swelling with a Candle before they anoint it and it will cause it to break the sooner let it out with the point of a Pen-knife and sometimes there will come out a pinte of filth when it is clean out put in some white Salt when any sore is soft let it out with the point of a Pen-knife lay it drayning as much as you can with all the advantages you can If it be a sore in any other place than the Throat rot it with Bacon-grease and open it and put it out and heal it with the green Oyntment mentioned in R. XXXVIII You must have a care of veins that you do not cut them Proved XLIII For a Sore IF a Horse hath a Sore in his side or else where rot it first with Bacon-grease then open it in the midst and let the hole below enough that you may put your finger in from the middle of the wound downwards cut it in the midst and slash it quite down to the bottom it will drain the better and heal the sooner a great deal Heal it up with the green Oyntment dressing it once a day and always before you lay your green Oyntment to the wound wash it with the rare water to heal any wound first This is that I advise you when you wash a wound with this water dry it with a clean linnen cloth before you
and let them boyl till the Beer be boyled half away then take them off the fire and put into it a quarter of a pound of Butter and a quarter of a pound of Hony and give the Horse of this to drink three times in nine daies in the morning fasting and give him warm Water to drink all the while with a handful of Bran put into it give him of this Drink a quart at a time Buy of these Roots green dry them and beat them small and keep them from wind and air for your use If you cannot get the root of Solomon's Seal make use of the other things they may do well without but better with it Let him stand in the time of the Cure To this Drink you may add Penny-royal Clarey and Comfrey they are all knitting and strengthening Herbs Proved CXXIX For a new Wound made with a Stake or such like thing Stub or Fork First wash the Wound well with Butter and Vinegar melted together then take a Clout and tye it about a sticks end and dip it in some Linseed Oyl and run it to the bottom of the wound anoint it well and in a short time nothing but this will heal it and kill the Gangrene of it If the Wind get into the Wound and cause it to swell anoint it with the Oyl of Populeon round about the swelling Train-oyl and Verdigrease melted together will heal and skin any Wound well and quickly Proved CXXX For a Stub in the Foot or Heel For an over-reach with the Toe of the After-foot upon the Heel of the Fore-foot A Tread or Cut above the Hair or when a Stone hath cut a Horses Leg. FIrst wash the Wound with fair Water or with Water and Salt when the Wound is dry take a big Onyon or two or three small ones to the bigness of a great one a spoonful of Pepper beaten small as much Crown-sope as the bigness of an Egg these three things must be beaten to a Salve and laid upon a Linnen-cloth and laid to the Wound four and twenty hours and at the end of that time dress it as you did before and so continue doing every four and twenty hours till it be whole If this quantity of Medicine bee too little make more As you see it heal dress it but once in two or three daies This Onyon Salve will prevent a Quitter-bone if you lay it to before it break This Salve is good to heal and cure all these hurts Proved CXXXI For a Horse that is prickt in the shooing and afterwards festred FIrst open it well and take out all the corruption to the very bottom so far as the Nayl did go then take three or four House-snails a little Salt as much Sope as a Walnut beat them altogether and lay it to the place that was pricked four and twenty hours till you see it begin to heal then dress it but once in two daies and in three or four dressings it will be whole When you lay this Medicine to the bottom of the foot lay some Flax Hards or Tow over it and over that a piece of Leather or Splinters to keep the Hards and Medicine in And if it break out or be soft above the top of the Hoof lay some of this Medicine to and bind it on with a Linnen rag Proved CXXXII For a Horse that is prickt with a long Channel Nail FIrst search it with your Buttris and drawingknife till you find where the Channel Nail went in open it well and give it all the ease you can search it to the bottom with a little Tow at your Instruments end then drop ten or twelve drops of the Oyl of Turpentine into the hole take a little Tow or fine Lint at your Instruments end and dip it in the Oyl of Turpentine and put it in Tent-waies then mix a little Crown-sope a little Salt and a little Pepper beaten together and lay it over the former and Tow or Hards over it and a piece of Leather and Splinters over it to keep it in The Shooe must be taken off when you dress it and after to set it on again dress it once in four and twenty hours till it be whole If you find that after three or four times dressing that the Horse is in great pain still and that you fear a breaking out above the hoof then take out the Soal of his Foot and apply the Medicine in order as you were directed for a foundred Horse in Receipt CXXVII Do with this just as you are there directed to make the Soal come again after his Foot begins to grow again take as much Hogs Grease as an Egg and the like quantity of Burgundy Pitch mix them together and lay a pretty quantity thereof in the bottom of the Hoof and lay Hards or Tow over that and a piece of Leather or Splinters over it as you were formerly directed Dress it every day for three or four daies this Grease and Pitch will much nourish his Foot and strengthen it and keep it from drying up Let him stand in the time of his Cure and then if you please you may turn him out abroad Proved CXXXIII For a Brittle Hoof. LAy the Poultis to the bottom and top of the Hoof and Foot as you have directions for a Foundred Horse in Receipt CXXVII Lay that Poultis to and in three or four times dressing it will make his brittle Hoof tough and hard as you can desire Let him stand in the time of his Cure Proved CXXXIV For an Horses Yard foul and furr'd without so that he pisses in the Cod. TAke some fresh Butter and Whitewine Vinegar and melt them then pull out his Yard and do off the filth with your hand and wash it with the Butter and Vinegar till it be clean squirt some of it into his Yard with a Syringe it will much help him in this particular Proved CXXXV When a Horse doth not thrive and when his Coat stands staring and doth not lye smooth For an inward dry Surfet that causeth the Cods to swell sometimes continually and sometimes betwixt times When the Grease is melted and afterwards set and dried in his Body and his Legs sometimes swelled For an Horse that is Gaunt and will not fill or is Gut-foundred when he is Costive in Body and Dungs small To procure a Stomack The following Directions are admirable good for all these following Distempers FIrst make your Purge thus Take an ounce of fine Aloes the best is that which shines and glisters an ounce will cost you a shilling beat it to powder take a quarter of a pound of fresh Butter bray and mix these two well together and put a handful of Wheat-bran to it to make it stiff like a piece of Dough or Paste then roul it up in Balls made big in the midst and sharp at both ends this quantity will make four or five Balls then hold up his Head with a Drenching-stick and take his Tongue in
of them then take two handfuls of Camomile but Pellitory is the best if it can be gotten boyl any one of these in a Decoction of water to a third part then ad to it of Sallet-oyl and of Verjuyce of each half a pint of Honey four ounces of Cassia two ounces mix all these together and administer it luke-warm and order him as in the first Glister It will open the Gut and body very well and will take from him all hurtful and oftensive humours It will carry away all Spungy matter It will allay the biliousness and sharpness of humours cleanse inward Ulcers and much refresh and comfort the vital spirits But if you find that by giving too great a quantity your Horse purgeth and scoureth longer or more violently than you think is meet and good or for fear it should stir up in him more bad humours upon the sudden then you may easily allay it with this following Glister CCVIII A Glister restringent to stop loosness TAke of the Decoction in the Glister aforegoing a pint and put thereto as much Cow's Milk as it cometh warm from the Cow and put also thereto the yolks of three new laid Eggs well beaten and mixed together and give it blood-warm This Glister is only to be given to a Horse that is very laxative or doth empty himself too much which is occasioned oft-times by over much debility or want of strength or when nature is very much offended You may give this Glister as often as need shall require and till you see his loosness stop CCIX. A Glister for a fat foul-bodied Horse that is newly taken from Grass or for any sick surfeited diseased Horse TAke three handfuls of Marsh-Mallow roots cleansed and bruised Violet leaves of each two handfuls Flax seed three spoonfuls the Cloves of white Lilly roots a small handful boil all these together in fair water from a gallon to a Wine quart then strain it and put thereto of Sena one ounce which must be steeped in the Liquor three hours standing upon the hot Embers then put thereto half a pint of Sallet oyl and being blood-warm administer it Glister-wise causing him to keep it above half an hour And the best time to give this is three or four dayes before the full or change of the Moon yet it may be given with much benefit at any other time This Glister purgeth the Guts abundantly and is chiefly to be given to an Horse that is newly taken from Grass CCX A Glister for Melancholy TAke of Whey a quart of Anniseeds in fine powder two penny-worth the leaves of Mallows two handful boyl all these together till the Mallows be soft then strain it and put thereto of sweet Butter four ounces and when the Butter is melted give it Glister-wise blood-warm This purgeth Melancholy it causeth a good Appetite which before was wanting it refresheth the dulled Spirirs and causeth a good Digestion if the Horse be kept warm and well tended CCXI. A Glister to be given in case of a desperate Sickness It helpeth Fevers is good against the Pestilence and all languishing Diseases most excellent against Surfeits either by Provender or otherwise And will give great strength in short time if it be rightly made and carefully given TAke of the Oyl of Dill oyl of Camomile oyl of Violets and Cassia of each half an ounce of brown Sugar-candy in powder three ounces Then take of Mallow leaves a handful and boyl them first to a Decoction in fair water then strain it and put thereto the before-named Ingredients and give it blood-warm This is most soveraign to be given in case of a desperate Sickness and for all the Diseases afore-mentioned CCXII. A Glister for the Pestilence and all Fevers TAke half an ounce of the pulp of Coloquintida the seeds and rind taken away of Gum dragant three quarters of an ounce boyl all these in three quarts of water to a quart with Centory and Wormwood of each half an handful and a quarter of an ounce of Castorium strain it and dissolve it into the Decoction of Gerologundium three ounces and of white Salt three drams and of Sallet oyl half a pint and then administer it Glister-wise blood-warm this hath been often proved to be most excellent good for the Diseases above mentioned CCXIII. A Lenitive Glister TAke the Decoction of Mallowes and put to it either of fresh Butter four ounces or of Sallet oyl half a pint and give it Glister-wise blood-warm this is the gentlest Glister of any before prescribed for it is both a loosener and a great cooler of the body and doth infinitely ease pain Also it is good for Convulsions or Cramps and most singular against costiveness proceeding from any sickness or surfeit by Provender or Foundring in the Body CCXIV. A Glister for the Collick or any Sickness or Gripings in the Gutts or Belly TAke Salt water or new made Brine two pints dissolve therein a pretty quantity of Sope and administer it Glister wise blood-warm this is averred to be the most excellent for the Collick or any Sickness or griping in the Guts CCXV Of Sickness in Horses SIcknesses in general are of two sorts One offending the whole Body the other a particular Member The first of them not visible The other apparent and known by its own demonstrations Of the first then which offends the whole Body as Fevers of all sorts the Quotidian Tertian Quartan and Hectick Fevers Pestilential Fevers accidental or the general Plague are known by these signs much trembling panting sweating and sallow countenance hot breath faintness in labour decay in stomack costiveness in the body any or all of which when you perceive First let the Horse blood and then give him Treacle Take of Celedine roots and leaves a good handful as much of Wormwood as much of Rue wash them well and then stamp them in a Mortar which done boyl them in a quart of Ale then strain them and add to the Liquor half a pound of sweet Butter then being luke-warm give it to the Horse to drink CCXVI Of the Head-ach Frenzy or Staggers THe Signs to know these Diseases which are all of one Nature and all of one effect Mortal hanging down of the head reeling The Cure is to let the Horse blood three mornings together after walk him a while then clothe him cover his Temples over with a plaister of Pitch and keep him exceeding warm let his meat be little and his Stable dark CCXVII Of the Sleeping evil THe Sleeping Evil or Lethargy in Horses proceeds from cold Phlegms moist humours which bind up the vital parts and make them dull and heavy The signs are continual sleeping or desire thereunto The cure is to keep him much waking and twice in a Week to give him as much sweet Sope as a Duck-Egg in the nature of a Pill and after give him to drink new milk and Honey CCXVIII Of the Falling Evil Planet-struck Night-Mare or Palsey ALthough these Diseases have several
of Bolearmony made in fine powder and two ounces and an half of the Conserves of Sloes Then stir and mix them well together after take it from the fire and put to it a spoonful or two of the powder of Cinnamon And brewing all well together give it the Horse Let him fast two hours after it and let him eat no washt meat Hay is wholesom so is Bread and Oats if they be well mixt with Beans or wheat but not otherwise An Infallible help for the Stone or pain of Urine causing Sickness MAke a strong Decoction that is to say boyl your first quantity of Water to an half pint three times over with keen Onions clean pilled and parsley Then take a quart thereof and put to it a great spoonfull of London-Treacle and as much of the powder of Egg-shels finely searc't and give it the Horse to drink and thus do divers mornings if the infirmity be great otherwise when you see the Horse offended An approved Medicine to cure and break any old grevious festred and rotten Cold and to dry up a foul running Glanders TAke a pint of the best Verjuyce and put to so much strong Mustard made with wine-Vinegar as will make the Verjuyce strong and keen thereof Then take an ounce or more of Roach-Allom and beat it into fine white Powder then when you give this to the Horse so with a Knife or Spoon put some of the Allom into the Horn and so give it the Horse part at his mouth and part at both his Nostrils but especially that Nostril which runneth most Then ride and chafe him a little after it then set him up warm At noon give him a warm Mash and at all times give him no cold water but when the Horse may have exercise after it And thus drench the Horse three days together and it will be sufficient Another for a Violent Cold. TAke of Wine Vinegar half a pinte and as much Sallet-Oyl brew them well together and then put to it an ounce and half of Sugar-Candy in fine powder and so give it the Horse and stir him a little after This is exceeding good but it will occasion sickness for a small season An excellent Scowring when other Scowrings will not work TAke of sweet Butter a quarter of a pound half so much Castle-soap beat them well together then add to them two spoonfulls of Hempseed bruised of anniseed a spoonfull bruised of Sugar-Candy an ounce of Rosin finely bruised half a spoonful work all these into a paste and give it the Horse in the manner of Pills immediately after his heat or when you have warmed him and stirred up the grease and foulness within him An admirable Water for any sore Eye or to clear any dim sight as the Moon-eyes and the like TAke the stone called Lapis Calaminaris and heat it red hot in the fire then quench it in half a pint of White-wine and thus do twelve times together Then add unto it half so much of the juice of Housleek and with this bath the Eye twice or thrice a day and it is excellent against any imperfection therein Another Water no less precious for the Eyes then the former TAke a pint of Snow-water and dissolve it into three or four drams of white Vitriol and with this water wash the Horses Eyes three or four times and the effect is great and strange The Master Medicine of all Medicines for a Back Sinew-Strain or any grief pain straightness shrinking or numness of joynts or sinews TAke a fat sucking Mastive whelp flay it and bowel it then stop the body as full as it can hold with gray Snails and black Snails then roast it at a reasonable fire when it begins to warm bast it with six ounces of the Oyl of Spike made yellow with Saffron and six ounces of the oyl of Wax Then save the drippings and what moisture soever falls from it whilst any drop will fall from the Whelp and keep it in a Gally-pot With this oyntment anoint the strain and work it in very hot holding a hot bar of iron before it And thus do both Morning and Evening till the Cure be finished St. Antayne his only Excellent Medicine for any Strain or Swelling TAke Cummin-seeds and bruise them gross and boyl it with the oyl of Camomile then add to it so much yellow Wax as will bring it to the body of a Cerrot or Plaister and spread it on either Cloth or Leather and very hot apply it to the grief It is wonderfull soveraign for any man also Another for any desperate old Strain whether it be in the Shoulder Joynts Hips or Back-sinews TAke of the best Aqua-vitae a pint of oyl de Boy of oyl of Swallows and of black Soap of each half a pinte work and labour all these together till they come to a thin oyntment then take of Camamoile and of red Sage an handfull of Rue and of Misseldine an handfull dry them and bring them to a very fine powder Then mix them with the former oyntment and bring all to a gentle Salve With some of this Salve made as hot as the Horse can suffer it anoint the Strain and hold an hot bar of Iron before the grieved place chafing it in with your hand as much as may be and thus do once a day and in nine dayes the Cure will be effected An Excellent Charge for any New Strain or offence on the Sinews or any grief proceeding from heat TAke the whites of six Eggs and beat them well with a pint of white Wine-Vinegar and an ounce of the oyl of Roses as much of the oyl of Mintils Then take four ounces of Bolearmonie and as much Sanguis Draconis and with as much fine Bean-flower or wheat flower but Bean-flower is the best as will thicken it bring it to a stiff Salve then spread it about the grieved place and renew it as it dryeth A perfect Cure for any Sinew-Strain TAke a live Cat either wild or tame and cut off her head and tail then cleave her down the chine and clap her hot the bowels and all upon the strain and remove it not for forty eight hours and the effect is great Markham's own Balm which hath never failed him for any Strain in the Shoulder or other part hidden or apparent Or any Wind-gall Pain or Swelling whatsoever TAke ten ounces of the best and purest Goose-grease and melt it on the fire then take it off and put it into four ounces of the Oyl of Spike and an ounce of the Oyl of Origanum stir them very well together then put it up into a Gallipot With this Oyntment anoint the grieved part the Oyntment being made exceeding hot and rub and chafe it in with all painfulness holding an hot bar of Iron before it and thus anoint once in two dayes but rub and chafe it in twice or thrice a day at the least and give the Horse moderate Exercise This is approved and infallible
once a day with this till it be healed with other Medicines This will much further the Cure of any Wound or Sore where humors do fall down to it whilst you do apply other Medicines to heal up the Sore or Wound For these defensives are for no other purpose but to keep back humors that hinder Sores or Wounds from healing Proved XII A rare Receipt for a Farcion TAke Mullin by some called Higtaper it hath a great woolly leaf it groweth close by the ground upon the banks of Ditches or in the high-ways side Chickweed Groundsel and Wood Betony of each an handfull cut them small and boyl them all in a quart of Ale and when it is luke-warm put in two penny-worth of Quicksilver and give it him to drink fasting The third day after give him the like proportion warm water all the while to drink and to stand in Proved XIII For a Horse that hath his Fundament fallen out or for a Cow that hath the Mother fallen out TAke an armfull of Willow boughs and dry them on a hot Hearth when they are dry sweep the Hearth as clean as you can and set them on fire and burn them to ashes then take the ashes and searce them through a fine boulter and before you strew on the powder of the ashes wash the Fundament with warm water to make it as warm as the body then strew on the finest of the ashes and put the Fundament up into its place then tye a line to the Horses tayl and bring it between his hinder Legs and fasten it to a Surcingle under his belly pretty straight using this means his Fundament will be kept up and in a very short time it will be knit firm and strong again If the Mother of a Cow come forth use but the aforesaid means and you will find it a perfect remedie both proved White Pepper beaten finely and searced through a fine searce the Fundament being well warmed with warm water or milk and after warmed with a warm cloth and then this beaten Pepper strewed upon it and so put up and his tayl tyed close between his Legs as before you will find it very good A Marrow-bone of a Bullock burnt in the fire and beaten to fine powder is for a Wound a great and good dryer and healer and will skin a Wound Proved The inward and outward bark of a Willow-tree first dryed and afterwards the hearth being swept very clean burnt to ashes and the ashes sifted through a fine boulter the finest of these ashes is good to dry up any Sore nothing like it These ashes are likewise a great binder for a loosness in Horses or Cows bodies Proved XIV To kill Lice of horses and Cows TAke a quantity of Hogs-grease and anoint the Horse underneath the Mane and upon the ridgebone of the back it will burst them all presently XV. For a Stub or other hurt in or about the Foot TAke Bees-wax Pitch Hogs-grease and Turpentine boyl them together in an earthen pan but put in the Turpentine a little before you take it off the fire and stir it well together make the wound clean and pour it in scalding hot dip hards or tow in it and stuff the place where it is hurt full with it and it will heal it in a short time this will last a year Proved XVI To Cleanse any Wound old or new TAke the Roots of Elder and beat them to powder and boyl them with English-Hony It is good to cleanse any Sore old or new But take this for a general observation that before you dress any Wound let it be where it will about the Horse wash it clean first with White-wine wine Vinegar and then dress it with your Salve Proved XVII For the Sleeping Evil. THe signs to know it are The Horse will stand sleeping in a corner continually with his head hanging down to the ground it takes away his memory The Cure is to be performed thus Let him blood on both sides the neck in the morning fasting before he drink let him blood also in the mouth in the third furrow in the roof of his mouth and after he hath bled well give him this Drink Take of Camomil and motherwort together three handfulls cut small and boyl them in two quarts of Running water half an hour and then give the Horse a pint once in two days fasting the third day give him the rest fasting and three or four hours after give him warm water and a little comfortable Mash made of ground Mault put into scalding hot water after it comes of the fire keep him in the house warm the time of the cure and fume his head as you do for the Staggers and this in a short time is a perfect cure Proved XVIII To stop bleeding at the Nose THe chief cause thereof is the thinness of the Vein in the head you must let him blood in both the Plate veins and then wind a thumband of wet Hay about his neck and throw cold wate upon the thumband till you see the blood to stanch the thumband must be so long that it may be wound from his ears to his breast very lightly XIX For the Falling Evil in an Horse THe Falling Evil will cause him suddenly to fall down and to lye sprauling with his heels and foaming at the mouth like a man that hath the Falling sickness you shall know whether he be subject to fall often by feeling him by the gristles of his Nose which will be cold if he be subject to it The Cure is to let him blood on both sides of his neck after he hath bled in the morning before he drink give him this Drink Take Miseltoe that groweth upon an Apple-tree the leaves are like Ivy leaves dry it and rub it to powder and use it at your leisure give him of this powder of Miseltoe one spoonfull in half a pint of Sack and keep him in the house till he be well and give him to drink water luke-warm Proved You may add to the Miseltoe three drams of the Electuary called Theriaca Diaresseron or the Oyl of Pepper one dram or a dram and an half XX. For a Cough old or new or the heaving of his Lungs TAke the Root of Gentian which you shall have at the Apothecaries slice it dry it and beat it to powder give the beast as much of this powder as will lye upon a shilling in half a pinte of his own water give this to him fasting once in three days and so continue every third day till you see his Cough and Heaving to abate or be quite gone the cold of his water must be just taken off and he must stand in all the time of the Cure This for an old Cough or heaving of the Lungs is the best Cure in the World Proved XXI For a Canker in the Tongue YOU shall see his mouth and tongue raw within you shall know it by his stinking breath and his roping slavering Which to
him to belly give him another keep him warm and it is a Cure Proved LXXXIX For the Scratches THey are upon the After-heels of a Horse in the Pastern and above For Remedy take two penny-worth of black Sope as much as an Egg of the newest Hens-dung as you can get Oyster-shels put into hot Embers five or six they must be put in over-night and raked up so that they may be well dried by the morning then beat them to powder and bray them altogether like an Oyntment and apply it to the Horses sore Heels every morning and evening the Horse must not come in the Water till you see he is cured Alwaies rub his Heels very clean before you rub in the Oyntment and you shall find it a certain Cure in two or three times dressing Proved XC For the Scratches OVer-night let his Heels and Legs be bathed well in Beef-broth the next morning rub his Legs clean and then apply this Oyntment to heal it Take two pennyworth of Gilts-grease two pennyworth of Speck-oyl at the Curriers made of shreds and cuttings of Leather two pennyworth of Verdigrease beaten small two pennyworth of Train-Oyl put all these into a Pipkin and set it on the Coles to melt but stir them till they be melted then once a day anoint him with this Oyntment till his Heels be well which will be whole very suddenly Chafe it and rub it in with your hand very well let him come in no water nor dirt till he be whole when Horses have been so swelled crannied and stiff that they could not go but fall down This hath cured them Proved XCI Another for the same IF at any time a Horses Leg swell but especially in the month of March ride him into a River where the Water runs swiftly up to the Mid-leg and there let him stand not above a quarter of an hour then when you set him up in the Stable take a Wisp and a Payl of Water and dash the Water against his Legs till they be clean This is a Cure for swelled Legs in a very short time that is when they are not broken out but only swelled Proved XCII For Foot-foundring THat Foot which is foundred he will set before the other For Remedy pare him down to the quick if he bleed it matters not then set on his Shoe very hollow then take Flax or Tow and make a pretty thick Cake thereof and spread Venice Turpentine thereon a good thickness then lay it all over the bottom of the Hoof and put a piece of the upper Leather of a Shoe to keep it in At 3 daies end lay on a new Plaister as before If his Foot grow again pare him to the quick again and every third day lay on a new Plaister till you see him go better he must run abroad in low grounds this Plaister will draw down the humours exceedingly Continue thus doing and if he have not been foundred too long this will cure him in a month or very little more perfectly To further the Cure you may let him blood at the Toes nevertheless the place should not be dirty that he goes in Proved XCIII For the Garget in the Throat of a Cow IF you have an Ox or Cow or Bullock that hath the Garget in the Throat it comes for want of Water it will cause a swelling under the sides The Remedy is first to cast the Beast then cut the skin through in the midst of the swelling and flea the skin from the flesh so far as any swelling goes then take of the whitest Wood-ashes that you can get sifted fine mix them with some mouldy stale old Piss stir them well together and wash the Sore therewith Proved XCIV Another for a Garget at the Root of the Tongue of a Cow A Garget at the Root of the Tongue is a certain swelling under the Root of the Tongue which causeth his head and face to swell also and to froth at the mouth he will then for sake his meat with often gulping in his throat The Remedy is first cast him in soft straw from bruising his body then take his Tongue in your hand and pull it out as far as you can and with the point of a sharp Penknife slit down the middle Vein an inch right under the Tongue and there will come forth black blood and water which comes from the Gall then rub the place with Salt and Vinegar mingled together and it will cure Proved XCV For the Garget in the Guts of a Cow or Bullock THe signs are these The Beast will run at the Eyes drivel and slaver at the Mouth with a sad heavy countenance For Remedy take an Egg-shel full of Tar and put it down her Throat then take two handfuls of Salt and put it into a pint of Verjuyce and put it down the Beasts Throat with a Horn then drive her to and fro till she dung Keep her fasting four hours after Proved XCVI For the over-flowing of the Gall in a Cow or Bullock THe signs are extraordinary fulness of the Body and slavering at the mouth The Remedy Take an Egg-shell full of Tar and put it down her Throat having before a pint of Verjuyce or Vinegar and a pennyworth of Cloves beaten boyl the Verjuyce and Cloves together and when you take it off the fire put in two good handfuls of Salt and give it her lukewarm with a Horn immediately after the Egg-shell full of Tar and drive her to and fro Proved XCVII For a Horse or Cow that makes red-Red-water TAke a Red herring with a hard Row and cut it as small as you can and put it into a quart of strong Beer and give the Beast it luke-warm and in twice giving it is a Cure Proved XCVIII For a Horse that is Back-swanckt or for a Strain in the Kidneys being over-burthened in the Hinder part or in Race-running or by being over-strained in the Back TAke a fat hot Sheeps-skin just as it comes from the back of the Sheep as soon as she is kill'd mix four pennyworth of Nerve-oyl and four pennyworth of Turpentine well together and besmear or anoint the inside of the Sheeps-skin all over and clap it to the place of the back where the grief lies which commonly is in the Navil-place of the back-bone In that part of the back-bone is a horse mostly swanckt of when you have thus laid it along his back-bone make a Crupper to go under his Tail to keep it on and a breast-plate before and fasten them together to girt it upon him for a month till his back be knit and strengthened Proved Here followeth Nathaniel Shaw's Receipts which are all approved things and he is accompted as able a Farrier as any is in London I have both proved my self and seen him prove most of them both Inward and Outward and although the former Receipts in this Book will do much good Yet these go beyond them in many things both for cheapness and readiness of the Cure
I shall begin with a Disease in the Head called the Canker C. For a Canker in the Head A Canker is a Disease in the Head and sometimes will set upon the Eyes and sometimes in the Nostrils You shall know it by his rawness and it will run a yellow Water For Remedy Take half a pint of Sallet-oyl one ounce of the Oyl of Turpentine three ounces of Burgundy Pitch and one pennyworth of Verdigrease beaten fine put all but the Verdigrease into a Pipkin and let them boyl together a pretty while then take it off the fire and put in the Verdigrease and let them all boyl together to a Salve but if you have not a great care the Verdigrease will make all boyl over to prevent which alwaies have another Pipkin stand by in readiness that if it boyl over you may put some into that then put them together again and set them upon warm embers and let it gently boyl till you see it come to a Salve being neither too hard nor too soft you must stir it all the while it boyls then take it off and keep it for your use If you use this Medicine for a Canker in the Nostrils first tye a rag about a sticks end and dip it in some Whitewine Vinegar and some Salt and run it up his Nostrils to do off all the scales When you have washt it clean take a Feather and if it be not long enough tye two together and dip it in the cold Salve and run it up his Nostrils but once a day If it be a Canker in the Head Face or Eyes take a little Tow and rub the Canker till it bleed and when it leaveth bleeding anoint it with a Feather dipt in the aforesaid Salve and strew some Wheat-bran upon the Salve it will hold on the better Dress it once a day till you see it heal and then once in two or three daies whilst it heal up Observe this Rule in all outward Cures for it is needful let him stand in all the time of the Cure Proved CI. For a dry scurvy Mange although it be from the Head to the Tayl of Horse Cow Dog or any thing else FIrst scrape off all the Scurff with an old Curry-comb or piece of Knife then take two ounces of the Oyl of Turpentine and as much strong Beer mix them together and shake them well in a Glass Vial then anoint the Horse where he is pild and mangy a Week after dress him again if you see any matter y running places else not tye him up with a strong Halter till it hath done working for it will smart terribly When you have kill'd the Mange to make the hair come again wash it two or three times with a little strong Beer now and then and it will make the hair come quickly and thick Let the Beast stand in at dry meat the time of the Cure This is a rare Receipt Proved CII For a blow or any other mischance which causeth a swelling about the Head Face Jaws or Chaps FIrst Let blood in the Neck-vein on the side the Head swells if he swells on both sides let him blood on both sides Then give him this Drink to prevent a Farcy take an ounce of Turmerick and an ounce of Anniseeds of Red-sage Wormwood Herbgrace of all three but a handful cut them small and put all into a quart of strong Beer and give it the Beast cold for they are hot of themselves fasting in a morning and let him fast four or five hours after it give him warm Water to drink but for once so soon as you have given him his Drink apply this charge hot with a flat stick dab on the swelling a quarter of a pint of Aqua-vitae or Brandy-wine which is the spirit of Aqua-vitae but Brandy is best mixed with a pennyworth of Crown-sope according to the bigness or smalness of the swelling make a quantity of these two things which you apply as a charge this charge of these two things will take down any swelling old or new whatsoever soke it in with a red hot Iron apply it but once it will not come off in fourteen or fifteen daies it will sink it quite flat or break it Proved CIII For a Navil-Gall TAke Brandy-wine cold and dab it on with your hand or with a Rag it will take it down in a few times dressing if the skin be not broken Proved CIV For hard Kernels under the Throat MIx Sope and Brandy-wine together and apply it to the Kernels hot then heat it in with a hot Iron it will either sink them flat or break them Proved CV For a New Sinew strain APply Sope and Brandy once hot and heat them in with a hot Iron but first you must clip the hair away in the Pastern right over the Shackle-veins and then let blood on both the Shackle-veins and then apply the Charge letting Blood will much further the Cure Let the Sinew-strain be before or behind you must let blood if you will have a speedy Cure Letting blood thus and applying the Charge will take his lameness away in eight and forty hours with once doing at the most Do not ride him in four or five daies after you have laid on this charge This Sope and Brandy heat well in with a hot Iron it will not come off in 14 or 15 daies and when you see the scurff to rise anoint it with Trotters-oyl which is made of Sheeps-feet boiled anoint it once in two dayes to strengthen the Sinews till he go well you may ride him in four or five daies and for four or five daies or a week keep him out of the Water after you have applyed the Charge and it will be a perfect Cure Proved CVI. For an old Sinew-strain that is swelled and hard on Fore or After-legs FIrst clip away the hair right over the Shackle-veins on the Pastern and you will see to strike the Shackle-vein the better when it hath bled apply two ounces of the Oyl of Turpentine mixed with two ounces of strong Beer and put them into a glass Vial and shake them well together bath most of it in with your hand upon the Vein or swelling and three or four daies after it hath done swelling and begins to be scurfie lay a Charge of Sope and Brandy heat it well in with a hot Iron and it will take it quite down in a week or a fortnights time you may ride him in five or six daies When you see the Charge to scurf and pill you may anoint it with Oyl of Trotters once or twice Proved very certain CVII For any old hard and crushy Knobs or Swellings that have been a long time let them be never so hard Do thus FIrst anoint it with an ounce and a half of the Oyl of Turpentine and as much strong Beer mixed together and put it in a Glass and well shaken together and bathed in with your hand and three or four daies after the Charge of
fine Tow Flax or Hards to dry the blood up and there let it lye five or six hours then take it away and put in some of the Medicine which you use for a Canker in the Head Face Eyes or Nostrils of a Horse vide Receipt C. With this Medicine dress it once a day at first and as it begins to heal dress it once in two daies this Medicine will heal it suddenly cut a hole at the edge or lower part of the swelling to lay it a draining and it will heal a great deal sooner dab and throw on good store of Wheat-bran upon it when you lay it on when your Plaister comes off look upon the top of the Poll-Evil to see how far the dead proud white jelly flesh goes cut it all out with your Incision knife till you come at the red flesh which is sound the Veins will bleed much and spin again when you come at the quick but let not that hinder you from cutting out all the dead proud flesh which if you cut all out clean you cannot do amiss only take heed you do not cut the white Paxwax which runs along the top of the Neck which some call a Cress it is white and you may easily see it if you cut that his Neck will fall and look basely therefore have a care There is a white Pith in a Poll-evil near the top of the Neck by the Paxwax take your Nippers and pull it out it will come out like a Plug there is no such thing in a Fistula when you have pulled it out put some of your Medicine to it and it will heal it apace Let not the dead flesh be left in the wound but cut it clean out although the wound seem never so broad The same cure and the same way is to be used for a Fistula the Beast must stand in the time of the Cure Proved CXXII For a through Splent on both sides of the Leg by some called a Great Bone-Sâ—rupin FIrst Tye the Horses head close to a strong Post then tye up his contrary Leg then bruise and beat the Splint on both sides with a Blood-stick or Bed-staff beat it till it be something soft if he will not endure the beating of it standing cast him with a rope after you have beat it soft Take of the Oyl of Riggrum 12 pennyworth and rub it on with your fingers on both sides upon the very splent and no where else you shall have of this Oyl but a little for a shilling Tye up his head for two or three hours for it will smart and tye up his contrary Leg this way will take off the Hair a little but it will grow again of the same colour presently If it be never so big do but thus two or three times and within a weeks time it will be quite faln one dressing will serve for a small Splent or for a blood Splent this way will a little break the hair but not the skin If you will you may turn him out Proved to be admirable CXXIII For a Mallender FIrst Clip away the hair which grows upon it and about it then rub the Scabs off with a Hair-cloth or the back of your Scissars or Knife this rubbing of it will cause it to run a yellow matter take a Linnen-cloth and wipe away the filth clean then take four penny-worth of the Oyl of Riggrum and mix it with a little of your own Dung and lap it on with a flat stick upon a Linnen-cloth and bind it to for a Week then make it clean and dress it again and it is a Cure After your first dressing you may ride him or turn him out Proved CXXIV For a looseness in the Body of any Beast TAke a pint of Red-wine or for want thereof a pint of Claret warm it in a Wine-pot upon the fire then put an Ounce of beaten Cinamon therein and give him it a little warm you may put thereto the yolks of two new laid Eggs once or twice is a Cure give him warm Water at night and cold Water next day and ride him upon it Proved CXXV For a Cold in Summer or when a Horse doth not fill BOyl a quarter of Red-stone Sugar in a pint of Sack till it be dissolved and then take it off the fire and put in two spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl and give it lukewarm ride hard when you have given it unto him Give him warm Water for three or four daies after keep him warm give him now and then a Mash Proved CXXVI For a sudden great heat as in Hunting Racing or hard Riding that the Horses Grease is melted THis you shall know by the panting of the Horse that Night he comes in so hot for if he be over-ridden and his Grease melted you shall know it by his panting at the Breast and Girting-place and heaving at the Flank you shall see the Night he comes in and the next day morning that his Body will be mighty hot For Remedy Take and give this to purge him and cleanse him and to qualifie the heat and working of his Body Take one pint of Sack and put to it one ounce of Diascordium beaten small mix them together and give it to the Beast at any time cold but in the morning fasting is the best give him warm Water for three or four daies after give him bursten Oats boyled Barley and Mashes made of ground Malt keep him well littered and clothed warm If he forsake his meat and you see he hath lost his stomack to bring him to his stomack again give him two ounces of Hony and half a pint of Whitewine mixed together and heated lukewarm in the morning after he hath drank cold water you may give him it with a Horn It will make him piss clear his bladder and bring him to his stomack again After you have given him it ride him a mile or two gently and set him up warm at night ride him a mile or two again and litter him well and keep him warm Thus do for three or four daies or a week at three daies end give him the Wine and Hony as before you were directed If you see notwithstanding all these means used that he will not fall to his meat and that he is bound in his belly and dungs very small then give him this Cordial two or three times in two or three daies betwixt each Cordial giving Take three pints of stale Beer houshold brown Bread the quantity of half a penny Loaf boil these two well together then take it off the fire and put into it a quarter of a pound of Hony and a quarter of a pound of fresh Butter give him this Cordial lukewarm fasting and ride him a mile or two every Evening and Morning as well when you do not give it to him as when you do ride him fairly and clothe and litter him up vvarm this Cordial vvill bring him to his stomack and cause him to be loose bodied and dung
soft although he be vveak and have little or no stomack four or five hours after his Cordial the first thing you give him boyl him half a peck of Oats and a pound of Fenygreek together in vvater till they be burst and the vvater vvherein these vvere boyled pour it from the Oats into another Payl and put some cold vvater to it and vvhen he drinks let him drink of this vvater for the Oats and Fenygreek throvv some of them into the Manger hot and if he be loth to eat them then strevv some Wheat-bran upon it and it is very likely he vvill eat all together This course taken in every particular vvill bring your Horse to a stomack and raise him suddenly Look the Receipt follovving for a dry Surfet and when the Horse's Cods are swelled and he runs at the Nose and there you shall see the purge of Aloes A fortnight or three vveeks after he is thus melted and that you have given him the former things to give him this Purge of Aloes vvill do the Beast a great deal of good in this case I am confident it is good Or give him as much of the povvder of Mechoacan as vvill lye upon a shilling at three or four times that is very good in a pint of Wine or a quart of strong Ale Proved CXXVII For a Foundred Horse FIrst tye a List or Blood-cord hard about the Pastern and that will keep the Blood up into his Leg that it cannot come dovvn into his Foot when you have taken out the Soal set on his Shooe something hollow and broad then untye the string about the Pastern and knock the out-side of the Hoof and the blood will come pouring out Let him bleed well then put a handful of Salt into the bottom of the foot and put as many Hards Flax or Tow after it as will fill the bottom of the Foot take two or three flat sticks and lay them between the Hards and the Shooe a piece of stiff Soal-Leather will do as well at the end of 24 hours take the Hards away and take a handful of Nettle-tops and a handful of Salt and beat them together and lay them to the bottom of the Foot and to keep them in take Hards and Splinters as you were directed before at forty hours end take the Hards away and apply the same quantity of Nettles and Salt mixed with as much Hogs Grease as contains to an Egg and beat them altogether in a Mortar and lay them to the Soal of the foot and Hards and Splinters as before with this last Medicine you may dress his foot once or twice more if you see cause after you see the Horse goes a little well set on another Shooe formed with a broad Web and let it stand broad and easie and in ten daies time the Horse will go very well and sound when you come at your journeys end wash his Legs clean and when his Legs are dry make a Poultis of a quarter of a pint of Whitewine Vinegar and a quarter of a pound of Sheeps-kidney Suet cut very small Let these two boyl a pretty while in a Skellet and when it comes off the fire put two or three handfuls of Wheat-bran to it and stir them all together and make it thick like a Poultis and lay it to the bottom of the foot then Hards and Splinters as before you were directed then spread the rest of the Poultis upon a long piece of Linnen-cloth and lay it hot to the hair round about the top of the Hoof and the Foot-lock and let it come under the bottom of the Hoof lay it to as hot as you can let every Poultis lye on forty eight hours Three or four Poultisses laid to in this manner will do the Horse much good and cause his foot to grow and shoot out and give him much ease so as in a very short time he will go very sound If an Horse be bruised in the bottom of his foot with a stone or any other thing this Poultis will give present ease For a foundring the Beast must stand in till the bottom of his foot be grown again I hold it best to take out but one soal at a time because if you take out both at a time the Horse will not be able to stand Some take out Frush and all some take out nothing but the bare Soal and leave the Frush The way is first cord the Pastern then pare the Soal and then raze it round about the Soal to the quick as near the inside of the outward shell of the Hoof as you can with a drawing knife then raise the Soal at the Toe then lay hold with a pair of Pincers and pull it quite out but beware you break not the Veins in the foot Proved CXXVIII For a Back swanckt in the Fillet of the Loin or for a Wrench in the Back-bone about the Navel place or for a strain in the Kidneys by being over-burthened in the Hinder-parts or over-strained in the Kidneys in Race-running IF you see any of these mischances to fall upon the Back or Hinder parts of your Beast then do thus and no otherwise for all those mischances above-written Take a hot Sheeps-skin fleaed of a Sheep newly kill'd apply it as hot as you can with the fleshy side from his Rump all over to the midst of his Back-bone if it will reach so far Let it lye on twenty four hours and at the end of that time lay another hot Sheeps-skin in the same manner to it if need require and you see the first will not do Let the grief be never so great two hot skins will do it with the help of the Drink next under written but if the hurt be not great the Sheeps-skin will do it alone It will make the Horse to sweat much it will draw out all the bruise and strengthen the back of the Horse exceedingly in a short time But if your Horse be so weak that he cannot stand nor go then take a Sack or two and Ropes and throw them over a Balk and hang him for nine or ten daies when you first hang him clap a hot Sheeps-skin to his Rump and Back for twenty four hours and at the end of the time lay another hot Sheeps-skin to and then no more In the time of this Cure give him this Drink if the strain be great If it be but small this Drink can do no hurt but a great deal of good Take Polygonatum commonly called Solomon's Seal you may have it at the Apothecaries but it is dear take ten roots of it that may weigh three ounces Polypodium of the Oak a quarter of a pound two handfuls of Wood-betony or for want thereof as much Garden-betony cut it small and if the roots be dry beat them to powder if they be green cut them thin then take a Gallon of strong Beer or somewhat more put it into a Kettle and put the other three things to it
with the end of your Cornet-horn This Drink at once giving will kill the Botts and take him off his faintness and much cleanse and purge him of tough gross humours in his body upon which the Worms do breed Culpepper saith that Box-tree leaves are excellent good to kill the Botts in Horses they are hot dry and binding you may put in a handful of them into this Drink and try conclusions Proved CLXV For a Fever in a Horse THe Signs are The Horse will fall suddenly sick and be very weak he will go heavy and sad as if he would tumble down and be gaunt in his belly fall from his meat and look weakly in his Eyes hang down his head and stand drooping when this sickness first takes him he will tremble and quake as if he had an Ague For this Disease take no blood from him by any means it is death if you do The Remedy is Take half an ounce of Diapente one ounce of Bay-berries half an ounce of Long-pepper beat all these together then take half an ounce of Diascordium and put all these into a pint and a half of strong Beer heat it lukewarm and give it to your Horse at any time of the day for this Disease is dangerous and will admit of no delayes clothe and litter him up very warm the Diascordium in the Drink will cause him to lye down and sleep after the Drink hath done working and the Horse done sweating then give him half a pint of Whitewine and two ounces of Hony mix them together and heat them luke-warm and give it him in the Stable and after you come to ayr him you may give it him abroad three or four hours after give him a Cordial made of three pints of stale Beer and a quarter of a pint of Hony and a quarter of a pound of Butter and a good piece of houshold bread boyl them a little together and give it him lukewarm and set him up for that night give him warm Water and Bran at night next morning fasting give him the Cordial again and at nine or ten a clock warm Water and Bran at two or three a clock Whitewine and Hony and at night warm Water and Bran and afterward now and then a Cordial and Whitewine and Hony and moderate ayring will soon bring him to his stomack when you see he is able to walk abroad ayr him once or twice a day it will do him much good These Cordials Wine and Hony and ayring of him will cause the Beast to amend apace After he comes to eat his meat pretty handsomly take some blood from his Spur-veins the Frets from him swetting will do him much good If he lye down and sleep it will bring him down to his senses and the Horse will mend much in twenty four hours If Diascordium do not make him take rest according to your mind then you may take as much Poppy-seeds as will lye upon a sixpence in two half Hornfuls of any Beer if you cannot get Poppy-seeds which some call Red-weed-seeds then buy White-poppy-water at the Apothecaries and give at each Nostril a spoonful and that will make him sleep heartily Proved CLXVI For a dry inward Mange THe Signs are these his Hair will come off by plats and sometimes it will come all off from head to tayl and there will be a dry Scurfie Mange as well where the hair comes off as where it stayes on it is an extream heat of the blood which causes the hair to scale off and causeth the dry Mange in his body If his body be dried up and wasted that the Horse be miserable lean and overcome with it then give him this one Drink and no more not else viz. One ounce of the flower of Brimstone two ounces of Rosin beaten small one ounce of Turmerick beaten small one ounce of Anniseeds beaten small put all these except the Brimstone into a quart of strong Beer heated lukewarm and give it him fasting put the Brimstone at the mouth of the Horn to put it down with the other things tye him up to the Rack for four or five hours then give him warm Water and Bran at night bursten Oats the next day after give him in his Provender two spoonfuls of Rosin beaten to powder at night the like the next day the like and then no more This is to cleanse and purge away the Mangy surfet that is in his body and causeth the outward Mange Also do thus two or three daies after his Drink scrape off all the Scabs and Scurf clean with the back of your Knife or some other thing for that purpose till the Blood and Water appear Then presently mix an equal proportion of Oyl of Turpentine and Beer together as will serve and shake them well together in a Glass Vial and anoint the Horse all over but once and it is an absolute Cure It will smart terribly tye him close for an hour till it have taken its course But if you be merrily disposed as soon as you have drest him all over with it bid the Fellow go home with him and set him up but believe it he will not hold him long for the Beast will run away with him and kick and wallow and rub in a most strange manner that one would think he were stark mad but it will have done smarting in half an hour It is a gallant Receipt If the Horse be not much pined and shrunk of his flesh do nothing but anoint him once outwardly and give him this Drink and the Oyl of Turpentine and Beer will kill the Mange of a Beast Dog Bullock or any thing with once dressing Proved CLXVII To stop bleeding at the Nose or in the Mouth where the Fleam or Knife hath cut a great Gash Or when you have cut the Vein in a Quitter-bone and it bleed that you know not how to stop it FOr any of these when nothing will stop it this following will First take a Chafing-dish of hot Coles and burn three or four Linnen Rags upon the Coles laying them one upon another and let the Horses Mouth be over the smoak all the while as the blood doth fall out of the Horses Nose and quench them so you must blow them up with your breath again till the Coles have burnt the Rags as black as a Cole which when you perceive take them as they are burnt black and bled upon by the Horse and put them up into each Nostril an hand high then hold up his Head and have in readiness three or four quarts of strong Beer and pour it down his Throat to wash down the smoak and clotted blood which lyes in his Throat If he snort the burnt Rags out have other burnt hot Rags in a readiness to put up his Nostrils And you must remember as well when you fume him as when you have stopt his Nostrils with burnt Rags to be often pouring down his throat cold Beer because the blood returning a contrary
ride him whether he halt or not so you ride him moderately then take an ounce of the Oyl of Swallows and rub it well in with your hand upon the Sinews of the bent of the Leg to retch and give liberty to them use of this Oyl every four or five daies and in four or five times dressing it will be a Cure After he come from work or riding at any time and his Legs be washt and dry then rub on this Oyl upon the bent of his Leg and upon the Sinews you need not heat it in now with a hot Iron but rub it well in with the palm of your hand and within a fortnights time the blood Spavin will not be seen and the swelling will be quite gone If you take a a BloodSpavin at the first coming out of a young Horse then do but fire it lightly and lay the former Charge to and in once dressing it will be a compleat Cure Proved CLXXIII For an old Cold. IF you see cause take blood from the Neck-vein otherwise not then instead of giving him Oats give him Wheat-bran boiled in water after this manner viz. Set a Kettle over the fire almost full of water and when it begins to boil put in your Bran and let it boil a full quarter of an hour then take it off and let it stand till it be almost cold and about four or five of the Clock in the Morning give it him as hot as he can eat it and for his Drink give him the same water and at Night give him Oats and White water to drink and let him be covered and littered up warm If it be in Summer let not the Stable be too hot for that will take a way his stomach and make him faint And when you give him his water at night alwaies give him as much of this powder as an Eggshel will hold amongst his Oats to which you must keep him eight daies together or longer if you shall see cause the boiled Bran is that which drieth up all his corrupt and gross humours which was the cause of his cold Now the Powder is this viz. Take of Cummin-seeds Fenygreek Sileris Montani otherwise called Sisilers Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each of these two ounces quick Brimstone six ounces make all these into fine powder and mix them all well together it must be given him in his Oats the quantity that was prescribed before but he must first be watered with White water and then presently let him be well rubbed all over and cloathed and littered vvarm and an hour bdfore you give him his Oats put into his Rack a little sweet Wheat-straw and let him eat thereof an hour or better and then and not before give him his Oats mixed with this powder which having eaten give him Hay at your pleasure and with doing thus his Cold will be gone in a short time and the sooner if you air him an hour before Sun-set and an hour after Sun-rising if the Sun shine mark that keep up his stomack with White-wine and Honey and the Cordials or with what else you think best of Proved Now if this cold bring with it a violent Cough as is often seen then use this Receipt following CLXXIV For a Cold with a violent Cough FIrst give him the Wheat-bran boiled together with the Powder with his Oats as is directed in the fore-going Receipt but not above three or four daies or till you see he hath purged sufficiently for that the said Powder dispersed the corrupt and gross humours that are in his body which do occasion the Cough and when you perceive that he hath purged sufficiently keep him notwithstanding to his white-White-water which is no other thing than water made hot in a Kettle and then put in some Wheat-bran or Barley-meal let him eat the Bran as hot as he will and drink the Water a little warm But alwaies an hour before you water him take a stick a little bigger than your thumb of well nigh a foot long and wrap a Linneu cloth about it four or five times first dipped in oyl of Bayes and put into his mouth and with some Leather-thong or piece of small Cord fasten it to either end of the stick and so fasten it over his Ears like the head-stall of a Bridle like as Smiths do when they burn a Horse for a Lampra's Let him drink with this stick thus in his Mouth and so stand with it an hour after at the least that he may lick and suck up the said oyl and after the three or four daies are expired and that you see he hath purged sufficiently which is a little before mentioned then when you give him the Oats give him amongst them this other Powder following viz. Fennel-seeds four ounces Fenygreek two ounces and Cardimum one ounce beat them but grossly or else he will blow them away when he eats his Oats put one spoonful into his Oats and keep him warm and use him as is prescribed in the foregoing Receipt and you will find it to do him much good Proved CLXXV A rare Receipt to cause an Horse to vomit TAke two of the greatest Roots of Polypodium as you can get from the Oak wash and scrape them very clean and tie it to his Snaffle or Bit then let it be steeped in oyl of Spike a whole Night and in the Morning fasting put on his Bridle with the Roots tied to his Bit and ride him softly and fairly an hour or better with it in his mouth and if he be troubled with any Rheumatick or Flegmatick humour or with any cold or filthy matter which may any way pester clog or annoy his stomach this very thing will force him to vent and vomit it up at his mouth or nose and it will cause him to cough and sneeze much that you shall see him to send forth a great abundance of filth and evil slimy matter from his stomach and head and in a short time he will become very clean in his body for this will both refine his blood and exhaust all the watrish humours in such sort as by temperate ordering of him and doing as heretofore is prescribed you may keep him a long time sound perfect and serviceable and this you may give to an Horse newly taken from Grass or to any other Horse that hath taken a Cold or to any other filthy foul foggy or pursy Horse whatsoever And this upon trial upon all occasions before mentioned you shall find to be most admirable this being done I conceive it to be very good to give them Whitewine and Hony and the Cordial formerly set down Proved CLXXVI For a Curb THis Curb alwaies groweth upon the back-part of the heel of the knee of the hinder Leg in a hard substance I shall give no more signs for it is easie to be seen The remedy is this first tie up the contrary Leg as you do for a blood-Spavin then with an hot Iron fear it length-waies down
Take five or six Eggs and lay them in sharp White-wine Vinegar till the shells be somewhat soft then take his tongue in your hand and put them down his throat one after another give them fasting and let him neither eat nor drink of five or six hours after ride him a mile or two after you have given it him give him warm water to drink for once and keep him warm This will Cure him forthwith Proved CLXXXVII A suppository to supple the Guts to dissolve and send forth all dry and hot Excrements FIrst Rake him then take a great Candle of four in the pound and cut off three Inches at the smaller end then anoint the other part being the bigger end with Sallet oyl or fresh Butter and soput it up into his fundament then hold his Tail to his Tewel half an hour or tye it close to his Tewel with a strap of Leather and fasten it to his Sussingle and in half an hours time it will be dissolved then let loose his Tail and leap his back and trot him up and down till he do begin to empty and purge himself for by this means it will work the more kindly this is the most gentle of all suppositories Proved CLXXXVIII Another Suppository to be given that you dare not without peril of his life give him any thing else inwardly Then give him this TAke of common Honey six ounces of Salt-nitre one ounce and a half of Wheat-flowr and of Anniseeds in fine powder of each one ounce boyl all these together to a stiff thickness and so make it into Suppositories anoint these as you did the former and your hand also and so put it up into his Fundament the length of your hand then tye his Tail between his Legs for half an hour in which time the Suppository will be dissolved then ride him and order him as before This is very good especially in case of Surfeits or inward Sickness rake him first and keep him warm Proved CLXXXIX A Suppository to purge Flegm TAke a piece of Castle-soap pare it and bring it into the fashion of a Suppository put it into his Fundament and order him as before Proved CXC A Suppository to purge Choler TAke Savin as much as will suffice and stamp it to Mash and stamp with it Stavesacre and Salt of each two ounces boyl them in common Honey as much as will suffice to make it thick and so make it up into Suppositories and Administer one of them like as you are before shewn and order him accordingly CXCI. A Suppository to purge Melancholy TAke a Red Onion and pill it and jagg it cross-waies with your Knife and so administer it and order him as before CXCII Another Suppository TAke a pint of common Honey and boyl it till it be thick and make it up into Suppositories as it cooleth and administer it as before and order him also in the like manner This Suppository purgeth evil humours it cooleth and comforteth the body very much and causeth a good appetite to meat Proved CXCIII Directions for Suppositories FIrst observe this When at any time you do administer either Potions Glisters or Suppositories you must do it in a Morning fasting Except necessity urge the contrary Secondly you must not at those times suffer him to drink cold water no not with exercise but either sweet Mashes or White water Thirdly it is very needful before you administer any of these that you Rake him and be sure you keep him warm A Suppository is but a preparative for a Glister or Purge to make that way that they may purge the better CXCIV To kill Worms TAke Bears-foot and Savin Lavender Cotton the flower of Brimstone give it him in sweet wort it will kill the Worms and turn them into slime Ask for the powder of Caroline at the Apothecaries it is as admirable a thing to kill Worms as can be you may give three or four penny-worth at a time in a pint and a half of sweet Wort. It is a very safe thing Proved CXCV. To purge by Grass in Summer IF your Horse be surfeited or hath been over laboured the Winter before then turn him out when the Grass is in the best heart Now that Grass that will purge most and best is a new mowen Meadow for that will rake his Guts very well nor will he in such a place gather flesh therefore let him go there not above fourteen or eighteen days and then put him into some other Pasture where the Grass hath not been touched with a Syth and there he will belly well and in a short time recover much flesh and be very fat and lusty This purging will scowr him bravely and send away all ill humours and surfeits and ease his Limbs marvellously well and do his legs and feet much good and refine his corrupt bloud and make him nimble and full of spirit Also to mowe green Rye before it be eared is most wholesom for it scowreth cleanseth and cooleth the body very much so do the leaves of Sallow and the leaves of the Elm-tree CXCVI. A Glister for a Sick surfeited Diseased Horse IF your Horse be newly taken from Grass and that you hold it needful his body should be cleansed from bad humours which either his Grass or former Surfeits might bring First Rake him and then give him this Glister following viz. Take Mallows three handfuls Marsh Mallow Roots cleansed and bruised two handfuls Violet leaves two handfuls Flax-seed three spoonfuls and as many of the Cloves of white Lilly Roots as you may easily hold in your hand boyl all these in fair water from a Gallon to a Wine quart then strain it and put thereto one ounce of Sena which must be infused or steeped in the Liquor three hours standing upon the hot Embers then put thereto half a pint of Sallet oyl and then administer it Glister-wise blood-warm and cause him to keep it half an hour or longer if you can and the best time to give this Glister is 3 or 4 dayes before the full or change of the Moon but if occasion be you may give it any other time this Glister is to be given to a foggy fat Horse which otherwise cannot be kept clean It purgeth the Guts abundantly and it is cheifly to be given an Horse that is newly taken from Grass And the next day after you have given him this Glister give him this drink following CXCVII A Purge TAke the strongest Ale-wort one quart of Honey a quarter of a pint of London Treacle two ounces mix and brew them all together and give it him blood-warm then keep him upon the bit six hours after warm clothed and well littered and give him a sweet Mash and White water and Rack him with sweet Wheat-straw Oats and Bran this both purgeth and comforteth two or three dayes after give him this Drink following CXCVIII. Another Purge TAke a pint of White-wine and put into it one ounce of Sena and let it steep
all night next morning betimes strain it and put into it one ounce of the best Aloes made into fine powder half an ounce of Agarick and a spoonful of powder of Liquorish mix and brew them altogether and so give it to your Horse blood-warm and ride him gently a quarter of an hour after it and so set him up warm well clothed and littered and let no cold ayr come to him nor let him eat nor drink of six hours after and at night give him a sweet Mash or White water and let his Rack-meat be sweet Wheat-straw Oats and Bran the next day let him blood and prick him in the third Furrow of his Mouth and if his blood be bad take two quarts from him but if good scarce a quart keep him warm and give him sweet Mashes or White water and put into his Drink either the powder of Brimstone or of Fenygreek or Turmerick or of Elecampana one or more together according as he will be brought to like and take them which being well mixed put thereof into his Drink a spoonful at a time And this is very good to cool the blood purge Choler and other peccant humours and to purifie and refine the Blood And this is not only good for Horses newly taken from Grass but for other sick surfeited diseased Horses CXCIX Another Purge TAke one ounce and a quarter of Gentian slice it thin boil it in a quart of Beer till it come to a pint and give it him blood-warm It will make him very sick for a short time but you need not fear for it will do him much good let him fast after it five or six hours and then give him a Mash or White water and the next day give him this following Mingle Honey with his Oats and rub the Honey and Oats well together between your hands and continue thus doing till you see him quite cured which will be when he hath done running at the Nose This is one of the best Cordials I know for it disperfeth all Flegm and Choler it purgeth the head and Brain it purifieth the Blood it venteth evil Humours it causeth good Digestion and freeth an Horse from Glanders Colds Catarrhs Rheums running at the Nose and the like as you may see set down before which is the same with this this and the Purge before going you must give one after another And for the Honey and his Oats mixed together I conceive you may give them in other causes as when an Horse is troubled with cold Rheums running at the Nose Glanders Flegm or Choler or such like CC. Of Glisters and their use A Glister is given as a preparative to a purging Drink and a Glister by cleansing the Guts refresheth the Vital parts and prepareth the way before wherefore I advise every Farrier before he give a Drink whether purging or otherwise if the Horse be not at that time soluble in body that after Blood-letting the next day he give a Glister this done he may the better give what is requisite otherwise if he give the Drink before the Glister he may stir and provoke the evil humours which by reason of much costiveness and Wind and other impediments in his Guts do attempt to make their passage by a contrary way which cannot be done without great hazard to the life of the Beast I therefore advise if the beast be costive and bound in his body to give a Suppository or Glister First and after his Purging drink CCII. What a Decoction is A Decoction is a broth made of divers Herbs as Mallows Marsh-Mallows Pellitory Camomile and sometimes white Lilly roots and such like things which we do boyl in water to a third part and sometimes we use instead of herbs and water to take the fat of Beef-broth or the broth of a Sheep's head Milk Whey or sum such kind of Liquor CCII. What quantity òf Broth or Decoction is put in to make a Glister FOr the quantity we do administer according to the Age strength and greatness of the Horse for if he be of a strong and able body of large growth and stature fat and lusty in this case we put in three pints but if he be of a small growth weak sick feeble or lean in this case a quart is enough we use to put in half a pint of oyl of Salt two or three drams and sometimes we put in Verjuyce and sometimes Hony as we see cause Drugs we use as Sena Cassia Agarick Anniseeds oyl of Dill oyl of Camomile oyl of Violets Sugar-candy and such like CCIII For the quantity of Drugs put into a Glister FOr the quantity of Drugs you ought not to exceed the quantity of three ounces in one Glister at the most neither put in above four ounces of Butter and let it be but blood-warm when you administer it CCIV. What time is fit for an Horse to keep his Glister When you give it him let him be empty and before he do receive it Rake him After you have given it him let him keepe it half an hour it will do it the more good the longer he keep it the more good it will do him hold his Tail close to his Fundament all the while CCV The length of the Glister-pipe THe best Instrument wherein to give an Horse a Glister is a Pipe made of purpose which ought to be twelve inches in the Shank which must also be put home And when the Glister is put into his body then draw a way the pipe by degrees not all at once CCVI. A Glister for a Horse that is bound in his body and cannot dung TAke the fat of Beef-broth if he be Sick weak and lean a pint and a half is enough if he be big fat and lusty you may put in two or three pints put to it half a pint of English-hony and two drams of white Salt mix them well together and administer it Glister-wise blood-warm then clap his Tail close to his Tewel for half an hour or longer and if then it do not work as I am confident it will ride him up and down a gentle trot for half an hour more but not till he sweat then set him up warm clothed and littered and let him stand upon the Bit four or five hours in which time he will purge kindly then unbit him and give him sweet Hay and an hour after that give him White water and he may drink any cold water in a day or two after and this is the best cure for this Malady This Glister will open and loosen the body bring away all offensive humous remove all obstructions ingendred in the body by means of excessive heat it cleanseth the Guts and purgeth away all slimy substance And this you will find to be the best remedy for a Horse that is costive and bound in his body and that cannot dung This hath been often proved CCVI. For another Glister TAke two handfuls of Melilot two handfuls of Pellitory if you can get neither
the Horse Then closing up your windows and light that the Horse may remain so dark as is possible leave him til one of the clock And here you are to understand that the darker you keep your Horse in your absence the better it is and it will occasion him to feed lye down and take his rest where otherwise he would not And therefore we commonly use to arm the stals wherein those Horses stand round about and aloft and over the rack with strong Canvas both for darkness warmth and that no filth may come near the Horse At one a clock or thereabouts come to the Horse again and sift and dress him another quart of Oats as before shewed and give them him after you have rubbed well his face head and nape of the neck then putting away his dung and making the stable clean and sweet give him a little knob of hay and so leave him till four of the clock in the evening if it be in the Summer after three if it be in the Winter and short season At four a clock in the evening come again to the Stable and having made all things clean then bridle up the Horse having wet the snaffle with beer and tyed him up to the rack then take off his clothes and dress him in all points and every way as was shewed you in the morning After he is dressed then clothe and saddle him as was also shewed for the morning then bring him forth and do your best to make him piss and dung upon the foul Litter at the stable door then mount his back and ride him forth as you did in the morning but not to the hils if possible you can find any other plain and level ground as Meadow Pasture or any other earth especially if it lye along by the River But in this case you can be no chooser but must take the most convenient ground you can find to make a vertue of necessity There air your Horse in all points in the Evening as you did in the Morning galloping him both before and after his water then racking him gently up and down in your raking you must observe even from the Stable door in all your passages especially when you would have your Horse to empty himself to let him smell upon every old and new dung you meet with all for this will make him empty his body and repair his stomack After you have watered your Horse and spent the Evening in airing till within night for nothing is more wholsome or sooner consumeth foulness than early and late airings you shall then air him home to the Stable door there alight and whatsoever you did in the morning either within doors or without do the same also now at night and so leave the Horse on his bridle an hour or an hour and an half Then come to him again and as you did in the fore-noon sodo now rub well draw his bridle cleanse the manger put up his scattered hay sift him a quart and better of oats and give them him and so let him rest till nine of the clock at night At nine of the clock at night which is bedtime both for your Horse and your self come unto him and first rub down his legs hard with hard wisps then with a clean cloth rub his face head chaps nape of the neck and fore-parts Then turn up his clothes and rub over his fillets buttocks and hinder parts then put down his clothes and sift him a quart of Oats and give them him Then put into his Rack a little bundle of hay as hath been before shewed toss up his Litter and make his bed soft and so betake both him and your self to your rests till the next morning The next morning as the morning before come to the Horse before day or at the break according to the season of the year and do every thing without the omission of any one particular as hath been formerly declared And thus you shall keep your Horse constantly for the first fortnight in which by this double daily exercise you shall so harden his flesh and consume his foulness that the next fortnight if you be a temperate man you may adventure to give him gentle heats Now touching his heats you are to take to your self these four Considerations FIrst That two heats in the week is a sufficient proportion for any Horse of what condition or state of body soever Secondly That one heat should ever be given upon that day in the week on which he is to be run his match As thus for Example If your match is to be run upon the Munday then your fittest heating days are Mundayes and Fridayes and the Munday to be ever the sharper heat both because it is the day of his match and there is three days respite betwixt it and the other heat If the match-day be on the Tuesday then the heating days are Tuesdays and Saturdays If it be on Wednesday then the heating dayes are Wednesdayes and Saturdayes by reason of the Sabbath If on the Thursday then the heating dayes are Thursdayes and Mundayes and so of the rest Thirdly you shall give no heat except in case of extremity in very rainy and foul weather but rather to differ hours and change times for it is unwholesome and dangerous And therefore in case of showers and uncertain weather you shall be sure to provide for your Horse a warm lined hood with linnen ears and the nape of the neck lined to keep out rain for nothing is more dangerous than cold wet falling into the ears upon the nape of the neck and the fillets Fourthly and lastly Observe to give your heats the weather being seasonable as early in the morning as you can that is by the spring of the day but by no means in the dark for it is to the Horse unwholesome and unpleasant to the man a great testimony of folly and to both an act of danger and precipitation The second Fortnight's keeping NOw to descend to your second Fortnight's keeping touching your first approach to the Stable and all other by-respects as cleansing shaking up of Litter and the like you shall do all things as in the first fortnight Only before you put on his Bridle you shall give him a quart or better of clean sifted Oats which as soon as he hath eaten you shall then bridle him up and dress him in all points as was declared in the first fortnight you shall clothe him saddle him air water and bring him home in all points as in the first fortnight only you shall not put any Hay in his Rack to tear out but only draw with your hand as much fine sweet Hay which you shall toss and dust well as you can well gripe and let him as he standeth on the bridle tear it out of your hand which if he do greedily and earnestly then you may give him another and another and so let him stand on the bridle an hour
or more after Then come to him and after rubbing and other ceremonies before declared performed sift and dust up the quantity of a quart of Oats and set them by Then take a loaf of bread that is at least three dayes old made after this manner The first Bread TAke three pecks of clean Beans and one peck of fine Wheat and mix them together and grind it to pure meal Then searce and bolt through a reasonable fine range and knead it up with great store of barm and lightning but with as little water as may be labour it in the Trough with all painfulness tread it break it and after cover it warm and let it ly a pretty space in the Trough to swell then after knead it over again and mold it up into big Loaves and so bake them well and let them soak soundly after they are drawn from the Oven turn the bottoms upward and let them cool At three daies old you may adventure to give this bread but hardly sooner for nothing doth occasion surfeit or is more dangerous than new bread yet if necessity compel you that you must sooner give this bread or that the bread be danck and clammy so as the Horse taketh distaste thereat then cut the loaf into thin shives and lay it abroad in a Sieve to dry and then crumbling it small amongst his Oats you may give it without danger But to return to my purpose where I left when you have taken a loaf of this bread of three dayes old you shall chip it very well then cut it into thin shives and break three or four shives thereof which may countervail the quantity of the Oats very small and mix it with the Oats you had before sifted and so give them to the Horse About Eleven of the Clock you shall come to the Horse and having performed your by-Ceremonies before spoken of you shall give him the same quantity of bread and Oats as you did in the morning and so let him rest till the afternoon At one of the Clock in the afternoon or after if you intend not to give him an heat the next day you shall feed him with bread and Oats as you did in the forenoon and so consequently every meal following for that day observing every action and motion as hath been before declared But if you intend the next day to give him an heat to which I now bend mine aim you shall then only give him a quart of sweet Oats and as soon as they are eaten put on his bridle and tye up his head not forgetting all by-Ceremonies before declared Then dress him clothe him saddle him air and water him as before shewed also bring him home and order him as before shewed only give him no hay at all After he hath stood an hour on the bridle give him as before a quart of clean sifted Oats when he hath eaten them you shall then put on his head a sweet clean washt muzzle and so let him rest till nine of the Clock at Night Now touching the use of the Muzzle and which is the best you shall understand that as they are most useful being good and rightly made so they are dangerous and hurtful being abused or falsly made The true use of them 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 reciveth from your hand These muzzles are sometimes made of leather and stampt full of holes or else close but they are unsavoury and unwholesome for if it be allom'd Leather the allom is offensive if it be liquor'd the grease and ouze are full as unpleasant besides they are too close and too hot and both make a Horse sick cause him to forbear rest and retain his dung longer in his body then otherwise he would do The best Summer-muzzle is the Net-muzzle made of strong packthred and knit exceeding thick and with small mashes in the bottom and so enlarged wider and wider up to the middle of the Horses head and then bound about the top with strong tape upon the near side a loop and on the far side a long string of tape to be fastned unto the Horses head The best winter muzzle is that which is made of strong double Canvas with a round bottom and a square Lattis window of small tape before both his nostrils down to the very bottom of the Muzzle this must also have a loop and a string to fasten it about the Horses head At nine of the Clock at night coming to the Horse again after your by-Ceremonies before taught are performed give him a quart of clean sifted Oats and as soon as he hath eaten them put on his muzzle toss up his Litter and leave him to his rest The next day early in the morning before day come to the horse if he be standing on his feet but if he be laid by no no means disturb him Now whilst he is lying or if he be standing take a quart of clean Oats well sifted and rub between your hands and wash them in a little strong Ale or beer and let them not be too moist for fear of offence and so give them to the Horse As soon as he hath eaten them bridle him up and hang by his muzzle in some sweet place then unclothe him and dress him as hath been before shewed after put on his body-cloth and breast-cloth and Saddle him then being ready to go forth with him take his Bridle-rein and draw it over the top of the rack so as you may draw his head aloft Then take a new laid Egg washt clean and breaking it in his mouth make him to swallow it down then wash his tongue and mouth with a little beer and so lead him forth of the stable At the door see if he will piss or dung then take his back and rack him gently to the Course ever and anon making him smell upon other Horses dung whereby he may empty himself the better When you are come within a mile or thereabouts of the starting Post you shall alight from the Horses back and take of his Body-cloth and Breast-cloth and then girt on the Saddle again then sending away your Groom both with those clothes and the clean dry rubbing clothes let him stay at the last end of the race till you come Then your self rack your Horse gently up to the starting Post and beyond make your Horse smell to that Post as you shall also do at the first Post which we call the weighing Post that he may thereby take notice of the beginning and ending of his Course And 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 and above his wind and strength but when you find him a little yield
the Urine be of an high complexion clear and transparent like old March Beer then the Horse is inflamed in his body and hath taken some surfeit If the Urine carry a white cream on the top it shews a weak back and consumption of seed A green Urine shews a consumption of the body An Urine with bloody streaks shews an Ulcer in the Kidneys and a black thick cloudy Urine shews Death and Mortality Observations in Feeding AGain Our Keeper must observe that if there be any meat drink or other nourishment which he knoweth good for the Horse if the Horse refuseth to take it in this case he shall not violently thrust it upon the Horse or by force cram him therewith but by gentle degrees and coming enticements and by process of time win him thereunto rempting him when he is most hungry or most thirsty and if he get but a bit at a time or a sup at a time it will soon increase to a greatter quantity and ever let him have less then he desireth And that he may the sooner be brought to it mix the meat he loveth best with that he loveth worst the drink he loveth the best with that he loveth the worst till both be made like familiar and so shall the Horse be a stranger to nothing that is good or wholesome Observations in Case of Lameness AGain Our Keeper must observe ifhis Horse be subject to lameness or stiffness of joynts or sinews surbayting or tenderness of feet first to give him his heats upon soft and smooth carpet earth and to forbear stony ground hard high ways cross furrows till extremity compel him Observations from the state of the Horses Body IT is good for our Keeper to observe that the strongest estate of body which I account the highest and fullest of flesh so it be good hard and without inward foulness to be the best and ablest for the performance of Wagers yet he must herein take to himself two considerations the one the shape of the Horses body the other his inclination and manner of feeding For the shape of Horses bodies there be some Horses that be round plump and close knit together so that they will appear fat and well shaped when they are lean and in poverty others are raw-boned slender and loose knit together and will appear lean deformed and in poverty when they are fat foul and full of gross humors So likewise their inclinations some Horses as the first before named will feed outwardly and will carry a thick rib when they are inwardly as clean as may be and without all manner of foulness There be others as the latter that will appear clean to the eyes and shew nothing but skin and bone when they are full of inward fatness and have guts as full as may be In this case the Keeper hath two helps to advantage his knowledg the one outward the other inward The outward help is the outward handling and feeling of the Horses body generally over all his ribs but particularly upon his short and hindmost ribs if his flesh generally handle soft and loose and your fingers sink into it as into down then is the Horse foul without question But if generally it be hard and firm only upon the hindmost rib it handleth soft and downy then it is a pregnant sign there is grease and foul matter within the Horse which must be avoided how lean or poor soever he appear in outward speculation The inward help is only sharp exercise and strong scowrings the first will dissolve and melt the foulness the latter will bring it away in abundance If your Horse be fat and thick and as it were closed up between the chaps or if his jaws handle fleshy and full it is a sign of much foulness both in the head and body but if he handle thin clean and only with some lumps or small kernels within his chaps then it is only a sign of some cold or poze newly taken Observations from the Privy Parts IT is good for our Keeper to observe his Horses stones if if he be stoned for if they hang down side or long from his body then is the Horse out of lust and heart and is either sick of grease or other foul humors but if they be close couched up and lye hid in a very small room then is the Horse in health and good plight Observations from the Limbs IT is good for our Keeper to observe every night before he runs either match or heat to bathe his Horses legs well from above the Knees and above the Cambrels downwards with either Dogs-grease which is the best or Trotters oyl which is the second or the purest clarified Hogs grease that can be got which is most tolerable and to work it in with his hands and not with melting at the fire and what he gets not in the first night will be got in the next morning and what he gets not in the next morning will be got in when he comes to unclothe at the end of the Course so that you shall need to use Oyntment but once but the Fricass or Rubbing as often as you find opportunity Observations for the giving of Water OUR Keeper shall observe that albeit I give no directions for the watering of his Horse in the Evening after his heat yet he may in any of the three latter fortnights finding his Horse clean and his grease consumed or gone away somewhat late at night as about six of the Clock give his Horse water in reasonable quantity being made Milk-warm and fasting an hour after it Also if the weather be unseasonable then you shall at your watering hours water in the house with warm water putting a little quantity of hot water into a greater of cold and so make it Milk-warm if you throw a handful of Wheat-meal Bran or Oat-meal finely pounded but Oat-meal is the best Observations in the choice of Ground to Run on OUR Keeper shall observe that if the ground whereon he is to run his match be dangerous and apt for strains slips over-reaches and the like that then he is not togive all his heats thereon but having made his Horse acquainted with the nature thereof then either to take part of the course as a mile two or three according to the goodness of the ground and so to run his Horse forth and back a gain which we call turning heats Provided alwayes that he end his heat at the weighing Post and that he make not his course less but rather more in quantity than that he must run but if for some special occasions he like not part of the Course then he may many times but not ever give his heats upon any other good ground either forth-right and turning or round about any spacious and large field where the Horse may lay down his body and run at pleasure Observations from Sweating OUR Keeper shall take special regard in all his airing heating and all manner of Exercise
For swell'd or Gourded-Legs whether it be by reason of the Grease falling into them or other accident as Scratches Pains Mules c. IF your Horses Legs be swell'd only because the Grease is faln into them and that there is no other outward Ulcer neither will the bathing with cold water and other outward helps asswage it Then you shall take a piece of strong course woollen Cloths and thereof make him an Hose a pretty deal larger then his Leg to reach from the lower part of his pastern up to the Cambrel or to the Knee and make it close and straight at the pastern and wide above Then take a pottle of Wine Lees if you can get them or else the grounds or Lees of strong Ale or Beer and set them on the fire and boyl them well then put to them a pound of clarified Hogs-grease and when it is melted and stirred well together take as much Wheat-Bran as will thicken it and bring it to the bo dy of a Pultis with this Pultis as hot as the Horse can fuffer it only you must not scald fill the Hose or Hoses and then close the Hose at the top With this Pultis let the Horse stand two days then the third day open the Hose at the top but stir not the Pultis only take molten Hogs-grease hot as the Horse can suffer it and with a spoon pour it unto the Pultis on every side till it will receive no more for this will renew the strength of the Pultis Then close up the top of the Hose and so let the Horse stand other two dayes or three Then you may open the Leg and rub it down and if you find strong occasion you may apply another new Pultis if not your cure is wrought Now if besides the swelling of his Legs your Horse hath Ulcers or Chaps or Scratches Pains Mules or the like Then you shall first apply the former Pultis in all respects as aforesaid then after five or six dayes application when you take the Pultis away you shall take a quart of old Urine and put to it half a handful of Salt as much of Allom and half an ounce of white Copperas and boyl it till all be mixt and incorporated together then with this water very hot wash the sores once or twice a day and after a little drying anoint them with the oyntment called Aegyptiacum and is made of Vinegar eight ounces of Honey twelve ounces of Verdigrease two ounces of Allom one ounce and an half boyl it to that height till it come to a red Salve and it will both kill the malignant humors and also heal and dry up the sores Another approved Cure for the Scratches or any Disease of that nature TAke of Hogs-grease eight ounces of Brimstone of Lime of Gunpowder of each three ounces of black Soap eight ounces and of Soot as much as will suffice to bring the rest to a Salve boyl the Hogs-grease and Soap together and bring the other hard simples to a fine powder and so mix all together and make a black ointment with this anoint the sores once a day after they are cleansed and made raw For any Splint Spaven Ringbone Curb or any other hard Knot or Excression FIrst having taken view of the Excression clip away the hair as far as the excression goeth and a little thought more then take a piece of Allom'd Leather made as big just as the place you have bared and fit it to the same proportion Then take a little Shoo-makers Wax and spread it round about the very edge or verge of the same leaving all the inward or middle part empty and not touched with the Wax according to this Figure O. Then take of the herb called Sparagus which hath the virtue to raise Blisters and bruising it in a Mortar lay some thereof on the Leather in the void and empty place which ought to contain the just quantity of the Knot or Excression and bind it fast thereon suffering it so to lye if it be in the Spring or Summer time when the Sparagus hath its full strength and virtue two or three hour â—But if it be in the Winter then it hath less virtue Then it is not amiss to revive the strength of the Herb if you add to it a drop or two of Origanum and let it lye a day and and be sure to tye up the Horses head for two hours for fear of biting it away When you have taken off the Plaister anoint the place with Train-oyl warm and you shall find no Excression An approved Cure for the Swift Cut or any hewing on the Legs whatsoever TAke a pint of White-wine and put to it two or three spoonfulls of Hony and stir them well together then boyl them till they be well incorporated together and brought to the body of an ointment Then take it from the fire and put in as much Turpentine as there was Hony before and stir all well together Then strain it with this Salve somewhat hot bath the Sores twice a day and it is a most specdy healer For any Farcy Mangy Scab or Leprosie whether in the Mane or otherwise FIrst let Blood then take a quart of old Urine or Vinegar and break into it a quarter of a pound or better of the best Tobacco then set it on the fire of Embers where it may simper and not boil and so let it stew a whole night then strain it and with this water wash the infected place whether it be in the Mane or any other obscure place and it is a certain Remedy For any Founder Frettize Surbait or any imperfection in the Feet FIrst pare thin open the heels wide and take good store of blood from the Toes then tack on a Shooe somewhat hollow after take of the best Frankincense and rowling it in a little fine Cotton-wool or Bombast with an hot iron melt it into the Foot betwixt the Shooe and the Toe till the Orifice where the blood was taken be filled up Then take half a pound of Hogs-grease and melt it on the fire then mix it with Wheat bran till it be as thick as a Pultis Then boyling hot as is possible stop up the Horses foot therewith then cover it with a piece of an old Shooe and splent it up and so let the Horse stand for three or four days then if occasion serves you may renew it otherwise the cure it wrought To make Hoofs grow quickly and to be tough and strong TAke of the Juyce of Garlick seven ounces of old Hogs-grease two pound of Asses dung for want of it Cows dung an handfull mingle them and boyl them all well together then with this both stop the Horses foot and anoint the Crownets of the Hoofs and the effect is great A general Salve for any Sore or Swelling TAke Turpentine Black-Soap Hogs-grease Green Treat and Pitch of each a little quantity mix and boyl them all well together and apply
it warm to the grief For a Pearl Pin and Web or any Film on an Horses Eye TAke a new laid Egg and roast it very hard then cleave it in-sunder long-wise and take out the yolk then fill the empty holes with white Vitriol finely beaten and close the Egg again Then roast it the second time till the Vitriol be molten Lastly beat the Egg-shell and all in a dish and strain it and with the moisture that comes from it dress the Eye This is approved For Grease fallen into the Legs to help them at twice dressing and to help the Scratches TAke of Train-Oyl of Nerve-Oyl of Oyl de Boy of each half a pint and the bigness of an Egg in Allom boyl them all well together then having cleansed the Sores and opened the Pultis if there be any with this salve anoint the Griefs and it is a speedy Cure For the Glanders an approved Cure TAke a quarter of a pint of Verjuice three spoonfuls of Sallet-Oyl and two spoonfuls of Aqua-vitae put one half into one Nostril the other into the other Nostril being blood-warm then ride the Horse somewhat speedily for twenty or forty score and only spare him when he coughs then set him up warm and at Noon give him a warm Mash Lastly if you find him to grow sick give him warm Milk from the Cow To stay the Glanders for a time till you may make sale of your Horse TAke a pound of Elder-bark being the green and not the gray beat it in a Mortar and strain it then put that juyce to a quart of Ale and so give it to the Horse do this for three mornings together An approved Cure for the Pains Mules Rats-tails and the like TAke green Vitriol half a pound and boyl it in a pottle of running Water with Allom Mustard Sage and Hysop of each an handful Now the night before you apply this anoint all the Sores with strong Mustard after they are made raw then the next day wash them with the Water before shewed and the Cure is certain To help an Horse that galls between the Legs either through heat or evil dressing TAke a raw Egg and crush it between the Horses Legs and rub the gall well therewith after the Sores are made dry For Enterfairing to help it or hide it for a small time FAsten a new Cord to his Dock and having made divers hard knots thereon draw it between his Legs and fasten it to his Girths or otherwise rub great store of Starch between his Thighs The best Receipt that can be for brittle Hoofs TAke Dogs-grease a pound and clarifie it up with Rosemary then mixing it with half so much Cow-dung boyl it and hot or cold stop the Horses foot therewith To cure the Scratches TAke a penny worth of Verdigrease a penny-worth of Red-lead the like quantity of Sope mix these together and apply them plaister-wise letting it lye three days and three nights You must cut the hair close For the Farcy TAke about one handfull of Rew and about ten cloves of Garlick and pound them together then take one penny worth of Aqua-vitae and strain them through a Cloth then take a little black Wool to drink up that moysture and put into each Ear half the Wool then sew up the Ears together then cut the fore head of the Horse and put into the hole the inner rind of an Elder about an inch long or something more keep him from wet falling into his Ears the first day and night Approved by Mr. Holled For to cure the Cankers in a Horses mouth TAke half a pint of the best White-wine Vinegar and half a pound of the best Roch-Allom and an handfull of red Sage and boyl them all together and so wash the Hories mouth and tongue Approved W. B An approved Cure for the Pains Mules Rats-tails and the like TAke green Vitriol half a pound and boyl it in a pottle of running Water with Allom Mustard Sage and Hysop of each an handful Now the night before you apply this anoint all the Sores with strong Mustard after they are made raw then the next day wash them with the Water before shewed and the Cure is certain To help an Horse that galls between the Legs either through heat or evil dressing TAke a raw Egg and crush it between the Horses Legs and rub the gall well therewith after the Sores are made dry For Enterfairing to help it or hide it for a small time FAsten a new Cord to his Dock and having made divers hard knots thereon draw it between his Legs and fasten it to his Girths or otherwise rub great store of Starch between his Thighs The best Receipt that can be for brittle Hoofs TAke Dogs-grease a pound and clarifie it up with Rosemary then mixing it with half so much Cow-dung boyl it and hot or cold stop the Horses foot therewith To cure the Scratches TAke a penny worth of Verdigrease a penny-worth of Red-lead the like quantity of Sope mix these together and apply them plaister-wise letting it lye three days and three nights You must cut the hair close For the Farcy TAke about one handfull of Rew and about ten cloves of Garlick and pound them together then take one penny worth of Aqua-vitae and strain them through a Cloth then take a little black Wool to drink up that moysture and puta into each Ear half the Wool then sew up the Ears together then cut the fore head of the Horse and put into the hole the inner rind of an Elder about an inch long or something more keep him from wet falling into his Ears the first day and night Approved by Mr. Holled For to cure the Cankers in a Horses mouth TAke half a pint of the best White-wine Vinegar and half a pound of the best Roch-Allom and an handfull of red Sage and boyl them all together and so wash the Hories mouth and tongue Approved W. B. For to cure the Scratches TAke Sope and Salt and mix them together in your hand and keep his Feet dry and tye a linnen Cloth about them and it will cure them Approved at Stanton For a Horse that hath a Cold. TAke new Butter unwashed and without Salt and mix with it brown Sugar-Candy Anniseeds and Liquorish but if the Horse rattle in his head put in two cloves of Garlick made in balls do this three mornings together Approved W. B. For a Beast that staleth Blood TAke one quart of strong Ale and a red Her ring cut into small pieces and let it lye a steeping in the Ale then give the Beast it with a Horn and it will stay the in-bleeding of the Beast Robinson For the Botts TAke Salt and Water and give the Horse it in a Horn. Approved Tho. Emson For a Horse that hath got an Over-reach or a Tread of the Heel FIrst search itwell to the bottom and take out all the Gravel and wash it with Stale then take a good handfull of Nettles and
a good handfull of Salt put them in a cloth and bind them to the sore do this two or three mornings together then set the shooe on with a leather under it then pour in some Hogs-grease scalding hot after that pour in Rosin scalding hot presently after which put in some Wheat-bran Approved Pepper For a Horse that hath got a stroke or a bite of the Eye TAke a little Honey with a little grated Ginger mix them together and put it into the Horses eye with a feather do this three mornings together Approved by me W. B. For the Scratches TAke Verdigrease and burnt Allom mix them together and so apply it keeping the Horse dry Approved W. B. For the swelling of a Horses Back TAke Flax or Flax Teare with the whites of Eggs and Wheat-flower beat them all together it will take the swelling down Approved Tho. Emson For a strain HOgs-grease is very good for a Sinew-strain or any other part of the Horse Approved by me W. B. For a Horse that is mangy TAke a gallon of strong Ale and a pound of Tobacco-stalks half a pound of Allom a pint of Salt one pennyworth of Mercury boyl these all together until they be half boyled away the day before let the Horse blood and Curry him with a Comb when the Horse is drest wash the Manger with scalding Water and smoak the Saddle with Allom or Brimstone burnt Hay or Straw Approved Mr. Willes For the Spleen MAke a Plaister of Oxycrocium and spread it upon sheeps leather lay it to the pain and let it lye till it come off of it self Mr. Holden A Glister to expel the Wind. TAke Fennelseeds and Anniseeds two spoonfuls of each and bruise them a little Camamile flowers Rosemary flowers Pellitory of the Wall Peneroyal and Camamile of each of these half a handfull Mr. Holden A Glister for the Wind-Colick TAke a quart of thin Posset-drink Peneroyal Pellitory of the Wall of each an handful Mallows and Plantin of each half an handful and Cummin-seeds and Sasafrage-seeds of each one spoonful bruised Camamile flowers one spoonfull boyl them down to half the Posset-ale take half a pint thereof dissolve therein half an ounce of the Electuary called Electuarium de baccis lauri Medcalf For the Wind Colick BOylone spoonfull of Cumminseeds with a few Camamile flowers in Posset-drink good to drink for the Wind for one that is Costive in his Body Medcalf How to order feed and keep any Horse for Pleasure Hunting or Travel I Would have your Keeper of these ordinary Horses to rise early in the morning by the spring of day or before according to the season of the year and to sift the Horse the quantity of near three pints of good old dry Oats and to put to them an handfull or two of spelted Beans Hulls and all and so give them to the Horse After he hath eaten them let him dress him according to the order of good Horsemanship First curry with the Comb then dust then curry with the Brush then dust then rub with wet Hands after with a clean Woollen cloth after with a clean Linnen cloth then pick all obscure places Lastly comb down the Main and Tail Then saddle him and ride him forth to water then warm him both before and after very moderately so bring him home dry without sweat Then cloth him up after you have rubbed his head body and legs and let him stand on his Bridle more then an hour then give him the former quantity of Provender and the same in kind After he hath eaten his Provender give him into his Rack a pretty bundle of Hay and so let him rest till after dinner When you have din'd give him the former quantity of Provender and the same in kind and so let him rest till the evening only renew his Hay if there be occasion At evening dress him well as in the morning then ride him forth to water and do as you did in the morning When you come home and have clothed him up let him stand on his Bridle as before then give him the former quantity of Provender and so let him rest till nine of the Clock at night at which time give him the former quantity of Provender and a pretty bundle of Hay and so let him rest till the morning This you shall do concerning his Ordinary keeping at home where the Horse hath rest and that you may dispose of hours as you please but if you be either in Travel or Sport or other occasion so that you cannot observe these particular times then you must divide the main and whole quantity of Meat into fewer parts and greater quantities and give them at the best conveniency ever observing to give the least quantity before Travel as a 3 part before Mounture and the two other after you come to rest Nor would I have you to distract your mind with any doubt or amazement because I prescribe you five several times of Feeding in one day as if it should either over-charge you or over-feed your Horse Questionless there is no such matter when you look into the true proportion for it cannot be denied but whosoever is worthy of a good Horse or good Means to keep a good Horse cannot allow him less than one Peck a day nay the Carrier Caerter Poulter and Packhorse will allow half a peck at a Watering and this allowance which I set down comes to no more for 15 pints of Oats and one pinte of Spelt-Beans up-heaped make two gallons and that is one peck of Winchester measure Now to give it at twice fills the stomack more makes the digestion worse and the appetite weak whereas to give less but more often the stomack is ever craving the digestion always ready and the appetite never wanting so that health without disorder can never be a stranger Therefore once again thus much for ordinary keeping But if you intend to give an Heat as to Hunt Gallop Travel or the like which I would wish you do once twice or thrice a week Then observe all your former observations only the night before give him little or no Hay at all In the morning early before his Heat and before his dressing give him three or four handfulls of clean sifted Oats washt either in strong Ale or Beer Then dress him Saddle him and give him his Heat But if it be sudden and violent then let it be when the Horse hath emptied himself very well After his heat Rub him very well and bring him dry into the Stable Then after he is Clothed up warm let him stand on his Bridle at least two hours then give him a little bundle of Hay to tear out upon his bridle and an hour after feed him as hath been before shewed Only with the first Oats give him an handful or better of Hempseed well dusted and mixed At night warm him a little water and give him it luke-warm then an hour after give him his Provender and
a pretty bundle of Hay and so let him rest till the next Morning The next Norning do all things as in his Ordinary keeping Let him stand on Litter both night and day yet change it often and keep the Planches clean If you intend to Travel or Journy in the Morning then give no Hay or but little the Night before If you Journy in the Afternoon then give no Hay or but little in the Morning In Journeying ride moderately the first hour or two but after according to your occasions Water before you come to your Inn if possible but if you cannot then give warm water in the Inn after the Horse is fully cooled Trotters Oyl is an excellent Oyntment being applied very warm and well chafed in to keep your Horses limbs and sinews nimble and to help stiffness and lameness Neither wash your Horse nor walk him for the first endangereth foundering in the body or feet and breedeth all surfeits the latter is the ground of all strong colds which turn to Glanders and Rottenness but if necessity compel you to either as foul wayes and long stays then rather wash your Horses legs with pails of Water at your Stable-door than to endanger him in any Pond or River And for Walking rather sit on your Horses back to keep his spirits stirring than to lead him in hand and with dull spirits to receive all manner of mischief This I think sufficient for clean and Ordinary keeping An Order how to breed Horses The choice of your Stallion and Studd Mares FIrst and principally you must foresee that your Stallion and Studd Mares be both of good and lively nature and not subject to any natural diseases For as heavy Horses and Mares will breed Colts of roilish and heavy nature so if they be infected with any natural disease their Colts for the most part shall be troubled with the same disease Wild Mares be not best to keep for the Race IT shall be well done that you handle all your Studd Mares and make them tame and easie whereby besides the commodity you may have of their work which cannot hurt their taming if they be soberly handled you may be sure at all times to remove them from one Pasture to another to bring them to be covered and to take their Colts from them without great trouble whereas wild Mares be not only cumbersome to keep but also oftentimes do destroy the Colts in their bellies with their rashness when you should handle them or any of their fellows At what age your Mare is first to be handled and covered THe best age to take up your Mare to make her tame and to break her is when she shall be two years old and the vantage and so you may the year following when she shall be fully three years old and upward put her to your Horse to be covered which in my opinion is the best age to put her first to the Horse although some Writers be of opinion that it is best that she be first covered at two years old How to inforce your Mares to come to be strained YOu may most conveniently bring her to be covered of your Stallion if four or five days before you will bring her to your great Horse you cause to be put to her in some close Pasture kept and fenced for that purpose some small stoned Nag to woo her that she may abide your great Horse foreseeing that he be in no wise unfettered longer than some diligent man doth look on for if the Nag be at liberty at any time after she is disposed to take the Horse she will be sure to be covered of him though he be lower than she by a cubit The Order of covering WHen you do perceive that your Mare will abide the Nag and doth shew other tokens that she is desirous to be covered you must cause your great Horse that shall cover her to be provendred and not to drink much the night before he shall cover her Then in the morning following at the Sun-rising you may bring him to your Mare or her to him in some such place as neither of them can leap out of where when he hath covered her twice or thrice let her remain feeding on Grass with her Colt kept by her without water but let your Horse be taken up well rubbed and well provendred to the next evening And then put him to your Mare again where you left her and let him cover her as often as he will that night except you see your Horse chafe so much that he will marr himself How to use your Mare which is covered ANd so must you of force be driven to take him from her the second time till the morning following at which time except your Mare be satisfied with that which was done before you must put to your Horse the third time and when he hath covered her as often as he will between four of the clock in the morning and eight of the clock before noon take up your Horse and let your Mare be led into some water to the mid-side at least where she may drink water but not too much and then let her be led and turned to the whole stud where no other Horses must come for a whole Month at the least to beat her How to make that no mare shall go barren ANd when you have thus severally caused to be covered all your Mares you must about Lammas in the Month of July or beginning of August get a Mare or two which have not been covered that year before and enforcing them to he horsed by such means as before appointed when they shall be ready to be covered you must turn them with some other Stallion whom you esteem not as your best Horse among your stud of Mares and so he covering that Mare or Mares you turned in with him unto the stud shall cause the rest if any of them have not conceived at their first covering to come to that Horse againe whereby you shall be sure to keep no Mare barren all the year but to have of every Mare a Colt though not by your best Horse you may suffer that Horse to run amongst your Mares three weeks or a month But if you turn him into your stud putting no Mare in with him ready to be covered he will at his first entry beat all your Mares and so happily hurt all your Mares which had conceived before and so do more hurt than good What time of the year is best for your Mares to be covered The best time of the year to have your Mare covered is from the end of May to the end of July and then shall your Mare which always goes with Foal one year lacking a month Foal in such time of the year as she shall find plenty of grass to nourish her self and her Colt withal whereas if you suffer her to be covered in February March or April she will foal so rathe in the year that
lay your green Oyntment to This water and green Oyntment will heal any wound old or new if you observe and do as I have directed if there be any proud flesh in any sore be the sore in what place it will scald it with Butter and Salt and it will eat it off and help to heal it presently Proved XLIV To make a Horse piss that is troubled with the Wind-Colick or Obstruction in the Bladder TAke a quarter of a pound of Castle Sope and scrape it small then put to it two ounces of Dialthaea which you shall have at the Apothecaries bray them well together in a Mortar and then make them up in Balls about the bigness of a Barbers wash-ball and keep them for your use they will last a year one Ball crumbled into a pint and a half of strong Beer heat scalding hot will dissolve the Ball then let it stand till it be but luke warm and give it the Beast with a horn with this he will empty beyond expectation as long as any thing is in him Let him fast an hour after he takes it Proved XLV To cure a Poll Evil which grows upon the top of the Head YOu may know it when it begins to breed by its growing bigger than ordinary upon the top of the head if it be pretty big take a hot Iron and sear it round about the Poll Evil till the skin look yellow as this Figure doth shew you Then take another red hot Iron made of this fashion and make so many holes vvith this Iron as the Cross vvill give you leave and no further make all these holes with the point of this last Iron vvithin the compass of the seared place as you may see the pricks in the Figure so many pricks so many holes the bigger it is you may make the more the lesser the fewer these holes being thus made take a piece of yellow Arsenick as big as a wheat-kernel and put it into one hole and so do the like to every hole then at the same time lay on every hole over the Arsenick a piece of black Sope to stop the Arsenick in after all these beat some Arsenick fine to povvder and mix as much of the Powder vvith black Sope as contains to half a vvall-nut to anoint the place vvhere first the Iron seared it round but no where else and within three weeks it vvill be ready to come out all that is vvithin the compass of the round Ring the Arsenick vvill eat to the bottom if you see it hang but by a little at the bottom then you may adventure to cutit out otherwise let it alone three or four days longer and then cut it out close at the bottom After you have cut it clean out then wash it with the water that is good to cure any old Ulcer or green Wound and if you see or find with your Instrument that there is any hole at the bottom or suspect that there is any dead flesh there squirt the water aforesaid with a Syringe or Squirt to the bottom till all the dead flesh be eaten out this water will do it quickly which when you see anoint it with Sallet Oyl upon a Feathers end once a day till it be quite whole if the hole go forwards to his ears let him stand in at dry meat if the hole go backward let him run abroad at grass because be holding down his head the filthy matter cannot spread further but must come back to the main Wound this Observation will much further the Cure Again if this disease happen in Winter when no flyes are stirring anoint it and heal it with Sallet Oyl if this disease happen in Summer when the flyes are busie anoint it then with Train Oyl which you shall have at the Curriers if this disease of a Poll-Evil or a Fistula chance to be over-grown with Bags or Bunnies of proud flesh while you are healing of it then do nothing but scald it with Butter and Salt and it will soon remedy that XLVII For a Fistula THe mark of the Fistula is after this manner the Fistula always hangs on either side the top of the Cress as you may see by this Figure The same way and the same means will cure this as you used to the Poll-Evil with the Instrument with a cross you must make so many holes as you see pricks within the Figure and you must do in every thing as you did in the last Mark you must make three holes upon the top of the Wollis which is the top of the Neck or Cress which is in the midst of the Fistula and you must make two holes on either side Proved XLVII For the Plague Pestilence Garget or Murrain in Horse or Beast only YOu must not let blood in this Disease you shall know it by these signs He will hang down his head and will gum thick Atter at the Eyes as big as your fingers end and much and will go weakly staggering and his Head will oftentimes swell very big and will fall away of his flesh suddenly and yet feed very well the Cure is thus Take as much Diapente as a Hasel-nut as much Dialphera as much London Treacle as much Mithridate as much Saffron a handful of Wormwood an handful of red Sage Rhubarb as much as an Hasel-nut two Cloves of Garlick boyl all these together in two pints of good Beer till it come to a pint and a half then give it him luke-warm fasting and keep him very warm and the next thing you give him must be a Mash made of ground Malt let him drink warm water for a Week and sometimes bursten Oats now and then a little clean sweet Hay it is his sweating that does the Cure If one Drink will do no good give him another three daies after to make all sure it will not make him much sick Half of the proportions of this drink will do wondrous well for a Cow if she have the like disease Not tryed but very probable XLVIII For a Horse or Cow that is poysoned by licking of Venome or is over-gorged with Clover-grass or Turnips by greedy feeding EIther Horse or Cow will swell and slaver very much and will be so extreamly full as if they were ready to burst and the skin to crack if they drink soon after it so much the worse but if he be but alive when you give him this it will cure him in a quarter of an hour for it will work as soon as it is in his body For the cure Take a quarter of a pound of Castle-sope and scrape it thin and put to it two ounces of Dialphera which you shall have at the Apothecaries bray them in a Mortar small together and make them up in Balls as big as a Barbers Wash-ball and lay them by till you have occasion to use them one Ball is enough for one Beast to cure this Disease you must dissolve the Ball in a pint and a half of Strong
beer scalding hot and give it luke-warm the hotter the Beer be the sooner it will dissolve but if haste require crumble the Ball in as small as you can and give it him down with a horn he will soon be empty with pissing and scowring Proved XLIX For a Horse or Cow that maketh red-Red-water TAke three or four Onions one pound of lean Beef roasted on the Coals till you may beat it to powder Bolearmoniack as much as the bigness of an Egg one handful of gray Salt chop and beat them altogether and put them all into a quart of Strong-beer take Ale if you can get it and give it to the Beast and presently after it give her a dishful of Cheese-runnets of almost a pint do but this once or twice fasting and let the Beast fast two or three hours after it and it will cure Proved L. For the mad Staggers THe signs of this disease are He will foam at the mouth white and will seem dull-headed and will have at that time a blew film over his eyes and will wander much up and down be sure to let him blood on both his Neck veins within one or two daies after he complains and in the third furrow in the pallet of his mouth with the point of a Cornet-horn you may run an Awl into the gristles of his Nose something above his Nostrils the bleeding at the Mouth and the Nose will ease the pain in his head The cure is Take a handful of Rue by some called Herb-grace three Cloves of Garlick a spoonful of Salt a spoonful of Vinegar and two spoonfuls of Aqua-vitae bruise all these together well and then put the one half into one Ear and the other half into the other Ear with a little Wool after it put the Liquor in with a spoon first and then the Herbs and then the Wool and then tye or stitch with a Needle and Thread the Ears up very fast with two listing Garters then presently fume him at the Nostrils through a Funnel with the stalks and pillings of Garlick beaten in a Morter with Mastick or Frankincense mixed together of these make pellets as big as a bullet and lay them upon a Chafing-dish of fresh Coals and the smoak will go up through the Funnel into the Head and much comfort and cleanse the brain Fume his head three times a day till you see him mend at the same time beat Red-weed seed which grows in Winter-Corn by some called Poppy-seed very small and give as much of the powder at each Nostril as will lye upon a six pence in two half hornfuls of any Beer do this every morning Or thus if you cannot get Poppy-seed then give him vvhite Poppy-vvâ—teâ— vvhich you may likevvise have at the Apothecaries and give at each Nostril a spoonful and a half a teach time It will make him sleep so soundly that you may vvalk upon him from the Head to the Tail and he vvill not stir he vvill lye as if he vvere dead for a time his sleeping vvill mightily refresh him After you have given it unto him you vvill see him before he fall dovvn to buckle and salley till at last he vvill tumble dovvn Let him stand in a dark room and vvarm vvhere he may see no light let him have bursten Oats and Mashes of ground Malt let his drink be cold Water that vvhich you put in his Ears must remain there tvventy four hours and no longer Put Wool Flax Lint or a Rag after it stitching is better than a Garter for that will make the Hair come white Proved a rare Cure LI. For the Water Farcion IT will come by the Horses feeding upon low watry Ground and in Pits where the Grass grows above the Water for there he will lick the Water up as well as the Grass this kind of feeding will cause Horses sometimes to swell mightily under the Belly and Chaps To cure it cause a Smith to make an Iron like a fleam at a Nails rod end then heat it red hot and strike it easily but just through the skin in many places upon the swelling and no where else and you shall see abundance of yellow gray oily water come out pouring this being done wash it with Chamberly and Salt as hot as you can endure your hand in it wash it but three or four times and it is a certain Cure If the swelling be very big mix with the Chamberly and Salt as much Bolearmoniack as a Walnut boyl them together and wash it Proved LII For the Ives YOu may see them grow in a Roul betwixt the hinder part of his Jaw-bone and his Neck if they get the roots of his Ears there is great danger The Cure is Let blood in both the Neck veins then take two spoonfuls of Pepper as much Hogs-grease and as much Vinegar and work them up together and put them one half into one Ear and the other into the other Ear and Wool Flax Lint or Rags which you have at hand after it and stitch up his Ears close with a Needle and Thread for 24 hours and it is a certain Cure Proved In the time of the Cure let him stand in the House give it him fasting any water cold or warm any meat only let him stand in the house three or four daies after it LIII For the Wind-Colick IT comes by means of long fasting and then the Wind gets into the Bag-gut with one end and then when the Horse comes to meat he feeds so hungerly that he never chews his meat and it goes down unchewed and undigested and stops the wind in the Gut that it puts the Horse to abundance of misery It causeth the slime in the Gut to be so extreamly hot that the Horse will do nothing but tumble and wallow and covet much to lye upon his back with all four feet right up The Cure is First to prick him in the Mouth and let him bleed well then rub his Mouth well with a handful of Salt then give him this Drink Take a pint of Brine and boyl it but do not scum it and put thereto a handful of new Hens-dung and give him it luke-warm at any time when this disease happens then ride him an hour before he drink and three hours after it The Signs He will stand crimpling with all four together and lay himself down very easily and will rather look full then empty If he be cold in the Mouth no Cure if he be warm in the mouth there is hope in four or five hours to abate the pain Either present cure or present death Proved LIV. For a Film in an Horses Eye TAke a piece of the saltest Beef you can possibly get dry it in an Oven and beat it to powder take as much of Licorish-sticks dry them and beat them to fine powder and searee it through a cloth blow the powder into his Eye once a day and it will take off the film in three or four times doing If a Rheum
part of the After-leg much about the Ancle-bone it will be swelled and knotted when it is thus over-strained you may see and discern it by his going and by the swelling if you nip it between your Fingers and Thumb he will quinch at it very much For the Cure Take Nerve-oyl and Turpentine of each a penny-worth and mix them together and lay it on at two or three several times or more till it be well and alwaies dry it in well with a hot bar of Iron when you lay it on anoint it two or three daies distance you must rest him in the time of the Cure Probatum LXV A Scouring Drink WHen you let a Horse blood save the blood with a Bowl or Dish and put thereunto a handful of Salt take the blood as it comes from him and stir it and the Salt together with your hand that it may not clot and give it him again to drink with a Horn fasting whether it be the blood of another Horse or his own blood it matters not much Give him warm Water to drink once Proved LXVI For Brittle Hoofs ANoint them with an equal proportion of Dogs-grease Turpentine and Tar all boyl together a little while and it will make them grow strong and tough put in the Turpentine but a little before you take it off the fire Proved LXVII For a Horse that is Moulten and breaks out WHen you see Swellings appear like Bags about the Girting place under the Horses belly First anoint it with Bacon-grease once every day till it be rotten then lance it in one place to make the filth come out with the point of your Pen-knife stroke your hand pretty hard upon it squeez out all the filth then anoint the Swelling with Train-oyl all over and wind a linnen Cloth about a sticks end and dip it in Train-Oyl and with it wash the wound well within If the Swelling run under the belly to the Cods-ward then get a Smith with a Nail at a Rods end to beat a piece in the fashion of a Fleme then heat it red hot and strike him just through the skin in six or eight several places thereafter as the largeness of the Swelling is and as your discretion shall guide you when you have flemed it and squeezed it that all the filth is out then daub on Chamberlye and Salt scalding hot and then anoint it with Train-Oyl within and without the Train-Oyl will heal it alone anoint it once a day at first within and without and once in two or three daies as it heals You must alwaies have a care of any wound that the cold and wind get not in if it do it will swell much and in such a case you must anoint about the wound all over the Swelling with the Oyl of Populeon and that will take the Swelling down certainly be it in what place it will Both proved LXVIII A Scouring Drink to cleanse his Kidneys if they be pained FIrst heat a pint of strong Beer in a Skellet and scum it and put in a penny-worth of Treacle-Jean and give it him luke-warm it will cleanse his Kidneys and Guts much three or four hours after it give him a Mash warm water the first day and no longer Let him stand two or three daies Probatum LXIX For a fleshy Knot that is moving from the place where it grows LEt it grow where it will if you by feeling upon it with your Fingers and Thumb feel it moving and something soft upon the place where it grows then take the knot in your hand and with the point of your Knife slit a hole in the middle and cut the knot out if it bleed much sear it with a hot Iron to stanch the blood then stuff the wound with Hares-wool or Coneys-wool but Hares-wool is best to stanch blood The nextday take out the wool and wash it clean with White-wine Vinegar then dry the wound with a clean linnen cloth then heal it with your blew Medicine or green Oyntment which I take to be best but the blew Medicine is good Alwaies before you anoint the wound wash it with the water which you have for an old Ulcer if it grow rank if not you shall not need to do it Tye a Rag about it to keep the Dirt out Dress it once a day till it be whole Proved LXX For a Cow that hath a Garget in her Dug or Udder YOu shall know when she-hath the Garget in her Dug for then she will not give down her Milk For remedy let her stand in some House or Yard the Night before you let blood the next Day in the Morning fasting let her blood on both sides of the Neck then give her this Drink Take a handful of Higtaper by some called Mullin and cut it small it groweth by the sides of Dikes and in High-waies it hath a long stem with a broad woolly Leaf and afterwards boyl it a little in a pint of Beer and give it her luke-warm fasting This with once giving will make her give down her milk freely Proved LXXI For a Ring-bone A Ring-bone grows just upon the instep as we use to say upon the fore-part of the hinder Leg just above the Hoof in a hard knob as big as a Walnut First the Beast must be cast or else you must tye up his contrary Leg with a strong Rope till you strike four or five holes in the Ring-bone at the very edge of it Let every hole be an equal distance from other then take white Mercury or Arsnick beaten to powder as much as will lye upon your Fleme and put it into one hole and as much likewise in the same manner into every hole binding it on for twenty four hours LXXII Another for the same TAke quick and unslaked Lime newly taken from the Kiln which must be well burned and the best burned you may know by its lightness make your Lime into fine powder and lay it upon the place swelled all along of a good thickness and bind upon it a linnen Cloth made fast about the foot and so put the Horse into the Water a pretty while then take him forth and unbind his foot and he is infallibly cured For the burning of the Lime in the Water does kill the Ring-bone even unto the Root thereof with this Receipt I have cured not so few as an hundred Horses But when you are thus to dress your Horse let him be brought close to the Water wherein he is to be ridden that so soon as you have applyed the Lime unto the Ring-bone you may presently put him into the Water Proved LXXIII Observations concerning the ordering of Cattle as Cowes c. in the time of feeding when there is great fulness of Grass As in the Months of May June and July THen in those Months must be your care to let them blood For at that time of the Year they never digest their meat so well as in Winter And those raw digestions do hinder
many inward passages which causeth bad blood Which to help you must let them blood in the beginning of the Month of May and let them stand in some close yard the Night before And the Night after give them a handful of Hemp-seed a piece Now for the Pestilence Gargil and Murrain they are infectious contagious Diseases none like them they proceed many times from hard driving heats and colds hunger or any other thing breeding corrupt humors as by drinking when they are hot or feeding upon gross foul and corrupted foods as in low grounds after floods when the Grass is unpurged and the like And sometimes it cometh from some evil influences of the Planets corrupting the Plants and Fruits of the Earth And sometimes from Cattle too And from divers such like causes But howsoever when these Diseases begin certain it is that they are most infectious and if there be not great care taken they will leave but few alive of a great many for the one infects the other These Diseases are easily known they will hang down their heads and run Atter at the Eyes will swell on the Lips and all on one side of the Cheek and under the Tongue and sometimes at the roots of the Ears The Cure is to separate the sound from the sick a good distance of place from the Air where the sick breathe then let them blood on the Neck-veins and give every one a spoonful of Diapente in a pint of Verjuyce If you cannot get Diapente take a spoonful of Treacle-Jean and give it in a pint of Verjuyce Thus give them a good quantity of old Urine and a handful of new Hens-dung stir the Urine and Hens-dung well together and give it to the Beast luke-warm keep him in the house a Week after These for Cows or Bullocks be prime Receipts Proved LXXIV For a Bite Blow or Film in the Eye TAke as much white Copperis as the bigness of half a Walnut and beat it very fine the same quantity of Verdigrease beaten to powder Bray these two well together upon an Iron-spade or in a Mortar then mix them with as much fresh Butter as a Walnut put into the Eye as much of this as the bigness of a Pease once a day until it be well and clear Proved LXXV A precious Oyntment for an Horses Eye either for Bite Blow or Film GO to the Apothecaries and buy the stone called Lapis Calaminaris it is of a blew colour heat it red hot then take it out and quench it presently in a pint and a half of Whitewine and so heat it and quench it as afore 12 times one after another then add unto the Wine half so much of the juyce of Housleek well stamped and strained and stir them up well together dip a Feather in this water and dress it two or three times a day till the sight be recovered Proved LXXVI A gallant Scouring to make a Beast thrive Winter or Summer TAke a handful of Groundsel called by some Sertion half a handful of Red-sage half a handful of dried or green Wormwood stript you must shred them all small and boyl them in a pint and a half of strong Beer and when it comes off the fire put in a piece of Butter as big as an Egg You may put in as much of the powder of Mechoacan as will lye upon a shilling at three or four times I know it purgeth Slime and moulten Grease in Lumps and works very kindly Give him warm Water to drink evening and morning for three or four daies after A Mash of Malt once a day or once in two daies if your Horse do not fill well and that his Coat stand right up staring or be Hide-bound give him this LXXVII IF you let blood in the Neck or Temple-vein you must alwaies Cord the Horse Take this for a Rule LXXVIII For a Strangling in the Spring TAke a handful of Elder-buds as much of dried Wormwood half an handful of Mercury as much of Tansey cut these small and boyl them in a pint of strong Beer and it will serve for three drinks three daies distance between drink and drink Give it him fasting in mornings give a Mash three hours after warm Water for a day or two let him stand in all the while If he be swelled between the Jaws anoint it with Bacon-grease once in two or three daies till it be rotted and then let it out and heal it with your healing-salves Proved LXXIX To kill Lice in Horses or Cows TAke two pennyworth of Quicksilver and work it well with Fasting-spittle upon the Palm of your hand till the Quicksilver be killed then take the whites of two Eggs and bray them with the Quicksilver and Spittle till they be as an Oyntment spread these upon a List that will go round about the Beasts Neck let it be as broad as four fingers first cut away the hair and then tye your List round about and sow it up they will come to it and it will kill abundance of them and in several places about the Beast daub on some Train-oyl LXXX To make a Horse Stale or Piss TAke as much Castle-sope as a Walnut boyl it in a pint of strong Beer a little while and give it him luke-warm it will make him piss Proved LXXXI For an inward Bruise with any Fume or Stub TAke a pint and a half of strong Beer and one ounce of Bolearmoniack and boyl them a little together and give it him with a Horn luke-warm It is very good for an inward bruise of a Beast The greasie sort is best Proved LXXXII For a Horse that hath rent his flesh about the Belly or elsewhere or for any new wound TAke a pint of Whitewine Vinegar the sharpest you can get boyl it in half a quarter of a pound of Bolearmoniack after it hath boyled a little and when it comes off the fire put into it a little piece of Butter and bathe the place grieved once in two daies and in two or three times dressing it will cure This is a plain and easie Cure LXXXIII For an old Cold with a Cough TAke as much fresh or salt Butter as an Egg and make it hollow as a Pye and put as much Tar into it as a Walnut then close up the Ball very round and roul it in the Seeds and strippings of Wormwood cut small To make two Balls of the Butter and Tar is better give him this in a pint and a half of strong Beer in the morning fasting he having stood in the night before keep him in house three or four daies after give him warm Water the cold just taken off it for two daies the water must be no warmer at any time If you see he doth not fill well and hath left his Coughing then four or five daies after give him the same again and order him as before When you have given him this ride him a hand-gallop for three or four miles till he sweat well but
a mile before you come at home ride him very softly to cool him Set him up warm Litter him well clothe him with a couple of warm cloths tye him up to the Rack upon the bit for three or four hours if it be five or six hours it matters not when you un-bit him give a Mash first or warm Water first then clean Hay and take off one of his clothes after one or two daies you may work him so you do it moderately This is not so good for a new Cold as for an old Cold. Proved LXXXIV For a strangling in the Guts the Cough of the Lungs For clearing the Pipes and giving much breath IF you be to run your Horse for a wager give him two of these Balls a week before I make them thus Take as much of fresh or salt Butter as the bigness of an Egg and an half part it in the midst as near as you can hollow it in the fashion of a Pye mix and bray together with your Butter half an ounce of Anniseeds beaten to powder then make a Pye of your Butter and Anniseeds thus mixed and put into it three quarters of a spoonful of Syrup of Horehound into each Ball and close up the Ball close that the Syrup may not come out Make your Balls no bigger then a Barbers Wash-ball or but a little bigger if you do for it is not good to give Balls too big then warm a pint and a half of strong Beer lukewarm and fill the Horn with Beer and before you put it in put in one of the Balls having pull'd out his tongue with your left hand before when his tongue is out put the Ball into his mouth as far as you can then hasten two Horns full of Beer after it to wash it down do the like with the next Ball as you did with the first then take his back ride him for three or four miles a hand-gallop till he sweat well for this reason Because the Diseases in this Receipt as they come with a heat so the speediest and best Remedy is to drive them away with a heat The second reason is That a Drink will take no more place in a Horse for heats and colds than to give a Horse a Drink and walk him about the Yard Therefore for Diseases of this Nature ride him till he sweat soundly A mile before you come at home ride him but a foot pace that he may be set up something cool then tye him up to the Rack cover him with two cloaths stuff him and litter him very warm cover his head and body to keep him from the cold let him stand four or five hours before he eat or drink then when you unbit him give him a Mash or some Water luke-warm or some clean Hay and take off one cloth and keep him warm If this will not do a week after give him the same again and give him warm Water but two daies after it and then cold water a week before your Horse goes to grass give this and a week after he comes from grass give it three or four times a year and it will keep your Horse in gallant health it will fat a Horse It will make him sick but fear nothing But if you give your Horse too much at a time that it makes him extraordinary sick give him a pint of Milk as it comes from the Cow or heat the Milk lukewarm Proved many times This is a rare Receipt LXV To waste the Kernels under the Horses Throat cheaply and suddenly FIrst sear the Kernels with a Candle then take of fresh or salt butter and lay a piece upon a red piece of Cloth and rub it well in and in a Fortnights time the Knot will be quite gone and if his Nose run it will stop when the Kernels are gone Anoint the Knots once a day for a week in the time of his Cure If it be in Summer let him run out and in Winter stand in Proved LXXX For a Cough of the Lungs TO know this the Horse will cough hollowly and gruntingly he will hang down his head when he coughs his flanks will beat he will fetch his breath short For Remedy Let him stand in the night before the next day in the morning fasting give him a spoonful of the Syrup of Horehound and a spoonful of the flower of Brimstone and put these two into a pint and a half of strong Beer heated lukewarm and give it him fasting take him and ride him three or four miles presently upon it till he sweat well ride but a foot pace within a mile of home be careful to set him up warm Litter and clothe him warm Let him stand in not above two or three nights if it be in Summer after that turn him out from ten a Clock to three a Clock for two or three daies and then turn him out for altogether the more moderately you work him the better he will thrive It will take away his Cough clear his Pipes and make him thrive much after it If there be a white thick clayey water near let him drink there it is a warmer and more fattening Water than any other give warm Water not above twice this Drink will clear his Pipes and drive it from his Lungs You may put in as much of the powder of Mechoacan as will lye upon a shilling at three times Proved LXXXVII For a Broken-winded Horse TAke Bores-dung and dry it to powder and put a spoonful of it into two pints of Milk as it comes from the Cow or otherwise heated lukewarm and give it him If you see that this proportion will not make him sick the first time you give it then give him two spoonfuls more of the powder and in four or five times giving it will perfectly cure This Drink must be given every third day A spoonful of the powder of a Hedge-hog by some called an Urchin doth infinitely help in this case Proved LXXXVIII For a Cold in a Beast either in Winter or Summer TAke an Egg-shel full of Tar half an ounce of Red-stone Sugar half an ounce of Anniseeds beaten small half an ounce of Tobacco beaten half an ounce of Liquorish cut and beaten very small 2 ounces of Brimstoue beaten small a quarter of a handful of Herb-grace cut small after that these things are thus beaten and stirred up together make them up into three Balls of a like bigness then put two pints of strong Beer lukewarm and the first hornful of Beer that you give him put a Ball into it and do so likewise to the second and third and then give him the remainder of the Beer Let him not drink for four or five hours after give him a Mash and afterwards Hay to eat Let him stand in for three or four nights if it be in Summer after the first days giving work him every day moderately and the Beast will thrive the better If once will not take away his Cough and cause
your Left-hand and put in one Ball to the root of his Tongue if you can that he may swallow it the better put your finger under his Tongue then give him a Hornful of strong Beer cold after it then give him a second Ball and a Hornful of Beer to wash it down and so do in like manner by all the rest then ride him a Mile gently and set him up warm Let him not eat not drink for five or six hours after it then give him a little clean Hay at Night not before and some warm Water to drink with some Wheat-bran put into it the next Morning give him warm Water to drink in the same manner and ride him a Mile gently and tye him to the Rack for an hour after then you may give him what meat he will eat at Night warm Water and Bran again the third day in the Morning after he hath done purging give him cold Water and before you ride him after his cold Water give him two ounces of Hony and half a pint of White-wine heated a little warm to make him piss and to clear his bladder and to beget a stomack then ride him a Mile or two gently and at Night ayr him again and so do Morning and Evening till he be well litter him well and keep him warm If you see that after his Purge and after you have given him the Hony and Whitewine he do not fall to his meat but is still bound in his body and dungs very small then give him this Cordial fasting two or three times and let there be two or three daies betwixt each Cordial giving It is thus made Take three pints of stale Beer course Houshold bread the quantity of half ae penny Loaf when these two are well boyled together take it off the fire and put into it a quarter of a pound of Hony and a quarter of a pound of fresh Butter give him all these together as a Cordial lukewarm then ride him a mile after it and set him up warm and tye him up to the Rack for three or four hours after it then give him a Mash of bursten Oats or Barly and warm Water with Wheat-bran in it till the Horse be come to his stomack and be loose bodied again which in two or three times giving he will be The fore-going Purge is admirable good for a dry Surfet and for a Horse that is bound in his body and dungs small The Cordial with Whitewine and Hony is admirable good for a Horse that is weak and hath little stomack to bring him to a stomack again When at any time for the fore going Diseases you give a Mash of bursten Oats to half a peck boyl a quarter of a pound of Fenygreek with them and put some of them into the Manger hot if he be loth to eat them because of the taste of the Fenygreek throw some Wheat-bran over them and he will eat them this is the only way to bring your Horse to a stomack and raise him suddenly Concerning his swelled Cods and swelled Legs as soon as his Purge hath done working take the Charge of Sope and Brandy and dab it on his swelled Cods or swelled Legs with a flat stick as it comes boyling hot off the fire three or four daies after it hath taken its course whilst he stands in the house take and ride him into the River up to his Saddle-skirts with the stream and against it half a quarter of an hour at a time wash him thus once every day or twice till you see the swelling quite down his Cods or Legs which will be in very few daies once laying on the Charge is enough If it be a dry Surfet give the Purge first and afterwards the Cordial of Whitewine and Hony But if he have a Cold and run at the Nostrils then first give him the following Drink made of Anniseeds Turmerick Brandy or Aqua-vitae Vinegar and Beer and three daies after give him the Purge and if you see his stomack to fail him give him the Cordial when a Horse is fat and lusty and then melted and the Grease set within him in this case use the Purge first But if he be fat and sick both together then give him the Whitewine and Hony and Cordials as you are before in this Receipt directed to bring him to a stomack first and when you have done that then give him the Purge and order him after it as you are there directed If there be hard Kernels between his Jaws or Chaps at the same time the Charge of Sope and Brandy laid hot upon them and heated well in in once doing it will either sink them flat or break them And if they break wash them with Butter and Vinegar and let them heal up of themselves All proved to be good and certain CXXXVI For a moist hot running Surfet that falls out of his Body into his Fore-legs and sometimes into his After-legs and sometimes into all four THis Surfet comes with Colds and Heats which are divers waies taken when it falls out of his Body into his Legs and runs hot moist white yellow thin thick stinking Water or Matter in this case the Horses breath will stink and smell very strong and his Legs will swell and stink extreamly when this Surfet breaks in his Body and falls down into his Legs at his first going out of the Stable he will hardly draw his Legs over the Threshold and he will be so stiff that he can hardly stir in the Stable but will hold up his Leg to his Midribs and although this Disease be never so violent in breaking out or causing his Legs to swell and run yet you need not fear Remedy for him if you observe these Directions following First keep him fasting all the Night before or give him but a very little meat to keep his jaws from falling the next day in the Morning before he drink let him blood on both the Neck-veins and let him bleed well then uncord him and give him this Drink following which will much purge and dry up his gross humours in his body and cleanse his blood Take one ounce of Aristolochia one ounce of Turmerick one ounce of Anniseeds dry and beat the Turmerick and Anniseeds small and grate the root of Aristolochia put all these together with one handful of Rew and a handful of Wormwood green or dry and one handful of Red-sage one handful of green Fennel if it be Winter that you cannot get green then take two ounces of Fennel-seeds and beat them small and put to the rest of the things and all put into an earthen pot or pan and put to them three pints of running and Spring-water and there let them lye in steep all Night the next Morning before you give it to him ride him a Mile till he be a little warm give it to him cold as it stood all night then after that ride him a Mile again and let him stand upon
and here also will cause a present Cure Now to cure the Strangling or a Cold that runs at the Nose or hath done for half a year or more or Squinsey when he is troubled with tough thick flegm For these three last mentioned take these following Ingredients and give them as you are directed First one ounce of Anniseeds an ounce of Turmerick beaten to powder half a quartern of Brandy or Aqua-vitae half a dozen spoonfuls of Whitewine or Vinegar a pint and an half of strong Beer put all these into a Skellet and heat them blood-warm and give it to the Beast fasting then presently run the point of the Cornet-horn into the third furrow in the roof of his Mouth and let him bleed then walk him a mile and set him up Clothe and Litter him warm Let him stand upon the Bit four or five hours he will sweat with his Drink till one drop follow another If you see he be sick and desirous to lye down you may let him Give him no Mashes but only warm Water to drink with an handful or two of Wheat-bran put into it and the next Morning warm Water and Bran again and presently after give him two ounces of Hony and half a pint of Whitewine or half a pint of Wine-vinegar if you have not White-wine walk him a Mile after it The third day in the Morning after this Drink in the beginning of the Receipt give him this Cordial three pints of stale Beer Houshold-bread a piece as big as a great Tost and crum it in a quarter of a pound of Butter put them into a Skellet together and heat them a little upon the fire and when you take it off put in a quarter of a pound of Hony stir them together and give it him blood-warm fasting then ride him a mile and set him up warm clothed and littered Three or four hours after give him warm Water and Bran to drink Every two or three daies for a Cold whether it cause the Beast to run at the Nose or no or be in Glanders In course of Physick after his drink give him this Cordial to bring him to a stomack it will help to kill the Canker in his mouth or throat clear the Guts and cleanse the Lights with one drink of White-wine and Hony and these Cordials he will be in a very short time cleared and cured If in the time of his Cure he hath hard Kernels between his Jaws apply the Charge of Sope and Brandy which will either quite sink them or break them Again if there be not Kernels but hard swellings in the Jaws as most part there is when he hath the Strangling in this case also apply the Charge of Sope and Brandy and heat it well in If this Swelling do break in the time of the Cure let it run and heal up of it self If the Swelling between his Jaws be soft all over and in the midst of the Swelling the hair begins to scale off you may then put in the point of your Knife a little way through the skin and let it out if it be not full ripe it will heal up with proud rank flesh and there will be a knot between his Jaws which is an ugly blemish therefore heal it up with nothing but let it heal up of it self In the time of any of these Cures ayr and ride him out two or three times every day it will do him abundance of good if you do not ride him too hard but gently If that which comes out of his Nose be yellowish and afterwards turns white there is hope of perfecting the Cure the Drink will make him swell and be very sick but it will do him a great deal of good Proved CXL For a Horse that hath a dry Surfet in his Body and falls away in his Flesh That hath a weak Cough and is in a Consumption THe Signs of this Disease are He will not thrive but be gaunt-bellied and dried up in his Body and cannot cough but gruntingly by reason of the Cold and Surfet and great soreness in his Body The Remedy is this First ride him a mile and then let him blood in the bottom of the belly at the lower end of all the Spurvein after he hath bled well give him this Drink one ounce of Anniseeds half an ounce of Diapente four pennyworth of English Saffron one ounce of Syrup of Colts-foot one ounce of brown Sugar-candy one ounce of Bay-berries four or five spoonfuls of Whitewine Vinegar a pint and a half of strong Beer put all these into a Skellet and heat them lukewarm and give it to the Beast fasting and ride him two or three furlongs after it then tye him up to the Rack and let him fast five or six hours after his Drink and clothe and litter him up very warm then unbit him and give him a little sweet Hay till night then give him warm Water and Bran to Drink The next day in the morning before he eat or drink burst half a peck of Oats with two ounces of Fenygreek two ounces of Coriander-seeds for want of Coriander two ounces of Caraway-seeds burst them altogether well and give him them before he eat or drink And at noon give him warm Water and Bran and after three or four daies end give him this drink after the first drink One ounce of Anniseeds beaten small half a pound of Raisins of the Sun an handful of unset Leeks cut small two quarts of mild Beer boyl all these together in a Skellet till half be consumed then take out all the Raisins and beat them in a Mortar stones and all take some of the Liquor wherein they were boiled and wash the Mortar clean therewith and put it again into the Kettle amongst the rest then take the Kettle off and put in as much Butter as an Egg and let it melt and give him this drink fasting walk him a furlong or two and tye him up to the Rack for five or six hours and clothe and litter him up warm then give him Hay and at Night warm Water and Bran The next day have in readiness some Oats Coriander-seeds or for want of them some Caraway-seeds burst them together by eleven or twelve a Clock and throw some of them into the Crib as you were directed before and if he refuse to eat them strew some Wheat-bran over them and that will cause him to eat them give him but a few at a time After this second Drink given you shall see the Horse within two or three daies to void at the Nose yellow Glanders or some other colour ride him moderately twice a day and keep him warm in the Stable And two or three daies after you have given him this last Drink and warm Water then and not before water him at the River and presently after it give him every Morning two ounces of Hony and half a pint of Whitewine mixed together heated lukewarm you may give it him abroad or in
give it him the third day morning give him a Cordial made of three pints of stale Beer a quarter of a pint of Hony as much Butter a good piece of Houshold-bread put in the Hony and Butter after the Bread and Beer is boyled together and give him his Cordial fasting lukewarm the fourth day morning give him this Drink one ounce of Polypodium one ounce of Bay-berries an ounce of Long pepper one ounce of brown Sugar-candy beat them all small and put them into a quart of mild strong Beer heat it lukewarm and before you give it him ride him a mile and then give it him and ride him two or three miles after it cloth and litter him up warm after he hath fasted some four or five hours give him bursten Oats with two ounces of Fenygreek and two ounces of Coriander as before if you have no Coriander then take two Ounces of Carraway-seeds and give him that Night of the Oats and Seeds and put the Water where the Oats and Seeds were boyled into some cold Water and let him drink that and no other when you have rested him a Week then give him the first Drink mentioned in this Receipt and follow him as you are directed every day in the third Week give him the same things again in the same manner and at the same distance of daies in all points as you did the first Week and in three or four Weeks it will be a Cure The first Drink doth loosen the filth and open the Lights and set them a running The Cordial is Whitewine and Hony will keep him to his stomack help him to avoid filth at the Nose and Mouth and will much nourish him within they do cleanse the stomack breast and bowels and do much waste the Squinsey in the Throat they do cut the tough thick flegm If you order these things as you are in many places directed and ayr him moderately once or twice a day the Horse will soon be sound again The last Drink of Polypodium Long-pepper and Bay-berries is a purger of the Veins Blood and Liver and will stay the wasting of the Body That day morning you give him the first Drink apply the Charge of Sope and Brandy made in a Salve to the Kernels between his Jaws and in a weeks time it will be fallen flat and not break lay the Charge on scalding hot and heat it well in If you see the yellow matter to become white there will be the greater hopes of the speediness of the Cure Proved CXLV For a Canker in the Mouth YOu shall know it by these Signs He will slaver at the Mouth and the Roots of his Tongue will be eaten with the Canker the sides of his Mouth will be hot raw and yellow If the Canker have eaten any Holes in his Mouth and caused many sores then take a pottle of running spring-Spring-water an handful of Red-sage a dozen sprigs of Rosemary an handful of unset Hysop If this disease happen in Summer then add five or six Walnut-leaves and a quarter of a pound of Roch-allum put all these into a Kettle and let them boyl till they be half consumed then put all into an earthen Pan and let it stand till it be cold you need not take out the herbs but when you use it take ten or twelve spoonfuls of this Liquor then pull out his Tongue with one hand and have in a readiness a Linnen cloth tyed at a sticks end dip it into the Liquor and wash his Mouth and Throat all over then pull out his Tongue again and throw a handful of Salt into his Mouth then presently after it dip another sticks-end tyed with a Rag into Tar and put it all over his mouth where the Sores are and once in three daies give him a Cordial and Whitewine and Hony made as you may see before and the same quantity Ride or work him upon it This Water Salt Tar Whitewine and Hony and Cordials will bring the Horse to a stomack cleanse his stomack loosen his body It will take away the heat of his stomack and comfort his stomack and cut the tough flegm there it will cure the Canker in a very short time except his Tongue and Mouth be very much eaten indeed you need not wash his Mouth afterwards with the Water and Tar for the Wine and Hony and the Cordials will heal it alone and work the aforesaid effects Let the Hay and Provender you give him be clean and moist it will be the better Give him no Chaff for that will stick in his Mouth and fester it Proved CXLVI To cure a Foul Rank Pocky Farcion which runs all over an Horse or in any particular part of his Body AN Horse that hath the Farcion if his breath smell very strong and stink then do not meddle with him for his Lights are rotten and there is no Cure for him for he is as full of them within as without But if his breath be sweet there is no question of the Cure First for all knotted budded Farcions separate the sound from the sick for this Disease is infectious they will take it one of another This Disease cometh first of Colds and Surfets For Remedy do as followeth Give him but a little Hay overnight to keep his Jaws from falling the next day morning let him blood on both sides of the Neck and let him bleed well then give him this Drink One ounce of Aristolochia an ounce of Turmerick one ounce of Anniseeds beat your Turmerick and Anniseeds small and grate the root of Aristolochia and put them all together with one handful or two of Lungwort or Liver-wort Herbgrace one good handful of Red-sage a handful of green or dryed Wormwood one handful of green Fennel and if it be Winter that you cannot get it green then instead thereof take two ounces of Fennel-seeds cut the Herbs small and beat the Seeds and put them all to steep in three pints of running Spring-water and let them lye in steep all night the next day morning before you give it him ride him a Mile till he be vvarm at his return give it him cold as it stood all night then ride him gently a mile after his Drink set him up warm clothed and littered let him stand upon the Bit seven or eight hours then unbit him and give him a little sweet Hay and at night warm Water with some Wheat-brâ—n in it the next day morning ride him to the River and let him drink but let him drink but once a day but ride him well upon his watering and at the end of three daies give him his former Drink again and order him as before work him moderately all the time of his Cure Be it in Winter or in Summer for this Disease keep him in the House vvith dry meat vvhen he is cured you may turn him out or keep him in the stable which you please when he is cold wash him twice a day up to the back soak
the Pains or Scratches or rotten broken Cuts putrified Sinews this Receipt will cure in a wonderful manner IF it be the Pains and Scratches do thus Take a pail of fair Water if two or three and wash his Legs clean and clip away the Hair close to the Skin so far as his Legs are crannied or scabby then with a pail or two of fair Water wash his Legs clean again and let him stand till he be dry then take half a pound of English Hony one ounce of beaten Pepper ten Heads of Garlick put all these into a Boul or Cup and beat them together till they come to a Salve If the Pains and Scratches be on both Legs then divide the Salve into two parts and lay one half upon one sheet of Paper and the other half upon another half of gray Paper and take a broad piece of Linnen-cloth and lay it over the Paper and lay the Plaister to the hinder part of his Legs where the sore alwaies is and sew them on with a Needle and Thread pretty hard so as it may not come off sew it close in the Footlock and all the way up so far as his Legs are scabby and let it lye on two daies you must make a small Thumb-band of fine Hay and wind all over his Legs and over the Plaister and let it remain as long at two daies end take a Linnen-cloth and wipe the Chaps of every Cranny and Crack in his heels clean then lay on a fresh Plaister and do as you did before in every particular and at two daies end take away that Plaister then lay on another and let it lye on three daies and when you take that off and see if need require lay on another Plaister and let it lye on three daies more and in three or four times thus dressing it will be quite dryed up and whole Let him not come in the Water all the time of his Cure If his Sinews be rotten broken cut in pieces or much putrified then apply this Medicine as before and let it lye on the same time as before and as it heals dress it the seldomer and bind a Thumb-band of Hay over the Plaister and keep him out of the Water and in the House all the time of the Cure This Salve will draw clean and knit the Sinews together again in a wonderful manner It is for Pains and Scratches and Sinews in this nature the best Cure in the World If one or two of the pocky Farcies Drinks were given in this case I am confident it would much further the Cure and dry up those humors in the Body which feed the Scratches in his Legs Proved CLXII For the Strangullion in an Horse THe Signs to know it are It much differeth from that when an Horse cannot Stale and differeth from the Disease called the Gripe or Fret in the Guts which will put an Horse to abundance of pain and make him to tumble and wallow This Disease called the Strangullion if a Horse have it he will look gaunt and cannot piss he will offer and stand straining to piss but cannot his Bladder will be ready to burst with extream fulness and heat of his water for present Remedy do this Take a pint of Claret-wine redded well and put into it an ounce of Ivy-berries beaten small one ounce of Parsley-seeds beaten small and give it him at any time once doing is enough Proved You may likewise see for the Gravel and Stone what is given to a man and you may give it him CLXIII For Fretting or Griping in an Horses Belly THis Disease will make the Horse to tumble and wallow with all four feet upwards with a griping wind in the Guts you shall see some Horses in such extream pain that they will swell therewith as if they would burst and will endanger the breaking of their Bladder and in this case they cannot dung For Remedy Take a quart of cold Salt-beef or Pork brine if you cannot get a quart get a pint put it into a Horn and pour it down cold After this brine is down anoint your hand and arm with Sallet-oyl or Butter and rake him and pull out as much Dung as you can to give him all the ease you can then take a good big Onion and peel off the outward rind then cut it length-waies and cross-waies in many places then roul it up and down in a handful of Salt and what Salt it will take up put it into a hollow pye of Butter but before you put it into his fundament anoint your hand and arm with Butter and Sallet-oyl and run up the Onion thus rouled in the Salt and put into the Butter as far as you can and there leave it then tye up his tail close to his rump as you can being tyed with a Cord fasten the Cord to his Girths that it may keep in the Onion and Butter then lead him out and walk him and in a quarter of an hours time it will purge exceedingly It will cleanse his Maw much and cleanse his Guts and kill the Worms let his Tail be tyed but a little while that he may purge freely prick him in the Mouth with your Cornet-horn the first thing you do The next day morning give him a comfortable Drink made of an ounce of Horse-spice a quarter of a pint of Whitewine Vinegar with a pint and a half of strong Beer put them together and give it the Beast lukevvarm fasting and he vvill do very vvell after it Give him bursten Oats or a Mash for two daies after it and vvarm Water the day you give him this Drink Proved CLXIV To kill Botts or Worms YOu shall knovv vvhether your Horse be troubled vvith Botts or Stomach-vvorms by these Signs he vvill squitter and dung them and all of a sudden he vvill dung very small in this case he vvill void small vvhite Worms of himself he vvill be much knotted under his over-lip the roots of his Tongue vvill be fiery and yellovv his breath hot svveat much as he stands in the Stable and vvill be very faint Novv if you see him to svveat in the Stable then knovv for certain that he is far gone and is in great danger For Remedy Take Turmerick and Anniseeds of each an ounce one pennyvvorth of the Flovver of Brimstone half a quarter of a pint of Brandy or Aqua-vitae beat the Anniseeds and Turmerick small and then put all together into a pint and a half of strong Beer except the Brimstone and that lay upon the top of the Horn when you are ready to give him the Horn into his mouth give this Drink fasting and let him fast four or five hours after it and stand upon the bit give him to drink warm Water at night the next day cold Water ride him after it this Drink will work pretty strong If he have not been lately let blood before let him blood in the Neck-vein and in the third furrow in the roof of his mouth
way will choak him This course taken will stop bleeding at the Nose of a man If an Horses mouth be cut with a fleam at any time when you let him blood in the Mouth and the fleam glance and cut a gash in his Mouth and that it bleed so that you know not how to stop it then take some of these burnt Rags and lay them as hot into the Wound as you can and afterward take another clean Rag and lay it over the Wound to keep in the burnt Rags and tye on each side his Teeth a small string overthwart to keep it close to for 24 hours at the end of which time you may take off the Cloth but let the burnt Rags lye in the Wound as long as you please for they will draw and heal mightily when they come out you may put in more and do as you did before and so for a Quitter-bone is you cut it till all the Veins bleed and you cannot stanch the blood then take of these hot burnt Rags and fill the hole full and they will stop the blood in a very short time and let it lye there for 24 hours and they will draw it as white as can be so that you may see what to do afterward This will stop the blood either at Nose or in any Wound Proved CLXVIII For a Cold new or old or a Cough wet or dry TAke of Rue one handful chop or stamp it very small and put to it a penny worth of Anniseeds beaten to very fine powder make it up in Pills with sweet Butter and so give it to your Horse in a pint and an half of Ale or Beer fasting ride him upon it and let him fast four or five hours after it Do this every third morning till you see his Cough quite gone This hath been found to be most soveraign for an Horse that hath a Cold whether newly or formerly taken or for a wet or dry Cough It is also most excellent for an Horse that hath been over-ridden or any waies wronged by labour Proved CLXIX For a young Horse that hath taken a new Cold. TAke Water and Salt as much as will suffice brew them well together make it Blood-warm and give it him and do after as is necessary This I find to be singular good to be given to a young Horse that hath newly taken cold Proved CLXX For a new taken Cold with a Coughing TAke of Bayes of Anniseeds and of Liquorish of each half a pennyworth of brown Sugar-candy one pennyworth make all these into powder and sew them up in a fine Linnen-rag and so tye it to the Bit or Snaffle of the Bridle and so ride a Journey and travel him If it be a Cold newly taken it will cure him in a shore time This I have tryed and found to be good for it will cure both Cold and Cough if it be thus used with riding and exercise Proved CLXXI. For the Botts TAke as much black Sope as a Walnut as much flower of Brimstone and a little Garlick bruised put these into a pint and an half of strong new Beer or sweet Wort steep it all night and give it the beast next morning fasting and tye him up to the Rack three or four hours after then give him warm Water and what meat you please Proved CLXXII For a Blood-Spavin FIrst Take a strong Shop-halter and put the Noose or Head-stall about his Neck close to his shoulders then take the other end of the Halter and take the contrary After-foot from the ground which the Blood-Spavin is not upon and put the other end of the Halter about his Pastern and draw it with the Halter from the ground and tye it to the Head-stall of the halter that he may not set it down by doing thus you may take up the Vein and sear him as he stands but the best way will be to cast him and to tye his other three Legs and let that be at liberty then before you take up the Vein half a foot above the Spavin-place in the small of the Ham in the inside of his Leg you must first draw the skin cross with your fingers on one side of the Vein then cut a hole in the skin an inch and an half long down his Leg thus in that part of the skin which will lye right over the Vein then let the cut go and the Skin will lye over the Vein then with the point of your Cornet-horn length-waies as the wound is cut chafe and fret the thin skin or film a pieces that you may see the Vein lye blew then with the point of your Cornet-horn by degrees run it between the Vein and the Skin and raise the Vein above the Skin and after that put two short Shoomakers ends between the Vein and the Flesh a little distance one from the other to tye or take up the Vein after it hath done bleeding then and not before with the point of a Pen-knife slit a little hole length-waies in the Vein not cross the Vein by no means for fear of cutting the Vein a pieces you must open the Vein as it lyes upon the Horn and when it hath bled enough tye the ends that you before put under it above the slit of the Vein pretty hard and tye the other bonds end below the slit of the Vein pretty just and leave the bonds end an inch long hanging without the Skin to keep the hole open that the matter may come out at it and that the Skin may not heal up before the wax threds have eaten the Vein a pieces vvhich vvill be vvithin a Week vvhen you have tyed up the Vein as is shevved you then put into the hole or vvound a little piece of Butter and Salt mixed together to heal it up after all this before you let dovvn his Leg in case you do it standing but vvhether you do it standing or lying this you must do Take a Nail-rod at the same time and make it vvith a thick edge bending or hook't back heat it hot and make in the bent of the Leg vvith it one long strike dovvnvvards sear it besides the Sinevvs till the skin looks yellovv make the searing thus in the bent of the Leg besides the Sinews but not upon the Sinews as the foregoing figure shews you and thus you must sear him on the inside and on the outside of the Knee where you see the swelling appear there you must sear him likewise with one Line and two crosses cross it in this manner After you have thus seared it then apply this Charge A quarter of a pint of Brandy-wine or for want thereof a quarter of a pint of Aqua-vitae and a pennyworth of Crown-sope boylthem together till they come to a white Salve then lay it all over the Swelling as hot as you can with a flat-stick and heat it well in with a bar of Iron once laying on this Charge is enough when this hath lain on a Week then
faces and looke as if there were much difference between them yet they are in nature all one and proceed all from one offence which is only cold Phlegm thick humour ingendred about the Brain and benumming the Senses weakning the members sometimes causing the Horse to fall down and then it is called the falling Evil sometimes weakning but one Member only and then it is called Planet-struck sometimes oppressing a Horses stomack and making him sweat in his sleep and then it is called the Night-mare sometimes spoiling one special Member by some strange contraction and then it is called the Palsey The cure for any of these infirmities is to give the Horse this purging Pill Take of Tar three spoofuls or of sweet Butter the like quantity beat them well together with the powder of Liquorish Annis-seeds and Sugar-Candy till it be like a paste then make it into three round Balls and put into each Ball two or three Cloves of Garlick and give them to the Horse observing to warm him both before and after and keeping him fasting two or three hours both before and after CCXIX. Of the general Cramp or Convulsion of Sinews CRamps are taken to be contracting or drawing together of Sinews of any one member but Convulsions are when the whole body from the setting on of the head to the extremest parts are generally contracted or stiffened The Cure of either is first to chafe and rub the member contracted with Vinegar and common oyl and then rap it all over with wet Hay or rotten Litter or else with woollen Clothes either of which is a present remedy CCXX For any Cold or Cough whatsoever wet or dry or for any Consumption or Putrefaction of the Lungs whatsoever A Cold is got by unnatural Heats and too sudden cooling and these Colds ingender Coughs and these Coughs putrefaction and rotteness of the Lungs The Cure therefore for them all in general is to take a handful or two of the white and greenest Moss which grows upon an old Oak or any old Oaken Pale or Wood and boyl it in a quart of Milk till it be thick and being cold and turned to a jelly then strain it and give it to the Horse luke-warm every morning till his Cough ceaseth CCXXI Of the Running Glanders or mourning of the Chine TAke of Auripigmentum two drams of Tuslagsinis as much made into powder then mixing them together with Turpentine till they be like Paste and making thereof little Cakes dry them before the fire then take a Chasing-dish of Coals and laying one or two of the Cakes thereon covering them with a Tunnel and when the smoak ariseth put the Tunnel into the Horses Nostrils and let the smoak go up into his head which done ride him till he sweat do this once every morning before he be watered till the Running at his Nostrils cease and the Kernels under his Chaps be lessened CCXXII Of Hide-bound or Consumption of the Flesh HIde-bound or Consumption of the Flesh proceedeth from unreasonable travel disorderly Diet and many Surfeits It is known by a general dislike and leanness over the whole body and by the sticking of the skin close to the body in such sort that it will not rise from the body The Cure is first to let the Horse blood and then to give him to drink three or four mornings together a quart of new Milk with two spoonfuls of Honey and one spoonful of course Treacle Let his food be either sodden Barley warm Grains and Salt or Beans splitted in a Mill his drink Mashes CCXXIII. Of the Breast-pain or any other sickness proceeding from the heart as the Antocow and such like THese Diseases proceed from too rank feeding and much fatness the signs are A faltering in his fore legs a disableness to bow down his neck and a trembling over all his body the Cure is to let him blood and to give him two mornings together two spoonfuls of Diapente in a quart of Ale and Beer for it alone putteth away all infection from the heart CCXXIV. Of Tired Horses IF your Horse be tired injourneying or in any Hunting match your best help for him is to give him warm Urine to drink and let him Blood in the mouth to suffer him to lick up and to swallow the same then if you come where any Nettles are to rub his mouth and sheath well therewith then gently to ride him till you come at the resting place where set him up very warm and before you go to bed give him six spoonfuls of Aqua-vitae and as much provender as he will eat the next morning rub his Leggs with Sheeps-feet oyl and it will bring fresh nimbleness to his Limbs CCXXV. Of Diseases in the Stomack as Surfeits lothing of Meat or Drink IF your Horse with the Glut of Provender or eating raw food hath given such offence to his stomack that he casteth up all he eateth or drinketh you must then give him comfortable things as Diapente or Trephenicon in ale or Beer then keep him fasting Let him have no food but what he eateth out of your hand which would be bread well baked Oats and after two or 3 bits a Lock of sweet hay and his Drink should be only new milk till his stomack have gotten strength and in a bag you shall continually hang at his Nose sowr brown bread steeped in Vinegar at which he must ever smell and his stomack will quickly come again to his first strength CCXXVI Of foundring in the Body FOundring in the Body is of all Surfeits the mortallest and soonest gotten it proceedeth from intemperate riding an Horse when he is fat and then suddenly suffering him to take cold and there is nothing sooner brings this infirmity than washing a fat Horse The signs are sadness of Countenance Staring hairs stifness of Limbs and loss of Belly The Cure is only to give him wholsom meat and bread of clean Beans and warm drink and for two or three mornings together a quart of Ale-brewed with Pepper and Cinamon and a spoonful of Treacle CCXXVII Of the Hungry Evil. THe Hungry-Evil is an unnatural and over-hasty greediness in an Horse to devour his meat faster then he can chew it and is only known by his greedy snatching at his meat as if he would devour it whole The Cure is to give him to drink Milk and Wheat meal mixed together a quart at a time and to feed him with Provender by little and little till he forsake it CCXXVIII Of the Diseases of the Liver as Inflammations Obstructions and consumptions THe Liver which is the Vessel of Blood is subject to many Diseases according to the distemperature of the Blood and the Signs to know it are a stinking Breath and a mutual looking towards his body The Cure is to take Aristolochia longa and to boyl it in running water till half be consumed and let the Horrse drink continually thereof and it will cure all evils about the Liver CCXXIX Of the Diseases
of the Gall and specially of the Yellows FRom the over-flowing of the Gall which is the vessel of Choler spring many mortal Diseases especially the Yellows which is an extreme faint mortal Sickness if it be not prevented in time The Signs are yellowness of the Eyes and Skin and chiefly underneath his upper Lip next to his fore-teeth a sudden and faint falling down by the high way or in the Stable and an universal sweat over all his body The Cure is first to let the Horse blood in the neck or mouth or under the Eyes then take two penny-worth of Saffron which being dried and made into fine Powder mix it with sweet Butter and in manner of a Pill give it in Balls to the Horse three mornings together Let his drink be warm and his hay sprinkled with water CCXXX Another for the same TAke a pint or more of Milk and make a Posset of it with strong Ale or Beer a pint or more take off the Curd clean then take two ounces of Castle-sope pare it in thin small slices and boyl it in the Posset-drink about a quarter of an hour then when it is but Luke-warm give it the Horse to drink then take his back and ride a gentle pace an hour together set him up warm This hath been often tryed upon Christians as well as Horses they taking and walking and stirring upon it an hour or more taking it but two mornings together it never fail'd of curing those that had been so far spent with it that they have been given over by all men CCXXXI Of the Sickness of the Spleen THe Spleen which is the Vessel of Melancholy when it is over-charged therewith groweth painful hard and great in such sort that sometimes it is visible The signs are much groaning hasty feeding and a continual looking to the left side only The cure is take Agrimony and boyl a good quantity thereof in the water the Horse shall drink and chopping the leaves small mix them with sweet Butter and give the Horse two or three good round Balls thereof in the manner of Pills CCXXXII Of the Dropsie or evil Habit of the Body THe dropsie is an evil habit of the Body which is ingendred by Surfeits and unreasonable labour altereth the colour and complexion of the Horse and changeth the hairs in such an unnatural sort that a man shall hardly know the Beast with which he hath been most familiar The cure is to take a handful or two of Wormwood and boyl it in Ale or Beer a quart or better and give it the Horse to drink Luke-warm morning and evening and let him drink his water at noon CCXXXIII Of the Collick Belly-ach or Belly-bound The Collick or Belly-ach is a fretting gnawing or swelling of the Belly or great bag proceeding fromwindy humours or from eating of green corn or pulse hot grains without salt or Labour or bread Dough-baked and belly-bound is when a Horse cannot Dung The cure of the Collick or Belly-ach is to take good store of the herb Dill and boyl it in his water that you give the Horse to drink but if he cannot dung then you shall boyl in the Water good store of the herb Fumitory and it will make him dung without danger or hurting CCXXXIV Of the Lask or Bloody-Flux THe Lask or Bloody-Flux is an unnatural Loosness in a Horse's body which being not stayed will for want of other Excrements make a Horse void blood only The cure is to take a handful of the herb Shepherds-purse and boyl it in a quart of strong Ale and when it is Luke-warm take the seeds of Woodroof stamp them and put them in and give it the Horse to drink CCXXXV Of the falling out of the Fundament THis cometh through infinite mislike and weakness The Cure is take Town-cresses and having dryed them to powder with your hand put up the Fundament and then strow the powder thereon after it lay a little Honey thereon and then strow more of the powder with the powder of Cummin and it helpeth CCXXXVI Of Bots and Worms of all sorts THe Bots and gnawing of worms is a grievous pain and the Signs to know them are the Horses oft beating his Belly and tumbling and wallowing on the ground with much desire to lye on his back The Cure is take the seeds bruised of the herb Ameos and mix with it Honey and make two or three Bals and make the Horse swallow them down CCXXXVII Of pain in the Kidneys pain to Piss or the Stone ALL these Diseases spring from one ground which is only Gravel and hard matter gathered together in the Kidneys and so stopping the Conduits of the Urine The signs are that the Horse will only strain to piss and that often but cannot The Cure is to take a handful of Maiden hair and steep it all night in a quart of strong Ale and give it the Horse to drink every morning till he be well This will break any stone whatsoever in a Horse CCXXXVIII Of Pissing of Blood THis cometh with over-travelling a Horse or travelling him sore in the Winter when he goeth to grass The Cure is take Aristolochia Longa and boyl it in a quart of Ale and give it the Horse to drink Lukewarm and give him also rest CCXXXIX Of the Strangullion THis Disease is a soreness in the Horses Yard and an hot burning when he pisseth The Signs are he will piss oft yet but a drop or two at once The Cure is to boyl in the water he drinketh good store of the herb Hogfennel and it will cure CCXL Of the Colt-Evil Muttering of the Yard Falling of the Yard shedding of the Seed ALL these Evils proceed from much Lust in a Horse and the Cure is the powder of the herb Avens and the leaves of Betony stamp them well with White-wine to a moist Salve and anoint the Sore therewith and it will heal all imperfections of the Yard But if the Horse shed his seed then beat Venice Turpentine and Sugar together and give him every morning a good round ball thereof till the seed stay CCXLI. Of the particular Diseases in Mares as Barrenness Consumption rage of Love casting Foles hardness to Fole and how to make a Mare cast her Fole IF you would have a Mare barren Let good store of the herb Agnus Castus be boyled in the water she drinks If you would have her fruitful then boyl good store of Motherwort in the water If she lose her belly which sheweth a Consumption of the womb you shall then give her a quart of Brine to drink Mugwort being boyled therein If your Mare through high keeping grow into extreme Lust so that she will neglect her food through the violency of fleshly appetite as it is often seen amongst them you shall house her for two or three days and give her every morning a ball of Butter and Agnus Castus chopt together If you would have your Mare cast her Fole take a handful of Betony
and boyl it in a quart of Ale and it will deliver her presently If she cannot Fole take the herb horse-mints and either dry it or stamp it and take the powder of the juyce and mix it with strong Ale and give it the Mare and it will help her If your Mare from former bruises or strokes be apt to cast her Foles as many are you shall keep her at Grass very warm and once a week give her a warm mash of drink this secretly knitteth beyond expectation CCXLII. Of drinking Venom as Horse-Leaches Hens-Dung c. IF your Horse have drunk horse-leaches eaten Hens-dung Feathers or such like venemous things which you shall know by his panting swelling or scowring you shall take the herb Sowthistle and drying it beat it into powder and put three spoonfuls thereof into a pint of Ale and give it the Horse to drink CCXLIII Of Suppositories Glisters and Purgations IF your Horse by Sickness strict Diet and too vehement Travel grow dry and costive in his Body as it is ordinary the easiest means in extremity to help him is to give him a suppository The best of which is to take a Candle of four in the pound and cut of five inches at the bigger end and thrusting it up a good way into his Fundament presently clap down his Tail and hold it hard to his Tewel for a quarter of an hour or half an hour and then give him liberty to dung But if this be not strong enough then you shall give him a Glister And that is Take four handfuls of the herb Annise and boyl it in a pottle of running water till half be consumed then take the Decoction and mix it with a pint of Sallet Oyl and a pretty quantity of Salt and with a Glister pipe give it him at the Tewel But if it be too weak then give him a Purgation thus Take twenty Raisins of the Sun stoned and ten Figs slit boyl them in a pottle of running water till it come to a jelly then mix it with the powder of Liquorish Annis-seeds and Sugar-candy till it be like Paste make it into Balls and roll it in sweet Butter and so give it the Horse to the quantity of three Hens Eggs. CCXLIV Of Neesings and Frections THere be two other excellent helps for sick Horses as Frictions and Neesings The first to comfort the outward parts of the Body when the vital powers are astonished the other to purge the head when it is stopt with flegm cold and other thick humours And of Frictions the best is Vinegar and patch Grease melted together and very hot chafed into the Horses Body against the hair and to make a Horse Neese there is nothing better then to take a bunch of Pellitory of Spain and tying it to a stick put it up into the Horses Nostrils and it will make him Neese without hurt or violence CCXLV Of the Diseases in the Eyes as wátery Eyes Blood-shotten Eyes Dim Eyes Moon Eyes Strokes on the Eyes Warts in the Eyes Inflammation in the Eyes Pearl Pin Web or Haw in the Eye UNto the Eye belongeth many Diseases all which have their true Signs and their Names And as touching that which is watery blood-shotten Dim Moon-stricken or Infla med they have all one cure Which is to take Wormwood beat it in a Mortar with the Gall of a Bull strain it and anoint the Horses Eyes therewith and it is an approved Remedy But for a Wart Pearl Pin or Web which are Evils growing in or upon the Eyes to take them off take the juyce of the herb Betony and wash his Eyes therewith and it will waste them away For the Haw every Smith can cut it out CCXLVI Of the Impostume in the Ear Poll-Evil Fistula Swelling after Blood-letting any Galled Back Canker in the Withers Setfast Wens Navel-Gall or any hollow Ulcer THese Diseases are so apparent and common that they need no other Description but their Names and the most certain Cure is to take Clay off a mud or Loam wall strawes and all and boyl it in strong Vinegar and apply it Plaster-wise to the Sore and it will of its own nature search to the bottom and heal it provided that if you see any dead or proud flesh arise that then you eat or cut it away CCXLVII. Of the Vives FOr the Vives which is an Inflammation of the Kernels between the chap of the Neck of the Horse Take a Penny-worth of Pepper Swines grease a Spoonful the juyce of a handful of Rue Vinegar two spoonfuls mix them together and then put it equally into both the Horse's Ears then tye them up with two flat Laces shut the Ears that the Medicine may go down which done let the Horse blood in the Neck and in the Temple-Veins and it is a certain Cure CCXLVIII Of the strangle or any Boyl or Botch or other Impostume whatsoever ALL these Diseases are of one nature being only hard boyls or Impostumes gathered together by evil humours either between the Chaps or elsewhere on the Body The Cure is take Southern-wood and dry it to powder and with Barley-meal and the yolk of an Egg make it into a Salve and lay it to the Impostume and it will ripen it break it and heal it CCXLIX Of the Canker in the Nose or any other part of the Body TO heal any Canker in what part soever it be Take the juyce of Plantain as much Vinegar and the same weight of the powder of Allom and with it anoint the sore twice or thrice a day and it will kill it and cure it CCL Of Stanching of Blood whether it be at the Nose or proceeding from any Wound IF your Horse bleed violently at the Nose and you cannot stanch it then you shall take Betony and stamp it in a Mortar with Salt and put it into the Horses Nose or apply it to the wound and it will stanch it but if he be suddenly taken in riding by the High way or otherwise and you cannot get this Herb you shall then take any Woollen Cloth or any Felt hat and with a Knife scrape a fine Lint from it and apply it to the place bleeding and it will stop CCLI Of Pain in the Teeth or loose Teeth FOr any pain in the Teeth take Betony and seethe it in Ale or Vinegar till half be consumed and wash all the Gums therewith but if they be loose then only rub them with the leaves of Enulacampana or Horse-holm after they have been let blood and it will fasten them CCLII Of Diseases in the mouth as blood-Rifts Liggs Lampras Camery Inflammaytion Tongue burnt or the Barbes IF you find any infirmity in the Horses mouthe as the bloody Rifts which are Chaps or Rifts in the Palat of the Horses mouth The Liggs which are little Pustula's or Bladders within th-Horses Lips The Lampra's which is an excrescence of flesh above the teeth The Camery which are little Warts in the roof of the mouth Inflammation