it warm to the grief For a Pearl Pin and Web or any Film on an Horses Eye TAke a new laid Egg and roast it very hard then cleave it in-sunder long-wise and take out the yolk then fill the empty holes with white Vitriol finely beaten and close the Egg again Then roast it the second time till the Vitriol be molten Lastly beat the Egg-shell and all in a dish and strain it and with the moisture that comes from it dress the Eye This is approved For Grease fallen into the Legs to help them at twice dressing and to help the Scratches TAke of Train-Oyl of Nerve-Oyl of Oyl de Boy of each half a pint and the bigness of an Egg in Allom boyl them all well together then having cleansed the Sores and opened the Pultis if there be any with this salve anoint the Griefs and it is a speedy Cure For the Glanders an approved Cure TAke a quarter of a pint of Verjuice three spoonfuls of Sallet-Oyl and two spoonfuls of Aqua-vitae put one half into one Nostril the other into the other Nostril being blood-warm then ride the Horse somewhat speedily for twenty or forty score and only spare him when he coughs then set him up warm and at Noon give him a warm Mash Lastly if you find him to grow sick give him warm Milk from the Cow To stay the Glanders for a time till you may make sale of your Horse TAke a pound of Elder-bark being the green and not the gray beat it in a Mortar and strain it then put that juyce to a quart of Ale and so give it to the Horse do this for three mornings together An approved Cure for the Pains Mules Rats-tails and the like TAke green Vitriol half a pound and boyl it in a pottle of running Water with Allom Mustard Sage and Hysop of each an handful Now the night before you apply this anoint all the Sores with strong Mustard after they are made raw then the next day wash them with the Water before shewed and the Cure is certain To help an Horse that galls between the Legs either through heat or evil dressing TAke a raw Egg and crush it between the Horses Legs and rub the gall well therewith after the Sores are made dry For Enterfairing to help it or hide it for a small time FAsten a new Cord to his Dock and having made divers hard knots thereon draw it between his Legs and fasten it to his Girths or otherwise rub great store of Starch between his Thighs The best Receipt that can be for brittle Hoofs TAke Dogs-grease a pound and clarifie it up with Rosemary then mixing it with half so much Cow-dung boyl it and hot or cold stop the Horses foot therewith To cure the Scratches TAke a penny worth of Verdigrease a penny-worth of Red-lead the like quantity of Sope mix these together and apply them plaister-wise letting it lye three days and three nights You must cut the hair close For the Farcy TAke about one handfull of Rew and about ten cloves of Garlick and pound them together then take one penny worth of Aqua-vitae and strain them through a Cloth then take a little black Wool to drink up that moysture and put into each Ear half the Wool then sew up the Ears together then cut the fore head of the Horse and put into the hole the inner rind of an Elder about an inch long or something more keep him from wet falling into his Ears the first day and night Approved by Mr. Holled For to cure the Cankers in a Horses mouth TAke half a pint of the best White-wine Vinegar and half a pound of the best Roch-Allom and an handfull of red Sage and boyl them all together and so wash the Hories mouth and tongue Approved W. B An approved Cure for the Pains Mules Rats-tails and the like TAke green Vitriol half a pound and boyl it in a pottle of running Water with Allom Mustard Sage and Hysop of each an handful Now the night before you apply this anoint all the Sores with strong Mustard after they are made raw then the next day wash them with the Water before shewed and the Cure is certain To help an Horse that galls between the Legs either through heat or evil dressing TAke a raw Egg and crush it between the Horses Legs and rub the gall well therewith after the Sores are made dry For Enterfairing to help it or hide it for a small time FAsten a new Cord to his Dock and having made divers hard knots thereon draw it between his Legs and fasten it to his Girths or otherwise rub great store of Starch between his Thighs The best Receipt that can be for brittle Hoofs TAke Dogs-grease a pound and clarifie it up with Rosemary then mixing it with half so much Cow-dung boyl it and hot or cold stop the Horses foot therewith To cure the Scratches TAke a penny worth of Verdigrease a penny-worth of Red-lead the like quantity of Sope mix these together and apply them plaister-wise letting it lye three days and three nights You must cut the hair close For the Farcy TAke about one handfull of Rew and about ten cloves of Garlick and pound them together then take one penny worth of Aqua-vitae and strain them through a Cloth then take a little black Wool to drink up that moysture and puta into each Ear half the Wool then sew up the Ears together then cut the fore head of the Horse and put into the hole the inner rind of an Elder about an inch long or something more keep him from wet falling into his Ears the first day and night Approved by Mr. Holled For to cure the Cankers in a Horses mouth TAke half a pint of the best White-wine Vinegar and half a pound of the best Roch-Allom and an handfull of red Sage and boyl them all together and so wash the Hories mouth and tongue Approved W. B. For to cure the Scratches TAke Sope and Salt and mix them together in your hand and keep his Feet dry and tye a linnen Cloth about them and it will cure them Approved at Stanton For a Horse that hath a Cold. TAke new Butter unwashed and without Salt and mix with it brown Sugar-Candy Anniseeds and Liquorish but if the Horse rattle in his head put in two cloves of Garlick made in balls do this three mornings together Approved W. B. For a Beast that staleth Blood TAke one quart of strong Ale and a red Her ring cut into small pieces and let it lye a steeping in the Ale then give the Beast it with a Horn and it will stay the in-bleeding of the Beast Robinson For the Botts TAke Salt and Water and give the Horse it in a Horn. Approved Tho. Emson For a Horse that hath got an Over-reach or a Tread of the Heel FIrst search itwell to the bottom and take out all the Gravel and wash it with Stale then take a good handfull of Nettles and
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-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
give it him the third day morning give him a Cordial made of three pints of stale Beer a quarter of a pint of Hony as much Butter a good piece of Houshold-bread put in the Hony and Butter after the Bread and Beer is boyled together and give him his Cordial fasting lukewarm the fourth day morning give him this Drink one ounce of Polypodium one ounce of Bay-berries an ounce of Long pepper one ounce of brown Sugar-candy beat them all small and put them into a quart of mild strong Beer heat it lukewarm and before you give it him ride him a mile and then give it him and ride him two or three miles after it cloth and litter him up warm after he hath fasted some four or five hours give him bursten Oats with two ounces of Fenygreek and two ounces of Coriander as before if you have no Coriander then take two Ounces of Carraway-seeds and give him that Night of the Oats and Seeds and put the Water where the Oats and Seeds were boyled into some cold Water and let him drink that and no other when you have rested him a Week then give him the first Drink mentioned in this Receipt and follow him as you are directed every day in the third Week give him the same things again in the same manner and at the same distance of daies in all points as you did the first Week and in three or four Weeks it will be a Cure The first Drink doth loosen the filth and open the Lights and set them a running The Cordial is Whitewine and Hony will keep him to his stomack help him to avoid filth at the Nose and Mouth and will much nourish him within they do cleanse the stomack breast and bowels and do much waste the Squinsey in the Throat they do cut the tough thick flegm If you order these things as you are in many places directed and ayr him moderately once or twice a day the Horse will soon be sound again The last Drink of Polypodium Long-pepper and Bay-berries is a purger of the Veins Blood and Liver and will stay the wasting of the Body That day morning you give him the first Drink apply the Charge of Sope and Brandy made in a Salve to the Kernels between his Jaws and in a weeks time it will be fallen flat and not break lay the Charge on scalding hot and heat it well in If you see the yellow matter to become white there will be the greater hopes of the speediness of the Cure Proved CXLV For a Canker in the Mouth YOu shall know it by these Signs He will slaver at the Mouth and the Roots of his Tongue will be eaten with the Canker the sides of his Mouth will be hot raw and yellow If the Canker have eaten any Holes in his Mouth and caused many sores then take a pottle of running Spring-water an handful of Red-sage a dozen sprigs of Rosemary an handful of unset Hysop If this disease happen in Summer then add five or six Walnut-leaves and a quarter of a pound of Roch-allum put all these into a Kettle and let them boyl till they be half consumed then put all into an earthen Pan and let it stand till it be cold you need not take out the herbs but when you use it take ten or twelve spoonfuls of this Liquor then pull out his Tongue with one hand and have in a readiness a Linnen cloth tyed at a sticks end dip it into the Liquor and wash his Mouth and Throat all over then pull out his Tongue again and throw a handful of Salt into his Mouth then presently after it dip another sticks-end tyed with a Rag into Tar and put it all over his mouth where the Sores are and once in three daies give him a Cordial and Whitewine and Hony made as you may see before and the same quantity Ride or work him upon it This Water Salt Tar Whitewine and Hony and Cordials will bring the Horse to a stomack cleanse his stomack loosen his body It will take away the heat of his stomack and comfort his stomack and cut the tough flegm there it will cure the Canker in a very short time except his Tongue and Mouth be very much eaten indeed you need not wash his Mouth afterwards with the Water and Tar for the Wine and Hony and the Cordials will heal it alone and work the aforesaid effects Let the Hay and Provender you give him be clean and moist it will be the better Give him no Chaff for that will stick in his Mouth and fester it Proved CXLVI To cure a Foul Rank Pocky Farcion which runs all over an Horse or in any particular part of his Body AN Horse that hath the Farcion if his breath smell very strong and stink then do not meddle with him for his Lights are rotten and there is no Cure for him for he is as full of them within as without But if his breath be sweet there is no question of the Cure First for all knotted budded Farcions separate the sound from the sick for this Disease is infectious they will take it one of another This Disease cometh first of Colds and Surfets For Remedy do as followeth Give him but a little Hay overnight to keep his Jaws from falling the next day morning let him blood on both sides of the Neck and let him bleed well then give him this Drink One ounce of Aristolochia an ounce of Turmerick one ounce of Anniseeds beat your Turmerick and Anniseeds small and grate the root of Aristolochia and put them all together with one handful or two of Lungwort or Liver-wort Herbgrace one good handful of Red-sage a handful of green or dryed Wormwood one handful of green Fennel and if it be Winter that you cannot get it green then instead thereof take two ounces of Fennel-seeds cut the Herbs small and beat the Seeds and put them all to steep in three pints of running spring-Spring-water and let them lye in steep all night the next day morning before you give it him ride him a Mile till he be vvarm at his return give it him cold as it stood all night then ride him gently a mile after his Drink set him up warm clothed and littered let him stand upon the Bit seven or eight hours then unbit him and give him a little sweet Hay and at night warm Water with some Wheat-brâ—n in it the next day morning ride him to the River and let him drink but let him drink but once a day but ride him well upon his watering and at the end of three daies give him his former Drink again and order him as before work him moderately all the time of his Cure Be it in Winter or in Summer for this Disease keep him in the House vvith dry meat vvhen he is cured you may turn him out or keep him in the stable which you please when he is cold wash him twice a day up to the back soak
Imposthume 288 Itch in the Tail c. 257 Interfering or Shackle-galls 264 K. KErnels under a Horses Throat how to cure 152 163 Knobs old and hard the Remedy thereof 165 274 Knees broken swelled and hard 165 Kidneys Pains therein remedied 282 L. LAxativeness or extream Loosness cured 68 180 Legs swelled or Gourded the Remedy for them 75 76 215 216 Leprosie cured 79 Lice how to kill 109 139 148 276 Lask or Bloody Flux to cure 281 M. MUzzle the use of it for a Horse 19 20 Mange cured 78 86 161 233 Mules a Disease cured 82 113 Mares not good for the Race 92 When first to be cover'd and how to be order'd then 93 94 95 How to make them fruitful 95 How to be cured when ready to Fole 96 Murren how to cure 129 Mallender to cure it 135 180 261 Moulten Horse how to cure 141 Mourning of the Chine a Remedy for it 275 Mares Particular diseases in them and their remedies 284 Mouth Diseases Bloody Rifts Liggs Lampreys c. 252 N. NAvel Gall how to cure 113 140 163 Night-mare the remedy for it 278 Neesing for a Horse 286 O. OBservations for Sickness and Health in a Horse 48 Over-reach or a tread of the Heel cured 84 188 262 Over-gorged Horse or Cow how to cure 130 P. PRivy-parts of a Horse to be minded 54 An excellent Purgation for a Horse 68 Pearl Pin and Web or any film on a Horses Eye 80 Prick in the Foot how to cure 115 189 Pestilence in a Horse how to cure it 123 124 129 Piss to make a Horse piss 126 149 199 Poll Evil to cure 127 177 Poyson for a Horse or Cow that is poysoned 130 A Purge for peccant humours by surfets 255 A Purge by Grass in Summer 261 A general Purge 262 263 264 285 Planet-struck how to cure 273 Palsey the Remedy 273 Q. QUitter-bone how to cure 117 245 R. RUnning Horse how to order him 5 6 20 21 22 How to keep him the second fortnight 16 How to keep him the third fortnight 27 The last fortnights keeping 28 Rules how to buy a Horse 34 ad 45 Ringbone cured 77 78 144. 224 Rats tails cured 82 Rowel how to put in a French Rowel 104 S. SCowring the first scowring of a Running Horse 27 How to Order him after 24 25 Sickness of a Horse in general 46 47 State of a Horses Body which the best 52 53 Sweating of a Horse to be observed 56 57 Strain in the Shoulder a Remedy 59 For a Sinew Sprung-horse 60 Stone cured 69 A Scowring for a Horse 70 138 141 147 Strain or Swelling a Medicine 72 73 74 85 117 Splint and Spavin cured 77 78 Scratches a cure for them 77 83 84 85 155 156 227 Surbate cured 79 115 A Salve for a Sore or Swelling 80 For the Spleen a Remedy 86 280 Stallion his diet 96 How long he will continue 97 Sore or Swelling to rot it 103 125 Sleeping Evil cured 110 273 Splent how to take out 120 121 179 260 Swelling under the Iaws 125 Staggers a Remedy for it 131 132 206 Sinew-strain in the Leg. 140 163 164 177 Strangling the cure of it 148 Shaw's Receipts 160 Strain in the Pastern Back or Sinews 166 254 257 Salve of Sope and Brandy how to be boyled 166 Swelling in general the cure 167 Shoulder-strain a Remedy 172 175 Stifle in the Stifling-bone 176 Scrupin what and its cure 179 Stub in the Foot or Heel 188 Surfet the cure 192 195 203 256 277 Squinzey or Strangling the cure 200 Stumbling to help it 222 Spavin the cure of it 225 238 Star how to make it in the Fore-head of a Horse 226 Strangullion how to remedy it 228 283 Suppositor for a House 258 259 260 285 The Strangle cured 288 Swaying the back 256 To draw out Stubs or Thorns 269 Spur-galling 272 Sinews being cut 273 T. THorn or Nail to draw out 102 Tyred Horse how to help 277 Teeth or Loose Teeth 251 V. URine of a Horse to be observed 50 51 Vein that swells upon blood-letting 112 Vives a Disease how cure 200 287 Vomits to cause a Horse to vomit 243 Venome drunken the cure of it 285 Venemous wounds c. 275 W. WAter how and when to be given a Horse 55 Wind-gall and strain in the Shoulder 74 263 Wind a Glister for it 86 Wind-Colick a Glister 86 87 134 Wound a drier for a green wound 102 How to lay open a Wound 103 An oyntment to heal any Wound 105 106 107 114 116 To clean any Wound 109 Wound a water to cure it 122 Water Farcion the cure 133 217 New Wound a Remedy for it 149 188 Wind-broken how to cure 154 Worms the cure for them 235 260 282 Pain in the Withers 255 Wounds in the Feet c 267 Y. YEllows a Remedy for it 124 205 275 Yard foul and furr'd to cure the same 191 THE Gentlemans IOCKY Approved FARRIER London Printed for H Twyford in Vine court Midle Temple and N Brooke att y e Angell in Cornehill 1671 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE READER OR A gaining of satisfaction to all reasonable Practisers and confuting the wilful self-conceited I Will not dispute the several opinions of men in this Kingdom touching the keeping of the Running Horse because I know many are idle and frivolous some uncertain and a few in the right way Only in this I would clear one Paradox which is strongly maintained and infinitely pursued by many of our best Professours And that is the limitation and length of time for the preparing or making ready of an Horse for a Match or great Wager There be divers nay some which I know carry the Goddess Isis on their backs that affirm an Horse which is exceeding fat foul newly taken from grass soile or lofty liberal and unbounded feeding cannot be brought to performance of his best labour under six Moneths five is too little and four an act of impossibility by which they rob their noble Masters of half a years pleasure thrust upon them a tiring charge to make the sport lothsome and get nothing but a Cloak for ignorance and a few false got Crowns which melt as they are possessed Yet as Heretiques cite Scriptures so these find reasons to defend want of knowledge As the danger of so early exercise The offence of grease too suddenly broken The moving of evil humours too hastily which leads to mortal sickness And the moderation or helping of all these by a slow proceeding and bringing of the Horse into order by degrees and times or as I may say by an ignorant sufferance These reasons I know have the shew of a good ground for the early exercise is dangerous but not if free from violence To break grease too suddenly is an offence unsufferable for it puts both the Limbs and the life in hazard but not if purged away by Scowrings The hasty stirring up of humours in Body where they superabound and are generally dispersed and not settled cannot
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
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
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
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
Sussingle so straight that the tail may be close to his Tewel or Fundament that he cannot purge till it be loosened This done mount his back and ride him gently an easie trot or foot-space for half an hour then set him up cloathed and littered with the Bit in his mouth three hours during which time he will purge kindly then give him White water and Hay and at night a few Oats for he must be kept to a spare diet The next day mix well together the powder of Brimstone and fresh Butter and anoint all along two Goose-feathers and run a thred through either of their Quills ends that you may fasten the thred to the top of the head-stall of his Bridle and run them up as high as you can into each nostril and so ride him an hour or two and this will purge his head and lungs and cause him to send forth much filthy matter but when you set him up take them out and an hour after give him Hay and White water and Bran prepared which he should have before you ride him abroad The next day give him his Glister again and let him rest for that day but ordered in all things as before the next day use the Goose-feathers again and order him as you did before And all this is but to prepare him for this after-Drink that followeth but you must observe to keep him alwaies warm and let him be ever fasting and empty before you give him any Physick and air him Evening and Morning if the Sun shine or the weather be warm or calm Then three daies after give him this Drink following which is called the Black Drink CLXXIX The Black drink for the Glanders TAke new-made Chamberlie and of the best and strongest White-wine Vinegar of each half a pint then take of Mustard-seed two or three spoonfuls and make Mustard thereof with Vinegar and grind it well then put your Vinegar and Chamberly to the Mustard and stir them well together then take of Tar and Bay-salt of each alike as much as may suffice incorporate them well together and convey so much thereof as two or three Eggshels will hold their meat being first taken out having prepared these things keep him over night to a very spare diet and the next morning take and ride him first till he begin to sweat then give him the Eggshels filled with Tar and Salt as before prescribed and as soon as he hath taken that give him with a Horn the afore-named drink made of Chamberly Vinegar and Mustard all at the mouth except two small hornfuls which must be powred into his Nostrils which when he hath taken ride him again as much as you did before set him up and clothe and litter him warm and so let him stand upon the Bit until three or four a Clock then un-bit and give him a warm Mash and order him in all things as is usual for Horses taking Physick Give him this Medicine or Drink every other third day if the Horse be strong and if he be weak in body once in three or four daies And this is an infallible Cure in three or four times giving if it be rightly given though he be far spent Proved CLXXX To cure the Glanders running at the Nose Also all Colds and Rheums FIrst observe this alwaies when you give him Oats put some Hony to them and rub them very well together betwixt your hands continue to do thus till he leave running at the Nose This is one of the best and most certain Cordials that I know for it disperseth all the Flegm and Choller it also purgeth the Head and Brain it purifieth the Blood it venteth evil Humours it causeth a good digestion and freeth a Horse from Glanders Colds Catarrhs Rheumes runing at the Nose c. Proved CLXXXI For a Fistula or Gangrene in the Foot by reason of some Channel-Nail which hath lain long and deep in the Foot that breaks out above the Hoof and causeth the sole of the foot to come out and causeth the Leg and Pastern to swell very much IF this Nail cause the sole of the foot to come out and do break out above the Hoof and cause the Pastern and Leg to swell but in case the Sole of the Foot be not come out then take it out as you were directed formerly by girting the foot-lock hard and when you have taken out the Sole of the foot as you are there directed search the wound with a little Towe at the Instruments end to see which way and how far the Cannel-Nail went when you see where the holes are drop in ten or twelve drops of the oyl of Turpentine and take a little fine Towe or a little Lint at your Instruments end and dip it in the Turpentine and put it in Tent-waies then over this Tent lay to the bottom of the Hoof a handful of Nettle-tops and a handful of Salt well beaten together stuff his foot well with Towe and let it lie on twenty four hours and ever when you dress it take off the Shoe and when you have dressed it tack on the Shoe again dress it thus once a day with a Tent dipt in Turpentine and laid to the Sole first and then the Nettles and Salt over that till you see the Sole come on a little and when you see it a little grown then apply the Poultis following in this manner but not before and lay over the Poultis Hards or Towe and over the Towe a piece of Leather and over the Leather splinters of wood with his Shoe taken off and set on again as you were shewed in another place let him stand dry and in the house till he be whole which will be in a few daies the Poultis must lie on the first dressing twenty four hours the second dressing fourty eight hours the third dressing fourty eight hours and so continue till the Sole of the foot be grown firm and strong again The Poultis is thus made Take half a pint of salt Beef or Pork brine and put it into a Skillet a quarter of a pound of Kitchin-stuff grease and when you have boiled these two a pretty while together put some Wheat-bran to it and make it not too thick nor too thin when you have taken out his Sole and untied the Cord about his Pastern if it bleed much then put a handful of Salt into the bottom of the Foot with Towe Hards or Flax between the Sole of the Foot and the Shoe and Splinters and a piece of Leather over it to keep it in at twenty four hours take it off and lay on the Nettles and Salt as you were before directed but no otherwise Thus much for the Cure of the sole of the Foot But mark what followeth which belongeth to the foregoing Receipt which is when the nail in the foot doth not only cause the Sole of the foot to come out but also breaketh out above the Hoof and causeth a Gangrene or swelling in
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