White Rose Leaves Smallage Hill-wort Succory red Fennel and Cellandine of each half a quarter of a pound wash them clean and steep them well in Whitewine after which distil them and the first water will be like Gold the second like Silver and the third like Balm all which frequently one after another will wonderfully preserve his sight and restore sight when almost lost How to take off the Pin and Web with ease and safety TAke the powder of White-copperas finely sifted half an ounce and the like quantity of White Sugarcandy pulverised and siersed and with a quill blow into the eye grieved every morning as much as will lie upon a groat till you see the Pin and web begin to wast at what time use it every second day and within a while after every third day and in so continuing it will in twenty days take it clean away An approved Receipt for taking away a Film or Skin that covers the sight c. TAke the powder of Alabaster grind it to powder sift it well and blow it into his eyes morning and evening and it will eat off the skin or for want of that take Bay salt and briuse it in a Morter or between two Trenchers and make it up with sweet butter into pellets as big as Pistol Bullets one of which put into the eye grieved and close the lid upon it holding it close with your hand till it be melted and in so doing for ten days successively the Film will disappear To take away the Rhume in a Horses Eyes and clear the sight an approved Receipt TAke butter well salted and mix with it the juice of Houseleek and making it into pellets put it into the Horses Ear on the contrary side and it will draw back the Rhume and cause the effects to cease but you must hold tye or sow up his Ear or he will shake it out To cure swollen Eyes IF the Eye-lids of a Horse are swelled extraordinarily so that the inside turn outward you need do no more unless his eyes are perished or afflicted with Rhume than muffle him up close and keep him warm anointing the place grieved once or twice a day with Rose water in which Sugarcandy and hony have been dissolved and the swelling will abate after which let him blood in the Temples but by no means clip the bladders if any happen on his eye-lids but suffer them to fall off of themselves To stay the Rhume in a Horses Eyes a most excellent Receipt BEat Bolarmoniack into powder and blow it with a quill into your Horses eyes morning and evening but if he refuse to suffer it then mixing it with fresh butter and the powder of White Sugarcandy make it into pellets and put it into his eyes morning and evening holding the lids fast till it is dissolved the which doing five or six days will drive back the Rhume A Second approved Remedy for taking away the skin or white Film from the Eyes BUrn to ashes the roots of black Sallow adding to them the powder of White Sugarcandy and grated Ginger both well siersed and blow them well mixed together into your Horses eyes morning and evening A Particular Receipt for Moon Eyes Dim sight or Eyes afflicted with any pain HEat Lapis Calaminaris red hot and afterwards quench it in Plantain water or Whitewine the which after you have in the same manner done eight or nine times bruise into powder and putting it again into the water or wine it was quenched in add to it half a dram of Aloes and a quarter of an ounce of Camphire reduced into powder which water drop often into his eyes and therewith wash his eyelids A second particular receipt for the cure of soreness in the Eyes and taking away the Pin Web or any infirmity happening to the Eyes by Bruise Brush or the like ROast a Pullets Egg new laid till it become hard then cutting it in sunder long ways take out the yolk and filling the empty place with white Vitriol beaten into powder close the shells together binding them about with a paper and again put them into hot embers till the Vitriol be dissolved then putting them into a Mortar beat and bruise them to mash then strain what remains liquid through a fine cloath and with it wash the Eyes of your Horse twice a day or instead of Vitriol you may use the powder of Myrrh hang the Egg up and suffering it to drop by degrees both of which being exceeding good and most approved remedies for the grievances aforesaid An excellent receipt for taking away any spot in a Horses Eye HAving roasted an Egg into which you have put fine Ginger and Salt and it by the fire made exceeding hard beat into powder at what time having washed the Horses Eyes with eybright water or the juice of Alehoof otherwise called ground-Ivy with a quill blow into the eye grieved as much of the powder as will lie upon a two pence and in so doing five or six times the spot will vanish To take away a Wart on the inside or edge of a Horses Eylid c. MIx burnt Alum and unburnt Copperas beaten into fine powder and well sierced which apply to the head of the Wart and it will cause it to fall away For the clearing and restoring foul or sore eyes when the sight is in most danger an excellent cure MElt Pitch Rosin Mastick and Tachamahaca of each two ounces then dipping Flax or fine Wooll into it lay two parcels plaisterwise to the breadth of half a Crown on either Temple then with a round Iron upon his cheek bone under his eyes burn three or four holes suppleing them then with sweet butter after which having washed a good handful of Cellendine in Whitewine bruise and strain it adding to the juice a third proportion of Womans Milk sweetned with white Sugarcandy well pulverized and sierced and with it Morning and Evening wash and cleanse his Eyes and the putrefaction will not only cease to flow but the sight be wonderfully restored The cause of a Horses often bleeding at the Nose and how to prevent it or stay it c. AMongst young Horses bleeding at the Nose happens by the large quantity of blood they contain which swells and frets the veins that end in that place till it either open them or force its passage by breaking them which proceeds from a corroding humour in the blood which pierceth or eateth the vein in the thinnest place It is likewise occasioned by a stroak cut or any think forcibly thrust up the Nostrils too much straining and the like To prevent which before it happens or stay it when it flows To prevent bleeding at the Nose often burn Frankincense or Assa fetida under his Nose in a Chafingdish and squirt up his Nostrils juice of Houseleek or juice of Garlick To stay bleeding the juice of young Nettles sweetned with Loaf-sugar and squirted up his nostrils is a sure expedient or if that fail
the scab till it bleed then take seven or eight sprigs of dryed Rosemary the like quantity of red Sage a handful of Bay-leaves and the like quantity of Pellitory of the wall adding to them half a pound of Allum powder then boyling them in Canary and Ale to the quantity of two quarts a fourth part of the former only with the liquid part wash the Sorrance Morning Noon and Evening and it will effect the cure How to know when a Horse is pricked and how to cure it THis Sorrance often comes by the negligence of the Farrier by not well pointing the nails well clenching them or driving weak nails that are apt to start aside and sometimes by stubs needles or rusty Iron getting into the foot in travailing to know which observe the Horses halting or pinch his hoof round with pinsers and when you come at the place grieved he will shrink in his foot or if you throw cold water upon the Hoof that part where the foot is grieved will be the soonest dry the which when you perceive take off the shoo and having discovered the cause of the grief draw it forth and opening the hole take Allum Salt and Copperas boyl them in Chamberly then washing therewith the grieved place tent it with Hogs Grease Verdigrease and Turpentine and putting on the shoo again stop his foot well with Cow-dung and by so doing five or six times the cure will be perfected Quinsie or Squinsie its cause and cure THis dangerous distemper both to Horses or Kine is occasioned by cold Phlegmatick humours settling in the neck and throat or many times through excess of blood and not timely bleeding To cure it after you have bled him if the swelling in his throat abate not lay a Poultiss of Mallows Chammomile Groundsil and Harts Tongue under his Chaule well beaten and fryed with Hogs-lard the which having once opened the passage of his throat take White Dogs-turd Roach-Allum and Hony and dissolving them in Milk give him them hot in a drenching horn and two or three hours after give him a horn full of the juice of Cinque foil or Cudweed in which Hyssop and Figs have been boiled and after it a pint of sweet wine the which by repeating three times a day for four or five days together will restore him to his feeding and health Rupture Vncording or Burstenness their cause and cure THese distempers differ but in name being in nature all one known when the Film Rim or Chaul sustaining the Horses Intrals break by excessive straining leaping or other accident insomuch that his Bowels fall into his Cod or Flank and is by many held incurable and indeed for the most part is so yet often by this method Bursten Horses have been cured viz. bring your Horse into a Barn and having gently thrown him upon soft straw by drawing his four legs together with Cords then by throwing them over a beam raise him from the ground with his back downwards and with butter and water or Deers suet well warmed supple his Stones taking them up between your fingers and by degrees dividing them from the Guts putting the Guts in their proper places and having so done tye the stones as near to the belly of Horse as as may be with a linnen string or soft list but so that the string of the Stones may not be bruised then let him down gently and putting him into a warm Stable take Vallerian Rupture-wort the husks of Hazelnuts Cross-wort Cranesbill Cyprus and Elme leaves or Bark Chammock roots beaten to powder and Corn-flag of each a handful bruise and mix them well and give it him to drink in Ale well boyled morning noon and night and suffer him not to eat over much for the space of thirteen days at the end of which take out one or both his Stones if he be bursten on both sides and not too old and by carefully sewing up the Cod and healing it with Oyl of Bays and now and then throwing cold water on it the Rim will knit and the Guts be retained in their due place rendering the Horse firm and fit for moderate labour The Stone in Horses it 's cause and cure THis grief much afflicting Horses comes by sundry means as by bad humours that stop the passage of the Bladder by excessive labour or over much riding foul matter descending upon the Kidnies when purged from the Liver and Spleen vitiating the neck of the Bladder causes hard knops to settle there which make him piss with pain and many times by holding his urine too long when heated by travail it condensates the humours it fiâ—st created into hardness which by the operation of the kidnies in time becomes little Stones or Gravel and may be perceived by his often striving in vain to avoid his urine but cannot at least not freely but in great pain to dissolve and make him avoid which take the Roots of Nettles Parsly Sperage and Dodder of each three ounces bray them well and boyl them in two quarts of Whitewine till a third part be consumed then taking them off the fire put thereto Goats-lard Salt and Olive Oyl of each three ounces strain it and give him a pint of the liquor each morning as hot as is convenient for six or seven mornings together and it will bring away the Gravel c. For want of the aforesaid Medicine take Radish-roots slice them as also Onions and Parsly-leaves of all three to the weight of sixteen ounces an ounce of London Treacle and the like quantity of Eggshells burnt to powder and boyling them in a gallon of spring water till a third part be consumed give it the Horse to drink seven or eight mornings successively or at any other time if the infirmity be grievous The falling out of the Mares Womb or Horses Fundament the cause and how to prevent them THe Womb of a Mare is subject to many defects as Barrenness Falling out Abortion c. mostly caused through intemperateness creating too much moisture and cold or too much fevorish humour or heat and the former of these causes it is that makes the Horses Fundament to fall out something relating to which I have already laid down but for the better and more speedy cure and prevention Take Leeks Bolearmonick Nitrum and Oyl of Cammomil boyl them in a pint of white-wine and a quart of Ale and give it Glister-wise administring it to either of them after the Womb or Fundament is well put up and for several days after give them water wherein Fennegreek Seeds have been boyled permiting him or her to stand warm and dry Wind-Galls what they are and how to cure them THese sorrances are Bladders fill'd with salt watery humours gellied and thick growing mostly upon the Fetlock joynt on each side being troublesome and painful especially in hot weather and the ways hard they proceed from the effects of hard labour overheatings and unseasonable coolings which cause the humours to descend into
of the Horse and stumbling without any visible Sorrance to rid him of which slit him upon the tip of the nose and with your Cornet take up the two great sinews which you shall perceive and cut them in sunder healing them up with oyntment of Earth worms or Marshmallows and he will not for the future be subject to stumble and indeed it is necessary that most young Horses be so served Another in the like case to be observed is when to prevent stumbling you slit the tip of some Horses noses between the nostrils you will find a white flat gristle which being taken up twist till you perceive him draw his hinderlegs close in a manner to his forelegs then with a sharp knife cut of the gristle and heal up the Incision with green oyntment The Colick its cause and cure THe Colick is occasioned by wind in the bowels and from thence it takes its name of Wind Colick causing terrible pains wringings and gripings which you may perceive by the Horses often striking at his belly with his hinder feet as also by his lying down tumbling beating with his feet and loathing or forsaking his meat To cure which take a quart of Whitewine four ounces of Fenegreek seed Bay berries and Pepper of each four ounces of Grains and Ginger each an ounce Water Cresses Sage Senegreen and Mint of each a handful bruise the herbs and beat the spices small in a Morter and having well boiled them in the wine strain them well and adding two spoonfuls of Hony or so much as will sweeten the liquor give it him pretty warm and so doing three mornings and evenings will expel the wind and make the pain to cease The Colt Evil its cause and cure THis distemper is as well subject to a Horse as a Gelding and to the Horse it happens through the extraordinary swelling of the Yard occasioned by too much windiness in the Sinews Arteries or pipe of the Yard which causes the Yard to swell extraordinarily or too much rankness of seed and to a Gelding for defect of natural heat to expell the seed generated to prevent which take the juice of Rhue mixed with Hony boyled in Hogs-grease with Bay leaves and powder of Fenegreek made into an oyntment and with it as warm as may be anoint the sheath If this fail twice thrice or four times using take the leaves of Bettony powder of the herb Anit and stamping them small mix with them Whitewine and anoint or lay them plaister-wise to the place grieved having first washed it clean with Vinegar made warm over a gentle fire as likewise his Cods and Yard and soon after ride him into deep water moving him to and fro to remove the heat of the Genitals till the swelling is abated or if you cannot get these things then put him to a Mare and afterward bathe his Cods and Yard with juice of Housleek Senegreen or the water wherein Rhue holm has been boyled but if through the hardness of the swelling the making water prove impossible or exceeding difficult give him a Drench made of new Ale and Black Sope and wash his Cods with butter and Vinegar made warm or the juice of Hemlock making a plaister of Bean flower and Bolearmoniack tempered with Vinegar or for want of them with wine lees stamped Housleek and Bran and apply it to his Cods and Sheath Consumptions in a Horse the cause and cure OF Consumptions there are two kinds the one a dry kind of a Malady and the other a Consumption of the Flesh the former being occasioned by violent heats and colds with excess of vitious corroding humours descending from the head and falling upon the Lungs known at first by a thin matter flowing from the nose which by degrees becomes gross and thick the which if not prevented will cause a leanness and decay of flesh making his belly become gaunt and clung as if he was famished forbidding the hair to fall off in due season and obliging him to continue a husking wheesing cough being a distemper difficult to cure if not taken in time The latter is a more particular Consumption and wasting of the flesh caused either by violent heats or immoderate labour watering your Horse when he is hot or negligence in the keeper in letting him stand after a journey wet and dirty To cure which take Horehound Wood-bettony Juniper berries Leeks Frankincense Bay-berries Brank-ursin Chian Dandelion of each a like quantity bruise them well and boyl them in a quart of Cannary till a fourth part be consumed then strain and press them well adding to the liquid decoction half a pint of Oyl Olive and pour it down his throat with a Drenching-horn for six days morning and evening or if the season permit you may give him a scouring and put him to grass and before you put him forth give him this Mash made of the broth of a Sheepshead boyled wooll and all and in it half a pound of clarified hony or for want of it Loaf-Sugar Cinamon Conserve of Roses Barberries and conserved Cherries of each an ounce and although he be abroad yet visiting him once a day give him this drink and afterward chase him to and fro for the space of half an hour but not too hard and give him water to drink wherein some Wheatflower or fine Bran has been scattered and if you perceive he mend not upon this then taking him up again give him often change of wholesome meats Mashes and warm waters and as you see occasion Cordial powder or Cordial balls and in a short time unless the distemper have too much consumed him he will return to his pristine strength and vigor The Cold or Poze in a Horses Head its cause and cure THis infirmity proceeds from gross humours and cold distillations according to the proportion of cold taken or moisture of the Brain if the cold be great upon search you will find great kernels under his chaule about the root of his Tongue but if new taken and small then little kernels 'T is a sign likewise that his cold is of no long continuance if he rattle in the head his eyes and nose venting thin mattery humours This cold may be likewise perceived by his holding down his head in the Manger his water when he drinks running out at the nose or between his teeth he chews slimy or nauseous stuff but if you perceive him void foul stinking and thick matter out of his nostrils and cough strongly then signifies it that the cold if not turned is turning to the Glaunders or consumption of the Lungs To cure it either new or old then take these directions Take Moss growing upon a fell'd Oak to the quantity of a handful root of Elecampanum green and sliced and a stick of green Liquorish boyl them in three pints of red Cows milk till the liquor be reduced to a pint and a half to which add a quarter of a pound of sweet butter an ounce of Treacle and
stretch at his length as also to strain in making Urine without any effect and at other times to bite the Rack-staves or what ever is within his reach to remedy which take two ounces of Garlick four ounces of Acrement a handful of Rue and Tormentile bruise them well and put them into three pints of Whitewine then blood your Horse in the Tail and dividing the liquor boyled and strained give him it in equal proportions six mornings successively and it will effect the cure The defect in Horses Lungs the cause and cure MOst diseases of the Lungs proceed from excessive heats or their contraries occasioned by hard riding or evil looking to and if the descending humours so contracted are not timely removed they cause the Lungs to putrefie and rot to know which distemper observe his Flanks and Ribs for if they rise slowly and beat heavily then are the humours contracted by cold and must be speedily removed 't is also to be known by his short drawing of his breath and slow cough as likewise by filthy matter that will upon his lying down and rising up issue out of his mouth and nostrils then to remove the humours take Horse lungwort by some called Mullet a good handful Fennegreek seed two ounces of Madder made into powder an ounce then having shred and bruised the Herbs boyl them in new Ale or Beer and give it the Horse grieved in a Drenching horn for ten or twelve days each morning fasting feeding him afterward with Mashes and giving him warm water with Wheat-bran scattered in it and when you give him his dose at the same time anoint his Breast and Ribs with the Oyl extracted from a Snake and in so doing he will be restored to health The Lethargy or Sleeping evil its cause and cure THis distemper proceeds from Phlegmatick humours which settle about the Brain and so numb it that it causes the Horse to be greatly desirous of sleep even standing or travailing to redress which let him blood in the neck vein and pallate of the mouth and taking a gallon of Spring-water boyl therein Camomile Wheat-bran Mother-wort and put thereto a considerable quantity of Salt and Vinegar which done add to it two ounces of Parsly seed and as much Fennel seed then boyling them well give the water clean strained to your Horse to drink anointing afterward the Pallate of his mouth with Hony and Mustard and by striking or making a noise keep him for twelve hours space from sleeping Moorfoundred what it is and how to cure it THis distemper according to the French is no other than a foundering in the Horses body by the melting of the grease occasioned by excessive heats or not due cooling after travail To cure which having well raked his tail gut with your hand dipped in Olive Oyl give him a Clister made of Camomile Mallows Agarick and Baum all boyled in new milk and well strained Then take a quart of the best Malago and setting it on the fire put into it Cinnamon Liquorish and Anniseeds of each an ounce and three ounces of Hony and give it him as warm as he can receive it then ride him forth a racking pace for an hour or more suffering him to fast after it two or three hours then sift him a pint of Beans and a quart of Oats after which let him have a knop of Hay sprinkled with warm water giving him every other day a Mash of Malt and water and four days after his taking the aforesaid dose let him blood and keep him exceeding warm and you will perceive the grease to come away in greater or lesser quantities proportionable to what is in the Horses body Mattering of the Yard how to cure it as also to prevent shedding of the Seed FOr the first take Roach-allum an ounce Whitewine Vinegar a pint and having dissolved the Allum in the Vinegar and made it lukewarm with a syringe force it into his Yard four or five times a day for three or four days together and it will cure the Rawness and bring away the cause of the grievance For the last take the herb Aramanthus the juice of Bistwort and Plantaine as also that of Comfery red wine and Hogs dung and boyl them together in Verjuice sweeten the liquid part with Sugarcandy or Mollossus and having given it him to drink ride him into cold water up to the belly and suffer him there to stand for an hour To cure the Melancholy in a Horse commonly called the Stagger or the Stavers an excellent Receipt THe Horse troubled with the aforesaid distemper must as soon as by his giddiness and heavy eyedness you perceive it be let blood and then take Hazel-nuts Butter and Salt of altogether to the quanty of a pound weight and having broken the Nut-shells put the kernels into the butter and salt when they are hot over the fire and add thereto half an ounce of Assa fetida and half a quartern of wine-vinegar into which well mixed put small raggs spunges or fine flax and with them so dipped stop his ears sewing them up to prevent his shaking them out and in twenty four hours the distemper will vanish For want of the former ingredients take bitter Almonds two ounces of Oxes Gall two drams the Roots of Black Helebore vulgarly called Bearsfoot an ounce dryed and pulverised the Grains of Castorum two drams Vinegar a quarter of a pint Varnish a spoonful and boyling them together put them into the Horses Ears stopping them close or for want of the aforesaid thing use Garlick bruised in Aqua-vitae Imposthumes their cause and cure IMposthumes are divers though in quality they little differ being for the most part generated of evil blood and gross humours the which at first cause swellings and if not then prevented turn to running and loathsome sores many times they are occasioned by unfortunate blows and sometimes by hurt received from strait Halters and Harness or taking cold the symptoms by which they may be discovered are by the much running of the Horses Ears and Eyes the heat in his Ears and Temples his unwillingness to be handled thereabouts and dullness and must if they be far gone be brought to a head and broke before they can be cured to perform which take the roots of Mallows and White Lillies of each three ounces bruise them well and mixing them with Hogs-grease and Linseed Meal boyl them well and upon Flax or Leather apply them plaisterwise to the place grieved and it will both ripen and break it Now there are hot and cold Imposthumes the cold one will not break so soon as the hot therefore when you find it is come to a head which you may perceive by its throbbing open it with a sharp hot Iron and let out the corruption To cure either hot or cold Imposthume when broken or opened take Dragons blood Gum Arabick Bees-wax Mastick Greek-pitch Turpentine and Frankincense of each an ounce melt them and plaister-wise apply them to the
drawing forth the Stones as far as may be then putting the strings between a cleft stick sear them asunder with a hot Iron and melt on the tops of them Bees-wax or Rosin anoint them afterwards with butter and put them up keeping the Swine so gelded exceeding warm for a month after giving them warm Pollard and ground Beans The Sow-pigs must not be spaied till eight or nine months old at soonest and then it must be done with great caution especially in cutting the slit and sowing it up after the Matrix is taken out for if the Guts be touched in cutting or stitched to the side in sowing the Sow will either soon dye or pine away If you would have your Hog suddenly fat put him up in a close Stie suffer him to lye dry and have as little light as may be give him half a peck of Pease morning noon and evening or for want of them Beans Mast and Acorns after each quantity let him drink warm water into which wheat-bran has been scattered or if you are not stored with the aforesaid meats give him Pollard and Carrots but by no means Offal or Garbidge for that renders the flesh unwholesome and in so doing your Hog will be very good meat for Pork in ten or twelve days and for Bacon in sixteen but as all countries are not alike stored with food for Swine other meats than what have been expressed must be given them in like manner Sickness in Swine how to know it and the cure for Head-Ach Swine-pox and the distemper called the eating Yarrow THere are few beasts more subject to distempers than the Swine though their distempers are not so many To know when they are sick the hanging of their Ears dullness of Countenance want of Appetite and the like are certain signs but a more certain than these is suddenly to draw half a score or more Bristles out of the Hogs back and if the ends or roots appear white then is the Hog in good health but if black bloody or spotted then is he afflicted with some internal sickness or has received some great bruise To cure the Head-ache commonly called the Sleepy-evil hold open his mouth with a Gagg and with a Pen-knife or Fleam blood him under the Tongue after which boyl Savin Rue and Cropel-stone in fair water of each a proportionable quantity give it him to drink being strained or if he refuse to drink put a quart of Malt into it and he will receive it For the distemper called the Swine-pox give him an ounce of Mithridate boiled in a quart of water sweetned with an ounce of English Hony or if that fail give him a pint of Lambs blood warm adding thereto a quarter of a pint of Olive Oyl and an ounce of beaten pepper There are divers herbs dangerous to Hogs as Mad-chervil Millfoil and the like of which if a Hog eat he presently becomes sick To remedy which boyl Wild-Cucumbers and Anniseeds in water and set it before the Swine lukewarm that by drinking it he may vomit up the infectious humour generated by eating those unwholsom herbs and restore his health Diseases in the Eyes of Swine Agues Fevers Measels Rhumes and Catarrhs their respective Remedies If your Swine be afflicted with any specks spots Rheums or blood-shot in his Eyes for the specks or spots Take burnt-Allum and the powder of burnt-eggshel and blow into his eyes and afterwards wash them with juice of Bettony and Housleek or for want of them with the juice of Rue or Herbagrace if with Rheums take an ounce of Bolearmoniack beat it into powder add to it a like quantity of grated bread and of the juice of Cellendine Eye-bright and Whitewine as much as will make them exceeding moist when blowing into his Eyes the powder of round Bithwort-roots or for want of them the powder of the yolk of an Egg apply the aforesaid ingredients to the Eye or Eyes plaisterwise and by renewing it twice or thrice the grievance will vanish you must bind it hard on or the Swine will soon throw it off If the Swine be troubled with Ague or Fever let him blood in the Tail and give him water to drink wherein Tree-foil and Wood-sorrel have been boiled and keep him close The measels come through excessive or unwholesome feeding and are discerned by knots or pimples under the Swines tongue and weakness of his hinder parts at what time let him bath in Sea water or water made excessive salt give him that water and bruised Garlick with his meat also the Husks of Grapes and Gooseberries if they may be had or the Peels of Lemons or Citterns If your Swine be afflicted with Rheums or Catarrhs burn Brimstone under his nose or Storax if you can get it then bruise Garlick well make it up into Pills with salt and Butter and oblige him to swallow two or three of them Plague or diseases in the Milt Imposthumes or swellings in the Throat Neck swelling their cure as also an excellent Remedy to prevent vomiting IF your Swine by eating Carrion or other nauseous meats be afflicted with the Plague or Milt swelling which is known by his dullness uneasiness burning and the like take new Hony two ounces Turpentine an ounce Brimstone-flower an ounce juice of Garlick a quarter of a pint boyl them in a quart of small beer and give it him as hot as he can well indure and afterwards keep him close in his Stie If your Swine be troubled with Imposthumes or swellings in the throat make him a drink of Chammomil Mallows and May-weed boiled in Vinegar sweetened with brown Sugar and give it him warm laying to the swelling a plaister of Tarr Salt and Rieflower or for any Imposthume in the body you may use the same Medicine for any swelling in the Neck or Throat if you cannot presently get the aforesaid things let him blood If your Swine be addicted to vomiting occasioned by eating Hemlock Hens-dung or the like or through two much moisture let him fast a day then give him Bran and water wherein Dillseeds and Allum have been boiled and it will close up the mouth of the stomach and prevent for the future his vomiting Colds or Coughs Belly-Ach Lameness Diseases in the Gall and Flux their Cure c. IF your Swine be afflicted with Cold or Cough which indeed is troublesome and does greatly impoverish those creatures Take six or seven ounces of live hony a quarter of a pint of the juice of Lemons a handful of Coltsfoot and Lungwort an ounce of the powder of Liquorish and half a pint of Olive Oyl boyl then in a Gallon of beer or fair water and give him the liquid part to drink very warm morning and evening three or four days successively not exceeding a pint at a time If your Swine be afflicted by the Belly-Ache which is occasioned either by much wind or evil feeding Take of Black-Pepper an ounce Hony two ounces Anniseeds two ounces boyl them in a quart of Whitewine and give it him hot and in twice so doing provided he take the dose fasting it will cure him In case of Lameness by Sprain Stroak Ulcer Thorn Stroak or the like when the bone is rightly place the Thorn Splint or Stub c. pulled out take a quarter of a pint of French-wine half an ounce of Turpentine the like quantity of Oyl of Roses an ounce of Hony and the like quantity of Mutton suet boyl them till they come to a thickness and spreading them plaisterwise apply them hot to the place grieved If your Swine be afflicted by the overflowing of the Gall take of Bolearmoniack an ounce a like quantity of Hony and Turmerick beaten into powder a dram of Saffron and of the seeds of Mellions half an ounce boyl them in two quarts of sweet wort and give him a pint for four mornings together If he be afflicted with the Flux or looseness take a quart of Whitewine a handful of Rosecake half a pint of Milk an ounce of Galls and an ounce of Ginger boyl them together give him the liquid part suffering him to feed for two or three days upon dry meat as Pease Beans Bran or the like To kill Lice prevent Thirst and an excellent Receipt for an Oyntment to be used in case of fractured bones dislocated or swelled Joynts c. IF your Swine be afflicted with Lice or Ticks anoint with Linseed Oyl and flower of Brimstone if with Maggots in any sore place use Tarr and Sope. To prevent excessive Thirst which through the heat of the Swines body causes Fevers in Summer time suffer your Hogs to bath in cool water driving them thither often for that purpose To make the Oyntment for fractured bones c. Take sheeps suet three ounces Venice Turpentine and Bees-wax of each half an ounce Galbâ—num and Storax of each a dram Olivâ— Oyl half a pint boyl them inâ—â— an ointment and use them as you see occasion And thus Reader I have performed my promise as I well hope to your satisfaction FINIS
c. p. 315 The Head-ache Giddiness loss of Cudd diseases in the Eyes Agues in Lambs or Sheep Rheums Catarrhs diseases in the Eyes or Teeth Boyls Aposthumes and Vlcers their respective cures p. 317 Saint Anthonies Fire Rot or Plague Diseases of the Lungs Scab or Itch Cough Swallowing Spiders or any venom and Belly swelling their respective cures p. 320 Lame Claws Maggots and Lice broken or bruised joints c. how to order p. 322 A Treatise of Swine The Marks whereby to know a good breed and how to procure it p. 323 When the Sow ought to be covered the time of Spaying and Gelding and how with little charge to make Swine fat p. 324 Sickness in Swine how to know it and the cure for Head-Ach Swine-pox and the distemper called the eating Yarrow p. 326 Diseases in the Eyes of Swine Agues Fevers Measels Rhumes and Catarrhs their respective Remedies p. 328 Plague or diseases in the Milt Imposthumes or swellings in the Throat Neck swelling their cure as also an excellent Remedy to prevent vomiting p. 329 Colds or Coughs Belly-Ach Lameness Diseases in the Gall and Flux their Cure c. p. 331 To kill Lice prevent Thirst and an excellent Receipt for an Oyntment to be used in case of fractured bones dislocated or swelled Joynts c. p. 333 THE Introduction SEeing divers have undertaken to treat about Horses c. those most excellent of Animal Creatures I have not thought it amiss from long experience to lay down as I well hope to the satisfaction of the skilful reader such perfect Rules and Methods to order and mannage Horses in all their useful capacities as have been hitherto but lightly touched by such as have made essays in the like nature for as the Horse may worthiliest challenge place as the noblest and goodliest the necessariest and trustiest Beast that we use in our service and since he serveth to so many ends notwithstanding much may have been spoken on that Subject yet it is not doubted but in that as on all other Subjects where so large a Field is given to treat something material may be omitted by those who have travailed therein that may occur to the memory and deliberate judgment of those that come after them For as all Arts are bettered by long Experience and improved by time and industry this amongst the rest worthy the Studies and Labour of the most industrious must needs admit of variety and afford new matter of discovery Therefore Reader I shall no longer trespass upon your Patience but to satisfie your expectation open the Cabinet wherein are contained such rarities as are worthy the notice of the most Experienced and Learned upon Earth and since Horses serve for sundry purposes as Pleasure Profit and War in Racing Traveling Hunting servile labour Charging in the Field and the like I shall first declare how they ought to be bred and at first chose as most fit and promising to the uses they are designed for and so proceed to each particular relating to mannagement Ordering Cure c. THE Compleat Horseman OR Gentlemans Delight The first consideration in relation to Pasture for Horses c. THe first thing to be considered in Breeding is the commodiousness of the Ground wherein the Horses Mares and Colts are to run which must in no wise be too rank of Grass nor over sparing but a firm sweet Soil situate in a wholsome Air somewhat ascending inclosed with Quicksets and spreading Trees the better to shelter your Beasts from the wind or heat of the Sun Nor let your Mares Colts or Horses continue long in one Pasture but put them into fresh Pasture and let the vicissitude be so often as occasion requires or as you find them uneasie which will appear ether by their carelesness in feeding attempting to leap the Hedges Ditches or making continually towards the Gate and looking through it or over it The Summer Pastures must be shady as aforesaid and those you intend to winter them in accommodated with a Hovel Hay-rick Barn Stable or some convenient house to shelter them from the stormy blasts especially the Colts who are by nature tender the first year Directions and Rules about the choice of Horses THe next thing to be considered is the choice of Stallions and Mares First let your Stallion have hoofs hard and sound round and hollow to keep the feet from the Ground his Legs even and straight his knees round flexible and small his Thighs large and well brawned his Breast great and broad his neck soft and broad bending Arch-wise his Main thick and for the most part falling on the right side his Head small and lean for a great head betokens a dull and heavy Jade his Mouth ever moist his Eyes great and bloody or rather fiery standing as it were out of his head which is a sign of quickness and liveliness his Ears short and standing upright his Nostrils wide his Shoulders large and straight the sides turning inwards the ridge bone over the shoulders being somewhat high his Sides deep and well knit behind his Loyns broad his Belly gaunt his Buttocks full of flesh his Tail long brisly and curled these being the tokens of a good Stallion and indeed of a good Horse for all services the contrary properties denoting badness And now I shall proceed to the description of a good Mare for breeding first observe she be not subject to diseases nor above three or four years old let her have a fair forehead lively eyes standing ears a large womb a bright colour and well metled gentle and easie to be handled for wild Mares are too apt to destroy their Colts in their bellies and when foaled will not easily brook the weaning of them How to oblige a Mare that is unwilling to take the Horse to be covered when and in what manner she ought to be covered and how afterwards to be used IF your Mare be backward to take the Horse which will appear by her biting and kicking at him then turn to her a stone Horse of small stature who by his nimble running about her and playing with her will soon wooe or oblige her to gentleness so that she will suffer her self to be covered which willingness perceived take away the said Horse and the next morning about Sunrising put to her your Stallion having been well provendered but suffered to drink little put him to her in a close fenced ground where she will in a short time permit him to cover her the which when he has twice or thrice done let her graze but keep her from water taking the Horse from her whom you must rub down and well provender till Evening at what time turn him loose to your Mare again and let him cover her as often as he pleaseth unless you perceive him too robust or furious that thereby he may suâ—tain injury The Mare thus covered unless she be greatly desirous of his company a third time you need not put him to her
of your Horse to set a full bodied man upon him whose weight will so ballance him that he cannot let his feet fall from such a height or with so strong a spring to jolt the Rider by reason he will not be capable of lifting them so high Another way to oblige him to an easie Trot is by loading him at his first bereaking with heavy shoos which will make him Trot more deliberately and with less shaking his body to offend his Rider As for Galloping it is divided into two kinds viz. Hand-gallop and Fullgallop or Full-speed to either of which a skillful rider by the mannagement of the rein and use of Whip or Spur may oblige a free Horse at his pleasure Wherfore I shall no longer insist on them but conclude this part of Horsemanship the most material of all others and from it I shall proceed to advise the keeper what in his place is most convenient to be done both for the credit of himself and the advantage of his Master Rules to be well considered and exactly observed by all that undertake the care of good Horses AMongst other things appertaining to a Horse good looking to is not the least for if he fare never so well if he be not carefully looked after at all convenient seasons he will not thrive therefore for their better understanding to whom such offices appertain I shall lay down these following Rules First Rising in Summer-time about Sun rising and in Winter-time by break of day enter the Stable having over-night prepared three pints or thereabouts of dry Oats well sifted and added to them a pint of split Beans give them your Horse the which when he has eaten fall to dressing him currying him over with your Iron Comb leaving no part undone then with your dusting cloth dust him over or for want of that with a Horse tail after which with your French brush beginning at his forehead proceed by degrees to rub every part of him leaving not so much as the breadth of an inch untouched throughout him then dust him again and with your wet hand lay and smooth his hair then drying your hand dry the wet places with the same not forgetting to cleanse his Sheath Cods Yard Tuel Forebowels Ears Nostrils and all other places that are subject to sweat or filth this done with your hair-cloth rub him over in all parts but especially his Head Cheeks Face and Eyes the top of his forehead and between his chaps then with a woollen Cloth kept clean for that purpose rub him over again in all parts and lastly comb down his Main and Tail The Horse thus put into good order Saddle him and lead him out of the Stable where mounting his back ride him gently to water but so that you may a little warm his stomach then having permitted him to drink a considerable draught Rack him gently ere you bring him into the Stable having done that though not made him sweat bring him into the Stable having his cloaths ready as soon as you have rubbed him down put them on and so let him stand for the space of an hour at which time give him two quarts of Beans and Oats mingled as aforesaid which being eaten toss into his Rack a hard knop of hay and let him bite upon it till noon noon being come furnish him with the like quantity of Beans and Oats and the like knop of Hay if the former knop be eaten or else not Evening being come carefully dress him after the same manner as in the morning you did and so ride him to water warming him before you permit him to drink as likewise afterwards bring him into the Stable clothing him and rubbing him down without any alteration and after an hours standing give him Beans Oats and Hay to the quantity aforesaid that is three pints of Oats one of spelt Beans and a knop of Hay and let him stand till Nine of the Clock at night at what time renewing his Bait and tossing up his Litter leave him till morning How to order your Horse when you design him for Sport or Travail And how in and after Travel Sport c. WHen you intend to take a journey see the day and night before that your Horse have his due proportion of meat and be well rubbed down clean Littered and served with warm water in the Stable without leading him abroad and either with Trotters oyl Neatsfoot-Oyl or Dogs Greace which it behoves you to have in a readiness supple the joynts of fore and hinderlegs it being warmed over a fire which will not only make him nimble in his Travail but hold out much better than otherwise he would In the morning let him have his Beans and Oats but no Hay If you find him lively and mettlesome give him no water before you ride out but being mounted ride him a mile or two a racking pace and when you find him well heated ride him as you please either Amble Trot or Full-speed you cannot hurt him but be sure to observe when you come into your Inn that you with your Glazing Knife ere you rub him down take off the sweat the knife so called is made of an old Sword blade or a piece of a Scithe after which rub him down and cleanse him as you have been formerly shewed Then he having eaten his allowance of meat which must for conveniencies sake be double what at once you are to give him when he stands idle you must if you find him any thing hot give him warm water but if he be indifferent cool cold water will not prejudice him Having after a journey heat or the like brought home your Horse hot or tyred bring him not into the Stable till he be pretty well dryed and cooled by moderate walking when being entred the Stable and tyed up to the Rack rub him down as you have been shewed before and girt his cloaths fast about him Tucking some drie wisps between his body and the Girths and when he has stood on the Bridle for the space of two hours toss a knop of Hay into the Rack whilst you prepare your Oats and Beans to the quantity of two quarts amongst which it will not at all be amiss but rather profitable if you mix half a pint of Hempseed well cleansed and at night when he comes to receive his last bait give him warm water mixed with a small quantity of fine Oatmeal and so tossing up his Litter let him rest till Morning As to washing and walking your Horse after a journey I hold them both dangerous the former occasioning surfeits and the latter contagious colds turning into the Glanders and other both troublesome and noysome infirmities But if he be extraordinary dirty take a pail of warm water and having first scraped off the dirt rub him with a wet brush till he become clean If he be hot and not fitting to be Stabled then ride him gently up and down till you find him temperate and cool
Oats before you put on his Bridle and give him no Hay at any time but what he eats out of your hand whether it be one two or three handfuls at a time according as he is disposed to eat it it matters not when he has eaten his Oats bridle him and ride him forth then let his airing waterings and his being brought home be nothing different from his usage in the first fortnight and when you return with him give him another quart of Oats or if it be near three pints if his stomach serve him to eat them it matters not and let him take the Hay out of your hand as aforesaid then toss up his Litter dress him at all points letting him stand on his Bridle an hour and half before he is rubbed throughly And now in his feeding this more than formerly must be observed take a stale loaf of bread of three days old at least The manner of making of it is thus Grind three Pecks of Beans with one Peck of Wheat into fine flower or Meal dressed through an indifferent fine range and made up with sweet Yest and a little spring water kneaded very painfuly and throughly and suffer it then to lie in the trough a space to rise and become light then knead it again and so make it into loaves as big as sixpeny ones and let them soak well in an Oven then taken out hot turn them the up side down and suffer them in that manner to cool Three days after the baking and not before for fear of surfeiting your Horse you may cut the bread into thin shivings and laying it a while to dry put in amongst the Oats crumbling it small and give it your Horse not exceeding more bread than a pound and a half at a time the Oats you mix it with being carefully sifted This Bait given in the morning first of all you may about Eleven of the Clock give him another portion of Bread and Oats not differing from the former and use the like ceremonies in dressing and rubbing him never forgetting to cleanse the Stable if occasion require it This done let him rest for the space of two hours and then again visit him and give him a like dose and so the fourth meal c. nothing being omitted in his dressing Airing Watering or Heats unless the latter be prevented by the weather as aforesaid On the heating days observe that before you lead your Horse forth you must only give him his quantity of Oats without either Bread or Hay and be sure to cool him well before you bring him into the Stable and when he is in let him be well dressed and warmly cloathed standing upon his Bridle an hour ere you give him his Oats which being well ordered must not exceed a quart after the eating of which having a Muzzel ready washed put it on and so without any more ceremony permit him to rest till about nine in the evening and about nine coming to him after you have dressed and tossed up his Litter give him a quart of Oats but no Bread nor Hay Then tucking him up with soft wisps let him rest till the morning following Now since it is come to my turn to speak of the Muzzel I shall for the better satisfaction of my Horse-keeper discourse something relating to them as to their use in general and goodness in particular Of Horses Muzzels their use and goodness THe use of the Muzzel is to prevent the Horse from feeding upon his Litter biting or gnawing the boards Rack-staves or Manger licking Loam-walls eating of Hen-dung or any filthy or noisome thing that may impair his health or hinder his feeding As for Muzzels there are divers kinds and divers fashions some useful and profitable and others exceeding hurtful of these in their order The Muzzel made of Leather and stamped full of holes for divers reasons ought to be rejected First forasmuch as it is noisome and offensive be it of what leather it will Secondly if it be made of Allomed Leather as often it happens it causes pains in the Horses head Thirdly if it be liquored the grease causes dulness and makes the Horse loath his meat rendering him sick and uneasie preventing his rest and to his prejudice making him retain his dung longer than otherwise he would Another Muzzel there is made of Packthread knit indifferent close at the bottom and widening upwards to the knitting about the nape of the neck and this if it be made of sweet and well dried and twisted Packthread is the most proper best and commodious for Summer The third and last sort which I shall here mention is made of double Canvas having a round bottom bared over with small Tape in the manner of a chequer leaving square holes about a quarter of an inch each way for the Horse to take Air at and fastened by loops and strings to the nape of his neck and this is most proper for Winter but observe that both this and the Packthread one must be often washed and made clean lest they become noisome and unsavory An account of what further remains to be done the second fortnight THe discourse relating to the Muzzels occasion'd my abrupt breaking off before I had finished my second fortnight waving that digression I shall proceed The first heating day past the second morning after coming to the Stable if you find your Horse laid permit him to take his ease but if on his feet rub a quart of Oats between your hands having first diped them in Bear or Ale and give them your Horse but not too moist Having eaten the Oats uncloath and dress him as has been shewed then hanging up his Muzzel put on his Bridle permitting his breast and body cloths to remain on drawing his head aloft and putting into his mouth a new laid Egg which you must oblige him to swallow and after it about half a pint of Beer or Ale then lead him forth causing him to empty himself upon the cast Litter or by smelling to old dung When taking his back rack him gently for a mile or two then put him to a harder pace as a hand-gallop or the like and bring him to the starting post if there be any one appointed or if not to some other post near the place where you are to perform your Race and there alighting take of the body and breast cloaths putting on the Saddle again without them and mounting him agin make him smell to the said post as likewise to the weighing post then run him at three quarters speed from the beginning of the intended Race to the end if you perceive he will hold it without pain or loss of wind but if you perceive it troublesome to him then slacken your pace and so by degrees you will oblige him to perform that with delight which otherwise would prove irksome to him and above all observe narrowly upon what ground he best delighteth to run whether it be smooth hilly
as Waterings hot Rheumes Haws Pin and Web Pearls blood-shotten and the like The opening the Palate-veins cures or pervents the Lampass or inward sickness as Stavars Anticor Yellows Drowsiness Surfeits Tirings and many times cureth the Strangles Quinsie Swelling of the kernels Pustles Inflammation or Glaunders especially if you cause him to drink the blood mixed with a little Bay-salt The next veins opened help the Yellows Farcins Stavars Mangies Agues Feavours Surfeits Scabs Glaunders and the like and often prevent sickness in your Horse or Mare The opening the palate or breast veins prevent or help the Anticor Moore-foundering occasioned by molten grease contracted in the body by hard riding it likewise preventeth diseases in the Liver Lungs and other internal parts is convenient to be done upon any hurt or sprain in the Shoulder to prevent Lameness The opening the two thigh veins helpeth foundering in the forefeet Splint Screw-ringbone Mallender or the like infirmity To bleed the four Shackle veins before is good against the Crown-scab Quitter-bone and the like distemper incident to the feet of a Horse or Mare To bleed the Spur-veins is excellent good for the Moore-founder Farcine in the side swelling under the belly or the like The Toe-veins being opened do help Frettizing foundering Hoof-bound or any grief occasioned by the Horses beating his Hoofs upon hard stony way Bleeding the two thigh-veins behind easeth the grief of the kidnies swelling in the hinder legs Foundering Scratches pissing of Blood occasioned by overstraining or the weakness of the Reins Back or Belly and infirmity in the Guts as likewise the Curb Spavin and such other distempers or griefs as proceed from rankness or impurity of Blood To open the Shackle veins behind is exceeding good to prevent foundering or any pain the Horse is subject to have in his feet To open the Flank-veins is exceeding good in case of a Feavour Swelling in the Stones Poverty or the Felt-worm And lastly to bleed the Tail-vein often prevents the Mange Scabs Itch and falling off of the Hair So that the number of veins that are usually opened upon divers occasions are Thirty the opening of which greatly contribute to the health of the Horse or Mare not only by preventing distempers as has been before said but frequently without any other application by taking away the effects cause the grief to cease or at least prepare the body of the Horse the better to receive such effectual medicines as will work his cure and dispose outward wounds bruises and the like to such a temper that they heal without much difficulty What seasons are best to let blood in IF the Horse be in great danger you need not expect the critical times but let him blood presently but if otherwise observe these following days viz. the third and fifteenth of January The fourth and ninth of February The seventeenth and eighteenth of March. The tenth and sixteenth of April The first and thirteenth of May The fifteenth and twentieth of June In July and August forbear letting blood unless upon some urgent occasion In September bleed him on the eleventh and twenty-eighth day In October on the eight and twenty third In November on the fifth and sixteenth In December on the fourteenth and twenty sixth these days being by all the experienced Farriers holden the best for sundry regards but especially in respect to the signs which are these and thus govern viz. Aries the head Taurus the neck Gemini the shoulders Cancer the stomach Leo the heart Virgo the guts and belly Libra the reins and buttocks Scorpio the privities Sagittarius the thighs Capricorn the knees Aquarius the legs and Pisces the feet from which note that it is not at all safe to let blood in that part where the sign is predominant Of the bones of a Horse and how placed IN the body of a Horse the Bones are these viz. 40 teeth his head Bones comprehending the crooks and handles of his Scull although they are compiled of part and parcel of other Bones likewise two flat handles which from the Palate and Fork or Throat have five his breast-bone and fifty two bones in his Chine his Ribs short and long are thirty six his fore legs and fore feet are composed of 44 Bones and the hinderlegs and feet of 40 so that the whole structure of his body as to Bones is computed to consist of 157. or as some say one hundred fifty nine Of the four Humours Sympathising with the four Humours incident to all Creatures IT is not the least part of the Farriers Office to consider and well understand the nature and qualities of the four Elementary Humours that go to the composition of all creatures And first as the four Elements viz. Fire Air Water and Earth give life and Nutriment to all living creatures So the four Humours viz. Choler Blood Phlegm and Melancholy are the principal Agitators in the bodies of all Creatures and as it were compose them or at least preserve them for without either no creature can subsist Choler by reason of its heat being alluded to Fire Blood by reason of its heat and moisture to Air Phlegm by reason of its coldness and moisture to Water and Melancholy by reason of its cold and dryness to Earth as for Choler its seat is in and near the Liver which by reason of its heat and dryness accords with the blood which has its fountain in the Liver and from thence disperses it self throughout the whole body nourishing and preserving it in all parts Phlegm has its chief seat in and about the Brain that seat of life altogether affecting Cold. Melancholy occupieth the Spleen being the gross and excremental part of blood and choler descending from the Liver As for the Offices or dispositions of these humours they are four viz. Choler causeth concoction and voiding of Excrements Blood nourishes the body Phlegm gives motion to the joynts And Melancholy disposeth to appetite creating a good stomach How to know by the Colour of a Horse to which of the four aforesaid Humors he is most inclinable and how thereupon to order him for the prevention or curing such distempers as he is most subject to TO know the better to prepare your Medicines necessary to be given upon sundry occasions it is first necessary that you know which of the four aforesaid humours is most predominant in your Horse which cannot better be discerned than by his Colour or complexion note then if he be cole-black without any white a bright Sorrel or an Iron-gray unchangeable that will neither turn to a Flea-bitten White or Daple gray then is he most subject to Choler by reason of the great heat in him often incident to inflammation of the Liver Yellows and Pestilential Feavours and in that case you must to prevent these distempers give him medicines to purge Choler but let them not be of a quality too much operating lest they impair his strength to that degree that he never after recover it
knots under the Caul and many times by the inflammations of the Kernels and swellings as high as the roots of the Ears attended by a moist and inward sounding cough and the like If the sickness be occasioned by a surfeit taken after the manner aforesaid then the signs or symptoms are violent pains in the head so that he will not by reason of the dullness it occasions be able to hold it up to the Rack His Eyes will likewise appear dull and sunk in his Head his Ears pricked up and the tops of them cold as also his upperlip and sheath Reeling and Staggering as he goes the which if it be delayed will turn to Madness and that Madness be known by his eager biting the Manger or Rackstaves and often beating his head against the Wall you may likewise know whether the distemper has tainted the Brain by the yellowness of his Eyes Lips and Tongue The symptoms to know accidental sickness occasioned by wounds and the like are unusual Sweats tremblings a sweat or Froth at roots of his Ears upon the Flanks behind the Shoulders and against the Heart at othertimes glowing and burning in the Temples against the Heart and inside of the fore-legs and of the hinderlegs dry and hot in the Mouth inflammation in the Tongue a loathing of meat and desire of cold water in which after he hath drunk his fill he will be desirous to hold his mouth Now to prevent any of these sickness if you find him a little distempered or any thing inclining to be out of order let him blood and for three mornings successively give him a Diapente-drink and keeping him warm let him fast for three hours after then give him a Mash of Beans Bran and Oats and a little knop of Hay but if it so happen that you are unprovided with Diapente which no Farrier ought to be then take a handful of Celendine wash it well roots and leaves adding to it Wormwoord and Rue half a handful of both boil them in a pottle of ALE or Beer till they come to the quantity of a quart to which well strained put half a pound of sweet-butter and two ounces of Treacle which ingredients well mixed give him blood warm If you would fortifie your Horse against any distemper then observe all the twelve rules before laid down relating to health and long life or continuance and moreover if you intend to put him to Grass after he hath long stood in the House then having let him blood every day abate of his cloaths till you have brought him to none thereby to render him hardy and able to indure cold but be sure you put him not into wet Pasture where damp and noisome Air arise from Ditches Rivers Fens or Quagmires and before you turn him out of the Stable for three mornings successively give him drink made as followeth The Drink to be given before Grass OF Aristolochia Bayberries Myrrh Gentian and shavings of Ivy take of each one once bruise them severally so that they may be sierced through a fine sieve and then weighed to a just and equal quantity the which you must give him in Muscadel Mallago or for want of them warm A L E or Beer viz. In a pint and a half of the two former put three spoonfuls of the powder or the like quantity into a quart of the latter How to order your Horse upon taking him up from Grass to prevent sickness OBserve when you take up your Horse that he be throughly dry not damp either by rain cold dews or sweat and let him not stay abroad longer than St. Bartholomews day unless the weather is exceeding clear and warm and if so you may suffer him to run the first of September but not longer for after that cold dews fall raw damps arise and the heart of the Grass faileth if you through neglect take him up wet it will subject him to manginess and if you suffer him to continue abroad longer than the times specified the grass instead of nutriment will breed could Phlegmatick humours and putrefied blood and for a week or more after he is taken up give him no immoderate heats nor Travail lest thereby you melt the grease within him his fat gotten at grass being so tender that the least extraordinary motion dissolveth it whereby if the blood happen to be inflamed it will indanger his falling into a mortal sickness which happening often ends in Death when you have him in the stable let him blood upon the next blooding day according to the blooding days prescribed then being well shod give him the drink the same with what you gave him at your putting him out and let him be kept in a clean warm Stable and well looked to both as to his dressing and diet Directions to cleanse your Horse after taking up for comeliness and healths sake THe day being fair and warm three or four days after your Horse is taken up lead him abroad and gently rubbing him down to take of the loose hairs anoint him with sope and then with warm water wash him all over rubbing him with a Spunge or Linnen-cloth but beware no sope gets into his Mouth Eyes Ears or Nostrils After you have indifferently well cleansed him rub him hard with a dry Woollen-cloath then soaping him over again rub him as aforesaid which done take Buck-Lee and a hard wisp and wash him clean from froth or foam and afterward with a Woollen-cloth exceeding dry leaving no wet hair about him lead him into the Stable cloathing him by degrees till you have wrapped him up in all his cloaths This way is many times used as well to conceal stollen Horses as for the Horses health for by so rubbing the Horse is so altered in colour slickness and shape that the owner without extraordinary prying cannot directly challenge him How to prepare your Horse for any Medicine in case you find the distemper has effectually seised him OBserve that two days before you intend to administer the potion whether Pill Powder or Drench composed of simples that you permit him to eat neither Hay nor Straw or indeed any hard meat not admitting of easie digesture thereby to hinder the operation of the Physick and for twelve hours before keep him from all manner of meats for emptiness gives a free operation to the purgation when fullness by obstructing it may turn the force thereof upon the vitals and thereby do much harm to the Horse The safest meat to prepare him is either Rye or Wheat-Bran mixed with splent-beans or Bread made of Bean and Wheat-flower mixed with clean Oats and his drink warm water with a little fine flower or bran shaked into it What purgations may be given with the least danger THe gentlest and most effectual purgations are Pills but in giving Physick you must consider the state of your Horses body whether he be strong or weak or rather the end for which you purge him in relation to the distemper for which he
Turpentine boyled together and stirred till cold Of Rat-Tailes a kind of scratches And the cure for them c. WHen you perceive he is troubled with this grief which will appear by the breaking out of knops Ride him pretty briskly even till by his heating the vein swells then let him blood in the Fetlockvein on either side suffering him to bleed indifferent well washing the sore the day following with warm water then clipping away the hair anoint it with Oyntment thus made viz. Verdigrease and green Copperas of each two ounces and four ounces of hony well pounded and mixed together and by often using it it will effect the cure Of Aches or Numness in the joynts and their cure AChes and Numbness in the joynts are mostly occasioned by cold gotten by excessive labour or standing unregarded in damp or watry places to cure which take Accopium mixed with Mallago and heating them hot chafe them into the place grieved with your hands and in three or four times so doing it will remove the pain or for want of the aforesaid things take Brandy or Aquavitae and Pepper finely sifted and bath the grieved place as hot as may be and then bind rags dipped in them hard to the Ach or Numbness renewing them as often as they dry And Aches come sometimes by Sprains Hurts and stretching of the Nerves or Sinews it will not be amiss to set down things good in general for their cure Things generally good for Aches Numbness or the like dispondences in the joynts FOr Swellings Aches Numbness or the like proceeding from Heat Cold or any other cause these following things are exceeding good viz. Oyl of Almonds Aquavitae Archangel Allheal Balsum Burgundy-pitch Burnet Bay-leaves Brandy Oyl of Chamomil Cumfrey-roots Chickweed Mallows or Marsh-mallows Cowslips Mullen Mugwort Purslain Peneroyal Burdocks Saxafrage Gander-Tansie English-Tobacco Mother-Time Flower de Luces Sow-Fennel Turpentine Ragweed Accopium Pepper Safron Garlick Rosemary Myrrh and Sciatick-creses which may be used altogether or some of them at a time pounded and mixed according to your discretion For the bloody Flux an excellent Remedy THe Bloody-flux is a dangerous distemper proceeding from the over-flowing of the Liver or vessels of blood or pestilential distempers and is known by voiding of blood in Dung or Urine to stay which take an ounce of Saffron two ounces of Myrrh an handful of Southernwood the like quantity of Rue or Herbgrace of Spittlewort and Hissop each half a handful and of Cassia an ounce the which being bruised small and tempered well must be with Chalk-dust and Vinegar made into a past so that little cakes may be thereof made the which dryed in the shade dissolve of them to the quantity of three ounces at a time in three pints of Milk from kine fed with barly straw or for want of that dissolve them in a juice called Ptisane and give it the Horse to drink morning and evening and after it a quart of warm water and it will not only stay the Efflux of blood but any pain in the belly or bladder unless the stone or gravel Barbs what they are and how to cure them THe Barbs are common to most Horses and are to be perceived by two Paps under the Tongue and seldom do they disadvantage the Horse unless they are inflamed with corrupted or putrefied blood proceeding from crude humours which corrode them and constrain them to stretch beyond their usual length causing them to become exceeding troublesome to the Horse in his feeding to ridd him of which with sharp Scissers clip them away and let the roots bleed a considerable season as likewise let him blood on the second barr and having made a mixture of Bolearmoniack Vinegar and Salt wash his mouth therewith observing that no hay nor hay dust stick therein upon his feeding thereon Of the Blood Spavin what it is and how to cure it THis grief is occasioned by and indeed is no other than a soft swelling growing through the Hough commonly filled with blood being largest on the inner side by reason of its being fed by the master vein descending to the Pastern and has its original from the corrupted blood that settles there by hard riding or immoderate labour Especially when the Horse is young and his Hoof tender if it harden 't is more difficult to be cured than otherwise To cure it having shaved away the hair on either side the swelling take up the thigh vein and bleed it well tying the vein above the place you strike which will extract the blood gathered about the Spavin after which slit the swelling and prick it likewise on either side the Hoof where the Spavin is that so the medicine may operate with more ease and to better effect than otherwise it would do and when the corrupted blood and water is well pressed out then lay a plaister to the grievance made of Bolearmoniack and whites of Eggs the which after one days continuance remove and wash the place with this bath or supplement viz. Take Mallows tops of Nettles and boyl them in Spring water till they are soft after which bath him therewith whereupon take Brancha Ursian Wax Oyle Mallow roots and French-wine of each a proportionable quantity and having boyled them bind them about the place grieved with a linnen cloth as hot as he can indure it the which continue for the space of three or four days stroaking it gently with your hand every day to cause the corrupt blood to avoid after which make a plaister of Stone-pitch Carana and Brimstone of the two former an ounce of each and of the latter a quarter of an ounce adding to them half an ounce of Turpentine and apply it being spread upon Leather to the place grieved binding it hard and permitting it to remain till it fall off of its own accord The Bone Spavin what it is and how to cure it THis grievance is at first a tender gristle on the inner side of the Hoof which by long continuance hardens till it becomes hard and crusty sticking close to the Bone and is occasioned by extraordinary riding in dirty ways or Hereditary from the Dam or Sire who were infested with the like grievance placed in the Hough to cure which take up the vein that feeds it whether Spavin or Curb as well below as above bleeding it sufficiently and clapping thereto a plaister of pitch heated and stuck upon flax Dulcifying the sorrance four days after with Oyl of Pampillion and fresh butter as hot as he can indure it and when the Scar shall be obliterated apply a medicament called Blauco or White made of Iessoe and suffer it to remain untill it is whole Of the Pricking and itching blood the occasion and cure THe Itching all over a Horses body is either occasioned by inflammation of the blood by heating or suddainly taking cold by which means the salt watery humours get between the flesh and skin which occasions the Horse to scrub and rub himself against
Posts Trees and Bushes so that if it be not timely heeded it will turn to the Mange and by that means insect such Horses as accompany him To prevent which and cure the former let him blood in the neck vein and rub him all over with a hard brush or hard wisps then take Staves-acre Elecampain roots Chickweed and leaves of Brambles of each a handful boyl them in Cow piss and add to them the powders of Sublimate-Mercury dryed Briony and Red dock roots Arsnick Resalgar with which wash him all over but especially in the place you perceive him to rub most or for want of these take Hogs-grease Mans-Urine Tobacco leaves or stalks Brimstone Verdigrease Train-Oyl and Allum with which well concocted anoint the body of your Horse The Botts or Worms what they are and how to kill them THese Insects breeding in the body of a Horse are of three sorts distinguished by the names of Botts Truncheons and Mawworms the first for the most part breeding in the great guts near the Fundament the second in the Maw out of which if they be not speedily killed they will eat their passage to the destruction of the Horse the third and last called Maw-worms or plain worms breed in the guts as the first The Botts are small worms with little tails and great heads The Truncheons are thick and short and have hard heads The Mawworms are long and slender of a reddish colourm any of them being as long as a mans finger and these worms are generated from raw gross and Phlegmatick humours occasioned by foul feeding To know whether your Horse be troubled with them or not you must observe whether he kick at his belly with his feet when he stands still turns his head towards his tail looking upon his body Groans Wallows Frisks his tail often or forsakes his meat all which are signs of worms in his body To cure which take a quart of New-milk four ounces of hony which being made warm give it him fasting in the morning and suffer him to fast after it two hours then dissolve an ounce of black sope in a pint of beer and give it him and an hour after ride him hard and the worms will either come away alive or dye in his body or for want of these take Savin stamped to the quantity of a handful and put it in a quart of Beer or a quart of Brine and it will destroy them Of bunches Warts Knots and Wens Cramp or Inflammation and their cure THese grievances come divers ways as by foul feeding Eating unwholsome meat Hard riding too much labour Bruises or the like which putrefie the blood and cause it to turn into evil humours To cure which take the powder of Diapente mix it with Linseed or Olve Oyl and making it into an Oyntment apply it to the place grieved especially for the Cramp or Inflammation Again take Whitewine Oyl and Tarr of each a considerable quantity mingle them together and apply them hot and apply them plaisterwise to the Knots and Warts especially if on the joynts and the cure in six or seven days will be effected Again take Mustardseed Bay-salt and Hogs-grease mix them together adding to them half a pint of Wine Vinegar and it will sink the Wens or Bunches Again take Figgs the roots of Fern and Rochet mingle them with Hogs grease and Vinegar and apply them plaisterwise for any of the aforesaid Sorrances or lastly take an ounce of Galbanum two ounces of Pitch Lime an ounce Bitumen three quarters of an ounce Wax the like quantity all which being well mixed and heated over a fire apply them to the Sorrance plaisterwise A Remedy for the Windeolick or Stone TAke of Whitewine a quart four ounces of Fenegreek of Bayberies and Pepper four ounces of Ginger an ounce Water Cresses a handful and the like quantity of Red-Sage one pound of Sene-green and a handful of Mint all which being well bruised and mixed together boyl them and afterwards straining them add two ounces of Hony and give the liquor to your Horse to drink or for want of these things take Cloves Pepper Cinamon of each of them an ounce beaten or ground into fine powder and putting them into a quart of Cannary suffer it to boyl a while upon a gentle fire then adding to it one spoonful of Hony give it the Horse bloodwarm Cloathing him up and storing him with clean Litter in which having stood or layn the space of four hours give him a knop of Hay and after the fifth hour a Mash or a good draught of white water Of bloodshot Eyes and other diseases or impediments of the sight their cause and cure THis prejudice of sight happens as likewise all other distempers of the Eyes through two causes viz either internal or external the internal cause proceeds from cold rhumes or fiery salt humours that fall upon the sight and the external cause from a blow hurt by Lightening fire or the like To cure which take these directions To clear and take away the bloodshot or setling of blood in the Eyes taketh juice of Sowthistle by some called our Ladys thistle and spirit it into his eyes once or twice a day for divers days together if your Horse be dimsighted or have a thin Film over his eyes take the juice of Cabbage or Colewortstalks boyl it with a small quantity of hony and spirt it into his eyes and in so doing six or seven times it will consume the Film and clear the sight nay take away the Canker in the Eye if it be not too far gone To take away the Pin and Web in the Eye spirt into it the juice of Celendine the which is likewise exceeding good to clear the sight as likewise doth the juice of ordinary Centaury if your Horse be troubled with Moon Eyes put into them Alehoof or ground Ivy juice and it will restore him to a perfect sight If your Horse be troubled with salt fiery humours or Rhumes in his Eyes wash them with the juice of Houseleek and by so doing often it will allay the heat and drive back the Rhume the juices of Germander and Eyebright consume the Pin and Web in the Eyes and greatly restore the sight Alehoof Daisie flowers and Snap-dragons being bruised and strained with a little rose-Rose-water and fine Sugar dissolved in the juice cure all manner of Itching Smarting Inflammation Spots Webs and the like restoring the sight when almost lost The juice of Tree Ivy leaves after they have been sufficiently steeped in water easeth presently and in process of time takes away all smarting and pain of the eyes The juice of Endive clears the sight and so does the distilled water of Groundsel and the juice of Melliot with many other Herbs in general but for brevities sake waving them I shall now come to the particulars more narrowly observing the cures for most of all the Eye distempers To preserve the sight a good expedient TAke Maiden-hair Enface Endive
what it is together with its cause and cure THis Sorrance is composed of small Warts or Pimples arising in the Palate of the Horses mouth being sore and soft and sometimes seen upon his Lip and Tongue occasioned by eating of Hay on which or amongst which any vermine have dunged or pissed by licking up any venemous Worm or herb many times by feeding upon Hay amongst which are sharp Thistles or seeds which fret and fester the tender parts of the mouth The cure is to let the Horse blood under the Tongue in the two great veins washing the place grieved with Bay salt and Roch-Alum dissolved in Vinegar or with a hot Iron you may burn them on the head if you perceive the former things cure them not presently and afterward rub them with Ale and Salt Of Casting the cause and cure c. THe cause of a Horses casting his drink out of his mouth proceeds from the effects of a cold stomach or cold contracted in the head ingendering thick phlegm or slimy humour which lapping about the root of the Tongue hinders its office as also straitning the passage of the stomach To cure which take a quart of Malmsie or Canary put into it an ounce of Cinamon bruised or beaten into powder an ounce of Cloves and the like quantity of Anniseeds and give them him at twice pretty warm anointing his Temples Breast and under his chaps with Spike Oyl Oyl of Cyprus and Oyl of Pepper mingled together smoaking his nostrils with Gum Ellumi Crest fallen what it is and how to cure it THis deformity is when the flesh whereon the Main groweth standeth not upright but declineth to the right or the left and for the most part proceedeth from evil keeping and want of convenient Provender or when by reason of internal sickness a well fleshed Horse falleth away To raise the Crest when fallen take it in your hands and setting it upright permit one that stands by to pull abroad the bottom of it upon which with a hot Iron sear the skin that hangs loose on either side then clip it away and sow the skin pulling it close with silk as near as you can to the colour of the Horse starching up the Crest on both sides with Shomakers wax spread upon stiff Leather anoint the places you have made sore with Turpentine Hony and Bees-wax tempered into an ointment or with a piece of grease but if the Crest be not extreamly fallen good keeping and looking to will cause it to rise of it self without any application Crick in the Neck its cause and remedy THe Crick in the Neck is a kind of a convulsion in the nerves hindering the Horse from turning his neck at pleasure or taking his meat from the ground but with great trouble and is occasioned by over much heating and thereon taking sudden colds or by cold humours falling into the neck from the head To remedy which take a hot Iron and pierce the skin and part of the flesh in divers places still observing not to touch any sinew and in the Orifices put Horse hair in the nature of Rowels anointing them with Hogs Lard suffering them though with daily moving to keep open the holes to remain there for the space of thirteen or fourteen days or if you think not good to serve your Horse as aforesaid then rub his neck all over with Oyl of Spike and Oyl of Peter clothing him exceeding warm and next to his neck lay Litter that smoaks with the heat of his dung and Urine Of the Canker in the Eye its cause and cure THis Sorrance is caused by corrupt and rank blood descending from the head which setling in the corner of the Eye next the nose creates a worm with a black head like a Pismire so that if you do not timely destroy it it will eat into the head of your Horse and destroy him now to know whether he be afflicted with this Malady is to observe whether his eyelid be knopped or pimpled within and without or whether his eye be full of corrupt matter the which symptoms or any of them appearing take burnt Allum and fresh butter bruising the Allum into powder and mixing it with butter put it into his eye as near as you can upon the head of the worm and by closing the eyelid hold it in tell 't is dissolved and in so doing three or four times it will kill it and render the eye sound especially if you after the opening it spirt Lime-juice and the juice of House-leek into it Of the Dropsie in a Horse whence it proceeds and how to cure it THe Dropsie is known by the swelling of the body through the abundance of water that gets between the skin and flesh when as the Buttocks and Flank will appear withered and dryed the bones plainly appearing and if you press any of the swollen part the dints will plainly appear for as much as the flesh wanting natural heat cannot immediately return to its place this distemper makes him heavy dull and evil coloured proceeding mostly from evil nourishment and want of good digestion which concocteth Melancholy and vitious humours sometimes it proceeds from the Liver where the blood by reason of failure of heat is turned into watery humours This distemper perceived let him blood and then rubbing his body well with warm cloaths to dissolve the humours congealed boyl a Gallon of Ale often scumming it put into it the tender tops and leaves of wormwood and Rue or Herbegrace of each a handful Bramble leaves Mayweed and Smallage of each a like quantity boyl the Ale till three parts is consumed then dissolve into it three ounces of London-Treacle adding thereto long Pepper beaten and Granes of each an ounce stir them well in the concoction and give it the Horse six mornings together blood-warm anoynting his body with Train or Neatsfoot Oyl and if the weather be seasonable after you have fed him a while with Mashes and white water turn him to grass and the water will fume away Chops Rifs and Clifts in the Palate of the mouth how they are caused and how to cure them THese Sorrances are occasioned by the Horses eating hard and dry Hay full of Thistles and prickly things or foul Provender full of sharp seeds which grate of and fester the tender part of the mouth To cure which take water and salt washing the rough of the Horses mouth till it bleed then with Allum and Hony indifferent warm anoint it and in so doing for a week together every morning it will cure it if in the mean while and for a considerable time after you give him soft meat as Bran Grass Mashes and soft Hay The Bony Excretion its cause and cure THis Malady is frequently caused by corrosives laid to the wounds that happen near the bone which corrosives piercing by their sharp and operating quality the bone many times to the Marrow and causes the excretion to grow upon it although the wound is cured
which in the Farriers is a great defect for he ought to be very wary in burning the flesh with hot Oyls or other applications too near the bone or any sinew sometimes also this Malady happens through the gauling and fretting of a fetlock To cure it upon the top of the excretion make a slit a quarter of an inch then raising with your cornet the skin from the flesh hollow it round about the place grieved into which hollowness thrust Lint dipped in the Oyl of Origanum and upon it lay a plaister of Paracelsus suffering it to continue till it rot and nature cast out both the Lint and Core or opening it if you lay roasted Elecampain roots to it it will take away the grievance Kibed heals the cause and cure THis Sorrance is known by a Scab breeding somewhat above the under joynt overthwart the Fettlock and is divers ways occasioned as by your Horses running in cold ground after a hard journey immoderate labour or neglect of the Keeper in not cleansing his feet and legs of the dirt contracted in the joynts which causeth the legs to sweell especially in winter when the ways are deep To cure this take the tender tops of Elder buds Blackberry bush-buds ere they bloom boyl them in the wort of new Ale adding thereto the whites of two new laid Eggs and half an ounce of Allum with which wash the place grieved morning and evening If this should fail take tryed Hogs-grease two ounces the like quantity of Gunpowder and mixing them well together daily anoint the place grieved for the space of six days and it will effect the cure if you be careful to keep your Horses feet and legs from Rain or other wet Kernels under the Chaul the cause and cure THis grievance incident to Horses is occasioned by heats and colds mostly taken by the neglect of those that have the Horse in charge the which if not timely prevented turns to the Glaunders To cure it give your Horse a convenient scouring the dose being made of Alloes fresh butter and the powder of Agarick giving him at once a ball thereof as big as a Pigeons Egg and afterward trot or amble him a mile or two and then bringing him to his Stable cloath him and keep him warm permitting him to fast two or three hours at the expiration of which give him a knop of Hay or if you can procure it a Mash of Malt very warm Lasks Looseness or open flux of a Horses Body the cause and cure THis distemper incident to Horses frequently rendering them weak and infirm is mostly occasioned by cold unseasonably taken though some times by Cholerick humours descending upon the Liver or the overflowing of the Gall which penetrates the Bowels by insensible ways at other times by drinking excess of cold water upon a full stomach which generates evil humours or by drinking cold water when hot or travailing too hard eating Hens dung or with the Provender licking up Feathers Spiders or any nauseous thing To cure which take flower of Garden Beans three ounces three ounces of Bolearmoniack and a quart of Stale-Beer to which add a quarter of a pint of red wine making them pretty hot and mixing them well give the Horse grieved to the quantity of a pint morning and evening for six days successively If the Lasks be violent use this medicine viz. of Allum and Bolearmoniack pulverized each an ounce put them into a quart of new-milk brewing it to and fro till it be sufficiently curdled and then making it blood-warm give it him to drink If the scouring be violent take the intralls of a Pullet omitting nothing but the Gizard dipping them when smalled by shreading in Oyl of Spicknard and so thrust them down your Horses throat by degrees and it will not only stay the scouring but the bloody flux notwithstanding if the bloody-flux be predominant take Saffron one ounce two of Myrrh three of Southernwood one of Parsly three of Rue two of Spittlewort and Hyssop one of Cassa and adding to them a quart of wine Vinegar and half a pound of the powder of Chalk bruise them well and then boyl them till they come to a thickness sufficient to be made into little cakes which cakes give your Horse dissolved in Whitewine or Stale-Beer well warmed morning and evening and in a day or two it will cause the Efflux of blood to stay and ease the pain in the bowels or bladder which is occasioned for want of staling Leprosie its cause and cure THis Loathsome distemper is known by a running Scab or Manginess spreading all over the body occasioned by Melancholy humours corrupt blood so made by excessive heats surfeits or unwholsome Provender and this grievance for the most part is first seen about the neck which becomes raw thereby and unseemly being altogether infectious insomuch that it is extreamly catching To cure this distemper take an ounce of Allum eight ounces of green Copperas an ounce of cut Tobacco free from stalks and boyl them well in a quart of spring water till the water is near half consumed and then as warm as the Horse can suffer it supple with the remaining part of the liquor the place grieved having first rubbed off the scabs and so do twice a day letting the Horse stand at the Rack a considerable time after If the Leprosie be inclinable to Mangie which it mostly is if occasioned by a surfeit then let your Horse blood and having rubbed off the Scabs or scurfe put together two ounces of Verdigrease and eight of Vinegar a pint of Cows Stale and a like quantity of Train Oyl and having bruised a handful of wild Tansie put it amongst the liquids adding moreover four ounces of Brimstone flower the like quantity of Roach-allum and of Bolearmoniack boiling together all the ingredients and putting amongst them about a pint of the Horses blood wash the place grieved with the liquor as hot as he can indure it and afterwards cloath him warm and in so doing six or seven times the cure will be perfected unless the infection has reached his internals the which if it has you must give him Diapente drink which will render him more liable to be cured The cause and cure of the distemper in a Horse called the Low-worm and the symptoms by which it may be known THis distemper is by many taken for St. Anthonies fire or the Shingles but indeed is caused by a worm in the back of the Horse bred between the flesh and the back bone often running along the neck till it tainteth the Brain at what time the Horse frequently falls mad which many Farriers mistaking for the staggers apply frequently the wrong medicine even to the destruction of the Horse The symptoms by which it may be distinguished are these viz. After a long journy the Horse will refuse his meat be troubled with sickness and suddain pains in his back which will cause him to shrink it up and again to
whole Lice are occasioned by poverty dropping of Trees or the like and known by the Horses rubbing his Ears neck and other parts c. To kill them wash him over with the decoction of Henbane in Cow-piss or with Tobacco stalks and Copras boyled in water or man's Urine To keep your Horse from being annoyed with Flies anoint him with Oyl of Bays water wherein Rue has been sodden or Linseed Oyl and no Flie will settle on him Red-Water Over-reach Salender and stinking Breath their respective causes and cures REd-water is an infectious water which proceeds from most wounds occasioned by the ill humours that flow from divers parts of the body and greatly hinder the cure To extract which or disperse the humour rub him well all over his body but especially his belly and giving him to drink water wherein has been boyled the roots of Emanuel or All-good a Herb so called and Mustard seed of each a pound to three Gallons of water Over-reach cometh by a slip or strain or by the Horses running beyond his strength and the cure is the same with the upper and nether Attaint which Receipt you may find in the foregoing part of this book being directed thereto by the Table Stinking breath is occasioned by the putrefaction of the Lungs and is soon discovered by those that have their smelling to remedy which take Colts foot Fennel Anniseeds and Fennegreek of each a handful boyl them in Beer or Ale to the quantity of three pints and straining them give him the liquor hot as he can drink it and in so using him ten or twelve days if the Lungs be not too much perished with the corruption which proceeds by raw humours descending upon them through foul feeding or unwholesom air the cure will be effected As for the consumption of the Liver caused by some inbred distemper there is no certain cure yet to preserve and perhaps restore it give your Horse in a pint of Mallagoe half a pint of Pigs blood both as warm as may be and so do three days successively feeding him in the mean time with black Oats and giving him to drink new wort and the night before he receives the Medicine permit him to eat nothing or for want of this take an ounce of the powder of Agrimony a handful of Red rose leaves and of Saccarum Diarchadon Disantelon Abbatis and Licorish of each half an ounce boyl them in two quarts of Malmsey and give him a pint to drink four mornings successively suffering him to eat Mashes and the like during the said days Ring bone Rottenness and Rheumes their cause and cure THe Ring bone comes divers ways especially two the one is hereditary from the Mare or Stallion the other by a bruise c. and is a vicious humour which causeth gristly flesh upon the Coronet till at length fastening to the bone it becomes hard as a bone making the leg to swell and the flesh higher in that place than any other to kill or take away which take unslacked Lime burn it well and beating it into powder lay it upon the bone to the quantity of two ounces binding it about with a linnen cloath and immediately put your Horse into the water then the Lime slacking will burn the core and kill it so that in a short time it will diminish Rottenness is a putrefaction of the Lungs and Liver the which if far gone admits no cure but if not so take what I have before prescribed for the Lungs and Liver using them after the same manner A direction to which you will find in the Table the which use also for the Rot that causes swelling like the Dropsie Rheums falling upon the Jaw c. come by cold which so infeeble the Gums that they shrink away leaving the teeth loose staring out long and uneven greatly hindering the Horse from eating To cure which give your Horse Conserve of Elecampain roots two ounces in a pint of Mallagoe very warm adding thereto two new-laid Eggs beaten well half an ounce of Anniseeds and a Nutmeg grated small give it him warm four Mornings and afterward wash his mouth with Sage Allum and Sugarcandy dissolved in Vinegar The Yellows and Falling of the Yard and Sway-back their cause and cure THe Yellows is properly the Yellow Jaundice most commonly accompanyed with the black though of different natures for the Yellow is moist and the Black dry the former proceeding from the over flowing of the Gall and the latter from the Spleen being the most dangerous the former is known by the yellowness of the Horses Lips Eyes c. and the Black by a black duskish colour striving to master the Yellow the which when it has done it mostly proves Mortal To cure them take the juice of Celendine four ounces Turmerick and Pepper bruised into powder of each an ounce the iuice of Burdock roots two ounces bruised Anniseeds and Liquorish powder of each half an ounce mix them together and having set a quart of Beer over the fire when it is boyling hot put them into it adding six peny-weight of Saffron half an ounce of London Treacle and two ounces of Butter and give him half of it in the morning fasting and the other half in the evening and so continue to do four days successively The falling of the Yard happens through cold or defect in the Horse through the weakness of that Member the Sinews or Muscles strained and lastly through weariness after great journies To prevent which wash his Yard with Whitewine anoint it with Oyl of Roses and Hony and so putting it into his sheath bolster it up and in so doing once or twice he will afterwards recover strength to keep it up The Sway Back which is both undecent and a great weakness in the Horse is caused divers ways sometimes by heavy burthens other times by over straining or suddenly turning round as also naturally and is known by the rigling of the hinder parts by his frequent swaying backward or sideways and trouble in rising when he is laid To cure which take the Oyl of Pine Aples two ounces three ounces of Olibanum four ounces of Rozin of Pitch a like quantity of Bolearmonick an ounce and of Sanguis Draconis half the quantity all which being by fire incorporated spread them plaisterwise and lay them on the place grieved and by twice renewing it the grief will be at an end Quitterbone and quick-scab their cause and cure THe Quitterbone a Sorrance so called is a hard swelling upon the Cornet between the quarter and the heel commonly found on the inside of the foot occasioned by the long continuance of Gravel in the Shoo a bruise upon the hoof Stub prick of a nail or the like which for want of timely care fester and break out above the hoof and sometimes it has its original from evil humours descending into the foot c. To cure it take away the hair open the sorrance and tent it with Hogs lard and
following viz. Take a pound of Hogs-grease an ounce of Verdigrease half an ounce of Venice Turpentine and the juice of Mallows all boyled into an ointment An excellent Salve for curing of any wound whether by Sword Fire Gun-shot or any other accident TAke two ounces of Roach-allum Whitewine-vinegar two spoonfuls Verdegrease powder an ounce two ounces of Sublimate finely pulverised and with fire bring them to a Salve and when occasion requires lay it plaisterwise to the wound having first washed it with water wherein Copperas and Bay-salt have been dissolved it is also excellent at eating away dead flesh c. An excellent Salve for Wounds Vlcers Bruises or Strains how to make it TAke Perosin and other Rosin of each a pound Bees-wax Frankincense and Sheeps suet of each six ounces Hogs-grease twenty ounces boyl the Gums and Wax in half a pint of Whitewine then put to it your Hogs lard and Sheeps-suet adding an ounce of fine Turpentine and mix well all the ingredients keep the Salve for your use Glisters convenient to be used upon divers occasions IF your Horse be Costive and is greatly pained in his dunging take the fat of Beef broth a pound of English Hony four ounces of white Salt half a spoonful having made them thin by fire force them into his body pretty warm holding afterward his Tail close to his Tuel to keep it in till it work which will be half an hour first then trot him up and down the Stable and give him a warm Mash and it will not only make him Laxative but bring away much foul matter contracted in the bowels or for want of the aforesaid materials boyl two handfuls of Mallows in a pottle of spring-water adding thereto after it is strained half a pint of Olive Oyl or for want of it half a pound of Butter and it will have the same effects If your Horse be inwardly desperate sick Take Oyl of Cammomil Dill Violets and Cassia of each half an ounce powder of Brown Sugar-candy three ounces Marsh-mallow leaves half a handful boyl them in running water and having strained out the liquid part give it him warm glister-wise using him as abovesaid If your Horse be afflicted with the Pestilence or Fever take of the seeds of Coloquintida half an ounce three quarters of an ounce of Dragantium of Centaury and Wormwood each a handful and a quarter of an ounce of Castorum boyl them in three quarts of water or small beer adding three ounces of Gerologundinum half a pint of Olive Oyl and half a spoonful of Salt strain it and use it Glisterwise If your Horse be afflicted with the Colick or any pain in his bowels take salt-water or new brine a quart boyl in it a handful of Cammomil or Groundsil dissolving into it a quarter of a pound of Castle sope and having strained out the liquid part administer it as the former in case of giving Glisters observe to anoint the pipe with butter or Oyl Rake him well before you adminster it let him keep it at least half an hour and suffer him to drink no cold water that day nor the next but let his drink be warm water and his meat be Mashes or fine Provinder and observe to give the Glister fasting Cordial Powders and Cordial balls Receipts to make them and their use TO make an excellent Cordial powder for the Consumption of the Lights and Liver or any internal wasting distemper take Cinamon and Loaf-sugar of each an ounce two ounces of Bolearmoniack dry them well and reduce them to a powder giving it to the Horse in a pint of Mallagoe To make an excellent Cordial powder or Electuary for a Horse that is sick weak or out of case take syrup of Lemons syrup of Roses and syrup of Violets of each half an ounce an ounce of London Treacle and two ounces of the powder of Elecampain roots mingle them together and put them in a Stove till the syrups become exceeding thick and as it were a hard Electuary the which as occasion requires give him dissolved in warm Ale about an ounce in a Pint. To make Cordial balls to cure any violent Cold Glaunders Heart sickness recover lost Appetite prevent fainting under moderate labour bring away Molten grease or Fatten your Horse take Carthamus seed Anniseed Fennegreek seeds Cummin seeds the Roots of Elecampain and Colts-foot of each two ounces of Brimstone flower and Chymical Oyl of Anniseeds each two ounces and an ounce of the juice of Licorish half a pint of Whitewine and a like quantity of syrup of Sugar or Molossus Olive Oyl and Hony of each a quarter of a pint and having boyled them over the fire add as much wheat flower as will stiffen them into a past and making it up into balls as big as pullets Eggs give him four of them in a morning fasting suffering him to drink immediately after a quart of warm Ale Purgations Perfumes Baths Suppositories Charges Drenches and Causticks what they are how to make and use them upon sundry occasions IF you would gently purge your Horse give him three ounces of Turnesole in a quart of warm water or for want of that Feltwort Baldmony Aloes or Sea Housleek If you would purge out Cholerick humours boyl S. Peters wort the seeds of Tutsan or Park-leaves of each a handful boyl them in a quart of small Ale and give it him warm If he be troubled with watry humours give him Dodder that grows upon Savory and Hedge-Hyssop of each a handful boyled in a quart of water Scammony or purging Blindweed are great purgers insomuch that unless they are mixed with Aloes they often prove hurtful to the body of the Horse If you would purge your Horse violently give him three ounces of Coloquintida in a pint of Canary but it is not safe to use this purge unless in dangerous distempers Black-hellebore Hogs Fennel or either of the Polipodiums purge Phlegm and Choler an ounce of Aloes made up in Butter and given the Horse purges away Melancholy But if your Horse be very sick take an ounce of Hony half a pint of Olive Oyl Hempseed Fennegreek seed Cassia of each an ounce boyl them in a pint of Canary and give it him warm If you would have your Horse vomit up any filthy thing which he has received or bring away the gross Phlegmatick humours take the largest roots of Polipodium of the Oak steep them in Oyl of Spike and fasten them to the Horses nose with a muzel where letting them rest all night next morning you will find your Horse sickish then taking away the Roots trot him about and if foul humours afflict him he will vomit extreamly Baths their use and how to make them A Bath used for Horses is no other than his being bathed with the concoction of divers simples exceeding hot to disperse the humours setled in any one place to dry up humours or refresh a Horse after Travail c. And of these in their
bewitched and to suspect their Neighbours in that case when it proceeds from the cheat and roguery of the Jockey If any person have a well made Horse who is in good case but is subject to lye down when he comes into any water and for that trick the owner is weary of him the Jockey by one means or other insinuates himself into his company and finds occasion to discourse about Horses when he after divers discourses swears he had once but thanks God he has parted with him a Horse that had the worst of all vices which was that as soon as he came into any water whether deep or shallow he would notwithstanding his utmost indeavour to prevent it lye down with him so that he often indangered his drowning and seldom or never that he rode abroad with him in winter-weather but he ducked him over head and ears before his return By this means he gets the party to confess that he has a Horse troubled with the same vice then begins he to disparage and exclaim against him saying that he is fit for no use and that 't is impossible to make him leave it for that being foaled under Leo a hot and fiery sign it is as well his nature as custom then he tells him a sham story how he parted with his Horse for little or thing only upon that account Having thus put the owner out of conceit with him he soon after perswades him to carry him to Market and sell him where the Jockey has alway one ready to buy him up and when he has got him he rides him into the water then suffering him to lye down he having three or four to assist him holds his head so long under water that he almost stifles him whipping him in the mean while severely and by so using him three or four times he so dreads the water that if it be possible he will upon all occasions shun it and never after venture to lie down in it Thus not only upon these but upon divers other pretences he bubbles the unexperienced to his own advantage The Jockies craft in making Horses seemingly lame or dangerously sick and the cheats he puts upon the unwary with false Eyes false Ears false Manes Tails c. SEldom it is but the Jockey has one Horse or other standing at Livery amongst divers Gentlemens Horses and by frequently coming to visit his own takes a view of them and understands unto whom they appertain when marking out one of them as best likes him he as near as he by inquiry can understands the owner is to ride forth with certain haires or fine silk and a small needle takes up the Fetlock vein which soon makes the Horse halt down lame then the Gentleman being acquainted therewith orders the Hostler to carry him to the Farrier that his feet may be searched and the cause if possible found out but in vain the Farrier puzels himself in searching the foot and so cunningly has the Jockey smoothed over the cause that without great curiosity it cannot be discovered whereupon 't is concluded to proceed from an old Founder a former Surfeit the effects of some Quitter-bone Ring-bone or Spavin not formerly cured or the like Whereupon the Gentleman despairing of his Horses recovery so soon as his urgent occasions require it fumes and storms at a desperate rate when the Jockey being at hand as one ignorant of the matter demands the cause of his disturbance then being told it he pities the beast and comforts the owner confirming the opinion of the Farrier who freequently is of his confederacy offering the Gentleman rather than he shall be disappointed of his journey either to lend sell or swap with him of one of which he commonly makes his advantage but if he succeeds not in any of them then pretending great skill in Farrying reckoning up many hundred Horses which he has cured of all distempers and Sorrances he undertakes to cure him for so much money perhaps half a piece or more which he performs by taking away the needle silk or hair and suppling the place with Oyl of Baies though that he may seem to deserve his money he uses many slipslops altogether useless and unnecessary Another trick the Jockey has to make a Horse in all parts appear as if he were dying which is to thrust down his throat a ball made with flower of Chesnuts and a mixture of six Grains of Opium at what time he puts in as before either to lend sell swap buy or cure another way he has to make a Horse Tremble Sweat Pant Stair and the like whilst the Farrier in vain uses medicines to cure him which he does by thrusting a Stone as big as a peny whiteloaf dipped in Oyl of Spike into the Horses Fundament the former of these he antidotes with the juice of Rue and Olive Oyl and the latter he eases by drawing forth the stone anointing his Fundament with Hogs-lard and whilst he causes and cures he frequently sends the Hostler for a pot of Ale or about some such frivolous errand that he may not discover the knavery If the Jockey has a Horse with one or both eyes intirely out he seeks for a Horse newly dead and taking forth his eyes he steeps them a night in white-wine which makes them plump and bright then he forces them into the lids of the blind Horse glewing together the further corners to keep them in and teaches the Horse to start as before I have discovered them having well accout ed him he brings him to Market in the Evening or in a very gloomy day and by that means cheats the ignorant buyer supposing he has bought an excellent penyworth tho' the next morning perhaps through the Horses straining he finds his false eyes in the Manger which he imputes to the incantation of some Witch Wizard Incubus or envious neighbour If a Horse has lost his Main and appears unseemly the Jockey shaving it close takes the Main of a dead Horse skin and all and having well dried or dressed it sews it so artificially to the live Horses skin that it must be a curious eye that discovers it by reason the upper part being glewed makes it sit compleat and fast the like measures he takes to set on false Ears false Foretops and false Tails and some have gone so far that when a Horse through age has lost his Teeth they have set him in artificial ones as the Teeth of young dead Horses and so deceived the Buyer The Jockies art in making of Stars Snips Blazes c. IF the Jockey designs to disguise or beautifie a Horse then he first alters them by making Stars Snips or taking out Saddle-spots and all these â—hey can do so artificially that if the Horse be stolen the owner cannot know him again To make a white Star Blaze or Snip in a Black or Sorrel Horse he cuts a piece of Lead being before flatted proportionable to what he intends then shaving off the
and by renewing it once or twice the Cure will be effected If afflicted with Aposthumes take a handful of Marsh Mallows two ounces of Lineseed two ounces of the powder of Gallnuts an ounce of the juice of White-Andoreu and two ounces of Wood-Soot boyl them in a quart of Whitewine and laying them Pultiss-wise to the place grieved it will not only break the swelling but bring away the putrefaction and render your beast whole If he be troubled with boyls or mattering Ulcers take an ounce of Leaven two roots of Whitelillies of Sea-Onion an ounce and a pint of Vinegar bruise the roots and Leaven and putting them into the Vinegar boyl them well then let him blood in the neck vein and apply the aforesaid simples pultess-wise to the place grieved and the Pultess so made will not only disperse the humours but by often application cure the Sorrances especially if you wash them with Chamberly at each renewing If with the Head-Ache the beast be afflicted take a root of Garlick boyl it when bruised in half a pint of Whitewine and having pretty well cooled it hold up his head and pour it into his Nostrils suffering him to keep it there for a quarter of an hour after that burn Storax dried Rue and Savin under his Nose and give him a quart of warm Ale wherein Rosemary has been boyled to drink and in so doing this afflicting pain will vanish If he be troubled with Humour or Rheum which is known by the running of his Eyes or Nostrils want of Stomach or laving his Ears Take Rue a handful a a like quantity of Lawrel leaves a root of Garlick and a handful of Salt boyl them in a quart of Whitewine or Beer strain out the liquid part and give it the Beast fasting perfuming his Nostrils at the same time by burning Assa fetida If he be Hidebound having chafed the place well with hard wisps take Oyl of Cammomil Hogs-lard a pound Olive Oyl a pint Whitewine a quart boyl them together and bath him therewith as hot as can be indured frequently repeating it and then bind him about with wet Hay-bands and by this means the skin will loosen and stretch and the Beast which by reason of that restraint was poor will become fat Diseases incident to the Eyes of this sort of Cattle and direction in order to the Cure IF the Eyes of the Beast be swollen take two handfuls of Wheat-flower two ounces of Hony an ounce of the juice of Cellendine and as much water as will make them into a plaister the which apply to the Eyes so swollen and at the same time let the beast blood under the Tongue If he be troubled with weeping or Rhumatick Eyes take an ounce of Bolearmoniack two ounces of Wildparsniproot an ounce of Eye-bright-water as much meal-flower and a like quantity of Hony add to them a quarter of a pint of Whitewine apply them well tempered together in the nature of a plaister and they will drive back the Rheum or any flowing Humours If the Eyes matter which is occasion'd by the congealing of the humours before they descend Then take of Saffron two Drams Frankincense an ounce and the like quantity of Myrrh boyl them in a pint of Whitewine give him one half up his Nostrils and with the other anoint his Eyes and the tough and vicious humours will break and avoid at the Nostrils leaving the sight perfect as at first If the Eyes be dark and cloudy so that the sight is rendred imperfect take white sugarcandy burnt Bone and burnt Allum beat them to powder and blow them into the beasts Eyes and by frequently so doing he will be marvelously clear sighted If there appear shales or nails as some call them on the Eyes take an ounce of Hony half an ounce of Bolearmoniack an ounce of Stonesalt and a like quantity of the juice of Baum or Mint boyl them into an eye-Eye-water in a pint of running-running-water and wash the beasts Eyes therewith three or four times a day till you perceive the imperfection is vanished If any Spots Pins Webs or the like appear in the Eyes Take Alabaster beat it to powder and frequently blow it into the Eye and afterwards that is about an hour after each blowing wash it with the juice of Housleek and Strawberry-leaves if you can get them if not with White-wine wherein Parsly has been concocted or boyled and for what other distempers are incident to the Eyes of this sort of cattle I refer you to the cures prescribed for the like defects in Horses Eyes to which the Table will direct you Cures for any distemper in the Lungs or therefrom proceeding as Cough Cold Consumption difficulty of breathing c. as also for Agues Fevers Sickness occasioned through swallowing a Horse-leech or venomous Grub pains of the Belly and Wind-colick MOst afflictions of the Lungs proceed from foul or unwholsome lying which generating store of crude raw humours they descend upon the Lungs corrupting and afflicting them wherefore as soon as you perceive any defect therein make a Drench of a quart of Mallago two ounces of Liquorish-powder and a like quantity of Anniseeds Fennegreekseeds and Hony give it the beast exceeding warm If the Cough have already seized him take Wheat-flower a handful Poppyseeds two drams two new laid Eggs a handful of Bean-flower and half a handful of Mugwort boyl them in a gallon of Ale and give him a quart at a time for four mornings successively during his being fasting If the Cough be old add thereto Hyssop one handful and half an ounce of Alloes Pegging his duelap or Ear with black Hellebore vulgarly called Bears foot and in so doing you will cure not only Cough Consumption difficulty of breathing and the like but all other distempers incident to the Lungs if they are not wasted too much If the beast be afflicted with the Ague which you may know by his Melancholy the beating of his veins dullness and swelling of his Eyes driveling shivering and the like suffer him to fast twenty four hours then let him blood in the Neck and Tail take a handful of Burrs or Burdockleaves a like quantity of Mayweed half a pint of Linseed Oyl a pickled Herring bruised boyl them in two quarts of Vinegar adding two ounces of Mustardseed and having strained out the liquid part give it him warm feeding him afterwards with green and moist meats and in so doing five or six mornings every other day it will cure either Ague or Fevour observing that you let him blood but once If the beast in drink has swallowed a Horseleech or in eating licked up a Grub Spider or any venomous Insect by which his body is swelled and distempered even to bursting Take of Olive Oyl a pint Vinegar or Whitewine half a pint dried Figs two ounces Rue a handful Milk a pint boyl them together strain out the liquid part give it him hot and keep him moving but if he swell through excessive
the weather be excessive hot let them blood as soon as you perceive them stagger or turn round by slitting the nose vein a cross then take a handful of Baum Mint and Rue boyl them in a quart of small beer and suffering the liquid part to cool give it the beast to drink and so do morning and evening for two days successively If there happen a defect in the Cud take a handful of Wheatflower a spoonful of Baysalt and as much sharp Vinegar as will make the flower into little balls two or three of which thrust down the beasts throat fasting and in so doing twice or thrice the Cud will be restored If with the Ague being a Ram or Ewe blood him or her between the Claws as well behind as before not suffering any cold water to be drunk for Twenty four hours at the end of which boyl a Root of Garlick an ounce of Pepper and a handful of Bettony and Wood-forrel in a pint of Whitewine and a quart of spring-water then straining forth the liquid part give it the beast lukewarm and so do for three or four days and the Ague will vanish but if it be a Lamb give him a pint of the Ewes milk wherein Polipodium of the Oak and Chubebs have been boyled If with Rheums or Catarrhs caused by abundant humour in the body of the beast then burn under their noses Assa ferida the bark of Elder and Tamarisk giving him Ale wherein Licorish and Rubarb have been boyled and suffer him not to be abroad in the wet If the Sheep be troubled with specks Films Rheums or the like in the Eyes Take a handful of Eye-bright an ounce of Lupins three or four sprigs of Cellendine and half an ounce of Bithwort Roots boyl them in Ewes milk and strain the liquid part with which wash the grieved Eyes after you have blowen into them the powder of burnt Eggshell and Allum If with pains in the Teeth bleed the Gums or upper lip rubbing the place with Salt and the juice of Sage If afflicted with Aposthumes or Ulcers draw them to a head with Riemeal ground Ivy and the yolks of Eggs Launce them when ripe and put into the hole burnt Allum and salt covering them with a plaister of Burgundia pitch If with Boils melt Brimstone Pitch and Bees-wax boyl them in Vinegar and adding powder of Gall Nuts to them lay them plaisterwise to the Sorrance Saint Anthonies Fire Rot or Plague Diseases of the Lungs Scab or Itch Cough Swallowing Spiders or any venom and Belly swelling their respective cures SAint Anthonies-fire called the wild fire is very hurtful to sheep To cure which take Bolearmoniack Turpentine Deers suet Soot and the juice of Housleek and after having boyled them or melted them wash the Place with Goats milk and apply them plaisterwise giving him at the same time water wherein salt and butter have been boyled To cure the Rot or Plague take a handful of the herb Melliot as much Comfry Polipodium of the Oak Rue Vervine and Walnut-tree-leaves a like quantity boyl them in a quart of water and a pint of Aquavitae adding an ounce of Mithridate giving the Liquid part to the beast so afflicted For the Scab or Itch Take Soot the stalks of Tobaco Brimstone-flower and Fern roots boyl them in Chamberly and wash the Place grieved with the liquid part Morning and Evening To cure the disease in the Lungs take a handful of Sage a like quantity of Coltsfoot as much Parsly and Purslain a Root of Garlick an ounce of Mithridate and two ounces of Hony boyl them in a quart of Whitewine and give them to the grieved beast lukewarm at twice viz. Morning and Evening To cure the cough or shortness of breath take Cuminseed Fennegreekseed and the powder of Liquorish of each two ounces a handful of Coltsfoot three ounces of the Oyl of sweet-Almonds boyl them in a quart of stale-bear and give the liquid part to drink in the morning fasting to the afflicted beast If the Sheep have swallowed any venomous thing which causes them to swell warm strong Vinegar and Olive Oyl and pour down their throats If their bellies swell which is mostly occasioned by eating unwholesom herbs let them blood under the Tail and give them to drink water wherein Rue and Chammomile have been boiled Lame Claws Maggots and Lice broken or bruised joints c. how to order IF the Claw be lame over-grown or broken you must pair it and apply to it a plaister of Bees-wax Rosin unslacked Lime and Hogs-grease and binding it up warm it will soon recover To kill Maggots or Lice use water wherein Tar Burdock and Briony roots have been boiled And to any broken or bruised joynt apply a pultis of Chammomil Marsh-mallows Bettony Bugloss and Honysuckle leaves stamped and fried in Hoggs-grease apply it hot and bind it up warm And thus much for sheep those most useful and necessary creatures in feeding and cloathing mankind A TREATISE OF SWINE The Marks whereby to know a good breed and how to procure it THe Bore that is capable of getting a good breed must be chosen by the following Marks viz. his mouth drawn upwards and long his breast thick and broad as likewise his shoulders his Thighs great and short his colour white with sandy-spots being near as thick as long his bristles thick and stiff and his stones well and even hung Let your Sow designed for a breeder have a long body a large and lank belly many Teats broad Buttocks long and broad Ribs her Head little Snout long and legs short hair white and soft and in thus chusing your breed will in all things answer your expectations When the Sow ought to be covered the time of Spaying and Gelding and how with little charge to make Swine fat WHen by the mark aforesaid you have stored your self with a good Sow and Bore the former being a year old and upwards and the latter between three and four years put them together in the increase of the Moon having first driven the Sow into water up to the belly suffer the Bore to serve her three times or more if she take it not kindly at the first after which take the Bore from her and keep her in a warm yard or house if it be in the winter time giving her Granes Bran Mast Pease Beans and now and then Roots and green-leaves the most convenient Month for her to take Bore in is February that so the Farrow may come in warm weather for those that come in Winter are either stunted or troubled with diseases Geld your Pigs at two or three months old if you would have the Bacon extraordinary sweet but the Hog will be of a larger growth and much fatter if his Stones continue with him till a year old and the best Gelding time is when the Moon is in the wain either in the Spring or Fall to do this take the Pig or Hog and slit his Cods one by one