Take five or six Eggs and lay them in sharp White-wine Vinegar till the shells be somewhat soft then take his tongue in your hand and put them down his throat one after another give them fasting and let him neither eat nor drink of five or six hours after ride him a mile or two after you have given it him give him warm water to drink for once and keep him warm This will Cure him forthwith Proved CLXXXVII A suppository to supple the Guts to dissolve and send forth all dry and hot Excrements FIrst Rake him then take a great Candle of four in the pound and cut off three Inches at the smaller end then anoint the other part being the bigger end with Sallet oyl or fresh Butter and soput it up into his fundament then hold his Tail to his Tewel half an hour or tye it close to his Tewel with a strap of Leather and fasten it to his Sussingle and in half an hours time it will be dissolved then let loose his Tail and leap his back and trot him up and down till he do begin to empty and purge himself for by this means it will work the more kindly this is the most gentle of all suppositories Proved CLXXXVIII Another Suppository to be given that you dare not without peril of his life give him any thing else inwardly Then give him this TAke of common Honey six ounces of Salt-nitre one ounce and a half of Wheat-flowr and of Anniseeds in fine powder of each one ounce boyl all these together to a stiff thickness and so make it into Suppositories anoint these as you did the former and your hand also and so put it up into his Fundament the length of your hand then tye his Tail between his Legs for half an hour in which time the Suppository will be dissolved then ride him and order him as before This is very good especially in case of Surfeits or inward Sickness rake him first and keep him warm Proved CLXXXIX A Suppository to purge Flegm TAke a piece of Castle-soap pare it and bring it into the fashion of a Suppository put it into his Fundament and order him as before Proved CXC A Suppository to purge Choler TAke Savin as much as will suffice and stamp it to Mash and stamp with it Stavesacre and Salt of each two ounces boyl them in common Honey as much as will suffice to make it thick and so make it up into Suppositories and Administer one of them like as you are before shewn and order him accordingly CXCI. A Suppository to purge Melancholy TAke a Red Onion and pill it and jagg it cross-waies with your Knife and so administer it and order him as before CXCII Another Suppository TAke a pint of common Honey and boyl it till it be thick and make it up into Suppositories as it cooleth and administer it as before and order him also in the like manner This Suppository purgeth evil humours it cooleth and comforteth the body very much and causeth a good appetite to meat Proved CXCIII Directions for Suppositories FIrst observe this When at any time you do administer either Potions Glisters or Suppositories you must do it in a Morning fasting Except necessity urge the contrary Secondly you must not at those times suffer him to drink cold water no not with exercise but either sweet Mashes or White water Thirdly it is very needful before you administer any of these that you Rake him and be sure you keep him warm A Suppository is but a preparative for a Glister or Purge to make that way that they may purge the better CXCIV To kill Worms TAke Bears-foot and Savin Lavender Cotton the flower of Brimstone give it him in sweet wort it will kill the Worms and turn them into slime Ask for the powder of Caroline at the Apothecaries it is as admirable a thing to kill Worms as can be you may give three or four penny-worth at a time in a pint and a half of sweet Wort. It is a very safe thing Proved CXCV. To purge by Grass in Summer IF your Horse be surfeited or hath been over laboured the Winter before then turn him out when the Grass is in the best heart Now that Grass that will purge most and best is a new mowen Meadow for that will rake his Guts very well nor will he in such a place gather flesh therefore let him go there not above fourteen or eighteen days and then put him into some other Pasture where the Grass hath not been touched with a Syth and there he will belly well and in a short time recover much flesh and be very fat and lusty This purging will scowr him bravely and send away all ill humours and surfeits and ease his Limbs marvellously well and do his legs and feet much good and refine his corrupt bloud and make him nimble and full of spirit Also to mowe green Rye before it be eared is most wholesom for it scowreth cleanseth and cooleth the body very much so do the leaves of Sallow and the leaves of the Elm-tree CXCVI. A Glister for a Sick surfeited Diseased Horse IF your Horse be newly taken from Grass and that you hold it needful his body should be cleansed from bad humours which either his Grass or former Surfeits might bring First Rake him and then give him this Glister following viz. Take Mallows three handfuls Marsh Mallow Roots cleansed and bruised two handfuls Violet leaves two handfuls Flax-seed three spoonfuls and as many of the Cloves of white Lilly Roots as you may easily hold in your hand boyl all these in fair water from a Gallon to a Wine quart then strain it and put thereto one ounce of Sena which must be infused or steeped in the Liquor three hours standing upon the hot Embers then put thereto half a pint of Sallet oyl and then administer it Glister-wise blood-warm and cause him to keep it half an hour or longer if you can and the best time to give this Glister is 3 or 4 dayes before the full or change of the Moon but if occasion be you may give it any other time this Glister is to be given to a foggy fat Horse which otherwise cannot be kept clean It purgeth the Guts abundantly and it is cheifly to be given an Horse that is newly taken from Grass And the next day after you have given him this Glister give him this drink following CXCVII A Purge TAke the strongest Ale-wort one quart of Honey a quarter of a pint of London Treacle two ounces mix and brew them all together and give it him blood-warm then keep him upon the bit six hours after warm clothed and well littered and give him a sweet Mash and White water and Rack him with sweet Wheat-straw Oats and Bran this both purgeth and comforteth two or three dayes after give him this Drink following CXCVIII. Another Purge TAke a pint of White-wine and put into it one ounce of Sena and let it steep
ride him forth for you shall understand that this evening after his heat the Horse being inwardly foul and the Scowring yet working in his body he may not receive any water at all After the Horse is drest and hath stood an hour and half upon his bridle you shall then take three pints of clean sifted Oats and wash them in strong Ale or beer and so give them to the Horse for this will inwardly cool and refresh him as if he had drunk water After he hath eaten all his washt meat and rested upon it a little space you shall then at his feeding times which have been spoken of before with Oats and spelt beans or Oats and bread or all together or each several and simple of it self as you shall find the stomack of the Horse best addicted to receive it feed him that night in plentiful manner and leave a Know of hay in the Rack when you go to your bed The next day very early as may be first feed then dress after clothe saddle then air him abroad and water him as hathe been before shewed after bring him home and feed him with Oats spelt Beans and Bread as was last of all declared only very little hay and keep your heating dayes and the preparation the day before in such wise as hath been also formerly declared without any omission or addition Thus you shall spend the second Fortnight in which your Horse having received four heats soundly given unto him and four Scowrings there is no doubt but his body will be inwardly clean you shall then the third Fortnight order him according to these Rules which hereafter follow The third Fortnights keeping THe third Fortnight you shall make his Bread finer than it was formerly As thus The second Bread YOu shall take two pecks of clean Beans and two pecks of fine Wheat grind them on the black stones searce them through a fine range and knead it up with barm and great store of Lightning working it in all points and baking it in the same sort as was shewed you in the former Bread With this Bread having the Crust cut clean away and being old as was before shewed with clean sifted Oats and with clean drest spelt beans you shall feed your Horse this Fortnight as you did in the Fortnight before you shall observe his dressing airing and hours of feeding as in the former Fortnight also you shall observe his heating dayes and the day before his heat as in the former Fortnight only with these differences First you shall not give his heats so violently as before but with a little more pleasure that is to say if the first heat be of force and violence the second heat shall be of pleasure and ease and indeed none at all to overstrain the Horse or to make his body sore Next you shall not after his heats when he cometh home give him any more of the former Scowring but instead thereof you shall instantly upon the end of your heat after the Horse is a little cool'd and clothed up and in the same place where you rub him by drawing his head up aloft as you sit in the Saddle or raising it up otherwise give him a Ball somewhat bigger then a French Wall-nut hull and all of that confection which is mentioned before of the true manner of making of Cordial Bals. The Fourth and Last Fortnights keeping NOw to return again to my purpose having thus spent the three last Fortnights you shall the fourth and last Fortnight make your Horses bread much finer than either of the former The last Bread TAke three pecks of fine Wheat and put one peck of clean Beans grind them to powder on the black stones and bolt them through the finest Bolter you can get then knead it up with very sweet Ale-barm and new strong Ale and the barm beaten together and also the Whites of at least twenty Eggs in any wise no water at all but instead thereof some small quantity of new milk Then work it up and labour it with all painfulness that may be as was shewed in the first Bread then bake it and order it as was declared in the other With this Bread having the crust cut clean away and with Oats well sunned beaten and rubbed over with your hands then new winnowed and sifted and most finely drest that there may be neither light ones nor foul ones nor any false grain amongst them and with the purest spelted Beans that can be tried out feed your Horse at his ordinary feeding times in such wise as you did in the Fortnight last mentioned before You shall keep his heating dayes the first week of this last Fortnight in such wise as you did in the former Fortnight but the last week you shall forbear one heat and not give him any heat five dayes before his Match at the least only you shall give him long and strong Airing to keept him in wind You shall not need this Fortnight to give him any Scowring at all If this Fortnight Morning and Evening you burn upon a Chafingdish and coals in your Stable of the purest Olibanum or Frackincense mixt with Storax and Benjamina to perfume and sweeten the room you shall find it exceeding wholesome for the horse and he will take delight therein In this Fortnight when you give your horse any washt meat wash it not in Ale or beer but in the Whites of Eggs or Muskadine for that is more wholesom and less pursy This Fortnight give your horse no hay at all but what he taketh out of your hand after his heats and that must be in little quantity and clean dusted and drest unless he be an exceeding evil feeder and marvellous tender and a great belly-looser The last week of this Fortnight if your horse be a foul feeder you must use the Muzzle continually but if he be a clean feeder and will touch no litter then three dayes before your Match is a convenient time for the use of the Muzzle The morning the day before your Match feed well both before and after Airing and Water as at other times before noon and after noon scant his proportion of meat a little Before and after Evening Airing feed as at noon and water as at other times but be sure to come home before Sunset This day you shall cool the horse shoe the horse and do all extraordinary things of Ornament about him Provided there be nothing to give him offence or to hinder him in feeding or any other material or beneficial action for I have heard some horsemen say that when they had shoed their horse with light shoes and done other actions of Ornament about them the night before the course that their horse hath taken such especial notice thereof that they have refused both to eat and lye down But you must understand that those horses must be old and long experienced in this exercise or they cannot reach at these subtile apprehensions for my part touching
once a day with this till it be healed with other Medicines This will much further the Cure of any Wound or Sore where humors do fall down to it whilst you do apply other Medicines to heal up the Sore or Wound For these defensives are for no other purpose but to keep back humors that hinder Sores or Wounds from healing Proved XII A rare Receipt for a Farcion TAke Mullin by some called Higtaper it hath a great woolly leaf it groweth close by the ground upon the banks of Ditches or in the high-ways side Chickweed Groundsel and Wood Betony of each an handfull cut them small and boyl them all in a quart of Ale and when it is luke-warm put in two penny-worth of Quicksilver and give it him to drink fasting The third day after give him the like proportion warm water all the while to drink and to stand in Proved XIII For a Horse that hath his Fundament fallen out or for a Cow that hath the Mother fallen out TAke an armfull of Willow boughs and dry them on a hot Hearth when they are dry sweep the Hearth as clean as you can and set them on fire and burn them to ashes then take the ashes and searce them through a fine boulter and before you strew on the powder of the ashes wash the Fundament with warm water to make it as warm as the body then strew on the finest of the ashes and put the Fundament up into its place then tye a line to the Horses tayl and bring it between his hinder Legs and fasten it to a Surcingle under his belly pretty straight using this means his Fundament will be kept up and in a very short time it will be knit firm and strong again If the Mother of a Cow come forth use but the aforesaid means and you will find it a perfect remedie both proved White Pepper beaten finely and searced through a fine searce the Fundament being well warmed with warm water or milk and after warmed with a warm cloth and then this beaten Pepper strewed upon it and so put up and his tayl tyed close between his Legs as before you will find it very good A Marrow-bone of a Bullock burnt in the fire and beaten to fine powder is for a Wound a great and good dryer and healer and will skin a Wound Proved The inward and outward bark of a Willow-tree first dryed and afterwards the hearth being swept very clean burnt to ashes and the ashes sifted through a fine boulter the finest of these ashes is good to dry up any Sore nothing like it These ashes are likewise a great binder for a loosness in Horses or Cows bodies Proved XIV To kill Lice of horses and Cows TAke a quantity of Hogs-grease and anoint the Horse underneath the Mane and upon the ridgebone of the back it will burst them all presently XV. For a Stub or other hurt in or about the Foot TAke Bees-wax Pitch Hogs-grease and Turpentine boyl them together in an earthen pan but put in the Turpentine a little before you take it off the fire and stir it well together make the wound clean and pour it in scalding hot dip hards or tow in it and stuff the place where it is hurt full with it and it will heal it in a short time this will last a year Proved XVI To Cleanse any Wound old or new TAke the Roots of Elder and beat them to powder and boyl them with English-Hony It is good to cleanse any Sore old or new But take this for a general observation that before you dress any Wound let it be where it will about the Horse wash it clean first with White-wine wine Vinegar and then dress it with your Salve Proved XVII For the Sleeping Evil. THe signs to know it are The Horse will stand sleeping in a corner continually with his head hanging down to the ground it takes away his memory The Cure is to be performed thus Let him blood on both sides the neck in the morning fasting before he drink let him blood also in the mouth in the third furrow in the roof of his mouth and after he hath bled well give him this Drink Take of Camomil and motherwort together three handfulls cut small and boyl them in two quarts of Running water half an hour and then give the Horse a pint once in two days fasting the third day give him the rest fasting and three or four hours after give him warm water and a little comfortable Mash made of ground Mault put into scalding hot water after it comes of the fire keep him in the house warm the time of the cure and fume his head as you do for the Staggers and this in a short time is a perfect cure Proved XVIII To stop bleeding at the Nose THe chief cause thereof is the thinness of the Vein in the head you must let him blood in both the Plate veins and then wind a thumband of wet Hay about his neck and throw cold wate upon the thumband till you see the blood to stanch the thumband must be so long that it may be wound from his ears to his breast very lightly XIX For the Falling Evil in an Horse THe Falling Evil will cause him suddenly to fall down and to lye sprauling with his heels and foaming at the mouth like a man that hath the Falling sickness you shall know whether he be subject to fall often by feeling him by the gristles of his Nose which will be cold if he be subject to it The Cure is to let him blood on both sides of his neck after he hath bled in the morning before he drink give him this Drink Take Miseltoe that groweth upon an Apple-tree the leaves are like Ivy leaves dry it and rub it to powder and use it at your leisure give him of this powder of Miseltoe one spoonfull in half a pint of Sack and keep him in the house till he be well and give him to drink water luke-warm Proved You may add to the Miseltoe three drams of the Electuary called Theriaca Diaresseron or the Oyl of Pepper one dram or a dram and an half XX. For a Cough old or new or the heaving of his Lungs TAke the Root of Gentian which you shall have at the Apothecaries slice it dry it and beat it to powder give the beast as much of this powder as will lye upon a shilling in half a pinte of his own water give this to him fasting once in three days and so continue every third day till you see his Cough and Heaving to abate or be quite gone the cold of his water must be just taken off and he must stand in all the time of the Cure This for an old Cough or heaving of the Lungs is the best Cure in the World Proved XXI For a Canker in the Tongue YOU shall see his mouth and tongue raw within you shall know it by his stinking breath and his roping slavering Which to
lay your green Oyntment to This water and green Oyntment will heal any wound old or new if you observe and do as I have directed if there be any proud flesh in any sore be the sore in what place it will scald it with Butter and Salt and it will eat it off and help to heal it presently Proved XLIV To make a Horse piss that is troubled with the Wind-Colick or Obstruction in the Bladder TAke a quarter of a pound of Castle Sope and scrape it small then put to it two ounces of Dialthaea which you shall have at the Apothecaries bray them well together in a Mortar and then make them up in Balls about the bigness of a Barbers wash-ball and keep them for your use they will last a year one Ball crumbled into a pint and a half of strong Beer heat scalding hot will dissolve the Ball then let it stand till it be but luke warm and give it the Beast with a horn with this he will empty beyond expectation as long as any thing is in him Let him fast an hour after he takes it Proved XLV To cure a Poll Evil which grows upon the top of the Head YOu may know it when it begins to breed by its growing bigger than ordinary upon the top of the head if it be pretty big take a hot Iron and sear it round about the Poll Evil till the skin look yellow as this Figure doth shew you Then take another red hot Iron made of this fashion and make so many holes vvith this Iron as the Cross vvill give you leave and no further make all these holes with the point of this last Iron vvithin the compass of the seared place as you may see the pricks in the Figure so many pricks so many holes the bigger it is you may make the more the lesser the fewer these holes being thus made take a piece of yellow Arsenick as big as a wheat-kernel and put it into one hole and so do the like to every hole then at the same time lay on every hole over the Arsenick a piece of black Sope to stop the Arsenick in after all these beat some Arsenick fine to povvder and mix as much of the Powder vvith black Sope as contains to half a vvall-nut to anoint the place vvhere first the Iron seared it round but no where else and within three weeks it vvill be ready to come out all that is vvithin the compass of the round Ring the Arsenick vvill eat to the bottom if you see it hang but by a little at the bottom then you may adventure to cutit out otherwise let it alone three or four days longer and then cut it out close at the bottom After you have cut it clean out then wash it with the water that is good to cure any old Ulcer or green Wound and if you see or find with your Instrument that there is any hole at the bottom or suspect that there is any dead flesh there squirt the water aforesaid with a Syringe or Squirt to the bottom till all the dead flesh be eaten out this water will do it quickly which when you see anoint it with Sallet Oyl upon a Feathers end once a day till it be quite whole if the hole go forwards to his ears let him stand in at dry meat if the hole go backward let him run abroad at grass because be holding down his head the filthy matter cannot spread further but must come back to the main Wound this Observation will much further the Cure Again if this disease happen in Winter when no flyes are stirring anoint it and heal it with Sallet Oyl if this disease happen in Summer when the flyes are busie anoint it then with Train Oyl which you shall have at the Curriers if this disease of a Poll-Evil or a Fistula chance to be over-grown with Bags or Bunnies of proud flesh while you are healing of it then do nothing but scald it with Butter and Salt and it will soon remedy that XLVII For a Fistula THe mark of the Fistula is after this manner the Fistula always hangs on either side the top of the Cress as you may see by this Figure The same way and the same means will cure this as you used to the Poll-Evil with the Instrument with a cross you must make so many holes as you see pricks within the Figure and you must do in every thing as you did in the last Mark you must make three holes upon the top of the Wollis which is the top of the Neck or Cress which is in the midst of the Fistula and you must make two holes on either side Proved XLVII For the Plague Pestilence Garget or Murrain in Horse or Beast only YOu must not let blood in this Disease you shall know it by these signs He will hang down his head and will gum thick Atter at the Eyes as big as your fingers end and much and will go weakly staggering and his Head will oftentimes swell very big and will fall away of his flesh suddenly and yet feed very well the Cure is thus Take as much Diapente as a Hasel-nut as much Dialphera as much London Treacle as much Mithridate as much Saffron a handful of Wormwood an handful of red Sage Rhubarb as much as an Hasel-nut two Cloves of Garlick boyl all these together in two pints of good Beer till it come to a pint and a half then give it him luke-warm fasting and keep him very warm and the next thing you give him must be a Mash made of ground Malt let him drink warm water for a Week and sometimes bursten Oats now and then a little clean sweet Hay it is his sweating that does the Cure If one Drink will do no good give him another three daies after to make all sure it will not make him much sick Half of the proportions of this drink will do wondrous well for a Cow if she have the like disease Not tryed but very probable XLVIII For a Horse or Cow that is poysoned by licking of Venome or is over-gorged with Clover-grass or Turnips by greedy feeding EIther Horse or Cow will swell and slaver very much and will be so extreamly full as if they were ready to burst and the skin to crack if they drink soon after it so much the worse but if he be but alive when you give him this it will cure him in a quarter of an hour for it will work as soon as it is in his body For the cure Take a quarter of a pound of Castle-sope and scrape it thin and put to it two ounces of Dialphera which you shall have at the Apothecaries bray them in a Mortar small together and make them up in Balls as big as a Barbers Wash-ball and lay them by till you have occasion to use them one Ball is enough for one Beast to cure this Disease you must dissolve the Ball in a pint and a half of Strong
attend the Eye at the same time to stop it dip a little Flax or Hards in some melted Rosin and lay it in the hole of the Horses Eye I was told it would stop any Rheum but have not tryed it LV. To cure a Mallender FIrst rub it dry with a cloth then anoint it with Crown-Sope and red Mercury precipitate mixed together when you have anointed it once pluck the hairs which grow in it and upon the edge of it out then dress him three times more once in two daies dress it then anoint it with Sallet Oyl and it is cured But alwaies before you anoint it you must rub it dry Proved LVI For an Apoplexy or Palsey TO know this Palsey the Signs are these It either will take him in the Neck that he cannot put down his head to the ground or in the After-parts that he cannot rise the Sinews of his flank will be hard if you feel them with your hand The Cure is thus Take six penny-worth of the oyl of Peter and anoint the place grieved with it at one time and dry it in with a hot Iron if you anoint the After-part of him then lay upon him the Litter of a hot reeking Muckhil and lay a Cloth over that to hold it on renewing it four times a day If it be in the Neck after you have anointed it and dryed it in make a Thumb-band of the longest hottest Dunghil Litter that you can get and wind it round about his Neck something loose that he may eat and drink Let the Thumb-band be so long that it may go so often about his Neck that it may reach from his Shoulders to his Ears Probatum est LVII For a Fareine that lyes all over the Body of a Horse FIrst Bleed those Buds that do not dye wash them with the water that you have for any old Ulcer and this will cure them and kill them wash them once a day then take a pottle of running water and boyl it in two spoonfuls of Hempseed beaten to powder and two handfuls of Herb-grace cut small boyl all these together till it come to a pint and a half and give it the Horse fasting do this once in three daies or three times in nine daies let him stand in the night before and not drink you may give him three or four hours after it a Mash or warm water and then Hay This very Drink given to a Cow or Bullock after letting blood in the Neck will make them thrive exceeding fast if it be given them at the Spring of the Year and then turned out to Grass If a Cow or Bullock do not thrive but is lean scurvy hide-bound and her hair stand right up do but let blood and give her this drink and she will mend presently upon it Proved LVIII For a Farcion only in the Neck or Head of a Horse FIrst Let blood in the Neck veins then take two spoonfuls of the juyce of Hemlock and two spoonfuls of the juyce of Housleek and mix them together and put the one half into the one Ear and the other half into the other Ear you must mix two spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl with the Housleek and Hemlock and then put them altogether into his Ears Put a little Wool Flax or Tow after it stitch up his Ears and at the end of twenty four hours unstitch them and take out the stuffing give him a Mash two or three hours after and warm Water to drink You may give him any meat to eat only wash the Buds with the Water for an old Ulcer till he be whole Proved LIX A rare Medicine to make an Horse scour that is Hide-bound that is Moulten that does not thrive nor fill and to lay his Coat if it stand right up IF a Horse be Moulten give him this scouring Medicine suddenly fasting If an Horses skin cleave to his Ribs we say he is Hide-bound and if an Horses Coat stand right up staring and do not lye smooth or if he do not fill well it is then to be judged the Horse is surfeited foul and out of health To cure all these at once or twice at the most and make your Beast thrive gallantly give him this scouring Medicine Take half an ounce of Aloes and beat it to powder and put it into a pint of Butter made afterwards round put the Aloes in three or four balls of Butter and rowl the balls in as much of the powder of Jallop as will lye upon a six pence wash down the balls with a pint and a half of strong Beer luke-warm Let him fast three or four hours after then give him a Mash or bursten Oats and warm water to drink for two or three daies Ride or work him moderately and the Horse will thrive the better Proved often LX. To stop a thin Scouring in Cow or Bullock or any other Creature TAke a quarter of a pint of Verjuyce and as much Bolearmoniack beaten to powder as a Walnut stir it well up and down in the Verjuyce and give it to the Beast Proved LXI To kill Lice in Cattel TAke a broad woollen List as broad as your hand that will go round about his Neck then wet the List well in Train-Oyl and sew it about the Beasts Neck and the Lice will come to it and it will kill them if there were never so many Daub some about the Beast in several places and they will come to it and it will kill them No flies in Summer will come near any Wound or Sore wherewith this is applyed for it will kill them Proved LXII To make Hoofs that are brittle grow quickly and to make them firm and strong TAke of Garlick 7 ounces Herb-grace three handfuls of Allom beaten to powder 7 ounces of old Hogs-grease two pound of Asses-dung or for want of it Cow-dung an handful beat and cut them all small and mix them altogether and boyl them altogether well then with this Oyntment stop his Fore-feet between his Shoes and the bottom of his Feet and keep it in with a piece of Leather or Sole-Leather of a Shoe let it be betwixt his Foot and Shoe And besides you should do well to anoint the outsides of his Hoofs all over do this till you see his brittle Hoofs to grow tough and strong you will find the effect to be great Proved LXIII To heal a Navil-Gall Sore-back or a Set-fast TAke a quarter of a pint of Train-Oyl and boyl in it as much beaten Verdigrease as half a Walnut put it into a Pot and keep it for your use This very Medicine will heal any Navil-gall Set-fast or Sore-back suddenly And no Flyes will dare to touch or come near it if they do they dye presently Proved LXIV For a Sinew-strain in the Fore or After-Leg A Sinew-strain is alwaies upon the Sinews which grow behind on the Fore-leg and behind upon the Sinews of the After-leg above the Foot-lock joynt upon the back part of the Fore-leg and upon the back
your Left-hand and put in one Ball to the root of his Tongue if you can that he may swallow it the better put your finger under his Tongue then give him a Hornful of strong Beer cold after it then give him a second Ball and a Hornful of Beer to wash it down and so do in like manner by all the rest then ride him a Mile gently and set him up warm Let him not eat not drink for five or six hours after it then give him a little clean Hay at Night not before and some warm Water to drink with some Wheat-bran put into it the next Morning give him warm Water to drink in the same manner and ride him a Mile gently and tye him to the Rack for an hour after then you may give him what meat he will eat at Night warm Water and Bran again the third day in the Morning after he hath done purging give him cold Water and before you ride him after his cold Water give him two ounces of Hony and half a pint of White-wine heated a little warm to make him piss and to clear his bladder and to beget a stomack then ride him a Mile or two gently and at Night ayr him again and so do Morning and Evening till he be well litter him well and keep him warm If you see that after his Purge and after you have given him the Hony and Whitewine he do not fall to his meat but is still bound in his body and dungs very small then give him this Cordial fasting two or three times and let there be two or three daies betwixt each Cordial giving It is thus made Take three pints of stale Beer course Houshold bread the quantity of half ae penny Loaf when these two are well boyled together take it off the fire and put into it a quarter of a pound of Hony and a quarter of a pound of fresh Butter give him all these together as a Cordial lukewarm then ride him a mile after it and set him up warm and tye him up to the Rack for three or four hours after it then give him a Mash of bursten Oats or Barly and warm Water with Wheat-bran in it till the Horse be come to his stomack and be loose bodied again which in two or three times giving he will be The fore-going Purge is admirable good for a dry Surfet and for a Horse that is bound in his body and dungs small The Cordial with Whitewine and Hony is admirable good for a Horse that is weak and hath little stomack to bring him to a stomack again When at any time for the fore going Diseases you give a Mash of bursten Oats to half a peck boyl a quarter of a pound of Fenygreek with them and put some of them into the Manger hot if he be loth to eat them because of the taste of the Fenygreek throw some Wheat-bran over them and he will eat them this is the only way to bring your Horse to a stomack and raise him suddenly Concerning his swelled Cods and swelled Legs as soon as his Purge hath done working take the Charge of Sope and Brandy and dab it on his swelled Cods or swelled Legs with a flat stick as it comes boyling hot off the fire three or four daies after it hath taken its course whilst he stands in the house take and ride him into the River up to his Saddle-skirts with the stream and against it half a quarter of an hour at a time wash him thus once every day or twice till you see the swelling quite down his Cods or Legs which will be in very few daies once laying on the Charge is enough If it be a dry Surfet give the Purge first and afterwards the Cordial of Whitewine and Hony But if he have a Cold and run at the Nostrils then first give him the following Drink made of Anniseeds Turmerick Brandy or Aqua-vitae Vinegar and Beer and three daies after give him the Purge and if you see his stomack to fail him give him the Cordial when a Horse is fat and lusty and then melted and the Grease set within him in this case use the Purge first But if he be fat and sick both together then give him the Whitewine and Hony and Cordials as you are before in this Receipt directed to bring him to a stomack first and when you have done that then give him the Purge and order him after it as you are there directed If there be hard Kernels between his Jaws or Chaps at the same time the Charge of Sope and Brandy laid hot upon them and heated well in in once doing it will either sink them flat or break them And if they break wash them with Butter and Vinegar and let them heal up of themselves All proved to be good and certain CXXXVI For a moist hot running Surfet that falls out of his Body into his Fore-legs and sometimes into his After-legs and sometimes into all four THis Surfet comes with Colds and Heats which are divers waies taken when it falls out of his Body into his Legs and runs hot moist white yellow thin thick stinking Water or Matter in this case the Horses breath will stink and smell very strong and his Legs will swell and stink extreamly when this Surfet breaks in his Body and falls down into his Legs at his first going out of the Stable he will hardly draw his Legs over the Threshold and he will be so stiff that he can hardly stir in the Stable but will hold up his Leg to his Midribs and although this Disease be never so violent in breaking out or causing his Legs to swell and run yet you need not fear Remedy for him if you observe these Directions following First keep him fasting all the Night before or give him but a very little meat to keep his jaws from falling the next day in the Morning before he drink let him blood on both the Neck-veins and let him bleed well then uncord him and give him this Drink following which will much purge and dry up his gross humours in his body and cleanse his blood Take one ounce of Aristolochia one ounce of Turmerick one ounce of Anniseeds dry and beat the Turmerick and Anniseeds small and grate the root of Aristolochia put all these together with one handful of Rew and a handful of Wormwood green or dry and one handful of Red-sage one handful of green Fennel if it be Winter that you cannot get green then take two ounces of Fennel-seeds and beat them small and put to the rest of the things and all put into an earthen pot or pan and put to them three pints of running and Spring-water and there let them lye in steep all Night the next Morning before you give it to him ride him a Mile till he be a little warm give it to him cold as it stood all night then after that ride him a Mile again and let him stand upon
and here also will cause a present Cure Now to cure the Strangling or a Cold that runs at the Nose or hath done for half a year or more or Squinsey when he is troubled with tough thick flegm For these three last mentioned take these following Ingredients and give them as you are directed First one ounce of Anniseeds an ounce of Turmerick beaten to powder half a quartern of Brandy or Aqua-vitae half a dozen spoonfuls of Whitewine or Vinegar a pint and an half of strong Beer put all these into a Skellet and heat them blood-warm and give it to the Beast fasting then presently run the point of the Cornet-horn into the third furrow in the roof of his Mouth and let him bleed then walk him a mile and set him up Clothe and Litter him warm Let him stand upon the Bit four or five hours he will sweat with his Drink till one drop follow another If you see he be sick and desirous to lye down you may let him Give him no Mashes but only warm Water to drink with an handful or two of Wheat-bran put into it and the next Morning warm Water and Bran again and presently after give him two ounces of Hony and half a pint of Whitewine or half a pint of Wine-vinegar if you have not White-wine walk him a Mile after it The third day in the Morning after this Drink in the beginning of the Receipt give him this Cordial three pints of stale Beer Houshold-bread a piece as big as a great Tost and crum it in a quarter of a pound of Butter put them into a Skellet together and heat them a little upon the fire and when you take it off put in a quarter of a pound of Hony stir them together and give it him blood-warm fasting then ride him a mile and set him up warm clothed and littered Three or four hours after give him warm Water and Bran to drink Every two or three daies for a Cold whether it cause the Beast to run at the Nose or no or be in Glanders In course of Physick after his drink give him this Cordial to bring him to a stomack it will help to kill the Canker in his mouth or throat clear the Guts and cleanse the Lights with one drink of White-wine and Hony and these Cordials he will be in a very short time cleared and cured If in the time of his Cure he hath hard Kernels between his Jaws apply the Charge of Sope and Brandy which will either quite sink them or break them Again if there be not Kernels but hard swellings in the Jaws as most part there is when he hath the Strangling in this case also apply the Charge of Sope and Brandy and heat it well in If this Swelling do break in the time of the Cure let it run and heal up of it self If the Swelling between his Jaws be soft all over and in the midst of the Swelling the hair begins to scale off you may then put in the point of your Knife a little way through the skin and let it out if it be not full ripe it will heal up with proud rank flesh and there will be a knot between his Jaws which is an ugly blemish therefore heal it up with nothing but let it heal up of it self In the time of any of these Cures ayr and ride him out two or three times every day it will do him abundance of good if you do not ride him too hard but gently If that which comes out of his Nose be yellowish and afterwards turns white there is hope of perfecting the Cure the Drink will make him swell and be very sick but it will do him a great deal of good Proved CXL For a Horse that hath a dry Surfet in his Body and falls away in his Flesh That hath a weak Cough and is in a Consumption THe Signs of this Disease are He will not thrive but be gaunt-bellied and dried up in his Body and cannot cough but gruntingly by reason of the Cold and Surfet and great soreness in his Body The Remedy is this First ride him a mile and then let him blood in the bottom of the belly at the lower end of all the Spurvein after he hath bled well give him this Drink one ounce of Anniseeds half an ounce of Diapente four pennyworth of English Saffron one ounce of Syrup of Colts-foot one ounce of brown Sugar-candy one ounce of Bay-berries four or five spoonfuls of Whitewine Vinegar a pint and a half of strong Beer put all these into a Skellet and heat them lukewarm and give it to the Beast fasting and ride him two or three furlongs after it then tye him up to the Rack and let him fast five or six hours after his Drink and clothe and litter him up very warm then unbit him and give him a little sweet Hay till night then give him warm Water and Bran to Drink The next day in the morning before he eat or drink burst half a peck of Oats with two ounces of Fenygreek two ounces of Coriander-seeds for want of Coriander two ounces of Caraway-seeds burst them altogether well and give him them before he eat or drink And at noon give him warm Water and Bran and after three or four daies end give him this drink after the first drink One ounce of Anniseeds beaten small half a pound of Raisins of the Sun an handful of unset Leeks cut small two quarts of mild Beer boyl all these together in a Skellet till half be consumed then take out all the Raisins and beat them in a Mortar stones and all take some of the Liquor wherein they were boiled and wash the Mortar clean therewith and put it again into the Kettle amongst the rest then take the Kettle off and put in as much Butter as an Egg and let it melt and give him this drink fasting walk him a furlong or two and tye him up to the Rack for five or six hours and clothe and litter him up warm then give him Hay and at Night warm Water and Bran The next day have in readiness some Oats Coriander-seeds or for want of them some Caraway-seeds burst them together by eleven or twelve a Clock and throw some of them into the Crib as you were directed before and if he refuse to eat them strew some Wheat-bran over them and that will cause him to eat them give him but a few at a time After this second Drink given you shall see the Horse within two or three daies to void at the Nose yellow Glanders or some other colour ride him moderately twice a day and keep him warm in the Stable And two or three daies after you have given him this last Drink and warm Water then and not before water him at the River and presently after it give him every Morning two ounces of Hony and half a pint of Whitewine mixed together heated lukewarm you may give it him abroad or in
the Stable it matters not where once in three or four daies fasting you may give him a Cordial made of Beer Hony Bread and Butter the very same and you must so order it as you were directed in the foregoing Receipt And these Drinks Hony and White-wine and your Cordials will make him come to his stomack in a short time and thrive very much put the Water wherein the Oats and Seeds were burst into a Payl of cold Water and let him drink of that as much as you can vvhen an Horse is fat and the Grease set in his body if he have a stomack then give the Purge of Aloes first but if he be fat and sick and hath no stomack then give him Hony and Whitevvine and his Cordials first and aftervvards his Purge of Aloes Proved CXLI For the Yellows THe Signs are his Eyes vvill be strip'd vvith red and be yellovv and his Lips vvill be pimpled and look yellovv The Cure is Let him blood on both his Neck-veins after that give him this Drink one ounce of Turmerick and Anniseeds beaten small a quarter of a pint of Whitewine Vinegar half a quarter of a pint of Aqua-vitae put them all into a Skellet and heat it lukewarm and give it to the Beast put a spoonful of the flower of Brimstone into the first Horn-full that you give him pour it down his Throat and then give him all the rest of the Drink one Horn-full after another tye him up to the Rack for three or four hours and then give him wet clean Hay and at night Water and Bran or a Mash If you have not the aforesaid things in a readiness by you then give him an ounce of Horse-spice which you shall find mentioned in the following Receipts and there you shall find how to make it and for what to give it and when and likewise how to keep it by you If one Drink be not enough give him the second if he do not fall to his meat at three daies end give him a Cordial or two warm Water for the first day and no more and cold Water afterwards Two or three daies after his Drink work him moderately If you cannot get Turmerick take an handful of Selendine if one Drink will not two will cure him Proved CXLII For the Staggers IT comes at first of some corrupt blood or gross or tough humours oppressing the brain from whence proceedeth a vaporous spirit dissolved by a weak heat which troubleth all the head The Signs be these Dimness of Sight reeling and staggering to and fro he with very pain will thrust his head against the Walls and forsake his meat For Remedy do these things in order as you are here directed First take a pretty long streight stick of the bigness of a Tobacco-pipe smooth it well and cut a notch or crotch at one end then run up the stick to the top of his head and job a little hard and turn the stick then pull it out and he will bleed freely It is bad to cord him about the Neck in this Disease when he hath bled well in the head give him this Drink an ounce of Anniseeds an ounce of Turmerick beaten small half a quarter of a pint of Aqua-vitae a pint and a half of mild Beer a pint of Verjuyce or if you have not Verjuyce then take a quarter of a pint of Whitewine Vinegar and put it to the Beer and all the rest together and heat them lukewarm and give it to the Beast in the morning before he drink as soon as you have given it him take a handful of Herbgrace and beat it small in a Mortar a pennyworth of Aqua-vitae and put half the Aqua-vitae into one Ear holding it upright in the hollow of your hand and put half the Herbgrace after it and put Wool Tow or Hards after it to keep it in then tye up the Ear with a Woollen List or Garter and so do the like with the other Ear stitch up his Ears with a Needle and Thread or otherwise with your List tye up both his Ears together and at twenty four hours end unstitch or untye his Ears and take out the Wool and Herb-grace the next day in the morning let him blood on both sides his Neck and save of the blood a pint or more which you may do in a Bowl and put thereto a handful of Salt and stir it well together and give it the Horse fasting four or five hours after give him sweet Hay and at Night warm Water and Bran after you have given him the first Drink tye up one of his Fore-legs and strew good store of Litter under him and he will lye down and take his rest and come to himself within a day or two or else be soon dead the Vinegar will make him piss and the Aqua-vitae will make him sleep if he comes not to his stomack with taking the Vinegar or Verjuyce before mentioned then give him Hony and White-wine and the Cordial as you are directed in the Receipt for a dry Surfet After any sickness give him when he comes to eat his Provender Bran and Pease or Bran and Beans when you let him blood in the Head with your Cornet-horn let him blood in the third furrow of his Mouth and let him bleed well and let him blood in the gristle of his Nose with a long Bodkin or Shoo-makers Awl CXLIII For a cold newly taken TAke half an ounce of Diapente two penny-worth of Sallet-oyl and two pennyworth of Treacle put them into a pint and a half of strong Beer and give it to the Beast lukewarm fasting give him warm Water for two daies and a Mash of ground Malt and keep him warm in the time of the Cure Proved CXLIV For an old Cold which causeth the Horse to run sometimes at one Nostril and sometimes at both and hath done for a year together and is knotted with Kernels under his Throat between his Jaws THe Cure is thus Take an ounce of Turmerick an ounce of Anniseeds beat them small one ounce of Lignum-vitae you shall have it at the Apothecaries a quarter of a pint of Aqua-vitae a quarter of a pint of Whitewine Vinegar one handful of un-set Leeks beaten small in a Mortar wash the Mortar with Beer put all these together with a pint and a half of strong Beer give them to the Beast fasting lukewarm and tye him up to the Rack six or seven hours and litter and clothe him up warm at the end of that time give him a little sweet Hay and at night give him some warm Water and Bran the next morning give him warm Water Bran again and presently after give him two ounces of Hony and half a pint of Whitewine luke-warm then ride him three or four miles after it cloath and litter him warm when he comes in whilst he is abroad boyl him half a peck of Oat with two ounces of Fennygreek and two ounces of Coriander-seeds burst them altogether and
the Pains or Scratches or rotten broken Cuts putrified Sinews this Receipt will cure in a wonderful manner IF it be the Pains and Scratches do thus Take a pail of fair Water if two or three and wash his Legs clean and clip away the Hair close to the Skin so far as his Legs are crannied or scabby then with a pail or two of fair Water wash his Legs clean again and let him stand till he be dry then take half a pound of English Hony one ounce of beaten Pepper ten Heads of Garlick put all these into a Boul or Cup and beat them together till they come to a Salve If the Pains and Scratches be on both Legs then divide the Salve into two parts and lay one half upon one sheet of Paper and the other half upon another half of gray Paper and take a broad piece of Linnen-cloth and lay it over the Paper and lay the Plaister to the hinder part of his Legs where the sore alwaies is and sew them on with a Needle and Thread pretty hard so as it may not come off sew it close in the Footlock and all the way up so far as his Legs are scabby and let it lye on two daies you must make a small Thumb-band of fine Hay and wind all over his Legs and over the Plaister and let it remain as long at two daies end take a Linnen-cloth and wipe the Chaps of every Cranny and Crack in his heels clean then lay on a fresh Plaister and do as you did before in every particular and at two daies end take away that Plaister then lay on another and let it lye on three daies and when you take that off and see if need require lay on another Plaister and let it lye on three daies more and in three or four times thus dressing it will be quite dryed up and whole Let him not come in the Water all the time of his Cure If his Sinews be rotten broken cut in pieces or much putrified then apply this Medicine as before and let it lye on the same time as before and as it heals dress it the seldomer and bind a Thumb-band of Hay over the Plaister and keep him out of the Water and in the House all the time of the Cure This Salve will draw clean and knit the Sinews together again in a wonderful manner It is for Pains and Scratches and Sinews in this nature the best Cure in the World If one or two of the pocky Farcies Drinks were given in this case I am confident it would much further the Cure and dry up those humors in the Body which feed the Scratches in his Legs Proved CLXII For the Strangullion in an Horse THe Signs to know it are It much differeth from that when an Horse cannot Stale and differeth from the Disease called the Gripe or Fret in the Guts which will put an Horse to abundance of pain and make him to tumble and wallow This Disease called the Strangullion if a Horse have it he will look gaunt and cannot piss he will offer and stand straining to piss but cannot his Bladder will be ready to burst with extream fulness and heat of his water for present Remedy do this Take a pint of Claret-wine redded well and put into it an ounce of Ivy-berries beaten small one ounce of Parsley-seeds beaten small and give it him at any time once doing is enough Proved You may likewise see for the Gravel and Stone what is given to a man and you may give it him CLXIII For Fretting or Griping in an Horses Belly THis Disease will make the Horse to tumble and wallow with all four feet upwards with a griping wind in the Guts you shall see some Horses in such extream pain that they will swell therewith as if they would burst and will endanger the breaking of their Bladder and in this case they cannot dung For Remedy Take a quart of cold Salt-beef or Pork brine if you cannot get a quart get a pint put it into a Horn and pour it down cold After this brine is down anoint your hand and arm with Sallet-oyl or Butter and rake him and pull out as much Dung as you can to give him all the ease you can then take a good big Onion and peel off the outward rind then cut it length-waies and cross-waies in many places then roul it up and down in a handful of Salt and what Salt it will take up put it into a hollow pye of Butter but before you put it into his fundament anoint your hand and arm with Butter and Sallet-oyl and run up the Onion thus rouled in the Salt and put into the Butter as far as you can and there leave it then tye up his tail close to his rump as you can being tyed with a Cord fasten the Cord to his Girths that it may keep in the Onion and Butter then lead him out and walk him and in a quarter of an hours time it will purge exceedingly It will cleanse his Maw much and cleanse his Guts and kill the Worms let his Tail be tyed but a little while that he may purge freely prick him in the Mouth with your Cornet-horn the first thing you do The next day morning give him a comfortable Drink made of an ounce of Horse-spice a quarter of a pint of Whitewine Vinegar with a pint and a half of strong Beer put them together and give it the Beast lukevvarm fasting and he vvill do very vvell after it Give him bursten Oats or a Mash for two daies after it and vvarm Water the day you give him this Drink Proved CLXIV To kill Botts or Worms YOu shall knovv vvhether your Horse be troubled vvith Botts or Stomach-vvorms by these Signs he vvill squitter and dung them and all of a sudden he vvill dung very small in this case he vvill void small vvhite Worms of himself he vvill be much knotted under his over-lip the roots of his Tongue vvill be fiery and yellovv his breath hot svveat much as he stands in the Stable and vvill be very faint Novv if you see him to svveat in the Stable then knovv for certain that he is far gone and is in great danger For Remedy Take Turmerick and Anniseeds of each an ounce one pennyvvorth of the Flovver of Brimstone half a quarter of a pint of Brandy or Aqua-vitae beat the Anniseeds and Turmerick small and then put all together into a pint and a half of strong Beer except the Brimstone and that lay upon the top of the Horn when you are ready to give him the Horn into his mouth give this Drink fasting and let him fast four or five hours after it and stand upon the bit give him to drink warm Water at night the next day cold Water ride him after it this Drink will work pretty strong If he have not been lately let blood before let him blood in the Neck-vein and in the third furrow in the roof of his mouth
of the Gall and specially of the Yellows FRom the over-flowing of the Gall which is the vessel of Choler spring many mortal Diseases especially the Yellows which is an extreme faint mortal Sickness if it be not prevented in time The Signs are yellowness of the Eyes and Skin and chiefly underneath his upper Lip next to his fore-teeth a sudden and faint falling down by the high way or in the Stable and an universal sweat over all his body The Cure is first to let the Horse blood in the neck or mouth or under the Eyes then take two penny-worth of Saffron which being dried and made into fine Powder mix it with sweet Butter and in manner of a Pill give it in Balls to the Horse three mornings together Let his drink be warm and his hay sprinkled with water CCXXX Another for the same TAke a pint or more of Milk and make a Posset of it with strong Ale or Beer a pint or more take off the Curd clean then take two ounces of Castle-sope pare it in thin small slices and boyl it in the Posset-drink about a quarter of an hour then when it is but Luke-warm give it the Horse to drink then take his back and ride a gentle pace an hour together set him up warm This hath been often tryed upon Christians as well as Horses they taking and walking and stirring upon it an hour or more taking it but two mornings together it never fail'd of curing those that had been so far spent with it that they have been given over by all men CCXXXI Of the Sickness of the Spleen THe Spleen which is the Vessel of Melancholy when it is over-charged therewith groweth painful hard and great in such sort that sometimes it is visible The signs are much groaning hasty feeding and a continual looking to the left side only The cure is take Agrimony and boyl a good quantity thereof in the water the Horse shall drink and chopping the leaves small mix them with sweet Butter and give the Horse two or three good round Balls thereof in the manner of Pills CCXXXII Of the Dropsie or evil Habit of the Body THe dropsie is an evil habit of the Body which is ingendred by Surfeits and unreasonable labour altereth the colour and complexion of the Horse and changeth the hairs in such an unnatural sort that a man shall hardly know the Beast with which he hath been most familiar The cure is to take a handful or two of Wormwood and boyl it in Ale or Beer a quart or better and give it the Horse to drink Luke-warm morning and evening and let him drink his water at noon CCXXXIII Of the Collick Belly-ach or Belly-bound The Collick or Belly-ach is a fretting gnawing or swelling of the Belly or great bag proceeding fromwindy humours or from eating of green corn or pulse hot grains without salt or Labour or bread Dough-baked and belly-bound is when a Horse cannot Dung The cure of the Collick or Belly-ach is to take good store of the herb Dill and boyl it in his water that you give the Horse to drink but if he cannot dung then you shall boyl in the Water good store of the herb Fumitory and it will make him dung without danger or hurting CCXXXIV Of the Lask or Bloody-Flux THe Lask or Bloody-Flux is an unnatural Loosness in a Horse's body which being not stayed will for want of other Excrements make a Horse void blood only The cure is to take a handful of the herb Shepherds-purse and boyl it in a quart of strong Ale and when it is Luke-warm take the seeds of Woodroof stamp them and put them in and give it the Horse to drink CCXXXV Of the falling out of the Fundament THis cometh through infinite mislike and weakness The Cure is take Town-cresses and having dryed them to powder with your hand put up the Fundament and then strow the powder thereon after it lay a little Honey thereon and then strow more of the powder with the powder of Cummin and it helpeth CCXXXVI Of Bots and Worms of all sorts THe Bots and gnawing of worms is a grievous pain and the Signs to know them are the Horses oft beating his Belly and tumbling and wallowing on the ground with much desire to lye on his back The Cure is take the seeds bruised of the herb Ameos and mix with it Honey and make two or three Bals and make the Horse swallow them down CCXXXVII Of pain in the Kidneys pain to Piss or the Stone ALL these Diseases spring from one ground which is only Gravel and hard matter gathered together in the Kidneys and so stopping the Conduits of the Urine The signs are that the Horse will only strain to piss and that often but cannot The Cure is to take a handful of Maiden hair and steep it all night in a quart of strong Ale and give it the Horse to drink every morning till he be well This will break any stone whatsoever in a Horse CCXXXVIII Of Pissing of Blood THis cometh with over-travelling a Horse or travelling him sore in the Winter when he goeth to grass The Cure is take Aristolochia Longa and boyl it in a quart of Ale and give it the Horse to drink Lukewarm and give him also rest CCXXXIX Of the Strangullion THis Disease is a soreness in the Horses Yard and an hot burning when he pisseth The Signs are he will piss oft yet but a drop or two at once The Cure is to boyl in the water he drinketh good store of the herb Hogfennel and it will cure CCXL Of the Colt-Evil Muttering of the Yard Falling of the Yard shedding of the Seed ALL these Evils proceed from much Lust in a Horse and the Cure is the powder of the herb Avens and the leaves of Betony stamp them well with White-wine to a moist Salve and anoint the Sore therewith and it will heal all imperfections of the Yard But if the Horse shed his seed then beat Venice Turpentine and Sugar together and give him every morning a good round ball thereof till the seed stay CCXLI. Of the particular Diseases in Mares as Barrenness Consumption rage of Love casting Foles hardness to Fole and how to make a Mare cast her Fole IF you would have a Mare barren Let good store of the herb Agnus Castus be boyled in the water she drinks If you would have her fruitful then boyl good store of Motherwort in the water If she lose her belly which sheweth a Consumption of the womb you shall then give her a quart of Brine to drink Mugwort being boyled therein If your Mare through high keeping grow into extreme Lust so that she will neglect her food through the violency of fleshly appetite as it is often seen amongst them you shall house her for two or three days and give her every morning a ball of Butter and Agnus Castus chopt together If you would have your Mare cast her Fole take a handful of Betony
wet hands cleanse his sheath his yard his stones or cods and his Tuel and in dead not leave any secret place uncleansed as ears nostrils fore-bowels and between his hinder thighs Then you shall take an haircl-oth and with it rub the Horse all over in every part but especially his face eyes cheeks between the chops on the top of his forehead in the nape of the neck and down his legs fetlocks and about his pasterns Lastly You shall take a clean woollen cloth and with it you shall rub the Horse oll over beginning with his head and face and so passing through every part of the Horses body or limbs which hath been before mentioned then take a wet Mane-comb and come down mane and tail When this work is finished take a fair large body-cloth of thick warm housewives Kersey if it be in the winter season or of fine corten or other light stuff if it be in the Summer season and fold it round about the Horses body then clap on his Saddle and girt the foremost girth pretty strait and the other girth somewhat slack and wisp it on each side the Horses heart that both the girths may be of equal straitness then put before his breast a warm breast-cloth and let it cover both his shoulders When the Horse is thus accoutred and made ready you shall take a little beer into your mouth and spirt it into the Horses mouth and so draw him out of the Stable and take his back leaving some ordinary Groom behind you to trim up your stable to carry forth dung and shake and toss up your litter For you are to understand and it is a general principle that your Horse must stand upon good store of fresh dry Litter continually both night and day and it must ever be of Wheat-straw if possible or Oat-straw if forced by necessity As for Barley-straw and Rye-straw they are both un wholesome and dangerous the one doth heart-burn the other causeth scowring When you are thus mounted you shall walk forth your Horse foot pace which we call racking for you must neither amble nor trot at least a mile or two or more upon smooth and sound ground and as near as you can to the steepest hils you can find there gallop your Horse very gently up those steep hils and rack or walk him softly down that he may cool as much one way as he warmeth another And when you have thus exercised him a pretty space then seeing the Sun beginning to rise or prettily risen you shall walk your Horse down either to some fresh River or some clear Pond that is fed with a sweet Spring and there let your Horse drink at his pleasure After he hath drunk you shall gallop and exercise him moderately as you did before then walk him a pretty space and after offer him more water If he drink then gallop him again if he refuse then gallop him to occasion thirst and thus always give him exercise both before and after water When he hath drunk as you think sufficiently then bring him home gently without a wet hair about him when you are come to the stable door before which your Groom shall throw all his foul litter continually from time to time you shall there alight from his back and by whistling stretching the Horse upon the straw and arising the straw up under the Horse see if you can make him Piss which if at first he do not yet with a little custome he wil soon be brought unto it and it is an wholsom action both for the Horses health and for the cleanly keeping of the stable When these things are performed you shall then bring the Horse into his stall and first tye his head up to the rack in his bridle then with hard wisps rub all his four legs down with as great strength as you can then unloose his brest-cloth rub his head neck and breast exceeding much with a dry cloth then take of his Saddle and hang it by and after take of his Body-cloth then rub over all the Horses body and limbs especially his back where the Saddle stood and then clothe him up first with alinnen sheet then over it a good strong housing-cloth and a bove it his woollen body-cloth which in the winter is not amiss to have lined with some thin cotten or other woollen stuff but in the heat of Summer the Kersey it self is sufficient When you have girt these Clothes about him stop his sursingle round with reasonable big soft and thick wisps for with them he will lye at best ease because the small hard wisps are ever hurtful After your Horse is thus clothed up you shall then pick his feet and stop them up with cow-dung and then throw in to his racka little bundle of hay so much as a half-penny bottle in a dear Inn well dusted and hard bound up together and this he shall tear out as he standeth on his bridle After the Horse hath stood on his bridle more than an hour or an hour and half you shall then come to him and first rub his head face and the nape of his neck with a clean rubber made of new rough hempen cloth for this is excellent for the head and dssolveth all gross and filthy humours and then you shall draw his bridle and with a very clean cloth make the manger so clean as may be and if he hath scattered any hay therein you shall gather it up and throw it back into his rack then you shall take the quantity of a quart or better of sweet dry old and clean dressed Oats of which the heaviest and the whitest are the best as those which we call the Poland Oats or the cut Oats for those only are wholesome the other which are unsweet breed infirmity those which are moist cause swelling in the body those which are new breed worms and pain in the belly and they which are half dressed deceive the stomack and bring the Horse to ruine As for theblack Oats though they are tolerable in the time of necessity yet they make full dung and hinder a mans knowledg in the state of the Horses body This quart of Oats you shall put into a Sieve that is somewhat less than a Riddle and a thought bigger then a Reeing Sieve such a one as will let a light Oat go through but will keep a ful Oat from scattering In this Sieve you shall ree dress and toss your Oats very much that there may be neither dust nor any other foul thing in them And so give them to the Horse to eat and if he eat them with a good stomack you may then sift and give him as much more and so let him rest till it be near eleven of the clock Then come to the stable again and having rubbed the Horses head neck and face you shall then take another quart or better of Oats and as before toss and ree them through your Sieves and so give them
of Bolearmony made in fine powder and two ounces and an half of the Conserves of Sloes Then stir and mix them well together after take it from the fire and put to it a spoonful or two of the powder of Cinnamon And brewing all well together give it the Horse Let him fast two hours after it and let him eat no washt meat Hay is wholesom so is Bread and Oats if they be well mixt with Beans or wheat but not otherwise An Infallible help for the Stone or pain of Urine causing Sickness MAke a strong Decoction that is to say boyl your first quantity of Water to an half pint three times over with keen Onions clean pilled and parsley Then take a quart thereof and put to it a great spoonfull of London-Treacle and as much of the powder of Egg-shels finely searc't and give it the Horse to drink and thus do divers mornings if the infirmity be great otherwise when you see the Horse offended An approved Medicine to cure and break any old grevious festred and rotten Cold and to dry up a foul running Glanders TAke a pint of the best Verjuyce and put to so much strong Mustard made with wine-Vinegar as will make the Verjuyce strong and keen thereof Then take an ounce or more of Roach-Allom and beat it into fine white Powder then when you give this to the Horse so with a Knife or Spoon put some of the Allom into the Horn and so give it the Horse part at his mouth and part at both his Nostrils but especially that Nostril which runneth most Then ride and chafe him a little after it then set him up warm At noon give him a warm Mash and at all times give him no cold water but when the Horse may have exercise after it And thus drench the Horse three days together and it will be sufficient Another for a Violent Cold. TAke of Wine Vinegar half a pinte and as much Sallet-Oyl brew them well together and then put to it an ounce and half of Sugar-Candy in fine powder and so give it the Horse and stir him a little after This is exceeding good but it will occasion sickness for a small season An excellent Scowring when other Scowrings will not work TAke of sweet Butter a quarter of a pound half so much Castle-soap beat them well together then add to them two spoonfulls of Hempseed bruised of anniseed a spoonfull bruised of Sugar-Candy an ounce of Rosin finely bruised half a spoonful work all these into a paste and give it the Horse in the manner of Pills immediately after his heat or when you have warmed him and stirred up the grease and foulness within him An admirable Water for any sore Eye or to clear any dim sight as the Moon-eyes and the like TAke the stone called Lapis Calaminaris and heat it red hot in the fire then quench it in half a pint of White-wine and thus do twelve times together Then add unto it half so much of the juice of Housleek and with this bath the Eye twice or thrice a day and it is excellent against any imperfection therein Another Water no less precious for the Eyes then the former TAke a pint of Snow-water and dissolve it into three or four drams of white Vitriol and with this water wash the Horses Eyes three or four times and the effect is great and strange The Master Medicine of all Medicines for a Back Sinew-Strain or any grief pain straightness shrinking or numness of joynts or sinews TAke a fat sucking Mastive whelp flay it and bowel it then stop the body as full as it can hold with gray Snails and black Snails then roast it at a reasonable fire when it begins to warm bast it with six ounces of the Oyl of Spike made yellow with Saffron and six ounces of the oyl of Wax Then save the drippings and what moisture soever falls from it whilst any drop will fall from the Whelp and keep it in a Gally-pot With this oyntment anoint the strain and work it in very hot holding a hot bar of iron before it And thus do both Morning and Evening till the Cure be finished St. Antayne his only Excellent Medicine for any Strain or Swelling TAke Cummin-seeds and bruise them gross and boyl it with the oyl of Camomile then add to it so much yellow Wax as will bring it to the body of a Cerrot or Plaister and spread it on either Cloth or Leather and very hot apply it to the grief It is wonderfull soveraign for any man also Another for any desperate old Strain whether it be in the Shoulder Joynts Hips or Back-sinews TAke of the best Aqua-vitae a pint of oyl de Boy of oyl of Swallows and of black Soap of each half a pinte work and labour all these together till they come to a thin oyntment then take of Camamoile and of red Sage an handfull of Rue and of Misseldine an handfull dry them and bring them to a very fine powder Then mix them with the former oyntment and bring all to a gentle Salve With some of this Salve made as hot as the Horse can suffer it anoint the Strain and hold an hot bar of Iron before the grieved place chafing it in with your hand as much as may be and thus do once a day and in nine dayes the Cure will be effected An Excellent Charge for any New Strain or offence on the Sinews or any grief proceeding from heat TAke the whites of six Eggs and beat them well with a pint of white Wine-Vinegar and an ounce of the oyl of Roses as much of the oyl of Mintils Then take four ounces of Bolearmonie and as much Sanguis Draconis and with as much fine Bean-flower or wheat flower but Bean-flower is the best as will thicken it bring it to a stiff Salve then spread it about the grieved place and renew it as it dryeth A perfect Cure for any Sinew-Strain TAke a live Cat either wild or tame and cut off her head and tail then cleave her down the chine and clap her hot the bowels and all upon the strain and remove it not for forty eight hours and the effect is great Markham's own Balm which hath never failed him for any Strain in the Shoulder or other part hidden or apparent Or any Wind-gall Pain or Swelling whatsoever TAke ten ounces of the best and purest Goose-grease and melt it on the fire then take it off and put it into four ounces of the Oyl of Spike and an ounce of the Oyl of Origanum stir them very well together then put it up into a Gallipot With this Oyntment anoint the grieved part the Oyntment being made exceeding hot and rub and chafe it in with all painfulness holding an hot bar of Iron before it and thus anoint once in two dayes but rub and chafe it in twice or thrice a day at the least and give the Horse moderate Exercise This is approved and infallible
For swell'd or Gourded-Legs whether it be by reason of the Grease falling into them or other accident as Scratches Pains Mules c. IF your Horses Legs be swell'd only because the Grease is faln into them and that there is no other outward Ulcer neither will the bathing with cold water and other outward helps asswage it Then you shall take a piece of strong course woollen Cloths and thereof make him an Hose a pretty deal larger then his Leg to reach from the lower part of his pastern up to the Cambrel or to the Knee and make it close and straight at the pastern and wide above Then take a pottle of Wine Lees if you can get them or else the grounds or Lees of strong Ale or Beer and set them on the fire and boyl them well then put to them a pound of clarified Hogs-grease and when it is melted and stirred well together take as much Wheat-Bran as will thicken it and bring it to the bo dy of a Pultis with this Pultis as hot as the Horse can fuffer it only you must not scald fill the Hose or Hoses and then close the Hose at the top With this Pultis let the Horse stand two days then the third day open the Hose at the top but stir not the Pultis only take molten Hogs-grease hot as the Horse can suffer it and with a spoon pour it unto the Pultis on every side till it will receive no more for this will renew the strength of the Pultis Then close up the top of the Hose and so let the Horse stand other two dayes or three Then you may open the Leg and rub it down and if you find strong occasion you may apply another new Pultis if not your cure is wrought Now if besides the swelling of his Legs your Horse hath Ulcers or Chaps or Scratches Pains Mules or the like Then you shall first apply the former Pultis in all respects as aforesaid then after five or six dayes application when you take the Pultis away you shall take a quart of old Urine and put to it half a handful of Salt as much of Allom and half an ounce of white Copperas and boyl it till all be mixt and incorporated together then with this water very hot wash the sores once or twice a day and after a little drying anoint them with the oyntment called Aegyptiacum and is made of Vinegar eight ounces of Honey twelve ounces of Verdigrease two ounces of Allom one ounce and an half boyl it to that height till it come to a red Salve and it will both kill the malignant humors and also heal and dry up the sores Another approved Cure for the Scratches or any Disease of that nature TAke of Hogs-grease eight ounces of Brimstone of Lime of Gunpowder of each three ounces of black Soap eight ounces and of Soot as much as will suffice to bring the rest to a Salve boyl the Hogs-grease and Soap together and bring the other hard simples to a fine powder and so mix all together and make a black ointment with this anoint the sores once a day after they are cleansed and made raw For any Splint Spaven Ringbone Curb or any other hard Knot or Excression FIrst having taken view of the Excression clip away the hair as far as the excression goeth and a little thought more then take a piece of Allom'd Leather made as big just as the place you have bared and fit it to the same proportion Then take a little Shoo-makers Wax and spread it round about the very edge or verge of the same leaving all the inward or middle part empty and not touched with the Wax according to this Figure O. Then take of the herb called Sparagus which hath the virtue to raise Blisters and bruising it in a Mortar lay some thereof on the Leather in the void and empty place which ought to contain the just quantity of the Knot or Excression and bind it fast thereon suffering it so to lye if it be in the Spring or Summer time when the Sparagus hath its full strength and virtue two or three hour â—But if it be in the Winter then it hath less virtue Then it is not amiss to revive the strength of the Herb if you add to it a drop or two of Origanum and let it lye a day and and be sure to tye up the Horses head for two hours for fear of biting it away When you have taken off the Plaister anoint the place with Train-oyl warm and you shall find no Excression An approved Cure for the Swift Cut or any hewing on the Legs whatsoever TAke a pint of White-wine and put to it two or three spoonfulls of Hony and stir them well together then boyl them till they be well incorporated together and brought to the body of an ointment Then take it from the fire and put in as much Turpentine as there was Hony before and stir all well together Then strain it with this Salve somewhat hot bath the Sores twice a day and it is a most specdy healer For any Farcy Mangy Scab or Leprosie whether in the Mane or otherwise FIrst let Blood then take a quart of old Urine or Vinegar and break into it a quarter of a pound or better of the best Tobacco then set it on the fire of Embers where it may simper and not boil and so let it stew a whole night then strain it and with this water wash the infected place whether it be in the Mane or any other obscure place and it is a certain Remedy For any Founder Frettize Surbait or any imperfection in the Feet FIrst pare thin open the heels wide and take good store of blood from the Toes then tack on a Shooe somewhat hollow after take of the best Frankincense and rowling it in a little fine Cotton-wool or Bombast with an hot iron melt it into the Foot betwixt the Shooe and the Toe till the Orifice where the blood was taken be filled up Then take half a pound of Hogs-grease and melt it on the fire then mix it with Wheat bran till it be as thick as a Pultis Then boyling hot as is possible stop up the Horses foot therewith then cover it with a piece of an old Shooe and splent it up and so let the Horse stand for three or four days then if occasion serves you may renew it otherwise the cure it wrought To make Hoofs grow quickly and to be tough and strong TAke of the Juyce of Garlick seven ounces of old Hogs-grease two pound of Asses dung for want of it Cows dung an handfull mingle them and boyl them all well together then with this both stop the Horses foot and anoint the Crownets of the Hoofs and the effect is great A general Salve for any Sore or Swelling TAke Turpentine Black-Soap Hogs-grease Green Treat and Pitch of each a little quantity mix and boyl them all well together and apply
a pretty bundle of Hay and so let him rest till the next Morning The next Norning do all things as in his Ordinary keeping Let him stand on Litter both night and day yet change it often and keep the Planches clean If you intend to Travel or Journy in the Morning then give no Hay or but little the Night before If you Journy in the Afternoon then give no Hay or but little in the Morning In Journeying ride moderately the first hour or two but after according to your occasions Water before you come to your Inn if possible but if you cannot then give warm water in the Inn after the Horse is fully cooled Trotters Oyl is an excellent Oyntment being applied very warm and well chafed in to keep your Horses limbs and sinews nimble and to help stiffness and lameness Neither wash your Horse nor walk him for the first endangereth foundering in the body or feet and breedeth all surfeits the latter is the ground of all strong colds which turn to Glanders and Rottenness but if necessity compel you to either as foul wayes and long stays then rather wash your Horses legs with pails of Water at your Stable-door than to endanger him in any Pond or River And for Walking rather sit on your Horses back to keep his spirits stirring than to lead him in hand and with dull spirits to receive all manner of mischief This I think sufficient for clean and Ordinary keeping An Order how to breed Horses The choice of your Stallion and Studd Mares FIrst and principally you must foresee that your Stallion and Studd Mares be both of good and lively nature and not subject to any natural diseases For as heavy Horses and Mares will breed Colts of roilish and heavy nature so if they be infected with any natural disease their Colts for the most part shall be troubled with the same disease Wild Mares be not best to keep for the Race IT shall be well done that you handle all your Studd Mares and make them tame and easie whereby besides the commodity you may have of their work which cannot hurt their taming if they be soberly handled you may be sure at all times to remove them from one Pasture to another to bring them to be covered and to take their Colts from them without great trouble whereas wild Mares be not only cumbersome to keep but also oftentimes do destroy the Colts in their bellies with their rashness when you should handle them or any of their fellows At what age your Mare is first to be handled and covered THe best age to take up your Mare to make her tame and to break her is when she shall be two years old and the vantage and so you may the year following when she shall be fully three years old and upward put her to your Horse to be covered which in my opinion is the best age to put her first to the Horse although some Writers be of opinion that it is best that she be first covered at two years old How to inforce your Mares to come to be strained YOu may most conveniently bring her to be covered of your Stallion if four or five days before you will bring her to your great Horse you cause to be put to her in some close Pasture kept and fenced for that purpose some small stoned Nag to woo her that she may abide your great Horse foreseeing that he be in no wise unfettered longer than some diligent man doth look on for if the Nag be at liberty at any time after she is disposed to take the Horse she will be sure to be covered of him though he be lower than she by a cubit The Order of covering WHen you do perceive that your Mare will abide the Nag and doth shew other tokens that she is desirous to be covered you must cause your great Horse that shall cover her to be provendred and not to drink much the night before he shall cover her Then in the morning following at the Sun-rising you may bring him to your Mare or her to him in some such place as neither of them can leap out of where when he hath covered her twice or thrice let her remain feeding on Grass with her Colt kept by her without water but let your Horse be taken up well rubbed and well provendred to the next evening And then put him to your Mare again where you left her and let him cover her as often as he will that night except you see your Horse chafe so much that he will marr himself How to use your Mare which is covered ANd so must you of force be driven to take him from her the second time till the morning following at which time except your Mare be satisfied with that which was done before you must put to your Horse the third time and when he hath covered her as often as he will between four of the clock in the morning and eight of the clock before noon take up your Horse and let your Mare be led into some water to the mid-side at least where she may drink water but not too much and then let her be led and turned to the whole stud where no other Horses must come for a whole Month at the least to beat her How to make that no mare shall go barren ANd when you have thus severally caused to be covered all your Mares you must about Lammas in the Month of July or beginning of August get a Mare or two which have not been covered that year before and enforcing them to he horsed by such means as before appointed when they shall be ready to be covered you must turn them with some other Stallion whom you esteem not as your best Horse among your stud of Mares and so he covering that Mare or Mares you turned in with him unto the stud shall cause the rest if any of them have not conceived at their first covering to come to that Horse againe whereby you shall be sure to keep no Mare barren all the year but to have of every Mare a Colt though not by your best Horse you may suffer that Horse to run amongst your Mares three weeks or a month But if you turn him into your stud putting no Mare in with him ready to be covered he will at his first entry beat all your Mares and so happily hurt all your Mares which had conceived before and so do more hurt than good What time of the year is best for your Mares to be covered The best time of the year to have your Mare covered is from the end of May to the end of July and then shall your Mare which always goes with Foal one year lacking a month Foal in such time of the year as she shall find plenty of grass to nourish her self and her Colt withal whereas if you suffer her to be covered in February March or April she will foal so rathe in the year that
Cure take as much Roch Allom as contain to an Egg boyl it in three or four spoonfuls of White-wine Vinegar with a spoonfull of English Honey and an handfull of Columbine leaves cut small wash his tongue once a day till it be whole It will be cured in two or three times dressing you may tye a rag about a stick and wash his mouth Proved XXII For a Vein that swells upon letting Blood AS when the wind gets in it will do or when a fleam miscarries it will do the like For the Cure of which take white Pitch black Pitch and Rosin of each a like quantity boyl them together and lay it on hot with a flat stick and then flock it and this doing once in four or five days will take down the swelling do it all over the swelling if once will not do do it oftner he must stand in with dry meat the time of the Cure You may anoint it with the Oyl of Populion or apply Sope and Brandy Proved XXIII For a Navel Gall TAke and cut off the loose skin first with a knife and apply to it this Salve Mix as much as a Walnut of Verdigrease with a spoonful of Dialthaea and a pint of Train Oyl and it will cure it if it be old done and hard cut out the crush and sear the wound within with a hot Iron and then dip some Cotten in the green Oyntment and put it in as a Tent. Proved XXIV For a horse that pisses Blood TAke of Tarragon a spoonfull and steep it in white-wine and as much Poppy-seed beaten as will lye on a shilling give this in the white-Wine and it is a certain cure Give this fasting Probatum est XXV For the Mules YOU shall know this by the staring of the hair above the fore part of his hoof on his after-Leg and by the dew that stands on his feet above the hoof For the Cure Take Lynseed Oyl and black Sope of each a like quantity boyl them together and before you anoint his Sore at any time wash it clean and dry it and then anoint it with the aforesaid Salve and it will cure Proved XXVI For a Horse burnt with a Mare YOU shall know this by the mattering of his Yard within For Remedy take a pinte of vvhite-Wine boyl in it a quarter of a pound of Roch Allum and vvhen it is boyled and cool it must be squirted in vvith a Syringe as far into his Yard as you can this vvill cure him in a few times doing Proved XXVII A precious Oyntment that will cure any Wound old or new TAke half a pint of refined Sallet Oyl and put it into a Skellet then put to it a quarter of a pound of Rosin boyl these together and vvhen it is boyled put in three penny-worth of Verdigrease beaten to a fine powder stir them vvell together and keep it for your use if the vvound be hollow and deep put in a tent of this Oyntment to the end of the vvound anointing it beside Proved Train Oyl and Verdigrease melted together vvill heal and skin any wound well and quickly XXVIII For a Farcyon YOu must first give him the drink that is made vvith Running water in that Receipt which you are to give once in three dayes For this Farcyon you must in the morning before he hath drank give him that drink made of the Running vvater the same morning sear the head of every bud vvith a hot Iron then take yellow Arsenick and beat it to powder and mix it with black Sope as much Arsenick as a Hasel-nut to as much black Sope as a spoon vvill hold or a little more then lay on a little at a time for once and no more lay it on no where but just on the top or head of the bud of every Farcion as much as contain to a Pease vvill serve being laid upon the top or head of every Farcion and vvithin one Week you shall see them all drop out then do nothing but anoint the hole with Sallet Oyl once a day till it be whole and it will cure him be sure to do as I have directed and no otherwise for Arsenick is rank Poyson and a great eater Proved XXIX For Solebatted with going without Shooes FOr a Horse that is Solebatted by going vvithout Shooes you must first pare him close tovvards the Toe then take a Pen-knife and vvith the point cut a little hole through the bottom of the Hoof a matter of half an inch from the Toes end right over the vein and let the vein bleed a quarter of a pint then set on his Shoes pretty hollovv vvithin the feet and boyl Tar Tallovv and Turpentine together and pour it into his foot or feet scalding hot and stuff in Wool or Hards after it to keep and make it stay in you may put in flat sticks betvveen his Shooes and the bottom of his Hoof and it is cured vvith once putting in Proved XXX For Pricking in the Foot WHen a Horse is pricked in the Foot vvhen he standeth still he vvill mostly stand upon his Toe and if at any time a Smith prick a Horse then before you take off his Shooe to pare his Foot take your pincers and try by nipping him with them where the ailment lyes or by knocking in of the Nail upon the head with your Hammer as soon as you see where the ailment is take off his Shooe pare him by degrees with the butter is and your drawing Knife when you have found the bottom of the wound and have made it clear to your mind then take Turpentine fresh Butter with a little black Pitch boiled together and pour it in scalding hot then dip some hards or Tow in the same and stuff it well between the Shoo and Foot you may take a piece of upper Leather or Sole-Leather and do it between the Shooe and the Hards or you may splinter it in with sticks But if it be a long Channel Nail that struck into his foot on the Road as you rid him or as you wrought him then pluck the Nail out and heat it presently red hot and put it into the hole so far as it went in at the first when you have thus seared it with the red hot Nail which will keep it from rankling and festring then melt Turpentine and fresh Butter with a little black Pitch together and pour it in scalding hot then clap on the Shooe and stuff the foot with Tow or Hards keeping it in as before you were directed this will cure certainly Proved XXXI An Oyntment to skin or heal any Wound or hurt TAke two spoonfulls of Dogs grease one spoonful of black Sope and as much Roch Alom burnt and beaten to powder as a Hasel-Nut put the burnt Allum in when the other are melted and taken off the fire and stir them vvell together in an earthen Vessel and you may keep it a year or more not tryed but it is very probable XXXII To take down
any Swelling being new whether it be broke or not broke TAke tvvo pintes of red Wine-Vinegar and boyl in it sour handfulls of Foles-foot leaves not cut but vvrung a pieces vvith your hand vvhen it begins to boyl put in tvvo handfulls of Bay Salt and vvhen the Salt is melted in it take it off the fire and vvhen you use it heat it as hot as you can indure your hand in it and vvith it anoint the place once a day till it be assvvaged This also is a very likely Medicine but by me not tryed XXXIII For a Quitterbone though far gone and hard to cure TAke off a quarter of the hoof right under the Quitterbone that it may drain the better you may do it after this manner that this figure directs Take a dravving Knife and dravv it dovvn after this manner to the quick on both sides and belovv according to the figure then take hold vvith a pair of Pincers presently belovv the piece of Hoof then pull it avvay vvhen it is off lay a piece of Hares skin to it lightly to stanch the blood and do not look to it in tvventy four hours then take all the Hares-skin away and wash it once with Wine-Vinegar and scald it with Butter and Salt boyled together as hot as may be to kill the rankling and to keep it from dead flesh do this three times once every other day And then take Verdigrease as much as three Hasel-nuts beaten to powder then take a quarter of a pint of Wine Vinegar and as much Hony boyl them together vvith the Verdigrease and keep it continually stirring the time it boyls which must be half an hour then take it off the fire and put it into a Pot or Pipkin and anoint the wound with it once a day till it be whole when it is whole then anoint the Hoof to make it grow with Tar Tallow Turpentine Dogs-grease boyled together put in the Turpentine a little before you take it off the fire and stir it well keep him dry in the house the time of the cure forbear to pull off the Hoof if you think you can cure him without for that will take a long time the curing to make the Hoof compleat this is a certain way but it is none of the readiest this way is vvhen all other waies fail XXXIV For a Foundred Horse TO take out the Soals of his Feet you must pare the Foot thin then at the end of the Frush you must cut the Hoof after this manner as this Figure shews Cut the middle of the Soal just at the Frushes end in the fashion of a Hens tongue and raise it a little with the point of your Knife as you may see in the midst of this Figure which I have made near the fashion of a Horse Hoof when you have cut and raised the little piece at the Frushes end then take your Pen-knife and with the point thereof prick the vein till it bleed the vein lyes right under the little piece in the middle of the foot at the Frushes end when it hath bled close down the piece of Hoof again then let him stand in the Stable the time of the Cure and not drink his water abroad when you see him halt and that you think it is festred enough between the Soal and the quick round about the bottom of the Hoof being thus festred the soal will come out easier by a great deal and with less danger of pulling away the veins with the Soal of the foot if you let it fester in this manner before you pull it out you must take your drawing Knife and draw the Hoof to the quick round about the Soal within the Hoof as you may see by this Figure When you have drawn it to the quick round about then raise the soal at the Toe and take hold of it with a pair of Pinsers and pull it upwards to the heel and so pull it quite out when it is out apply Hares wool to Hstanch the blood and within 24 hours take away the wool again then wash the soal of the foot with Chamber-lye then set on the Shooe and put in Pitch Turpentine and Hogs-grease melted together of each an equal proportion dipping hards or Wool in the same Medicine and apply it to the bottom of the Foot stuff it in with splinters or a soal of Leather to keep it it apply this Medicine three times in a week or ten days three times is enough You must never take out the Soals of both his fore feet at one time for then he will never be able to stand hereafter in another Chapter I will give you the practise of another which in my judgment is far more easie for the Beast than to fester the Foot which is first to cord the foot-lock hard that it may not bleed then to draw round about the Soal to the quick and so to pull out the Soal without festring by cording of it it will not bleed at all after you have pulled out the Soal so that you need not to take care to stanch the blood but as soon as you have pulled out the Soal you may wash it with Chamber-lye and then put in the aforesaid materials After you have set on the Shooe stuff it as you were before directed Proved XXXV For a Splent YOu must cast the Horse first then you must beat the place with a blood-stick or other stick till you feel it soft then fleam in three or four places upon the splent and squeese out the blood with your stick your fingers and thumb then take as much Hogs grease as a Wallnut as much Bolearmoniack and Brimstone as much beat these two last to powder and mix them with grease and spread it upon a sheet of gray Paper and lay it upon the splent then heat a Brick very hot and dry the Medicine in it then melt some black Pitch in an Iron pan and dip some flocks in it and dab it on all over the splent close that it may lye on sure when the flocks come off the splent will come out but if the flocks come off before the splent then lay on more flocks till the splent come out and as soon as it does come out wash it with a little White-wine Vinegar and then anoint it with Sallet Oyl and Turpentine melted together anoint it cold till it be whole once a day and in a weeks time the splent will come out and be whole This you may do but it makes a great blemish it takes away hair and flesh and sometimes the hair comes no more You shall have a Receipt hereafter for this purpose that will not take off the hair nor break the flesh It is a very gallant one that will lay the splent flat in a few hours XXXVI For a through great Splent BEat it and fleam it as you were directed in the other then take as much Crown Sope as an Egg and mix it with as much Bolearmoniack
on purpose that none may knovv that you use any thing but Sope lay it on a piece of gray Paper and heat a Brick hot and dry it in as you did the former this is much of the nature of the former Proved XXXVII For a Splent great or small an excellent one IF it were never medled with before be it great or small this will cure it First take a piece of Leather as broad again as will cover the Splent then take of Cantharides which is a flye that you may have at the Apothecaries and beat them to powder or very fine take of them half a quarter of an ounce at a time mixed with as much Nerve Oyl as contain to half a Wallnut bray them well together and lay them upon a piece of Leather and bind it on for eight or ten hours and then take it off and stroke it down with your Fingers and Thumb twice or thrice a day till you see it quite fallen This Medicine will dissolve the Splent into a Water and you shall see it sweat out drops of water doing it with your fingers and Thumb every day If it be a great through Splent lay it on twice if it be a little one but once doing will serve he must stand in all the time of the Cure you may ride him after you have taken the Medicine off take a piece of Tape to bind it on Make no more at a time than you shall use it will not last as to do good This will not diminish a hair but sink it flat This Medicine is not to be laid to a Splent that hath been formerly medled with where the swelling still remains and the hair is come off and the skin very thin the Medicine is too strong and will soon eat the thin skin a pieces in such a case Proved to be right good XXXVIII A Water to cure any old Wound or green in Man or Beast TAke half a pound of Bolearmoniack a quarter of a pound of white Copperis two ounces of Roch Allum beat your Roch Allum and Copperis small and put them into a Pipkin and melt them together and when they are cold put them with the Bolearmoniack into a Mortar and beat them all together to a fine powder then take a pottle of Running Spring water where the Spring boyls with a blew sand at the bottom if possible rather than in any other Spring set this pottle of Spring-water on the fire with a close Skellet till it be scalding hot and then put it into a clean earthen Pitcher and put two spoonfuls of this powder into the water and stir it up well together before you let it stand to settle and vvhen the vvater hath stood two or three days setling then skum off the upper most froth put the vvater into another Pitcher clean from the dregs and afterwards use it vvhen you have occasion But vvhen you use it either for man or beast vvarm the vvater as hot as can be indured either by man or beast When you vvash any vvound of a man let the cloth lie a vvhile vvet upon the vvound and vvet a double cloth in the same vvater and bind it on plaister vvise renevving it tvvo or three times a day For any vvound old or nevv alvvaies vvash it first vvith this vvater and then apply the green Oyntment to it aftervvards vvhich you shall find in R. VIII Proved XXXIX A Receipt to cure a Horse Pestilence TAke of Wormwood a handful of Rue a handful of Selendine roots a handful to be cut small then put them into a quart of Aloes Milk boyl it till it comes to a pint Then strain it and put to it half a pound of fresh Butter then give it the Horse in the morning fasting pretty vvarm and keep him from drinking two daies and if he does drink let it be cold water and if grass may be had let him ear grass Another Receipt for a Febula or Horse-Pestilence TAke one ounce of Storax one ounce of Benjamin one ounce of Betony a quarter of an ounce of English Saffron these being beaten all to a powder put them into a quart of new Ale and give it to the Horse to drink Let him not have any warm water but keep him as before from any drink two dayes and let him eat grass if to be had XL. For the Yellows YOu shall know this by his faint sweating at the roots of his Ears and the white of his Eyes will be yellow you must first let him blood in the Neck veins or on both sides of the Neck then take Elder Leaves Cellendine and Camomile of each a handfull cut them small and give them to the Horse in a pint and a half of the best Beer being heated lukewarm fasting you may run your Cornet-horn into the third roof in the palat of his mouth keep him warm and give him warm water to drink for a day or two and this drench will certainly cure him Proved XLI For a Chest-Founder To know this he will go crimpling and stand stradling and covet lye to down Take six penny-vvorth of the Oyl of Peter and bath it well into his breast rub it in well at the first then dry it lightly with a hot Iron this with once doing will be a perfect Cure Not tried but very likely XLII For a swelling under the Jaws when a Horse hath the strangling FOr a swelling of this nature take nothing else but Bacon-grease and anoint it which will if it be hard suddenly soften it with twice anointing and when it is full ripe let it out some use to burn the swelling with a Candle before they anoint it and it will cause it to break the sooner let it out with the point of a Pen-knife and sometimes there will come out a pinte of filth when it is clean out put in some white Salt when any sore is soft let it out with the point of a Pen-knife lay it drayning as much as you can with all the advantages you can If it be a sore in any other place than the Throat rot it with Bacon-grease and open it and put it out and heal it with the green Oyntment mentioned in R. XXXVIII You must have a care of veins that you do not cut them Proved XLIII For a Sore IF a Horse hath a Sore in his side or else where rot it first with Bacon-grease then open it in the midst and let the hole below enough that you may put your finger in from the middle of the wound downwards cut it in the midst and slash it quite down to the bottom it will drain the better and heal the sooner a great deal Heal it up with the green Oyntment dressing it once a day and always before you lay your green Oyntment to the wound wash it with the rare water to heal any wound first This is that I advise you when you wash a wound with this water dry it with a clean linnen cloth before you
part of the After-leg much about the Ancle-bone it will be swelled and knotted when it is thus over-strained you may see and discern it by his going and by the swelling if you nip it between your Fingers and Thumb he will quinch at it very much For the Cure Take Nerve-oyl and Turpentine of each a penny-worth and mix them together and lay it on at two or three several times or more till it be well and alwaies dry it in well with a hot bar of Iron when you lay it on anoint it two or three daies distance you must rest him in the time of the Cure Probatum LXV A Scouring Drink WHen you let a Horse blood save the blood with a Bowl or Dish and put thereunto a handful of Salt take the blood as it comes from him and stir it and the Salt together with your hand that it may not clot and give it him again to drink with a Horn fasting whether it be the blood of another Horse or his own blood it matters not much Give him warm Water to drink once Proved LXVI For Brittle Hoofs ANoint them with an equal proportion of Dogs-grease Turpentine and Tar all boyl together a little while and it will make them grow strong and tough put in the Turpentine but a little before you take it off the fire Proved LXVII For a Horse that is Moulten and breaks out WHen you see Swellings appear like Bags about the Girting place under the Horses belly First anoint it with Bacon-grease once every day till it be rotten then lance it in one place to make the filth come out with the point of your Pen-knife stroke your hand pretty hard upon it squeez out all the filth then anoint the Swelling with Train-oyl all over and wind a linnen Cloth about a sticks end and dip it in Train-Oyl and with it wash the wound well within If the Swelling run under the belly to the Cods-ward then get a Smith with a Nail at a Rods end to beat a piece in the fashion of a Fleme then heat it red hot and strike him just through the skin in six or eight several places thereafter as the largeness of the Swelling is and as your discretion shall guide you when you have flemed it and squeezed it that all the filth is out then daub on Chamberlye and Salt scalding hot and then anoint it with Train-Oyl within and without the Train-Oyl will heal it alone anoint it once a day at first within and without and once in two or three daies as it heals You must alwaies have a care of any wound that the cold and wind get not in if it do it will swell much and in such a case you must anoint about the wound all over the Swelling with the Oyl of Populeon and that will take the Swelling down certainly be it in what place it will Both proved LXVIII A Scouring Drink to cleanse his Kidneys if they be pained FIrst heat a pint of strong Beer in a Skellet and scum it and put in a penny-worth of Treacle-Jean and give it him luke-warm it will cleanse his Kidneys and Guts much three or four hours after it give him a Mash warm water the first day and no longer Let him stand two or three daies Probatum LXIX For a fleshy Knot that is moving from the place where it grows LEt it grow where it will if you by feeling upon it with your Fingers and Thumb feel it moving and something soft upon the place where it grows then take the knot in your hand and with the point of your Knife slit a hole in the middle and cut the knot out if it bleed much sear it with a hot Iron to stanch the blood then stuff the wound with Hares-wool or Coneys-wool but Hares-wool is best to stanch blood The nextday take out the wool and wash it clean with White-wine Vinegar then dry the wound with a clean linnen cloth then heal it with your blew Medicine or green Oyntment which I take to be best but the blew Medicine is good Alwaies before you anoint the wound wash it with the water which you have for an old Ulcer if it grow rank if not you shall not need to do it Tye a Rag about it to keep the Dirt out Dress it once a day till it be whole Proved LXX For a Cow that hath a Garget in her Dug or Udder YOu shall know when she-hath the Garget in her Dug for then she will not give down her Milk For remedy let her stand in some House or Yard the Night before you let blood the next Day in the Morning fasting let her blood on both sides of the Neck then give her this Drink Take a handful of Higtaper by some called Mullin and cut it small it groweth by the sides of Dikes and in High-waies it hath a long stem with a broad woolly Leaf and afterwards boyl it a little in a pint of Beer and give it her luke-warm fasting This with once giving will make her give down her milk freely Proved LXXI For a Ring-bone A Ring-bone grows just upon the instep as we use to say upon the fore-part of the hinder Leg just above the Hoof in a hard knob as big as a Walnut First the Beast must be cast or else you must tye up his contrary Leg with a strong Rope till you strike four or five holes in the Ring-bone at the very edge of it Let every hole be an equal distance from other then take white Mercury or Arsnick beaten to powder as much as will lye upon your Fleme and put it into one hole and as much likewise in the same manner into every hole binding it on for twenty four hours LXXII Another for the same TAke quick and unslaked Lime newly taken from the Kiln which must be well burned and the best burned you may know by its lightness make your Lime into fine powder and lay it upon the place swelled all along of a good thickness and bind upon it a linnen Cloth made fast about the foot and so put the Horse into the Water a pretty while then take him forth and unbind his foot and he is infallibly cured For the burning of the Lime in the Water does kill the Ring-bone even unto the Root thereof with this Receipt I have cured not so few as an hundred Horses But when you are thus to dress your Horse let him be brought close to the Water wherein he is to be ridden that so soon as you have applyed the Lime unto the Ring-bone you may presently put him into the Water Proved LXXIII Observations concerning the ordering of Cattle as Cowes c. in the time of feeding when there is great fulness of Grass As in the Months of May June and July THen in those Months must be your care to let them blood For at that time of the Year they never digest their meat so well as in Winter And those raw digestions do hinder
many inward passages which causeth bad blood Which to help you must let them blood in the beginning of the Month of May and let them stand in some close yard the Night before And the Night after give them a handful of Hemp-seed a piece Now for the Pestilence Gargil and Murrain they are infectious contagious Diseases none like them they proceed many times from hard driving heats and colds hunger or any other thing breeding corrupt humors as by drinking when they are hot or feeding upon gross foul and corrupted foods as in low grounds after floods when the Grass is unpurged and the like And sometimes it cometh from some evil influences of the Planets corrupting the Plants and Fruits of the Earth And sometimes from Cattle too And from divers such like causes But howsoever when these Diseases begin certain it is that they are most infectious and if there be not great care taken they will leave but few alive of a great many for the one infects the other These Diseases are easily known they will hang down their heads and run Atter at the Eyes will swell on the Lips and all on one side of the Cheek and under the Tongue and sometimes at the roots of the Ears The Cure is to separate the sound from the sick a good distance of place from the Air where the sick breathe then let them blood on the Neck-veins and give every one a spoonful of Diapente in a pint of Verjuyce If you cannot get Diapente take a spoonful of Treacle-Jean and give it in a pint of Verjuyce Thus give them a good quantity of old Urine and a handful of new Hens-dung stir the Urine and Hens-dung well together and give it to the Beast luke-warm keep him in the house a Week after These for Cows or Bullocks be prime Receipts Proved LXXIV For a Bite Blow or Film in the Eye TAke as much white Copperis as the bigness of half a Walnut and beat it very fine the same quantity of Verdigrease beaten to powder Bray these two well together upon an Iron-spade or in a Mortar then mix them with as much fresh Butter as a Walnut put into the Eye as much of this as the bigness of a Pease once a day until it be well and clear Proved LXXV A precious Oyntment for an Horses Eye either for Bite Blow or Film GO to the Apothecaries and buy the stone called Lapis Calaminaris it is of a blew colour heat it red hot then take it out and quench it presently in a pint and a half of Whitewine and so heat it and quench it as afore 12 times one after another then add unto the Wine half so much of the juyce of Housleek well stamped and strained and stir them up well together dip a Feather in this water and dress it two or three times a day till the sight be recovered Proved LXXVI A gallant Scouring to make a Beast thrive Winter or Summer TAke a handful of Groundsel called by some Sertion half a handful of Red-sage half a handful of dried or green Wormwood stript you must shred them all small and boyl them in a pint and a half of strong Beer and when it comes off the fire put in a piece of Butter as big as an Egg You may put in as much of the powder of Mechoacan as will lye upon a shilling at three or four times I know it purgeth Slime and moulten Grease in Lumps and works very kindly Give him warm Water to drink evening and morning for three or four daies after A Mash of Malt once a day or once in two daies if your Horse do not fill well and that his Coat stand right up staring or be Hide-bound give him this LXXVII IF you let blood in the Neck or Temple-vein you must alwaies Cord the Horse Take this for a Rule LXXVIII For a Strangling in the Spring TAke a handful of Elder-buds as much of dried Wormwood half an handful of Mercury as much of Tansey cut these small and boyl them in a pint of strong Beer and it will serve for three drinks three daies distance between drink and drink Give it him fasting in mornings give a Mash three hours after warm Water for a day or two let him stand in all the while If he be swelled between the Jaws anoint it with Bacon-grease once in two or three daies till it be rotted and then let it out and heal it with your healing-salves Proved LXXIX To kill Lice in Horses or Cows TAke two pennyworth of Quicksilver and work it well with Fasting-spittle upon the Palm of your hand till the Quicksilver be killed then take the whites of two Eggs and bray them with the Quicksilver and Spittle till they be as an Oyntment spread these upon a List that will go round about the Beasts Neck let it be as broad as four fingers first cut away the hair and then tye your List round about and sow it up they will come to it and it will kill abundance of them and in several places about the Beast daub on some Train-oyl LXXX To make a Horse Stale or Piss TAke as much Castle-sope as a Walnut boyl it in a pint of strong Beer a little while and give it him luke-warm it will make him piss Proved LXXXI For an inward Bruise with any Fume or Stub TAke a pint and a half of strong Beer and one ounce of Bolearmoniack and boyl them a little together and give it him with a Horn luke-warm It is very good for an inward bruise of a Beast The greasie sort is best Proved LXXXII For a Horse that hath rent his flesh about the Belly or elsewhere or for any new wound TAke a pint of Whitewine Vinegar the sharpest you can get boyl it in half a quarter of a pound of Bolearmoniack after it hath boyled a little and when it comes off the fire put into it a little piece of Butter and bathe the place grieved once in two daies and in two or three times dressing it will cure This is a plain and easie Cure LXXXIII For an old Cold with a Cough TAke as much fresh or salt Butter as an Egg and make it hollow as a Pye and put as much Tar into it as a Walnut then close up the Ball very round and roul it in the Seeds and strippings of Wormwood cut small To make two Balls of the Butter and Tar is better give him this in a pint and a half of strong Beer in the morning fasting he having stood in the night before keep him in house three or four daies after give him warm Water the cold just taken off it for two daies the water must be no warmer at any time If you see he doth not fill well and hath left his Coughing then four or five daies after give him the same again and order him as before When you have given him this ride him a hand-gallop for three or four miles till he sweat well but
a mile before you come at home ride him very softly to cool him Set him up warm Litter him well clothe him with a couple of warm cloths tye him up to the Rack upon the bit for three or four hours if it be five or six hours it matters not when you un-bit him give a Mash first or warm Water first then clean Hay and take off one of his clothes after one or two daies you may work him so you do it moderately This is not so good for a new Cold as for an old Cold. Proved LXXXIV For a strangling in the Guts the Cough of the Lungs For clearing the Pipes and giving much breath IF you be to run your Horse for a wager give him two of these Balls a week before I make them thus Take as much of fresh or salt Butter as the bigness of an Egg and an half part it in the midst as near as you can hollow it in the fashion of a Pye mix and bray together with your Butter half an ounce of Anniseeds beaten to powder then make a Pye of your Butter and Anniseeds thus mixed and put into it three quarters of a spoonful of Syrup of Horehound into each Ball and close up the Ball close that the Syrup may not come out Make your Balls no bigger then a Barbers Wash-ball or but a little bigger if you do for it is not good to give Balls too big then warm a pint and a half of strong Beer lukewarm and fill the Horn with Beer and before you put it in put in one of the Balls having pull'd out his tongue with your left hand before when his tongue is out put the Ball into his mouth as far as you can then hasten two Horns full of Beer after it to wash it down do the like with the next Ball as you did with the first then take his back ride him for three or four miles a hand-gallop till he sweat well for this reason Because the Diseases in this Receipt as they come with a heat so the speediest and best Remedy is to drive them away with a heat The second reason is That a Drink will take no more place in a Horse for heats and colds than to give a Horse a Drink and walk him about the Yard Therefore for Diseases of this Nature ride him till he sweat soundly A mile before you come at home ride him but a foot pace that he may be set up something cool then tye him up to the Rack cover him with two cloaths stuff him and litter him very warm cover his head and body to keep him from the cold let him stand four or five hours before he eat or drink then when you unbit him give him a Mash or some Water luke-warm or some clean Hay and take off one cloth and keep him warm If this will not do a week after give him the same again and give him warm Water but two daies after it and then cold water a week before your Horse goes to grass give this and a week after he comes from grass give it three or four times a year and it will keep your Horse in gallant health it will fat a Horse It will make him sick but fear nothing But if you give your Horse too much at a time that it makes him extraordinary sick give him a pint of Milk as it comes from the Cow or heat the Milk lukewarm Proved many times This is a rare Receipt LXV To waste the Kernels under the Horses Throat cheaply and suddenly FIrst sear the Kernels with a Candle then take of fresh or salt butter and lay a piece upon a red piece of Cloth and rub it well in and in a Fortnights time the Knot will be quite gone and if his Nose run it will stop when the Kernels are gone Anoint the Knots once a day for a week in the time of his Cure If it be in Summer let him run out and in Winter stand in Proved LXXX For a Cough of the Lungs TO know this the Horse will cough hollowly and gruntingly he will hang down his head when he coughs his flanks will beat he will fetch his breath short For Remedy Let him stand in the night before the next day in the morning fasting give him a spoonful of the Syrup of Horehound and a spoonful of the flower of Brimstone and put these two into a pint and a half of strong Beer heated lukewarm and give it him fasting take him and ride him three or four miles presently upon it till he sweat well ride but a foot pace within a mile of home be careful to set him up warm Litter and clothe him warm Let him stand in not above two or three nights if it be in Summer after that turn him out from ten a Clock to three a Clock for two or three daies and then turn him out for altogether the more moderately you work him the better he will thrive It will take away his Cough clear his Pipes and make him thrive much after it If there be a white thick clayey water near let him drink there it is a warmer and more fattening Water than any other give warm Water not above twice this Drink will clear his Pipes and drive it from his Lungs You may put in as much of the powder of Mechoacan as will lye upon a shilling at three times Proved LXXXVII For a Broken-winded Horse TAke Bores-dung and dry it to powder and put a spoonful of it into two pints of Milk as it comes from the Cow or otherwise heated lukewarm and give it him If you see that this proportion will not make him sick the first time you give it then give him two spoonfuls more of the powder and in four or five times giving it will perfectly cure This Drink must be given every third day A spoonful of the powder of a Hedge-hog by some called an Urchin doth infinitely help in this case Proved LXXXVIII For a Cold in a Beast either in Winter or Summer TAke an Egg-shel full of Tar half an ounce of Red-stone Sugar half an ounce of Anniseeds beaten small half an ounce of Tobacco beaten half an ounce of Liquorish cut and beaten very small 2 ounces of Brimstoue beaten small a quarter of a handful of Herb-grace cut small after that these things are thus beaten and stirred up together make them up into three Balls of a like bigness then put two pints of strong Beer lukewarm and the first hornful of Beer that you give him put a Ball into it and do so likewise to the second and third and then give him the remainder of the Beer Let him not drink for four or five hours after give him a Mash and afterwards Hay to eat Let him stand in for three or four nights if it be in Summer after the first days giving work him every day moderately and the Beast will thrive the better If once will not take away his Cough and cause
fine Tow Flax or Hards to dry the blood up and there let it lye five or six hours then take it away and put in some of the Medicine which you use for a Canker in the Head Face Eyes or Nostrils of a Horse vide Receipt C. With this Medicine dress it once a day at first and as it begins to heal dress it once in two daies this Medicine will heal it suddenly cut a hole at the edge or lower part of the swelling to lay it a draining and it will heal a great deal sooner dab and throw on good store of Wheat-bran upon it when you lay it on when your Plaister comes off look upon the top of the Poll-Evil to see how far the dead proud white jelly flesh goes cut it all out with your Incision knife till you come at the red flesh which is sound the Veins will bleed much and spin again when you come at the quick but let not that hinder you from cutting out all the dead proud flesh which if you cut all out clean you cannot do amiss only take heed you do not cut the white Paxwax which runs along the top of the Neck which some call a Cress it is white and you may easily see it if you cut that his Neck will fall and look basely therefore have a care There is a white Pith in a Poll-evil near the top of the Neck by the Paxwax take your Nippers and pull it out it will come out like a Plug there is no such thing in a Fistula when you have pulled it out put some of your Medicine to it and it will heal it apace Let not the dead flesh be left in the wound but cut it clean out although the wound seem never so broad The same cure and the same way is to be used for a Fistula the Beast must stand in the time of the Cure Proved CXXII For a through Splent on both sides of the Leg by some called a Great Bone-Sâ—rupin FIrst Tye the Horses head close to a strong Post then tye up his contrary Leg then bruise and beat the Splint on both sides with a Blood-stick or Bed-staff beat it till it be something soft if he will not endure the beating of it standing cast him with a rope after you have beat it soft Take of the Oyl of Riggrum 12 pennyworth and rub it on with your fingers on both sides upon the very splent and no where else you shall have of this Oyl but a little for a shilling Tye up his head for two or three hours for it will smart and tye up his contrary Leg this way will take off the Hair a little but it will grow again of the same colour presently If it be never so big do but thus two or three times and within a weeks time it will be quite faln one dressing will serve for a small Splent or for a blood Splent this way will a little break the hair but not the skin If you will you may turn him out Proved to be admirable CXXIII For a Mallender FIrst Clip away the hair which grows upon it and about it then rub the Scabs off with a Hair-cloth or the back of your Scissars or Knife this rubbing of it will cause it to run a yellow matter take a Linnen-cloth and wipe away the filth clean then take four penny-worth of the Oyl of Riggrum and mix it with a little of your own Dung and lap it on with a flat stick upon a Linnen-cloth and bind it to for a Week then make it clean and dress it again and it is a Cure After your first dressing you may ride him or turn him out Proved CXXIV For a looseness in the Body of any Beast TAke a pint of Red-wine or for want thereof a pint of Claret warm it in a Wine-pot upon the fire then put an Ounce of beaten Cinamon therein and give him it a little warm you may put thereto the yolks of two new laid Eggs once or twice is a Cure give him warm Water at night and cold Water next day and ride him upon it Proved CXXV For a Cold in Summer or when a Horse doth not fill BOyl a quarter of Red-stone Sugar in a pint of Sack till it be dissolved and then take it off the fire and put in two spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl and give it lukewarm ride hard when you have given it unto him Give him warm Water for three or four daies after keep him warm give him now and then a Mash Proved CXXVI For a sudden great heat as in Hunting Racing or hard Riding that the Horses Grease is melted THis you shall know by the panting of the Horse that Night he comes in so hot for if he be over-ridden and his Grease melted you shall know it by his panting at the Breast and Girting-place and heaving at the Flank you shall see the Night he comes in and the next day morning that his Body will be mighty hot For Remedy Take and give this to purge him and cleanse him and to qualifie the heat and working of his Body Take one pint of Sack and put to it one ounce of Diascordium beaten small mix them together and give it to the Beast at any time cold but in the morning fasting is the best give him warm Water for three or four daies after give him bursten Oats boyled Barley and Mashes made of ground Malt keep him well littered and clothed warm If he forsake his meat and you see he hath lost his stomack to bring him to his stomack again give him two ounces of Hony and half a pint of Whitewine mixed together and heated lukewarm in the morning after he hath drank cold water you may give him it with a Horn It will make him piss clear his bladder and bring him to his stomack again After you have given him it ride him a mile or two gently and set him up warm at night ride him a mile or two again and litter him well and keep him warm Thus do for three or four daies or a week at three daies end give him the Wine and Hony as before you were directed If you see notwithstanding all these means used that he will not fall to his meat and that he is bound in his belly and dungs very small then give him this Cordial two or three times in two or three daies betwixt each Cordial giving Take three pints of stale Beer houshold brown Bread the quantity of half a penny Loaf boil these two well together then take it off the fire and put into it a quarter of a pound of Hony and a quarter of a pound of fresh Butter give him this Cordial lukewarm fasting and ride him a mile or two every Evening and Morning as well when you do not give it to him as when you do ride him fairly and clothe and litter him up vvarm this Cordial vvill bring him to his stomack and cause him to be loose bodied and dung
soft although he be vveak and have little or no stomack four or five hours after his Cordial the first thing you give him boyl him half a peck of Oats and a pound of Fenygreek together in vvater till they be burst and the vvater vvherein these vvere boyled pour it from the Oats into another Payl and put some cold vvater to it and vvhen he drinks let him drink of this vvater for the Oats and Fenygreek throvv some of them into the Manger hot and if he be loth to eat them then strevv some Wheat-bran upon it and it is very likely he vvill eat all together This course taken in every particular vvill bring your Horse to a stomack and raise him suddenly Look the Receipt follovving for a dry Surfet and when the Horse's Cods are swelled and he runs at the Nose and there you shall see the purge of Aloes A fortnight or three vveeks after he is thus melted and that you have given him the former things to give him this Purge of Aloes vvill do the Beast a great deal of good in this case I am confident it is good Or give him as much of the povvder of Mechoacan as vvill lye upon a shilling at three or four times that is very good in a pint of Wine or a quart of strong Ale Proved CXXVII For a Foundred Horse FIrst tye a List or Blood-cord hard about the Pastern and that will keep the Blood up into his Leg that it cannot come dovvn into his Foot when you have taken out the Soal set on his Shooe something hollow and broad then untye the string about the Pastern and knock the out-side of the Hoof and the blood will come pouring out Let him bleed well then put a handful of Salt into the bottom of the foot and put as many Hards Flax or Tow after it as will fill the bottom of the Foot take two or three flat sticks and lay them between the Hards and the Shooe a piece of stiff Soal-Leather will do as well at the end of 24 hours take the Hards away and take a handful of Nettle-tops and a handful of Salt and beat them together and lay them to the bottom of the Foot and to keep them in take Hards and Splinters as you were directed before at forty hours end take the Hards away and apply the same quantity of Nettles and Salt mixed with as much Hogs Grease as contains to an Egg and beat them altogether in a Mortar and lay them to the Soal of the foot and Hards and Splinters as before with this last Medicine you may dress his foot once or twice more if you see cause after you see the Horse goes a little well set on another Shooe formed with a broad Web and let it stand broad and easie and in ten daies time the Horse will go very well and sound when you come at your journeys end wash his Legs clean and when his Legs are dry make a Poultis of a quarter of a pint of Whitewine Vinegar and a quarter of a pound of Sheeps-kidney Suet cut very small Let these two boyl a pretty while in a Skellet and when it comes off the fire put two or three handfuls of Wheat-bran to it and stir them all together and make it thick like a Poultis and lay it to the bottom of the foot then Hards and Splinters as before you were directed then spread the rest of the Poultis upon a long piece of Linnen-cloth and lay it hot to the hair round about the top of the Hoof and the Foot-lock and let it come under the bottom of the Hoof lay it to as hot as you can let every Poultis lye on forty eight hours Three or four Poultisses laid to in this manner will do the Horse much good and cause his foot to grow and shoot out and give him much ease so as in a very short time he will go very sound If an Horse be bruised in the bottom of his foot with a stone or any other thing this Poultis will give present ease For a foundring the Beast must stand in till the bottom of his foot be grown again I hold it best to take out but one soal at a time because if you take out both at a time the Horse will not be able to stand Some take out Frush and all some take out nothing but the bare Soal and leave the Frush The way is first cord the Pastern then pare the Soal and then raze it round about the Soal to the quick as near the inside of the outward shell of the Hoof as you can with a drawing knife then raise the Soal at the Toe then lay hold with a pair of Pincers and pull it quite out but beware you break not the Veins in the foot Proved CXXVIII For a Back swanckt in the Fillet of the Loin or for a Wrench in the Back-bone about the Navel place or for a strain in the Kidneys by being over-burthened in the Hinder-parts or over-strained in the Kidneys in Race-running IF you see any of these mischances to fall upon the Back or Hinder parts of your Beast then do thus and no otherwise for all those mischances above-written Take a hot Sheeps-skin fleaed of a Sheep newly kill'd apply it as hot as you can with the fleshy side from his Rump all over to the midst of his Back-bone if it will reach so far Let it lye on twenty four hours and at the end of that time lay another hot Sheeps-skin in the same manner to it if need require and you see the first will not do Let the grief be never so great two hot skins will do it with the help of the Drink next under written but if the hurt be not great the Sheeps-skin will do it alone It will make the Horse to sweat much it will draw out all the bruise and strengthen the back of the Horse exceedingly in a short time But if your Horse be so weak that he cannot stand nor go then take a Sack or two and Ropes and throw them over a Balk and hang him for nine or ten daies when you first hang him clap a hot Sheeps-skin to his Rump and Back for twenty four hours and at the end of the time lay another hot Sheeps-skin to and then no more In the time of this Cure give him this Drink if the strain be great If it be but small this Drink can do no hurt but a great deal of good Take Polygonatum commonly called Solomon's Seal you may have it at the Apothecaries but it is dear take ten roots of it that may weigh three ounces Polypodium of the Oak a quarter of a pound two handfuls of Wood-betony or for want thereof as much Garden-betony cut it small and if the roots be dry beat them to powder if they be green cut them thin then take a Gallon of strong Beer or somewhat more put it into a Kettle and put the other three things to it
and let them boyl till the Beer be boyled half away then take them off the fire and put into it a quarter of a pound of Butter and a quarter of a pound of Hony and give the Horse of this to drink three times in nine daies in the morning fasting and give him warm Water to drink all the while with a handful of Bran put into it give him of this Drink a quart at a time Buy of these Roots green dry them and beat them small and keep them from wind and air for your use If you cannot get the root of Solomon's Seal make use of the other things they may do well without but better with it Let him stand in the time of the Cure To this Drink you may add Penny-royal Clarey and Comfrey they are all knitting and strengthening Herbs Proved CXXIX For a new Wound made with a Stake or such like thing Stub or Fork First wash the Wound well with Butter and Vinegar melted together then take a Clout and tye it about a sticks end and dip it in some Linseed Oyl and run it to the bottom of the wound anoint it well and in a short time nothing but this will heal it and kill the Gangrene of it If the Wind get into the Wound and cause it to swell anoint it with the Oyl of Populeon round about the swelling Train-oyl and Verdigrease melted together will heal and skin any Wound well and quickly Proved CXXX For a Stub in the Foot or Heel For an over-reach with the Toe of the After-foot upon the Heel of the Fore-foot A Tread or Cut above the Hair or when a Stone hath cut a Horses Leg. FIrst wash the Wound with fair Water or with Water and Salt when the Wound is dry take a big Onyon or two or three small ones to the bigness of a great one a spoonful of Pepper beaten small as much Crown-sope as the bigness of an Egg these three things must be beaten to a Salve and laid upon a Linnen-cloth and laid to the Wound four and twenty hours and at the end of that time dress it as you did before and so continue doing every four and twenty hours till it be whole If this quantity of Medicine bee too little make more As you see it heal dress it but once in two or three daies This Onyon Salve will prevent a Quitter-bone if you lay it to before it break This Salve is good to heal and cure all these hurts Proved CXXXI For a Horse that is prickt in the shooing and afterwards festred FIrst open it well and take out all the corruption to the very bottom so far as the Nayl did go then take three or four House-snails a little Salt as much Sope as a Walnut beat them altogether and lay it to the place that was pricked four and twenty hours till you see it begin to heal then dress it but once in two daies and in three or four dressings it will be whole When you lay this Medicine to the bottom of the foot lay some Flax Hards or Tow over it and over that a piece of Leather or Splinters to keep the Hards and Medicine in And if it break out or be soft above the top of the Hoof lay some of this Medicine to and bind it on with a Linnen rag Proved CXXXII For a Horse that is prickt with a long Channel Nail FIrst search it with your Buttris and drawingknife till you find where the Channel Nail went in open it well and give it all the ease you can search it to the bottom with a little Tow at your Instruments end then drop ten or twelve drops of the Oyl of Turpentine into the hole take a little Tow or fine Lint at your Instruments end and dip it in the Oyl of Turpentine and put it in Tent-waies then mix a little Crown-sope a little Salt and a little Pepper beaten together and lay it over the former and Tow or Hards over it and a piece of Leather and Splinters over it to keep it in The Shooe must be taken off when you dress it and after to set it on again dress it once in four and twenty hours till it be whole If you find that after three or four times dressing that the Horse is in great pain still and that you fear a breaking out above the hoof then take out the Soal of his Foot and apply the Medicine in order as you were directed for a foundred Horse in Receipt CXXVII Do with this just as you are there directed to make the Soal come again after his Foot begins to grow again take as much Hogs Grease as an Egg and the like quantity of Burgundy Pitch mix them together and lay a pretty quantity thereof in the bottom of the Hoof and lay Hards or Tow over that and a piece of Leather or Splinters over it as you were formerly directed Dress it every day for three or four daies this Grease and Pitch will much nourish his Foot and strengthen it and keep it from drying up Let him stand in the time of his Cure and then if you please you may turn him out abroad Proved CXXXIII For a Brittle Hoof. LAy the Poultis to the bottom and top of the Hoof and Foot as you have directions for a Foundred Horse in Receipt CXXVII Lay that Poultis to and in three or four times dressing it will make his brittle Hoof tough and hard as you can desire Let him stand in the time of his Cure Proved CXXXIV For an Horses Yard foul and furr'd without so that he pisses in the Cod. TAke some fresh Butter and Whitewine Vinegar and melt them then pull out his Yard and do off the filth with your hand and wash it with the Butter and Vinegar till it be clean squirt some of it into his Yard with a Syringe it will much help him in this particular Proved CXXXV When a Horse doth not thrive and when his Coat stands staring and doth not lye smooth For an inward dry Surfet that causeth the Cods to swell sometimes continually and sometimes betwixt times When the Grease is melted and afterwards set and dried in his Body and his Legs sometimes swelled For an Horse that is Gaunt and will not fill or is Gut-foundred when he is Costive in Body and Dungs small To procure a Stomack The following Directions are admirable good for all these following Distempers FIrst make your Purge thus Take an ounce of fine Aloes the best is that which shines and glisters an ounce will cost you a shilling beat it to powder take a quarter of a pound of fresh Butter bray and mix these two well together and put a handful of Wheat-bran to it to make it stiff like a piece of Dough or Paste then roul it up in Balls made big in the midst and sharp at both ends this quantity will make four or five Balls then hold up his Head with a Drenching-stick and take his Tongue in
the bit six or seven hours and then give him a little Hay and after that warm Water and Bran the next Morning ride him to the River let him drink but once a day and ride him two or three Miles after it At three daies end give him the former Drink fasting and follow the Directions before named in this Receipt and so continue doing by giving the former Drink at every three daies end till you see you have dried up the gross humors in his body and caused them to cease running and swelling you may work him three or four hours in a day to get him a stomack let it be in Winter or Summer keep him in the house with dry meat when he is cured you may turn him out Wash his Legs clean in some River up to the Hams and keep his Legs as cool as you can all the time of the cure One or two of these Drinks given at three daies distance will dry up the humours in his body which feed the swellings in his Legs Cods or elsewhere these Drinks will make him run at the Nose white or yellow If he fall from his meat you may the third day after his Drink give him a Cordial as it is set down in the foregoing Receipt and then a Drink and then a Cordial of White-wine and Honey Now if there be great Chaps or Crannies in his Legs as it is a hundred to one but there will by reason of the extream heat and continual running of the moist fretting humor to heal them up although never so big yea though the Sinews were almost rotted with the filth to prevent which and to heal it also take this gallant Receipt following which is for Pains and Scratches and if it were never so ill in a short time it will heal it The way to order the Horse and make the Salve is thus In this case you must not ride him into the River or Water at all but you must first take two or three payls of fair Water and wash his Legs clean then clip away all the Hair close to the Skin so far as his Legs are Crannied or Scabby then wash his Legs clean with another Payl of fair Water and let him stand till his Legs be dry then take half a pound of Hony an ounce of beaten Pepper and ten heads of Garlick beat them well altogether in a Bowl till they come to a Salve divide this Salve into two parts spread the one half upon half a sheet of gray Paper and the other half upon the other half sheet of Paper then take a broad piece of Linnen-cloth and lay it upon the Paper and so lay the Plaister to the Crannied place and the cloth over it and sew it on fast that it may not come off let this Plaister lye on two daies make a small Thumb-band of Hay and wind it about his Legs and over the Plaister for two daies at the end of which take all off and take a Linnen-cloth and wipe the Chaps of every Cranny in his Legs or Heels clean and then lay on a fresh Plaister and do as you did before in three or four times dressing it thus it will be whole He must not come into the Water all the time of his Cure If you have an Horse that his Sinews are rotten broken or cut or much putrified then apply none but this Medicine to it and it will draw cleanse and knit them together again It is for a Sinew in this nature the best cure in the World After you have thus drencht him inwardly and cured the swelling of his Legs outwardly If you see he look gaunt and hath no stomack to his meat and do not fill and thrive well if he be sick and weakly give him White-wine and Hony the Cordials mentioned in the foregoing Receipts to bring him to his stomack again then and not before give the Purge of Aloes But if your Horse be gaunt and girt up in his Body if he be in any heart and will eat his meat in this case give the Purge first and then your White-wine and Hony and your Cordials as you are directed in the foregoing Receipts to bring him to his stomack If you do as you are here directed all along throughout the whole Receipt in every particular you need not question but through Gods blessing you shall have the desired success you look for All Proved CXXXVII To make a Horse Stale free and constantly TAke half a pint of White-wine one ounce of Ivy-berries beaten to powder and put to the Whitewine let it lye in steep all night then give it to the Horse next morning fasting do not heat it at all but ride him after it a mile or two then tye him up to the Rack two three or four hours after it This is very good for the Wind-colick and to make a Horse piss freely do this every morning till you see him piss free this will cleanse the Kidneys of all sand and filth it is very good for the Stone and Gravel These Berries you must gather when they are black-ripe which is about Lent or Shrovetide if you gather them green or when they are full ripe put them in a platter and dry them in the Sun till they be fit to beat to powder and give them as you were directed It is as good for a Christian as for a Horse Nettle-seeds is a great provoker of Urine you may put a handful to the Berries and Wine Proved CXXXVIII To cure the Vives under the roots of the Ears FIrst Let him blood on both sides of his Neck then clap a pair of Barnacles upon his Nose and take a red hot Iron vvith the edge as thick as the back of your Knife and with it make a strike from the root of the Ears upon the middle of the Swelling downwards to the lowest part of the Swelling in this manner as this figure directs you three strikes from the long burn it till the skin be yellow and then sear it no more when it is thus seared anoint the Swelling with a little Butter or Hogs Grease if you anoint it once or twice it is enough if you sear him deep you must anoint him the oftner Proved CXXXIX For the Squinsey or Strangling or Cold that breaks out at the Nose and hath run a year THe Squinsey breeds the Canker in the Mouth and at the roots of the Tongue At that time the Horse hath in his Wesand pipe and Stomack a great deal of tough thick flegm and when he cougheth much as he will thinking to void it it will come in lumps into his mouth and he will swallow it down again and at that time his breath will be very hot and his Mouth very red and if he have a Canker in his Throat or at the root of his Tongue or in his Mouth you shall discern it smell by the heat and stinking breath To cure the Canker See Receipt C. and there is also the Receipt
ride him whether he halt or not so you ride him moderately then take an ounce of the Oyl of Swallows and rub it well in with your hand upon the Sinews of the bent of the Leg to retch and give liberty to them use of this Oyl every four or five daies and in four or five times dressing it will be a Cure After he come from work or riding at any time and his Legs be washt and dry then rub on this Oyl upon the bent of his Leg and upon the Sinews you need not heat it in now with a hot Iron but rub it well in with the palm of your hand and within a fortnights time the blood Spavin will not be seen and the swelling will be quite gone If you take a a BloodSpavin at the first coming out of a young Horse then do but fire it lightly and lay the former Charge to and in once dressing it will be a compleat Cure Proved CLXXIII For an old Cold. IF you see cause take blood from the Neck-vein otherwise not then instead of giving him Oats give him Wheat-bran boiled in water after this manner viz. Set a Kettle over the fire almost full of water and when it begins to boil put in your Bran and let it boil a full quarter of an hour then take it off and let it stand till it be almost cold and about four or five of the Clock in the Morning give it him as hot as he can eat it and for his Drink give him the same water and at Night give him Oats and White water to drink and let him be covered and littered up warm If it be in Summer let not the Stable be too hot for that will take a way his stomach and make him faint And when you give him his water at night alwaies give him as much of this powder as an Eggshel will hold amongst his Oats to which you must keep him eight daies together or longer if you shall see cause the boiled Bran is that which drieth up all his corrupt and gross humours which was the cause of his cold Now the Powder is this viz. Take of Cummin-seeds Fenygreek Sileris Montani otherwise called Sisilers Nutmegs Cloves Ginger Linseed of each of these two ounces quick Brimstone six ounces make all these into fine powder and mix them all well together it must be given him in his Oats the quantity that was prescribed before but he must first be watered with White water and then presently let him be well rubbed all over and cloathed and littered vvarm and an hour bdfore you give him his Oats put into his Rack a little sweet Wheat-straw and let him eat thereof an hour or better and then and not before give him his Oats mixed with this powder which having eaten give him Hay at your pleasure and with doing thus his Cold will be gone in a short time and the sooner if you air him an hour before Sun-set and an hour after Sun-rising if the Sun shine mark that keep up his stomack with White-wine and Honey and the Cordials or with what else you think best of Proved Now if this cold bring with it a violent Cough as is often seen then use this Receipt following CLXXIV For a Cold with a violent Cough FIrst give him the Wheat-bran boiled together with the Powder with his Oats as is directed in the fore-going Receipt but not above three or four daies or till you see he hath purged sufficiently for that the said Powder dispersed the corrupt and gross humours that are in his body which do occasion the Cough and when you perceive that he hath purged sufficiently keep him notwithstanding to his White-water which is no other thing than water made hot in a Kettle and then put in some Wheat-bran or Barley-meal let him eat the Bran as hot as he will and drink the Water a little warm But alwaies an hour before you water him take a stick a little bigger than your thumb of well nigh a foot long and wrap a Linneu cloth about it four or five times first dipped in oyl of Bayes and put into his mouth and with some Leather-thong or piece of small Cord fasten it to either end of the stick and so fasten it over his Ears like the head-stall of a Bridle like as Smiths do when they burn a Horse for a Lampra's Let him drink with this stick thus in his Mouth and so stand with it an hour after at the least that he may lick and suck up the said oyl and after the three or four daies are expired and that you see he hath purged sufficiently which is a little before mentioned then when you give him the Oats give him amongst them this other Powder following viz. Fennel-seeds four ounces Fenygreek two ounces and Cardimum one ounce beat them but grossly or else he will blow them away when he eats his Oats put one spoonful into his Oats and keep him warm and use him as is prescribed in the foregoing Receipt and you will find it to do him much good Proved CLXXV A rare Receipt to cause an Horse to vomit TAke two of the greatest Roots of Polypodium as you can get from the Oak wash and scrape them very clean and tie it to his Snaffle or Bit then let it be steeped in oyl of Spike a whole Night and in the Morning fasting put on his Bridle with the Roots tied to his Bit and ride him softly and fairly an hour or better with it in his mouth and if he be troubled with any Rheumatick or Flegmatick humour or with any cold or filthy matter which may any way pester clog or annoy his stomach this very thing will force him to vent and vomit it up at his mouth or nose and it will cause him to cough and sneeze much that you shall see him to send forth a great abundance of filth and evil slimy matter from his stomach and head and in a short time he will become very clean in his body for this will both refine his blood and exhaust all the watrish humours in such sort as by temperate ordering of him and doing as heretofore is prescribed you may keep him a long time sound perfect and serviceable and this you may give to an Horse newly taken from Grass or to any other Horse that hath taken a Cold or to any other filthy foul foggy or pursy Horse whatsoever And this upon trial upon all occasions before mentioned you shall find to be most admirable this being done I conceive it to be very good to give them Whitewine and Hony and the Cordial formerly set down Proved CLXXVI For a Curb THis Curb alwaies groweth upon the back-part of the heel of the knee of the hinder Leg in a hard substance I shall give no more signs for it is easie to be seen The remedy is this first tie up the contrary Leg as you do for a blood-Spavin then with an hot Iron fear it length-waies down
all night next morning betimes strain it and put into it one ounce of the best Aloes made into fine powder half an ounce of Agarick and a spoonful of powder of Liquorish mix and brew them altogether and so give it to your Horse blood-warm and ride him gently a quarter of an hour after it and so set him up warm well clothed and littered and let no cold ayr come to him nor let him eat nor drink of six hours after and at night give him a sweet Mash or White water and let his Rack-meat be sweet Wheat-straw Oats and Bran the next day let him blood and prick him in the third Furrow of his Mouth and if his blood be bad take two quarts from him but if good scarce a quart keep him warm and give him sweet Mashes or White water and put into his Drink either the powder of Brimstone or of Fenygreek or Turmerick or of Elecampana one or more together according as he will be brought to like and take them which being well mixed put thereof into his Drink a spoonful at a time And this is very good to cool the blood purge Choler and other peccant humours and to purifie and refine the Blood And this is not only good for Horses newly taken from Grass but for other sick surfeited diseased Horses CXCIX Another Purge TAke one ounce and a quarter of Gentian slice it thin boil it in a quart of Beer till it come to a pint and give it him blood-warm It will make him very sick for a short time but you need not fear for it will do him much good let him fast after it five or six hours and then give him a Mash or White water and the next day give him this following Mingle Honey with his Oats and rub the Honey and Oats well together between your hands and continue thus doing till you see him quite cured which will be when he hath done running at the Nose This is one of the best Cordials I know for it disperfeth all Flegm and Choler it purgeth the head and Brain it purifieth the Blood it venteth evil Humours it causeth good Digestion and freeth an Horse from Glanders Colds Catarrhs Rheums running at the Nose and the like as you may see set down before which is the same with this this and the Purge before going you must give one after another And for the Honey and his Oats mixed together I conceive you may give them in other causes as when an Horse is troubled with cold Rheums running at the Nose Glanders Flegm or Choler or such like CC. Of Glisters and their use A Glister is given as a preparative to a purging Drink and a Glister by cleansing the Guts refresheth the Vital parts and prepareth the way before wherefore I advise every Farrier before he give a Drink whether purging or otherwise if the Horse be not at that time soluble in body that after Blood-letting the next day he give a Glister this done he may the better give what is requisite otherwise if he give the Drink before the Glister he may stir and provoke the evil humours which by reason of much costiveness and Wind and other impediments in his Guts do attempt to make their passage by a contrary way which cannot be done without great hazard to the life of the Beast I therefore advise if the beast be costive and bound in his body to give a Suppository or Glister First and after his Purging drink CCII. What a Decoction is A Decoction is a broth made of divers Herbs as Mallows Marsh-Mallows Pellitory Camomile and sometimes white Lilly roots and such like things which we do boyl in water to a third part and sometimes we use instead of herbs and water to take the fat of Beef-broth or the broth of a Sheep's head Milk Whey or sum such kind of Liquor CCII. What quantity òf Broth or Decoction is put in to make a Glister FOr the quantity we do administer according to the Age strength and greatness of the Horse for if he be of a strong and able body of large growth and stature fat and lusty in this case we put in three pints but if he be of a small growth weak sick feeble or lean in this case a quart is enough we use to put in half a pint of oyl of Salt two or three drams and sometimes we put in Verjuyce and sometimes Hony as we see cause Drugs we use as Sena Cassia Agarick Anniseeds oyl of Dill oyl of Camomile oyl of Violets Sugar-candy and such like CCIII For the quantity of Drugs put into a Glister FOr the quantity of Drugs you ought not to exceed the quantity of three ounces in one Glister at the most neither put in above four ounces of Butter and let it be but blood-warm when you administer it CCIV. What time is fit for an Horse to keep his Glister When you give it him let him be empty and before he do receive it Rake him After you have given it him let him keepe it half an hour it will do it the more good the longer he keep it the more good it will do him hold his Tail close to his Fundament all the while CCV The length of the Glister-pipe THe best Instrument wherein to give an Horse a Glister is a Pipe made of purpose which ought to be twelve inches in the Shank which must also be put home And when the Glister is put into his body then draw a way the pipe by degrees not all at once CCVI. A Glister for a Horse that is bound in his body and cannot dung TAke the fat of Beef-broth if he be Sick weak and lean a pint and a half is enough if he be big fat and lusty you may put in two or three pints put to it half a pint of English-hony and two drams of white Salt mix them well together and administer it Glister-wise blood-warm then clap his Tail close to his Tewel for half an hour or longer and if then it do not work as I am confident it will ride him up and down a gentle trot for half an hour more but not till he sweat then set him up warm clothed and littered and let him stand upon the Bit four or five hours in which time he will purge kindly then unbit him and give him sweet Hay and an hour after that give him White water and he may drink any cold water in a day or two after and this is the best cure for this Malady This Glister will open and loosen the body bring away all offensive humous remove all obstructions ingendred in the body by means of excessive heat it cleanseth the Guts and purgeth away all slimy substance And this you will find to be the best remedy for a Horse that is costive and bound in his body and that cannot dung This hath been often proved CCVI. For another Glister TAke two handfuls of Melilot two handfuls of Pellitory if you can get neither
of them then take two handfuls of Camomile but Pellitory is the best if it can be gotten boyl any one of these in a Decoction of water to a third part then ad to it of Sallet-oyl and of Verjuyce of each half a pint of Honey four ounces of Cassia two ounces mix all these together and administer it luke-warm and order him as in the first Glister It will open the Gut and body very well and will take from him all hurtful and oftensive humours It will carry away all Spungy matter It will allay the biliousness and sharpness of humours cleanse inward Ulcers and much refresh and comfort the vital spirits But if you find that by giving too great a quantity your Horse purgeth and scoureth longer or more violently than you think is meet and good or for fear it should stir up in him more bad humours upon the sudden then you may easily allay it with this following Glister CCVIII A Glister restringent to stop loosness TAke of the Decoction in the Glister aforegoing a pint and put thereto as much Cow's Milk as it cometh warm from the Cow and put also thereto the yolks of three new laid Eggs well beaten and mixed together and give it blood-warm This Glister is only to be given to a Horse that is very laxative or doth empty himself too much which is occasioned oft-times by over much debility or want of strength or when nature is very much offended You may give this Glister as often as need shall require and till you see his loosness stop CCIX. A Glister for a fat foul-bodied Horse that is newly taken from Grass or for any sick surfeited diseased Horse TAke three handfuls of Marsh-Mallow roots cleansed and bruised Violet leaves of each two handfuls Flax seed three spoonfuls the Cloves of white Lilly roots a small handful boil all these together in fair water from a gallon to a Wine quart then strain it and put thereto of Sena one ounce which must be steeped in the Liquor three hours standing upon the hot Embers then put thereto half a pint of Sallet oyl and being blood-warm administer it Glister-wise causing him to keep it above half an hour And the best time to give this is three or four dayes before the full or change of the Moon yet it may be given with much benefit at any other time This Glister purgeth the Guts abundantly and is chiefly to be given to an Horse that is newly taken from Grass CCX A Glister for Melancholy TAke of Whey a quart of Anniseeds in fine powder two penny-worth the leaves of Mallows two handful boyl all these together till the Mallows be soft then strain it and put thereto of sweet Butter four ounces and when the Butter is melted give it Glister-wise blood-warm This purgeth Melancholy it causeth a good Appetite which before was wanting it refresheth the dulled Spirirs and causeth a good Digestion if the Horse be kept warm and well tended CCXI. A Glister to be given in case of a desperate Sickness It helpeth Fevers is good against the Pestilence and all languishing Diseases most excellent against Surfeits either by Provender or otherwise And will give great strength in short time if it be rightly made and carefully given TAke of the Oyl of Dill oyl of Camomile oyl of Violets and Cassia of each half an ounce of brown Sugar-candy in powder three ounces Then take of Mallow leaves a handful and boyl them first to a Decoction in fair water then strain it and put thereto the before-named Ingredients and give it blood-warm This is most soveraign to be given in case of a desperate Sickness and for all the Diseases afore-mentioned CCXII. A Glister for the Pestilence and all Fevers TAke half an ounce of the pulp of Coloquintida the seeds and rind taken away of Gum dragant three quarters of an ounce boyl all these in three quarts of water to a quart with Centory and Wormwood of each half an handful and a quarter of an ounce of Castorium strain it and dissolve it into the Decoction of Gerologundium three ounces and of white Salt three drams and of Sallet oyl half a pint and then administer it Glister-wise blood-warm this hath been often proved to be most excellent good for the Diseases above mentioned CCXIII. A Lenitive Glister TAke the Decoction of Mallowes and put to it either of fresh Butter four ounces or of Sallet oyl half a pint and give it Glister-wise blood-warm this is the gentlest Glister of any before prescribed for it is both a loosener and a great cooler of the body and doth infinitely ease pain Also it is good for Convulsions or Cramps and most singular against costiveness proceeding from any sickness or surfeit by Provender or Foundring in the Body CCXIV. A Glister for the Collick or any Sickness or Gripings in the Gutts or Belly TAke Salt water or new made Brine two pints dissolve therein a pretty quantity of Sope and administer it Glister wise blood-warm this is averred to be the most excellent for the Collick or any Sickness or griping in the Guts CCXV Of Sickness in Horses SIcknesses in general are of two sorts One offending the whole Body the other a particular Member The first of them not visible The other apparent and known by its own demonstrations Of the first then which offends the whole Body as Fevers of all sorts the Quotidian Tertian Quartan and Hectick Fevers Pestilential Fevers accidental or the general Plague are known by these signs much trembling panting sweating and sallow countenance hot breath faintness in labour decay in stomack costiveness in the body any or all of which when you perceive First let the Horse blood and then give him Treacle Take of Celedine roots and leaves a good handful as much of Wormwood as much of Rue wash them well and then stamp them in a Mortar which done boyl them in a quart of Ale then strain them and add to the Liquor half a pound of sweet Butter then being luke-warm give it to the Horse to drink CCXVI Of the Head-ach Frenzy or Staggers THe Signs to know these Diseases which are all of one Nature and all of one effect Mortal hanging down of the head reeling The Cure is to let the Horse blood three mornings together after walk him a while then clothe him cover his Temples over with a plaister of Pitch and keep him exceeding warm let his meat be little and his Stable dark CCXVII Of the Sleeping evil THe Sleeping Evil or Lethargy in Horses proceeds from cold Phlegms moist humours which bind up the vital parts and make them dull and heavy The signs are continual sleeping or desire thereunto The cure is to keep him much waking and twice in a Week to give him as much sweet Sope as a Duck-Egg in the nature of a Pill and after give him to drink new milk and Honey CCXVIII Of the Falling Evil Planet-struck Night-Mare or Palsey ALthough these Diseases have several
the Footlock The cure is to anoint them with Turpentine Verdigrease mixed together or Turpentine alone if it rankle not too much CCLXV. Of the Infirmities of Hoofs as false Quarters Loose Hoofs and Hoof-bound Hoof-running Hoof brittle Hoof hurt Hoof soft Hoof hard or generally to preserve Hoofs THe Hoof is subject to many infirmities-As first to half quarters which cometh by pricking and must be helpt by good shooing where the Shooe must bear on every part of the Foot but upon the half quarters only If the Hoof be loose anoint it with Burgundy Pitch and it will knit it if it be clean cut off then Burgundy pitch and Tallow molten together will bring a new if it be bound or straightned it must be well opened at the Heels the Soal kept moist and the Cornet anointed with the fat of Bacon and Tar if the srush of the Foot run with stinking matter it must be stopped with Soot Turpentine and Bole-Armoniack mixed together if it be brittle and broken then anoint it with Pitch and Linseed oyl moulten to a soft Salve If it be soft then stop it with Sope and the Ashes of a burnt Felt mixed together if the Hoofs be hard lay hot burnt Cinders upon them and then stop them with Tow and Tallow And generally for the preserving of all good Hoofs anoint them daily with the sward of Bacon CCLXVI. Of the Blood Spavin or Hough bony or any other unnatural Swelling from what cause soever it proceedeth THese two are Pustules or soft round Swellings the first is of the inside of the hinder Hough and the other on the very huckle of the Hough they are soft and very sore The Cure is first to bind up the Vein above and let it blood only from below then having tyed it fast with two Shoomakers ends on both sides then slit the Vein in two pieces then take Linseed and bruise it in a Mortar mix it with Cow dung and heat it in a Frying pan and so apply it to the swelling only and if it break and run then heal it with a plaister of Pitch and the Horse will never be troubled with a Spavin more But if the swelling come by strain or bruise then take Pitch grease and melt it anoint the Sore therewith holding a hot Iron near it to sink in the Grease then fold a Linnen cloth about it and it will asswage all Swellings whatsoever CCLXVII Of Wounds in the Feet as Gravelling Pricking Fig Retrait or Cloying IF your Horse have any wound in his Foot by what mischance soever you shall first search it to see if it be clear of any Nails point or other Splent to annoy it then wash it very well with White-wine and Salt and after tent it with the Oyntment called Aegyptiacum and then lay hot upon the tent Flax or Hards with Turpentine oyl and Wax mingled together and anoint all the Hoof on the top and Cornet with Bole-Armoniack and Vinegar do this twice in a day till the sore be whole CCLXVIII Hurts on the Cornet as the Quitterbone or Matlong THe Quitterbone is a hollow Ulcer on the top of the Cornet and so is the Matlong And the Cure is first to tent it with Verdigrease till you have eaten out the Core and made the wound clean then you shall heal it up with the same Salve that you heal the Scratches CCLXIX To draw out a Stub or Thorn TAke the herb Ditany and bruise it in a Mortar with black Sope and lay it to the Sore and it will draw out the Splint Iron or Thorn CCLXX. Of the Anbury or Tetter THe Anbury is a bloody Wart on any part of the Horses body and the tetter is a Cankerous Ulcer like it The Cure of both is an hot Iron to sear the one plain to the Body and to scarifie the other then take the juyce of Plantain and mix it with Vinegar Hony and the powder of Allom and with it anoint the Sore till it be whole CCLXXI. Of the Gords or String-halt THis is an unnatural binding of the Sinews which imperfection a Horse brought into the world with him and therefore it is certain it is incurable and not painful but an Eye-sore yet the best way to keep it from worse inconvenience is to bath his Limbs in the Decoction of Coleworts CCLXXII Of Spur-galling and fretting the Skin and Hair FOr this there is nothing better than Piss and Salt and to wash the Sore therewith daily CCLXXIII Of Sinews being cut IF the Horse Sinews be cut take the leaves of wild Nep or Woodbine and beat them in a Mortar with May-Butter apply it to the place and it will knit the Sinews CCLXXIV Of Knots in the Joynts PAtch grease applied as is afore shewed for Swellings will take away any hard knot in the flesh or upon the Sinews CCLXXV Of Venemous Wounds or bitings with a Mad Dog Tushes of a Boar Serpents or such like FOr any of these Mortal or venemous wounds take Yarrow Calamint and the Grains of Wheat and make it into a Salve and lay it to the Sore and it will heal it safely CCLXXVI Of Lice or Nits THe filthiness of Vermine is bred in a Horse through unnatural dislike and poverty The Cure is take the juyce of Beets and Staves-acre beaten together and with it anoint the Horses Body all over and it will make him clean CCLXXVII Of defending an Horse from Flies TAke the juyce of Pellitory of Spain and mixing it with Milk anoint the Horses bell therewith and no Flies will trouble him CCLXXVIII Of broken Bones or Bones out of Joynt AFter you have placed the bones in the true place take the Root of Osmond and beat it in a Mortar with the oyl of Swallows and anoint all the Member therewith then splent it and roul it up and in fifteen daies the bones will knit and be strong CCLXXIX A most famous Receipt to make an Horse that is lean and full of inward sickness sound and fat in fourteen daies TAke of Wheat-flower six pound Anniseeds two ounces Cummin-seeds six Drams Carthamus one Dram and a half Fenygreek seeds one ounce two Drams Brimstone one ounce and a half Sallet oyl one pint Hony one pound and a half White-wine a pottle this must be made into a Past the hard simples being beaten into a Powder and finely searced and kneaded together and so made into Balls as big as a mans fist then every morning consume one of these Balls in his cold water that he drinketh Morning and Evening for fifteen dayes together and at first if he be dainty to drink the water yet care not but let him fast till he drink it and after he begins to take it he will drink it with great greediness FINIS Books Printed and Sold by Henry Twyford ANderson's Reports in 2 Vol. fol. Bendlows Reports fol. Bulstrods and Bridgmans Reports fol. Lord Cokes 12th and 13th Reports fol. Herns Pleader fol. Huttons Latches and Lanes Reports fol.